191 research outputs found
Benbow et al Supplemental Data Ecological Monographs 2018
No full textThe data provided in this file represent the data that were included in Figure 3 of Benbow et al. 2018. Necrobiome Framework for Bridging Decomposition Ecology of Autotrophically- and Heterotrophically-Derived Organic Matter. Ecological Monographs
Leading Them to the Promised Land: Woodrow Wilson, Covenant Theology, and the Mexican Revolution, 1913–1915
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/new_foreign_relations/1/thumbnail.jpgHow Wilson’s religious heritage shaped his response to the Mexican Revolution
“In Wilson’s view, America had a part to play as a divine instrument. To deny the United States an active role in the world was an attempt to deny God’s will.” —from the Introduction
The First Amendment of the United States Constitution mandates that government and religious institutions remain separate and independent of each other. Yet, the influence of religion on American leaders and their political decisions cannot be refuted.Leading Them to the Promised Land is the first book to look at how Presbyterian Covenant Theology affected U.S. president Woodrow Wilson’s foreign policy during the Mexican Revolution.
The son of a prominent southern minister, Wilson was a devout Presbyterian. Throughout his life he displayed a strong conviction that covenants, or formal promises made binding by an oath to God, should be the basis for human relationships, including those between government and public organizations. This belief is demonstrated in Wilson’s attempt to bring peaceful order to the world with the 1919 Covenant of the League of Nations.
Through careful investigation of Wilson’s writings and correspondence, along with other contemporary sources, author Mark Benbow shows how Wilson’s religious heritage shaped his worldview, including his assumption that nations should come together in a covenant to form a unitary whole like the United States. As a result, Wilson attempted to nurture a democratic state in revolutionary Mexico when rivals Venustiano Carranza and Pancho Villa threatened U.S. interests. His efforts demonstrate the difficulty a leader has in reconciling his personal religious beliefs with his nation’s needs.
Leading Them to the Promised Land adds to the growing body of scholarship in international history that examines the connections between religion and diplomacy. It will appeal to readers interested in the history of U.S. foreign relations and the influence of religion on international politics.</p
Home at 545 E. Vine Street built in 1905
No full textWilliam Benbow Erekson, grandson of John Benbow, built this brick home. Later occupants were Samuel E. Bringhurst, Mark & Mildred Bailey and Jack & Lugene Devine
Wound healing and hyper-hydration - a counter intuitive model
No full textWinters seminal work in the 1960s relating to providing an optimal level of moisture to aid wound healing (granulation and re-epithelialisation) has been the single most effective advance in wound care over many decades. As such the development of advanced wound dressings that manage the fluidic wound environment have provided significant benefits in terms of healing to both patient and clinician. Although moist wound healing provides the guiding management principle confusion may arise between what is deemed to be an adequate level of tissue hydration and the risk of developing maceration. In addition, the counter-intuitive model ‘hyper-hydration’ of tissue appears to frustrate the moist wound healing approach and advocate a course of intervention whereby tissue is hydrated beyond what is a normally acceptable therapeutic level. This paper discusses tissue hydration, the cause and effect of maceration and distinguishes these from hyper-hydration of tissue. The rationale is to provide the clinician with a knowledge base that allows optimisation of treatment and outcomes and explains the reasoning behind wound healing using hyper-hydration
Infection with Mansonella perstans Nematodes in Buruli Ulcer Patients, Ghana.
No full textDuring August 2010-December 2012, we conducted a study of patients in Ghana who had Buruli ulcer, caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans, and found that 23% were co-infected with Mansonella perstans nematodes; 13% of controls also had M. perstans infection. M. perstans co-infection should be considered in the diagnosis and treatment of Buruli ulcer
EVALUATING THE EFFECT OF LARVAL PRESERVATION METHODS ON BLOW FLY CUTICULAR HYDROCARBONS
No full textThesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University. Forensic Science - Master of Science, 2025As one of the first insect groups to colonize decomposing remains, Calliphoridae (blow flies) are essential in forensic entomology. Forensic entomologists can estimate the minimum postmortem interval (minPMI) of decomposing remains by determining the species and age of immature blow fly specimens present on the remains. Previous research has demonstrated that blow fly cuticular hydrocarbon (CHC) profiles can be used to distinguish specimens by species and age, potentially assisting in minPMI estimation. However, these prior studies either analyzed specimens immediately upon collection, or after the specimens were frozen prior to analysis. In practice, blow fly larvae are often preserved with other methods, and the effects of these methods on CHC profiles have not been investigated. This thesis aims to evaluate differences in the CHC profiles of field-collected blow fly larvae caused by preservation method and storage time. Larvae collected from decomposing stillborn swine (Sus scrofa) carcasses were preserved with three common methods: freezing, hot water killing (HWK), and smothering with ethanol (EtOH). Frozen larvae were stored dry at -20 \ub0C. Hot water killed larvae were submerged in near-boiling (> 80 \ub0C) water for approximately one minute, then removed and stored in solutions of 95% EtOH at room temperature. Ethanol-smothered larvae were directly stored in solutions of 95% EtOH at room temperature. Specimens were stored for up to six months and removed from storage periodically for extraction of their CHC profiles and analysis using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Cuticular hydrocarbon profiles were statistically compared using principal component analysis, non-metric multidimensional scaling, and permutational multivariate analysis of variance. In comparison to HWK larvae and EtOH smothered larvae, frozen larvae have the most consistent CHC profiles and experience the fewest changes in CHCs with respect to storage time. Therefore, preservation of larvae by freezing is recommended for CHC analysis as the other methods can cause alterations to CHC profiles due to interactions with EtOH and increased rates of sample degradation.Description based on online resource. Title from PDF t.p. (Michigan State University Fedora Repository, viewed ).Includes bibliographical references
SODIUM CHLORIDE AND ROAD SALT SALINITY SURVIVORSHIP ACROSS AEDES SPECIES
No full textThesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University. Entomology - Master of Science, 2025Toxicology experiments have been widely used to determine the effects of many chemicals on Culicidae species, such as pesticides, insecticides, and herbicides. Some common chemicals that have not been studied widely among Culicidae species regarding their effects on their environment at the larval stages include road salt. Currently, there are about 60 species of Culicidae in Michigan, and they emerge during different seasons of the year. Road salt runoff and exposure to the main chemical, sodium chloride, affect many macroinvertebrates, including Culicidae. Road salt contains chemicals such as chloride, and the levels adjacent to main roads in Michigan could range from 18 to 2700mg1-1. The main species included in this study were the 4th instar of Ae. trivittatus, Ae. triseriatus and Ae. vexans. The experiment was conducted from July through September 2024. Field collections were conducted across three sites in Ingham and Clinton County. Laboratory experiments included three trials with two bioassays per trial across 30 replicates with 10 4th instar larvae in each replicate container and consisted of pond water, Di Water, 12mg/L, 120mg/L, 1200mg/L, and 12000mg/L salt treatments. The data analysis utilized Kaplan-Meier Survivorship Curves Summaries, Mantel-Cox Log-Rank Multiple Comparisons Test, and a manual toxicity survival assay test for replicate analyses that examined the effects of various road salt and sodium chloride doses. The most notable results in the study indicated that higher mortality rates occurred with Culicidae exposed to 12000mg/L of salt as opposed to low to medium doses (12mg/L, 120mg/L, and 1200mg/L) of salt. This research explored different frameworks for conducting bioassay experiments with 4th instar Aedes species across three different experiment trials and how to conduct bioassay methods for other chemicals, such as pesticides, to explore survivorship times and fatal doses. Most notably, the results led to lethal concentration times for the three species involved with road salt and sodium chloride.Description based on online resource. Title from PDF t.p. (Michigan State University Fedora Repository, viewed ).Includes bibliographical references
A critical analysis of neo-liberal reforms to the English NHS since the year 2000
No full textSolidarity was important in the creation and maintenance of the English NHS, which was the product of class compromise. Its founding principles were that it was to be free (at the point of access), universal, comprehensive and primarily funded from general taxation. In recent decades, successive governments have renewed the neo-liberal project. This has involved new governance mechanisms (quasi-markets and targets) being emplaced in the NHS and private healthcare companies (which have influenced government policy) being afforded increasing opportunities to deliver NHS services. Such privatisation is antagonistic to patient needs. I undertake an ideology critique of the NHS reforms of the New Labour governments and of governments since 2010. I examine the influences on, justifications for, resistance to, and potential reifying effects of, such reforms. Misrepresentations and mystification may legitimate and obscure legal changes. I identify the ideological modes and strategies that governments have employed to justify their reforms. I also analyse several modes of reification (identity thinking, instrumental rationality, depoliticisation and the legitimation effect of law) to assess whether the reforms produced estrangement, which is the opposite of solidarity.Many of the justifications for successive reforms were contested. Although such reforms have rendered healthcare more opaque, solidarity endures. Neo-liberal norms compete with residual norms (including the NHS’ founding principles) and emergent norms (which developed due to the problems of welfare states, such as their failure to empower recipients and the persistence of health inequalities). As validity has been given to residual and emergent norms, which have been superficially articulated within government discourse, but which are undermined by neo-liberal policies, a legitimation crisis may arise as public experience increasingly diverges from them. I advocate amending legislation which has undermined residual norms, democratising the NHS to empower patients and the public and increased intervention in capitalism to address health inequalities
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