Franks family papers, 1711-1821, [1965-1968].

Contains business correspondence, accounts and documents relating to Jacob Franks of New York, his two sons, Moses and David, a nephew, Isaac, and a John Franks of Halifax, possibly a member of the family.

Tripogon loliiformis elicits a rapid physiological and structural response to dehydration for desiccation tolerance

Resurrection plants can withstand extreme dehydration to an air-dry state and then recover upon receiving water. Tripogon loliiformis (F.Muell.) C.E.Hubb. is a largely uncharacterised native Australian desiccation-tolerant grass that resurrects from the desiccated state within 72 h. Using a combination of structural and physiological techniques the structural and physiological features that enable T. loliiformis to tolerate desiccation were investigated. These features include: - (i) a myriad of structural changes such as leaf folding, cell wall folding and vacuole fragmentation that mitigate desiccation stress; - (ii) potential role of sclerenchymatous tissue within leaf folding and radiation protection; - (iii) retention of ~70% chlorophyll in the desiccated state; - (iv) early response of photosynthesis to dehydration by 50% reduction and ceasing completely at 80 and 70% relative water content, respectively; - (v) a sharp increase in electrolyte leakage during dehydration, and; - (vi) confirmation of membrane integrity throughout desiccation and rehydration. Taken together, these results demonstrate that T. loliiformis implements a range of structural and physiological mechanisms that minimise mechanical, oxidative and irradiation stress. These results provide powerful insights into tolerance mechanisms for potential utilisation in the enhancement of stress-tolerance in crop plants.

O conceito de realeza de Temístio e Amiano Marcelino : o caso do imperador Valentiniano I

Abstract: In the context of Late Antiquity, we observe the ideals of Royalty of two authors who shared the political events between the governments of Constantius II to Theodosius (337-395 AD), namely: the philosopher Themistius (317-388 AD) with his political speeches; and the military Ammianus Marcellinus (325 / 330-395 AD) with his work Res Gestae. During our study, we will seek to observe the characteristics of each author, and converge their life experiences to meet the convergent and divergent points of its concepts around the Imperial responsibilities. In the meantime, we emphasize the interactions between Romans and barbarians, very noticeable at that time; and how this process of interaction of cultures has influenced the thinking of the late-ancient writers studied here. Observing how a philosopher and a military developed such ideals in relation to the ruler: Valentinian I (364-375 AD), for that we made a more specific analysis of VI Speech of Themistius - the Brotherly Love or About humanity - and the XVI - XXX Books of Ammianus Marcellinus. Thus, in a time of great cultural socio-political effervescence, two non-Christian writers have written their work, in order to re-member your audience the importance of the virtues and both based on examples from the classical tradition.

As garantias do processo do trabalho

Este trabalho se propõe a uma releitura da atual concepção do Direito Processual do Trabalho, seus institutos, princípios e regras. A partir da constatação da autonomia do processo do trabalho e da inaptidão de seus mecanismos para a realização dos direitos materiais subjacentes, passam a ser diagnosticados fatores que o distanciam dos valores constitucionais e das garantias processuais fundamentais reconhecidas nos textos supranacionais, para a construção de principiologia própria e coerente com a Teoria Geral do Processo. Destacadas as seis garantias processuais fundamentais, quais sejam (i) tribunal competente; (ii) acesso à justiça; (iii) órgão julgador imparcial; (iv) ampla possibilidade de participação no processo; (v) prazo razoável e (vi) efetividade da decisão, cada uma passa a ser apresentada inicialmente sob uma ótica abstrata e geral, para, em seguida, serem considerados os pontos em que se chocam com as práticas processuais trabalhistas. Sobre tais premissas são desenvolvidas teses em prol da construção de um justo processo do trabalho.

基于加速度传感器的机器人极点配置控制

本文为工业机器人提出了一种极点配置控制法．这种控制方法的优点有：一是它的积分作用消除了机器人的微小扰动和稳态误差；二是能任意设置系统的极点，因此能保证闭环系统的稳定性和规定状态变量的暂态响应；三是加入了加速度反馈，抑制了由电枢电感所引起的机械手的振动．最后，给出了ＰＵＭＡ５６２机器人的计算机仿真和实验结果验证了此控制法的有效性。

„Livre des merveilles”. Burgundzka wizja Orientu późnego średniowiecza w miniaturach manuskryptu fr. 2810 z Bibliothèque nationale de France

Wydział Historyczny: Instytut Historii Sztuki

Final Archaeological Investigations at the Maynard-Burgess House (18AP64): An 1850-1980 African-American Household in Annapolis, Maryland

The Maynard-Burgess House was excavated by Archaeology in Annapolis from Fall, 1990 to Summer, 1992. The still-standing house is located at 163 Duke of Gloucester Street in Annapolis' Historic District and is today being restored by Port of Annapolis, Incorporated. Archaeological testing and excavation of the site was developed alongside architectural analyses and archival research as the initial phase of the home's restoration. The Maynard-Burgess House was continuously occupied by two African-American families, the Maynards and the Burgesses, from the 1850s until the late 1980s. The main block of the house was built between 1850 and 1858 by the household of John T. Maynard, a free African American born in 1810,and his wife Maria Spencer Maynard. Maynard descendants lived in the home until it was foreclosed in 1908 and subsequently sold to the family of Willis and Mary Burgess in 1915. Willis had been a boarder in the home in 1880, and his sister Martha Ready had married John and Maria's son John Henry. Burgess descendants lived at the home until its sale in 1990.

Archaeological Excavations at 18AP44: 193 Main Street, Annapolis, Maryland, 1985-1987

193 Main Street (18AP44) is located between Main Street and Duke of Gloucester Street. The property was used ass a yard related to residential and commercial buildings during the 18th and 19th centuries. In the 1930's a movie theatre and parking lot were built on the property. That structure was torn down in the 1980's and a three-story commercial building was constructed. Archaeological excavations were conducted on the property from 1985-1987. A preliminary report was written in 1986 by Paul A. Shackel. This report is the final report on the archaeological investigations at 193 Main Street.

CaII K interstellar observations towards early-type disc and halo stars - distances to intermediate- and high-velocity clouds

We compare existing high spectral resolution (R = lambda/Deltalambda similar to 40 000) Ca II Kobservations (lambda(air) = 3933.66 Angstrom) towards 88 mainly B-type stars, and new observations taken using the Intermediate dispersion Spectrograph and Imaging System (ISIS) on the William Herschel Telescope at R similar to 10 000 towards three stars taken from the Palomar-Green Survey, with 21-cm HI emission-line profiles, in order to search for optical absorption towards known intermediate- and high-velocity cloud complexes. Given certain assumptions, limits to the gas phase abundance of Ca II are estimated for the cloud components. We use the data to derive the following distances from the Galactic plane (z). (i) Tentative lower z-height limits of 2800 and 4100 pc towards complex C using lack of absorption in the spectra of HD341617 and PG 0855 + 294, respectively. (ii) A weak lower z-height of 1400 pc towards complex WA-WB using lack of absorption in EC 09470-1433 and a weak lower limit of 2470 pc using lack of absorption in EC 09452-1403. (iii) An upper z- height of 2470 pc towards a southern intermediate- velocity cloud (IVC) with v(LSR) = -55 km s(-1) using PG 2351 + 198. (iv) Detection of a possible IVC in Ca II absorption at v(LSR) = +52 km s(-1) using EC 20104-2944. No associated HI in emission is detected. At this position, normal Galactic rotation predicts velocities of up to similar to+ 25 km s(-1). The detection puts an upper z-height of 1860 pc to the cloud. (v) Tentative HI and Ca II K detections towards an IVC at similar to+70 km s(-1) in the direction of high-velocity cloud (HVC) complex WE, sightline EC 06387-8045, indicating that the IVC may be at a z-height lower than 1770 pc. (vi) Detection of Ca II K absorption in the spectrum of PG 0855 + 294 in the direction of IV20, indicating that this IVC has a z-height smaller than 4100 pc. (vii) A weak lower z-height of 4300 pc towards a small HVC with v(LSR) = +115 km s(-1) at l, b = 200degrees, + 52degrees, using lack of absorption in the Ca II K spectrum of PG 0955 + 291.

Interação intercultural telecolaborativa em português língua não materna

No âmbito do tema Multimédia em Educação, optámos por analisar uma sequência pedagógica em Português Língua Não Materna, contextualizada em interações interculturais telecolaborativas, mediadas pela plataforma Adobe Connect Pro. Para o efeito, foram transcritas as gravações dessas interações, submetidas a análise de conteúdo com o software de abordagem qualitativa webQDA, tendo em conta as seguintes dimensões: (i) dimensão operacional das literacias digitais online; (ii) atitude perante as tecnologias online; (iii) negociação de sentido, (iii) enunciados não relacionados com o projeto; (iv) atividades reflexivas sobre a língua por parte dos aprendentes; (v) enunciados dos participantes falantes nativos em interação com os aprendentes. Após a análise e discussão de resultados, é possível afirmar que a realização de interações interculturais telecolaborativas contribui para a reformulação de conhecimentos (Lankshear e Knobel, 2006) em termos de: competência tecnológica e literacia online; perceção de como as limitações técnicas podem condicionar a realização de um projeto; tomada de consciência do desenvolvimento (e vantagens) de uma atitude 2.0; aprofundamento da competência na língua-alvo e do conhecimento de realidades culturais através da comunicação com falantes nativos. Ainda assim, reconhecemos a pertinência e urgência do desenvolvimento de um trabalho com acuidade na área da formação intercultural telecolaborativa quer no âmbito da formação de professores (inicial e contínua) quer com os alunos durante as aulas de língua.

Oramics: Atlantis Anew

A moving image work co-commissioned by the Science Museum (London), with extensive unprecedented access to the Oramics archive at Goldsmiths College and the Science Museum. Conceived of as an Artist's film in homage to Daphne Oram, the pioneer of British Electronic Music and co-founder of the BBC Radiophonic workshop in 1958, the film features a close-up encounter with her unique invention, the Oramics Machine, housed at the Science Museum in London. Oram used drawn sound principles to compose ‘handwrought' electronic music, and yet the visual nature of her work remains largely unseen and unsung. Exhibitions: ‘Oramics to Electronica’ Science Museum (London 2011-14); solo exhibition as part of the International Rotterdam Film Festival (2013); group exhibition ‘The Sight of Sound’, Deutsche Bank VIP Lounge, Frieze Art Fair, NY (2012); ‘Samsung Art+ Prize’ BFI Southbank, London (2012). Screenings: mini-retrospective at the Lincoln Centre, NY, as part of the New York Film Festival (2013); Jarman Award Tour screenings (2012, venues included Whitechapel Gallery, London; FACT, Liverpool; CCA, Glasgow; The Northern Charter in partnership with CIRCA projects; Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham; Watershed, Bristol; Duke of York Cinema, Brighton); Mini-retrospective screening and in conversation with Lis Rhodes, Tate Britain (London 2014); Mini-retrospective screening, DIM Cinema, The Cinematheque (Vancouver 2015); Mini-retrospective at Whitechapel Gallery (London 2016).

Sound Seam

A moving image work based on research with neurologists and audiologists, collectors and archivists. The film gives voice to the idea that every surface, in particular parts of our anatomy, is potentially inscribed with an unheard sound or echoes of voices from the past. The soundtrack’s musical composition is interlaced with a voice-over which draws on Rainer Maria Rilke’s text 'Primal Sound', where he reflects on the possibility of playing the coronal suture of a skull with a phonograph needle. The film uses microscopic photography, scanning electron microscopy, and sounds of otoacoustic emissions to uncover haunting aural bonescapes. The voiceovers too are recorded using old sound technology as a filter - writing and over-writing of wax cylinder to create unexpected scratches, glitches, loops and echoes. Exhibitions: shown as multi-channel sound/film installation AV festival (Newcastle 2010); solo exhibition at Wellcome Collection (London 2010-11); group exhibition ‘Samsung Art+ Prize’ BFI Southbank (London 2012); group exhibition ‘Transcendence’, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne (2014); solo exhibition as part of the International Rotterdam Film Festival (2013); group exhibition ‘The Sight of Sound’, Deutsche Bank VIP Lounge, Frieze Art Fair, NY (2012). Screenings: mini-retrospective at the Lincoln Centre, NY, as part of the New York Film Festival (2013); Jarman Award Tour screenings (2012, venues included Whitechapel Gallery, London; FACT, Liverpool; CCA, Glasgow; The Northern Charter in partnership with CIRCA projects; Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham; Watershed, Bristol; Duke of York Cinema, Brighton), Whitechapel Gallery, London; FACT, Liverpool; CCA, Glasgow; The Northern Charter in partnership with CIRCA projects, Newcastle (special Q&A Aura Satz with Rebecca Shatwell, director of AV festival); Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham; Watershed, Bristol; Duke of York Cinema, Brighton; Mini-retrospective at Tate Britain (London 2014); Mini-retrospective screening, DIM Cinema, The Cinematheque (Vancouver 2015); Mini-retrospective at Whitechapel Gallery (London 2016). Publications: ‘Sound Seam’ booklet with contributions by Steven Connor and Tom McCarthy (2010).

Imunossensores Eletroquímicos para o Diagnóstico Precoce e Descentralizado do Cancro da Mama

O cancro é uma das principais causas de morte em todo o mundo. Entre as mulheres, o cancro da mama é o mais frequente. A deteção precoce do cancro é de extrema importância na medida em que pode aumentar as possibilidades de cura dos pacientes e contribuir para a diminuição da taxa de mortalidade desta doença. Um método que tem contribuído para a deteção precoce do cancro é a análise de biomarcadores. Biomarcadores associados ao cancro da mama, como o Recetor 2 do Fator de Crescimento Epidérmico Humano (HER2) e o Antigénio Carbohidratado 15-3 (CA 15-3), podem ser detetados através de dispositivos como os biossensores. Neste trabalho foram desenvolvidos dois imunossensores eletroquímicos para a análise de HER2 e CA 15-3. Para ambos os sensores foram utilizados, como transdutores, elétrodos serigrafados de carbono. A superfície destes transdutores foi nanoestruturada com nanopartículas de ouro. Foram realizados imunoensaios não-competitivos (do tipo sandwich) em ambos os imunossensores, cuja estratégia consistiu na (i) imobilização do respetivo anticorpo de captura na superfície nanoestruturada dos elétrodos, (ii) bloqueio da superfície com caseína, (iii) incubação com uma mistura do analito (HER2 ou CA 15-3) e o respetivo anticorpo de deteção biotinilado, (iv) adição de estreptavidina conjugada com fosfatase alcalina (S-AP; a AP foi utilizada como marcador enzimático), (v) adição de uma mistura do substrato enzimático (3-indoxil fosfato) e nitrato de prata, e (vi) deteção do sinal analítico através da redissolução anódica, por voltametria de varrimento linear, da prata depositada enzimaticamente. Com as condições experimentais otimizadas, foi estabelecida a curva de calibração para a análise de HER2 em soro, entre 15 e 100 ng/mL, obtendo-se um limite de deteção de 4,4 ng/mL. Para o CA 15-3 a curva de calibração (em solução aquosa) foi estabelecida entre 15 e 250 U/mL, obtendo-se um limite de deteção de 37,5 U/mL. Tendo em conta o valor limite (cutoff value) estabelecido para o HER2 (15 ng/mL) pode-se comprovar a possível utilidade do imunossensor desenvolvido para o diagnóstico precoce e descentralizado do cancro da mama. No caso do CA 15-3 serão necessários estudos adicionais para se poder avaliar a utilidade do imunossensor para o diagnóstico do cancro da mama.

Letter - Wilfrid Laurier to A. Munro Grier, 18 September 1901

A letter from Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier to A. Munro Grier regarding an invitation to His Royal Highness. This is possibly referencing the Royal visit of the Duke of Cornwall in the year 1901. The Royals were due to tour Canada September and October of that year, with a stop in the Niagara area October 13th.