126 research outputs found
Anatomy of an Article: The Peer‐Review Process as Method
No full textIn this article, we provide an unprecedented insider view of the peer-review process. Specifically, we highlight how an author (Vora) revised a manuscript submitted to American Anthropologist in a manner that resulted in its eventual publication in the journal. This included responding in various revisions of the manuscript to comments from the editor (Boellstorff), as well as a reviewer who has agreed to reveal her identity (Karen Ho). By showing examples of this revision process, we explore the "anatomy of an article," illustrating how a deeper understanding of the peer-review process can contribute to anthropological professionalization and successful publishing. © 2012 by the American Anthropological Association
Occupational Therapy in Neurocritical Care: Use of Cycle Ergometry for Early Upper-Extremity Rehabilitation in a Critically Ill Stroke Patient
No full textAbstract
Date Presented 3/31/2017
Upper-extremity cycling is an intervention that facilitates bilateral integration and rhythmic, repetitive arm movement. This poster highlights its potential as a safe and effective therapy for critically ill stroke patients in the early recovery period.
Primary Author and Speaker: Sandra Deluzio
Additional Authors and Speakers: Isha Vora
Contributing Authors: Sowmya Kumble, Mona Bahouth</jats:p
A hierarchical task analysis software tool based on the model-view-controller architecture pattern
No full textHierarchical Task Analysis is a systematic method of describing how work is organized in order to meet the overall objective of the job. It involves identifying, in a top-down approach, the overall goal of the task, then the various sub-tasks and then the conditions under which they should be carried out to achieve the goal. In this thesis, we set out to design and develop a simple, robust and flexible hierarchical task analysis software tool. We provide an intuitive user interface to create hierarchical tasks, additionally we provide features which are not available in existing tools like - the ability to reuse the task analysis data as templates, import or export Xml, store task and sub-tasks for reusability. These new features serve to improve time efficiency, compatibility with applications developed using other platforms and the ease with which the tool can be extended by adding new features. We use the Model-View-Controller (MVC) software architecture pattern since it is suitable for applications with a user-interface and at the same time aids in developing highly scalable and extensible applications. We produce simulation results to project the functionalities of our tool and also discuss some non-functional requirements, such as usability, scalability and extensibility.M.S.Includes bibliographical referencesby Ateet Vor
MicroRNA modulation of caenorhadbitis elegans dietary restriction and longevity
No full textAging is a universal biological phenomenon involving a complex decline in the ability of the organism to respond adequately to intrinsic and extrinsic stresses, leading to age-related diseases and pathologies. All organisms age, but the larger questions of how and why aging occurs are still being deciphered despite decades of research and experimentation . We present evidence identifying microRNAs, small non-coding RNAs that regulate gene expression by repressing target mRNAs through partially complementary binding, significantly impact Caenorhabditis elegans longevity. We have identified several mir mutants that impact not only lifespan but also specific aspects of aging like metabolic aging vs muscle aging. Excitingly we have also identified that the mir-80 mutant animal is under chronic dietary restriction – a conserved pathway that extends life- and healthspan in many diverse organisms. The mir-80(Δ) mutant exhibits multiple parameters of healthy aging, reduced fecundity and expression of molecular reporters associated with dietary restriction. Using a targeted RNAi approach we have identified several stress response transcription factors (daf-16, hsf-1 and skn-1), the metabolic energy sensor (AMPK) and the transcriptional co-factor cbp-1 as important requirements for mir-80(Δ) longevity and the DR-state. Finally we show that mir-80 longevity is also partially regulated by the conserved insulin/IGF-1 signaling pathway. In summary, we identify the first metazoan microRNA that regulates longevity through conserved dietary restriction and suggest a model whereby mir-80 may regulate a network of stress response and metabolic genes to impact C. elegans longevity. In conclusion, we identify novel miRNAs that modulate C. elegans longevity and the first microRNA that modulates longevity through dietary restriction.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Mehul M Vor
Book review: Neha Vora, \u3ci\u3eTeach for Arabia: American Universities, Liberalism, and Transnational Qatar\u3c/i\u3e
No full textWith a provocative title that inherently questions who might be served and educated best by the branch campuses of top US universities in Qatar and Gulf states, Vora’s new book debunks some old myths and reminds readers from the outset that “liberalism has Arabian roots” (18). Vora wonders about and studies the transplant of liberal education into “so-called illiberal” countries like Qatar and other Gulf States. Her timely book offers on-the-ground perspectives of students and faculty in these transplant institutions as they engage with curriculum and one another in a new knowledge economy. The book contributes to scholarship about how the cultural ideological framework of liberalism informs and shapes discourses on educational policies and the restructuring of nationalistic reforms for development across the Arab world.
Vora frames the book through a knowledge economy perspective that is tension filled. For example, throughout the book she examines the effects of educational reform and nationalism as they are enacted in the US branch campuses of the Gulf. As Vora notes, branch campuses such as Education City in Qatar are simultaneously “spaces of contradiction” and “sites of new agencies and belongings” (29). As such, she argues that conceptions of knowledge economy become realigned with on-the-ground Arab nationalist orientations in combination with notions of the civilizing mission of Western knowledge economies. Furthermore, Vora examines the tensions that non-national students—the majority of the student population in the branch campuses—and Qatari students attending college experience, but as the author notes, there is no critical mass of Qatari students, and more importantly, there is little Qatarization of the workforce in this oil-rich Gulf state, wherein most people do not work. ...
As Teach for Arabia demonstrates, Gulf branch campuses are contested pedagogical, national, public, and global terrains wherein a microcosm of the world gets educated. Unlike many other places, diversity characterizes their populations of students, faculty, and staff. Ironically, even in this transnational, diverse milieu, there is a paucity of recognition and understanding of the Qatari student population vis-à-vis their work futures and their academic trajectories socioeconomically and culturally within the campuses and nationally. As Vora astutely shows throughout the book, the divergent discourses of nationalism and education reforms puts young college students at cross-roads in the “new” Qatari society
La presència de les unitats fraseològiques en Jardí vora el mar, de Mercè Rodoreda i les variacions de la traducció castellana
No full texthttp://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1980-4237.2014n16p79Com a conseqüència del punt de vista narratiu escollit per Mercè Rodoreda, Jardí vora el mar (1967) és, sens dubte, l’obra amb més força fraseològica de l’autora. Aquest fet, inevitablement, hagué de complicar la tasca de traduir la novel·la al castellà a Joan Francesc Vidal i Jové, traducció que va ser publicada el 1975 per l’editorial Planeta amb el títol Jardín junto al mar. Donada l’escassa atenció que la crítica especialitzada ha prestat a aquesta obra i la mancança d’estudis que analitzen l’ús que Mercè Rodoreda fa de la llengua a les seues obres, en aquest article, ens plantegem dos objectius: d’una banda, analitzar l’ús que Mercè Rodoreda fa de les unitats fraseològiques a la novel·la; i de l’altra, comprovar quina ha estat la variació fraseològica duta a terme en la traducció al castellà de l’obra.ABSTRACT Because of the narrative point of view chosen by Mercè Rodoreda, Jardí vora el mar (1967) is, undoubtedly, the work with more phraseological force written by the author. This fact inevitably had to complicate the task of translating the novel into Spanish for Joan Francesc Vidal i Jové, whose translation was published by Planeta in 1975 titled Jardín junto al mar. Given the scant attention that the critics have paid to this novel and the lack of studies examining the use that Mercè Rodoreda makes of the language in her novels, in this article, we consider two objectives: firstly, to analyse how Mercè Rodoreda uses phraseological units in the novel; and on the other, which has been the phrasal variation held in the Spanish translation of this work.Keywords: Mercè Rodoreda; Jardí vora el mar; phraseology; translation.</jats:p
A Big Increase in Known Unknowns: from Author Verification to Author Clustering - Notebook for PAN at CLEF 2016
No full textPrevious PAN workshops have afforded evaluation of our approaches to author verification/identification based on stopword cooccurrence patterns. Problems have tended to involve comparing one document to a small set of documents (n<=5) of known authorship. This paper discusses the adaptation of one of our approaches to a PAN 2016 problem of author clustering, which involves generating clusters within larger sets of documents (n<=100) for an unknown number of distinct authors, where each set is in English, Dutch or Greek. We describe our previous approaches as the background to the approach taken to this task and briefly overview the results that were achieved, which are not expected to be particularly remarkable due to substantial limitations on our time around the task
A Big Increase in Known Unknowns: from Author Verification to Author Clustering - Notebook for PAN at CLEF 2016
No full textPrevious PAN workshops have afforded evaluation of our
approaches to author verification/identification based on stopword cooccurrence
patterns. Problems have tended to involve comparing one document
to a small set of documents (n<=5) of known authorship. This paper discusses
the adaptation of one of our approaches to a PAN 2016 problem of author
clustering, which involves generating clusters within larger sets of documents
(n<=100) for an unknown number of distinct authors, where each set is in
English, Dutch or Greek. We describe our previous approaches as the
background to the approach taken to this task and briefly overview the results
that were achieved, which are not expected to be particularly remarkable due to
substantial limitations on our time around the task
Radical Extirpation With Intraoperative Radiotherapy for Locally Recurrent Gynecologic Cancer: An Institutional Review
No full textIntraoperative radiotherapy; Overall survival; Progression-free survivalRadioterapia intraoperatoria; Supervivencia global; Supervivencia libre de progresiónRadioteràpia intraoperatòria; Supervivència global; Supervivència lliure de progressióObjective
To report survival outcomes in patients with locally recurrent gynecologic cancers managed with curative-intent radical extirpation, perioperative external beam radiotherapy, and intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT).
Patients and Methods
We conducted a retrospective cohort analysis of 44 patients with locally recurrent gynecologic cancer treated at a single tertiary-care center (Mayo Clinic in Arizona) over a 15-year period (January 1, 2004, to July 31, 2019). This cohort included patients with uterine (n=21, 47.7%), ovarian (n=3, 6.8%), cervical (n=11, 25.0%), vaginal (n=2, 4.5%), vulvar (n=1, 2.3%), and unknown primary (n=6, 13.6%) cancer. Curative-intent radical extirpation included pelvic exenteration (n=13, 29.5%), laterally extended endopelvic resection (n=22, 50.0%), excision of para-aortic lymph node metastasis (n=8, 18.2%), and radical vaginectomy (n=1, 2.3%). Of the 44 patients in our cohort, 37 (84.1%) received IORT and 7 (15.9%) had intended to receive IORT but did not receive it.
Results
The median follow-up for the 44 patients was 12 months (range, 1 to 161 months). For patients who received IORT, the median progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) were 13 and 21 months, respectively, and the 3-year cumulative incidence of central, locoregional, and distant recurrence was 27.0% (10 of 37), 40.5% (15 of 37), and 37.8% (14 of 37), respectively. Surgical margins were classified as negative (28 of 44, 63.6%), microscopic (11 of 44, 25.0%), or macroscopic (5 of 44, 11.4%). Negative, microscopic, and macroscopic surgical margins resulted in 3-year PFS of 51.8%, 20.5%, and 0%, respectively (P=.01) and 3-year OS of 62.9%, 20.0%, and 0%, respectively (P=.035). Progression-free survival (P=.69) and OS (P=.88) were not different between patients with negative surgical margins who received (n=21) and did not receive (n=7) IORT. Ten of 37 patients (27.0%) had development of grade 3 or higher toxicities, with 1 death due to sepsis.
Conclusion
Complete tumor resection at the time of curative-intent radical extirpation achieved higher rates of PFS and OS regardless of IORT administration
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