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Not like my mother : truth and the author in creative nonfiction
No full textThis exegesis examines how a writer can effectively negotiate the relationship between author, character, fact and truth, in a work of Creative Nonfiction. It was found that individual truths, in a work of Creative Nonfiction, are not necessarily universal truths due to individual, cultural, historical and religious circumstances. What was also identified, through the examination of published Creative Nonfiction, is a necessity to ensure there are clear demarcation lines between authorial truth and fiction. The Creative Nonfiction works examined, which established this framework for the reader, ensured an ethical relationship between author and audience. These strategies and frameworks were then applied to my own Creative Nonfiction
My Faithful Friend
No full textThe author submitted this entry in the Open Verse Poetry category (Amateur division) for the 2024 On My Own Time (OMOT) Art Show.This was inspired from a situation that one of my family friend was going through. Prayers were offered while looking to God for an answer. This was my reflection of the situation and trust in God
Development of sheep androgenetic embryos is boosted following transfer of male pronuclei into androgenetic hemizygotes.
No full textABSTRACTAndrogenetic embryos are useful model for investigating the contribution of the paternal genometo embryonic development. Little work has been done with androgenetic embryo productionin domestic animals. The aim of this study was the production of diploid androgeneticsheep embryos. In vitro matured sheep oocytes were enucleated and fertilized in vitro;parthenogenetic and normally fertilized embryos were also produced as a control. Fifteenhours after in vitro fertilization (IVF), presumptive zygotes were centrifuged and scored forthe number of pronucleus. IVF, parthenogenetic, and androgenetic embryos (haploid, diploid,and triploid) were cultured in SOFaa medium with bovine serum albumin (BSA). The proportionof oocytes with polyspermic fertilization increased linearly with increasing spermconcentration. After IVF, there was no significant difference in early cleavage and morula formationrates between the groups, while there was a significant difference on blastocyst developmentbetween IVF, parthenogenetic, and androgenetic embryos, the last ones displayingpoor developmental potential (IVF, parthenogenetic, and haploid, diploid, and triploidandrogenetic embryos: 43%, 38%, 0%, 2%, and 2%, respectively). In order to boost androgeneticembryonic development, we produced diploid androgenetic embryos through pronucleartransfer. Single pronuclei were aspirated with a bevelled pipette from haploid or diploidembryos and transferred into the perivitelline space of other haploid embryos, and the zygoteswere reconstructed by electrofusion. Fusion rates approached 100%. Pronuclear transfersignificantly increased blastocyst development (IVF, parthenogenetic, androgenetic:Diploid into Haploid, and Haploid into Haploid: 42%, 42%, 19%, and 3%, respectively); intriguingly,the Haploid Diploid group showed the highest development to blastocyst stage.The main findings of our study are: (1) sheep androgenetic embryos display poor developmentalability compared with IVF and parthenogenetic embryos; (2) diploid androgenetic embryosproduced by pronuclear exchange developed in higher proportion to blastocyst stage,particularly in the Diploid–Haploid group. In conclusion, pronuclear transfer is an effectivemethod to produce sheep androgenetic blastocysts.[...
Novel Excerpt: My Name Is Sweet Thing , Part 1 'Whose Little Girl Am I?'
No full textThe night I turned sixteen � in 1979 � I dreamt I swallowed all of my teeth, and Aunt Winnie said it meant disgrace was coming to the family. I forced a laugh but exchanged a concerned look with my cousin, Bernice, as a feeling like ice spread through my abdomen because Aunt Winnie was never wrong
My Thyme
No full textThe author submitted this entry in the AI Literature category (Amateur division) for the 2024 On My Own Time (OMOT) Art Show.This piece was inspired by the clock ticking away while I was cooking. Reading the poem out loud should make the connection clear. I used AI assistance for rhyme and meter
The Winter of My Soul
No full textThe author submitted this entry in the Open Verse Poetry category (Amateur division) for the 2023 On My Own Time (OMOT) Art Show.Describes the emptiness of love lost and the desire to find it again
My Queen
No full textThe author submitted this entry in the Open Verse Poetry category (Amateur division) for the 2024 On My Own Time (OMOT) Art Show.My inspiration for writing the poem "My Queen" was to model writing elegy poetry for my 7th grade ELA students. My mother had recently passed away and I decided it would be an honorable memory. I didn't have a lot of time to fully process the reality of life without her nor really grieve, because I had a main role in preparing as well as participating in her funeral services, and afterwards, I could not take more time off from work. Writing this poem was very therapeutic for me, and even more so when I read it aloud in class to my students. When I finished reading it, the entire class gave me a standing ovation and many of them (including me) were visibly filled with raw emotions (tears). When they completed their elegy poetry, it was very apparent that my previous moment of transparency had quite a positive influence on their commitment to produce amazing heart-warming poetry
Variational techniques in the numerical simulation of molecular dynamics trajectories and of wetting on rough surfaces
No full textThis thesis is devoted to the study of two different problems arising from the numerical simulation of physical phenomena. However, the motivation, the method followed and the goals pursued are the same. As I hope to have exhaustively demonstrated in the following pages, my belief is that variational techniques can be the appropriate bridge between theory and experiment, between mathematical modeling and numerical simulation...
Resonant Spaces: Electroacoustic Music and Ritual: A commentary on my recent music.
No full textThe following portfolio and commentary concerns music and performance works created between 2008 and 2012, and an exposition of the research, ideas, aesthetics and techniques that connect
these works. I will discuss in detail the role that archaeoacoustics has played in my composition of fixed and mixed media works and how it has influenced me aesthetically in my approach to live performance. I will also explain in each instance any actual data used from various research sources, and my metaphorical interpretation of various archaeological sites and acoustic phenomena. Similarly, I will discuss the concepts of shamanism, ritual and transcendence that have influenced me, and how these concepts are expressed in my instrumental works, fixed media and live performance pieces
My First Patient's Final Gift
No full textThe author submitted this entry in the Fictional Short Story category (Amateur division) for the 2023 On My Own Time (OMOT) Art Show.Written from the perspective of a first-year medical school, this is a short story about what I imagine the experience of dissecting a cadaver would feel like
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