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Fictionality and Literature: Core Concepts Revisited
No full textAuthor / Henrik Zetterberg-Nielsen -- Narrator / Sylvie Patron -- Plot / Wendy Veronica Xin -- Character / H. Porter Abbott -- Consciousness / Maria Mäkelä -- Metaphor / Greta Olson -- Paratext / Louise Brix Jacobsen -- Intertextuality / Rikke Andersen Kraglund -- Metafiction and metalepsis / Richard Walsh -- The novel / Catherine Gallagher and Simona Zetterberg-Nielsen -- Poetry / Lasse R. Gammelgaard -- Literary nonfiction / James Phelan -- Ethics / Jakob Lothe -- Social justice / Susan S. Lanser.Item embargoed for five year
Ethical Use of Technology in Digital Learning Environments : Graduate Student Perspectives, Volume 2
No full textWe would like to thank the Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning at the University of Calgary for supporting open education projects. We also acknowledge the support of Libraries and Cultural Resources, University of Calgary and the University of Alberta Library in the production of this book.I. Emerging Ethical Questions on User Well-being in Technology-Enabled Learning EnvironmentsII. Critical Considerations of the Ethics of Technological Advances and their Effects on Autonomy and PrivacyThis book is the result of a co-design project in a class in the Masters of Education program at the University of Calgary. The course, and the resulting book, focus primarily on the safe and ethical use of technology in digital learning environments. It is the second volume in a series.The course was organized according to four topics based on Farrow’s (2016) Framework for the Ethics of Open Education. Students were asked to review, analyze, and synthesize each topic from three meta-ethical theoretical positions: deontological, consequentialist, and virtue ethical (Farrow, 2016). The chapters were co-designed using a participatory pedagogy with the intention to share and mobilize knowledge with a broader audience.The first section, comprised of four chapters, focuses on topics relating to well-being in technology-enabled learning environments, including the use of web cameras, eproctoring software, video games, and access to broadband connectivity. The second section focuses on privacy and autonomy of learners and citizens in a variety of contexts from schools to clinical settings.In each of the seven chapters, the authors discuss the connection to the value of technology in education, and practical possibilities of learning technologies for inclusive, participatory, democratic, and pluralistic educational paradigms. The book concludes with reflections from the course instructor gained over two iterations of teaching the course
Season 3 Episode 2: The Neighborhood Church
No full textWhat do you know about the church closest to your house? Chances are, not much. Today most churches have forgotten the art of connecting with their neighborhoods. They are quick to leave city neighborhoods for bigger, better buildings in the suburbs. Eric Jacobsen, author of Sidewalks in the Kingdom: New Urbanism and the Christian Faith, and Sister Maureen Geary of the Catholic Diocese of Grand Rapids offer their ideas on why. Shirley Hoogstra hosts. Episode #302
'Biologisk' behandling av ledd og seneskader: Cytokinprofil i autologt kondisjonert serum og platerikt plasma hos hester med leddrelatert halthet
No full textTittel: Biologisk behandling av ledd og seneskader: Cytokinprofil i autologt kondisjonert serum og platerikt plasma hos hester med leddrelatert halthet
Forfattere: Mia Mehlum Henriksen, Anna Margreta Jacobsen, Karoline Mosand Reitan
Veileder: Cathrine T. Fjordbakk, Institutt for sports- og familiedyrmedisin
Halthet er et vanlig helseproblem hos hester, og det er behov og interesse for effektive behandlingsmetoder for osteoartritt og sene- og ligamentlidelser. Vi har sett på ‘biologiske’ behandlingsalternativer fremstilt fra pasientens eget blod, hos en gruppe hester med en naturlig oppstått leddlidelse. Formålet var å se på faktisk innhold av cytokiner og vekstfaktorer i de framstilte produktene. I denne studien ble det tatt blod fra 20 hester med osteoartritt, alle sammen travere i alderen 2-7 år. Blodet ble preparert på 4 forskjellige måter: 1)‘Ustimulert’ blod ble sedimentert i vanlige vacutainerrør 1 time i romtemperatur før sentrifugering, deretter ble serum filtrert av; 2)’Autologt kondisjonert serum’ (AKS) ble inkubert i kommersielle AKS-beholdere i 37C i 24 timer før sentrifugering og filtrering av serum; 3)’Kontroll’-serum ble inkubert i vanlige vacutainerrør i 37C i 24 timer før sentrifugering og filtrering av serum; og 4)‘Platerikt plasma’ (PRP) ble preparert direkte, uten inkubering, gjennom en sentrifugeringsprosess i en spesialsprøyte. Konsentrasjonen av IL-1Ra, IGF-1 og TGF- i de forskjellige preparatene ble målt ved bruk av kommersielt tilgjengelige ELISA-kits, og det ble i tillegg satt opp en Multiplex-analyse for følgende analytter: IFN, IL1-, IL1-, IL-4, IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, IL-12 (p70), MCP-1, RANTES og TNF. Resultatene viste at IL-1Ra var tilstede i ustimulert blod, samt at det ble oppformert i AKS. I denne studien skjedde ikke oppformeringen i like stor grad som vist i tidligere studier på friske hester. Kontrollprøvene oppnådde en signifikant høyere konsentrasjon av IL-1Ra, sammenlignet med ustimulert serum. Som tidligere vist, viste også vår studie at de novo syntese av IL-1Ra skjer ved inkubering av fullblod, uavhengig om blodet inkuberes i vanlige vacutainerrør eller i spesiallagde AKS-system. I PRP var det en signifikant økning av TGF- sammenlignet med ustimulert blod. Basalnivået av IGF-1 i ustimulert serum var høyere enn antatt hos friske hester, men det var ingen signifikant økning av IGF-1 i AKS eller PRP. Multiplex-analysen viste ikke-detekterbare nivåer for de fleste analyttene. Om dette skyldes analysefeil eller faktiske forhold i prøvene vites ikke
Spectral Wave Dissipation by Vegetation: A new frequency distributed dissipation model in SWAN
No full textClimate change puts under pressure existing and future coastal interventions. Growing threats like sea-level rise and intensity of storms require solutions to be adaptable and resilient. Nature-based solutions have shown to tackle these challenges while providing social, environmental, and economic benefits. The role of vegetation in coastal protection is increasingly recognized. Aquatic vegetation reduces erosion, storm surge, and incoming wave height. Large-scale modeling of waves with spectral wave models such as SWAN is indispensable for the design of coastal structures and the assessment of flood risk. Wave dissipation due to vegetation can be modeled in SWAN as increased bottom friction (implicit modeling) or as an additional dissipation function (explicit modeling). The second assumes that vegetation can be represented as rigid cylinders or plates (canopies) with different properties. While some studies concluded that implicit modeling reproduces the spectral evolution of field measurements more closely, others concluded the opposite.Within the BE-SAFE project, field campaigns measured the spectral energy distribution over salt marshes in the Dutch Wadden Sea during several winter storms. The vegetated foreshore in front of the coastal dike got submerged over 2 m of water during high tide and storm surge. The measurements deployed wave gauges over the study transect, which was defined between the pioneer zone marsh edge and the near-dike location (300 m behind the salt marsh). Calibrating the implicit and explicit models in SWAN brought the modeled total wave energy decay closer to the measurement. Nevertheless, the spectral shape, which describes the energy distribution over frequencies, still showed significant and not yet understood differences near the dike.A methodology was executed to investigate the mechanisms that could reduce the spectral mismatch between the SWAN wave model and measurements over vegetation. First, the literature highlighted possible mechanisms that could be incorporated for this purpose. Next, a new frequency-distributed explicit dissipation model of Jacobsen et al. (2019) was implemented in SWAN and compared to implicit and explicit models using lab and field measurements.The results showed that the newly implemented model accurately captures the physics and the change of spectral shapes for all experimentally tested wave conditions and submergences. In contrast, the existing implicit and explicit dissipation models in SWAN reproduce the spectral evolution only under certain circumstances. In the validation and comparison to the field measurements with a much larger water depth than the vegetation height, the model of Jacobsen et al. (2019) correctly captured the vegetation's physical representation and the dissipation on the wind-sea frequencies. Nevertheless, the amount of energy on low frequencies was largely underpredicted by all frequency-distributed models. Therefore, the model of Jacobsen et al. (2019) was modified to include flexibility in a frequency-dependent reduction factor that reproduced the energy decay of the measurements in all frequency regions. Other mechanisms that could be responsible for the mismatch before and over the marsh are the redistribution of energy by non-linear triad interactions, generation of infra-gravity waves, and near-shore currents caused by horizontal variations on the vegetation properties.The present research provides the range of conditions in which the tested explicit and implicit energy dissipation functions in SWAN are able to simulate the spectral evolution over rigid canopies and flexible salt-marsh vegetation. A new version of SWAN includes a new frequency-distributed explicit model that performed more accurately than existing models for rigid canopies. The physical insights from the research contributed to developing additional versions of SWAN, which performed closely to the energy distribution of the measurements over deeply submerged and flexible salt marsh vegetation species. References:Jacobsen, McFall, Van der A (2019). A frequency distributed dissipation model for canopies. Coastal Engineering, 150, 135-146
Evaluation of Implicit and Explicit Wave Dissipation Models for Submerged and Emergent Aquatic Vegetation
No full textTo address the important research question of whether implicit (bottom friction) or explicit (stem drag) dissipation models are most appropriate for the prediction of wave attenuation due to aquatic vegetation, the Simulating Waves Nearshore (SWAN) spectral wave model has been extended with an explicit frequency-dependent dissipation model for submerged and emergent vegetation. The new explicit model is compared to existing explicit and implicit dissipation models in SWAN, and the distinguishing features of each of the dissipation models are quantified. The present work verifies the implementation of the new and existing dissipation models, outlines their distinguishing features, and compares model predictions against experimental data. The emphasis is on the transformation of the spectral wave periods Tm0;1 and Tm 1;0 over a canopy. Model evaluation based on academic and laboratory cases allows for recommendations regarding applicability of the three dissipation models, where the new method has the broadest applicability, since it bridges the gap in applicability between the other two dissipation models. The implementation of Jacobsen, McFall, and van der A (2019; A frequency distributed dissipation model for canopies; Coastal Engineering, 150, 135-146) is publicly available in SWAN version 41.31B.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Coastal EngineeringEnvironmental Fluid Mechanic
Biologic therapy for articular and tendon-related injuries: Cytokine profile in autologous conditioned serum and platelet-rich plasma in horses with joint related lameness
No full textTittel: Biologisk behandling av ledd og seneskader: Cytokinprofil i autologt kondisjonert serum og platerikt plasma hos hester med leddrelatert halthet
Forfattere: Mia Mehlum Henriksen, Anna Margreta Jacobsen, Karoline Mosand Reitan
Veileder: Cathrine T. Fjordbakk, Institutt for sports- og familiedyrmedisin
Halthet er et vanlig helseproblem hos hester, og det er behov og interesse for effektive behandlingsmetoder for osteoartritt og sene- og ligamentlidelser. Vi har sett på ‘biologiske’ behandlingsalternativer fremstilt fra pasientens eget blod, hos en gruppe hester med en naturlig oppstått leddlidelse. Formålet var å se på faktisk innhold av cytokiner og vekstfaktorer i de framstilte produktene. I denne studien ble det tatt blod fra 20 hester med osteoartritt, alle sammen travere i alderen 2-7 år. Blodet ble preparert på 4 forskjellige måter: 1)‘Ustimulert’ blod ble sedimentert i vanlige vacutainerrør 1 time i romtemperatur før sentrifugering, deretter ble serum filtrert av; 2)’Autologt kondisjonert serum’ (AKS) ble inkubert i kommersielle AKS-beholdere i 37C i 24 timer før sentrifugering og filtrering av serum; 3)’Kontroll’-serum ble inkubert i vanlige vacutainerrør i 37C i 24 timer før sentrifugering og filtrering av serum; og 4)‘Platerikt plasma’ (PRP) ble preparert direkte, uten inkubering, gjennom en sentrifugeringsprosess i en spesialsprøyte. Konsentrasjonen av IL-1Ra, IGF-1 og TGF- i de forskjellige preparatene ble målt ved bruk av kommersielt tilgjengelige ELISA-kits, og det ble i tillegg satt opp en Multiplex-analyse for følgende analytter: IFN, IL1-, IL1-, IL-4, IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, IL-12 (p70), MCP-1, RANTES og TNF. Resultatene viste at IL-1Ra var tilstede i ustimulert blod, samt at det ble oppformert i AKS. I denne studien skjedde ikke oppformeringen i like stor grad som vist i tidligere studier på friske hester. Kontrollprøvene oppnådde en signifikant høyere konsentrasjon av IL-1Ra, sammenlignet med ustimulert serum. Som tidligere vist, viste også vår studie at de novo syntese av IL-1Ra skjer ved inkubering av fullblod, uavhengig om blodet inkuberes i vanlige vacutainerrør eller i spesiallagde AKS-system. I PRP var det en signifikant økning av TGF- sammenlignet med ustimulert blod. Basalnivået av IGF-1 i ustimulert serum var høyere enn antatt hos friske hester, men det var ingen signifikant økning av IGF-1 i AKS eller PRP. Multiplex-analysen viste ikke-detekterbare nivåer for de fleste analyttene. Om dette skyldes analysefeil eller faktiske forhold i prøvene vites ikke.Title: Biologic therapy for articular and tendon-related injuries: Cytokine profile in autologous conditioned serum and platelet-rich plasma in horses with joint related lameness.
Authors: Mia Mehlum Henriksen, Anna Margreta Jacobsen, Karoline Mosand Reitan
Supervisor: Cathrine T. Fjordbakk, Department of Companion Animal Clinical Sciences
Lameness is a common symptom in horses, and there is a great need and interest for effective treatments of osteoarthritis, tendon and ligament strains in horses. We have examined biological treatments prepared from the patient’s own blood in a group of horses with a naturally occurring joint disease. The purpose was to analyze the concentration of cytokines and growth factors in the preparations. In this study, blood was drawn from 20 horses with osteoarthritis, all of which were trotters aged 2 to 7 years old. The blood was prepared in 4 different ways: 1) ‘Untreated’ blood was left in room temperature in blood vacutainer tubes for one hour before centrifugation and filtering of serum; 2) ‘Autologous conditioned serum’ (ACS) was incubated in a commercial ACS system at 37°C for 24 hours; 3) ‘Control’ blood was incubated in blood vacutainer tubes at 37°C for 24 hours; 4) PRP was prepared directly, without incubation, through a centrifugation process in a specialist syringe. ELISAs were
used to measure the concentrations of IL-1Ra, IGF-1 and TGF-b in the preparations. A Multiplex analysis was used to measure concentrations of the following analytes: IFNg, IL1- a, IL1-b, IL-4, IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, IL-12 (p70), MCP-1, RANTES og TNFa. Results showed that IL-1Ra was present in untreated blood, and that it in fact increased in ACS. In this study, the increase was not as substantial as shown in previous studies in healthy horses. The control preparations also had a significant increase of IL-1Ra, compared to untreated serum. As shown in previous studies, our study also found that de novo synthesis of IL-1Ra happens with incubation of full blood, both when blood is incubated in serum vacutainer tubes and in special ACS systems. In PRP there was a significant increase of TGF-b compared to untreated blood. The basal level of IGF-1 in untreated serum was higher than expected in healthy horses, but there was no significant increase of IGF-1 in ACS or PRP. The Multiplex analysis had non-detectable values for most of the analytes. It is uncertain if this is caused by analytical errors or the actual condition of the samples.VE
Boplikt - Politikk uten virkning? Om bopliktens påvirkning på kommuners demografi
No full textI denne masteroppgaven vil du finne et empirisk forskningsdesign som tar sikte på å avdekke korrelasjon mellom boplikt og demografi. Oppgaven er teoretisk forankret i forskningsfeltet policy evaluation, og vil således benytte rammeverket til McConnell for å evaluere boplikt i lys av effekter avdekket i tidligere forskning, effekter avdekket i denne studien, og bopliktens formål. I oppgavens empiriske del vil det gjøres en multivariat regresjonsanalyse med tidsseriedata fra norske kommuner i perioden 2008-2019. Kommunene er delt inn i tre ulike kategorier; 1) kommuner uten boplikt, 2) kommuner med boplikt i hele kommunen, og 3) kommuner med boplikt i deler av kommunen. Det benyttes 11 variabler på demografisk sammensetning for å avdekke hvorvidt det boplikt er et politisk tiltak som kan påvirke den demografiske sammensetningen i kommunene.
Når analysene avsluttes står vi igjen med et resultat som viser at det finnes signifikante effekter for hele 9 av de 11 variablene for kommuner med boplikt i hele eller deler av kommunen. Til tross for at en normativ vurdering av effektenes betydning for kommunene bør drøftes ytterligere kan vi, basert på formål ved region- og distriktspolitikken generelt, og boplikt spesielt, anta at et stort flertall av disse effektene vil regnes som positive for bopliktskommunene fra et politisk ståsted. Når vi på bakgrunn av dette evaluerer resultatene av boplikt ser vi at et heller dystert bilde etterlatt av tidligere forskning begynner å lysne opp. I lys av oppgavens funn står det for meg klart at boplikt ikke kan betegnes som politikk uten virkning
The Courier, Volume 33, Issue 3, October 15, 1999
No full textStories:
Tuition Hike Approved
Glen Ellyn To Put Siren On McAninch Arts Center
Murphy Picks Interim Vice President
SGA Appoints New Senator
Board Considers New Names
Guns In School, Threat Or Public Safety?
Safe Sex Seminar Educates Students On Alternatives
People:
Vincent Pelletier
Saliha Afridi
AnnaLiss Jacobsen
Avner the Eccentric
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Joan Fliege
Mia Jacobson
Jeff Radomsk
Building knowledge for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander remote tourism: key visitor markets and opportunities in remote Australia
No full textThis report provides an overview of various visitor markets relevant to remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people involved in tourism. The report accumulates this information for CRC-REP stakeholders to update existing market knowledge and stimulate remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to consider broad development opportunities based on accessible visitor segments. The report divides the market descriptions into two categories: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander tourism, and remote tourism. The third section of the report provides a snapshot of visitor segments in three different destination regions of remote Australia.Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander tourism market segments include international and domestic visitors, with the key international visitor markets including Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States and South Korea. Visitor numbers from many of these countries have reduced in recent years, and overall international Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander tourism visitor numbers have also declined. However, there has been growth in visitors from China. Statistics and research about domestic markets for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander tourism show that this segment has also recorded a downward trend in recent years. Other challenges for the domestic market include matching Aboriginal tourism experiences with domestic visitor expectations.The report also draws attention to a range of remote tourism visitor segments, including four-wheel drivers, caravanners and campers, grey nomads, volunteers, wildlife visitors, fishing enthusiasts and ecotourists. The needs of each segment offer diverse tourism development opportunities, and the information in this report may stimulate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people involved in tourism to cater to segments accessible in their regions. Finally, the report discusses visitor segments in three destination regions of remote Australia. It highlights that while different regions can share some visitor segments, the diversity of remote Australia requires decision making that combines localised insight with an understanding of remote tourism.Although it presents a brief outline of many remote visitor segments, this report is unable to specify visitor segments and tourism initiatives relevant to every destination region of remote Australia, because decision makers must determine the unique tourism potential specific to their region
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