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Cultural Transformation And Its Academic Contexts: Reflections On The Past, Present, And Future Of Gdr Studies - Editorial Introduction, Brigitte Rossbacher, Lisabeth Hock

GDR Bulletin

No abstract provided.

Lutz Rathenow And The Adenauer Prize. Some Thoughts On Politics, Kitsch And Literature, Boria Sax

GDR Bulletin

No abstract provided.

Educational Reform In The Sunshine State: High Need, Low Funding And A Disaffected Electorate, Carolyn D. Herrington, Susan Timble

Educational Considerations

The state of Florida greets the 20th century as the fourth largest state in the country.

Obituaries, Peter J. Russell

Fungal Genetics Reports

Obituaries for Adrian M. Srb, Patricia St. Lawrence, and Gabor Szabo

A Single Locus With A Large Effect On Virulence In Nectria Haematococca Mpi, B. T. Hawthorne, J. Rees-George, J. Bowen, R. D. Ball

Fungal Genetics Reports

Analysis of the pathogenicity of 800 progeny from a HI-path (Blue) x LO-path (Cream) cross showed that the quantitative genetic control of pathogenicity in Nectria haematococca MPI on hypocotyls of Cucurbita maxima was determined by 6-12 ‘effective factor’ or quantitative trait loci (QTL). In addition there was evidence for a virulence/colony colour gene(s) with an effect that was superimposed on the pathogenicity phenotype.

Improved Plasmids For Gene Targeting At The His-3 Locus Of Neurospora Crassa By Electroporation, B. S. Margolin, M. Freitag, E. U. Selker

Fungal Genetics Reports

We report two new plasmids, pBM60 and pBM61, and procedures to efficiently generate single- copy transformants targeted to the his-3 locus in Neurospora crassa.

Neurospora Mating Type Symbol Mt Revised To Mat, N. L. Glass, C. Staben

Fungal Genetics Reports

After discussion with members of the Neurospora genetics community, we propose to revise the symbol designating the mating type locus from mt to mat.

Aspergillus Bibliography, J. Clutterbuck

Fungal Genetics Reports

This bibliography attempts to cover genetical and biochemical publications on Aspergillus nidulans and also includes selected references to related species and topics. I would be grateful for publication lists and reprints, especially for papers in books and less readily available periodicals. Entries have been checked as far as possible, but please tell me of any errors.

Abstracts From The 19th Fgc, Fungal Genetics Conference

Fungal Genetics Reports

Plenary and poster session abstracts from the 19th Fungal Genetics Conference

Bacterial Transposons Containing Markers For Fungal Gene Disruption, L. Hamer, S. Gilger

Fungal Genetics Reports

We have constructed 2 tn5-containing plasmids, pLH1 and pLH3, specialized towards mutagenesis of genes from fungi which are auxotrophic for arginine or sensitive to hygromycin (such as the filamentous fungi Aspergillus nidulans and Magnaporthe grisea.) These plasmids are also a useful means of integrating additional marker genes in the plasmid backbone.

Syntrophic Growth Of Auxotrophic Strains Of Neurospora Crassa By Cross-Feeding, A. Pandit, P. Delhi, R. Maheshwari

Fungal Genetics Reports

Vigorous growth occurred when conidia of two heterokaryon-incompatible auxotrophic strains of N. crassa were mixed on minimal medium. The syntrophic growth could often, but not always, be propagated through several subcultures using minute conidial inocula. We demonstrate that growth of auxotrophic strains occurred without hyphal fusion by cross-feeding.

Rapid Procedure For The Extraction Of Dna From Fungal Spores And Mycelia., J. J. Weiland

Fungal Genetics Reports

A method is described for the reliable preparation of DNA from fungal spores and mycelia and from plant tissues. A number of fungal and plant species were used in the study to indicate the generality of the method. The DNA prepared by this protocol was digested by restriction endonucleases and served as template using standard polymerase chain reaction conditions.

Foreword; News And Announcements, Peter J. Russell

Fungal Genetics Reports

The 44th edition of the Fungal Genetics Newsletter contains articles and notes on a wide variety of topics. As usual, the aspergillus and neurospora bibliographies are included, as are a brief list of strains added to the FGSC collection since the publication of the most recent catalog in 1996 and the most recent FGSC mailing list.

A Simple Plating Assay For Aneuploidy In Sexual Progeny Of Neurospora Crassa, And A New Allele Of Mei-1., A. T. Hagemann, J. T. Irelan, E. U. Selker

Fungal Genetics Reports

We developed a simple ascospore plating assay for aneuploidy, based on identifying disomic progeny that inherit two independently selectable mtr alleles. We validated the assay using a known meiotic mutant, mei-2. We used this assay to demonstrate that elevated frequencies of aneuploidy previously reported to be associated with reduced DNA methylation were not, in fact, due to the methylation deficiencies. A new allele of the mei-1 gene was responsible for some of the high aneuploidy.

A Rapid Method For Isolation Of Stable Niad And Crna Mutants Of Entomopathogenic Fungi Beauveria Bassiana And Metarhizium Anisopliae, S. S. Sandhu, G. Venkateswerlu

Fungal Genetics Reports

Generally niaD mutants of fungi are selected by spontaneous mutations on appropriate minimal medium supplemented with various concentrations of KClO3 and a nitrogen source (Daboussi et al. 1989 Curr. Genet. 15:453-456; Johnstone et al. 1990 Gene 90:181-192; Malardier et al.1989 Gene 78:147-156; Unkles et al.1989 Gene 78:157-166). But in case of entomopathogenic fungi it has been observed that niaDmutants isolated simply by spontaneous mutation on chlorate were not stable, (Table-1). Therefore a method has been developed to isolate stable niaD mutants of these fungi by treating protoplasts with ethane methane sulfonate (EMS).

"Atmosphère, Atmosphère": On The Study Of France Between The Wars, Steven Ungar

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Street Noises: Parisian Pleasure, 1900-1940 by Adrian Rifkin and Shanghai on the Métro: Spies, Espionage, and the French Between the Wars by Michael B. Miller are test cases for issues of historiography related to period and duration in the study of France between 1919 and 1940. Of added relevance to these issues is the fact that Rifkin and Miller both question distinctions between elite literary cultures linked to book publishing and new forms of mass reproduction enhanced by technologies of sound reproduction and illustration. A concluding excursus explores recent theories of urban space symbolized by the street as a site …

Reviews Of Recent Publications

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Culture and Theory

Conley, Verena Andermatt, ed. Rethinking Technologies by Laurence M. Porter

Leitch, Vincent B. Cultural Criticism, Literary Theory, Poststructuralism by Merry M. Pawlowski

French Studies

Bersani, Leo and Ulysse Dutoit. Arts of Impoverishment: Beckett, Rothko, Resnais by Thomas Trezise

Boldt-Irons, Leslie Anne. On Bataille: Critical Essays by Walter A. Strauss

Deleuze, Gilles. Negotiations. Trans. Martin Joughin by Charles J. Stivale

Fisher, Dominique D. Staging of Language and Language(s) of the Stage: Mallarmé's poëme critique and Artaud's poetry-minus-text by Maryse Fauvel

Goodall, Jane. Artaud and the Gnostic Drama by Claudine G. Fisher

Lydon, Mary. Skirting the Issue: Essays …

Nietzsche, Generation X, And The Future Postmodern Curriculum, Don G. Smith

Educational Considerations

We are entering into an era as radically different from the modern era as the Renaissance was from the Middle Ages.

Educational Considerations, Vol. 24 (2) Full Issue, G. Daniel Harden

Educational Considerations

Educational Considerations, vol. 24 (2) Spring 1997 - Full issue

Experience And The Philosophy Of Composing, Daniel J. Royer

Educational Considerations

Experience and the Philosophy of Composing

Friendship And Education, James S. Taylor

Educational Considerations

It is has been said, by Whitehead, I believe, that all of philosophy is a footnote to Plato; likewise, it can also be said that all of education is a footnote to his teacher, Socrates.

Flyover Country, Stan Herd

Oz

A Kansas farm child discovers the world one small intimate detail at a time. When encoumered for the first time, a sparrow is as fascinating as the universe. Without majestic moumains or postcard sea coasts for comparison we are forced to focus on subtle detail.

The Place Of Studio, David Cronrath

Oz

Placing the studio within most curricula of architecture is not a particularly difficult locational task for most professionals, educators, or students. It stands in a central position. This position is held by the studio whether it is seen as the point toward which other information and activities flow (similar to the undergraduate natural science laboratory), or the point from which other activities and courses extend out (as in the American Beaux-Arts), or finally a combination of both, an ebb and flow, to and from. Ed.note: An article about studio pedagogy by a University of Nebraska faculty member who uses his …

Contributors

Oz

Biographical information on contributors to volume 19, and a list of benefactors and donors

Places In The Architecture Of Machado And Silvetti, Mark Pasnik

Oz

The strategies of placemaking developed during the late seventies and implemented in the early eighties have proven insufficient to grapple with many of the irregularities of the contemporary metropolis. So while contextualism, collage, and other formalist design tools have been viable means for architects to reintegrate the fabric of pedestrian cities, such a fabric simply never existed in many American cities, particularly at their periphery. Ed. note: The featured project is by Machado and Silvetti Associates.

Fundamentally Grounded [Gründlich Mit Grund], Elke Erb

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Translated by James Rolleston et al.

An East German poet examines her own production in the years 1991-1995. Precise images, e.g. of animals and landscapes both primeval and immediate, are correlated with the precise date and manner of their emergence from the poetic unconscious. The poet's self-questioning is autobiographical, professional, and social: What is the correlation between linguistic work and play and the ongoing transformation of a social order? What do intimate moments and enigmatic images tell us about the new realities of a capitalist collectivity? A key to the meaning of wrenching change is found in Erb's intensive involvement …

Mediamania? Contemporary German Poetry In The Age Of New Information Technologies: Thomas Kling And Durs Grünbein, Erk Grimm

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

The essay examines the preoccupation with information technologies as a dominant theme of German poetry in the 1980s and 1990s. Outlining the historical shift from a critique of mass media to the ironic affirmation of hi-tech media, the investigation seeks an understanding of its driving forces. The analysis of Enzensberger's polemical essays on the culture industry shows the parallels and the difference in attitude between him and younger poets of the 1980s. A concise account of their publications illuminates the development of an aesthetically demanding poetry that kept aloof from the mass media. In their rejection of a common quotidian …

Swine Day 1996, Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station

Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station Research Reports

No abstract provided.

Effects Of A High Protein, Whey Protein Concentrate And Spray-Dried Animal Plasma On Growth Performance Of Weanling Pigs (1997), G S. Grinstead, J C. Woodworth, Robert D. Goodband, Jim L. Nelssen, Michael D. Tokach

Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station Research Reports

A 35-d experiment was conducted to compare the effects of increasing spray-dried animal plasma and a high protein whey concentrate (73% CP) on starter pig performance. Spray-dried animal plasma and whey protein concentrate replaced dried skin1 milk on an equal lysine basis. Pigs fed increasing spray-dried animal plasma protein had increased ADG and ADFI from d 0 to 7 after weaning, but not for any other period in the study. Increasing whey protein concentrate had no effect on growth perforn1ance in relation to the pigs fed dried skim milk.; Swine Day, Manhattan, KS, November 20, 1997

Effects Of Tetracycline On Shedding Of Susceptible And Resistant Salmonella Spp. Experimentally Inoculated Into Pigs (1997), K M. Claussen, D R. Hyatt, J C. Galland, Jerome C. Nietfeld, J M. Sargeant, Steven S. Dritz

Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station Research Reports

The objective of this experiment was to study the influence of tetracycline on the transfer of antibiotic resistance in an in vivo swine model experimentally infected with antibiotic-resistant and antibiotic susceptible Salmonella spp. Tetracycline reduced the amount and duration of shedding of tetracycline- susceptible Salmonella. However, tetracycline had no effect on shedding of resistant Salmonella. We also have evidence that resistance was transferred from the resistant to the susceptible strain of Salmonella.; Swine Day, Manhattan, KS, November 20, 1997