Political Fragment Excerpted From the Papers of Napoleon, Dead in Saint Helena

What is of importance in this text is not necessarily its historico-political significance—its bibliographical facts and political offerings—but instead the particular insights into Napoleon\u27s personality: his desires, anguish, and, most importantly, the carnal role of power within his political domination. This text reveals a great fall from power. Tézenas de Montbrison here presents Napoleon’s confessions to his closest confidant, Henri Gatien Bertrand, a celebrated soldier and his most faithful companion in work and misfortunes, who accompanied Napoleon throughout the majority his career and to the two sites of his exiles, Elba and Saint Helena. This conversation took place on the island of Saint Helena—the location of his death—and was published in July of 1821, two months after his passing. Written in rhyme and meter and including a glorifying introduction, this piece is part of a four-part series of poems, heretofore untranslated, published as the public awaited the release of his memoirs. One must preserve a certain skepticism in regards to the intended function of this text: it operated to some extent as propaganda. We can extrapolate this skepticism, quite simply, from the history of propaganda in early 19th century Europe, the exalting introduction, and the other more explicitly propagandist pieces within and outside DePaul University’s archives. This fact does not radically rupture our relation to the text but nonetheless the reader is well advised to monitor this intentionality, asking simply whether Napoleon’s anguish itself is fabricated or manipulated or if it is instead its inciting incident, here claimed to be Napoleon’s more philanthropic desire to be a rightful king. Napoleon speaks of his alienation and his torment, beginning by comparing himself to Prometheus and later revealing his last remaining desire after a renowned career: to be a legitimate king. Napoleon confides in Bertrand his rise from lowly origins, the necessity of a sovereign state\u27s strength, a deliberation on suicide, his fated end and the role of chance, the flattery of his entourage, in addition to his response to Waterloo. Each line, far different from some of the stark militaristic documents in our collection, echoes Napoleon’s discontent, allowing us precious insight into his personality, which is to say his immediate relation to the world

Community outreach initiatives at UNCG Libraries: the ROI of ROI outreach

The notion of “community outreach” can be complicated for academic libraries, because both “community” and “outreach” can have multiple meanings. While many academic libraries have a mission or administrative mandate to engage with local and regional communities, these initiatives are not always backed with material support, adequate staffing, or equal distribution of responsibilities within the library. Thus, it can be difficult for academic libraries to engage in community outreach while still serving the core constituency of the institution: students, faculty, and staff. In response to this issue, this paper discusses various strategic planning models that can be used to plan for community outreach initiatives within academic libraries, featuring a case study of a health information literacy outreach event planned and executed by a team of librarians from the Research, Outreach, and Instruction department within UNC Greensboro’s University Libraries. Additionally, the authors of the paper propose a framework for determining the return on investment and feasibility of outreach opportunities, which is in turn applied to the case study

Subsequent behavioural effects of simultaneous adolescent exposure to caffeine and nicotine

Both caffeine and nicotine are popular and widely used psychostimulants, with many people increasing their consumption of these substances in adolescence. Anxiety is a common side effect of these drugs, as well as a prevalent emotional state during the adolescent developmental period. Previous literature has examined how the separate use of caffeine and nicotine during adolescence can affect anxiety related behaviours in rats during their early adulthood. However, it is not well understood as to how the simultaneous use of both substances in adolescence can affect anxiety in early adulthood. To investigate this, 64 rats (32 males and 32 females) were divided evenly across four separate treatment groups during their adolescent period (40-49 postnatal days old) and subjected to either saline, caffeine, nicotine or the caffeine-nicotine drug combination. At both 60 and 90 postnatal days old, the rats were subjected to three separate behavioural tests: the open field test, the novel object recognition task and the light-dark box. Overall, the combined caffeine-nicotine treatment to have an overall anxiolytic effect on behaviour during early adulthood, whilst the nicotine-alone treatment primarily demonstrated an anxiogenic effect on rat behaviours. The caffeine-alone treatment and saline control demonstrated few treatment effects on behaviour. Sex was also found to moderate treatment effects on behaviour. Further studies are needed to understand how the simultaneous use of caffeine and nicotine during adolescence affects behaviour in early adulthood

Comparison of Wild-Type versus Mutant L1CAM Expression in Cultured Neurons

The correct targeting of proteins to axons and dendrites of neurons is essential for the proper development of the nervous system. L1CAM is a cell-adhesion molecule responsible for multiple aspects of neuronal development; mutations are known to result in a developmental syndrome characterized by cognitive and motor disabilities. We expressed wild-type L1CAM and known L1CAM mutant proteins, P941L and D544N, in cultured embryonic chick forebrain neurons and compared their cellular distributions. Preliminary data suggests that both the wild-type L1CAM and the P941L L1CAM mutant are targeted to axons in a similar fashion. In contrast, the D544N L1CAM mutant does not appear to reach the cell surface of the neuron

The Impact of Social Information on the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods: A Replication Study

Shang and Croson (2009) found that providing information about the donation decisions of others can have a positive impact on individual donations to public radio. In this study, we attempted to replicate their results, however, we found no evidence of that social comparisons affected donation decisions. Most of our donors were renewing members, a group which Shang and Croson also found were not influenced by social information

An assessment of high touch object cleaning thoroughness using a fluorescent marker in two Australian hospitals

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Transcriptional Regulation of Latent Feline Immunodeficiency Virus in Peripheral CD4+ T-lymphocytes

Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV), the lentivirus of domestic cats responsible for feline AIDS, establishes a latent infection in peripheral blood CD4+ T-cells approximately eight months after experimental inoculation. In this study, cats experimentally infected with the FIV-C strain in the asymptomatic phase demonstrated an estimated viral load of 1 infected cell per approximately 103 CD4+ T-cells, with about 1 copy of viral DNA per cell. Approximately 1 in 10 proviral copies was capable of transcription in the asymptomatic phase. The latent FIV proviral promoter was associated with deacetylated, methylated histones, which is consistent with a condensed chromatin structure. In contrast, the transcriptionally active FIV promoter was associated with histone acetylation and demethylation. In addition, RNA polymerase II appeared to be paused on the latent viral promoter, and short promoter-proximal transcripts were detected. Our findings for the FIV promoter in infected cats are similar to results obtained in studies of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 latent proviruses in cell culture in vitro studies. Thus, the FIV/cat model may offer insights into in vivo mechanisms of HIV latency and provides a unique opportunity to test novel therapeutic interventions aimed at eradicating latent virus

Leaf Herbivory Induces Resistance Against Florivores In \u3ci\u3eRaphanus sativus\u3c/i\u3e

Florivory can have significant negative effects on plant fitness, driving selection for resistance traits in flowers. In particular, herbivory to leaves may induce resistance in flowers because herbivores on leaves often become florivores on flowers as plant ontogeny proceeds. The literature on inducible resistance in floral tissues is limited, so we used a series of experiments to determine whether prior leaf damage by Spodoptera exigua (Hübner) caterpillars affected florivore preference and performance on wild radish (Raphanus sativus L.). We found that Spodoptera exigua larvae preferred petals from control plants versus petals from plants exposed to prior leaf damage, and that larvae gained more mass on petals from control plants, although this depended on the presence of anthocyanins in the petals. Our results suggest that leaf damage can induce changes in petals that reduce Spodoptera exigua larval fitness