Notes and Comments: The Reinstatement Rights of Economic Strikers: Laidlaw Five Years After

In this comment the author discusses the effect of the Laidlaw doctrine upon an economic striker\u27s right to reinstatement. The author traces the historical development of the doctrine and addresses the four principal issues surrounding it: the duration of the right to reinstatement; the limitation of the right by agreement; the doctrine of substantially equivalent employment; and the so-called business justification rule

Divine Cosmos: Emergent Ecology and Nineteenth-Century American Literature

This dissertation offers a new interpretation of German naturalist-explorer Alexander von Humboldt’s profound influence on nineteenth-century American literature and culture. Humboldt was a household name in mid-nineteenth-century America, often interchangeable with his most celebrated work, Cosmos: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe (1845-1859). By demonstrating that Cosmos influenced how a range of scientists and literary writers represented the natural world, this project seeks to dispel the sense of historical inevitability that surrounds the midcentury with Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species (1859) looming on the horizon. Although Humboldt’s Cosmos did help move natural science into nonreligious territory, the US reception presents a more complex story than simply the eclipse of natural theology, the conventions of finding God in nature and reconciling new science with theism. This dissertation argues that mid-nineteenth-century writers reimagined Christian natural theologies for the emergent ecological world that Cosmosproposed. Drawing on new studies that emphasize the ways that the religious and secular are mutually constituted, it shows that scientists and literary writers recalibrated natural theologies through Cosmos’s terms and imagery, new historical-literary approaches to the Bible, and epistemic premises from their particular Christian denominations. The first chapter examines Humboldt’s reception in US religious journals and influence on the writings of US scientists. Subsequent chapters analyze how literary writers Susan Fenimore Cooper, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, and William Gilmore Simms integrated Cosmos and repurposed natural theologies for an ecological natural world. The Cooper and Thoreau chapters accentuate the theological background of an aesthetics of wonder. The Cosmos moment also gave rise to a new synthesis of Christian providentialism and US imperialism ideology, evident particularly in fictions of nature by Simms and Melville, despite Humboldt’s ardent disavowal of racist ethnologies. A coda proposes that Black writers James McCune Smith and Frederick Douglass employed Humboldtian science in a distinctively Black abolitionist natural theology. This dissertation’s archive of emergent ecological literature will enrich how scholars understand the confluence of nineteenth-century science and religion

Stimulators and Activators of Soluble Guanylate Cyclase: Review and Potential Therapeutic Indications

The heme-protein soluble guanylyl cyclase (sGC) is the intracellular receptor for nitric oxide (NO). sGC is a heterodimeric enzyme with α and β subunits and contains a heme moiety essential for binding of NO and activation of the enzyme. Stimulation of sGC mediates physiologic responses including smooth muscle relaxation, inhibition of inflammation, and thrombosis. In pathophysiologic states, NO formation and bioavailability can be impaired by oxidative stress and that tolerance to NO donors develops with continuous use. Two classes of compounds have been developed that can directly activate sGC and increase cGMP formation in pathophysiologic conditions when NO formation and bioavailability are impaired or when NO tolerance has developed. In this report, we review current information on the pharmacology of heme-dependent stimulators and heme-independent activators of sGC in animal and in early clinical studies and the potential role these compounds may have in the management of cardiovascular disease

Comparative Phosphorus Availability from Superphosphate with and Without Urea and Ammonium Phosphate

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Audrey Nossaman, faculty recital, voice, January 15, 1968

Three Songs from Ecclesiastes (Pinkham, Daniel); La Fraicheur et le Feu (Poulenc, Francis); Scene from "La Voix Humaine" (Poulenc, Francis). Instrumentation: voice; pian

University of Maryland Concert Radio Program #5, recital, November 2, 1968

Three Songs from Ecclesiastes (Pinkham, Daniel); Love - the Polymorph (Gordon, Stewart); The Hermit Song (Barber, Samuel); Sonata, Op. 28 (Gastyne, Serge de). Instrumentation: piano; sopran