The culture of water cure in nineteenth-century Austria, 1800-1914

This chapter was an invited contribution to an edited collection, bringing together new and international scholarship in an examination of the relationship between the modern practices of tourism and the built environment. The chapter draws on primary and secondary sources in an analysis of the ways in which Italy was perceived and experienced by British tourists during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Utilising a model for analysing tourist behaviour developed within anthropological and ethnographical studies of tourism, the theme of the essay is the way in which tourist practices and performance of place contributed to the construction and maintenance of bourgeois social identities in the period. The chapter originated as a paper at an international conference, and was subsequently published as an article in Journeys: An International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing, 1 (1-2). This chapter however, constitutes a development and reworking of that material to contribute to the contextualisation of the project. It is one of a series of papers to be submitted for PhD by published work, dealing with different aspects of the relationship between tourism and the formation of social and cultural identities. ‘How and where to go: Tourism and the Growth of the Travel Press, 1860- 1914’, in J.K. Walton (ed.), Tourisms: Identities, Environments, Conflicts and Histories (Channel View: 2005), for example, focuses on the emergence of travel journalism, as does ‘Grant Allen and the Business of Travel’ in W. Greenslade and T. Rodgers (eds.) Grant Allen: Literature and Cultural politics at the Fin-de-Siècle (Ashgate, 2005). A Northumbria Small Research Grant provided funding for travel for archival research and conferences. The essay was translated into Spanish. as 'Actuación en el extranjero: los turistas británicos en Italia y sus prácticas, 1840-1914.’ in B. McLaren and D. Medina Lasansky (eds.), Aquitectura y turismo (2006)

Moral responsibility and the irrelevance of physics: Fischer's semi-compatibilism vs anti-fundamentalism

[FIRST PARAGRAPH] 'My Way' is a collection of Fischer’s recent work on moral responsibility which provides an excellent overview of the position that he has (with Mark Ravizza) steadily worked over the last twenty years or so to develop, clarify and defend – the doctrine he calls semi-compatibilism, which combines compatibilism about determinism and moral responsibility, with agnosticism about those more traditional varieties of compatibilism which assert that determinism is consistent with the existence of alternative possibilities. In some ways, indeed, My Way might be regarded as a better route into Fischer’s distinctive outlook than Responsibility and Control, the 1998 book, jointly authored with Mark Ravizza, in which the details of the semi-compatibilist theory are painstakingly worked out – for those details are complex, and it can be easy to lose sight of the shape of the semi-compatibilist woods while trying to make ones way amongst the very considerable number of trees which are required to stake out the territory. The essays which constitute My Way provide a somewhat gentler, though perhaps more circuitous route through the terrain. Early chapters provide an outline of the position which is less burdened by the considerable intricacies demanded by a book which aimed to be a complete statement of the ‘official’ version; while later ones, often written in response to specific worries or objections, seemed to me to offer more help with understanding how it is proposed to deal with the most obvious concerns one might have about the view, than does the rather denser presentation of Responsibility and Control

Could have done otherwise, action sentences and anaphora

What does it mean to say of a certain agent, S, that he or she could have done otherwise? Clearly, it means nothing at all, unless the anaphoric devices within the sentence have been anchored to definite antecedents. In this paper, I shall argue that there may be more ways of effecting this anchoring than is commonly supposed, and hence more questions potentially available to be asked by means of the formulation ‘Could S have done otherwise?’ than is generally assumed to be the case in most of the relevant literature

Protein synthesis at synaptic sites on dendrites

Studies over the past 20 years have revealed that gene expression in neurons is carried out by a distributed network of translational machinery. One component of this network is localized in dendrites, where polyribosomes and associated membranous elements are positioned beneath synapses and translate a particular population of dendritic mRNAs. The localization of translation machinery and mRNAs at synapses endows individual synapses with the capability to independently control synaptic strength through the local synthesis of proteins. The present review discusses recent studies linking synaptic plasticity to dendritic protein synthesis and mRNA trafficking and considers how these processes are regulated. We summarize recent information about how synaptic signaling is coupled to local translation and to the delivery of newly transcribed mRNAs to activated synaptic sites and how local translation may play a role in activity-dependent synaptic modification

Coplanar interconnection module

Module for interconnecting a semiconductor array to external leads or components incorporates a metal external heat sink for cooling the array. Heat sink, extending down from the molded block that supports the array, is immersed in a liquid nitrogen bath which is designed to maintain the desired array temperature

Tributes to G.E. Steward

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Land Grant Application- Steward, Benjamin (Newport)

Land grant application submitted to the Maine Land Office on behalf of Benjamin Steward for service in the Revolutionary War, by their widow Sally.https://digitalmaine.com/revolutionary_war_me_land_office/1856/thumbnail.jp