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African American Storyteller, Victoria A. Casey McDonald
No full textIn the deep resonance of storyteller Victoria A. Casey McDonald’s voice, you will hear her tell stories about growing up in Western North Carolina, and the kind of Christmas she had as a child. The late Victoria was our friend, a CSA board member, author, and “Stories of Mountain Folk” interviewer
Art Forum - Lynn, Victoria
No full text4 September 2002. -- Victoria Lynn is a distinguished curator and writer who has worked in the field of contemporary and Australian visual arts over the last two decades. She has recently been appointed Director of Creative Development at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, an innovative exhibition venue located at Federation Square in Melbourne, due to open later this year. She is currently Chair of the Visual Arts/Crafts Board of the Australia Council. From 1991 to 2001 she was Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and the numerous exhibitions she has curated have received substantial critical acclaim. She is the author of many articles, catalogue essays and edited collections, and books on artists Marion Borgelt and Eugene Carchesio. In her lecture she will discuss both Australian and International work, the challenges at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, and the different modes and understandings of what the moving image can and might be understood as
Comparison of three LAMP protocols for the simultaneous detection of DNA from species that produce cystic echinococcosis
No full textCystic echinococcosis (CE) is a zoonotic parasitic disease caused by species of the Echinococcus granulosus sensu lato complex. Different types of canids may act as definitive hosts by eating raw viscera infected with fertile hydatid cysts. The intermediate host (mainly ungulates) and humans acquire the infection through the fecal oral route (i.e. egg ingestion). Globally, more than 1 million people are affected by CE, causing a loss of 1-3 million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) and a financial burden of US$ 3 billion annually. Loop mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) protocols promise to be a useful tool to detect DNA, providing a low cost and thermocycle-free methodology. Given that surveillance for CE can be performed in feces from canids or other environmental matrixes contaminated with eggs, the characteristics of a LAMP protocol would favor implementation in endemic areas with basic resources. Herein, we compared three LAMP protocols for the simultaneous detection of E. granulosus s.l. species that cause CE. This comparation was carried with DNA obtained from different stages of E. granulosus s.l. Two of these are newly developed protocols that showed good analytical sensitivity and specificity. In both cases, the use of malachite green dye to directly visualize the test result was possible. From these two new LAMP protocols, one had better values for the detection of DNA from different types of E. granulosus s.l. DNA samples. Therefore, through this study, we provide a low-cost new tool for DNA detection of E. granulosus s.l. in poorly equipped laboratories from endemic areas.Fil: Avila, Héctor Gabriel. Gobierno de la Provincia de San Juan. Ministerio de Salud Publica. Direccion de Epidemiologia. Laboratorio Provincial de Zoonosis.; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - San Juan; ArgentinaFil: Periago, Maria Victoria. Fundación Mundo Sano; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentin
Black Fashion Designers Symposium: Dr. Victoria Rovine “Fashion in Africa and Beyond”
No full textDr. Victoria Rovine, “Fashion in Africa and Beyond” at The Museum at FIT's annual fashion symposium, Black Fashion Designers, held on Monday, February 6, 2017. The one-day symposium featured talks by designers, models, journalists, and scholars on African diasporic culture and fashion.Victoria Rovine is an associate professor of art history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of African Fashion, Global Style: Histories, Innovations, and Ideas You Can Wear
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No full text0724109242 (paperback) (ISBN). "March 1976".; Index indicating National Library of Australia holdings, in an online version at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-vn2766744; Library's NL copy does not contain maps.Mallee study are
Progress of Victoria : a statistical essay / by William Henry Archer.
No full textAt head of title: Intercolonial Exhibition essays, 1866.; "Intended as an introductory handbook to the annually-published Statistics of Victoria" -- Pref.; Written by author in his capacity as Registrar-General of Victoria.; Includes index.; Ferguson, J.A. Australia, 6085; Electronic reproduction. Canberra, A.C.T. : National Library of Australia, 2009
Mapping the Discipline of the Olympic Games An Author-Cocitation Analysis
No full textThe authors conducted an author cocitation analysis on prominent authors writing about the Olympics during the 1990s. Author cocitation is an established bibliometric technique that can be used to measure the relative similarities of topics written about by the cited authors. This enables a visual representation of the “intellectual space” of the discipline, in this case the Olympics, to be created for the period under review. So core and peripheral research areas are identified, along with their major contributors. The representation appears as a two-dimensional cluster-enhanced map. Subject expertise was then applied to the results to place labels on the generated clusters of authors and their topics
Author index to the publications of the Royal Society of Victoria, together with those of the societies amalgamated with it; namely, of the former Philosophical Institute of Victoria, of the former Philosophical Society of Victoria, of the former Victorian Institute for the Advancement of Science and of the first Microscopical Society of Victoria (1879-1882), 1855-1934
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Play and folklore
No full textThis issue of Play and Folklore has a special focus on children’s outdoor play. We hear many stories about the constraints placed on children’s play by adults – the growing number of ‘bannings’ include handstands, cartwheels, throwing things, playing with sticks, digging holes and rough-and-tumble play. Even simply touching each other is forbidden in some schools.
In this issue we bring a more positive perspective on play by highlighting some of the ways in which children are being encouraged and assisted to explore, experiment, be adventurous and make their own fun
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