1,341 research outputs found
Is Social Media the Great Information Equalizer? Exploring Current Use of Social Media by World Federation of Occupational Therapists Member Organizations
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Date Presented 3/30/2017
This study used a mixed-methods survey to explore World Federation of Occupational Therapists member organizations’ use of social media. It found that although social media tools are well utilized by many organizations, enhancement of technical skills and resources would be beneficial.
Primary Author and Speaker: Anita Hamilton
Additional Authors and Speakers: Susan Burwash, Karen Jacobs, Merrolee Penman
Contributing Authors: Angela Hook, Sarah Bodell, Ritchard Ledgerd, Marilyn Pattison</jats:p
Voluntary Closing Hook Prosthesis
No full textThe Wilmer Rotational Instant Seizing Tentacle (WRIST) is a Voluntary Closing (VC) hook prosthesis for transradial amputees, developed by the WILMER Group at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Dissatisfaction with the currently used bodypowered arm prostheses, expressed by patients and members of the WILMER group, led to a study devoted to the design of a new kind of VC arm prosthesis. This research resulted in a prototype of the WRIST which is neither elbow nor shoulder controlled. The WRIST consists of a two-fingered hook connected to a socket by a hinge. The distance between the hook fingers is related to the manually adjustable hook-socket angle in a way that dorsal flexion of the hook results in grasping. This provides the concept with some unique features: any pinching force can be locked to prevent fatigue, the hook can be closed at all times, and the system does not require a harness or operating cables. This improves cosmetics and comfort as well as functionality.Biomechanical EngineeringMechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineerin
The powers of emptiness
No full textFoucault is often considered to be the commensurate theorist of power. His late work provides an impressive array of concepts that enables a multi-dimensional analysis of the historical, material, and discursive facets of power. What is missing from this approach, however, is the factor of passionate attachments, or what we might term the sublime motivations that underlie any regime of control. Lacan’s ethical thought prioritizes precisely the issue of the sublime, and, more to the point, the process of sublimation which establishes an effective “short-circuit” between socially valorized objects and direct drive satisfactions of individuals. Key here is the notion of das Ding, the place of the absent object of primordial satisfaction that generates libidinal enjoyment and draws the subject toward the pinnacle of social valorization. Lacan thus shows us what Foucault cannot theorize. That is to say, if sublimation consists of a relation to the real of das Ding, then it cannot be limited in the terms of its activation to the powers of discursive domain alone; it remains a self-initiating and self-regulating form of power
HMGA2-mediated transcriptional activation is dependent upon basic residues within the second AT-hook
No full text<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "The second AT-hook of the architectural transcription factor HMGA2 is determinant for nuclear localization and function"</p><p></p><p>Nucleic Acids Research 2007;35(6):1751-1760.</p><p>Published online 25 Feb 2007</p><p>PMCID:PMC1874589.</p><p>© 2007 The Author(s)</p> () Diagram of luciferase reporter gene under the transcriptional regulation of the cyclin A promoter and the HMGA2 wild type and mutants expressed by the vectors used. () CHO cells were transiently cotransfected with 1 µg of the CycA luciferase reporter plasmid (bars 1–4) and with 3 µg of HMGA2 wt-, mS5- and mT6- EGFP expression vectors (bars 2–4 respectively). 0.1 µg of pRL-CMV Renilla luciferase expression vector was included to normalize for transfection efficiencies. Values are reported as relative luciferase activity. Standard deviations are indicated for experiments repeated three times. The amount of HMGA2 wt-, mS5- and mT6-EGFP expression was assayed by Western blot analysis using a polyclonal α-HMGA2 antibody. The subcellular localization of the expressed proteins in CHO cells was confirmed by confocal microscopy (data not shown)
Hook and shifted hook numbers
No full textAbstractIn a 1977 paper by J. Herman and F. Chung, several families of counterexamples to the conjecture that a tableau shape is uniquely determined (up to reflection, i.e. conjugation) by its multiset of hook numbers were presented. They also showed that by extending the definition of hook length a tableau shape is uniquely determined (up to conjugation) by its extended multiset of hook numbers.Here we provide an infinite family of counterexamples to the conjecture that a shifted tableau shape is uniquely determined by its multiset of shifted hook numbers.Regarding this uniqueness question, there is a great contrast between tableau shapes and shifted tableau shapes. Indeed, the first author had conjectured that there was just one example of nonuniqueness (the two shifted shapes consisting of three cells given by the partitions (2,1) and (3)) in the shifted case. It was the view of the second author that this conjecture was quite unlikely. The fact is that in the first five million cases, there is only one other pair of examples and there seems to be reason to believe that the next example of nonuniqueness follows after just about a mole (about 6×1023) of distinguishable cases. This statement is based on our construction of an infinite family of pairs of shifted shapes possessing the property that for each pair the shapes are different but the multiset of hook numbers are the same, and the fact that a computer search revealed no further examples. It is for these reasons that the conjecture, which seemed unlikely (and indeed was false), should be thought all the more remarkable for being so very nearly true. We are lead to push our luck and conjecture once again that no additional examples exist. The result (Theorem 6) of Section 6 is in this direction
Flesh hook pulling: motivations and meaning-making from the 'body side' of life
No full textThis article offers an ethnographic account of a radical body modification ritual called “flesh hook pulling.” The article describes the motivations and rationales for flesh hook pulling as well as the spiritual, personal, and social benefits that flesh hook pullers derive from the practice. Data were collected via participant observation fieldwork and in-depth interviews. As an “extreme,” clandestine practice, flesh hook pulling elicits negative reactions from outsiders. Results are interpreted as part of a discursive competition for definitional control of radical body modification practice. The article speaks to competing constructions of body deviance and highlights the way in which the body continues to be a contested terrain.Peer reviewedFinal article publishe
Nixon's “full-speech”: imaginary and symbolic registers of communication
No full textCommunicative interchanges play a foundational role in establishing the social. This being said, communicative behaviour can also lead to stalemates and conflict in which demands of recognition outweigh the prospect of hearing or saying anything beyond what is thought to be known. This paper foregrounds a dimension of communication often neglected by approaches prioritizing mass communications and new media technologies, namely the psychical and inter-subjective aspects of communicative exchange. More directly, this paper introduces and develops a Lacanian psychoanalytic theory of two interlinked registers of communicative behaviour. The first of these is the imaginary: the domain of one-to-one inter-subjectivity and behaviour that serves the ego and functions to consolidate the images subjects use to substantiate themselves. The second - far more disturbing and unpredictable - is the symbolic. It links the subject to a trans-subjective order of truth, it provides them with a set of socio-symbolic co-ordinates, and it ties them into a variety of roles and social contracts. In an elaboration of these two registers, illustrated by brief reference to Nixon’s admission of guilt in his interviews with David Frost, I pay particular attention to both the potentially transformative symbolic aspect of communicative behaviours and the ever-present prospect that such relations will ossify into imaginary impasses of mis-knowing (méconnaissance) and aggressive rivalry
Pleopeltis murora (Hook.) A.R. Sm. y Tejero
No full textUPTC_7184FloraBoyacáSantuario de Flora y Fauna de IguauqePleopeltis murora (Hook.) A.R. Sm. y TejeroPlantaePolypodiopsidaPolypodialesPolypodiaceaePleopeltismuroraArcabuc
Hook: A Memoir
No full textHOOK: A MEMOIR is a gripping story of transformation. Without excuse or indulgence, author and educator Randall Horton explores his downward spiral from unassuming Howard University undergraduate to homeless drug addict, international cocaine smuggler, and incarcerated felon—before showing us the redemptive role that writing and literature played in helping him reclaim his life. The multilayered narrative bridges past and present through both the vivid portrayal of Horton\u27s singular experiences and his correspondence in letters with the anonymous Lxxxx, a Latina woman awaiting trial. HOOK explores race and social construction in America, the forgotten lives within the prison industrial complex, and the resilience of the human spirit.https://digitalcommons.newhaven.edu/english-books/1003/thumbnail.jp
Swivel hook design using solidworks API
No full textThis report serves as a documentation of the author’s work on the crawler crane design and simulation project, during my final year of study at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). This report can divided into two parts, the first part is respect to model and simulate the crawler crane using the SolidWorks and the second part is doing research and development of an intelligent system which can automatically generate the data for different sizes of the hooks, it will help the user to create a new hook in a faster and efficiency way. The author worked as a member of crawler crane design team. This design team was contributing to the design and develops crawler crane system. Being part of this design team for the term of my final year project, my role and responsibility is to study and understand the working principle of crane system. Then try to use my skills and knowledge to do some development works. In this report author’s design and simulate the crawler crane by using SolidWorks software and also details the designing and development of an intelligent system for the hook by using the SolidWorks and combined with the visual basic programming (it is the Application Programming Interface). On the other hand, in order to ensure the hook performance, functionality and specification to meet the design criteria, author did some design analysis such as design and analysis of crane hook with different materials and also structural analysis of crane hook by using finite element method.Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical Engineering
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