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NOTICE!!! This person (known as Ashwin Kumar) plagiarized the text titled: "Using phenomenological research methods in qualitative health research"
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Wojnar, Danuta, and Kristen Swanson. “Phenomenology An Exploration”. Journal of holistic nursing : official journal of the American Holistic Nurses’ Association 25 (01 October 2007): 172-80; discussion 181. https://doi.org/10.1177/0898010106295172.
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Name: Ashwin KumarURL: http://www.freewebs.com/ak2146Affiliation: University of Western Sydney, Australia.Country: AustraliaBio Statement:Dr. Ashwin Kumar,PO Box 571,Toongabbie,Sydney,Australia, NSW, 2146.Homepage: http://www.freewebs.com/ak2146Email: [email protected]
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Dr. Ashwin Kumar (BA, MA (Distinction), PhD) is an academic researcher whose research interests and areas of expertise include: Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), ageing and social gerontology, sociology, social anthropology, sociology of care, public health, health promotion, Indigenous health, migrant and refugee health, disability and chronic illness. Ashwin is the author of 8 books and numerous academic journal articles in the field of public health, health sociology and anthropology of health and illness. His books: The Lived Experience of Caring; The Lived Experience of Ageing; The Lived Experience of Using Complementary and Alternative Medicine; Doing Sociology; The Basics of Sociology; Plain English Writing; Research and Writing Skills and Writing Effective Essays are available at:
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The Ribosome Cooperates with the Assembly Chaperone pICln to Initiate Formation of snRNPs
Get PDFSummaryThe formation of macromolecular complexes within the crowded environment of cells often requires aid from assembly chaperones. PRMT5 and SMN complexes mediate this task for the assembly of the common core of pre-mRNA processing small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particles (snRNPs). Core formation is initiated by the PRMT5-complex subunit pICln, which pre-arranges the core proteins into spatial positions occupied in the assembled snRNP. The SMN complex then accepts these pICln-bound proteins and unites them with small nuclear RNA (snRNA). Here, we have analyzed how newly synthesized snRNP proteins are channeled into the assembly pathway to evade mis-assembly. We show that they initially remain bound to the ribosome near the polypeptide exit tunnel and dissociate upon association with pICln. Coincident with its release activity, pICln ensures the formation of cognate heterooligomers and their chaperoned guidance into the assembly pathway. Our study identifies the ribosomal quality control hub as a site where chaperone-mediated assembly of macromolecular complexes can be initiated
Automated detection of ultrastructural features at neuronal synapses
Get PDFSynaptic vesicles are the ultracellular structures responsible for carrying chemical messengers known as neurotransmitters from inside the axon of a neuron to the synaptic junction outside. The variation in size and location of these structures is important in the study of their use and reuse in neurons. We propose a method to locate and estimate the diameter of vesicles in electron microscope images of synapses. We train a U-Net inspired model to perform pixel-wise segmentation of the vesicles against background pixels. We then use contour detection on the resulting segmentation maps to determine individual vesicle centers and effective diameters. To our knowledge, there are no baselines in this task so we establish one on an in-house dataset. Our results show that the proposed model performed well on this task.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2022-05-01The student, Ashwin Ramesh, accepted the attached license on 2020-05-12 at 19:48.The student, Ashwin Ramesh, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2020-05-12 at 20:03.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2020-05-13 at 10:06.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #15370 on 2020-08-25 at 17:31:20Made available in DSpace on 2020-08-26T23:58:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Dialogic focalization in Ashwin Sanghi’s The Krishna Key
Get PDFThis article focuses on the dialogic focalization in Ashwin Sanghi’s The Krishna Key (2012). The study will mainly focus on the narrative construction of the novel. The novel abounds with narrative elements, such as narrative point of view which plays an integral role in providing the reader with the whole impression of the plot. Accordingly, this study will shed light on one narrative component in the selected novel i.e., the dialogic focalization. In essence, the dialogic feature of the novel carries out the authorial implied voice in the plot. The author, Sanghi, has some ideological notions and expresses them in the text. This is the monologic characteristic of the dialogic structure of the novel. On the other hand, the text has some characters who exemplify the author’s ideological insights in the plot. This is the polyphonic, or dialogic, characteristic of the dialogic element in the novel. For this reason, my study will examine the dialogic voice in the novel to explore the authorial narrative focalization. The authorial focalization will be discussed in terms of the author’s implied presence in the text in order to draw the reader’s attention to its dialogic structure. Thus, Gérard Genette’s concept of the focalization factor and Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of the dialogic novel will be applied to analyze the selected novel’s narrative structure
Foundations of
No full textWe review the book Foundations of Artificial Intelligence (ed. David Kirsch, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1993) and present a framework for the analysis of theories of artificial intelligence. Publishing Information To appear in Philosophical Psychology. Author Information Ashwin Ram is an Assistant Professor in the College of Computing of the Georgia Institute of Technology, and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Psychology. He received his B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, in 1982, and his M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1984. He received his Ph.D. degree from Yale University for his dissertation on "Question-Driven Understanding: An Integrated Theory of Story Understanding, Memory, and Learning" in 1989. His research interests lie in the areas of machine learning, natural language understanding, explanation, and cognitive science, and he has several research publications in these ..
Open-label placebos for wound healing: a randomised controlled trial
No full textFull text is available to authenticated members of The University of Auckland only.Background. Open placebos are a novel treatment option, in which participants take placebos with full knowledge that they do not contain active medicine but instead work through psychological mechanisms. They are an ethical treatment option for harnessing placebo benefits, as they can be provided with full patient knowledge, without deception. Open placebo treatments have been shown to result in self-reported symptom improvements in irritable bowel syndrome (Kaptchuk et al., 2010) and chronic pain (Carvalho et al., 2016). No studies to date have tested the efficacy of open placebo treatments for objectively measurable physiological outcomes. Wound healing is an objectively measurable outcome that may benefit from open placebo treatment, as it is responsive to other psychological interventions such as relaxation (Broadbent et al., 2012) or emotional disclosure (Koschwanez et al., 2013; Weinman, Ebrecht, Scott, Walburn, & Dyson, 2008). Aim. The aim of the current study was to determine whether open placebo treatment improves the rate of punch biopsy wound healing. Methods. The study was designed as a single-blind randomised controlled trial. 70 healthy participants were given information about the placebo effect to establish an expectation that open placebo treatment would accelerate wound healing, and given a 4 mm punch biopsy wound under local anaesthetic by a dermatologist. Participants were then allocated to either an open placebo treatment condition or a no treatment control condition. The open placebo group took two placebo tablets twice a day for ten days. The principal investigator followed up with participants 7 days and 10 days later to photograph the wound. Healing was determined by the dermatologist from the photographs, based on reepithelialization of the wound surface. Questionnaires were administered to determine if there were any group differences in demographics, health behaviours or placeborelated expectations at baseline and at the 10-day follow up. We hypothesised that at 7 days and 10 days after receiving the wound, more participants in the open placebo condition would have fully healed wounds than in the control condition. In addition, at 7 and 10 days after receiving the wound, the percentage area of the wound surface reepithelialized would be higher in the open placebo than the control group. Findings. No significant differences were observed between treatment conditions for the number of participants with fully healed wounds at 7 and 10 days after wounding, nor for percentage area of the wound surface healed at 7 and 10 days. No other significant differences were found between groups for any questionnaire responses. Conclusion. Open placebo treatment does not improve the healing rate of punch biopsy wounds. Possible explanations are that either there are no physiological mediators between the psychological intervention of open placebo treatment and the desired outcome, participant expectations were not high enough to have an effect, the treatment duration was not long enough or did not start early enough to result in changes, or that only a small subset of participants responded to open placebos with accelerated wound healing. Open placebo treatments may help alleviate subjective symptoms but are unlikely to improve objectively measurable outcomes
"I don’t really like tedious, monotonous work": working-class young women, service sector employment and social mobility in contemporary Russia
No full textThis article contributes a global perspective to the emerging literature on girlhood in western contexts by examining the changing shape of transitions to adulthood amongst working-class young women in St. Petersburg, Russia. As in many western countries, new forms of service sector employment and an increasingly accessible higher education system appear to offer young women new prospects for social mobility. In contrast to the increasingly impoverished and denigrated traditional pathways into work, the young women in the study derive significant value from these new opportunities, constructing narratives of self-actualisation and approximating notions of respectable femininity. Nevertheless, actual social mobility is elusive, as familiar patterns of classed and gendered stratification limit their prospects. Despite its specificity, the case thus further illustrates the limited nature of the transformations available to young women through the new forms of education and work characteristic of global neoliberal contexts
City Branding in Polycentric Regions: A qualitative study of implementation in three Dutch Cities
No full textThe purpose of this research is to study the implementation of ecological modernization branding in the cities of The Hague, Rotterdam and Utrecht in the Netherlands. These cities use ecological modernization branding to attract people, projects and investments. For example, they may project the image of being ‘smart’ and commission projects to showcase that they are in fact a smart city. However, the overall image that appears from the literature is that there exists a substantial gap between the brand image and its actual implementation. An assessment framework is synthesized in order to carry out this study, this analytical framework addresses numerous aspects: municipal input, throughput and output factors, the local action arena, projects and outcomes to assess the implementation. To this end, the main research question is:How do the three Dutch cities in the ‘Randstad’ i.e. Utrecht, Rotterdam and The Hague implement the programs, policies and attract investments that adhere to the city brands they project?A comparative case study approach is best suited as we can identify similarities, differences and themes across regions and cities using the assessment framework to analyze the cases. Methods used will primarily be desk research and interviews to complement the comparative study and will add nuance to our understanding of ÈM branding. The results revealed three types of EM brand labels present in these cities. Engineering and Policy Analysi
Optimal Tracking of the Fast and Slow States of Sensorimotor Adaptation for Rehabilitation Robotics
No full textRobotic assistance for rehabilitation has benefited from the use of models for motor adaptation. The assist-as-needed paradigm for rehabilitation robotics was based on a single-state model of human adaptation to a neurological handicap. Recent studies have shown that human motor adaptation consists of two or more parallel adaptation processes. A two-state model of adaptation based on the presence of a fast process and a slow process has been widely adopted. The fast process adapts faster than the slow process but has a lower retention than the slow process. Designing training methods that can influence the individual adaptation processes could help make sure that patients retain what is desired (how to adapt to a neurological injury) and forget what is detrimental to rehabilitation (dynamics of the robotic assistance for example). The goal of this work is to design an optimal control paradigm for selectively influencing the slow and fast processes.A feedforward discrete-time linear-quadratic tracking controller was designed for a 2-state linear time-invariant model of sensorimotor adaptation to increase the contribution of the slow process to the net adaptation at the end of training. This control signal was implemented as the sequence of visuomotor rotations in an upper-limb reaching task. This sequence of visuomotor rotations were dubbed the Adaptation-State-Tracking (AST) perturbation. The retention behaviour after this AST perturbation was compared with that after a non-adaptive (constant-level) perturbation. A between-subject comparison of the retention behaviour showed that the AST perturbation exhibited better retention than the constant-level perturbation (p=0.0415). As far as the author is aware, this is first time the 2-state Linear Time-Invariant (LTI) model has been used to design a perturbation and to predict the subsequent behaviour of the participants. The sufficiency of the control based on the 2-state LTI model and the possibility of improving retention with optimal control could positively impact the domain of robot-assisted rehabilitation.<br/
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