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Oral history interview with Betty Gregory
No full textBetty Gregory attended Oklahoma A&M College (now Oklahoma State University) from 1942-1946. She earned a degree in Home Economics and Foods & Nutrition. Betty discussed her involvement with the Alpha Delta Pi sorority as well as the atmosphere of campus during World War II. Betty met her husband, Edward, on campus and the two had three children, all OSU graduates.The O-STATE Stories Oral History collection is comprised of interviews which chronicle the rich history, heritage, and traditions of Oklahoma State University
The pontificate of Pope Gregory I, 590-604
No full textDue to the character of the original source materials and the nature of batch digitization, quality control issues may be present in this document. Please report any quality issues you encounter to [email protected], referencing the URI of the item.Includes bibliographical references.This thesis is an analysis of the administration of aphics. Pope Gregory 1, otherwise known as Gregory the Great. Gregorfs pontificate came during perhaps the darkest period in Roman history, as the entire Italian peninsula was wracked by wad-area famine, and disease. Gregory seemed ill-equipped for any position of leadership, as he suffered from both chronic poor health and a sense of despair from assuming a title he did not want. Despite his infirmities Gregory has been given much of the historical credit for saving both the Roman Church and the city of Rome itself Gregory left a fairly extensive written record for his time, including over 800 letters. From these letters it is possible to reconstruct many of his administrative decisions and infer much of his philosophy. This thesis looks at three issues Gregory faced during his pontificate, his relationship with the leadership in the imperial capital of Constantinople', his relationship with the barbarian force that had invaded Italy, the Lombards; and his interaction with the papal agents he assigned to various sections of the papal estates. The letters he wrote to respond to these three issues show a man who was fiercely committed to the preservation of Rome and the Roman Church. Although he sometimes operated somewhat independently from imperial policy he acknowledged that the emperor living in Constantinople had ultimate authority over civil matters He was an exacting administrator who required his agents to provide ample documentation of their activities on behalf of the papal estates. His commands to the papal agents show an unswerving desire to help the poor and protect the population of the papal estates against the depredations of either the Lombards or corrupt Church officials. Although this thesis provides only a foundation for further analysis of Gregory it suggests that Gregory was indeed worthy of the title "The Great.'
Preliminary studies of the influence of forces and kinetics on interfacial colloidal assembly
No full textIn this research we illustrate how particle-particle and particle-substrate interactions affect structure in interfacial colloidal systems. A number of tools are used to quantify characteristics of deposited structures. These results help understand the effects of colloidal system interactions and deposition kinetics on the degree of ordering in interfacial colloidal structures.
The first set of experiments involve 2.34 ?m silica colloids interacting with silica substrates in 0mM, 5mM, 10mM, and 100mM NaCl solutions. Only the 100mM NaCl solution resulted in rapid deposition driven by van der Waals attraction, while residual electrostatic repulsion produced levitation at lower ionic strengths. This allowed direct observation of the effects of varying magnitudes of attractive interactions on interfacial colloidal structures. Rapid deposition of positively charged 1?m latex colloids on negatively charged silica substrates driven by Coulombic and van der Waals attraction produced surface structures similar to those obtained with only van der Waals attraction. Experiments on 2.34 ?m silica colloids interacting with silica substrates in 10mM NaCl/pH 5.5 and 10mM NaCl/pH 10 conditions resulted in slower deposition rates. It was also found that slower deposition rates produced more compact structures displaying a higher degree of order.
Another set of experiments was aimed at understanding interactions and structures formed in systems of polymerically levitated particles. Total internal reflection microscopy (TIRM) experiments revealed the influence of underlying substrate chemistry on interaction profiles in these systems. Basic experiments were also performed on the effects of varying amounts of specific ions on the dispersion stability in these systems. At conditions producing instability in polymeric systems, a similar degree of order was observed in comparison to experiments involving rapid deposition via salt addition in electrostatically stabilized systems.
The results of this research clearly indicate that particle-particle and particle-substrate interactions are critical in determining structure formation by deposition. While the principal focus of this research is to study structures formed in various kinetic regimes, it also provides a basis for future studies aimed at tuning attractive interactions to produce equilibrium colloidal crystals on substrates
Regulation and evolution of the patatin multigene family : suggestions of combinatorial interactions directing tissue-specific gene expression
No full textVitaMajor subject: Plant Physiology and Plant BiotechnologyWhile much has been written about the evolution of new tissues or organs, little is known about the origin of the regulatory elements that direct gene expression in new structures. Questions also arise about how new regulatory elements are integrated into the complex physiology of new tissues. To examine these questions, the patatin multigene family was used as a model system. Patatin is a family of lipid acyl hydrolases that accounts for 30-40% of the total protein in potato tubers. The Class-I genes, which produce the majority of the patatin protein in tubers, can also be induced to express at high levels in stems and leaves by 0.2 -0.3 M sucrose. However, under normal conditions, they are almost totally tuber-specific. To examine how "tuber-specific" genes could have evolved from regulatory elements in non-tuberizing species, the expression of the endogenous patatin genes in tomato and tobacco were compared to that of potato Class-I patatin promoters using transgenic plants. Patatin promoters were also isolated and characterized from tobacco and evolutionarily divergent species of wild potato. These promoters contain sequences characteristic of both the Class-I and Class-II patatin genes. However, their patterns of expression are unlike those of any previously reported patatin genes. They were neither sucrose inducible nor tuber-specific and were wound-inducible, unlike potato Class-I patatin genes which are turned off by wounding. Because the major soybean vegetative storage protein (VSP) serves similar roles in soybeans to that served by patatin in potatoes, vsp promoter expression in transgenic potato plants was also examined. Although vsp is normally expressed in soybean leaves, it was tuber-specific when introduced into potato plants. Like Class-I patatin, vsp could be induced to express in leaves by sucrose, but unlike patatin, vsp could also be induced by methyl jasmonate, systemin and oligourinides..
Pineto Insugherata Vejo: un sistema di parchi
No full textIl progetto coordinato da P. Gregory e A.M. Ippolito, che ha coinvolto giovani architetti e paesaggisti (A. Quagliola, G. Turano, L. Pastorini, E. Di Munno e, per i paesaggisti, M. Antonini, S. Quilici, E. Todini) ha riguardato in particolare la realizzazione di due "soglie" di interfaccia fra i parchi e il sistema urbano, lungo la Via Trionfale a Roma: la "Soglia Insugherata-Ottavia/Ipogeo degli Ottavi" con la previsione di un centro di arti contemporanee in parte ipogeo e di un parco lineare lungo la Via Trionfale; la "Soglia Pineto-Trionfale" con un piccolo museo del parco e un nuovo accesso di quartiere
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A letter from Gregory Luna to Dr. Hector P. Garcia.
No full textA letter from Gregory Luna, Texas State Representative, to Dr. Hector P. Garcia regarding the transformation of colleges in South Texas into four year universities
THEOLOGIA AND OIKONOMIA: THE SOTERIOLOGICAL GROUND OF GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS’S TRINITARIAN THEOLOGY.
No full textThis dissertation explores the soteriological ground of the trinitarian theology of
Gregory of Nazianzus and establishes a consistent link in his thought between the
spheres of oikonomia and theologia. His writings are studied against the background of
contemporary theological and philosophical trends thus demonstrating the context
within which he elaborated his main theological concepts as well as their novelty.
Although Gregory drew heavily on the heritage of his intellectual master Origen, he
significantly changed his perspective from cosmological speculations to reflections on
the historical embodiment of Christ’s salvific activity. This shift was to lead Gregory
towards a positive view of the body and of bodily desire which he considered a vital
force in human existence capable of union with God in the process of deification.
Gregory thus fully identified Christ with humanity in its total manifestation, including
the human mind with its fallen and rebellious desire, now assumed and redeemed in the
incarnation. Hence Gregory placed the suffering image of Christ at the heart of his
trinitarian theological construction. As this thesis argues, around this image evolves the
whole dogmatic edifice of Gregory’s theology. Christ’s divine sovereignty is
understood not in separation and independence from the passion on Cross. Rather, its
full manifestation is only possible because of the cross, because of Christ’s free and
willing acceptance of it. The whole set of interrelationships between the suffering
Christ and the Father and the Holy Spirit are depicted according to the logic of
coincidence of sovereignty and humiliation. It is precisely in this combination of
theological themes – expressed with our new concept of “kenotic sovereignty” – that
the focus of the present thesis is located. This innovative spiritual disposition shapes
both Gregory’s theological epistemology and his hermeneutical strategy. Arguing for
the possibility of knowing the divine in and through human bodily existence and
corroborating this view with suitably interpreted Scriptural evidence, he opens the
horizons for the human ascension to the realm of the divine trinitarian life. In this way
Gregory envisages access to the transcendent theology of the Trinity which is
understood by him in purely personal terms, insofar as it implies the intimate
conversation of God with us “as friends” (Or. 38.7). This unique reworking of classical
and Christian themes is possible because of Gregory’s insistence that divine
sovereignty and transcendence become intelligible exclusively in the context of Easter.
Thus the habitually neglected narrative of the cross and resurrection of Christ in the
thought of the Theologian is the only key to unlock his understanding of the luminous
mystery of the Trinity
The Rhetoric of Landscape in Gregory of Nyssa’s Homilies on the Song of Songs
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Brill via the ISBN in this recordAnalytical and Supporting Studies. Proceedings of the 13th International Colloquium on Gregory of Nyssa (Rome, 17-20 September 2014)Series:
Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements, Volume: 150In this paper I want to take you on a walk through a garden. It is, to be sure, an imaginary garden; nevertheless, it bears a significance which extends beyond itself. Some of this significance concerns words and texts: for as we shall see, the garden is, amongst other things, a ‘garden of rhetoric’. The garden in question appears in the Gregory of Nyssa’s Homilies on the Song of Songs.[...
Fungal endophytes for improved crop yields and protection from pests
No full textThe invention provides a synthetic combination of a crop and at least one fungal endophyte, wherein the crop is a host plant of the endophyte. Provided are also methods and compositions for producing such synthetic combinations. The endophyte reproduces and enhances the agronomic characteristics of the crop. Methods for inoculating the host plant with the endophyte, for propagating the host-endophyte combination, and for detecting the presence of the endophyte and of its metabolites within a host plant are also described.U
Tort Law without Interpersonal Justice: A Conunent on Gregory Keating's "Reasonableness and Risk"
No full textDiego M. Papayannis exposa la seva interpretació del clàssic text de Gregory Keating, el qual comenta alhora la interpretació de Papayannis. La llei de danys es refereix al que ens devem els uns als altres com a obligacions de no interferir o perjudicar els interessos urgents dels altres mentre fem la nostra vida a la societat civil. El relat contemporani més influent de la llei de danys tracta les regles de responsabilitat civil com a preus a l'ombra. El seu paper no és reivindicar els propis drets i interessos dels demandants, sinó induir-nos a fer-nos mal els uns als altres només quan sigui econòmicament eficient fer-ho. Els principals competidors de la visió econòmica consideren que la importància del dret delictiu radica principalment en els deures de reparació que imposa als infractors, o en els poders de recurs que confereix a les víctimes de danys. Aquest llibre argumenta que les obligacions principals de la llei de danys aborden un domini de la justícia bàsica i que la seva retòrica de la raonabilitat implica una moral distintiva de dret i responsabilitat mutus. La llei moderna de danys està preocupada i respon a la importància moral especial del dany. Aquesta importància especial de vegades justifica normes de precaució més estrictes que les prescrites per l'eficiènciaDiego M. Papayannis presents his interpretation of Gregory Keating's classic text, which also comments on Papayannis' interpretation. "The law of torts is concerned with what we owe to one another in the way of obligations not to interfere with, or impair, each other's urgent interests as we go about our lives in civil society. The most influential contemporary account of tort law treats tort liability rules as shadow prices. Their role is not to vindicate claimants' own rights and interests, but to induce us to injure one another only when it is economically efficient to do so. The chief competitors to the economic view take tort law's importance to lie primarily in the duties of repair that it imposes on wrongdoers, or in the powers of recourse that it confers on the victims of tortious wrongs. This book argues that tort law's primary obligations address a domain of basic justice and that its rhetoric of reasonableness implies a distinctive morality of mutual right and responsibility. Modern tort law is preoccupied with, and responds to, the special moral significance of harm. That special significance sometimes justifies standards of precaution more stringent than those prescribed by efficiency”7521.mp4
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