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Performing Environmental Justice. Staged Reflections
No full textWith Shweta Bhattad, Zuleikha Chaudhari, Başak Ertür, Emilie Gaillard, Shela Sheikh and Radha D’Souza
People’s Tribunals have a long history. They have served for serious reflection upon the relationship between law, rights, and justice. More recently there has been an emphasis on environmental justice, for instance in the International Monsanto Tribunal. What are appropriate epistemological and aesthetic frameworks for considering environmental harm? Can staged hearings and experimental assemblies function speculatively and propositionally in relation to existing legal forums? What might justice look like in these settings and how is it performed? What here is the status of evidence and testimony? Taking Brechts´s theoretical and unfinished text Messingkauf Dialogues as a proposal for a mutual learning encounter, the panel reflects upon various forms of performance and enactment and explores how such spaces function as sites of knowledge and reality production.
Concept: Zuleikha Chaudhari, Shela Sheik
I was a Shastri
Get PDFAnand Chaudhari attended Toronto Bible College in the late 1960s and graduated in 1969 from Ontario Bible College.This booklet is his testimony of transforming from a Shastri (a Hindu priest) to doing God’s work with the Hindus in India.For AODA accommodation, including help with reading this content, please contact [email protected](no table of contents in this booklet
Dr. Praveen Chaudhari named director of Brookhaven National Laboratory
No full text"Brookhaven Science Associates announced today the selection of Dr. Praveen Chaudhari as Director of the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory. Dr. Chaudhari, who will begin his new duties on April 1, joins Brookhaven Lab after 36 years of distinguished service at IBM as a scientist and senior manager of research" (1 page)
Modeling and Analysis of an antagonistically driven robot hand
No full textIn DLR, the third generation of an anthropomorphic hand is being developed. The present work focussed on the development of the kinematic and friction model of the finger. A forward kinematic model which deteremines the change in length of the tendons w.r.t to the joints of the finger is derived. Causes for friction in the finger are discussed. Friction models for the motor and the finger are investigated. Determination of motor parameters namely viscous and static friction using least square approximation methods is done. Experiments and simulation results are shown to support the estimated parameters
TRAIL and TGF-ßl-Induced Apoptosis of Human Airway Epithelial Cells
No full textAsthma is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR), airway obstruction, wheezing, and leads to airway remodeling if these symptoms persist. Airway remodeling is characterized by goblet hyperplasia, airway smooth muscle hypertrophy and hyperplasia, subepithelial fibrosis and denudation of the epithelium. Due to weakened protection of the airway epithelium, the body is more susceptible to infections and exacerbation of asthma symptoms.
Airway epithelial cells are damaged and shed during airway remodeling, a characteristic of chronic asthma. During airway remodeling inflammatory cells including eosinophils and neutrophils penetrate the epithelium leading destruction of the tissue. Eosinophils, primary inflammatory cells, release TGF-ßl, a potent mediator of epithelial damage. Expression of TGF-ßl is higher in asthmatics. TGF-ßl can induce apoptosis of airway epithelial cells, however, the underlying mechanism of apoptosis is not well defined. A new member of the TNF superfamily, TRAIL, is predominantly involved in apoptosis. Various studies in hepatoma cells have linked the pathways of TRAIL and TGF-ßl.
Given this information, we hypothesized that TGF-ßl induced apoptosis of airway epithelial cells occurs through the actions of TRAIL. We investigated the role of TGF-ßl in the proliferation and apoptosis of human airway epithelial cells. Also we examined the effect of TGF-ßl on the mRNA transcript and protein expression of TRAIL. To investigate whether TGF-ßl induced apoptosis via TRAIL, we performed a study in which the receptor of TRAIL was blocked to observe whether caspase-dependent apoptosis still occurs. TGF-ßl induced the release of TRAIL by airway epithelial cells. Upon TGF-ßl treatment, proliferation decreased while apoptosis increased. The mRNA transcript and protein expression was increased upon treatment with TGF-ßl. The expression of activated caspase-3 was increased with TGF-ßl treatment as well as the increased expression of Bax. However, there was a decreased expression of Bcl-2. When TRAIL-R2 was blocked, there is no apoptosis induced by TGF-ßl through the actions of caspases.
These data suggest that TGF-ßl induced apoptosis occurs through the actions of TRAIL and its receptors and may have potential in therapy for treating asthma.ProQuest Traditional Publishing Optionxi, 78 page
Performing Environmental Justice: Staged Reflections
No full textPeople’s Tribunals have a long history. They have served for serious reflection upon the relationship between law, rights, and justice. More recently there has been an emphasis on environmental justice, for instance in the International Monsanto Tribunal. What are appropriate epistemological and aesthetic frameworks for considering environmental harm? Can staged hearings and experimental assemblies function speculatively and propositionally in relation to existing legal forums? What might justice look like in these settings and how is it performed? What here is the status of evidence and testimony? Taking Brechts´s theoretical and unfinished text Messingkauf Dialogues as a proposal for a mutual learning encounter, the panel reflects upon various forms of performance and enactment and explores how such spaces function as sites of knowledge and reality production.
With Shweta Bhattad, Zuleikha Chaudhari, Başak Ertür, Emilie Gaillard, Shela Sheikh and Radha D’Souza
Concept: Zuleikha Chaudhari, Shela Sheik
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Dynamis of Healing
No full textThis book explores how traces of the energies and dynamics of Orthodox Christian theology and anthropology may be observed in the clinical work of depth psychology. Looking to theology to express its own religious truths and to psychology to see whether these truth claims show up in healing modalities, the author creatively engages both disciplines in order to highlight the possibilities for healing contained therein. Dynamis of Healing elucidates how theology and psychology are by no means fundamentally at odds with each other, but rather can work together in a beautiful and powerful synergia to address both the deepest needs and deepest desires of the human person for healing and flourishing.
Pia Sophia Chaudhari holds a doctorate in theology from the department of Psychiatry & Religion at Union Theological Seminary in New York. She is a founding co-chair of the Analytical Psychology and Orthodox Christianity Consultation (APOCC)
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