An introduction to standardized clinical nomenclature for dysmorphic features: the Elements of Morphology project

Human structural malformations (anomalies or birth defects) have an enormous and complex range of manifestations and severity. The description of these findings can be challenging because the variation of many of the features is continuous and only some of them can be objectively assessed (that is, measured), among other factors. An international group of clinicians resolved to develop a set of terms that could be used to describe human structural malformations, under the general project name 'Elements of Morphology'. Here, the background to the project, progress to date, and the practical implementation of the terminology in research reporting is discussed

Kooperative Vielfalt und das Ganze der Arbeit: Überlegungen zu einem erweiterten Arbeitsbegriff

Wenn wir heute über eine veränderte Bestimmung von "Arbeit" und ihre Gestaltung in einer nachhaltig wirtschaftenden Gesellschaft nachdenken, so ist ein Ausgangspunkt die kritische Reflexion der Gründe für die Nicht-Nachhaltigkeit der gegenwärtigen Arbeitsweise. Diese Gründe, so lautet die Ausgangsthese des vorliegenden Aufsatzes, liegen in der Vorstellung, die modeme Ökonomie sei autonom gegenüber der natürlichen Mitwelt und der sozialen Lebenswelt. Ökonomie wird als auf Markt-Ökonomie, Arbeit als auf Erwerbsarbeit reduziert verstanden. Die Entwicklung eines erweiterten Arbeitsbegriffs beginnt daher mit der Herausbildung eines erweiterten Ökonomie-Verständnisses, in welchem Ökonomie als eingebettet in die bei den anderen Welten verstanden wird. So werden viele Formen des Arbeitens neben der Erwerbsarbeit sichtbar - Versorgungsarbeit, Gemeinwesenarbeit, Eigenarbeit. Zusätzlich gibt es selbstbestimmte Tätigkeiten und Muße. Auf der Basis eines derart erweiterten Arbeitsbegriffs läßt sich ein kooperatives, vielfältiges Arbeitskonzept entwikkeIn und lassen sich Kriterien einer neuen Verbindung zwischen Arbeit und Einkommen, lassen sich Konturen eines neuen Gesellschaftsvertrags skizzieren. -- To think about a new concept of "labour" and its organisation within a sustainable economy means to reflect on the reasons for the non-sustainability of our modern way of working. These reasons can be found in the popular view that economy is autonomous with regard to the natural co-world and the social-life world. In this view, the economy is reduced to the market and labour is only understood as paid labour. The development of a new concept of labour, therefore, starts with broadening the view of the economy. This leads to the picture of an "embedded economy", where economy includes activities within the household and the society. This broader view unveils the whole multitude of different types of work - paid labour, work at home and with people in their life-world (caring activities), citizen participation, voluntary, community work, self-providing new work. Based on this multitude, a complex, co-operative concept of labour can be developed, which has to be attached to forms of income by a new "social contract".

The Greig cephalopolysyndactyly syndrome

The Greig cephalopolysyndactyly syndrome (GCPS) is a pleiotropic, multiple congenital anomaly syndrome. It is rare, but precise estimates of incidence are difficult to determine, as ascertainment is erratic (estimated range 1–9/1,000,000). The primary findings include hypertelorism, macrocephaly with frontal bossing, and polysyndactyly. The polydactyly is most commonly preaxial of the feet and postaxial in the hands, with variable cutaneous syndactyly, but the limb findings vary significantly. Other low frequency findings include central nervous system (CNS) anomalies, hernias, and cognitive impairment

On the occurrence of solar flares observed with the Burst and Transient Source experiment

This dissertation is an investigation of solar flare and microflare occurrence rates, times, and sizes in the context of solar flare occurrence models and periods, and coronal heating. Solar flares, explosive releases of energy with effects observed at earth, are not fully understood. Microflares, smaller versions of typical solar flares, were previously only observed during a short balloon experiment. They may provide clues to understanding solar flares by allowing us to test what we already know about large solar flares. The Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory\u27s (GRO) Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BATSE) is used to search for solar flares. This study differs from others because it is the most sensitive with a long observing time. We have used an automated algorithm to search thirteen months of BATSE discriminator data. This algorithm enabled us to detect flares at the instrumental threshold. In this work we extend the flare size frequency distribution down to sizes smaller than previously observed in long-term experiments and find that the observed flares are not a significant heat source for the corona. We find that the power-law shape previously measured applies to flares as small as the instrumental threshold. We test the data for systematic variations in power-law index of the flare size frequency distribution. There is only evidence for variation of the power-law index with the phase of a 51-day period. Time series analyses are used to uncover periodic features in the daily flare occurrence rate. There is evidence for a flare size threshold effect in periodic activity. There are also characteristic activity time scales evident in the daily flare rate. We test for randomness of solar flare occurrence and find no apparent correlation between times of flare occurrence. We also find no correlation between flare size and the time interval between flares. These findings support the avalanche flare model of Lu and Hamilton (1991) but are inconsistent with the occurrence model of Rosner and Vaiana (1978)

Narratives of the Black Mother in the U.S.: Exploring the Black Maternalist Framework in Black Activism

My historical research seeks to reveal how exactly White European notions of Blackness, womanhood, and motherhood (and the intersections of all three) were inscribed onto the lived experiences of enslaved women and mothers from the early Atlantic period through the antebellum era. What emerges from a critical analysis of archival omissions are Black women’s voices and experiences—who demonstrate over and over that they resisted and are resisting. I will demonstrate how other people’s rhetorical use of Black motherhood constructs and shapes the lived experience of these women and creates a tension between the ‘ideal’ Black mother and those that don’t fit into the prescribed narrative. Furthermore, I will argue that looking at this history through a Black Maternalist framework reveals that motherhood characterized these women’s resistance, and that these women fought to gain freedom through their radical acts of maternalism

Oratory

The crafting of persuasive appeals that finds its conditions of possibility in and has the capacity to exceed the context of its production. Sophistic oratory can be read as both a symptom of and a cha llenge to the socioeconomic, politica l, and cu ltural climate of ancient Greece. Emerging out of a society destab ilized by the precarious movement from fragmentation and tyrannical rule toward unification and democracy, sophistic oratory was a force of transformation within the polis. Anticipating the Aristotelian division of rhetoric into forensic, deliberative, and epideictic types, sophistic oratory played an active ro le in the reclamation of property lost in tyrannical rule, the instruction of proper citizenry and just govern ance, and the inculcation of va lues through the praise and blame of prominent figures

Monkey Houses or Revolutionary Legislatures? Moderating the Binary of Black Politicians in South Carolina

Writing this paper was an extensive process. It began early in the Spring semester—in ASI 120. From the beginning of the semester the ASI 120 students knew we would be writing a historiography in the realm of Reconstruction. To hone down a more specific topic, we were assigned Eric Foner’s A Short History of Reconstruction. By reading his account of Reconstruction, I was able to select a topic: black politicians in South Carolina. Next, a research librarian visited my seminar and introduced us to the research process. From there, I was able to gather sources and begin my annotated bibliography. To complete the annotated bibliography, I took elaborate and detailed notes on the historical interpretation of each author, and then proceeded to summarize each source. From the annotated bibliography, I worked at categorizing the sources and developing my argument for the paper—essentially, arguing for which source is the “best”, what is the criteria for being “the best”, and why. Once I settled on the criteria, I was able to form a draft of an argumentative historiography paper. I met with both Dr. Mackay and the Core Write Place Consultants to distill my drafts to more concise and effective versions. After some final grammar and structure tweaks, I submitted my final paper to my instructor, Dr. Mackay

At the Same Time African Women and Mothers Resisted: Dialectical Constructions of Race and Gender in the Black Atlantic and Early Colonies of the New World

We find the rough beginning of this story in the dynamic and contingent scene of the early Atlantic. I say contingent because it is these early complex transatlantic (political and cultural) encounters that fundamentally shaped and shape the trajectory of modernity. At the heart of this development of modernity are constructions of race and gender. And given the contingency of history, it must be noted that, if responses to these encounters had been different, perhaps we would be living with a different modernity—maybe one with different or less harmful notions of race and gender difference. Understanding how these conceptualizations came to be is crucial for my more specific historical analysis of Black motherhood, so I find helpful frameworks in Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic. Gilroy contributes an important narrative of modernity that complicates and resists the dominant one that aligns modern Western intellectual and cultural development with definitive nation-states