165 research outputs found
The collapsible space between us : the interrelationship between testifier, author, and reader in Dave Eggers's "What Is the What"
No full textThesis (M.A.)--Georgetown University, 2009.; Includes bibliographical
references. This project investigates the collaborative relationship between testifier
(Valentino Achak Deng, a Lost Boy of Sudan), author (Dave Eggers), and readers in Dave Egger's
What Is the What. I explore the changing genre of memoirs. I use narrative and reader-response
theories to analyze Eggers's meticulous narrative construction. Finally, I argue that Eggers
builds a collaborative relationship with the reader in order to transform them into an
activist outside of the text
A Conceptual Postcolonial Feminist Photo Studio
No full textDr. Allison Moore, Art historian, Critic, and Curator, Berlin, Germany
A Conceptual Postcolonial Feminist Photo Studio
To create Malian photographer Fatoumata Diabaté’s series Studio Photo de la Rue (Photo Studio on the Street), the artist set up her titular temporary photo studio literally on the street during such important photographic events as the Rencontres Africaines de la photographie, also called the Bamako Biennial. Here Diabaté revisits the tradition of studio portraiture from a feminist conceptual perspective, creating awareness and critique through the doubled strategies of social practice and appropriation of Malian photographic history. In Studio Photo de la Rue, some set-ups humorously recall Sidibé’s beach photos of sandy, half-naked young men in the studio while others mock (post)colonial relations; in one, a white woman sits wearing a Fulani-style hat, looking uncomfortable and holding a stick with string wrapped around it, while the artist herself, looking regal and dressed in a 1950s style outfit, holds a flower vase prop above her head. Perhaps because of its obvious historical borrowings from the famous commercial studio portraiture of Malick Sidibé, who was one of her mentors, Diabaté’s series has not yet been recognized as utilizing the conceptual strategies of feminist and postcolonial social practice art. Her incorporation of famous art world personalities and friends, such as Malian artist Abdoulaye Konaté and French Cameroonian curator Simon Njami, is intermingled with postcolonial and feminist critiques, enabling the series to reflect on the history of its own making and to ask critical questions about the gendered history of commercial studio photography in Mali in relation to contemporary art photography.
Dr. Allison Moore is an art historian, critic and curator based in Berlin. She is the author of Embodying Relation: Art Photography in Mali (Duke University Press, 2020) and numerous articles, essays and reviews on contemporary African art and photography
New paradigms to find solutions to intractable NRM problems
No full textThis final report presents the results of the project conducted from 1 July 2005 to 3 July 2008. The project consisted of three phases: firstly, the investigation of personality types of people involved with natural resource management and policy across Australia with a focus on Western Australia; secondly, the development of a system dynamics model of the Western Australian wheat belt at the regional scale to demonstrate the nature of linked social-ecological systems within a resilience paradigm or framework; and thirdly, the knowledge and adoption phase of the model and concepts of resilience paradigm.
At the beginning of this project in July 2005 the concepts of complex problems and resilience were not in common usage and it was a bold step for Land & Water Australia to support this innovative project at that time. These approaches are now validated by bursts of activity over the past three years in which it has become widely acknowledged that many of our most pressing problems have the characteristics of complex problems and require quite different processes to understand and manage them. For example, the Australian Public Policy Commission acknowledges that the public service has to deal with complex problems and developing ways of dealing with them is an evolving process (Commonwealth of Australia 2007). Similarly it has been recognised that, in order for agriculture to respond to climate change, more systemic changes in resource allocation will be required (Howden, Soussana et al. 2007). Internationally the number of papers in the scientific literature related to complex problems and the paradigm of resilience has risen from approximately 50 per year in 2000 to about 250 per year in 2007 (Janssen 2007). The Resilience Alliance (http://www.resalliance.org/1.php) has been instrumental in promoting this approach and a new institute, the Stockholm Resilience Centre, was established in May 2007 to advance the understanding of complex social-ecological systems and to generate new insights and means for governance and management of ecosystem services for long-term sustainability
Portfolio: Master of Arts, Interdisciplinary Studies, International Affairs
No full textThis is a Masters' final portfolio for graduation from the Texas Tech Graduate SchoolEmbargo status: Restricted to TTU community only. To view, login with your eRaider (top right). Others may request the author grant access exception by clicking on the PDF link to the left
Towards a central theory of childhood sexuality: a relational approach:A Relational Approach
No full textNoting that much of the writing on sexuality since the 1970s has been done from a social constructionist approach, this chapter acknowledges the impact of social constructivism while pointing to the tools available for moving beyond it in our thinking about children’s relationships to a twenty-first century sexual world. The author draws from the “figurational and relational” sociology of Norbert Elias to argue for an interdisciplinary approach to theorizing children’s sexuality. The author argues for the usefulness of Elias’s theories in understanding at the micro level the lived sexualities of children and young people, as well as at the macro level state legislation, policy, and dominant constructions about children and their relationship to sexuality.</p
Relationship between quantitative real-time PCR cycle threshold and culture for detection of Streptococcus equi subspecies equi.
No full textObjective To compare PCR and culture results for the detection of Streptococcus equi subspecies equi (S. equi).
Animals Respiratory tract samples (N = 158) from horses being tested for S. equi.
Procedure Bacterial culture was carried out on samples from which S. equi was detected by quantitative real-time PCR.
Results S. equi was isolated from 12 (7.6%) samples: 4/9 (44%) samples when the PCR cycle threshold (CT) was ≤ 30, 7/30 (23%) when the CT was 30.1 to 35, and 1/119 (0.8%) when the CT was 35.1 to 40. The highest CT sample from a sample that yielded a positive culture was 36.9. The optimal Youden’s J value was at a CT of 34.2, the same value as determined by number needed to misdiagnose when the cost of a false negative is deemed to be either 5 or 10 × that of a false positive.
Conclusions Viable S. equi was only detected in a minority of quantitative PCR (qPCR) positive samples. A qPCR CT of 34.2 was a reasonable breakpoint for likelihood of the presence of culturable S. equi.
Clinical relevance Evaluation of CT values may be useful as a proxy to indicate the likelihood of cultivable S. equi being present and could be useful as part of risk assessments.journal article2023 JunimportedEquine Guelp
Afro-American vocal music: A select handbook and guide to songs by fifteen composers, 1990
No full textThis dissertation is structured as a handbook and guide. It provides selected published materials in Afro-American vocal music. These materials include music for solo voice, including the art sang, arrangements of spirituals and choral music. Emphasis is placed on composers of record whose works are in print. This handbook and guide will serve as a reference guide for musicians, choral directors or persons who simply want sane general sense of the composers and major compositions. Chapter One, "Introduction," gives the purpose of the handbook and guide. Chapter .Two, entitled "Four Pioneers," includes Harry Thacker Burleigh (1866-1949), Robert Nathaniel Dett (1882-1943), John Rosamond Johnson (1873-1954) and Hall Johnson (1888-1970). Chapter Three, "Second Generation," includes four selected composers - - Edward Hanmond Boatner (1898-1981), Frederick "Fred" Douglas Hall (1898-1981), William Levi Dawson (1899-) and John Wesley Work III (1901-1967). Chapter Four concerns "In The Contemporary Idiom: The Art Composers." The art composers selected for this period are Howard Swanson (1907-1985), Margaret Allison Bonds (1913-1972), and Undine Moore (1906-1989). "Four Avant-Garde Composers: The New Generation," Chapter Five, are composers who shared much in common with their predecessors. However, these Black composers felt the strong need and demand for the expression of "self," a heritage and a national acceptance. They used the musical tools contributed by Black people of this country. Their inclusion of the blues, spirituals and jazz as inspirations for compositions further implants nationalism into their music. The composers selected are Ulysses Sinpson Kay (1917-), Hale Smith (1925-), Arthur Cunningham (1934-), and Dorothy Rudd Moore (1940-). In addition to the bibliography, there are three appendices. Appendix I - Selected Vocal Music by Fifteen Composers; Appendix II- Selected Discography of Vocal Music by Composers; and Appendix III-Selected Publisher
Environmental and health factors affecting conductive hearing loss in Inuit children
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Reason: ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permissionETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permissionU of I OnlyAudiologic assessments for school-age Inuit children were conducted during the course of the school year to determine the fluctuation of hearing thresholds and prevalence of otitis media (OM) over three seasons, and to evaluate the relation between environmental and health variables with OM and conductive hearing impairment. For the 96 children evaluated at all three visits, hearing thresholds were statistically better in the Winter months, but the actual differences measured were small. Clinically, all 96 subjects had stable hearing thresholds over the school year.Environmental and health variables were measured for 112 Inuit children to assess the relation of these variables to the presence of long-term complications and sequelae associated with OM. The variables of gender, number of smokers in the home, infant feeding practices, school attendance schedule, number of residents in the home, number of wage earners in the family, inoculation for Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) disease, and age of inoculation for Hib disease were not associated with the presence of long-term complications and sequelae associated with OM.A history of 5 months of OM involvement by 1 year-of-age was a statistically significant predictor for children who had long-term middle ear disease. In addition, children who had experienced their first perforation by 6 months-of-age were statistically more likely to have long-term complications related to middle ear disease.The results of the present study indicated statistically significant criteria for the development of a high risk register for OM. These results support the need for early intervention for Inuit children who are at risk for long-term middle ear disease. A comprehensive program should include referral to audiology, otolaryngology, frequent home visits by community health care workers to facilitate continued education regarding OM and compliance with medical treatment, and monthly otoscopic and impedance tests performed by the community nurse practitioners. Through these efforts the prevalence of OM among Inuit children may decrease in the future.Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T14:10:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Evil, dangerous, and just like us: androids and Cylons in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) and Battlestar Galactica (2003)
No full textThe nature of humanity and what it means to be human has long been the focus of science fiction writers in all media. In this analysis of Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Ronald D. Moore and David Eick’s reimagined Battlestar Galactica, the author examines the relationships that exist between the humans and the humanoid robots they create, and how this reveals something of what it might mean to be human or non-human. In the search for a separate identity, humans reject the similarities that link them to the machines they encounter. By accepting that humans and androids – or humans and Cylons – are far more similar than they are different, and that the few physical differences between them are far less important than the emotional, religious, and relational similarities and connections they share, both human and non-human beings in these texts could develop a posthuman identity. Posthumanism in this context is about what the human can share with the humanoid robot, a being created in the image of the human who is also a machine; it is about moving beyond the importance of the body, but also beyond the importance of the rational mind in favour of emotional connection. A posthuman existence would allow both groups to remain unique, but also allow them to share in a common identity or, perhaps, society in which both are recognized and valued for the relationships they hold with each other
Exploiting knowledge of immune selection in HIV-1 to detect HIV-specific CD8 T-cell responses
No full textSince HLA-restricted cytotoxic T-cell responses select specific polymorphisms in HIV-1 sequences and HLA diversity is relatively static in human populations, we investigated the use of peptide epitopes based on sites of HLA-associated adaptation in HIV-1 sequences to stimulate and detect T-cell responses ex vivo. These "HLA-optimised" peptides captured more HIV-1 Nef-specific responses compared with overlapping peptides of a single consensus sequence, in interferon-γ enzyme linked immunospot assays. Sites of immune selection can reveal more immunogenic epitopes in HLA-diverse populations and offer insights into the nature of HLA-epitope targeting, which could be applied in vaccine design
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