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Dr. Mari Lee Mifsud – Faculty Author Interview
No full textDr. Mari Lee Mifsud, Professor of Rhetoric and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, discusses her new book, Rhetoric and the Gift: Ancient Rhetorical Theory and Contemporary Communication, published recently by Duquesne University Press. Rhetoric and the Gift, taking as its starting point the Homeric idea of the gift and Aristotle’s related rhetorical theory, explores rhetoric not only at the level of the artful response but at the level of the call and response. Throughout the book, Dr. Mifsud pursues a number of questions crucial to thinking about contemporary communication
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[Roundtable writer's breakfast with Mari Evans]
No full textVideo recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their roundtable writers breakfast featuring author Mari Evans held on March 4th, 2006. The footage shows Evans leading a dialogue on her new book covering the black women writers of the 1950s through the 1980s along with her struggles with being a writer
[Roundtable writer's breakfast with Mari Evans]
No full textVideo recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their roundtable writers breakfast featuring author Mari Evans held on March 4th, 2006. The footage shows Evans leading a dialogue on her new book covering the black women writers of the 1950s through the 1980s along with her struggles with being a writer
THE ANALYSIS OF DRUGS SITUATION IN MARI EL REPUBLIC
No full textThe article views the drugs situation in the Republic of Mari El in 2005 and 2006. usingthe statistical method on various aspects, the author analyzes the dynamics of the population narcotization. The author also suggests a number of activities which could help to regulate the drug situation in Mari El Republic, as well as in whole Russia
Formation of Ethnic Identity of Mari People in Absence of Single Mari Literary Language
No full textThis study is devoted to the history of the formation of the ethnic identity of the Mari people in the Republic of Mari El. Particular attention is paid to the changes in the identification of Mari, which occurred in direct proportion to extralinguistic factors. The question of the role of language, confessional affiliation, historical past, relations with nature and mythological symbols that characterize the modern ethnic Mari identity is considered. The importance of the demographic imbalance in the Republic, which played the most significant role in shaping the character of the Mari, is emphasized. The relevance of the study is due to the increased interest of science in recent decades in the topic of ethnic and Russian identity. The identity of the Mari people has not been previously studied by the author of this work, although many problems of Mari El have been analyzed and described in detail: the language situation in different time periods, language policy, the legislative framework regarding languages and the education system, the history of the Mari literary language, its writing and a number of other sociolinguistic aspects. Unlike articles by other authors on the topic of Mari identity, the novelty of this work lies in the fact that for the first time the identity is shown in the process of formation, from antiquity to the present day. A characteristic of the identity of the Mari people, formed under the influence of a variety of factors, is compiled
Odrodzenie tradycyjnej religii politeistycznej w Republice Mari El
No full textThe following article is dedicated to the rebirth of traditional politheist faith in Mari El Republic, which is a part of Volga Region within Russian Federation. The author presents an outline of the history and culture of Finno-Ugric Mari ethnos and describes their unique polytheistic religion. This native cult having its roots in Finno-Ugric mythology has survived numerous christianization and atheist campaigns to become one of the fundaments of cultural and national rebirth in 80s and 90s of the 20th century in Mari El Republic The article describes the contemporary Mari polytheist religion and its influence on the political life of Volga Region.The following article is dedicated to the rebirth of traditional politheist faith in Mari El Republic, which is a part of Volga Region within Russian Federation. The author presents an outline of the history and culture of Finno-Ugric Mari ethnos and describes their unique polytheistic religion. This native cult having its roots in Finno-Ugric mythology has survived numerous christianization and atheist campaigns to become one of the fundaments of cultural and national rebirth in 80s and 90s of the 20th century in Mari El Republic The article describes the contemporary Mari polytheist religion and its influence on the political life of Volga Region
MET is a new confirmed gene responsible for familial distal arthrogryposis
No full textIn this Correspondence, F. Mari and colleagues report a second two-generation family with distal arthrogryposis caused by a mutation in MET tyrosine kinase. (Figure presented.). © The Author(s) 2024
La sfida dell'educazione alla luce del pensiero di Romano Guardini.
No full textRomano Guardini is an author very important from the point of view of moral education
Behind the Scene : The Mari Teacher’s Wardrobe in Middle Russia
No full textIn this article, I analyze teacher’s attire as a political phenomenon in the context of the Mari people, a Finno-Ugric minority living in Central Russia. The material for this study is based on observations and interviews made by the author during 1987‒2019 in different places of the Mari region. The Mari teacher’s dress code, a dark dress with a white collar, is usually considered self-evident, but as I argue in this article, in the Soviet Union, and in Russia at the post-socialist time, the Mari female teacher’s dress served two practices. Firstly, clothing represented position and agency of power, the socialist ideal, and later the political trend of the majority. Secondly, clothing represented traditional, everyday Mari life.
Infant brain function after fetal exposure to neuroactive drugs
No full textBackground: In utero exposure to antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) or to serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SRIs) is associated with structural and functional teratogenesis. The aim of this thesis was to investigate whether prenatal SRI or AED exposure changes newborn brain activity. In addition, we wanted to evaluate the effects of prenatal AED exposure on visual attention and emotion-related attention in infancy and to characterize functional connectivity in healthy term newborns.
Material and Methods: A prospective cohort of infants with in utero AED exposure (n=56) and similar cohort with in utero SRI exposure (n=22) were compared to infants without drug exposure (n=67). Background information, exposure data, pregnancy outcome, neuropsychological evaluation of the mothers (AED), mood and anxiety of mothers (SRI), and neurological status of the infants were assessed at neonatal age and at 7 months-of-age. Electroencephalography (EEG) was used to evaluate newborn cortical function and an eye-tracking-based test to assess the infants visual attention and orienting to faces.
Results: Neurological assessment showed subtle abnormalities in both the AED- and the SRI-exposed newborns. Early language abilities were impaired at 7 month-of-age in infants with in utero carbamazepine, oxcarbazepine, and valproate exposure. The general speed of visuospatial orienting or attentional bias for faces did not differ between AED-exposed and control infants.
Computational EEG analyses demonstrated several differences between the exposed and control newborns. AED-exposed newborns had lower amplitudes at multiple frequencies, higher interhemispheric synchrony in frontal versus posterior parts of the brain, more even distribution of interhemispheric interval durations, and fewer frontal alpha bouts of typical duration. In the SRI-exposed newborns, interhemispheric connectivity was reduced, cross-frequency integration was lower, and frontal activity at low-frequency oscillations was reduced. These effects were unrelated to maternal depression or anxiety. In unexposed newborns, functional connectivity was shown to vary significantly between vigilance states and to mature rapidly after normal birth.
Conclusions: The results suggest that prenatal AED and SRI treatment may change newborn brain function and affect early neonatal neurologic status. In addition, AED exposure may impair verbal abilities in a way that can be detected already in infancy. Early development of visual attention as well as orienting and face perception were spared after in utero AED exposure. Results in the newborn connectivity study support the view that emerging functional connectivity exhibits fundamental differences between sleep states during the neonatal period. The findings suggest that interference in the development of an activity-dependent network may be a possible mechanism to explain the link from prenatal AED and SRI exposure to later adverse functional effects.Taustaa: Sikiöaikainen altistuminen antiepileptiselle lääkitykselle ja serotoniinin takaisinotonestäjälääkitykselle saattaa aiheuttaa rakenteellisia ja toiminnallisia kehityshäiriöitä. Tämän väitöskirjatyön tavoitteena oli tutkia, aiheuttaako sikiöaikainen altistuminen näille lääkkeille muutoksia vastasyntyneiden aivojen toiminnassa. Lisäksi halusimme arvioida epilepsialääkealtistuksen vaikutuksia näönvaraisen tarkkaavuuden suuntaamiseen imeväisiässä ja arvioida aivojen eri osien välistä yhteistoimintaa terveillä vastasyntyneillä. Tällä koeasetelmalla pyrimme erottelemaan lääkkeiden aiheuttamat sikiöaikaiset vaikutukset syntymän jälkeen tulevista ympäristövaikutuksista.
Menetelmät: Seurantatutkimukseemme osallistui 56 sikiöaikana epilepsia- ja 22 serotoniinin takaisinotonestäjälääkkeille altistunutta imeväistä sekä 67 verrokkia. Keräsimme tausta-, altistumis-, synnytys- ja vastasyntyneisyyskauden sairauskertomustiedot. Lisäksi epilepsiaa sairastaville äideille tehtiin neuropsykologinen ja serotoniinin takaisinotonestäjälääkityille äideille psykiatrinen tutkimus. Lastenneurologi tutki lapset sekä vastasyntyneenä että 7 kk iässä käyttäen strukturoituja menetelmiä. Vastasyntyneen aivojen toimintaa arvioitiin elektroenkefalografian (EEG) avulla ja imeväisikäisen näönvaraista tarkkaavuutta ja tarkkaavuuden suuntaamista eri tunnetiloja ilmentäviin kasvoihin mitattiin silmänliikekameratekniikkaan perustuvalla menetelmällä.
Tulokset: Neurologisessa arviossa todettiin vähäisiä eroja altistuneissa vastasyntyneissä verrattuna verrokkilapsiin. Varhaisten kielellisten taitojen todettiin olevan heikommat tietyille epilepsialääkkeille (karbamatsepiini, okskarbatsepiini ja valproaatti) sikiöaikana altistuneilla lapsilla 7 kk iässä. Näönvaraisen tarkkaavuuden suuntaamisen nopeudessa ei todettu eroa epilepsialääkkeille altistuneiden ja verrokkilasten välillä.
Tietokonepohjaiset EEG analyysit toivat esille useita muutoksia sekä epilepsia- että masennuslääkkeille altistuneiden vastasyntyneiden aivosähkötoiminnassa. Muutokset näkyivät sekä paikallisesti että eri aivoalueiden yhteistoiminnassa. Masennuslääketutkimuksessa muutokset eivät vaikuttaneet liittyvän äitien masennukseen tai ahdistuneisuuteen. Lisäksi verrokkilapsilla tutkittuna aivojen eri osien välisen yhteistoiminnan eroavan merkittävästi eri vireystilojen välillä ja kypsyvän nopeasti ajan myötä.
Päätelmät: Tulosten perusteella on pääteltävissä, että sikiöaikainen altistuminen epilepsia- tai SRI-lääkitykselle näkyy vastasyntyneen aivojen toiminnassa ja kliinisessä neurologisessa arviossa. Lisäksi epilepsialääkitys saattaa heikentää kielellisiä taitoja imeväisiässä tavalla, joka on todettavissa jo 7 kk iässä. Toisaalta epilepsialääkitys ei näytä vaikuttavan heikentävästi varhaiseen näönvaraiseen tarkkaavuuteen tai kasvojen tunnistamiskykyyn. Aivojen eri alueiden yhteistoiminnan muutokset vastasyntyneen ensiviikkoina vahvistavat ajatusta siitä, että vireystila ja aivojen kypsyminen vaikuttavat merkittävästi varhaiseen tähän toimintaan. Löydösten perusteella voidaan ajatella, että aivojen varhaisen verkostoitumisen häiriintyminen saattaisi olla yksi mekanismi, jolla sikiöaikaisen lääkealtistuksen myöhemmin esille tulevat haittavaikutukset syntyvät.ei saavutettav
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