347 research outputs found
Editorial: Global Control and Eradication Programmes for Cattle Diseases
No full textEditorial: Global Control and Eradication Programmes for Cattle Disease
Molecular characterization of pestiviruses in fetal bovine sera originating from Argentina: evidence of circulation of HoBi-like viruses
No full textSerological evidence suggests that HoBi-like viruses, an emerging species within the Pestivirus genus of the Flaviviridae family, are in circulation in Argentina. While HoBi-like viruses were first isolated from Brazilian fetal bovine serum (FBS), no survey of Argentine FBS has been conducted. Therefore, 124 local samples of non-irradiated FBS originating from Argentina were surveyed for the presence of pestiviruses using RT-PCR. Amplicons from pestivirus positive samples were genotyped. Four samples were positive for HoBi virus-specific RT-PCR, while the BVDV-positive samples (n = 45) were classified as BVDV-1b (82.2%), BVDV-1a (13.3%), and BVDV-2 (4.5%). Virus isolation and serological profile assessment were performed for the four HoBi-positive FBS lots. These results confirm the circulation of HoBi-like virus in some regions of the Argentinean territory, highlighting the need to review the diagnostic techniques currently used in the clinical cases suspected of BVDV and in contamination control protocols for adventitious agents in cells and biotechnological products.Instituto de VirologíaFil: Pecora, Andrea. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Instituto de Virología; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Pérez Aguirreburualde, María Sol. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Instituto de Virología; Argentina. University of Minnesota. Center for Animal Health and Food Safety; Estados UnidosFil: Ridpath, Julia. Ridpath Consulting; Estados UnidosFil: Dus Santos, Maria Jose. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Instituto de Virología; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentin
The Humanities and Civic Health in Rhode Island
No full textElizabeth Francis
leads Rhode Island Humanities’ promotion of public history, cultural heritage, civic education, and community engagement. Elizabeth has expertise in building partnerships and initiatives that bring together humanities scholars, community members, public humanities practitioners, and policy makers in economic and cultural development. Deeply interested in the connection between public participation in cultural activities and overall civic health in communities, Elizabeth recently co-authored, with Julia Renaud, Culture is Key: Strengthening Rhode Island’s Civic Health Through Cultural Participation (2022), an initiative that led to the development of the state’s first-ever Civic Health Index (2022). Elizabeth earned a PhD in American Studies at Brown University and a BA at Hampshire College. Elizabeth is serving as Secretary of the State Commission for the commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution.
Rhode Island Humanities’s Associate Director of Grants and Humanities Initiatives Julia Renaud believes that public history, cultural heritage, civic education, and community engagement—the work of the public humanities—are integral to nurturing, strengthening, and inspiring all communities in Rhode Island. During her time at RI Humanities, she has co-authored the Culture Is Key report (2022) with Executive Director Elizabeth Francis and Civic Health Fellow Julia Lazarus, and the first-ever Rhode Island Civic Health Index (2022)—awarded the Federation of State Humanities Councils’s 2023 Schwartz Prize—with Data Consultant Neelam Sakaria. Prior to joining RI Humanities, Julia worked in cultural nonprofits in New York and Providence as an archivist, educator, curator, and public historian. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Julia holds an MA in Public Humanities from Brown University and an AB, summa cum laude, in American History and Literature with a minor in History of Art and Architecture from Harvard University.
Francis (Renaud was unable to attend) discussed the 2022 Rhode Island Civic Health Index which draws upon data-driven indicators and information about diverse connections to civic life to examine Rhode Island’s civic well-being. The Index provides a baseline to help communities, leaders, and policy makers understand what challenges and opportunities Rhode Islanders share. The award-winning report served as the state’s first-ever Civic Health Index, an initiative led by Rhode Island Humanities in partnership with the National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC) and the Rhode Island Department of State with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities through the “A More Perfect Union” initiative and from the Rhode Island Foundation.
Colin Woodard is the director of Nationhood Lab at the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy at Salve Regina University. He is the New York Times bestseller author of six books including American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America and Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood. A longtime foreign correspondent, he reported from more than fifty counties and seven continents for The Christian Science Monitor and San Francisco Chronicle, and won a 2012 George Polk Award and was a finalist for a 2016 Pulitzer Prize for his investigative reporting at Maine’s Portland Press Herald. A graduate of Tufts University and the University of Chicago, he is a past Pew Fellow in International Journalism at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and a current Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in London.
Woodard discussed the Nationhood Lab, an interdisciplinary research, writing, testing and dissemination project focused on counteracting the authoritarian threat to American democracy and the centrifugal forces threatening the federation’s stability. The project delivers more effective tools with which to describe and defend the American liberal democratic tradition and better understand the forces undermining it. This fall they completed an in-depth message development and testing initiative to create an effective, compelling messaging strategy for a U.S. civic national narrative. The effort, involving multiple national polls and in-depth qualitative interviews, defines U.S. purpose, identity and belonging around the natural rights assertions in the Declaration of Independence and is meant to out compete the ethnonational authoritarian “MAGA” alternative
Employment intentions of mature age employees in a regional environment
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Touching Freud's dog: H.D.'s tactile poetics
No full text"Do not touch me", Frau Emmy warns Freud in 1889. "Do not touch", Freud echoes in 1933. This time, he is referring to his pet chow, Yofi, warning H.D. that "she snaps - she is very difficult with strangers". Examining the prohibition in light of work by Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy, this article charts the withdrawal that always interrupts touch. Despite Freud's taboo, however, H.D.'s writing seeks to make contact in strange and unnerving ways. Developing Julia Kristeva's account of the semiotic, this paper proposes a literature of touch. Reading H.D.'s poems, alongside Tribute to Freud, and her letters, the author demonstrates that H.D.'s poetics are always haunted by the very (im)possibility of contact
Caciques as Placeholders in the Guarani Missions of Eighteenth Century Paraguay
No full textabstract: This essay uses census data from the eighteenth century to examine the leadership role of caciques in the Guaraní missions. Cacique succession between 1735 and 1759 confirms that the position of cacique transitioned from the Guaraníes’ flexible interpretation of hereditary succession to the Jesuits’ rigid idea of primogenitor (father to eldest son) succession. This essay argues that scholars overstate the caciques’ leadership role in the Guaraní missions. Adherence to primogenitor succession did not take into account a candidate's leadership qualities, and thus, some caciques functioned as placeholders for organizing the mission population and calculating tribute and not as active leaders. An assortment of other Guaraní leadership positions compensated for this weakness by providing both access to leadership roles for non-caciques who possessed leadership qualities but not the proper bloodline and additional leadership opportunities for more capable caciques. By taking into account leadership qualities and not just descent, these positions provided flexibility and reflected continuity with pre-contact Guaraní ideas about leadership.This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published as Sarreal, Julia (2014). Caciques as Placeholders in the Guarani Missions of Eighteenth Century Paraguay. COLONIAL LATIN AMERICAN REVIEW, 23(2), 224-251. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10609164.2014.917547. Copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10609164.2014.91754
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Fourteen fabulous acrostic bibliophiles
No full textAcrostics based on the names of 14 friends of the author, and his own. The title page and colophon are also written as acrostics also.
The people are: Robert E. Massmann; Samuel E. Murray; J.N.B. Artfield; Ruth E. adomeit; F. J. Board; Glen Dawson; A. J. St. Onge; Julia P. Wightman; Eugene D. Buchanan; Francis J. Gagiardi; Royce L. Gale Jr.; Philip Bliss; Julian I. Edison; and Raymond A. Smith
Connecting beliefs, noticing and differentiated teaching practices: a study among pre-service teachers and teachers
No full textThe ability of identifying decisive classroom situations such as inclusive instructions, named 'noticing', has been identified as a crucial skill in the context of creating inclusive classrooms. To our knowledge, the associations between differentiated teacher beliefs (i.e. growth mindset and ethical compass), noticing abilities, and implementation of differentiated teaching practices have not been empirically explored. This study aims to explore and contrast these associations by conducting two structural models within both pre-service teacher and in-service teacher contexts. The instruments consisted of self-reported questionnaires and a standardised video-based comparative judgement instrument. Results indicated that differentiated teachers' beliefs predict teachers' noticing of inclusive classroom situations. Regarding pre-service teachers, growth mindset beliefs also worked as filters on noticing inclusive instructions but not for ethical compass beliefs, as they are still inactive. Another important finding is that pre-service and in-service teachers' ability to notice inclusive instructions did not function as mediator between differentiated beliefs and practices. It can be concluded that more empirical grounding on the connection between pre-service teachers' and teachers' noticing of inclusive classroom situations with actual classroom practices is needed.Griful-Freixenet, J (corresponding author), Vrije Univ Brussel, Dept Educ Sci, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium.
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Reading-related skills in earlier- and later-schooled children
No full textWe investigate the effects of age-related factors and formal instruction on the development of reading-related skills in children aged four and seven years. Age effects were determined by comparing two groups of children at the onset of formal schooling; one aged seven (later-schooled) and one aged four (earlier-schooled). Schooling effects were measured by comparing the later-schooled group with earlier-schooled age-matched controls. There were significant effects of age and schooling on phonological awareness and visual-verbal learning, and an effect of age, but not schooling, on vocabulary and short-term verbal memory. We conclude that age-related factors and reading instruction contribute to the development of phoneme awareness and that vocabulary and verbal memory improve with age
‘Knocking at the door of humanity’: Using co-creation and community-based participatory research to foster citizenship for individuals with lived experience of dementia
No full textThe lived experience of dementia includes loss of identity due to the negative and pessimistic social narratives that are stigmatizing and socially isolating. In the community-based participatory research (CBPR) project Raising the Curtain on the Lived Experiences of Dementia, eleven individuals living with dementia participated as ‘peer collaborators’ in weekly co-creative workshops over two years. The purpose of this study was to investigate how peer collaborators described their involvement in Raising the Curtain in relation to their social participation and ability to effect social messages about dementia. Data gathered from the workshops, including transcripts (8) and one-on-one evaluation interviews (103), were used for analysis. Research findings revealed that the participants’ engagement as peer collaborators fostered their ability to enact resistance and social citizenship, including sharing lived experiences, combating the stigma of dementia, engendering inclusion and belonging, and promoting advocacy. Using CBPR to foster social citizenship suggests that meaningful and purposeful approaches to leisure are possible for individuals living with dementia.Final article publishedaging wellDementiacitizenshipcommunity-based participatory researchco-creationleisur
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