PHIL PASTRAS. DEAD MAN BLUES: JELLY ROLL MORTON WAY OUT WEST. BERKELEY: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, 2001. XX, 246 PP.

Phil Pastras. Dead Man Blues: Jelly Roll Morton Way Out West. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. xx, 246 pp.

Author Phil Pastras opens his biographical study of legendary pianist Jelly Roll Morton with an epigram from poet Dylan Thomas-"Oh make me a mask"-and with that signal, Dead Man Blues: Jelly Roll Morton Way Out West takes us on the road with trickster Ferdinand Joseph LaMenthe, a.k.a.Jelly Roll.Pastras appreciates the facility with which Morton, li

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Whole Genome DNA Sequence Analysis of Salmonella subspecies enterica serotype Tennessee obtained from related peanut butter foodborne outbreaks.

Establishing an association between possible food sources and clinical isolates requires discriminating the suspected pathogen from an environmental background, and distinguishing it from other closely-related foodborne pathogens.We used whole genome sequencing (WGS) to Salmonella subspecies enterica serotype Tennessee (S.Tennessee) to describe gen

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Transshipment model considering environmental cost using mixed integer linear programming: Beef distribution problem

The operational research paper in the transportation model nowadays is heading to the environmental issue.One of the famous operational research models is transshipment.Transshipment is an expanded model of transportation, in each distribution center between the start to the destination point.In this research, the transshipment model is integrated

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Risk factors for avian influenza virus in backyard poultry flocks and environments in Zhejiang Province, China: a cross-sectional study

Abstract Background Human infection of avian influenza virus (AIV) remains a great concern.Although live poultry markets are believed to be associated with human infections, ever more infections have been reported in rural areas with backyard poultry, especially in the fifth epidemic of H7N9.However, limited information is available on backyard pou

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