20 research outputs found
Street encounters: betrayal and belonging in youth gangs
No full textAnthropologist Julia Sauma argues that in understanding what draws young people to gangs, UK practitioners could learn from Brazilian outreach workers and their efforts to relate to the lives of street children caught in the drug trade in Rio de Janeiro. Copyright (c) 2008 The Author. Journal compilation (c) 2008 ippr.
History of Mar Yahballaha and Rabban Sauma
No full textContents: Introduction (pp. 11-42); Critical edition of the "History of Mar Yahballaha and Rabban Sauma" based on the three extant Syriac Mss, and translation into English with linguistic and literary notes (pp. 43-228); historical commentary (pp. 233-338); appendix: related documents and quotations from historiographical contemporay Arabic, Syriac, Armenian, and Persian wors (pp. 339-370); bibliography, index and illustrations (pp. 371-423)
From the backcover presentation:
This book tells a story of serendipity. Two Christian monks left China about 1274, headed to Jerusalem. Travelling on an itinerary similar to that Marco Polo had taken, they reached Iran, ruled by a Mongol dynasty, the Ilkhans. There, what they never had expected happened: one of them, Mark by name, was elected Patriarch of the Church of the East (with the name Yahballaha), while the other, Rabban Sauma, was sent as ambassador to the pope and the courts of France and England by the Mongol Ilkhan Arghun.
From Rabban Sauma’s report of his embassy, and the two monk’s memories of their journey from China to Mesopotamia, an anonymous author compiled a biography of Sauma and Mark. He interspersed their report and memories with a narrative about “the occurrences of their time – what happened to them, through them or because of them, relating everything just as it happened”.
The result was a chronicle entitled “History of Mar Yahballaha and Rabban Sauma”, of which a single manuscript was discovered in the late nineteenth century in the remote mountains of Hakkari (Eastern Turkey). The “History” is one of the more recent examples of classical Syriac literature, a major Christian literary tradition of the Near East.
While the encounter with two Asian “Marco Polos” of sorts constitutes the History’s most immediate element of appeal for present-day readers, the work deserves to be read in its entirety, as a rich and lively testimony of a time of unprecedented interconnectedness in the history of Eurasia at the epoch of the Mongol Empire
Chapter Princes and Paradise: Rabban Sauma in the Western Mediterranean
No full textThis chapter is an analysis of the China-Mediterranean connection of the Nestorian monk Rabban Sauma, the first known Chinese-born person to visit the European Mediterranean, in the History of Mar Yahballaha and Rabban Sauma, a Syriac work of unknown authorship about the Ilkhanate composed early in the fourteenth century. Born an Önggüd Turk in Beijing sometime between 1220 and 1230, Sauma and his pupil Mark left Khubilai Khan’s China for the Holy Land around 1275. They settled in the Ilkhanate when war re-directed them there. Early in 1287, the Ilkhan Arghun, seeking an alliance with Latin Europe against Islamic states, dispatched Rabban Sauma on a mission to the Latin West as his envoy. An abridged and redacted Syriac translation of Sauma’s now lost Persian account of his visit to Latin Europe survives in the History, and Sauma’s influence on the anonymous author in the composition of the historical work was significant. This chapter suggests that the China-Mediterranean connection of Sauma’s story in the book is centered on the imagination of political power within the framework of his journey. The History is a mirror of princes that projects good governance and enlightened civilisation onto the Latin European other as a lesson for the Ilkhans. From the Mongol elite to princes of the Latin West, the book delineates Sauma’s journey as a series of encounters with princes. And this engagement and study of power is inextricably bound up with the notion of the journey as a process of undergoing trial and attaining visionary fulfillment in the Chinese Buddhist tradition of travel. The European Mediterranean marks Sauma’s vision of benevolent rule, order, and paradise beyond a border of ordeal and death. The History holds up this vision of the European Mediterranean as a mirror to the princes of the Ilkhanate, a land the anonymous author saw beset by strife
Sauma-lehden taittopohjat
No full textTämän toiminnallisen opinnäytetyön aiheena oli aikakauslehden taittopohjien suunnittelu. Olen toteuttanut työni asiakkaani toiveiden mukaisesti. Opinnäytetyöni sisältää kaikki ne kohdat, jotka tulisi muistaa julkaisua suunnitellessa, jotta lopputulos olisi paras mahdollinen.
Opinnäytetyöni osoittaa, kuinka laaja-alainen työtehtävä julkaisun suunnittelu on, ja miten paljon suunnittelun eri osa-alueet ovat sidoksissa keskenään. Suunnitteluun tulee käyttää aikaa ja vaivaa. Hyvin tehty pohjasuunnittelu palkitsee tekijänsä. Tässä tapauksessa se palkitsee myös lehden tulevat tekijät.
Opinnäytetyöni aineistona käytin lähinnä julkaisujen suunnittelusta kirjoitettua kirjallisuutta. Suurin osa kirjallisuudesta käsitteli yleisesti julkaisun suunnittelua, joten se on osasyy miksi käsittelin myös yleistä julkaisun pohjasuunnittelua. Lehteä koskevat samat yleiset seikat kuin muitakin julkaisuja. Osa aineistostani keskittyi kokonaan lehden erikoispiirteisiin, kuten aukeamakeskeiseen suunnitteluun. Näin sain hyvin yhdistämällä yleistä ja yksityiskohtaista tietoa luotua hyvän kokonaiskuvan siitä, miten lehti rakennetaan.The theme of this functional thesis was to designing layouts for a magazine. The thesis contains all the points you have to remember, to get the best result when designing publications.
The thesis shows how wide thing it is to design a layout. And how much of the different areas of designing are linked to each other. You should spend a lot of time and effort to your design. When the layout is designed well and with thought it will reward its author. And in this case it will also reward the future authors.
The material used in this thesis is mainly written literature. Most of the literature used in this thesis deals the general release of the designing. The general functions concerns magazine as any other publications. Some of the material concentrated entirely to the special features that magazine has, such as spread-centered design. This way I got good combination of general and detailed knowledge of how to create fine magazine
Associação de genes KIR ao lúpus eritematoso sistêmico em Santa Catarina
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Celular e do Desenvolvimento, Florianópolis, 201
Platter Chatter
No full textabstract: Throughout the two semesters of the Founder’s Lab program, we developed and practiced our entrepreneurship skills by working to solve the issue of diversity and polarization. In the first semester, our task was to help a corporate entrepreneurial venture create and execute a marketing plan to diversify their target audience. We worked with the lead professors developing the World War II Studies Master’s Program for ASU’s School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies. During our collaboration with the World War II program, we realized that their issue with finding diverse students stemmed from an institutional problem with cultural diversity and polarization.
While working with the World War II Studies program, we primarily conducted market research, which eventually led us to pivot into starting our own venture. The data from the surveys we created indicated that the target market for a World War II Master’s Program was too narrow, and only appealed to people with specific cultural backgrounds. We concluded that a simple marketing plan would not be able to solve the lack of diversity, and decided to start up our own business to combat the issue. In the spring semester we created Platter Chatter, a social venture dedicated to promoting diversity and cultural awareness through food.
We believe that Platter Chatter has future potential as a social venture due to its unique position in the market, as well as the diverse perspectives and social capital that we bring as founders of the company. Some unexpected events have disrupted our original plans for testing and launching our venture, but with future work we are sure that our company and product will be able to succeed
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Lessons from the History of Independent System Operators in the Energy Sector, with applications to the Water Sector
No full textThis paper examines the lessons from independent transmission system operators in energy in the context of the potential introduction of an independent system operator in the water sector. A key lesson from the energy sector is that there is a basic choice between having an independent system operator (ISO) and an independent transmission system operator (ITSO) covering two or more existing company areas. ISOs do not own any wires or pipes, ITSOs do own wires or pipes. We begin by examining the nature of system operation arrangements in different countries, focussing on different ways that non-discriminatory access to monopoly transmission assets can be facilitated. We go on to discuss the particular functions of the ISO, focussing on the US, with regard to controlling the system and operating the power markets. We also detail the costs of system operation. Next, we focus on incentive issues and the governance of ISOs around the world. We outline an ideal model for an electricity system operator and examine the extent to which systems in the US and UK conform to the ideal. We also explore the issue of pricing access to the system and how system operation costs are paid for. Then, we look at the evolving role of system operators and how they might be evaluated. Finally we apply the learning from system operation in energy across to the UK water sector and offer some interim conclusions
High levels of polypharmacy in rheumatoid arthritis—a challenge not covered by current management recommendations : data from a large real-life study
No full textRheumatoid arthritis (RA) is associated with high frequency of comorbidities and increased risk of polypharmacy. Although there is a great potential for complications, there is a gap in literature on polypharmacy in patients with rheumatic arthritis. To evaluate the prevalence and factors associated with polypharmacy in a population in a real-life setting. Methods: A cross-sectional multicenter study was conducted in Brazil. Patients underwent clinical evaluation and medical records analysis. Polypharmacy was considered as a dependent variable. To test independent variables, we used Poisson regression. We evaluated 792 patients (89% female, median age 56.6 years). Median duration of disease was 12.7 years, 78.73% had a positive rheumatoid factor. The median of disease activity score-28 was 3.5 (disease with mild activity), median of the clinical disease activity index score was 9, and median of health assessment questionnaire-disability index was 0.875; 47% used corticosteroids, 9.1% used nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, 90.9% used synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs, 35.7% used biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs). In total, 537 (67.9%) patients used 5 or more drugs. Polypharmacy showed a relationship with a number of comorbidities and use of specific drugs (corticosteroids, methotrexate, and biological DMARDs). We found a high prevalence of polypharmacy (67.9%) in RA. Solutions to management this problem should be stimulatedThe author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the Brazilian Society of Rheumatology (BSR). For this project, BSR received specific grant support from the following companies: Bristol-Myers Squibb Farmacêutica Ltda; Eli Lilly do Brasil Ltda; Janssen-Cilag Farmacêuticos Ltda; Laboratórios Pfizer Ltda; Produtos Roche Químicos e Farmacêuticos S.A.; and UCB Biopharma Ltda. The funding body or the companies had no role in the design of the study and collection, analysis, and interpretation of data and in writing the manuscrip
Adoptive transfer of autoimmune splenic dendritic cells to lupus-prone mice triggers a B lymphocyte humoral response
No full textIndexación: ScopusSystemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease characterized by increased autoantibody production that leads to multiple tissue injuries. Dendritic cells (DCs) are important orchestrators of immune responses and key components in fine-tuning the balance between tolerance and immunity. However, their role in autoimmune disorders such as SLE remains uncertain. We analyzed the contribution of DCs in triggering SLE by adoptively transferring splenic DCs from aged autoimmune [NZB×NZW]F1 (BWF1) mice to young healthy BWF1 mice. We observed that the transfer of DCs from autoimmune mice to pre-autoimmune mice induced high autoantibody titers in the serum of recipient mice. Moreover, autoimmune DCs from aged BWF1 mice were crucial for the expansion and differentiation of plasmablasts and CD5+ B cells or B1-like cells in the peripheral blood, and spleen of recipient BWF1 mice, a phenomenon that is observed in autoimmune BWF1 mice. On the other hand, DCs from aged BWF1 mice participated in the expansion and differentiation of DCs and IFN-γ-producing T cells. These results reveal that DCs from autoimmune BWF1 mice exhibit functional and phenotypic characteristics that allow them to trigger B cell hyperactivation, as well as DC and T cell expansion and differentiation, thereby promoting an exacerbated humoral response in lupus-prone mice. © 2017, The Author(s).https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12026-017-8936-9Proyectos ANID: FONDECYT 1140431 (MRB), FONDECYT 1121478 (DS), PAI 791100009 (MRB, DS), FONDEQUIP/ EQM114137, and CONICYT PFB-16 (MR)S
