Short plays about famous authors,

Introduction.--A mistake at the manor ["based on an incident in the early life of Oliver Goldsmith"]--When Heine was twenty-one.--Miss Burney at court.--A Christmas eve with Charles Dickens.--The fairies' plea; an interlude for Shakespeare day. Adapted from Thomas Hood's "Plea of the midsummer fairies."

Running the gauntlet; a study of the capture of pawns, en passant, in chess problems,

Introduction in English and German on opposite pages.

Kodakery.

Description based on: Vol. 4, no. 1 (Sept. 1916); title from cover.

The novels and tales of Robert Louis Stevenson ...

Criticisms, etc.--XXIII-XXIV. Letters to his family and friends, selected and ed. ... by S. Colvin.--XXV-XXVI. The life of Robert Louis Stevenson, by G. Balfour.--XXVII. New letters, selected and ed. by S. Colvin.

Inventaire des autographes et documents historiques réunis

First published as sale catalog, 1877-83 (15 series in 6 parts); v. 1-2 (ser. 1-10 were reissued 1878-79 in an edition of 250 "exemplaires d'amateur", while v. 3 remained unpublished until 1900, when it was issued with special t.-p. and index (Tables des documents & facsimilés ... dressées par Maurice Tourneux. Paris, 1891) This copy lacks the "Notice biographique" mentioned in the table of contents.

Cortes curriculares de géneros que diseñan al sujeto futbolista

Reflexionando sobre la problemática desafiante si ¿podremos vivir juntos?, y la producción de conocimiento sociológico, (entendiendo al conocimiento con características de provisorio, problematizado y cuestionable), me propongo indagar en los Nuevos Diseños Curriculares de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. En los cuales aparecen explícitamente conceptos paradigmáticos claves, a saber: currículum, interculturalita, inclusión, universalidad, diversidad, sujeto pedagógico, sujetos complejos, atravesados por su historicidad, por ser inconclusos, con derechos y con Género y sexualidad (como dos características diferenciadas). Analizaré la relación y la influencia de estos nuevos discursos pedagógicos en las prácticas docentes con características discriminatoria en las clases que desarrollan el contenido: Fútbol. En este sentido es interesante como los constructos y prejuicios sociales generan tensión y divorcio entre lo prescriptivo y lo que se hace en la clase, donde las niñas, adolescentes y adultas se encuentran en situación de desigualdad y exclusión a la hora de aprender en una institución formal el deporte fútbol, donde claramente se promueve desde el sentido común la invisibilidad y el ninguneo de las mujeres en la formación y apropiación de un saber popular y cultural. El Fútbol Femenino es una realidad lo demuestran Cinco Mundiales de Fútbol, Tres Campeonatos Olímpicos, 24 años en A.F.A., 40 millones de mujeres en todo el planeta registradas en F.I.F.A.

Combining the power of online crowdsourcing with creative writing user interfaces

The goal of this work was to provide professional and amateur writers with a new way of enhancing their productivity and mental well-being, by helping them overcoming writers block and being able to achieve a state of optimal experience while writing. Our approach is based on bringing together different components to create what we call a creative moment. A creative moment is composed by an image, a text, a mood, a location and a color. The color presented in the creative moment varied according to the mood that was associated to the creative moment. With the creative moments we hoped that our users could have a way to easily trigger their creativity and have a kick start in their work. The prototyping of a web crowdsourcing platform, named CreativeWall, and a Microsoft Word Add-In, that was used on the user study performed, is described and their implementations are discussed. The user study reveals that our approach does have a positive influence in the productivity of the participants when compared with another existing approach. The study also revealed that our approach can ease the process of achieving a state of optimal experience by enhancing one of the dimensions presented on the Flow Theory. At the end we present what we consider would be some possible future developments for the concept created during the development of this work.

The role of the innate immune system in the clearance of apoptotic cells

Rapid clearance of dying cells is a vital feature of apoptosis throughout development, tissue homeostasis and resolution of inflammation. The phagocytic removal of apoptotic cells is mediated by both professional and amateur phagocytes, armed with a series of pattern recognition receptors that participate in host defence and apoptotic cell clearance. CD14 is one such molecule. It is involved in apoptotic cell clearance (known to be immunosuppressive and anti-inflammatory) and binding of the pathogen-associated molecular pattern, lipopolysaccharides (a pro-inflammatory event). Thus CD14 is involved in the assembly of two distinct ligand-dependent macrophage responses. This project sought to characterise the involvement of the innate immune system, particularly CD14, in the removal of apoptotic cells. The role of non-myeloid CD14 was also considered and the data suggests that the expression of CD14 by phagocytes may define their professional status as phagocytes. To assess if differential CD14 ligation causes the ligand-dependent divergence in macrophage responses, a series of CD14 point mutants were used to map the binding of apoptotic cells and lipopolysaccharides. Monoclonal antibodies, 61D3 and MEM18, known to interfere with ligand-binding and responses, were also mapped. Data suggests that residue 11 of CD14, is key for the binding of 61D3 (but not MEM18), LPS and apoptotic cells, indicating lipopolysaccharides and apoptotic cells bind to similar residues. Furthermore using an NF-kB reporter, results show lipopolysaccharides but not apoptotic cells stimulate NF-kB. Taken together these data suggests ligand-dependent CD14 responses occur via a mechanism that occurs downstream of CD14 ligation but upstream of NF-?B activation. Alternatively apoptotic cell ligation of CD14 may not result in any signalling event, possibly by exclusion of TLR-4, suggesting that engulfment receptors, (e.g. TIM-4, BAI1 and Stablin-2) are required to mediate the uptake of apoptotic cells and the associated anti-inflammatory response.

Die Sprache der Auricher Juden. Zur Rekonstruktion westjiddischer Sprachreste in Ostfriesland:to reconstruct westjiddischer language residues in Ostfriesland

Western Yiddish, the spoken language of the traditional Jewish society in the German- and Dutch-speaking countries, was abandoned by its speakers at the end of the 18th in favour of the emerging standard varieties: Dutch and German, respectively. Remnants of Western Yiddish varieties, however, remained a medium of discourse in remote provinces and could be found well into the 19th and sometimes the 20th century in some South-western areas of Germany and Switzerland, the Alsace, some areas of the Netherlands and in parts of the German province of Westphalia. It appears that rural Jewish communities sometimes preserved in-group vernaculars, which were based on Western Yiddish. Sources discovered in 2004 in the town of Aurich prove that Jews living in East Frisia, a Low-German speaking peninsula in the North-west of Germany, used a variety based on Western Yiddish until the Second World War. It appears that until the Holocaust a number of small, close-knit Jewish communities East Frisia, which depended economically mainly on cattle-trading and butchery, kept certain specific cultural features, among them the vernacular which they spoke alongside Low German and Standard German. The sources consist of two amateur theatre plays, a memoir and two word lists written in 1902, 1928 and the 1980s, respectively. In the monograph these sources are documented and annotated as well as analyzed linguistically against the background of rural Jewish life in Northern Germany. The study focuses on traces of language contact with Low German, processes of language change and on the question of the function of the variety in day-to-day life in a rural Jewish community.

CD14 and innate immune clearance of apoptotic cells

Rapid elimination of cells undergoing programmed cell death (apoptosis) is vital to maintain tissue homeostasis. The phagocytic removal of apoptotic cells (AC) is mediated by innate immune molecules, professional phagocytes and amateur phagocytes that recognise "eat me" signals on the surface of the AC. CD14, a pattern recognition receptor expressed on macrophages, is widely known for its ability to recognise the pathogen-associated molecular pattern lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and promote inflammation. CD14 also mediates the binding and removal of AC, a process that is considered to be anti-inflammatory therefore suggesting CD14 is capable of producing two distinct ligand-dependent responses. Our work seeks to define the molecular mechanisms underlying the involvement of CD14 in the non-inflammatory clearance of AC. Here we describe three different differentiation strategies used to generate macrophages from the monocytic cell line THP-1. Whilst CD14 expression was increased in each macrophage model we demonstrate significant differences in the various macrophage models' abilities to respond to LPS and clear AC. We show that CD14 expression correlates with CD14-dependent AC clearance and anti-inflammatory responses to AC. However LPS responsiveness correlates, as expected, with TLR4 but not CD14 expression. These observations suggest CD14-dependent AC clearance is not dependent on TLR4. Taken together our data support the notion that CD14 ligand-dependent responses to LPS and AC are derived from changes at the macrophage surface. The nature and composition of the CD14-co-receptor complex for LPS and AC binding and consequent responses is the subject of further study.

Post-vernacular language use in a Low German linguistic community

In a time of rapid shift and loss of smaller, regional and minority languages it becomes apparent that many of them continue to play a role as post-vernacular varieties. As Shandler (2006) points out for Yiddish in the United States, some languages serve the purpose of identity-building within a community even after they have ceased to be used as a vernacular for daily communication. This occurs according to Shandler through a number of cultural practices, such as amateur theatre, music and folklore, translation, attempts to learn the language in evening classes, etc. This paper will demonstrate that the paradigm developed by Shandler for Yiddish can be applied to other linguistic communities, by comparing the post-vernacular use of Yiddish with Low German in Northern Germany. It will focus on the linguistic strategies that individuals or groups of speakers apply in order to participate in a post-vernacular language community.

Professional football in apartheid South Africa:leisure, consumption and identity in the national football league, 1959-1977

A growing body of academic and popular literature considers the history of South African football. These and existing publications pay little or no attention to the emergence of white professional football in apartheid South Africa. The National Football League (NFL) challenged the amateur game and introduced professional football to the country. During its 17-year existence, the NFL grew each season with large attendances until its demise in 1977. In addition, the NFL imported a range of international players, invited foreign teams and actively engaged in the political debates in South African sport at the time. The NFL was instrumental in popularising the game across the country for all South Africans. The NFL became the most popular sports entertainment of choice for South Africans during this period. Finally, the NFL actively engaged in a campaign of destroying rival non-racial anti-apartheid leagues while simultaneously co-opting less progressive organisations. © 2013 Taylor and Francis.

Ocular dominance and handedness in golf putting

Purpose: In golf, the impact of eye-hand dominance on putting performance has long been debated. Eye-hand dominance is thought to impact how golfers judge the alignment of the ball with the target and the club with the ball, as well as how golfers visualize the line of the putt when making decisions about the force needed to hit the ball. Previous studies have all measured ocular dominance in primary gaze only, despite golfers spending a significant amount of their time in a putting stance (bent at the hips, head tilted down). Thus, the purpose of this study was to assess ocular dominance in both primary gaze (aligning the ball with the target) and putting gaze (addressing the ball and aligning the club). Methods: This study investigatedmeasuring pointing oculardominance in both primary and putting gaze positions on 31 golfers (14 amateur, 7 club professionals, and 10 top professionals). All playerswere right-handed golfers, although one reported having no hand dominance and one reported being strongly left hand dominant. Results: The results showed that (1) primary and putting gaze ocular dominances are not equal, nor are they predictive of each other; (2) themagnitude of putting ocular dominance is significantly less than themagnitude of primary gaze ocular dominance; (3) ocular dominance is not correlated with handedness in either primary or putting gaze; and (4) eye-hand dominance is not associated with increased putting skill, although ocular dominance may be associated with increased putting success. Conclusions: It is important that coaches assess golfers' ocular dominance in both primary and putting gaze positions to ensure they have the most accurate information upon which to base their vision strategy decisions.

“I had a different way of governing”: The evangelical presidential style of Jimmy Carter and his mission for Middle East peace

President Jimmy Carter once said, "I had a different way of governing." In attempting to explain what he meant by this, Carter has been variously described as a political amateur, a trustee, a non-political politician, an "active-positive" president, and a forerunner of the 1990s' New Democrats. It is argued here, however, that mere secular descriptions and categories such as these do not adequately capture the essence of Carter's brand of politics and his understanding of the presidency. Rejecting Richard Neustadt's prescriptions for effective presidential leadership, Carter thought political bargaining and compromise were "dirty" and "sinful." He deemed the ways of Washington as "evil," and considered many, if not most, career politicians immoral. While he fully supported the institutional separation of church and state, politics for Carter was about "doing right," telling the truth, and making the United States and the world "a better demonstration of what Christ is." Like two earlier Democrats, William Jennings Bryan and Woodrow Wilson, Carter understood politics as an alternative form of Christian ministry and service. In this regard, Carter was a presidential exception. Carter's evangelical faith gave his politics meaning, skill, vision, and a framework for communication. Using Fred Greenstein's categories of presidential leadership, Carter's faith provided him with "emotional intelligence", too. However, Carter's evangelical style provoked many of his contemporaries, including many of his fellow Democrats. To his critics at home and abroad, Carter was often accused of being arrogant, stubborn, naive, and ultimately a political failure. But as evinced by his indispensable role in negotiating peace between Israel and Egypt, his leadership style also provided him some remarkable achievements. The research here is based on a thorough examination of President Carter's many writings, his public papers, interviews, and opinion pieces. Written accounts from former Carter administration officials and from Israeli and Egyptian participants at Camp David are also used. This project is largely descriptive, qualitative in approach, but quantitative data are used when appropriate and as supplements.

Identidad, memoria y fotografía con la educación: nuevos contextos mediáticos, cultura prosumidora, hacia un nuevo amateurismo

Con el cambio de milenio se han producido dos hitos significativos que determinan un giro sin precedentes en la práctica fotográfica. Uno de ellos es la implantación definitiva de los procesos digitales. Estos procesos implican dos cuestiones fundamentales, por un lado en lo cuantitativo la popularización de los sistemas de captura, donde la cámara ligera del siglo XX queda transfigurada en teléfonos, tabletas, ordenadores, cámaras ultraligeras y todo tipo de dispositivos y, por otro lado, en lo cualitativo, la toma de conciencia e irrupción del ciudadano en la práctica de los procesos de postcaptura o interpretación de la imagen registrada en los ámbitos no profesionales. Tales cambios tecnológicos afectan de forma notoria a los operadores del nuevo sistema produciéndose una crisis excepcional en la historia de la fotografía que diluye las fronteras entre operadores profesionales y amateurs. Se configura y determina así la aparición de un nuevo amateur sui géneris. También se producen giros excepcionales en lo tecnológico que afectan a los nuevos operadores de la fotografía y a su propia función y naturaleza: el desarrollo de las comunicaciones en Internet y en particular con la normalización del uso de las redes sociales. Este nuevo contexto mediático convierte al usuario de las redes ya no sólo en un mero consumidor sino también en un productor de contenidos. Esta mutación del ciudadano en prosumidor (productor y consumidor) despierta su necesidad de aprendizaje práctico y operativo y de la alfabetización en los códigos icónicos...