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Robert Buchanan 1841-1901: an assessment of his career.
No full textPhDRobert Buchanan was widely regarded during his
lifetime as a poet of distinction, a capable and powerful
novelist, and a critic of some perception, yet his name is
now associated only with one regrettable episode, while
those of lesser men and women continue to be remembered for
work inferior to his. A man possessing large reserves of
energy, and pressed to write for a living at an early age,
he produced much work that deserves the oblivion it has
found; but his early verse, expressing his profound compassion
for the sufferings of the unfortunate in the simplest
language, some of his ballads, and not a little of his
later more vatic verse, is still worthy of study. As a
novelist his work is provocative and readable, but too
often descends to the level of the sentimental melodrama
which earned him, for a while, a very good income from the
stage. As a critic he was not profound, but was quick to
detect and praise expression of his own sympathy for humanity
that came to represent for him art's highest aspiration;
Dickens, Browning and Whitman were his heroes, and for the
last two he did sterling work in helping them to gain widespread
recognition. As a polemist he rushed into several
arenas, for some of which his talents were not especially
suited; but he publicly supported C. S. Parnell and Oscar
Wilde when few found the courage to do so. An interesting
man of impressive variety and undoubted talent has found an
undeserved neglect, and a full-scale critical biography of
Robert Buchanan is long overdue
'Lesser-used' languages in historic Europe : models of change from the 16th to the 19th centuries
No full textThis article charts and tries to explain the changing use of ‘minority’ languages in Europe between the end of the Middle Ages and the 19th century. This period saw the beginnings of a decline in the use of certain dialects and separate languages, notably Irish and Scottish Gaelic, although some tongues such as Catalan and Welsh remained widely used. The article develops some models of the relationship between language and its social, economic and political context. That relationship was mediated through the availability of printed literature; the political (including military) relations between areas where different languages or dialects were spoken; the nature and relative level of economic development (including urbanization); the policy of the providers of formal education and that of the church on religious instruction and worship; and, finally, local social structures and power relationships. The focus is principally on western Europe, but material is also drawn from Scandinavia and from eastern and central Europe.Peer reviewe
Thomas Paine and Robert Treat Pain: A Case of Mistaken Identity
No full textLesser points out there is a confusion, unusual in these days of precise scholarship, in the Thomas Paine bibliography, caused not by the authorship of the song, "Adams and Liberty," also known as "The Boston Patriotic Song," but by the errors which enabled the work to appear in two of the four complete editions of Thomas Paine's works. The real author of the song is Robert Treat Paine, Jr., a prominent Massachusetts Federalist, and the son of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. The author corrects this error
Revue de la culture matérielle #64
No full textEditorial -- Articles: The Aron Museum at Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom in Montreal by Loren Lerner -- Imposing Discipline Upon Nature: Gardens, Agriculture and Animal Husbandry in Cape Breton, 1713-1758 by Kenneth Donovan -- Research Reports: Pour le meilleur et pour le pire. Évolution du paysage architectural le long de la route transcanadienne, de 1949 à nos jours par Robert Tremblay -- The Treimane Art Pottery by Gloria Lesser -- Exhibition Review: Sense of the City by Cynthia Hammond -- Book Reviews -- ContributorsThe Material History Bulletin was published 1976-Fall 1990 (nos. 1-32). The name was then changed to the Material History Review, published Spring 1991-Fall 2005 (nos. 33-62). The name changed again to Material Culture Review, Spring 2006 (no. 63)-present. Published semiannually
Jacobson\u27s Rule
No full textDiplopia; PtosisA 75-year old female with a sudden onset of vertical diplopia associated with a throbbing sensation on the right retro-orbital side.VA: 20/20 OUMRIParasellar mass with pervasive edema and hyperostosis of the anterior clinoid and lesser wing of the sphenoid.SurgeryAttache
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Phenology of Lesser Long-Nosed Bats and their Food Plants
No full textLesser long-nosed bats (Leptonycteris yerbabuenae) are important pollinators and seasonal residents along the U.S-Mexico border. Because they feed on flowering and fruiting plants, they are vulnerable to phenological shifts in those species. To evaluate synchrony between bats and their key food plants, we characterized seasonal abundance of bats and flowering and fruiting phenology of food plants at roosts in 2010, 2011, and 2021. Although phenology of bats and their food plants was generally consistent across years, we observed modest changes in aspects of flowering and fruiting of saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea) and organ pipe cacti (Stenocereus thurberi). At maternity roosts, bat abundance was synchronized more tightly with flowering phenology of saguaros in 2021 than in 2010-11. At post-maternity transient roosts, bat abundance was synchronized less tightly with flowering phenology of agaves (Agave palmeri) in 2021 than in 2010-11. We complemented these analyses by improving methods for non-invasive genetic sampling of this species. Specifically, we developed a two-step amplification approach to analyze microsatellite loci and identify individual bats via DNA extracted from fecal samples. As a proof of concept, five highly polymorphic microsatellite loci distinguished 434 individuals reliably. The probability of two closely related individuals having the same genotype at all five loci was 0.003, and the overall probability of identity was 7.5E-09. Addition of a multiplex step added minimal cost, improved amplification success, and conserved DNA extracts. Repeated analyses showed genotyping error was <2%. We explore the benefits and limits of our approaches for population studies of lesser long-nosed bats and other species that provide key ecosystem services and are commonly of conservation concern
Walsh & Hoyt: Leptospira and Leptospirosis
No full textThe family Leptospiraceae contains only one genus, Leptospira (from the Greek words lepto, meaning ""thin"" or ""fine,"" and spira, meaning ""coil""). As their name implies, Leptospira are finely coiled, motile spirochetes that are 620 micrometers long and 0.1 micrometers wide. Although there are more than 200 serotypes of pathogenic leptospires, all of the serotypes pathogenic to humans belong to a single species, L. interrogans. Infection with this spirochete causes a disease called leptospirosis
Coordination in Software Agent Systems
No full textThe objective of this paper is to examine the crucial area of coordination in multi-agent systems. It does not attempt to provide a comprehensive overview of the coordination literature; rather, it highlights the necessity for coordination in agent systems and overviews briefly various coordination techniques. It critiques these techniques and presents some conclusions and challenges which we draw from this literature
Interactions of contaminants, stress and physiological consequences in male lesser scaup (aythya affinis) from the northern boreal forest
No full textIn the mid-1980's until the late 1990's, Lesser Scaup (Aythya affinis)populations in the boreal forest declined and have remained at historical low levels since that time. This has resulted in a population well below conservation goals. Potential causes for this population decline include a reduction in productivity, which could be related to changes in boreal forest habitat, nutritional condition during reproduction, or due to contaminants acquired during migration or wintering. Though several studies have assessed contaminant levels in Lesser Scaup on wintering, staging and migration routes, relatively little data exist from northern boreal forest areas, one of the core breeding habitats of the Lesser Scaup population and where population declines appear to be most severe. To this end,male Lesser Scaup were trapped from sites in the northern boreal forest in 2004 and 2005 to assess trace element contaminant levels. Previous research has shown that trace elements including cadmium and selenium can influence hormonal status in waterfowl. Specifically, a positive relationship between cadmium and corticosterone and a negative correlation between liver selenium and corticosterone have been observed. The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that trace element contaminants can influence hormonal status and related physiological functions in male Lesser Scaup, and that interactions between contaminants, physiological variables such as body condition and social status can modify expression of toxic effects. Blood samples were collected from trapped males to assess stress related changes in blood chemistry (corticosterone, testosterone, glucose and thyroxine) and males were then collected for contaminant analysis and assessment of reproductive physiology. The geometric mean levels of kidney cadmium, liver selenium and liver mercury were 9ppm, 4.33 ppm, 1.31 ppm dry weight respectively. Several variables and interactions including pair status, cadmium, selenium, mercury, body condition and body size influenced corticosterone levels. In male Scaup with high cadmium levels, corticosterone was negatively related to liver selenium in birds with good body condition (R2=0.701,n=9, P=0.005) but not in birds with poor body condition (R2=0.033, n=10,P=0.61). Likewise, in birds with high cadmium, a negative association was found between liver mercury and corticosterone in structurally smaller males (R2=0.491,n=10, P=0.024), whereas no such relationship was found in larger males(R2=0.307, n=9, P=0.12). In birds with low cadmium and low mercury, selenium and corticosterone were negatively correlated (R2=0.568, n=10, P=0.012) while no association was found in males with high mercury (R2=0.325, n=10, P=0.085). Unpaired birds had higher corticosterone than in ducks with low cadmium(F1,17=6.70, P=0.023), while there was no difference between groups in ducks with high cadmium. Glucose levels were not influenced by contaminants or other variables in this study (R2=0.551, F21,17=0.99, P=0.51). Thyroxine levels were positively correlated to mercury levels in paired birds (R2=0.485, n=19,
Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property Issues (Intellectual Property in the 21st Century Series)
No full textDeepthi Kolady (with W. Lesser) is a contributing author, Plant Intellectual Property Rights and Impacts on Agricultural Research and Development, and Crop Productivity. (p. 63 - 84) and Economic Effects of Geographical Indications on Developing Countries. (p.163-180)
Technology licensing is an important element of conduct in many industries and has attracted a fair amount of attention in recent years. Considering fixed-fee licensing, the authors show that upstream and downstream markets play important roles for a profitable licensing.https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/econ_book/1006/thumbnail.jp
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