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Stephanie Mathson interviews poet and author Judith Kerman
No full textPoet and author Judith Kerman talks about her experience as a Fulbright scholar in the Dominican Republic, her work translating poems by Cuban poet Dulce Mar\ueda Loynaz, learning Spanish, translating poems from Spanish, and her book "Retrofitting Blade Runner". Kerman is interviewed by Stephanie Mathson of the Michigan State University Libraries. Part of the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series
Stephanie Mathson interviews poet and author Jack Ridl
No full textPoet and author Jack Ridl explains how he began writing, the writer series at Hope College, his coach poems, his chapbook "Against elegies," how working and living in Michigan shapes his work, and works in progress. Ridl is interviewed by Stephanie Mathson of the Michigan State University Libraries. Part of the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series
Stephanie Mathson interviews poet and author Josie Kearns
No full textPoet and author Josie Kearns, professor of creative writing and literature at the University of Michigan, talks about teaching and writing, natural scenery in Michigan, her editorship of the book "New Poems From the Third Coast", her book "New Numbers", and other works in process. Kearns is interviewed by Stephanie Mathson from the Michigan State University Libraries for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series
Kara Gust interviews author and bioregionalist Stephanie Mills
No full textAuthor and ecologist Stephanie Mills talks about how she started writing and publishing, writing on nature and the environment, the challenges of being a writer, the influence of Michigan on her work, bio-regionalism, and a new book she is working on. Mills is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Kara Gust for the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series
Making a market for Miscanthus: Can new contract designs solve the biofuel investment hold-up problem?
No full textWe present designs for optimal contracts to solve the investment hold-up problem for perennial crops for the biofuel industry. A fixed-price contract is ex-ante efficient but renegotiation-proof for a limited range of discount parameters. A perfectly- indexed contract is both renegotiation-proof and ex-post efficient. Provided long-run land prices are stationary, the expected cost for both contracts converges to the long-run expected price of land for a risk-neutral farmer.Biofuels, Miscanthus, contract theory, industrial organization, renegotiation-proof contract, Marketing,
Author and bioregionalist Stephanie Mills reads her selected works at the Michigan Writers Series
No full textAuthor and ecologist Stephanie Mills reads from her first book "Whatever happened to ecology?" and from "Tough little beauties," then answers questions from the audience. The event is convened by Peter Berg, head of Michigan State University Libraries' Special Collections. Part of the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held in the Main Library
Stephanie Mathson interviews essayist and memoirist Robert Root
No full textEssayist and memoirist Robert Root, professor of English at Central Michigan University, talks about his book "Recovering Ruth" and the genealogical research research in his work and his role as both a university professor and an author. He also shares his views on creative nonfiction, Michigan as a source of inspiration, and works in progress. Root is interviewed by Stephanie Mathson of the Michigan State University Libraries for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series
Poet and author Josie Kearns reads her selected works at the Michigan Writers Series
No full textPoet and author Josie Kearns, professor of creative writing and literature at the University of Michigan, reads selected poems and answers questions from the audience. The event is convened by Stephanie Mathson from the Michigan State University Libraries. Part of the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held at the Main Library
Ep. #005 - Stephanie LeMenager
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of podcasts conducted by the Cultures of Energy at Rice University. Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition. But we also try to confront seemingly huge and insurmountable problems with insight, creativity and laughter.Cymene and Dominic embrace amateurism as they have trouble pronouncing names on this week’s podcast. Then (8:28) they talk to Stephanie LeMenager, Professor of English and Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon, author of Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century (Oxford University Press, 2014) and founding co-editor of the journal, Resilience. The conversation explores how we live with oil and how oil lives in us, speculative fiction, teaching climate change, and how the arts and humanities can chart new ways of being together
Impact of Repetition in Acupuncture Treatment of Chronic Pain
No full textZielsetzung: Akupunktur entspricht im klinischen Kontext einer seriellen Applikation von Reizen. Sie ist damit vergleichbar mit Verfahren der Physikalischen Therapie, für die die Ausbildung adaptiver Prozesse einen wesentlichen Wirkfaktor darstellt. Bisher existieren nur wenige Untersuchungen darüber, ob sich bei der Akupunkturbehandlung adaptive Prozesse ausbilden und wie sich diese klinisch auswirken könnten. In der vorliegenden Arbeit soll geprüft werden, ob es im Rahmen einer Akupunkturserie zu einer Adaptation an die Nadelreize kommt und ob dies für die klinische Verbesserung von Bedeutung ist.
Methoden: Es wurde eine offene Beobachtungsstudie durchgeführt, bei der 69 Patienten mit chronischem Schmerz an zwei Studienzentren mit je zehn Akupunktursitzungen behandelt wurden. Zur Erfassung möglicher adaptiver Effekte wurde im Verlauf jeder zweiten Sitzung der Hautleitwert als Parameter für die Aktivität des sympathischen Nervensystems aufgezeichnet. Adaptation müsste sich in einer Reduktion der sympathischen Reaktionsamplitude auf die Akupunktur äußern. Als klinische Zielgrößen wurden die Reduktion der Schmerzstärke sowie Veränderungen im allgemeinen Wohlbefinden und der Krankheitsbewältigung abgefragt.
Ergebnisse: Für den Verlauf des SCL (skin conductance level) innerhalb aller Sitzungen im Mittel ergab sich ein signifikantes Verlaufsmuster, das eine sympathikoadrenerge Aktivierung bei der Insertion der Nadeln und eine nachfolgende Sympathikolyse als Korrelat einer Entspannungsreaktion zeigte. Eine signifikante Änderung des Gesamt-SCL-Musters über den Behandlungsverlauf im Sinne einer Adaptation ließ sich nicht nachweisen. Zur Erfassung interindividueller Unterschiede wurden Trend Indices gebildet, welche die Veränderungstendenz innerhalb der einzelnen Patienten abbildeten. Diese wurden dann mit der klinischen Besserung korreliert. Dabei zeigte sich eine signifikante positive Korrelation zwischen einer Besserung der Schmerzen, des Wohlbefindens sowie der Krankheitsbewältigung und einer zunehmenden Sympathikolyse im Zuge der Behandlungsserie.
Schlussfolgerung: Die vorliegende Studie konnte keine Adaptation im Zuge einer Akupunkturbehandlung nachweisen. Eine Zunahme der Sympathikolyse bei den Therapierespondern legt nahe, dass im Verlauf serieller Akupunktursitzungen die Entspannungsfähigkeit der Patienten gefördert werden könnte, was wiederum mit der klinischen Besserung der Schmerzerkrankung verbunden zu sein scheint. Diese Beobachtung sollte in einer folgenden kontrolliert randomisierten Studie weiter untersucht werden.Objectives: From a clinical point of view Acupuncture is a treatment, where patients are repetitively exposed to stimuli. Therefore it is comparable to treatments of Physical Therapy such as hydrotherapy, where the development of adaptive processes represents a main factor for effectiveness. There are only few studies available that examine possible adaptive reactions to acupuncture treatments and their clinical effect. This work focusses on the development of adaptive processes in the course of ten acupuncture sessions and the correlation between adaptation and clinical outcome of chronic pain patients.
Methods: In an observational bicentric pilot study 69 chronic pain patients were treated with a course of ten acupuncture sessions. For the detection of adaptive processes a measurement of electrodermal activity as a parameter for sympathetic activity took place by use of a biofeedback equipment in at least every second treatment. As a correlate of adaptive processes a reduction of the amplitude of sympathetic reaction was expected. As clinical targets the reduction in pain severitiy, changes in general well-being and coping with disease were asked.
Results: The data showed a significant course of SCL (skin conductance level) for all sessions on average which confirm a sympathicotonic activation in reaction to the needling and a sympathicolysis in the further course which correlates with a relaxation response. A significant change of SCL-pattern in the course of sessions in the meaning of adaptation could not be detected. To consider the relevance of interindividual differences trend indices were computed which should show a tendency of reaction for individual patients. These indices were correlated with the clinical benefit. A significant correlation could be found for pain reduction, improvement of well-being and coping with disease with an increasing sympathicolysis in the course of acupuncture treatment.
Conclusions: A detection of adaptive processes in the course of an acupuncture treatment was not possible in this study. The increase of sympathicolysis within the responders however suggests that an increase in relaxation ability could be reached in the course of acupuncture sessions. This improved ability to relax seemed to be correlated with a clinical improvement of the pain disease. This observation should be further investigated in a controlled randomisied trial
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