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MacInnes, Duncan A.
No full textDunkan A. MacInnes, circa 1950s
MacInnes, Dunakan A. (1885-1965) was a scientist in physical chemistry who worked at The Rockefeller University (earlier RIMR) from 1926 until his death in 1965.
He was the author of The Principles of Electrochemistry and numerous contributions to scientific publications and mountaineering magazines.
See also National Academy of Science Biographical Memoirshttps://digitalcommons.rockefeller.edu/faculty-members/1058/thumbnail.jp
Gordon MacInnes
No full textGordon A. MacInnes has devoted four decades to government service and leadership on issues related to education, poverty, and urban living. Prior to becoming a fellow at The Century Foundation, he served from 2002 to April 2007 as assistant commissioner for Abbott Implementation for the New Jersey Department of Education, where he oversaw a division that was created to better coordinate the implementation of Abbott v. Burke, the nations most prescriptive and sweeping state supreme court ruling on school finance, and improve academic achievement in the states poorest cities. From 1998 to 2002, he served as president of Citizens for Better Schools, a New Jerseybased nonprofit organization. He was a member of the New Jersey State Senate from 1994 to 1998. Prior to that, he served in the New Jersey General Assembly and held positions that included chief executive of the New Jersey Network, director of the Fund for New Jersey, a special assistant to New Jersey Governor Richard J. Hughes, special assistant to the New Jersey commissioner of education, deputy director of the White House Task Force on the Cities, and director of program development for United Progress, Inc., the anti-poverty agency for Trenton, New Jersey. MacInnes is the author of Wrong for All the Right Reasons: How White Liberals Have Been Undone by Race (A Twentieth Century Fund Book published by NYU Press, 1996), and Kids Who Pick the Wrong Parents and Other Victims of Voucher Schemes (A Twentieth Century Fund/Century Foundation white paper, 1999). MacInnes has a B.A. from Occidental College and an M.P.A. from The Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, where he also served as a visiting senior fellow from1976 to1978 and again from 1998 to 1999. He has had numerous opinion pieces published in the Newark Star-Ledger, the Record of Hackensack, the Daily Record of Morris County, and the New Jersey section of the New York Times
Myorycteropus africanus MacInnes 1956
No full textSPECIES MYORYCTEROPUS CF. AFRICANUS KENYA Material: Various cranial and post-cranial elements, usually found isolated, described by MacInnes (1956) and Pickford (1975), or yet unpublished (NHM M 21542, housed at the NHM, London; KNM MW 184– KNM MW 189; KNM MW 484; KNM MW 537; KNM MW 649; KNM RU 3048–3061; KNM RU 3590; KNM RU 5767, housed at the NMK, Nairobi). Remarks: The Specimen NHM M 21542 might correspond to the left talus quoted by MacInnes (1956) as ‘unnumbered from R.1 series of Rusinga’. Specimens KNM MW 184– KNM MW 189 (relabelled) correspond to the published specimens KNM MW 84– KNM MW 89 of Pickford (1975). This author also attributed some of these specimens to ‘ O. minutus ’ (but see discussion below). Locality and age: Rusinga Island and Mfwangano (Kenya), dated to around 17.8-Mya (Drake et al., 1988). Discussion: The material considered here has been exclusively found at Rusinga Island and Mfwangano, where the holotype and paratype of M. africanus were also discovered. These skeletal elements have, however, no counterparts in the hypodigm of the aforementioned species, or are too weathered to display any diagnostic features to help with their determination. Their size and shape are nonetheless close enough to M. africanus to place the material close to that species.Published as part of Lehmann, Thomas, 2009, Phylogeny and systematics of the Orycteropodidae (Mammalia, Tubulidentata), pp. 649-702 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 155 (3) on page 680, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00460.x, http://zenodo.org/record/544509
Identification of Actinobacillus suis genes essential for the colonization of the upper respiratory tract of swine
No full textActinobacillus suis has emerged as an important opportunistic pathogen of high-health-status swine. A colonization challenge method was developed, and using PCR-based signature-tagged transposon mutagenesis, 13 genes belonging to 9 different functional classes were identified that were necessary for A. suis colonization of the upper respiratory tract of swine.Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaOntario Ministry of Agriculture and Foo
EXAMINING THE SEQUELAE OF CHILDHOOD TRAUMA IN FORENSIC MENTAL HEALTH
No full textThis thesis has been submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for a postgraduate degree (e.g. PhD, MPhil, DClinPsychol) at the University of Edinburgh. Please note the following terms and conditions of use: • This work is protected by copyright and other intellectual property rights, which are retained by the thesis author, unless otherwise stated. • A copy can be downloaded for personal non-commercial research or study, without prior permission or charge. • This thesis cannot be reproduced or quoted extensively from without first obtaining permission in writing from the author. • The content must not be changed in any way or sold commercially in any format or medium without the formal permission of the author. • When referring to this work, full bibliographic details including the author, title
An experimental model of Actinobacillus suis infection in mice.
No full textActinobacillus suis is an opportunistic pathogen of high health status swine and is associated with fatal septicemia, especially in neonatal pigs. A practical model of A. suis is unavailable currently. However, some evidence suggests that A. suis can infect nonporcine species. We therefore hypothesized that a mouse model of A. suis infection might be possible. To test this idea, we challenged CD1 mice with 3 strains of A. suis (2 porcine [SO4 and H91-0380] and 1 feline [96-2247]) by intranasal and intraperitoneal routes. We also evaluated the effects of coadministration of hemoglobin and immunosuppression by dexamethasone on the susceptibility of mice to A. suis infection. The feline and H91-0380 porcine strains induced clinical signs of acute disease and necrotizing pneumonia in mice similar to those seen in pigs. Although few bacteria were recovered, dissemination of A. suis was widespread. Generally, mice infected with the feline A. suis isolate had more severe clinical signs and higher bacterial titers than did mice infected with either of the porcine strains. Pretreatment of the mice with dexamethasone or addition of 2% porcine hemoglobin to the challenge inoculum appeared to hasten the onset of clinical signs by the porcine strains but had no significant effect on moribundity. These experiments demonstrate that mice can be infected with A. suis and subsequently develop pneumonia and bacteremia comparable to that seen in pigs, suggesting that mice may be used as a model for studying infection in swine.journal articleresearch support, non-u.s. gov't2007 AugimportedNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaOntario Ministry of Agricultur
Characterization of colonization-deficient mutants of Actinobacillus suis
No full textActinobacillus suis is an important opportunistic pathogen of swine that can cause disease in pigs of all ages, especially in high-health status herds. Although A. suis shares many virulence factors in common with Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae and can cause a haemorrhagic pleuropneumonia similar to that caused by A. pleuropneumoniae, A. suis most often causes septicaemia and diseases such as arthritis and meningitis that are sequelae to septicaemia. In a recent signature-tagged transposon mutagenesis study, 30 colonization-essential genes of A. suis were identified. In the current study, the attachment and invasion patterns of strains harboring Tn10 insertions in ompA, pfhaB1, lcbB, and cpxR were evaluated using porcine palatine tonsil organ cultures, the swine kidney epithelial cell line, SK6, and a porcine brain microvascular endothelial cell line, PBMEC/C1-2. All of these mutants attached in lower numbers than wild type to the tonsillar explants and to the SK6 cells. The ompA mutant attached in significantly lower numbers than wild type to the porcine tonsil cells (P = 0.02) and to PBMEC (P = 0.0008) at 60 min time point. As well, the ompA mutant showed significantly greater sensitivity than wild type to chemical stressors and to swine serum. Using fluorescent microscopy, a GST-OmpA fusion protein could be demonstrated to interact with the crypt epithelial cells of porcine palatine tonsil.Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaOntario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affair
Emotion modelling with human belief revision in computer games
No full text163 leaves : ill. (some col) ; 29 cm.Includes abstract and appendices.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 149-157).Emotion modelling is receiving more and more attention from various fields, e.g. cognitive science, psychology, computer science and neuroscience. Most of these fields share the common research consensus that emotion can be beneficial to human's mental activities. This thesis is also grounded on the same consensus and makes further validations based on the following two hypotheses: One is emotional agents in games should behave more like human beings than emotionless agents; the other is that agents having full emotional architecture should obtain better playing performance than agents with only partial architecture. Based on theoretical support, the author further hypothesizes that peoples' long term belief can be one of the sources to release complex emotions.
The experiment result suggests the emotional agents did perform significantly better than emotionless ones, but it was unable to significantly reflect the advantages from fully structured emotional agents over the ones of the partial architecture
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