Reorganization plan no. 18 of 1950 : report (to accompany H. Res. 539)

Also in Congressional serial volume 11380.

Reorganization plan no. 7 of 1950 : report (to accompany H. Res. 545)

Also in Congressional serial volume 11380.

Reorganization plan no. 5 of 1950 : report (to accompany H. Res. 546)

Also in Congressional serial volume 11380.

Essays :

Ordered south (1874) -- On the enjoyment of unpleasant places (1874) -- Walking tours (1876) -- Virginibus puerisque. -- An apology for idlers (1877) -- Æs triplex (1878) -- Walt Whitman (1878) -- Crabbed age and youth (1878) -- Henry David Thoreau (1880) -- Samuel Pepys (1881) -- Talk and talkers (1882) -- A gossip on romance (1882) -- The character of dogs (1883) -- A note on realism (1883) -- A humble remonstrance (1884) -- Old mortality (1884) -- The manse (1887) -- A college magazine (1887) -- Books which have influenced me (1887) -- The lantern bearers (1888) -- Pulvis et umbra (1888)

A vindication of the character of Alford Richardson against the aspersions of Governor King. ...

Regards a petition to the Massachusetts Legislature in 1818, in behalf of the Maine Literary and Theological Institution at Waterville, Me., later called Colby College.

The lives and opinions of Benj'n Franklin Butler : United States District Attorney for the southern district of New York, and Jesse Hoyt, counsellor at law, formerly Collector of Customs for the port of New York : with anecdotes or biographical sketches of Stephen Allen, George P. Barker ... /

Includes index.

The lives and opinions of Benj'n Franklin Butler, United States district attorney for the southern district of New York; and Jesse Hoyt, counsellor at law, formerly collector of customs for the port of New York; with anecdotes or biographical sketches of Stephen Allen; George P. Barker [etc] ...

Another edition, practically identical, was issued the same year with the author's name corrected.

William K. Richardson : hearing before a subcommittee of the Committee on Claims, House of Representatives, Seventy-fourth Congress, second session, on House joint resolution 498, for the relief of William K. Richardson. April 22, 1936.

William A. Ekwall, chairman of subcommittee.

Some old Scots judges; anecdotes and impressions,

Mode of access: Internet.

Computer Museum, School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Greenwich

Computer equipment, once viewed as leading edge, is quickly condemned as obsolete and banished to basement store rooms or rubbish bins. The magpie instincts of some of the academics and technicians at the University of Greenwich, London, preserved some such relics in cluttered offices and garages to the dismay of colleagues and partners. When the University moved into its new campus in the historic buildings of the Old Royal Naval College in the center of Greenwich, corridor space in King William Court provided an opportunity to display some of this equipment so that students could see these objects and gain a more vivid appreciation of their subject's history.

Henley Bridge blueprints, 1939 [photocopies]

Four pages of photocopied blueprints of the Henley Bridge on the Queen Elizabeth Way in St. Catharines, Ontario. A note below the title indicates the bridge was opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth on June 7, 1939. Three of the pages are part of the same blueprint and can be fit together to recreate the complete blueprint. The remaining page is an incomplete blueprint drawn by William Lyon Somerville, Architect, and dated March 24, 1939.

Nuclear Transfer with Apoptotic Bovine Fibroblasts: Can Programmed Cell Death Be Reprogrammed?

Cell death by apoptosis is considered to be irreversible. However, reports have indicated that its reversibility is possible if the cells have not yet reached the "point of no return.'' In order to add new information about this topic, we used cells at different moments of apoptotic process as nuclear donors in somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) in order to test if programmed cell death can be reversed. Adult bovine fibroblasts were treated with 10 mu M of staurosporine (STP) for 3 h and analyzed for phosphatidylserine externalization (Annexin assay) and presence of active caspase-9. Annexin-positive (Anx +) and Caspase-9-positive (Casp-9 +) cells were isolated by FACS and immediately transferred into enucleated in vitro matured bovine oocytes. After STP treatment, 89.9% of cells were Anx + (4.6% in control cells; p < 0.01) and 24.9% were Casp-9 + (2.4% in control cells; p < 0.01). Fusion and cleavage were not affected by the use apoptotic cells (p > 0.05). Also, the use of Anx + cells did not affect blastocyst production compared to control (26.4% vs. 22.9%, respectively; p > 0.05). However, blastocyst formation was affected by the use of Casp-9 + cells (12.3%; p < 0.05). These findings contribute to the idea of that apoptosis is reversible only at early stages. Additionally, we hypothesize that the "point of no return'' for apoptosis may be located around activation of Caspase-9.

Microbiological investigations of the Canadian tundra

Microbial communities were analyzed at 17 sites visited during the expedition Tundra Northwest 1999 (TNW-99) by microscopic analyses (epifluorescence microscopy and image analyses). The data were used to describe the communities of bacteria, fungi and algae in detail by number, biovolume and biomass. Great variability was found, which could be related to organic matter content of soils and features of vegetation patterns. The amounts (numbers and abundance) of organisms and data on microbial biomass are discussed in relation to other polar environments of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.