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Virtual Book Launch: Russ Davidson author of: Joaquín Ortega: Forging Pan-Americanism at the University of New Mexico
No full textRuss Davidson, author of Joaquín Ortega: Forging Pan-Americanism at the University of New Mexico In conversation with Felipe Gonzales and Christine Sierra
Russ Davidson served as a curator of Latin American and Iberian collections and was a professor of librarianship at the University of New Mexico from 1979 to 2004.
Phillip b. (Felipe) Gonzales is a professor emeritus of sociology at the University of New Mexico. As a historical sociologist, his research has primarily focused on the Nuevomexicano Hispanic group of New Mexico. He is the author, co-author, or editor of four books and numerous articles on Nuevomexicano identity, politics, and economic status.
Christine Marie Sierra is a professor emerita of political science at the University of New Mexico and a former director of the Southwest Hispanic Research Institute. Her teaching career at UNM spanned twenty-eight years, and her research has focused on the study of race, ethnicity, and gender in US politics, Mexican American activism on immigration policy, and Hispanic politics in New Mexico.https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/laii_events/1091/thumbnail.jp
Q & A - Eric Davidson
No full textEric Davidson graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1954 and received his PhD from Rockefeller University in 1963. He remained at Rockefeller until 1971 when he moved to Caltech in Pasadena, California. He was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 1985, and is at present Norman Chandler Professor of Cell Biology in the Division of Biology, Caltech. He is the author of 5 books and over 400 papers on developmental gene regulation and evolution of genomic programs for development. For the last decade his work has focused on theory and operation of developmental gene regulatory networks
Frege and Davidson on Predication
No full textDavidson's conception of predication is examined and critically discussed with reference to Frege's functional conception of concept and first-and higher order predication. The author argues that Frege's account of predication for all its difficulties, included the ones pointed aout by Davidson, is still the best at our disposal
Tax Forum: Swan plucking the goose
No full textThe challenge facing the Tax Forum is to enhance the performance of a tax system that already works well, writes Sinclair Davidson, Professor in the School of Economics, Finance and Marketing and a senior fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs.
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Spare a thought for poor Wayne Swan. The Tax Forum will be hell.
Not because taxation is a dull and boring subject – although some do hold that view.
Rather because it\u27ll be two days of everyone talking at each other. There is truly little new that can be said about the Australian tax system, and it will be said again.
Taxation is one of those subjects where everyone has an opinion but few people really understand the subject. So we\u27ll all hear that the rich should pay more, loopholes should be eliminated, corporations pay too much or too little, and so on. That\u27s all good. Then we\u27ll be hearing about how this or that pet scheme could be used to raise oodles of revenue with no cost to the economy.
The fact of the matter is this; there are no easy solutions to raising new revenue.
 
Gertrude M. Davidson telegram to Franklin County Woman Suffrage Association, October 22, 1914
No full textThis telegram was sent on October 22, 1914, to the Woman Suffrage Headquarters in Franklin County, Ohio. Gertrude M. Davidson, a member of the Scioto County Association for women's suffrage, sent the telegram to request fliers in support of women's suffrage. Davidson said she needed the fliers by her organization's Saturday afternoon meeting. She requested the flier titled "Women in the Home," but stated that if there weren't enough of those to send the best fliers they had on hand.
The Franklin County Woman Suffrage Association was formed in 1912, after the Ohio Constitutional Convention elected to bring to a vote the question of removing the words "white male" from the state constitution with regard to voting rights. Headquartered in the Chamber of Commerce building in Columbus, Ohio, the organization put out regular publications, organized public speeches and meetings, distributed literature and held parades in support of the suffrage movement. Women's suffrage in Ohio was defeated in a special election in 1912 and again in 1914 and 1916 before a resolution narrowly passed in 1917 allowing municipal voting by women in Columbus. In 1920, the 19th Amendment passed, extending the vote to women and prohibiting state and federal government from denying suffrage on the basis of sex
Upton Sinclair : socialist prophet without honour.
No full textIn the last ten years literary historians and critics have begun to reevaluate the career of Upton Sinclair. It had always been prevalent to dismiss him as a pamphleteer, a muckraker and a writer of socialist doggrel. A superficial examination of his 90 year lifetime would tend to support this contention. However if it is possible to separate the writer from the politician, the socialist from the agitator, then a clearer and more accurate picture emerges. Upton Sinclair
wrote over a hundred published novels, produced thousands of magazine articles, broadsheets, letters and a multitude of correspondence. He redefined the proletarian novel and accurately captured within his work the sense of the radical experience in the United States during the twentieth century.
This thesis attempts to analyze Sinclair's position within this radical experience. It is not concerned with his literary contribution but more with his role as a socialist and the way in which the attitude of American socialist movement changed towards him. In the period 1900-1934 this attitude changed dramatically. The effect of this change was to leave Sinclair in its wake. He suffered from the unfortunate handicap of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
In the earlier stages of his career he was stigmatized as a radical and considered dangerous by the more conservative elements of society. By the time the mainstream of literary and political thought had shifted leftwards Sinclair was considered too conservative.
With the publication of his most famous novel, The Jungle (1906) Sinclair became the novelist of the American scene and the recorder of the great industrial movements. This was to be the role he would play for the rest of his career. The other motivating force in his life was his role as a socialist. As Granville Hicks has observed Sinclair was not deflected by any divisions of interests; what interested him as a socialist interested him as a novelist. His own brand of socialism is his most constant theme in his writing.
Sinclair was converted to socialism at the turn of the century. Writing some years later he noted:
It was like the falling down of prison walls about my mind; the most amazing discovery after all these years
- that I did not have to carry the whole burden of humanities• failure upon my two frail shoulders.
Sinclair remained true to his socialist beliefs. How ever the changing face of both the socialist and radical scene in the United States effectively cut him out of any participation in the twenties and thirties. This thesis traces those changes and tries to offer some reasons for them.
When trying to understand the direction of Sinclair's career it is necessary to pinpoint his motivation. Although socialism was definitely important his strongest motivation was as a 'fearless enemy of corruption and injustice'.
Cartoonist Ralph Steadman writing in 1984 comes perhaps closest to defining th.is type of reasoning when describing his own experiences during the sixties:
When the 1960s got underway I felt pretty hopeful and even dared to imagine that each new drawing was a nail in the coffin of old values or rather old patterns of behaviour which were full of privilege and injustice.
It is a strong feeling when you’re young. You really believe things will change. So I-worked with conviction. It genuinely felt like a cause. There was good and there was bad in the world and I was with the good.
Knocking things· down was meaningful fun.
The legacy of Sinclair’s career is not only his contribution as a writer, and socialist, but as a man who not only recorded the events of his time but took part in them.
Sinclair has left a collection of personal papers and correspondence in the Lilly Library which is estimated to weigh over eight tonnes. Historians have only scratched the surface of this material but already a vast amount of valuable information has been unearthed. Throughout his lifetime Sinclair communicated and corresponded with some of the influential and out standing men and women of his age. In the Lilly Library collection there are letters from Joseph Stalin, Gandi, Albert Einstein, Charlie Chaplin, Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, Lenin, H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Jack London, Woodrow Wilson, Eugene V. Debs, Joseph Fox, Henry Ford, and Emma Goldman. These offer valuable insight and information. They are the tangible proof of Sinclair's influence and importance in the changing face of American history
Portrait of Senator Gordon Sinclair Davidson, 1962 [picture]/
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer from inscription.; Part of the Australian Information Service collection.; Inscriptions: "PL327/1; Senator Davidson"--In pencil on verso.; Condition: Scratched.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4706609
Behaviour Change Research: Sinclair Meadows Zero Carbon Scheme. Phase 1 findings
No full textFour Housing Group has developed a sustainable affordable housing community of 21 new zero carbon homes at Sinclair Meadows in South Shields. The Behaviour Change Research is an in-depth study into the experiences, attitudes, knowledge and behaviours of residents of Sinclair Meadows over two years, between 2012 and 2014. It explores the range of impacts that living in the development has on tenants, and highlights interactions between the built environment, the community, and individual residents of Sinclair Meadows. These include pre-occupation attitudes, behaviours and expectations of tenants towards zero carbon living, and impacts for residents over two years, including: use of household technologies and appliances; ‘green’ lifestyles (including non-domestic behaviours, e.g. transport, technology use); health and exercise; knowledge and skills; energy and carbon usage, fuel bills and money saving; home, life and community satisfaction levels. Data is being collected via regular interviews involving a questionnaire survey, and other research activities including group walkabouts and diary-keeping
Base composition of RNA obtained from motor neurons in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
No full textPT: J; CR: DANEHOLT B, 1966, J NEUROCHEM, V13, P913 DAVIDSON TJ, J NEUROPATHOL EXP NE DAVIDSON TJ, 1981, J NEUROPATH EXP NEUR, V40, P32 EDSTROM JE, 1964, METHODS CELL PHYSL, V1, P417 HARTMANN HA, 1968, ACTA NEUROPATH BERL, V11, P275 KOENIG H, 1969, MOTOR NEURON DISEASE, P347 RINGBORG U, 1966, BRAIN RES, V2, P296 SLAGEL DE, 1966, J NEUROPATH EXP NEUR, V25, P244; NR: 8; TC: 16; J9: J NEUROPATHOL EXP NEUROL; PG: 6; GA: LF726Source type: Electronic(1
The Author\u27s Series: Writing 101, Publishing and Marketing
No full textThe Author\u27s Series: Writing 101, Publishing and Marketing
Featured Author: Damion J. Walker, Empowering Underserved Communities: Social Equity Through Collective Action & Founder of Cognitive Justice Intl.
Guest Author: Travis Davidson, Overcoming the Odds , Gospel Hip Hop Artis-TX3
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