133 research outputs found
Ovarian steroid cell tumor in pregnancy-a rare occurrence: Report of a case and review of the literature
No full textBackground: Steroid-cell tumors of the ovary are very rare, especially during pregnancy, and they must be distinguished from luteoma of pregnancy.
Case: An 18-year-old female, gravida 3, para 1-0-1-1, at 38 weeks' of gestation, had an adnexal mass that was discovered incidentally during a Caesarean section. The tumor was excised and her male infant was normal.
Results: Histologic workup revealed the tumor to be a steroid-cell tumor, which is exceedingly rare in pregnancy.
Conclusions: Ovarian steroid-cell tumors, which are malignant one-third of the time, are difficult to distinguish from luteoma of pregnancy.Peer reviewe
Smile by R. Telgemeier - 2nd review
No full textTelgemeier, Raina. Smile. New York: Scholastic, 2010. Print I picked the book Smile to review because it tells you about the author\u27s childhood. Going to the dentist, getting braces, going for gum surgery, severely injuring her two front teeth, and getting fake ones, while that\u27s going on, she was in a major earthquake. After getting braces her friends were making fun of her and when she finally left middle school and goes off to high school she finds new friends that are kind to her. And then when she got her braces off they did not make fun of her. That\u27s how she knew she found her true friends. I give this 4 out of 5. I recommend this book to anybody that likes graphic novels.Recommended: 4 out of 4 stars Reviewer: ShaunaMy name is Shauna and I like to read graphic novels
Loving literature : a cultural history /
No full text"Of the many charges laid against contemporary literary scholars, one of the most common--and perhaps the most wounding--is that they simply don't love books. And while the most obvious response is that, no, actually the profession of literary studies does acknowledge and address personal attachments to literature, that answer risks obscuring a more fundamental question: Why should they? That question led Deidre Shauna Lynch into the historical and cultural investigation of Loving Literature. How did it come to be that professional literary scholars are expected not just to study, but to love literature, and to inculcate that love in generations of students? What Lynch discovers is that books, and the attachments we form to them, have long played a role in the formation of private life--that the love of literature, in other words, is neither incidental to, nor inextricable from, the history of literature. Yet at the same time, there is nothing self-evident or ahistorical about our love of literature: our views of books as objects of affection have clear roots in late eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century publishing, reading habits, and domestic history."--Publisher's Web site.Includes bibliographical references and index.At home in English -- Choosing an author as you choose a friend -- Making it personal -- Possessive love -- Literary history and the man who loved too much -- Wedded to books: nineteenth-century bookmen at home -- English literature for everyday use -- Going steady: canons' clockwork -- Dead poets societies -- Canon love in Gothic libraries -- Poetry at death's door."Of the many charges laid against contemporary literary scholars, one of the most common--and perhaps the most wounding--is that they simply don't love books. And while the most obvious response is that, no, actually the profession of literary studies does acknowledge and address personal attachments to literature, that answer risks obscuring a more fundamental question: Why should they? That question led Deidre Shauna Lynch into the historical and cultural investigation of Loving Literature. How did it come to be that professional literary scholars are expected not just to study, but to love literature, and to inculcate that love in generations of students? What Lynch discovers is that books, and the attachments we form to them, have long played a role in the formation of private life--that the love of literature, in other words, is neither incidental to, nor inextricable from, the history of literature. Yet at the same time, there is nothing self-evident or ahistorical about our love of literature: our views of books as objects of affection have clear roots in late eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century publishing, reading habits, and domestic history."--Publisher's Web site
The Impact of Ethnic Geography Established in Colonial Kenya on Politics Post-Independence
No full textMany colonized nations post-independence struggle to maintain a political system representative of the majority of its people and instead consolidates power and resources to a select few. Kenya in particular has struggled with this, as they have been independent of British rule since 1963 yet have been unable to maintain an effective multi-party democratic system. Much of Kenya’s political turmoil comes from tensions amongst various ethnic groups as they fight to obtain access to power and resources for their specific groups. These tensions between ethnic groups can be traced back to British colonial rule as Britain initially divided the region into distinct districts giving groups of people tribal identities based on their location. While this style of rule mostly benefited European settlers, some tribal groups would benefit more than others based on their location and access to resources. This paper will look at how this system which consolidated power to a select few, would have lasting effects in Kenyan politics and result in a struggle to maintain an effective multi-party democracy.Peer reviewe
Development and use of a G. mellonella infection model to discover novel virulence mutants in B. anthracis
No full textUnderstanding bacterial virulence provides insight into the molecular basis behind infection and could identify new targets for drug development. Currently, in vivo virulence is assessed in the mouse model. While this model is effective, there are constraints associated with vertebrate use. This study investigated the invertebrate wax worm larvae, G. mellonella, as an alternative in vivo model for B. anthracis. We constructed and assessed several virulence mutants and found that G. mellonella effectively distinguished between virulent and avirulent strains. We also tested whether G. mellonella could identify novel virulence mutants. Transposon mutants were screened for deficits in reactive oxygen species (ROS) survival and iron acquisition and were then assessed in G. mellonella. Two were found to have an in vivo phenotype. These results demonstrate the potential effectiveness of G. mellonella as an infection model and could increase the efficiency in the identification of novel bacterial virulence mutants
Author Correction: “Tossing a coin:” defining the excessive use of short-acting beta2-agonists in asthma—the views of general practitioners and asthma experts in primary and secondary care
No full textIn the PDF and HTML versions of this Brief Communication a couple of words are not shown in a sentence in the penultimate sentence of the first paragraph of the Results, changing the meaning. This sentence should have been “The setting of a SABA use threshold was likened to “tossing a coin” (Expert 3, primary care).
Iranian Contemporary Flute Music: An Analysis of Kouchyar Shahroudi's Dances Mystiques (2017) and Kiawasch SahebNassagh's Amusie (2018) for flute and piano
No full textThis document explores how Iranian native composers who have studied Western classical music incorporate elements of Iranian classical music in their compositions. The first section covers the history of Western music in Iran, spanning from the early 1910s to 1979. It includes charts, references and resources for further study. The next section provides biographical information about Kouchyar Shahroudi (b.1959) and Kiawasch SahebNassagh (b.1968), establishing the historical placement of each composer within the context of Iranian and Western music. The author includes a structural analysis of the pieces Danses Mystiques (2017) by Kouchyar Shahroudi and Amusie (2018) by Kiawasch SahebNassagh, addressing the question of "Iranian identity" in the music. The author provides musical examples from each piece and compares them to their Iranian classical music origins. These examples can be a motive, melody or even a textural idea. The Iranian classical music examples compare the composers' uses of the melodies with the origins of the melodies. Each composer has a different approach in forming his own hybrid Iranian-Western style of composition. The goal is to define "Iranian identity" and explore its manifestation in each composer's work
ChemEscape: Redox and thermodynamics─puzzling out key concepts in general chemistry
No full textGamification of learning in chemistry education is a growing field. Chemistry themed escape room activities, incorporating course learning objectives into puzzle solution, have become a popular tool allowing for students to apply course knowledge in novel settings. Escape room activities, like their public counterparts, provide subtle guidance to students through the introduction of clues and hints within the game. However, many students are met with mild frustration at the lack of direct questioning leading to time-restraints in puzzle solution. Here, we introduce a new series of ChemEscape Battle Box puzzles focusing on chemical equilibria, redox chemistry, and thermodynamics. By incorporating guiding, exam-style questioning into the puzzle we found students were more readily able to solve the puzzles within and related them back to course learning objectives
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