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Mark Richard Harris, 1947-2019
No full textMark Richard Harris, beloved husband, father of four and grandfather of fifteen, passed away on April 26 at home with his family by his side. He was 71
1994-1995 Mark Richard
No full textMark Richard is the author of two award-winning short story collections, The Ice at the Bottom of the World and Charity, and the novel Fishboy. His short stories and journalism have appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Harper’s, Esquire, Vogue, and GQ. He is the recipient of the PEN/Hemingway Award, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and a Whiting Foundation Writer’s Award. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and their three sons.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/grisham_res/1025/thumbnail.jp
Marcus on Belief and Belief in the Impossible
Full text linkI review but don’t endorse Marcus’ arguments that impossible beliefs are impossible. I defend her claim that belief’s objects are, in some important sense, not the bearers of truth and falsity, discuss her dispositionalism about belief, and argue it’s a good fit with the idea that belief’s objects are Russellian states of affairs.
Reviso, pero no suscribo, los argumentos de Marcus a favor de que las creencias imposibles son imposibles.
Defiendo su tesis de que los objetos de las creencias no son, en algún sentido importante, los soportes
de la verdad y la falsedad; discuto su disposicionalismo acerca de las creencias y argumento que encaja bien
con la idea de que los objetos de las creencias son estados de cosas russellianos
Oxidation of butene over platinum catalysts in a zirconia-yttria electrochemical reactor
No full textThesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, 1986.MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND SCIENCE.Bibliography: leaves 274-283.by Mark Richard Stening Manton.Ph.D
Pioneer personal history, Mark R. Walker
No full textTranscription of answers by Mark Richard Walker of Moab, a retired carpenter who was born in 1866 in Salt Lake County. Typed in 193
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Microelectrode studies of battery reactions
No full textPhase transformations occurring in the lead-acid battery are investigated using microelectrodcs and x-ray diffraction.In-situ and ex-situ x-ray diffraction is used to investigate the electrochemistry controlling the morphological composition and structure of electrode-posited films of PbOj, and to characterise positive plates of lead-acid batteries. The amorphous nature of battery plates is shown to cause complications in calculating the proportions of a-and /S-PbOj in the plates.A review identifies the assumptions and inadequacies of current electro-crystallization theories, principally in their implicit models of nucleation. Computer simulations of a stochastic model of nucleation show how the model can advance our understanding of the clustering processes occuring prior to nucleation of stable crystals, and the limits of this approach.Studies of the oxidation of lead microelectrodcs in sulphuric acid provide evidence that the conversion of lead to lead sulphate occurs solely via a dissolution-precipitation mechanism. Lignosulphonate battery 'expander' is shown to increase the density of nucleation on the microelectrode surface.Distributions of arrival times for the nucleation of single crystals of Pb on carbon-fibre microelectrodcs are interpreted using a stochastic model for nucleation to show that the critical cluster size for lead nuclei is of the order of a few atoms. The observed overpotential dependence of the clustering processes indicates that the rate of nucleation of new crystals is determined by surface diffusion of adatoms. Stochastic analysis provides an insight into how battery expander influences lead nucleation, indicating that it reduces the rate of dissolution of subcritical clusters.</p
Clinical and pathological significance of anti-lipocortin autoantibodies in rheumatoid arthritis
No full textCorticosteroids induce the formation of novel proteins, the lipocortins, which inhibit phospholipase A2 activity, and thus mediate the anti-inflammatory actions of corticosteroids. Clinical observations of reduced efficacy and prolonged requirements of oral corticosteroid treatment in some patients with rheumatic diseases, particularly rheumatoid arthritis (RA), have led to the hypothesis that antibodies directed against lipocortin(s) may impair corticosteroid therapeutic effects. An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), using recombinant lipocortin-1 as substrate, with specificity for anti-lipocortin-1 autoantibodies (ALA), has been developed. RA patients have elevated (ALA) levels in association with prolonged daily oral prednisolone therapy of > 7.5 mg, independent of disease activity and of corticosteroid-related side effects. However, in systemic lupus erythematosus and RA patients complicated by Felty's syndrome, elevated ALA levels are unassociated with corticosteroid therapy, but instead correlate with features of active immunoregulatory disturbances. Patients with polymyalgia rheumatica and corticosteroid-dependent asthma, despite prolonged and high daily maintenance dose corticosteroid treatment, do not have elevated ALA levels. Commencement of oral corticosteroid therapy can lead to significant elevation of ALA levels in RA. However, high dose intravenous methylprednisolone therapy does not lead to induction of ALA; instead, initially elevated ALA levels fell significantly eight weeks post-treatment onset. Elevated ALA in RA patients, either due to oral corticosteroid treatment or vasculitis, were associated with impaired efficacy of intravenous methylprednisolone treatment. In order to assess a functional role of ALA in affecting CS actions in vivo, a standardised hydrocortisone stimulation test (HST) challenge was used in matched RA patient groups to determine if ALA impaired corticosteroid effects. Patients with high ALA levels had impaired HST-induced lymphopaenic responses, particularly amongst peripheral blood lymphocyte subsets that stained with the monoclonal antibodies CD8+ (T suppressor cells), CDW29+ (T helper/inducer cells), WR18+ (MHC class-II+ cells), when compared to RA patients with normal ALA levels. These findings support the concept that ALA are responsible, at least in part, for impaired responses to corticosteroids, both exogenous and endogenous, and thus contribute to perpetuating pathogenetic inflammatory mechanisms. (DX88266)</p
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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