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Kinanti, Ruth Sri. "Family Relationship In Gabrielle Lord`s Lethal Factor." Lingua Cultura 1, no. 1 (May 31, 2007): 19. http://dx.doi.org/10.21512/lc.v1i1.258.

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Jenis karya sastra cerita detektif bukan hal baru dalam kesusastraan Australia. Salah satu penulis cerita detektif, Gabrielle Lord, menampilkan masalah yang tidak pernah diangkat oleh penulis lainnya, yaitu masalah hubungan keluarga. Novel yang akan dikaji dalam tulisan ini adalah Lethal Factor. Dalam karya ini masalah keluarga dan penyalahgunaan anak dibahas dan dilibatkan dalam kasus kriminal yang terjadi dalam kehidupan penyidik forensic, Jack McCain. Kasus kriminal terjadi dalam beberapa kasus yang menggunakan senjata tajam yang menimpa seorang biarawati dan senjata racun kimia yang menimpa teman McCain. Persoalan menjadi menarik dan penting ketika McCain juga harus menyelesaikan kasusnya dengan istri dan terancamnya jiwa anaknya.
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McSkimming, Michael J., and Nora A. Smith. "The MSA and the McCain Tobacco Bill: Smoke without a Fire?" Criminal Justice Policy Review 13, no. 2 (June 2002): 117–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0887403402132002.

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This article critically examines the mandates of the McCain Tobacco Bill and the Master Settlement Agreement toward addressing the youth smoking crisis in the United States. An overview of teenage smoking trends is presented, followed by the legislative history of the McCain Tobacco Bill and the Master Settlement Agreement. Reactions to this legislation are discussed, as well as predicted consequences. A review of the literature on youth smoking prevention, rooted in risk taking and social control theory, is presented. Empirical and theoretical support is provided for suggesting alternative solutions. The need for a comprehensive, coordinated approach involving law enforcement, the media, the family, and the educational system is described.
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Rayachhetry, M. B., R. W. Pemberton, L. L. Smith, and R. Leahy. "Pathogenicity Assessment of Puccinia lygodii, a Potential Biological Control Agent of Lygodium japonicum in Southeastern United States." Plant Disease 85, no. 2 (February 2001): 232. http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/pdis.2001.85.2.232a.

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Lygodium japonicum (Thunb.) Swartz (Family, Schizaeaceae) is naturally distributed from Asia to Australia and has naturalized in the United States from Texas to the Carolinas and Florida (4). Recently, it has been declared a Category I weed (the most invasive group) by the Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council. A foliar rust fungus was observed on a population of L. japonicum growing under the canopy of a pine/hardwood forest in Gainesville, FL. The lower surfaces of almost all the pinnules (foliage) were covered with cinnamon-brown eruptive pustules. Necrotic areas developed around mature, erupted, and coalesced pustules. Severely infected foliage were wilted and dried. Microscopic observations of the pustules and spore morphology revealed these eruptive structures to be uredinia. The dimensions (24.6 [+ 2.2] × 29.7 [+ 3.5] μm) and morphology (ellipsoid or obovoid, pale cinnamon-brown, and echinulate with indistinct pores) of urediniospore were similar to those reported for Puccinia lygodii (Har.) Arth. (Uredinales) (1). Therefore, the rust was identified as P. lygodii and confirmed by J. Hennen. P. lygodii is native to South America, where it has been recorded from L. volubile and L. venustum (2). This rust was previously identified as Milesia and Uredinopsis spp. on L. japonicum from Louisiana and Florida, respectively (3). Herein, we report the performance of Koch's postulates for P. lygodii on L. japonicum. Excised foliage bearing uredinia from plants collected near Gainesville were placed in a flask, flooded with deionized distilled water, shaken vigorously for a few minutes, and the suspension strained through four layers of cheesecloth. Urediniospores suspended in the filtrate were concentrated to 1.0 × 106 spores/ml, using sedimentation technique, and then misted onto 3-week-old foliage of fully expanded fronds of four juvenile L. japonicum plants grown in pots, until the foliage were completely wet. The plants were then covered with a plastic bag and placed in dappled shade. After 3 days, the bags were removed and the water-filled containers were placed around L. japonicum plants to maintain high ambient humidity. During the remaining 4-week experimental period, the temperature and relative humidity under the shaded areas ranged from 23 to 38°C and 38 to 93%, respectively. The plants were monitored daily for development of symptoms characteristics of P. lygodii. Minute cinnamon-brown flecks appeared on the foliage 20 days after inoculation. Within 3 to 5 days, these flecked areas expanded, erupted, and formed uredinia on the lower surface of the symptomatic foliage. The morphology and size range of the uredinia and urediniospores were the same as those of the P. lygodii applied in this test. This is the first report confirming pathogenicity of P. lygodii on L. japonicum. P. lygodii may be a potential biological control agent of L. japonicum in the Southeast United States. References: (1) J. C. Arthur. Bull. Torrey Club 51:55, 1924. (2) J. F. Hennen and J. W. McCain. Mycologia 85:970–986, 1993. (3) J. W. McCain, J. F. Hennen, and Y. Ono. Mycotaxon 39:281–300, 1990. (4) R. W. Pemberton and A. P. Ferriter. Am. Fern J. 88:165–175, 1998.
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Menth, Martin. "A family of Fitting classes of supersoluble groups." Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 118, no. 1 (July 1995): 49–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305004100073448.

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A class of groups that is closed with respect to subnormal subgroups and normal products is called a Fitting class. Given a finite soluble group G, one may ask for the Fitting class (G) generated by G, that is the intersection of all Fitting classes containing G. For simple or nilpotent groups G it is easy to compute (G), but in other cases the determination of (G) seems to be surprisingly difficult, and there is no general method of solving this problem. In recent years there has been a lot of work in this area, see for instance Bryce and Cossey[l], [2], Hawkes[6] (or [5], IX. 9. Var. II), Heineken[7] and McCann[10].
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MÜHLENHARDT-SIEGEL, UTE. "Phalloleucon abyssalis, a new cumacean genus and species (Crustacea: Peracarida: Leuconidae) from the Peru Basin." Zootaxa 1829, no. 1 (July 25, 2008): 61. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1829.1.4.

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A new genus and species, Phalloleucon abyssalis, of the cumacean family Leuconidae from the Peru Basin is introduced. The new genus is characterised in having penial lobes and one pair of pleopods in males. It is suggested that the species Eudorella redacticruris Watling and McCann, 1997 is transfered into a new leuconid genus: Pseudeudorella.
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Rayamajhi, M. B., R. W. Pemberton, T. K. Van, and P. D. Pratt. "First Report of Infection of Lygodium microphyllum by Puccinia lygodii, a Potential Biocontrol Agent of an Invasive Fern in Florida." Plant Disease 89, no. 1 (January 2005): 110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/pd-89-0110a.

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Lygodium microphyllum (Cav.) R.Br. (Old World climbing fern), in the family Schizaeaceae, is one of the most invasive (Category I in Florida) weeds in Florida. It has invaded more than 50,000 ha of wetlands and moist habitats in southern Florida and is rapidly spreading in new areas of the Everglades (3). The search and evaluation of biocontrol agents for this fern is currently in progress. Puccinia lygodii (Har.) Arth. (Uredinales) (1), previously recorded on L. volubile Sw. and L. venustum Sw. in South America (2), attacks foliage and severely damages L. japonicum Thunb. (Japanese climbing fern) vines in northern and central Florida (4). We hypothesized that since L. japonicum occurred mainly in northern and central Florida, P. lygodii did not have opportunity to interact with L. microphyllum, which primarily occurs in southern Florida. Therefore, we used two inoculation methods to test the possible pathogenicity of P. lygodii on the new host, L. microphyllum. Method-I was designed to imitate a seminatural inoculation technique in which three containerized (0.45-L capacity) L. microphyllum test plants (15- to 30-cm-high sporelings) were intermixed among a group of containerized (5.0-L capacity) P. lygodii-infected L. japonicum plants (source of inoculum) in a glasshouse. In Method-II, uredospores obtained from pustules on diseased L. japonicum foliage were adjusted to 1 × 106 uredospores/ml and then misted on three L. microphyllum sporelings (same size as in Method-I) until foliage was completely wet. The plants were then covered individually with a plastic bag for 3 days to facilitate spore germination and infection. In both methods, three L. japonicum sporelings of similar size as L. microphyllum were intermixed among diseased L. japonicum plants as a positive control. All test and infected plants were placed on 6-cm-high trays filled two-thirds with water and exposed to diffused daylight and a temperature range of 20 to 35°C in a glasshouse. These plants were monitored for the development of rust symptoms (halos and rust pustules) development for 8 weeks. Minute cinnamon flakes that developed into eruptive pustules were seen on the lower surface of the pinnules approximately 42 and 28 days after treatment initiation (in both methods) for L. microphyllum and L. japonicum (positive control), respectively. Each method was repeated twice. Dimensions (29.7 [±3.7] × 23.5 [±2.6] μm) and morphology of urediniospores from pustules on inoculated L. microphyllum were similar to those reported for P. lygodii on other host systems (1,2,4). To our knowledge, this is the first report demonstrating the infection of P. lygodii on L. microphyllum. The potential use of P. lygodii as a classical bio-control agent of L. microphyllum in southern Florida will be further investigated. References: (1) J. C. Arthur. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 51:55, 1924. (2) J. W. McCain et al. Mycotaxon 39:281, 1990. (3) R. W. Pemberton. SIDA 20:1759, 2003. (4) M. B. Rayachhetry et al. Plant Dis. 85:232, 2000.
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Zablan, Zelda C. "Breast-feeding and fertility among Philippine women: trends, mechanisms and impact." Journal of Biosocial Science 17, S9 (1985): 147–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021932000025189.

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In pre-transitional societies, contraceptive practice is usually low or absent and prolonged breast-feeding has been identified as the major factor in keeping marital fertility levels below the biological maximum (Bongaarts, 1978), so that the length of birth intervals is the strongest determinant of completed family size.In transitional societies there is accumulating evidence that, with increasing modernization, the percentage of women who initiate breast-feeding and the duration of breast-feeding are declining (Jelliffe & Jelliffe, 1972; McCann et al., 1981; Rosa, 1976). Shorter durations of breast-feeding are observed for women who are more educated, belong to the upper socioeconomic class and live in urban areas (Jain & Sun, 1972; Lesthaeghe & Page, 1980).
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Jolivette, Andrew. "Making Multiracials: State, Family, and Market in the Redrawing of the Color Line. Kimberly McClain DaCosta." Journal of Anthropological Research 64, no. 2 (July 2008): 313–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/jar.64.2.20371250.

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Ruppersburg, Hugh. "Critical Essays on William Faulkner: The McCaslin Family edited by Arthur F. Kinney." Studies in American Fiction 20, no. 1 (1992): 119–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/saf.1992.0004.

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Minami, Masahiko, and Allyssa McCabe. "Rice balls and bear hunts: Japanese and North American family narrative patterns." Journal of Child Language 22, no. 2 (June 1995): 423–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305000900009867.

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ABSTRACTIn past research, the form of Japanese children's personal narratives was found to be distinctly different from that of English-speaking children. Despite follow-up questions that encouraged them to talk about one personal narrative at length, Japanese children spoke succinctly about collections of experiences rather than elaborating on any one experience in particular (Minami & McCabe, 1991). Conversations between mothers and children in the two cultures were examined in order partly to account for the way in which cultural narrative style is transmitted to children. Comparison of mothers from the two cultures yielded the following salient contrasts: (1) In comparison to the North American mothers, the Japanese mothers requested proportionately less description from their children. (2) Both in terms of frequency and proportion, the Japanese mothers gave less evaluation and showed more verbal attention to children than did North American mothers. (3) Japanese mothers pay verbal attention more frequently to boys than to girls. In addition, at five years, Japanese children produce 1·22 utterances per turn on average, while North American children produce 2·00 utterances per turn, a significant difference. Thus, by frequently showing verbal attention to their children's narrative contributions, Japanese mothers not only support their children's talk about the past but also make sure that it begins to take the shape of narration valued in their culture. The production of short narratives in Japan is understood and valued differently from such production in North America.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "McCain family"

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Coelho, Maria do Rosario Casas. "Let the great world spin, de Colum McCann: superando um trauma?" Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8147/tde-03122015-130217/.

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A presente dissertação tem por objetivo compreender de que maneira se dá a representação do trauma em Let the Great World Spin (2009), do premiado autor irlandês, Colum McCann. O romance foi escrito para falar sobre os ataques terroristas de 11 de Setembro de 2001, Nova Iorque, muito embora o evento não tenha sido diretamente mencionado no romance. A análise levou em conta declarações do próprio autor, de que não importa sobre o que escreva, é sempre sobre a Irlanda que fala e com isso houve a necessidade de se encontrar traumas comuns a Irlanda e aos Estados Unidos. Sendo essa a razão pela qual os aspectos \'imigração\' e \'família\' fazem parte deste estudo, pois a emigração repercutiu enormemente na configuração da família irlandesa. Ao ambientar o romance na Nova Iorque de 7 de Agosto de 1974, o autor já estabelece um distanciamento temporal e um recorte específico em que semelhanças entre 1974 e 2001 são realçadas no romance. A presença do artista francês Philippe Petit, que andou em um cabo de aço estendido entre as torres gêmeas, no que ficou conhecido como o maior crime artístico do século XX, estabelece a metáfora com o que em 2001 ficou conhecido como o maior ato terrorista do século XXI. Autores como Sztompka, Versluys, Smelser e Gibbs foram norteadores para a evolução da análise do trauma retratado no texto de Colum McCann. O romance opera com um grande número de vozes narrativas, provocando uma polifonia que atende ao objetivo do autor de dificultar ao máximo a estereotipia de suas personagens.
This dissertation is concerned with the representation of trauma in the award-winning celebrated Irish writer Colum McCann\'s novel, Let the Great World Spin (2009). The novel was written about the terrorist attacks of 9/11, in New York. Although the event is never directly mentioned within the text. My analysis took account of some statements made by the author to the effect that no matter what he writes about, he is always talking about Ireland. This creates the need to find common traumas between Ireland and the United States. For this reason, the topics of \'migration\' and \'family\' are part of this dissertation, as emigration impacted enormously on the compostion of the Irish family. Moreover, setting the novel in New York, on 7 August, 1974, suggests a temporal distancing in which commonalities between 1974 and 2001 are highlighted in the novel. The presence of the French artist, Philippe Petit, who walked in a tightrope between the Twin Towers, as a reference to the biggest artistic crime of the 20th Century, establishes the metaphorical link to what may be understood as the most savage terrorist act of the 21st Century. Scholars such as Sztompka, Versluys, Smelser and Gibbs were highly useful to the development of the analysis of the trauma portrayed in Colum McCann\'s text. The novel provides a polyphony of narrative voices, which assist the author to avoid stereotyping the characters.
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Books on the topic "McCain family"

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Marks, Robert. MacIain chiefs: A genealogy. [Halifax, N.S: R. Marks], 2000.

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Waldie, Paul. A house divided: The untold story of the McCain family. Toronto: Viking, 1996.

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Wallace, Shirley Reed. John McCain of Marshall County, KY, and descendants. Lexington, Ky: S.R. Wallace, 1996.

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Maynard, Lawrence W. Hugh McCain of the Waxhaws, and his descendants. Fort Worth, Tex. (2821 West Boyce Avenue, Fort Worth 76133): L.W. Maynard, 1993.

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Maynard, Lawrence W. James McCain of Clay County, and his known descendants. Fort Worth, Tex. (2821 West Boyce Avenue, Fort Worth 76133): L.W. Maynard, 1997.

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Maynard, Lawrence W. Hance McCain of Guilford County, and his known descendants. Fort Worth, Tex. (2821 West Boyce Avenue, Fort Worth 76133): L.W. Maynard, 1997.

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Dan, Andreasen, ed. My dad, John McCain. New York: Aladdin, 2008.

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Woloschuk, Michael. Family ties: The real story of the McCain feud. Toronto, Ont: Key Porter Books, 1995.

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Maynard, Lawrence W. Jane McCain of Shelby County, Alabama and her known descendants. Fort Worth, Tex. (2821 W. Boyce Ave., Fort Worth 76133): L.W. Maynard, 1995.

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Vogt, Nellie Mae Nelson. My father's Arkansas family: Crim, Nelson, Grimm, Nilsson, Linville, Mayfield, Riddle, Greenleaf, McCain. Sherwood, AR (27 Wesley Drive, Sherwood 72120): N.M.N. Vogt, 1999.

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Book chapters on the topic "McCain family"

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Hendren, L., C. Donawa, M. Emami, G. Gao, Justiani, and B. Sridharan. "Designing the McCAT compiler based on a family of structured intermediate representations." In Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, 406–20. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57502-2_61.

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Ross, Andrew. "Introduction: By the Time I Got to Phoenix." In Bird on Fire. Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199828265.003.0006.

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For those who prefer history chopped up into neat slices, John McCain’s modest concession speech on the lawn of the Arizona Biltmore on November 5, 2008, seemed like a clean cut of the knife. With the economy in a nosedive, it was not just the end of a presidential campaign. The neoliberal era seemed to be over—its reigning troika of deregulation, marketization, and privatization cast into disgrace, along with its most recent fiscal vehicles such as debt leveraging and speculation in finance and land. Nowhere was the devastation more visible than in McCain’s hometown. Phoenix had flown highest in the race to profit from the housing bubble, and it had fallen the furthest. Footage of the metro region’s outer-ring subdivisions reclaimed by sage grass, tumbleweed, and geckos was as evocative of the bubble’s savage aftermath as photographs of the Dust Bowl’s windblown soil had been of the Great Depression. Had Arizona’s senior senator not owned a condo nearby, he would have stayed in the hotel’s Goldwater presidential suite (every president since Hoover has slept at the Biltmore), stirring up associations with the Phoenix politician whose 1964 run for the White House pioneered the modern conservative temper of evangelizing against the power of government. Regarded locally as a carpetbagger when he first ran for Congress in 1982, McCain benefited from his wife Cindy’s family connections to take over Barry Goldwater’s senate seat four years later, but his people-pleasing style found little favor over the years among the Goldwater faithful. On that night, at least, there was no dearth of commentators willing to see McCain’s concession speech as heralding the end of the Sunbelt’s long hold on national politics, an arc that originated in the postwar eff ort of Goldwater’s circle at the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce to remake Arizona’s decrepit GOP into an instrument of growth for growth’s sake.
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Grene, Nicholas. "Family and inheritance." In Farming in Modern Irish Literature, 10–33. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198861294.003.0002.

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The imperative after the Famine to keep the small farm from being subdivided led to the familist system under which one son, not necessarily the first-born, was to inherit; all the others had to find lives elsewhere, mostly through emigration. Poems by Bernard O’Donoghue and John Montague, a story of George Moore, and a play by T. C. Murray dramatize this situation. In other works by Murray and Eugene McCabe, the focus is on the ageing autocrat without an heir. Plays of Padraic Colum and John Murphy stage the divided impulses of staying home on the land and leaving for America. The small farm, metonym for the nation in the Revival period, becomes the battleground of the family.
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Moran, Gerard. "John Donovan to Edward McCabe (Dublin Diocesan Archives, McCabe Papers, secular priests), 3 January 1880." In The History of the Irish Famine, 215–16. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315513652-26.

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Cardin, Bertrand. "« Hunger Strike » de Colum McCann ou la fluctuation des frontières." In Irlande, écritures et réécritures de la Famine, 165–79. Presses universitaires de Caen, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/books.puc.583.

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Laurie, G. T., S. H. E. Harmon, and E. S. Dove. "7. Genetic Information and the Law." In Mason and McCall Smith's Law and Medical Ethics, 201–41. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/he/9780198826217.003.0007.

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This chapter discusses the nature of genetic disease and the role of the genetic counsellor in handling personal and familial genetic information; legal and ethical responses to the ‘familial’ nature of genetics; individual and family interests in genetic information; other parties’ interests in genetic information; state interest in genetic information; gene therapy; and cloning.
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Moran, Gerard. "Bishop John McDonald of Aberdeen to Archbishop Edward McCabe of Dublin (Dublin Diocesan Archive, McCabe Papers, Relief of Distress Papers, 26 February 1880)." In The History of the Irish Famine, 257–58. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315513652-36.

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Moran, Gerard. "Bishop James Donnelly of Clogher to Archbishop Edward McCabe of Dublin 1 (Dublin Diocesan Archives, McCabe Papers, Relief of Distress, 1879–80, 17 February 1880)." In The History of the Irish Famine, 238–39. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315513652-32.

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Moran, Gerard. "James Redpath, 1 to Archbishop Edward McCabe of Dublin inquiring into the state of destitution and famine in the country 2 (Dublin Diocesan Archives, McCabe Papers, Relief of Distress Papers, 15 March 1880)." In The History of the Irish Famine, 240–41. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315513652-33.

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Öhrström, Lars. "Diamonds are Forever and Zirconium is for Submarines." In The Last Alchemist in Paris. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199661091.003.0011.

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The appearance of a diamond engagement ring in the long and convoluted love story between Botswana’s First Lady Detective, Mma Ramotswe, and the owner and brilliant mechanic of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors, Mr J. L. B. Matekoni, seems to signal an end to this particular sub-plot, stretching over several volumes of Alexander McCall Smith’s bestselling and original series of crime novels (that we met in Chapter 1). However, a slight problem involving cubic zirconia is discovered, and the story lingers on until the next book in the series. Similar names for elements and their compounds are a nuisance in chemistry, but oft en arise historically, and zirconium is just one such example. Apart from the pure metal we have zircon and zirconia, all three of which have important applications. Zircon is zirconium silicate, with the formula ZrSiO4, and cubic zirconia is a special form of zirconium dioxide, ZrO2. The latter, as you may have guessed, is an excellent diamond substitute in, among other applications, engagement rings. We are not going to dwell on the details of the element zirconium, but you should know that within the Periodic Table it is located in the large middle chunk called the transition metals. You have probably heard of its cousin titanium, immediately above it, and a sibling, hafnium, straight down the ladder. Why do I call them siblings? Because in the Periodic Table elements in the same column tend to have similar chemical properties. In particular, in the family of transition metals in the central section containing 27 elements—each with a number of properties in common—the two lower elements in each column tend to be the most similar. The similar chemical properties of zirconium and titanium means that we can usually find zirconium where we mine the much more plentiful titanium, and also that once we have separated the titanium from zirconium there will be a small quantity of hafnium trailing along—an impurity that is much harder to get rid of. The sleek jeweller in Gaborone will not care if his fake diamonds contain trace levels of HfO2 mixed with the ZrO2.
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