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Recent Advances in Application of Transcriptomics: Research on Heterotrophic and Autotrophic Protists
No full textAnderson, O. Roger (2022): Recent Advances in Application of Transcriptomics: Research on Heterotrophic and Autotrophic Protists. Acta Protozoologica 61: 47-75, DOI: 10.4467/16890027AP.22.003.16206, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/16890027ap.22.003.1620
A Multi-year Seasonal Study of Amoeboid Protists in Surface Water at the Margin of a Hudson River Estuary Salt Marsh
No full textAnderson, O. Roger (2022): A Multi-year Seasonal Study of Amoeboid Protists in Surface Water at the Margin of a Hudson River Estuary Salt Marsh. Acta Protozoologica 61: 77-83, DOI: 10.4467/16890027AP.22.007.16990, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/16890027ap.22.007.1699
Review paper A Half-century of Research on Free-living Amoebae (1965-2017): Review of Biogeographic, Ecological and Physiological Studies
No full textAnderson, O. Roger (2018): Review paper A Half-century of Research on Free-living Amoebae (1965-2017): Review of Biogeographic, Ecological and Physiological Studies. Acta Protozoologica 57 (1): 1-28, DOI: 10.4467/16890027AP.18.001.8395, URL: https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/515eb5b3-3d7a-326d-8604-e6ca4b51dc4c
Fig. 1A–D in Review paper A Half-century of Research on Free-living Amoebae (1965-2017): Review of Biogeographic, Ecological and Physiological Studies
No full textFig. 1A–D. Column graphs showing the number of published papers reviewed (ordinate) grouped by decades (abscissa). 1A – Total; 1B – Biogeography; 1C – Ecology; 1D – Physiology.Published as part of Anderson, O. Roger, 2018, Review paper A Half-century of Research on Free-living Amoebae (1965-2017): Review of Biogeographic, Ecological and Physiological Studies, pp. 1-28 in Acta Protozoologica 57 (1) on page 2, DOI: 10.4467/16890027AP.18.001.8395, http://zenodo.org/record/836439
Children With Type 1 Diabetes Have Delayed Flow-Mediated Dilation
No full textAbstract not availableSarveshinee Pillay, Jemma Anderson, Jennifer Couper, Oana Maftei, Roger Gent, Alexia Sophie Peñ
Orbital cellulitis, sinusitis and intracranial abnormality in two adolescents with COVID-19
No full textRetrospective review of two adolescent cases suggests bacterial orbital cellulitis with sinusitis and COVID-19 may have radiographic signal consistent with hemorrhagic or thrombotic phenomena, retro-maxillary antral fat changes, or meningeal extension, thereby mimicking fungal infection.This article is free through Taylor-Francis as part of the ongoing effort against COVID-19
Sobre o impresso e o digital: analisando os livros, as leituras e os impactos sociais das novas técnicas e tecnologias
No full textTCC (graduação) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Curso de Ciências Sociais.Este trabalho busca analisar a coexistência dos formatos impressos e digitais na atualidade, principalmente dos livros e das leituras nestes formatos, relacionando com os conceitos de novas técnicas e tecnologias nas sociedades. Para isso estudamos, através de pesquisas bibliográficas, a história do impresso e do digital e suas visões contemporâneas, e realizamos uma pesquisa exploratória com estudantes de ensino superior, buscando analisar as escolhas dos formatos no mundo universitário. O trabalho trata das noções do digital - a internet, o livro digital, o comércio eletrônico e as novas técnicas/tecnologias - e também das noções do impresso - história dos livros, técnicas de leitura, novas livrarias e a contemporaneidade do impresso -, além de diversos outros conceitos sobre os impactos sociais das novas técnicas e tecnologias. A etapa exploratória da pesquisa foi feita com questionários online direcionados para universitários formandos ou já formados em universidades da região de Florianópolis e Joinville, como UFSC e Univille, por se considerar que na universidade se tem variadas experiências com livros e leituras, então um campo viável para se explorar informações sobre esse tema. Teoricamente o trabalho tem como guia conceitos de autores como Roger Chartier e Jean-Yves Mollier em suas análises mais históricas sobre os livros e as leituras, e Manuel Castells, Pierre Levy, Chris Anderson, entre outros, que analisam as sociedades atuais e a influência do meio digital e da internet nos dias de hoje
Portfolio of recorded performances and exegesis: Messiaen’s musical language for the jazz pianist - an exploration through performance.
No full textMoving beyond Gunther Schuller’s Third Stream amalgamation of classical and jazz, this study explores whether the musical language of Olivier Messiaen can make a valid contribution to jazz piano performance. Initially, my project sought to answer such questions as: What elements of the musical language of Messiaen already exist in the jazz vocabulary? Am I able to extend this further? What are the timbral structures and pianistic effects within Messiaen’s musical language? What will be the most effective application of Messiaen’s musical language to jazz piano performance? Endeavouring to answer the final question led me to consider such aspects as whether the project should be limited to quoting Messiaen motifs, arranging Messiaen melodies, replacing jazz harmonic structures on standards with examples from Messiaen’s musical language or whether it would be better to approach the research conceptually. The work of Hubert Nuss provided encouraging reassurance that this was not an impossible task. In order to articulate this conception, the initial challenge was to decide how the classical and jazz worlds might meet in a ‘Messiaen’ technique. The approach adopted was similar to that used for undergraduate jazz study, namely, immersion in the piano scores and recordings of Messiaen’s music as well as by live performances. This was followed by the development and assessment of a contrived approach when specific techniques, such as tonal colourings or harmonic structures, were developed through prepared exercises and consciously included in my performance. It was then compared with an intuitive approach when no such precise parameters were established. This submission consists of CD recordings of two public recitals and an exegesis. It documents the development of this Messiaen technique and discusses its application in my performances. It also demonstrates the ways that Messiaen’s musical language can be used within jazz piano performance to provide a colour that distinguishes jazz piano performance in a competitive field.Thesis (M.Mus.) -- University of Adelaide, Elder Conservatorium of Music, 201
Representing Wonders and Legends: Painted Illustrations in the Süleymaniye Book of Roger (1469) and the Bodleian Book of Curiosities (12th-13th c.)
No full textTwo of the earliest and most significant illustrated cartographic manuscripts in the Arab-
Islamic tradition include The Delight of Him Who Desires to Journey Through the Climates,
more commonly known as The Book of Roger, (c. 1154) and The Book of Curiosities of the
Sciences and Marvels for the Eye (11th century). An encyclopedic volume of the world, The
Book of Roger was compiled by Abu Abdullah Mohammed Ibn al-Sharif al-Idrisi for King Roger
II of Sicily and contains a comprehensive account of geography, history, and culture. An
unknown author who most likely lived in Egypt wrote and illustrated The Book of Curiosities,
which consists of two parts—ten chapters concerning the celestial world order and twenty-five
chapters describing earthly matters. This paper focuses on a 12th- or 13th-century copy of The
Book of Curiosities held at the Bodleian Library of Oxford (MS Arab. c. 90) and a copy of The
Book of Roger made in 1469 by the copyist ‘Ali ibn Hasan al-‘Ajami and owned by the
Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi in Istanbul (MS Fazil Ahmed Paşa 955). Not only are these two of
the most complete copies of their respective works, but these manuscripts also include additional
illustrations that cannot be found in any other version of The Book of Roger or The Book of
Curiosities (Figures 1-3). These added illustrations, inserted by a later reader or owner in the
case of The Book of Curiosities and included by the copyist in The Book of Roger, provide an
alternative conception of manuscripts. The manuscript is not a singular production of al-Idrisi or
the unknown Egyptian author but a complex anthology of thought—the “final copy” can be
understood as a compilation of perspectives from the original author, the author’s sources, the
copyist, and later readers or owners.
The three added illustrations of The Book of Roger and The Book of Curiosities range in
subject matter, but they all include written captions and are framed by borders drawn in red or
reddish brown ink. The two illustrations from The Book of Curiosities have been painted onto
pages originally left blank—these pages were left blank to accommodate a large circular world
map that can found at the end of the manuscript’s first book. One of these added illustrations
depicts the legendary Waqwaq tree, a human-tree hybrid well-documented in early medieval
travel literature and reported to exist at the edge of the world. The other illustration, painted on
the facing page, is described by its caption as a “marvelous melon” plant and depicts fanciful
animal heads growing from a leafy plant. Al-‘Ajami, the 15th-century copyist of The Book of
Roger, chose to add his illustration in the midst of transcribing the manuscript. This additional
illustration of the lands of Gog and Magog, a popular apocalyptic legend recorded in both Bible
and the Qur’an, can be found in the midst of al-Idrisi’s textual description of the legend.6
Although I will examine the visual elements and conceptual implications of each illustration
separately, analyzing the three together provokes larger questions about the discourse of painted
illustrations in manuscripts and the purposes of cartography in the medieval era.
This paper seeks to contextualize the three illustrations in their respective manuscripts
and the later periods during which they were created or inserted. To contextualize these three
illustrations, I use four different lenses—geography, cosmography, wonder, and legends—to
encompass the multiplicity of perspectives that medieval readers might have utilized to
understand these manuscripts and the world around them. Ultimately, I use these four
frameworks to elucidate the following arguments: 1) the insertion of painted illustrations reflects
a tradition of using the visual arts to convey wonder; 2) the descriptions and illustrations of
wondrous creatures and places convey conceptual boundaries between the center and the edge of
the world; and 3) these inserted illustrations might have inspired curiosity and travel to faraway
lands while simultaneously affirming the centrality of the reader’s known world.Bachelor of Art
New observations on the stratigraphy and radiocarbon dates at the Cross Creek site, Opito, Coromandel Peninsula
No full textThis paper re-examines stratigraphy and radiocarbon dates at Cross Creek in Sarah's Gully. Three new radiocarbon dates are presented for Layer 9, the earliest, and previously undated, occupation. This investigation is part of a programme of archaeological work being carried out on the Coromandel Peninsula. Although there are several individual research projects underway, they have a common theme related to the Polynesian settlement period on the Coromandel Peninsula. The two seasons of excavation at Tairua are being written up by Matthew Campbell of CFG Heritage on behalf of Roger Green. Louise Furey, also CFG Heritage, is researching a thematic study on early sites for the Department of Conservation, Archaeological research in the Opito area includes documenting a pollen sequence for Opito under a grant obtained from the Green Foundation for Polynesian Research: Pam Chester, Louise Furey and Brenda Sewell are participants. In addition, positively identifying the Kaharoa Ash in the Opito-Sarah's Gully area is a priority
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