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Lecture: Columnist and author Anya Kamenetz speaks on "Generation Debt"
No full textIncludes descriptive metadata provided by producer in MP3 file: "Columnist and author Anya Kamenetz speaks on 'Generation Debt' as part of the Project Dialogue series, a yearlong, university-wide program that seeks to involve the entire Vanderbilt community in public discourse and reflection. Kamenetz explores the financial dangers faced by young people today." Kamenetz wrote the book Generation Debt. She focuses primarily on student loans, credit card debt and the importance of saving for retirement
Russell Lazeby, Safety Officer, in his office at the Tennant Creek sleeper factory site on the Stuart Highway, 3 August, 2002 [picture] /
No full textPart of collection: Alice Springs to Darwin Railway construction, Northern Territory, 1-6 August, 2002.; Title supplied by photographer.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an24766800
Reducing eating disorder risk factors in members of a national sorority: a benchmarking study
No full textThis study examined the transportability and generalizability of “Reflections,” an evidence-based eating disorder prevention program developed for undergraduate women. Previous trials of “Reflections” have been conducted at one local university in the Southern portion of the United States and with members of the TriDelta sorority at a Southern University. The program’s applicability to other sororities and to collegiate campuses in distinct geographical regions is therefore an important empirical question. This study also examined whether analyzing data with repeated measures ANOVA and latent growth curve modeling would yield similar results. Participants were undergraduate women recruited from one sorority at Rutgers University and were 18 years of age or older. Participants who took part in “Reflections” were assessed at three time points: baseline, post-treatment, and 5-month follow-up. Primary outcomes were body dissatisfaction (assessed using the Satisfaction and Dissatisfaction of Body Parts Scale), thin ideal internalization (assessed using the Ideal Body Stereotype Scale – Revised), negative affect (assessed using the Positive and Negative Affect Scale), and eating disorder psychopathology (assessed using the Eating Disorder Examination – Questionnaire). Results suggest that “Reflections” is transportable and generalizable, as the majority of eligible students participated in the program and evidenced statistically significant reductions in thin ideal internalization, eating disorder psychopathology, and body dissatisfaction at post-treatment and statistically significant reductions in thin ideal internalization and eating disorder psychopathology at 5-month follow-up. Participants did not show reductions in negative affect and rates of participation were lower than those obtained in previous studies. When data were analyzed using a latent growth curve model, participants evidenced statistically significant reductions in thin ideal internalization, eating disorder psychopathology, and body dissatisfaction from baseline through 5-month follow-up. Implications of the findings and future directions are discussed.Psy. D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Rebecca Anya Grei
Juvenile justice: equity considerations
No full textby Anya Sekino, Juvenile Crime Prevention Manager, Youth Development Council.Title from PDF caption (viewed on June 30, 2020).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references (pages 18-19).Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Fundamentally unchanged northwestern African rainfall regimes across the Plio-Pleistocene transition
No full textNorthern African climate is characterized by strongly contrasting wet summers and dry winters. Dust exported by the northeasterly trade (Harmattan) winds creates marine sedimentary records that have been long interpreted to show that northern African climate became drier and more variable across the Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary [2.58 million years ago (Ma)], when global climate cooled and high-latitude glacial-interglacial cycles intensified. However, questions about the impact of summer rainfall on winter dust fluxes and thus the history of the African summer monsoons remain. We present a leaf wax hydrogen isotope record from offshore northwestern Africa that demonstrates that rainfall regimes remained stable and varied solely in response to 21,000-year cycles in summer insolation from 3.5 to 2.5 Ma. We infer that the summer rains and winter winds respond to different climate forcings, with summer rainfall driven by solar radiation over the northern African landmass and the winter trades affected by high-latitude climate and meridional temperature gradients
Local Blaschke-Kakutani ellipsoid characterization and Banach's isometric subspaces problem
No full textWe prove the following local version of Blaschke-Kakutani's characterization of ellipsoids: Let V be a finite-dimensional real vector space, B subset of V a convex body with 0 in its interior, and 2 <= k < dim Van integer. Suppose that the body B is contained in a cylinder based on the cross-section B boolean AND X for every k-plane X from a connected open set of linear k-planes in V. Then in the region of V swept by these k-planes B coincides with either an ellipsoid, or a cylinder over an ellipsoid, or a cylinder over a k-dimensional base. For k = 2 and k = 3 we obtain as a corollary a local solution to Banach's isometric subspaces problem: If all cross-sections of B by k-planes from a connected open set are linearly equivalent, then the same conclusion as above holds. (c) 2025 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).Funding
This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation under Grant 21-11-00040. The second author was supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research 24 S. Ivanov et al. / Journal of Functional Analysis 289 (2025) 111063 Council [EP/S021590/1], The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Geometry and Number Theory (The London School of Geometry and Number Theory), University College London.
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The authors are grateful to the anonymous referee for prompting us to write Remark 1.5
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Two stories from "Trishanku Aur Anya Kahaniyam", by Mannu Bhandari. A translation and commentary
No full textMannu Bhandari is a critically-acclaimed author in contemporary India. The two stories from Trishanku Aur Anya Kahaniyam (Trishanku and Other Stories), "Trishanku" and "Darar Bharne Ki Darar" ("The Rift of Filling in the Rift"), are presented translated from the original Hindi into English. These stories, written from the viewpoint of adolescent female narrators, explore the concept of rebelling against long-established tradition in India, seen from the standpoint of young persons seeking maturity. Each contains a 'story within a story' wherein a marriage is highlighted: one a non-traditional 'love-marriage,' and the other a traditional, arranged marriage which is unhappy. In addition, there is a commentary in which facets of Mannu Bhandari's literary skill and implications of the above-mentioned themes are considered, and various problems of translating from the Hindi language into English while trying to do justice to a consummate artist are discussed
Literary St. Petersburg in Contemporary Russian Transnational Writing: Anya Ulinich, Gary Shteyngart, and Zinaida Lindén
No full textThis article elucidates the ways in which the Russian literary tradition and literature, associated with St. Petersburg in particular, are reflected in contemporary Russian transnational fiction written in English and Swedish. The article focuses on the work of three prominent writers: the American-Russian writers Gary Shteyngart and Anya Ulinich, and their respective novels Absurdistan (2006) and Petropolis (2007), and the Finnish-Swedish-Russian author Zinaida Lindén and her novels Waiting for an Earthquake (2004) and Takakirves–Tokyo (2007).The main argument of this article is that while the fourth wave of transnational writers are well-acquainted with the St. Petersburg myth, they do not, as a rule, develop the literary tradition of the peterburgskij tekst further in their own texts. Instead, St. Petersburg, as well as Russian literature associated with the city, is employed in the construction of a new hybrid identity, in which Russian heritage is complemented by the culture of the author’s new country of residence.</p
A lymphocyte-microglia-astrocyte axis in chronic active multiple sclerosis
No full textFull author list omitted for brevity. For the full list of authors, see article.Multiple sclerosis (MS) lesions that do not resolve in the months after they form harbour ongoing demyelination and axon degeneration, and are identifiable in vivo by their paramagnetic rims on MRI scans(1-3). Here, to define mechanisms underlying this disabling, progressive neurodegenerative state(4-6) and foster development of new therapeutic agents, we used MRI-informed single-nucleus RNA sequencing to profile the edge of demyelinated white matter lesions at various stages of inflammation. We uncovered notable glial and immune cell diversity, especially at the chronically inflamed lesion edge. We define 'microglia inflamed in MS' (MIMS) and 'astrocytes inflamed in MS', glial phenotypes that demonstrate neurodegenerative programming. The MIMS transcriptional profile overlaps with that of microglia in other neurodegenerative diseases, suggesting that primary and secondary neurodegeneration share common mechanisms and could benefit from similar therapeutic approaches. We identify complement component 1q (C1q) as a critical mediator of MIMS activation, validated immunohistochemically in MS tissue, genetically by microglia-specific C1q ablation in mice with experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, and therapeutically by treating chronic experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis with C1q blockade. C1q inhibition is a potential therapeutic avenue to address chronic white matter inflammation, which could be monitored by longitudinal assessment of its dynamic biomarker, paramagnetic rim lesions, using advanced MRI methods.Neuroscienc
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