326 research outputs found
Questionable proposals for legal aid reform in the UK mean that governmentâs promises of justice for all ring hollow
The controversial Legal Aid, Punishment and Sentencing of Offenders Bill has had a baptism of fire since it was leaked earlier this summer and recent moves by the UN and Amnesty International will do nothing to quell the flames. Avery Hancock writes that this bill will serve only to create an uphill battle for human rights
The impending sell-off of nearly 10% of the UK's forest area by the government could have detrimental consequences for conservation and our âGreenâ reputation
The government has recently announced plans to reform the Forestry Commission and sell off vast tracts of forest land, in the biggest transfer of land ownership since the Second World War. Avery Hancock takes an in-depth look at the governmentâs proposals and finds that the move may well expose large areas to exploitation by private developers and drastically reduce our ability to mitigate our C02 emission
After previously making good progress, the Department for International Development now faces an uphill battle reaching our foreign aid target
At the close of 2011, British Politics and Policy at LSE asked our contributors for their thoughts and predictions for 2012. Avery Hancock looks ahead at the challenges now facing the Department for International Development, and its Secretary of State, Andrew Mitchell, to get our 0.7% of GDP target for foreign aid spending into legislation during this parliament
UK opens up to Sudanese oil business, just as the country may be headed back to war in 2011
Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, and a host of politicians from all over the UK political spectrum have expressed outrage at the atrocities committed in the Darfur region of Sudan. But further out of the public eye is the very real threat that the countryâs fragile peace agreement between the North and South could unravel into war- largely over division of natural resource wealth. Avery Hancock questions whether the UK should encourage investment in the countryâs oil sector when the stakes are so high
Slaves, Soldiers, Citizens: African American Artifacts of the Civil War Era
Based on the exhibit Slaves, Soldiers, Citizens: African American Artifacts of the Civil War Era, this book provides the full experience of the exhibit, which was on display in Special Collections at Musselman Library November 2012- December 2013. It also includes several student essays based on specific artifacts that were part of the exhibit.
Table of Contents:
Introduction Angelo Scarlato, Lauren Roedner â13 & Scott Hancock
Slave Collars & Runaways: Punishment for Rebellious Slaves Jordan Cinderich â14
Chancery Sale Poster & Auctioneerâs Coin: The Lucrative Business of Slavery Tricia Runzel â13
Isaac J. Winters: An African American Soldier from Pennsylvania Who Fought at Petersburg Avery Lentz â14
Basil Biggs: A Prominent African American in Gettysburg after the Battle Lauren Roedner â13
Linton Ingram: A Former Slave Who Became a Notable African American Educator in Georgia Brian Johnson & Lincoln Fitch â14
Uncle Tomâs Cabin Theatre Poster: Racism in Post-Emancipation Entertainment Michelle Seabrook â13
Essay Bibliographies
Grand Army of the Republic
Exhibit Inventory
Acknowledgmentshttps://cupola.gettysburg.edu/libexhibits/1001/thumbnail.jp
Antimicrobial polymers as synthetic mimics of hostâdefense peptides
Antibioticâresistant bacteria âsuperbugsâ are an emerging threat to public health due to the decrease in effective antibiotics as well as the slowed pace of development of new antibiotics to replace those that become ineffective. The need for new antimicrobial agents is a wellâdocumented issue relating to world health. Tremendous efforts have been given to developing compounds that not only show high efficacy, but also those that are less susceptible to resistance development in the bacteria. However, the development of newer, stronger antibiotics which can overcome these acquired resistances is still a scientific challenge because a new mode of antimicrobial action is likely required. To that end, amphiphilic, cationic polymers have emerged as a promising candidate for further development as an antimicrobial agent with decreased potential for resistance development. These polymers are designed to mimic naturally occurring hostâdefense antimicrobial peptides which act on bacterial cell walls or membranes. Antimicrobialâpeptide mimetic polymers display antibacterial activity against a broad spectrum of bacteria including drugâresistant strains and are less susceptible to resistance development in bacteria. These polymers also showed selective activity to bacteria over mammalian cells. Antimicrobial polymers provide a new molecular framework for chemical modification and adaptation to tune their biological functions. The peptideâmimetic design of antimicrobial polymers will be versatile, generating a new generation of antibiotics toward implementation of polymers in biomedical applications. WIREs Nanomed Nanobiotechnol 2013, 5:49â66. doi: 10.1002/wnan.1199 Conflict of interest: K. K. is a coinventor on a patent application filed by the University of Pennsylvania covering âAntimicrobial Copolymers and Uses Thereofâ. The patent application has been licensed to PolyMedix Inc. (Radnor, PA). PolyMedix did not play a role in the design and conduct of this study; in the collection, analysis, or interpretation of the data; or in the preparation, review, or approval of the article. For further resources related to this article, please visit the WIREs website .Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/94848/1/1199_ftp.pd
Investigation of Semileptonic Meson Decay to P-Wave Charm Mesons
We have studied semileptonic meson decays with a P-wave charm meson in
the final state using 3.29 x 10^6 B\bar{B} events collected by the CLEO~II
detector at the Cornell Electron-positron Storage Ring. We find a value for the
exclusive semileptonic product branching fraction: Br(B^- -> D_1^0 l^-
\bar{\nu}) x Br(D_1^0 -> D^{*+}\pi^-) = (0.373 \pm 0.085 \pm 0.052 \pm 0.024)%
and an upper limit for Br(B^- -> D_2^{*0} l^- \bar{\nu}) x Br(D_2^{*0} ->
D^{*+}\pi^-) < 0.16%$ (90% C.L.). These results indicate that at least 20% of
the total B^- semileptonic rate is unaccounted for by the observed exclusive
decays, B^- -> D^0 l^- \bar{\nu}, B^- -> D^{*0} l^- \bar{\nu}, B^- -> D_1^0 l^-
\bar{\nu}, and B^- -> D_2^{*0} l^- \bar{\nu}.Comment: 10 page postscript file, postscript file also available through
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Phonetic Notation in Foreign Language Teaching and Learning: Potential Advantages and Learnersâ Views
This paper focuses on the use of phonetic notation in foreign language teaching and learning. The aim of the paper is twofold: first, we review some of the potential advantages that the use of phonetic notation seems to have in language teaching and learning; and secondly, the paper reports on learner views obtained with a questionnaire anonymously filled in by EFL (English as a foreign language) learners in tertiary education who followed an English course where an extensive use of phonetic symbols was made for pronunciation work in Finland, France and Spain. The results suggest that learners were relatively familiar with phonetic notation prior to their course although there were differences between countries. Phonetic notation was perceived positively by a majority of learners, particularly in terms of its perceived potential for raising awareness of the target languageâs pronunciation features and its potential to visually represent sounds. Learnersâ answers were also mostly positive regarding the potential of phonetic notation for autonomous learning, as well as the perceived ease and usefulness of phonetic notation
Measurements of the Ratios and
Using the CLEO~II detector we measure , and .
We find the vector to pseudoscalar ratio, , which is similar to the
ratio found in non strange decays.Comment: 11 page uuencoded postscript file, postscript file also available
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Observation of a New Charmed Strange Meson
Using the CLEO-II detector, we have obtained evidence for a new meson
decaying to . Its mass is
{}~MeV/ and its width is ~MeV/. Although we do not
establish its spin and parity, the new meson is consistent with predictions for
an , , charmed strange state.Comment: 9 pages uuencoded compressed postscript (process with uudecode then
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