University of London, Centre for English Studies: Conference Report

George Eliot claimed that Romla was written with her \u27best blood\u27, and her contemporaries certainly knew and appreciated the novel. Until late in the century Romla was even being regularly employed as a guidebook to Florence. But despite contemporary uses and accolades, the text has been largely overlooked by scholars, who have typically relegated the novel to footnotes and fleeting allusions. In response to this neglect, admirers of Romla have begurr to ask why it has attracted so little scholarly attention, given its thematic and theoretical abundance, its cultural and critical complexity. In the spirit of what we perceive as a growing enthusiasm for Romla, we decided to convene a group of scholars at the University of London\u27s Centre for English Studies to revaluate this central Eliot text, and to consider why it might have been so categorically consigned to critical oblivion. The theme of the conference was thus \u27Reviving Romla\u27. Professor Barbara Hardy - whose celebrated studies of George Eliot\u27s fiction will be well known to Eliot readers - opened the conference with a reading of the affective and psychological complexities of Romla. Principally, she explored the relations between Eliot\u27s uses of Florence as a setting for psychological events and the emotional life of the novel\u27s characters, to reveal the subtle connections fashioned between outer and inner worlds. Excepting these moments, however, Hardy argued that Romla was ultimately a laborious text, too densely researched and obtrusively \u27archeologized\u27 to flow easily as narrative

Review of From Author to Text: Re-reading George Eliot\u27s Romola; George Eliot and Italy: Literary, Cultural and Politcal Influences from Dante to the Risorgimento

Each of these books took me by surprise. There is a curious tension between the incorporativeness of Andrew Thompson\u27s title, George Eliot and Italy, and his compendiously specific sub-title, Literary, Cultural and Political Influences from Dante to the Risorgimento, which somehow led me to expect something like a descriptive catalogue of alleged influences. Instead, I found a book which indeed has awkwardnesses, but which pursues an argument and offers valuable illumination of George Eliot\u27s whole career (and not just Romola, as might easily be assumed). Barbara Hardy memorably observed in 1959 that \u27Romola is undoubtedly a book which it is more interesting to analyse than simply to read\u27, an opinion to which I still subscribe after a fashion which has been profoundly qualified by the collection of essays on Romola assembled by Caroline Levine and Mark W. Turner, which added to other work on the novel in recent years makes it impossible \u27simply to read\u27 Romola. Levine and Turner and their contributors challenge the whole range of judgments and assumptions about the novel of which George Eliot herself declared \u27I began it a young woman, I finished it an old woman\u27

Empirical Studies on Foster Care: Review and Assessment

This is a selected review and critique of twenty articles which investigate psychosocial characteristics of children in foster care. Each article represents an effort to describe the foster care population and/or to test hypotheses about issues in foster care. Articles were selected within the time frame of 1974 to 1989. Data are presented in summary tabular form. Discussion focuses upon behavioral characteristics and emotional/health problems of the children. A general methodological critique of research is provided. Policy recommendations incorporate those variables/factors most frequently studied and suggest direction for further research

The Ursinus Weekly, October 31, 1960

Second Forum to feature speaker on Bill of Rights • Pre-medders hear Dean of Jefferson • Conference on careers to be held in Phila. • Mr. Jones attends colloquium on college admissions in N.Y. • Sixty-one girls get sorority bids • Debating Club to hold meet on Tues., Nov. 1 • National Teacher Exams to be given on Feb. 11 • Big Little Sister party to be held Tuesday, Nov. 1 in college woods • Young Democrats hear Kennedy in Norristown on Sat. • YM-YW to sponsor formal political debate on Nov. 2 • New Lantern staff policy includes planned criticism • Newman Club to discuss All Saint\u27s Day at meeting • Young Republicans poll campus to determine student political leanings • APO initiates 17 new pledges • Chemistry society tours research laboratory • Society Hill Playhouse launches inaugural season • Frosh elect officers; Dave Kohr is president • Senior class to receive annuals • Spanish Club hears Dave Williams on October 17 • Editorial: A proposal • Letters to the editor • Hurrah! Brave new world • Point of interest • Reflections • Customs program called beneficial • Bears lose two games in soccer • Ursinus trackman sets AAU record • Wagner defeats Bears; Allebach is standout • Lassies divide during past week • Intramural corner • 1,350 fellowships offered by N.C.S. • Presidential humor • Y hears speaker on social work • Phila. Museum of Art to open new wing • Russian film premieres at Franklin Institute • Phila. art directors to have exhibition • Romance language teachers to attend dinner at Temple • Captain Dinneen of U.S. Army to visit Ursinus • Business Administration Club to hear Mr. King speak Weds.https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1325/thumbnail.jp

Colloque québécois : « Les routes, la faune et l’adaptation aux changements climatiques : de la recherche aux actions concrètes »

Le seul colloque francophone traitant de l’écologie routière présenté au Québec s’et déroulé il y a maintenant six ans. Ce nouveau colloque visera à partager les résultats des dernières recherches et autres projets de partenariats réalisés depuis 2011, dans le but d’atténuer l’impact des routes sur la faune (terrestre et aquatique) et la connectivité écologique, et de mieux s’adapter aux changements climatiques. Ce colloque comprendra des présentations, des ateliers, des kiosques et une sortie sur le terrain, tous disponibles en français

Quebec Conference: Roads, Wildlife & Adaptation to Climate Change: From Research to Action

The only road ecology conference in French in Quebec took place six years ago. This upcoming conference will share results from new research and various partnership projects initiated since 2011 to mitigate the impacts of roads on (terrestrial and aquatic) wildlife and habitat connectivity, and to better adapt to climate change. The conference will include presentations, workshops, kiosks and a fieldtrip, all available in French and English

Colloque québécois : « L'écologie routière et l’adaptation aux changements climatiques : de la recherche aux actions concrètes »

Le seul colloque francophone traitant de l’écologie routière présenté au Québec s’et déroulé il y a maintenant six ans. Ce nouveau colloque visera à partager les résultats des dernières recherches et autres projets de partenariats réalisés depuis 2011, dans le but d’atténuer l’impact des routes sur la faune (terrestre et aquatique) et la connectivité écologique, et de mieux s’adapter aux changements climatiques. Ce colloque comprendra des présentations, des ateliers, des kiosques et une sortie sur le terrain, tous disponibles en français

Quebec Conference: Road Ecology & Climate Change Adaptation: From Research to Action

The only road ecology conference in French in Quebec took place six years ago. This upcoming conference will share results from new research and various partnership projects initiated since 2011 to mitigate the impacts of roads on (terrestrial and aquatic) wildlife and habitat connectivity, and to better adapt to climate change. The conference will include presentations, workshops, kiosks and a fieldtrip, all available in French and English

Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase-derived NADPH fuels superoxide production in the failing heart.

In the failing heart, NADPH oxidase and uncoupled NO synthase utilize cytosolic NADPH to form superoxide. NADPH is supplied principally by the pentose phosphate pathway, whose rate-limiting enzyme is glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD). Therefore, we hypothesized that cardiac G6PD activation drives part of the excessive superoxide production implicated in the pathogenesis of heart failure. Pacing-induced heart failure was performed in eight chronically instrumented dogs. Seven normal dogs served as control. End-stage failure occurred after 28 +/- 1 days of pacing, when left ventricular end-diastolic pressure reached 25 mm Hg. In left ventricular tissue homogenates, spontaneous superoxide generation measured by lucigenin (5 microM) chemiluminescence was markedly increased in heart failure (1338 +/- 419 vs. 419 +/- 102 AU/mg protein, P < 0.05), as were NADPH levels (15.4 +/- 1.5 vs. 7.5 +/- 1.5 micromol/gww, P < 0.05). Superoxide production was further stimulated by the addition of NADPH. The NADPH oxidase inhibitor gp91(ds-tat) (50 microM) and the NO synthase inhibitor L-NAME (1 mM) both significantly lowered superoxide generation in failing heart homogenates by 80% and 76%, respectively. G6PD was upregulated and its activity higher in heart failure compared to control (0.61 +/- 0.10 vs. 0.24 +/- 0.03 nmol/min/mg protein, P < 0.05), while superoxide production decreased to normal levels in the presence of the G6PD inhibitor 6-aminonicotinamide. We conclude that the activation of myocardial G6PD is a novel mechanism that enhances NADPH availability and fuels superoxide-generating enzymes in heart failure