13 research outputs found
sj-docx-1-nnr-10.1177_15459683241231529 – Supplemental material for Efficacy of Intervention of Participation and Executive Functions (I-PEX) for Adults Following Traumatic Brain Injury: A Preliminary Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-nnr-10.1177_15459683241231529 for Efficacy of Intervention of Participation and Executive Functions (I-PEX) for Adults Following Traumatic Brain Injury: A Preliminary Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial by Rotem Eliav, Yael Nadler Tzadok, Shir Segal-Rotenberg and Rachel Kizony in Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair</p
The Hybrid Identity of Alvisa Zambelli, a.k.a Lea Gaon: Jewish convert, Christian Mystic and Demoniac
No full textIl saggio ricostruisce la storia di Alvisa Zambelli alias Lea Gaon, convertita dall’ebraismo al cattolicesimo e inquisita dal Sant’Uffizio di Venezia nel XVIII secolo per sospetti di simulazione di santità e di possessione diabolica. Sulla base della documentazione inquisitoriale – che comprende relazioni di esorcisti e confessori, una lunga relazione “autobiografica”, una sorta di diario redatto nel 1730 (con racconti dettagliati di visioni e di battaglie con i demoni – l’autrice si concentra in particolare sul rapporto tra “ego-documenti” e identità ibride. L’identità ebraica, costantemente negata ma che riemerge continuamente nella vita e nella scrittura “autobiografica” di Alvisa/Lea, è presentata come un tratto caratterizzante della cultura religiosa e dell’identità individuale della neofita. Il saggio mette in luce la tensione tra una narrazione che per la sua stessa natura tende all’unità e alla linearità, e un’esperienza biografica segnata dalla sofferenza della conversione e dalla frammentarietà di un’identità “multipla”.The article reconstructs the story of the Jewish convert Alvisa Zambelli a.k.a. Lea Gaon, questioned by the Holy Office in Venice in the eighteenth century because of suspicions of demonic possession and simulated sanctity. Relying on inquisitorial sources—containing reports by exorcists and confessors, a long and supposedly “autobiographical” account, and a kind of diary written in 1730 with detailed reports of visions and demonic battles—the author draws on the case of Alvisa Zambelli to address the relationship between ego-documents and hybrid identities. The neophyte’s Jewish identity, constantly obliterated yet continuously resurfacing in the life and in the “autobiographic” narrative of Alvisa/Lea, is presented as a defining trait of her religious culture and identity. The article focuses on the tension between a story which by its very nature strives for unity and reformulation, and a biographical experience characterized by the suffering brought about by conversion and the fragmentary nature of a multiple identity
Profiles of executive functioning following traumatic brain injury and stroke using the assessment of participation and executive functions: combined cross-sectional and longitudinal designs
No full textObjectives: The Assessment of Participation and Executive Functions (A-PEX) evaluates executive functioning through daily participation in complex daily activities. This study examines its ability to discriminate between executive functioning profiles post-traumatic brain injury and post-stroke and its sensitivity to changes.
Design: Cross-sectional with a longitudinal component.
Patients: Adults with post-traumatic brain injury (n = 28) and post-stroke (n = 26) in a rehabilitation facility.
Methods: Patients were administered the A-PEX, Multiple Errands Test-Hospital version and Color Trail Test at 2 time-points 1 month apart. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment was administered at the first time-point, and Executive Functions Performance Test’s Internet-based Bill Payment subtest at the second. The analysis used Mann–Whitney and Wilcoxon signed-rank tests.
Results: The stroke group’s A-PEX scores were higher than the traumatic brain injury group’s at the first time-point (p < 0.05). No differences were found in the other assessments. Within-group differences in both groups were significant in the A-PEX (–3.7 < r < – 2.3, p < 0.05) and Multiple Errands Test-Hospital version (–3.4 < r < –3.3, p < 0.01).
Conclusion: The A-PEX may provide valuable information about the uniqueness of executive functioning profiles and patients’ progress
Muslim-Christian relations in Palestine during the British mandate period
No full textMy dissertation
examines
Muslim-Christian
relations
in Palestine during the British
mandate period, specifically, around the question of what constituted
Palestinian-Arab identity. More broadly
speaking, the dissertation
addresses the topic within the
context of the larger debate
concerning the role of material
factors (those
related to
specific
historical developments
and circumstances) versus that of
ideological
ones. in
determining
national
identities. At the beginning
of the twentieth, century, two models
of
Arab
nationalism were proposed-a more secular one emphasising a shared
language
and culture
(and thus, relatively
inclusive
of non-Muslims) and one wherein
Arab identity
was seen as essentially an extension of the Islamic
religious
community, or umma.
While
many
historians dealing
with
Arab
nationalism
have
tended to focus
on the role of
language (likewise, the role of
Christian Arab
intellectuals), I
would maintain that
it is the latter
model that proved
determinative
of
how
most
Muslim Arabs
came to conceive of their identity
as Arabs. Both
models
were essentially
intellectual
constructs; that the latter
prevailed
in the end reflects the
predominance of material
factors
over
ideological
ones.
Specifically, I
consider the
impact
of social, political and economic changes related to the Tanzimat
reforms and
European
economic penetration of the nineteenth century; the role of proto-nationalist
models of communal
identification-particularly
those related to religion; and
finally,
the role played
by
political actors seeking to gain or consolidate authority through the
manipulation of proto-nationalist symbols
Short‐term plasticity following motor sequence learning revealed by diffusion magnetic resonance imaging
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New techniques in NMR spectroscopy
No full textIn 1989, Soerensen introduced a method, the unitary bound, for calculating the maximum efficiencies of coherence transfer processes in NMR. This thesis applies this method to quadrupolar nuclei, an area not investigated by Soerensen. In doing so, several questions are raised, and answered, as to the implications of the unitary bound for coherence transfer processes in all areas of NMR. These include discussions of when such processes can be reversed without loss of signal and when sequential coherence transfer steps can be carried out with both steps having the maximum efficiency. One area of NMR of quadrupolar nuclei which has attracted some interest over the past few years has been the selective excitation of "2"3Na nuclei in ordered environments. This was hinted at by Jaccard et al. in 1986 and demonstrated in biological systems by Eliav et al. in 1992, who achieved the selective excitation using a double-quantum filtration (DQF) experiment. The following year, Kemp-Harper and Wimperis demonstrated that the Jeener-Broekaert experiment could be used to achieve the same selectivity through excitation of quadrupolar order. The unitary bound shows that neither of these experiments achieve the maximum coherence transfer efficiency. This thesis sets out to improve upon the efficiency of these two experiments. Two multiple-pulse experiments are investigated. One seeks to improve upon the efficiency of the Jeener-Broekaert experiment for spin I = 3/2 nuclei by 33% to achieve the unitary bound efficiency. The other seeks to improve the efficiency of the selective DQF experiment by 41% to achieve the bound for spin I= 3/2 nuclei. "2"3Na NMR spectra of cartilage and a lyotropic liquid crystal are presented which show that, although the new version of the Jeener-Broekaert experiment achieves no greater efficiency in practical application than the original, the new DQF experiment produces up to half of the expected improvement in efficiency. Alternative techniques to the Jeener-Broekaert experiment for exciting and detecting quadrupolar order are the well-known methods of ADRF and ARRF. Furthermore, these methods promise to be broadband with respect to the quadrupolar splitting. The application of these techniques to quadrupolar nuclei is investigated theoretically and it is proved that they will achieve the unitary bound coherence transfer efficiencies for any quadrupolar nucleus. ADRF and ARRF pulse shapes are derived for spins I = 1 and I = 3/2 and applied to "2H and "2"3Na NMR of cartilage and liquid crystals. Although the desired improvements in sensitivity are not observed in practice, the broadband nature of these methods is demonstrated. The use of an adiabatic frequency-swept pulse train to excite second-rank double-quantum coherence is also investigated, both theoretically and using computer simulations. (author)SIGLEAvailable from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:D203731 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreGBUnited Kingdo
In This Issue: Planners Coming to the Table
No full textIn this issue, “Planners Coming to the Table,” we focus on how the planning community has come in recent years to embrace food systems as a legitimate focus of their profession. This is a watershed event, since planners are trained to provide systematic analyses and process skills to opportunities and challenges faced by communities — things all too often lacking in agriculture and food system work.Back in 1986 when I was a graduate student in the department of city and regional planning, with a focus on food systems and a minor in extension education, at Cornell University, I was a bit of an odd duck, talking in graduate seminars about food policy councils, how the city of Knoxville was retrofitting buses and changing their routes to accommodate inner-city grocery shoppers, and how farmers’ markets were really functioning as rural microenterprise incubators. My advisor, Pierre Clavel, the recently retired professor and author of Progressive Cities (1986) and Activists in City Hall (2010), humored my interests and encouraged me to passionately pursue food system planning. I wasn’t the only planning student interested in food and agriculture, but at that time we were few and far between.Today the situation is quite different. The American Planning Association has adopted a “Policy Guide on Community and Regional Food Planning,” planning students are pressing their departments to offer food system planning courses, and Cornell and many other planning programs around North America have begun to accommodate them: hiring faculty with food systems expertise, developing new courses, PhD programs, research groups, and the like (e.g., efforts at the University of Buffalo and the University of Wisconsin). In this issue you will read about the pedagogical roots of this nascent field of planning and get a glimpse into cutting-edge practices.We dedicate this issue to Jerome Kaufman and the intrepid young planners he has helped to inspire, some of whom are pictured on the cover of this issue (see the cover photos’ captions at the top of the table of contents). They have challenged the conventional wisdom in the planning profession and successfully argued that food systems uniquely bridge well established planning fields such as community and economic development, land use, and transportation. While food system planners are really just at the beginning of this exciting period of growth, they have added their shoulders to the wheel, and as a result we will see an accelerated pace in the movement to create more equitable and sustainable food systems. For this, we take our collective hat off to you!In this first issue of our second volume, papers cover a broad swath of the nascent food system planning field — from pedagogy to practice. Minaker and co-authors and Freedgood and co-authors provide a thorough review of the approaches and tools used by planners and allied professionals to assess community-level food systems. Mendes and Nasr (with multiple contributors, including Jerome Kaufman) and Soma and Wakefield explore the emerging roles (opportunities and challenges) of planning faculty and practicing planners. Evans-Cowley and Desjardins and colleagues provide detailed case studies of incorporating food systems into regional comprehensive planning. One of the powerful analytical tools planners can bring to the table is geographic information systems. Giombolini et al., Ruelle et al., Nixon and Doud, and Hu et al., use spatial analysis to explore the potential for diversification, foodshed development, food security infrastructure, and spatial characteristics of food deserts. Horst et al., Day-Farnsworth and Morales, and Levkoe and Wakefield make explicit cases for planner engagement in alternative value chains, food distribution systems such as urban food hubs (for which they propose a new typology), and community food centers.Our open call papers in this issue include Burnett et al.’s consumer preference study, which suggests that a more narrow definition of “local” may not increase price premiums significantly. McCuistion et al. studied cattle morbidity in a niche beef cooperative and make management recommendations to minimize losses and costs. Jackson et al. provide a case study of the unique health insurance rebate program managed by a CSA coalition in Wisconsin. Finally, Adekunle et al. explore ethnic vegetable demand in Toronto and the prospects for farm diversification in response to that demand.We also offer two superlative book reviews: Eliav Bitan reviews Fred Kirschenmann’s latest collection of essays entitled Cultivating an Ecological Conscience, and Nevin Cohen reviews de la Salle and Holland’s Agricultural Urbanism: Handbook for Building Sustainable Food Systems in 21st Century Cities — calling it a “manifesto” about building place around food.Lastly, our regular columnists offer their views on hot topics related to food system planning and current affairs. Rami Zurayk writes about the absurdities of the current global food regime and the need for it to be “occupied.” Ken Meter gives us 17 reasons to conduct food system assessments and challenges us to think deeper than numbers alone. John Ikerd explores the challenges of land use planning for sustainable food systems and offers a potentially more equitable and viable approach to farmland protection than purchasing development rights.Happy reading — and best wishes for 2012!Publisher and Editor in Chie
