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Pedagogies of ecological imagination : thinking with posthuman concepts in outdoor environmental education
Creators: name: Morse, P
Publisher: name: University of Tasmania
Year: 2024

description: Shifting how imagination is attended to, understood, and engaged with pedagogically in outdoor environmental education is the work of this thesis. Imagination as a tool for learning is under-researched but urgently required as educators respond to the ecological precarity of our times. I seek to highlight how imagination can contribute to outdoor environmental education in ways that reconsider relations in a more-thanhuman world, de-centre humans, and trouble human exceptionalism. Consistent with such concerns, I adopt a posthuman approach to map the content and expressions of imagination in a series of pedagogical encounters with pre-service educators and primary school students on Dja Dja Wurrung Country, Kooyoora, Australia. In doing so, I reposition the role of imagination from a human phenomenon to one that proliferates the ecological and acts as a transversal force within pedagogical assemblages.By thinking and writing with theory, I explore two modes of imagination, difference through movement and time and collective imaginaries, and suggest these modes of imagination are accessible not only within places and material relations but also through deliberate ways of encountering places. I offer educators elements of practice to enable such encounters, including orienting to ecological imagination, thinking with landscapes in motion, attuning to sensory more-than-human stories, and thinking with difference. Further, I highlight possibilities for critical posthuman driven pedagogies to transform the inevitable accompanying sense of injustice and helplessness towards an affirmative ethic. The significance of this research is that it provides conceptual and practical tools to think with posthuman theories that generate pedagogies of ecological imagination to effectively respond to our times.
Formalization of AMR Inference via Hybrid Logic Tableaux
Creators: name: Goldner, Eli Tecumseh
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2021
Subjects: AMR
automated reasoning
hybrid logic
semantic representation
tableau
Abstract Meaning Representation
Computational Linguistics
Semantics
Knowledge Representation

description: AMR and its extensions have become popular in semantic representation due to their ease of annotation by non-experts, attention to the predicative core of sentences, and abstraction away from syntactic matter. An area where AMR and its extensions warrant improvement is formalization and suitability for inference, where it is lacking compared to other semantic representations, such as description logics, episodic logic, and discourse representation theory. This thesis presents a formalization of inference over a merging of Donatelli et al.’s (2018) AMR extension for tense and aspect with Pustejovsky et al.’s (2019) AMR extension for quantification and scope. Inference is modeled with a merging of Hansen’s (2007) tableau method for first-order hybrid logic with varying domain semantics (FHL) and Blackburn and Jørgensen’s (2012) tableau method for basic hybrid tense logic (BHTL). We motivate the merging of these AMR variants, present their interpretation and inference in the combination of FHL and BHTL, which we will call first-order hybrid tense logic (FHTL), and demonstrate the soundness and completeness of FHTL’s general tableau method, and its decidability for finite model checking.
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title: Influence of gel fraction content on strength characteristics of pipes made of cross-linked polyethylene PE-Xa
Creators: name: ÐÐ¾Ð»ÐºÐ¾Ð²Ð°, ÐÐ°ÑÐ¸Ð½Ð°
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Year: 2024
Subjects: ÑÑÐ¸ÑÑÐ¹ Ð¿Ð¾Ð»Ð¸ÑÑÐ¸Ð»ÐµÐ½
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cross-linked polyethylene
strength characteristics
gel fraction
degree of cross-linking

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description: This work is devoted to the study of dependence of strength characteristics of pipes made of cross-linked polyethylene PE-Xa The object of the study was pipes of different diameters (16mm, 20mm, 25mm, 32mm) made of cross-linked PE PE PE-Xa. The subject of the study - strength characteristics of pipes, the aim of the study - percentage of gel fraction content In the course of the work, materials on PE-Xa cross-linked polyethylene pipes were studied, the specifics of production were studied, tests were performed for the pipes, analytical calculations were made, which were compared with experimental data, and recommendations were given to production.
Pedagogies of ecological imagination : thinking with posthuman concepts in outdoor environmental education
Creators: name: Morse, P
Publisher: name: University of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Shifting how imagination is attended to, understood, and engaged with pedagogically in outdoor environmental education is the work of this thesis. Imagination as a tool for learning is under-researched but urgently required as educators respond to the ecological precarity of our times. I seek to highlight how imagination can contribute to outdoor environmental education in ways that reconsider relations in a more-thanhuman world, de-centre humans, and trouble human exceptionalism. Consistent with such concerns, I adopt a posthuman approach to map the content and expressions of imagination in a series of pedagogical encounters with pre-service educators and primary school students on Dja Dja Wurrung Country, Kooyoora, Australia. In doing so, I reposition the role of imagination from a human phenomenon to one that proliferates the ecological and acts as a transversal force within pedagogical assemblages. By thinking and writing with theory, I explore two modes of imagination, difference through movement and time and collective imaginaries, and suggest these modes of imagination are accessible not only within places and material relations but also through deliberate ways of encountering places. I offer educators elements of practice to enable such encounters, including orienting to ecological imagination, thinking with landscapes in motion, attuning to sensory more-than-human stories, and thinking with difference. Further, I highlight possibilities for critical posthuman driven pedagogies to transform the inevitable accompanying sense of injustice and helplessness towards an affirmative ethic. The significance of this research is that it provides conceptual and practical tools to think with posthuman theories that generate pedagogies of ecological imagination to effectively respond to our times.
Transcriptional profiling with Butt-Seq and other methods in biology
Creators: name: Yu, Albert Dayuan
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Circadian Rhythms
Transcription

description: "Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries, and new ideas, probably in that order" - Sydney Brenner. The dissertation is one that takes this maxim to heart, and thus presents three explorations into developing and improving techniques to attempt to address unmet needs in biology. The first such exploration is an inexpensive and scalable SARS-CoV-2 molecular diagnostic test that relies on saliva as a diagnostic specimen. The second is a method developed for analyzing transcriptional dynamics with limited biological material - Bulk analysis of nascent transcript termini (Butt-Seq). The third is an exploration of circadian rhythms - a foray into a deep learning approach for defining rhythmicity in low-resolution circadian transcriptomics, followed by a dive into the molecular features of transcriptomic rhythms in Drosophila melanogaster. Although these chapters may seem disparate, each offers new avenues for discovery and technological development in the field of biology.
Displacement behaviour of reinforced concrete walls in regions of lower seismicity
Creators: name: Menegon, Scott
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis aims to improve the seismic design and detailing of reinforced concrete (RC) wall buildings in regions of lower seismicity (e.g. Australia) by better understanding the displacement behaviour under extreme loading. Buildings are traditionally designed for lateral loads (e.g. wind or earthquake actions) using strength as the primary assessment criteria. However, a more realistic and accurate assessment can be determined by considering the maximum displacement capacity of the building before collapse. The objective of this dissertation is to assess the displacement behaviour of RC walls and to develop a simplified model for predicting their maximum displacement capacity.
Bypassing Deadlock: Exploring the Role of the United Nations in Conflict Management Amid Increasing Great Power Competition and P5 Disagreement
Creators: name: Gordon, Jason Andrew
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2024
Subjects: United Nations
Russian invasion of Ukraine
Russo-Ukrainian War
UN Security Council
International Organizations
Conflict Resolution

description: My thesis depicts an evolving role for the United Nations in conflict resolution. Instead of being directly involved and passing resolutions or openly mediating between the opposing sides to resolve the dispute, the United Nations has utilized political pressure to influence both parties to the negotiation table. I argue that tensions between the permanent members — especially in the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Ukraine — have caused this, as the UN passed had the lowest percentage of meetings with a resolution since the height of the Cold War in 2023. In my thesis, I describe the UN’s current role in dispute settlement through the lens of three conflicts: the Russia-Ukraine War, the 2023 Niger crisis, and the Nagorno-Karabakh war, which ended in September 2023. Through each case, I show the strengths and weaknesses of the UN’s approach to dispute settlement in a new era of UNSC gridlock, finding that while political pressure can be successful and ease tensions, it can be a slow-moving process and often fails to resolve the underlying issues behind the dispute.
The Faces of Fear: Cross-cultural Dialogues on Fear and Political Community
Creators: name: Lee, Jinmin
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2014
Subjects: fear and political community
history of fear
cross-cultural dialogues
Aristotle
Confucius
Hobbes
Han Fei
Montesquieu
Liang Qichao

description: Inspired by the hopes of better understanding and managing fear in our political lives, this dissertation engages Western and Chinese thinkers in a cross-cultural dialogue about fear. Influenced by the Enlightenment portrayal of fear, we tend to think fear as the greatest evil of civilization and the greatest enemy of freedom. This research shows that this way of thinking about fear is not the only one that is plausible or available to us. In order to understand what is missing from our current understanding of fear, this dissertation explores parallels among six philosophers who represent diverse attitudes to fear and political community. The six philosophers are grouped in three pairs, each of which includes one Western and one Chinese thinker: the moralists, Aristotle and Confucius; the realists, Hobbes and Han Fei; and the Enlighteners, Montesquieu and Liang Qichao. From the dialogue among these thinkers, the thesis shows how the concept of fear has changed its character; how fear has developed critical relationships with justice, equality and liberty; and how fear has been related to the different ways of political life. At the same time, by highlighting each voice’s strengths and weaknesses, this cross-cultural dialogue enables us to see how each theory may hide sources of fear within itself and how, ironically, they sometimes inflate the fears that they were designed to tame. Contemporary liberals, in particular, need to learn that there is much that is missing in our current understanding of fear and how these limitations may undermine their efforts to promote individual liberty and security. In this regard, these different faces of fear point both to a richer portrait of fear and a better understanding of how to handle it.
Varsity team sport coaches' perceptions of their roles and responsibilities.
Creators: name: Miller, Patricia S.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Education, Physical.

description: The purpose of this study was to describe the perceptions of varsity team sport coaches roles and responsibilities within the university setting. In-depth interviews were conducted with eight full-time varsity basketball and volleyball coaches from four universities in Ontario, and inductively analyzed following procedures similar to Cote, Salmela and Russell (1995a). Three major categories emerged from the analysis including the athletic, educational and professional roles. The athletic role described the activities of the coaches concerning the athletic performance of their athletes and organization of their varsity programs. Within the organizational property of this category, planning competition and administrative tasks emerged as important coaching responsibilities. The educational role included the reported activities of the coaches regarding academic pursuits and personal development of their student athletes. The coaches assumed active roles in the academic lives of their athletes and facilitated the educational process by placing academics as a priority. The personal development property represented the roles of the coaches as counselors and parental figures, and teachers of life skills and priorities. The professional role described the obligations of the coaches towards the development of their sport and the coaching profession, as well as the conditions of working within an educational setting at the university level. While consistent with earlier research on the role of coaches in the skill development, academic achievement and the development of life skills, the results illustrated an athlete-centered approach associated with coaching within an educational setting. The findings provided new directions for future research.
The Evolution of SHP-Phosphatase Regulation by Bis-Phosphorylated Peptide Activators
Creators: name: Morningstar, Carolyn Haught
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2025

description: The protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) SHP2 and SHP1 are essential enzymes in many eukaryotic signaling pathways. They evolved sophisticated autoinhibition by the N-SH2 domain docking into the active site to inhibit substrate dephosphorylation, resulting in a predominantly closed equilibrium. Here, we investigate how the autoinhibition by SH2 domains evolved early in protein tyrosine phosphatases. We expressed, purified, and characterized several extant PTPs and resurrected ancestors. We determined when SH2-based autoinhibition appeared in our phylogeny by comparing the full-length basal activity to each phosphatase's catalytic domain activity. Additionally, we used the extant SHP2 and SHP1 activators GAB-1, IRS-1, PD-1, and BTLA to examine the evolutionary pathway for allosteric activators, such as their increasing specificity and effectiveness for extant PTPs compared to the ancestors. The evidence presented here revealed that protein tyrosine phosphates started with some level of basal autoinhibition and evolved pathways to fine-tune this regulation later with the bis-phosphorylated activators.
‘We can do only what we have the means for’ general practitioners’ views of primary care for older people with complex health problems
Creators: name: Herzog, Anna
name: Gaertner, Beate
name: Scheidt-Nave, Christa
name: Holzhausen, Martin
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background Due to demographic change, general practitioners (GPs) are increasingly required to care for older people with complex health problems. Little is known about the subjective appraisals of GPs concerning the demanded changes. Our objective is to explore how general practitioners view their professional mandates and capacities to provide comprehensive care for older people with complex health problems. Do geriatric training or experience influence viewpoints? Can barriers for the implementation of changes in primary care for older people with complex health problems be detected? Methods Preceding a controlled intervention study on case management for older patients in the primary care setting (OMAHA II), this qualitative study included 10 GPs with differing degrees of geriatric qualification. Semi structured interviews were conducted and audio-taped. Full interview transcripts were analyzed starting with open coding on a case basis and case descriptions. The emerging thematic structure was enriched with comparative dimensions through reiterated inter-case comparison and developed into a multidimensional typology of views. Results Based on the themes emerging from the data and their presentation by the interviewed general practitioners we could identify three different types of views on primary care for older people with complex health problems: ‘maneuvering along competence limits’, ‘Herculean task’, and ‘cooperation and networking’. The types of views differ in regard to role-perception, perception of their own professional domain, and action patterns in regard to cooperation. One type shows strong correspondence with a geriatrician. Across all groups, there is a shared concern with the availability of sufficient resources to meet the challenges of primary care for older people with complex health problems. Conclusions Limited financial resources, lack of cooperational networks, and attitudes appear to be barriers to assuring better primary care for older people with complex health problems. To overcome these barriers, geriatric training is likely to have a positive impact but needs to be supplemented by regulations regarding reimbursement. Most of all, general practitioners’ care for older people with complex health problems needs a conceptual framework that provides guidance regarding their specific role and contribution and assisting networks. For example, it is essential that general practice guidelines become more explicit with respect to managing older people with complex health problems.
reChIP-seq reveals widespread bivalency of H3K4me3 and H3K27me3 in CD4+ memory T cells
Creators: name: Kinkley, Sarah
name: Helmuth, Johannes
name: Polansky, Julia K.
name: Dunkel, Ilona
name: Gasparoni, Gilles
name: Froehler, Sebastian
name: Chen, Wei
name: Walter, Joern
name: Hamann, Alf
name: Chung, Ho-Ryun
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: The combinatorial action of co-localizing chromatin modifications and regulators determines chromatin structure and function. However, identifying co-localizing chromatin features in a high-throughput manner remains a technical challenge. Here we describe a novel reChIP-seq approach and tailored bioinformatic analysis tool, normR that allows for the sequential enrichment and detection of co-localizing DNA-associated proteins in an unbiased and genome-wide manner. We illustrate the utility of the reChIP-seq method and normR by identifying H3K4me3 or H3K27me3 bivalently modified nucleosomes in primary human CD4+ memory T cells. We unravel widespread bivalency at hypomethylated CpG-islands coinciding with inactive promoters of developmental regulators. reChIP-seq additionally uncovered heterogeneous bivalency in the population, which was undetectable by intersecting H3K4me3 and H3K27me3 ChIP- seq tracks. Finally, we provide evidence that bivalency is established and stabilized by an interplay between the genome and epigenome. Our reChIP-seq approach augments conventional ChIP-seq and is broadly applicable to unravel combinatorial modes of action.
How can social enterprises create social value while maintaining financial sustainability? A study in Vietnam
Creators: name: Truong, Tuan Anh
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Drawing on institutional logics as a meta-theory – as well as conceptions of high-involvement work practices and social exchange theory – this research examines how social enterprises in Vietnam mobilise resources, organise their operations and work towards fulfilling their social mission while maintaining their financial sustainability. The findings of the thesis may benefit the social enterprise community in Vietnam, as well as other developing countries, which still struggle to fulfil their dual goals of social mission and financial sustainability. It also responds to the lack of empirical research on social enterprise in general and in diverse world contexts in particular.
"Reading from within": Nicholas of Lyra, the sensus iteralis, and the structural logic of "The Canterbury Tales".
Creators: name: Wauhkonen, Rhonda L.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Literature, Medieval.

description: Like certain of his more reactionary religious contemporaries (most notably, Nicholas of Lyra, O.F.M., and John Wyclif), Chaucer concerns himself with critically reflexive literature. Through his various narrative and exegetical efforts, he produces--in The Canterbury Tales especially--what amounts to "Christian midrashim" or a literary tarqum as he, like Nicholas and Wyclif before him, directly addresses matters of textual and referential authority, of relational significances, and of the text's apparently intended personal effects. Reflecting the logic and concerns of the central Text of the age and apparently formulating their shared concept of the literal, of its signification, and of its function from Hebraic rather than Latin referential categories, each of these writers after his fashion and field calls for a return to ethical and social praxis based upon a responsible interpretation of the Divine Word according to its inherent logic and meaning. Being concerned to re-establish the pertinence of auctorite for the individual and the age, they thus present "right reading" as an intellectual endeavour under moral imperative. Involving both author and reader in the text, they clarify the sensus literalis (the essential significance of a text) as being not only "what the words signify" (Augustine), but what the words were intended to signify by their Author--as this is supported by the body of received ecriture and as it is accessible to those who approach the text in spiritual and moral readiness, prepared to engage actively the material (and its Author) by activating it in their own immediate experience. My use of such terms as midrashim and tarqum from the Jewish tradition to describe Chaucer's unique contribution to Fourteenth century literature is quite intentional, for it foregrounds the seminal--and Semitic--source, semiotic, and structural logic that underlies the particular theory of the sensus literalis which Nicholas develops from a marriage of rabbinical and patristic sources, which Wyclif gives a distinctively English expression and application, and which Chaucer seems to adapt to poetic forms. My thesis, attempting to deal in a fuller sense with referential meaning generally and with the sensus literalis specifically, explores the ways in which Nicholas, Wyclif, and, after them, Chaucer approach the deeper significance of the literal. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Best practice recommendations for the use of fully implanted telemetry devices in pinnipeds
Creators: name: Horning, Markus
name: Haulena, Martin
name: Tuomi, Pamela A
name: Mellish, Jo-Ann E
name: Goertz, Caroline E
name: Woodie, Kathleen
name: Berngartt, Rachel K
name: Johnson, Shawn
name: Shuert, Courtney R
name: Walker, Kristen A
name: Skinner, John P
name: Boveng, Peter L
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2017

description: Electronic telemetry devices have enabled many novel and important data collection and experimental opportunities for difficult to observe species. Externally attached devices have limited retention and may affect thermoregulation, energetics, social and reproductive behavior, visibility, predation risk and entanglement. Internally placed, surgically implanted devices can mitigate some of these effects and may open additional experimental opportunities. However, improper implementation can significantly affect animals and data. From a review of recent studies using fully implanted tags and studying their effects, we present 15 specific best practice recommendations for the use of such tags in pinnipeds. Recommendations address issues including device size, coating and sterilization, implantation surgery and effect assessment, within the framework of the Three R’s: Reduction, Refinement, Replacement. While developed for pinnipeds, these recommendations could apply to other aquatic mammals and vertebrates and to partially implanted or even external tags.
Radiation-induced electrolyte transport dysfunction in the rat intestine: Role of nitric oxide.
Creators: name: Aurora, Alexander R.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Biology, Cell.

description: Diarrhea is a common symptom of individuals undergoing radiation therapy for abdominopelvic malignancies suggesting that absorptive and secretory processes of the gut may be altered. Studies indicate that radiation stimulates an acute inflammatory response, releasing inflammatory mediators which may stimulate the induction of nitric oxide synthase. To determine the role of nitric oxide in the radiation-induced alterations in electrolyte transport we measured changes in nitric oxide synthase activity in the jejunum, ileum and colon of rats at various times after whole body irradiation (10 Gray) and after sham treatment. To further determine the importance of nitric oxide in the gut, rats were treated with the competitive nitric oxide synthase inhibitor, nitro-L-arginine methylester one hour prior to irradiation or sham treatment and the above procedures repeated. Radiation decrease the short circuit current response to neurally-evoked stimulation in the jejunum, ileum and colon in a time-dependent fashion. The radiation-induced alterations in electrolyte transport did not coincide with changes in nitric oxide synthase activity. Radiation transiently decreased nitric oxide synthase activity in the jelunum at 0.5h post-irradiation. In the ileum, radiation increased nitric oxide synthase activity from 2-24h post-irradiation. Thus, alterations in intestinal electrolyte transport occurred in the absence of a major inflammatory response and without damage to the epithelium. The results demonstrate that radiation can cause alterations in electrolyte transport in the rat intestine in the absence of an acute inflammatory response or significant changes in epithelial morphology. Radiation can stimulate inducible nitric oxide synthase activity in the rat ileum. The increase in nitric oxide production is likely a protective mechanism rather than damaging to epithelial function.
Le vocabulaire de Maupassant.
Creators: name: Chauveau, Brigitte L.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Language, Modern.

description: Le but de notre etude est de degager les caracteristiques du vocabulaire de Guy de Maupassant. En partant de l'outil de base de l'ecrivain, le mot, nous avons effectue une analyse statistique et stylistique du vocabulaire tire de quatre contes: "Farce normande", "Le vieux", "Aux champs" et "La veillee". Afin d'enrichir notre analyse, nous avons choisi quatre contes d'Alphonse Daudet a titre de comparaison: "Les etoiles", "Les vieux", "Les trois messes basses" et "Le sous-prefet aux champs". Notre recherche se divise en deux volets: une etude quantitative et une analyse stylistique. En premier lieu, nous avons traite le vocabulaire dans son ensemble. Afin de degager certaines tendances, nous avons soumis les resultats de nos depouillements a des operations statistiques et determine la signification de la distribution par ordre de frequence du vocabulaire de Maupassant et de Daudet. Puis nous avons elabore les listes des vingt mots les plus frequents dans les categories grammaticales suivantes: noms communs, noms propres, adjectifs, verbes, adverbes, mots grammaticaux et interjections. Dans l'etude qualitative, nous avons etudie de pres les mots caracteristiques de Maupassant. Afin d'etablir les parametres de l'univers romanesque de l'auteur, nous avons regroupe son vocabulaire sous divers champs semantiques. Enfin, l'impact des noms propres et des interjections a ete evalue dans la section intitulee "L'evocation du cadre". (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
title: Role Play
Creators: name: Sultan, Mainus
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: International and Comparative Education

description: These manuals were made possible through the support from the University Development Linkages Project, Global Bureau, Human Capacity Development Center, U.S. Agency for International Development under the terms of Cooperative Agreement No. DAN-5063-A-00-1108-00.
description: A manual which introduces creative strategies for the use of role play to stimulate discussion, analysis and writing activities that are based on the daily lives of literacy learners. The information is based on the author’s experience working with literacy groups in Bangladesh and in the U.S. The purpose of this manual is to help practitioners use role play as a tool for creating learner-generated activities in a literacy class, or in a facilitator training program. This manual provides a framework to help you understand the concept of role play and how it can be part of an adult literacy program. Included is a detailed discussion of the process of role play implementation. The step-by-step presentation is intended to help you generate your own ideas for role play, as well as to encourage the learners to conceive of, and implement, their own role play. This manual is intended for literacy and nonformal education practitioners, and for facilitators, and supervisors. The manual can serve as a starting point for using role play in a literacy class or in a facilitator training. Read the contents and consider how this material applies to your situation. Work through the different activities. Upon completion of the activities, either write a brief report or record the learner-generated ideas and the role play process.
title: Relevance of structural damage in the sacroiliac joints for the functional status and spinal mobility in patients with axial spondyloarthritis
title: results from the German Spondyloarthritis Inception Cohort
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Protopopov, Mikhail
name: Sieper, Joachim
name: Haibel, Hildrun
name: Listing, Joachim
name: Rudwaleit, Martin
name: Poddubnyy, Denis
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Axial spondyloarthritis
subject: Ankylosing spondylitis
subject: Structural damage
subject: Sacroiliitis
subject: Physical function
subject: Spinal mobility
subject: BASFI
subject: BASMI
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background Functional status and spinal mobility in patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) are known to be determined both by disease activity and by structural damage in the spine. The impact of structural damage in the sacroiliac joints (SIJ) on physical function and spinal mobility in axSpA has not been studied so far. The objective of the study was to analyze the impact of radiographic sacroiliitis on functional status and spinal mobility in patients with axSpA. Methods In total, 210 patients with axSpA were included in the analysis. Radiographs of SIJ obtained at baseline and after 2 years of follow up were scored by two trained readers according to the modified New York criteria grading system (grade 0–4). The mean of two readers’ scores for each joint and a sum score for both SIJ were calculated for each patient giving a sacroiliitis sum score between 0 and 8. The Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Functional Index (BASFI) and Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Metrology Index (BASMI) at baseline and after 2 years were used as outcome measures. Results Longitudinal mixed model analysis adjusted for structural damage in the spine (modified Stoke Ankylosing Spondylitis Spine Score - mSASSS), disease activity (Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index - BASDAI and C-reactive protein level) and gender, revealed an independent association of the sacroiliitis sum score with the BASFI: b = 0.10 (95% CI 0.01–0.19) and the BASMI: b = 0.12 (95% CI 0.03–0.21), respectively, indicating that change by one radiographic sacroiliitis grade in one joint is associated with BASFI/BASMI worsening by 0.10/0.12 points, respectively, independently of disease activity and structural damage in the spine. Conclusion Structural damage in the SIJ might have an impact on functional status and spinal mobility in axSpA independently of spinal structural damage and disease activity. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT01277419. Registered on 14 January 2011.
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titleType: Subtitle
title: Radio frequency ion traps
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Year: 2024
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radiofrequency ion traps
charged particle motion
ion confinement

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description: Object of research â radiofrequency ion traps. Purpose of research â To study one type of ion traps, potentially allows the new kind of ions detection. Two variants of ion traps were investigated. The topology of the traps was studied. The regimes of confinement were found for every ion trap variant. The results of the research can be applied in mass spectrometers design. The program language Python and the program environment Anaconda was used to simulate the ion motion in electric fields. The results of the computation were presented with the aid of the free package LibreOffice.
“We Need New Names”: Conditions of Belonging in the Contemporary US Immigrant Novel
Creators: name: Filar, Diana
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2021
Subjects: ethno-racialization
immigrant novel
multiethnic literature
US immigrant
American Literature
Immigration
Migration
American Studies

description: This dissertation examines contemporary fiction by writers with backgrounds in Eastern Europe, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa to show how immigrants to the US, across a range of geographical contexts, actively shape the parameters and conditions of their own belonging. The characters in these novels express an ambivalence toward the standard story of assimilation or failure, ultimately offering a more complex understanding of what it means to be an American immigrant in the twenty-first century. In particular, my research shows that in many of the fictional texts written by immigrants about the immigrant experience, characters are often defining their own relationship to the United States by questioning their names, developing new names, and ruminating on the naming traditions of their countries of origin and of their adopted cultures. A coterie of over twenty-five writers, such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Karolina Waclawiak, Valeria Luiselli, NoViolet Bulawayo, Julia Alvarez, and Anya Ulinich among others, use names to parse, document, and test cultural practices of ethnic and racial identification, thereby unsettling crude generalizations that too often inform political debates about immigration.
description: Thinking about names becomes a way for literary immigrants to forge their identities on their own terms, from trying to fit in, struggling to stand out, and everything in between. Across these texts, we see immigrant characters attempt to pass as other ethnicities, refuse seemingly evident solidarities, and engage in unlikely friendships and animosities across origin and migration sites. In these cases, an attention to names helps reconceptualize the American Dream from a unilateral, nationalist project to multiple avenues for immigrant futurity. My project contends that immigrants bring their own multifaceted cultural conceptions to bear on how they imagine their place within American identity. Rather than being fixed, these cultural conceptions are constantly changing. By focusing on experiments with naming in contemporary immigrant fiction, I show how immigrant literature offers us a new understanding of what American literature is and a new vocabulary for immigrant belonging in the twenty-first century.
CD27-IgD- memory B cells are modulated by in vivo interleukin-6 receptor (IL- 6R) blockade in rheumatoid arthritis
Creators: name: Mahmood, Zafar
name: Muhammad, Khalid
name: Schmalzing, Marc
name: Roll, Petra
name: Dörner, Thomas
name: Tony, Hans-Peter
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Introduction Enhanced B cell activity, particularly memory B cells have gained interest in evaluating response during therapies with biologics. CD27-IgD- double-negative (DN) B cells lacking the conventional memory marker CD27 are reported to be part of the memory compartment, however, only scarce data is available for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). We therefore focused on DN B cells in RA, studied their isotypes and modulation during interleukin-6 receptor (IL- 6R) inhibition by tocilizumab (TCZ). Methods DN B cells were phenotypically analyzed from 40 RA patients during TCZ at baseline week 12, week 24 and 1 year. A single B cell polymerase chain reaction (PCR) approach was used to study Ig receptors, VH gene rearrangements and specific isotypes. Results Phenotypic analysis showed a significantly expanded population of DN B cells in RA which contain a heterogeneous mixture of IgG-, IgA- and IgM-expressing cells with a clear dominance of IgG+ cells. DN B cells carry rearranged heavy chain gene sequences with a diversified mutational pattern consistent with memory B cells. In contrast to tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) inhibition, a significant reduction in mutational frequency of BCR gene rearrangements at week 12, 24 and 1 year (P <0.0001) was observed by in vivo IL-6R inhibition. These changes were observed for all BCR isotypes IgG, IgA and IgM at week 12, 24 and 1 year (P <0.0001). IgA-RF, IgA serum level and IgA+ DN B cells decreased significantly (P <0.05) at week 12 and week 24 during TCZ. Patients with a good European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) response to TCZ had less DN B cells at baseline as compared to moderate responders (P = 0.006). Univariate logistic regression analysis revealed that the frequency of DN B cells at baseline is inversely correlated to a subsequent good EULAR response (P = 0.024) with an odds ratio of 1.48 (95% confidence interval as 1.05 to 2.06). Conclusions In RA, the heterogeneous DN B cell compartment is expanded and dominated by IgG isotype. TCZ can modulate the mutational status of DN Ig isotype receptors over 1 year. Interestingly, the frequency of DN B cells in RA may serve as a baseline predictor of subsequent EULAR response to TCZ
title: miFRame
title: analysis and visualization of miRNA sequencing data in neurological disorders
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Backes, Christina
name: Haas, Jan
name: Leidinger, Petra
name: Frese, Karen
name: Großmann, Thomas
name: Ruprecht, Klemens
name: Meder, Benjamin
name: Meese, Eckart
name: Keller, Andreas
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: miRNA
subject: Alzheimer
subject: Web service
subject: Biomarkers
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::616 Krankheiten

description: Background While in the past decades nucleic acid analysis has been predominantly carried out using quantitative low- and high-throughput approaches such as qRT-PCR and microarray technology, next-generation sequencing (NGS) with its single base resolution is now frequently applied in DNA and RNA testing. Especially for small non-coding RNAs such as microRNAs there is a need for analysis and visualization tools that facilitate interpretation of the results also for clinicians. Methods We developed miFRame, which supports the analysis of human small RNA NGS data. Our tool carries out different data analyses for known as well as predicted novel mature microRNAs from known precursors and presents the results in a well interpretable manner. Analyses include among others expression analysis of precursors and mature miRNAs, detection of novel precursors and detection of potential iso-microRNAs. Aggregation of results from different users moreover allows for evaluation whether remarkable results, such as novel mature miRNAs, are indeed specific for the respective experimental set-up or are frequently detected across a broad range of experiments. Results We demonstrate the capabilities of miFRame, which is freely available at http://www.ccb.uni- saarland.de/miframe on two studies, circulating biomarker screening for Multiple Sclerosis (cohort includes clinically isolated syndrome, relapse remitting MS, matched controls) as well as Alzheimer Disease (cohort includes Alzheimer Disease, Mild Cognitive Impairment, matched controls). Here, our tool allowed for an improved biomarker discovery by identifying likely false positive marker candidates.
3D Printing-Based Integrated Water Quality Sensing System
Creators: name: Banna, Muinul
name: Bera, Kaustav
name: Sochol, Ryan
name: Lin, Liwei
name: Najjaran, Homayoun
name: Sadiq, Rehan
name: Hoorfar, Mina
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: The online and accurate monitoring of drinking water supply networks is critically in demand to rapidly detect the accidental or deliberate contamination of drinking water. At present, miniaturized water quality monitoring sensors developed in the laboratories are usually tested under ambient pressure and steady-state flow conditions; however, in Water Distribution Systems (WDS), both the pressure and the flowrate fluctuate. In this paper, an interface is designed and fabricated using additive manufacturing or 3D printing technology—material extrusion (Trade Name: fused deposition modeling, FDM) and material jetting—to provide a conduit for miniaturized sensors for continuous online water quality monitoring. The interface is designed to meet two main criteria: low pressure at the inlet of the sensors and a low flowrate to minimize the water bled (i.e., leakage), despite varying pressure from WDS. To meet the above criteria, a two-dimensional computational fluid dynamics model was used to optimize the geometry of the channel. The 3D printed interface, with the embedded miniaturized pH and conductivity sensors, was then tested at different temperatures and flowrates. The results show that the response of the pH sensor is independent of the flowrate and temperature. As for the conductivity sensor, the flowrate and temperature affect only the readings at a very low conductivity (4 µS/cm) and high flowrates (30 mL/min), and a very high conductivity (460 µS/cm), respectively.
The Portrayal of Female Grief in Greek Tragedy
Creators: name: Borst, Riley
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2024
Subjects: dramaturgy
mourning
reception

description: This paper investigates the immense expressions of grief portrayed by female characters in Greek Tragedy and how those expressions were seen as disruptions to the social order of Greece. By examining Euripides’ Medea and Sophocles’ Antigone, we can identify the danger public grief had on civic order and how we can stage these plays for a contemporary audience. I will do this through two main modes: the first will be a literary analysis of each play identifying how female grief becomes a danger to social norms, and the second is a dramaturgical analysis examining contemporary productions of these plays and how they showcase the effect of female grief through the costume design, the body language of the characters, and the representation of the chorus. Through this, I will be able to identify how the practice of grief was seen in an ancient Greek context and how we can bring those themes to a contemporary stage.