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Erinn Hickel
The Howard I came to know was a many-faceted man. He was a "whole" man. His love of clouds, and weather, started at an early age and never diminished. He was not a scientist and never pretended to be one. He trained for, and became, a businessman, developing a firm that manufactured pharmaceutical chemicals: Howards and Sons Ltd. The study of weather, begun as a schoolboy, was close to his heart and continued for a lifetime. Because of his many contributions to the emerging science of meteorology, in 1821 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society, the highest honor his peers could confer. He was a lifelong member of the Society of Friends (the Quakers) and devoted much energy and time to the good works of this denomination. He was a devoted family man. He was a prolific writer and editor. His Seven lectures in Meteorology comprised the first textbook in weather. His Climate of London was the first book in urban climatology.
The Howard I came to know was a many-faceted man. He was a "whole" man. His love of clouds, and weather, started at an early age and never diminished. He was not a scientist and never pretended to be one. He trained for, and became, a businessman, developing a firm that manufactured pharmaceutical chemicals: Howards and Sons Ltd. The study of weather, begun as a schoolboy, was close to his heart and continued for a lifetime. Because of his many contributions to the emerging science of meteorology, in 1821 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society, the highest honor his peers could confer. He was a lifelong member of the Society of Friends (the Quakers) and devoted much energy and time to the good works of this denomination. He was a devoted family man. He was a prolific writer and editor. His Seven lectures in Meteorology comprised the first textbook in weather. His Climate of London was the first book in urban climatology. Luke Howard properly earned the right to be called the Godfather of Clouds.
Although Howard continued with his meteorological research, his life in Yorkshire became increasingly devoted to charitable and educational work as well as to a series of doctrinal controversies within the Quaker movement, which culminated in his defection to the Plymouth Brethren in 1836. In 1842 he published an unconvincing treatise identifying an eighteen-year cycle in British weather, comprised of a seven-year rise followed by a ten-year fall in average temperature and rainfall; this was followed by his Barometrographia (1847), a visually impressive folio volume in which annual fluctuations of the weather were plotted against the phases of the Moon, using large circular diagrams traced by a self-recording barograph, in an attempt to determine the extent of lunar influence on climate.
Howard was born in London, England, on November 28, 1772, the eldest son of a prosperous businessman, Robert Howard, and his wife Elizabeth, née Leatham. As devout Quakers, the family enrolled Luke in a prominent Quaker institution, Thomas Huntly's School in Burford, near Oxford, from 1780 to 1787. That was the extent of his formal education. Although not trained as a scientist, he learned enough chemistry and pharmacy on his own to become a successful manufacturer, wholesaler, and retailer of pharmaceutical preparations. He began his business in London in 1793, partnered with William Allen in London and Plaistow, Essex, from 1796 until Allen's death in 1803, moved the business to Stratford while continuing to live in Plaistow, and eventually became head of the firm Howards and Sons. Throughout his life he supported himself with this trade.
He was a deeply religious person and produced tracts upholding the Quaker way of life. He became a minister in 1815. He was also involved with campaigns to improve society. He and William Allen were involved in the anti-slavery movement. Howard later joined the campaign to raise support for the relief of distress in Germany following the fighting across Europe and the defeat of Napoleon at Leipzig. Howard became joint secretary (with Robert Humphrey Marten) of the organizing London committee and by 1814 300,000 had been raised. In recognition of this he and Marten were awarded gold rings and Meissen vases by the kings of Prussia and Saxony, and received the freedom of the city of Magdeburg.
Music to Dr. Howard is not just a passion; it is a way of life. Dr. Howard is an Associate Professor in the BYU School of Music in Music History, and his research focuses primarily on how pop culture appropriates classical music. It is a common experience for students at BYU to discover new passions and talents during their undergraduate studies. Dr. Howard was no different as he received his B.Mus.Ed. degree from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in Music Education and Piano Performance but then made a definitive shift when it was time to do his graduate studies.
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a debilitating disease that pervades all aspects of a patient's daily life. It is also increasingly acknowledged that the burden of PAH extends to older patients and carers. Until recently, the adverse effect of disease symptoms on the physical, emotional and social factors governing patient health-related quality of life (HRQoL) remained largely unrecognised. With a shift in therapeutic objectives to longer term improvements and HRQoL benefits, clinical trials now frequently include HRQoL measures as study end-points. Most HRQoL instruments used in patients with PAH are generic or non-disease-specific questionnaires and therefore may not accurately capture PAH disease burden. New PAH-specific HRQoL instruments currently undergoing validation include emPHasis-10 and Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension-Symptoms and Impact (PAH-SYMPACT; Actelion Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Allschwil, Switzerland). Using various HRQoL measures, pharmacological therapies have been shown to improve HRQoL in patients with PAH. Patients also derive HRQoL benefits from nonpharmacological strategies, which include the emotional support provided by multidisciplinary care and support groups that is fundamental to patient wellbeing. Looking to the future, validated PAH-specific HRQoL instruments together with dedicated guidelines and procedures are essential to support the translation of HRQoL scores to the clinic, thus enabling a holistic treatment approach to the management of patients with PAH.
These events appear to have captured Howard's interest and riveted his attention to the skies. He became a devoted observer of the atmosphere for the rest of his life, augmenting his visual observations with readings from barometer and thermometer. For over 30 years of his life, Luke Howard maintained a record of accurate meteorological observations.
Then within a year, two cloud classification schemes were independently developed by Jean Baptiste Lamarck of France and Luke Howard of England. Likely both schemes were inspired by the work of the great Swedish taxonomist Carl von Linne, know to us as Linneaus. Linneaus' systematic classification scheme for all life forms was one of the most significant scientific milestones of the Eighteenth Century and was adopted by scientists and naturalists around the world. We know that Linneaus' work had a profound influence on Howard, resulting in a paper on pollens presented to the Linnean Society of London in 1800.
For a man who was a successful businessman, devote family man, and pillar in the Society of Friends (the Quakers), Luke Howard always found time to continue his work as a natural philosopher focusing on meteorology. As he remarked late in his life: "meteorology was my real penchant."
This study evaluated the stability of anthocyanins in six blueberry products (gummy, graham bar, oatmeal bar, rice krispy bar, ice pop and juice) prepared with freeze-dried wild blueberry powder during processing and over eight weeks storage. Total anthocyanins were determined by HPLC before processing and at day 0 and 2, 4, 6, and 8 weeks of storage. Thermal processing of gummy and graham bar products resulted in losses of anthocyanins (50 and 31%, respectively). An eight-week storage time also resulted in a decrease in anthocyanins (7 to 51%) in products stored at ambient temperature. The ice pop, which was stored at -20oC, was the best product for shelf-stability as it experienced no decline in total anthocyanins during processing or over the entire shelf-life study. Future research should be conducted to determine the differences in total anthocyanins in the products over time when they are stored under refrigeration. Additionally, polymeric color should be analyzed as this indicator has the potential to further explain the nature of the decreases in anthocyanins observed during storage.
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