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The fungus Ophiodimyces ophiodiicola is the etiologic agent of snake fungal disease. Recent findings date US occurrence at least as far back as 1945. We analyzed 22 free-ranging snakes with gross lesions consistent with snake fungal disease from museum collections from Europe. We found 5 positive samples, the oldest collected in 1959.The fungus Ophiodimyces ophiodiicola is the etiologic agent of snake fungal disease. Recent findings date US occurrence at least as far back as 1945. We analyzed 22 free-ranging snakes with gross lesions consistent with snake fungal disease from museum collections from Europe. We found 5 positive samples, the oldest collected in 1959.

Death of the Mogulsis a detailed assessment of the last days of the \"rulers of film.\" Wheeler Winston Dixon examines the careers of such moguls as Harry Cohn at Columbia, Louis B. Mayer at MGM, Jack L. Warner at Warner Brothers, Adolph Zukor at Paramount, and Herbert J. Yates at Republic in the dying days of their once-mighty empires. He asserts that the sheer force of personality and business acumen displayed by these moguls made the studios successful; their deaths or departures hastened the studios' collapse. Almost none had a plan for leadership succession; they simply couldn't imagine a world in which they didn't reign supreme. Covering 20th Century-Fox, Selznick International Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures, RKO Radio Pictures, Warner Brothers, Universal Pictures, Republic Pictures, Monogram Pictures and Columbia Pictures, Dixon briefly introduces the studios and their respective bosses in the late 1940s, just before the collapse, then chronicles the last productions from the studios and their eventual demise in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He details such game-changing factors as the de Havilland decision, which made actors free agents; the Consent Decree, which forced the studios to get rid of their theaters; how the moguls dealt with their collapsing empires in the television era; and the end of the conventional studio assembly line, where producers had rosters of directors, writers, and actors under their command.Complemented by rare, behind-the-scenes stills,Death of the Mogulsis a compelling narrative of the end of the studio system at each of the Hollywood majors as television, the de Havilland decision, and the Consent Decree forced studios to slash payrolls, make the shift to color, 3D, and CinemaScope in desperate last-ditch efforts to save their kingdoms. The aftermath for some was the final switch to television production and, in some cases, the distribution of independent film.

This chapter contains sections titled: Stages of Postcolonial Development Friel's Nationalism Friel's Critique of Nationalism Friel's Critique of the Republic of Ireland Friel's Critique of Northern Ireland Personal and Polycentric References and Further Reading

This chapter contains sections titled: Detecting the Genre The Classical Sleuth Hard‐boiled Private Eyes The Police Detective The Cop Action Hero The Lawyer The Criminalist “Other” Detectives Conclusion

This chapter contains sections titled: From V‐Day to the Atomic Age to Vietnam The Postwar War Novel The Atomic Age, American Anxiety, and Noir Existentialism Sex and the Suburban Reader Resistance Through Black Humor: A Cynical America Emerges The World Beyond Black and White: New Voices in American Literature The Literature of Letting Go: Postmodernism and Contemporary Literature References and Further Reading

This chapter contains sections titled: Religion and Religious Studies Before the 1930s The 1930s and 1940s Postwar: The Late 1940s and 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1980s Ethnography The 1990s Documentary Film and Video American Religious Studies in the New Millennium Popular Culture Visual Culture The Internet E pluribus unum? Coda References

To document, over sixty-eight years from 1956 to 2023, the educational experiences and life choices of forty women in a Canadian baccalaureate nursing program. The longitudinal research spans initial expectations, the educational process, the commitment to a moral culture, the phase of marriage and domesticity, the ultimate choice of careers and culminating in decisions about the profession. Studies of baccalaureate nursing students has not linked early imaginings to education and its difficulties, or to later life and careers. The longitudinal focus covers six decades. Methodologically and theoretically, it is phenomenological and symbolic interactionist, focusing on the perspectives of the nurses as an interactive aggregate. The work employs qualitative methods with recorded structured and unstructured interviews, informal group discussions, focus groups and ethnographic fieldwork in the training hospital, in the nurses’ residence and other venues. The quantitative work involves questionnaires at selected times during their education and later lives. Traditional plans such as marriage and domesticity, the expected career for nurses, is altered. Attrition of half of the class from the profession is documented. The choices of types of nursing careers and careers in alternate fields are discussed. Within the context of sixty-eight years of social and ideological change, the research considers a class of nurses from their earliest career plans to final commitments. It highlights the historical options in women’s lives, in nursing education and in careers.

This chapter contains sections titled: From a Humble Beginning 1 Defining the Field The Rise(s) of the Field of Legal Psychology Two Examples of Some Success Some Challenges and Opportunities Conclusion Acknowledgment References

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An excerpt from Benjamin E. Alba's book \"Inventing Late Night: Steve Allen and the Original Tonight Show\" is presented. Alba's work traces Allen's hosting duties of NBC's \"The Tonight Show\" from 1954-1957.