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Instruments of science: an historical encyclopaedia

Gastric cancer (GC), as one of the most prevalent malignancies, contributes to the high morbidity and mortality worldwide. By analyzing the bioinformatics, qRT-PCR and IHC assays, we found that CLEC5A is overexpressed in GC and associated with poorer prognosis. CLEC5A silencing inhibits cell growth and DNA replication and induces cell cycle arrest and cell apoptosis. Bioinformatics analyses and Western blotting revealed that CLEC5A depletion led to the dysregulation of the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway. CLEC5A-mediated GC proliferation and anti-apoptosis were impaired by blocking the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway with LY294002. We hypothesize that CLEC5A is of vital importance to GC initiation and progression via the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway, and that our results might represent promising therapeutic strategies for GC patients.

Comanche Political History: An Ethnohistorical Perspective, 1706-1875.

A historical encyclopedia of Comanche diplomacy...No student of Southwest Native American history should overlook this book. - Southwestern Historical Quarterly. Soundly researched and solidly documented, this book includes painstaking analysis and comparisons of the sources...Of interest to students of southwestern as well as Comanche history. - Choice. A stunning scholarly achievement...This is a book that belongs on any Western historian's or writer's shelf. - Southwestern American Literature. This is a persuasive and comprehensive work, impressive in its detail and scope...[It is] not likely to be superseded any time soon. - Journal of the West.

U.S. History as Women's History: New Feminist Essays.

This outstanding collection of fifteen original essays represents innovative work by some of the most influential scholars in the field of women's history. Covering a broad sweep of history from colonial to contemporary times and ranging over the fields of legal, social, political, and cultural history, this book, according to its editors, 'intrudes into regions of the American historical narrative from which women have been excluded or in which gender relations were not thought to play a part.' State formation, power, and knowledge have not traditionally been understood as the subjects of women's history, but they are the themes that permeate this book. Individually and together, the essays explore how gender serves to legitimize particular constructions of power and knowledge and to meld these into accepted practice and state policy. They show how the field of women's history has moved from the discovery of women to an evaluation of social processes and institutions. The book is dedicated to pioneering women's historian Gerda Lerner, whose work inspired so many of the contributors, and it includes a bibliography of her works. from the book The contributors to this volume grew up into a world in which history was rigidly limited. It paid little attention to social relationships, to issues of race, to the concerns of the poor, and virtually none to women. Women figured in it for their ritual status, as wives of presidents like Abigail Adams or Dolly Madison; for their role as spoilers, from the witches of Salem to Mary Todd Lincoln, or for their sacrificial caregiving, like Clara Barton or Dorothea Dix. Even when women like Sojourner Truth, Jane Addams, and Eleanor Roosevelt were named by historians, the radical substance of their work and their lives was routinely ignored. A very few historians of women--Eleanor Flexner, Julia Cherry Spruill, Caroline Ware--worked on the margins of the profession, their contributions unappreciated, and their writing vulnerable to the charge of irrelevance. Contents Part 1. State Formation Linda K. Kerber on women and the obligations of citizenship Kathryn Kish Sklar on two political cultures in the Progressive Era Linda Gordon on women, maternalism, and welfare in the twentieth century Alice Kessler-Harris on the Social Security Amendments of 1939 Nancy F. Cott on marriage and the public order in the late nineteenth century Part 2. Power Nell Irvin Painter on 'soul murder' as a legacy of slavery Judith Walzer Leavitt on Typhoid Mary and early twentieth-century public health Estelle B. Freedman on women's institutions and the career of Miriam Van Waters William H. Chafe on how the personal translates into the political in the careers of Eleanor Roosevelt and Allard Lowenstein Jane Sherron De Hart on women, politics, and power in the contemporary United States Part 3. Knowledge Barbara Sicherman on reading Little Women Joyce Antler on the Emma Lazarus Federation's efforts to promulgate women's history Amy Swerdlow on Left-feminist peace politics in the cold war Ruth Rosen on the origins of contemporary American feminism among daughters of the fifties Darlene Clark Hine on the making of Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia

An Historical Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict.

About the Editors and the Contributors Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations, acronyms Historical Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict Chronology of major events Bibliographical Essay Index

Historical encyclopedia of school psychology

Historical encyclopedia of school psychology

Interview with Darlene Clark Hine

Born in Missouri in 1947, reared and educated in Illinois, Hine earned her bachelor's degree in history at Roosevelt University, Chicago, and her master's and doctoral degrees from Kent State University, in Kent, Ohio. She has written about African-American women by focusing on the intersections of race, gender, and class. In the past fifteen years, Hine has edited forty volumes (including a two-volume historical encyclopedia, Black Women in America), published three award-winning books, and produced over forty articles and essays (some just collected for the book, Hine Sight: Black Women and the Re-Construction of American History). As John A. Hannah Professor of History at Michigan State University since 1987, she has developed a new doctoral field in Comparative Black History. Hine has one daughter, Robbie Davine. This interview was conducted at the Southern Historical Association meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, in November, 1994, by Roger Adelson.

Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia

Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (Volumes I and II), edited by Darlene Clark Hine with Elsa Barkley Brown and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn. New York: Carlson, 1993. 1,530 pp., $195.00, cloth.By any standard, Black Women in America represents a major contribution to American historical scholarship. This ambitious two-volume work is far more than a collection of biographical profiles of accomplished Black women. With its 641 individual biographies and 163 articles on related topics, this remarkable and massive publication is a virtual celebration of the contributions of Black women to the African American community and to American life and culture.The biographies included are those of nationally recognized African American women of all periods of American history up to the present. Women of all professions and walks of life are profiled in vivid and memorable detail, including an astronaut, several nuns, a significant number of entrepreneurs, and scores of physicians, performers, writers, political activists, and educators, to mention only a few. Also documented are achievers in the less traditional fields in which Black women have engaged successfully such as aviation, military service, and world-class sports. Readers learn about Black women inventors, composers, bishops, band leaders, and a motion picture set designer. Legendary and symbolic female figures, including stereotypical images such as Aunt Jemima and Mammy, are also treated and their historical significance explained.Some of the information provided on Black women's involvement in organizations such as the American Teachers Association, the Association of Black Women Historians, the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, and African American sororities and women's social action groups is very difficult to find elsewhere. Important movements of significance to Black women's history are also treated. These include the abolition movement, the suffrage movement, and the birth control movement as well as the civil rights and Black nationalism movements. Entries on places and institutions that have played important roles in the advancement of Black women appear throughout. There are also several articles on men who worked for Black women's rights or who were influential in Black women's organizations.Certain special features make this encyclopedia especially valuable to researchers and historical scholars. For example, bibliographies are provided with each entry, and a comprehensive bibliography is presented at the end of Volume II. Of special importance is the extensive listing of selected autobiographies by Black women. Tn addition to listing the usual secondary sources, the bibliographies in these volumes also include many less common primary sources such as letters, memoirs, family Bibles, scrapbooks, minutes of meetings, proceedings of conferences, oral histories, personal papers, and personal interviews. The volumes also list selected works, recordings, and videos for readers seeking more information. Another special feature is the group of appendices at the end of Volume II. These include a chronology of Black women in the United States and a listing of biographical entries as well as notes on editors and contributors. …

Some Soviet works on Islam

N. A. Smirnov's Ochyerki istorii izucheniya Mama v SSSR (Essays on the study of Islam in the Soviet Union), Moscow, The Soviet Academy of Sciences’ Press, 1954; 276 pp. Large Soviet Encyclopaedia (in Russian, 2nd edition, Moscow, 1953). Soviet Historical Encyclopaedia (in Russian, Moscow, 1965). E. A. Belyayev's Araby, Islam i Arabskiy Khalifat v rannyeye Sryednyevyekov'ye (The Arabs, Islam and the Arab Caliphate in the early Middle Ages), Moscow, Nauka Press, 1965; 280 pp. I. M. Fil'shtinskiy and B. Ya. Shidfar's Ochyerk Arabo‐Musul'manskoy KuVtury (VII‐XII vv.) (An essay on Arabo‐Muslim culture from the seventh to the twelfth centuries), Moscow, Soviet Academy of Sciences – Nauka Press, 1971; 260 pp. I. P. Pyetrushyevskiy's Islam v Iranye v VII‐XV vyekakh (Islam in Iran from the seventh to the fifteenth centuries), Leningrad University's Publishing House, 1966; 400 pp. A. M. Vasil'yev, Puritanye Islama? Vahhabizmipyervoyegosudarstvo Sauditov v Arabii {Jlie Puritans of Islam ? Wahhabism and the first sta...

Soviet Historians Today

C LIO is being treated relatively well in Soviet Russia these days. She is not quite at liberty, to be sure, but the contrasts with the situation a decade ago are many, and heartening. The sheer bulk of historical writing coming from the Soviet Union lately is unprecedented. There is a whole family of new historical periodicals containing articles based, to a degree unknown before, on published archival sources. Three volumes of a new historical encyclopedia have appeared so far; its columns are surprisingly complete, and often quite objective. What is more, in contrast to the equally new literary encyclopedia, no one has yet attacked this effort at codification. The works of Kliuchevsky, Soloviev, and Tatishchev are being reissued in impressive reprintings, enriched by a technical apparatus which will make them more valuable than ever before. The new printing of Herzen's Kolokol has now reached the eighth volume, and the recently begun publication of diplomatic documents of the nineteenth century are models of their kind. The splendid series of medieval chronicles is being continued, and the most recent volume is superior to many of the preceding ones. The study of Russia's medieval period has, one is tempted to conclude, been largely lifted from the sphere of ideology to that of scholarly debate, with such respected names as D. S. Likhachev, L. V. Cherepnin and I. I. Smirnov, as well as B. A. Rybakov, dominating the field. Though more recent periods fare less well, even touchy problems, such as the Second World War, are being treated more frankly. It is as if Soviet historians could no longer tolerate the former systematic and total abuse of the elementary rules of their craft. Western scholarship on Russia,

Some Coptic Legends about Roman Emperors

I venture to call the attention of classical scholars to two legends about Roman Emperors gleaned amid the arid waste of theological nonsense which passed for literature among the Copts, in the hope that they may have better luck than I have had in tracing them to some classical source. The first is taken from MS. Par. Copte 131, fol. 40, a single leaf of what seems to be a geographical and historical encyclopaedia.1 The writer who is treating in a very discursive way of Ethiopia, states that Nero or Domitian—a strange pair to run in double harness—caused an island in the Red Sea to be watered with oil. The description of that island is mixed up with a mention of the original divisions of the Indians—a term which as usual in early days embraces both Indians and Ethiopians,—and their subsequent changes; and as that too may be of interest to students of ancient geography, I will translate the passage in full.