Discreetly Depicting an outrage : Graphic Illustration and Daisy Miller \u27s Reputation

Rendering the first illustrated edition of Daisy Miller in 1892, Harry Whitney McVickar had to reconcile the novella\u27s scandalous reputation with the polite medium of graphic illustration. McVickar highlights insignificant scenery, shows solitary figures instead of social interaction or playful flirtation, and nearly omits the heroine. His depictions and omissions contain the characters\u27 indiscretions, and ensure that aspiring flirts and would-be Winterbournes who view his images do not get the wrong idea. Cinematic adaptations amplify Daisy\u27s public displays and encourage Winterbourne\u27s voyeurism, but Daisy Miller \u27s first graphic illustrations strove instead to redeem the reputation of James\u27s outrage on American girlhood

Painting, Photography and Fidelity in The Tragic Muse

Photographs can approach the elegance of paintings, but reproductions can show the distortion of photographs - so The Tragic Muse (1890) suggests, complicating critical understandings of James and visual art. Dramatizing artists\u27 fidelity, James resists assuming that families, races, and genders provide similar options. Fidelity in art can mean \u27infidelity\u27 in life, lead to \u27adulterated\u27 reproductions, and impugn understandings of inherited and performed identities - concerns which resurface in The American Scene (1907) when James contemplates immigrant populations and in A Small Boy and Others (1913) when a family daguerreotype becomes evidence of his own fidelity

Mapping of the SDHA Locus to Bovine Chromosome 20

Source/description Primer sequences PCR and PCR-RFLP conditions Polymorphism Linkage analysis and chromosomal location Acknowledgements Reference

Aflatoxin Formation on Selected Human Foods by Strains of Aspergillus Flavus, Link, and Penicillium Rubrum, Stroll

The occasional contamination of foods by biologically active compounds arising from metabolic processes of mold contamination represents a situation which has probably existed since prehistoric times. This is due in part to the ubiquitous distribution of fungi and the frequent opportunity for their growth during the harvest and subsequent storage of foods, and the recognized capabilities of these organisms to produce complex molecules. Within the last decade an increasing body of knowledge has become available concerning the effects of carious deleterious biological metabolites on the health of animals and man. Increased sophistication of methods and approaches to biological problems and clearer concepts of mechanisms of action at the molecular level have greatly increased our current capabilities of detection, through sensitive bioassay procedures, of individual cellular responses to specific micro insults. Today, more than one thousand toxic fungal products or mycotoxins have been recognized (Hesseltine, 1965). Aspergillus flavus, with its associated mycotoxins, is but one of many fungal containments which may occur in cereal products or other foods. The purpose of this study were (1) to investigate and demonstrate whether detectable amounts of mycotoxins can be produced by known toxigenic strains of fungi when they were grown on a variety of manufactured foods such as bread, cheese, jelly and other foods; (2) to determine what types of human foods were suitable substrates for toxin formation; (3) to determine what physiological conditions such as temperature, pH and available water would permit maximum production of mycotoxins; and (4) to develop a rapid method of detection and analysis of aflatoxins in human foods. (see more in text