315 research outputs found
Towards a Left Secretariat for the Pacific
The Pacific Islands region occupies a vast ocean continent, consisting of a diversity of cultures. What draws the islands together is a shared experience of economic dependency and vulnerability driven by global warming, geopolitical competition, and class divisions. Together, these factors account for poor performance on a range of development indicators, including policy and inequality. It is in this context that Epeli Hau‘ofa has argued that the hoped-for era of autonomy following political independence has not materialised in the Pacific. In response, this paper explores the possibilities and potential aims of a Left secretariat in the Pacific. It aims to rethink political and economic autonomy in the Pacific by bringing together Left theory and practice with the history of Indigenous and class struggles
The Effect of Transformed Escherichia coli on the Mouse Intestine Microbiome: the Microbial Metabolic Enhancement Hypothesis
Metabolic disorders affect around thirty-four percent of the population in the United States. Among these disorders is lactose intolerance, which results from diminished production of the human lactase enzyme. This disorder and others like it are genetically determined and cannot be cured. However, the use of transformed bacteria implanted in the colon may provide a means by which the faulty pathway can be bypassed. To test whether transformed bacteria have the capability to aid in the digestion of normally indigestible compounds, a transformed strain of Escherichia coli overexpressing the beta-galactosidase enzyme encoded by the lacZ gene was colonized in the mouse intestine to enhance lactose digestion. The experiment provides the platform for similar research to be conducted in the future
Ontology Learning Using Formal Concept Analysis and WordNet
Manual ontology construction takes time, resources, and domain specialists.
Supporting a component of this process for automation or semi-automation would
be good. This project and dissertation provide a Formal Concept Analysis and
WordNet framework for learning concept hierarchies from free texts. The process
has steps. First, the document is Part-Of-Speech labeled, then parsed to
produce sentence parse trees. Verb/noun dependencies are derived from parse
trees next. After lemmatizing, pruning, and filtering the word pairings, the
formal context is created. The formal context may contain some erroneous and
uninteresting pairs because the parser output may be erroneous, not all derived
pairs are interesting, and it may be large due to constructing it from a large
free text corpus. Deriving lattice from the formal context may take longer,
depending on the size and complexity of the data. Thus, decreasing formal
context may eliminate erroneous and uninteresting pairs and speed up idea
lattice derivation. WordNet-based and Frequency-based approaches are tested.
Finally, we compute formal idea lattice and create a classical concept
hierarchy. The reduced concept lattice is compared to the original to evaluate
the outcomes. Despite several system constraints and component discrepancies
that may prevent logical conclusion, the following data imply idea hierarchies
in this project and dissertation are promising. First, the reduced idea lattice
and original concept have commonalities. Second, alternative language or
statistical methods can reduce formal context size. Finally, WordNet-based and
Frequency-based approaches reduce formal context differently, and the order of
applying them is examined to reduce context efficiently
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Reforming Primary Health Care: A Nursing Perspective. Contributing to health care reform, issues and challenges.
The aim of this report as outlined in the commissioning brief is three fold:
• “To describe the role of the nurse workforce in the development and
implementation of primary health care reform at supra-national, national and
local levels.
• To critically review the evidence base and identify, from a nursing workforce
perspective, key factors in the practice environment which act to inhibit the
development of PHC reform or, conversely, have significant potential to
facilitate/strengthen it.
• To develop a clearly argued, evidence-based policy brief, including illustrative
case study examples, which articulates the important contribution that nurses
can make in future health sector reform focused on primary care
development/enhancement and the delivery of health equity goals, and
contributes to the ongoing dialogue about key drivers in achieving a paradigm
shift to primary health care.
The International Protection of Women in Armed Conflicts
The protection of women during armed conflicts has from time to time been a matter of concern to the international community in various forms and degrees. The laws of war have regulated the protection of women long before the Geneva Conventions and additional protocols system. The aim of this paper is to highlight the protection that women should be given in armed conflict, also taking into account their special needs
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