542 research outputs found
Tukufu Zuberi - Host of History Detectives and director of the Center for Africana Studies
No full textDoing Sociology in Public
TUKUFU ZUBERI, host of PBS’s popular History Detectives, and director of the Center for Africana Studies and chair of the Sociology Department at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Zuberi, whose distinctions include the Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations, joined UP faculty in 1989, and has been a visiting professor at Makerere University in Uganda and at the University of Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania. Dr. Zuberi has sought to allow the public to view everyday life in the broader social and historical context. He stars in History Detectives, a nationally syndicated PBS series that seeks to uncover the mysteries of America’s past.
As an internationally known social scientist, Dr. Zuberi has made important contributions in the study of sociology, population studies, and Africana studies. He is the author or editor of seven books or edited journal conference volumes, including most recently an edited volume entitled Demography of South Africa which is the first volume of a series entitled A General Demography of Africa, and the edited volume entitled White Logic, White Methods: Racism in Methodology. He has received awards for his academic work from the National Institutes of Health, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
Dr. Zuberi received his B.A. from San Jose State University in 1981, his M.A. from California State University, Sacramento, in 1985, and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1989.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/archives_presidential_lecture_series/1060/thumbnail.jp
Climate change and Environmental awareness: a European working group to study the environmental impact and promote sustainability in Child Neurology
No full textClimate change is happening right now, and this is everyone’s problem. Beside the well-known negative impact on the environment, climate change directly and indirectly causes several health issues, that are more pronounced in low-income countries, in people with low socio-economic status, and in people with chronic and disabling conditions. As scientists, we feel the urge to spread awareness among the general population, and to persuade politicians and stakeholders on the necessity (and opportunities) to tackle climate issues for the sake of our planet. As clinicians, we need to promote our healthcare systems resilience and prevent climate-change related morbidity and mortality. As informed citizens, we must discourage inaction and promote engagement on environmental issues, at all levels: personal, social, financial, educational, political, medical and economical. To reach this target, the Young members of the European Pediatric Neurology Society (EPNS), strongly supported by the general EPNS board, have designed and coordinated the new “Climate change and environmental awareness Working Group”. Our aim is to educate on climate change-related health issues and promote positive actions for reduction of carbon emissions, damage mitigation, and adaptation plans within the field of Pediatric Neurology. Actions include networking with other scientific Societies and Groups for Climate defense (e.g., ILAE Climate change commission), performing literature revision and promoting multicenter studies on climate change-related health issues, estimating the Society carbon footprint (i.e. website, newsletters and in-person events) and foreseeing emissions compensation (e.g. with carbon credits), fostering sustainable alternatives for the biannual Society Congress like reducing paper use, proposing plant-based menus and discouraging international flights (e.g. hybrid in person and web-based congress, and easily-accessible-by-train locations). Climate change is everyone’s problem, and solutions need the effort of many. This is how we take action
Two cases of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy in a GEFS+ family with an SCN1A mutation.
No full textCHRNB2 is the second acetylcholine receptor subunit associated with autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy
No full textAutosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy (ADNFLE) is an uncommon, idiopathic partial epilepsy characterized by clusters of motor seizures occurring in sleep. We describe a mutation of the beta2 subunit of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, effecting a V287M substitution within the M2 domain. The mutation, in an evolutionary conserved region of CHRNB2, is associated with ADNFLE in a Scottish family. Functional receptors with the V287M mutation are highly expressed in Xenopus oocytes and characterized by an approximately 10-fold increase in acetylcholine sensitivity. CHRNB2 is a new gene for idiopathic epilepsy, the second acetylcholine receptor subunit implicated in ADNFLE.Hilary A. Phillips, Isabelle Favre, Martin Kirkpatrick, Sameer M. Zuberi, David Goudie, Sarah E. Heron, Ingrid E. Scheffer, Grant R. Sutherland, Samuel F. Berkovic, Daniel Bertrand and John C. Mulle
'Does he look like a Paki?' an exploration of 'whiteness', positionality and reflexivity in inter-racial sports research1851)
No full textThis article reflects on fieldwork with white and British Asian cricketers which explored the construction, maintenance and contestation of racialised identities in the sport of cricket. It addresses my experiences of gaining access to and working alongside both communities, particularly as I negotiated insecurities over the suitability of my own identity(ies), the normalisation of ‘whiteness’ and the constant awareness of my insider and outsiderness within different contexts. I draw on personal experiences and fieldnotes to argue that one’s insider or outsider status is never certain; rather it is filled with dissonance and ambiguity, is an ongoing performance and is always in a state of flux. I provide evidence to show how white researchers (of sport) are, at times, culpable of reinforcing dominant racial discourses rather than challenging them. I conclude by arguing that if sociologists of sport are to establish a methodological framework for researching ‘race’ and its intersections, more scholars need to engage with the relationships between self and other and the self-as-other; more freely exploring the nature of reflexivity, and how doing reflexivity presents opportunities to connect with people across (and in spite of) cultural divides
Robin Hyde and Frank Sargeson : liminal voices in New Zealand literature
No full textFull text is available to authenticated members of The University of Auckland only.This thesis investigates the relationship between self and language and the role that language plays in the formation of identity.
Language and ideology are described as integral to the regulation and maintenance of socially sanctioned identities. A new conceptual model of subjectivity is established that not only separates the insider from the outsider, but also locates the suicidal subject and the liminal subject within a social paradigm.
The liminal subject desires to make a connection between self and language where one does not currently exist.
Therefore, of the four categories, the experience of liminal subjectivity (characterised by the lack of an articulable and hence knowable identity) makes it the most relevant for the investigation of the fiction of Robin Hyde and Frank Sargeson. For them the lack of language through which the liminal subject can express the self provides the motivation to produce new literary forms.
This thesis utilises biographical information about each author in new ways to link their fiction to their experiences of social isolation. What is revealed is the fear and danger for each of attempted self-expression within the language and conventions of their time.
Close readings of selected fiction by each author evaluate usefulness of the theoretical model for viewing them as liminal subjects and its application to their creative responses to that experience.
The model of subjectivity proves to be more accurate for the analysis of Sargeson's short story oeuvre than for the selected novels by Hyde, due to the marked difference between the transition pathway of liminal subjectivity for each. Sargeson established a viable identity through his writing whereas for Hyde the endeavour was not as linear nor as successful. Modifications to the model would more accurately represent the cyclical complexities of Hyde's identity.
The findings of this thesis cast new light on the selected fiction of each of these authors; in addition there have been significant archival discoveries during the course of the work that allow for a re-evaluation of Hyde's work in particular
Internal Migration of Blacks in South Africa: Self-selection and Brain Drain
No full textMigrations historically have led to fears of “brain drain” from the sending regions because many studies show that the more highly skilled and motivated people are more likely to migrate. South Africa provides a natural testing ground for the study of brain drains because the Apartheid system, which ended in the early 1990s, had long constrained the locational choices of black migrants of all skill levels. As apartheid was being dismantled, new opportunities for movement opened up to black workers, leading to a surge in internal migration. We first analyze whether migration patterns of Black South Africans during the period 1992 to 1996 match the predictions of the two seminal papers, Roy (1951) and Sjaastad (1962), where individuals are hypothesized to be income-maximizers. The results from conditional logit regressions on individual choices among 318 locations show that they do. Individuals prefer localities with higher expected log wages regardless of their educations and skills. More importantly, workers with at least some matriculation tend to favor areas where a higher share of the population attended high school. In contrast, workers who did not attend high school find such areas less attractive. Over the study period, brain drain arose among blacks within South Africa: the share of high-educated residents in areas with high shares of high schooling increased.Internal Migration ; South Africa ; Self-selection ; Brain Drain
Deletions or duplications in KCNQ2 can cause benign familial neonatal seizures
No full textCopyright © 2007 by the BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.Background: Benign familial neonatal seizures are most often caused by mutations in the voltage-gated potassium channel subunit gene KCNQ2. More than 60 mutations have been described in BFNS families, approximately half of which lead to protein truncation. The hypothesis of this study was that deletion or duplication of 1 exons of KCNQ2 could cause BFNS in cases without coding or splicing mutations. Methods: Multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification (MLPA) was used to test a group of 21 unrelated patients with clinical features consistent with either BFNS, benign familial neonatal–infantile seizures or sporadic neonatal seizures, for exonic deletions and duplications. Results: Three deletions and one duplication mutation were identified in four familial cases and cascade testing of their available family members showed that the mutations segregated with the phenotype in each family. The junction fragment for one of the deletions was amplified by PCR and sequenced to characterise the breakpoint and verify that a deletion had occurred. Conclusions: Submicroscopic deletions or duplications of KCNQ2 are seen in a significant proportion of BFNS families: four of nine (44%) cases previously testing negative for coding or splice site mutation by sequencing KCNQ2 and KCNQ3. MLPA is an efficient second-tier testing strategy for KCNQ2 to identify pathogenic intragenic mutations not detectable by conventional DNA sequencing methods.S E Heron, K Cox, B E Grinton, S M Zuberi, S Kivity, Z Afawi, R Straussberg, S F Berkovic, I E Scheffer and J C Mulle
Deracializing Social Statistics: Problems in the Quantification of Race
No full text Race is usually defined as an individual attribute fixed at birth and is employed by researchers as a variable with potential for causing change in some other aspect of that same individual. When an individual's race can change (as in Brazil), race is not an attribute but a dynamic characteristic dependent on other social circumstances. In the United States, an individual's race cannot change and thus is considered an individual attribute. As such, social statisticians may have measured racial classification correctly. The major error is in how race has been interpreted. The author suggests a new language to express things that our current language handles inadequately. This new language attempts to increase the efficiency of communication about the statistical analysis of race. </jats:p
Development and validation of a tool for assessing professionalism among Pakistani medical students
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