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Jacob Viner’s Reminiscences from the New Deal (February 11, 1953)
Get PDFThis paper presents and reproduces an unpublished oral history interview given by Jacob Viner in 1953. The interview released by Viner for the Columbia Oral History Project gives us a valuable opportunity to throw light on his advisory activity during the New Deal Era. In our introduction we attempt to make a critical appraisal of Viner's reminiscences and to state the contribution they can provide to our general knowledge of the period. In addition, we also attempt to find out some biographical and interpretative elements useful to understand Viner’s own vision and his contribution to important economic policy processes during the New Deal.
The presence and absence of god in the Jacob narrative
Get PDFThis thesis explores the theological complexity of the Jacob narrative. In particular this is centred upon the paradox of divine presence and absence, and the contrast of the human and the divine. In the first part, an investigation is made of three key episodes which contain an encounter with the divine: the opening oracle (25:19ff), Bethel (28:10-22) and Peniel (32:23-33). It is concluded that the first passage is constructed as an introduction, making explicit the theme of the presence of God in the Jacob story, but also introducing the human side of the paradox. Bethel and Peniel are based on older pre-Yahwistic traditions, now shaped and incorporated into the story of Jacob to throw a theological perspective over the wider plot. The second part consists of a reading of the wider Jacob story, with particular attention to the theme of divine presence and absence and the interaction of the human and the divine. It is argued that even the most human of stories betray a theological interest and contribute to the overall paradox, but also that there are several indications of the presence of God. In the conclusion, it is noted that behind the present unity of the Jacob story there is evidence of earlier traditions, a growing together of material, and supplements offering new perspectives. It is also concluded that a close reading of the final text and a historical-critical appreciation need not be mutually exclusive, and that a cautious use of critical insights has thrown light upon the final form. Finally, it is argued that the theme of the presence and absence of God offers a way of reading the Jacob story in a theological way, that does most justice to its historical depth, final form, and canonical status
Grimm, Jacob - Porträt (wie B 271)
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Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Lipman, Jacob G.
No full textThis project was assisted by a grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission, a division of the Department of State.Names of other Rutgers people: Carl R. Fellers, Herman J. Levine, James B. Scarr, Allen G. Waller, Joseph R. Neller, Robert F. Poole, S. A. Waksman, John Phillips Street '8
Development and use of a G. mellonella infection model to discover novel virulence mutants in B. anthracis
No full textUnderstanding bacterial virulence provides insight into the molecular basis behind infection and could identify new targets for drug development. Currently, in vivo virulence is assessed in the mouse model. While this model is effective, there are constraints associated with vertebrate use. This study investigated the invertebrate wax worm larvae, G. mellonella, as an alternative in vivo model for B. anthracis. We constructed and assessed several virulence mutants and found that G. mellonella effectively distinguished between virulent and avirulent strains. We also tested whether G. mellonella could identify novel virulence mutants. Transposon mutants were screened for deficits in reactive oxygen species (ROS) survival and iron acquisition and were then assessed in G. mellonella. Two were found to have an in vivo phenotype. These results demonstrate the potential effectiveness of G. mellonella as an infection model and could increase the efficiency in the identification of novel bacterial virulence mutants
Meliola konniensis Jacob Thomas & G. N. Gokul 2022, sp. nov.
No full text<i>Meliola konniensis</i> Jacob Thomas & G. N. Gokul <i>sp. nov.</i> (Figs 1, 2) MycoBank No.: MB 839626 <p> Type:— INDIA, Kerala: Pathanamthitta, Konni forest division, Manneera, on the living leaves of <i>Aglaia perviridis</i> Hiern (Meliaceae), 29 December 2018, Gokul & Jacob Thomas, MTCHT 231 (holotype); CATH 18004 (isotype).</p> <p> <i>Colonies</i> epiphyllous, very thin, scattered, up to 2 mm in diameter. <i>Hyphae</i> straight to substraight, branching opposite at acute angles, loosely reticulate, cells 11–28 × 4–7 μm (x̅ = 20.12 × 5.93 μm, n = 50). <i>Appressoria</i> opposite, rarely alternate, antrorse, 13–17 μm (x̅ = 14.61, n = 50) long; stalk cells cylindrical to cuneate, 1.8–5.5 μm (x̅ = 2.95, n = 50) long; head cells ovate, entire, attenuated at the apex, 9–14 × 5–9 μm (x̅ = 11.80 × 6.92 μm, n = 50). <i>Mycelial setae</i> very few, arise from subiculum, simple, straight, acute to variously dentate at the tip, up to 260 (x̅ = 184.23 μm, n = 50) μm long. <b>Sexual morph:</b> <i>Perithecia</i> scattered, up to 150 μm (x̅ = 113.24 μm, n = 50) in diameter; ascospores oblong cylindrical, four-septate, slightly constricted at the septa, 30–37 × 10–16 μm (x̅ = 32 × 13.09 μm, n = 50). <b>Asexual morph:</b> <i>Phialides</i> mixed with appressoria, few, opposite, ampulliform, 13–22 × 4–8 μm (x̅ = 16.82 × 6.21 μm, n = 50).</p> <p> <b>Etymology</b>:—Named after the study area.</p> <p> <b>Notes:</b> — Zeng <i>et al.</i> (2017) listed the association of four species of <i>Irenopsis</i>, 10 species of <i>Asteridiella</i> and 57 Species of <i>Meliola</i> with members of Meliaceae. In the present collection the arrangement of appressoria are strictly opposite hence the characteristics of the specimen are compared with the most allied species reported on Meliaceae having opposite appressoria (Table 1). In <i>M. aphanamyxidis</i> Hosag., <i>M. arkevermae</i> Hosag. & Sabeena, <i>M. dysoxyli</i> Hansf. and <i>M. reinwardtiodendri</i> Hosag. appressoria and ascospores are larger in size and setae are longer with obtuse to acute apex. The present collection is comparable to <i>M. thomasii</i> Hansf. in dentate to bifid nature of setae but differs because of having significantly short setae and smaller size of perithecia and ascospores. In <i>M. ekebergiae</i> Hansf. appressoria are crowded and longer, hyphae are broader and setae are numerous with acute apex. <i>Meliola amoorae</i> Yates is having appressoria with cylindric head cells which are rounded at apex, setae are very long with acute at the tip and ascospores slightly smaller, ellipsoid in shape.</p> <p> Eight species of <i>Meliola</i> so far reported infecting <i>Aglaia</i> are <i>Meliola aglaiicola</i> Hansf., <i>Meliola aglaiae</i> Syd. (synonymised to <i>Meliola parvula</i> Syd.), <i>Meliola aglaina</i> Hansf., <i>Meliola aglaiae-edulis</i> Jana <i>et al</i>., <i>Meliola obvallata</i> Syd., <i>Meliola sairandhriana</i> Hosag. & Archana, <i>Meliola savarkarii</i> Hosag. <i>et al</i>., and <i>Meliola vazhachalensis</i> Hosag. & Jacob Thomas (Hansford 1961, Hosagoudar 1996, 2008, 2013, Hosagoudar & Sabeena 2014, Zeng <i>et al.</i> 2017). Among these <i>M. aglaina</i> reported from Philippines, M. <i>sairandhriana</i> and <i>M. vazhachalensis</i> reported from India are having strictly opposite appressoria (Table 1). The specimen differs from <i>M. vazhachalensis</i> in having longer straight setae which is variously dentate at the apex, appressoria antrorse with apex of head cells attenuated and phialides strictly opposite in distribution. Mycelial setae of <i>M. vazhachalensis</i> are uncinate to slightly coiled and acute at the apex. In <i>M. sairandhriana</i> the size of perithecia and ascospores are larger, mycelial setae are longer, curved to uncinate at the apex and tip of the setae are obtuse to bifid. The head cells of the appressoria are clavate, mycelial setae are longer with acute apex and phialides develop opposite and alternate in <i>M. aglaina</i> (3112.3221). In the present collection mycelial setae are variously dentate, head cells of the appressoria are attenuated at the apex, phialides show opposite development only and the Beeli formula is 3132.3221. Hence the specimen is proposed as a new species.</p>Published as part of <i>Gokul, Gopinathan Nair & Thomas, Jacob, 2022, A New Species of Black Mildew Causing Fungus Meliola konniensis (Meliolales) from Agasthyamalai Biosphere Reserve, India, pp. 224-228 in Phytotaxa 545 (2)</i> on page 227, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.545.2.11, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/6534583">http://zenodo.org/record/6534583</a>
THE TRANSITION OF MOLECULAR OXYGEN
No full textAuthor Institution: Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, The Australian National University; Molecular Physics Laboratory, SRI InternationalThe origin of the intensity of the transition of molecular oxygen, first observed recently by Eppink et al. [J. Chem. Phys. 108, 1305 (1998).], is discussed. It is shown that the transition borrows its intensity principally from the dipole-allowed transition, through spin-orbit mixing between the and states. Estimated continuum photoabsorption cross sections and discrete oscillator strengths for the system are presented
Observations of Bºs→ψ(2S)η and Bº(s)→ψ(2S)π+π- decays
Get PDFFirst observations of the B0s
→ψ(2S)η, B0 →ψ(2S)π
+
π
− and B0s
→ψ(2S)π
+
π
− decays are made
using a dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb−1 collected by the LHCb experiment in
proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of
√
s = 7 TeV. The ratios of the branching fractions
of each of the ψ(2S) modes with respect to the corresponding J/ψ decays are
B(B0s
→ψ(2S)η)
÷
B(B0s
→J/ψη)
= 0.83± 0.14 (stat)±0.12 (syst) ±0.02 (B),
;
B(B0→ψ(2S)π
+
π
−
)
÷
B(B0→J/ψπ
+
π
−
)
= 0.56± 0.07 (stat)±0.05 (syst)± 0.01 (B),
;
B(B0s
→ψ(2S)π
+
π
−
)
÷
B(B0s
→J/ψπ
+
π
−
)
= 0.34± 0.04 (stat)±0.03 (syst)± 0.01 (B),
where the third uncertainty corresponds to the uncertainties of the dilepton branching fractions of the J/ψ
and ψ(2S) meson decays
Benno Jacob Collection 1898-1975
No full textFolder 1 contains several journal publications by Jacob as well as the manuscript (with author's notes?) "'Die Judenbuche : eine jüdische Studie" and the reprint "The First and Second Commandments." The pre-WWII reviews in folder 2 primarily concern Jacob's book "Auge um Auge."The following names are mentioned in this collection:Allgeier, Arthur; Beer, G.; Buechler, A.; Carlebach, Joseph; Cassuto, U.; Closen, Gustav E.; Dienemann; Eschelbacher, M.; Fink, Emanuel; Goldmann, Felix; Halevi, Perez; Herrmann, J.; Hoffmann, B.; Levinger, Wilhelm; Levy, Israel; Meinhold, J.; Michel, W.; Porges, Nathan; Posnanski, Adolf; Robinson, T.H.; Samuel, S.; Schmidt, C.Benno Jacob was born in Breslau in 1862 and attended the Jewish Theological Seminary there as well as university. During his student days he co-founded the Jewish fraternity Viadrina. He served as rabbi in Göttingen from 1891 to 1906 and Dortmund from 1906 until his retirement in 1929. In 1932 he moved to Hamburg to continue his scholarly work and fled to London in 1939. He was known for his interpretations of the Bible, particularly the Torah and published extensively on the subject. He died in London in 1945.Original German-language inventory is in folder 1.processed for digitizationdigitize
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