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Struthers Burt
No full textIf the pen is mightier than the sword, Maxwell Struthers Burt was a stalwart warrior. Poet, essayist, novelist, short story writer, librettist, reviewer, author of a literary manifesto, contributor to letter-to-the-editor columns, and personal letter writer, Burt seems never to have stopped writing over a career of a half-century. His principal publisher was Charles Scribner’s Sons, which, under the editorial leadership of Maxwell Perkins, published the work of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe, and a variety of other respected writers. Burt’s articles, essays, poems, and stories appeared in many of the most successful magazines in America: Scribner\u27s Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, The Red Book Magazine, Ladies’ Home Journal, and The North American Review. He wrote scores of reviews for such publications as The Saturday Review of Literature, the New York Times, and the Philadelphia Record. Untiringly, Burt sent his views to the editors of far-flung newspapers: the Jackson\u27s Hole Courier, the St. Petersburg Times, the Princeton Alumni Weekly, and the New York Herald Tribune. The “Most Unforgettable Character” he had ever met. an old-time cowboy named Cal Carrington, was the subject of Burt’s article in The Reader’s Digest. When totalitarianism threatened the writers’ freedom in 1941, Burt wrote and circulated the American Authors’ Manifesto, which was signed by one hundred writers, including E. B. White, Frank Waters, Floyd Dell, and Max Lerner. The Best Short Stories of 1915 honored Burt’s “The Water-Hole,” and his fine story “Each in His Generation” won first prize in the 0. Henry Memorial Award competition in 1920. Respected, frequently praised, and widely read in the 1920s and 1930s, Burt, the stalwart warrior, is today a forgotten soldier
"The 'Chicago Plan' and New Deal Banking Reform"
No full textDuring the 1930s, there were numerous proposals put forth to modify the financial system. The "Chicago Plan," submitted in 1933 by economists at the University of Chicago, recommended abolition of the fractional reserve system and imposition of 100% reserves on demand deposits. Despite the radical nature of this proposal, Phillips argues that it played an important, and hitherto neglected, role in the banking legislation passed during the New Deal. The paper addresses the question of whether our present financial problems might have been avoided had the - "Chicago Plan" been fully implemented during the New Deal. Phillips provides a historical analysis of banking reform during that era, and explores the reasons why the Chicago Plan was not adopted. On the surface, it appears to have been defeated as a matter of pure political expediency. The Banking Act of 1935, by institutionalizing Federal deposit insurance and the separation of commercial and investment banking, successfully restored the public's confidence in the banking system. Moreover, Roosevelt was satisfied since the act permitted enhanced control over monetary policy by a reconstituted Federal Reserve. The Chicago Plan ultimately succumbed to alternative (and less stringent) measures embodied in the Banking Act of 1935, but its principles (e.g. restricting bank assets and limiting taxpayers' liability from Federal deposit insurance) have reemerged in the contemporary debate over banking reform in this country: after all, there has been a rejuvenation of the 100% reserve plan via "narrow banking" or "core banking" proposals. Though the early New Deal legislation must be considered a success since it remained relatively unchanged for almost fifty years, a formidable challenge is posed in devising a financial system that will last well into the twenty-first century.
Biosynthetic and structural studies of neomycin and berninamycin
No full text(\sp{13}C\sb6) Glucose (3) was supplemented to seven-days old resting cells of neomycin B-proucing S.fradiae. The \sp{13}C NMR spectra of the enriched neomycin B (2) showed complex coupling patterns which suggested that 3 is not incorporated as an intact C\sb6 unit into the carbon skeleton of 2. These complex splitting patterns of 2 can be explained when 3 is first shunted through the pentose phosphate pathway to form primary metabolites of different carbon length. Some of these metabolites are then reconstituted back to six-carbon unit for the biosynthesis of 2.Two-dimensional NMR and FAB MS/MS studies have confirmed the structure of berninamycin A as proposed by Abe et al. Biosynthetic studies with \sp{13}C enriched amino acids showed that the dehydroalanines units were formed by dehydration of serine, the oxazoles were formed by condensing a threonine unit with a dehydrothreonine/dehydroalanine, the thiazole was formed by combining a cysteine with a dehydroalanine, and the biosynthesis of the pyridine ring was similar to the piperidine/hydroxypyridine ring formation in thiostrepton and nosiheptide. The biogensis of berninamycin A was discussed.Berninamycins B, C, and D were isolated by reverse-phased HPLC from S.bernensis. The structures of berninamycins B and D were studied with \sp{13}C NMR and FAB mass spectrometries. Berninamycin B was found to be deoxyberninamycin A with a valine unit instead of the -hydroxyvaline unit of berninamycin A. Berninamycin D was found to have two less dehydroalanine units attached to the carboxyl carbon of the pyridine ring moiety. The structure of berninamycin C was postulated to have one less dehydroalanine unit attached to the carboxyl carbon of pyridine based on FABMS result. The biogeneses of these minor metabolites were discussed.Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T14:04:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Biosynthetic and structural studies of neomycin and berninamycin
No full text(\sp{13}C\sb6) Glucose (3) was supplemented to seven-days old resting cells of neomycin B-proucing S.fradiae. The \sp{13}C NMR spectra of the enriched neomycin B (2) showed complex coupling patterns which suggested that 3 is not incorporated as an intact C\sb6 unit into the carbon skeleton of 2. These complex splitting patterns of 2 can be explained when 3 is first shunted through the pentose phosphate pathway to form primary metabolites of different carbon length. Some of these metabolites are then reconstituted back to six-carbon unit for the biosynthesis of 2.Two-dimensional NMR and FAB MS/MS studies have confirmed the structure of berninamycin A as proposed by Abe et al. Biosynthetic studies with \sp{13}C enriched amino acids showed that the dehydroalanines units were formed by dehydration of serine, the oxazoles were formed by condensing a threonine unit with a dehydrothreonine/dehydroalanine, the thiazole was formed by combining a cysteine with a dehydroalanine, and the biosynthesis of the pyridine ring was similar to the piperidine/hydroxypyridine ring formation in thiostrepton and nosiheptide. The biogensis of berninamycin A was discussed.Berninamycins B, C, and D were isolated by reverse-phased HPLC from S.bernensis. The structures of berninamycins B and D were studied with \sp{13}C NMR and FAB mass spectrometries. Berninamycin B was found to be deoxyberninamycin A with a valine unit instead of the -hydroxyvaline unit of berninamycin A. Berninamycin D was found to have two less dehydroalanine units attached to the carboxyl carbon of the pyridine ring moiety. The structure of berninamycin C was postulated to have one less dehydroalanine unit attached to the carboxyl carbon of pyridine based on FABMS result. The biogeneses of these minor metabolites were discussed.U of I OnlyETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permissio
University of Nebraska College of Medicine Class of 1964
No full textHarold Quincy Adams, Ivan George Althouse, Jr., Donald Arthur Argo, John Hurst Ball, Jr., William Charles Barr, Donald Dudley Bell, John Robert Bragonier, Thomas Charles Bush, Mardelle Marilyn Buss, William Ernest deAlva, Donald Victor Dichsen, Roger William Dilley, William Benton Elfeldt, Charles Edward Evans, Richard Harvey Fair, Rose Fidelis Faithe, Michael Lew Field, Lynn Reginald Frary, George Ernest Gammel, Merrill Anderson Godfrey, Richard Kenny Green, Robert Ted Hall, Eugene C. Hermanson, William Homer Hoewing, Douglas Charles Hubner, Bruce Parker Hutson, Ernest Delano Kovarik, Thomas Richard Laird, Thomas Homer Largen, Earl Kenneth Larson, Jr., Marlene Emilie Lengner, Howard Lee Lipton, Louis Neil Ludington, William Edward Lundak, William Robert Marsh, Leo Joseph McCarthy, Lewis Al McCormick, Dormond Eugene Metcalf, Gale Wayne Miller, Gerald Charles Miller, Gerald Lee Morris, James Raber Mouer, Ronald Gene Nelson, Myrna Carol Anderson Newland, Dale Lloyd Nitzel, Michael Joseph Noonon, Richard Kenneth Ohme, Charles Thomas Olsen, Alan Duane Patterson, Keith Elam Peterson, Wayne Howard Phillips, Franklin Glade Pratt, Richard Tobin Rappolt, Jerry Delano Renfroe, Bruce Cecil Rhoades, Joseph Michael Rush, James Edward Ryan, James Burr Shields, Donald Eugene Short, Keith Willis Shuey, Robert Dunbar Sidner, Darrel Wayne Siebert, William James Simic, Jr., Shirley Ann Simmons, Vale Heide Sorensen, Ralph Hames Stearman, George Minoru Takushi, Robert Raymond Taylor, Chester Quay Thompson, Jr., F. Cleveland Trimble, III, David John Weingart, Carl Wesley White, Mark Lamar Whitney, Jerome Donald Wiedel, Robert Leon Willice, George Alexander Young, IIIhttps://digitalcommons.unmc.edu/comclass/1044/thumbnail.jp
22nd Annual Dr. Raymond C. Grandon lecture: Healthcare Transformation: Is the Geisinger Model Scalable, Generalizable?
No full textDr. Steele is past Chairman of the American Board of Surgery. His investigations have focused on the cell biology of gastrointestinal cancer and pre-cancer and most recently on innovations in healthcare delivery and financing. A prolific writer, he is the author or co-author of more than 481 scientific and professional articles. He is also the recipient of several awards and carries a wealth of career experience.
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U.S. Senator James O. Eastland Staff Member Reading Written Replies to Received Correspondence (Part 1 of 2)
No full textUnidentified U.S. Senator James O. Eastland staff member reading written replies to correspondence received (Part 1 of 2)\u27\u27 Albert B. Moore, president Home Builders Association in Jackson, Missississippi, re: receipt of letter; Carl T. Curtis, U.S. Senator, re: invitation to attend Hruska party; Holt Smith of Holmes County Bank & Trust Company, Lexington, Mississippi, re: invitation to speak to Rotary Club; Mel O. Scarborough, president of Missississippi Air National Guard, re: invitation to attend dinner of National Guard Association of Mississippi; Alfred A. Livingston of Linvingston, Jack, and Livingston, re: New Porter Bayou Water Management District; Stanley Linvingtston, president of First National Bank of Bolivar County, Mississippi, re: receipt of letter; memorandum to Sam [Thompson], re: write letter to Jack C. Kean; F.H. Ingrahm to receive Agriculture Yearbook; Cy Rosenblatt in Charlottsville, Virginia, re: receipt of letter; L.L. Beachman of Creekmore and Beachman in Jackson, Mississippi, re: receipt of letter; A.L. Whiney, President of Coastal Distributors, re: receipt of letter; Ivy Boon of Mississippi, re: receipt of letter; Mrs. Randolph G. Kinnobrough of Oxford, Mississippi, re: receipt of letter; Mrs. Hoyt Bass, re: oil divestiture bill and abortion; W.J. Johnson Jr. of Meridian, Mississippi, re: new Delta air route; John D. Pennybaker of New Albany, Mississippi, re: Tennessee Valley Authority appointment; W.O. Luckett Jr. of Clarksdale, Mississippi, re: endorsement of Harold Raymond Mosby Jr. for Eastland\u27s staff; E.F. Lowe of Picayune, Mississippi, re: receipt of letter; Sam [Thompson] to answer Dr. Seager\u27s letter; Russ N. Johnson of Jackson, Mississippi, re: divestiture bill and price of petroleum products; [?] in Disbursing Office, re: remove names of Colin Clark and James Prude from office payroll; re: remove name of John Daniels from office payroll; Bank of Ruleville, re: enclosed checks for deposit to personal account
Emerging Financial Markets and Early U.S. Growth
No full textStudies of early U.S. growth traditionally have emphasized real-sector explanations for an acceleration that by many accounts became detectable between 1815 and 1840. Interestingly, the establishment of the nation's basic financial structure predated by three decades the canals, railroads, and widespread use of water and steam-powered machinery that are thought to have triggered modernization. We argue that this innovative and expanding financial system, by providing debt and equity financing to businesses and governments as new technologies emerged, was central to the nation's early growth and modernization. The analysis includes a set of multivariate time series models that relate measures of banking and equity market activity to measures of investment, imports and business incorporations from 1790 to 1850. The findings offer support for our hypothesis of finance-led' growth in the U.S. case. By implication, the interest today in improving financial systems as a means of fostering sustainable growth is not misplaced.
Regulation of the synthesis of tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinase-1 and -2 by hepatic and pancreatic stellate cells
No full textHepatic stellate cells (HSC) play a central role in fibrosis development by production of extracellular matrix and also by secretion of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and Tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases (TIMPs) including TIMP-2 and MMP-2. TIMP-2 has been shown to interact with Gelatinase A in conjunction with MT1-MMP (MMP-14). TIMP-2 has been traditionally considered to be constitutively expressed. There is some evidence that TIMP-2 expression is slightly enhanced in fibrotic disease and activation in tissue culture. Little is known in terms of TIMP-2 expression in the recently described pancreatic stellate cells (PSC). HSC were cultured on plastic having been isolated from rat and human liver resections. After culture on plastic northern analysis was performed for TIMP-2 mRNA expression. TIMP-2 promoter activity was examined in rat pancreatic stellate cells (PSC) and rat hepatic stellate cells. Early work led to subcloning the promoter into a different vector though subsequent promoter studies were unsuccessful. In vivo work in immunohistochemistry studies suggest there is increased TIMP-2 expression in evaluation of rat pancreas and liver in addition to human liver and pancreas specimens. By ribonuclease protection assay TIMP-2 was noted to be upregulated in human fibrotic liver compared to normal human liver tissue. In conclusion there is some evidence that TIMP-2 regulation may be altered in fibrotic liver states as well as in pancreatic inflammatory disease
Emerging Financial Markets and Early U.S. Growth
No full textStudies of early U.S. growth traditionally have emphasized real-sector explanations for an acceleration that by many accounts became detectable between 1815 and 1840. Interestingly, the establishment of the nation's basic financial structure predated by three decades the canals, railroads, and widespread use of water and steam-powered machinery that are thought to have triggered modernization. We argue that this innovative and expanding financial system, by providing debt and equity financing to businesses and governments as new technologies emerged, was central to the nation's early growth and modernization. The analysis includes a set of multivariate time series models that relate measures of banking and equity market activity to measures of investment, imports and business incorporations from 1790 to 1850. The findings offer support for our hypothesis of "finance-led" growth in the U.S. case. By implication, the interest today in improving financial systems as a means of fostering sustainable growth is not misplaced.
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