509 research outputs found
Rate of endothelial expansion is controlled by cell: cell adhesion
No full textUnderwood, P.Anne; Bean, Penny A.; Gamble, Jennifer R
From the breeding places of delinquency: child consumers and the nature of reform
No full textThis thesis traces the history of child laborers as consumers at the turn of the twentieth century and their central role in the events leading to child labor reform through their conspicuous consumer behaviors. Situated within broader late nineteenth and early twentieth-century developments in American child labor reform efforts and the recent revisionist turn in historical agency, the thesis addresses the often overlooked and underestimated role child laborers played as consumers due to subsequent legal developments allowing working-class children access to an unregulated market place. By examining the evolution of child apprentices into child laborers, the history reveals changing ideological developments in the role of working-class children in the market place and the children’s rights to self-possession, and by extension personal autonomy. From there, the thesis examines how working-class children interacted in their environment, primarily in the market place as consumers, and the significance of their consumer intersections to the history of child labor reform in light of the unique legal treatment children experienced. Finally, the thesis explores Progressive Era reformers’ efforts to reform working-class populations based on principles of environmental analysis by removing the working-class child from unwholesome environments for treatment without addressing the underlying cause giving children entrance into the market place. Although progressive reformers responded to working-class children’s perceived exposure to immorality from associating with unwholesome environments that were also popular leisure time places among the working-classes, reformers’ efforts were largely unsuccessful due to certain flaws in their principles of reform that did not address the underlying cause allowing working-class children unregulated access to consume in the market place. While reformers tried and ultimately failed to reform children based on applied progressive principles of environmental analysis, this study extends our scholarly perspective of children’s pivotal role as consumers brought to light by the underlying legal gap allowing children in the market place and set the stage for future child labor reform.M.A.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Jennifer Anne Jense
Anne-Marie Schwirtlich, Adrian Caesar, Genevieve Jacobs, Joan Kennedy and Alex Miller at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 30 October 2011 /
No full textTitle from information supplied by photographer.; Part of the collection: Alex Miller author: A Celebration, held at the National Library of Australia theatre, 30 October 2011.; Mode of access: Online.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
The influence of conversational context and the developing lexicon on the calculation of scalar implicatures: Insights from Spanish-English bilingual children
No full textAlthough monolingual children do not generally calculate the upper-bounded scalar implicature (SI) associated with ‘some’ without additional support, monolingual Spanish-speaking children have been reported to do so with algunos (‘some’), and further distinguish algunos from unos. Given documented cross-linguistic influence in interface phenomena in bilinguals, we asked whether young Spanish-English bilinguals calculate SIs with algunos, or if there is an effect of acquiring languages with overlapping but diverging lexical entries. Two experiments reveal that not only do bilinguals inconsistently calculate SIs, Spanish monolinguals do not always either. In Experiment 1, bilinguals did not calculate the SI associated with algunos. However, in Experiment 2, which calls upon their awareness of speaker-hearer dynamics, they did. This research highlights the challenges arising from interpreting linguistic phenomena where lexical, semantic, and pragmatic information intersect, and is a call for further investigation with bilinguals in a rapidly growing area where bilingual research is lacking
A sojourn in Paris 1824-25: sex and sociability in the manuscript writings of Anne Lister (1791-1840)
No full textThis thesis examines the day to day practices that constituted Anne Lister's (1791-1840) sexuality and sociability within the range of her writings, as well as her society. Anne's writings were a detailed account, spanning her lifetime, of her own love and relationships with the 'fairer sex' (Whitbread 1988, 145). Anne's sociality, seen in her correspondence and plain handwritten journal entries, has been explored by Muriel Green in Miss Lister of Shibden Hall and Jill Liddington in Female Fortune and Nature's Domain (Green 1992; Liddington 1998; 2003). As a gentlewoman of adequate means, Anne has garnered some attention from women's historians interested in her agency within an early nineteenth century social and historical context. Anne's sexual identity has been extensively analysed over the past nearly twenty years by lesbian feminists, queer theorists, women's historians and historians of sexuality concerned with the history and development of modern Western female homosexuality and gender. The source for theorising Anne's sexuality has been the edited selections of the crypted journal entries, published by Helena Whitbread in I Know My Own Heart and No Priest but Love (Whitbread 1988; 1992). However, many analyses deal either with the theorisation of Anne's sexuality or her sociality; the theoretical difficulty with reconciling these categories has troubled the analysis of her complex subjectivity. Drawing upon the archival materials, I have used an interdisciplinary feminist approach to analyse the sexual and social processes of Anne's everyday interactions in her writings. Taking the seven month period of the sojourn to Paris in 1824-25, I have focused upon Anne's textual practices within her journal volume and letters during her residence in Paris, her social practices with the other guests at the guesthouse 24 Place Vendome and her sexual practices with her lover, the widow Mrs. Maria Barlow. The journal volumes and correspondence are a valuable historical record of one gentlewoman's engagement with early nineteenth century British culture
Cult: A Composite Novel
No full textCult (redacted)
The first component of the thesis is a composite novel called Cult which falls into two parts with seven narratives in each. Part 1 tracks the protagonist, Ellen, from her first involvement with the cult through to her eventually leaving it. Although fiction, the first half of the book answers the kinds of questions the author is asked when people discover that she was once a sannyasin (a follower of the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh). While the experiences of meditation, group therapy and communal living are all faithfully rendered within the stories, the need for strong characters, narrative drive and a lightness of touch takes precedence.
Part 2 picks up Ellen’s story some twenty or so years later and explores what becomes of her in middle age. It also looks at other groups in society, such as academia, the law and the internet dating community which each have their own jargon, hierarchies, rituals and rules but are not considered to be cults.
The book examines the question raised in the Epigraph, ‘how do we be together when we feel so alone’ with a focus on relationships other than the familial and the romantic.
Collisions, Chasms and Connections: a Performative Exploration of the Composite Novel Form
The second part of the thesis is both a critical and creative response to three contemporary American books: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout; A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan; and Legend of a Suicide by David Vann. The critical element comprises a close reading of the three books; a chronological reconstruction of their overarching storylines; and a consideration of what their authors have said about writing the books. It concludes that, in the composite novel, the simultaneous presentation of multiple views and storylines operate much like a 3D image to give the impression of depth to the characters and situations rendered. The creative element of the essay is a playful and personal response to the texts
Aboriginal women's autobiographical narratives and the politics of collaboration / Jennifer Anne Jones.
No full textBibliography: leaves 273-284.284 leaves : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.This thesis examines the autobiographical texts of the Aboriginal women writers, Oodgeroo, Margaret Tusker and Monica Clare, in light of the 'community of commitment' which supported their publications. It considers how and why the Aboriginal women elicted outside support and how the ideology of the group informed the epistemology of the text.The role of collaborating white editors and professional editors are examined as crucial in influencing the style and content of the finished piece. The original manuscripts are compared against the published editions and the changes implemented by the editor are described. Following Frantz Fanon and Homi Bhaba, the adoption of the white ideological lattice by the Aboriginal author is characterised as the white mask of colonial mimicry. The outcomes of cross-cultural impersonation of the white editor are discussed, with the editorial collaboration viewed as the imposition of stereotyped representations of Aboriginality.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Social Inquiry, 200
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Dr. Xavier Amador Shares His Experiences Addressing Anosognosia
No full textJennifer Cohen interviews Xavier Amador, PhD, the CEO of the Henry Amador Center for Anosognosia. Dr. Amador has 30 years of experience as a clinical psychologist, researcher, author, and caregiver for people suffering with serious mental illnesses. Dr. Amador is the author of several books including, I’m Not Sick, I Don’t Need Help: How to Help
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Amy Silverstein Discusses Her Experiences with Two Heart Transplants
No full textJennifer Cohen interviews Amy Silverstein, attorney, speaker, and award-winning author of Sick Girl, a book also serialized by U.S. News and World Report. Her new book, My Glory Was I Had Such Friends highlights the support she had in her move across the country for her second heart transplant. Apple will be streaming Silverstein’s limited
High density lipoproteins inhibit cytokine-induced expression of endothelial cell adhesion molecules
No full textWhile an elevated plasma concentration of HDLs is protective against the development of atherosclerosis and ensuing coronary heart disease (CHD), the mechanism of this protection is unknown. One early cellular event in atherogenesis is the adhesion of mononuclear leukocytes to the endothelium. This event is mediated principally by vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1) but also involves other molecules, such as intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) and E-selectin. We have investigated the effect of isolated plasma HDLs and reconstituted HDLs on the expression of these molecules by endothelial cells. We show that physiological concentrations of HDLs inhibit tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) or interleukin-1 (IL-1) induction of these leukocyte adhesion molecules in a concentration-dependent manner. Steady state mRNA levels of TNF-α–induced VCAM-1 and E-selectin are significantly reduced by physiological concentrations of HDLs. At an HDL concentration of 1 mg/mL apolipoprotein A-I, the protein expressions of VCAM-1, ICAM-1, and E-selectin were inhibited by 89.6±0.4% (mean±SD, n=4), 64.8±1.0%, and 79.2±0.4%, respectively. In contrast, HDLs have no effect on the expression of platelet endothelial cell adhesion molecule (PECAM) or on the expression of the p55 and p75 subunits of the TNF-α receptor. HDLs were effective when added from 16 hours before to 5 minutes after cytokine stimulation. HDLs had no effect on TNF-α–induced expression of ICAM-1 by human foreskin fibroblasts, suggesting that the effect is cell-type restricted. This study provides the first evidence that HDLs may protect against CHD by inhibiting the expression of adhesion molecules, which are required for the interaction between leukocytes and the endothelium.Gillian W. Cockerill; Kerry-Anne Rye; Jennifer R. Gamble; Mathew A. Vadas; Philip J. Barte
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