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Jones, T Neil (Thomas Neil), Singapore
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/395931Surname: JONES. Given Name(s) or Initials: T NEIL (THOMAS NEIL). Military Service Number or Last Known Location: SINGAPORE. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 18365.231173
Item: [2016.0049.28224] "Jones, T Neil (Thomas Neil), Singapore
Mossey, Thomas Neil
No full textThomas Neil Mossey Jr. was born on March 8, 1910 in Lethbridge, Alberta to parents Thomas and Margaret Mossey. He was raised and educated in Lethbridge with brothers, James, Tommy, George and Gordon, and sisters, Annie, Margaret, Doreen and Jeanette. Neil married Miss Rose Keene. The couple made their home in Hanna, Alberta, where Neil was employed as an auto electrician. They had two daughters, Patricia and Lorraine, and a son, also named Thomas Neil.
On July 8, 1940, Neil Mossey enlisted with the Royal Canadian Engineers at Calgary. One month later, he was transferred to the 4th Division Petrol Company Royal Canadian Army Service Corps. In February 1941, Private Mossey reported for duty at Camp Borden still with the RCASC. On the night of March 25, 1941, Private Mossey spent the evening with his bunkmate, Private N.J. Marshall. They visited the canteen and listened to the hockey game before turning in for the night. Private Marshall noticed that his friend was not himself and had complained of chest pains and seemed restless.
On the morning of March 26, 1941, wakeup was called and Private Mossey did not respond. Upon closer inspection, it was discovered that he passed away during the night. Following an inquiry, the cause of death was officially listed as coronary thrombosis. Private Mossey was just thirty-one years old. His remains were returned to Lethbridge and he was laid to rest with full military honours at Mountain View Cemetery. For his wartime service, Private Mossey was awarded the War Medal and Canadian Volunteer Service Medal. His mother, Margaret, and wife, Rose each received the Memorial Cross in honour of Neil
Synthesis of isotopically labelled substrates and their use in stereochemical and mechanistic studies of enzyme reaction
No full text2-Amino-2-methylmalonic acid has been synthesised and has been shown to be a substrate which is decarboxylated by serine hydroxymethyltransferase (SHMT). In order to determine the stereochemical course of this reaction (2R)- and (2S)- [1-13C]-2-methyl-2-aminomalonic acids were prepared. The synthesis of these compounds was achieved by employing the anion of Schollkopf's bis-lactim ethers in a Claisen-type condensation with 13C-carbonyl-labelled electrophiles. Only acetyl chloride gave the required regio-selectivity. The resulting ketone was oxidised using the bromoform reaction. The labelled substrates were then utilised in stereochemical studies. These revealed that decarboxylation occurred stereospecifically. During the reaction, the pro-R carboxyl group of the substrate was replaced with a proton, with retention of configuration, to give (2R)-alanine. The result was not in accord with the earlier finding, by others, that the decarboxylation fo 2-aminomalonic acid by SHMT occurs non-stereospecifically. A study of the α-hydrogen exchange kinetics of 2-aminomalonic acid, using ^1H-n.m.r. indicated that the earlier observations were misinterpreted, due to rapid substrate racemisation. It was further shown that the decarboxylation of 2-aminomalonic acid was stereospecific. The role of a histidine residue which is conserved in all pyridoxal 5'-phosphate(PLP) dependent serine hydroxymethyltransferases, as well as many L-amino acid α-decarboxylases, and other PLP dependent enzymes is discussed. The ability of a mutant form of SHMT in which this histidine residue has been substituted by an asparagine residue, to decarboxylate aminoalkylmalonates has also been determined. The structural and catalytic implications of this change on the mechanism of the reaction are discussed. [4'-2H3]-mesaconic acid has been prepared via routes involving a Favorskii-type rearrangement, or methyl cuprate addition to dimethylacetylene dicarboxylate. This compound has been used by Dr. N.P. Botting to determine the rate and order of product debinding for the deamination reaction catalysed by 3-methylaspartase (EC4.3.1.2.). A new synthetic route to L-erythro-3-methylaspartic acid has been developed, based on Schollkopf bis-lactim ether methodology. This compound has been used to show that a single 3-methylaspartase activity is responsible for catalysing the deamination of both L-threo- and L-erythro-3-methylaspartic acids. (2S,3S)-, (2R,2R)- and meso-2,3-dicarboxyaziridines have been synthesised from their appropriate tartaric acids, via intermediate cyclic-sulphates. The compounds have been used to determine the stereochemistry of the ultimate products of the enzymic amination of bromo- and chlorofumaric acids with 3-methylaspartase, as meso- and (2S,3S)-2-3-dicarboxyaziridines respectively. The ability of the aziridines to inhibit 3-methylaspartase and fumarase (EC 4.1.2.1) has been investigated. (2S,3S)-Dicarboxyaziridine is a competitive inhibitor for both enzymes.</p
Celtic and Germanic Themes in European Literature.
No full textCeltic and Germanic Themes in European Literature Thomas, Neil E. , editor Description These essays cover a broad historical sweep from Indo-European origins to the present. Essays include: Weaving-Related Symbolism in Early European Literature; Heinrich von Morungen and the Fairy-Mistress Theme; Second Sight in the Poetry of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff; Cernunnos Arisen: The Celtic Element in Geoffrey Hill's Mercian Hymns (with special reference to the way Hill and other English poets such as Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney have looked back to Celtic mythology as a belief system which gives more scope to natural forces than the Judaeo-Christian tradition); 'Mader er Mannz Gaman': The Theme of Friendship in Old Norse and Old English Wisdom Verse; Cultural Origin and the Presentation of an English Past: How Celtic a Figure is King Arthur in 19th Century English Literature?; The Southey Circle and Scandinavian Mythology and Literature; German Influences in The Mill on the Floss; and The Nibelungenlied and the Third Reich (on the ideological appropriations of the ancient Germanic legacy by the National Socialists). At all times the communal goal has been to view modern problems in an historical perspective which includes a consideration of that racial stereotyping which has sometimes marred our European civilization
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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