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Sandra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creek
No full textThis addition to Rodopi Presss Dialogue Series presents a collection of essays solely dedicated to Woman Hollering Creek (1991), Sandra Cisneross groundbreaking collection of short fiction stories and sketches. The emerging and veteran scholars who have.Intro -- SANDRA CISNEROS'S Woman Hollering Creek -- Contents -- General Editor's Preface -- Introduction -- I. Negotiating Borders: Issues of Sociocultural Cooptation -- Amphibious Women: The Complexity of Class in Sandra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories -- So You'll Know Who I Am: Inventory and Identity in Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories -- The Chicana Trinity: Maternal Mestiza Consciousness in Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories -- Author Dialogue -- II. Toys, Tiny Candies, and Telenovelas: Popular and Material Culture as Storytelling Agents -- Male and Female Roles in Mexican-American Society: Issues of Domestic Violence in "Woman Hollering Creek" -- Reading the Puns in "Barbie-Q" -- The Gummy Bears Speak: Articulating Identity in Sandra Cisneros's "Never Marry a Mexican" -- Author Dialogue -- III. Images of Masculinity -- "Are you my general?": Revising Representation in "Eyes of Zapata" -- Boys to Men: Redefining Masculinities in Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories -- Author Dialogue -- IV. Images of Women: Role Expectations and Conflict -- Resemantization of Chicana Motherhood and Sexuality Through the Virgin of Guadalupe -- The Cries of La Llorona: Maternal Agency in "Woman Hollering Creek" -- Voicing Taboos in Sandra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories -- Author Dialogue -- About the Authors -- IndexThis addition to Rodopi Presss Dialogue Series presents a collection of essays solely dedicated to Woman Hollering Creek (1991), Sandra Cisneross groundbreaking collection of short fiction stories and sketches. The emerging and veteran scholars who have.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
UBC's Humanities 101 Program - Interview with Sandra Delorme
No full textChildhood educational shortcomings didn't stop Sandra Delorme from becoming a published author later in life. She credits UBC's Humanities 101 program (but deserves most of the credit herself)
The Importance of Wishes: An Interview with Author Sandra Magsamen
No full textChildren’s author and illustrator Sandra Magsamen holds a beloved place in the hearts of library professionals who know the impact and power of her loving board and picture books. As the author and illustrator of more than sixty children’s and adult books, Magsamen, trained as an art therapist, hopes to create books that offer people a way to reach out and connect in a meaningful and expressive way with someone in their life, and indeed she accomplishes this with her endearing new release, I Wish Wish Wish for You
Neurogenesis impairment: An early developmental defect in Down syndrome
No full textDown syndrome (DS) is characterized by brain hypotrophy and intellectual disability starting from early life stages. Accumulating evidence shows that the phenotypic features of the DS brain can be traced back to the fetal period since the DS brain exhibits proliferation potency reduction starting from the critical time window of fetal neurogenesis. This defect is worsened by the fact that neural progenitor cells exhibit reduced acquisition of a neuronal phenotype and an increase in the acquisition of an astrocytic phenotype. Consequently, the DS brain has fewer neurons in comparison with the typical brain. Although apoptotic cell death may be increased in DS, this does not seem to be the major cause of brain hypocellularity. Evidence obtained in brains of individuals with DS, DS-derived induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), and DS mouse models has provided some insight into the mechanisms underlying the developmental defects due to the trisomic condition. Although many triplicated genes may be involved, in the light of the studies reviewed here, DYRK1A, APP, RCAN1 and OLIG1/2 appear to be particularly important determinants of many neurodevelopmental alterations that characterize DS because their triplication affects both the proliferation and fate of neural precursor cells as well as apoptotic cell death. Based on the evidence reviewed here, pathways downstream to these genes may represent strategic targets, for the design of possible interventions
Sex differences in the stereological parameters of the hippocampal dentate gyrus of the guinea pig before puberty
No full textStudies in rats and mice have shown several sex-dependent functional and structural differences in the hippocampal region, a brain structure playing a key role in learning and memory. The aim of the present study was to establish whether sex differences exist prior to puberty in the stereological parameters of the dentate gyrus in the guinea-pig, a long-gestation rodent, whose brain is at a more advanced stage of maturation at birth than the rat and mouse. The number of granule cells and volumes of the granule cell layer, molecular layer and hilus were evaluated in Nissl-stained brains of neonatal (15-16 days old) and peripubescent (45-46 days old) guinea-pigs. Based on a pilot study, the optical disector method was preferred to the optical fractionator method to estimate cell number. For volume (V-ref) estimation with the Cavalieri principle, contour tracing was preferred to the point counting method, as the latter appeared to underestimate volumes. The results showed that neonatal males had more granule cells than females in both the dorsal and ventral dentate gyrus and a larger volume in all layers. Peripubescent males had a larger volume of the granule cell layer than females in both the dorsal and ventral dentate gyrus, more granule cells in the ventral dentate gyrus, a larger volume of the hilus in both the dorsal and ventral dentate gyrus and a larger volume of the molecular layer in the ventral dentate gyrus. The results show that sex differences are present in the guinea-pig dentate gyrus prior to puberty and go in the same direction at both investigated ages, with males exhibiting more granule cells and larger volumes than females. The widespread distribution of these sex differences suggests that in the guinea-pig, similarly to other rodents, hippocampus-dependent functions may be sexually dimorphic
Postnatal neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus of the guinea pig
No full textIn all species examined, the dentate gyrus develops over an extended period that begins during gestation and continues up to adulthood. The aim of this study was to investigate the pattern of postnatal cell production in the dentate gyrus of the guinea pig, a rodent whose brain development has features more closely resembling the human condition than the most commonly used rodents (rat and mouse). Animals of different postnatal (P) ages received one or multiple injections of bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU), and the number of labeled cells in the dentate gyrus was counted after time intervals of 24 h or longer. The total granule cell number and the volume of the granule cell layer were evaluated in Nissl-stained brain sections from P1 and P30 animals. P1-P5 animals were treated with MK-801 to analyze the effect of NMDA receptor blockade on cell proliferation. Cell production occurred at a high rate (9,000-13,000 labeled cells 24 h after one injection) from P1 to P20, with a peak at 3-6 days of age, and then slowly declined from P20 to P30. The production of new cells continued in adult animals, although at a much-reduced rate (400 cells 24 h after one injection). About 20% of the labeled cells survived after a 17-day period and most (60%) of these cells had a neuronal phenotype. The total number of granule cells increased over the first postnatal month; in 30-day-old animals, it was 20% greater than in 1-day-old animals. Administration of MK-801 to P1-P5 animals caused an increase in cell proliferation restricted to the dorsal dentate gyrus. The present data show that, although the guinea pig dentate gyrus develops largely before birth, the production of new neurons continues at a high rate during the first postnatal month, leading to a considerable increase in cell number. This developmental pattern, resembling the human and nonhuman primate condition, may make the guinea pig a useful rodent model in developmental studies on dentate gyrus neurogenesis
Author Meets Critics: Sandra Braman
No full textThe publication of Sandra Braman’s Change of State signals the importance of the topic of information policy to the field of information studies. It also illustrates both the power and necessity of the kind of inter-disciplinary analysis that characterizes the field. This panel will provide an opportunity for both structured debate and lively discussion around Change of State and the important arguments it contains. Perhaps the most important one that it makes is that “trends in information policy both manifest and trigger change in the nature of governance itself.” That is, Braman points to how information flows have radically altered the nature of the traditional nation-state and its ability to exercise power (or fails to, as the case may be).
Because of i-Schools’ strong connections with the professional world of information institutions, it is particularly important for graduates to understand the far-reaching implications of this argument. On a practical level, graduates need to become conversant with both the varied manifestations of information policy, and the mechanisms by which such policy is enacted. Change of State provides a highly useful synthesis of all the major debates in the field of information policy (including identity, immigration, innovation policy, etc.), organizing them into a comprehensive analytical framework, along with extensive bibliographic essays.
The format of this session will involve each speaker presenting a 15 minute paper which will discuss Change of State from their own disciplinary perspective. Prof. Braman will then respond to the papers. The presentations will be followed by a question and answer period with the audience. The goal is to offer both structured debate around key arguments presented in the book, while offering an opportunity for the audience to interact with the speakers. The speakers are all leaders in the field, well-informed of Dr. Braman’s work, and chosen with the goal of maximizing disciplinary perspectives (Lievrouw: communication policy; Mueller: political science; Jackson: science and technology studies).Submitted by Heekyung Choi ([email protected]) on 2010-03-11T15:43:29Z
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The world of Sandra Cisneros
No full textTeaching guide about author, Sandra Cisneros, which includes excerpts of and a reader's guide for Cisneros' Caramelo; a reader's guide for juveniles; photographs of Cisneros; and a biography of Cisneros.UT Librarie
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