File Conversion and Transfer from a Lanier No Problem Word Processor to a Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Distributed Minicomputer System (DMINS)

AbstractIn this paper, I analyze the role of metaphors in public science communication. Specifically, it is a case study of the metaphors for CRISPR/Cas9, a controversial biotechnology that enables scientists to alter the DNA of any organism with unprecedented ease and has raised a number of societal, ethical and legal questions concerning its applications – most notably, on its usage on the human germline. Using a corpus of 600 newspaper articles from the British and German press, I show that there are striking differences in how these two European countries construe CRISPR in public discourse: the British press promotes the image of CRISPR as a word processor that allows scientists to edit the DNA, replacing spelling mistakes with healthy genes, whereas the German press depicts CRISPR as genetic scissors and thereby underlines the risk of mutations after cutting the DNA. I suggest that this contrast reflects differences in the legal frameworks of the respective countries and may influence the attitudes towards emerging biotechnologies among the British and German public.

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The logistics of police power: Armored vehicles, colonial boomerangs, and strategies of circulation

Environment and Planning D Society and Space ◽

10.1177/0263775820929698 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 38 (6) ◽

pp. 1138-1156

Author(s):

Derek S Denman

Keyword(s):

Urban Space ◽

Material Composition ◽

Critical Reading ◽

Spatial Processes ◽

Police Power ◽

Defense Logistics Agency ◽

Armored Vehicles ◽

Armored Vehicle ◽

Colonial Warfare

Images of police armored vehicles in Ferguson and Baltimore have been influential in a public conversation about the militarization of the police. However, recent critical and abolitionist work on policing rejects the concept of “militarization” for obscuring the longstanding histories and institutional connections between military and police apparatuses. By following the transfers of armored vehicles to police, this article illuminates the logistical pathways that connect colonial warfare and domestic policing, adding an account of the material composition of police power to the historical work of critical and abolitionist thinkers. The article proceeds through a critical reading of records of the Defense Logistics Agency, tracking the transfer of surplus armored vehicles to the police. Designated as “high-visibility property” by the Defense Logistics Agency, these vehicles testify to the materiality of police power. The article then tracks the visibility and materiality of these vehicles as they are deployed in urban and suburban spaces and considers their unique capacity to suppress the democratic energies of crowds. Tracking the armored vehicle provides a way to ask how the rigid lines of fortified urban space are organized into mobile vectors and where ongoing processes of colonization enter these spatial processes.

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THYROID VASCULARITY - DOCUMENTATION OF THE IODIDE EFFECT IN THYROTOXICOSIS

Acta Endocrinologica ◽

10.1530/acta.0.0860317 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 86 (2) ◽

pp. 317-322 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

B. E. W. Brownlie ◽

J. G. Turner ◽

M. A. Ellwood ◽

T. G. H. Rogers ◽

D. I. Armstrong

Keyword(s):

Potassium Iodide ◽

Gamma Camera ◽

Dramatic Reduction ◽

Multinodular Goitre ◽

Normal Limits ◽

Thyroid Hyperplasia ◽

Minicomputer System

ABSTRACT Thyroid vascularity was measured in 101 thyrotoxic patients by analysis of 99mTc pertechnetate thyroid flow studies obtained with a gamma camera - minicomputer system. The diffusely hyperplastic goitres tended to have higher vascularity than the toxic multinodular goitres, and many of the solitary toxic nodules had vascularity results within normal limits. Potassium iodide therapy, 60 mg b. d. for 10–14 days results in a dramatic reduction in thyroid vascularity in diffuse thyroid hyperplasia and toxic multinodular goitre but the effect on toxic nodules was marginal.

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