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Review of Karl Sierek: Der lange Arm der Ufa: Filmische Bilderwanderung zwischen Deutschland, Japan und China 1923–1949
Get PDFSleep and Inflammation During Adolescents\u27 Transition to Young Adulthood
Get PDFPurpose This study investigated the extent to which multiple sleep dimensions are associated with inflammation during adolescents\u27 transition to young adulthood, a developmental period when sleep difficulties and systemic inflammation levels are on the rise. Additionally, the moderating roles of socioeconomic status (SES) and ethnicity were explored. Methods A total of 350 Asian American, Latino, and European American youth participated at two-year intervals in wave 1 ( n = 316, M age = 16.40), wave 2 ( n = 248 including 34 new participants to refresh the sample, M age = 18.31), and wave 3 ( n = 180, M age = 20.29). Sleep duration (weekday and weekend) and variability in duration (nightly and weekday/weekend) were obtained from eight nights of wrist actigraphy. Subjective sleep quality was assessed using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index. Levels of C-reactive protein (CRP), a biomarker of systemic inflammation, were assayed from dried blood spots obtained from finger pricks. Results Multilevel models demonstrated that greater weekday/weekend sleep variability and worse sleep quality were associated with higher CRP; shorter weekend duration was associated with higher CRP only at younger ages. Shorter weekday duration was associated with higher CRP only among high-SES youth, whereas greater nightly variability was associated with higher CRP only among European American youth. Conclusions Aspects of poor sleep may contribute to the rise of CRP during adolescents\u27 transition to young adulthood, especially in earlier years. In addition, some sleep-CRP associations may vary as a function of youth\u27s SES and ethnicity
Embodied Learning and Technology
No full textEmbodied Learning is a growing field that provides people with access to physical movement as well as a resource for personal wellness, mental health and community. The ways in which teachers of embodied disciplines are trained are complex, information rich and highly sophisticated. The use of educational technology tools in these trainings can be extremely beneficial for the students, teachers and communities in which they are implemented. This presentation will demonstrate the ways in which the confluence of embodied learning and technology can provide insights to educators in all fields
Empowering Student Workers to Lead Digital Fluency Training
No full textLearn how Ursinus College’s instructional technology librarian trained and empowered student workers to lead digital fluency workshops and provide peer to peer support for students working on digital projects. Explore the pros and cons of various training approaches for Library and IT student workers, including daylong workshops, semester long apprenticeships, and a blended learning model. Begin to develop your own plan for training student workers to support digital fluency initiatives and innovation in the classroom
Most importantly, I hope God keeps illness away from us : The context and challenges surrounding access to health care for Syrian refugees in Lebanon
Get PDFThe influx of 1.5 million Syrians into Lebanon has created an increased demand for health services, which is largely unmet, due to cost, a highly fragmented and privatised system, and crises around legal documentation and refugee status. The aim of this study was to use a constant comparison analysis of qualitative data to explore how Syrian refugees living in Lebanon describe their experiences accessing healthcare (N = 351 individuals within 46 families). Pervasive fear, lack of confidence in the medical system, and high costs all hinder access to healthcare for Syrians in Lebanon. Findings demonstrate the need for attention to the costs and accessibility of care, and for stronger coordination of care within a centrally led comprehensive emergency plan. While we attend to understanding and alleviating the barriers surrounding refugee healthcare, we must also address the underlying cause of health crisis: the brutal realities caused by armed conflict
Byzantine Enamel and the Aesthetics of Technological Power, Ninth to Twelfth Centuries
Get PDFBeginning in the ninth century C.E., artisans in the Byzantine Empire mastered the complex process of cloisonné enameling – fusing colored glass to metal plaques divided into compartments by delicate metal wires. Enameling demanded fluency in the physical properties of multiple materials and proficiency in what we know today as graphic design. This dissertation emphasizes how the ability to manufacture enamel was significant in and of itself, and explores how cloisonné enamel became infused with cultural meaning in Byzantium through the rarefied technical knowledge employed in its making.
The medieval Greek vocabulary for enamel, χυμευτός/χειμευτός (chymeutos/cheimeutos) and ἔργα χυμευτά/χειμευτά (erga chymeuta/cheimeuta), derives from the verb χεώ (cheō, “to melt”), and can be translated as “melted things,” or “melted work.” Yet the stem of the words and their etymological origins link them firmly to the terms χυμεία/χημεία (chymeia/chēmeia) and χύμευσις (chymeusis), the medieval Greek words for “alchemy.” A large corpus of Byzantine alchemical texts reveals that the relationship between enameling and alchemy was more than etymological, it was fundamental.
I argue that, beyond being a means of artistic representation, Byzantine enamel was the aesthetic manifestation of material sciences and a potent statement of technological prowess. This study brings the material characteristics of enameled objects into dialogue with literary evidence of alchemical practice in Byzantium. Notions of technological power are the ideological undercurrent running below the surface of this medium, hinting that the expert manipulation of minerals, glass, and metals could also stand in for Byzantine mastery over the natural world itself
Visions of their Land: Młoda Polska & The Making of Landscape
No full textThis dissertation focuses on the landscape art produced by artists of the Młoda Polska (Young Poland) movement, active ca. 1890-1914. This period of art-making coincides with the condition of non-sovereignty. Poland as a nation-state ceased to exist from 1795 to 1918, partitioned by imperial Austria, Prussia, and Russia. Landscape, as a set of textual and visual practices addressing questions of national identity and belonging, is uniquely suited to address Polish identity and its construction during this period of statelessness.
Trained internationally and working across partition lines, Young Poland produced landscape art as a central part of their artistic practice. Despite this, the topic has received little focused attention in scholarship. Rather, landscape art is considered primarily through the lens of influential stylistic movements, for example European Impressionism or Symbolism. Landscape art as a medium capable of eliding and uniting these stylistic differences moves past an account only of these stylistic phenomena in Polish art. It addresses the fundamental paradox of Polishness of the period: what articulated Polish identity at a time when Poland did not exist? This dissertation examines four topoi of Young Poland landscape art as intersections between the different cultural practices that constituted and created Polish identity. These are the ghost landscape, as in Stanisław Wyspiański’s Capsheaves; the garden as hortus conclusus and hortus deliciarum as in Józef Mehoffer’s Strange Garden; the sublime landscape as in Wojciech Weiss’ Radiant Sunset; and the framing and screening of the landscape through the self in Stanisław Wyspiański’s View from the Artist’s Studio Window. Together they represent a set of landscape poetics through which Young Poland addressed the fundamenta condition of non-sovereignty. The landscape works simultaneously mourn and remember the lost Poland while anticipating and mapping its reconstitution. They do so by proposing new temporalities and new relationships to subjectivity. At the same time, they explore innovative iconography, experimental painting, and questions of representation itself.
Against the broader nineteenth-century European context of landscape art, Young Poland landscape art is equally progressive. This study yields new insight into the relation between perceived center and periphery, and proposes a recalibration of mutual influence
The Relative Gromov Width of Lagrangian Cobordisms between Legendrians
Get PDFWe obtain upper and lower bounds for the relative Gromov width of Lagrangian cobordisms between Legendrian submanifolds. Upper bounds arise from the existence of J-holomorphic disks with boundary on the Lagrangian cobordism that pass through the center of a given symplectically embedded ball. The areas of these disks - and hence the sizes of these balls - are controlled by a real-valued fundamental capacity, a quantity derived from the algebraic structure of filtered linearized Legendrian Contact Homology of the Legendrian at the top of the cobordism. Lower bounds come from explicit constructions that use neighborhoods of Reeb chords in the Legendrian ends. We also study relationships between the relative Gromov width and another quantitative measurement, the length of a cobordism between two Legendrian submanifolds
