Something is Missing from 124": Confronting Postmodern Absences in Toni Morrison's Beloved"

My thesis is divided into three chapters that build on one another as they show different examples of absences in the historical setting of Beloved and how the characters try to find creative uses of language to overcome them. As I argue that language plays animportant role in a search for meaning, my first chapter is about specific absences of language in Beloved. My second chapter is about the many absent characters in Beloved, such as Baby Suggs' children and husband, Halle, Howard and Buglar. In my third chapter, I analyze entities that are either missing from the text, or which represent a loss to Baby Suggs, Sethe, and Denver

THE TRANSLATION PRODUCTS OF MOLONEY MURINE SARCOMA VIRUS 124 GENOMIC RNA

Murine sarcoma viruses constitute a class of replication-defective retroviruses. Cellular transformation may be induced by these viruses in vitro; whereas, fibrosarcomas may result in animals infected with them in vivo (Tooze, 1973; Bishop, 1978). Hybridization studies suggest that murine sarcoma viruses arose by recombination between nondefective murine leukemia virus sequences and certain cellular sequences present in uninfected mouse cells (Hu et al., 1977). A specific gene product, however, has not been implicated in murine sarcoma virus transformation.^ One line of murine sarcoma virus-producing cells, Mo-MuSV-clone 124, (Ball et al., 1973), was studied biochemically because it mainly produces the sarcoma virus as a pseudotype packaged with helper murine leukemia virus proteins. The sarcoma viral RNA was translated in a sophisticated cell-free protein synthesizing system (Murphy and Arlinghaus, 1978). The translation products were analyzed by a number of techniques, including electrophoresis in denaturing gels of SDS polyacrylamide, immunoprecipitation, and peptide mapping. The major products of the total RNA purified from the virus preparation were shown to have molecular weights of about 63,000 (P63('gag)), 42,000 (P42), 40,000 (P40), 38,000 (P38), and 23,000 (P23). The size class of mRNA coding for each of the cell-free products was estimated using a poly(A) selection technique and sucrose gradient fractionation. These analyses were used to localize the coding information related to each of the in vitro synthesized cell-free products within the sarcoma virus genome.^ The major findings of these studies were: (1) the 5' half of the sarcoma viral RNA codes for the 63,000 dalton polypeptide and 42,000 - 38,000 dalton polypeptides derived from the "gag" gene; and (2) the 3' half of the sarcoma viral RNA codes for a 38,000 dalton polypeptide and possibly derived from the cellular acquired sequences. ^

Dental knowledge and attitude toward school dental-health programs among parents of kindergarten children in Winterthur.

The current study investigated the attitudes and knowledge regarding diet and oral hygiene of parents with kindergarten children. The parents' statements were evaluated in terms of their socioeconomic background and were compared with the annual clinical examination of the children. The objective of the study was to assess the effectiveness of the school dental-health program and adapt it to today's societal needs. Of those who participated in the interview, 61% were Swiss, 16% were from former Yugoslavia or Turkey, and 12% each from the EU or other countries. Of the children examined, 39% already had caries, and 18% of those showed more than two lesions. The parents' knowledge correlated with the severity of the child's caries as well as with the parents' income, country of origin, and education. There was a correlation between the child's dental decay and lower income, as well as lower education and non-Swiss nationality of the parents. Parents with higher income and better education more often participated in the preschool's preventive program. Parents from former Yugoslavia or Turkey participated less frequently than parents from other countries. The study demonstrated that parents who especially needed instruction and prophylaxis are contacted too late or not at all through the dental-health program at kindergarten and that new approaches to prevention should be implemented to more effectively reach the parents.

Ms. hebr. oct. 124 - [Sammelband in 2 Teilen: Handschriftenkonvolut]

Vorbesitzer: Eljāqīm Carmoly; Abraham Merzbacher

Ms. lat. qu. 124 - Neue Venezianische Adelsfamilien 1646 - 1669

Vorbesitzer: Johann Hieronymus Zum Jungen;

Ms. Barth. 124 - De consolatione philosophiae

Vorbesitzer: Inzelerius (Bischof von Budva und Weihbischof von Würzburg) ; Bartholomaeusstift Frankfurt am Main

Na 50 Nachlass Arthur Schopenhauer - 'Schopenhauer-Archiv', 124 - Hervorhebung der langen Freundschaft

u.a.: Beschreibung der schwierigen Lebenssituation in Paris; Reisen nach Belgien sowie Köln und Frankfurt;

Ms. Praed. 124 - Theologisch-philosophische Sammelhandschrift

Vorbesitzer: Dominikanerkloster Frankfurt am Main

Na 50 Nachlass Arthur Schopenhauer - 'Schopenhauer-Archiv', 776 - Antwortschreiben auf die Verärgerung Arthur Schopenhauers

u.a. Krankheit; Kur in Karlsbad; Medizinkenntnisse Arthur Schopenhauers; Verkauf von Güter; Erbe für Arthur Schopenhauer;

Ms.Ff.F.Stoltze 3. 124 - Brief von Max Hirschfeld an Friedrich Stoltze

Verhandlungen wegen Lieferungen von Beiträgen zur Frankfurter Latern

Na 1 Nachlass Max Horkheimer, 364 - Korrespondenzen mit Alexander Mitscherlich (p. V 124, 1-102a)

1 Brief von Alexander Mitscherlich an Georg August Zinn (Ministerpräsident), 1961; 9 Briefe zwischen Prof. Tobias Brocher und Max Horkheimer; beteiligt: Alexander Mitscherlich, 1964-1968;