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Audio Conversation with Mr. D. Shalapay Sr., Mrs. Annie Rypien, Mrs. Nancy Shalapay, Mr. Mike Rypien and Mrs. Olga Meardi
No full textAudio - Mr. D. Shalapay Sr., Mrs. Annie Rypien, Mrs. Nancy Shalapay, Mr. Mike Rypien, and Mrs. Olga Meardi spend the balance of the tape discussing teachers and school systems since World War II. They also have a general conversation about farming, and changes in lifestyle including farm women seeking day jobs in AthabascaGood conversational tape, some good information. Approximately last 5 minutes of tape lost due to interrupted conversations. Transcript of tape is available
The American attitude toward foreign language education from the 1700's to 2006
No full textAs a foreign language observer, the author became increasingly interested in language education in American society. The United States has been home to several non-English languages; nonetheless, there seems to be a lack of choices when it comes to a career that involving foreign language. The choices, based on foreign language course enrollment, consistently seem to be Spanish, French, and German, regardless of the focus of the nation's global participation. As a basis for this study, the author decided to explore the American attitude, between the 1700's and 2006, that has fostered the current state of foreign language education in the United States. The author presents an argument based on contextual factors which are likely to have affected foreign language education in the United States. The factors explored in this work are immigration, foreign language instruction, federal funding for foreign language instruction, and foreign language course enrollment
Landslide risk reduction in Wasco County, Oregon
No full textby William J. Burns, Nancy Calhoun, Jon Franczyk, Jason D. McClaughry, and Katherine Daniel.Title from PDF cover (viewed on February 27, 2023).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references (pages 20-24).Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Audio Discussion with Mr. D. Shalapay Sr., Mrs. Annie Rypien, Mrs. Nancy Shalapay, Mr. Mike Rypien and Mrs. Olga Meardi
No full textAudio - Mr. D. Shalapay Sr., Mrs. Annie Rypien, Mrs. Nancy Shalapay, Mr. Mike Rypien, and Mrs. Olga Meardi have a general conversation on farming topics including: how farmers supplemented their income by logging in the winter, the cost of tractors, wages, clearing land with bulldozers; farm animals and prices, quotas on dairy products, changing from mixed to straight line farming, small farms versus big operations, and the decision to retire from farmingVery informative tape. Some trouble hearing as persons being interviewed tend to interrupt as in a normal conversation.
This tape has been transcribed by Athabasca University and is on file at the Athabasca Archives
Lo sguardo del cinema. Nota sull’ontologia dell’immagine filmica nel pensiero di Jean-Luc Nancy
No full textThe present essay seeks to analyze the reflections on cinematographic art proposed
by Jean-Luc Nancy, referring in particular to his L’Évidence du film. Abbas Kiarostami
(2001) as well as to other studies where the author reconsiders the concepts of image
and gaze. The specifity of films lies in “evidence”, which is a way to affirm the finite
character of existence-presence. Cinema addresses the world without any form of realism.
It is reality itself to open out to the image. What results is a possible gaze which is
no longer on representation and nor can it be a representative gaze. This gaze does not
look at any object; the very act of seeing can be seen through it
Derivation of Major Yolk Proteins from Parental Vitellogenins and Alternative Processing During Oocyte Maturation in Fundulus heteroclitus
No full text10 pages, 6 figures, 2 tablesVarious Coomassie blue-staining yolk proteins (YPs) present in oocytes and eggs of Fundulus heteroclitus, a teleost that produces low hydrated, demersal eggs (benthophil species), were subjected to N-terminal microsequencing. Four YPs were N-terminally blocked, while five yielded sequence information. Of the latter, four corresponded to internal sequences of vitellogenin 1 (Vg1), whereas a fifth band corresponded to the N-terminal sequence of Vg2. Phosphorylated YPs (phosvitins and phosvettes) derived from the polyserine domain of Vg were not successfully sequenced. The major N-terminally blocked 122- and 103-kDa YPs both represented the lipovitellin heavy chain of Vg1 (LvH1), and thus most of the oocyte YPs were derived from Vg1. During oocyte maturation in vivo and in vitro, the LvH1 122 is degraded, concomitant with an increased enzymatic activity of cathepsin B, while the 45-kDa YP is converted to a 42-kDa YP. The LvH1 122 was found to contain a consensus site for proteolytic degradation (PEST) near its C-terminus, which is missing from its stable, but truncated twin sequence, LvH1 103. We suggest that this site becomes exposed to cathepsin B during the hydration process that accompanies oocyte maturation and renders the LvH1 122 susceptible to proteolysis. PEST sites are found in Vg sequences from other benthophil fish, whereas, interestingly, they are missing in marine teleosts that spawn highly hydrated, pelagic eggs (pelagophil species), displaying a different pattern of Vg incorporation into YPs and LvH1 and LvH2 processing to that found in F. heteroclitus. Thus, different models of Vg/YP precursor/product relationship and further processing during oocyte maturation and hydration are proposed for pelagophil and benthophil teleosts.Supported by the Division of Sponsored Research, University of Florida, through National Science Foundation grant IBN-9306123 to R.A.W., and by grant AGL2001-0364/ACU from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology to J.C., who was also supported by the Reference Center in Aquaculture (Generalitat de Catalunya), Spain. M.F. was recipient of a fellowship from the Catalan Government (DURSI).Peer reviewe
Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
No full textS. 1 - Gene Expression Profiling in Fish Toxicology: A Review / Girish Kumar and Nancy D. Denslow
S. 39 - Review of the Ecotoxicological Properties of the Methylenedianiline Substances / T. Schupp, H. Allmendinger, B.T.A. Bossuyt, B. Hidding, B. Tury, and R.J. West
S. 73 - Cadmium Bioavailability, Uptake, Toxicity and Detoxification in Soil-Plant System
/ Muhammad Shahid, Camille Dumat, Sana Khalid,
Nabeel Khan Niazi, and Paula M.C. Antunes
S. 139 - Radionuclides: Accumulation and Transport in Plants / D.K. Gupta, S. Chatterjee, S. Datta, A.V. Voronina, and C. Walthe
Microfinance Impact Evaluation: A Managerial Perspective
No full textThe objective of this concept note was to introduce Impact Evaluation and highlight its need and importance during these turbulent times. As it turns out that Impact Evaluation holds promise to a host of benefits to the MFIs ranging from consumer insights to launching of new products and services and from better reporting standards to performance measurement. It will gain further prominence in coming days as focus of various stakeholders undergoes drastic shift towards social performance and understanding the consumer behavior. Not only it will be a strategic exercise but it will be adopted as a risk mitigation tool for identifying loopholes and appropriate measures to plug them.Microfinance, Impact Evaluation,
A computational model of the hypothalamic - pituitary - gonadal axis in female fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas) exposed to 17α-ethynylestradiol and 17β-trenbolone
No full text© 2011 Li et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in
any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Background - Endocrine disrupting chemicals (e.g., estrogens, androgens and their mimics) are known to affect reproduction in fish. 17α-ethynylestradiol is a synthetic estrogen used in birth control pills. 17β-trenbolone is a relatively stable metabolite of trenbolone acetate, a synthetic androgen used as a growth promoter in livestock. Both 17α-ethynylestradiol and 17β-trenbolone have been found in the aquatic environment and affect fish reproduction. In this study, we developed a physiologically-based computational model for female fathead minnows (FHM, Pimephales promelas), a small fish species used in ecotoxicology, to simulate how estrogens (i.e., 17α-ethynylestradiol) or androgens (i.e., 17β-trenbolone) affect reproductive endpoints such as plasma concentrations of steroid hormones (e.g., 17β-estradiol and testosterone) and vitellogenin (a precursor to egg yolk proteins).
Results - Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulations, the model was calibrated with data from unexposed, 17α-ethynylestradiol-exposed, and 17β-trenbolone-exposed FHMs. Four Markov chains were simulated, and the chains for each calibrated model parameter (26 in total) converged within 20,000 iterations. With the converged parameter values, we evaluated the model's predictive ability by simulating a variety of independent experimental data. The model predictions agreed with the experimental data well.
Conclusions - The physiologically-based computational model represents the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis in adult female FHM robustly. The model is useful to estimate how estrogens (e.g., 17α-ethynylestradiol) or androgens (e.g., 17β-trenbolone) affect plasma concentrations of 17β-estradiol, testosterone and vitellogenin, which are important determinants of fecundity in fish.The Medical Research Foundation of Oregon, U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, and the National Center for Computational Toxicology of the EPA Office of
Research and Development
Yo, retrato. Autofiguración, (i)legibilidades y poesía lírica. Los casos de Borges, C. Fernández Moreno y Gelman
No full textThis dissertation focuses on the self-figuration processes of Argentine writers Jorge Luis Borges, César Fernández Moreno and Juan Gelman. Its principal aim is to analyze the paradox of a “lyric I” who portrays himself as constantly fragmentary, yet underlines his status as an author by using autobiographical references and remarks about his poetic practice. I argue that the figure of the author is constructed by using two modalities, or (il)legibilities. The first one includes a series of fictitious biographical references (biographemes) that are neither the coherent image of the “self” nor a subject in constant dissemination, but that still operate within the notion of plot as a discordant concordance (Ricoeur). However, the figure of the author can also be analyzed by using theories of the image (Nancy, Didi-Huberman), ideas of language as immediate mediation (Agamben), and the ambiguity of the lyric (Culler, Combe). These all posit that poems and images can exceed narrative representation and even representation itself.
The first chapter constitutes a theoretical discussion that analyzes the main concepts associated with these two (il)legibilities, while the remaining three chapters focus on the poets.
In Borges’s chapter, the tension between the two (il)legibilities is shown through the construction of an ambiguous relationship of the lyric subject with Buenos Aires; through his self-figuration as a poet that desires to live different lives but limits himself to his own practice; and through a projection of his own image onto that of others.
In Fernández Moreno, the self-figuration process deals with the figure of his father (also a poet), and with the limits and possibilities that constant displacement in space, the inevitability of time, and irony impose on language.
In Gelman, the process oscillates between the need of the subject to criticize social injustice and his use of “fake” translations and a very personal poetic language to give account of dictatorship violence and of the disappearance of his son.
By enhancing and reshaping the notion of the author, this analysis deepens our understanding of the three poets and of the challenges that the image and lyric discourse pose to self-representation
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