Annals of my early life. 1806-1846.

Mode of access: Internet.

Confronting consensus : the art and politics of Christopher Howlett

The article discusses the art career and works of Brisbane artist Christopher Howlett. Howlett has engaged with a number of political issues in a range of media. Issues include the artist as 'labourer', art in the age of tabloid media, art and celebrity culture in media such as performance, installation, sound works, and digital frameworks.

Kari Gislason's response to the Ottoman Motel by Christopher Currie [The Art of Vanishing Parents]

A review of The Ottoman Hotel by Christopher Currie (Text Publishing, 2011). There is more than one moment in life when parents disappear. Teenagers routinely wish them away. Young adults at university return to find they have been abandoned, their possessions boxed, labelled and stored, their bedrooms turned into guest accommodation sometimes featuring lavender. You call your parents and they're not home. Your mother doesn't accept your friend request...

Localization of type 1 diabetes susceptibility to the MHC class I genes HLA-B and HLA-A

The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) on chromosome 6 is associated with susceptibility to more common diseases than any other region of the human genome, including almost all disorders classified as autoimmune. In type 1 diabetes the major genetic susceptibility determinants have been mapped to the MHC class II genes HLA-DQB1 and HLA-DRB1 (refs 1–3), but these genes cannot completely explain the association between type 1 diabetes and the MHC region4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. Owing to the region's extreme gene density, the multiplicity of disease-associated alleles, strong associations between alleles, limited genotyping capability, and inadequate statistical approaches and sample sizes, which, and how many, loci within the MHC determine susceptibility remains unclear. Here, in several large type 1 diabetes data sets, we analyse a combined total of 1,729 polymorphisms, and apply statistical methods—recursive partitioning and regression...

Aaron Lopez papers, undated, 1752-1794, 1846, 1852, 1953.

Contains approximately 6800 manuscripts arranged chronologically by year for years 1752-1794. Approximately 100 are letters received or written by Lopez, his partner and father-in-law, Jacob Rodriguez Rivera, members of his family and company, and commercial agents pertaining to business activities and sailing orders for the captains of various ships. Several also refer to personal matters and acquaintances, including a series of six letters from Silas Cooke of White Hall (Middletown), R.I., to Aaron Lopez, asking his aid in returning a run-away slave (1776). The great majority of the collection consists of account records, bills of sale, orders, shipping agreements, lists of sailors on the various ships, repair records and cargo invoices. Of particular interest are a receipt for payment of a half-year's subscription to the "tzedakah" of Congregation Nefutzei Israel, Newport (1755) and several documents that reveal Lopez as a supplier of kosher meat and other religious articles to people in various parts of the colonies, Surinam, and Jamaica. Also included in this group are copies of sailing lists, documents pertaining to Lopez's naturalization which shed light upon the status of a Jew applying for citizenship in Massachusetts and a check to Lopez from the United States government for a loan made during the Revolutionary War (1779).

"Ei kansa elä vain leivästä" : Suomen Taideyhdistys ja kuvataiteen kannattajakunnan muotoutuminen Helsingissä 1846-1865.

Tutkielma käsittelee kuvataideyleisön muotoutumista Suomen Taideyhdistyksen piirissä 1800-luvun puolivälissä sosiaalihistoriallisesta näkökulmasta. Tärkein lähdemateriaali on Suomen Taideyhdistyksen arkisto, jonka avulla tarkastellaan laajemmin yhdistyksen ideaa, sen jäsenyyttä, maanlaajuista jäsenkartuntaa ja johtokunnan taiteen kannattajiin suuntaamaa missiota toiminnan alkuvuosikymmeninä. Yhdistyksen helsinkiläinen jäsenistö vuosina 1846−1865 on luokiteltu kymmeneen luokkaan jäsenluettelossa annettujen nimikkeiden perusteella. Lähdeaineiston ja sen pohjalta tehdyn luokittelun avulla analysoidaan pääkaupungin jäsenkuntaa ja sen suhdetta koko maan jäsenistöön. Jäsenkunnasta nostetaan esille myös joitakin kiinnostavia yksilöitä. Tutkielman pääasiallinen teoreettinen viitekehys on Sosiologi Everett Rogersin malli innovaatioiden diffuusiosta. Taiteen kannattaminen uutena ideana vertautuu tutkielmassa uuteen keksintöön ja sen leviämiseen. Tutkielmassa osoitetaan, että kuvataiteen saadessa 1800-luvun kuluessa uudenlaisia merkityksiä myös taiteen yleisö määrittyi uudelleen. Vuonna 1846 perustetulla Suomen Taideyhdistyksellä oli tässä ratkaiseva ja aktiivinen rooli. Taiteen kannattajakunnan ydin oli Helsingissä, jossa vaikutti yhdistyksen lähinnä korkeista virkamiehistä ja professoreista koostunut johtokunta. Taideyhdistyksen toiminnan vakiintuessa taiteen kannattamisen idea levisi ja sitä levitettiin yhä useammille paikkakunnille sekä laajempiin kansankerroksiin. Yhdistyksen jäsenkuntaan liittyi lähinnä säätyläistöä, mutta taidenäyttelytoiminta tavoitti myös alempia yhteiskuntaluokkia. Taideyhdistyksen helsinkiläisessä jäsenkunnassa virkamiehistön rooli oli suuri. Alkuvaiheessa liittyneet yhteiskunnalliselta statukseltaan korkeat henkilöt saivat hallitsijan vakuuttumaan toiminnan luotettavuudesta. Taiteen kannattajakunta muodostui kuitenkin kasvavassa määrin alemmasta virkamiehistöstä ja elinkeinojen harjoittajista. Merkittävä osuus oli myös Keisarillisen Aleksanterinyliopiston opettajilla ja siellä tutkinnon suorittaneilla. Tärkein taiteen pääkaupunkilaista kannattajakuntaa yhdistänyt sosiaalinen viitekehys olikin yliopisto. Sen antama koulutus, sivistys ja henkinen pääoma olivat taustalla suurimmalla osalla yhdistykseen Helsingissä liittyneistä. He kuuluivat pääsääntöisesti aktivoituvaan sivistyneistöön, joka syntyi sääty-yhteiskunnan vanhojen rakenteiden hämärtyessä ja yliopistotutkintojen saadessa yhä suurempaa yhteiskunnallista merkitystä.

Collecção das Leis do Imperio do Brasil de 1846

Parte 1 - Leis

Régime alimentaire de la phase lagunaire de Elops lacerta (C.V. 1846)

Elops lacerta is a juvenil's predator of all the fish species living in the same biotope. its preys follow three systematic orders: 1 - Fishes: they are the most important in the stomachal contents of Elops lacerta, and are dominated by clupeidae, mainly by Ethmalosa fimbriata; 2 - Shrimps: mainly the Peneidae, are not very important; 3 - Molluscs: they are the less important preys and are represented by only one Pelecypoda family: the Corbulidae. This earlier predator feeds rather at night than during the day. It has neither preferential prey nor apparent seasonal variations in its food habits.

Reprodução e parasitismo em Melanoides tuberculata (Müller, 1774) (Gastropoda, Thiaridae) da Vila do Abraão, Ilha Grande, Angra dos Reis, RJ

Melanoides tuberculata (Müller, 1774), molusco exótico límnico de origem afroasiática, foi registrado pela primeira vez na Vila do Abraão, Ilha Grande, Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro, em 2005. Atua como primeiro hospedeiro intermediário de diversos trematódeos de importância médica. As populações são compostas majoritariamente por fêmeas partenogenéticas que possuem um marsúpio onde se desenvolvem os juvenis. Os objetivos foram verificar: a presença de machos; se existem flutuações na produção de ovos e juvenis ao longo do tempo; quando a maturidade sexual é atingida e, a existência de parasitos relacionando sua presença com o número de ovos e juvenis. Para a contagem de ovos e juvenis, foram utilizadas fêmeas coletadas bimestralmente de setembro/07 a outubro/10, separadas em quatro classes de tamanho, segundo o diâmetro da concha: Classe I: < 3mm; Classe II: 3 a 5,99mm; Classe III: 6 a 8,99mm; Classe IV: > 9mm. Separamos cinco fêmeas/classe, totalizando 20 fêmeas/coleta, exceto nas amostras de setembro/07 (16 exemplares), abril/09 (19 exemplares) e de abril/10 (13 exemplares), totalizando 348 fêmeas. Para observação dos parasitos, ovos e juvenis o teto da cavidade palial foi retirado e o marsúpio dissecado. Classificamos os juvenis em classes de acordo com o número de voltas: com menos de duas; com duas a quatro e com mais de quatro. Os dados foram analisados utilizando Excel e SYSTAT 12. Para a histologia da gônada e do marsúpio, utilizamos cinco exemplares coletados mensalmente de setembro/12 a fevereiro/13, de cada classe de tamanho, totalizando 20 espécimes/coleta, exceto em outubro/12, quando 16 espécimes foram usados, pois somente um espécime da Classe IV foi encontrado. Os espécimes foram fixados em formalina Millonig de Carson, descalcificados em EDTA, incluídos em parafina e corados em hematoxilina e eosina. Foram encontrados 16 machos. Quantificamos 24.694 ovos e 31.474 juvenis, com as seguintes médias: Classe I: 0 ovos e 0,31 juvenis; Classe II: 24,19 ovos e 47,56 juvenis; Classe III: 114,84 ovos e 155,78 juvenis; Classe IV: 146,76 ovos e 158,41 juvenis. O teste de Kruskal-Wallis mostrou que existe variação significativa no número de ovos e juvenis ao longo do ano (p < 0,01 para ambos) e entre o número de ovos e juvenis entre as diferentes classes de tamanho de concha (p <0,01 para ambos). Foram contabilizados 27.877 juvenis com menos de duas voltas, 3.251 juvenis com duas a quatro voltas e 346 juvenis com mais de quatro voltas. Dentre 348 fêmeas, 111 estavam parasitadas (32% do total) por Centrocestus formosanus (Nishigori, 1924). O Teste de Mann-Whitney, levando em consideração todas as fêmeas, demonstrou que fêmeas parasitadas apresentaram menor número de ovos e juvenis que as não parasitadas ( p<0,01). Excluindo as fêmeas da Classe 1, o resultado do teste foi o mesmo (p< 0,01). Concluímos que: a população de M. tuberculata da Vila do Abraão não é formada somente por fêmeas; as fêmeas se reproduzem o ano todo, pois foram encontrados ovos e juvenis em todas as coletas; que quanto maior a fêmea há mais ovos e, em média, há mais juvenis no marsúpio; que a maturidade sexual é alcançada com aproximadamente 3 mm de diâmetro de concha, devido a presença de ovócitos vitelogênicos tardios e, que o parasitismo afeta negativamente M. tuberculata, reduzindo o número de ovos e juvenis formados

Induction of triploidy in large yellow crocker Pseudosciaena crocea (Richardson, 1846): effects of pressure shocks and growth performance in the first rearing year

The precociously sexual maturation in large yellow crocker Pseudosciaena crocea has become a serious problem. In an attempt to solve this problem, the production of sterile triploids could be an effective strategy. In this study, triploid P. crocea was obtained by subjecting fertilized eggs to pressure shock. Flow-cytometry analysis was used to assess ploidy level. In terms of triploid rate and hatching rate, the optimal conditions of pressure shock for triploidy induction in P. crocea were 7500 psi for 3 min shock at 3 min after fertilization at 20 degrees C. With the application of these parameters, 100% triploid fish were produced. During the first rearing year, triploid P. crocea had a similar growth performance compared with its diploid counterpart before the age of 8 months and showed a significant advantage at the age of 10 and 12 months in body weight and body length (P < 0.05). At the age of 12 months, the carcass weight of triploids was markedly higher than that of diploid control, and gonadal somatic index was significantly lower than that of their diploid control. During the first rearing year, survival in triploid group was 76.44%, inferior to its diploid control (83.21%).

'Shades of the Prison-House': 'Walking' Stewart, Michel Foucault and the Making of Wordsworth's 'two consciousnesses''

Grovier, Kelly, 'Shades of the Prison-House': 'Walking' Stewart, Michel Foucault and the Making of Wordsworth's 'two consciousnesses'' Studies in Romanticism (2005) 44 (3) pp.341-66 RAE2008

Dream Walker: A Wordsworth Mystery Solved'

Grovier, K. (2007). Dream Walker: A Wordsworth Mystery Solved. Romanticism. 13(2), pp.156-163. RAE2008