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The Hidden Meaning and the Inner Tale: Deconstruction and the Interpretation of Fairy Tales

According to many of the students I teach, the really important aspect of literary works is a mysterious entity called "the hidden meaning" Â—the central purpose of novels and poems, the ideas their writers were intending to communicate to us. Describing those ideas as "hidden" implies a bewildering paradox: that which writers want us to understand is the one thing they never actually say. If the meaning of a literary text is properly hidden, then the work might well mean almost anything Â— anything but what its words literally say. A poem which seems to be describing a bird in flight may be about God or death or love or war or the pain of adolescence, or it may be about some peculiar combination of all of them; the one certain fact is that it is not about a bird. Many of my students think of meanings as being hidden simply because they haven't easily seen the ones that have been apparent to their teachers; what is actually hidden from them is not the meaning itself, but a clear explanation of how that meaning connects to and emerges from the words that signify it. The ability to provide such explanations is the essence of good communication; knowing they do in fact exist ought to persuade us of the fact that, given our knowledge of appropriate contexts for them, the meanings of literature are not hidden; texts do mean just what they say. But then, of course, different contexts evoke different meanings from the same words. In different circumstances, the word "blue" can evoke the happiness of a cloudless day or the melancholy of a gloomy mood, and so the meanings that words are in fact able to convey in a surprisingly exact fashion may nevertheless seem different to some of us than they do to others. Because we have no choice but to understand language in terms of our own previous knowledge, meanings that may seem literal to some of us might well be hidden to others. And for that reason, there is a sense in which my students are not wrong to conceive of meanings as hidden. Indeed, whether we are students or teachers or writers of criticism in academic journals like this one, we all tend to act as if meanings are, in an important sense, hidden. The mere fact of literary criticism, writing that purports to discuss the meaning and significance of other writing, presupposes that literature itself does not communicate clearly or successfully. That we need to provide our own words in order to tell other people what a poet's or novelist's words have communicated implies that the original words of the poem or novel have not clearly communicated what we understood them to say. Indeed, we tend to assume that our basic response to a work of literature should be an act of interpretation Â—that is, an attempt to see beyond the specific words we read to the meanings hidden within them. Like my students, even professional interpreters act as if the important meanings engendered by works of literature are the one thing that the words of texts themselves
Continuous renal replacement therapy results in respiratory and hemodynamic beneficial effects in pediatric patients with severe systemic inflammatory response syndrome and multiorgan system dysfunction*

Background: Proinflammatory mediators have been implicated in the pathogenesis of systemic inflammatory response syndrome and multiorgan system dysfunction. These mediators are of molecular weights that render them amenable to clearance by the hemodiafiltration mode of continuous renal replacement therapy. Objective: To determine whether a period of 48 hrs of continuous renal replacement therapy in patients with multiorgan system dysfunction secondary to systemic inflammatory response syndrome improves their degree of anasarca as well as their cardiovascular and respiratory systems performances. Data Source: Retrospective chart review. Study Design: Charts of patients diagnosed with systemic inflammatory response syndrome, who were mechanically ventilated in the pediatric intensive care unit and at the same time were receiving continuous renal replacement therapy, from 2004 to 2008, were reviewed. Patients with preexisting renal failure and/or received extracorporeal membrane oxygenation were excluded. Changes in the patients' body weights, oxygenation indices, and vasopressor scores were used as markers for responsiveness to continuous renal replacement therapy. Data Analysis and Main Results: Data from twenty-two patients with systemic inflammatory response syndrome and with three to five concomitantly diagnosed organ system dysfunctions, at the time continuous renal replacement therapy was initiated, were analyzed. None of the six patients who had five organ system dysfunctions survived to be discharged from the pediatric intensive care unit. Of the remaining 16 patients with three or four organ system dysfunctions, eight (50%) survived and eight (50%) died. The patients' weight, oxygenation indices, and vasopressor scores did not significantly change with 48 hrs of continuous renal replacement therapy. Conclusions: Mechanically ventilated patients with systemic inflammatory response syndrome and multiorgan system dysfunction demonstrated a precarious and insignificant response to 48 hrs of continuous renal replacement therapy in a hemodiafiltration mode. However, the patients' overall clinical status did not deteriorate during this therapy. More prospective studies are necessary to determine the effectiveness of continuous renal replacement therapy in patients with multiorgan system dysfunction.
Smart material interfaces as a methodology for interaction: a survey of SMIs' state of the art and development

In this paper we give an overview of the work done on the methodology of using smart material interfaces as it appears in the literature until now. We address the opportunities offered by smart materials as they have been exploited by other researchers who created smart material interfaces. We do so by surveying smart materials by kind and by looking at how they have been exploited.
A Study of Visitors, on Destination Image, Environmental Perception, Travel Experiences and Revisiting Willingness in Xinshe Leisure Agriculture Park

The main purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship of leisure agriculture park visitors on tourist destination image, environmental perception, travel experiences and revisiting willingness. This study used questionnaires to Xinshe leisure agriculture park visitors’ targeted convenience sampling manner total of 636 valid questionnaires. Valid questionnaires by descriptive statistics, correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis, the study found that: 1. The agricultural park visitors’ correlations exist between the destination image, perception of the environment, tourism experience and revisiting willingness. 2. "Excellent facilities and services", "space atmosphere comfortable" and "the spacious paternity outdoor space" imagery, of visitors’ "revisiting willingness predict. 3. Visitors’ in leisure agriculture park "environmental perception" and "travel experience, future revisiting willingness predict. According to the analysis of the results, the study not only operate on the recommendations of the leisure farm owners also provide follow-up study direction for future researchers. Keywords—Leisure farms, image, travel experience, revisiting willingness, environmental perception.
Novel CQI update methods in CoMP transmission

This paper proposes two novel channel quality indicator (CQI) update methods that provide conservative CQIs to improve the cell edge user throughput in coordinated scheduling/beamforming (CS/CB) schemes. In CS/CB, a user usually needs to feed back channel state information (CSI) to its serving cell as the first step. However, due to the lack of knowledge regarding neighboring coordinated cells, e.g., the precoding matrix, the reported CQI is not accurate and must be updated before it can be applied. In the proposed methods, we assume that for each data stream the user receiver is tuned to match each incoming source of interference from the coordinated cell, or the precoder of the coordinated cell matches the row space of the channel from the coordinated cell to the user as much as possible. Two lower-bounds of the real CQI in actual transmission are derived and adopted. Both theoretical analysis and simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed methods.
Changes in Angiotensinogen Messenger RNA in Differentiating 3 T 3F 442 A Adipocytes

Angiotensinogen messenger RNA (mRNA) has been identified in both brown and white adipose tissue. Recently we have shown that when 3T3-L1 cells were treated with isobutylmethylxanthine (IBMX) to accelerate differentiation, angiotensinogen mRNA increased markedly in adipocytes as compared with preadipocytes. To determine if a correlation existed between the regulatory events associated with the differentiation process, we compared the change in angiotensinogen mRNA in spontaneously differentiating 3T3-F442A cells with two established parameters of differentiation in adipocyte cell lines. Differentiation was assessed by visual examination of cells for lipid droplets, fluorescent staining of the F-actin fibers, and increases in glycerol phosphate dehydrogenase mRNA. F-actin fibers were highly structured in preadipocytes, becoming disassembled and very disorganized as cells differentiated into adipocytes. The quantity of angiotensinogen mRNA increased as the number of lipid-containing cells increased within a culture. Glycerol phosphate dehydrogenase mRNA accumulated in differentiated adipocytes to about the same extent as angiotensinogen mRNA. Thus, increases in angiotensinogen mRNA were associated with the morphological and biochemical changes that occur during the phenotypic modulation of 3T3-F442A cells. {Hypertension 1990;15:867-871)
Debate and Pseudo-Debate in Class Analysis: Some Unpromising Aspects of Goldthorpe and Marshall's Defence

A propos de la difficulte theorique inherente a une construction des categories de classes sociales en dehors de toute agregation avec les professions ou tout autre characteristique d'emploi. D'un cote les classes sociales sont sur-identifiees par une mesure en terme de profession qui se fait au depend de dimensions plus larges du pouvoir economique et de l'action sociale et a pour effet de reduire la classe sociale a un agregat statistique. Mais d'un autre cote une analyse fondee sur une version weberienne (gesellschaftlich) de la theorie des classes (une analyse des chances individuelles sur le marche du travail comme outil d'analyse des modeles d'inegalites economiques) demeure pertinente
Origin and fate of the central macrophages of erythroblastic islands in the fetal and neonatal mouse liver

Erythroblastic islands were examined by ultrastructure and ultrastructural histochemistry in fetal and early neonatal livers of the mouse. The liver primordium of day 11 embryos contained not only immature hemopoietic cells in the hepatic cords but also macrophages in expanded sinusoids. At 12 and 13 days of gestation, macrophages bearing large cytoplasmic inclusions increased in number, and some of them moved from the sinusoids into the hepatic cords. A ring of erythroblasts surrounded the macrophages, and erythroblastic islands could be identified at 14 days of gestation. Fetal livers contained two kinds of macrophages: sinusoidal macrophages and central macrophages of the erythroblastic islands. These macrophages exhibited a similar binding pattern to Griffonia simplicifolia isoagglutinin‐IB4 (GS‐IB4) and soybean agglutinin (SBA). Fetal hepatocytes, however, did not appear to engage in active phagocytosis, and the binding patterns of GS‐IB4 and SBA differed significantly between hepatocytes and the two kinds of macrophages. In the early postnatal mouse, a marked decrease in the number of erythroblastic islands occurred. Erythroblasts left the central macrophages, and the macrophages subsequently underwent degeneration. The erythroblastic islands finally disappeared at the end of liver hemopoiesis, and the degenerated central macrophages were removed by scavenger macrophages in the perisinusoidal space. Our data demonstrate that scavenger macrophages play an essential role in the development of hepatic hemopoiesis, with special reference to the formation and dissolution of erythroblastic islands. Microsc. Res. Tech. 39:398–405, 1997. © 1997 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Gonadal hormones in male anorexia nervosa

We studied eight cases of male anorexia nervosa selected according to Feighner's criteria. At the time of their maximum weight loss, all had plasmatic testosterone assessment (J). Five of them also had assessment of plasmatic estradiol (E2) and baseline levels of serum gonadotropins as well as of their response to LH-RH. The response of the testicular hormone to HCG was studied in three cases. During weight recovery, six patients again had the same assessments, which were repeated at variable intervals. At the time of their maximum weight loss, T was decreased in every case; E2 twice in five cases; FSH five times in five cases; and LH four times in five cases. In four cases out of five, gonadotropins did not respond to LH-RH. Mean levels of the four hormones were significantly lower than those of an age-matched control group of 12 normal-weight subjects. During weight recovery, the response of four hormones and the gonadotropins to LH-RH increased. We found a highly significant correlation between testosterone and weight. Male anorexia nervosa, therefore, is associated with an intense hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, which mainly results from weight loss. However testosterone and weight do not always move in the same way. Other mechanisms, particularly psychosomatic ones, seem to act in the determinism of hypogonadism.
Storytelling: The Real Work of Museums

Abstract This article examines the ways in which the narrative or story form generates personal connections between visitors and content and thus is ideally suited to the work of museums. Starting with a review of the qualities of narrative, the article provides specific examples of how stories and storytelling have worked in exhibitions, public programs and outreach to schools.
A comparative study of Web services-based event notification specifications

Web services-based event notification is an emerging technology that combines the asynchronous communication feature of event notification mechanisms and the interoperability feature of Web services technologies. Web services-based event notification systems are important components for service-oriented grid computing. WS-eventing and WS-notification are two major competing specifications for these systems. This paper is a comparative study of these specifications. The focuses of this research are on identifying the similarities and differences between these two specifications and identifying their evolutionary path from previous specifications. We found that competing Web services specifications take ideas and concepts from each other during the development progress, which is good for the maturity of the Web services-based event notification technology. We also identified several major changes from previous event notification systems to Web services-based event notification systems. In the end, we presented our WS-messenger project that supports both WS-eventing and WS-notification specifications and provides mediation between them
Co-operation and communication in apes and humans

We trace the difference between the ways in which apes and humans co-operate to differences in communicative abilities, claiming that the pressure for future- directed co-operation was a major force behind the evolution of language. Competitive co-operation concerns goals that are present in the environment and have stable values. It relies on either signalling or joint attention. Future-directed co-operation concerns new goals that lack fixed values. It requires symbolic communication and context- independent representations of means and goals. We analyse these ways of co-operating in game-theoretic terms and submit that the co-operative strategy of games that involve shared representations of future goals may provide new equilibrium solutions. 1. Co-operation Human beings as well as animals co-operate in order to reach common goals. There are many ways of co-operating, some of which may not merit being called 'co-operation' in the literal sense of the word. Among these one may count the more or less instinctive co-ordination of behaviour that emerges among ants building heaps or honeybees gathering food. On the opposite side of the scale, we find co-operation that builds on elaborate long-term planning and an open discussion of the means and the goal. In this article, we will compare and elucidate the similarities and differences between humans and apes as concerns co-operation. There is no doubt that apes co-operate, but, as we will argue, humans are able to do so in more flexible ways. Our aim is to spell out the crucial role of communication for different kinds of co-operation. To co-operate is to work together for a joint benefit. A group of agents is co-operating when the agents together employ a certain means, or series of actions, to achieve a common goal. Co-operation can be achieved directly by a co-ordination of behaviour. It can also arise indirectly through a mutual sharing of representations of means and goal. It is vital for true co-operation that all the participants are actively involved. For instance, when a person manipulates other people in order to reach his goal, we do not say that the others are co-operating with him. This is the case even if the goal is of use to them all. Co-operation demands that all the
Restaurant servers, tipping, and resistance

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to present a next step in Greta Foff Paules' groundbreaking analysis of control-resistance in service work by exploring the work practices of restaurant servers in regard to ways they resist and reshape the tipping system that structures their work life. Specifically, the author explores how workers will attempt to manipulate the system to elicit higher tips from customers and when servers forgo an economic tip, so that they can exercise dignity and self-respect. Central to this analysis is to highlight the space in between Paules' notions of “getting” and “making” a tip. In this space, servers can exercise resistance and still acknowledge the humanness of the customer. Design/methodology/approach - The research methodology is participant observation and interviews. Findings - Restaurant servers see their ability to manipulate the tipping system as routes to exercising agency and resistance in work interactions. Moreover, servers see their ability to earn tips (and even forgo tips) by both capitalizing on the organizational structures and capitalizing on the customers' human nature. Research limitations/implications - The research focuses on servers broadly, and not on distinctions within groups of servers (i.e. sex differences, age differences or restaurant types). Originality/value - This paper furthers the understanding of the tipping practice, which is historically viewed in terms of status inequality and control. In contrast, the author highlight how workers in practice, are able to use the tipping system to resist customer and manager demands, assert their creativity, agency, and self-dignity, and still treat the customer as a social being.
Genetic polymorphisms in CYP3A5, CYP3A4 and NQO1 in children who developed therapy-related myeloid malignancies.

Therapy-related acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome (t-ML) are serious complications that affect some patients after acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) treatment. Genetic polymorphisms in the promoter of CYP3A4 (CYP3A4*1B) and in NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase (NQO1609C-->T substitution) have been associated with the risk of t-ML. A polymorphism in CYP3A5 (CYP3A5*3) affects CYP3A activity and the wild-type allele (CYP3A5*1) is in partial linkage with the CYP3A4*1B allele. We compared the genotype frequencies for the CYP3A5*3, the CYP3A4*1B and the NQO1609C-->T substitution in 224 children with ALL who did not develop t-ML (controls) and in 53 children with ALL who did develop the complication. The allele frequencies differed significantly among whites, blacks and Hispanics (P < 0.001 for CYP3A5*3, P < 0.001 for CYP3A4*1B and P = 0.004 for NQO1609), thus we performed the comparisons between ALL controls and t-ML patients after accounting for race. We found no differences in the CYP3A4*1B allele distribution between ALL controls and t-ML patients in whites (P = 0.339, 6.6% vs. 9.8%), blacks (P = 0.498, 93.8% vs. 87.5%) or Hispanics (P = 0.523, 39.1% vs. 25.0%). The frequencies for the NQO1609C-->T allele did not differ between control and t-ML groups in whites (P = 0.191, 35.0% vs. 44.9%), blacks (P = 0.664, 37.5% vs. 37.5%) or Hispanics (P = 0.447, 65.2% vs. 50.0%). We found no differences between the control and t-ML group in the incidence of homozygous CYP3A5*3 genotypes: 82.0% vs. 85.4% in whites (P = 0.403), 6.5% vs. 12.5% in blacks (P = 0.508), and 69.6% vs. 75.0% in Hispanics (P= 0.663). Our data do not support an association between common CYP3A4, NQO1 or CYP3A5 polymorphisms and the risk of t-ML in children treated for ALL.
A STUDY OF PREFERENCES IN FEMININE BEAUTY

A survey of previous studies of aesthetic preferences shows little attention to examples of natural beauty and none to preferences in the field of human beauty. In inquiries using factor analysis it is necessary to distinguish different uses of the term ‘the general factor in aesthetic judgements’. In the present inquiry twelve photographs of women's faces taken in uniform conditions were ranked for ‘prettiness’ by 4355 readers of a national daily newspaper. Twenty-two inter-correlations between mean rankings of men and women, of four age groups, and of six regional groups were each of the order of 0·9. Conformity of opinion within groups was significantly different only for the 55 + age group who showed less tendency to agree than other age groups. Factor analysis of a small random group of individual rankings resulted in a general factor accounting for 43 % of the variance, and a small bipolar factor. Comparison of mean rankings of representative samples of five occupational groups showed that social status has little influence on preferences. Limitations of the technique of inquiry are discussed and the results are considered in the light of the hypothesis that norms of human beauty are culturally determined.
Plantar Pressure Detection with Fiber Bragg Gratings Sensing System

In this paper, a novel fiber-optic sensing system based on fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) to measure foot plantar pressure is proposed. This study first explores the Pedar-X insole foot pressure types of the adult-size chart and then defines six measurement areas to effectively identify four foot types: neutral foot, cavus foot, supinated foot and flat foot. The plantar pressure signals are detected by only six FBGs, which are embedded in silicone rubber. The performance of the fiber optic sensing is examined and compared with a digital pressure plate of i-Step P1000 with 1024 barometric sensors. In the experiment, there are 11 participants with different foot types to participate in the test. The Pearson correlation coefficient, which is determined from the measured results of the homemade fiber-optic plantar pressure system and i-Step P1000 plantar pressure plate, reaches up to 0.671 (p < 0.01). According to the measured results from the plantar pressure data, the proposed fiber optic sensing system can successfully identify the four different foot types. Measurements of this study have demonstrated the feasibility of the proposed system so that it can be an alternative for plantar pressure detection systems.