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Statement by James P. Johnson before a sub-committee of the Interim Committee on Taxation
No full textThis archived document is maintained by the Oregon State Library as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Electronic reproduction. Salem, Or. : State Library of Oregon, 2016 Electronic reproduction from print version OrMode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Structural and functional studies on 6-methylsalicylic acid synthase from Penicillium patulum and holo-acy1 carrier protein synthase from Escherichia coli
No full textThe type I polyketide synthase, 6-methylsalicylic acid synthase, is a multifunctional enzyme that catalyses the formation of 6-methylsalicylic acid from one starter unit of acetyl-CoA, three extender units of malonyl-CoA and one equivalent of the reducing cofactor NADPH. In the absence of NADPH, a triketide intermediate is released from the enzyme as triacetic acid lactone.Using succinyl-CoA transferase, purified from porcine heart, [2-13C]-malonyl-CoA was biosynthesised and in a linked assay, [13C]-labelled 6-methylsalicylci acid and [13C]-labelled triacetic acid lactone were produced in the absence of externally added acetyl-CoA. By collision induced dissociation mass spectrometric analysis, it was determined that 6-methylsalicylic acid synthase possesses a malonyl-CoA decarboxylase activity. Similar methodology was also used to show that in the absence of NADPH, 6-methylsalicyclic acid synthase is able to synthesise small amounts of orsellinic acid as well as triacetic acid lactone. It is proposed that in the absence of NADPH, the triketide intermediate is a poor substrate for the β-ketosynthase but that 1-2% can react with malonyl-CoA to give orsellinic acid.Fluoroacetyl-CoA, chloroacetyl-CoA, and bromoacetyl-CoA were synthesised and purified and their effect/action with 6-methylsalicylic acid synthase was investigated. All were shown to inactivate the enzyme although none were incorporated into halo-products. The interaction between 6-methylsalicylic acid synthase and several N-acetylcysteamine intermediates was also investigated. The enzyme appears to prefer to synthesise its own intermediates rather than accept externally added substrate analogues.</p
Neil Boyle
No full text29Boyle was apparently a singer of some note, and a member of a Darwin Band.EngineerAustralian Imperial ForceThe 'Taiyuan' contingent left on the 4th March 1915 and consisted of Messrs. Neil Boyle; J. T. Johnson; L. P. Weatherby; R.W. Stirling; P. C. Reaby; G. Dickason; Jas M. McDonald; G. Classen; J. Buckley and J. Beattie. Boyle embarked from Brisbane on board HMAT A60 'Aeneas' on 29 June 1915. He was wounded many times prior to being killed on 5 September 1918. In the service records on pages 56 and 57, March 1921, there appears to be some confusion with a Private Percy Spain 6645 from Port Darwin as having identical next of Kin as P. Boyle.26th Battalion, D Compan
LGBTI variations in crime reporting: how sexual identity influences decisions to call the cops
No full textResearch shows that people vary in their willingness to report crime to police depending on the type of crime experienced, their gender, age, and their race or ethnicity. Whether or not lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) and heterosexual people vary in their willingness to report crime to the police is not well understood in the extant literature. In this article, I examine variations in LGBTI respondents' attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control on their intentions to report crimes to the police. Drawing on a survey of LGBTI individuals sampled from a Gay Pride community event and online LGBTI community forums (N = 329), I use quantitative statistical methods to examine whether LGBTI people's beliefs in police homophobia are also directly associated with the behavioral intention to report crime. Overall, the results indicate that LGBTI and heterosexual people differ significantly in their intention to report crime to the police, and that a belief in police homophobia strongly influences LGBTI people's intention to underreport crime to the police
Heaven, hell, or Hoboken, by Ray Neil Johnson; illustrated by Don Palmer-Vic Norris.
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2004 Paleobiology Wilf & Johnson dataset
No full textThis is the original database file that supplemented the following primary article:Wilf, P., and K.R. Johnson, 2004, Land plant extinction at the end of the Cretaceous: a quantitative analysis of the North Dakota megafloral record. Paleobiology, v. 30, p. 347–368. doi:10.1666/0094-8373(2004)0302.0.CO;2The original annotation on p. 351-352 of the primary article read as follows:"The complete data set used in this article is available as a single electronic file for unrestricted download from the Paleobiology Database, www.paleodb.org (under ‘‘major data sets deposited’’) or by request from either author. Detailed locality data, most of which are provided by Johnson (2002), are also archived without access restriction in the Paleobiology Database (search under the locality names in the electronic file or under ‘‘Authorizer = Johnson’’)."We often receive email requests for this file, which seems no longer to be available at the Paleobiology Database (now at https://paleobiodb.org) and is thus archived here to preserve it. However, the locality data and floral lists remain available at PaleobioDb as entered.The file is a standard Excel workbook in two tabs: 1. species by locality matrix. 2. species by 1m stratigraphic-bin matrix, using minimum abundances. See the file and the primary article for all details.</p
Samuel Johnson and the vocation of the author
No full textMuch has been written about Samuel Johnson as a Christian, and much about him as an author; this study is about where the two meet, in the idea of the literary vocation. Though Johnson only uses the word âvocationâ a handful of times, it holds both the quotidian sense of a job and the more exalted notion of a divine call, a tension which informs Johnsonâs thinking.
I begin with Johnsonâs development as a religious writer, influenced by William Lawâs contention that any form of life can be devout and holy, and by Bernard Mandevilleâs unsentimental candour. Johnsonâs writing bears the marks of both. He revised Irene, for instance, to make it less overtly Christian: a reminder that Johnsonâs religious convictions bring an invisible pressure to bear on apparently secular works. In his early years on the Gentlemanâs Magazine Johnson develops the principle that authorship, being a public act, carries great responsibilities.
It is, in fact, a vocation, and unpacking this concept takes up Chapter 2. Johnson sees writing as a potential form of public service, adding that a solitary writer ânaturally sinks from omission to forgetfulness of social dutiesâ. Too few commentators have grasped that Johnson sees morality in social terms â as a matter of answering the needs of others, according to oneâs place in an order overseen by divine providence. But again and again he refers to the human need âto seek from one another assistance and supportâ (Rambler 104). Instances of mutual help âby frequent reciprocations of beneficence unite mankind in society and friendshipâ. Johnsonâs well-known emphasis on friendship is only one expression of this deeper sense that society is held together by trust; and therefore, by the truth. Writersâ communication of truth defines their own social duties.
While Johnson can sound close to Shaftesbury when he writes of mankindâs sociability, there is really a significant gap between them, because Johnsonâs view of human nature is more jaded. He expects people to hurt each other for the same reasons they help each other; and he recognises a strong tendency towards pride and superiority â especially among writers, who are tempted to cut themselves off from society.
Chapter 3 deals in more depth with a writerâs social role, which is simply expressed as the ability to put the truth memorably. Borrowing from a tradition which stretches back to Seneca at least, Johnson believes that a writer becomes a âbenefactor of mankindâ by putting the useful, but readily forgotten, principles of the good life into memorable forms. Drawing on Lockeâs account of the memory, and deviating from Lockeâs account of moral action, he suggests that literature has a power to move the reason and the passions at once â hence his demand that poetry be both true and pleasurable. While this resembles the Horatian formula of dulce et utile, Johnson added to it a sense of writersâ and readersâ experience of the text: how âimpressionsâ are transferred from the world, via the writer, to the text, and so to the reader. Learning how to persuade the audience, however, necessitates first-hand acquaintance with the world.
Hence the subjects of Chapters 4 and 5, which are pride and humility respectively. Pride separates the author from the social world, making them ineffectual and unable to communicate truth. The âLivesâ of Swift and Milton establish this partly through their ridicule of the two subjects: though Johnson did not think ridicule established truth, it did restore a balance upset by an authorâs singularity.
âSingularityâ is the word Johnson uses to encapsulate Swiftâs faults: he was âfond of singularity, and desirous to make a mode of happiness for himself, different from the general course of things and order of Providenceâ. Milton, too, is condemned for his arrogance â but even more in order to correct the idolatry of his admirers. Johnson believes that Milton is being written about with absurd reverence, and so puts him back in his place â as just another member of society, with a role to fulfil.
Accepting that place involves a measure of humility. The question of the âdignity of literatureâ, a contested point during the nineteenth century, was alive in Johnsonâs time, and through his associations with what he himself called âGrub Streetâ, he lived and worked among many writers who might be thought undignified. Yet in the obscurity of the hacks Johnson found something to praise â an industrious, humble service opposed to the âletterâd arroganceâ of self-satisfied authors. â[T]he humble author of journals and gazettes must be considered as a liberal dispenser of beneficial knowledgeâ (Rambler 145). By stooping to be merely useful, journalists become great. Particularly in the Journey to the Western Islands, Johnson divests himself of authorial dignity, drawing attention to his own mistakes and omissions.
Such a humdrum view of the writerâs role, which placed the emphasis on the reader, put Johnson at odds with most of the prominent Romantics â and the scale of their revulsion from Johnson needs two chapters to be dealt with. Chapter 6 argues that their critique, especially that of Hazlitt and Coleridge, was above all about the question of the writerâs vocation: and for that reason, Shakespeare was the most contested ground â for Coleridge, Johnsonâs Shakespeare criticism was impertinent âfilthâ aimed at âthe greatest man that ever put on and put off mortalityâ. But that was exactly the kind of idolatrous view of authorship â what Hazlitt called approvingly âoverstrained enthusiasmâ â which Johnson wanted to challenge.
However, many of the Romanticsâ criticisms misrepresented Johnson; he was a more flexible thinker than they realised. In a final chapter, I look at the aftermath of the Romantics: how their accusation that Johnson was too narrow and bigoted to understand Shakespeare is echoed in Macaulay, and even in sympathetic readers like Matthew Arnold, and has dogged Johnson all the way to the present day. And I point out that the Romantic exaltation of the author has faced its own backlash, in ways that suggest Johnson might have seen more clearly than the Romantics thought.</p
John 'Jack' Johnson
No full text27In September 1914 Johnson, along with others, petitioned the Northern Territory Administrator, Dr Gilruth, for the right to enlist. In the letter Johnson was described as having served for three years previously in the Royal Horse Artillery completing survey work in India with the Engineers.
His age was given as 22 which does not match with his enlistment age of 27 the following year.
It would be six months before Johnson reached Townsville and was able to enlist.
He departed Darwin on the SS 'Taiyuan' on Thursday 4 March 1915. Johnson left with a group of men from the Territory including Jim McDonald, Neil Boyle, Lucien Wetherby, R.W. Stirling, Percy Reaby, Dickason, G. Classen, Jeremiah Buckley and J. Beattie.
McDonald reported back to the 'Northern Territory Times and Gazette' that the "First contingent all sworn in." Johnson left Sydney on the RMS 'Orontes' on 10 November 1915 with the 2nd Australian Remount Unit. McDonald wrote back from France in October 1916 that he had met up with: "Johnson who left Darwin with me... is a CSM now and I believe he will shortly get his commission." Returned to Australia on HS 'Dunluce Castle' 24 January 1918.Corporal FarrierAustralian Imperial Force11th Field Artillery Brigad
Chlamydia antibody titer testing versus hysterosalpingography for detection of tubal pathology in subfertile women
No full textSjors F Coppus, M Chandra, A Coomarasamy, Neil Johnson, Fulco Van der Veen, Patrick MM Bossuyt, Ben Willem J Mo
Física de nanoestructuras semiconductoras espectroscopia ultrarrápida
No full textIP 1204-05-10326ARTICULO(S) EN REVISTA: Theory of optical spectra of polarquantum wells :temperature effects / F.J.;Rodriguez. -- En: Physical review B. -- Vol. 64, 115316 (2001);p. 1-9. --Restrictions on the coherence of;the ultrafast optical emission from an electron-hole-paircondensate / A.Olaya Castro, F.J. Rodriguez, L.;Quiroga and C.Tejedor. -- En: Restrictions on the coherence ofthe ultrafast optical emission from an;electron-hole-pair condensate. -- Vol. 87, no. 24 (2001);p. 1-4. -- Decoherence of quantum register / John H.;Reina, Luis Quiroga and Neil Johnson. -- En: Physical review A.-- Vol. 65, 032326 (2002); p. 1-14. -- Quantum;information processing in semiconductor nanostructures / JohnHenry Reina,Luis Quiroga and Neil Johnson. --;En: arXiv : quant-ph / 0009035. -- Vol. 2 (sep. 2000); p.46388.'-- Quantumcoherence, correlated noise and;parrondo games / Chiu Fan Lee and Neil F. Johnson. -- En:arXiv: quant-ph/ 0210185. -- Vol. 1 (oct. 2002);p. 1-8. -- Ultrafast non-linear optical signal from a single quantum dot :exciton and biexciton effects;Ultrafast non-linear optical signal from a single quantumdot:exciton and biexciton effects / A. Reyes, F.J.;Rodriguez and L. Quiroga. -- En: arXiv : quant-ph / 0208588. --Vol. 1 (ago. 2002); p. 1-11. -- PONENCIA(S) EN;CONGRESO: Ultrafast optical coherence transfer from an electron-hole-paircondensate / L. Quiroga, A. Olaya;Castro, F.J. Rodriguez and C. Tejedor. -- p. 138. -- En: International conference on the physics of;semiconductors (26 : 2002 Jul. 29 - Aug. 2 : Edinburgh, Scotland, UK). --Edinburgh : Edinburgh International;Conference Centre, 2002. -- 28 cm. -- New optical signatures onthe ultrafast response of a single quantum dot;/ F.J. Rodriguez, L. Quiroga and N.F. Johnson. -- p. 222.'-- en:International conference on the physics of;semiconductors (26 : 2002 Jul. 29 - Aug. 2 : Edinburgh, Scotland, UK). --Edinburgh : Edinburgh International,;2002. -- 28 cm
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