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Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) in Quest of Identity : Impressionist Reminiscences and other Vagaries
No full textMadox Ford est une des grandes figures, non seulement de la littérature d’expressionanglaise, mais de la vie culturelle et artistique d’Europe occidentale dans le premier tiersdu XXe siècle. Il est très lié à Henry James et à Conrad (avec qui il écrit trois romans),joue un rôle de premier plan comme éditeur et contribue au développement del’impressionnisme littéraire et à l’instauration du « modernisme ». Cosmopolite par sesantécédents (anglais, allemand, français), grand voyageur partagé entre l’Angleterre, lesEtats-Unis et la France (surtout la Provence, sa terre d’élection et Toulon), Ford estl’auteur d’une oeuvre considérable qui compte plus de 80 ouvrages. Marine Bernot achoisi d’analyser plus particulièrement une dizaine de récits de souvenirs de toutes sorteset deux récits de voyage qu’il publie de 1904 à 1937. On y découvre toute une époque, unécrivain original et une personnalité d’une rare complexité – politiquement avancé,féministe et libertaire, écologiste avant la lettre, quelque peu visionnaire, un homme quiparle aux gens d’aujourd’hui.Ford Madox Ford is one of the most important figures, not only of English literature butof the Western European cultural and artistic world of the twentieth century. Closelyconnected with Henry James and Joseph Conrad (with whom he wrote three novels incollaboration), Ford played a vital role as editor, contributor to literary impression and aspioneer of “modernism”. Cosmopolitan by birth (English, German, French), this tirelessvoyager, torn between England, the United States and France (especially Provence, hischosen domain and Toulon), Ford is the author of a voluminous sum of publicationsmade up of more than 80 books and other items. The author of this thesis, Marine Bernot,has chosen to concentrate on a dozen or so memoirs covering the years going from 1904to 1937, focusing particularly on two travel ‘novels’, Provence and The Great TradeRoute. These works, which give an original insight into the first half of the twentiethcentury, introduce the reader to an original and complex personality – politicallyadvanced, feminist, non-conformist, ecologist ahead of his times, visionary –, a man inharmony with contemporary preoccupations
Erratum: Transcriptional dysregulation in developing trigeminal sensory neurons in the LgDel mouse model of DiGeorge 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (Human Molecular Genetics (2020) 29:6 (1002-1017) DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddaa024)
No full text© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press. In the originally published version of this article, the author s name James P. Bernot, was incorrectly shown as James Bernout. This has since been corrected
Community Engagement through a Health-Related Honors Biology Service-Learning Project
Get PDFIn response to national recommendations for scientific literacy and a well-prepared workforce (AAAS, 2011), The Ohio State University honors introductory biology class includes service-learning, a high impact educational practice (Kuh, 2008). In the service-learning model used at Ohio State (Bernot et al., 2017), students interact with community organizations to complete a service activity and a related learning activity. During this session intended for faculty, staff, and community partners, participants learn the four components of the model, how it illustrates principles of engagement, and how they may apply it in their own context. Members of the honors biology instructional team, the director of the Central Ohio Chapter of The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, and a laboratory manager at the Ohio State Medical Center will explain their roles in implementing the model in and out of the classroom. Specifically, they will share how students engage in service associated with The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and learn about the related research happening at Ohio State. Both activities drive home the relevance of students' biology course concepts. The planning and implementation of the activities associated with the model illustrate three engagement principles: integration, advocacy, and accountability. The integration principle is illustrated through the collaborative work the instructional team and the community partners complete in planning service and learning activities. When the honors biology students provide meaningful service to the community partners, university assets are applied to community problems. As students learn how their biology course concepts apply to community problems, the partners have an opportunity to advocate to the students, making students more aware of health issues and ways they can contribute to the organizations. Students advocate to the scientific and layman communities during a poster session that celebrates their work with the community partners. In their posters, student groups identify connections between classroom biology topics and their service activity, which reinforces the relevance of the abstract concepts they are learning. Students share ideas for future contributions with peers, faculty, and community partners who attend the session. In this way, students have the opportunity to identify, investigate, and communicate solutions to specific challenges the community partners face in achieving their missions. Finally, the accountability principle applies in two ways. First, students use the scientific method to hypothesize solutions and choose metrics for analyzing the efficacy and significance of their contribution to the community partner. Second, the instructional staff uses student and community partner feedback to determine the success of the program. Specific course materials and evidence of the usefulness of the model will be provided.AUTHOR AFFILIATION: Amy Kulesza, Majors Course Coordinator, Center for Life Sciences Education, The Ohio State University, [email protected] (Corresponding Author); Judith Ridgway, Assistant Director, Center for Life Sciences Education, The Ohio State University; Breana Shawver, Executive Director, Central Ohio Chapter, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society; Amber Gordon, Clinical Laboratory Manager, Experimental Hematology Laboratory, the Ohio State Univesity Comprehensive Cancer Center; Kelsie Bernot, Assistant Professor of Biology, North Carolina A&T State University.Faculty, staff and community partners are invited to learn how a model for community/university partnerships supports student engagement in service and learning. Members of an honors biology instructional team, the director of the Central Ohio chapter of The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, and a laboratory manager at The Ohio State University Medical Center will present a four-part service-learning model that includes components conducted in and out of the classroom. Participants will discuss how to apply the engagement principles of integration, advocacy and accountability through student activities and program implementation. They will also reflect on how they may use the model in their own context. Sample student activities and evidence of their success will be provided
Institutional Dimensions in Open Government Data : A Deep Dive Into Indonesia’s Satu Data Initiative and Its Implications for Developing Countries
Get PDFInstitutional factors such as data standardization, data interoperability, and the ability to include other stakeholders (e.g., civil society) in ecosystems are now understood as crucial considerations in Open Government Data (OGD) implementation. However, most of the current understanding of institutional factors linked to OGD growth has evolved around highly digitalized and developed countries. This study aims to address this gap by investigating open data implementation in Indonesia, a developing country that has been an early advocate of OGD in the "Asia Pacific". In 2014, Indonesia implemented Satu Data Indonesia (One Data Indonesia) as a national initiative to promote OGD objectives. We employ institutional dimensions as the central theoretical lens to unpack the successes and impediments to Satu Data Indonesia’s development. This research dataset is built on 16 expert interviews from government (n = 14) and private (n = 2) organizations that directly contribute to the growth of Satu Data Indonesia, qualitatively triangulated with documentary analysis of key policy and regulatory documents. These new data provide important insights into the complexity and challenges of nationwide OGD implementation and data-sharing. Our findings show that despite its being an early advocate, Indonesia’s OGD initiative is still in the early stages of development, impeded by several policy and administrative bottlenecks.© 2024 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.fi=vertaisarvioitu|en=peerReviewed
Notes sur les mesures de capacité et de poids utilisées par les riziculteurs birmans
No full textNotes on the Measures of Capacity and Weight Utilized by the Burmese Rice Cultivators.
The capacity of a grain container corresponds to the proposed utilization of the grain : is it to be washed and cooked for a meal ? carried on a man's back ? stored in a granary ?... As soon as people engage in transactions, it is necessary to have uniform measures, that are known and accepted in a relatively closed world. These may vary from one regional world to another, and a dominant society or state, that seeks to impose a language, a currency, a civil government, a law, a census, must also impose its system of weights and measures. This innovation is not always spontaneously accepted by the peasantry, which may very well continue to employ its own measures. In these notes, the author uses several examples to show how the Burmese have reacted to these innovations.La capacité de tout récipient destiné à contenir des grains correspond à la destination de ces grains : lavage et cuisson pour le repas, transport à dos d'homme ou par véhicule, stockage dans un grenier, etc. Dès que des transactions s'engagent entre tiers, il est nécessaire d'avoir des mesures unifiées, mesures qui sont toujours connues et reconnues dans un monde relativement clos. Elles peuvent varier d'un monde régional à l'autre, et la société globale — l'État — qui veut imposer une langue, une monnaie, un état civil, une loi, un recensement, doit aussi imposer son système de poids et de mesures. Cette innovation n'est pas toujours spontanément adoptée dans un milieu paysan qui peut très bien continuer à utiliser ses propres mesures. Dans ces Notes, l'auteur a tenté de montrer, à partir de quelques exemples, comment le paysan birman avait répondu à ces innovations.Bernot Lucien. Notes sur les mesures de capacité et de poids utilisées par les riziculteurs birmans. In: Études rurales, n°53-56, 1974. pp. 343-355
How typology allows for a new analysis of the verb phrase in Burmese
Get PDFInternational audienceBurmese has been studied by westerner scholars since 18e century. Recent works containing good description of the language (or part of the language) are Allott (1965), Okell (1969), Bernot (1980), Wheatley (1982), Bernot et al (2001), Allott &. Okell (2001). However comparison of the description made by these authors leads to different analysis of the verbal phrase. For instance the list of optional verbal morphemes (particles and auxiliaries) varies depending of the criteria used by the author for his analysis. Moreover, as in many Asian languages, groups of verbs not separated by connectors exist in Burmese. These verbal phrases composed by several verb roots have identical form in surface. However, they cannot be analyzed in the same way. They can correspond to lexical expressions, or compounds and be listed in dictionaries. The verbal phrase may be analyzed as a prototypical serial verbs construction (SVC), here is to say, part of one clause only which refers to a unique event. Third possibility : some of the verb roots can be grammaticalized and be considered as auxiliaries. Given the identical surface forms and the different under-laying structures, we look for a model allowing us to treat together phenomenon traditionally analyzed separately. Therefore, the notion of serial verbs construction (CVS) recently developed by Déchaine (1993), Durie (1997) or, Aikhenvald & Dixon (in press) among others help us to build the adequate frame for a more global approach of the VP in Burmese
A multicentric real-world observational study to describe the use and efficacy of follitropin delta for IVF/ICSI procedures in patients at risk of hypo-response
Get PDFBackgroundAround 20% of patients undergoing assisted reproductive technology are at risk of hypo-response to ovarian stimulation. The aim of this study was to describe the real-world use of follitropin delta for ovarian stimulation in these patients, as defined by POSEIDON groups 3 and 4 [an anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) level of <1.2 ng/ml].Materials and methodsThis study was a post-hoc analysis of participants from DELTA, a multi-centre, prospective, observational study conducted in normal care settings in fertility clinics at 14 active sites in France. A subset of 35 patients at risk of hypo-response to ovarian stimulation (mean AMH 0.7 ± 0.29 ng/ml) and treated with follitropin delta were included. Patients were followed for 10–11 weeks after the first fresh or frozen embryo transfer in case of subsequent pregnancy, and data on real-world follitropin delta use collected.ResultsMost patients (92.9%) had undergone their first IVF or ICSI. The prescribed daily dose was usually based on the approved algorithm (N = 26; 74.3%) with a mean daily dose of 14.2 ± 4.1 mcg, resulting in a mean total dose of 187.7 ± 135.6 mcg. The mean duration of ovarian stimulation was 11.6 ± 6.7 days with no premature discontinuations, while the mean number of oocytes retrieved among patients that started stimulation was 6.3 ± 4.3. A fresh transfer was performed for 21 patients (84.0%), with a mean of 1.04 ± 0.98 embryos transferred per patient. Seven patients (20.0%) achieved an ongoing pregnancy (28% per transfer). No adverse drug reactions were reported.ConclusionsThe results describe the real-world use of follitropin delta and demonstrate its suitability for POSEIDON group 3 and 4 patients. These data complement clinical trial outcomes, supporting clinician decision-making and improving IVF/ICSI outcomes
Small Blubber Samples (50 mg) Sufficient for Analyses of 10 Stress and Reproductive Steroid Hormones in Gray and Fin Whales via Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry
No full text© 2022 Wittmaack, Urbán Ramírez, Bernot-Simon, Martínez-Aguilar, Subbiah, Surles, Looney, Kumar, Halaska, Duignan, Knauss, Burns and Godard-Codding. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.Information on stress, reproductive fitness, and health is difficult to obtain in wild cetaceans but critical for conservation and management. The goal of this study was to develop a methodology requiring minimal blubber mass for analysis of reproductive and stress steroid hormones and, hence, suitable for cetacean biopsies. Blubber biopsies and samples were collected from free-ranging and stranded gray and fin whales. Steroid hormones were extracted from blubber samples as small as 50 mg using liquid-liquid extraction methodology developed to handle the high fat content of blubber. Samples were analyzed via liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry for 10 hormones: aldosterone, androstenedione, cortisol, cortisone, corticosterone, 17β-estradiol, estrone, 17α-hydroxyprogesterone, progesterone, and testosterone. As part of the optimization, homogenization via bead beating and blade dispersion were compared, and the former found superior. To investigate optimal yet minimal tissue mass required, hormone panels were compared among paired 50, 150, and 400 mg samples, the latter two being commonly reported masses for hormone blubber analysis. Results indicated that 50 mg of blubber was suitable and sometimes superior. Additionally, significant differences in precision values were observed between species, possibly stemming from differences in blubber composition, and relevant to homogenization technique selection and calibration methods that use blubber matrix matches obtained from a species other than the study species. Based on recovery and precision values, our methodology was accurate and precise in the measurement of spiked known quantities for all 10 hormones, confirming the methodology capabilities in 50 mg blubber mass in both species. Altogether, and in our specific sample sets, all endogenous hormones, except corticosterone, were identified above the detection limit in 50 mg gray whale blubber samples while all endogenous hormones, except aldosterone, cortisone, estrone, and progesterone, were detected in 50 mg fin whale blubber samples. We present a robust methodology for the analysis of multiple reproductive and stress steroid hormones in minimal masses of cetacean blubber compatible with small biopsies. Finally, we identified statistically significant differences in corticosteroid concentrations between stranded and free ranging animals
Pyangaon. Une communauté newar de la vallée de Kathmandou: La vie matérielle
Get PDFOuvrage épuisé, déposé en archives ouvertes (OAI) sur Hal avec l'aimable autorisation de l'éditeur . Tous nos remerciements à Jean-François Colosimo, directeur général de CNRS-Editions, et à Frank Laloë, président du Comité de pilotage des archives ouvertes (CPAO) pour avoir négocié cette autorisation globale de mise en ligne sur Hal (OAI) des ouvrages épuisés des éditions CNRS.http://www.cnrs.fr/inshs/recherche/docs-actualites/Hal-CNRS-Editions.pdf Document scanné sur crédits IIAC (UMR8177), préparé et déposé par Eliane Daphy. Objectif du dépôt : exploiter et valoriser l'autorisation des éditions du CNRS.This book, richly illustrated with black and white photographs taken by the author, is an ethnographic study of a Newar village inhabited by rice-cultivators and situated in the south of the Kathmandu Valley (Nepal). It is the first monograph ever published on a specific Newar locality. The book successively considers : the social and religious organisation of Pyangaon, its ecological background, agriculture, food and drink, housing, weaving and basket-making.The author stresses the distinctiveness of this material civilization within Nepal. Emphasis is laid on the technological vocabulary in usage. In many ways, this book can be considered an ethno-linguistic study.L'ouvrage est issu d'une thèse de troisième cycle soutenue le 13 mars 1974, à l'Université René Descartes, devant un jury composé de MM. Guiart (professeur à l'université de Paris V), J.F. Dobremez (professeur à l'université de Grenoble), C. Jest (directeur de recherche au CNRS), et Lucien Bernot (directeur d'études à l'EPHE, directeur de thèse).Cet ouvrage, richement illustré de photographies noir et blanc prises par l'auteur, est une étude ethnographique d'un village de riziculteurs Néwar, situé au sud de la vallée de Katmandou (Népal). C'est la première étude monographique sur une localité néwar jamais publiée. L'ouvrage aborde successivement l'organisation sociale et religieuse de la localité, son environnement écologique, l'agriculture, l'alimentation, l'habitat, le tissage et la vannerie. L'auteur souligne l'originalité de cette civilisation matérielle dans l'ensemble cuturel népalais. Une attention particulière est donnée au vocabulaire néwari des différentes techniques utilisées. De ce point de vue, l'ouvrage peut aussi être considéré comme une étude ethno-linguistique
Familial Mediterranean fever mimicking septic arthritis
No full textWe report the case of a young Lebanese female who presented with recurrent episodes of left knee and calf swelling and a synovial fluid leucocyte count suggestive of septic arthritis, however bacteriologic cultures were negative. Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) was suspected in view of a positive family history and genetic analysis for the mutations in the pyrin-marenostrin (MEFV) gene revealing a homozygote mutation at methionine-694-valine. The arthritis was controlled with prophylactic colchicine therapy. FMF should be considered in the differential diagnosis of acute monoarticular arthritis with elevated synovial fluid white blood cells counts in regions with high incidence of FMF. © Springer-Verlag 2005.Bernot A, 1997, NAT GENET, V17, P25; GARCIAGONZALEZ A, 1992, SEMIN ARTHRITIS RHEU, V22, P139, DOI 10.1016-0049-0172(92)90014-5; Gershoni-Baruch R, 2003, J RHEUMATOL, V30, P308; HELLER H, 1966, ARTHRITIS RHEUM, V9, P1, DOI 10.1002-art.1780090102; HERNESS D, 1975, J BONE JOINT SURG AM, VA 57, P265; Mansour I, 2001, EUR J HUM GENET, V9, P51, DOI 10.1038-sj.ejhg.5200574; Salai M, 1997, SEMIN ARTHRITIS RHEU, V27, P169, DOI 10.1016-S0049-0172(97)80016-9; SNEH E, 1977, RHEUMATOL REHABIL, V16, P102, DOI 10.1093-rheumatology-16.2.102; STEIN H, 1975, VIRCHOWS ARCH A, V367, P263, DOI 10.1007-BF01239334; Aksentijevich I, 1997, CELL, V90, P797; Uthman I, 2001, RHEUMATOL INT, V20, P145, DOI 10.1007-s002960100103; Yalcinkaya F, 1997, BRIT J RHEUMATOL, V36, P122865
