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No full textThe article discusses the carnivorous plant the Purple Pitcher Plant, or Sarracenia purpurea L., on Prince Edward Island. It focuses on research at the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) on the Purple Pitcher Plant, noting its presence in bogs such as the Glenfinnan Bog. The author comments on research conducted by UPEI undergraduate students Ricki Sulis and Vaneeta Verma from the laboratory of biologist Christian Lacroix on pitcher plant developmental morphology and anatomy and on research conducted by undergraduate students Loretta Hardwick, Dylan Blacquiere, and Jackie Wood from the laboratory of entomologist D.J. Giberson on aquatic insects that live inside pitcher plants.Source type: Print(0
Animalia Humorosum: Aesop's animal fables made more believable with a modern twist
No full textThere is much that is unusual about this 8½” square booklet of 28 pages followed by two pages of advertisements for other books by Óla. For starters, the pages are purple with light-colored typeface and cutout colored characters in partial-page illustrations. The T of C uses superscript to indicate page numbers for the twelve fables. That same page clarifies that Ólafia L. Óla is a pseudonym for V. Subhash. In TH, the hare, not the tortoise, challenges to a race upon no provocation. The author turns this tale into the more usual “Rabbit Races the Hedgehog,” famous among Grimm’s fairytales. Every one of the species looks the same to the superficial hare. In LM, after the mouse frees the lion, the hungry lion eats the mouse. “Steer clear of known dangers.” DW is told just as in the tradition. “Better die on your feet than live on your knees.” In TB, the second traveler takes off his socks; the smell of them revolts the bear, who departs. What did the bear whisper to him? “Tell that fellow that trees offer no safety because bears are good climbers.” The ox makes up a snake friend to worry the dog out of his manger. A passing hunter saves the shepherd boy attacked by a real wolf. The mice do manage to get a bell around the cat’s neck by having it ready around their hole when the cat pokes in its head. Two foxes jump for grapes. One reacts according to the tradition. The other says the effort has been stupid. “We are foxes. We don’t eat grapes. Let’s go and catch some rabbits.” One of two crows suggests the traditional pebble approach. The other says that will take too much time and too many pebbles and will dirty the water. He manages to knock over the pitcher and they can drink both from the water spilled and the water still in the overturned pitcher. The owner of the golden goose eventually stops reading his mail, misses paying taxes, loses his property, and has to give up the goose as compensation for the unpaid taxes. The wolf escapes the lambskin and never comes back. The crow removes the doughnut from his mouth and tells the fox to move along.Ólafia L. Óla (V. Subhash
A gazetteer and summary of French pottery imported into Scotland c. 1150 to c. 1650 a ceramic contribution to Scotland's economic history Ceramic Resource Disc 3
No full textThe proposal for a series of published inventories, by countries, of all the imported medieval and post medieval pottery recovered from excavations and field walking in Scotland, was advanced on the final day of the Medieval Pottery Research Group’s conference held in Edinburgh in May 2001. Taking on the roll of creating a gazetteer and catalogue of French pottery in Scotland, it was the authors aim to build on the pioneering work of John Hurst and other medieval ceramicists and in the process make a contribution to the ongoing research on identifiable medieval and post-medieval ceramics traded around the North and Irish Sea
T Cell responses to whole SARS Coronavirus in humans
No full textEffective vaccines should confer long-term protection against future outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) caused by a novel zoonotic coronavirus (SARS-CoV) with unknown animal reservoirs. We conducted a cohort study examining multiple parameters of immune responses to SARS-CoV infection, aiming to identify the immune correlates of protection. We used a matrix of overlapping peptides spanning whole SARS-CoV proteome to determine T cell responses from 128 SARS convalescent samples by ex vivo IFN-γ ELISPOT assays. Approximately 50% of convalescent SARS patients were positive for T cell responses, and 90% possessed strongly neutralizing Abs. Fifty-five novel T cell epitopes were identified, with spike protein dominating total T cell responses. CD8+ T cell responses were more frequent and of a greater magnitude than CD4+ T cell responses (p < 0.001).
Polychromatic cytometry analysis indicated that the virus-specific T cells from the severe group tended to be a central memory phenotype (CD27+/CD45RO+) with a significantly higher frequency of polyfunctional CD4+ T cells producing IFN-γ, TNF-α, and IL-2, and CD8+ T cells producing IFN-γ, TNF-α, and CD107a (degranulation), as compared with the mild-moderate group. Strong T cell responses correlated significantly (p < 0.05) with higher neutralizing Ab. The serum cytokine profile during acute infection indicated a significant elevation of innate immune responses. Increased Th2 cytokines were observed in patients with fatal infection. Our study provides a roadmap for the immunogenicity of SARS-CoV and types of immune responses that may be responsible for the virus clearance, and should serve as a benchmark for SARS-CoV vaccine design and evaluation
Sex-Biased Sound Symbolism in English-Language First Names
No full textPMCID: PMC3673912This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited
The Telling of Things: Imagining Through, With and About Machines
No full textMachines are as much imagined as they are technical propositions. Several authors, not least Giles Deleuze have noted that ‘machines are social before being technical’ (Deleuze, 1988, p.39) and as social objects machines are bound up in the social imaginaries we create for, through, with and about them.
The nexus of the imaginary, the technical and the non-human have always been complicated and ever-shifting, riddled with apparent paradoxes. James C. Scott, David Graeber and others have written extensively on the way that machines reproduce human-centric reductionism; attempting to reduce and simulate natural phenomenon to technical processes and then reinscribing these simulations on the non-machine world. (Graeber, 2016; Scott, 1998) Conversely, many others show how machines create reflexive opportunities to reconsider the relationship of the human and non-human through almost transcendental machine experiences. (Pohflepp, 2016; Levitt, 2018) We imagine them to be simple tools of ‘innovation,’ testament to human skills of exploiting natural phenomenon (Singleton, 2014) while simultaneously being rhetorical partners and meaning makers. (Losh, 2016; Hayles 2019).
These complexities demand a novel perspective on humans, non-humans and machines which we aim to explore here. However, in seeking to briefly describe some relationships with imaginary machines and how we imagine our relationships with machines and how machines shape our imaginations and how machines imagine us and how we mechanise imagination, we will eschew the never-ending project of rationalising complexity into technical categories. Instead we turn to the Argentinian surrealist author Jorge Luis Borges, who, in his his own satire of the absurdity of formal classification wrote (or, claimed to have discovered) the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge, a non-western categorisation system for animals:
In its remote pages it is written that the animals are divided into: (a) belonging to the emperor, (b) embalmed, (c) tame, (d) sucking pigs, (e) sirens, (f) fabulous, (g) stray dogs, (h) included in the present classification, (i) frenzied, (j) innumerable, (k) drawn with a very fine camelhair brush, (l) et cetera, (m) having just broken the water pitcher, (n) that from a long way off look like flies. (Borges, 1952)
Our brief review takes these categories as a starting point for problemetising and poeticising positions and differences so that we might easier demystify or dispel the assumed prehistoric relationship of humans, machines and imagination and see them in novel ways. Each categorisation may be used as short-hand for particular forms of relationship in future work. This essay as a whole functions as a thing to think with
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Reasons to Ban? The Anti-Burqa Movement in Western Europe
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Path Queries on Compressed XML
No full textCentral to any XML query language is a path language such as XPath which operates on the tree structure of the XML document. We demonstrate in this paper that the tree structure can be effectively compressed and manipulated using techniques derived from symbolic model checking. Specifically, we show first that succinct representations of document tree structures based on sharing subtrees are highly effective. Second, we show that compressed structures can be queried directly and efficiently through a process of manipulating selections of nodes and partial decompression. We study both the theoretical and experimental properties of this technique and provide algorithms for querying our compressed instances using node-selecting path query languages such as XPath. We believe the ability to store and manipulate large portions of the structure of very large XML documents in main memory is crucial to the development of efficient, scalable native XML databases and query engines
Resilient places? The healthcare gardens and the Maggie's Centres
No full textThis thesis takes as its focus the Maggie’s Cancer Centres exploring for the first time the impact of their designed gardens. This research is situated within the immediate context of Maggie’s ambitions as an organisation and looks closely at their design process. It is also set within the wider debates about the effects of green space on health and the historical context of the restorative garden. By exploring both historical and contemporary examples, it argues that a healthcare garden may be a space for transformation.
Using four different Maggie’s gardens as case studies, the research seeks to investigate the role of these outdoor spaces and their impact on users. Through ethnographic and sensory methods, each garden is considered and mapped. It looks at the design brief and the intentions of the designers’, but the core work is an exploration of the experiences of staff and visitors. The focus is on the everyday use of these gardens as well as the design historiography. The experiences of gardens within healthcare are examined in order to expose the ways in which gardens, people, health and care are entwined.
Through the qualitative research process this thesis develops a new hypothesis as to how healthcare gardens may operate – offering a new definition for them as “resilient places”. Careful analysis of the data reveals the specific networks and affordances presented by these gardens. The thesis argues, based on the evidence of users, that healthcare gardens can uniquely embrace certain “essences” where essence is defined as conveying a quality or attribute. These garden essences are identified as thresholds, sensory richness, the density of time and homeliness. The thesis also argues that a healthcare garden can provide specific and unique opportunities for care and this, in turn, can enhance the healing ethos of an organisation such as Maggie’s
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