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Systematic Assessment of Multispectral Voxel-Based Morphometry in Previously MRI-Negative Focal Epilepsy
No full textT2 mapping outperforms normalised FLAIR in identifying hippocampal sclerosis
No full textRationale Qualitatively, FLAIR MR imaging is sensitive to the detection of hippocampal sclerosis (HS). Quantitative analysis of T2 maps provides a useful objective measure and increased sensitivity over visual inspection of T2-weighted scans. We aimed to determine whether quantification of normalised FLAIR is as sensitive as T2 mapping in detection of HS. Method Dual echo T2 and FLAIR MR images were retrospectively analysed in 27 patients with histologically confirmed HS and increased T2 signal in ipsilateral hippocampus and 14 healthy controls. Regions of interest were manually segmented in all hippocampi aiming to avoid inclusion of CSF. Hippocampal T2 values and measures of normalised FLAIR Signal Intensity (nFSI) were compared in healthy and sclerotic hippocampi. Results HS was identified on T2 values with 100% sensitivity and 100% specificity. HS was identified on nFSI measures with 60% sensitivity and 93% specificity. Conclusion T2 mapping is superior to nFSI for identification of HS
Personalized connectome fingerprints: Their importance in cognition from childhood to adult years
No full text“Even the hardest stone can fracture:” Racialization, Reproductive Control, and the Wake of Slavery in N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season
No full textWhen the science fiction and fantasy novel The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin won the Hugo Award in 2016, Jemisin became the first Black author to win the prestigious literary science fiction award. A departure from similar novels at the time, The Fifth Season has a strong understanding of systems of oppression and how they are built and upheld. This thesis argues that The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin follows the conventions of the neo-slave/meta-slave narrative to explore themes of racialization and reproductive control under enslavement and oppression. I conduct a feminist literary of the novel, focusing on these themes, and ground my analysis firmly in Black feminist thought and the study of Black science fiction. Using authors such as Dorothy E. Roberts and Angela Y. Davis, I explore the ways in which Black women in America had their reproduction controlled for dehumanization and profit, as well as how they resisted such control. Using this historical context to read The Fifth Season, I demonstrate how Jemisin’s neo-/meta-slave narrative incorporates these themes of reproductive control and racialization, using the genre of science fiction to re-discover and re-imagine the personal experiences of enslaved women lost to history
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Estranging Allegory through Worldbuilding in the Works of N.K. Jemisin
No full textN.K. Jemisin has become an important voice in the genres of science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction writers, using her storyworlds to reflect on the world through a post-colonial lens that reveals and critiques issues of race, racism, white supremacy, and other aspects of destructive whiteness. Science fiction and fantasy are literatures of estrangement, and they use that framework to interrogate complicated ideas and issues. The worldbuilding of these genres is essential to this process, providing the mechanism to create unfamiliar conditions and circumstances that facilitate estrangement and defamiliarization. Worldbuilding is a collaborative process between the author and the reader, with the author’s worldbuilding informing how the reader subsequently recreates the imagined world. Building on previous scholarship that explores the allegorical nature of Jemisin’s works and defamiliarization in her writing, I propose that a key aspect of Jemisin’s worldbuilding is that she takes the critical elements of the allegory or theme and builds them each into the storyworld independent of each other. Estranging the allegory in the storyworld this way creates space between the elements in the reader’s worldbuilding that reinforces defamiliarization, and can circumvent alienating associations from the real-world context. Ultimately, reconciling the estranged allegory may increase understanding of and empathy for experiences outside of their own in the reader. This thesis examines how the themes in two of Jemisin’s novels, The Fifth Season and The City We Became, are estranged and defamiliarized through the worldbuilding, with an interest in how the key elements of the thematic allegory are estranged from one another and defamiliarized independently in the text, and how the level of estrangement of the storyworld affects how this dynamic
On Cyclic Functions in Weighted Hardy Spaces
No full textThe author is grateful to N.K. Nikolskii who supported the author's intention to publish this paper and to B. Vinnitskii (= Vynnytskyi) for his attention paid to this paper
On Cyclic Functions in Weighted Hardy Spaces
No full textThe author is grateful to N.K. Nikolskii who supported the author's intention to publish this paper and to B. Vinnitskii (= Vynnytskyi) for his attention paid to this paper
Synthesis of impedance using switching converters
No full textAuthor name used in this publication: Chi K. TseAuthor name used in this publication: Franki N.K. PoonAuthor name used in this publication: M.H. PongRefereed conference paper2005-2006 > Academic research: refereed > Refereed conference paperVersion of RecordPublishedVoR allowe
«…And still there are lights in front of us»: the reformatory demo-cratism of V. Korolenko
No full textThe article gives a seaway of the social political views of a well known Russian writer V. Korolenko. The author of the article proves that the political doctrine of Korolenko is very close to reformatory democratism of N.K. Mikhailovsky
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