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Our poetry together : female voices of the northern medieval canon.
No full textiii, 140 leaves.Includes bibliographical references: leaves 136-140
The effect of intracellular beta-amyloid on mitochondrial abundance in glial cells.
No full text4 pages; illustrations
Cilia dynamics in cardiac regeneration in zebrafish (danio rerio).
No full texti, 101 leaves: illustrations.Includes bibliographical references: leaves 71-82.Ischemic injury in the human heart can lead to massive cell death and inelastic scar tissue formation, resulting in diminished cardiac function. In contrast, zebrafish (Danio rerio) can regenerate injured heart tissue within a month through events including immediate formation of a clot, organ-wide signaling events, dedifferentiation and proliferation of existing tissue near the wound, and finally resolution of the scar tissue. Primary cilia, located on the surface of cells, are membrane-bounded structures essential to many cellular functions. We have observed cilia in the regenerating cardiac tissue of zebrafish, and endeavor to understand their purpose in the complex processes of tissue regeneration. It is well known that primary cilia are integral facilitators of cell signaling. The complexity of cardiac tissue regeneration dictates that cell-to-cell signaling could occur to coordinate such anintricate process. We hypothesize that cilio genesis is required for heart regeneration in zebrafish, and that cilia may play a sensory role to assist the process of regeneration. This hypothesis was tested by using immunocyto chemistry to determine the stage, the length change, and localization of cilia in regenerating heart tissue as compared with uninjured tissue.Finding the localization and length change of cilia, and the time at which they proliferate conveys where they may potentially contribute to the process of regeneration. Understanding the mechanisms of cardiac tissue regeneration in zebrafish may lead to clinical application for cardiac injury in humans
Wheaton Quarterly
No full textSpring 2017 issue of the Wheaton QuarterlyWheaton College (MA)Between the Lines: Gaining perspective, pg.2, ColemanBetween the Lines: Letter, pg.2@PRESIDENTHANNO: Differences benefit us all, pg.3Around the Dimple: Pop-Up science, pg.4Around the Dimple: Standing tall, pg.5Around the Dimple: Experiential learning on campus, pg.6Around the Dimple: A minute with... Michael Sadowsky, pg.7Around the Dimple: Smoke screen, pg.8Around the Dimple: Open for business, pg.9Around the Dimple: Connecting experience, academics, pg.10Around the Dimple: Focusing on Nepal, pg.11Panorama: Food for thought, pg.12Panorama: Publications, Honors and Creative Works, pg.13Field Report: Friendly competition, pg.14Field Report: Team spirit, pg.15Snap Shots: Winter beauty, pg.16Snap Shots: Brushing up on fun, pg.16Snap Shots: Dukakis on campus, pg.17Snap Shots: On the go, pg.17Snap Shots: Enormously entertaining, pg.17Snap Shots: Pop-up art, pg.17Close-knit, pg.18Close-knit: Line by Line, pg.20Close-knit: Talking about conversation, pg.21Close-knit: Rallying for peace, pg.22Close-knit: Clear vision, pg.23Close-knit: One Wheaton, pg.24Close-knit: The work of shared responsibility begins within, pg.25Close-knit: Word by word, pg.26Close-knit: Fitting the pieces together, pg.27Ambassador of change, pg.28Beyond brick and mortar, pg.30Alumnae/i Association News: Opening doors to community engagement, pg.34Alumnae/i Association News: Rachael Pauze '07 takes on tough role, pg.35Alumnae/i Association News: Urgent care, pg.36Alumnae/i Association News: Liberal arts keeps health writer flexible, pg.37Class Notes: Pearls of wisdom, pg.38Class Notes: Champion of people with intellectual disabilities, pg.39Class Notes: A high note, pg.40Class Notes: Something's afoot, pg.41Class Notes (removed), pg.42In Memoriam, pg.62End Page: A tune up, pg.6
Shakespeare Corpus by Play
No full textFullPlaysnoSCRB-- This level includes all 39 of Shakespeare’s plays in the literary canon. They are taken directly from Gutenberg, and the only manipulation is that the boilerplates, the terms and conditions of Gutenberg, have been removed. Everything else, punctuation, capitalization, character names, and stage directions remain in these files.
FullPlays_SCRBnoCNnoSD-- This level still includes all 39 plays, but these have been scrubbed: removing digits, making the file all lowercase, and removing punctuation, excluding hyphens and word-internal apostrophes. Also, the character names and stage directions have been removed manually, as Lexos does not have that capability yet. So an example of the text would be like this-
Before scrubbing:
ADAM. Yonder comes my master, your brother.
ORLANDO. Go apart, Adam, and thou shalt hear how he will shake me
up. [ADAM retires]
OLIVER. Now, sir! what make you here?
After scrubbing:
yonder comes my master your brother
go apart adam and thou shalt hear how he will shake me
up
now sir what make you here
The reason for removing character names and stage directions is because leaving in the character names would skew the data in favor of the play in certain tests. However, if a character is referred to within the text itself, like Adam in the example above, their name is left in. In terms of stage directions, they are removed because oftentimes, they are not part of the original text, but were included by editors later.
Acts_SCRBnoCNnoSD-- This level breaks up each of the 39 plays into five acts each. This is split from the FullPlays_SCRBnoCNnoSD corpus, so these are still scrubbed as above, and do not include character names or stage directions.
Scenes_SCRB_noCNnoSD-- This level includes all of the scenes in all of the plays. The naming convention is as shown below:
Filename: PlaynameActNoSceneNo_NoCNnoSD, e.g., CymbelineActiiiSceneii_NoCNnoSD
These scenes are also scrubbed by the same conventions as the acts and full plays, and also have the character names and stage directions removed.
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Scrubbing is a term that means to manipulate a text file in a certain way. There are many features to the scrubber tool in Lexos, but the most commonly used are to remove digits, punctuation, possibly excluding hyphens and word-internal apostrophes, and making the whole document lowercase.
Removing digits removes the numbers in the file, useful when the lines are marked, or if there are extraneous numbers that are not an original part of the document.
By ridding a document of its punctuation, Lexos prevents an analysis from considering “boy.” and “boy” as different words, due to the period of the former.
Also, in an original document, the words “boy” and “Boy” would be considered two different words, because of the capitalization of the latter. Making the document all lowercase gets rid of this inconsistency that would skew the data.
In the context of the Shakespeare corpus, hyphens and word-internal apostrophes are very important, and should not and were not scrubbed. Words like “to-night” and “over-careful” are used, and if the hyphens were removed, Lexos would interpret each word as two separate words, instead of one compound word.
A similar phenomenon would happen if word-internal apostrophes were scrubbed from the document. A word that was originally “dog’s” would become “dog s” and the letter ‘s’ would be counted as its own word. Also, Shakespeare sometimes used apostrophes to stand in for letters, such as “confin’d” for confined, “sav’d” for saved, etc.
The main function of the scrubber is to strip a document of its superfluous elements while still keeping the main text of the file, and keeping its integrity intact.Shakespeare Corpus organized first by Play, then by Level (Acts and Scenes).This zip file downloads a hierarchy of folders and content organized first by Play, then by parsed sections of Acts, and Scenes. Each Play folder contains two text files of the play with character names and stage directions scrubbed and not scrubbed
Effects of Amyloid B-protein on autophagy in Gallus gallus embryonic peripheral glial cells as measured by lysosomal activity.
No full text8 pages; illustrations
Effects of serum starvation on autophagy in chicken embryo peripheral glial cells.
No full text5 pages; illustrations
Wheaton Quarterly
No full textSummer 2017 issue of the Wheaton QuarterlyWheaton College (MA)Between the Lines: Insight seeing, pg.2@PRESIDENTHANNO: A star of hope, pg.3Around the Dimple: Opening doors, pg.4Around the Dimple: Global views from campus, pg.5Around the Dimple: A minute with... Daniel Alexandre '20, pg.6Around the Dimple: Opportunity close to home, pg.7Around the Dimple: Getting at the root of concerns, pg.8Around the Dimple: Building a safe community, pg.9Around the Dimple: Fueling social change, pg.10Around the Dimple: Historic lens, pg.11Panorama: Matisse up close, pg.12Panorama: Publications, Honors, and Creative Works, pg.13Field Report: Total immersion, pg.14Field Report: Making a big splash, pg.15Snap Shots: Doggone good, pg.16Snap Shots: International bazaar, pg.16Snap Shots: MLK Legacy Award, pg.17Snap Shots: Exploring opportunites, pg.17Snap Shots: Pancakes with a Lyon, pg.17Snap Shots: Harmonic convergence, pg.17Snap Shots: Great debate, pg.17Building bridges to jobs, dignity, pg.18Engaging a worldview, pg.22Staging success, pg.29Alumnae/i Association News: Ryan Saunders '00 teaches the business of arts, pg.32Alumnae/i Association News: From teacher to innovator, pg.33Alumnae/i Association News: Keeper of the past, pg.34Alumnae/i Association News: Connecting beyond borders, pg.35Class Notes: Fall Fest, pg.36Class Notes: American hero, pg.37Class Notes: About that sociology degree..., pg.38Class Notes: Art career taking shape, pg.38Class Notes: Students, alums discuss study abroad at London event, pg.39Class Notes (removed), pg.40In Memoriam (removed), pg.62End Page: A beautiful surprise, pg.6
Snowball Earth climate dynamics and Cryogenian geology-geobiology
No full text43 pages; Color IllustrationsDistributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.24 pages; color illustrations