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Watkins Family papers, MSS.1530
No full textAbstract: A collection of papers, most of them relating to the business dealings of this Marengo County, Alabama family of cotton planters and slaveowners.Scope and Content Note: An extensive collection of papers, relating principally to Brackett O., and James L. and Eveline Watkins. They are arranged in three series relating to: the estates of James L. and Eveline; the estate of Brackett O.; and material pertaining to various members of the Watkins family. The majority of the papers concern the business transactions of James L. Watkins and the estate of Brackett O. Watkins. There are a limited number of business and household receipts and other documents belonging to the estate of Eveline Watkins.The collection contains business accounts, bills and receipts for farm equipment, supplies, and household purchases, records of cotton sales, records of slaves, tax receipts, bonds, a will, a legal brief, land appraisals, inventories, and surveys, personal and business correspondence, inheritance papers, agreements, and a court summons. All papers are originals.The papers of of James L. Watkins' estate reflect his transactions as a cotton planter and merchant. The collection is void of any personal correspondence. John Gray Allen was executor of James L. Watkins's estate and the bulk of the papers are addressed to him.The material concerning Brackett O. Watkins' estate sheds light his activities as a cotton planter. There is a limited amount of information dealing with his personal affairs.Biographical/Historical Note: James Watkins (1770--September 1, 1840) was born near Wadesboro, Anson County, North Carolina. He married Phebe DeJarnette ( - September 13, 1840). They had eight children: John, Brackett O., James L., Munford D., Christopher, Culpepper, and Jermina (Ingram). John, James and Brackett settled in Alabama. John lived in Wilcox County, while James and Brackett eventually settled in nearby Marengo County, where they both became became cotton planters.Brackett Watkins (ca. 1813--ca. 1842) married Dolly Curtis on December 4, 1834 in Marengo County, Alabama. She was the daughter of Samuel Curtis, a Revolutionary War veteran, and his wife, Elizabeth. Both Brackett and Dolly Watkins died by the summer of 1842. Their children were raised by Joseph Agee and his third wife, Elizabeth Curtis, a sister of Dolly.James L. Watkins (September 16, 1808--October 28, 1847) married Eveline Dumas (February 21, 1811--October 14, 1853) of North Carolina on February 24, 1829 in Wilcox County, Alabama. James L. Watkins made his living as a merchant and cotton planter in Marengo County. Eveline Watkins apparently maintained a separate estate with real property valued at $2000 in 1850. James Watkins was survived by Eveline and several children: Jeminia Q., wife of Reuben Pickett; Seraphina, wife of Isaac Dansby; Mary A., wife of Vastine J. Pope; Helen M. Watkins; Calvin H. Watkins; William H. Watkins; James D. Watkins; and Napoleon B. Watkins. John Gray Allen, a close friend of Brackett O. and James L., was the administrator of James L. and Eveline Watkins's estates (Allen had purchased land from B.O. Watkins in 1849). He later married Nancy Roe Kennon Curtis Boatright, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Curtis and sister of B.O. Watkins' wife, Dolly
ICONS II: Identifying Continence OptioNs after Stroke randomised controlled trial
No full textLois Thomas, Christine Roffe, Joanne Booth, Christopher Chapple, Caroline Watkins, Brenda Roe, Christopher Sutton, Bruce Hollingsworth, Céu Mateus, David Britt, Cliff Panton and Kina Bennett; for the MRC Continence Programme and R&D Stroke and Incontinence Stud
sj-docx-1-ijo-10.1177_0306624X221124841 – Supplemental material for Experiencing Burnout: John Henryism, Gender Role Conflict, and Anxiety Among Incarcerated Black Men
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-ijo-10.1177_0306624X221124841 for Experiencing Burnout: John Henryism, Gender Role Conflict, and Anxiety Among Incarcerated Black Men by Jardin N. Dogan, Danelle Stevens-Watkins, Brittany Miller-Roenigk, Christopher K. Marshburn and Myles D. Moody in International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology</p
National health, wealth and kissing in romantic relationships
No full textCodebook, dataset, and r markdown file stored via Open Science Framework, to accompany Watkins, C. D., Leongómez, J. D., Bovet, J., Zelazniewicz, A., Korbmacher, M., Correa Varella, M. A., ... Bolgan, S. (2019). National income inequality predicts cultural variation in mouth to mouth kissing. Scientific Reports, 9, [6698]
National health, wealth and kissing in romantic relationships
No full textCodebook, dataset, and r markdown file stored via Open Science Framework, to accompany Watkins, C. D., Leongómez, J. D., Bovet, J., Zelazniewicz, A., Korbmacher, M., Correa Varella, M. A., ... Bolgan, S. (2019). National income inequality predicts cultural variation in mouth to mouth kissing. Scientific Reports, 9, [6698]
Chronic High Fructose Intake Reduces Serum 1,25(OH)<sub>2</sub>D<sub>3</sub>Levels in Calcium-Sufficient Rodents
No full textExcessive fructose consumption inhibits adaptive increases in intestinal Ca2+transport in lactating and weanling rats with increased Ca2+requirements by preventing the increase in serum levels of 1,25(OH)2D3. Here we tested the hypothesis that chronic fructose intake decreases 1,25(OH)2D3 levels independent of increases in Ca2+ requirements. Adult mice fed for five wk a high glucose-low Ca2+ diet displayed expected compensatory increases in intestinal and renal Ca2+ transporter expression and activity, in renal CYP27B1 (coding for 1α-hydroxylase) expression as well as in serum 1,25(OH)2D3 levels, compared with mice fed isocaloric glucose- or fructose-normal Ca2+ diets. Replacing glucose with fructose prevented these increases in Ca2+ transporter, CYP27B1, and 1,25(OH)2D3 levels induced by a low Ca2+ diet. In adult mice fed for three mo a normal Ca2+ diet, renal expression of CYP27B1 and of CYP24A1 (24-hydroxylase) decreased and increased, respectively, when the carbohydrate source was fructose instead of glucose or starch. Intestinal and renal Ca2+ transporter activity and expression did not vary with dietary carbohydrate. To determine the time course of fructose effects, a high fructose or glucose diet with normal Ca2+ levels was fed to adult rats for three mo. Serum levels of 1,25(OH)2 D3 decreased and of FGF23 increased significantly over time. Renal expression of CYP27B1 and serum levels of 1,25(OH)2D3 still decreased in fructose- compared to those in glucose-fed rats after three mo. Serum parathyroid hormone, Ca2+ and phosphate levels were normal and independent of dietary sugar as well as time of feeding. Thus, chronically high fructose intakes can decrease serum levels of 1,25(OH)2D3 in adult rodents experiencing no Ca2+ stress and fed sufficient levels of dietary Ca2+. This finding is highly significant because fructose constitutes a substantial portion of the average diet of Americans already deficient in vitamin D.Peer reviewe
Brand Borges: A Computer-Assisted Analysis of the Works of Jorge Luis Borges (1923-1955)
No full textThere is a particular idea about the Argentine author, Jorge Luis Borges, that has proliferated over time and has continued to maintain popularity in both the scholarly literature and in popular culture until the present. The general sentiment of this idea—referred to as “Brand Borges” in this dissertation—presumes that Borges is disconnected from Argentina and from reality in general. He is deemed to be more concerned with that which is not real, and when he does engage with the real world, he is thought to be more focused on international affairs rather than the events and traditions of his own country.
This study uses a variety of digital tools, such as methods of computer-assisted text analysis and those developed in geographic information systems, to analyze the first thirteen major works of Borges and challenge the idea of Brand Borges. By interpreting the results of digital analyses of Borges’s oeuvre, and assessing the people, places, and other elements explicitly mentioned, it is argued that he in fact does appear to be connected to both reality and Argentina.
For that which is implicit in Borges’s work, this dissertation then uses traditional methods of literary interpretation to examine a selection of texts and reveal that even when a story is set in a foreign land with international characters, it is often described in such a way as to relate the events, setting, or characters back to Argentina and reality
14C Record and Wiggle-Match Placement for the Anatolian (Gordion Area) Juniper Tree-Ring Chronology ~1729 to 751 cal BC, and Typical Aegean/Anatolian (Growing Season Related) Regional 14C Offset Assessment
No full textThe East Mediterranean Radiocarbon (inter-)Comparison Project (EMRCP) has measured the 14C ages of a number of sets of tree rings from the Gordion Area dendrochronology from central Anatolia at the Heidelberg Radiocarbon Laboratory. In several cases, multiple measurements were made over a period from the 1980s to 2009. This paper presents the final data set from this work (128 high-precision measurements), and considers (i) the relationship of these data against the standard Northern Hemisphere 14C calibration data set (IntCal09), and (ii) the optimum calendar dating of this floating tree-ring record on the basis of the final set of high-precision 14C data. It finds good agreement between the Anatolian data and IntCal09 in some important intervals (e.g. ~1729 to 1350 cal BC) and observes one period (9th-8th centuries BC) where there appears to be some indication of a regional/growing season signal, and another period (later 14th-13th centuries BC) where IntCal09 may not best reflect the real 14C record. The scale of the typical growing-season-related regional 14C offset (Delta-R) between the Aegean/Anatolian region and IntCal09 is also assessed (for the mid-2nd millennium BC and mid-2nd millennium AD), and found to be usually minor (at times where there are no major additional forcing factors and/or issues with the IntCal09 data set): of the order of 2-4 +/- 2-4 yr.The Radiocarbon archives are made available by Radiocarbon and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact [email protected] for further information.Migrated from OJS platform February 202
Correction: Fabrication of asymmetrical diffusion dialysis membranes for rapid acid recovery with high purity
No full textDr Christopher D. Easton made a signicant contribution to the work published in Journal of Materials Chemistry A (titled “Fabrication of asymmetrical diffusion dialysis membranes for rapid acid recovery with high purity”, DOI: 10.1039/C5TA05185A), which included conducting the XPS experiments on the membrane samples, processing the XPS data, and interpreting the results in the context of the work. Therefore, Dr Easton should be added as a co-author. The new author list is Xiaocheng Lin, Ezzatollah Shamsaei, Biao Kong, Jefferson Zhe Liu, Tongwen Xu, Christopher D. Easton and Huanting Wang. We apologize to the readers forany inconvenience this may cause.The Royal Society of Chemistry apologises for these errors and any consequent inconvenience to authors and readers
"The Federalist" and the classical foundations of the American Republic
No full textThis paper examines the classical themes and ancient historical examples presented through the Federalist Papers of Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. The Federalist Papers represent a lucid sample of early American political theory, and the ideologies of three prominent founders. The study focuses on the Greco-Roman states within those essays that were deemed analogous or relevant to the American Confederacy under the Articles of Confederation, or were used to promote a new federal union under the Constitution. This paper also analyzes the formation of mixed governance constitutions, a vital construction for the creation of modern nations, as the idea progressed through the classical writers Plato, Aristotle, Polybius, and Cicero. Through this analysis, the influences of the Greek and Roman classics are shown to be a formative element in the formation of the American Republic. By reestablishing and reasserting the Classics into the political ideology of that time, insight into the creation of a new Constitution through the combined insight of the Federalist becomes readily apparent. The first section presents an introduction to the Federalist, and the ratification debates of 1787-88. Section two covers the classical influences to American history. The third section is a brief overview of five current works relating to this scholarship. Section four comprises the analysis of the five sections of the Federalist Papers as outlined by Alexander Hamilton. The final section of this paper investigates the writings of Plato, Aristotle, Polybius and Cicero to discover the evolution and creation of theories of mixed constitutions.M.A.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Christopher M. Broschar
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