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Portrait of Peter B. Johnson (photograph)
No full textPortrait of Peter B. Johnson
Still, W[illia]m, letter, Anti Slavery Office, Philadelphia, May 10, 1852, to Peter [Still]:
No full textWilliam Still relates that he has been too busy to visit Peter Still; notes why Peter has presumably not visited Philadelphia; comments that Peter's family truly is interested in his desire to emancipate his enslaved relatives (but can do little to help); entreats Peter to trust in God; and relates family news
Influences of host community characteristics on Borrelia burgdorferi infection prevalence in Blacklegged ticks
No full textLyme disease is a major vector-borne bacterial disease in the USA. The disease is caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, and transmitted among hosts and humans, primarily by blacklegged ticks (Ixodes scapularis). The ~25 B. burgdorferi genotypes, based on genotypic variation of their outer surface protein C (ospC), can be phenotypically separated as strains that primarily cause human diseases – human invasive strains (HIS) – or those that rarely do – and are non-randomly associated with host species. The goal of this study was to examine the extent to which phenotypic outcomes of B. burgdorferi could be explained by the host communities fed upon by blacklegged ticks. In 2006 and 2009, we determined the host community composition based on abundance estimates of the vertebrate hosts, and collected host-seeking nymphal ticks in 2007 and 2010 to determine the ospC genotypes within infected ticks. We regressed instances of B. burgdorferi phenotypes on site-specific characteristics of host communities by constructing Bayesian hierarchical models that properly handled missing data. The models provided quantitative support for the relevance of host composition on Lyme disease risk pertaining to B. burgdorferi prevalence (i.e., overall nymphal infection prevalence, or NIPAll) and HIS prevalence among the infected ticks (NIPHIS). In 2006, we found positive associations of the relative abundances of mice, of chipmunks, and of shrews with NIPAll. We also found positive associations of NIPHIS with shrews, and with host community diversity (H’), but negative associations with mice, and with chipmunks. In 2009, the relative abundance of mice showed a positive association with NIPAll, whereas the relative abundance of shrews and of H’ showed a negative association. With NIPHIS, only H’ showed a positive association, whereas the relative abundances of mice, of chipmunks, and of shrews, had negative associations. Our study highlights the variability between two years in the effects of host composition on B. burgdorferi genotypes. More importantly, our results highlight how disease risk inference, based on the role of host community, changes when we examine risk overall or at the phenotypic level. Long-term studies will be necessary to detect any consistent effects of host community composition on genotypic variation in the Lyme disease spirochetes
Peter B. Maling, Christchurch, New Zealand [picture] /
No full textTitle devised from compactus card.; Inscriptions: "Peter B. Maling. Photograph for reference"--On compactus card, "Print U/1633 11535"--In pencil on verso; photographers stamp.; Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK11535.; Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn6093270. Dr Peter B. Maling is a New Zealand author and historian. He was a friend and correspondent of Rex Nan Kivell
Tackling the burden of injury in Australasia: developing a binational trauma registry
No full textThe document attached has been archived with permission from the editor of the Medical Journal of Australia. An external link to the publisher’s copy is included.Existing trauma registries in Australia and New Zealand play an important role in monitoring the management of injured patients. Over the past decade, such monitoring has been translated into changes in clinical processes and practices. Monitoring and changes have been ad hoc, as there are currently no Australasian benchmarks for “optimal” injury management. A binational trauma registry is urgently needed to benchmark injury management to improve outcomes for injured patients.Tamzyn M Davey, Cliff W Pollard, Leanne M Aitken, Mark Fitzgerald, Nicholas Bellamy, Daniel Cass, Peter D Danne, William M Griggs, Peter A Cameron, Robert N Atkinson, James Hamill, Sudhakar Rao, Drew B Richardson and Christine O'Conno
Obituary of Peter M Damborg Jr, 74, of Vienna, press secretary to Gov James B
No full textObituary of Peter M Damborg Jr, 74, of Vienna, press secretary to Gov James B Longley and long-time director of the Maine Publicity Burea
Peter J. LaValle Papers, 1958-1966
No full text.42 linear feet (1 box). Gift of Peter J. LaValle.Correspondence, minutes, reports and a menu from Gaidos restaurant pertaining to the establishment of the Texas Maritime Academy located in Galveston with the help of legislators and local businessmen. The correspondence documents the efforts to get both national and state support for the Academy, the appointment of the Board of Visitors as advisors, and attempts to recruit male students from the high schools.
Correspondents include: Joseph Jefferson Burris (Texas State Navy); George W. Anderson, Jr. (Admiral, U.S. Navy); Rear Admiral Sherman B. Wetmore; Captain Bennett Dodson (first superintendent of the Texas Maritime Academy); and Earl Rudder (President of Texas A&M University)
Zechariah 9-14 as the substructure of 1 Peter’s eschatological program
No full textThe principal aim of this study is to discern what has shaped the author of 1 Peter to regard Christian suffering as a necessary (1.6) and to-be-expected (4.12) component of faithful allegiance to Jesus Christ. Most research regarding suffering in 1 Peter has limited the scope of inquiry to two particular aspects—its cause and nature, and the strategies that the author of 1 Peter employs in order to enable his addressees to respond in faithfulness. There remains, however, the need for a comprehensive explanation for the source that has generated 1 Peter’s theology of Christian suffering. If Jesus truly is the Christ, God’s chosen redemptive agent who has come to restore God’s people, then how can it be that Christian suffering is a necessary part of discipleship after his coming, death and resurrection? What led the author of 1 Peter to such a startling conclusion, which seems to runs against the grain of the eschatological hopes and expectations of Jewish restoration ideology?
This thesis analyzes the appropriation of shepherd and fiery trials imagery,
and argues that the author of 1 Peter is dependent upon Zechariah 9-14 for his
theology of Christian suffering. Said in another way, the eschatological program of
Zechariah 9-14, read through the lens of the Gospel, functions as the substructure
for 1 Peter’s eschatology and thus its theology of Christian suffering.
In support of this hypothesis, this study highlights the fact that Zechariah 9-
14 was available and appropriated in early Christianity, in particular in the Passion
Narrative tradition; that the shepherd imagery of 1 Pet 2.25 is best understood
within the milieu of the Passion Narrative tradition, and that it alludes to the
eschatological program of Zechariah 9-14; that the fiery trials imagery found in 1
Peter 1.6-7 and 1 Pet 4.12 is distinct from that which we find in Greco-Roman and OT
wisdom sources, and that it shares exclusive parallels with some unique features of
the eschatological program of Zechariah 9-14; that Zechariah 9-14 offers a more
satisfying explanation for the modification of Isa 11.2 in 1 Pet 4.14, the transition
from 4.12-19 to 5.1-4, why Peter has oriented his letter with the term διασπορά,
and why he has described his addresses as οἶκος τοῦ θεοῦ; and finally that 1 Peter
contains an implicit foundational narrative that shares distinct parallels with the
eschatological program of Zechariah 9-14.
We can conclude that 1 Peter offers a unique vista into the way in which at
least one early Christian witness came to understand and to communicate the fact
that Christian suffering was a necessary feature of faithful allegiance to Jesus Christ
Morphometrics confirm taxonomic deflation in dwarf lemurs (Primates: Cheirogaleidae), as suggested by genetics
No full textFigure 2. Allometric and non-allometric craniodental characters in Cheirogaleus. (A) Palatal length (PALL), (B) temporal line (TpLi), and (C) second premolar height (P2), given in mm, are scaled against the greatest skull length (GSKL) for Cheirogaleus medius, Cheirogaleus adipicaudatus, Cheirogaleus major, Cheirogaleus ravus, Cheirogaleus sibreei, and unknown specimens, as assessed by Groves (2000).Published as part of Groeneveld, Linn F., Rasoloarison, Rodin M. & Kappeler, Peter M., 2011, Morphometrics confirm taxonomic deflation in dwarf lemurs (Primates: Cheirogaleidae), as suggested by genetics, pp. 229-244 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 161 (1) on page 235, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00634.x, http://zenodo.org/record/575625
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