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Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson: W&L Law Faculty Panel
No full textOn March 27, 2019, the W&L Law Library hosted a panel discussion of Just Mercy, the bestselling true story of a lawyer exonerating the wrongly convicted and representing society’s most vulnerable through the perils of our justice system.
The event continued an annual tradition of faculty panel discussions on popular works of fiction and non-fiction with a connection to the law, featuring perspectives from W&L Law professors David Bruck, Nora Demleitner, Brandon Hasbrouck, and Jon Shapiro. Professor J.D. King moderated the discussion, and librarian Andrew Christensen provided introductory remarks.
Author Bryan Stevenson will speak at the W&L Law commencement ceremony on May 10, 2019.
Please note that, at the speaker\u27s request, Prof. Hasbrouck\u27s audio has been suppressed in this video (46:30 through 58:43)
W. D. Snodgrass, 1st Annual Arts Reunion
No full textW. D. Snodgrass is currently the Visiting Writer at Old Dominion University. He is the author of Heart\u27s Needle, After Experience, and The Fuhrer Bunker, as well as the pseudonymous book Remains. In addition to these volumes of poetry. Mr. Snodgrass has published a collection of critical essays In Radical Pursuit and several translations. In 1967 he received the Pulitzer Prize
DNA fusion gene vaccination mobilizes effective anti-leukemic cytotoxic T lymphocytes from a tolerized repertoire
No full textThe majority of known human tumor-associated antigens derive from non-mutated self proteins. T cell tolerance, essential to prevent autoimmunity, must therefore be cautiously circumvented to generate cytotoxic T cell responses against these targets. Our strategy uses DNA fusion vaccines to activate high levels of peptide-specific CTL. Key foreign sequences from tetanus toxin activate tolerance-breaking CD4+ T cell help. Candidate MHC class Ibinding tumor peptide sequences are fused to the C terminus for optimal processing and presentation. To model performance against a leukemia-associated antigen in a tolerized setting, we constructed a fusion vaccine encoding an immunodominant CTL epitopederived from Friend murine leukemia virus gag protein (FMuLVgag) and vaccinated tolerant FMuLVgag-transgenic (gag-Tg) mice. Vaccination with the construct induced epitopespecificIFN-c-producing CD8+ T cells in normal and gag-Tg mice. The frequency and avidity of activated cells were reduced in gag-Tg mice, and no autoimmune injury resulted. However, these CD8+ T cells did exhibit gag-specific cytotoxicity in vitro and in vivo. Also, epitope-specific CTL killed FBL-3 leukemia cells expressing endogenous FMuLVgag antigen and protected against leukemia challenge in vivo. These results demonstrate a simple strategy to engage anti-microbial T cell help to activate epitope-specific polyclonal CD8+ T cell responses from a residual tolerized repertoire
Marriage record of Stevenson, W. D. and Williams, Jennett
No full textMarriage license for W.D. Stevenson and Jennett Williams. L.G. Caro was the officiant
Introversion and extroversion in certain late Victorian writers
No full textThis thesis deals with three writers, George Gissing, Edmund
Gosse and Robert Louis Stevenson. I use the words "introversion"
and "extroversion" partly in a geographical sense.
George Gissing, for example, in spite of Continental influences
remained a very English (in some ways almost insular)
novelist, and in that sense an introvert. Edmund Gosse, on the
other hand, was a very cosmopolitan critic although his style
was typically English. Robert Louis Stevenson provides a third
angle. Having been born in Edinburgh he was forced into exile
for most of his life, and obviously this had a great effect on
his writings. Of the three writers most weight is given to
Edmund Gosse.
In my analysis of George Gissing I concentrate on some of
his best known novels, The Unclassed, The Nether World, New
Grub Street and Born in Exile. The Emancipated and By the
Ionian Sea deal specifically with Italy. There are four
chapters on Edmund Gosse. The first concentrates on the early
part of his long career when his main interest was Scandinavian
literature. The next two chapters give an account of his impressions
of and writings on America and France. In the fourth
chapter on Edmund Gosse I concentrate on the part of his career
when he had become an established authority on his own country's
literature. Robert Louis Stevenson, too, is dealt with in
four chapters. First I write briefly about his Scottish works,
all inspired by his childhood and youth. Next I deal with his
two favourite countries, France and the United States, both
associated with his Wife, Fanny. The last chapter follows
Stevenson to the South Seas where he spent the last few years
of his life and wrote some of his best books.
The three writers are compared from time to time. Robert
Louis Stevenson and Edmund Gosse knew each other well;
George Gissing is the odd man out. But his reaction to foreign
influences differs from that of the other two and this makes a
comparison very interesting
Perspektywy rozwoju biotechnologii w Polsce
No full textWażnym czynnikiem rozwoju biotechnologii w Polsce są nowoczesne badania naukowe. Artykuł Perspektywy rozwoju biotechnologii w Polsce zwraca uwagę na to, że wiedza z zakresu nauk biologicznych i medycznych przyczynia się do większej konkurencyjności zarówno ośrodków naukowych i badawczych, jak i przedsiębiorstw. Biotechnologiczne projekty naukowo–badawcze realizowane w Polsce nie tworzą jeszcze podstaw do wytwarzania produktów biotechnologicznych w takim zakresie, by polskie przedsiębiorstwa mogły konkurować na rynku międzynarodowych. Jedną z przyczyn, którą analizuje Autor w artykule, jest niewystarczające inwestowanie w rozwój nauki i wsparcie dla małych i średnich firm w sektorze biotechnologii. MSP są najważniejszym elementem rozwoju tego sektora, ponieważ koncentrują się na tworzeniu i rozwoju nowoczesnych produktów biotechnologicznych. Artykuł został podzielony na dwie części: Szanse rozwoju nowoczesnej gospodarki w Polsce bez biotechnologii oraz Edukacja i projekty B+R. Autor finalizuje rozważania, pokazując pozytywny scenariusz dla rozwoju sektora biotechnologicznego w Polsce.Biotechnology uses biological processes in the development of technology or manufacture of a product. It is forecasted that Polish biotechnology industry will exceed very quickly. The technology and science parks in Poland have invested millions Euros to build new laboratories. Polish market is fuelled by increased R&D funding, central and regional governments initiatives. The article on “Polish perspectives of biotechnology development” identifies significant factors for biotechnology project development. It also indicates the examples of government biotechnology initiatives in the world. The author focuses on the statistical analysis of the research and development projects conducted by Polish scientist in scientific laboratories. His main conclusion is that biotechnology will be very important in developing Poland, Polish universities, research and development organizations.Udostępnienie publikacji Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego finansowane w ramach projektu „Doskonałość naukowa kluczem do doskonałości kształcenia”. Projekt realizowany jest ze środków Europejskiego Funduszu Społecznego w ramach Programu Operacyjnego Wiedza Edukacja Rozwój; nr umowy: POWER.03.05.00-00-Z092/17-00
The systematic value of the monosaccharide composition and distribution pattern of cycad mucilages.
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