265 research outputs found
Overcoming the Fear of Difference
No full textThe Nineteenth Jacoby-Lunin Humanitarian Lecture underwritten by the Frank Jacoby Foundation in collaboration with the Carl and Dorothy Bennett Center for Judaic Studies and Open VISIONS Forum present… Timothy P. Shriver, Activist, author and Chairman of Special Olympics.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/bennettcenter-posters/1341/thumbnail.jp
The cave: A search for the mother’s story in narrative literature
No full textThe mother’s voice is underrepresented in literature. The mother has been a silent figure, always present, often near, featuring in the story of another, but rarely the focus of the story. She has been spoken for, about and around, but rarely empowered to speak for herself.
In this thesis I argue that the mother’s story, in narrative fiction and memoir, should be available, and culturally valued. Since the diversity of women’s experiences of mothering cannot be explained by any single theory or ideology, narrative may articulate the complexities and ambiguities experienced in motherhood in ways that scholarly discourses do not always allow.
This thesis includes a creative component—a collection of related fictional stories narrated by one mother, and entitled “The Cave”. Adopting the concept of the cave, as a metaphor for the transformative potential of mothering, the fiction draws on the mundane, everyday experiences of a life that is centred on caring for children. The exegesis that follows is based on three approaches to mothering narratives: their research, reading and writing. It explores the emergence of the mother’s story within theoretical discourses around motherhood, and its more recent appearances in fiction and non-fiction narratives. It suggests reasons for the absence of the mother’s subjective voice, argues that women have been disadvantaged by this silence, and seeks new possibilities for representing the complexity of mothering experiences
Conference Report: International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade Conference (IIFET) 2014
No full textThe 17th Biennial Conference of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade (IIFET) was held in Brisbane in July 2014. IIFET is the principal international association for fisheries economics, and the biennial conference is an opportunity for the best fisheries economists in the world to meet and share their ideas. \ud
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The conference was organised by CSIRO, QUT, UTAS, University of Adelaide and KG Kailis Ltd. This is the first time the conference has been held in Australia. The conferences covered a wide range of topics of relevance to Australia. These included studies of fishery management systems around the world, identified key issues in aquaculture and marine biodiversity conservation, and provided a forum for new modelling and theoretical approaches to analysing fisheries problems to be presented. The theme of the conference was Towards Ecosystem Based Management of Fisheries: What Role can Economics Play? Several sessions were dedicated to modelling socio-ecological systems, and two keynote speakers were invited to present the latest thinking in the area. \ud
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In this report, the key features of the conference are outlined
Alive but Cancelled: The Public’s Response to the Controversial Author
No full textThis thesis explores how the public has responded to authors J.K. Rowling and Lionel Shriver, who have become the subject of public controversy, and what this response tells us about the current conceptions about the author. Academics like Wenche Ommundsen and English & Frow have established that authors are no longer the faceless names they once were, and several of them have reached a proper celebrity status. Especially now, in a time in which social media exerts great influence on how the general public views celebrities and concepts like “wokeness” and social justice become increasingly relevant topics, celebrities and celebrity authors are often expected to display socially just behaviour and reprimanded when they do not. By analysing the online responses to the controversies caused by these two prominent authors, this thesis argues that the public perceives a strong relationship between authors and their work and generally attributes a great deal of responsibility to popular authors with vast platforms.
Keywords: Lionel Shriver; J.K. Rowling; literary celebrity; wokeness; cancel culture; Death of the Author; transphobia; cultural appropriatio
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IIFET 2000 Author Index
No full textThis alphabetical listing of authors was linked to the papers on the original CD version of the proceedings
Abstract P4-07-01: Assessment of the hereditary component in 94 cancer predisposition genes to triple negative breast cancer
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Background: In women with triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) unselected for age or family history, 8-14% and 5% of patients harbor germline mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2, respectively. Diagnosis of TNBC <60 years of age is one of the NCCN criterion for genetic testing of BRCA1 and BRCA2. The contribution of germline mutations in other cancer predisposition genes to TNBC, is, however, not well-studied.
Methods: TNBC was classified as tumors with <1% positively staining cells for ER and PR and HER2 = 0+, 1+ or 2+/not amplified. Genomic DNA was isolated from blood samples and targeted sequencing was performed using the TruSight Cancer panel (Illumina). Pathogenic mutations were identified using VariantStudio and classified as pathogenic, uncertain significance (VUS) or benign using ClinVar.
Results: 196 female patients diagnosed with TNBC 2001-2014 had genomic DNA available. Average age at diagnosis was 52.8 years (range 34.1-83.4 years). The majority of patients were of European (66%) or African (31%) American ancestry; 26% had a family history and 13% had died of disease with an average time to death of 2.81 years. Twenty-three (12%) of women with TNBC had pathogenic mutations in breast cancer genes BRCA1 (n=14), BRCA2 (n=5), PALB2 (n=1) and CHEK2 (n=3), two women had mutations in the colon cancer genes MUTYH, one had a mutation in the ovarian cancer gene BRIP1, and an additional three women had pathogenic mutations in cancer predisposition genes FANCD2, SDHB and XPC. An additional 42 women had VUS in 20 genes, including one in BRCA1 and 5 in BRCA2.
Discussion: Although the majority of pathogenic mutations in this cohort of women with TNBC were in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes (10%), panel testing allowed for the detection of mutations in other breast (2%), colon (1%), ovarian (1%) and other cancer (2%) predisposition genes. Panel testing thus identifies genes other than BRCA1/2 associated with increased risk of TNBC and may incidentally identify women who would benefit from enhanced surveillance for other cancers.
The opinions or assertions contained herein are the private ones of the author/speaker and are not to be construed as official or reflecting the views of the Department of Defense, the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences or any other agency of the U.S. Government.
Citation Format: Ellsworth RE, Lovejoy LA, Shriver CD. Assessment of the hereditary component in 94 cancer predisposition genes to triple negative breast cancer [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 2017 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium; 2017 Dec 5-9; San Antonio, TX. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2018;78(4 Suppl):Abstract nr P4-07-01.</jats:p
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Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute Research on Salmon
No full textThe author presents research conducted by the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute on consumer preferences and buying habits.KEYWORDS: Markets and trade, Fisheries economics, Salmon: Industry and Research Perspective
Conductivity anisotropy of polyphosphazene-montmorillonite composite electrolytes
No full textThe conductivity of an ordered polyphosphazene Na+-montmorillonite composite has been measured perpendicular (sigma(para)) and parallel (sigma(perp)) to the montmorillonite layers, and the sigma(para)/sigma(perp) is about 100. The temperature dependence of the conductivity is consistent with a coupling between long-range Na+ movement and high-amplitude segmental motion of the polymer. The anisotropy is attributed to greater tortuosity of the Na+ diffusion perpendicular to the montmorillonite layers.Source type: Electronic(1
Enhancement of ion mobility in aluminosilicate-polyphosphazene nanocomposites
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Summary of Remarks Columbia River Pastoral Letter
No full textI view the Columbia River Pastoral Letter as a guide to God’s economy on the Columbia River. What is it that the marine stories of the Bible tell us about what God views as a healthy economy on the water? It is clear that the fishermen’s encounters and stories of the divine on the water are expressed in terms of abundance. Where Jesus is, is abundance. The fishermen’s encounter with the divine is God’s economy on water.These remarks follow several other public presentations made by the author at various meetings regarding the Columbia River Pastoral Letter. For copies of previous presentations, or a fuller explanation of some of the concepts in this document, please contact the author at P.O Box 83, Skamokawa, WA 98647, 360-795-3920; [email protected]: Fisheries economics, Special topics, Columbia River Pastoral Letters Projec
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