The Kármán years at GALCIT

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Chapter 3. “Jungle Shows Burma

In contrast to the Thailand side of the railway, POW workers on the Burma side had been sent to Burma from the Netherlands East Indies and Sumatra. Except for the Allied bombing raids, their construction experience was very similar to that on the Thailand side. But the “jungle shows” they produced to help them survive were unique. And the larrikin antics by the Australians to subvert the Japanese attempts to film a propaganda movie are unforgettable.https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/thdabooks/1005/thumbnail.jp

Chapter 5. The Tamarkan Players Present : Tamarkan Convalescent Camp

Tamarkan, Thailand, became a convalescent camp for the POWs who had worked on the Burma side of the railway. It was here that Aussie showman Norman Carter inspired a team of designers and stage technicians to mount a series of popular musical revues that were noteworthy for their elaborate sets, props, and costumes.https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/thdabooks/1007/thumbnail.jp

Ethics in management accounting

The evidence is incontrovertible – empowered workers are more productive, reduce costs to lower limits, make more profit for their employers, and are more likely to stay with the company when other offers come. It is also beyond doubt that the empowered workforce cannot develop without the encouragement and active support of management. But management practice in this part of the world is rooted in traditions of authority, of social distance between bosses and workers, and in which workers are not encouraged to make suggestions about improving work practices. Until managers permit and encourage participation thoughtful contributions by workers, economic results will always be marginal and prohibit regional industries from competing effectively in global markets.manager education, learning, workforce

The adenylate cyclase receptor complex and aqueous humor formation.

The secretory tissue of the eye, the ciliary processes, contains an enzyme receptor complex, composed of membrane proteins, the catalytic moiety of the enzyme adenylate cyclase, a guanyl nucleotide regulatory protein (or N protein), and other features. The enzyme can be activated by well-known neurohumoral or humoral agents, catecholamines, glycoprotein hormones produced by the hypothalamic pituitary axis, and other related compounds, including placental gonadotropin, organic fluorides, and forskolin, a diterpene. These compounds cause the ciliary epithelia to produce cyclic AMP at an accelerated rate. Cyclic AMP, as a second messenger, causes, either directly or indirectly, a decrease in the net rate of aqueous humor inflow that may be modulated by cofactors. Clinical syndromes fit the experimental data so that an integrated explanation can be given for the reduced intraocular pressure witnessed under certain central nervous system and adrenergic influences. The molecular biology of this concept provides important leads for future investigations that bear directly both upon the regulation of intraocular pressure and upon glaucoma

How ‘ya gonna keep ‘em down on the farm -After they’ve seen Paree

Change is abroad across the land, as often destructive as constructive. No one is immune. The financial crisis is perhaps the most obvious wave of change, but as the title of this paper (and also the title of a song popular in America between World I and World War II1) suggests, the most pervasive, seductive, and subversive changes are fueled by the view of the wider world provided by the internet with its blogs and social networks. How ‘ya gonna keep‘em satisfied with a second-class life (or worse) after they have seen the luxuries and freedoms of the wider world? Knowledge is power, and frightening amounts of people-power can be marshaled via the internet. Tyrants fall and royal families quake in the face of so much focused intentionality. But even as freedoms are recovered, what are all the unemployed to do with that freedom, especially in those countries in which the average age is between late teens and early twenties – kids, really, with no prospects of the good life? Add to this the coming shortage of food, drinking water, and fuel and the resulting upward spiral of costs for life’s necessities, further imposing hardship on new members of ‘the internet generation.’ Social and political catastrophes are to be expected. What can the countries in ‘Europe’s southern neighborhood’ do to respond, to be proactive in the face of massive and predictable changes?predictable problems, proactive response, cross-border collaboration, food, fuel riots

The transcription factor ATF5: role in cellular differentiation, stress responses, and cancer.

Activating transcription factor 5 (ATF5) is a cellular prosurvival transcription factor within the basic leucine zipper (bZip) family that is involved in cellular differentiation and promotes cellular adaptation to stress. Recent studies have characterized the oncogenic role of ATF5 in the development of several different types of cancer, notably glioblastoma. Preclinical assessment of a systemically deliverable dominant-negative ATF5 (dnATF5) biologic has found that targeting ATF5 results in tumor regression and tumor growth inhibition of glioblastoma xenografts in mouse models. In this review, we comprehensively and critically detail the current scientific literature on ATF5 in the context of cellular differentiation, survival, and response to stressors in normal tissues. Furthermore, we will discuss how the prosurvival role of ATF5 aides in cancer development, followed by current advances in targeting ATF5 using dominant-negative biologics, and perspectives on future research

Chapter 6b. Chungkai Showcase : Chungkai Hospital Camp | Part Two: Mid-May 1944 to July 1945

During the latter half of 1944 and the early part of 1945, entertainment continued to flourish in Chungkai even though the theatre was flooded out by monsoon rains and the number of audience members was severely depleted by away Parties. Challenging the thinking of what entertainment directed toward audiences recovering from trauma should contain, Leo Britt produced a series of straight plays that had them clamoring for more. But ever-tightening restrictions on what could be presented on stage, and a new policy assigning performers to maintenance parties, began to diminish what those who remained in camp could accomplish.https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/thdabooks/1009/thumbnail.jp