330 research outputs found
Clinton F and Beatrice Ward
No full textClinton F. and Beatrice Ward Parvin of Old Manatee (East Bradenton). She is the author of "I Remember, a family memoir." Copy on file at the Manatee County Central Library
A Newly Found Feminist Poem of Parvin ’Etesâm
No full textThe beginning of the feminist movement in Iran coincided with the Constitutional Revolution and the reign of the first Pahlavi monarch. Liberal minded women took the initiative into their own hands and founded the first schools for girls, they organized societies and published journals dealing specifically with women's issues. Some pioneer women demanded legal rights for women. Parvin E`tesami was foremost among these women. She supported women's rights through her poetry, she consistently demanded that women should be respected and criticised and objected to the condition of women. She disparaged the patriarchal attitude of the government and her poems are full of her insistence that women and girls should be protected by society. The present article attempts to prove that a poem published in 1300/1921 in the journal Alam-e Nesvan, was by written by her. This short Qasideh, elegy has not attracted the attention of those who specialize in her work. The author of the present article attempts to establish the authenticity of this work as written by Parvin E`tesami by examining her style, and feminist stance of this famous poet
Novel blood markers in psychosis
No full textPsychotic disorders such as schizophrenia maintain a 1% point prevalence in society at large. They cause much suffering to the patients and exact grave costs on society. There is an urgent need for better diagnosis and treatment of psychotic disorders. Patients with psychotic disorders are primarily treated for deteriorating psychiatric symptoms and often somatic comorbidities are overlooked. Accelerated ageing and metabolic comorbidities such as adiposity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease are common in psychosis patients, with often 15-20 years shortened life expectancy. The main pathophysiological elements of psychotic disorders and schizophrenia remain elusive. There is increasing evidence to suggest that psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia are in fact a group of related disorders advocating a more individualized evidence-based treatment than that currently available. Biomarkers are by definition useful tools for describing individual patient centered disease states or selecting treatment approaches.The main aim of this thesis was to investigate putative blood biomarkers which describe the previously reported ongoing pathological processes inflammation, mitochondrial dysfunction and metabolic disturbances. In paper I we assessed, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), a proxy for mitochondrial dysfunction in patients of psychotic disorder. We additionally investigated the effect of anti-psychotic drug treatment on the mtDNA copy number of neuro-epithelial stem cell derived human neurons. In paper II and III, we explored plasma levels of GDF-15, an anti-inflammation marker gaining traction in the field of cardiovascular disease, in the context of psychotic disorders. In paper IV we report the initial findings of a larger study of inflammation in first episode psychosis (FEP) patients recruited for exercise intervention. We investigated a pre-selected group of cytokines, ligands and receptors in patients with FEP.The major findings from this thesis work includes 1) We were the first to report elevated plasma GDF-15 levels in patients with psychotic disorders compared to healthy age and gender matched controls. 2) We detected that GDF-15 robustly associated with aging and levels of established analyte biomarkers for cardiovascular disease, while not with the acute inflammation marker C-reactive protein. 3) Treatment with clozapine and risperidone was associated with a depletion of whole blood and neuronal mtDNA. 4) In those not treated with clozapine or risperidone, the mtDNA copy number was reduced with age and with more severe psychosis. 5) Most FEP patients, 70%, had markedly elevated plasma fractalkine levels, while the rest had low healthy control levels, reflecting an on/off pattern. FEP patients could be divided into four immunologically distinct groups categorized by how fractalkine levels changed over 12 weeks physical exercise. One group likely represents patients with milder psychosis. The present thesis provides findings from pre-clinical and basic research with a potential to support the development of better clinical therapy for patients of psychotic disorders.List of scientific papersI. Kumar P, Efstathopoulos P, Millischer V, Olsson E, Bin Wei Y, Brüstle O, Schalling M, Villaescusa JC, Ösby U, Lavebratt C. Mitochondrial DNA copy number is associated with psychosis severity and anti-psychotic treatment. Scientific Reports. 2018 August Vol. 8, Article no. 12743. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-31122-0 II. Kumar P, Millischer V, Villaescusa JC, Nilsson IAK, Östenson CG, Schalling M, Ösby U, Lavebratt C. Plasma GDF15 level is elevated in psychosis and inversely correlated with severity. Scientific Reports. 2017 August Vol. 7, Article no. 7906. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-07503-2 III. Kumar P, Olsson E, Forsberg S, Hukic DS, Westman J, Schalling M, Edman G, Eriksson SV, Ösby U, Lavebratt C. Cardiac biomarkers for patients with psychotic disorder in Sweden. [Manuscript]IV. Kumar P, Lambden B, Yacaman-Mendez D, Ekblom Ö, Skott M, Fogdell Hahn A, Forsell Y, and Lavebratt C. Elevated plasma Fractalkine levels in first episode psychosis patients is normalized by exercise intervention. [Manuscript]</p
Quest for Identity in Parvin Shere’s Pearls from the Ocean
No full textThis paper analyzes the means of self-representation, the conflicts between self/other, and the conscious and unconscious quest for identity by the writer. This paper attempts to understand travel narratives as the narratives about the journey undertaken for the quest for identity by traveler/writer wherein apart from the physical journey of the author the emphasis is laid on the emotional and psychological journey within the author. Parvin Shere is a poet, writer, painter, and musician. She has travelled to as many as five continents (Africa, South America, Europe, Asia and North America) and twenty six countries. Her travelogue, Pearls from the Ocean is an interdisciplinary text with the use of literature prose, poetry and paintings. This paper attempts to answer the questions like, what is identity; does quest for identity play an important part in travel narrating; what factors exhibit the significance of identity in travel narratives; does travel facilitates the quest for identity of the writer/traveler through the analysis of Parvin’s travelogue
Feminist Philosophical Toys : Playful Companions and Live Theorization
No full textWhat are the matters of philosophy? How do they shape how philosophy is practiced, what kinds of knowledge it produces, and who counts as a philosopher? The dominant matters of Western philosophy, or its epistemic companions, are books and journal articles even when dialogic and oral traditions are acknowledged or referenced. In this paper, we argue that alternatives would be necessary if philosophy were to be a more capacious and welcoming discipline. We introduce Feminist Philosophical Toys as one such alternative that challenges what counts as serious philosophy by being seriously playful. The toys foreground the oral and the dialogic while reflecting on and committing to engaging materiality, record-keeping, and record-making. In doing so, the toys challenge the dominant form of philosophy and its mechanics of knowledge-making as they offer an alternative way of doing philosophy that can be transformative for the next generation of feminist scholarship. The dialogic, embodied, and communal interaction with paper, with theory, and with others is meant as a practice of live theorization, opening philosophy to a new groundedness and accessibility, centered in the ethos of feminist epistemology, while at the same time pushing against fetishization of matter.CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEEDPublished online by Cambridge University Press: 30 April 2024Corresponding author: Nassim Parvin; Email: [email protected]</p
Study of Complex Magnetic Permeability and Structural Properties of Nano Crystalline Fe-Cu-NI-Si-B (M=Mo, Cr & W) Alloys
No full textThis thesis is submitted to the Department of Physics, Khulna University of Engineering & Technology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy in Physics, May, 2007.Cataloged from PDF Version of Thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 102-106)I would like to express my sincere and heartiest gratitude to research
supervisor Prof. Dr. Shibendra Shekher Sikder, Department of Physics, Khulna
University of Engineering & Technology (KUET) and Co-supervisor Dr. A. K. M.
Abdul 1-lakiin, Chief Engineer, Materials Science Division (MSD), Atomic Energy
Centre, Dhaka (AECD) for their pains taking help, continuous inspiration, advice and
guidance through the progress of this work. I shall remain ever grateful to them. I am
specially indebted to Dr. A. K. M. Abdul Hakim without whose efforts I could not
have perfonied the experimental side of this work.
I am deeply grateful to Dr. Dilip Kumar Shaha, P. S. 0. of MSD, AECD for
his help in XRI) experiments and XRD analysis of this work.
I would like to pay my deep respect to Prof. Dr. Md. Mahbub Alam,
Department of' Physics, Khulna University oh engineering & lechnology (KUFT) fbi
his inspiration and the conduction of theoretical papers on meteorology to fulfill this
program.
I am grateful to S. \4anjura Haque S.S.O. MSD of AECD for her generous
help during the experimental work at AECD.
I am thankful to all M. Phil. students specially Zakir Hoossin Khan, Lecture,
Department of Physics, Fultala M. M. College, Bidhu Bhusion Sarkar, Lecturer,
Department of Physics, Dumuria College, Khan Allal Uddin, Lecture, Department of
-1 Physics, Public College, Shaheena Parvin, Lecturer, Department of Physics, Islamia
College. Saroaut Noor, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Khulna Govt.
Niohila College. who have started first this programme.
I am also thankful to Alhamra Parvin, J.E.O. Anjummanara Bgum, R.A. Mr.
Anwar, Ms. Sadia, Mr. Mohsin, Mr. Jewl, Ms. Arifa and Mr. Mostafiz of MSD for
their constant help during my experimental work at AECD.
I am grateful to mn' departmental Head and colleagues specially Md. Shalique
Hossain, Lecturer, Department of Physics, Govt. B. L. College and Sanjib Ghosh,
Assistant Professor. Department of Physics, Govt. B. L. College, Khulna for their
vital sul)pout iii completing this work.
I must express my gratitude to the KUET authority for starting M. Phil
program and allowing me to cany out this work under Physics Department.
My thanks are due to Director Atomic Energy Centre, Dhaka for his kind
permission to use the Laboratoiy of Material Science Division, Atomic Energy
Centre, Dhaka.
Finally I express my appreciation to my beloved parents, wife, uncles, aunts,
sisters and Pradipta for their constant encouragement and support.Pritish Kumar RoyMaster of Philosophy in Physic
Phenomenal Concepts
No full textThis article is about the special, subjective concepts we apply to experience, called “phenomenal concepts”. They are of special interest in a number of ways. First, they refer to phenomenal experiences, and the qualitative character of those experiences whose metaphysical status is hotly debated. Conscious experience strike many philosophers as philosophically problematic and difficult to accommodate within a physicalistic metaphysics. Second, PCs are widely thought to be special and unique among concepts. The sense that there is something special about PCs is very closely tied up with features of the epistemic access they afford to qualia. When we deploy phenomenal concepts introspectively to some phenomenally conscious experience as it occurs, we are said to be acquainted with our own conscious experiences. Accounts of PCs either have to explain the acquaintance relation, or acquaintance with our phenomenal experiences has to be denied. PCs have received much attention in recent philosophy of mind mainly because they figure in arguments for dualism and in physicalist responses to these arguments. The main topic of this article is to explore different accounts of phenomenal concepts and their role in recent debates over the metaphysical status of phenomenal consciousness
Automated detection of prostate cancer using wavelet transform features of ultrasound RF time series
No full textThe aim of this research was to investigate the performance of wavelet transform based features of ultrasound radiofrequency (RF) time series for automated detection of prostate cancer tumors in transrectal ultrasound images. Sequential frames of RF echo signals from 35 extracted prostate specimens were recorded in parallel planes, while the ultrasound probe and the tissue were fixed in position in each imaging plane. The sequence of RF echo signal samples corresponding to a particular spot in tissue imaging plane constitutes one RF time series. Each region of interest (ROI) of ultrasound image was represented by three groups of features of its time series, namely, wavelet, spectral and fractal features. Wavelet transform approximation and detail sequences of each ROI were averaged and used as wavelet features. The average value of the normalized spectrum in four quarters of the frequency range along with the intercept and slope of a regression line fitted to the values of the spectrum versus normalized frequency plot formed six spectral features. Fractal dimension (FD) of the RF time series were computed based on the Higuchi's approach. A support vector machine (SVM) classifier was used to classify the ROIs. The results indicate that combining wavelet coefficient based features with previously proposed spectral and fractal features of RF time series data would increase the area under ROC curve from 93.1% to 95.0%, respectively. Furthermore, the accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity increases to 91.7%, 86.6%, and 94.7%, from 85.7%, 85.2%, and 86.1%, respectively, using only spectral and fractal features. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]Peer reviewedFinal article publishe
Memo on German POWs
No full textSeabrook Farms acquired 150 German prisoners of war who were being held at a former Civilian Conservation Corps camp in nearby Parvin State Park. Seabrook issued strict guidelines to its employees on how to interact with the POWs, including directives to avoid fraternizing with them and to not block them from the line of sight of their guards. According to a company memo, POWs were supposed to be under constant surveillance and kept in isolation from the main labor force at Seabrook Farms
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