18 research outputs found
Low Structural Complexity of Non‐native Grassland Habitat Exposes Prey to Higher Predation
No full textLow structural complexity of nonnative grassland habitat exposes prey to higher predation
No full textZen and the Body: A Postmodern Ascetic? Bodily Awakening in the Zen Memoirs of Shozan Jack Haubner
No full textIn this article, I examine two memoirs by the American Zen Buddhist author Shozan Jack Haubner. Within the contemporary genre of American Zen autobiographical literature, Haubner’s books are special in that they explore Zen awakening as driven by the body. Penetration, pregnancy and sickness are the main figures Haubner uses to show how his autobiographical protagonist accesses the Buddhist truth of no-self. Though these books can thus be said to map an ascetic quest for the erasure of individuality, this quest proceeds not through the imposition of will onto the body, but the body imposing its will on the self. Because this is somewhat different from how the ascetic self is usually theorized, I propose to call Haubner’s main character a “postmodern ascetic”
“Mountains, rivers, and the whole earth”: Koan interpretations of female zen practitioners
No full text© 2018 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Though recent years have seen a critical reappraisal of Buddhist texts from the angle of performance and gender studies, examinations of Zen Buddhist encounter dialogues (better known under their edited form as “koan”) within this framework are rare. In this article, I first use Rebecca Schneider’s notion of “reenactment” to characterize interpretative strategies developed by contemporary female Zen practitioners to contest the androcentrism found in koan commentary. Drawing on The Hidden Lamp (2013), I suggest that there are two ways of reading encounter dialogues. One of these, the “grasping way,” tends to be confrontational and full of masculine and martial imagery. The other, the “granting way,” foregrounds the (female) body and the family as sites of transmission, stressing connection instead of opposition. I then argue that these “granting” readings of encounter dialogues gesture towards a Zen lineage that is universal, extended to everyone, even to the non-human
Damage detections in nonlinear vibrating thermally loaded plates
No full textIn this work, geometrically nonlinear vibrations of fully clamped rectangular plates subjected to thermal changesare used to study the sensitivity of some vibration response parameters to the presence of damage and elevated temperature. The geometrically nonlinear version of the Mindlin plate theory is used to model the plate behaviour.Damage is represented as a stiffness reduction in a small area of the plate. The plates are subjected to harmonicloading leading to large amplitude vibrations and temperature changes. The plate vibration response is obtained by a pseudo-load mode superposition method. The main results are focussed on establishing the influence of damage on the vibration response of the heated and the unheated plates and the change in the time-history diagrams and the Poincaré maps caused by damage and elevated temperature. The damage criterion formulated earlier for nonheated plates, based on analyzing the points in the Poincaré sections of the damaged and healthy plate, is modified and tested for the case of plates additionally subjected to elevated temperatures. The importance of taking into account the actual temperature in the process of damage detection is shown
Right-sided anterior congenital diaphragmatic hernia: prenatal diagnosis with magnetic resonance imaging
No full textPivotal advance: Arginase-1-independent polyamine production stimulates the expression of IL-4-induced alternatively activated macrophage markers while inhibiting LPS-induced expression of inflammatory genes
No full textIn macrophages, basal polyamine (putrescine, spermidine, and spermine) levels are relatively low but are increased upon IL-4 stimulation. This Th2 cytokine induces Arg1 activity, which converts arginine into ornithine, and ornithine can be decarboxylated by ODC to produce putrescine, which is further converted into spermidine and spermine. Recently, we proposed polyamines as novel agents in IL-4-dependent E-cadherin regulation in AAMs. Here, we demonstrate for the first time that several, but not all, AAM markers depend on polyamines for their IL-4-induced gene and protein expression and that polyamine dependency of genes relies on the macrophage type. Remarkably, Arg1-deficient macrophages display rather enhanced IL-4-induced polyamine production, suggesting that an Arg1-independent polyamine synthesis pathway may operate in macrophages. On the other side of the macrophage activation spectrum, LPS-induced expression of several proinflammatory genes was increased significantly in polyamine-depleted CAMs. Overall, we propose Arg1 independently produced polyamines as novel regulators of the inflammatory status of the macrophage. Indeed, whereas polyamines are needed for IL-4-induced expression of several AAM mediators, they inhibit the LPS-mediated expression of proinflammatory genes in CAMs
pandas-dev/pandas: v0.25.2
No full text<p>This is a minor bug-fix release in the 0.25.x series and includes some regression fixes
and bug fixes. We recommend that all users upgrade to this version.</p>
<p>See the full <a href="https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/0.25/whatsnew/v0.25.2.html">whatsnew</a> for a list of all the changes.</p>
<p>The release can be installed with conda from the defaults and conda-forge channels:</p>
<pre><code>conda install pandas
</code></pre>
<p>Or via PyPI:</p>
<pre><code>python3 -m pip install --upgrade pandas
</code></pre>
<p>Please report any issues with the release on the <a href="https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues">pandas issue tracker</a>.</p>
pandas-dev/pandas: Pandas 1.0.2
No full textThis is a minor bug-fix release in the 1.0.x series and includes some regression fixes
and bug fixes. We recommend that all users upgrade to this version.
See the full whatsnew for a list of all the changes.
The release will be available on the defaults and conda-forge channels:
conda install pandas
Or via PyPI:
python3 -m pip install --upgrade pandas
Please report any issues with the release on the pandas issue tracker
