668 research outputs found
Author: Nadine Gordimer
No full textThis booklet celebrates the life and work of Nadine Gordimer, internationally acclaimed author, icon, role-model and one of South Africa's living treasures
Author: Nadine Gordimer
No full textThis booklet celebrates the life and work of Nadine Gordimer, internationally acclaimed author, icon, role-model and one of South Africa's living treasures
Attenuation of N2 amplitude of laser-evoked potentials by theta burst stimulation of primary somatosensory cortex
No full textTheta burst stimulation (TBS) is a special repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) paradigm, where bursts of low-intensity stimuli are applied in the theta frequency. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of neuronavigated TBS over primary somatosensory cortex (SI) on laser-evoked potentials (LEPs) and acute pain perception induced with Tm : YAG laser stimulation. The amplitude changes of the N1, N2, and P2 components of LEPs and related subjective pain rating scores of 12 healthy subjects were analyzed prior to and following continuous TBS (cTBS), intermittent TBS (iTBS), intermediate TBS (imTBS), and sham stimulation. Our results demonstrate that all active TBS paradigms significantly diminished the amplitude of the N2 component, when the hand contralateral to the site of TBS was laser-stimulated. Sham stimulation condition had no significant effect. The subjective pain perception also decreased during the experimental sessions, but did not differ significantly from the sham stimulation condition. The main finding of our study is that TBS over SI diminished the amplitude of the N2 component evoked from the contralateral side without any significant analgesic effects. Furthermore, imTBS produced responses similar to those observed by other forms of TBS induced excitability changes in the SI
Transcranial direct current stimulation over somatosensory cortex decreases experimentally induced acute pain perception
No full textObjective: Multiple cortical areas including the primary somatosensory cortex are known to be involved in nociception. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) that modulates the cortical excitability painlessly and noninvasively, over somatosensory cortex on acute pain perception induced with a Tm:YAG laser. Methods: Subjective pain rating scores and amplitude changes of the N1, N2, and P2 components of laser-evoked potentials of 10 healthy participants were analyzed before and after anodal, cathodal, and sham tDCS. Results: Our results demonstrate that cathodal tDCS significantly diminished pain perception and the amplitude of the N2 component when the contralateral hand to the side of tDCS was laser-stimulated, whereas anodal and sham stimulation conditions had no significant effect. Discussion: Our study highlights the antinociceptive effect of this technique and may contribute to the understanding of the mechanisms underlying pain relief. The pharmacologic prolongation of the excitability-diminishing after-effects would render the method applicable to different patient populations with chronic pain
Transcranial direct current stimulation over somatosensory cortex decreases experimentally induced acute pain perception
No full textObjective: Multiple cortical areas including the primary somatosensory cortex are known to be involved in nociception. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) that modulates the cortical excitability painlessly and noninvasively, over somatosensory cortex on acute pain perception induced with a Tm:YAG laser. Methods: Subjective pain rating scores and amplitude changes of the N1, N2, and P2 components of laser-evoked potentials of 10 healthy participants were analyzed before and after anodal, cathodal, and sham tDCS. Results: Our results demonstrate that cathodal tDCS significantly diminished pain perception and the amplitude of the N2 component when the contralateral hand to the side of tDCS was laser-stimulated, whereas anodal and sham stimulation conditions had no significant effect. Discussion: Our study highlights the antinociceptive effect of this technique and may contribute to the understanding of the mechanisms underlying pain relief. The pharmacologic prolongation of the excitability-diminishing after-effects would render the method applicable to different patient populations with chronic pain
Women Look into Love: Reimaginings of Heterosexual Love in Contemporary Women’s Fiction
No full textThis thesis explores how contemporary women writers write about heterosexual love, considering not only the ways it has been implicated in patriarchal models and traditional romance plots, but also its portrayal in light of developments in feminism and fiction in the 1990s and 2000s. The thesis examines Carol Shields’s The Republic of Love (1992), Toni Morrison’s Jazz (1992), Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine (1993), Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup (2001), Ann Patchett’s Bel Canto (2001), Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin (2000) and Doris Lessing’s Love, Again (1995). In this study it emerges that as well as illustrating continuities, the scope of the treatment of love is opened up further in recent fiction as aspects like age or social, economic and historical factors are centralised and considered in interesting ways. The thesis also identifies some positive approaches to heterosexual love, as in, for example, the emphasis on men’s capacity for emotions. However, this is not always the case, as a writer like Lessing further develops a vision of love without providing an affirmative view. Thus, the contemporary women writers’ work can be said to contribute to understandings of heterosexual love on many different levels, even as feminist criticisms of repressive, patriarchal forms of romantic relationship continue to remain relevant
Theoretical and Textual Approaches to Contemporary Humanitarian Narrative: The Cases of Roberto Saviano’s Gomorra, Aung San Suu Kyi’s Letters from Burma, Jerry Piasecki’s Marie in the Shadow of the Lion and Nadine Gordimer’s The Ultimate Safari
No full textThe purpose of this thesis is to describe how some forms of fictional and non-fictional texts can be configured as and within the framework of humanitarian practices. In exploring the definitions and features of humanitarianism and humanitarian literature, the thesis attempts to answer the question of what purpose these texts try to serve. In examining the works Marie in the Shadow of the Lion (2000) by Jerry Piasecki, The Ultimate Safari (1989) by Nadine Gordimer, Gomorra (2006) by Roberto Saviano and Letters from Burma (1996) by Aung San Suu Kyi, we will argue that the scope of these books can be located by analogy to social and political humanitarian practices. Beyond their differences in genre, style and subject matter, these texts share a common feature: they are performative, namely they strive to do things with words. The humanitarian texts discussed in this thesis can be shown to act in the world in order to implement the values proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
ANALYSIS OF EXTRINSIC ELEMENTS IN NADINE LABAKI\u27S CAFERNAUM FILM: Analisis Unsur Ekstrinsik Dalam Film Cafernaum Karya Nadine Labaki
No full textAbstract: Film is a literary work (prose) that contains the life story of a person or various characters packaged in imaginative works, so that it attracts the interest of many readers, where in the film itself there are various elements that can be used as life lessons in real life. This research includes descriptive qualitative research with the type of literature research (library). The data was taken from several journals, books, e-books, newspapers and others. This data set was processed using triangulation, where the data was sorted and adjusted to suit this research. The film Capernaum by Nadine Labaki is one of the films on the realization of children\u27s rights which is part of a literary work, where the film contains extrinsic elements that show the life of the author (Nadine Labaki) which includes: the author\u27s background, society\u27s background, and values. contained in the film. background regarding the film\u27s author, Nadine Labaki, a film director who lives in a heterogeneous Lebanese society, asked him to voice the human rights of children, by casting non-professional actors to make the film feel more alive and real. The civil war resulting from friction between groups who wanted to maintain their existence caused long chaos in Lebanon which sacrificed the human rights of children who lived in suffering, injustice and oppression.
Keywords: Extrinsic Elements, Capernaum, Nadine Labaki
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Structure des documents et fouille de données textuelles
No full text@conference{ac-Lucas-2005-2, author = {Lucas, Nadine}, title = {Structure des documents et fouille de données textuelles}, booktitle = {Journées Bingo Caen}, year = {2005}, month = {juin}, organization = {Bingo}
La recherche d'information dans les textes médicaux
No full text@conference{ac-Lucas-2004-4, author = {Lucas, Nadine}, title = {La recherche d'information dans les textes médicaux}, booktitle = {Journées Bingo Lyon}, year = {2004}, month = {octobre}, organization = {Bingo}
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