Beyond `Further': Collaboration, Community and Compassion in the Digital Age

In this paper, I outline specific approaches that may be taken to bring the Composition classroom into the digital, collaborative present, and close by questioning what further practices might be explored to more deeply mine the rich soil of this mandatory Humanities course. The first approach takes its cue from Jeff Rice's fine article The 1963 Hip-Hop Machine, and explores ways in which students might begin the process of critical data synthesis (sampling), to ultimately create a deeply intertextual final product. The skills introduced through the utilization of Rice's sampling techniques are compounded by the construction of a collaborative product; another layer is added to this matrix as assessment tactics become an additional site to further develop collaboration in an effort to transform the classroom into a Freirian community of learners. The dual approach suggested will ideally result in a student who is not only better equipped to navigate an increasingly digitized reality, but also more able to work in collaboration with his or her peers. The thesis thus concludes with an exploration of notions of collaboration, community, and compassion. While the intertext assignment illuminates the connections inherent to dialogic discourse, and the collaborative online project strengthens peer-to-peer relationships, is it also tenable to imagine a digital pedagogical practice that fosters connectivity and collaboration with the student's literal community: with the `real' world around them. The thesis ultimately argues that the Composition classroom might be revised as a site where students learn the critical skill-sets relevant to the digital era and their professional futures, as well as a deeper understanding of social inter-dependence and connectivity (what Mo Tse deemed in the fifth century BCE jian ai: concern for all)

Remarques sur des Cnidaires du type de <i>Microhydrula pontica</i> Valkanov 1965, trouvés à Roscoff

Two different forms of a small Cnidaria extremely reduced in his organisation and corresponding to the Hydrozoa Microhydrula pontica Valkanov 1965 are found during the whole year in the region of Roscoff on biological substratums which are developping at the surface in prolongated contact with the water. These two forms are distinguished by some histological characters, but especially by the cnidom. Each form has only one type of cnidocysts. The form which remains in the genus and species Microhydrula pontica has classical eurytelian microbasic cnidocysts; the other has a partiular type of cnidocysts, which have been described as 'semiophors'. The basal part is of the eurythelian microbasic type, but the filament is subdivided in two portions, separated by a elbow having a special spine as ornement. The genus and the species Rhaptapagis cantacuzenei n.g., n.sp. Are proposed for this form and the family of the Microhydrulidae has for the moment these two genus

Placenta percreta following first trimester miscarriage

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/135586/1/ijgo140.pd

CHEMICAL STUDY OF THE CARNAUBA (Copernicia cerifera Martius) WAX

Se realizó el estudio de la composición química de la cera de Carnauba (Copernicia cerifera Martius) una palma que crece en Argentina, Brasil y Paraguay. Cuando se realiza previamente su hidrólisis basica, se aistan e identifican fracciones que contienen diferentes grupos de compuestos, entre los que mencionamos: alcoholes grasos de alto peso molecular (C24-C16) en donde el l-dutriacontanoi es ei alcohol principal; ácidos grasos de mediano peso molecular (C12-C20) en donde el ácido hexadecanoico es el mas abundante y de alto peso molecular (C24-C36) donde el ácido octacosanoico es el mas abundante. Así como hidrocarburos de la serie homóloga a dichos alcoholes entre las que se destaca el heptacosano. Ádemas, fueron aislados 4 hidroxi-ácidos: ácido 16- hidroxihexadecanoico, ácido 18-hidroxioctadecanoico asi como acido 26-hidroxihexacosanoico y ácido 28-hidroiyoctacosanoico. Durante el desarrollo del trabajo no se observo la presencia de ácidos hidroxiacidos, insaturados . Estos compuestos fueron caracterizados mediante el estudio de las propiedades cromatográficas y espectroscópicas de cada uno de estos grupos de compuestos

Metodología analítica para la determinación de policosanol en tabletas revestidas con dosis de 20 mg

Las tabletas revestidas, con dosis de 20 mg de policosanol, fueron recientemente desarrolladas debido a la necesidad de facilitar la administración de este fármaco a los pacientes que requieren dicha dosis, la cual es la más elevada dosis diaria recomendada.1 Teniendo en cuenta las exigencias actuales de la Industria Farmacéutica en cuanto a la necesidad de contar con un método analítico validado que permita realizar el control de calidad y los estudios de estabilidad a cada nueva forma farmacéutica,2 se adaptó la metodología utilizada en el análisis de las tabletas con dosis de 10 mg de policosanol3 y en estas condiciones se realizó la validación del método para este nuevo producto

Improvement of the methodology of the project group this year with interdisciplinary approach in Medical Sciences careers

Se realiza un estudio en el periodo octubre de 2012 hasta junio de 2013 en la Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Guantánamo, con el propósito de perfeccionar la metodología para la elaboración del proyecto educativo del año, específicamente donde se abordan aspectos didácticos – metodológicos para la confección del proyecto educativo del año y su evaluación con un enfoque interdisciplinario, en función de elevar la calidad del proceso docente educativo y su impacto en la formación integral de los futuros profesionales de la salud. A study was conducted from October 2012 to June 2013 at the University of Medical Sciences in Guantánamo, in order to refine the methodology for the development of the educational project of the year, specifically didactic aspects are addressed - for making the methodological educational project of the year and its evaluation with an interdisciplinary approach, in terms of raising the quality of the educational process and its impact on the integral formation of future health professionals

A Universal Decline Law of Classical Novae. III. GQ Mus 1983

We present a unified model of infrared (IR), optical, ultraviolet (UV), and X-ray light curves for the 1983 outburst of GQ Muscae (Nova Muscae 1983) and estimate its white dwarf (WD) mass. Based on an optically thick wind model of nova outbursts, we model the optical and IR light curves with free-free emission, and the UV 1455 \AA and supersoft X-ray light curves with blackbody emission. The best fit model that reproduces simultaneously the IR, optical, UV 1455 \AA, and supersoft X-ray observations is a 0.7 \pm 0.05 M_\sun WD for an assumed chemical composition of the envelope, X=0.35-0.55, X_{CNO} =0.2-0.35, and Z = 0.02, by mass weight. The mass lost by the wind is estimated to be \Delta M_{wind} \sim 2 \times 10^{-5} M_\sun. We provide a new determination of the reddening, E(B-V) = 0.55 \pm 0.05, and of the distance, \sim 5 kpc. Finally, we discuss the strong UV flash that took place on JD 2,445,499 (151 days after the outburst).Comment: to appear in ApJ, 17 pages including 20 figure

Arthritis in primary Sjögren&#039;s syndrome: Characteristics, outcome and treatment from French multicenter retrospective study

Objective To describe the characteristics and the outcome of primary Sjögren Syndrome (pSS) associated arthritis and to compare the efficacy of different therapeutic regimen. Methods We conducted a retrospective study using Club Rhumatisme and Inflammation (CRI) and French Internal Medicine Society (SNFMI) networks. All patients with a diagnosis of pSS and at least one episode of clinical and/or echographic synovitis were included. Patients with synovitis (cases) were compared to pSS patients without synovitis (controls). Results 57 patients (93% women) were included with a median age of 54 years [45–63]. Patients with synovitis had more frequently lymph node enlargement (12.3% vs. 1.8%, p = .007) and a higher ESSDAI score (8 [6–12] vs. 2 [1–4], p &lt; .0001). There was no difference concerning CRP levels, rheumatoid factor and cyclic citrullinated peptide (CCP)-antibodies positivity. Among 57 patients with synovitis, 101 various treatment courses have been used during the follow-up of 40 [22.5–77] months. First treatment course consisted in steroids alone (3.5%), steroids in association (79%) with hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) (49%), methotrexate (MTX) (35%), rituximab (RTX) (5.3%) or other immunosuppressive drugs (7%). HCQ, MTX, and RTX were associated with a significant reduction of tender and swollen joint count, and a significant steroids-sparing effect. No difference could be shown for the joint response between these treatment regimens. Conclusion pSS articular manifestations may include synovitis which could mimic rheumatoid arthritis but differ by the absence of structural damage. Even if the use of HCQ, MTX, and RTX seem to be effective for joint involvement, the best regimen remains to be determined