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Alcune questioni teoriche nello studio della letteratura indianoamericana
Creators: name: Bosco, Stefano
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: In un saggio del 2011 intitolato “Out of the Melting Pot, Into the Nationalist Fires,” Deborah Madsen analizzava il posizionamento e le direzioni di sviluppo dei Native American Studies nel mondo accademico europeo, in rapporto alle recenti evoluzioni della disciplina nel contesto nordamericano e statunitense in particolare. Il saggio di Madsen si preoccupava di delineare alcune linee-guida programmatiche con cui gli studiosi europei di Native American Studies (un po’ come i loro colleghi americani non-nativi) avrebbero potuto (e dovuto) evitare la riproposizione di un discorso euro-centrico, funzionale al mantenimento dell’ordine egemonico bianco e anglosassone, rispondendo e dialogando invece con le nuove proposte teoricometodologiche elaborate dagli studiosi indiani stessi. Quello che Madsen mancava di rilevare era invece un’apertura, questa volta da parte delle comunità indiane medesime, verso un’internazionalizzazione del dibattito che li riguarda, lontano da una dimensione esclusivamente locale a cui gli studiosi non-indiani debbano sempre e comunque fare riferimento. In effetti, l’apparente contraddizione fra gli impulsi tribal-nazionalisti dei Native American Studies e la svolta transnazionale più ampia negli studi letterari e culturali afferenti agli Stati Uniti sembra trovare una sua conciliazione nell’ormai consolidata pratica di stabilire nessi discorsivi fra le esperienze storiche e culturali di comunità assai distanti fra loro, nonché di proporre strategie comuni volte alla continuazione delle popolazioni indigene nel mondo. Ad ogni modo, in questa sede non intendo delineare un bilancio dei Native American Studies in Europa negli anni recenti; piuttosto, vorrei offrire un’introduzione ai concetti e alle questioni critiche fondanti degli American Indian Studies, con particolare riferimento al versante letterario di questo multiforme campo disciplinare.
description: Iperstoria, No 9 (2017): Native American Studies ieri e oggi: una prospettiva comparata
A Selection of Unpublished Poetry
Creators: name: Henry, Gordon
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: Gordon Henry is an enrolled member of the White Earth Anishinaabe Nation in Minnesota. Dr. Henry is also a Professor in the English Department at Michigan State University, where he teaches American Indian Literature, Creative Writing and the Creative Process, in Integrative Arts and Humanities. He serves as Senior Editor of the American Indian Studies Series (and the series sub-imprint Mukwa Enewed) at Michigan State University Press. Under his editorship the AISS has published research and creative work by an array of scholars, working in a variety of disciplines, related to the larger field of American Indian Studies.
description: Iperstoria, No 9 (2017): Native American Studies ieri e oggi: una prospettiva comparata
Deliverable D7.7_Sustainability protocol in olive oil production (SOIL O-LIVE_HORIZON EUROPE ID 101091255)
Creators: name: DEOLEO
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: soil o-live
D7.7
olive grove
sustainability
protocol
olive oil production

description: D7.7. Sustainability protocol in olive oil production. T7.3.
Whatever Happened to CLT? Exploring Methodologies for C21 Italian Undergraduates, Who Communicate in an Increasingly Global Community
Creators: name: Hartle, Sharon
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: This article examines the question of what an appropriate methodology for C21 Italian undergraduates might be and which model of English to teach young adults, who study EFL at the heart of Kachru’s expanding circle in Italian university language-centres. These are EFL learners who aspire to communicate mainly with other non-native speakers in an increasingly global world, for professional, social, academic and cultural purposes. They come mainly from a classical pedagogical tradition where teacher-centred lessons, memorizing and oral testing in class are key factors and where critical thinking is not generally high priority even though the content is often a combination of language work and literature study. Despite this, however, the Italian Ministry for Education advocates Communicative Language Teaching and the British English variety of English is the authoritative model. This is reinforced by teacher and student belief as well as the globally commercial coursebooks that are generally selected for work in class. How appropriate, however, is CLT in this context? What does CLT actually mean in the C21? How can changes be made which respect learner beliefs and expectations from a cultural viewpoint? In a world where English is increasingly seen as an International Language (McKay) EFL learners, like these, do not perhaps need to study the culture of “British English”. To expect them to attain native-speaker competence, furthermore, is unrealistic ( Alptekin, 2002) A clear model is, however, required as a starting point to study the lexico-grammatical and phonological systems of the language , and an appropriate model for Italy seems to be British English. This is the starting point from which individual learner voices can be developed to enable local cultural expression in a global context.
description: Iperstoria, No 9 (2017): Native American Studies ieri e oggi: una prospettiva comparata
Ion exchange demineralisation for recycling of flowing rinse wastewater within printed circuit board manufacturing
Creators: name: Kent, Fraser C
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Chemical.
subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: In the last fifty years the electronics industry experienced substantial growth. During this period of growth technologies for manufacturing printed circuit boards, the heart of most electronics, have evolved continually. These improvements include many environmentally conscious innovations within the manufacturing process. Flowing rinse systems are an essential part of the manufacturing process. These flowing rinse baths utilize a very large amount of water. Environmental benefits and economic gain can sometimes be achieved through recycling the flowing rinse effluent for reuse. Ion exchange is a conventional water treatment technology that is well suited to the application of recycling flowing rinse water from circuit manufacturing processes. This is due to the dilute nature of the solutions as well as the high proportion of ionic constituents that must be removed. Specifically, ion exchange demineralisation holds the capacity to treat flowing rinse water to a high purity allowing optimal rinsing efficiency and continual reuse of the same water. Experiments were undertaken, using a variety of ion exchange demineralisation setups and materials to prove that this technology will work for a specific application at an Ottawa circuit board manufacturer. A series of experimental runs were performed leading to the conclusion that ion exchange demineralisation is effective for the recycling of this manufacturer's flowing rinse wastewater. The Serfilco MBD-10 mixed bed resin showed the best performance although, being a mixed bed resin, it is not readily regenerated leading to a high operating cost of approximately $8.65/m3 of water treated. It is expected that a two-bed system with the same type of resins (strong acid and strong base) would have the capability of treating the same water to an acceptable level at a much lower cost and this type of set-up is recommended for future work. It was demonstrated that chelating strong acid resins such as the ones used in some of the experiments are not effective for demineralisation.
Toddler gait: Lower extremity joint moments and powers
Creators: name: Potoczny, Stefan
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Human Development.

description: Behind every purposeful movement lies a pattern of control and activation. One of the most fundamental movement patterns for humans is that of walking or gait. This study was conducted to further understand gait development of toddlers. This developmental stage was investigated with 13 healthy normal toddlers (11 girls and 2 boys) between the ages of 10 and 24 months who were autonomous walkers of less than a year. All toddlers walked across two force plates (ANITI) touching only with the right foot and were filmed with three (Panasonic) video cameras. Support moments as well as hip, knee and ankle joint moments and powers were calculated for between 6 and 14 steps per toddler. Joint moments and powers were normalized to percent of stride and body mass and were examined across subjects to observe developmental changes over the first year of walking. As well, the toddler joint moments and powers were compared to that of adult slow walking reported by Winter (1991). The data suggests two things: (1) toddler joint moments and joint powers develop over the first year of walking in a distal to proximal fashion and (2) toddler support moments, joint moments and joint powers are different from that of adults.
Il passo del diavolo e la “questione indiana”
Creators: name: Brizio-Skov, Flavia
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: Richard Slotkin (1998, 8-28) afferma che nel ventesimo secolo il cinema ha assunto un ruolo fondamentale nella creazione dei miti pubblici, intendendo per miti quelle storie e simboli attraverso i quali gli americani hanno costruito la loro cultura nazionale.1 I generi cinematografici, secondo il critico, non sono solo produzioni delle grandi case cinematografiche hollywoodiane (Hollywood Studios), ma corrispondono a particolari elementi del mito pubblico. Il mito, inteso come modo di comprendere un determinato momento storico in cui si vive — modo non analitico, ma poetico e simbolico — offre una maniera efficace di guardare le cose. Così, il western classico, quello creato dagli Studios, ha trattato le credenze e le preoccupazioni nate da una nazione ossessionata dalla crescita, dal progresso, dalla conquista della natura e dalla necessità della violenza. Benché ciascun genere risponda alle sollecitazioni dell’epoca che lo ha prodotto, quando queste preoccupazioni cambiano, anche i generi cambiano. Perciò capire i modi in cui i vari generi cinematografici si sono evoluti equivale ad aprire una finestra sulle forze che hanno formato l’ideologia della nazione americana.
description: Iperstoria, No 9 (2017): Native American Studies ieri e oggi: una prospettiva comparata
“Fame’s Consummate Fee”: Dickinson’s Nameless Celebrity
Creators: name: Crumbley, Paul
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: In the months preceding her death on May 15, 1886, Emily Dickinson requested that Emily Brontë’s poem “No coward soul is mine” be read at her funeral, thereby enlisting Brontë’s defiant declaration of immortality in what can be interpreted as Dickinson’s own equally defiant final statement on the relation of fame to enduring art. Dickinson previewed the logic behind this act in the theory of fame she expressed four years earlier in a letter to Roberts Brothers editor Thomas Niles in which she refused his request for a “volume of poems” (L749b) and instead sent him “How happy is the little Stone” (Fr1570E), a poem that alludes to “the rock of immortality” (l. 16) and the “atom” (l. 26) that appear in Brontë’s poem. These allusions inform Dickinson’s figurative declaration to Niles that the fame she aspires to is based on lasting fusion with the elemental fabric of the universe, not immediate approval from the contemporary reading public. Dickinson tells Niles that she seeks a form of fame that is more enduring than the sort he offers but which is fundamentally experimental in nature, in as much as it requires that the poet hazard the loss of her name in exchange for continued life in the language of others.
description: Iperstoria, No 9 (2017): Native American Studies ieri e oggi: una prospettiva comparata
Investigation of the steel jacket retrofit method for soft storey structures
Creators: name: Karydis, G
name: Karatzas, V.
name: Karatzas, E.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Often columns that have undergone failures due to an earthquake or due to any other reason need to be restored and/or retrofitted. For columns, one retrofit method is the steel jacket method which deals with the restoration of both the longitudinal and the transverse reinforcement. However, when dealing with the restoration of the transverse reinforcement only, another method is used, that of the metallic collar. The aim of this paper is to examine the ways in which a steel jacket can be used when retrofitting columns, shear walls, and support columns from masonry. Furthermore, the attainment of constriction of the steel jacket and the existing column by the use of metallic tiles as wedges is discussed. Finally, it is concluded in this paper that the steel jacket method is a very old and good method for retrofitting existing columns. It is a fast and easy method that can be applied in a construction site and last but not least it is an affordable method.
Toward diversity-oriented synthesis of indoline-based polycyclic derivatives
Creators: name: Quevillon, Sophie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, Organic.

description: There is a growing interest in using diversity-oriented synthesis (DOS) to generate small molecule libraries that are inspired by bioactive natural products. Over the years they have proven to be quite valuable chemical probes for understanding protein functions. Of particular interest is the design of natural product-like chiral scaffolds in which one could explore the three dimensional space around the building block by having several chiral diversity sites. A novel synthesis to reach an indoline scaffold is described. This template is then utilized to synthesize a seven-membered ring tricyclic derivative through an olefin ring-closing metathesis (RCM) approach. As well, asymmetric diversity-oriented reactions (e.g. asymmetric benzenethiol addition and intramolecular free radical cyclization) were explored with the tricyclic compound with the intention of utilizing these reactions on solid phase for generating a library.
Where Did You Sleep Last Night? Authentic Blackness in a Post-Soul Memoir
Creators: name: Dal Checco, Monia
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: In this article I give a brief overview of how post-soul authors deal with the issue of racial authenticity. After that, I offer a close reading of Danzy Senna’s memoir Where Did You Sleep Last Night? (2009) through a post-soul perspective. Senna, the daughter of a white upper middle-class poet and novelist and an African American professor and literary critics of humble origins, identifies as black despite her Caucasian features and biracial heritage. In her memoir, the author manages with sarcasm and subtle irony the confusion about her racial belonging generated in other people by her physical aspect, and explains the supposed contradiction between her appearance and her ethnic affiliation. Through the story of her search for the paternal branches of her family tree, Senna explores the issue of authentic blackness in a post-Civil Rights society, and highlights the impossibility for both her and her father to carry on a stable and coherent performance of racial authenticity. Her approach to blackness emphasizes the artificiality of race and the absurdity of the classifying and judging gaze of mainstream society.
description: Iperstoria, No 9 (2017): Native American Studies ieri e oggi: una prospettiva comparata
Uncertainty analysis of mobile phone use and Its effect on cognitive function: The application of Monte Carlo Simulation in a cohort of Australian primary school children
Creators: name: Brzozek, Christopher
name: Benke, Kurt K.
name: Zeleke, Berihun M.
name: Croft, Rodney J.
name: Dalecki, Anna
name: Dimitriadis, Christina
name: Kaufman, Jordy
name: Sim, Malcolm R.
name: Abramson, Michael J.
name: Benke, Geza
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 520101
subject: Child and adolescent development
classificationCode: 520106
subject: Psychology of ageing
classificationCode: 520401
subject: Cognition

description: Previous epidemiological studies on health effects of radiation exposure from mobile phones have produced inconsistent results. This may be due to experimental difficulties and various sources of uncertainty, such as statistical variability, measurement errors, and model uncertainty. An analytical technique known as the Monte Carlo simulation provides an additional approach to analysis by addressing uncertainty in model inputs using error probability distributions, rather than point-source data. The aim of this investigation was to demonstrate using Monte Carlo simulation of data from the ExPOSURE (Examination of Psychological Outcomes in Students using Radiofrequency dEvices) study to quantify uncertainty in the output of the model. Data were collected twice, approximately one year apart (between 2011 and 2013) for 412 primary school participants in Australia. Monte Carlo simulation was used to estimate output uncertainty in the model due to uncertainties in the call exposure data. Multiple linear regression models evaluated associations between mobile phone calls with cognitive function and found weak evidence of an association. Similar to previous longitudinal analysis, associations were found for the Go/No Go and Groton maze learning tasks, and a Stroop time ratio. However, with the introduction of uncertainty analysis, the results were closer to the null hypothesis.
Toxikologische Basisdaten für die Ableitung von EU-LCI-Werten für 5 Stoffe/Stoffgruppen aus Bauprodukten
Creators: name: Voss, Jens-Uwe
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Innenraumluft
subject: Toxizität
subject: Menschliche Gesundheit
subject: EU-LCI-Werte
subject: AgBB
subject: Bauprodukte
subject: inhalative Exposition
subject: 2-Phenylpropen
subject: Vinyltoluol
subject: n-Heptan
subject: Hexylenglykol
subject: Tripropylenglykolmonomethylether
subject: Luft

description: Im Rahmen dieses Forschungsvorhabens wurden 5 Stoffdossiers für die folgenden Stoffe erstellt: 2-Phenylpropen (CAS Nr. 98-83-9), Vinyltoluol (o-, m-, p- und Isomeren-⁠Gemisch⁠) (CAS Nr. 611-15-4, 100-80-1, 622-97-9, 25013-15-4), n-Heptan (CAS Nr. 142-82-5), Hexylenglykol (CAS Nr. 107-41-5) und Tripropylenglykolmonomethylether (CAS Nr. 20324-33-8, 25498-49-1). Für diese Stoffe wurden die toxikologischen Basisdaten recherchiert, zusammengestellt und anhand der Daten EU-LCI Werte vorgeschlagen. Die EU-LCI Werte bilden die Bemessungsgrundlage für die gesundheitliche Wirkung von Emissionen aus Bauprodukten und sollten eine europaweite Vereinheitlichung der gesundheitlichen Bewertung von Bauproduktemissionen ermöglichen. Die endgültigen EU-LCI Werte werden von der EU-LCI Arbeitsgruppe, eine Expertengruppe mit Fachleuten aus zehn europäischen Ländern, festgelegt und können von den in diesem Bericht enthaltenen Vorschlägen abweichen. Die EU-LCI Arbeitsgruppe entwickelt derzeit eine harmonisierte europäische Liste mit Stoffen und den dazugehörigen Emissionsgrenzen (EU-LCI Werte). Die im Rahmen dieses Projektes erarbeiteten Stoffdossiers unterstützen und beschleunigen diesen Prozess.
'Looking back, there was a lot we missed': an examination of how settler descendants from South Australia's North-East Highland and Wirrabara districts know and understand the nineteenth-century colonial past
Creators: name: Krichauff, Skye
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In her thesis ''Looking back, there was a lot we missed': an examination of how settler descendants from South Australia's North-East Highland and Wirrabara districts know and understand the nineteenth century colonial past', Skye Krichauff investigated the seeming lack of knowledge and empathy for Aboriginal people (past and present) amongst settler descendants who have grown up on land occupied by their forebears in the nineteenth century. Skye found that amongst this group, the past is most powerfully known through lived experience -through the landscape, buildings, occupation, lifestyle and stories which are reiterated through being in place. When signs of historical Aboriginal presence were made evident, many settler descendants were open to connecting their forebears' and their own lives with the Aboriginal past.
Prosopis juliflora leave extracts induce cell death of MCF-7, HepG2, and LS-174T cancer cell lines
Creators: name: Elbehairi, Serag Eldin I.
name: Ezzat Ahmed, Ahmed
name: Alshati, Ali A.
name: Al-Kahtani, Mohammed A.
name: Alfaifi, Mohammad Y.
name: Alsyaad, Khalid M.
name: Alalmie, Ali Yahya A.
name: Elimam Ahamed, Mohammed M.
name: Moustafa, Mahmoud F.
name: Alhag, Sadeq K.
name: Al-Abd, Ahmed M.
name: Abbas, Ahmed M.
Publisher: name: IfADo - Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund
Year: 2020
Subjects: Prosopis juliflora
cytotoxicity
apoptosis
cancer
MCF-7
HePG2
LS-174T

description: Prosopis juliflora (P. juliflora) is a widespread phreatophytic tree, which belongs to the Fabaceae family. The goal of the present study is to investigate the potential anti-cancer effect of P. juliflora leave extracts and to identify its chemical composition. For this purpose, MCF-7 (breast), HepG2 (liver), and LS-174T (colorectal) cancer cell lines were cultivated and incubated with various concentrations of P. juliflora leave extracts, and its impact on cell viability, proliferation, and cell cycle stages was investigated. P. juliflora leave extracts induced concentration-dependent cytotoxicity against all tested cancer cell lines. The calculated IC50 was 18.17, 33.1 and 41.9 μg/ml for MCF-7, HePG2 and LS-174T, respectively. Detailed analysis revealed that the cytotoxic action of P. juliflora extracts was mainly via necrosis but not apoptosis. Moreover, DNA content flow cytometry analysis showed cell-specific anti-proliferative action and cell cycle stages arrest. In order to identify the anti-cancer constituents of P. juliflora, the ethyl extracts were analyzed by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. The major constituents identified in the ethyl extracts of P. juliflora leaves were hydroxymethyl-pyridine, nicotinamide, adenine, and poly-(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA). In conclusion, P. juliflora ethyl acetate extracts have a potential anti-cancer effect against breast adenocarcinoma, hepatocellular carcinoma, and colorectal adenocarcinoma, and is enriched with anti-cancer constituents.
description: EXCLI Journal; 19:Doc1282; ISSN 1611-2156
Transcriptome analysis of signaling pathways of human peritoneal mesothelial cells in response to different osmotic agents in a peritoneal dialysis solution
Creators: name: Liu, Bin
name: Feng, Shijian
name: Dairi, Ghida
name: Guan, Qiunong
name: Chafeeva, Irina
name: Wang, Hao
name: Liggins, Richard
name: Da Roza, Gerald
name: Kizhakkedathu, Jayachandran N.
name: Du, Caigan
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2019

description: Background: Glucose is a primary osmotic agent in peritoneal dialysis (PD) solutions, but its long-term use causes structural alteration of the peritoneal membrane (PM). Hyperbranched polyglycerol (HPG) is a promising alternative to glucose. This study was designed to compare the cellular responses of human peritoneal mesothelial cells (HPMCs) to these two different osmotic agents in a hypertonic solution using transcriptome analysis. Methods: Cultured HPMCs were repeatedly exposed to HPG-based or Physioneal 40 (PYS, glucose 2.27%) hypertonic solutions. Transcriptome datasets were produced using Agilent SurePrint G3 Human GE 8 × 60 microarray. Cellular signaling pathways were examined by Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA). Protein expression was examined by flow cytometry analysis and Western blotting. Results: The HPG-containing solution was better tolerated compared with PYS, with less cell death and disruption of cell transcriptome. The levels of cell death in HPG- or PYS- exposed cells were positively correlated with the number of affected transcripts (HPG: 128 at day 3, 0 at day 7; PYS: 1799 at day 3, 212 at day 7). In addition to more affected “biosynthesis” and “cellular stress and death” pathways by PYS, both HPG and PYS commonly affected “sulfate biosynthesis”, “unfolded protein response”, “apoptosis signaling” and “NRF2-mediated oxidative stress response” pathways at day 3. PYS significantly up-regulated HLA-DMB and MMP12 in a time-dependent manner, and stimulated T cell adhesion to HPMCs. Conclusion: The lower cytotoxicity of hypertonic HPG solution is in agreement with its transient and minimal impact on the pathways for the “biosynthesis of cell constituents” and the “cellular stress and death”. The significant up-regulation of HLA-DMB and MMP12 by PYS may be part of its initiation of immune response in the PM.
“For the Bright Side of the Painting I had a Limited Sympathy”: Emancipation and Counter-Emancipation in Edgar Allan Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
Creators: name: De Angelis, Valerio Massimo
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: The article focuses on the contradictory construction of a free and self-reliant (and “imperialist”) white male identity in Edgar Allan Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. Poe’s romance builds up the myth of sea travelling as a way to reach an individual emancipation from the constraints (but also privileges) of social and familiar conditioning which ultimately fails due to a sort of “return of the repressed,” of the censored reality that allows those same socio-familiar conditions to exist as they are – namely, the subjugation of black or non-white people who in the romance do not accept the role white domination would like to impose on them. On the other hand, the analogies linking Pym’s predicament to the condition of African Americans in antebellum America (something symbolically alluded to in the famous quote “For the bright side of the painting I had a limited sympathy”) threaten to subvert Poe’s construction of a free and authorative white identity, undermined also by the sheer fact that at the end of the romance we have only one last man standing who knows the final outcome of the story – and this man is not Pym, but mixed-blood Dirk Peters, half white and half Indian, and showing some distinctly African American somatic features. The route of the American “ship” comes therefore to ultimately look as already bound towards a dramatic redefinition of the power relationships between whites and non-whites, despite Pym’s (and Poe’s) desperate attempt to resist this change and reinstall individual and collective white authority.
description: Iperstoria, No 9 (2017): Native American Studies ieri e oggi: una prospettiva comparata
Revisiting Kenneth Burke: Rhetoric, Metaphor, History
Creators: name: Del Bello, Davide
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: The work of American rhetorician Kenneth Duva Burke (1897-1993) continues to exercise the attention of critics and spark controversy on account of its bewildering scope and its stylistic obscurity. This essay rereads two early works by Burke: Permanence and Change (1935) and Attitudes toward History (1937), for cues to a more articulate understanding of history and historiography through the lenses of poetry and rhetoric, and vice versa. The analysis of these two seminal texts aims to show how Burke’s eclectic approach, based on a keen eye for the workings of rhetoric over a wide and somewhat hazy cultural expanse, greatly enhances our awareness of the ways in which language as a symbolic strategy operates through and across discursive practices (in literature and history first but also, for instance, in the social sciences). Accordingly, the study reasserts the immediate relevance of the Burkean method (or lack thereof) for liberal academic studies today.
description: Iperstoria, No 9 (2017): Native American Studies ieri e oggi: una prospettiva comparata
Long-term archival of environmental samples empowers biodiversity monitoring and ecological research
Creators: name: Zizka, Vera M. A.
name: Koschorreck, Jan
name: Khan, Collins C.
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biomonitoring

description: Human-induced biodiversity loss and changes in community composition are major challenges of the present time, urgently calling for comprehensive biomonitoring approaches to understand system dynamics and to inform policy-making. In this regard, molecular methods are increasingly applied. They provide tools for fast and high-resolution biodiversity assessments and can also focus on population dynamics or functional diversity. If samples are stored under appropriate conditions, this will enable the analysis of DNA, but also RNA and proteins from tissue or from non-biological substrates such as soil, water, or sediments, so-called environmental DNA (eDNA) or eRNA. Until now, most biodiversity studies using molecular methods rely on recent sampling events, although the benefit of analyzing long-time series is obvious. In this context Environmental Specimen Banks (ESBs) can play a crucial role, supplying diverse and well-documented samples collected in periodically repeated sampling events, and following standardized protocols. Mainly assembled for integrative monitoring of chemical compounds, ESB collections are largely accessible to third parties and can in principle be used for molecular analysis. While ESBs hold great potential for the standardized long-time storage of environmental samples, the cooperation with Biodiversity Biobanks as scientific collections guarantees the long-time storage of nucleotide (DNA, RNA) extracts together with links to analytical results and metadata. The present contribution aims to raise the awareness of the biodiversity research community regarding the high-quality samples accessible through ESBs, encourages ESBs to collect and store samples in DNA-friendly ways, and points out the high potential of combining DNA-based approaches with monitoring chemicals and other environmental stressors. Quelle: https://enveurope.springeropen.com/
Jahresbericht der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Epidemiologie 2003 – 2005
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Jahresbericht DGEpi
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Epidemiology
subject: Epidemiologie

description: Die "Deutsche Gesellschaft für Epidemiologie (DGEpi) e.V. ist eine unabhängige wissenschaftliche Fachgesellschaft, die im Jahr 2005 gegründet wurde. Sie vertritt das Fach Epidemiologie in Forschung und Lehre und ist aus der Deutschen Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Epidemiologie (DAE) hervorgegangen. Im Drei-Jahresbericht wird über die Geschichte der DAE und der Neugründung der DGEpi, sowie über Aktivitäten in diesem Zeitraum berichtet.
The syntheses of trichiliasterone A and B isolated from Trichilia hirta and the preparation of derivatives of the antimalarial agent gedunin.
Creators: name: Hantos, Susanne M.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, Organic.

description: This thesis describes the first total synthesis of 2-hydroxyandrosta-1,4-diene-3,16-dione, trichiliasterone A, 1, the transformation of 1 into 2-methoxyandrosta-1,4-diene-3,16-dione 1a, and the partial synthesis of trichiliasterone B, 3$\beta$-hydroxypregna-2,16-dione 2. Steroids 1 and 2 were isolated from the wood of the Costa Rican tree, Trichilia hirta, and both elicited insect growth inhibition in the European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis and the variegated cutworm, Peridroma saucia. Steroid 1a was isolated from Trichilia americana. In addition to the syntheses of 1 and 2, derivatives of gedunin 74, a limonoid currently under development as an antimalarial agent, were prepared. The 1-benzylmercaptogedunin derivative 78 was prepared in connection with the postulated molecular mode of action of gedunin 74. The derivative, 7-hydroxygedunin 75 was prepared to test its stability under acidic conditions. Finally, 7-methoxygedunin 77 was prepared and tested for antimalarial activity against a chloroquine resistant (W2) and chloroquine sensitive (D6) strain of Plasmodium falciparum.
Religious space, transnational space, humanitarian space: case study of a faith-based organisation on the African migration route
Creators: name: Ngo, My
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This research demonstrates how the role of 'religion' in humanitarianism, particularly in the field of migration, is a negotiation marked by contradictions, tension and ambiguity, reflecting the wider ambivalent role of religion and the secular in the public sphere. It puts into question the idea of distinct divisions between religion and the secular, and religion and politics and considers how such binaries can render invisible from the public sphere smaller faith-based actors from the global South. The research contributes to a greater understanding of organisations who engage in 'other' modes of humanitarian action that often go unrecognised in the literature, thereby enlarging the definition of humanitarianism.
Un genere commerciale. L’origine del teen movie come terreno di exploitation
Creators: name: Guerini Rocco, Stefano
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: The aim of this paper is to address the ontology of the teen movie genre as the product of the interaction between process of production and consumption. In fact, more than other cinematographic genres, the teen movie seems to be a chiefly commercial one: to effectively understand its origin and its development, it is crucial to investigate the relationship between the production practices of American film industry and the cultural habits of cinematic audiences. Analyzing teen movies as a genre implies also recognizing and circumscribing the socio-cultural context and the economic conjunctures in which they were produced and released for the first time, with the aim of appealing to an emerging demographic and a newly overriding market niche – teenagers. In this sense, the experience of the film production company AIP and the exploitation movies realized in the Fifties seem to be particularly pertinent. Thus, in this perspective, it is necessary to rethink the teen movie genre as the ultimate product of a commodity culture in which teen audience, as well as teen market, have a new, unprecedented preeminent relevance.
description: Iperstoria, No 9 (2017): Native American Studies ieri e oggi: una prospettiva comparata
Black Women Matter: The #BlackLivesMatter Movement, Black Female Singers, and Intersectional Feminism
Creators: name: Polise, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: In view of the 2016 release of a number of musical endeavors that centre black womanhood, the present contribution studies the way in which contemporary black female music and US black protest culture (namely, the #BlackLivesMatter) intersect each other and are mutually empowering. Positing that such strong connection has history, the article focuses on the major names of Nina Simone, Lauryn Hill, and Beyoncé, who, since the Civil Rights Era, have forged a legacy in terms of raising consciousness around black feminism, which resonates tremendously in popular culture.
description: Iperstoria, No 9 (2017): Native American Studies ieri e oggi: una prospettiva comparata
L’America come seconda Yavneh? Cynthia Ozick e la rinascenza ebraica statunitense degli anni Settanta del Novecento
Creators: name: Porro, Simona
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: The present essay focuses on a new phase in the evolution of Jewish-American writing which characterized the late 1960s and the 1970s, an era in which the then-current secular, humanist outlook was gradually abandoned in favor of an engagement with particularistic aspects of Judaism, above all religious issues. As I argue, Cynthia Ozick played a leading role as a theorizer and spokesperson of this literary phenomenon. In a series of insightful essays published in the early 1970s, above all the programmatic piece “Towards a New Yiddish,” she, in fact, appealed to her fellow Jewish writers for a literary production engaging with distinctly Jewish theological paradigms and categories. Such a “tribal,” self-referential perspective was, in her view, a necessary measure to ensure the survival of the Jewish tradition in the United States, a tradition which had been constantly threatened by the pressures of secularism. Her reflections marked the beginnings of what later developed into the so-called “third act” of Jewish-American literature of the 1980s and 1990s, a rich and lively movement which refuted Irving Howe’s gloomy 1977 forecast that Jewish literature was inevitably destined to dissolve into the American literary mainstream.
description: Iperstoria, No 9 (2017): Native American Studies ieri e oggi: una prospettiva comparata
Biemann, Bolaño, Margolles. La violenza della frontiera inscritta nei corpi
Creators: name: Bugada, Gabriele
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: La rappresentazione dei femminicidi di Ciudad Juárez è penetrata, soprattutto dalla seconda metà degli anni Duemila, nella cultura di massa occidentale, acquisendone le dinamiche di standardizzazione e consumo simbolico. Il fenomeno si è radicato nell’immaginario collettivo in quanto paradigma di una violenza sistemica complessa – in rilevante rapporto con la frontiera – che si accanisce sulla soggettività delle donne e dei loro corpi. Vale dunque la pena di tornare a riflettere su alcune opere fondamentali il cui sguardo, declinato secondo differenti linguaggi espressivi, ha anticipato con eccellenti risultati teoretici ed estetici la proliferazione testuale dello scorso decennio. Il video essay di Ursula Biemann, caratterizzato da una scrittura visuale al contempo percettiva e autoriflessiva, pone già nel 1999 la maggior parte delle questioni che verranno sviluppate dalle analisi successive. Altrettanto interessante è la relazione intersemiotica che si può stabilire tra 2666 di Roberto Bolaño e i diversi lavori di Teresa Margolles: in entrambi i casi la frontiera geografica e sociale moltiplica il proprio significato proiettandosi sulla frontiera tra nuda vita e morte, o sui confini della corporeità. La violenza assume il carattere di un dispositivo che interagisce per diffrazione costante con la rappresentazione, limitandola o permeandola, e che si palesa già di per sé come scrittura, capace di imprimere nei corpi i segni o le tracce delle relazioni di potere così come di imporre la propria peculiare grammatica ai linguaggi che la raccontano.
description: Iperstoria, No 9 (2017): Native American Studies ieri e oggi: una prospettiva comparata
Potiatuca Martins, 2006, gen. nov.
Creators: name: Martins, Maria Helena M. Galileo Ubirajara R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Potiatuca

description: Potiatuca gen. nov.
Etimologia. Tupi, potia = peito; iatûca = curto; alusivo ao metasterno curto.
 Espécie-tipo, Potiatuca ingridae sp. nov.
Todo o corpo revestido por pêlos eretos curtos e densamentepontuado.Frontelevementeconvexa.Olhos grosseiramente granulados; lobos oculares inferiores com cerca da metade do comprimento das genas; lobos oculares superiores tão afastados entre si quanto o dobro da largura de um lobo. Tubérculos anteníferos apenasprojetados.Antenascom11 artículos,atingemomeio dos élitros. Escapo globoso, sem cicatriz,mais curto que o antenômero III. Antenômero III não engrossado,com dobro do comprimento do IV; antenômeros V-XI, curtos, com comprimentos gradualmente decrescentes. Protórax tão largo quanto longo, com os lados arredondados; constrição basal mais pronunciada que a constrição anterior. Pronoto convexo, sem tubérculos. Processo mesosternal regularmente curvo. Metasterno encurtado, mais curto que o urosternito I. Élitros abaulados lateralmente e no dorso. Cavidades coxais intermediárias estreitamente abertas. Fêmures fusiformes; mesotíbias com entalhe na metade apical. Urosternito V com comprimento igual ao dobro do IV.
 Discussão. Potiatuca gen. nov. possui o metasterno encurtado como em Parmenonta Thomson, 1868 e Phrynidius Lacordaire, 1869. Distingue-se de ambos pela presença de setas curtas em todo o corpo.De Parmenonta, separa-se pelos élitros fortemente globosos e com a maior largura no meio.Em Parmenonta, os élitros são aplanados no dorso e de lados paralelos. Separa-se de Phrynidius, pela ausência de tubérculos nos élitros; pelos tubérculos
anteníferos não salientes, distantes entre si; pelo escapo
 globoso e pelos ápices dos metafêmures que não atingem a ponta dos élitros. Em Phrynidius, os élitros apresentam
diversostubérculosgrandes, ostubérculosanteníferossão
contíguos e aguçados, o escapo é subcilíndrico e o ápice
dos metafêmures atinge a ponta dos élitros.
description: Published as part of Martins, Maria Helena M. Galileo Ubirajara R., 2006, Novos Táxons De Apomecynini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae), pp. 11-19 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) (São Paulo) 46 (2) on pages 12-13, DOI: 10.1590/s0031-10492006000200001, http://zenodo.org/record/13236089
La question de la logique transcendantale dans la philosophie de Edmund Husserl.
Creators: name: Plourde, Jimmy.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Philosophy.

description: C'est en 1929 que Husserl devait apporter une reponse au probleme de la nature du rapport devant subsister entre la logique et la phenomenologie en elaborant une logique transcendantale, c'est-a-dire une logique formelle elucidee par la critique phenomenologique transcendantale. Cette logique transcendantale apparaissait alors comme la logique veritable et comme une logique formelle elaboree dans le cadre et conformement a la phenomenologie transcendantale. En pretendant constituer la logique veritable et une logique elaboree dans le cadre de la phenomenologie transcendantale, cette nouvelle logique soulevait ce que nous appellerons la question de la logique transcendantale, question qui, comme le titre l'indique, constitue le sujet de ce memoire. Cette question, c'est celle de la compatibilite entre l'idee de logique pure des Recherches logiques et l'idee de logique transcendantale de Logique formelle et logique transcendantale. Autrement dit, ce memoire veut determiner si la conception de la logique transcendantale est toujours coherente avec la conception de la logique pure ou bien si, en procedant a une elucidation transcendantale de la logique, Husserl n'est pas contraint de renoncer a certaines prises de position essentielles a la logique pure. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
In Comparison to PSA, Interim Ga-68-PSMA PET/CT Response Evaluation Based on Modified RECIST 1.1 After 2nd Cycle Is Better Predictor of Overall Survival of Prostate Cancer Patients Treated With 177Lu-PSMA
Creators: name: Prasad, Vikas
name: Huang, Kai
name: Prasad, Sonal
name: Makowski, Marcus R.
name: Czech, Norbert
name: Brenner, Winfried
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: radioligand therapy
subject: Lu-177-PSMA
subject: interim staging
subject: Ga-68-PSMA PET/CT
subject: PSA response
subject: DDC 570 / Life sciences
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Prostatic neoplasms
subject: Prostate-specific antigen
subject: Radioligand assay
subject: Prostatakrebs
subject: Prostata-spezifisches Antigen

description: Background Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) targeting radioligands have transformed treatment of prostate cancer. Radioligand therapy (RLT) with 177Lu-PSMA in metastasized castration resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) achieves objective response and disease stabilization in roughly two third of patients, whereas one third of patients progress. This study was performed to assess the role of interim PSMA PET/CT after the 2nd cycle of RLT for early prediction of overall survival in patients undergoing RLT with 177Lu-PSMA. Methods 38 mCRPC patients (68.9 ± 8.1 y) treated with at least two cycles of RLT at 8 week intervals and interim 68Ga-PSMA PET/CT (PET) at 8–10 weeks after the 2nd cycle of RLT were included in this study. Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) response was evaluated according to the Prostate Cancer Working Group 3 criteria. Radiographic response assessment of soft tissue, lymph node, and bone lesions was performed according to RECIST 1.1 including the PET component. Patients’ data were collected for follow-up from the local Comprehensive Cancer Center Register. Results Median follow-up was 19.7 months (4.7–45.3). PSA response after the 2nd therapy cycle showed partial remission (PR) in 23.7%, stable disease (SD) in 50%, and progressive disease (PD) in 26.3% of patients. In comparison, 52.6, 23.7, and 23.7% of patients showed PR, SD, and PD respectively on PET/CT. The strength of agreement between PSA response and PET/CT response criteria was only fair (kappa 0.346). Median overall survival (OS) was 22.5 months (95% CI: 15.8–29.2). Median OS stratified to PSA/PET response was 25.6/25.6 months for PR, 21.7/30.6 months for SD and 19.4/13.1 months for PD (p = 0.496 for PSA and 0.013 for PET/CT response). Conclusions Interim PSMA PET/CT based response evaluation at 8–10 weeks after the 2nd cycle of RLT is predictive of overall survival and PD in patients treated with 177Lu-PSMA. On the contrary, PSA appears to have only limited predictive value.
“Sangue a fiumi nel vecchio West.” Blood Meridian e Cormac McCarthy in Italia
Creators: name: Segato, Giulio
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: While the Hollywood Western movies were remarkably successful in Italy, the American Western novels never enjoyed a warm reception. Such novels were seldom and often poorly translated and the initial reticence of the Italian publishing market towards Cormac McCarthy’s works is testimony to the difficult editorial beginnings of the whole genre. Guida, a small Italian publisher, was the first to buy the translation rights of a McCarthy novel (All the Pretty Horses) in 1993 (The first McCarthy’s work was published in US in 1965). Einaudi, one of the most important Italian publishers, arrived only two years later, publishing the second novel of the Border Trilogy, The Crossing (Oltre il confine, 1995), and then all the McCarthy’s novels. The Italian translation of Blood Meridian, Or the Evening Redness in the West came out in 1996 (entitled Meridiano di sangue) and, surprisingly, received many good reviews in the Italian journals and newspapers. My essay will investigate the editorial history of Cormac McCarthy in Italy by focusing on the specific case of Blood Meridian.
description: Iperstoria, No 9 (2017): Native American Studies ieri e oggi: una prospettiva comparata
Informed Decision Making for Patients with Advanced Pancreatic Cancer Considering Chemotherapy: Development and Evaluation of a Clinical Decision Aid for Patients
Creators: name: Gresham, Gillian
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Advanced Pancreatic Cancer
Chemotherapy
Systematic Review
Network meta-analysis
Decision Aid
Gemcitabine
FOLFIRINOX
Acceptability
Feasibility

description: Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer death in Canada. Significant advancements in chemotherapy for advanced pancreatic cancer have resulted in the need for a quantitative comparison between these treatments on a relative scale. Therefore, a systematic review and Bayesian network meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials was conducted using gemcitabine, the standard treatment, as the reference comparator. Based on results from the network meta-analysis, in which optimal treatments were identified and side effects of each treatment evaluated, an Internet-based patient decision aid was developed in order to present the benefits and risks of each therapy option: (1) Best supportive care (2) gemcitabine (3) FOLFIRINOX. The objective of the decision aid was to guide patients through the decision-making process based on their individual preferences and values. The decision aid was deemed to be acceptable and feasible based on results from a pilot study conducted at The Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre.