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The George Eliot Review: Journal Of The George Eliot Fellowship 2000 No. 31, Beryl Gray, John Rignall

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

CONTENTS

Notes on Contributors ........................................... 5

Editors' Note ................................................ 7

ADDRESSES Colonel Christopher Hendy: Address at the wreath-laying in the George Eliot Memorial Gardens, 13 June 1999 ................................................. 9

Rt Hon. Chris Smith MP: Address at the wreath-laying in Westminster Abbey, 23 June 1999 ................................................. 11

Josie Billington: The Twenty-Eighth George Eliot Memorial Lecture, 16 October 1999 ................................................ 13

Kathryn Hughes: The Toast to the Immortal Memory: George Eliot Birthday Luncheon, 21 November 1999 ........................................... 27

ARTICLES Rebecca Mackay: Women and Fiction in George Eliot's 'Brother Jacob' (Prize Essay) ................................................................................... .31

Margaret Harris: The Margins of George Eliot: Editing the …

Teachnology: Linking Teaching And Technology In Faculty Development, Mei-Yau Shih, Mary Deane Sorcinelli

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

As a coordinator of teaching technologies and director of a center for teaching in a large research university, we have worked collaboratively over the last year to achieve a common goal: to implement and refine several faculty development initiatives that create linkages among the domains of teaching, learning, and technology. In this case study, we will describe the kinds of programs we’ve developedand summarize lessons we’ve learned. We hope that faculty developers on other campuses who are grappling with how to define their mission related to technology and how to work with faculty to integrate teaching and technology can adapt …

Faculty Teaching Partners And Associates: Engaging Faculty As Leaders In Instructional Development, Myra S. Wilhite, Joyce Povlacs Lunde, Gail F. Latta

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Special interest discussion groups provide opportunities for faculty to address specific instructional issues in a variety of areas including technology, distance learning, general teaching topics, pre-tenure issues, honors teaching, and the like. In 1995, to leverage the Teaching and Learning Center’s resources, outstanding classroom teachers were invited to provide leadership for discussion groups by serving as Partners or Associates. This chapter describes how an inexpensive faculty discussion-group leadership program maximizes a teaching improvement center’s resources, makes innovative teaching visible, and provides peer models for other faculty while helping promote an overall institutional culture that actively supports teaching excellence.

Faculty Development Centers In Research Universities: A Study Of Resources And Programs, Delivee L. Wright

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

The purpose of this study was to compile updated information on resources and programs of faculty/instructional development centers in Carnegie classification Research I and Research II universities. It allows centers across the country to see where they stand in regard to a number of specific aspects of center operation. Size of institution, mission, resources, budgets, and staffing vary greatly, while activities and services have a greater degree of similarity. The data reveal a number of questions for further study and discussion.

The Road To Bush V. Gore: The History Of The Supreme Court's Use Of The Per Curiam Opinion, Laura K. Ray

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. The History of the Per Curiam Opinion as a Form of Judicial Expression ... A. The Background: An Instrument of Consensus ... B. The Transformation: The Decline of Consensus

III. The Per Curiam and the Idea of Individualism ... A. The Emergence of the Separate Voice ... B. The Pursuit of Consensus

IV. The Per Curiam as a Strategic Device ... A. Achieving Efficiency ... B. Working by Indirection ... C. Creating New Law ... D. Using Procedure as a Screen ... E. Disciplining Courts and Litigants

V. The Per Curiam and Individual Expression ... A. The …

School Regulation Of Exotic Body Piercing, Karen A. Haase

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. Body Piercing: The Latest Craze (and You Thought Pet Rocks Were Weird)

III. First Amendment Protection of Body Piercing (or How Can You Exercise Free Speech with That Thing in Your Mouth?) … A. Student First Amendment Rights … B. Body Piercings as “Speech”

IV. Fourteenth Amendment Protection of Body Piercing (or How Can You Even Mention “Rational” and “Body Piercing” in the Same Breath?)

V. Crafting a Constitutionally Acceptable Regulation … A. Health and Hygiene … B. Disruption … C. Discipline

VI. Conclusion

Accountability Solutions In The Consent Search And Seizure Wasteland, José Felipé Anderson

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. Right without Remedy: The Accountability Problem and the Forgotten Legacy of Wolf v. Colorado

III. Structural Accountability and the Undervalued Doctrine of Miranda v. Arizona

IV. The Accountability Vacuum and the Flawed Constitutional Consent Jurisprudence

V. Perception Accountability: Of Race and Men

VI. Accountability Solutions

VII. Conclusion

Role Of Neurotropins In Rat Embryonic Testis Morphogenesis (Cord Formation), Elena Levine, Andrea S. Cupp, Michael K. Skinner

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

The process of seminiferous cord formation is the first morphological event that differentiates a testis from an ovary and indicates male sex determination. Cord formation occurs by embryonic Day 14 (Day 0 5 plug date; E14) in the rat. A series of experiments were conducted to determine if neurotropins and their receptors are important for the process of rat embryonic cord formation. The expression of low affinity neurotropin receptor (p75/LNGFR) was determined by immunohistochemistry on sections of both testis and ovary from E13 through birth (Day 0, P0) with an antibody to p75/LNGFR. The staining for p75/ LNGFR was present …

Reading Through Galileo's Telescope: Margaret Cavendish And The Experience Of Reading, Elizabeth Spiller

Department of English: Faculty Publications

This essay reassesses the role of reading in the context of seventeenth-century natural philosophy by analyzing Galileo Galilei’s Starry Messenger and Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World. The unreliability of telescopic vision becomes a dominant metaphor for the unreliability of reading printed texts. Where Galileo sought to put the reader in his own position as a scientific observer by making reading a form of observation, Cavendish used the telescopic image to show how readers become the makers of their own fictions. From the recognition that reading and observation finally reveal our relationship to the world rather than the world itself comes …

Ec00-899 Sorghum Basis Patterns From Selected Sites In Nebraska, Lynn Lutgen

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

The following publication contains the sorghum basis patterns for several towns in Nebraska. Price information was collected through surveys, newspapers, electronic media, etc. The listing includes towns representative of different geographic locations in Nebraska. The amount of data varies among locations. This publication will be updated each year by adding a year's data to each location. This allows the user to observe the changing of basis patterns over time.

Ec00-898 Wheat Basis Patterns From Selected Sites In Nebraska, Lynn Lutgen

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

The following publication contains wheat basis patterns for several towns in Nebraska. The basic price information was collected through surveys, newspaper, electronic media, etc. The listing includes towns that are representative of different geographic locations in Nebraska. This publication will be updated each year by adding a year's data to each location which will allow the user to observe the changes in the basis patterns over time.

Ec00-802 Soybean Basis Patterns From Selected Sites In Nebraska, Lynn Lutgen

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

The following publication contains soybean basis patterns for several towns in Nebraska. The basic price information was collected through surveys, newspaper, electronic media, etc. The listing includes towns that are representative of different geographic locations in Nebraska. The amount of data varies among locations. This publication will be updated each year by adding a year's data to each location which will allow the user to observe the changes in the basis patterns over time.

G1415 Recruiting Volunteers, Janet Fox

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

This NebGuide offers tips to volunteer coordinators that will help them recruit the best volunteers for any position.

Introduction

How does one go about recruiting volunteers to serve their organization? Knowing what motivates a person is the first step of understanding how to recruit a volunteer. According to Frederick Herzberg's Motivational Theory, there are five key motivators that should be kept in mind when providing volunteer opportunities. They are: achievement, recognition, challenging work, increased responsibility and development.

In addition, past participation in an organization motivates volunteers to give back to an organization from which they or family members have previously …

Nf00-432 Open Meeting Law, Jeanette Friesen

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

This NebFact discusses Nebraska state statute 84-1408 which relates to the open meeting law.

Striving To Do Well What Comes Naturally: Social Support, Developmental Psychopathology, And Social Policy, Ross A. Thompson, Lenna Ontai

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Social support can have significant stress-preventive and stress-buffering benefits for troubled individuals in everyday circumstances. Consequently, it is not surprising that many therapeutic and preventive programs enlist social support to address problems of child and family psychopathology, especially in the context of “two-generation interventions” that seek to improve child well-being by strengthening parental functioning and parent–child relationships. Home visitation programs are the best known of these two-generation strategies and have become the focus of state-level and national efforts to support families and prevent harm to children. The conclusions of basic research studies on social support converge significantly with the findings …

Fitness Costs Of Resistance To Bacillus Thuringiensis In The Indianmeal Moth, Plodia Interpunctella, Brenda Oppert, Richard Hammel, James E. Throne, Karl J. Kramer

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Genetic changes in insects that result in insecticide resistance can also affect their fitness. Here, we report measurements of development time and survival of the Indianmeal moth, Plodia interpunctella (Hübner), to compare the relative fitness of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt)-susceptible and -resistant colonies. Measurements of larval development time and survival indicated that a fitness cost was associated with resistance to Bt in some Bt-resistant colonies but not others. Comparisons of geographically different populations revealed inherent differences in development time and survival. In most cases, Bt-resistant moths suffered no disadvantage when feeding on a Bt-treated diet. In many cases, the development of …

In Vivo Study On Combined Toxicity Of Metarhizium Anisopliae (Deuteromycotina: Hyphomycetes) Strain Esc-1 With Sublethal Doses Of Chlorpyrifos, Propetamphos, And Cyfluthrin Against German Cockroach (Dictyoptera: Blattellidae), Pari Pachamuthu, Shripat T. Kamble

Department of Entomology: Faculty Publications

The effect of Metarhizium anisopliae (Metschnikoff) Sorokin strain ESC-1 alone and in combination with sublethal doses of commercial formulations of chlorpyrifos, propetamphos and cyfluthrin on mortality of CSMA strain of German cockroach, Blattella germanica (L.), was determined by conducting in vivo studies that included 3 bioassays. Spores of M. anisopliae cultured on SDAY media had germination of >90%. Based on bioassay 1, doses ranging from 0.5 to 300 ppm of chlorpyrifos and propetamphos, and 0.05 to 40 ppm of cyfluthrin were selected for bioassays 2 and 3. Cockroach mortality ranged from 5 to 20% for insecticides alone and 48 to …

Unreasonably Reasonable Reliance: Prospective At-Will Employment And Promissory Estoppel In Goff-Hamel V. Obstetricians & Gynecologists, P.C., 256 Neb. 19, 588 N.W.2d 798 (1999), David K. Lucas

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. Factual Background

III. Relevant Law ... A. Promissory Estoppel Allowed ... B. Promissory Estoppel Not Allowed

IV. Analysis ... A. The At-Will Employment Doctrine and the Reasonableness of Reliance ... B. Avoiding Reality: Attempts to Read "Good faith" and "Fair Dealing" Exceptions into the At-Will Employment Doctrine ... C. Recognizing Reality: Alternative Applications of the Doctrine of Promissory Estoppel ... D. Adopting an Approach: A Starting Point

V. Conclusion

Academic Freedom In K-12 Education, Donald F. Uerling

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. The Concept of Academic Freedom … Endorsing the Concept … Locus of Academic Freedom

III. Constitutional Contours of Academic Freedom Expressed … Authority of School Officials … Role of Teachers … A First Amendment Right … School Authority and Teacher Rights … Forum Analysis … Legitimate Pedagogical Concern … School Policies … Adequate Notice … Vagueness and Overbreadth

IV. Constitutional Contours of Academic Freedom Applied … Inadequate Notice … Protecting the Educational System … Protecting the Teacher … First Amendment Protections Acknowledged, But School Authority Prevails … Forum Analysis … Legitimate Pedagogical Concerns … No First Amendment …

The Effect Of Biogenic Fe(Ii) On The Stability And Sorption Of Co(Ii)Edta22 To Goethite And A Subsurface Sediment, John M. Zachara, Steven Smith, James K. Fredrickson

United States Department of Energy: Publications

Laboratory experiments were conducted with suspensions of goethite (α-FeOOH) and a subsurface sediment to assess the influence of bacterial iron reduction on the fate of Co(II)EDTA^2-, a representative metal-ligand complex of intermediate stability (log K_Co(II)EDTA = 17.97). The goethite was synthetic (ca. 55 m²/g) and the sediment was a Pleistocene age, Fe(III) oxide-containing material from the Atlantic coastal plain (Milford). Shewanella alga strain BrY, a dissimilatory iron reducing bacterium (DIRB), was used to promote Fe(III) oxide reduction. Sorption isotherms and pH adsorption edges were measured for Co²⁺, Fe²⁺, Co(II)EDTA^2-, …

Tsc3p Is An 80-Amino Acid Protein Associated With Serine Palmitoyltransferase And Required For Optimal Enzyme Activity, Ken Gable, Harry Slife, Dagmar Bacikova, Erin Monaghan, Teresa M. Dunn

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Serine palmitoyltransferase catalyzes the first step of sphingolipid synthesis, condensation of serine and palmitoyl CoA to form the long chain base 3-ketosphinganine. The LCB1/TSC2 and LCB2/TSC1 genes encode homologous proteins of the a-oxoamine synthase family required for serine palmitoyltransferase activity. The other a-oxoamine synthases are soluble homodimers, but serine palmitoyltransferase is a membrane-associated enzyme composed of at least two subunits, Lcb1p and Lcb2p. Here, we report the characterization of a third gene, TSC3, required for optimal 3-ketosphinganine synthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. S. cerevisiae cells lacking the TSC3 gene have a temperature-sensitive lethal phenotype that is reversed by supplying …

Escherichia Coli O157:H7 In Beef Cattle Presented For Slaughter In The U.S.: Higher Prevalence Rates Than Previously Estimated, Lisa J. Gansheroff, Alison D. O'Brien

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Before 1982, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had identified only one Escherichia coli isolate of the O157:H7 serotype; it had been isolated from a patient with bloody diarrhea. Then, in 1982, two outbreaks of severe bloody diarrhea occurred among people who had eaten hamburgers at a fast food chain. The CDC isolated E. coli O157:H7 from people who had become ill as well as from a hamburger patty. In 1983, Karmali et al. discovered an association between infection with E. coli that produce Shiga toxin (then called Vero toxin), including O157:H7 strains, and another severe and sometimes …

Acylation Stimulating Protein: A Potential Regulator Of Fat Synthesis, Jess L. Miner, Carin Ramsel, Sheila Jacobi

Nebraska Swine Reports

The long term goal of this project is to understand the molecular mechanisms controlling fat synthesis. These experiments indicate that acylation stimulating protein (ASP) can stimulate the incorporation of fatty acids into lipid in cultured adipose tissue. This finding justifies a future effort to determine if manipulation of ASP can modify fat deposition.

Bringing It Home: Extracultural Experiences In The Art Of Carolyn Price Dyer, Mary Lane

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

This quote from The Diary of Anais Nin, might well describe many artists' experience. The journey that solidifies creative impulses into aesthetic objects often involves experiences that lie outside the artist's own culture. These other lives and other states of perception act as catalysts, generating new forms in the liminal space which travelers' frequent. For Carolyn Price Dyer, the germane shifting cultural boundaries are those between the Western aesthetics of Modernism and the Bauhaus and the Eastern aesthetics of Asian art. Trained under the former, the latter Asian influences spring from graduate studies in Asian art history, work experience at …

From Upholstery To Installation: Educating Designers And Artists Using An Electronic Jacquard Loom, Deborah First

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

In the fall of 1998 students and faculty in the fibers department at Savannah College of Art and Design began to use their newly installed A VL electronic jacquard 100m (figure 1 ).

Since its arrival, students have explored the 100m's capabilities for designing and producing samples for the textile design industry as well as using it as a tool for art making.

Students preparing textile design portfolios study woven structure and its relationship to image-based digital design directly through their use of the 100m and the design software. Because they weave their designs independently of a technician, there is …

Gender Differences In The Development Of Substance- Related Problems: The Impact Of Family History Of Alcoholism, Family History Of Violence And Childhood Conduct Problems, Stephen T. Chermack, Scott F. Stoltenberg, Bret E. Fuller, Frederic C. Blow

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Objective: This study examined gender differences regarding the relative influence of family history of alcoholism (FHA) and family history of violence (FHV) on reported childhood conduct problems (CCP) and adult problems with alcohol, drugs and violence. Method: The participants were 110 men and 103 women with alcohol-related problems recruited within 30 days of enrolling in treatment for substance abuse or dependence. Participants completed self-report measures of pretreatment violence, FHV, CCP, substance use and consequences, and demographics; a semi-structured interview was used to assess FHA. Results: Structural equation modeling (SEM) analyses revealed gender differences with regard to the influence of FHA …

Transgenic Avidin Maize Is Resistant To Storage Insect Pests, Karl J. Kramer, Thomas D. Morgan, James E. Throne, Floyd E. Dowell, Michele Bailey, John A. Howard

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Avidin is a glycoprotein found in chicken egg white, that sequesters the vitamin biotin. Here we show that when present in maize at levels of ≥100 p.p.m., avidin is toxic to and prevents development of insects that damage grains during storage. Insect toxicity is caused by a biotin deficiency, as shown by prevention of toxicity with biotin supplementation. The avidin maize is not, however, toxic to mice when administered as the sole component of their diet for 21 days. These data suggest that avidin expression in food or feed grain crops can be used as a biopesticide against a spectrum …

A Floristic Study And Species Checklist For The Republican River Valley In Nebraska, With Emphasis On Plants Of Concern For Conservation, Steven J. Rothenberger

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

A botanical survey of the Republican River Valley in Nebraska was initiated during the 1995 growing season and continued through 1998. A major objective of this study was to discover and tabulate rare plants (as designated by the Nebraska Natural Heritage Program), but a general floristic study was also completed. Natural areas, selected because of species composition or location, were identified and described. The study area is characterized by a high degree of human disturbance. Most county floras, with the exception of Webster, are poorly represented. Seven species of conservation concern are reported, which is 1.4% of the total collected …

Comparison Of The Adsorbed Mercury Screening Method With Cold-Vapor Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry For Determination Of Mercury In Soil, Donald F. Easterling, Edward S. Hovanitz, Kenneth W. Street

United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Publications

A field screening method for the determination of elemental mercury in environmental soil samples involves the thermal desorption of the mercury from the sample onto gold and then the thermal desorption from the gold to a goldfilm mercury vapor analyzer. This field screening method contains a large number of conditions that could be optimized for the various types of soils encountered. In this study, the conditions were optimized for the determination of mercury in silty clay materials, and the results were comparable to the coldvapor atomic absorption spectrophotometric method of determination. This paper discusses the benefits and disadvantages of employing …

Kinematic Structure Of Minipermeameter Flow, Daniel M. Tartakovsky, J. David Moulton, Vitaly A. Zlotnik

Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: Faculty Publications

Minipermeameters are rapidly becoming a popular tool for collecting localized
measurements of permeability in both laboratory and field studies. While one of the main advantages of minipermeameters is their ability to collect data on various support volumes, there have been only limited attempts to analyze their size and geometry. We define the support volume of minipermeameter measurements as a region containing 90% of the total gas flow, i.e., a region bounded by the 10% streamline. Using our new semianalytical solutions for the Stokes' stream function, we demonstrate that the support volume has a shape of the semitoroid adjacent to the …