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Convocation addresses and speeches by Father Burke-Gaffney
No full textFile consists of six speeches/addresses made by Father Burke-Gaffney at convocation ceremonies. Includes his 1955 address to the Nova Scotia Technical College (who awarded Burke-Gaffney an honorary doctorate in 1955); an address introducing a 1957 honorary degree recipient (Mr. Justice John D. Kearney); an introduction for the Very Reverend Edward B. Bunn (the President of Georgetown University) at the 1961 convocation; an introduction for the 1962 honorary doctorate recipient Ralph Lent Jeffery; an introduction for the 1967 honorary doctorate recipient the Honourable Henry Poole MacKeen; an address written by Burke-Gaffney for the 1967 convocation (includes a draft version, and one published in "Maroon and White"); and a 1968 introduction to honorary doctorate recipient Angus L. MacDonald
Bairdemys GAFFNEY & TONG & MEYLAN 2002, new genus
No full text<i>BAIRDEMYS</i>, new genus <p> TYPE SPECIES: <i>Bairdemys hartsteini</i>, new species.</p> <p>DISTRIBUTION: Miocene of Puerto Rico and Venezuela.</p> <p> DIAGNOSIS: A <i>Shweboemys</i> Group Pelomedusoides (sensu Meylan, 1996) known from skull and shell; secondary palate shorter than in all <i>Shweboemys</i> Group except <i>‘‘Shweboemys’’ gaffneyi</i>; medial edges of palatal cleft curved as in <i>‘‘Shweboemys’’ gaffneyi</i>; ventral convexity on triturating surface larger than in all other <i>Shweboemys</i> Group; eustachian tube separated by bone from rest of fenestra postotica in contrast to all known Podocnemididae; antrum postoticum extremely small and slitlike in contrast to all other <i>Shweboemys</i> Group; frontal and prefrontal strongly convex on dorsal surface in contrast to all other <i>Shweboemys</i> Group; basisphenoid separated from palatines by medially meeting pterygoids as in <i>‘‘Shweboemys’’ antiqua</i>; basioccipital longer than in <i>Shweboemys pilgrimi</i>; jugal­pterygoid contact prevents palatine­parietal contact.</p> <p> INCLUDED SPECIES: <i>Bairdemys venezuelensis</i> (Wood and Díaz de Gamero, 1971), <i>Bairdemys hartsteini</i>, new species (see table 1 for comparisons).</p> <p>ETYMOLOGY: The genus name is in honor of Dr. Donald Baird, a student of fossil turtles and other reptiles, who spent most of his career at Princeton University, and was an</p> <p> TABLE 1 <b> Comparison of <i>Bairdemys</i> species</b> </p> <p>inspiring mentor of both authors. Don is active in many areas of vertebrate paleontology and fossil reptile research and has influenced many young people in paleontology. In 1964, when one of the authors, Gene Gaffney, was a senior at Rutgers University, Don was directly responsible for introducing Gene to fossil turtles. Roger Wood, the other author, as a Princeton undergraduate was also influenced by Don in entering paleontology.</p>Published as part of <i>GAFFNEY, EUGENE S., TONG, HAIYAN & MEYLAN, PETER A., 2002, Bairdemys, a New Side-Necked Turtle (Pelomedusoides: Podocnemididae) from the Miocene of the Caribbean, pp. 1-28 in American Museum Novitates 3359</i> on pages 2-4, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2002)379<0001:GANSNT>2.0.CO;2, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/4712203">http://zenodo.org/record/4712203</a>
The Prophet's pulpit: Islamic preaching in contemporary Egypt
No full textMuslim preaching has been central in forming public opinion, building grassroots organizations, and developing leadership cadres for the wider Islamist agenda. Based on in-depth field research in Egypt, Patrick Gaffney focuses on the preacher and the sermon as the single most important medium for propounding the message of Islam. He draws on social history, political commentary, and theological sources to reveal the subtle connections between religious rhetoric and political dissent.Many of the sermons discussed were given during the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, and Gaffney attempts to describe this militant movement and to compare it with official Islam. Finally, Gaffney presents examples of the sermons, so readers can better understand the full range of contemporary Islamic expression
Ruminococcus bovis Gaffney & Embree & Gilmore & Embree 2021, SP. NOV.
No full textDESCRIPTION OF <i>RUMINOCOCCUS BOVIS</i> SP. NOV. <p> <i>Ruminococcus bovis</i> (bo'vis. L. gen. n. <i>bovis</i> of the cow) <i>Ruminococcus bovis</i> is an obligately anaerobic, catalasenegative and oxidase-negative bacterium. It is Gram-stainpositive and forms chains of small cocci when cultured in liquid medium. When cultured on TSB+FAC solid medium, it forms small, slightly opaque, off-white, circular colonies with even margins. Fermentation of D-galactose,D-glucose, D-fructose, maltose, glycogen, aesculin/ferric citrate and starch is indicated by API CH 50. The major fermentation product is acetate, with ethanol and glycerol as minor products. No lactate, butyrate, butanol, propionate, succinate or pyruvate is produced.</p> <p> The type strain is JE7A12 T (=ATCC TSD-225 T =NCTC 14479 T) and was originally isolated from rumen content of a healthy, Holstein cow from Tulare, California, USA. The genomic DNA G+C content of the type strain is 34.6 mol%.</p>Published as part of <i>Gaffney, James, Embree, Jordan, Gilmore, Sean & Embree, Mallory, 2021, RUMiNOCOCCUS BOViS sp. nov., a novel species of amylolytic RUMiNOCOCCUS isolated from the rumen of a dairy cow, pp. 1-7 in International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (004924) (004924) 71 (8)</i> on page 6, DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004924, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/6224136">http://zenodo.org/record/6224136</a>
Bairdemys GAFFNEY & TONG & MEYLAN 2002
No full text<i>Bairdemys</i>, species indeterminate <p>SPECIMEN: AMNH 30000, poorly preserved skull, figured in Sánchez­Villagra et al. (2000).</p> <p>LOCALITY: Cerro La Cruz, NW area of Lara State, 4 km NW of Caserío La Mesa. See Sánchez­Villagra et al., 2000, for map.</p> <p>HORIZON: Castillo Formation, early Miocene.</p> <p> DISCUSSION: This skull was figured and briefly described in Sánchez­Villagra et al. (2000) as ‘‘genus indet., of <i>‘Podocnemis’</i> <i>venezuelensis</i> Wood and Díaz de Gamero, 1971 ’’. The skull is clearly a <i>Shweboemys</i> Group podocnemidid based on its cavum pterygoideus and secondary palate. It has the palatal convexity diagnostic of <i>Bairdemys</i>. However, the skull differs from both species of <i>Bairdemys</i> in being flatter and lacking the degree of snout arching seen in <i>Bairdemys</i>. AMNH 30000 is not well preserved and these differences might be due to crushing, although there is no other indication of this. Unfortunately, sutures are not visible, and most of the bone surface is eroded.</p> <p> Comparison with the diagnostic criteria of the <i>Bairdemys</i> species (table 1) shows that it has the straight rather than pinched snout of <i>B. venezuelensis</i>, and the apparently narrow­ er skull and shallower palatal depressions of <i>B. hartsteini</i>. Its length is 92 mm, just intermediate between the 80 mm of <i>B. hartsteini</i> and the 105–120 mm of <i>B. venezuelensis</i>. AMNH 30000 could very well be a distinct species of <i>Bairdemys</i>, but its poor preservation makes it very difficult to be sure about the characters mentioned. For the present, we</p>Published as part of <i>GAFFNEY, EUGENE S., TONG, HAIYAN & MEYLAN, PETER A., 2002, Bairdemys, a New Side-Necked Turtle (Pelomedusoides: Podocnemididae) from the Miocene of the Caribbean, pp. 1-28 in American Museum Novitates 3359</i> on page 5, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2002)379<0001:GANSNT>2.0.CO;2, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/4712203">http://zenodo.org/record/4712203</a>
Fig. 8 in New Material of North American Side-Necked Turtles (Pleurodira: Bothremydidae)
No full textFig. 8. Size comparison of dorsal views of the more complete specimens of skulls of North American Bothremydidae of the subtribe Bothremydina. Dashed line shows midline. All skulls to same scale. A, Chedighaii hutchisoni KUVP 14765 holotype (from Gaffney et al., 2006). B, Bothremys sp., FMNH PR 247 (from Gaffney et al., 2006). C, Bothremys cooki Leidy, 1865, AMNH 2521 holotype skull and AMNH 29444 right otic chamber (from Gaffney et al., 2006). D, Chedighaii sp. ALAB PV 2001.2 (from Gaffney et al., 2006). E, Bothremydina indeterminate, NCSM 12766. F, Bothremydina indeterminate, NCSM 18650. [F. Ippolito, C. Facella, J. Dowis, del.].Published as part of Gaffney, Eugene S., Hooks, G. E. & Schneider, Vincent P., 2009, New Material of North American Side-Necked Turtles (Pleurodira: Bothremydidae), pp. 1-28 in American Museum Novitates 3655 on page 12, DOI: 10.1206/626-1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/535749
MeSH term explosion and author rank improve expert recommendations
No full textInformation overload is an often-cited phenomenon that reduces the productivity, efficiency and efficacy of scientists. One challenge for scientists is to find appropriate collaborators in their research. The literature describes various solutions to the problem of expertise location, but most current approaches do not appear to be very suitable for expert recommendations in biomedical research. In this study, we present the development and initial evaluation of a vector space model-based algorithm to calculate researcher similarity using four inputs: 1) MeSH terms of publications; 2) MeSH terms and author rank; 3) exploded MeSH terms; and 4) exploded MeSH terms and author rank. We developed and evaluated the algorithm using a data set of 17,525 authors and their 22,542 papers. On average, our algorithms correctly predicted 2.5 of the top 5/10 coauthors of individual scientists. Exploded MeSH and author rank outperformed all other algorithms in accuracy, followed closely by MeSH and author rank. Our results show that the accuracy of MeSH term-based matching can be enhanced with other metadata such as author rank
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Draft Genome Sequence of Salinivibrio sp. Strain EAGSL, a Biotechnologically Relevant Halophilic Microorganism
No full textThe halophilic bacterium Salinivibrio sp. strain EAGSL was isolated from the Great Salt Lake (Utah) for use in microbial electrochemical technologies experi- encing fluctuating salt concentrations. Genome sequencing was performed with Ion Torrent technology, and the assembled genome reported here is 3,234,770 bp with a GC content of 49.41%
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