To Dream of Fanon: Reconstructing a Method for Thought by a Revolutionary Intellectual

The half-century, which is the time that has elapsed since the publication of Wretched of the Earth, seems such a short period when one imagines its author in all his intellectual magnificence, his anguish, and the many details we all know of his short-lived reality. Dare one say, after the concept has long been declared “dead” that we imagine him as having been a live “author”? As I write this, the idea of various notable intellectuals and revolutionary movements could come to mind in order for them to serve as interesting comparisons as we discuss and remember Fanon, his analyses of the colonial aftermath, and his many predictions, both explicit and implicit. However, the “death” of the author is, in fact, as Barthes’ polemical essay showed, a premise that empowers the text in its full potentiality well beyond the deism by which the identity of the author becomes the authority. Here, the liberation of the text joins up the enunciation with its “content” so to speak, or in Barthes’ words, reveals how Fanon “made of his very life a work for which his book was a model.” It is from this idea that I wish to see Fanon as incomparable. The reason to do so does not stem from some esoteric form of admiration, but rather a conviction that Fanon’s narration itself is both indicative and exemplary of a process of thinking that, for me, remains unparalleled in theorizing the role of the intellectual. Such a conviction requires us to read beyond the content of Wretched and be “reborn” in the Barthesian sense as readers. In essence, it is to simply follow the way Fanon himself allows us to actually trace how he dreams of “the native” or “the people” and thus accomplishes an affective leap, arguably, more completely than any other intellectual. This reading is, thus, an invitation to dream – even momentarily – of Fanon

Theorizing the Role of the Intermediary in Postcolonial (Con)text: Driss Chraïbi\u27s Une enquête au pays

The paper is a study of the role of the intermediary as exemplified by Inspector Ali in Driss Chraïbi\u27s novel Une enquête au pays. This reading traces his role as the intermediary through a close reading of the construction of this space — between higher levels of administration, implying the more elite strata in Moroccan society, and the Berber peasants who live isolated in the mountains, struggling to subsist. Ali has claims to both of these locations: to the former through education and his position in the police force and to the latter through ancestry and the culture of his childhood. Choice and the variable implications for power that it affords through shifting locations, become key issues in the theoretical significance of this character. While engaging in a careful consideration of the complexity of the intermediary in Chraïbi\u27s text, this study illustrates how an intermediary space can very effectively serve as a point of departure to theorize current issues of interest to postcolonial studies, such as the national space, the position of intellectuals, the question of class and of indigenous modes of existence, and the idea of structure in and beyond the new nation

Interrogating neurotypical bias in facilitated communication, rapid prompting method, and spelling 2 communicate through a humanistic lens

DATA AVAILABILITY : No datasets were generated or analysed during the current study.PURPOSE OF REVIEW : Minimally-speaking autistic individuals can be effectively supported through evidence-based augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). Instead, some families/clinicians rely on facilitator-dependent techniques such as Facilitated Communication (FC), Rapid Prompting Method (RPM), and Spelling 2 Communicate (S2C). Research evidence unequivocally demonstrates that FC messages are generated by the neurotypical facilitator rather than the autistic individual. Although it is empirically unknown who is authoring messages generated with RPM or S2C, the technique has been compared along many dimensions to FC, and analyses of publicly available video-taped interactions of RPM and S2C indicate that facilitators tend to move the display and cue autistic individuals. Given the persistence and increased use of FC/RPM/S2C, this paper explores the consequences of neurotypical biases through a humanistic lens by drawing insights from postcolonial theory. RECENT FINDINGS : Our analyses reveal that there is a particular way in which the representation of autistic persons becomes a variation of the able or neurotypical society. If we admit the evidence that FC does not provide access to the voice of the person/s purportedly speaking, we would be committing “epistemic violence” against these persons by continuing these techniques. That is, we might do violence by distorting the will and desire of the very people that we seek to understand and include. Ventriloquism, a metaphor evoked by others to characterize facilitator-dependent techniques, is used here to scrutinize further the dynamics of the process involved in such situations. SUMMARY : To prevent (or at least minimize) the stifling of autistic voices through procedures resembling ventriloquism, violence to the will of autistic persons, and epistemic harms, all our disciplinary and clinical efforts should converge to enable the rights of autistic individuals who have little or no functional speech to express their will and to amplify their voices using evidence-based AAC methods.Open access funding provided by Northeastern University Library/http://link.springer.com/journal/40474hj2024Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (CAAC)SDG-03:Good heatlh and well-bein

Characterisation of the subtelomeric regions of Giardia lamblia genome isolate WBC6

Author Posting. © The Author(s), 2007. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Elsevier B.V. for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in International Journal for Parasitology 37 (2007): 503-513, doi:10.1016/j.ijpara.2006.12.011.Giardia trophozoites are polyploid and have five chromosomes. The chromosome homologues demonstrate considerable size heterogeneity due to variation in the subtelomeric regions. We used clones from the genome project with telomeric sequence at one end to identify six subtelomeric regions in addition to previously identified subtelomeric regions, to study the telomeric arrangement of the chromosomes. The subtelomeric regions included two retroposons, one retroposon pseudogene, and two vsp genes, in addition to the previously identified subtelomeric regions that include ribosomal DNA repeats. The presence of vsp genes in a subtelomeric region suggests that telomeric rearrangements may contribute to the generation of vsp diversity. These studies of the subtelomeric regions of Giardia may contribute to our understanding of the factors that maintain stability, while allowing diversity in chromosome structure.This work was supported in part by NIH grant AI43273 to Mitchell L. Sogin. Additional support was provided by the G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation and LI-COR Biotechnology

Effect of turmeric and Spatoglossum asperum on shelf life extension of marine finfish Sillago sihama in chilled storage condition

829-838The effect of turmeric and seaweed powder (Spatoglossum asperum) on shelf life extension of Sillago sihama in chilled storage condition was determined by sensory, pH, biochemical and bacteriological analysis. The experimental setup was divided into six groups, undeveined, deveined, undeveined coated with 5 % S. asperum powder, deveined coated with 5 % S. asperum powder, undeveined coated with 5 % turmeric and deveined coated with 5 % turmeric, all the group of fishes were stored in chilled conditions with 1:1 (fish:ice) ratio. Deveined S. sihama coated with 5 % turmeric demonstrated a longer shelf life of 14 days and between the groups significant differences (P < 0.05) were found in the sensorial, pH, biochemical and bacteriological values. Nevertheless, the validity of group one and two were found to be acceptable up to 8 and 10 days, respectively. In conclusion, deveined S. sihama coated with 5 % turmeric and stored in chilled conditions retain the shelf-life up to 14 days

The Canine Papillomavirus and Gamma HPV E7 Proteins Use an Alternative Domain to Bind and Destabilize the Retinoblastoma Protein

The high-risk HPV E6 and E7 proteins cooperate to immortalize primary human cervical cells and the E7 protein can independently transform fibroblasts in vitro, primarily due to its ability to associate with and degrade the retinoblastoma tumor suppressor protein, pRb. The binding of E7 to pRb is mediated by a conserved Leu-X-Cys-X-Glu (LXCXE) motif in the conserved region 2 (CR2) of E7 and this domain is both necessary and sufficient for E7/pRb association. In the current study, we report that the E7 protein of the malignancy-associated canine papillomavirus type 2 encodes an E7 protein that has serine substituted for cysteine in the LXCXE motif. In HPV, this substitution in E7 abrogates pRb binding and degradation. However, despite variation at this critical site, the canine papillomavirus E7 protein still bound and degraded pRb. Even complete deletion of the LXSXE domain of canine E7 failed to interfere with binding to pRb in vitro and in vivo. Rather, the dominant binding site for pRb mapped to the C-terminal domain of canine E7. Finally, while the CR1 and CR2 domains of HPV E7 are sufficient for degradation of pRb, the C-terminal region of canine E7 was also required for pRb degradation. Screening of HPV genome sequences revealed that the LXSXE motif of the canine E7 protein was also present in the gamma HPVs and we demonstrate that the gamma HPV-4 E7 protein also binds pRb in a similar way. It appears, therefore, that the type 2 canine PV and gamma-type HPVs not only share similar properties with respect to tissue specificity and association with immunosuppression, but also the mechanism by which their E7 proteins interact with pRb

Serving on an Editorial Board or Advisory Committee

"Serving on an Editorial Board or Advisory Committee," by Anjali Prabhu, an essay from the Modern Language Association's 2022 collection Publishing and Scholarly Communication in the Humanitie

Practicing What You Preach: The Health Behaviors of Nurses

This research study investigated the relationship between the health behaviors nurses commonly teach to their patients and the behaviors they practice themselves. After receiving the 194 completed surveys, a thorough analysis of variables was completed to determine which educational topics are most frequently included in patient education as well as if these variables are related to the health behaviors nurses practice themselves. It was evident that many nurses who report educating their patients on healthier lifestyles do not implement all of these practices into their own lives. Barriers to implementing such behaviors, employer-provided health programs, and methods of stress reduction were also examined. Upon study conclusion, solutions for incorporating healthy lifestyles were determined and disseminated to the surveyed nurses and hospital leadership