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Emily Smith correspondence, 1901 to 1912
No full textEmily Smith correspondence from 1901 to 1912, including letters and post cards from friends and relatives. Includes letters from her father, George Albert Smith. Also includes a letter dated 23 January 1914 from Walter P. Monson (on Eastern States Mission stationery) to R. [Robert] Murray Stewart, a missionary at Ambridge, Pennsylvani
Cybocephalus iviei T. R. Smith in T. R. Smith & Cave 2007
No full textCybocephalus iviei T. R. Smith (Fig. 85–92) Cybocephalus iviei T. R. Smith in Smith and Cave 2007a: 169–170. Distribution. West Indies (Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands). Hosts. Pseudococcidae: Hypogeococcus pungens Granara de Willink. Remarks. A large series of C. iviei was collected, sifting litter underneath cacti and agave. Cybocephalids are often associated with scale insects feeding on cacti, and it can be inferred that this was why so many of these beetles were found thus. Another series of this beetle was collected in flight intercept traps on Buck Island, U.S. Virgin Islands. This species (published as C. kathrynae) has been documented feeding on the pollen of Mammillaria nivosa Link ex N. D. Pfeiffer and was captured in Puerto Rico feeding on H. pungens (Curbelo-Rodrígues et al. 2012). This is a wingless species, unlike Cybocephalus randalli; no winged phenotypes have been found. Originally this species was determined to be C. kathrynae by the author (Curbelo-Rodrígues et al. 2012). However, upon further examination and with more specimens on hand for dissection, the author has determined that the species recorded in Puerto Rico by Curbelo-Rodrígues et al. (2012) was C. iviei.Published as part of Smith, Trevor Randall, 2022, Review of the Cybocephalidae (Coleoptera) of North America and the West Indies with descriptions of two new species of Cybocephalus Erichson, pp. 1-35 in Insecta Mundi 2022 (950) on page 16, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.730061
Representative Women of Deseret, Dedicated to Eliza R. Snow Smith
No full textCenter, top group: Eliza R. Snow Smith, Zina D. H. Young, Sarah M. Kimball, Mary Isabella Horne. Left Center Group: Emily Hill Woodmansee, Augusta Joyce Crocheron, Hannah T. King, Helen Mar Whitney. Right Center Group: Elmina S. Taylo
With specimens of song: a tradução da rima de Dickinson
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-graduação em Estudos da TraduçãoA presente investigação propõe um estudo da poesia de Emily Dickinson no que diz respeito à sua tradução para o português. Sobretudo, há uma preocupação com questões eufônicas, que evidenciaram a poesia de Emily Dickinson, e vêm desafiando os tradutores brasileiros. O escopo da pesquisa se limitará à preocupação com a rima, mais especificamente, a de final de verso. A proposta é gerar uma discussão acerca das traduções de José Lira e Aíla de Oliveira Gomes, colocando em evidência algumas das estratégias que estes empregaram para responder aos desafios de traduzir a rima na poesia de Dickinson. Tal discussão será fundamentada nas observações sobre a rima nos poemas de Dickinson, particularmente propostas no livro Positive as Sound de Judy Jo Small. This present investigation proposes a study on the poetry of Emily Dickinson regarding its translation into Brazilian Portuguese. Overall, the focus of the study relies on the sound effects that have highlighted the poetry of Emily Dickinson and have been challenging Brazilian translators. The scope of this research is limited to what concerns rhyme, more specifically the end rhymes. The proposition is to generate discussion about the works of Brazilian translators José Lira and Aíla de Oliveira Gomes, focusing on the strategies they found to meet the challenges of translating rhyme in the poetry of Dickinson. Such discussion will be based upon the observations of Judy J. Small on her book Positive as Sound about rhyme in the poems of Dickinson
Understanding the mindfulness-attachment connection to the context of mindfulness-based stress reduction
No full textThis study examined how a measure of adult attachment (ECR-R) and a measure of mindfulness (FFMQ) changed over a Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction course (MBSR). This study further examined how ECR-R and FFMQ scores, previous meditation experience, and homework practice were related. The study’s convenience sample was drawn from eight MBSR classes held across the northeastern and southeastern United States. Study hypotheses (1-3) predicted attachment security (ECR-R scores) and mindfulness (FFMQ scores) would improve over the MBSR course and that attachment Anxiety and Avoidance would be both be negatively correlated with mindfulness. Hypotheses (4-5) further predicted that previous meditation experience and homework practice would moderate the relationship between mindfulness and attachment. The results supported hypotheses one and two and partially supported three, where attachment Anxiety, but not Avoidance was shown to be negatively correlated with mindfulness. The results did not support hypotheses four and five, finding neither predicted moderating relationship
Public views of the UK media and government reaction to the 2009 swine flu pandemic
No full text<p>Background: The first cases of influenza A/H1N1 (swine flu) were confirmed in the UK on 27th April 2009, after a novel virus first identified in Mexico rapidly evolved into a pandemic. The swine flu outbreak was the first pandemic in more than 40 years and for many, their first encounter with a major influenza outbreak. This study examines public understandings of the pandemic, exploring how people deciphered the threat and perceived they could control the risks.</p>
<p>Methods: Purposive sampling was used to recruit seventy three people (61 women and 12 men) to take part in 14 focus group discussions around the time of the second wave in swine flu cases.</p>
<p>Results: These discussions showed that there was little evidence of the public over-reacting, that people believed the threat of contracting swine flu was inevitable, and that they assessed their own self-efficacy for protecting against it to be low. Respondents assessed a greater risk to their health from the vaccine than from the disease. Such findings could have led to apathy about following the UK Governments recommended health protective behaviours, and a sub-optimal level of vaccine uptake. More generally, people were confused about the difference between seasonal influenza and swine flu and their vaccines.</p>
<p>Conclusions: This research suggests a gap in public understandings which could hinder attempts to communicate about novel flu viruses in the future. There was general support for the government's handling of the pandemic, although its public awareness campaign was deemed ineffectual as few people changed their current hand hygiene practices. There was less support for the media who were deemed to have over-reported the swine flu pandemic.</p>
Phylogenetics, systematics and biogeography of deep-sea Pennatulacea (Anthozoa: Octocorallia): evidence from molecules and morphology
No full textDespite its extreme environmental conditions, the deep sea harbours a unique andspecies-rich fauna of mostly unknown age and phylogeny. Pennatulids (Anthozoa:Octocorallia) are a group whose taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships remain poorlyknown and little studied, in spite of their abundance and ecological importance in softbottomcommunities. Phylogenetic analysis of a combination of partial ND2 and msh1sequences produced well-supported phylogenetic relationships for representative deepsea(and shallow-water) pennatulids at familial, generic and specific taxonomic levels.Generally, molecular data were congruent with current classification and previousphylogenetic reconstructions of the O. Pennatulacea based on morphology.Discrepancies were evident concerning the finer details for some families and genera: thiscan be attributable to the high frequency of homoplasy in pennatulids where reversals inevolution have led to taxa that possess apomorphic character states that are analogouswith plesiomorphic traits. Genetic analysis gave strong support that highly-derived taxaoccur in both shallow and deep water and that many may have differentiated anddispersed from the deep sea to the shallows. The Renillidae, which is considered one ofthe most primitive shallow-water families, evolved recently from deep-water ancestors.Conversely, the bathyal Anthoptilidae was the most primitive of families, and althoughmore evidence is required, pennatulids as a group may have originated in deep water.The systematics of the exclusively deep-sea genus Umbellula, which contains fortytwospecies, remains unclear despite the repeated attempts of revision. Incorporatingnew morphological and distributional data from the examination of recently collectedmaterial, together with type specimens, genetic analysis, and a critical study of theliterature, fifteen Umbellula species are here considered valid, including three new toscience. Eight species lack sclerites in the autozooids, U. magniflora, U. encrinus, U.antarctica, U. carpenteri and Umbellula sp.1 n. sp. (quadrangular axes), and U. huxleyi andU. pellucida (round axes); and seven possess autozooid sclerites, U. thomsoni and U.hemigymna (quadrangular axes), and U. monocephalus, U. aciculifera, U. durissima,Umbellula sp.2 n. sp. and Umbellula sp.3 n. sp. (round axes).Biogeographic data and genetic evidence supported the hypothesis that species ofUmbellula differentiated in the Indo-Pacific. Many radiated southwards to the Antarcticand later north into the Atlantic, E Pacific, Indian and Arctic oceans, occupying bathyaland abyssal depths. Other, older species that evolved via a separate evolutionarypathway, may have originated in the Indo-Pacific, and dispersed to the Subantarctic (U.sp.2 n. sp.) or Indian and Atlantic oceans (U. monocephalus). Further, morphologicalexamination of Umbellula showed it adapted to the oligotrophic conditions of the deepsea by reducing the number but increasing the size of the autozooids, and in doing so,enlarged the food-catchment area; abyssal species have done so even more extremely
Naomi Duff Smith papers
No full textNaomi Duff Smith (1902-1973) was a poet, author of short stories and radio scripts, and owner of a Baltimore, Maryland, public relations firm. Her collection consists of poems, short stories, correspondence, and awards documenting her literary output and business and civic achievements. Significant correspondents represented in the collection include Lizette Woodworth Reese, R. P. Harriss, Millard E. Tydings, Amy Winslow, Alan P. Hoblitzell, E. Paul Mason, Joseph R. Byrnes, Emory J. Niles, William D. MacMillan, and Hugo R. Hoffman
Comparing and visualizing in silico protein rigidity : methods and applications
No full textThe exibility and rigidity of a protein structure is important for its function. Computational methods, such as those provided by KINARI-Web, Dr. Ileana Streinu\u27s freely available server for protein rigidity analysis, can predict which regions of a protein are rigid and which are exible. It is of interest to both compare the rigidities of multiple variations of a protein structure and the results of using di erent computational and experimental methods for gaining information about this rigidity. While the former has important biological applications, the latter is essential for validation and better understanding of rigidity analysis. Previously, visual examination and analysis of these comparisons was di cult with KINARI-Web. In my thesis, I built on KINARI-Web to develop methods for comparative visualization of rigidity results. Based on these methods, I designed and implemented prototypes of three visualization tools: the Dilution, Mutation, and NMR Viewers, which involve biologically relevant applications of rigidity analysis to compare multiple variations of a structure. By using them to analyze the rigidity of several biological expamples, I demonstrated that these tools provide novel insights into this computational data
Operant conditioning to quantify social choices in male prairie voles
No full textSocial relationships are important to human health and well-being and these benefits extend across the animal kingdom. Prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) and meadow voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus) are good models for the study as they form selective social relationships. The prairie vole shows a monogamous mating system and meadow voles show a polygynous mating system and both show peer bonding. The main way this behavior has been assessed in previous studies does not evaluate how rewarding the bonds are. In the present study I utilize operant conditioning to try and remedy this research gap. In a previous study, it was determined that there are sex differences between male and female prairie voles when looking at operant conditioning reward. The female voles appeared to work harder to gain access to familiar voles than the males did, but only one stimulus vole could be tested at a time. My project will allow for the relative reward value of two different social stimuli to be tested at the same time. The present study aims to deepen the understanding of the social reward in prairie vole bonds by looking specifically at males pressing for a mate versus an opposite sex female. The study utilizes a new apparatus which contains two social chambers and two levers in the operant chamber to allow for the direct competition between the mate and stranger
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