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[News Clip: Edith Deen]
No full textVideo footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about author, columnist, and lecturer Edith Alderman Deen receiving an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Texas Women's University
Essential Oil Characterization and Biological Activities of Millettia thonningii (Schumach. & Thonn.) Baker Leaf, Stem and Root
No full textMillettia thonningii has been used in folk medicine for centuries to treat pains, pathogenic diseases, and radical-induced aliments. Essential oils (EOs) are a source of bioactive compounds, and their potential application as an alternative to synthetic products in the treatment of infectious diseases and oxidative stress has been validated. Leaf, stem and root EOs of M. thonningii were obtained by hydro-distillation and characterized by Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) technique. Antioxidant activity was evaluated using 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) radical while antibacterial activity was assessed using agar well diffusion and broth micro-dilution techniques. EOs yields obtained were 0.18, 0.20 and 0.27% for the leaf, stem and root, respectively. Seventeen (leaf), twenty-two (stem) and fifteen (root) compounds were identified in EOs representing 96.3, 98.2 and 91.0% of the whole composition, respectively. Two major constituents in leaf essential oil (EO) were β-atlantol (23.6%) and β-caryophyllene (22.7%); β-caryophyllene (54.3%) was the most abundant in stem EO followed by caryophyllene oxide (11.4%) and α-humulene (7.2%) while epicedrol (57.1%) was the major compound in the EO followed by cedrol (10.6%) and β-cedrene (9.8%). α-Humulene, caryophyllene oxide, cedrol and isolongifolen-9-one were common in the three parts. Stem EO showed the highest antioxidant activity among others (IC50 = 259.76 μL/mL). However, the leaf, stem and root EO showed strong inhibition on the growth of Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Salmonella typhi and Streptococcus pneumoniae (14.0 - 20.0 mm and 5 - 20 μL/mL). This research further justified the ethnomedicinal uses of M. thonningii against pathogenic disorders and radical-induced aliments
Conversations with authors: Edith Pearlman
No full textA 2011 conversation with the author Edith Pearlman about her life and the inspiration for her work
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No full textEssential oils (EOs) from Ochna afzelii leaves, stems and roots were extracted and characterised by hydrodistillation and Gas Chromatogragphy-Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS) techniques, respectively. Antioxidant activity was evaluated by 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH*) method while antibacterial activity was determined using agar well diffusion and broth microdilution methods. Leaf, stem, and root oils afforded thirteen, ten and seven compounds, respectively, which were characterized by a high percentage of oxygenated sesquiterpenes and sesquiterpene hydrocarbons. The major compound in O. afzelii leaf and root EOs was & beta;-Atlantol, while the O. afzelii stem EO had (E)-& beta;-ionone as its major compound. The leaf oil displayed highest antioxidant activity (IC50 = 238.14 & mu;L/mL). All the EOs showed antibacterial activities against Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Salmonella typhi, and Streptococcus pneumoniae, with the zones of inhibition and MIC values ranging from 12.0-18.0 mm and 2.5-10 & mu;L/mL, respectively. O. afzelii has a mild antioxidant effect, but can be a potential source of natural antibacterial agents
Interview with Major Edith Vowell Part 2
No full textAnna Maria Island author included Major Edith Vowell in his book, Combat Nurses of World War II. Here she tells her story, with adventures in Brisbane, Australia, on ships and a GI troop train. She also lists her postwar nursing postings
Dangerous Domesticity: Gossip and Gothic Homes in Edith Wharton's Fiction
No full textIn the United States of the late nineteenth century, the home was increasingly discussed in terms of privacy and the domestic was viewed as a protected “feminine sphere.” Focusing on the work of an author almost synonymous with the literary depiction of homes, Edith Wharton, this article questions domestic myths of the US home. As a vehicle for its critique, it relies on a mode of communication that is firmly located in the domestic sphere and yet destabilizes its premises of privacy and sanctity: gossip. By analyzing the depiction of homes and the reliance on “idle talk” as both content and narrative technique in “The Lady's Maid's Bell,” The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country, and Summer, the article shows how Wharton exposes the feminine sphere as a dangerous place. To this end, she combines elements of Gothic fiction that subvert the domestic ideal with depictions of homes that are porous to gossip, which both uncovers abuses and invites them. Concentrating her attention on female protagonists (rather than enfranchised white men), Wharton paints a drastically different picture of the home and the possibility of shielding the private from economic or public concerns than evoked in contemporary legal and journalistic discourses.https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/editwharrevi.35.1.0022?seq=1Copyright © 2019 by The Pennsylvania State University. This article is used by permission of the Pennsylvania State University Press
Edith Södergran
No full textShort presentation of Finland-Swedish author Edith Södergran and translation of four poem
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