1,563 research outputs found
Craft so long to learn
No full textSpeech delivered by George Connor, identified by the author as "one of the 2 or 3 most signifcant speeches in my career.
Craft so long to learn
No full textSpeech delivered by George Connor, identified by the author as "one of the 2 or 3 most signifcant speeches in my career.
Jere Nash Interview with Peggy Connor
No full textInterview conducted by author Jere Nash with Peggy Connor as research for Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006. Connor was the lead plaintiff in the case Connor v. Johnson on legislative voting districts in Mississippi. Topics covered include Connor\u27s family, background, and her participation in the civil rights movement; Fannie Lou Hamer; attempting to integrate precinct meeting and registering to vote; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; 1964 Democratic National Convention; Connor v. Johnson lawsuit; and civil rights demonstrations in Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Cutting'aesthetic teeth' : Flannery O'Connor's habit of art
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e ExpressãoEste trabalho foi sugerido pela afirmação de Flannery O'Connor que sua "dedicação estética" nasceu através do contato com Art and Scholasticism de Jacques Maritain. O propósito foi chegar a uma interpretação do sentido da frase. Uma investigação detalhada foi feita do conteúdo de Art and Scholasticism, posteriormente contrastada com os resultados de uma pesquisa feita em seus ensaios e suas cartas, o que revelou numerosos ecos de diversos trechos constando no texto de Maritain. Três pontos principais foram escolhidos como critérios na análise do hábito artístico de O'Connor: 1) a prática de arte implica uma luta; 2) a arte somente pode ser percebida pelos sentidos; e 3) a prática de arte exige do artista a dedicação indivisa à obra nascente. O estudo conclui que, para O'Connor, o brotar da dentição estética, através da leitura de Art and Scholasticism, significou que, ao perceber na análise da natureza da arte algo com que podia concordar, ela reconheceu tanto sua própria capacidade de tornar-se uma artista literária, quanto sua vontade de assumir a tarefa de desenvolver em sua pessoa o hábito de arte
Letter, T. O. Conner to Jason D. Stewart and Wallace M. Lanrin, February 26, 1887
No full textIn this handwritten letter, dated February 26, 1887, T. O. Connor writes to Mississippi Register, Jason D. Stewart and Mississippi Receiver, Wallace M. Lanrin on behalf of a farmer named Isaac S. Rono of Kosciusko, Mississippi for advice on how Rono\u27s land is registered. Rono wished to register as a residence with an adjoining farm but it was, instead, registered as a homestead. Connor asks the men addressed what options or recourse are available to Rono.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/mss-webb-collection/2377/thumbnail.jp
Factor structure and psychometric properties of the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale among Chinese adolescents
No full textObjectives: Resilience refers to psychological characteristics that promote effective coping and positive adaptation in adversity. This study investigated the factor structure and psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) among adolescents
The association between resilience and survival among Chinese elderly
No full textBased on the unique longitudinal data of the elderly aged 65+ with a sufficiently large sub-sample of the oldest-old aged 85+ from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey, we construct a resilience scale with 7 indicators for the Chinese elderly, based on the framework of the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale. Cox proportional hazards regression model estimates show that, after controlling for socio-demographic characteristics and initial health status, the total resilience score and most factors of the resilience scale are significantly associated with reduced mortality risk among the young-old and oldest-old. Although the causal mechanisms remain to be investigated, effective measures to promote resilience are likely to have a positive effect on longevity of the elderly in China.China, healthy life expectancy, mortality risk, residence, survival
Birmingham News sleeve BN0002426
No full textBull Connor fellowship dinner and swearing in P.S.C. [Public Service Commission] president / Eugene (Bull) Connor / John Patterson / George Wallace / Bull Connor being sworn in as PSC chief; Connor with Wallace and other dignitaries (preferably Folsom and Patterson) at fellowship dinner. / Dinkler Tutwiler Hotel / [Work orders included
The modernity of nations. A tribute to Walker Connor
No full textTo fully appreciate Walker Connor's contribution to the foundation of the contemporary study of nationalism, two main factors must be taken into account. First, the context of positivist behavioural political science within which in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, he articulated his critique of the concept of nation-building. In this context, Connor emerged as a critic of the limitations and the naivité of positivist modernization theory. His dissenting voice called for critical rethinking and revision of the central concepts of the theory of political development, some of which enjoyed almost doctrinal status. Second, despite his criticism of modernization theory, Connor retained a strong conviction that nations and national sentiment were the products of modernity; indeed, in his judgement, they formed the primary content of modernity. This too was a critical stance within the rising tide of nationalism studies since 1989–1990, when ideology and wishful thinking influenced to a considerable extent the interpretation of nationalism. Walker Connor's intellectual legacy should thus be understood as a heritage of critical thought that is informed by a noteworthy awareness of the moral responsibilities of scholarly analysis. © The author(s) 2018. Nations and Nationalism © ASEN/John Wiley & Sons Ltd 201
Novel chemical applications of a diverse bacterial culture collection
No full textCulture collections play a pivotal role in the preservation of microbial life.
Through various collections, validly published bacterial species are accessible and
provide a vast and continuously developing resource for investigation. The National
Collection of Industrial, Food and Marine Bacteria (NCIMB) is the largest bacterial
culture collection in Scotland; however, the collection remains mostly unexplored –
presenting a large untapped resource with intriguing industrial potential. Microbial
technologies are paramount for reducing, mitigating and addressing the effects of the
climate crisis yet developments are often precluded by the limited scope and lack of
knowledge of various processes. Nowhere is this more relevant than in the chemical
industry, a field that must rapidly adopt sustainable processes to meet ambitious
climate targets by 2050.
The untapped chemical potential of culture collections presents an intriguing
opportunity to expand the biocatalytic toolkit and further development of sustainable
bioprocesses within Green Chemistry. Here, a small panel of 73 phylogenetically
diverse bacteria representative of the NCIMB culture collection was curated to enable
the discovery and development of novel bioprocesses. By exposing the curation to
small molecules, phenotypic screening enabled the identification of P=S bond
formation in various species. This unpredicted finding led to the elucidation and
characterisation of previously unanticipated biochemistry in Escherichia coli
BW25113; providing proof of principle for the novelty held by culture collections and
what can be learned from it.
The utility of an in-house curation to provide resources for building upon existing
biotechnologies was also demonstrated by exploring the H₂-production potential of the
entire curation. This ultimately led to the establishment of Rhodospirillum rubrum S1
as a robust, high purity H₂ production platform by recapitulating historic work.
Subsequent work built upon the system further, interfacing R. rubrum bio-H₂ with a
heterogenous palladium catalyst to facilitate hydrogenation reactions under ambient
culturing conditions in a one- or two-pot reaction. This provided a significant advance
in the tools available for biocompatible chemistry and demonstrated the first known
phototrophic biocompatible process.
Furthermore, by considering the metabolisms of other bacteria in the curation,
waste milk fermented by Ligolactobacillus equi could be used as a feedstock for bio-
H₂ production by R. rubrum and to successfully enable biocompatible hydrogenation
of a model compound. Although yields were lower and require significant optimisation,
the result elegantly demonstrates how a curation can enable further stepwise
advances which would be difficult to consider or achieve when using species in
isolation. This principle could be expanded to use culture collections as a means of
making waste streams into readily accessible feedstocks for chemical biotechnology.
In all, work completed here highlights the potential of culture collections for the
discovery and advancement of bioprocesses. Findings indicate that, through curation
expansion, improved culturing knowledge with time, and targeted high-throughput
studies, future work will likely elucidate further bioprocesses. In time, such discoveries
will help expand the biocatalysis toolkit, enable less polluting syntheses, and provide
a path to a more sustainable chemical industry
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