his literary evidence in a commonsense fashion with a sensible literary critical approach devoid of flights of Freudian fancy, which are now hopefully going out of fashion. He deals first with Pope's Dunciad, underlining the importance to it of a theme of madness, and then with Swift, and with Johnson's melancholia. The "English malady", also melancholy, typifies mid-century madness, but like r...

OF DISSERTATION Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Biology The University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico

Elucidation of Snm1B Function by Jay Robert Stringer Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Christopher M. Counter, Supervisor ___________________________ David MacAlpine ___________________________ Shawn Ahmed ___________________________ Tso-Pang Yao An abstract of a dissertation submitted in partial fulf...

Homology is one of the most important concepts in biology (de Beer 1971; Donoghue 1992). Having been introduced in pre-Darwinian comparative biology, it continues to be fundamental to taxonomy, phylogeny, and evolutionary biology. In recent times it has come to play an important role in molecular and developmental biology. In addition to figuring prominently in biological practice, the notion o...

and Shark kulliyyat al-Qanuin), all of which are among Ibn al-Quff's medical works which so far have remained unedited. Other plates represent medieval items and modem examples of art and architecture (ceramics, al-7ahiriyya Library, mosques, al-Madrasa al-'Adiliyya, Baptist Mission Hospital in CAjljfn, Citadel of al-Karak, etc.). Along the lines of his publication on al-Biriuni (see above) Ham...

Thomas Fogle is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Biology at Saint Mary's College. He received his B.A. in Biology from Thiel College, M.A. in Zoology from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, and Ph.D. in Genetics from North Carolina State University. He teaches introductory biology, genetics, and human genetics. His research interests include human cytogenetics, the cy...