887 research outputs found
Dr. Bertram D. Ashe – Faculty Author Interview
No full textDr. Bert Ashe, Associate Professor of English, is the author of a new book, Twisted: My Dreadlock Chronicles, published recently by Agate Press. Twisted explores issues of black male identity, black vernacular culture, and black hair by narrating the journey of locking his hair while also exploring the history and cultural resonances of the dreadlock hairstyle in America
The mutation causing the black-and-tan pigmentation phenotype of Mangalitza pigs maps to the porcine ASIP locus but does not affect its coding sequence
No full textThe gene for agouti signaling protein (ASIP) is centrally involved in the expression of coat color traits in animals. The Mangalitza pig breed is characterized by a black-and-tan phenotype with black dorsal pigmentation and yellow or white ventral pigmentation. We investigated a Mangalitza x Piétrain cross and observed a coat color segregation pattern in the F2 generation that can be explained by virtue of two alleles at the MC1R locus and two alleles at the ASIP locus. Complete linkage of the black-and-tan phenotype to microsatellite alleles at the ASIP locus on SSC 17q21 was observed. Corroborated by the knowledge of similar mouse coat color mutants, it seems therefore conceivable that the black-and-tan pigmentation of Mangalitza pigs is caused by an ASIP allele a(t), which is recessive to the wild-type allele A. Toward positional cloning of the a(t) mutation, a 200-kb genomic BAC/PAC contig of this chromosomal region has been constructed and subsequently sequenced. Full-length ASIP cDNAs obtained by RACE differed in their 5' untranslated regions, whereas they shared a common open reading frame. Comparative sequencing of all ASIP exons and ASIP cDNAs between Mangalitza and Piétrain pigs did not reveal any differences associated with the coat color phenotype. Relative qRT-PCR analyses showed different dorsoventral skin expression intensities of the five ASIP transcripts in black-and-tan Mangalitza. The a(t) mutation is therefore probably a regulatory ASIP mutation that alters its dorsoventral expression pattern
THE MOTIFS OF REVENGE AND MADNESSIN GOTHIC DRAMA «BERTRAM» BY CH.R. MATURIN
No full textThe article is devoted to questions of artistic originality and literary context of gothic drama of Charles Robert Charles Maturin “Bertram”. The author analyzes distinctive for gothic literature motifs of revenge and madness through consideration of the key character of the drama. This article provides information about the critical reaction of Maturin’s contemporaries to first theatrical production of “Bertram”. The author also exemplifies the successive nature of Maturin’s drama in relation to the works within its broad literary context
Book Review: Surprised to be Standing: A Spiritual Journey
No full textTitle: Surprised to be Standing: A Spiritual Journey
Author: Steven E. Brown
Reviewer: Janine Bertram Kemp
Publisher: Honolulu, HI: Healing Light, 2011
Paper: ISBN: 13: 978-1456521691
Cost: $19.95, 218 page
Creating a Classroom of Integrity: Four Strategies
No full textDr. Bertram Gallant is an internationally known expert on integrity and ethics in education. She has consulted with or presented at high schools, colleges, universities and professional associations throughout the U.S. and around the world, including in Australia, Canada, Egypt, England, Jamaica, Mexico, and Singapore. She is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters, as well as author of Academic Integrity in the Twenty-First Century (Jossey-Bass, 2008), co-author of Cheating in School (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), editor of Creating the Ethical Academy (Routledge, 2011), and section editor for the Handbook of Academic Integrity (Springer, 2016). Tricia is a long-time leader with the International Center for Academic Integrity (ICAI), of which UC San Diego is an institutional member, and currently serves on their Board of Directors. In 2018, Tricia was the first recipient of the Tricia Bertram Gallant Award for Service presented by ICAI. You can follow Tricia professionally on Twitter or Facebook (@tbertramgallant)
Metabolic profiling and population screening of analgesic usage in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy-based large-scale epidemiologic studies
No full textThe application of a 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy-based screening method for determining the use of two widely available analgesics (acetaminophen and ibuprofen) in epidemiologic studies has been investigated. We used samples and data from the cross-sectional INTERMAP Study involving participants from Japan (n = 1145), China (n = 839), U.K. (n = 501), and the U.S. (n = 2195). An orthogonal projection to latent structures discriminant analysis (OPLS-DA) algorithm with an incorporated Monte Carlo resampling function was applied to the NMR data set to determine which spectra contained analgesic metabolites. OPLS-DA preprocessing parameters (normalization, bin width, scaling, and input parameters) were assessed systematically to identify an optimal acetaminophen prediction model. Subsets of INTERMAP spectra were examined to verify and validate the presence/absence of acetaminophen/ibuprofen based on known chemical shift and coupling patterns. The optimized and validated acetaminophen model correctly predicted 98.2%, and the ibuprofen model correctly predicted 99.0% of the urine specimens containing these drug metabolites. The acetaminophen and ibuprofen models were subsequently used to predict the presence/absence of these drug metabolites for the remaining INTERMAP specimens. The acetaminophen model identified 415 out of 8436 spectra as containing acetaminophen metabolite signals while the ibuprofen model identified 245 out of 8604 spectra as containing ibuprofen metabolite signals from the global data set after excluding samples used to construct the prediction models. The NMR-based metabolic screening strategy provides a new objective approach for evaluation of self-reported medication data and is extendable to other aspects of population xenometabolome profiling
Glimpses of Tennyson and of some of his relations and friends /
No full textAuthor was Tennyson's niece.Tennysons and Sellwoods.--Freshwater days.--Some Isle of Wight friends of the inner circle.--Talks with Tennyson.--Appendix: The blizzard and Broncho days by...Bertram Tennyson [with preface by Maud Tennyson]Mode of access: Internet
Bertram D. Wolfe: política y pedagogía comunistas en los años veinte
No full textThis article reviews the activities of Bertram D. Wolfe, the outstanding U.S.politician and founder of the Communist Party of the United States, duringhis stay in our country between 1922 and 1925. His presence here was ofsingular importance for the Communist Party of Mexico since he was part ofits leading bodies and was an untiring teacher who shared the basics ofMarxism with party members. He was also elected its delegate to the FifthCongress of the Communist International, which met in Moscow betweenJune and August 1924. To carry out this research, the author delved deeplyinto the documents in the Bertram Wolfe Collection in the New York PublicLibrary, as well as Mexican documentary sources.El presente artículo revisa la trayectoria de Bertram D. Wolfe, destacado político estadounidense y fundador del Partido Comunista de Estados Unidos, durante su estancia en nuestro país entre 1922 y 1925. Su presencia resultó de elemental importancia para el Partido Comunista de México, ya que formó parte de sus órganos directivos y fue un pedagogo incansable que compartió los fundamentos del marxismo con los miembros del partido. Asimismo, fue nombrado como su delegado ante el V Congreso de la Internacional Comunista, que se reunió en Moscú entre junio y agosto de 1924. Para esta investigación se consultó ampliamente la documentación de la Bertram Wolfe Collection, que se encuentra en la Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York, así como otras fuentes hemerográficas y documentales nacionales
Editorial for progressive education: Antecedents of educating for democracy
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Growing (or hyper) subsystems and vertically hyper-integrated sectors: Appendix
No full textThe analytical device of partitioning an economic system into subsystems (and correspondingly of constructing vertically integrated sectors) can be taken one step further into dynamic analysis, with remarkable implications. In fact, if one looks at the physical quantities side, as against the price side, of the usual equations representing a production economic system, one may notice a formal asymmetry. The Author shows that the asymmetry disappears when the scheme is further generalized to vertically hyper-integrated sectors
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