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Scott M. Wilds letter to "Sir or Madame," January 30, 1979
No full textReference letter from Ohio Historical Society Research Assistant Scott M. Wilds identifying and describing a fragment copy of a page of a longer letter by William Lloyd Garrison, then and now housed in the Benjamin Lundy papers at the Ohio History Connection. Wilds provides more content for the letter and announces that it will be included in a reprint book out shortly from Belknap Press.
Wilds' context for the Garrison letter fragment is as follows: "would like to know that we have identified this letter. It is from William Lloyd Garrison to the President and Members of the Anti-Slavery Reunion Convention, June 5, 1874. The convention, which Garrison did not attend, met in Chicago on June 9, 1874. The full text of the letter is printed in the Chicago [underlined] Inter-Ocean, June 10, 1874."
Benjamin Lundy (1789-1839) was a prominent Quaker abolitionist best known for his development of abolitionist periodicals. His Genius of Universal Emancipation was first published in 1821 from his home in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, and enjoyed a wide circulation across the antebellum United States. In the 1820s, the young William Lloyd Garrison came to work for The Genius. Benjamin Lundy traveled widely seeking subscriptions to The Genius, giving talks about the anti-slavery movement, and observing and documenting the conditions of enslaved people across the Americas. He was also involved in the establishment of freed slave colonies in Mexico
Mutations among Italian mucopolysaccharidosis Type I patients
No full textA group of 27 Italian patients was screened for -L-iduronidase mucopolysaccharidosis type I mutations. Mutations were found in 18 patients, with 28 alleles identified. The two most common mutations in northern Europeans (W402X and Q70X) accounted for 11% and 13% of the alleles, respectively. The R89Q mutation, uncommon in Europeans, was found only in one patient, accounting for 1 of 54 alleles (1.9%). The other mutations, P533R, A327P and G51D, accounted for 11%, 5.6% and 9.3% of the total alleles, respectively. Interestingly, the high frequency of the P533R mutation seems to be confined to Sicily and is higher than the 3% reported in a British/Australian study.R. Gatti, P. DiNatale, G.R.D. Villani, M. Filocamo, V. Muller, X.-H. Guo, P.V. Nelson, H.S. Scott, J. J. Hopwoo
Belonging and not belonging : understanding India in novels by Paul Scott, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and V.S. Naipaul.
No full textPhDThis thesis is essentially about the "how" and "why" of the Indian
experience as documented in novels by Paul Scott, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
and V S Naipaul. The study points to the difficulty of arriving at any
conclusive definition of the country and its people. I show that
differences in attitudes, responses or behaviour are both overt and
subtle, and depend upon whether the writer or the character identifies
with the situation or community with which he or she interacts. It is
the individual's sense of belonging or not belonging to his or her own
group - be this along racial, cultural or gender lines - that accounts
for the differing perspectives evident in these novels. The points-of-
view of the outsider and the insider can therefore be seen as
mutual comments upon the other.
Since the struggle between belonging and not belonging becomes acute
when the old meets the new, focus is centred on communities
experiencing change. These include the British in India, West-Indian
Indians and westernised Indians. Despite their differences, all three
communities share similar reasons for either an acceptance or
rejection of the 'Other'. The thesis argues that the need for
emotional stability compels allegiance to the traditional group, while
the desire for individuality encourages surrender to the new. The
former nurtures a sense of belonging while, it is argued, that the
latter is perceived as the hallmark of those who do not belong.
Tensions arise when both these needs demand to be met. What I show to
be ironic in this struggle between belonging and not belonging is that
those things which individuals overtly reject are often unexpressed
parts of their personal pysche. The barrier between "them" and "us" is
therefore very fragile
The Friendly Snowflake: A Fable of Faith, Love, and Family
No full textOriginally copyrighted in 1992. M. Scott Peck is the author of The Road Less Traveled. Christopher is his son, who volunteered to illustrate the book. Young Jenny is surprised by a friendly snowflake -- Harry -- who alights on her nose and, after a short stay, evaporates. Jenny is the poet, mystic, and believer, I would say. Her brother Dennis is the scientist who explains all that he can and calls the rest an accident. Jenny's winter musings lead her to wonder whether everything has a soul and whether the ocean is the heart of the world and if we all reincarnate. She is ready finally to believe that Harry may have evaporated and gone away but also may have come back through the dam and into Babcock Brook. She says good-bye and waves her hand. I'll see you again next year! There is some water damage to the translucent dust-jacket. Was it Harry that got to my book?This is a hardbound book (hard cover)This book has a dust jacket (book cover)M. Scott Pec
John M. Scott with Mrs. James G. Eagle
No full textJohn M. Scott and Mrs. James G. Eagle make final plans for the Book and Author luncheon at Hotel Texas. Fort Worth Star-Telegram Morning March 22, 1964.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_startelegram1960s/2428/thumbnail.jp
How arbitrage-free is the Nelson-Siegel Model?
No full textWe test whether the Nelson and Siegel (1987) yield curve model is arbitrage-free in a statistical sense. Theoretically, the Nelson-Siegel model does not ensure the absence of arbitrage opportunities, as shown by Bjork and Christensen (1999). Still, central banks and public wealth managers rely heavily on it. Using a non-parametric resampling technique and zero-coupon yield curve data from the US market, we find that the no-arbitrage parameters are not statistically different from those obtained from the NS model, at a 95 percent confidence level. We therefore conclude that the Nelson and Siegel yield curve model is compatible with arbitrage-freeness. To corroborate this result, we show that the Nelson-Siegel model performs as well as its no-arbitrage counterpart in an out-of-sample fore-casting experiment. JEL Classification: C14, C15, G12Affine term structure models, Nelson-Siegel model, No-arbitrage restrictions, non-parametric test
Steam Engine Clara at Nelson Fair
No full textM. A. Collins' Foster steam traction engine No.13052 'Clara' photographed at Nelson Fair, 21 July 1936. Digitisation and record funded by the Pilgrim Trust
Engraçadinha : passagens e cortes / Nelson Rodrigues na televisão
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e ExpressãoAsfalto Selvagem I e II - Engraçadinha seus amores e seus pecados foi escrito por Nelson Rodrigues, originalmente, sob a forma de folhetim, diariamente publicado no jornal Ultima Hora (1959-60), e seguindo o caminho de seus folhetins anteriores recebeu uma impressão posterior (1961) em forma de livro, "transformando-se" em romance. Em 1995, novamente, Asfalto Selvagem... migra para outro veículo da indústria cultural indo parar num seriado de televisão. Este trabalho propõe retraçar as pontes entre o folhetim como forma de literatura industrializada e a televisão como veículo da indústria cultural e como bem simbólico (na cultura brasileira), a fim de localizar Asfalto Selvagem: Engraçadinha seus amores e seus pecados em sua passagem do jornal à televisão em alguns aspectos implicados nesse processo. Em primeiro lugar, na obra de Nelson Rodrigues, Engraçadinha destaca-se em sua travessia social de gêneros e como romance-folhetim. Em segundo lugar, há uma re-montagem histórica da teledramaturgia como pano de fundo propiciador de uma exposição do folhetim de Nelson Rodrigues. Em terceiro lugar, a passagem, propriamente dita, do folhetim à imagem, se por um lado reforça o caráter conservador da TV, por outro, atualiza a transgressividade erótica presente no texto rodrigueano, já como uma adaptação ao século XX do folhetim do século XIX
External validation of anti-Müllerian hormone based prediction of live birth in assisted conception
No full textExternal validation of anti-M??llerian hormone based prediction of live birth
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Incidence, mechanisms, and consequences of adaptive habitat selection by the dickcissel (Spiza americana)
No full textMost animals display preferences when faced with the choice of habitats in which to settle. A key question that arises from these behaviors is whether preferences represent adaptive habitat selection—do animals occupying preferred habitats incur fitness benefits? A prediction based on natural selection suggests that preferences should increase fitness, but this prediction is not always supported. Several factors may cause preference-fitness mismatches, including temporal variability of variables driving reproductive success, tradeoffs across spatial scales or among fitness components, and anthropogenic changes disrupting historic relationships between habitat preferences and habitat quality.
This dissertation presents three studies I conducted on the habitat preferences and reproductive success of dickcissels (Spiza americana) in the Grand River Grasslands of southern Iowa. I first tested for signals of adaptive habitat selection, examining whether male and female birds’ preferences among territories and larger habitat patches improve their ability to attract mates, avoid parasitism by brown-headed cowbirds (Molothrus ater), and produce robust offspring. Dickcissels engaged in adaptive habitat selection in some respects—such as preferring territories associated with high offspring condition and patches where parasitism was infrequent—but there was strong variation across sexes, spatial scales, years, and reproductive components.
Next, I examined whether dickcissels used vegetation cues to select high-quality habitats. I measured multiple vegetation features in territories and patches and compared these to dickcissel habitat preferences and fitness metrics. Although dickcissels preferred specific vegetation features (again, with variation across sexes and scales), and specific vegetation features were associated with fitness (again, with variation across reproductive metrics), I found limited evidence that vegetation mediated adaptive habitat selection.
Finally, I further studied the impacts of vegetation on dickcissel reproduction by focusing on the relative impacts of human-altered habitat components (invasive plants and broad-scale land cover) on nest survival and parasitism. I found that an invasive grass common throughout the Midwest region (tall fescue, Schedonorus arundinaceus) reduced nest survival and increased parasitism, whereas increasing woodland cover in the landscape reduced parasitism.
In these studies, I illuminated proximate and ultimate forces shaping the reproductive ecology of dickcissels. I demonstrated that habitat preferences—and thus the spatiotemporal dynamics of population distributions—benefit specific components of reproductive success at particular spatial scales, while benefits to other reproductive metrics are variable across time. These results show that because fitness results from a wide variety of ecological processes, accurate assessments of adaptive habitat selection require a complex perspective. In addition, I have contributed to our knowledge of how vegetation influences dickcissel settlement patterns, while showing that preferred vegetation components have little influence on fitness. Other mechanisms (e.g., site fidelity, conspecific attraction, food availability, predator abundance) may thus play a stronger role in facilitating adaptive habitat selection. At the same time, I found strong evidence that vegetation altered by human activity shapes dickcissel habitat quality, and my results suggest that controlling invasive tall fescue may improve dickcissel nest success.Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2019-08-22 without embargo termsThe student, Scott Nelson, accepted the attached license on 2019-04-16 at 13:42.The student, Scott Nelson, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2019-04-16 at 18:25.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2019-04-18 at 13:10.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #13677 on 2019-08-22 at 14:44:05Made available in DSpace on 2019-08-23T19:55:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 5
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