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Mindscapes: Laura Riding's poetry and poetics /
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão.Esta tese propõe uma leitura revisionista da poesia contemporânea através do exame do caso de um dos mais esquecidos escritores norte-americanos do século XX: Laura (Riding) Jackson (1901-1991). O objetivo é demonstrar que Riding não apenas possuía uma poética definida e singular, mas que ela permanece uma das instâncias mais extremas e paradoxais do modernismo anglo-americano, a ponto de Riding abandonar a escrita da poesia em 1938. Recorrendo a conceitos de "formação do cânone" bem como às noções de "discurso" e "função do autor", em Foucault, investigo a construção do cânone da poesia moderna anglo-americana, recuperando o contexto e as circunstâncias da ocultação de Riding. Enquanto cubro os "discursos" poéticos em circulação na primeira metade do século XX-o "imagismo" de Pound, a "dissociação da sensibilidade", "impersonalidade" e "tradição" de Eliot, a "unidade orgância" e "ambigüidade" da Nova Crítica-ofereço um panorama crítico de modernismos alternativos sendo articulados à época. Minha intenção é demonstrar que os poemas de Riding são expressões vigorosas de um escritor para quem "a mente pensando se torna a força ativa do poema", para usar a apta formulação de Charles Bernstein. Entre minhas descobertas sobre as várias e complexas razões que levaram à não-canonização de Riding estão a hegemonia da Nova Crítica, o exílio voluntário de Riding da cena literária (onde são feitas ou desfeitas as reputações), sua recusa em ser antologiada, bem como em ser explicada em termos críticos que não os dela. Todos esses fatores, mais a "dificuldade" de sua poesia, contribuíram para fazer de Riding "a maior poeta esquecida da poesia norte-americana", como escreveu Kenneth Rexroth. Ajudado pelos insights de dois importantes críticos de poesia norte-americana, Charles Bernstein e Marjorie Perloff, defendo que a "poesia da mente" de Riding-onde o que está em jogo é que o que pensamos ser a nossa realidade-representa uma mudança radical no paradigma da poética modernista: de uma poesia centrada na imagem para uma poesia centrada na linguagem. Focalizando a experiência consciente e o tempo duracional do pensamento presente em seus poemas, concluo que as "pensagens" de Riding têm o objetivo preciso de constatar um fato universal: enquanto seres humanos e pensantes, estamos numa condição permanente chamada linguagem
How beliefs get in the way of the acceptance of evolutionary psychology
No full textAn opinion article published in the journal "Frontiers in Psychology" by the listed authors including Laura K. Dane (Douglas College Faculty).Final article publishedphilosophyevolutionary psychologysocial psychologybiasesbelief system
Book Review: Doctors of Deception: What They Don’t Want You to Know about Shock Treatment
No full textAuthor: Linda Andre
Reviewer: Laura K. Corlew
Publisher: New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers, 2009
Paper: ISBN: 978-0-8135-4441-0
Cost: $26.95, 336 page
Effects of Moritella viscosa antigens on pro-inflammatory gene expression in an Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar Linnaeus) cell line (SHK-1)
No full textMoritella viscosa is the causative agent of winter ulcer disease in salmonids reared in North-Atlantic countries. In this study the effects of selected M. viscosa antigens on cytotoxicity and pro-inflammatory gene expression in an Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar Linnaeus) macrophage-like cell line (SHK-1) were examined. SHK-1 cells were stimulated with live and heat-killed bacterial cells, extracellular products (ECP) and an extracellular vibriolysin, termed MvP1. Following incubation, cytotoxicity and expression levels of interleukin-1β (IL-1β) and interleukin-8 (IL-8) were examined at different time points. Both live M. viscosa cells and ECP were cytotoxic, but neither heat-killed cells, nor the MvP1 peptidase caused cell death. Expression levels of both IL-1β and IL-8 increased significantly after stimulation with live cells, but heat-killed cells only caused increased IL-8 expression. ECP did not affect IL-1β expression, but did stimulate IL-8 expression. The isolated MvP1 peptidase stimulated both IL-1β and IL-8 expression at the highest concentration tested. This study reveals a difference in the induction of pro-inflammatory gene expression in salmon SHK-1 cells between live and heat-killed M. viscosa cells, and also that an unknown secreted factor is the main stimulant of IL-β and IL-8 expression.ID: S1050464809000990; M3: Article; Accession Number: S1050464809000990; Author: Bryndis Bjornsdottir (a, b); Author: Mark D. Fast (b, 1); Author: Sandra A. Sperker (b); Author: Laura L. Brown (b, 2); Author: Bjarnheidur K. Gudmundsdottir (a, ∗); Affiliation: Institute for Experimental Pathology, University of Iceland, Keldur v/Vesturlandsveg, 112 Reykjavík, Iceland; Affiliation: National Research Council Canada, Institute for Marine Biosciences, 1411 Oxford Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 2Z1, Canada; Keyword: Moritella viscosa; Keyword: Extracellular products; Keyword: MvP1 vibriolysin; Keyword: Atlantic salmon; Keyword: SHK-1; Keyword: Gene expression; Keyword: Immune response; Keyword: Pro-inflammatory cytokine; Keyword: Interleukin-1β (IL-1β); Keyword: Interleukin-8 (IL-8); Number of Pages: 6; Language: English;Source type: Electronic(1
Marketing management capabilities of SMEs: an empirical analysis in the EU
No full textSMEs, that represent the greater part of European food firms producing traditional food products (TFPs), meet difficulties in adapting their strategies to market changes, and in competing with big enterprises. Marketing management capabilities play a key role in good SMEs performance in the market. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the marketing capabilities of SMEs that produce TFPs. The theoretical framework considers the Market Orientation approach and marketing management capabilities in terms of marketing research, marketing strategy, planning and implementation, control and evaluation. A self evaluation tool was developed by means of an interactive questionnaire, available on the web, aimed at assessing traditional food firms competitive position in the marketing area. The sample consists of 112 Italian firms. Descriptive analysis shows that the most problematic dimensions of the marketing management are planning and implementation and control and evaluation. Moreover, the firms’ size is not a relevant feature to determine the marketing capabilities, whereas quality voluntary certifications have a direct linkage with marketing capabilities, as the more a firm is certified the more t improves its marketing performance. Linear Regression model confirms these results.Marketing capabilities, SMEs, traditional food, linear regression, Agribusiness, Marketing,
Correspondence regarding Horace Kephart collection
No full textThis 1935 correspondence, from Laura Kephart (Mrs. Horace Kephart) to I. K. Stearns, concerns the Horace Kephart collection. Horace Kephart (1862-1931) was a noted naturalist, woodsman, journalist, and author and promoter of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.I. K. Stearns
Bryson City, NC
My dear Mr. Stearns,
Mr. Fingar (?) has sent me your letter of Feb 18 in regard to my husband’s estate.
I am sure my husband would have chosen you to have charge of his affairs, that was what I would have decided if my mind had been working normally at the time. Everything was so confused [faded] I was in no condition to.
If you have time and are willing to take charge of his affairs, it will be a great comfort to me.
I am willing that the camping outfit, books and things of that nature should go to the museum.
All manuscripts literary notes etc. I would like sent to me. This means any references to data he had for use in writing. The details as to just what it want in this line can be settled later,
Very truly, (can’t see, but must be Laura Kephart
Erratum to: Is Sensory Loss an Understudied Risk Factor for Frailty? A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
No full textIn the article “Is Sensory Loss an Understudied Risk Factor for Frailty? A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis,” an author was missing. Ana Maseda should be listed as the 11th author. The correct author list is: Benjamin Kye Jyn Tan, Ryan Eyn Kidd Man, Alfred Tau Liang Gan, Eva K Fenwick, Varshini Varadaraj, Bonnielin K Swenor, Preeti Gupta, Tien Yin Wong, Caterina Trevisan, Laura Lorenzo-López, Ana Maseda, José Carlos Millán-Calenti, Carla Helena Augustin Schwanke, Ann Liljas, Soham Al Snih, Yasuharu Tokuda, Ecosse Luc Lamoureux. This error has been corrected
Book Review: The Church of 80% Sincerity
No full textAuthor: David Roche
Reviewer: Laura Kati Corlew
Publisher: Toronto: Penguin, 2008
Paper: ISBN: 978-0-399-53390-7
Cost: $19.95, 147 page
Microbial degradation of the fuel oxygenate methyl tert-bytyl ether (MTBE):
No full textGroundwater contamination with the synthetic fuel oxygenate, methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE), is an extensive problem. Microbial mediated biodegradation holds promise as a tool for remediation of contaminated water supplies. However, MTBE biotransformation processes are slow and MTBE degrading organisms are difficult to isolate, creating challenges relating to site assessment, enhancement of natural attenuation and monitoring bioremediation in situ. In this study we analyzed MTBE degrading cultures using a variety of isolation independent techniques. A majority of the experiments used previously established anaerobic enrichment cultures that had been maintained on MTBE for several years. We demonstrated that low concentrations of some aryl O-methyl ether compounds enhanced the rate of MTBE degradation. Propyl iodide caused a light-reversible inhibition of MTBE depletion, suggesting that the anaerobic MTBE O-demethylation reaction was corrinoid dependent. Terminal-restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) and sequence analysis of 16S rRNA genes from one anaerobic MTBE degrading enrichment culture showed a phylogenetically diverse population with no exact matches to previously isolated or described species. Stable isotope probing experiments verified that microorganisms from anaerobic MTBE degrading enrichment culture used 13C from 13C-MTBE for growth and cell division and that a particular subpopulation assimilated this carbon prior to the rest of the population. We also analyzed carbon and hydrogen stable isotope fractionation occurring during MTBE degradation. In anaerobic cultures, substantial fractionation of hydrogen was found only in cultures supplied with syringic acid during MTBE degradation, providing the first experimental suggestion of multiple anaerobic MTBE O-demethylation mechanisms. During aerobic MTBE degradation by the psychrophilic bacterium, Variovorax paradoxus, carbon and hydrogen fractionation were not influenced by incubation temperature during degradation. This work represents a significant contribution to the current body of knowledge about MTBE degradation and the data presented will be useful in many aspects of studying, enhancing and monitoring MTBE degradation under a variety of conditions.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 112-131)by Laura K.G. Youngste
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Open Access, Nonexclusive Licensing, Author Rights
No full textAn overview of copyright in relation to author contracts, a hands-on exercise reviewing an author publication agreement, and pointers about talking with authors about their publication agreements. Also includes an overview of Creative Commons licensing and how open access policies can change the copyright default for authors and provide a legal mechanism for institutions to share author works
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