3,038 research outputs found
Censorship and claims making regarding problem framing in 5 published RCT's on social anxiety (as identified by the author and Amanda Reiman, PhD).
No full text<p>Censorship and claims making regarding problem framing in 5 published
RCT's on social anxiety (as identified by the author and Amanda
Reiman, PhD).</p
Unveiling Melodies in Shadows: An Analysis of Swedish Female Composer Amanda Maier’s Sonata for Violin and Piano in B Minor
No full textAmanda Maier (1853−1894), a pioneering Swedish violinist and composer of the late nineteenth century, holds a unique place in music history as the first-ever female music director in Sweden. Despite her significant achievements, her compositions have remained relatively unknown. Therefore, the document aims to illuminate Amanda Maier's violin works, focusing on investigating her violin sonata in terms of violin performance and pedagogy. Specifically, the study offers insights into the performance techniques employed and provides other pertinent pedagogical suggestions for each movement. The document features an introductory chapter and a review of the historical context of Maier's life and the violin sonata. Subsequent chapters shift the focus to performance practice and pedagogical suggestions with theoretical analysis. One distinctive feature of the study is the inclusion of practice exercises composed originally by the author, tailored specifically to the techniques found in the sonata. These exercises aid practitioners in incorporating Maier's violin sonata into their program. The study assists violinists in diversifying their performance and teaching literature. It seeks to inspire renewed appreciation for Amanda Maier's artistic legacy because it is important to recognize the remarkable contributions of women in the classical music industry, and Amanda Maier, an underrepresented composer, exemplifies this. The document not only contributes to music research but also enhances pedagogical practices, fostering a more inclusive and equitable environment for female composers in the classical music world
Belonging: natural histories of place, identity and home
No full textCanongate's synopsis:
"Reflecting on family, identity and nature, Belonging is a personal memoir about what it is to have and make a home. It is a love letter to nature, especially the northern landscapes of Scotland and the Scots pinewoods of Abernethy – home to standing dead trees known as snags, which support the overall health of the forest.
Belonging is a book about how we are held in thrall to elements of our past. It speaks to the importance of attention and reflection, and will encourage us all to look and observe and ask questions of ourselves.
Beautifully written and featuring Amanda Thomson’s artwork and photography throughout, it explores how place, language and family shape us and make us who we are."
Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize, 2023
Some of the reviews...
Outstanding - ROBERT MACFARLANE
Amanda Thomson’s new book manages to carve out a distinctive niche for itself . . . This is a passionate book and infused with a sense of rootedness - STUART KELLY, The Scotsman
In recent years rural landscapes have turned into battlegrounds, and nature writing has become increasingly polemical. Belonging is a quiet book of questions in a genre full of answers, but it is all the more powerful and beautiful for this - PATRICK GALBRAITH, TLS
One of the best things I have read in ages . . . Quiet and beautiful and powerful - ALYS FOWLER
Thomson writes of the natural in a way I have yet to encounter before. There is no real hoo-haa, no flowery description of which to speak yet somehow, I came away with that ache inside me — that renewed obsession with the world that is only borne of a very particular kind of writing — poetic, loving, raw . . . Like no other - KERRI Ní DOCHARTAIGH, Caught by the River
In strikingly original takes on Scottish history, environmentalism, Black feminist theory, artmaking, list-making, memory, and memoir, Thomson crafts a cadence that is as wise as it is vitally alive. - MARGOT DOUAIHY, author of Scorched Grac
Interview with Amanda Huron, author, Carving Out the Commons: Tenant Organizing and Housing Cooperatives in Washington, D.C.
No full textIs modern capitalism too far advanced in the U.S. to create common property regimes? Are there models for what an Urban Commons might look like? Join us as we speak with Amanda Huron, author of Carving Out the Commons: Tenant Organizing and Housing Cooperatives in Washington, D.C. (University of Minnesota Press, 2018). She’ll help us understand the theory and practice of Limited Equity Housing Cooperatives and the affordability, control, stability, and community they can provide to low-income communities and the people who live in them
Kathleen Jamie, Chitra Ramaswamy & Amanda Thomson: Antlers of Water - Live Event
No full text‘When we read and write, when we love our fellow creatures, when we walk on the beach, when we just listen and notice, we are not little cogs in the machine, but part of the remedy.’ These luminous words by Kathleen Jamie form part of the introduction to Antlers of Water, an outstanding collection of contemporary Scottish writing about nature and landscape.
The generosity of Jamie’s approach as editor of the collection goes beyond the stellar selection of contributors such as Amy Liptrot, Karine Polwart and Malachy Tallack: she also invokes the agency of readers to make a difference. ‘If, by reading, you are encouraged or confirmed in your love of the natural world, if you’re inspired simply to… look outside, then our job is done.’
In a discussion led by the BBC's Clare English, Jamie is joined by award-winning journalist Chitra Ramaswamy as well as visual artist and writer Amanda Thomson – both contributors to the anthology – to discuss Scotland, landscape and the more-than-human world around us.
This is a live event, with an author Q&A.
Part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival Making Climate Change Personal festival theme
Amanda Galvan Huynh, 46th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textAmanda Galvan Huynh (she/her) is a Xicana writer and educator from Texas. She is the author of a chapbook, Songs of Brujería (Big Lucks September 2019) and Co-Editor of Of Color: Poets’ Ways of Making: An Anthology of Essays on Transformative Poetics (The Operating System 2019). Her debut poetry collection, Where My Umbilical is Buried, is forthcoming in March 2023 with Sundress Publications. Amanda has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best New Poets, and Sundress Publications’ Best of the Net. She was a 2016 AWP Intro Journal Project Award Winner, 2018 Best of the Net Winner, a finalist for the 2015 Gloria Anzaldúa Poetry Prize, and a finalist for the 2017 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. Her poetry can be read in print and online journals such as Hayden’s Ferry Review, Puerto del Sol, The Southampton Review, and others.
Amanda earned her MFA in Poetry at Old Dominion University, BA in English at the University of Texas at Arlington, and BA in Biology at the University of Texas at Dallas. Currently, she is a doctoral student in English at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Analysis of the Drosophila EGFR responsive gene CG4096, which encodes an ADAMTS protein
No full textIn Drosophila, a novel target of the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) signaling pathway, CG4096 was identified using microarray analysis. The gene belongs to the family of ADAMTS (A Disintegrin and Metalloproteinase with Thrombospondin motifs) proteins, which are involved in regulating components of the extracellular matrix (ECM). Tissue culture cells (S2) that stably express Drosophila EGFR under an inducible promoter (S2-DER II) were used to test whether induction can be demonstrated in vitro. Examining expression using Reverse transcription-PCR analysis of S2-DER cells showed that CG4096 was induced, confirming the microarray data. In order to analyze the function of CG4096, a loss of function mutant is being generated by remobilizing a transposable element inserted in the gene. Due to conservation, analyzing the phenotype of a CG4096 Drosophila mutant will likely shed light on the role of ADAMTS genes in vertebrates. This is important because the genes are implicated in multiple disease processes.The Arts & Sciences Undergraduate Research Scholarship (URS)A one-year embargo was granted for this item
Characterization of Drosophila tumor-cell clones that bypass dependence on Ras for proliferation
No full textRas is a highly conserved gene in animals that is a key component of many different cellular pathways that control proliferation, differentiation, and cell death. In its oncogenic form, Ras is implicated in approximately 30% of human cancers. Our lab has generated Drosophila cell lines that express oncogenic Ras (RasV12) in an inducible manner. When Ras expression is turned on, the cells proliferate and when Ras is turned off, the cells stop proliferating. If the cells are maintained without RU486 for about three weeks rare cells start proliferating again and form colonies from which clonal lines were derived. These clones have bypassed dependence on Ras, presumably through genetic changes that activate other growth pathways (Fig. 1). Characterizing the Ras-bypass cells in relation to the parental lines is my thesis project. Seven different Ras-bypass clones were isolated. I conducted western blot analysis to characterize signaling pathways in these clones. The pathways I examined were ERK (MAPK), though which Ras signals, and the stress pathways involving AMPK and p38. From these data I determined that in contrast to the parental lines, the Ras bypass clones do not express stress proteins in the absence of Ras expression. In future work it will be important to determine the growth pathways that are activated in these cells that allow them to continue proliferating. In cancer, bypass mechanisms are often the reason tumors no longer respond to drug treatment targeting the original oncogene driver. In the long term, I expect my results may be useful for developing new therapies that overcome drug resistance by targeting additional pathways.NSFNo embargoAcademic Major: Molecular Genetic
Amanda Galvan Huynh, 44th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textAmanda Galvan Huynh is a Mexican American writer and educator from Texas. She is the author of Lotería (Sundress Publications, 2022), Songs of Brujería (Big Lucks, 2019) and co-editor for Of Color: Poets’ Ways of Making: An Anthology of Essays on Transformative Poetics (Operating System, 2019). Her writing has been supported by fellowships and scholarships from MacDowell, Vermont Studio Center, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and others. She received a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Old Dominion University, and she is a doctoral student in English at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
The development and characterization of neural-specific continuous cell lines in Drosophila melanogaster
No full textNeurodegenerative diseases affect millions of Americans and are caused by the deterioration of neurons in the central nervous system (CNS). The mutations that cause these neurodegenerative diseases have been modeled in Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) transgenic lines that produce flies with neurological defects mirroring the human pathology. Meanwhile, continuous cell lines have transformed biomedical research, making it possible to study biological systems on a scale requiring large numbers of similar cells. However, there is a lack of continuous cell lines of neuronal lineage in Drosophila melanogaster available in the scientific community that would allow for the modeling of neurodegenerative diseases and the detailed study of specific mechanisms within the nervous system. Beyond modeling a neurodegenerative disease phenotype in a fly, continuous cell lines of neuronal lineage would offer a large, homogenous population of cells to potentially study disease pathways and gene function, to test pharmacological targets, and to examine processes occurring before differentiation. The primary objective of this study was to utilize the expression of oncogenic RasV12 and inhibition of the Notch signaling pathway to produce neuronal cell lines in Drosophila melanogaster. In the first approach, the overexpression of RasV12 was limited to cells of neuronal lineage in order to promote their survival over other cell types in the culture. In the second approach, the Notch signaling necessary for segregation of progenitor cells into neuroblasts or epithelial cells was inhibited throughout the Drosophila embryo; without Notch signaling, these progenitor cells all become neuroblasts. For the second objective of the study, cell lines previously established in the lab from constitutive RasV12 expression and that appeared to exhibit neuronal properties were characterized with neuronal lineage markers. This study tests the efficacy of utilizing RasV12 or the inhibition of the Notch signaling pathway for the production of continuous cell lines of neuronal lineage to model and develop therapies for neurodegenerative diseases.2015 and 2016 Undergraduate Research Scholarships to NH, 2014 NSF grant to ASNo embargoAcademic Major: Biolog
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