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Larkin, F M, VX47515
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/398379Surname: LARKIN. Given Name(s) or Initials: F M. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: VX47515. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 16356.215648
Item: [2016.0049.30672] "Larkin, F M, VX47515
The China firm: American elites and the making of British Colonial society
No full textWhat roles did Americans play in the expanding global empires of the nineteenth century? Thomas M. Larkin examines the Hong Kong–based Augustine Heard & Company, the most prominent American trading firm in treaty-port China, to explore the ways American elites at once made and were made by British colonial society. Following the Heard brothers throughout their firm’s rise and decline, The China Firm reveals how nineteenth-century China’s American elite adapted to colonial culture, helped entrench social and racial hierarchies, and exploited the British imperial project for their own profit as they became increasingly invested in its political affairs and commercial networks.
Through the central narrative of Augustine Heard & Co., Larkin disentangles the ties that bound the United States to China and the British Empire in the nineteenth century. Drawing on a vast range of archival material from Hong Kong, China, Boston, and London, he weaves the local and the global together to trace how Americans gained acceptance into and contributed to the making of colonial societies and world-spanning empires. Uncovering the transimperial lives of these American traders and the complex ways extraimperial communities interacted with British colonialism, The China Firm makes a vital contribution to global histories of nineteenth-century Asia and provides an alternative narrative of British empire
Phenology data for watermilfoil taxa Myriophyllum spicatum, M. sibiricum, and M. spicatum x M. sibiricum in Minnesota, USA, 2017 - 2018
No full textThe files include data collected at each Myriophyllum sampling location over the course of the study, including data collected at the water's surface (Myriophyllum flower heads, Myriophyllum surface cover, and water chemistry) and data collected with the underwater video sampling device (Myriophyllum stem counts and vertical stem cover). Surface data include a single row for each site (i.e., point location) on each lake for each sampling event. The underwater stem data includes multiple rows for for each site on each lake for each sampling event; these rows correspond to four video subsamples collected at each site, and subsequent 0.5-m depth intervals at which Myriophyllum stems were assessed for each subsample. Additionally, there is a data file that includes biomass measurements that correspond to stem counts from video subsamples. Data across files can be linked via "siteID".In North America, the hybrid aquatic plant Myriophyllum spicatum × Myriophyllum sibiricum (hybrid watermilfoil, HWM) is a cross between non-native invasive Eurasian watermilfoil (M. spicatum, EWM) and native northern watermilfoil (M. sibiricum, NWM). We compared HWM to its parental taxa, EWM and NWM, by examining the amount and timing of: 1) flowering, 2) surface cover, and 3) biomass (using stem counts as a proxy). We conducted repeat surveys of Myriophyllum beds at eight lakes (2–3 lakes/taxon) in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan area (Minnesota, USA) between June 2017 and November 2018. To sample biomass without destroying plants, we developed a novel sampling device that uses underwater video to measure Myriophyllum stems; we validated the utility of this device by comparing Myriophyllum stem counts and biomass collected from the same locations. The data from these studies are provided and documented here.U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Research and Development Center (Cooperative Agreement Number: W912HZ-16-2-0011)Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Research CenterGlisson, Wesley J; Larkin, Daniel J. (2021). Phenology data for watermilfoil taxa Myriophyllum spicatum, M. sibiricum, and M. spicatum x M. sibiricum in Minnesota, USA, 2017 - 2018. Retrieved from the Data Repository for the University of Minnesota (DRUM), https://doi.org/10.13020/5xq3-wb66
Empowering educators: Proven principles and successful strategies
No full textEducators cannot empower their students without being empowered themselves. This book presents a number of proven principles and successful strategies that have been demonstrated by rigorous research to be effective in assisting teachers to carry out their fundamental mission of helping their students to achieve significant learning outcomes. © Kevin Larkin, Marta Kawka, Karen Noble, Henriette van Rensburg, Lyn Brodie and Patrick Alan Danaher 2015, Respective authors 2015 and Marc Clarà 2015
Community and trophic responses of benthic Foraminifera to oxygen gradients and organic enrichment
No full textGlobal warming and eutrophication are driving an expansion of hypoxia in the World Ocean. This will favour organisms, such as Foraminifera (testate protists), that tolerate low-oxygen conditions and may lead to an overall decline in marine biodiversity. With this in mind, community and trophic responses of benthic Foraminifera were investigated at two contrasting sites in the upper boundary (140 m water depth; bottom-water oxygen concentrations = 2.05 mll-1 during the spring intermonsoon and 0.11 mll-1 during the SW monsoon) and the core (300 m water depth; bottom-water oxygen concentration consistently ~ 0.11 mll-1) of an intense, natural, mid-water oxygen minimum zone (OMZ) on the Pakistan Margin, NE Arabian Sea. Live macrofaunal (>300 µm fraction) Foraminifera (including softwalled species) and metazoans were examined at each site during the 2003 spring intermonsoon (April) and SW monsoon (October) seasons (4 replicate multicores/site/season, 25.5cm2 surface area, 0-5 cm depth). Wet-sorting revealed a low diversity assemblage dominated (> 60 %) by calcareous Foraminifera at both sites. A total of 36 species was recognised and diversity was not greatly affected by water depth or season. At both sites, >86 % of Foraminifera were restricted to the upper 0-1 cm layer of sediment and the Average Living Depth (ALD) decreased from the spring intermonsoon to the SW monsoon (140 m, ALD5 = 0.41 to 0.33; 300 m, ALD5 = 0.65 to 0.44). Foraminifera increased in mean abundance from 124 to 153 individuals per 10 cm2 from the spring intermonsoon to the SW monsoon at 140 m and from 86 to 122 individuals per 10 cm2 at 300 m. The calcareous species Uvigerina ex. gr. semiornata dominated communities and increased in mean abundance from 54 to 118 individuals (140 m) and from 41 to 69 individuals (300 m) per 10 cm2 following the SW monsoon. At 140 m, Foraminifera were 3.6 times more abundant than metazoans during the spring intermonsoon, rising to 13.9 times during the SW monsoon. The corresponding proportions at 300 m, where metazoans were rare, were 12.4 and 14.5. Fatty acid biomarkers suggest that foraminiferal diets vary between species. The calcareous species U. ex. gr. semiornata, Bolivina aff. dilatata and Globobulimina cf. G. pyrula selectively ingested phytodetrital material, whereas the agglutinated species, Ammodiscus aff. cretaceus, Bathysiphon sp. nov. 1, and Reophax dentaliniformis favoured bacteria. Moreover, U. ex. gr. semiornata, rapidly ingested (within two days) 13C-labelled diatoms in shipboard laboratory and in situ pulse-chase experiments at the 140-m site following the SW monsoon. This enabled the uptake and processing of organic matter (OM) to be tracked in the foraminiferal cell into individual fatty acids, using Gas Chromatography - Mass Spectrometry (selective ion scan). These results suggest that calcareous Foraminifera, in particular U. ex. gr. semiornata, play a central role in OM cycling on the sea-floor in the upper part of the Pakistan margin OMZ
Foraminiferal faunal responses to monsoon-driven changes in organic matter and oxygen availability at 140 m and 300 m water depth in the NE Arabian Sea
No full textThe faunal responses of benthic Foraminifera were investigated during 2003 at two contrasting sites in the Pakistan margin oxygen minimum zone (OMZ). Bottom-water-dissolved oxygen concentrations at the seasonally hypoxic 140 m site varied from 2.06 ml l-1 (92±4 µM) during the intermonsoon period (April) to 0.11 ml l-1 (5.0±0.4 µM) during the post-monsoon period (October); corresponding values at the 300 m site in the OMZ core, were 0.053 and 0.057 ml l-1 (2.36±0.09 and 2.56±0.29 µM). Live macrofaunal (>300 µm) Foraminifera (including soft-walled species) and Metazoa were examined in replicate multicore samples taken at each site during the 2003 intermonsoon and post-monsoon seasons. A low-diversity foraminiferal assemblage was dominated (>60%) by calcareous species at both sites. A total of 36 species was recognised and diversity was not greatly affected by water depth or season. At both sites, >86% of Foraminifera were restricted to the 0–1 cm layer of sediment and the ALD5 decreased from the intermonsoon to the post-monsoon periods. Densities increased from 124 (intermonsoon) to 153 (post-monsoon) indiv. 10 cm–2 at 140 m and from 86 to 122 indiv. 10 cm-2 at 300 m. Much of this increase was accounted for by the dominant species, Uvigerina ex. gr. semiornata. At 140 m, Foraminifera were 3.6 times more abundant than metazoans during the intermonsoon period, rising to 13.9 times during the post-monsoon period. The corresponding proportions at 300 m, where metazoans were rare, were 12.4 and 14.5. We conclude that calcareous Foraminifera, in particular U. ex. gr. semiornata, play a central role in OM cycling on the sea floor in the upper part of the Pakistan margin OMZ.<br/
Antiviral mechanisms in varicella-zoster virus infections
No full textSix varicella-zoster virus (VZV)-infected cell surface proteins, M{}r 170K, 105K, 93K, 81K, 53K and 45K, were identified following extrinsic radiolabelling of the cell surface, immunoprecipitation of detergent-solubilized extract of the same cell surface and fractionation of the immunoprecipitates using SDS-PAGE. All six were shown to be glycosylated by their affinity for Ricin communis agglutinin 1 lectin. The glycoprotein with M{}r 170K in non-reduced PAGE was shown to be a disulphide bond-linked protein as under reducing conditions it was cleaved to a subunit, M{}r 63K. The human serum IgG response to these glycoproteins during various clinical circumstances was investigated. Antibodies reactive with these glycoproteins could not be detected in acute sera from the chickenpox patients and in the majority of acute shingles cases. Antibodies reactive with glycoproteins with M{}r 170K, 105K, 53K and 45K were identified in post-varicella sera, whilst during zoster convalescence antibodies to all six were prominent. Antibodies to the disulphide bond-linked glycoprotein persisted for many years following both the primary disease and its reactivation. Disseminated zoster was associated with significantly low levels of antibodies to these surface glycoproteins. Virological studies were carried out in 28 non-immunocompromised patients with herpes zoster who received treatment with the antiviral acyclovir (5 mg/kg) or placebo intravenously three times daily for five days. Mean duration of virus shedding was not significantly different in the two groups and all patients developed high titres of IgG antibodies to varicella-zoster virus, IgM and IgA responses were also detected. Interferon levels in sequential vesicle fluids reached a peak significantly sooner (p< 0.025) and at a lower level in eight treated patients compared with eight given placebo. Twenty-five VZV isolates from the zoster patients were tested for sensitivity to antiviral agents. ED50 values were found to be 3.25-18μM for acyclovir, 5-25μM for vidarabine, 0.49-3.3μM for idoxyuridine and 0.025-0.05μM for bromovinyldeoxyuridine. The wide range of sensitivity to acyclovir lead to a recommendation that the therapeutic dosage used by increased from 5 mg/kg/dose to 10 mg/kg/dose to produce adequate levels in vitro. (D72154/87)</p
O ROMANCE DE PHILIP LARKIN
No full textEmbora a poesia de Philip Larkin tenha encontrado ampla aceitação critica, seus dois romances, Jill e A Girl in Winter, são ainda considerados obras menores dentro do quadro da ficção inglesa do pós-guerra. Na realidade, poucos críticos procuraram avaliá-los com critérios objetivos, e nenhum deles aceitou o convite de Larkin para que se tentasse uma interpretação mais abrangedora. De fato, os comentadores têm se limitado às implicações sociais dos dois romances, mostrando, através delas, que eles refletem o estado de ânimo do período "angry" e têm um grande interesse histórico. As preocupações morais e espirituais que Larkin tem em corñum com os demaisescritores "angry", entretanto, são geralmente esquecidas, e sua inquietação com os perigos da ilusão no mundo moderno (que se tornaria o tema central de seus poemas) jamais é mencionada. Tentando corrigir tais distorções, o presente artigo reinterpreta os romances de Larkin, demonstra sua unidade temática, analisa seus aspectos formais, e salienta sua importância para uma melhor compreensão da poesia do autor
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