1,639 research outputs found
First person – Erika Testa
No full textABSTRACT
First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Erika Testa is the first author on ‘H2afx and Mdc1 promote maintenance of genomic integrity in male germ cells’, published in Journal of Cell Science. Erika is a PhD student in the lab of Dr Marco Barchi at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy, investigating meiosis, DNA repair, genome stability of meiotic cells and male fertility.</jats:p
Dialogical Skirmishes
No full textTan was guest editor for 'And Now China?', a special print edition of the Ctrl+P journal, which critically responded to the celebratory rhetoric’s of ‘China Now’ and other celebratory markers of China's global ascent in 2008. As well as the introductory article 'Dialogical Skirmishes', Tan also interviewed Hans Ulrich Obrist
Barb Rosenstock & Erika Meza: Cook Prize 2023, Silver Medal Acceptance Speech
No full textBarb Rosenstock (author) and Erika Meza (illustrator) give an acceptance speech and talk about their book The Mystery of the Monarchs. Published by Alfred A. Knopfhttps://educate.bankstreet.edu/cook/1006/thumbnail.jp
Between in- and re-action: Resistance and resilience in Stefan Zweig’s Erasmus of Rotterdam
No full textThis article provides a reading of Stefan Zweig’s auto/biography Erasmus of Rotterdam (1934) as the writer’s counteraction to a situation of vulnerability and conflict. Erasmus does not just fall within the genre of the historical biography, but it also represents a “veiled autobiography” in that, by depicting a kindred soul of his, Zweig exposes himself unreservedly to the world. In contrast to most of the studies conducted so farmainly focused on the author’s implicit confession of faintheartedness through his literary alter-egothis contribution aims to demonstrate that it is not the idea of escapism, but rather that of resistance/resilience, that underpins the text. To this end, the affinities between Zweig and Erasmus in terms of their common marginality and vulnerability will be explored, in order to better understand their personal response to this status, that is, a peaceful fight carried out by means of poetic acts. According to this perspective, Zweig’s Erasmus-biography will be presented as a re-action in two different ways: on the one hand the autobiographical references disclose the writer’s concerns about National Socialism, turning his work into an artistic form of dissidence, i.e., a practice of resistance; on the other hand, the therapeutic function ascribed by Zweig to the text composition unveils it as a testimony of resilience.This article provides a reading of Stefan Zweig’s auto/biography Erasmus of Rotterdam (1934) as the writer’s counteraction to a situation of vulnerability and conflict. Erasmus does not just fall within the genre of the historical biography, but it also represents a “veiled autobiography” in that, by depicting a kindred soul of his, Zweig exposes himself unreservedly to the world. In contrast to most of the studies conducted so farmainly focused on the author’s implicit confession of faintheartedness through his literary alter-egothis contribution aims to demonstrate that it is not the idea of escapism, but rather that of resistance/resilience, that underpins the text. To this end, the affinities between Zweig and Erasmus in terms of their common marginality and vulnerability will be explored, in order to better understand their personal response to this status, that is, a peaceful fight carried out by means of poetic acts. According to this perspective, Zweig’s Erasmus-biography will be presented as a re-action in two different ways: on the one hand the autobiographical references disclose the writer’s concerns about National Socialism, turning his work into an artistic form of dissidence, i.e., a practice of resistance; on the other hand, the therapeutic function ascribed by Zweig to the text composition unveils it as a testimony of resilience
A double sideband continuous wave radar for monitoring carotid artery wall movements
No full textA double sideband continuous wave (DSCW) radar for the monitoring of artery wall movements has been designed and realized. The radar is based on a transceiver, a coherent demodulator and a bow-tie antenna. A feasibility study suggested the 1-3 GHz band as the most suitable for the proposed application. The DSCW radar has been simulated with the microwave office CAD and has been implemented with discrete components. Responses measured on the realized radar are in good agreement with simulations. When the radar antenna is placed in contact with a carotid artery model the radar is able to measure a signal proportional to the artery wall movements
Erika Howsare
No full textPublicity photo submitted by author/presenter for ODU\u27s Annual Literary Festival 2025.https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/litfest_images/1019/thumbnail.jp
L'ecografia tridimensionale in ginecologia: indicazioni, limiti e nuovi sviluppi in ginecologia. Working progress.
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Undergraduate Perceptions of Social Media and Meaning Making: Validated Survey Instrument
No full textThis instrument was developed as a part of the Erika E. Smith’s (2016) doctoral thesis, Exploring undergraduate perceptions of meaning making and social media in their learning, completed at the University of Alberta. For more information, please see: https://doi.org/10.7939/R33J39B71 and https://doi.org/10.1186/s41239-017-0049-
Assessment of pattern recognition for the ultrasound diagnosis of an endometrioma.
No full textTo describe the US characteristics of masses that, based on pattern recognition, are presumed to be an endometrioma.
Methods
The IOTA study included 3513 patients with an adnexal mass. All patients were scanned following the same US protocol. The US examiner had to suggest a specific histological diagnosis and to report with which level of confidence he made the diagnosis of benign or malignant. Masses with a presumed diagnosis of endometrioma were included. We considered the following three types of masses as typical for endometrioma: unilocular mass with ground glass appearance, unilocular-solid mass, ground glass and a papillary projection without internal flow, and a multilocular mass with ground glass echogenicitiy.
Results
Out of 660 masses that were presumed to be endometriosis by the expert, 586 (88.8%) were proven endometriomas. 460 (78%) of them had typical features. Of the 74 misdiagnoses based on subjective impression, 64 (9.6%) proved to be benign and 10 (1.5%) malignant. Of the benign misdiagnoses, 31 (48%) had features typical for endometriomas. Histology was functional cyst (24), abscess (5), hydrosalpinx (5), dermoid (5), serous or mucinous cystadenoma (19), and other benign mass (6).
Of the malignant misdiagnoses, 7 (70%) had US features typical for endometriomas and 3 were multilocular-solid tumors. 7 out of the 10 malignant masses were associated with normal CA 125 levels. Histologies were 3 endometrioid adenoca (2 stage I, 1 stage III), 1 stage III serous papillary adenoca, 5 stage I borderline tumors, and one uterine clear cell carcinoma. Sonologists were more confident about their diagnosis in the group that proved to be endometriomas (very confident 82%) than in the group with benign (very confident 59%) or malignant (very confident 10%) misdiagnoses.
Conclusions
Expert sonolgists can reliably diagnose endometriomas. However, even in “typical” unilocular cysts with ground glass appearance, the rate of unexpected malignancy is 1%
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