This thesis examines the Irish literary periodical The Bell which was first published in 1940, and ran intermittently until 1954. The Bell was Ireland's foremost literary magazine during its publication run, and had considerable success in bringing new authors together with more established names. As such, this thesis analyses the contribution of The Bell to the Irish literary tradition and interrogates its involvement within the wider scope of Irish society as a whole. The journal is assessed historically and viewed through the prism of the various personalities which contributed to its pages, in particular, its editors Sean O'Faolain and Peadar O'Donnell. In order to evaluate The Bell's position in Irish society, this thesis is divided into four chapters dealing with individual contributions and the historical formation of the magazine; Northern Ireland and perceptions of Partition; the political position of the magazine under Eamonn de Valera's administration; and its contribution to Irish writing. This thesis will confront some received critical assumptions about The Bell. More specifically, it complicates the idea of a debate between a state-sponsored, cultural nationalism and a liberal, artistic elite, which played out amongst its pages. In doing so, it will challenge the idea that Irish writing was stagnant in the years following independence, and will emphasise its connections with wider movements in European and world literature.

This thesis is a detailed examination of subversive aesthetic and decadent British periodicals from 1884 until 1897. Viewed as cultural documents, the magazines The Century Guild Hobby Horse, The Dial, The Yellow Book and The Savoy are explored with particular reference to their positioning of the artist in relation to society. Major secondary sources are the works of Oscar Wilde and Walter Pater's The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry. The Hobby Horse is viewed as being the origin of a particular discourse on the importance of the artist for society at large, and its editorial bias is examined as being a product of certain Hellenic elements in Oxford of the 1860s and 1870s. Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray features heavily in the first section. The book is initially used as a touchstone for exploring the issues of the Socratic master-pupil relationships, clandestine and subversive sexuality, the duality of subversive literary texts, and the transition from aestheticism into decadence, after which Wilde's only novel is shown to have been inspired in part by specific writings within the Hobby Horse itself. The second section examines the importance of Catholicism to a renaissance of the Hellenic within artistic communities of the 1880s and '90s, and the third and final section explores the legacy of these elements of the Hobby Horse in the later magazines The Dial, The Yellow Book and The Savoy. Specific attention is paid to the perceived relationship between Oscar Wilde and the Yellow Book in the final chapters, where the erroneous nature of the supposed links between Wilde and the Yellow Book is exposed, and Wilde's true connection with the little-known Century Guild Hobby Horse is revealed.

This study examines the regeneration of science and scientific ideas through the media of three popular scientific periodicals of the later Victorian and Edwardian periods, Nature, Knowledge, and English Mechanic. It posits twin concepts of generative and regenerative science, the former being the source of a scientific idea, and the latter being the forma in which it is transmitted in scientific discourse. Negotiations between the different scientific spheres of the scientists, science users, scientific practitioners and the scientific public take place in the forma of regenerative science, which has utilitarian, cultural and imaginative facets. Following the traditions of post-structuralist ideas of discourse there is a scientific society in which all participate in an active or passive manner. In chapter one theoretical and sociological ideas are examined in their relationship to the historiography as the concept of regenerational science is established. Chapter two examines the position of the popular scientific periodical within science and the scientific role it fulfils. A discussion of the background and structure of the three main primary sources establishes them as media of regenerational science and nexi of utilitarian, cultural and imaginative discourses. Chapters three to five analyse these with a number of limited case studies, ranging from accepted natural science to 'marginal' sciences such as Zetetic astronomy, Pyramidology and astrology. Chapter six uses the debate over the existence of canals on Mars to demonstrate these discourses in interaction. The power of regenerative science to reconstruct accepted scientific ideas is emphasised, and established concepts of the historiography of popular science such as cultural authority, 'ownership' of ideas and the constructed divide between scientist and public are represented as factors in the development of discourse. Chapter seven draws some more general conclusions about the nature of regenerative science in its interaction with a popular scientific folk psychology. Regenerative science is presented as a primary agent in the creation of professional science and construction of hegemonic ties, the period 1860-1914 being crucial. A hypothesis is posited that such regenerative science, in addition to creating established formae and channels of scientific communication, in turn reshapes 'official' science.

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Thomas A. Kochan, John Paul MacDuffie, Paul Osterman. / "June 1988." / Includes bibliographical references (p. 28). / Supported in part by the Management in the 1990s Research Program.

Österreich trat 1995 der EU bei. Der anfänglichen EU-Euphorie folgte bald Skepsis und Ernüchterung. Nichtsdestotrotz hat Österreich von 20 Jahren EU-Mitgliedschaft enorm profitiert. Die positiven Integrationseffekte haben bis zum Ausbruch der globalen Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise 2008/09 und der folgenden Euro -Krise angehalten. Österreich lukrierte dank des EU-Beitritts einen "EU-Bonus" von rund ½ bis 1% mehr Wirtschaftswachstum pro Jahr. Seit der stagnierenden Wirtschaftsentwicklung in Europa nach den diversen Krisen (Große Rezession 2009, Euro-Krise seit 2010, Unsicherheit en durch die Ukraine-Russland-Krise 2013/14) flachte der "EU-Wachstumsbonus" ab. Neue Wachstumsimpulse müssen jetzt von innen kommen. (author's abstract)

This thesis examines several lesser-known British modernist magazines published between 1900-45 within the context of networks, communities, and dialogues. The magazines it examines are T. P.'s Weekly (1902-16), The Acorn (1905-6), The Tramp (1910-11), Rhythm (1911-13), The Blue Review (1913), Signature (1915), To-day Incorporating T. P.'s Weekly (1916-7), To-day (1917-23), The Athenaeum (1919-21), The Apple (1920-22), The Adelphi (1923-55), Close-Up (1927-33), Seed (1933) and Life and Letters To-Day (1935-45). Primarily, the thesis aims to 'test out' different types of methodologies that critics have used to interpret literary texts (and sometimes non-literary texts) as possible routes or avenues into periodical study. My approach is cross-disciplinary and adapts many different approaches, some of which have been previously applied to periodicals, but most of which have not. The commonality between these methodologies is the fact that they all participate, to some degree, in a sense of network(s), a concept that, this thesis contends, offers a lens through which we can develop, extend, and refine the study of little magazines. The Introduction provides a more detailed outline of these methodologies and a survey of literature relating to the study of little magazines. Chapter 1 explores magazines through the high/low culture dichotomy that continues to dominate our conception of the modernist field and considers how the dichotomy's implied idea of networks of difference impacts upon how we study, consider, and categorise little magazines. Chapter 2 uses quantitative methods to probe the possibility that a periodical can 'shift' between networks and applies a diachronic methodology which considers periodicals as operating within 'longitudinal' networks. Chapter 3 utilises an editor-based methodology to show how this figure is key in generating a periodical's sense of network. Chapter 4 explores the little magazine as a nexus point for different groups of writers and artists and examines the ways in which networks exist on and between the pages of magazines. Chapter 5 reverses the second chapter's focus by using a synchronic methodology to explore how three late modernist magazines participate in a 'lateral network'. The Conclusion evaluates the efficacy and feasibility of the various approaches tested in each chapter and proposes some new methodologies through which we might continue to study and discuss periodicals.

Le mécanisme biologique responsable pour l’augmentation de l’expression de la protéine nestin dans les cellules souches neurales (CSN) du cœur après un infarctus du myocarde (IM) demeure inconnu. Des études antérieures ont démontré que le traitement au dexamethasone, un glucocorticoïde aux propriétés anti-inflammatoires, abolit la régulation positive de nestin après un IM. Ceci suggère un lien avec la réponse inflammatoire. Nous avons vérifié dans cette étude l’hypothèse que la cytokine inflammatoire interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta) peut modifier le phénotype de cellules souches neurales. Le deuxième objectif de l’étude fut d’établir l’impact, suivant un IM, de l’inhibition de la signalisation de IL-1beta sur la fonction et la guérison cardiaque. Suite à une ligature complète de l’artère coronaire du rat mâle, le dysfonctionnement contractile du ventricule gauche fut associé à une régulation positive de la protéine nestin dans le myocarde non-infarci. Le traitement avec Xoma 052 (1 mg/kg), un anticorps anti-IL-1beta, 24h, 7 et 14 jours après un évènement ischémique, eu aucun effet sur la taille de l’infarctus ou la contractilité du ventricule gauche. De plus, le traitement avec Xoma 052 après un IM n’a pu supprimer l’augmentation de l’expression de nestin et Bcl-2 malgré une réduction modeste du niveau de la protéine Bax. Pour déterminer directement le rôle de la réponse inflammatoire en l’absence d’ischémie, nous avons injecté des rats mâles avec du LPS (10mg/kg, 18hrs). Dans le coeur du rat-LPS, nous avons noté une augmentation significative du niveau d’ARNm de IL-1beta et de l’expression de la protéine nestin. Le prétraitement avec 10mg/kg de Xoma 052 a aboli l’augmentation de l’expression de nestin dans le coeur des rats-LPS. Ces observations indiquent que les cellules souches neurales pourraient représenter une cible potentielle de l’IL-1beta. / The underlying biological event(s) implicated in the increased expression of nestin in cardiac resident neural stem cells (NSC) following myocardial infarction (MI) remain unknown. Past studies have shown that dexamethasone treatment, a synthetic glucocorticoid with potent anti-inflammatory properties, abolished the upregulation of nestin in the non-infacted left ventricle (NILV) following MI. This suggests an association with the inflammatory response. The present study tested the hypothesis that the inflammatory cytokine interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta) can influence the neural stem cell phenotype. A secondary goal of the study was to assess impact of IL-1beta signalling inhibition on cardiac function and wound healing following MI. Following complete coronary artery ligation of the adult male rat heart, left ventricular contractile dysfunction was associated with the upregulation of the pro-apoptotic protein bax, the anti-apoptotic protein Bcl-2 and nestin in the non-infarcted myocardium. Xoma 052 (1 mg/kg), an IgG antibody directed against IL-1beta, was administred 24 hrs after ischemic injury and subsequently injected 2x over a period of 21 days. Treatment did not alter infarct size or improve left ventricular contractility. In addition, it failed to abolish the increased expression of nestin and Bcl-2, and modestly reduced bax protein levels. To directly assess the relationship between inflammation and the expression of nestin in the absence of an ischemic insult, adult male rats were injected with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) (10mg/kg;18 hrs). In the heart of LPS- treated rats, IL-1beta mRNA levels were significantly increased and associated with elevated nestin protein expression. The pre-treatment with Xoma 052 (10mg/kg) abolished the increased expression of nestin in the heart of LPS-treated rats. These data indicate that neural stem cells may represent a target for IL-1beta. However, futher investigation is required to elucidate the role of IL-1beta on NSC following MI.

Over the course of the 1830s and 1840s, a professional scientific and medical community was coming into being. Exclusive membership, limits to the definition of science, and separation of the professional from the popular sphere became important elements in the consolidation of scientific authority. Studies exploring Victorian scientific authority have tended to focus on professional journals and organs of middle-class culture; this thesis takes a new approach in exploring how this authority is reflected and negotiated across the content of the popular mass-market periodicals which provided leisure reading for working- and lower-class men and women. It uses as examples Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, Reynolds's Miscellany and the Family Herald. The readers of these publications were consumers of scientific information, participants in popularised science and beneficiaries and subjects of new research, but were increasingly excluded from the formal processes of developing scientific theory and practice. Examining representations of anatomy and of mesmerism, health advice and theories of class and gender, the thesis argues for an expanded understanding of mass-market periodicals as communicators of scientific ideas, showing how such material widely informs the content of these publications from fiction to jokes to full-length factual articles. However, the role of the periodicals is much wider than simply the transmission of received ideas, and the thesis reveals a plurality of positions with regard to science and medicine within the popular press. The periodicals engage with modern science in complex and varied ways, accepting, modifying and challenging scientific theories and methods from different positions. The form of the periodical is key, presenting multiple sources of knowledge and ways in which readers may be invited to respond. Chambers's broad support for scientific progress is informed by its useful knowledge identity but tempered by its founding editor's own ambivalent relationship to the scientific establishment. The Herald, influenced by both the periodical's commercial character and its editor's adherence to a spiritual, anti-materialist view of existence, is strongly resistant to modern science, while Reynolds's incorporates it alongside other forms of knowledge in its aim to educate, entertain and empower readers from a socialist perspective.

The Advanced Manufacturing Student Conference (AMSC) represents an educational format designed to foster the acquisition and application of skills related to Research Methods in Engineering Sciences. Participating students are required to write and submit a conference paper and are given the opportunity to present their findings at the conference. The AMSC provides a tremendous opportunity for participants to practice critical skills associated with scientific publication. Conference Proceedings of the conference will benefit readers by providing updates on critical topics and recent progress in the advanced manufacturing engineering and technologies and, at the same time, will aid the transfer of valuable knowledge to the next generation of academics and practitioners.