Paper Bullets: Print and Kingship under Charles II

The calculated use of media by those in power is a phenomenon dating back at least to the seventeenth century, as Harold Weber demonstrates in this illuminating study of the relation of print culture to kingship under England’s Charles II. Seventeenth-century London witnessed an enormous expansion of the print trade, and with this expansion came a revolutionary change in the relation between political authority—especially the monarchy—and the printed word. Weber argues that Charles’ reign was characterized by a particularly fluid relationship between print and power. The press helped bring about both the deconsecration of divine monarchy and the formation of a new public sphere, but these processes did not result in the progressive decay of royal authority. Charles fashioned his own semiotics of power out of the political transformations that had turned his world upside down. By linking diverse and unusual topics—the escape of Charles from Worcester, the royal ability to heal scrofula, the sexual escapades of the “merry monarch,” and the trial and execution of Stephen College—Weber reveals the means by which Charles took advantage of a print industry instrumental to the creation of a new dispensation of power, one in which the state dominates the individual through the supplementary relationship between signs and violence. Weber’s study brings into sharp relief the conflicts involving public authority and printed discourse, social hierarchy and print culture, and authorial identity and responsibility—conflicts that helped shape the modern state. Harold M. Weber is associate professor of English at the University of Alabama. “Impressive . . . offers an important, distinctive contribution to current scholarship on the cultural significance of developments in print and press, gender relations, literary property, and authorship. —1650-1850 Weber shows what I think is too often forgotten, that so many of the concerns associated with the chronological eighteenth century must be inflected by reference to their genealogies in specifically Restoration culture. —Journal of English and Germanic Philology Leads us through a rich array of hitherto unexamined texts—escape narratives, healing rituals, trials, anonymous poems, diary entries—during a crucial moment of change in English history. —Modern Philologyhttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_european_history/1025/thumbnail.jp

Water Quality Relationships to Concentrations of Pfiesteria-like Organisms in Virginia Estuaries for 1998

A series of statistical analyses were performed to identify the relationship between abundance of dinoflagellates grouped as Pfiesteria-like organisms and a set of 25 water quality variables from May through October of 1998 at 41 estuarine locations. Although regions were identified in relation to seasonal density of cells present, there were no strong relationships to specific water quality variables. Factors that may have influenced these results included: a) several species were included in the group analyzed and this composite did not respond as a unit to changing environmental conditions; b) cell concentrations were low and there were a large number of zero counts; and; c) there were no marked changes involving increasing abundance during the study that could be related to environmental factors

Water Quality Relationships to Concentrations of Pfiesteria-like organisms in Virginia Estuaries for 1998.

A series of statistical analyses were performed to identify the relationship between abundance of dinoflagellates grouped as Pfiesteria-like organisms and a set of 25 water quality variables from May through October of 1998 at 41 estuarine locations. Although regions were identified in relation to seasonal density of cells present, there were no strong relationships to specific water quality variables. Factors that may have influenced these results included: a) several species were included in the group analyzed and this composite did not respond as a unit to changing environmental conditions; b) cell concentrations were low and there were a large number of zero counts; and; c) there were no marked changes involving increasing abundance during the study that could be related to environmental factors

Colorado Native Plant Society Newsletter, Vol. 8 No. 5, October-December 1984

The Colorado Native Plant Society Newsletter will be published on a bimonthly basis. The contents will consist primarily of a calendar of events, notes of interest, editorials, listings of new members and conservation news. Until there is a Society journal, the Newsletter will include short articles also. The deadline for the Newsletter is one month prior to its release.https://epublications.regis.edu/aquilegia/1022/thumbnail.jp

Colorado Native Plant Society Newsletter, Vol. 9 No. 1, January-February 1984

The Colorado Native Plant Society Newsletter will be published on a bimonthly basis. The contents will consist primarily of a calendar of events, notes of interest, editorials, listings of new members and conservation news. Until there is a Society journal, the Newsletter will include short articles also. The deadline for the Newsletter is one month prior to its release.https://epublications.regis.edu/aquilegia/1023/thumbnail.jp

The role of topography in landform development at an active temperate glacier in Arctic Norway

Topography exerts a strong control on how glaciers respond to changes in climate. Increased understanding of this role is important for both refining model predictions of future rates of glacier recession and for reconstructing climatic change from the glacial geological record. In this paper, we examine the geomorphological and sedimentological evidence in the foreland of Fingerbreen, a temperate outlet of the plateau icefield Østre Svartisen. The aim is to investigate the relationship between processes of landform generation and the changing influence of topography as recession progressed. The Fingerbreen foreland is dominated by bouldery Little Ice Age moraines and extensive areas of striated bedrock. A heavily fluted zone occurs in the central part of the foreland that is cross-cut by annual transverse and sawtooth moraines. Systematic investigations of the structural architecture of moraines at various locations in the foreland provide evidence for a range of moraine-forming processes, which can be linked to the topographic setting (e.g. deposition on a reverse bedrock slope) and drainage conditions. This includes push and bulldozing of proglacial sediments and squeezing of sub-glacial sediments and submarginal freeze-on of sediment slabs. We also identify variations in moraine spacing as a result of topography. This research demonstrates the importance of topography when interpreting moraine records in the context of climate and glacier dynamics

Cardiac care unit admission criteria for suspected acute myocardial infarction in new-onset atrial fibrillation

Management of new-onset atrial fibrillation (AF) varies between institutions and individual physicians. Because AF often occurs in elderly patients and is associated with coronary artery disease, patients presenting for the first time are often selected for admission to the coronary care unit to exclude the possibility of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). A review of 245 patients with AF admitted to an intensive care unit revealed 45 cases that were of new onset. AMI was diagnosed in 5 (11 % ) on the basis of elevated serum creatine kinase-MB levels. Evaluation of 56 clinical variables available during initial assessment indicated that infarction patients could be distinguished from others by the presence of left ventricular hypertrophy (p <0.01), electrocardiographic evidence of old myocardial infarction (p <0.01), typical cardiac chest pain (p <0.01), and duration of cardiac symptoms less than 4 hours (p <0.05). The presence of 2 or more of these features identified all AMI patients and 7 others at high risk for serious cardiac complications. The findings indicate that new-onset AF in the absence of clinical predictors suggesting myocardial ischemia or AMI does not warrant routine admission to the coronary care unit.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/26764/1/0000316.pd