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Supplemental Material, Revised_trim_and_fill_analysis - The effect of dietary protein intake on factors associated with male infertility: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis of animal clinical trials in rats
No full textSupplemental Material, Revised_trim_and_fill_analysis for The effect of dietary protein intake on factors associated with male infertility: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis of animal clinical trials in rats by Peter Kelechi Ajuogu, Mohammed AK Al-Aqbi, Robert A Hart, Mitchell Wolden, Neil A Smart and James R McFarlane in Nutrition and Health</p
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Do Bicycles Equal Development in Mozambique?
No full textIs Mozambique an African success story? It has 7 percent a year growth rate and substantial foreign investment. Fifteen years after the war of destabilisation, the peace has held. Mozambique is the donors' model pupil, carefully following their prescriptions and receiving more than a billion dollars a year in aid. The number of bicycles has doubled and this is often cited as the symbol of development.In this book Joseph Hanlon challenges some key assumptions of both the donors and the government and asks questions such as whether there has been too much stress on the Millennium Development Goals, and too little support for economic development; if it makes sense to target the poorest of the poor, or would it be better to target those who create the jobs which will employ the poor; whether there has been too much emphasis on foreign investment and too little on developing domestic capital; and if the private sector really will end poverty, or must there be a stronger role for the state in the economy?This book is about more than Mozambique. Mozambique is an apparent success story that is used to justify the present 'post-Washington consensus' development model. Here, the case of Mozambique is situated within the broader development debate. Joseph Hanlon is Senior Lecturer at the Open University and the author of "Beggar Your Neighbours"; "Mozambique: Who Calls the Shots?"; and "Peace without Profit" (all James Currey) which have all made influential interventions in the development debate; Teresa Smart is Director of the London Mathematics Centre, Institute of Education
VICTIM OF CIRCUMSTANCES: A STUDY ON HENRY JAMES\u27 "WASHINGTON SQUARE
No full textThe study examines the gloriously famed work by Henry James, ‘Washington Square’. It is one of the very few works by Henry James that focuses on American characters in an American setting. The story holds the significance of being written from the childhood memories of the author (McGlinn, 2004). The theme of nostalgia and Old New York often makes appearances in the author’s most works. Washington Square is often described as a ‘psychological novel’, as most of the action takes place in the minds of the characters. The novel revolves around the life of Dr.Austin Sloper, his daughter Catherine, his widowed sister Lavinia Penniman and Morris Townsend, the suitable suitor for Catherine in Lavinia’s eyes and other secondary characters including Dr.Sloper’s other sister Mrs.Almond. The study aims to focus on the character of Catherine Sloper, a ‘dull’ girl in the eyes of her father, criticised for her lack of intelligence and beauty, a real victim of circumstances. Though a tragedy, the novella entails the story of a young woman who emerges victoriously from years of submission, finally finding her voice (Garbowski, 2013). The most fascinating and absorbing element of Washington Square is definitely the character evolution of Catherine Sloper. A closer look into the story permits one to identify the real underlying theme, which is not great romances, disputed inheritances or dealing with failure and agony but about the cultivation of an identity, the finding of oneself after being buried for so long.
 
Mollie Stevens Smart (1916-2012).
No full textPresents an obituary for Mollie Stevens Smart (1916-2012). Mollie attended the University of Toronto, from which she graduated with honors in psychology at age 20 in 1936. She studied and worked at the Merrill-Palmer Institute in Detroit, earning a master\u27s degree in child development from the University of Michigan in 1941. She earned her doctorate in educational psychology at the University of Delhi in 1969. An author, teacher, and mentor, Mollie won Fulbright research grants to India and New Zealand and lectured in the United States, India, New Zealand, Canada, and China. She wrote 26 books, most co-authored with her husband, Russell (Rus) C. Smart. Beginning in the 1940s, when Freudian theory had a strong grip on the popular view of child development, the books placed the developing child in the context of family and community systems. The Smarts\u27 best-selling college textbook Children: Development and Relationships (1967, 1973, 1977, 1982) was based on the theories of Erik Erikson and Jean Piaget. Mollie was a member of the American Psychological Association throughout her professional career and held memberships also in the Society for Research in Child Development, the National Council on Family Relations, the Groves Conference on Marriage and Family, and the Fulbright Association. After moving to Ridgefield, Washington, in 2003 with her daughter Ellen following Rus\u27s death in 1996, she applied her great knowledge to advise a community-based organization that serves the needs of new babies born into destitute families. Mollie died at home in Ridgefield on October 22, 2012, at age 96. © 2013 APA, all rights reserved
A methodology to develop aquaculture-based release strategies with an application to Metapenaeus dalli in the Swan-Canning Estuary: the Survival-Maximisation-at-Release Tool (SMART)
No full textAquaculture-based enhancement, a method of releasing cultured organisms into the wild to boost fishery productivity, is becoming increasingly popular as a management option for restoring depleted fish stocks and increasing fishery yields. In the first section of this Thesis, I review and synthesise how the effectiveness of aquaculture-based enhancements can be optimised to maximise survival of released individuals. Two specific areas were identified that have a major influence on the short-term survival of released animals (i) “training” or acclimation in the hatchery to conditions in natural systems, e.g. habitats, water flows, natural (live) food and the smell and sight of predators through predator avoidance training and (ii) the development of a sound release strategy, involving the selection of site, time and size at release. The objective of the second section of this Thesis was to create a tool to inform the development of an optimal release strategy, by evaluating site selection and time of release for the release of post-larval Western School Prawns Metapenaeus dalli in the Swan-Canning Estuary. This was achieved by developing the Survival-Maximisation-At-Release-Tool (SMART), a quantitative tool that collated factors and variables considered to influence the survival of released M. dalli at potential sites around the estuary to determine a SMART score (0-100) for each potential release site and time (Month, Year, Day/Night). Statistical analyses on the resultant SMART scores determined that region of release was the most influential factor for the survival of released M. dalli, followed by year and then month. Due to the wide range of values for the salinity variable and sediment composition and predation factors among sites and time, these had the most influence on overall SMART score. Across the 16 nearshore sites sampled in five consecutive months in each of three years, the optimal site of release was at Deep Water Point in the Lower Canning Estuary during the night in January 2014. Recommendations for future improvements to the SMART methodology for releases of M. dalli were identified and mechanisms for adapting this tool for its application to other species and aquatic ecosystems are discussed. The SMART provides output that can be readily conveyed to diverse audiences (i.e. fishers, researchers, managers and the community) to enhance discussions on optimal release strategies
SaccpaNet : a separable atrous convolution-based cascade pyramid attention network to estimate body landmarks using cross-modal knowledge transfer for under-blanket sleep posture classification
No full text202509 bchyVersion of RecordRGCOthersThis work was supported in part by General Research Fund (GRF) from the University Grants Committee of Hong Kong under Grants PolyU15223822, and in part by the Research Institute for Smart Ageing of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University under Grants P0039001. Andy Yiu-Chau Tam and Ye-Jiao Mao are co-first authors. Duo Wai-Chi Wong and James Chung-Wai Cheung contributed equally to this work. (Corresponding author: Duo Wai-Chi Wong, James Chung-Wai Cheung) Andy Yiu-Chau Tam and James Chung-Wai Cheung are with the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong 999077, China, and Research Institute of Smart Ageing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong 999077, China ([email protected]; [email protected]).Early releaseC
Interfacing Power System and ICT Simulators: Challenges, State-of-the-Art, and Case Studies
No full textWith the transition towards a smart grid, the power system has become strongly intertwined with the information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure. The interdependency of both domains requires a combined analysis of physical and ICT processes, but simulating these together is a major challenge due to the fundamentally different modeling and simulation concepts. After outlining these challenges, such as time synchronization and event handling, this manuscript presents an overview of state-of-the-art solutions to interface power system and ICT simulators. Due to their prominence in recent research, a special focus is set on co-simulation approaches and their challenges and potentials. Further, two case studies analyzing the impact of ICT on applications in power system operation illustrate the necessity of a holistic approach and show the capabilities of state-of-the-art co-simulation platforms.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.Intelligent Electrical Power Grid
Big Data, Big Libraries, Big Problems?: the 2014 LibTech Anti-talk?
No full textThe desire to create automatons is a familiar theme in human history, and during the age of the Enlightenment mechanical automatons became not only an “emblem of the cosmos”, but a symbol of man’s confidence that he would unlock nature’s greatest mysteries and fully harness her power. And yet only a century later, automatons had begun to represent human repression and servitude, a theme later picked up by writers of science fiction. Man’s confidence undeterred, the endgame of the modern scientific and technological mindset, or MSTM, seems to be increasingly coming into view with the rise of “information technology” in general and “Big data” in particular. Along with those who wield them, these can be seen as functioning together as a “mechanical muse” of sorts – surprisingly alluring – and, like a physical automaton can serve as a symbol – a microcosm – of what the MSTM sees (at the very least in practice) as the cosmic machine, our “final frontier”. And yet, individuals who unreflectively participate in these things – giving themselves over to them and seeking the powers afforded by the technology apart from technology’s rightful purposes – in fact yield to the same pragmatism and reductionism those wielding them are captive to. Thus, they ultimately nullify themselves philosophically, politically, and economically – their value increasingly being only the data concerning their persons, and its perceived usefulness. Likewise libraries, the time-honored place of, and symbol for, the intellectual flowering of the individual, will, insofar as they spurn the classical liberal arts (with the idea that things are intrinsically good, and in the case of humans, special as well) in favor of the alluring embrace of MSTM-driven “information technology” and Big data - unwittingly contribute to their irrelevance and demise as they find themselves increasingly less needed, valued, wanted. Likewise for the liberal arts as a whole, and in fact history itself, if the acid of a “science” untethered from what is, in fact, good (intrinsically), continues to gain strengt
Competition in network industries
No full textA wave of privatization is sweeping the globe, affecting about 100 countries and adding up to an average of more than $60 billion a year in business in the past decade. The challenge is to ensure that privatization yields clear benefits. Empirical studies suggest that ownership change by itself will often yield results, especially when it reduces government interference. But the regulation required in areas of natural monopoly can become overly intrusive and undermine progress. Real competition is required to generate sizable and lasting welfare improvements. But in infrastructure sectors, the introduction of competition is complicated by the existence of complex transport and communications networks. Debate about whether and how to introduce competition in network industries is sometimes heated. Certain questions recur: Will continuing regulation be needed? Whether and at what terms will private finance be forthcoming? The author argues that policymakers need to understand how competitive forces can be brought to bear in network industries. He explains the following: 1) common principles that are often lost in"technical"debates about specific sectors; 2) various methods for introducing competition in network industries; 3) competition for the market, and bidding for franchises; 4) options for competition for existing networks; 5) options for expanding competitive systems by decentralizing investment in new network capacity; 6) the option of allowing competition among multiple networks; and 7) the implications of these options for the sectors and for financing industry expansion. In case of doubt, he contends, policymakers should not restrict the entry of competitive firms in such networks. If they do, entry restrictions should be subject to an automatic test after a set period, and reviewed for costs and benefits.Economic Theory&Research,Decentralization,Markets and Market Access,Environmental Economics&Policies,Labor Policies,Education for the Knowledge Economy,Economic Theory&Research,Access to Markets,Markets and Market Access,Environmental Economics&Policies
The Wallpaper is Torn; the Wall Remains to be Demolished: An Appraisal of Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper as an Early Feminist Text
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) is one such text, which despite being ?merely? a short story, has come to enjoy a canonical status in the feminist literary discourse. From Hardy to Henry James, from Ibsen to Tolstoy ? numerous authors have highlighted various aspects of the stifled female generation of the late nineteenth century. However, in The Yellow Wallpaper, we find a woman author speaking for herself and for women at large. The story makes use of and yet goes beyond the gothic paraphernalia and the rather handy theme of ?mad? women to register its protest against the then claustrophobic Victorian domestic milieu. The symbolic victory of the woman at the end of the story comes at the cost of her sanity. However, possibly no more wholesome avenue of female triumph was available to her. With an unsentimental, suggestive and powerful narrative, Gilman here delivers her tour de force
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