cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Elucidation of the Mechanisms of mTORC1 Inhibition by CB3A
Creators: name: Abid, Tanaz
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2024

description: Mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) is a master regulator of cell growth, proliferation, survival, metabolism, and autophagy. Increases in mTORC1 activity have been linked to cancer, neurodegeneration, and autoimmune diseases. Rapamycin is a known mTORC1 inhibitor that mainly targets the p70S6k phosphorylation pathway. Rapamycin is an FDA-approved drug for the treatment of cancer, lung disease, and for use after kidney transplants. Our laboratory recently discovered a small molecule, CB3A, that inhibits mTORC1 signaling and protein translation by inhibiting the phosphorylation of 4EBP1 and, to a lesser extent, p70S6k. However, the precise mechanism by which CB3A inhibits mTORC1 signaling is unknown. Since mTORC1 inhibitors can increase lifespan and are an effective treatment for cancers and neurodegenerative diseases, elucidation of the precise mechanism of CB3A action may enable us to develop future therapeutic modalities. Tuberous sclerosis complex 2 (TSC2) is the main negative regulator of mTORC1 activity and inhibits mTORC1 by binding to the GTPase Rheb. The amino acid arginine can induce dissociation of TSC2-Rheb, which results in mTORC1 activation. We treated LAM (TSC2 null) and HEK 239T cell lines with CB3A and analyzed 4EBP1 and p70S6k phosphorylation by immunoblotting. We found that CB3A requires TSC2 for mTORC1 inhibition, increases the binding of TSC2 to Rheb, and may interfere with the arginine-induced dissociation of TSC2 and Rheb. Additionally, previous SILAC experiments have shown that ubiquilin 2 is a candidate CB3A binding protein. Therefore, we are currently using the BioID2 method to analyze protein-protein interactions of ubiquilin 2 to determine if CB3A is inducing the degradation of key mTORC1 pathway proteins.
Reversibly Constraining a U1 snRNP:pre-mRNA Complex Using an Engineered Disulfide Crosslink
Creators: name: Meschede-Krasa, Yehonatan
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Splicing
Spliceosome
U1 snRNP

description: Most human protein coding genes contain coding (exon) and noncoding (intron) \r sequences. In the process of precursor-mRNA splicing, introns are removed and exons \r spliced together from the precursor-mRNA transcripts of such genes. Precursor-mRNA \r splicing is catalyzed by the spliceosome - a dynamic assembly composed of five sub-\r complexes or U snRNPs. To catalyze splicing, the U snRNPs assemble onto a \r precursor-mRNA in an ordered pathway to form the E, A, B, B* and C intermediates. \r Difficulties in capturing these intermediates has hindered their characterization and \r structural investigation, particularly of the B complex which progresses to a catalytically \r active state or B* complex following displacement of the U1 snRNP from its pre-mRNA \r binding site. We hypothesize that through a site-specific engineered crosslink between \r a thiol-modified precursor-mRNA and a mutagenized subunit of U1 snRNP, dissociation \r of U1 snRNP can be prevented and a pre-catalytic B complex reversibly trapped for \r mechanistic and structural studies. We report on the design, expression, purification, \r and characterization of mutant variants of a U1 snRNP subunit to be used to engineer a \r disulfide crosslink and their crosslinking to a thiol-modified oligonucleotide.
Reflecting on Canadian identities: "Canadian Idol" as identity building?
Creators: name: Middlebrook, Ruth E. A
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Canadian Studies.
subject: Mass Communications.

description: This study explores the phenomena of Canadian identity in contemporary Canadian society. It looks at how CTV television show Canadian Idol constructs Canadian identity for its viewers and how they understand Canadian identity. It also looks at whether the representation of Canadian identity on Canadian Idol is reflected or mirrored in its viewers' discussion. Qualitative content analysis, agenda setting and encoding and decoding models are mobilized to examine whether the show sets the agenda for viewers' discussion on Canadian identity, and whether viewers decode the meaning as it is encoded. The results of this thesis reveal that Canadian Idol represents Canadian identity with specific dominant markers, which fuel forum members' discussion. This indicates that most viewers' discussions are motivated by the discourse on the show. Nonetheless, this thesis also finds that Canadian Idol's discourse is not always accepted by all viewers, in the same way, all of the time.
Understanding contemporary governmentality: Death, healing and colonial patriarchy in Canada
Creators: name: Leichnitz, Jordan
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Political Science, General.

description: This thesis explores the changing shape of colonial governmentality in Canada through an examination of the complex relationship between the representation and treatment of Indigenous women in Canada and power relations underlying the creation of "healing prisons" run for Indigenous women offenders. It is hypothesized that there is a mutually constitutive connection between the discursive and literal space of death faced by Indigenous women in Canada, and the deployment of specialized prisons as a gendered and raced political technology of the colonial state. Drawing on a wide range of theoretical perspectives to search for the reciprocal links between these disparate phenomena, this paper analyses dominant discourses to understand the emergence of new responsibilizing forms of colonial governance with particularly gendered effects. It concludes with an examination of the possibilities for utilizing a similar de-colonizing critique to counter emerging forms of colonial governance in the contemporary neo-liberal state.
DNA Syn-Assembly
Creators: name: Adler, Keren
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2024

description: LATE-PCR is a method for amplifying 10-20 fold more single-stranded DNA than double-stranded DNA under closed-tube conditions. LATE-PCR has many applications in the fields of diagnostics and DNA barcoding, but has never been used as a tool to generate single-strands that can be used, in turn, to construct nanoscale structures. Our goal, using the basic principles of DNA hybridization, was to couple LATE-PCR amplification to DNA assembly, thereby contributing a new approach to the field of DNA origami. In this thesis, we present a strategy, as well as initial experimental steps and challenges in using LATE-PCR for construction of hexagons from DNA. The results from this study indicate that LATE-PCR has the potential to build complex DNA structures given the right experimental conditions.
The French Horn in Eighteenth Century Germany: Its Technique, Physical Development, and its Influence in the Horn Music of England
Creators: name: Loikith, Stephen
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2011
Subjects: J.D. Heinichen
Horn
J.S. Bach
Baroque Horn
Baroque Music
Handel

description: The French horn, originally an outdoors instrument, began its development into an orchestral instrument the eighteenth century. Its transfer from an outdoors instrument of French origin to a flexible and refined orchestral instrument came from the Germans in the late seventeenth century by a visit to the Parisian court by the Bohemian prince Franz Anton von Sporck in 1680. It was from that point that the music began its growth in popularity by German composers such as Johann David Heinichen, Georg Philipp Telemann, Johann Sebastian Bach, and many others. The instrument makers also were making significant advances in the French instrument’s design. The horn’s presence and popularity in England, however, presents the issue that will be discussed in this thesis. It was through the music of George Frederick Handel, who before his arrival in London composed in Hamburg that the influence of the German horn was brought to England. \\tUsing musical examples and evidence provided by the musical instruments themselves, I will demonstrate a clear German influence in the music Handel and his contemporaries, and in the construction of the horn makers of this time period. Prior to Handel’s arrival, the horn in England was purely for aristocratic entertainment, being utilized in processions and other celebratory events. Once Handel arrives in London, the horn makes its first appearance in English orchestral music: Water Music (ca. 1717). It was from there that a high number of musical techniques seen in Germanic music are being utilized in the music of Handel and his contemporaries. By the mid eighteenth century, a number of Viennese horn makers begin to take shop in London, popularizing the Germanic style in the instruments themselves while also developing a unique horn making style for England. It is through this evidence that a direct line can be made to the music of Handel with the advancement of the horn in English music.
Development and in vitro analysis of genipin-cross linked fibrin hydrogels as scaffolds for human articular cartilage tissue engineering
Creators: name: Dare, Emma V
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Biology, Cell.

description: Articular cartilage is a very resilient tissue; however, it has a very limited healing capacity after damage due to osteoarthritis or injury. The objective of this project is to determine the suitability of modified fibrin hydrogels as scaffolds for articular cartilage regeneration. The chondrogenic precursor cell line, RCJ 3.105.18 (C5.18), was initially chosen as a test system for evaluating the effect of fibrin gel encapsulation on articular chondrogenic differentiation. Fibrin-encapsulated C5.18 cells elaborated an ECM containing type II collagen and aggrecan and exhibited increases in collagen II and aggrecan gene expression. From these experiments, it was concluded that the fibrin hydrogel scaffold had potential for articular cartilage tissue engineering. To develop the system further towards a more implantable construct, fibrin gels, derived from commercially available human fibrinogen and thrombin, were seeded with primary human articular chondrocytes. The gels were stabilized with genipin, a naturally occurring cross-linker. Genipin cross-linking significantly increased hydrogel dynamic compression and shear moduli and led to enhanced accumulation of collagen II and aggrecan within the ECM secreted by the encapsulated chondrocytes after 5 weeks. Three weeks after subcutaneous implantation of acellular fibrin into Sprague-Dawley rats, less inflammation was observed with genipin cross-linking and when the material origin was allogeneic. As a result, it was necessary to identify an autologous source of fibrin in order to avoid the issues associated with disease transmission. The CryoSealRTM FS System was used, which can rapidly and reliably produce autologous fibrin glue from single units of plasma. Using the CryoSealRTM fibrin glue, we found that chondrocyte viability was >90%. Gene expression analysis revealed significant increases in collagen II and Sox9, and a significant decrease in collagen I, under hypoxic culture. When we compared fresh and frozen plasma-derived fibrin there was only a significant difference in mechanical properties after 7 weeks for the material derived from fresh plasma. This may be because greater amounts of collagen type I were detected in frozen compared to fresh plasma gels. Our results indicate that CryoSealRTM fibrin glue derived from fresh plasma shows potential for the development of an autologous human articular cartilage tissue engineering system.
Διδακτορικές διατριβές Τμήματος Θεάτρου
Creators: name: Βαφειάδη, Έφη
Publisher: name: Σκηνή
Year: 2011

description: Παρουσίαση των παρακάτω διδακτορικών διατριβών: Στέλλα Τσιροπινά, Λανθάνουσα και έκδηλη θεατρικότητα στις επιβιώσεις των χιακών εθίμων του εορτολογίου, Τμήμα Θεάτρου, ΑΠΘ, Σεπτέμβριος 2010 Κατερίνα Καρρά, Ο Σπύρος Μελάς και το θέατρο της εποχής του. Συμβολή στη μελέτη της δραματουργίας του, Τμήμα Θεάτρου, ΑΠΘ, Σεπτέμβριος 2010.
description: Σκηνή, No 2 (2011)
A justice-orientated critical review and community-based participatory research within youth risk assessments
Creators: name: Vo, Thao Thu
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2024
Subjects: assessment
consequences
risk
validity
youth

description: In compliance with The Every Student Succeeds Act, many states report “chronic absenteeism” as an indicator of student success. While chronic absenteeism is prevalent across the country, marginalized youth experience differential rates compared to their White peers. The disproportionate overrepresentation of marginalized youth is partly because of a myriad of factors unique to their sociocultural identities and experiences. Risk assessments are one way schools identify factors that contribute to chronic absenteeism and adverse outcomes that constitute major threats to students’ developmental and educational trajectories. Yet, the extent to which risk assessments are designed, evaluated, and used appropriately with marginalized youth is unknown. The first research objective systematically reviewed student risk assessments to provide a critical deconstruction of how, why, and for what purposes risk assessments serve in educational settings. The second research objective explored the social consequences of a specific risk assessment case study through a community-based action research partnership with local Washington state school district leaders, characterizing how risk assessments are used in practice within local communities. These objectives are guided by a justice-orientated antiracist and consequential validity framework that is explicit in its intent to reconstruct power within the dynamics of the research work and in broader society. The results of both studies bring social justice to the forefront of assessment development, practices, and uses, empowering communities to claim expertise about their lived experiences and transform the conditions under which they live, learn, and work.
Επτά μυθικές «αλήθειες» για την τραγωδία: μικρός ερμηνευτικός οδηγός
Creators: name: Παπάζογλου, Ελένη
name: Βαλάκας, Κώστας
Publisher: name: Σκηνή
Year: 2011

description: Στο πλαίσιο των αρχαιογνωστικών σπουδών, παραμένουν επίμαχα και εξαιρετικά αμφιλεγόμενα επτά βασικά ζητήματα της ερμηνείας της τραγωδίας: η σχέση του τραγικού θεάτρου με την τελετουργία· η φύση των δραματικών προσώπων· η λειτουργία της τραγικής γλώσσας· ο ρόλος του χορού· η έννοια της καθάρσεως· τα περιθώρια αξιοποίησης της αριστοτελικής Ποιητικής· και η εικόνα του Ευριπίδη ως «εξαίρεσης» σε κάθε τραγικό κανόνα. Θεωρήσαμε σκόπιμο σ’ αυτό τον μικρό οδηγό να καταγραφούν κατευθύνσεις της σύγχρονης έρευνας της τραγωδίας, οι οποίες επανεξετάζουν ή και αναθεωρούν μυθικές «αλήθειες» γι’ αυτά τα επτά ζητήματα. Η αξία τέτοιων σύγχρονων ερμηνευτικών προτάσεων έγκειται στο γεγονός ότι διερευνούν, επιπλέον, τα ίδια τα ερωτήματα που θέτουμε, την υφή και την ορθότητά τους, τις βάσεις, τις παραμέτρους, τους στόχους, την εμβέλειά τους: διαφαίνεται συχνά ότι κάθε ερμηνεία προβάλλει στο πεδίο τούς δικούς της όρους και τα δικά της όρια – και ότι, επομένως, κάθε ερμηνεία είναι σημαντικό να έχει συνείδηση των όρων και των ορίων του κύρους της. Σε κάθε περίπτωση, είναι κρίσιμο να λαμβάνουμε υπόψη ότι η μελέτη του τραγικού θεάτρου είναι αναγκαστικά «ανάπηρη»: πέρα από τα κείμενα καθεαυτά (ο αριθμός των οποίων, εξάλλου, είναι εξαιρετικά περιορισμένος), δεν έχουμε επαρκή τεκμήρια για να διερευνήσουμε τις δύο άλλες παραμέτρους που η θεατρολογική θεωρία έχει σωστά αναγάγει ως εξίσου ή και ακόμη περισσότερο καταλυτικές στη διαμόρφωση του θεατρικού φαινομένου: την παράσταση και το κοινό (ή και το εκάστοτε κοινό/τα κοινά) της.
description: Σκηνή, No 2 (2011)
Ηλέκτρα άφωνη
Creators: name: Shaw (μτφ. Γλυκερία Καλαϊτζή), Fiona
Publisher: name: Σκηνή
Year: 2011

description: «Το πρώτο πράγμα που σκέφτηκα διαβάζοντας το έργο ήταν να καπνίζω μισοσβησμένα αποτσίγαρα. Φυσικά, πάρα πολλές καλές ιδέες λειτουργούν ως ερεθίσματα, χωρίς να ποτέ να καταλήγουν στην παράσταση. Η αίσθησή μου, η αυθόρμητη αντίδρασή μου, ήταν ότι η Ηλέκτρα καθόταν ανακούρκουδα πάνω σε ένα ανάχωμα και κάπνιζε συνεχώς. Ο λόγος για τον οποίο έφυγαν και το ανάχωμα και τα τσιγάρα, είναι επειδή, όταν μπήκα πια στο κείμενο, ανακάλυψα ότι δεν υπήρχε χρόνος ούτε για να στρίψω ένα τσιγάρο, πόσο μάλλον να το καπνίσω. Εξάλλου, το τσιγάρο είναι και μια κάποια ανακούφιση. Αυτό όμως είναι ένα έργο χωρίς την παραμικρή ανακούφιση. Στην πραγματικότητα, οτιδήποτε μου άρεσε να κάνω, κατά τη διάρκεια των προβών, η Deborah, συστηματικά, μου το έκοβε. Είχα κάθε είδους ιδέες. Σκεφτόμουν ότι κάπου ψηλά υπήρχαν μικρές φωλιές πουλιών, και ότι ήθελα να σκαρφαλώσω και να κρύψω μέσα τους λίγα κομματάκια τροφής. Μου άρεσε η ιδέα να σκαρφαλώνω. Αλλά φυσικά η Ηλέκτρα ούτε τη δύναμη θα είχε να σκαρφαλώνει πουθενά ούτε θα της περίσσευαν κομματάκια τροφής για να κρύψει. Το λέω αυτό επειδή είναι εύκολο κανείς να κάνει λάθη. Αν δεχτείς ότι δεν έχει απομείνει τίποτα άλλο εκτός από τη γλώσσα, ότι αυτοί οι χαρακτήρες όχι μόνο δεσμεύονται σε αυτά που λένε, αλλά και ότι είναι αυτά που λένε, τότε θα τους δεις σαν ταφόπλακες που έχουν φθαρεί τόσο πολύ, που μετά βίας διαβάζεται πια η επιγραφή τους. Είναι κουφάρια της ανθρωπότητας. Ίσως γι’ αυτό μπορούν και ταξιδεύουν στον χρόνο».
description: Σκηνή, No 2 (2011)
La fécondité et le couple créateur chez Jacques et Madeleine Ferron
Creators: name: Stauble, Katherine
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Literature, Canadian (French).

description: Jacques et Madeleine Ferron ont tous les deux publie durant les années 1960 des récits brefs inspirés par les contes du terroir traditionnel. Contes de Jacques Ferron et Coeur de sucre de Madeleine mettent en scène la transition de la société canadienne-française vers la modernité, transition qui touche surtout au couple et à la famille. À travers les figures de la fécondité et de l'intimité, nous espèrons montrer comment cette (r)évolution est traitée dans l'oeuvre férronienne. L'inconscient, le rêve et le souvenir seront examinés afin de révéler les pulsions qui motivent et relient les personnages. Cette approche anthropologique et psychanalytique sera appuyée par les théories élaborées par Gilbert Durand dans Les structures anthropologiques de l'imaginaire et par Carl Jung dans Métamorphoses de l'âme et ses symboles. Le travail sera divisé selon les grandes étapes de l'existence humaine dans la société québécoise d'autrefois: de la séduction à la mort, en passant par le mariage, la reproduction, le célibat et le départ du foyer paternel.
Breaks in Structured Time, Acts I and II
Creators: name: Little, Thomas
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Music Composition

description: Breaks in Structured Time is a work of musical theater devoid of singing. The compositional techniques utilized over the course of its movements include (but are not limited to) the use of modified serialism, the equal division of pitch space in the intervals of various sets to produce derived sets that utilize quarter- and eighth-tones, quotation of pieces from the Classical era to the 1980s, and choreography of the players on stage (evoking certain “composed theater” techniques of Amy Beth Kirsten). Breaks in Structured Time does not have an explicit story, although its instrumentation and choreography were inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, its important musical materials are introduced and developed slowly, in the service of constructing an emergent narrative in listeners’ minds.
"You're Just Disabled": Race-Avoidance in 1970s Special Education Legal Cases
Creators: name: Swinford, Luca Duffy
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Education for People with Disabilities
Law and Social Change
Racism or Race Relation

description: The Disability Rights Movement is known to have been inspired by and benefitted from the work of the Black Civil Rights Movement and in particular, the NAACP in Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and yet, racism in special education continues to persist, which is seen through disproportionality in disability diagnosis, disproportionality in referral to special education, and disproportionality in discipline. This thesis seeks to explore this contradiction by looking at four strategies from Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and how they are reflected and what they reveal about 14 special education legal cases from the 1970s. These strategies are the 14th Amendment strategy, expert testimony, social science research and the psychological damage argument. This thesis seeks to answer the questions: How were these four strategies reflected in this set of 14 cases and to what ends? To what extent were these cases race-avoidant? What does this race-avoidance say about racism in special education and the Disability Rights Movement today? This thesis builds primarily on four literatures: literature on the connections between the political and legal strategies of social movements, literature concerning histories of special education law, literature concerning equity and antiracism in special education and literature about intersectionality theory. The 14 special education cases studied reveal race-avoidance in a majority of the 14 cases both in the avoidance of discussing race when it would have been especially relevant and avoiding race in legal strategy: viewing race and disability as legally separable. This race-avoidant character of the majority of these legal cases masks how racism influenced the situations of the Plaintiffs and helps explain why racism has persisted in special education and thus, a frame of disability justice that rejects race-avoidance and considers race and other social identities in addition to disability must be adopted.
Έργα και δραματουργοί, πίνακες και ζωγράφοι στο θέατρο
Creators: name: Craig. Μετάφραση: Κ. Κωνσταντινάκου, Edward Gordon
Publisher: name: Σκηνή
Year: 2012

description: «Όπου κι αν βρεθώ, και όσο έξυπνοι ή αφελείς κι αν είναι οι άνθρωποι, και όσο προσεκτικά κι αν έχουν διαβάσει τα γραπτά μου για το Θέατρο, το αιώνιο ερώτημα επανέρχεται ξανά και ξανά — διατυπωμένο άλλοτε επιθετικά και άλλοτε ευγενικά: ‘Αλήθεια θέλεις να εξοβελίσεις όλα τα έργα από το θέατρο; Τόσο απωθητική βρίσκεις την παρουσία του ποιητή στο θέατρο; Ξεκαθάρισε μας, παρακαλούμε πολύ, τι σημαίνει αυτή η πρωτάκουστη ιδέα σου, ότι αυτό που ήταν καλό εδώ και εκατοντάδες χρόνια πρέπει ξαφνικά να θεωρηθεί κακό’. Είναι σχεδόν αδύνατο να απαντήσω σ’ όλες αυτές τις ερωτήσεις και, επειδή ακριβώς είναι σχεδόν αδύνατο, λέω να το επιχειρήσω».
description: Σκηνή, No 3 (2011)
Now What Happens? An Exploration of the Genetic Counselor’s Role in Transition Planning
Creators: name: Hays, Danielle
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2016
Subjects: genetic counselor
transition planning
transition
pediatric
specialty

description: When children with special healthcare needs approach adulthood, their medical, social, and educational services change, and often these individuals lose their entitlements to special needs education and social services. The time period in which a child undergoes these changes into adulthood is called the transition phase. The goal of our study was to better understand the role that genetic counselors play in helping patients and their families with transition planning. We sent a survey of quantitative and open-ended questions to pediatric and specialty genetic counselors through the NSGC listserv and received 85 responses. We assessed how often genetic counselors were being asked about specific transition topics, how they were responding to these questions, and what challenges they encountered while providing transition planning services. Our results show that the most frequently asked about transition topic was the child’s prognosis and future health care needs; the topic least frequently asked about was guardianship. Respondents were most comfortable answering questions about the child’s future prognosis and health care needs, and were most likely to refer questions on future insurance coverage and guardianship to others. We found that the transition discussion is standard procedure for many pediatric clinics and that some genetic counselors initiate the discussion when the family is unaware that a transition is approaching. Common challenges faced by respondents when providing transition planning include: a lack of appropriate adult genetics services, parent or patient reluctance to transition from current care, and counselor uncertainty in how to best help the patient. Our research showed that pediatric and specialty genetic counselors are being involved in conversations about transition planning. The development of institutional resources and training to familiarize genetic counselors with local transition services and regulations is recommended to help genetic counselors expand their ability to help their patients and families with transition planning.
Θέατρο και φεστιβάλ (Μέρος Β). Υβριδικά φεστιβάλ. Το θέατρο «Mickery»: αναζητώντας μια δραματουργία των θραυσμάτων
Creators: name: Ελ. Παπάζογλου, Henri
Publisher: name: Σκηνή
Year: 2012

description: Θεωρούμε ότι τα υβριδικά φεστιβάλ είναι θεατρικές παραστάσεις ή/και φεστιβάλ που ο χαρακτήρας τους συνδυάζει τα ειδοποιά στοιχεία τόσο των φεστιβάλ όσο και των μεμονωμένων θεατρικών γεγονότων. Για να διερευνηθούν πιο συγκεκριμένα αυτοί οι θεωρητικοί προβληματισμοί, επιλέξαμε παραδείγματα παραστάσεων από την ιστορία του θεάτρου Mickery στο Άμστερνταμ. Ο διευθυντής του θεάτρου, Ρίτσααρτ τεν Κάτε [Ritsaert ten Cate], πειραματιζόταν με ενθουσιασμό στις νέες δομές παρουσίασης. Iδιαίτερη γοητεία του ασκούσαν οι τεχνικές του κολάζ και του μοντάζ, ως συνθετικές αρχές. Σχεδίαζε παραστάσεις, όπου συνδύαζε διάφορες δράσεις, και τις ενέτασσε σε μια νέα γενική δομή, οργανωμένη από το Mickery. Ο ενθουσιασμός του τον οδήγησε σε πολλά και ποικίλα οργανωτικά σχήματα, που υπερέβαιναν τα συμβατικά όρια μεταξύ μεμονωμένων παραστάσεων και φεστιβάλ.
description: Σκηνή, No 3 (2011)
Cinchonium Betaines-Catalyzed Enantio- and Diastereoselective Mannich Reactions of Butenolides
Creators: name: Deng, Yu
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Mannich reaction
butenolides

description: In the pursuit of mechanism- and catalyst-design-guided development of new reactions, privileged cinchona alkaloid-derived betaine catalysts have been successfully applied to an asymmetric Mannich reaction between the deconjugated γ- substituted butenolides and the cyclic α-ketimine esters, generating precursors of versatile α,α-disubstituted amino acids bearing two noncontinuous stereocenters with excellent chemo-, regio-, diastereo- and enantioselectivities (up to 99% ee and 90:10 dr) by altering betaine’s inherent powerful ability to promote proton transfer. Notably, this Mannich reaction also exhibited unique α-addition of butenolides and a great tolerance of functional groups on ketimines which are rarely reported.
Θέατρο και φεστιβάλ (Μέρος Α). Κώδικες διάδρασης και επικοινωνίας
Creators: name: Ελ. Παπάζογλου, Henri
Publisher: name: Σκηνή
Year: 2012

description: Στο πρώτο μέρος της μελέτης μας για το θέατρο στο πλαίσιο των φεστιβάλ, θα μας απασχολήσουν ορισμένοι θεωρητικοί προβληματισμοί σχετικά με την επίδραση που μπορεί να έχει ο θεσμός των φεστιβάλ καθεαυτόν. Θα συγκρίνουμε θεατρικά γεγονότα εντός και εκτός φεστιβαλικής δομής, με στόχο να αναλύσουμε ορισμένες βασικές διαφορές ως προς τις επικοινωνιακές διαδράσεις που προκύπτουν και τις συνέπειές τους στην εμπειρία των συμμετεχόντων. Θα αναλύσουμε τα θεατρικά φεστιβάλ μέσα από μια επικοινωνιολογική οπτική. Ως σημείο αναφοράς και άξονα ανάλυσης για την κατανόηση του φαινομένου, θα χρησιμοποιήσουμε την επίδραση που έχει το θεατρικό γεγονός, σε σχέση με το αν εντάσσεται ή όχι στο πλαίσιο ενός φεστιβάλ.
description: Σκηνή, No 3 (2011)
WSU English Retirees Newsletter, 2022
Creators: name: Washington State University Department Of English
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Higher Education

description: This newsletter includes features from Paul Brians, Leota Day, Diane Gillespie, Alex Hammond, Rich Haswell, Nick Kiessling, Susan McLeod, Fred Schwarzbach, Albert Von Frank, Nelly Zamora, and Dick Fulton.
Το Τριαδικό μπαλέτο: ένα ιστορικό «αντι-μπαλέτο»
Creators: name: Καρακώστα, Λίλα
Publisher: name: Σκηνή
Year: 2012

description: To Τριαδικό μπαλέτο, αρχίζει να διαμορφώνεται το 1912 από τον εικαστικό καλλιτέχνη Oskar Schlemmer σε συνεργασία με τους χορευτές Albert Burger και Elsa Hötzel, ως συνολική (κινησιολογική και εικαστική) ανανεωτική για το χορό πρόταση. Η πρώτη παράσταση πραγματοποιείται στη Στουτγάρδη το 1922, λίγο πριν ο Schlemmer αναλάβει χρέη Δασκάλου στο Bauhaus της Βαϊμάρης. Στη δεκαετή πορεία διαμόρφωσής του, το εικαστικό στοιχείο κυριαρχεί σε βάρος της κίνησης. Κόντρα στην επικρατούσα τάση της εποχής, της απελευθέρωσης της κίνησης και της εκφραστικής δύναμης του ανθρώπινου σώματος, ο Schlemmer όχι μόνο περιορίζει την κίνηση αλλά την κάνει και τελείως μηχανική, μετατρέποντας τους χορευτές σε ανθρώπινες κούκλες. Ο ρόλος των χορευτών-ερμηνευτών είναι, ουσιαστικά, να κινήσουν τις άκαμπτες, βαριές, ογκώδεις, γεωμετρικές φόρμες που απαρτίζουν τα κοστούμια, τις περισσότερες φορές με την επιπρόσθετη δυσκολία της μάσκας που περικλείει όλο το κεφάλι και περιορίζει την όραση – και μάλιστα με κίνηση αυστηρά στιλιζαρισμένη! Κοφτές, σπασμωδικές κινήσεις και συνεχείς στροφές παραπέμπουν σε χορό μαριονετών, μηχανικών κουκλών ή «αυτομάτων». Ο ρόλος του κοστουμιού που ως γλυπτικό κέλυφος περικλείει και αλλοιώνει την ανθρώπινη μορφή, είναι τόσο καθοριστικός αλλά και περιοριστικός για την κίνηση, που μπορούμε να μιλάμε για ένα κανονικό «αντιμπαλέτο». Τεχνική συμβουλή: Το συγκεκριμένο αρχείο, εξαιτίας της εικονογράφησης, είναι αρκετά «βαρύ» και, άρα, η λήψη του ενδέχεται να καθυστερεί, ιδιαίτερα αν η σύνδεσή σας έχει χαμηλή ταχύτητα. Υπενθυμίζουμε, επίσης, ότι οι διαδικτυακοί σύνδεσμοι δουλεύουν καλύτερα, αν κατεβάσετε το αρχείο στον υπολογιστή σας και το διαβάσετε τοπικά.
description: Σκηνή, No 3 (2011)
Dévoiler la mémoire collective dans la grande ville moderne Une étude des "miniatures urbaines" de Siegfried Kracauer
Creators: name: Mercure Jolette, Frédéric
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Philosophy.

description: La grande ville moderne est un lieu de circulation capitaliste dans lequel la rétention des souvenirs et la constitution d'une mémoire collective semblent de moins en moins probables. Les schèmes traditionnels de la mémoire s'effondrent. Sous la République de Weimar, Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966), un essayiste à la fois philosophe et sociologue, a non seulement étudié cette situation, mais il a aussi cherché un genre littéraire dans lequel le quotidien urbain moderne pourrait être representé et ainsi davantage mémorise. Ses "miniatures urbaines", en phase avec le rythme de la vie en ville, ont pour objectif de dévoiler des fragments de mémoire collective dans la grande ville. Kracauer veut offrir aux citadins un moyen de remémoration et de distanciation critique grâce auquel ils pourraient prendre conscience des contradictions qui traversent leur ville et leur quotidien, et, ultimement, agir et transformer ceux-ci. Kracauer s'oppose à l'organisation de l'espace totalement planifié et unifié corollaire du mode de production capitaliste que défend en majeure partie l'urbanisme moderne. Amoureux de la flânerie, il préfère l'aléatoire, le provisoire et le contingent. Selon lui, la rétention du temps vécu dans la grande ville moderne, condition minimale de la constitution d'une mémoire dans celle-ci, s'effectue de manière hétérogène, poreuse et improvisée. Dans les "miniatures urbaines" de Kracauer, l'espace urbain n'est pas une simple matière inerte, malléable et calculable, mais il est, d'abord et avant tout, un espace narratif irréductible, c'est-à-dire un espace contenant des histoires, ou, autrement dit, des vestiges du passé et des constellations porteuses d'avenir.
Οι ζωγράφοι και τα θέατρα τέχνης
Creators: name: Λαχανά. Μετάφραση: Αλ. Ευκλείδης, Ευαγγελία
Publisher: name: Σκηνή
Year: 2012

description: Η ζωγραφική συναντά το θέατρο σε μια εποχή, όπου οι ζωγράφοι επιχειρούν να διευρύνουν το πεδίο της δημιουργίας τους και δεν ικανοποιούνται πλέον με τη ζωγραφική του καβαλέτου. Από την πλευρά τους, οι άνθρωποι του θεάτρου έβλεπαν στις κατακτήσεις των εικαστικών τεχνών ένα πρότυπο για την αναμόρφωση της θεατρικής τέχνης. Είναι μια εποχή, όπου η έννοια του σκηνογράφου ταυτίζεται με εκείνη του ζωγράφου-τεχνίτη, ο οποίος, απομονωμένος στο εργαστήριό του και κατόπιν παραγγελίας, παράγει ψευδαισθητικά ζωγραφικά φόντα. Όμως τα θέατρα τέχνης εγκαθιστούν μια νέα σχέση συνεργασίας με τον σκηνογράφο, η οποία ανοίγει τον δρόμο για τη σύγχρονη αντίληψη του σκηνογράφου ως συνδημιουργού της παράστασης. Στα θέατρα τέχνης, ο ζωγράφος-σκηνογράφος συνιστά αναπόσπαστο μέλος μιας ομάδας, συμμετέχει στις πρόβες και δίνει τις συμβουλές του για τη σκηνική υλοποίηση ενός θεατρικού έργου. Τεχνική συμβουλή: Το συγκεκριμένο αρχείο, εξαιτίας της εικονογράφησης, είναι αρκετά «βαρύ» και, άρα, η λήψη του ενδέχεται να καθυστερεί, ιδιαίτερα αν η σύνδεσή σας έχει χαμηλή ταχύτητα. Υπενθυμίζουμε, επίσης, ότι οι διαδικτυακοί σύνδεσμοι δουλεύουν καλύτερα, αν κατεβάσετε το αρχείο στον υπολογιστή σας και το διαβάσετε τοπικά.
description: Σκηνή, No 3 (2011)
Comparison of Community and Expert Samples in the Perceived Risk of Sex Offenders
Creators: name: Calobrisi, Emily
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: attitudes towards sexual offenders
subject: clinical judgement
subject: disposition
subject: expertise
subject: risk assessment
subject: sex offending
subject: Criminology
subject: FOS: Law

description: The attitudes of both the public and of clinicians are important to consider when studying the reentry of sexual offenders into society. Punitive public attitudes drive the continued use of ineffective policies like registries and residential restrictions, and experts must assess risk to decide what level of supervision and control, from none to civil commitment, to recommend upon release from prison. This study investigated whether actuarial feedback can change participant attitudes about recidivism risk and disposition. Members of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA) and a sample from MTurk completed a survey using vignettes to assess recidivism risk and dispositional outcomes of individuals who had sexually offended and varied in their risk to reoffend. They then were given feedback about the offender’s Static-99R risk level and were asked to adjust their ratings. We found that ATSA members were more accurate and less biased than the MTurk sample, selecting lower risk levels and less punitive dispositions on average. Both groups initially differentiated among offenders at different risk levels and were able to use actuarial feedback to adjust their ratings. Implications for public policy, including the need to use actuarials instead of clinical judgment, are discussed.
Λίνα Ρόζη, Ο χώρος της σκηνής και η γεωγραφία του σύγχρονου κόσμου στη δραματουργία του Bernard-Marie Koltès, Εκδόσεις Νεφέλη, 2011, 280 σ.
Creators: name: Σιβετίδου, Αφροδίτη
Publisher: name: Σκηνή
Year: 2012

description: Βιβλιοκρισία
description: Σκηνή, No 3 (2011)
Διαβάζοντας και ανεβάζοντας Ίψεν
Creators: name: Ostermeier. Μετάφραση: Δ. Ναζίρης, Thomas
Publisher: name: Σκηνή
Year: 2012

description: «Στη Γερμανία, ειδικότερα στο γερμανικό 'θέατρο του σκηνοθέτη' των δεκαετιών του ’70, του ’80 και του ’90, ο Ίψεν αναγνωριζόταν πάντα ως ο συγγραφέας που ερευνά κι αποκαλύπτει τα άδυτα της ψυχής. Η άποψη αυτή οδήγησε σε μια συγκεκριμένη παράδοση για το πώς ανέβαιναν τα έργα του και οι ηθοποιοί φαίνονταν να έχουν εθιστεί σ’ έναν στερεότυπο τρόπο ερμηνείας των χαρακτήρων του· προσπαθούσαν να απεικονίσουν το εσωτερικό τοπίο τού κάθε χαρακτήρα. Ο Ίψεν, ωστόσο, συχνά αποφασίζει να αφιερώσει το μεγαλύτερο κομμάτι του έργου σε μιαν έκθεση που προετοιμάζει το δράμα, το οποίο στη συνέχεια ολοκληρώνεται σχεδόν με μια αναπνοή, που διαρκεί μία, κάποιες φορές μιάμιση, ώρα. Πιστεύω ότι αυτή η έκθεση δεδομένων στα έργα του Ίψεν κρύβει έναν πολύ μεγάλο κίνδυνο, μια παγίδα για κάθε σκηνοθέτη που αποφασίζει να ανεβάσει Ίψεν. Γιατί αυτό που πολύ συχνά συμβαίνει είναι να παίζεται αυτό το μέρος του έργου υπερδραματικά και συναισθηματικά φορτισμένο, παρ’ όλο που το πραγματικό δράμα δεν έχει καν αρχίσει».
description: Σκηνή, No 3 (2011)
Το κείμενο· ο ρόλος· ο ηθοποιός: οι δύσκολοι έρωτες...
Creators: name: Λυμπεροπούλου, Μάγια
Publisher: name: Σκηνή
Year: 2012

description: «Ο έλληνας ηθοποιός εννιά φορές στις δέκα παίζει σε μια δεύτερη γραφή. Παίζει σχεδόν πάντα, σε σύγκριση με τους άγγλους, γάλλους, γερμανούς συναδέλφους του, σε μετάφραση που «λασκάρει» ως προς το πρωτότυπο, οπότε δουλεύει εντός, μέσα σε αυτό το λάσκο, εκτός από τις ελάχιστες περιπτώσεις του νεοελληνικού έργου και της επιθεώρησης, όπου έρχεται σε επαφή με πρωτότυπο κείμενο. Μια πραγματικότητα που δεν πρέπει να ξεχνάμε: ο έλληνας ηθοποιός χειρίζεται ως πρωτότυπο, ως κείμενο του συγγραφέα, το κείμενο του μεταφραστή. Παρόλο που η φυσική απόσταση ανάμεσα στον ηθοποιό και στις σελίδες που έχει μπροστά του είναι μικρή, δεν ξεπερνά τα 40 εκατοστά, η απόσταση που πρέπει να διανύσει ο ηθοποιός για να συναντηθεί με το περιεχόμενο αυτών των σελίδων, έτσι που να μετατραπεί σε υποκριτικό γεγονός, είναι τεράστια. Ανάμεσα στα μαύρα σημαδάκια που είναι τα λόγια (ο λόγος του ρόλου του) και τον ίδιο, μεσολαβούν και θα μεσολαβήσουν άλλοι δύο λόγοι. Μεσολαβεί ήδη ο λόγος του μεταφραστή. Θα μεσολαβεί, καθ’ όλη τη διάρκεια των προβών, ο λόγος του σκηνοθέτη. Συν, επτά φορές στις δέκα, ένα μετακείμενο, κολλημένο σαν στρείδι σε βράχο, πάνω στο κείμενο του έργου και του ρόλου. Πράγμα που σημαίνει: σπάνια ο ηθοποιός συναντιέται άμεσα με το κείμενο και τον ρόλο, απόλυτα άμεσα και εν πλήρει αθωότητι».
description: Σκηνή, No 3 (2011)
Springtime asthma hospitalizations and pollen levels: Are they related?
Creators: name: Fyfe, Murray.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Public Health.

description: In this ecological study hospital emergency admissions in London, Ontario were examined during the peak spring months of the years 1983-88 to determine if asthma morbidity was associated with tree and grass pollen levels. Pollutants and weather factors were also analyzed because they may have confounded the association between asthma and pollen, or may have had their effect modified by pollen. Daily and weekly asthma admissions were associated significantly with tree pollen (r$\sb{\rm s}$ = 0.12 and 0.25 respectively) and total pollen (tree + grass) counts (r$\sb{\rm s}$ = 0.12 and 0.34 respectively) but not with grass pollen alone. The same associations were found using ANOVA after the pollen was categorized into quartiles. These associations stood-up after controlling for confounders. A negative associations of asthma admissions was also found with temperature and this became stronger when pollen counts were elevated. Although negative associations were found for asthma with NO$\sb3$ and SO$\sb4$, these associations are not plausible and may be due to confounding by temperature. The ecological nature of this study prevented ascertainment of exposure and precluded controlling other potential confounders. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Variations in the relation between suspended sediment and solute delivery in glacial meltwaters, Maxwell Glacier, Yukon Territory.
Creators: name: Kruszynski, Glen A.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Physical Geography.

description: The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the interactions between meltwaters and sedimentary material at the base of an alpine glacier which are indicated by intra- and interseasonal variations of discharge, solute and sediment outflow from the terminus. During the 1989 and 1990 ablation seasons, discharge, suspended sediment concentration and dissolved solids draining from Maxwell Glacier, St. Elias Mountains, Yukon Territory, were obtained at hourly intervals. The discharge time series of Maxwell Creek reveals that flow varies at a period of one to two weeks, at a diurnal level and over one to three hours. Over all three time scales, electrical conductivity is inversely proportional to discharge suggesting that during high during high diurnal flows, outwash water is derived primarily from surface melt while at low nocturnal discharge, water originates from subglacial and englacial stores. In spring, when supraglacial meltwater begins to access the subglacial drainage system the basal water pressure is raised. Large areas previously hydraulically isolated are integrated releasing stored basal sediment. During periods of increasing discharge in the early summer hydroglacial events resulting from gradual expansion and/or isolation of subglacial cavities, temporary blockage of subglacial conduits or from input from adjacent gravity deposits occur. As flow increases, conduit diameters increase and water gradually spreads out over the glacier bed as a diffuse network of linked cavities. Throughout the ablation season, different areas of the sole are integrated with flow. Towards the end of the ablation season, meltwater supply declines resulting in the reduction of flow in subglacial passageway and reduced sediment and solute supply. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
The Transformation of Cain: Karl August Wittfogel's American Acculturation and the Cold War, 1934-1963
Creators: name: Linton, Matthew D.
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Frankfurt School
subject: Oriental Despotism
subject: Sinology
subject: Cold War
subject: Marxism
subject: Owen Lattimore
subject: intellectual
subject: emigre
subject: Karl Wittfogel
subject: anti-Communism
subject: Immigration
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: History

description: The focus of this paper is to analyze Sinologist Karl August Wittfogel’s transformation from a German to an American intellectual after his immigration to the United States in 1934. Wittfogel’s career in Germany was defined by his fierce advocacy of Communism and his interest in the history and society of China. Once Wittfogel was forced to emigrate from Germany due to the rise of Nazism, he was able to adjust his political and scholarly views to accommodate trends in American scholarship and politics. His willingness to adapt was aided by the rapidly changing climate of the United States from the 1930s to the 1960s. Wittfogel was able to transform from a politically engaged Communist to an apolitical cultural anthropologist in less than a decade. This intellectual flexibility occasioned his rise to prominence as an anthropologist and eventually as an anti-Communist analyst of Sino-Soviet relations in the 1950s. Supported by a large and powerful anti-Communist intellectual community, Wittfogel became a leading analyst of the Sino-Soviet Alliance and the threat it represented to Western democracy. As his anti-Communist position became fully developed in print – culminating in his master-work Oriental Despotism in 1957 – he lost much of the intellectual flexibility that occasioned his rise from an obscure immigrant Sinologist. With the gradual collapse of the Sino-Soviet Alliance in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Wittfogel’s popularity waned and he was no longer able to keep pace with the rapid cultural changes of the mid-1960s. In this way, Wittfogel is a case study in how the intellectual flexibility imposed upon scholars after immigration was an asset because it gave them experience radically accommodating their ideas to dramatic cultural change.
Precision measurements of four-lepton production in √=13 TeV proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS detector
Creators: name: Schillaci, Zachary Michael
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2022
Subjects: ATLAS
Four-lepton
LHC
Standard Model
Particle Physics
Physics

description: Measurements of inclusive four-lepton ($4\ell$) production in $\sqrt{s} = 13$~TeV proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider using the ATLAS Run-2 (2015-2018) dataset of $139$~fb$^{-1}$ are presented. The $4\ell$ final state, consisting of two same-flavor, opposite-charge lepton pairs, exhibits a rich structure with contributions from several modes of production - including $Z$-boson and Higgs resonant decays and a variety of multi-boson processes - and benefits from a clean detector signature, making it the ideal candidate for both precision studies of the Standard Model and interpretations of new physics beyond-the-Standard Model. Four-lepton production cross-sections are measured inclusively in several invariant mass regions and differentially versus a variety of other kinematic observables. The measurements are corrected for detector effects and compared to state-of-the-art Standard Model predictions, which are found to be consistent with the data. The most precise measurement to date of the $Z \to 4\ell$ branching fraction is extracted and found to be in agreement with prior measurements and theoretical predictions. Constraints are placed on two scenarios of new physics, while further re-interpretations remain promising given the inclusive nature of the analysis and minimal model dependence in the measurements.
The effects of eutrophication on wetland plant communities.
Creators: name: Lee, Harold Thomas.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Biology, Botany.

description: The first two parts of this study are concerned with a natural field project in which I measured specific plant traits, community state variables, species frequencies, and soil fertility in a large scale comparative study of eight Great Lakes wetlands. I asked the following questions: (1) Are there measurable, quantifiable differences between wetlands--with respect to plant traits, community state variables and fertility, and (2) Are there empirical relationships between plant traits/community state variables and fertility variables. Significant differences between four productive and four unproductive wetlands were found across all the plant traits, except rhizome diameter, all the community state variables and all the fertility variables, except nitrogen. Productive wetlands had lower species richness and were taxonomically distinct from unproductive wetlands. I found that total phosphorus was the most important independent variable and that the most important dependent variables were plant height, standing crop, and species richness. I ran a large outdoor screening experiment bioassaying 40 wetland plants, at two fertility levels, to measure a trait I call 'biomass sensitivity'. I found that all species produced more biomass in the fertile treatment. By comparing species according to the proportional 'biomass sensitivity' (P($\Delta$B)) trait, that is the proportional change in biomass between high and low nutrients, I find there are no differences between species. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Moondani Yulenj: an examination of Aboriginal culture, identity and education
Creators: name: Peters, Andrew John
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis, by way of artefact and exegesis, examines issues of Indigenous culture and identity in the contemporary world, and how they are manifest in our education system. The thesis adopts an autoethnographic, semi-autobiographical method to highlight and examine the interweaving of culture through contemporary experiences. The artefact is presented as an undergraduate textbook and takes readers on a multi-stage journey through issues relating to Indigenous culture and identity in the world around us. The exegesis is a theoretical discussion and examination of postcolonialism, Indigenous Knowledge, decolonisation and Indigenous research methods, and how they interact with contemporary education.