819 research outputs found
Is the state against fatherhood?
No full textJasper Gerard, journalist and father of two, argues that, in the infamously tangled and strangely secretive world of the family court, a great injustice is being done to British fathers. Copyright (c) 2008 The Author. Journal compilation (c) 2008 ippr.
Variance in Response to Heat Treatment in Perkinsville Jasper
No full textabstract: The heat treatment of lithic raw material is a globally dispersed technology that improves the flaking quality of toolstone. While not all types of stone respond to heat treatment, many forms of microcrystalline silicates do, including jasper. Here, we aim to better understand how Perkinsville jasper responds to heat treatment. Perkinsville jasper occurs in the Perkinsville Valley of Yavapai County, Arizona, and was utilized prehistorically by the Prescott, Sinagua, and Hohokam cultures. For our study, we collected seven boulders of jasper from private land (with permission) in Yavapai County. These boulders were flintknapped into 74 spalls which were subsequently heated in an electric kiln using 20 treatment protocols with systematically varying combinations of maximum temperature and maximum heating times. Afterward, we compared multiple quantitative and qualitative characteristics of unheated and heated flakes taken from the same nodule pre- and post-heat treatment. Our heating protocol allows us to determine an ‘optimal heating context’ for Perkinsville jasper and to better understand how variation in time and temperature influences flaking quality of the stone. Lastly, this research develops an experimental reference dataset that can be used by other researchers studying raw material use and heat treatment in the Southwest United States. (abstract
Birds of Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada
No full textJasper Park, with an area of approximately 4,200 square miles, is the largest accessible primeval wildlife sanctuary on this continent and as such its bird life is of the greatest interest. The meagre available records of earlier conditions indicate that noteworthy changes in the park\u27s avifauna have taken place in the last 50 years. There can be little doubt that other changes will take place during the years to come. For this reason, then, if for no other, it seems desirable that as complete a record as possible of the current situation be made, for only against it can the significance of future trends be evaluated.
In 1943 the author spent a week in the Athabasca Valley in mid-April, and in July, August, and September travelled the south boundary trail, entering over Nigel Pass and passing by way of Jonas Pass and Indian Pass to the Brazeau icefields. From there in to Jasper the same route was followed as used by Clarke on his way out. The north boundary was ridden from Devona to Robson by way of Snake Indian Pass.
Field work of 1944 covered much of the same areas as that of the previous year. Beginning on May 2, the author, accompanied by James Hatter, ascended the Snake Indian to Blue Creek and Topaz Lake, worked the Athabasca and Miette Valleys trom Yellowhead Pass to East Gate and the Banff-Jasper Highway area, and finally travelled the south boundary by way of Poboktan Pass, Brazeau River, Southesk River and Pass, and down the Rocky to Jacques Lake. This time the Maligne Lake area was visited and the lake explored along its entire length. In December of the same year observations were made at Jasper and Devona. Additional field work was carried on in the Athabasca Valley in July, 1945 and in May and June, 1946
Interview with the author
No full textA change has come to popular media. Every day, we are digitally invited into the homes and
lives of the creators whose work we love. We are pushed to become attached to them as we
become attached to their work. How can we as viewers healthily interact with the creators whose
work we enjoy, and how can we as creators healthily interact with the people that enjoy our
work? How intimate can we become? How intimate should we become? What harm can we do to
each other? Interview with the Author is a visual novel that asks its players to engage with these
questions while taking the role of web columnist Reed Knightly as they interview science fiction
author Arthur Wright. Stemming from a semester-long inquiry into the subject of parasocial
relationships, Death of the Author, and the intersection of the two theories, Interview lets its
players can ask Arthur a variety of questions related to topics like their professional work, their
fandom, and their time as a fanfiction writer. The answers they receive dynamically shift
depending on the player’s perceived interest or disinterest in parasocial connections between
authors, readers and fictional characters. Interview represents a continued exploration of the
subject of communication in my work, and of the way individuals and constructs build
connections with one another.Thesis (B.?)Honors Colleg
Animation of data link protocols using JASPER tool
No full textV diplomski nalogi smo implementirali protokol z oddajo z mirovanjem in protokol s selektivno ponovno oddajo iz učbenika Computer Networks A. S. Tanenbauma s pomočjo orodja JASPER z namenom, prikazati obnašanje protokolov z animacijo. Najprej smo na kratko opisali vlogo in namen animacije protokolov ter navedli nekatera znana animacijska orodja. V jedru naloge smo najprej na splošno opisali orodje JASPER, njegovo zgradbo in koncept delovanja. Nato smo opisali oba protokola ter preslikavo njune implementacije iz programskega jezika C, kot si jo je zamislil avtor učbenika, v programski jezik našega orodja, javo. Pravilno delovanje razvite kode smo prikazali s podajo posnetkov animacije ter nekaterih možnih scenarijev v delovanju obeh protokolov.In this diploma thesis, we implemented an idle RQ protocol and a selective repeat protocol from A. S. Tanenbaum\u27s textbook Computer Networks by using JASPER tool with the purpose to show protocol behavior with animation. First, we briefly described the role and purpose of protocol animation and stated some well-known animation tools. In the central part of our thesis, we first provided a general description of JASPER tool, its structure and concept of operation. We then described both protocols and the mapping of their implementation from C programming language as suggested by the author of the textbook into Java, the programming language of our tool. We demonstrated the proper functioning of the developed code by presenting snapshots of the animation and some possible scenarios from the operation of the two protocols
Circadian and Ultradian Rhythms of Free Glucocorticoid Hormone Are Highly Synchronized between the Blood, the Subcutaneous Tissue, and the Brain
No full textTotal glucocorticoid hormone levels in plasma of various species, including humans, follow a circadian rhythm that is made up from an underlying series of hormone pulses. In blood most of the glucocorticoid is bound to corticosteroid-binding globulin and albumin, resulting in low levels of free hormone. Although only the free fraction is biologically active, surprisingly little is known about the rhythms of free glucocorticoid hormones. We used single-probe microdialysis to measure directly the free corticosterone levels in the blood of freely behaving rats. Free corticosterone in the blood shows a distinct circadian and ultradian rhythm with a pulse frequency of approximately one pulse per hour together with an increase in hormone levels and pulse height toward the active phase of the light/dark cycle. Similar rhythms were also evident in the subcutaneous tissue, demonstrating that free corticosterone rhythms are transferred from the blood into peripheral target tissues. Furthermore, in a dual-probe microdialysis study, we demonstrated that the circadian and ultradian rhythms of free corticosterone in the blood and the subcutaneous tissue were highly synchronized. Moreover, free corticosterone rhythms were also synchronous between the blood and the hippocampus. These data demonstrate for the first time an ultradian rhythm of free corticosterone in the blood that translates into synchronized rhythms of free glucocorticoid hormone in peripheral and central tissues. The maintenance of ultradian rhythms across tissue barriers in both the periphery and the brain has important implications for research into aberrant biological rhythms in disease and for the development of improved protocols for glucocorticoid therapy
Parallel session 3 : Transforming COVID-19 as an opportunity to innovate community-based experiential learning
No full textPresented Titles: Model of Transformative Service-Learning and Its Potentials [Author: Zoe Chong Xiao] Inter-University Collaboration and Innovative Teaching Methods under the New Normal [Author: Jasper Van Holsteijn] Addressing COVID-19 Related Community Needs through Service-Learning [Author: Albert Ko
All My Relatives: The Hunka Adoption of Jasper Milk
No full textThis research article infuses anthropological kinship theory with knowledge of traditional Lakota Sioux culture to discover the complex relationships that existed between Jasper Milk, his wife, and his Hunka (adopted) sibling. Offering a critique of the current praxis existing among genealogists conducting research in Native American lineages, the author suggests that genealogical specialization in a single tribe―in contrast to the current practice of all-encompassing ‘Native American research’―increases research success
Computational analyses to characterise hidden information in short and long read sequencing data of human genomes:there’s more than meets the reference
No full textNext generation sequencing (NGS) has enabled us to accurately determine the nucleotide sequence of short fragments of DNA at a massive scale, which has led to various clinical applications of human genome sequencing. To extract information from these NGS experiments, virtually all analyses make use of a reference assembly of the human genome to map sequenced reads. Importantly, in these experiments a large fraction (~12%) of the sequenced DNA fragments are ignored as the origin of these sequences cannot be traced back to a (single) position on the reference assembly. The origin of these ignored or unmapped fragments is dual. On the one hand these fragments originate from sequence that occurs more than once (repeats). On the other hand, these fragments originate from sequence that is absent from the reference assembly. In practice, many of these unmapped fragments originate from so-called structural variations (SVs) where the sequenced genome differs from the reference assembly. In Part 1 of this thesis, we study this source of sequence variation by making use of so-called long-read sequencing technology and introduce methods to do so. In Part 2 of this thesis, we specifically study the DNA fragments that can’t be traced back to the human reference assembly, but instead seem to originate from DNA viruses
Negotiating with biases: How culture and human rights variables alter the negotiation framework with north korea
No full textThis paper examines the cultural and human rights gaps in understanding that have impeded negotiations with North Korea due to culturally based negotiation biases within the context of East-West cross-border negotiations-a term the author refers to as a "barbarian bias"-that is linked to the human rights issue, as promulgated in such examples as the North Korean Human Rights Act (the Act). While the Act represented a good faith effort to improve the internal human rights conditions of North Korea, the foreseeable net effect of such legislation was the DPRK's reinforced notion of a hostile international community against it, led most notably, in North Korea's view, by the United States. In effect, North Korea holds the view that human rights may vary depending on culture (i.e. a view based on the theory of "cultural relativism" rather than "universalism"). Perhaps for this reason, North Korea's past negotiation behavior reflects the belief that the implementation of the human rights issue through offshore legislation, vis-à-vis the North Korean Human Rights Act, into its domestic framework is one variant of a "barbarian bias" in which the DPRK, in its own subjective view, is being unilaterally told (rather than asked through mutual cooperation), how and to what degree, human rights issues should be treated in its own sovereign territory. Such human rights and culturally based variables represent a notable impediment as they relate to negotiations with North Korea, which has not fully been considered in the relevant literature. © 2009 Korea Institute for Defense Analyses
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