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Reading: Amit Majmudar
No full textBecause of COVID-19 this event is canceled.
Amit Majmudar, a multi-genre author and translator, offers a Sacred Arts Festival reading that explores the concept of Building Bridges.
Co-sponsored by the Department of English and the Sacred Arts Festival
Exploring young students creativity: The effect of model eliciting activities
No full textThe aim of this paper is to show how engaging students in real-life mathematical situations can stimulate their mathematical creative thinking. We analyzed the mathematical modeling of two girls, aged 10 and 13 years, as they worked on an authentic task involving the selection of a track team. The girls displayed several modeling cycles that revealed their thinking processes, as well as cognitive and affective features that may serve as the foundation for a methodology that uses model-eliciting activities to promote the mathematical creative process
Reviewing the Author-Function in the Age of Wikipedia
No full textIn Reviewing the Author-Function in the Age of Wikipedia, Amit Ray and Erhardt Graeff examine how wiki technology challenges traditional concepts of authorship and authority in knowledge production. The authors build on poststructuralist theory, particularly Roland Barthes\u27s Death of the Author and Michel Foucault\u27s concept of the author-function, to analyze how wikis destabilize individual authorship in favor of collaborative, community-driven content creation.
The essay argues that wikis represent a fundamental shift from the Romantic notion of the solitary author-genius to what they term the wiki writing process —a dynamic system where traditional roles of reader, writer, and editor blur into a unified community of users. Using Wikipedia as a primary case study, the authors demonstrate how the platform\u27s structure (article, discussion, and history pages) creates a digital palimpsest that archives all contributions while enabling continuous revision.
Through analysis of Wikipedia\u27s editing patterns and community oversight mechanisms, Ray and Graeff show how wikis embody poststructuralist principles in practice, creating what they call serial collaborations that exist in perpetual flux. The authors conclude that wikis represent an evolved form of textual production that realizes Foucault\u27s vision of discourse freed from traditional authorial constraints, offering new possibilities for collaborative knowledge creation while challenging established notions of intellectual authority and ownership
sj-pdf-2-ijt-10.1177_10915818221095489 – Supplemental Material for Comprehensive Nonclinical Safety Assessment of Nirmatrelvir Supporting Timely Development of the SARS-COV-2 Antiviral Therapeutic, Paxlovid™
No full textSupplemental Material, sj-pdf-2-ijt-10.1177_10915818221095489 for Comprehensive Nonclinical Safety Assessment of Nirmatrelvir Supporting Timely Development of the SARS-COV-2 Antiviral Therapeutic, Paxlovid™ by Jean G. Sathish, Siddhartha Bhatt, Jamie K. DaSilva, Declan Flynn, Stephen Jenkinson, Amit S. Kalgutkar, Maggie Liu, Balasubramanian Manickam, Jason Pinkstaff, William J. Reagan, Norimitsu Shirai, Ahmed M. Shoieb, Madhu Sirivelu, Saurabh Vispute, Allison Vitsky, Karen Walters, Todd A. Wisialowski and Lawrence W. Updyke in International Journal of Toxicology</p
sj-pdf-1-ijt-10.1177_10915818221095489 – Supplemental Material for Comprehensive Nonclinical Safety Assessment of Nirmatrelvir Supporting Timely Development of the SARS-COV-2 Antiviral Therapeutic, Paxlovid™
No full textSupplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-ijt-10.1177_10915818221095489 for Comprehensive Nonclinical Safety Assessment of Nirmatrelvir Supporting Timely Development of the SARS-COV-2 Antiviral Therapeutic, Paxlovid™ by Jean G. Sathish, Siddhartha Bhatt, Jamie K. DaSilva, Declan Flynn, Stephen Jenkinson, Amit S. Kalgutkar, Maggie Liu, Balasubramanian Manickam, Jason Pinkstaff, William J. Reagan, Norimitsu Shirai, Ahmed M. Shoieb, Madhu Sirivelu, Saurabh Vispute, Allison Vitsky, Karen Walters, Todd A. Wisialowski and Lawrence W. Updyke in International Journal of Toxicology</p
Development of an automated updated selvester QRS scoring system using SWT-based QRS fractionation detection and classification
No full textThe Selvester score is an effective means for estimating the extent of myocardial scar in a patient from lowcost ECG recordings. Automation of such a system is deemed to help implementing low-cost high-volume screening mechanisms of scar in the primary care. This article describes, for the first time to the best of our knowledge, an automated implementation of the updated Selvester scoring system for that purpose, where fractionated QRS morphologies and patterns are identified and classified using a novel Stationary Wavelet Transform (SWT) based fractionation detection algorithm. This stage informs the two principal steps of the updated Selvester scoring scheme - the confounder classification and the point awarding rules. The complete system is validated on 51 ECG records of patients detected with ischemic heart disease. Validation has been carried out using manually detected confounder classes and computation of the actual score by expert cardiologists as the ground truth. Our results show that as a stand-alone system it is able to classify different confounders with 94.1% accuracy whereas it exhibits 94% accuracy in computing the actual score. When coupled with our previously proposed automated ECG delineation algorithm, that provides the input ECG parameters, the overall system shows 90% accuracy in confounder classification and 92% accuracy in computing the actual score and thereby showing comparable performance to the stand-alone system proposed here, with the added advantage of complete automated analysis without any human intervention
The Architecture of India
No full textBook review of "India: Modern Architecture in History" and author interview with Peter Scriver and Amit Srivastav
The complex interplay between mechanical forces, tissue response and individual susceptibility to pressure ulcers
No full textObjective: The most recent edition of the International Clinical Practice Guideline for the Prevention and Treatment of Pressure Ulcers/Injuries was released in 2019. Shortly after, in 2020, the first edition of the SECURE Prevention expert panel report, focusing on device-related pressure ulcers/injuries, was published as a special issue in the Journal of Wound Care. A second edition followed in 2022. This article presents a comprehensive summary of the current understanding of the causes of pressure ulcers/injuries (PU/Is) as detailed in these globally recognised consensus documents. Method: The literature reviewed in this summary specifically addresses the impact of prolonged soft tissue deformations on the viability of cells and tissues in the context of PU/Is related to bodyweight or medical devices. Results: Prolonged soft tissue deformations initially result in cell death and tissue damage on a microscopic scale, potentially leading to development of clinical PU/Is overtime. That is, localised high tissue deformations or mechanical stress concentrations can cause microscopic damage within minutes, but it may take several hours of continued mechanical loading for this initial cell and tissue damage to become visible and clinically noticeable. Superficial tissue damage primarily stems from excessive shear loading on fragile or vulnerable skin. In contrast, deeper PU/Is, known as deep tissue injuries, typically arise from stress concentrations in soft tissues at body regions over sharp or curved bony prominences, or under stiff medical devices in prolonged contact with the skin. Conclusion: This review promotes deeper understanding of the pathophysiology of PU/Is, indicating that their primary prevention should focus on alleviating the exposure of cells and tissues to stress concentrations. This goal can be achieved either by reducing the intensity of stress concentrations in soft tissues, or by decreasing the exposure time of soft tissues to such stress concentrations. Declaration of interest: The author has no conflicts of interest
Advancing Health Research in Humanitarian Crises
No full textAUTHOR AFFILIATION: Amit Mistry, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States, [email protected] media can be accessed here:
http://streaming.osu.edu/knowledgebank/PREA/PREA_Session7A_Mistry_20190325.mp4This presentation identifies the mission of the Fogarty Center at the National Institutes of Health. Within this, the Advancing Health Research in Humanitarian Crises program has been initiated recently. Specific projects within this program will be described, as well as resources and funding streams within Fogarty. Research ethics is an important cross-cutting strand across these projects
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