The sacrifice of a throne being an account of the life of Amadeus, Duke fo Aosta, sometime king of Spain

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Stetson, Damon oral history interview

Damon Stetson was born August 1, 1915 in Hanover, Massachusetts. He attended Bates College where he took part in cross-country track and student reporting. He was an English major with the senior honors thesis topic: Charles Dickens: a social reformer. He graduated with honors in the class of 1936. He attended Columbia, receiving a master’s of science degree, and then began work with the Newark Evening News. He served in the Navy (intelligence) during World War II, and then worked for the New York Times, eventually in labor reporting. He headed the Detroit bureau of the Times in 1955. Erik Remsen, the interviewer, was a Bates College student and grandson of Damon

Contributions of Monoclonal Antibodies With Anti-Neural Cell Adhesion Molecule Like Activity to Peripheral Nerve Regeneration.

Tubes containing monoclonal antibodies with anti-neural cell adhesion molecule (N-CAM)-like activity were applied to transected sciatic nerves to attempt to perturb the recovery of muscle function. Physiological recordings were used to estimate the return of function. The decline of implanted antibody over 28 days was estimated. No significant immune responses were detected in response to the implanted material. Electron microscopic and immunohistological analyses evaluated particular cellular disruptions in nerves due to the presence of these antibodies with anti-N-CAM like activity. Histological sections of fixed experimental nerves consistently revealed abnormal gaps between Schwann cells of regenerating nerves. This specific Schwann cell abnormality was not present in nerves of control animals and was no longer observed in experimental nerves after 60 days of survival. This time course was associated with antibody clearance and restoration of muscle function. We proposed that perturbed Schwann cell adhesive interactions disrupted the advance of neurites across nerve gaps and resulted in delayed regeneration. The data implicated N-CAM as a potential contributor to nerve regeneration

Taxonomic informatics tools for the electronic nomenclator zoologicus

Author Posting. © Marine Biological Laboratory , 2006. This article is posted here by permission of Marine Biological Laboratory for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Biological Bulletin 210 (2006): 18-24.Given the current trends, it seems inevitable that all biological documents will eventually exist in a digital format and be distributed across the internet. New network services and tools need to be developed to increase retrieval rates for documents and to refine data recovery. Biological data have traditionally been well managed using taxonomic principles. As part of a larger initiative to build an array of names-based network services that emulate taxonomic principles for managing biological information, we undertook the digitization of a major taxonomic reference text, Nomenclator Zoologicus. The process involved replicating the text to a high level of fidelity, parsing the content for inclusion within a database, developing tools to enable expert input into the product, and integrating the metadata and factual content within taxonomic network services. The result is a high-quality and freely available web application (http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/) capable of being exploited in an array of biological informatics services.This work was supported with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and GBIF