He knew he was going blind. Yet he finished graduate school, became
a history professor, and wrote books about the American West. Then,
nearly fifty, Robert Hine lost his vision completely. Fifteen ...years
later, a risky eye operation restored partial vision, returning
Hine to the world of the sighted. "The trauma seemed instructive
enough" for him to begin a journal. That journal is the heart of
Second Sight, a sensitively written account of Hine's
journey into darkness and out again. The first parts are told
simply, with little anguish. The emotion comes when sight returns;
like a child he discovers the world anew-the intensity of colors,
the sadness of faces grown older, the renewed excitement of sex and
the body. With the understanding and insights that come from living
on both sides of the divide, Hine ponders the meaning of blindness.
His search is enriched by a discourse with other blind writers,
humorist James Thurber, novelist Eleanor Clark, poet Jorge Luis
Borges, among others. With them he shares thoughts on the
acceptance and advantages of blindness, resentment of the blind,
the reluctance with sex, and the psychological depression that
often follows the recovery of sight. Hine's blindness was the
altered state in which to learn and live, and his deliverance from
blindness the spur to seek and share its lessons. What he found
makes a moving story that embraces all of us-those who can see and
those who cannot.
The literature on Lyme disease includes a lively debate about the paradoxical role of changing deer populations. A decrease in the number of deer will both (1) reduce the incidence of Lyme disease by ...decreasing the host populations for ticks and therefore tick populations, and (2) enhance the incidence of Lyme disease by offering fewer reservoir-incompetent hosts for ticks, forcing the vector to choose reservoir-competent, and therefore possibly diseased, hosts to feed on. A review of field studies exploring the net impact of changing deer populations shows mixed results. In this manuscript, we investigate the hypothesis that the balance of these two responses to changing deer populations depends on the relative population sizes of reservoir-competent vs. reservoir-incompetent hosts and the presence of host preference in larval and adult stages.
A temperature driven seasonal model of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto (cause of Lyme disease) transmission among three host types (reservoir-competent infected and uninfected hosts, and reservoir-incompetent hosts) is constructed as a system of nonlinear ordinary differential equations. The model, which produces biologically reasonable results for both the tick vector Ixodes scapularis Say 1921 and the hosts, is used to investigate the effects of reservoir-incompetent host removal on both tick populations and disease prevalence for various relative population sizes of reservoir-competent hosts vs. reservoir-incompetent hosts.
In summary, the simulation results show that the model with host preference appears to be more accurate than the one with no host preference. Given these results, we found that removal of adult I. scapularis(Say) hosts is likely to reduce questing nymph populations. At very low levels questing adult abundance may rise with lack of adult hosts. There is a dilution effect at low reservoir-competent host populations and there is an amplification effect at high reservoir-competent host populations.
Rather than analyzing Lem solely as a science fiction writer, the contributors examine the larger themes in his work, such as social engineering and human violence, agency and consciousness, ...Freudianism and the creative process, evolution and the philosophy of the future, virtual reality and epistemological illusion, and science fiction and socio-cultural policy.
A Woman Rice Planter Pringle, Elizabeth Allston; Smith, Alice R. Huger; Joyner, Charles
11/2021
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A Woman Rice Planter offers insights into a broad spectrum of
Southern life after the Civil War. As an account of a woman's
struggle for survival and dignity in a distinctly male-dominated
society, ...it contributes significantly to women's history. It
presents a rich portrait of a distinctive place-the South Carolina
Low Country-in a troubled and generally undocumented time, a
portrait made all the more vivid by the fine pen-and-ink sketches
of Charleston artist Alice R. Huger Smith.
Elizabeth Alston Pringle was the daughter of Robert Francis
Withers Allston, a state legislator and governor, who was at one
time owner of seven plantations but bankrupt at the time of his
death. Left to struggle for income to regain the property and
position the family held prior to the war, Pringle turned to
writing and eventually published a column on Southern culture in
the New York Sun under the pseudeonym Patience Pennington. In 1913
she collected and reshaped these newspaper columns and compiled
them into one volume, A Woman Rice Planter, a best-selling book
that reduced her financial worries. Her descriptions of the
vagaries of rice planting, of her relationships with former slaves
and the first generation of free-born African Americans, and of her
life in the early Reconstruciton period are important to our
understanding of the prevailing attitudes and persistence of the
Old South in the New.
The volume was illustrated by Alice R. Huger Smith (1876-1958),
an American painter and printmaker. This edition features an
introduction by Charles Joyner (1935-2016), distinguished professor
emeritus of southern history and culture at Coastal Carolina
University and author of several books, including Down by the
Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community.
The paper analyzes the resolutions of the Polish Sejm aiming to commemorate select individuals, institutions and events. The main research problem is: do parliamentary commemoration resolutions serve ...as an effective collective memory medium in Poland. The practical impact of parliamentary commemoration resolutions was analyzed using a specific cultural institution (Museum of Opole Silesia) as an example. The Sejm issued eight resolutions to commemorate the Silesia Uprisings in the analyzed period (up until 28.02.2017). The Uprisings were portrayed as part of the Polish struggle for independence which has not been well-received by some parties, particularly in Upper Silesia. Three consecutive directors of Museum of Silesia Opole have stated in interviews that they were either unfamiliar or mostly unfamiliar with the parliamentary commemoration resolutions. The resolutions have had no direct impact on the museum’s operations. It is the yearly anniversary calendar that synchronizes the actions of various collective memory actors in a nation state.
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