155 research outputs found
War and Peace in Russia\u27s Realms: A&S 100 with Karen Petrone
No full textLater this spring, Professor Karen Petrone will begin teaching a new 7-week class as part of this year\u27s Passport to the World Program: Reimagining Russia’s Realms. The class, A&S: 100 - War & Peace in Russia\u27s Realms will explore the Russian and Soviet experience of World War I, the Russian Civil War, and World War II through literature, film, and history. Additionally, students will have the opportunity to discover Russian author Leo Tolstoy’s surprisingly influential role in the development of the non-violent resistance movement.
Petrone, the chair of the Department of History, hopes to help students analyze how Russian memories of past wars shape the country today. This topic is one Petrone is already quite familiar with—so much so in fact she\u27s written a book on the subject: The Great War in Russian Memory. The course also offers a unique opportunity for students to learn about Russia\u27s past through its connection to a series of other classes and a play that students will have the opportunity to see at the end of the semester
Similar Frequencies of HLA Risk Genotypes in Type 1 Diabetes over the past Six Decades in a Caucasian Population
No full textAtypical Sexual Abuse in Childhood
No full textThis study focuses on the analysis of some cases of atypical collective sexual abuse (called RA or ritual abuse). These cases of abuse are characterized by the presence of tales of bloody satanic rites, bizarre disguises animal related game with a sexual background, psychological and sexual violence, protracted intimidation conducted by abusers of children to prevent these events not to tell by their parents.
The fundamental objective was to compare the prototypical cases of ritual abuse as the case of McMartin Preschool (“the case 0”) in California and the case of an Italian preschool. For the comparison we have used scientific articles about the McMartin case and the proceedings of the trial of the Italian case. These official documents were consulted with a particular attention to the psychological construct statements grid, taking into account the role played by the legal and para-legal in the event, the different legal systems in the two nations and the contribution of the media in giving processes a distorted public dimension. It will be discussed more thoroughly the content of the stories of children comparing it with literature Satanist looking coincidences between rituals described by young victims of ritual abuse with the ritual traditions of Satanism. The many ideas taken from scientific sources taken into analyses have not proved sufficient to clarify the dynamics of the various processes related to the ritual abuse given the countless variables involved throughout the evolution of the legal proceedings in which there have been mistakes by the courts that compromised the integrity of the evidence collected in the investigation. To avoid these errors is therefore necessary to extend the study of the psychological factors related to cases of ritual abuse taking into account the legal framework in which these events branded as mass hysteria evolve
Association of β2 adrenergic receptor polymorphisms and related haplotypes with triglicerides and LDL-cholesterol levels
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Early Detection of Photovoltaic Panel Degradation through Artificial Neural Network
No full textIn this paper, an artificial neural network (ANN) is used for isolating faults and degradation phenomena occurring in photovoltaic (PV) panels. In the literature, it is well known that the values of the single diode model (SDM) associated to the PV source are strictly related to degradation phenomena and their variation is an indicator of panel degradation. On the other hand, the values of parameters that allow to identify the degraded conditions are not known a priori because they can be different from panel to panel and are strongly dependent on environmental conditions, PV technology and the manufacturing process. For these reasons, to correctly detect the presence of degradation, the effect of environmental conditions and fabrication processes must be properly filtered out. The approach proposed in this paper exploits the intrinsic capability of ANN to map in its architecture two effects: (1) the non-linear relations existing among the SDM parameters and the environmental conditions, and (2) the effect of the degradation phenomena on the I−V curves and, consequently, on the SDM parameters. The ANN architecture is composed of two stages that are trained separately: one for predicting the SDM parameters under the hypothesis of healthy operation and the other one for degraded condition. The variation of each parameter, calculated as the difference of the output of the two ANN stages, will give a direct identification of the type of degradation that is occurring on the PV panel. The method was initially tested by using the experimental I−V curves provided by the NREL database, where the degradation was introduced artificially, later tested by using some degraded experimental I−V curves.Photovoltaic Materials and Device
C-peptide Response and HLA Genotypes in Subjects With Recent-Onset Type 1 Diabetes After Immunotherapy With DiaPep277 An Exploratory Study
No full textOBJECTIVE-To investigate whether lower risk HLA class II genotypes would influence the efficacy of DiaPep277 therapy in protecting beta-cell function evaluated by C-peptide secretion in recent-onset type I diabetic subjects. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS-Data were collected from type 1 diabetic subjects enrolled in multicenter phase II studies with a randomized, double-blind, and placebo-controlled design in whom fasting and stimulated C-peptide levels were measured. HLA genotypes were classified in high, moderate, and low risk categories. RESULTS-A total of 146 subjects (aged 4.3 to 58.5 years) were enrolled, including 76 children (<18 years old) and 70 adults. At baseline, there was a significant: increase in fasting, maximal, and area under the curve (AUC) C-peptide from high to moderate and low risk HLA genotypes in adults (P for trend <0.04) but not in children. Children showed a decrease of the three parameters over time regardless of therapy and HLA genotype. DiaPep277-treated adults with low risk genotype had significantly higher maximal and AUC C-peptide versus placebo at 12 months (0.04 +/- 0.07 vs. -0.28 +/- 1.09 P < 0.01, and 0.53 +/- 1.3 vs. -4.59 +/- 1.5 P < 0.05, respectively). In the moderate risk genotype group, Delta maximal and AUC C-peptide values were significantly higher in DiaPep277-treated versus placebo-treated patients (P < 0.01 and P < 0.05, respectively). CONCLUSIONS-This exploratory study demonstrates that type I diabetic adults with low and moderate risk HLA genotypes benefit the most from intervention with DiaPep277; the only subgroup with an increase of C-peptide at 12 months after diagnosis was the low risk DiaPep277-treated subgroup. Diabetes 60:3067-3072, 201
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