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Blood and stone on stage: Peter Shaffer's tragic plays /
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão.O objetivo específico desta tese é analisar quatro peças de autoria de Peter Shaffer-The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Equus, Amadeus e Yonadab-observando o uso de técnicas teatrais e a relação com os princípios da tragédia propostos por Aristóteles na Poética. Elas são então comparadas com três importantes peças gregas-Prometeu Acorrentado, de Ésquilo, Édipo Rei, de Sófocles e Medéia, de Eurípides- uma vez que o objetivo geral do presente trabalho é descobrir se existe tragédia moderna, de que forma ela é apresentada nas peças de Shaffer, e em que ela difere da tragédia grega. Na análise empreendida verifica-se que as peças de Shaffer apresentam muitas afinidades com as tragédias gregas e observam vários dos princípios estabelecidos por Aristóteles. No entanto elas se constituem em exemplares genuínos de tragédia moderna, pois discutem questões sérias atuais e apresentam personagens desafiadoras que enfrentam situações complexas e dilemas éticos e metafísicos. Além disso, as peças de Shaffer apresentam enredos muito bem elaborados, que combinam com habilidade os vários recursos teatrais descritos, e culminam numa experiência envolvente de teatro. No primeiro capítulo o paradigma teórico da tese é apresentado e analisado-os elementos e recursos teatrais e a Poética de Aristóteles-, mostrando como eles são importantes para o estudo do teatro em geral e para a tragédia em particular. No segundo capítulo os vários itens da fundamentação teórica são aplicados às peças gregas selecionadas, mostrando como elas confirmam e como se desviam dos princípios aristotélicos. No terceiro capítulo, o mesmo é feito em relação às peças de Peter Shaffer. No quarto capítulo as peças de Peter Shaffer são comparadas às gregas, mostrando como um dramaturgo moderno, através de narrativas históricas e míticas, recria o drama trágico, usando os vários recursos teatrais disponíveis para transmitir uma perspectiva trágica da vida. A Conclusão é que, considerando as semelhanças e diferenças detectadas entre as peças de Shaffer e as gregas, as peças de Shaffer podem ser consideradas tragédias modernas relevantes, que resgatam uma visão trágica da vida, tão importante para os gregos, num contexto moderno
General workroom of the MAMAS (Naples)
No full textCapt. C.G. Brownell, T/4 Al Levin, T/4 Fred W. Toelle, T/5 C.H. Wortham. This image is one of several which document the Museum and Medical Arts Service (MAMAS) workrooms and equipment at the 15th Medical General Laboratory, located at La Mostra d'Oltremare, in Naples, Italy. According to Shaffer: ''[This is the] General Workroom of the Naples MAMAS.'
Letter, [Author unclear] to Paulina T. Merritt
No full textHandwritten letter to Paulina Merritt from an unknown author, October 1, 1876.
The Reception of S. T. Coleridge in Europe
No full textSamuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, philosopher and critic, a founder of British Romanticism, wrote with William Wordsworth the Lyrical Ballads (1798), which included his great poem 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'. It was this work which was first to carry his reputation across Europe in many translations and through the rich illustrations by Gustave Doré. His poetry was received as late Romantic, visionary and symbolist, in later phases of European reception; he was known too as the translator of Schiller. His prose was known mainly in selections: chapters of his literary life Biographia Literaria; elements of his Shakespeare lectures; and other literary, political, philosophical and religious lectures, essays, and aphorisms, especially his brilliant Table Talk. In the last fifty years the Notebooks and Letters, and the recent Collected Works, have added to his stature at home and abroad. This collection of essays by an international team of scholars, critics and translators, records how Coleridge’s works have been received, translated and interpreted across Europe from his own time to today, and will contribute to the new recognition of one of the greatest of English poets, critics and cultural thinkers
La position compétitive du port de Durban, de N. M. Shaffer
No full textVigarié André. La position compétitive du port de Durban, de N. M. Shaffer. In: Annales de Géographie, t. 75, n°411, 1966. pp. 617-619
Dietitian-led programming and creation of a mobile application, MealPlot, to induce sustainable and significant weight losses in obese adults
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Previous issue date: 2021-04-26Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 118648
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National and international rates of overweight and obesity have dramatically risen in recent decades due to changes in the global food landscape. Overweight and obesity are linked to many health problems: cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes, elevated cancer risk, and others. Despite best efforts, a sustainable weight management solution does not exist. Existing programs are high cost, have low success rates, and low sustainability. The Individualized Dietary Improvement Program (iDip) and MealPlot mobile application are two projects aiming to develop a weight management program that leads to sustainable weight losses of greater than 5% initial body weight, contributes to healthful dietary changes, and is lower in cost than previous, similarly successful programs.
Methods:
iDip was a two-year before and after study design without a control group. It occurred in-person at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from March 2019-2021. Thirty participants from the surrounding community were enrolled and completed 19 in-person dietitian-led education sessions, three individual advising meetings, dietary monitoring via 24- hour dietary records and food frequency questionnaire, body composition and measurements, and daily self-weighing. Dietary records were collected bi-monthly throughout year 1; food frequency questionnaires at baseline, 12 months, 24 months; and body composition, waist and hip circumference at baseline, 6 months, 15 months, and 24 months. Participants received individualized feedback via weekly weight monitoring charts and the novel, protein-fiber food displays. Outcomes were analyzed using mean, Students t-test, and regression analysis.
MealPlot was developed in coordination with the University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign Applied Research Institute from January 2020-Present. Strategies from iDip 2, namely protein-fiber food displays, weight charts, health assessment, and communication with advisors, are heavily utilized in the application. MealPlot was developed on a HIPAA-secure server pulling data from the USDA Nutrition Database and the participant’s Wi-Fi scale.
Results:
At 12 months, 22 participants (73.3% retention, 13 females) remained enrolled. Mean baseline age and body mass index was 49.3 (11.5, SD) years and 37.4 (5.1) kg/m2, respectively. Mean weight loss was -6.5 (8.4)% and mean body mass index change was -2.33 kg/m2. Weight loss primarily occurred in the first six months, and early weight losses were predictive of long-term weight losses. On both the food frequency questionnaires and dietary records, participants significantly increased protein (p<1e-6) and fiber (p<0.001) densities and significantly reduced caloric intake (p<0.01) and intake of non-nutrient dense foods (p<1e-4). iDip 2 had insignificant improvements in weight loss versus iDip 1 and was significantly lower in cost than similarly successful programming.
The three core features of MealPlot were developed and internally tested: Meal Planner, One Day Record, and Weight Chart. MealPlot will be incorporated in the EMPOWER programming.
Conclusions:
iDip lead to clinically significant weight losses in many participants. However, weight losses were highly variable among participants. Dietary improvements were significant but inconsistent among dietary records. Follow-up studies and larger cohorts are needed to identify the sustainability of weight losses and dietary changes. MealPlot’s core features are fully developed and await incorporation into the EMPOWER program. Based on participant feedback, MealPlot will be updated with additional features.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2023-05-01The student, Annabelle Shaffer, accepted the attached license on 2021-04-20 at 09:41.The student, Annabelle Shaffer, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2021-04-20 at 09:43.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2021-04-26 at 16:46
Handwritten biographical information on Paulina T. McClung Merritt
No full textA handwritten biography of Paulina T. McClung Merritt by an unknown author, 1892.
Heterogeneous and tissue-specific regulation of effector T cell responses by IFN-gamma during Plasmodium berghei ANKA infection.
No full textIFN-γ and T cells are both required for the development of experimental cerebral malaria during Plasmodium berghei ANKA infection. Surprisingly, however, the role of IFN-γ in shaping the effector CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cell response during this infection has not been examined in detail. To address this, we have compared the effector T cell responses in wild-type and IFN-γ(-/-) mice during P. berghei ANKA infection. The expansion of splenic CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells during P. berghei ANKA infection was unaffected by the absence of IFN-γ, but the contraction phase of the T cell response was significantly attenuated. Splenic T cell activation and effector function were essentially normal in IFN-γ(-/-) mice; however, the migration to, and accumulation of, effector CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells in the lung, liver, and brain was altered in IFN-γ(-/-) mice. Interestingly, activation and accumulation of T cells in various nonlymphoid organs was differently affected by lack of IFN-γ, suggesting that IFN-γ influences T cell effector function to varying levels in different anatomical locations. Importantly, control of splenic T cell numbers during P. berghei ANKA infection depended on active IFN-γ-dependent environmental signals--leading to T cell apoptosis--rather than upon intrinsic alterations in T cell programming. To our knowledge, this is the first study to fully investigate the role of IFN-γ in modulating T cell function during P. berghei ANKA infection and reveals that IFN-γ is required for efficient contraction of the pool of activated T cells
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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