Robert Barker Research Articles

Disputed Temple: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Book of Haggai by John Robert Barker

Reviewed by: Disputed Temple: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Book of Haggai by John Robert Barker Matthew Seufert john robert barker, Disputed Temple: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Book of Haggai (Emerging Scholars; Minneapolis: Fortress, 2017). Pp. xvii + 295. $79. To give a sense of the extent and value of John Barker’s work: pp. 261–88 are bibliography. Twenty-eight pages at roughly fifteen items per page gives 420 books, journal articles, essays, and reference works that went into the production of this one book of six chapters (one introductory chapter; one text-critical, redaction-critical; one historical; two rhetorical-critical: one on Haggai 1 and one on Haggai 2; one summary) written on one slight prophetic book of two brief chapters of thirty-eight verses, B.’s translation of which is exhausted in less than three pages. Barker’s first chapter calls attention to the hole his study fills: “Despite the recognizably rhetorical character of the book of Haggai, it has been subjected to only limited rhetorical analysis” (p. 7), “[t]hus a full-length exploration of the book of Haggai specifically as a persuasive text is still needed” (p. 10). His exploration goes beyond previous rhetorical studies of Haggai by analyzing the whole of, rather than only a part of, the text itself (the literary aspect of rhetorical criticism). A special focus of his work is “the milieu in which the text was formed and to which it contributes” (the sociohistorical aspect), which some earlier studies have neglected; this latter extratextual consideration plays an “organic part” in the analysis” and, for B., distinguishes rhetorical criticism from literary criticism (p. 14). B.’s belief in the importance of the situation of the rhetorical document finds expression in his substantial third chapter (about seventy pages), which details pertinent historical information gleaned from both biblical (e.g., Ezra, Zechariah, and Isaiah 66) and extrabiblical sources (e.g., the Cyrus Cylinder) in order to provide insight into the specific obstacles faced by Haggai’s contemporaries to the rebuilding of the temple. “A main argument of this study is that all of the prophet’s speeches, not just the first one, were intended to urge the Yehudites to work on the temple” (p. 12). Even more, the framework [End Page 106] within which the speeches were placed, and so the book itself, contributed to the “specific policy dispute” in favor of rebuilding the temple, countering prevailing objections. Barker establishes the text of Haggai in his thorough second chapter on text- and redaction-critical issues. While acknowledging several text-critical challenges, “[with] few exceptions the MT reading was accepted” (p. 253). By and large, then, it is the MT text that addresses the ill of Haggai’s community, the cause of the ill, the remedy for the ill, and the consequences; these make up the “stock issues” of a policy dispute, “a subgenre of deliberative speech” (p. 17). “These stock issues provide a helpful framework for understanding the persuasive aim, strategies, and dynamic of the HN [i.e., Book of Haggai], as reflected in the reported oracles of the prophet and the narrative additions of the composer” (p. 143). The ill of the community “depicted in v. 6 [of chap. 1] . . . serve[s] rhetorically as both evidence of a need for a new policy and motivation to adopt that policy immediately” (p. 164; italics original); this ill “is the inability to meet basic needs despite all efforts” (p. 165): the people have sown much but brought in little, eaten without fullness, drunk without inebriation, dressed without warmth, and earned wages for a bag of holes. The cause of these ills is the unbuilt temple; the remedy, naturally, is to “build the house” (Hag 1:8). The remainder of Haggai, says B., addresses “the potential disadvantages to adopting the proposed policy,” which are the consequences (p. 142), the final component of the official policy dispute. “By urging his fellow Yehudites to rebuild the temple, Haggai was engaging, in effect, in a political campaign or policy debate to influence the outcome of a public decision” (p. 6). Barker views and analyzes Haggai not primarily as “a theological document with some ‘rhetorical’ features” but as “a...

Robert Barker Memorial Session: Leadership in Plasma Science and Applications

This paper summarizes the Dr. Robert J. Barker memorial session at the IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science 2014. Each section summarizes progress in a plasma research area strongly influenced by Dr. Barker's leadership: 1) plasma medicine; 2) atmospheric-pressure plasmas; 3) high-power microwaves; 4) pulsed power; and 5) numerical simulation of plasmas. He had a profound influence on these and other plasma science applications, as well as on numerous individual researchers. He will be missed greatly.

Panoramic visions: Denise Blake Oleksijczuk, the First Panoramas Erkki Huhtamo, Illusions in Motion.

This essay reviews two recent publications—Denise Blake Oleksijczuk’s The First Panoramas and Erkki Huhtamo’s Illusions in Motion —which deal with the rich visual and cultural history of panoramas. The essay assesses the respective contributions of these books to the history of this phenomenon. Beginning with Robert Barker’s panoramic paintings of Edinburgh and London, which were displayed on a cylindrical surface in London in 1792, panoramas offered a remarkable visual experience for spectators. This essay reflects on the popularity of this phenomenon, and the ways in which the history and impact of panoramas is discussed and interpreted in the work of Oleksijczuk and Huhtamo.

Cultural Heritage and the Panorama: From Painting to Imaging

Since the 1787 invention of the immersive 360-degree painted panorama by Robert Barker, the panorama has been used to depict such subject matter as significant architectural complexes, historical events and military battles - aspects of cultural heritage. Computer-based panoramic imaging is a valuable tool for the comprehensive documentation of a cultural landscape - allowing the viewer to understand an environment much like one would do in the physical world. By integrating panoramic imaging within an interactive environment, a greater understanding of cultural heritage can be attained by providing context to specific tangible and intangible cultural artifacts of a place within time. In this paper, I will provide an overview of the development of the panorama both within a historical and technical context; describe and analyze past, present and potential future applications of the panorama for cultural heritage purposes; and discuss issues related to the preservation of panoramic imaging within the digital domain.

A ‘proper point of view’: The panorama and some of its early media iterations

The panorama entered the world not as a visual format but as a claim: to lure viewers into seeing in a particular way. Robert Barker’s 1787 patent for a 360-degree painting of ‘nature at a glance’ (Nature à Coup d’Oeil) emphasized the construction of a ‘proper point of view’ as a means of making the viewer ‘feel as if really on the spot’. This situating strategy would, over the following centuries, take many forms within the world of the painted panorama and its photographic, magic lantern, and cinematic counterparts. This essay charts some of the unexpected twists and turns of this strategy, exploring among others the moving panorama (both as a parallel development to the cinematic moving picture and as deployed by the film medium as a background to suggest movement) and the relations between the spatial promise of the late nineteenth-century stereoscope and that most populous of early motion picture titles, the panorama. The essay focuses on changing technologies and strategies for achieving Barker’s initial goals, while attending to the implications for the viewer. Drawing from the observations of scholars as diverse as Bentham, Foucault, and Crary, the essay uses the various iterations of the panorama to explore the implications of a particularly rich strand of technologies of seeing.

GRAHAM REES and MARIA WAKELY, Publishing, Politics, and Culture: The King's Printers in the Reign of James I and VI.

AS Rees and Wakely point out at the beginning of their book, the great problem for those investigating early English book history is the loss of masses of records generated ‘in the general way of book-trade, family, and landed business—indentures, bills obligatory, manuscript book lists and catalogues, account books, warehouse day books, shop books, correspondence, leases, mortgages and other documents relating to property deals, marriage contracts and jointures, and a great deal else besides’ (7–8). Indeed, this is the problem, and although some day a bit of this material may turn up, most of it it is gone forever and scholars try to reconstruct events by calculated and informed guesswork. However, the situation with the contenders for the rights to be the King’s Printers in the Jacobean period is somewhat different, partly because of the staggering sums of money involved and the litigation undertaken to get control of this money—legal records have a much better survival rate than business or family records. For example, in the course of one pleading in Chancery in 1617 it is claimed that Bonham Norton and John Bill paid to the family of Robert Barker the sum of £6,500 which, according to the National Archives ‘Currency Converter’ (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/currency/results.asp#mid) would be worth £636,220 in modern money, and sums of this size and larger are to be found on almost every page of the early chapters in this book. These Stationers are clearly not the nearly destitute, living on the edge businessmen of whom literary scholars have been wont to speak, but then perhaps literary scholars have got it wrong all these years.

Chilling Allahabad: Climate Control and the Production of Anglicized Weather in Early Modern India

I want to begin with two stories about ice. Benigne Poissenot described his encounter with a glaciere in his Nouvelles histoires tragiques (1586). Passing through Jura region of France in June of 1584, he stopped at city of Besancon and was offered wine chilled with for his refreshment. In spite of fact that effects of radical climate changes characterizing sixteenth- century Europe were common knowledge-effects that included unusually long winters and prolonged periods of cold that extended well into spring and summer months-Poissenot found idea of an endless supply of summer something truly marvelous, particularly for luxurious purposes. He longed to see for himself sources of this wondrous store of ice, and was taken to Froidiere de Chaux, through dense woods on twisting paths to opening of enormous cave, . . a place so terrifying that he was reminded of what is said to be St. Patrick's hole in Hibernia. Nevertheless he drew his sword and entered cavern paved with ice, and with crystal-clear water, colder than that of mount Arcadia Nonacris (qtd. in Ladurie 138). His reaction to cave, however, was primarily of terror:Whenever I looked upwards my whole body shuddered with fear and my hair stood up on my head, seeing all upper part of cave covered with blocks of ice, least of which falling on me would have been enough to dash out my brains and tear me in pieces: so much so that I was like criminal whose punishment in Hell was to have a big stone continually threatening to fall on him. (qtd. in Ladurie 138-39)Not an isolated historical instance, successive travelers stumbled across this refrigerator that continued to supply people of Besancon with to cool their wine cellars. In fact, Froidiere de Chaux was still steadily exploited for its until a disastrous flood in 1910 appeared to dissolve its reservoirs and reformed again (Ladurie 140).Some two hundred years later, Sir Robert Barker, Fellow of Royal Society, adventurer, observer, and early modern climatologist, had a similar experience in Allahabad, where he was regaled with sherbets and iced creams when the thermometer has stood at 112° (Barker 257). Barker's reaction to availability of extreme heats of summer was far different from Poissenot's. Unlike glaciere shown to Poissenot, Barker had never heard of any persons having discovered in pools or cisterns, or in any waters collected in roads (252). In a letter to Royal Society, he begged permission to present you with method by which [ice-making] was performed at Allahabad, Mootegil, and Calcutta (252). He describes process by which porous clay vessels of water, buried in pits filled with reeds, salt, and saltpeter, came to provide for these cities:From these circumstances it appears, that water, by being placed in a situation free from receiving heat from other bodies, and exposed in large surfaces to air, may be brought to freeze when temperature of atmosphere is some degrees above freezing point on scale of FAHRENHEIT'S thermometer; and by being collected and amassed into a large body, it is thus preserved, and rendered fit for freezing other fluids, severe heats of summer season. (256)Unlike Poissenot's cautious approach to caves of Jura, Barker was eager to observe foreign practices of icemaking, and while he muses that during [his] residence in that quarter of globe, [he] saw any ice (255), somehow this absence of a natural explanation seemed perfectly sensible to him. While Poissenot expresses himself to be burning with desire to be shown great stalactites of ice in Froidiere de Chaux, he interprets actual sight of this cave and its source of both as a threat and as a form of criminal trespass (qtd. …

Between the Virtual and the Actual: Robert Barker's Panorama of London and the Multiplication of the Real in late eighteenth-century London1

The panorama is usually identified as the culmination, for the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century, of Enlightenment attempts to produce a “second-order reality in which to play with or practice upon the first order”. It is therefore aligned with the modern attempt to contain everything within a single view or picture. In contrast, this paper argues that in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century the panorama and the hyper-realistic illusions it conjured, paradoxically relied on and at the same time intensified the late eighteenth-century sense that first and second order realities (the “physical environment in which one is really present” and the environments presented by material or textual media) had diverged to a degree that was unprecedented. This at first somewhat counter-intuitive phenomenon occurs not despite but because of the panorama’s ability to simulate the real. The hyper-realistic virtual realities of the early panorama intensified late eighteenth-century interest in the observation of observation; presented perception as an event that did not require the presence of its apparent object, thus radicalising the achievements of Trompe l’Oeil painting; drew attention to the figural space of representation; and provided new evidence for the constructed and contingent nature of the real. The paper takes as its key foci Caspar David Friedrich’s “The Wanderer above a sea of Mists” (1818), the Leicester Square Panorama (opened 1793), and Barker’s panorama of London (1791 and 1795).

Independent Remote Monitoring System for Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Floating Production Systems

This article, written by Technology Editor Dennis Denney, contains highlights of paper OTC 18607, "An Independent Remote Monitoring System for Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Floating Production Systems," by J.T. von Aschwege, BP, Kal Jassal, DNV, and Robert Barker, BMT-SMS, prepared for the 2007 Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, 30 April-3 May. As part of its integrity-management efforts, BP has installed permanent integrated marine monitoring systems (IMMSs) on its Gulf of Mexico (GOM) deepwater floating systems. The IMMS monitors critical environmental and floating-system response parameters, then archives and transmits data to shore in near-real time. A backup system called the independent remote monitoring system (IRMS) also has been installed on these floating systems. The IRMS has limited capabilities designed to transmit vital information onshore, in near-real time, in the event of a platform evacuation during hurricane conditions. The IRMS is fully independent of the primary IMMS. Introduction During the 2004 and 2005 hurricane seasons, many deepwater floating facilities in the GOM lost power or were otherwise unable to communicate to shore. During Hurricane Rita, onshore facilities in Houston lost communication abilities with offshore facilities. Loss of communications renders platforms invisible to conventional shore-based monitoring. Backup remote marine monitoring was needed for offshore floating facilities when evacuated. The IRMS is an independent system that does not rely on any platform service for operation. The IRMS has its own measuring instruments for gathering weather, position, and vessel-motion data. The design is such that the only connection between the IRMS and the platform is the foundation it sits on. The system's satellite link enables near-real-time data and video transmission to shore throughout an evacuated period, and the internal data storage provides a "black-box" approach to data capture for potential forensic evaluations. IRMS Overview The IRMS unit, shown in Fig. 1, is self-contained with a computer, batteries, satellite-communications system, and sensor array all mounted in two enclosures. The computer, communications hardware, and electronics are mounted in one enclosure, and the other enclosure contains only the batteries. The electronics enclosure houses the IRMS server-grade computer, which is a special low-powered unit, designed to operate in a high-humidity and high-temperature ambient environment. Signal conditioning occurs at each of the sensors or in the electronics enclosure, and all sensors interface serially or digitally with the IRMS console. Instrumentation Package. The IRMS has its own instrument array for measuring environmental conditions and platform behavior that is independent from that installed on the platform. The IRMS was not required to mimic the permanent IMMS in its entirety. The selection of instruments was intended to provide sufficient channels of data to allow reliable indications of prevailing offshore conditions and platform-motion behavior. Facility-monitoring data include pitch/trim, roll/heel, surge, sway, heave, yaw, and position. Environmental monitoring data include wind speed and direction, barometric pressure, humidity, and temperature. The system runs its own health checks including battery checks and input and output voltage and currents. Both video and still images are collected.

Printing and Double-Dealing in Jacobean England: Robert Barker, John Bill, and Bonham Norton

The article tells the story of four men - Robert Barker, John Bill, John Norton, and Bonham Norton - and the struggles for control of the King’s Printing House and other businesses in the first thirty years of the seventeenth century. The business partnerships included a London and continental book-trade partnership involving both printing and import-export; a Bible syndicate; and the office of King’s Printer in Latin, Greek and Hebrew. But it was the King’s Printing House itself that was the main prize, and from 1618 onwards the right to be King’s Printer became the subject of a series of bitter lawsuits between Barker, Bill, and Bonham Norton which lasted well into the reign of Charles I. Through a detailed examination of Chancery documents relating to these lawsuits, this article uncovers the extent of behind-the-scenes double dealing in operations relating to the offices of King’s Printer in this period, along with an arresting story of bribery, blackmail, and threatened book-burning.

Absorbing Hesitation: Wordsworth and the Theory of the Panorama

I. Sublimity, Virtuality, Materiality THERE HAS BEEN A NOTICEABLE PREOCCUPATION, EVEN FASCINATION, with panorama in romantic studies. (1) At heart of this essay is claim that reason we continue to be so fascinated by specter of romantic-era panorama is that we are still caught in a romantic dilemma. The panorama compels us to confront a fundamental question of avant-garde aesthetics: what distance (or not) should art assume towards casual (mass, commercial, idiotic) enjoyment? Furthermore, aesthetic debates unleashed by panorama survive and even thrive in our own new media technology, virtual reality. The outpouring of responses of British romantic-era commentators to new representation technologies that emerged in 1790s, responses which oscillate between poles of exuberance and horror, mirror contemporary discourse of virtual reality both in terms of respective new technologies' relationship to established modes, particularly literature, and in terms of sheer extent of their powers. At both historical moments question becomes, do new representation technologies transcend aesthetic and become real? The ways in which aggregate of idea of panorama (emergent in England in 1790s) and of virtuality (a late-twentieth century idea with global implications which may be said to be latest incarnation of aesthetics) identify and perpetuate romantic positionings vis-a-vis casual enjoyment, particularly as casual enjoyment relates to mimetic representation, are my central concern here. The is implicated in this set of issues in multiple ways. First, idea of panorama evolved into a powerful foil of romantic within context of romantic-era discourse, and this dichotomy continues to influence criticism and thought about both panorama and of period. Significantly, it was slow to take form and actually emerged out of a discourse that tended to understand idioms of and as intimately connected rather than quintessentially different. Indeed, terms seem to have been, for a length of time, entirely interchangeable. Technically speaking, panorama refers to a 360-degree painting patented by Englishman Robert Barker in 1787 and first executed by him in 1792. (2) However, a recent historian of panorama confirms that the use of word 'panorama' in a broad or metaphoric sense seems to have begun almost simultaneously with invention of technological term (Oettermann 6). As such, panoramic was applied to all manner of art works in all manner of media, from print to song to dramatic performance to paint. (3) The became ubiquitous--what was panoramic was also understood to be sublime--most often by virtue of given art work's aesthetic power (to move its reader/viewer/listener) or its size (exceptionally large and diminutive alike). As such, romantic-era writers applied to works as diverse as a journal which called itself Literary Panorama, to Robert Southey's poetry, notably Kehama; (4) Schiller's dramas; Italian opera, particularly voices of castrati singers, who continued to perform in London well into nineteenth century; and visual representations as diverse as John Martin's paintings and Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg's miniature moving light-and-sound show, Eidophusikon, all of which were also understood explicitly to draw on aesthetic of sublime. The drive for disassociation of terms and was thus not initiated until well after critical discourse had become comfortable with their proximity to one another and even their synonymy. It was not until Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Charles Lamb introduced sublime that this relationship began to shift. (5) The material was deployed precisely to undo proximity that had developed and to make case that and are not only essentially unlike, but that former is actually antithesis of latter. …

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Use of PCR in the field.

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) represents a powerful new technology with a variety of field applications. While most of these are still experimental, implementation of PCR-based detection of Onchocerca volvulus in black flies, and subspecific differentiation strongly suggest that potential problems can be overcome. Because of high sensitivity and specificity, PCR provides in some cases the only means to address central parasitological questions, and may well become the 'gold standard' by which other diagnostic techniques are measured. In spite of these advantages, routine implementation of PCR,at present,requires transportation of samples to a central facility for processing, and personnel whose technical competence is high. In addition, reagents are expensive. Robert Barker here weighs up these considerations with regard to the potential utility of PCR assays for some applications.

Should Training for Private Practice Be a Central Component of Social Work Education? Yes!

Abstract Point/Counterpoint is a regular feature of the Journal of Social Work Education. Its purpose is to provide a vehicle for the expression of contrasting views on controversial topics in social work education. Our goal is to illuminate important debates and explore the diverse perspectives that are shaping social work education. In each issue of the journal, two social work educators are invited to comment on a topic about which they have differing viewpoints. Each commentator is given an opportunity to make a brief rebuttal. In this issue, Robert Barker and Harry Specht address the question: “Should training for private practice be a central component of social work education?”

Should Training for Private Practice Be a Central Component of Social Work Education? No!

Abstract Point/Counterpoint is a regular feature of the Journal of Social Work Education. Its purpose is to provide a vehicle for the expression of contrasting views on controversial topics in social work education. Our goal is to illuminate important debates and explore the diverse perspectives that are shaping social work education. In each issue of the journal, two social work educators are invited to comment on a topic about which they have differing viewpoints. Each commentator is given an opportunity to make a brief rebuttal. In this issue, Robert Barker and Harry Specht address the question: “Should training for private practice be a central component of social work education?”

A King's Printer at Work: two Documents of Robert Barker

A King's Printer at Work: two Documents of Robert Barker

A Legal Foundation for Exchange

Previous articleNext article No AccessA Legal Foundation for ExchangeClifford G. HoldernessClifford G. Holderness Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Legal Studies Volume 14, Number 2Jun., 1985 Sponsored by The University of Chicago Law School Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/467775 Views: 10Total views on this site Citations: 19Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1985 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Stefano Moroni, Giuseppe Lorini Multiple functions of drawings, Journal of Urban Design 26, no.33 (Aug 2020): 374–394.https://doi.org/10.1080/13574809.2020.1801341Charles Delmotte The Case Against Tax Subsidies in Innovation Policy, SSRN Electronic Journal (Jan 2020).https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3564793Stefano Moroni Constitutional and post-constitutional problems: Reconsidering the issues of public interest, agonistic pluralism and private property in planning, Planning Theory 18, no.11 (Mar 2018): 5–23.https://doi.org/10.1177/1473095218760092George Robert Barker The Law and Economics of Copyright Law and Copyright Exceptions, Limitations, and Immunities, SSRN Electronic Journal (Jan 2019).https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3315619Michael C. Blumm Anti-Monopoly and the Radical Lockean Origins of Western Water Law, SSRN Electronic Journal (Jan 2013).https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2302848Thomas W. Merrill and Henry E. Smith Making Coasean Property More Coasean, The Journal of Law and Economics 54, no.S4S4 (Jul 2015): S77–S104.https://doi.org/10.1086/661946Stan J. Liebowitz, Richard Watt HOW TO BEST ENSURE REMUNERATION FOR CREATORS IN THE MARKET FOR MUSIC? COPYRIGHT AND ITS ALTERNATIVES, Journal of Economic Surveys 20, no.44 (Sep 2006): 513–545.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6419.2006.00259.xAristides N. Hatzis The Negative Externalities of Immorality: The Case of Same-Sex Marriage, SSRN Electronic Journal (Jan 2006).https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.909804Clifford G Holderness Joint ownership and alienability, International Review of Law and Economics 23, no.11 (Mar 2003): 75–100.https://doi.org/10.1016/S0144-8188(03)00015-2Clifford G. Holderness Standing, (Jan 2017): 1905–1909.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-74173-1_360Aristides N. Hatzis Rights and Obligations of Third Parties, SSRN Electronic Journal (Jan 2001).https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.141053Clifford G. Holderness, Michael C. Jensen, William H. Meckling The Logic of the First Amendment, SSRN Electronic Journal (Jan 2000).https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.215468Clifford G. Holderness Joint Ownership and Alienability, SSRN Electronic Journal (Jan 2000).https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.229801Michael C. Jensen, William H. Meckling Freedom, Capitalism and Human Behavior Chapter 2: Human Rights and the Meaning of Freedom, SSRN Electronic Journal (Jan 1999).https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.638703Peter Newman S, (Jan 1998): 395–559.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14286-6_4Clifford G. Holderness Standing, SSRN Electronic Journal (Jan 1998).https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.121688Gregory T. Gundlach Exchange Relationships and the Efficiency Interests of the Law, Journal of Public Policy & Marketing 15, no.22 (Dec 2018): 185–202.https://doi.org/10.1177/074391569601500202 Clifford G. Holderness The Assignment of Rights, Entry Effects, and the Allocation of Resources, The Journal of Legal Studies 18, no.11 (Oct 2015): 181–189.https://doi.org/10.1086/468145Michael C. Jensen, William H. Meckling, Clifford G. Holderness Analysis of alternative standing doctrines, International Review of Law and Economics 6, no.22 (Dec 1986): 205–216.https://doi.org/10.1016/0144-8188(86)90004-9

Stable isotope labeling of sugars simplified

A new way to label sugar molecules with stable atomic isotopes in practically any position has been developed by biochemists at Michigan State University, East Lansing. Their contribution, part of a national program to exploit stable atomic isotopes, will help spread the use of methods, such as nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and mass spectrometry, into broader biomedical applications. So far, the Michigan group, including biochemistry department chairman Robert Barker, graduate student Anthony Serianni, and their colleagues, has worked mainly with the stable isotope carbon-13 in labeling a large variety of sugars. But the method also works with deuterium and oxygen-18 meaning that sugar molecules can be outfitted with isotopes in any position. The method for introducing the isotopes is a takeoff on the almost century-old Kiliani reaction that extends sugar molecules one carbon at a time by adding molecules of cyanide to them. But the Michigan scientists have refined and changed the conditions of ...

Notes on the Panorama in Paris

Robert Barker of Edinburgh patented the panorama process on 19 June 1787 and opened the first panorama in London in 1792. Robert Fulton, the American inventor, obtained the patent to import the panorama to Paris at the end of 1799. Fulton opened the Paris panorama in 1800, but shortly thereafter ceded the patent to James Thayer. By the summer of 1800 there were two panorama rotundas in operation in a passage off the Boulevard Montmartre. At the end of 1802 a third rotunda was constructed in the Jardin des Capucines, Boulevard de la Chausée d'Antin.

Sources of Herbert Read's “The Green Child”

Sources of Herbert Read's “The Green Child” Get access Robert Barker Robert Barker Chelsea College, University of London. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume 24, Issue 5, October 1977, Pages 455–457, https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/24.5.455 Published: 01 October 1977