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Spaces for resistance? Language, digital media and ‘new literacies’ discourse in Swiss education policy
No full textIn 2018, cantons across Switzerland have launched and begun implementing a massive overhaul of the school curriculum. Flagship features of the newly constructed policy documents are the sections on media and technology. As part of a broader discourse-ethnographic project (Krzyzanowski, 2018), the data for this presentation was generated from the French and German curricula for upper primary and lower secondary education. The study here is a discourse analytical inquiry of the Plan d’études romand and the Lehrplan 21 for the respective linguistic regions and the ways in which the curricula address digital media literacy (Buckingham, 2007). The analysis focuses on how new literacies (Kress, 2003) are promoted or not in the language curriculum and it is also interested in the metadiscursive framing of digital discourse (cf. Thurlow, 2018).
Even though at first sight the media and technology curricula in Switzerland seem to provide young people with the skills and competences they need to participate critically in their mediatized living environments, at a second glance, the curricula prioritize ‘social goods’ (Gee, 2018) to serve the country’s workforce, politics and culture. Adhering to globalization discourse (Fairclough, 2010), the curriculum writers texture a causal relationship between the material changes (increasing importance of information and communication technology and its impacts on education) and mental processes how learners have to cope with these changing realities. The curriculum writers construct schools and education as sites for the reproduction of capital, but also as sites for the reproduction of the social and cultural order (Giroux, 2001). By drawing on Giroux’s (2001) reflections on critical literacy, the study discusses how new forms of reading and writing could be addressed in formal learning contexts to empower young people to create and use spaces for resistance
Rebooting education? A multimodal discourse ethnography of a specialized event
No full textIn 2018, cantons across Switzerland have begun implementing a massive overhaul of the school curriculum. Flagship features of the newly constructed policy documents are the sections on media and technology. The construction of new policy agendas are processes that provide different means of “reading” (Kress, 2011, p. 205) the interests of the social actors involved. As part of a broader discourse-ethnographic project (Krzyzanowski, 2018), the data for this presentation was collected at the major Swiss education fair, Swissdidac, to investigate how specialized, commercialized events promote and construct technology, media and learning. I analyze how multimodal semiotic tactics are used to mediatize, spatialize and commercialize education and technology; and how the meanings of technology and schooling are co-constructed by visitors and exhibitors. Thus, I examine how “discourses in place” (Scollon & Scollon, 2004, p. 7) about digitization in education generate meanings and actions in a “non-neutral zone” (Blommaert, 2013, p. 15)
Etnografía en el museo. Una experiencia desde la Montaña de Guerrero. 58 Tercera época (2014) abril-julio. Gaceta de Museos. INAH: 75 años. Instantes en la memoria
No full textBarabas, Alicia, Dones, dueños y santos: ensayo sobre religiones en Oaxaca, México, Porrúa/INAH-Conaculta, 2006.Güemes, Lina Odena, “La fotografía”, en Carlos García M., La antropología en México, México, INAH, 1988, pp. 611-634.Horcasitas, Fernando y Marion Oettinger, The Lienzo of Petlacala. A Pictorial Document from Guerrero, Mexico, Filadelfia, The American Philosophical Socie-ty, vol. LXXII, parte 7, 1982.Jiménez P., Blanca M. y Samuel L. Villela F., Historia y cultura tras el glifo. Códices de Guerrero, México, INAH, 1998.Rodríguez Hernández, Georgina, “Recobrando la presencia. Fotografía indigenista mexicana en la Exposición Histórico-Americana de 1892”, en Cuicuilco. Revista de la Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, vol. 5, núm. 13, mayo-agosto de 1998, pp. 123-144.Villela F., Samuel L., “Los ‘San Marquitos’ del Museo Xipe Tótec”, en Gaceta de Mu-seos, tercera época, núm. 40, febrero-mayo de 2007, pp. 8-11
Author Correction: Fine-mapping genomic loci refines bipolar disorder risk genes
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Embroidered rhetoric: the social, religious and political functions of elite women's needlework, c.1560-1630
No full textThis thesis focuses on the Elizabethan and Jacobean aristocracy and upper gentry to yield the first detailed study of the elite needleworking woman as fashioner of her social personage, and of the objects she produced as indices of social persona, religious conscience and political agency.
The first chapter explores how needlework mediates between wtiwomeann d their social context. It surveys the way in which needlework, both as practice and as object, functioned as a vehicle for projecting persona and personage into a social context which interpreted needlework according to complex value systems of personal virtue and the husbandries of conspicuous wealth. The chapter explores needlework as a site for intellectual expression. The theories developed in the first chapter are tested in a case study of Bess of Hardwick, whose textiles show her construction of a virtuous aristocratic persona proclaiming its self-assured place in the social hierarchy.
Chapter Two is the first study to consider the needlework of Elizabethan and Jacobean Catholics in the light of the Protestant proscription of iconic vestments. It recovers the history of lost needlework from English convents on the Continent, and of the English recusants' covert provision of vestments to Jesuit missioners. The first detailed case studs' of Helena Wintour's vestments reads Wintour's Jesuit-influenced Marian floral emblems and iconography alongside Hawkins's meditation handbook Partheneia Sacra to theorise Wintour's devotion to the Immaculate Conception, and explores the vestments' relationship to the liturgy and their iconographical importance to the Mass.
Chapter Three considers needlework gifts as political currency within patronage structures at the Elizabethan and Jacobean courts. Narrated with a contemporary vocabulary of grace, needlework gifts contribute to the construction of court-crown relations, symbolised by needlework gifts in Jacobean court masques. Through needlework gifts a `feminine commonwealth' availed itself of power structures at the court of James's consort that parallel his departments, and the women's political agency in a female political hierarchy is seen encoded within gifts of needlework in the Queen's Courts final masque. The case study uses Mary's needlework gifts to Elizabeth as an index of changes in their relationship. Mary's needlework joins parallel texts such as poetry, portraiture and planned masques in developing an iconographical vocabulary centring on the Judgement of Paris, with which diplomatic negotiations sought to clarify the Queens' relative positions
Livestock-associated methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus in pigs - prevalence, risk factors and transmission dynamics
No full text In 2004, an association between human carriage of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and contact with pigs was found. To assess the implications of this finding for veterinary and public health more insight into the prevalence, risk factors and transmission dynamics of this so-called livestock-associated (LA-)MRSA was needed. Therefore, field and experimental studies were conducted in pig and human populations of which the results are presented in this thesis. First, observational studies on pig farms were performed to estimate the prevalence of MRSA positive herds, and to identify factors associated with LA-MRSA in pig herds. It was shown that LA-MRSA was present in the majority, i.e. ~70%, of Dutch pig herds and that the prevalence increased over time. Larger herds were more often found LA-MRSA positive than smaller herds, and transmission was shown to occur by animal trade. From all this, it was concluded that LA-MRSA has become endemic in the Dutch pig population. Secondly, studies on LA-MRSA in pigs, the environment and personnel in pig slaughterhouses were performed. In pigs, a clear increase in LA-MRSA positive pigs from 0 to 60% was shown in the time period between loading at the farm and stunning at the slaughterhouse. This indicated a very rapid transmission of LA-MRSA between pigs through direct contact or through contact with a contaminated environment. An increase in LA-MRSA positive environmental samples taken in the slaughterhouse was found during the working day. In personnel, LA-MRSA prevalence was 6% and working with live pigs was the single most important factor for being positive; personnel not working with pigs or working only with dead pigs were all LA-MRSA negative. Thirdly, transmission of LA-MRSA within herds was studied longitudinally both in an experimental setting and also in 6 pig herds. Transmission rates and the factors affecting these rates were determined. The results of both studies indicated that LA-MRSA is able to spread easily and persist in pig populations, resulting in an endemic situation. Use of selective antimicrobials has a positive effect on the transmission rate of LA-MRSA, but transmission occurs even without use of antimicrobials. The key to limiting LA-MRSA transmission from pigs to humans is to eliminate the source, i.e. eradicate LA-MRSA from pig herds, and a combination of different intervention strategies controlling both within- and between-herd transmission will be needed to achieve this. </p
Intraoperative transfusion practices in Europe
No full text© 2016 The Author. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Journal of Anaesthesia.Background: Transfusion of allogeneic blood influences outcome after surgery. Despite widespread availability of transfusion guidelines, transfusion practices might vary among physicians, departments, hospitals and countries. Our aim was to determine the amount of packed red blood cells (pRBC) and blood products transfused intraoperatively, and to describe factors determining transfusion throughout Europe. Methods: We did a prospective observational cohort study enrolling 5803 patients in 126 European centres that received at least one pRBC unit intraoperatively, during a continuous three month period in 2013. Results: The overall intraoperative transfusion rate was 1.8%; 59% of transfusions were at least partially initiated as a result of a physiological transfusion trigger- mostly because of hypotension (55.4%) and/or tachycardia (30.7%). Haemoglobin (Hb)- based transfusion trigger alone initiated only 8.5% of transfusions. The Hb concentration [mean (sd)] just before transfusion was 8.1 (1.7) g dl-1 and increased to 9.8 (1.8) g dl-1 after transfusion. The mean number of intraoperatively transfused pRBC units was 2.5 (2.7) units (median 2). Conclusions: Although European Society of Anaesthesiology transfusion guidelines are moderately implemented in Europe with respect to Hb threshold for transfusion (7-9 g dl-1), there is still an urgent need for further educational efforts that focus on the number of pRBC units to be transfused at this threshold
Autoantibodies against type I IFNs in patients with life-threatening COVID-19
No full textInterindividual clinical vari-ability is vast in humans infected withsevere acute respiratory syndrome corona-virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), ranging from silent in-fection to rapid death. Three risk factors forlife-threatening coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19) pneumonia have been identified—being male, being elderly, or having othermedical conditions—but these risk factorscannot explain why critical disease remainsrelatively rare in any given epidemiologicalgroup. Given the rising toll of the COVID-19pandemic in terms of morbidity and mortality,understanding the causes and mechanisms oflife-threatening COVID-19 is crucial.The Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases is supported by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University, the St. Giles Foundation, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) (R01AI088364), the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) program (UL1 TR001866), a Fast Grant from Emergent Ventures, the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, the Yale Center for Mendelian Genomics and the GSP Coordinating Center funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) (UM1HG006504 and U24HG008956), the French National Research Agency (ANR) under the Investments for the Future program (ANR-10-IAHU-01), the Integrative Biology of Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory of Excellence (ANR-10-LABX-62-IBEID), the French Foundation for Medical Research (FRM) (EQU201903007798), the FRM and ANR GENCOVID project (ANRS-COV05), the Square Foundation, Grandir – Fonds de solidarité pour l’enfance, the SCOR Corporate Foundation for Science, the Institut Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), and the University of Paris. Samples from San Raffaele Hospital were obtained through the Covid-BioB project and by healthcare personnel of San Raffaele Hospital, San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy (SR-TIGET) clinical laboratory and clinical research unit, funded by the Program Project COVID-19 OSR-UniSR and Fondazione Telethon. The French COVID Cohort Study Group was sponsored by INSERM and supported by the REACTing consortium and by a grant from the French Ministry of Health (PHRC 20-0424). The Cov-Contact Cohort was supported by the REACTing consortium, the French Ministry of Health, and the European Commission (RECOVER WP 6). The Milieu Intérieur Consortium was supported by the French Government’s Investissement d’Avenir program, Laboratoire d’Excellence Milieu Intérieur grant (ANR-10-LABX-69-01) (primary investigators: L.Q.-M. and D.Du.). The Simoa experiment was supported by the PHRC-20-0375 COVID-19 grant “DIGITAL COVID” (primary investigator: G.G.). S.G.T. is supported by a Leadership 3 Investigator Grant awarded by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia and a COVID19 Rapid Response Grant awarded by UNSW Sydney. C.R.-G. and colleagues were supported by the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (COV20_01333 and COV20_01334, Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation RTC-2017-6471-1; AEI/FEDER, UE) and Cabildo Insular de Tenerife (CGIEU0000219140 and “Apuestas científicas del ITER para colaborar en la lucha contra la COVID-19”). S.T.-A. and A.B. were supported by ANR-20-COVI-0064 (primary investigator: A.Be.). This work is supported by the French Ministry of Health “Programme Hospitalier de Recherche Clinique Inter regional 2013,” by the Contrat de Plan Etat-Lorraine and FEDER Lorraine, and by a public grant overseen by the French National Research Agency (ANR) as part of the second Investissements d’Avenir program FIGHT-HF (reference no. ANR-15-RHU-0004) and by the French PIA project “Lorraine Université d’Excellence” (reference no. ANR-15-IDEX-04-LUE) (45); and biobanking is performed by the Biological Resource Center Lorrain BB-0033-00035. This study was supported by the Fonds IMMUNOV, for Innovation in Immunopathology; by a grant from the Agence National de la Recherche (ANR-flash Covid19 “AIROCovid” to F.R.-L.); and by the FAST Foundation (French Friends of Sheba Tel Hashomer Hospital). Work in the Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease was supported by NIH grants P01AI138398-S1, 2U19AI111825, and R01AI091707-10S1; a George Mason University Fast Grant; and the G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Charitable Foundation. The Amsterdam UMC Covid-19 Biobank was supported by grants from the Amsterdam Corona Research Fund, the Dr. C.J. Vaillant Fund, and the Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development [ZonMw; NWO-Vici-Grant (grant no. 918·19·627 to D.v.d.B.)]. This work was also supported by the Division of Intramural Research of the National Institute of Dental Craniofacial Research and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, and by Regione Lombardia, Italy (project “Risposta immune in pazienti con COVID-19 e comorbidita”). The opinions and assertions expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Uniformed Services University or the Department of Defense. J.H. holds an Institut Imagine M.D.-Ph.D. fellowship from the Fondation Bettencourt Schueller. J.R. is supported by the INSERM Ph.D. program (“poste d’accueil Inserm”). P.Ba. was supported by the French Foundation for Medical Research (FRM, EA20170638020) and the M.D.-Ph.D. program of the Imagine Institute (with the support of the Fondation Bettencourt-Schueller). We thank the Association “Turner et vous” for their help and support. Sample processing at IrsiCaixa was possible thanks to the crowdfunding initiative YoMeCorono. D.C.V. is supported by the Fonds de la recherche en santé du Québec clinician-scientist scholar program. K.K. was supported by the Estonian Research Council grant PUT1367. We thank the GEN-COVID Multicenter Study (https://sites.google.com/dbm.unisi.it/gen-covid). We thank the NIAID Office of Cyber Infrastructure and Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch (contract no. HHSN316201300006W/HHSN27200002 to MSC, Inc.), the Operations Engineering Branch for developing the HGRepo system to enable streamlined access to the data, and the NCI Advanced Biomedical Computational Science (ABCS) for data transformation support. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority was supported under contract no. HHSO10201600031C (to J.H.). Financial support was provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) K08AI135091; the Burroughs Wellcome Fund CAMS; the Clinical Immunology Society; and the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology
