The unity of the organism; or, The organismal conception of life, by William Emerson Ritter ...

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BALA��O ��� O QUE OUVE AS PALAVRAS DE EL, TEM O CONHECIMENTO DE ELYON E V�� A VIS��O DE SHADDAI: UM ESTUDO DE N��MEROS 22-24

A presente pesquisa busca avaliar exegeticamente o texto que se encontra na B��blia, especificamente no livro de N��meros cap��tulos 22-24 que relata sobre um personagem conhecido como Bala��o. A pesquisa tem tamb��m como objeto o estudo sobre o pante��o de divindades relatado no mesmo texto, assim como tamb��m o estudo dos textos descobertos em Deir Alla, na Jord��nia, que apresentam um personagem designado como Bala��o, possivelmente o mesmo personagem de Nm 22-24. A motiva����o que levou ao desenvolvimento dessa pesquisa foi o fato de se ter deparado com os conceitos dos diversos nomes divinos exibidos no texto, al��m da quest��o do profetismo fora de Israel, assim como as possibilidades hermen��uticas que se abrem para a leitura desse texto b��blico. O conceito geral sempre foi o de que Israel era a ��nica na����o onde existiam ���verdadeiros��� profetas e uma adora����o a um ��nico Deus, o ���monote��smo���. O que despertou interesse foi perceber, especialmente por meio da leitura dos livros b��blicos, que o profetismo n��o se restringiu somente a Israel. Ele antecede �� forma����o do antigo Israel e j�� existia no ��mbito das terras do antigo Oriente M��dio, e que Israel ainda demorou muito tempo para ser monote��sta. Quem �� esse Bala��o, filho de Beor? Estudaremos sobre sua pessoa e sua miss��o. Examinaremos os textos de Deir Alla sobre Bala��o e sua natureza de personagem mediador entre o divino e o humano. Esse personagem �� apresentado como um grande profeta e que era famoso como int��rprete de press��gios divinos. Analisaremos a importante quest��o sobre o pante��o de deuses que s��o apresentados na narrativa de Bala��o nomeados como: El, Elyon Elohim e Shaddai, al��m de Yahweh. Entendemos, a princ��pio, que o texto possui uma conex��o com a sociedade na qual foi criado e usando da metodologia exeg��tica, faremos uma an��lise da narrativa em quest��o, buscando compreender o sentido do texto, dentro de seu cen��rio hist��rico e social. Cen��rio este, que nos apresentou esse profeta, n��o israelita, que profere b��n����os dos deuses sobre Israel e que, al��m disso, pronuncia maldi����es sobre os inimigos desse mesmo Israel. Percebemos que, parte do texto pesquisado �� apresentado sob a ��tica de Israel sobre as outras na����es. A pesquisa defende, portanto, que o texto de Nm 22-24, al��m de nos apresentar um profeta fora de Israel igual aos profetas da B��blia, defende que, o pante��o de divindades tamb��m era adorado por Israel e que tais nomes s��o ep��tetos de uma mesma divindade, no caso YHWH. Defende, tamb��m, um delineamento de um projeto de dom��nio pol��tico e militar de Israel sobre as na����es circunvizinhas.

MANDR��GORAS: MITOS E ASPECTOS DA CULTURA DE ISRAEL A PARTIR DE G��NESIS 25 A 36

A sexualidade de Lea e Raquel, o ��tero, as mandr��goras e o corpo de Jac�� s��o fatores que definem o alicerce do nosso texto como espa��os de di��logo, media����o e estrutura do cen��rio. O destaque principal est�� sob o cap��tulo 30.14-16 que retrata a mem��ria das mandr��goras. Como plantas m��sticas elas dominam o campo religioso e como plantas medicinais elas s��o utilizadas para solucionar problemas biol��gicos. As institui����es e sociedades detentoras de uma ideologia e de leis que regulamentam uma exist��ncia apresentam na narrativa, duas irm��s, mas tamb��m esposas de um mesmo homem que, manipuladas por essa institui����o que minimiza e oprime a mulher, principalmente a est��ril, confina-as como simples objeto de sexualidade e mantenedoras da descend��ncia por meio da maternidade. A mem��ria das mandr��goras �� sinal de que a pr��tica existente circundava uma religi��o n��o monote��sta. Ela existia sociologicamente por meio de sincretismos, for��a e poderes s��cio-culturais e religiosos. Era constitu��da das mem��rias de mulheres que manipulavam e dominavam o poder sagrado para controle de suas necessidades. O discurso dessas mulheres, em nossa unidade, prova que o discurso dessa narrativa n��o se encontra somente no plano individual, mas tamb��m se estende a n��vel comunit��rio, espa��o que as define e lhes concede import��ncia por meio do casamento e d��divas da maternidade como continuidade da descend��ncia. S��o mulheres que dominaram um espa��o na hist��ria com suas lutas e vit��rias, com atos de amor e de sofrimento, de cren��as e poderes numa experi��ncia religiosa dominada pelo masculino que vai al��m do nosso conhecimento atual. As lutas firmadas na f�� e na ideologia dessas mulheres definiram e acentuaram seu papel de protagonistas nas narrativas 9 b��blicas que estudamos no G��nesis. A conserva����o dessas narrativas, e do espa��o teol��gico da ��poca, definiu espa��os, vidas, gera����es e tribos que determinaram as gera����es prometidas e fecharam um ciclo: o da promessa de Iahweh quanto �� descend��ncia desde Abra��o. Os mitos e as cren��as foram extintos para dar espa��o a uma f�� monote��sta, mas a experi��ncia religiosa

Impaired motor coordination and persistent multiple climbing fiber innervation of cerebellar Purkinje cells in mice lacking���G��q

Mice lacking the ��-subunit of the heterotrimeric guanine nucleotide binding protein Gq (G��q) are viable but suffer from ataxia with typical signs of motor discoordination. The anatomy of the cerebellum is not overtly disturbed, and excitatory synaptic transmission from parallel fibers to cerebellar Purkinje cells (PCs) and from climbing fibers (CFs) to PCs is functional. However, about 40% of adult G��q mutant PCs remain multiply innervated by CFs because of a defect in regression of supernumerary CFs in the third postnatal week. Evidence is provided suggesting that G��q is part of a signaling pathway that is involved in the elimination of multiple CF innervation during this period.

Allosteric modulation of Ca2+ channels by G proteins, voltage-dependent facilitation, protein kinase C, and Cav�� subunits

N-type and P/Q-type Ca2+ channels are inhibited by neurotransmitters acting through G protein-coupled receptors in a membrane-delimited pathway involving G���� subunits. Inhibition is caused by a shift from an easily activated ���willing��� (W) state to a more-difficult-to-activate ���reluctant��� (R) state. This inhibition can be reversed by strong depolarization, resulting in prepulse facilitation, or by protein kinase C (PKC) phosphorylation. Comparison of regulation of N-type Ca2+ channels containing Cav2.2a ��1 subunits and P/Q-type Ca2+ channels containing Cav2.1 ��1 subunits revealed substantial differences. In the absence of G protein modulation, Cav2.1 channels containing Cav�� subunits were tonically in the W state, whereas Cav2.1 channels without �� subunits and Cav2.2a channels with �� subunits were tonically in the R state. Both Cav2.1 and Cav2.2a channels could be shifted back toward the W state by strong depolarization or PKC phosphorylation. Our results show that the R state and its modulation by prepulse facilitation, PKC phosphorylation, and Cav�� subunits are intrinsic properties of the Ca2+ channel itself in the absence of G protein modulation. A common allosteric model of G protein modulation of Ca2+-channel activity incorporating an intrinsic equilibrium between the W and R states of the ��1 subunits and modulation of that equilibrium by G proteins, Cav�� subunits, membrane depolarization, and phosphorylation by PKC accommodates our findings. Such regulation will modulate transmission at synapses that use N-type and P/Q-type Ca2+ channels to initiate neurotransmitter release.

Mesquakie (Fox) material culture : the William Jones and Frederick Starr collections / James W. VanStone.

n.s. no.30(1998)

Letters from William Tudor to his brother, Frederic Tudor,

One letter written from London in which Tudor teases his brother for not writing him more often. A letter sent several months later chastises Frederic for his delay in entering college.

Letters from William Tudor to his brother, Frederic Tudor,

Three letters written while Tudor was in the West Indies attempting to gain exclusive rights to import ice.

Letters from William Tudor to his brother, Frederic Tudor,

Four letters written from London in which Tudor details his efforts to obtain licenses to export ice to Jamaica and Barbados from the British Board of Trade. He also comments on the Napoleonic Wars and the Monroe���Pinkney Treaty.

Letter from James Winthrop to William Bentley, 1788 August 20

Two octavo-sized leaves containing a one-and-a-half-page handwritten letter from Winthrop to Bentley briefly mentioning his efforts to visit the "Hon. N. G." (Nathaniel Gorham) and some recent activities of the Academy.

Boston, Massachusetts, 1725 (Raster Image)

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: The town of Boston in New England, by Capt. John Bonner, aetatis suae 60, 1722 ; engraven and printed by Fra. Dewing. The version imaged here is a 1835 facsimile (published by George G. Smith) of the third state (1725) of the original map published by John Bonner and William Price. Scale [ca. 1:5,600]. Covers Boston proper (Shawmut Peninsula and Boston Neck). The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Massachusetts State Plane Coordinate System, Mainland Zone (in Feet) (Fipszone 2001). All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, wharves, drainage, selected public buildings and residences (including schools and churches) shown pictorially, cemeteries, and more. Relief is shown pictorially. Includes an index to points of interest and chronological lists of "Great Fires" and "Genll. small pox." This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of Massachusetts from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates (1755-1922), scales, and purposes. The digitized selection includes maps of: the state, Massachusetts counties, town surveys, coastal features, real property, parks, cemeteries, railroads, roads, public works projects, etc.

Minor element geochemistry of Lake Michigan ferromanganese nodules

Samples of ferromanganese nodules from several localities in Lake Michigan have been analyzed for their minor element content utilizing neutron activation techniques. The thorium and uranium levels in Lake Michigan nodules exhibit marked dissimilarities with marine nodules. The radium content of these freshwater nodules is substantially higher than the reported marine values. The concentrations of barium in the Lake Michigan nodules appear to be abnormally high. Although barium could be present as minute segregations of the mineral barite, patterns obtained using the electron microprobe suggest it is evently dispersed throughout the nodules. The average arsenic content of these freshwater nodules is at least twice as great as that reported for highly oxidized marine sediments. If all this arsenic is dissolved and released into Green Bay as a result of changing environmental conditions (eutrophication), the concentration in the water of Green Bay would be several times the maximum permissible level for drinking water.

The life of George, fourth earl of Aberdeen, K. G., K. T.,

"A short bibliography of the fourth Earl of Aberdeen, by J. M. Bulloch": vol.II, p. 334-339.