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Claude A. Swanson of Virginia: A Political Biography
No full textSpanning most of the years of the one-party South, the public career of Virginian Claude A. Swanson, congressman, governor, senator, and secretary of the navy, extended from the second administration of Grover Cleveland into that of Franklin Roosevelt. His record, writes Henry C. Ferrell, Jr., in this definitive biography, is that of “a skillful legislative diplomat and an exceedingly wise executive encompassed in the personality of a professional politician.”
As a congressman, Swanson abandoned Cleveland\u27s laissez faire doctrines to become the leading Virginia spokesman for William Jennings Bryan and the Democratic platform of 1896. His achievements as a reform governor are equaled by few Virginia chief executives. In the Senate, Swanson worked to advance the programs of Woodrow Wilson. In the 1920s, he contributed to formulation of Democratic alternatives to Republican policies. In Roosevelt\u27s New Deal cabinet, he helped the Navy obtain favorable treatment during a decade of isolation.
The warp and woof of local politics are well explicated by Ferrell to furnish insight into personalities and events that first produced, then sustained, Swanson\u27s electoral success. He examines Virginia educational, moral, and social reforms; disfranchisement movements; racial and class politics; and the impact of the woman\u27s vote. And he records the growth of the Hampton Roads military-industrial complex, which Swanson brought about.
In Virginia, Swanson became a dominant political figure, and Ferrell\u27s study challenges previous interpretations of Virginia politics between 1892 and 1932 that pictured a powerful, reactionary Democratic Organization, directed by Thomas Staples Martin and his successor Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., defeating would-be progressive reformers. A forgotten Virginia emerges here, one that reveals the pervasive role of agrarians in shaping the Old Dominion\u27s politics and priorities.
Henry C. Ferrell Jr. is professor of history at East Carolina University.https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_political_history/1013/thumbnail.jp
Localization of the C. albicans MBP1 Gene Product in S. cerevisiae
No full textColor poster with text, images, and diagrams.The pathogenic yeast species, Candida albicans, is responsible for a number of opportunistic oral and genital infections. Key to its pathogenicity is its ability to convert from yeast to hyphal form upon invasion of human tissue. Research suggests the MBP1 gene product plays a role in this transition. This study continues work carried out by UWEC biology department faculty, Dr. Dan Herman and Dr. Julie Anderson, and former student, Greg Fischer. The C. albicans MBP1 gene was expressed in the closely related, less pathogenic, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Key to this investigation was the cellular localization of the Mbp1 protein. Investigating the localization patterns of the MBP1 gene product will further understanding of the role it plays in the pathogenicity of C. albicans.University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire Office of Research and Sponsored Programs
Crime, Media and Community: Grief and Virtual Engagement in Late Modernity
No full textAs media proliferate and become more integral to social existence, so too, it might be suggested, their role becomes more complex and contested. Media forms and representations are instrumental in the creation of deviant identities and the subsequent stigmatisation and demonisation of whole groups of individual. They are a driving force behind the nostalgically reactionary discourse that rails against the so-called ‘culture of permissiveness’, decrying the decline in respect and the loss of community. Yet they are also an important conduit for the celebration of diversity and the articulation and advancement of alternative discourses, counter-definitions and marginalised views and interests. Finally, they present opportunities to be social in new and novel ways. They offer a source of virtual collectivism and identity in an uncertain physical world; a source of imagined community. This chapter begins to explore some of the interconnections between crime, culture and community as they are played out in old and new media
Foundations of marketing / William Pride, O. C. Ferrell.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (p. 513-542) and indexes.xxi, 569 pages
Is UPd<sub>2</sub>Al<sub>3</sub> a Fulde-Ferrell superconductor?
No full textWe report dilatation and vibrating-reed experiments on monocrystalline UPd2Al3. Anomalies found at high fields near T(c) may reflect the transition to the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov superconducting state. We discuss possible effects due to the pinning of flux lines
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