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Virtual Book Launch: Russ Davidson author of: Joaquín Ortega: Forging Pan-Americanism at the University of New Mexico
No full textRuss Davidson, author of Joaquín Ortega: Forging Pan-Americanism at the University of New Mexico In conversation with Felipe Gonzales and Christine Sierra
Russ Davidson served as a curator of Latin American and Iberian collections and was a professor of librarianship at the University of New Mexico from 1979 to 2004.
Phillip b. (Felipe) Gonzales is a professor emeritus of sociology at the University of New Mexico. As a historical sociologist, his research has primarily focused on the Nuevomexicano Hispanic group of New Mexico. He is the author, co-author, or editor of four books and numerous articles on Nuevomexicano identity, politics, and economic status.
Christine Marie Sierra is a professor emerita of political science at the University of New Mexico and a former director of the Southwest Hispanic Research Institute. Her teaching career at UNM spanned twenty-eight years, and her research has focused on the study of race, ethnicity, and gender in US politics, Mexican American activism on immigration policy, and Hispanic politics in New Mexico.https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/laii_events/1091/thumbnail.jp
Q & A - Eric Davidson
No full textEric Davidson graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1954 and received his PhD from Rockefeller University in 1963. He remained at Rockefeller until 1971 when he moved to Caltech in Pasadena, California. He was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 1985, and is at present Norman Chandler Professor of Cell Biology in the Division of Biology, Caltech. He is the author of 5 books and over 400 papers on developmental gene regulation and evolution of genomic programs for development. For the last decade his work has focused on theory and operation of developmental gene regulatory networks
Frege and Davidson on Predication
No full textDavidson's conception of predication is examined and critically discussed with reference to Frege's functional conception of concept and first-and higher order predication. The author argues that Frege's account of predication for all its difficulties, included the ones pointed aout by Davidson, is still the best at our disposal
Gertrude M. Davidson telegram to Franklin County Woman Suffrage Association, October 22, 1914
No full textThis telegram was sent on October 22, 1914, to the Woman Suffrage Headquarters in Franklin County, Ohio. Gertrude M. Davidson, a member of the Scioto County Association for women's suffrage, sent the telegram to request fliers in support of women's suffrage. Davidson said she needed the fliers by her organization's Saturday afternoon meeting. She requested the flier titled "Women in the Home," but stated that if there weren't enough of those to send the best fliers they had on hand.
The Franklin County Woman Suffrage Association was formed in 1912, after the Ohio Constitutional Convention elected to bring to a vote the question of removing the words "white male" from the state constitution with regard to voting rights. Headquartered in the Chamber of Commerce building in Columbus, Ohio, the organization put out regular publications, organized public speeches and meetings, distributed literature and held parades in support of the suffrage movement. Women's suffrage in Ohio was defeated in a special election in 1912 and again in 1914 and 1916 before a resolution narrowly passed in 1917 allowing municipal voting by women in Columbus. In 1920, the 19th Amendment passed, extending the vote to women and prohibiting state and federal government from denying suffrage on the basis of sex
Differences in visual attention and task interference between males and females reflect differences in brain laterality
No full textTwo cognitive tasks (a letter memory task and a spatial memory task) designed to selectively activate the left or right hemisphere were combined with attentional probe tasks to measure how hemispheric activation affects attention to left and right hemifields. The probe task in Experiment 1 required the identification of digits in the left and right hemifield. During the letter task, male subjects identified more probes from the left hemifield than from the right. Their accuracy varied little across the two hemifields during the dots task.Experiment 2 tested whether this pattern is due to either spatial attention or interference in character processing. Instead of identifying digits, the probe task required subjects to respond to a black square that appeared in the periphery of the screen. For male subjects, the pattern was opposite of that from Experiment 1. During the letter task they responded faster to the probe in the right hemifield than in the left. Their response times were equivalent across the two hemifields during the dots task.These results indicate two separate effects of laterality in male subjects. The activation of one hemisphere produced more attention to the contralateral hemifield in Experiment 2, and the letter memory task interfered with the processing of other characters in the right visual field more than those in the left visual field in Experiment 1. Neither of these effects appeared in female subjects, corroborating earlier claims that female brains are less lateralized than male brains
Soil nitrogen cycling and nitrogen oxide emissions along a pasture chronosequence in the humid tropics of Costa Rica
No full textOur objectives were: (1) to measure how N2O and NO emissions from a chronosequence of forested land converted to pastures in the humid tropics of Costa Rica had changed in 4 yr, and (2) to relate these emissions to indices of N availability. We observed lower mean N2O (11.9 ng N cm−2 h−1) and NO (3.5 ng N cm−2 h−1) emissions from pastures in 1996 compared to 1992 (N2O: 39.9 ng N cm−2 h−1; NO: 5.8 ng N cm−2 h−1). Even so, N2O emissions in recently formed pastures (13.8 ng N cm−2 h−1) were still higher than previously measured emissions from forests (7.0 ng N cm−2 h−1). Indices of N cycling, such as net N mineralization, nitrification potential, and extractable soil nitrate, decreased with pasture age, which we attributed to a decrease in substrate availability. Denitrification enzyme activity did not change significantly with pasture age, indicating that denitrification occurs at least sporadically at all sites and the presence of denitrifying enzymes is not as strongly linked to N availability as is the presence of nitrifying enzymes. There were no significant correlations between N2O and NO emissions and indices of N cycling. While this may indicate that the processes are not closely related, we believe that sampling of nitrogen oxide emissions in 1996 was inadvertently biased towards exceptionally dry soil conditions. This sampling bias limited the probability of observing large nitrogen oxide emissions associated with episodic denitrification. Results from chronosequence studies should be interpreted with caution especially for variables which depend on local weather conditions at time of measurement
Institutional Racism and the Dynamics of Privilege in Public Health
No full textInstitutional racism, a pattern of differential access to material resources and power determined by race, advantages one sector of the population while disadvantaging another. Such racism is not only about conspicuous acts of violence but can be carried in the hold of mono-cultural perspectives. Overt state violation of principles contributes to the backdrop against which much less overt yet insidious violations occur. New Zealand health policy is one such mono-cultural domain. It is dominated by western bio-medical discourses that preclude and under-value Māori, the indigenous peoples of this land, in the conceptualisation, structure, content, and processes of health policies, despite Te Tiriti o Waitangi guarantees to protect Māori interests.
Since the 1980s, the Department of Health has committed to honouring the Treaty of Waitangi as the founding document of Māori-settler relationships and governance arrangements. Subsequent Waitangi Tribunal reports, produced by an independent Commission of Inquiry have documented the often-illegal actions of successive governments advancing the interests of Pākehā at the expense of Māori. Institutional controls have not prevented inequities between Māori and non-Māori across a plethora of social and economic indicators.
Activist scholars work to expose and transform perceived inequities. My research interest lies in how Crown Ministers and officials within the public health sector practice institutional racism and privilege and how it can be transformed. Through dialogue with Māori working within the health sector, fuelled by critical analysis and strategic advice from a research whānau (family) of Māori health leaders and a Pākehā Tiriti worker, and embracing the traditions of feminist and critical race theory I provide evidence of racism that can invoke strong emotional reactions. More disturbing is its normalisation to nigh imperceptibility within ones personal and professional life. The exposure of racism as a socially created phenomenon is a strength of the research presented here.
My action orientation is my ethical response. Honouring Te Tiriti o Waitangi is a pathway to transforming racism. Such change is likely to be resisted by the Pākehā majority. This anticipated resistance is not a credible reason to weaken responsibility for such necessary change. Transforming institutional racism needs to be driven by senior managers, professional bodies, unions, and by communities. Policies, practices and leadership that enable institutional racism need to be systematically eliminated from the health sector. Crown officials must be supported to strengthen their professional accountabilities and to embrace ethical bicultural practice. Greater transparency could enable more effective monitoring of Crown behaviour and support transformed practice
Managing E-book Workflows from Acquisitions to the Catalogue
No full textThis presentation about e-book workflows was given at the Canadian Library Association Conference in Vancouver, B.C. on May 23, 2008. The presenters, all from York University Libraries in Toronto, Ontario were, in order of speaking, Catherine Davidson, Associate University Librarian, Collections, Nancy Hall, Manager, Monograph Aquisitions and Heather Fraser, Head, Bibliographic Services.Users demand more and more content in electronic form and how better to augment electronic content than e-books? This presentation will explore the technological, economic and cultural challenges that surround e-book collection development. We’ll review how potential content is identified, trialed and evaluated, and then focus on e-book workflow issues from the point of acquisition to the point of accessibility
Base composition of RNA obtained from motor neurons in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
No full textPT: J; CR: DANEHOLT B, 1966, J NEUROCHEM, V13, P913 DAVIDSON TJ, J NEUROPATHOL EXP NE DAVIDSON TJ, 1981, J NEUROPATH EXP NEUR, V40, P32 EDSTROM JE, 1964, METHODS CELL PHYSL, V1, P417 HARTMANN HA, 1968, ACTA NEUROPATH BERL, V11, P275 KOENIG H, 1969, MOTOR NEURON DISEASE, P347 RINGBORG U, 1966, BRAIN RES, V2, P296 SLAGEL DE, 1966, J NEUROPATH EXP NEUR, V25, P244; NR: 8; TC: 16; J9: J NEUROPATHOL EXP NEUROL; PG: 6; GA: LF726Source type: Electronic(1
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