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A monograph featuring 100 of the black and white portraits from 1964 to 2016 by Judy Dater with e... more A monograph featuring 100 of the black and white portraits from 1964 to 2016 by Judy Dater with essays by Dater, Marilyn Symmes, Gloria Williams Sander and Donna Stein.
A discussion of the scope and methods of assembling an important collection of international hist... more A discussion of the scope and methods of assembling an important collection of international history of photography, beginning with paper prints by Henry Fox Talbot (c. 1836), to be used as examples of aesthetic and technical excellence as a way of informing and inspiring young Persian photographers.
As part of the role as curatorial advisor to the Secretariat of Her Imperial Majesty, the Shahban... more As part of the role as curatorial advisor to the Secretariat of Her Imperial Majesty, the Shahbanu of Iran, Donna Stein formed an important collection of the international history of photography beginning with paper prints by Henry Fox Talbot (c.1836) up to the mid 20th century. This selection of some 100 prints was meant to be a catalyst for further scholarship, providing a standard of quality against which temporary exhibitions could be projected and evaluated. It offered accepted criteria of aesthetic and technical excellence to compare with contemporary work and inspire young Persian photographers.
Book Reviews by Donna Stein
Staci’s Scheiwiller’s new scholarly volume, Liminalities of Gender and Sexuality in Nineteenth Ce... more Staci’s Scheiwiller’s new scholarly volume, Liminalities of Gender and Sexuality in Nineteenth Century Iranian Photography: Desirous Bodies , provides a framework for interpreting photographic representations of the body in portraits, ethnographic studies, and erotica by studying the onset of photography and its antecedents in the second half of the 19th century during the Qajar Dynasty of Iran (1785-1925).
Papers by Donna Stein
The Indigenous Lens?, 2017
Leonardo, 1975
The apologetics of conceptual art constitute an intellectual morass in which everything lucid and... more The apologetics of conceptual art constitute an intellectual morass in which everything lucid and articulate crumbles. It is as if the very word ‘conceptual’ had the power to strip its users of literacy and to rot all natural languages down to instant compost. Meyer’s compendium of about 40 artists is destined, inevitably, for the reading list of college courses on recent art, simply because it collects together quite a lot of it in one small, cheap, portable museum. But the introductory essay does not succeed (it does not even try) to say what is the principle of selection; nor does it develop any intelligible thesis about conceptual art. There are innumerable theses-roughly one to each successive declarative sentence-but nothing is sustained or argued. The author begins with Joseph Kosuth’s assertion that conceptual art does not need critics and ends with his claim that it does not need an audience either. But in between there is no connective intellectual tissue, only the steady ...
Oxford Art Online, 2011
Career outline
The Literary Review, Jun 22, 2003
Grove Encyclopedia, Feb 24, 2010
Biographical entry
Oxford University Press eBooks, Feb 24, 2010
The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 2009
Whether you are a staff nurse, an educator, or a manager, stories can be useful in your practice.
Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, 1994
Current evidence suggest an important role for increased repair of drug-induced DNA damage as one... more Current evidence suggest an important role for increased repair of drug-induced DNA damage as one of the major mechanisms involved in tumor cell resistance to cis-DDP. In this study, we examined the DNA repair capacity and the activities of three DNA repair related proteins, namely, DNA polymerases 01 and p, and total DNA ligase in cells of a malignant oligodendroglioma obtained from a patient before therapy and compared it with those of a specimen of the tumor acquired after the patient had failed cis-DDP therapy. DNA repair capacity was quantitated as the extent of reactivation of the chloramphenicol-O-acetyltransferase (CAT) gene in a eukaryotic expression vector that had been damaged and inactivated by prior treatment with cis-DDP and then transfected into the tumor cells. The extent of DNA-platinum adduct formation in the expression vector was determined by flameless atomic absorption spectrometry. The level of cis-DDP resistance of cells of the two tumors was determined with the capillary tumor stem cell assay. We observed a 2.8-fold increased capacity to repair Pt-DNA adducts and reactivate the CAT gene in cells of the tumor obtained after cis-DDP therapy, compared to cells of the untreated tumor. This was associated with increases of 9.4-fold and a 2.3-fold, respectively, in DNA polymerase p and total DNA ligase activities in cells of the treated tumor. At 5 KM cis-DDP, there was a 5.9-fold increase in the in vitro cis-DDP resistance of post-therapy tumor cells relative to cells of the untreated tumor. No significant difference in DNA polymerase 01 activity was observed between the two tumors. These data suggest that the enhanced ability to repair cis-DDP induced DNA damage, mediated, in part, by increased tumor DNA polymerase p and DNA ligase activities, plays an important role in the in vivo acquisition of cis-DDP resistance in human malignant gliomas, and that these proteins and/or their encoding genes may represent critical targets for strategies to overcome such resistance clinically.
Radiotherapy and Oncology, 1995
L-Homocysteine thiolactone (L-HCTL) was evaluated for its potential as an intravenously-administe... more L-Homocysteine thiolactone (L-HCTL) was evaluated for its potential as an intravenously-administered central nervous system (CNS) radioprotector in C3H mice and F344 rats. Toxicity assessments in the mouse yielded a LD,, of 297 mg/kg and in the rat 389 mg/kg. Biodistribution studies in tumor-bearing mice showed that brain specimens contained more label at 10 min than the tumors but less at 30 or 60 min. Brain uptake relative to the tumors, the brain/tumor ratio, ranged between 0.5 and 3.3. The cervical spinal cord of non-tumor-bearing rats was irradiated with 32 Gy 13'Cs with or without prior treatment with L-HCTL following which the time to forelimb or hindlimb paralysis was measured to determine the relative protective factors (RPFs) for this radiation dose. For forelimb paralysis the RPF was 1.9 (f 1 .O, SD) and for hindlimb it was 2.0 (f 1.1, SD). 36B-10 glioma cells irradiated in vitro with or without L-HCTL and assayed for colony forming capacity demonstrated a dose modifying factor (DMF) of only 1.15 (~0.16, SE). Rats bearing intracerebral 36B-10 glioma received 13'Cs irradiation with or without L-HCTL after which the tumors were similarly assayed in vitro. From this the glioma DMF was 1.2 (a0.30, SE). Compared to prior results with phosphorothioates our data show that the toxicity of L-HCTL is roughly the same as WR2721, WR77913 and WR3689 and that it distributes at higher levels in the CNS after systemic administration. L-HCTL may well equal these phosphorothioates at protecting normal CNS tissue without requiring administration directly into the cerebrospinal fluid-containing spaces and it does not protect the 36B-10 glioma.
Woman's Art Journal, 2014
Published in Woman's Art Journal, Volume 35, No.1, Spring/Summer 2014
A monograph featuring 100 of the black and white portraits from 1964 to 2016 by Judy Dater with e... more A monograph featuring 100 of the black and white portraits from 1964 to 2016 by Judy Dater with essays by Dater, Marilyn Symmes, Gloria Williams Sander and Donna Stein.
A discussion of the scope and methods of assembling an important collection of international hist... more A discussion of the scope and methods of assembling an important collection of international history of photography, beginning with paper prints by Henry Fox Talbot (c. 1836), to be used as examples of aesthetic and technical excellence as a way of informing and inspiring young Persian photographers.
As part of the role as curatorial advisor to the Secretariat of Her Imperial Majesty, the Shahban... more As part of the role as curatorial advisor to the Secretariat of Her Imperial Majesty, the Shahbanu of Iran, Donna Stein formed an important collection of the international history of photography beginning with paper prints by Henry Fox Talbot (c.1836) up to the mid 20th century. This selection of some 100 prints was meant to be a catalyst for further scholarship, providing a standard of quality against which temporary exhibitions could be projected and evaluated. It offered accepted criteria of aesthetic and technical excellence to compare with contemporary work and inspire young Persian photographers.
Staci’s Scheiwiller’s new scholarly volume, Liminalities of Gender and Sexuality in Nineteenth Ce... more Staci’s Scheiwiller’s new scholarly volume, Liminalities of Gender and Sexuality in Nineteenth Century Iranian Photography: Desirous Bodies , provides a framework for interpreting photographic representations of the body in portraits, ethnographic studies, and erotica by studying the onset of photography and its antecedents in the second half of the 19th century during the Qajar Dynasty of Iran (1785-1925).
The Indigenous Lens?, 2017
Leonardo, 1975
The apologetics of conceptual art constitute an intellectual morass in which everything lucid and... more The apologetics of conceptual art constitute an intellectual morass in which everything lucid and articulate crumbles. It is as if the very word ‘conceptual’ had the power to strip its users of literacy and to rot all natural languages down to instant compost. Meyer’s compendium of about 40 artists is destined, inevitably, for the reading list of college courses on recent art, simply because it collects together quite a lot of it in one small, cheap, portable museum. But the introductory essay does not succeed (it does not even try) to say what is the principle of selection; nor does it develop any intelligible thesis about conceptual art. There are innumerable theses-roughly one to each successive declarative sentence-but nothing is sustained or argued. The author begins with Joseph Kosuth’s assertion that conceptual art does not need critics and ends with his claim that it does not need an audience either. But in between there is no connective intellectual tissue, only the steady ...
Oxford Art Online, 2011
Career outline
The Literary Review, Jun 22, 2003
Grove Encyclopedia, Feb 24, 2010
Biographical entry
Oxford University Press eBooks, Feb 24, 2010
The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 2009
Whether you are a staff nurse, an educator, or a manager, stories can be useful in your practice.
Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, 1994
Current evidence suggest an important role for increased repair of drug-induced DNA damage as one... more Current evidence suggest an important role for increased repair of drug-induced DNA damage as one of the major mechanisms involved in tumor cell resistance to cis-DDP. In this study, we examined the DNA repair capacity and the activities of three DNA repair related proteins, namely, DNA polymerases 01 and p, and total DNA ligase in cells of a malignant oligodendroglioma obtained from a patient before therapy and compared it with those of a specimen of the tumor acquired after the patient had failed cis-DDP therapy. DNA repair capacity was quantitated as the extent of reactivation of the chloramphenicol-O-acetyltransferase (CAT) gene in a eukaryotic expression vector that had been damaged and inactivated by prior treatment with cis-DDP and then transfected into the tumor cells. The extent of DNA-platinum adduct formation in the expression vector was determined by flameless atomic absorption spectrometry. The level of cis-DDP resistance of cells of the two tumors was determined with the capillary tumor stem cell assay. We observed a 2.8-fold increased capacity to repair Pt-DNA adducts and reactivate the CAT gene in cells of the tumor obtained after cis-DDP therapy, compared to cells of the untreated tumor. This was associated with increases of 9.4-fold and a 2.3-fold, respectively, in DNA polymerase p and total DNA ligase activities in cells of the treated tumor. At 5 KM cis-DDP, there was a 5.9-fold increase in the in vitro cis-DDP resistance of post-therapy tumor cells relative to cells of the untreated tumor. No significant difference in DNA polymerase 01 activity was observed between the two tumors. These data suggest that the enhanced ability to repair cis-DDP induced DNA damage, mediated, in part, by increased tumor DNA polymerase p and DNA ligase activities, plays an important role in the in vivo acquisition of cis-DDP resistance in human malignant gliomas, and that these proteins and/or their encoding genes may represent critical targets for strategies to overcome such resistance clinically.
Radiotherapy and Oncology, 1995
L-Homocysteine thiolactone (L-HCTL) was evaluated for its potential as an intravenously-administe... more L-Homocysteine thiolactone (L-HCTL) was evaluated for its potential as an intravenously-administered central nervous system (CNS) radioprotector in C3H mice and F344 rats. Toxicity assessments in the mouse yielded a LD,, of 297 mg/kg and in the rat 389 mg/kg. Biodistribution studies in tumor-bearing mice showed that brain specimens contained more label at 10 min than the tumors but less at 30 or 60 min. Brain uptake relative to the tumors, the brain/tumor ratio, ranged between 0.5 and 3.3. The cervical spinal cord of non-tumor-bearing rats was irradiated with 32 Gy 13'Cs with or without prior treatment with L-HCTL following which the time to forelimb or hindlimb paralysis was measured to determine the relative protective factors (RPFs) for this radiation dose. For forelimb paralysis the RPF was 1.9 (f 1 .O, SD) and for hindlimb it was 2.0 (f 1.1, SD). 36B-10 glioma cells irradiated in vitro with or without L-HCTL and assayed for colony forming capacity demonstrated a dose modifying factor (DMF) of only 1.15 (~0.16, SE). Rats bearing intracerebral 36B-10 glioma received 13'Cs irradiation with or without L-HCTL after which the tumors were similarly assayed in vitro. From this the glioma DMF was 1.2 (a0.30, SE). Compared to prior results with phosphorothioates our data show that the toxicity of L-HCTL is roughly the same as WR2721, WR77913 and WR3689 and that it distributes at higher levels in the CNS after systemic administration. L-HCTL may well equal these phosphorothioates at protecting normal CNS tissue without requiring administration directly into the cerebrospinal fluid-containing spaces and it does not protect the 36B-10 glioma.
Woman's Art Journal, 2014
Published in Woman's Art Journal, Volume 35, No.1, Spring/Summer 2014
Leonardo, 1979
Review of photography book
Nineteenth-century Iran was an ocularcentered society predicated on visuality and what was seen a... more Nineteenth-century Iran was an ocularcentered society predicated on visuality and what was seen and unseen, and photographs became liminal sites of desire that maneuvered "betwixt and between" various social spaces—public, private, seen, unseen, accessible, and forbidden—thus mapping, graphing, and even transgressing those spaces, especially in light of increasing modernization and global contact during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Of primary interest is how photographs negotiated and coded gender, sexuality, and desire, becoming strategies of empowerment, of domination, of expression, and of being seen. Hence, the photograph became a vehicle to traverse multiple locations that various gendered physical bodies could not, and it was also the social and political relations that had preceded the photograph that determined those ideological spaces of (im)mobility. In identifying these notions in photographs, one may glean information about how modern Iran meta...
Nineteenth-century Iran was an ocularcentered society predicated on visuality and what was seen a... more Nineteenth-century Iran was an ocularcentered society predicated on visuality and what was seen and unseen, and photographs became liminal sites of desire that maneuvered "betwixt and between" various social spaces—public, private, seen, unseen, accessible, and forbidden—thus mapping, graphing, and even transgressing those spaces, especially in light of increasing modernization and global contact during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Of primary interest is how photographs negotiated and coded gender, sexuality, and desire, becoming strategies of empowerment, of domination, of expression, and of being seen. Hence, the photograph became a vehicle to traverse multiple locations that various gendered physical bodies could not, and it was also the social and political relations that had preceded the photograph that determined those ideological spaces of (im)mobility. In identifying these notions in photographs, one may glean information about how modern Iran meta...