In 1943 plant biologist Arthur Galston began studying the compound triiodobenzoic acid as a plant growth hormone, in an attempt to adapt soybeans to a short growing season.

Hurlford is home to four church buildings — the Hurlford Kirk and Hurlford Church, both in Main Road, Crookedholm ; St Paul's Roman Catholic Church on Galston Road ; and the Mauchline Road Church.

Many experts at the time, including Arthur Galston, the biologist who developed and intensively studied TCDD, opposed herbicidal warfare, due to concerns about the side effects to humans and the environment by indiscriminately spraying the chemical over a wide area.

They were both conveyed back to Scotland by Sir William Keith of Galston.

The modern communitarian movement was first articulated by the Responsive Communitarian Platform, written in the United States by a group of ethicists, activists, and social scientists including Amitai Etzioni, Mary Ann Glendon, and William Galston.

Notable people who studied under Strauss, or attended his lecture courses at the University of Chicago, include Hadley Arkes, Seth Benardete, Allan Bloom, Werner Dannhauser, Murray Dry, William Galston, Victor Gourevitch, Harry V. Jaffa, Roger Masters, Thomas Pangle, Stanley Rosen, Abram Shulsky ( Director of the Office of Special Plans ), Susan Sontag, and Paul Wolfowitz ( who attended two lecture courses by Strauss on Plato and Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws at the University of Chicago ).

It runs south west from Edinburgh for approximately 70 miles, through Saughton, Wilkieston and south of Livingston, Whitburn and Wishaw, then by way of the Garrion Bridge, Stonehouse, Strathaven, Darvel, Newmilns, Galston, Hurlford and Kilmarnock to Irvine on the North Ayrshire coast.

Drummond was further created Baron Cleworth in the Jacobite Peerage of England by the exiled monarch, on 7 August 1689, and Duke of Melfort, Marquess of Forth, Earl of Isla and Burtisland, Viscount of Rickerton and Lord Castlemains and Galston in the Jacobite Peerage of Scotland 17 April 1692, all with a similar remainder to the 1685 viscountcy.

The presence of Gibson's body in Belanglo was a puzzle to investigators as his backpack and camera had previously been discovered by the side of the road at Galston Gorge, in the northern Sydney suburbs almost to the north.

History Cottage, owned by Hornsby Council and located next to Hayes Park ( Galston Recreation Reserve ), is the home of the Dural & District Historical Society.

The Buddhist Golden Wheel Temple on Galston Road is a modern building with magnificent gardens tended by members of the temple community.

Galston Rotary Club which hosted this event, patronised by the legendary Frank Ifield, now stages Opera by the Lake in Fagan Park on the first Sunday in May.

The Galston SpringFest ( started in 1982 / 3 by Galston Rotary as the Galston Spring Festival ) is also held in early September each year.

The suburb's northern boundary and western boundary are defined by Berowra Creek, as far south as Galston Road.

The castle was built for the Lockart family who held the Barony of Galston ; enthusiastic opponents of the Catholic faith.

Historic Waddell Cottage, which is the former family home of one of the original orchard growers in the area, is situated next to Galston High School.

In 1979, the Yale biologist Arthur Galston, who specialized in herbicide research, published a review of what was known at the time about the toxicity of TCDD.

Galston was especially concerned about the compound's side effects to humans and the environment.

Some, such as John DiIulio and outside Bush adviser Marvin Olasky, favor religious solutions for communities, while others, like Etzioni and Galston, prefer secular approaches.

Other notable Busoni pupils included Egon Petri, Alexander Brailowsky, Natalie Curtis, Maud Allan ( the famous dancer ), Michael von Zadora, Louis Gruenberg, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Beryl Rubinstein, Edward Steuermann, Dimitri Tiomkin, Rudolf Ganz, Augusta Cottlow, Leo Kestenberg, Gregor Beklemischeff, Leo Sirota, Edward Weiss, Theophil Demetriescu, Theodor Szàntò, Gino Tagliapietra, Gottfried Galston, Otto Luening, Gisella Selden-Goth, Philipp Jarnach, Vladimir Vogel, Guido Guerrini, Woldemar Freeman, and Robert Blum.

Stirling died in Galston, East Ayrshire on 6th June 1878.

A new south side motorway connects this point to the M74 near Calderpark when the latest phase of development is complete, eliminating some of the heavy traffic formerly travelling on the A71 through Hurlford, Galston, Newmilns, Darvel and Strathaven to join the M74 at Stonehouse.

The parish roughly encompasses the northern half of the Upper-Irvine Valley ( locally referred to as The Valley ) and borders Galston Parish ( which encompasses the remainder of The Valley ) at the River Irvine.

To the south lies the parish of Galston, which of all the surrounding parishes, has the strongest local links to Loudoun, being as the two parishes share strong historical and social links, as well as sharing public services.

Notably, claims that Greenholm, Priestland and the town of Galston itself lie within Loudoun are erroneous, as all three lie south of the River Irvine, in the parish of Galston.

This may in some part be due to the fact that Loudoun Academy and surrounding housing hold Galston postcodes.

The road descends into the Irvine Valley, going through the towns of Darvel and Newmilns, and bypassing Galston and then through Hurlford.

* Galston, Miriam.

The river also divides the parishes of Loudoun and Galston, which is why the burgh, although generally referred to as Newmilns, has retained both names.

* 1993 – William A. Galston for Liberal Purposes: Goods, Virtues, and Diversity in the Liberal State

The name Dooral appeared on Surveyor Richard Dundiate, map of April 1817 and originally covered the whole area including present day Glenorie, Galston, Arcadia and Middle Dural.

The village of Galston is the centre of this rural area.

Local attractions in the Hornsby Shire include its easily accessible wilderness areas including part of the Great North Walk, parkland recreational facilities such as Fagan Park at Galston, Pennant Hills Park, Koala Park Sanctuary in West Pennant Hills, and the village of Brooklyn on the Hawkesbury River.

By 1967, however, Frei encountered increasing opposition from leftists, who charged that his reforms were inadequate, and from conservatives, who found them excessive.

Courts have ruled as excessive and invalidated damages which the parties contracted as liquidated, but which the court nonetheless found to be penal.

In a single report, the death of Jacqueline Henson was found to be related to swelling in her brain, which was associated with excessive water consumption over a short period of time, while she was on a special water diet.

Since the early history of domestication of the horse, working animals were found to be exposed to many conditions that created breakage or excessive hoof wear.

He considered the difficulty level " excessive ", and found certain areas to be designed " solely to frustrate players ".

Other common leftist concerns such as pacifism, social justice, racial equality, human rights, and the rejection of excessive wealth can be found in the Bible.

The casts of Neighbours and Home and Away are predominantly younger and more attractive than the casts of UK soaps, and without excessive wealth and glamour of the US daytime serial, a middleground in which they have found their lucrative niche.

However, the Image Dissector camera was found to be lacking in light sensitivity, requiring excessive levels of illumination.

It is found that while social capital can bring about positive effect of maintaining an encompassing functional community in norm-enforcing schools, it also brings about the negative consequence of excessive monitoring.

In the early 2000s, excessive levels of arsenic, boron, lead, and manganese were found in wells in the nearby town of Pines, and pipelines delivering Lake Michigan water treated by Michigan City were extended into Beverly Shores.

The epigraph "" ( Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than excessive cleverness ) attributed by Poe to Seneca was not found in Seneca's known work.

On examination of the craft afterwards, it was found that she had been dished in the bow due to excessive speed, damage which was never allowed to be repaired, and was from then on affectionately referred to as the ' Royal Dent '.

The Court found that the existence of a burden on out-of-state plastic industry was not ‘ clearly excessive ’ in comparison to the state ’ s interest in promoting conservation.

The court found that the parochial school system was " an integral part of the religious mission of the Catholic Church ," and held that the Act fostered " excessive entanglement " between government and religion, thus violating the Establishment Clause.

A survey of New York area doctors in February 2007 found that injuries and even deaths have been caused by excessive waits for hospital beds by ED patients.

Drivers could, and did, travel more quickly, but they would be reprimanded: it was found that excessive speeds could force apart the light rails, which were set onto individual stone blocks without cross-ties.

They were found to have filed excessive membership numbers in order to receive increased municipal grants, and the court case revealed that most youth parties and their leaders had been engaging in this practice since the 1970s.

* Traction alopecia is most commonly found in people with ponytails or cornrows who pull on their hair with excessive force.

It has also been found, however, that crying and talking about the loss is not the only healthy response and, if forced or excessive, can be harmful.

He found that they are all ( metals and living tissues ) benumbed by cold, intoxicated by alcohol, wearied by excessive work, stupefied by anaesthetics, excited by electric currents, stung by physical blows and killed by poison — they all exhibit essentially the same phenomena of fatigue and depression, together with possibilities of recovery and of exaltation, yet also that of permanent irresponsiveness which is associated with death — they all are responsive or irresponsive under the same conditions and in the same manner.

One of the remarkable results of their energetic life is the excessive development of the iliac line ... The Lango may with justice be called a handsome race, both men and women, though very degraded-looking specimens are occasionally to be found with more negroid features ... It has been observed that they are dark-skinned, but reference should be made to the fact that there live at Apach for some obscure reason a number of much lighter-skinned Lango, and elsewhere the light-skinned type may occasionally be seen " ( pg.

In 1987, after complaints about excessive use of violence, the Landau Commission drew up guidelines condoning " moderate physical pressure " when necessary, but in 1994, State Comptroller Miriam Ben-Porat found that these regulations were violated and senior GSS commanders did not prevent it.

" He discards the idea that they were used as missile weapons as there were more efficient weapons at the time, such as javelins, and although he accepts that some handaxes may have been used for practical reasons, he agrees with Kohn and Mithen who have shown that many handaxes show a considerable degree of skill, design and symmetry beyond the demands for utility, some were too big ( such as the handaxe found in Furze Platt, England which is over a foot long ) or too small ( less than two inches, therefore of little practical use ), they feature symmetry far beyond practical use and show evidence for excessive attention to form and finish.

As in the Soviet Union, the excessive control placed by the state on authors of screenplays, as against other literary works, put off many competent writers entirely from contributing to East German film, while others found their efforts rejected for ideological reasons at any stage in script development, if not from the outset.