128,397 research outputs found
Jere Nash Interview with Gene Triggs
No full textInterview conducted by author Jere Nash with Gene Triggs, former Vice President of Mississippi Chemical Corporation, in the process of writing Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006. Topics covered include running Paul B. Johnson Jr.\u27s campaign in 1963; Rubel Phillips; Mississippi Marketing Council; William Winter; John Bell Williams; Jimmy Carter; Owen Cooper of Mississippi Chemical; 1987 Highway Bill; Eddie Khayat; Jamie Whitten; and Triggs elected to the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board
Kathleen Raine: poiesis y visión profética. De W. Blake a W. B. Yeats
No full textPaul Valéry (trad. 1995) destaca que en la historia de la literatura una producción poética coherente suele ir acompañada de una reflexión sobre el género y de la lectura de otros poetas. Esta convergencia alcanza dimensiones destacadas en ejemplos como Eliot, Spender, Heaney (estudiados por nosotros) y Raine. Los trabajos críticos de Raine están impregnados de su poética como visión del mundo, en cuanto atañe a la revaloración del romanticismo en un mundo desromantizado (Löwy, 2008) Raine estudia pormenorizadamente a poetas centrales con fuerte impronta romántica:Blake, proto-romántico; Yeats, posterior, relacionado con el movimiento por relectura de las tradiciones populares y de Blake. Raine, desconfiada de enfoques academicistas, busca fundamentos espirituales del Romanticismo. Postula una lectura humanista frente al materialismo y la homogeneización: repiensa profundamente las capacidades que aúnan lo no-racional, lo inconsciente, lo espiritual, la creación, el amor hacia seres y cosas del mundo natural. Redefine valores esenciales a una visión totalizadora y factores des-alienantes. Piensa al Romanticismo como "proyecto incompleto" (reescribiendo la fórmula que Habermas (1993) refiere a la modernidad), que debe ser repensado y completado. Hay dos factores destacables: la poesía como elemento originario del acto creativo, y la infancia, como posibilidad total del individuo. Estas preocupaciones postulan una re-lectura de la tradición poética de la poesía inglesa. Nos proponemos seguir ese camino, centrándonos en dos de sus autores fundamentales: Blake y Yeats. El núcleo ideológico de base del Romanticismo, como plantean Lacoue Labarthe y Nancy (2012), conlleva un componente disruptivo al proponer una visión renovada del sujeto, y una relación conflictiva con la sociedad. Esta nueva concepción acerca del hombre, de profundo impacto, alienta por detrás de una partición del mundo epistemológico y propone un pensamiento semiótico a partir de las postulaciones de Schleiermacher y Hegel: el hombre se vuelve su propio interpretante. Ello acompaña a la poesía como espacio de imágenes, deseos e ideales arraigados. Raine retoma esta hermenéutica volcándose a Blake y Yeats, poetas imbuidos de simbolismo, y hace una re-interpretación de su horizonte histórico. Nuestro estudio permitirá poner en escena una vertiente poética menos transitada desde la Academia, como Raine subraya. Los resultados se trasladarán al dictado de clases y a la escritura de trabajos.Paul Valéry (1993) highlights the fact that in the history of literature a consistent poetic output is habitually concomitant with a reflection upon the genre and the reading of other poets. This convergence is particularly noticeable in poets like Eliot, Spender, Heaney (already studied by this research unit) and Raine. She goes back to values that are essential for a whole vision and to de-alienating factors and redefines them. She thinks of Romanticism as an "incomplete project" (using Habermas´s formula of Modernity, 1993), Raine´s critical work is permeated by her poetics as a world view, in the way she reassesses Romanticism in a de-Romanticized world (Löwy, 2008). She studies in detail central poets deeply influenced by Romanticism: Blake, a proto romantic poet, and Yeats, strongly linked to that movement through his reinterpretation of the popular tradition and of Blake. Raine, who is diffident about academicism, researches into the spiritual bases of Romanticism. She reinstates a humanist and whole reading opposed to materialism and homogenization. She deeply rethinks those capacities that join the non-rational, the unconscious, the creation, the spirit and love to natural beings. Two elements must be emphasized: poetry as the originating and final element of the creative act, and infanthood as a human and total possibility. These concerns aim at rereading the poetic tradition in English. We intend to follow this path, focusing on her two main choices, Blake and Yeats. The ideological nucleus of Romanticism, as Lacoue-Labarthe and Nancy (2012) state, carries with it a disruptive component when proposing a renovated vision of the subject and a troublesome relationship with society. This new and momentous insight into the human being encourages a division of the epistemological world and advances a semiotic thinking based on Schleiermacher and Hegel: man becomes his own interpretant. This is accompanied by a vision of poetry as deep-rooted space for imagery, desires and ideals. Raine recaptures this hermeneutics focusing on poets immersed in symbolism and re-interprets their historical scope. Our project will facilitate revitalizing a view of poetics relatively neglected by the Academy, as Raine stresses. The results will be included in syllabi and academic works.Fil: Montezanti, Miguel Angel. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación. Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales (UNLP-CONICET); Argentina.Fil: Mallol, Anahí Diana. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación. Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales (UNLP-CONICET); Argentina
SPAM1/HYAL5 double deficiency in male mice leads to severe male subfertility caused by a cumulus‐oocyte complex penetration defect
No full textThe glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored sperm hyaluronidases (Hyals), sperm adhesion molecule 1 (SPAM1) and HYAL5, have long been believed to assist in sperm penetration through the cumulus-oocyte complex (COC), but their role in mammalian fertilization remains unclear. Previously, we have shown that mouse sperm devoid of either Spam1 or Hyal5 are still capable of penetrating the COC and that the loss of either Spam1 or Hyal5 alone does not cause male infertility in mice. In the present study, we found that Spam1/Hyal5 double knockout (dKO) mice produced significantly fewer offspring compared with wild-type (WT) mice, and this was due to defective COC dispersal. A comparative analysis between WT and Spam1/Hyal5 dKO epididymal sperm revealed that the absence of these 2 sperm Hyals resulted in a marked accumulation of sperm on the outside of the COC. This impaired sperm activity is likely due to the deficiency in the sperm Hyals, even though other somatic Hyals are expressed normally in the dKO mice. The fertilization ability of the Spam1/Hyal5 dKO sperm was restored by adding purified human sperm Hyal to the in vitro fertilization medium. Our results suggest that Hyal deficiency in sperm may be a significant risk factor for male sterility.-Park, S., Kim, Y.-H., Jeong, P.-S., Park, C., Lee, J.-W., Kim, J.-S., Wee, G., Song, B.-S., Park, B.-J., Kim, S.-H., Sim, B.-W., Kim, S.-U., Triggs-Raine, B., Baba, T., Lee, S.-R., Kim, E. SPAM1/HYAL5 double deficiency in male mice leads to severe male subfertility caused by a cumulus-oocyte complex penetration defect.
LeGrand Raine Curtis, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah\u27s World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah
No full textTranscript (33 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with LeGrand Raine Curtis on June 17, 2004. This is from tape number 661 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History ProjectCurtis (b. 1924) grew up in Salt Lake City, where his father operated a coal company in the Sugarhouse area. He attended the University of Utah and enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1944. He applied for dental training, which he received at the University of Kansas City. After receiving his degree he was given the option of choosing to serve in the Army or the Navy. He chose the Navy and was sent to Corpus Christi. He was transferred to Norfolk, Virginia, to a repair ship where he provided dental services to men aboard the ships his shipmates were repairing. He was discharged in 1948. 33 pages
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Associations of prenatal alcohol exposure and offspring harmful alcohol use: findings from the Raine Study
No full textData source: Supplementary data, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2020.108305Background: Epidemiological evidence suggests offspring exposed to prenatal alcohol are at increased risk of alcohol use disorders in adulthood. The evidence on the risk of developing harmful alcohol use in adolescence is less clear.
Methods: We used data from the Raine Study, a multi-generational birth cohort study, to examine the association between prenatal alcohol exposure and the risk of harmful alcohol use in offspring at the age of 17 years. Log binomial regression was used to estimate the relative risks (RRs) of harmful alcohol use in offspring exposed to maternal alcohol use in the first (early) and third (late) trimesters of pregnancy. Maternal pre-pregnancy alcohol use was used as a negative control for intrauterine exposure for comparison.
Results: Complete data were available for 1200 mother-offspring pairs. After adjustment for potential confounders, we found increased RRs of harmful alcohol use in offspring born to mothers who consumed four or more standard drinks of alcohol per week during the first trimester [RR 1.45(95% CI: 1.08−1.93)], third trimester [RR 1.34 (95% CI: 1.04–1.72)] and during both trimesters of pregnancy [RR 1.86 (95% CI: 1.16−2.96)]. Maternal pre-pregnancy alcohol use was not associated with an increased risk of harmful alcohol use in offspring [RR 1.15 (95% CI: 0.89−1.48)].
Conclusion: Observed associations for maternal prenatal alcohol exposure but not maternal pre-pregnancy alcohol use suggests a biological mechanism for intrauterine alcohol exposure on the risk of harmful alcohol use in the offspring
Managing access to the Restricted Access Special Management Areas surrounding Raine Island, Moulter Cay and Maclennan Cay (Document No. 100469)
No full textRaine Island, Moulter Cay and Maclennan Cay collectively make up the Raine Island National Park (Scientific). The Queensland Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) manages this area. The management intent of the Raine Island National Park (Scientific) is to allow for the following activities:
a.) research that cannot reasonably be conducted elsewhere and which has a direct benefit to the Raine Island National Park (Scientific); or
b.) commercial photography/filming which is in keeping with the management principles of the Raine Island National Park (Scientific) and where the advantages to the National Park (Scientific) and the public outweigh any potential disturbance
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