479 research outputs found
Eastland pictured at breakfast meeting with colleagues
No full textJohn C. Stennis and Jamie Whitten also picturedhttps://egrove.olemiss.edu/joephoto_e/1347/thumbnail.jp
Chemical applications of escience to interfacial spectroscopy
No full textThis report is a summary of works carried out by the author between October 2003 and September 2004, in the first year of his PhD studie
Murray-Darling River Basin (Australia)
No full textThe wetlands of the Murray–Darling Basin (the Basin) in Australia are the focus of this article. Beginning with a description of the Basin’s wetlands, the climate and hydrology are outlined as a point for discussing the threats to wetlands conservation, management responses, and future challenges
The perturbation effect in wildlife systems: an emergent property of simple models
No full textPopulation reduction is often used as a control strategy when managing infectious diseases in wildlife populations, however it disrupts existing social structures and increases movement of infectives due to the vacuum effect, which may lead to enhanced disease transmission. Using a generic non-spatial model, key characteristics of disease systems are identified for which such effects reduce or even reverse the disease control benefits of population reduction. If population reduction is not sufficiently severe, then enhanced transmission can lead to the perturbation effect, whereby disease levels increase or disease can be stabilised where it would otherwise be unstable. Perturbation effects are enhanced for systems with low levels of disease, e.g. low levels of endemicity or emerging disease.
Mechanisms observed in real systems are examined for their role in the perturbation effect. If population reduction is non-random and fails to target infected individuals, then vertical transmission (an important mechanism in many diseases including tuberculosis and paratuberculosis) can lead to the perturbation effect if horizontal transmission is low. The perturbation effect can also arise when population reduction preferentially targets resistant individuals, or mature individuals with low susceptibility, a factor implicated in wild boar and classical swine fever.
In a stochastic spatial model of demography and disease dynamics with density dependent dispersal (implicated in the spread of rabies in foxes, and tuberculosis in badgers and wild boar due to the vacuum effect), enhanced transmission is found to arise implicitly as an emergent property of the disease-system, even when population reduction is entirely random. Culling strategies are examined, and the spatial heterogeneity of distribution of culling resources and timing of culling intervals are shown to influence the perturbation effect. Whilst the perturbation effect may not always be apparent, the various effects modelled are likely present in many disease systems, mitigating the results of population reduction
Nostalgia: content, triggers, functions
No full textSeven methodologically diverse studies addressed 3 fundamental questions about nostalgia. Studies 1 and 2 examined the content of nostalgic experiences. Descriptions of nostalgic experiences typically featured the self as a protagonist in interactions with close others (e.g., friends) or in momentous events (e.g., weddings). Also, the descriptions contained more expressions of positive than negative affect and often depicted the redemption of negative life scenes by subsequent triumphs. Studies 3 and 4 examined triggers of nostalgia and revealed that nostalgia occurs in response to negative mood and the discrete affective state of loneliness. Studies 5, 6, and 7 investigated the functional utility of nostalgia and established that nostalgia bolsters social bonds, increases positive self-regard, and generates positive affect. These findings demarcate key landmarks in the hitherto uncharted research domain of nostalgi
Resonant Spaces: Electroacoustic Music and Ritual: A commentary on my recent music.
No full textThe following portfolio and commentary concerns music and performance works created between 2008 and 2012, and an exposition of the research, ideas, aesthetics and techniques that connect
these works. I will discuss in detail the role that archaeoacoustics has played in my composition of fixed and mixed media works and how it has influenced me aesthetically in my approach to live performance. I will also explain in each instance any actual data used from various research sources, and my metaphorical interpretation of various archaeological sites and acoustic phenomena. Similarly, I will discuss the concepts of shamanism, ritual and transcendence that have influenced me, and how these concepts are expressed in my instrumental works, fixed media and live performance pieces
Correction: Pinin interacts with C-terminal binding proteins for RNA alternative splicing and epithelial cell identity of human ovarian cancer cells
No full textPresent: Due to an omission on the part of the author, the affliations of the first author are incomplete.
Corrected: Additional affliation information for the first author is listed below. The authors sincerely apologize for this error.
Original article: Oncotarget. 2016; 7(10):11397-11411. DOI:10.18632/oncotarget.7242.
PRESENT LIST:
Yanli Zhang1, Jamie Sui-Lam Kwok2, Pui-Wah Choi1, Minghua Liu2, Junzheng Yang1, Margit Singh1, Shu-Kay Ng4, William R. Welch5, Michael G. Muto1, Stephen KW Tsui2, Stephen P. Sugrue3, Ross S. Berkowitz1, Shu-Wing Ng1
1 Laboratory of Gynecologic Oncology, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
2 School of Biomedical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
3 Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA
4 School of Medicine and Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Meadowbrook, Australia
5 Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
UPDATED LIST:
Yanli Zhang1,6, Jamie Sui-Lam Kwok2, Pui-Wah Choi1, Minghua Liu2, Junzheng Yang1, Margit Singh1, Shu-Kay Ng4, William R. Welch5, Michael G. Muto1, Stephen KW Tsui2, Stephen P. Sugrue3, Ross S. Berkowitz1, Shu-Wing Ng1
1 Laboratory of Gynecologic Oncology, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
2 School of Biomedical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
3 Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA
4 School of Medicine and Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Meadowbrook, Australia
5 Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
6 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, ChinaFull Tex
The Re-invention of Sociology of Community
No full textIn today’s society the term ‘Community’ is frequently used. Politicians, religious leaders, policy makers and the media are repeatedly utilizing the concept to describe a particular scenario. Traditionally, sociologists have been fascinated with community, within a theoretical and geographical context. At the centre of the community is the debate of how external agencies work with the local community and how social policy can work at a local level. The aim of this paper is to critically explore the debate around community and how the subject has re-established itself within the discipline of sociology. To justify the arguments surrounding the Sociology of Community the author uses a case study of The United Kingdom
Seeking Truth: Roger North’s Notes on Newton and Correspondence with Samuel Clarke c. 1704–1713
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