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Review of The Presence of The Present: Topics of The Day in The Victorian Novel

Richard D. Altick, Regents\u27 Professor Emeritus of English at The Ohio State University, is well known for such books as Victorian People and Ideas. His latest work draws from 150 novels to develop connections between people, objects, events, and issues mentioned in fiction and their real life originals in the Victorian period. The generous selection of sources includes not only the best remembered novelists but also such writers as Susan Ferrier, John Galt, Samuel Warren, and Charlotte Yonge. All of Eliot\u27s novels except, of course, Romola, are included. The material is organized into twenty thematic chapters, ranging from popular entertainments (panoramas, balloon ascents, mechanical exhibitions, animal shows, waxworks) to consumer goods, to names in the news, to current events, to elections and political concerns

Optimal claim behaviour for third-party liability insurances or to claim or not to claim: that is the question

It is proved that the optimal decision rule to claim or not to claim for damage is of the form: ‘to claim for damage only if its amount exceeds a certain limit’. Optimal critical claim sizes are derived, and a sensitivity analysis is given with respect to changes in (the parameters of) the distributions of the number of claims and the claim size

The English common reader: a social history of the mass reading public, 1800-1900

(print) xx, 448 p. ; 24 cm2nd ed.Foreword By Jonathan Rose ix -- Preface To The Second Edition xv -- Preface xix -- Introduction 1 -- The Background : 1477-1800 -- 1. From Caxton To The Eighteenth Century 15 -- 2. The Eighteenth Century 30 -- 3. The Time Of Crisis, 1791-1800 67 -- The Nineteenth Century -- 4. The Social Background 81 -- 5. Religion 99 -- 6. The Utilitarian Spirit 129 -- 7. Elementary Education And Literacy 141 -- 8. Secondary Education 173 -- 9. The Mechanics'institutes And After 188 -- 10. Public Libraries 213 -- 11. The Self-Made Reader 240 -- 12. The Book Trade, 1800-1850 260 -- 13. The Book Trade, 1851-1900 294 -- 14. Periodicals And Newspapers, 1800-1850 318 -- 15. Periodicals And Newspapers, 1851-1900 348 -- 16. The Past And The Present 365 -- Appendixes -- Appendix -- A. Chronology Of The Mass Reading Public, 1774-1900 379 -- B. Best-Sellers 381 -- C. Periodical And Newspaper Circulation 39

Women write the rights of woman: The sexual politics of the personal pronoun in the 1790s

This article investigates patterns of personal pronoun usage in four texts written by women about women's rights during the 1790s: Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Mary Hays' An Appeal to the Men of Great Britain (1798), Mary Robinson's Letter to the Women of England (1799) and Mary Anne Radcliffe's The Female Advocate (1799). I begin by showing that at the time these texts were written there was a widespread assumption that both writers and readers of political pamphlets were, by default, male. As such, I argue, writing to women as a woman was distinctly problematic, not least because these default assumptions meant that even apparently gender-neutral pronouns such as I, we and you were in fact covertly gendered. I use the textual analysis programme WordSmith to identify the personal pronouns in my four texts, and discuss my results both quantitatively and qualitatively. I find that while one of my texts does little to disturb gender expectations through its deployment of personal pronouns, the other three all use personal pronouns that disrupt eighteenth century expectations about default male authorship and readership. Copyright © 2007 SAGE Publications

Eye Movements, Strabismus, Amblyopia, and Neuro-Ophthalmology Differences in Gene Expression between Strabismic and Normal Human Extraocular Muscles

PURPOSE. Strabismic extraocular muscles (EOMs) differ from normal EOMs in structural and functional properties, but the gene expression profile of these two types of EOM has not been examined. Differences in gene expression may inform about causes and effects of the strabismic condition in humans. METHODS. EOM samples were obtained during corrective surgery from patients with horizontal strabismus and from deceased organ donors with normal EOMs. Microarrays and quantitative PCR identified significantly up-and down-regulated genes in EOM samples. Analysis was performed on probe sets with more than 3-fold differential expression between normal and strabismic samples, with an adjusted P value of 0.05. RESULTS. Microarray analysis showed that 604 genes in these samples had significantly different expression. Expression predominantly was upregulated in genes involved in extracellular matrix structure, and down-regulated in genes related to contractility. Expression of genes associated with signaling, calcium handling, mitochondria function and biogenesis, and energy homeostasis also was significantly different between normal and strabismic EOM. Skeletal muscle PCR array identified 22 (25%) of 87 muscle-specific genes that were significantly down-regulated in strabismic EOMs; none was significantly upregulated. CONCLUSIONS. Differences in gene expression between strabismic and normal human EOMs point to a relevant contribution of the peripheral oculomotor system to the strabismic condition. Decreases in expression of contractility genes and increases of extracellular matrix-associated genes indicate imbalances in EOM structure. We conclude that gene regulation of proteins fundamental to contractile mechanics and extracellular matrix structure is involved in pathogenesis and/or consequences of strabismus, suggesting potential novel therapeutic targets. (Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2012;53:5168-5177

‘To the great public’: The architectural image in the early Illustrated London News

The Illustrated London News, launched in May 1842 as the first illustrated newspaper and quickly copied across Europe, North America and beyond, was full of architectural images. New buildings, ancient ruins, construction sites, royal visits, wars, theatre performances, exotic expeditions, historical essays and innumerable other subjects gave occasion to feature the built, whether for its own sake or as background setting. Images and texts were produced and consumed with an urge and at a speed never seen before. The building, through the illustrated press, left the static confines of the book and the framed print and became peopled by the purposeful bourgeoisie. Through a close analysis of a range of articles on the new Royal Exchange, the refurbished London Colosseum as well as the Queen’s Scotland tour, this essay explores the role of the architectural image in the illustrated press by focusing on its relationship to the accompanying text. Untangling the mechanics of representation and perception, it identifies modes of intellectual, affective, and kinetic vision through which architecture was represented to the remote reading public. By externalising and stabilising vision, the Illustrated London News thus created a virtual public sphere in which the dramatic technological and material changes occurring in the period could be absorbed and normalized