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Book review: A Government of Laws: Political Theory, Religion, and the American Founding. By Ellis Sandoz.
No full textBook review: A Government of Laws: Political Theory, Religion, and the American Founding. By Ellis Sandoz. Louisiana State University Press. 1990. Pp. xiv,
240. Reviewed by: Steven D. Smith.Smith, Steven D.. (1991). Book review: A Government of Laws: Political Theory, Religion, and the American Founding. By Ellis Sandoz.. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/166000
Invasive cultures: American culture in Bret Easton Ellis' American psycho
No full textDeposited with permission of the author. © 1999 Steven Grivas"Invasive cultures: American culture in Bret Easton Ellis’ American psycho” proposes that Ellis' small body of fictional works can be read as active critiques of American culture, detailing the ways in which this culture informs the current condition of American society in recent times. The larger intent of this thesis is to delineate and examine the relays between American culture, the forces of capitalism that underlie them, and their significant bearing on the social behaviour, personal expression and psychology of Ellis’ characters, who often directly assimilate and embody its characteristics, whether physically or mentally. Ellis presents his characters as deeply informed by their contact with the cultural realm.
Ellis' preoccupations with popular and consumer cultures, with the increasingly invasive mass media, and with a visually oriented society obsessed with surfaces, are all examined in the light of how these cultures are radically entangled with the consciousness and behaviour of his characters. In Ellis' fiction, the banal and the sensational are lucrative fixtures of a culture that functions as a commercial industry, driven by profit like any other, that exploits the desires and expectations of its consumers. Moreover, these common representations and modes of expression are presented as contagious, seeping into personal modes of self-expression. Just as Ellis instances how culture rigorously shapes the body and lifestyle, he also demonstrates through the stylized consciousness of his characters the media's powerful influence on their subjectivity and behaviour. This thesis focuses on American psycho (1991) but also discusses Ellis' other novels Less than zero (1984), The rules of attraction (1987), and The informers (1994)
Electrosynthesis in systems of two immiscible liquids and a phase transfer catalyst
No full textThis thesis examines the effect upon yield of the electrolysis parameters for anodic aromatic substitution in two phase systems using phase transfer catalysis. The mechanism of such roactiona was also studied. Product yields from acotoxylation of 1,4-dimethoxybenzene are shown to be dependent upon (i) ratio of nucleophilo to substrate (in the organic phase) (ii) current density (iii) charge passed. The optimum conditions are 1,4-dimethoxybenzene (4 mmoles) in CH2C12 (40 cm3), AcOH (0.18 moles), NaOAc (0.18 moles) and BuiNHSOi (4 mmoles) in sat. Na2S04 (sq. 40 cm3) i - 32.5 mA cm-2 Q - 2F/mole organic yield 87%, current yield 61%. Other acyloxylations of 1,4-dimethoxybenzene and acetoxylotions of other aromatic substrates are also reported. The yield of cyanonaphthalene is shown to be dependent upon (1) and (ii) above. However, (iii) is less important. The optimum conditions are C1SHS (0.02 moles) in CH2C12 (100 cm3), NaCN (0.06 moles) and BusN+Na+SO42- (0.03 moles) in sat. Na2SO4 (sq. 100 cm 3), 1 - 20 mA Cm 2 Q -1.5 F/Mol 100% organic yield 67% current yield. The yield of chloronaphthalene is shown to be dependent upon (i), (ii) and (iii) above. Complexation of the chloride with ZnC12 improves organic yields from 56% to 92%. The optimum conditions are C1SHs (0.01 moles) in CHZC12 (100 cm3), ZnC12 (0.15 moles), NaCl (0.3 moles) and Bu4NH80i (0.01 moles) in sat. Na2S04 (sq. 100 cm3) 1 = 48.7 mA cm Q - 1F/mol organic yield 74% current yield 56%.</p
Rare ribosomopathies: insights into mechanisms of cancer
No full textLong thought to be too big and too ubiquitous to fail, we now know that human cells can fail to make sufficient amounts of ribosomes, causing a number of diseases collectively known as ribosomopathies. The best characterized ribosomopathies, with the exception of Treacher Collins syndrome, are inherited bone marrow failure syndromes, each of which has a marked increase in cancer predisposition relative to the general population. Although rare, emerging data reveal that the inherited bone marrow failure syndromes may be underdiagnosed on the basis of classical symptomology, leaving undiagnosed patients with these syndromes at an elevated risk of cancer without adequate counselling and surveillance. The link between the inherited ribosomopathies and cancer has led to greater awareness that somatic mutations in factors involved in ribosome biogenesis may also be drivers in sporadic cancers. Our goal here is to compare and contrast the pathophysiological mechanisms underpinning ribosomopathies to gain a better understanding of the mechanisms that predispose these disorders to cancer
Steven Bialer and Patti Smith, July 1978
No full textMusician, poet, and author Patti Smith sits on a bed in a hotel room in July 1978. The photograph was taken by Don Hamerman as part of a session for "Unicorn Times," an alternative performing arts periodical in Washington, D.C. Steven Bialer, the Design Director for "Unicorn Times," is seated on the bed next to Smith
Steven Garber
No full textSteven Garber speaks on the importance and value of truth.
Steven Garber is the principal of The Washington Institute for Faith, Vocation & Culture, which is focused on reframing the way people understand life, especially the meaning of vocation and the common good. A consultant to foundations, corporations and educational institutions, he is a teacher of many people in many places. The author of The Fabric of Faithfulness: Weaving Together Belief and Behavior, and Visions of Vocation: Common Grace for the Common Good, he is also a contributor to the books, Faith Goes to Work: Reflections from the Marketplace, and Get Up Off Your Knees: Preaching the U2 Catalogue. He lives with his wife Meg in Virginia
Landsat MSS classification of fire fuel types in Wood Buffalo National Park, northern Canada
No full textJ1: Global Ecology & Biogeography Letters; M3: Article; Milne, David Franklin, Steven E. Wilson, Bradley A. Ghitter, Geoff Heathcott, Mark McCaffrey, Thomas M. Ow, Charlotte F. Y.; Source Information: Mar1994, Vol. 4 Issue 2, p33; Subject Term: FOREST fires; Author-Supplied Keyword: Canada (Wood Buffalo National Park); Author-Supplied Keyword: Forest fire; Author-Supplied Keyword: Fuel type classification; Author-Supplied Keyword: Landsat data; Number of Pages: 0p; Document Type: Articl
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