Best Practice Statement for Screening, Assessment and Management of Vision Problems in the First 30 Days after an Acute Stroke

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Computational Configurations: Behind the Bricolage of \u3ci\u3eThe Truelist\u3c/i\u3e

Nick Montfort’s book of computational poetry, The Truelist, allows the reader to understand the code written by Montfort to produce the book as both “bricoleur” and “bricolage.” At the core of my examination, I will ask: how does computational poetry, specifically that of The Truelist, provide us with a new definition of what it means to embody a coded space, specifically a space that, according to Montfort, is constantly redefining itself for new readers? To focus specifically on examining the literariness of the text, I will primarily use Jacques Derrida’s concept of the “bricolage” from “Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences” (specifically focusing on the output of the code) in an attempt to understand how Montfort’s poetry-producing computations redefine poetry’s embodiment of space and place, and how the code itself becomes a bricoleur, particularly with regard to associative imagery and how this computational “communication” forbids the reader to engage passively with the text and its potential variations

Effects of Agency on Movement Interference During Observation of a Moving Dot Stimulus

Human movement performance is subject to interference if the performer simultaneously observes an incongruent action. It has been proposed that this phenomenon is due to motor contagion during simultaneous movement performance–observation, with coactivation of shared action performance and action observation circuitry in the premotor cortex. The present experiments compared the interference effect during observation of a moving person with observation of moving dot stimuli: The dot display followed either a biologically plausible or implausible velocity profile. Interference effects due to dot observation were present for both biological and nonbiological velocity profiles when the participants were informed that they were observing prerecorded human movement and were absent when the dot motion was described as computer generated. These results suggest that the observer's belief regarding the origin of the dot motion (human–computer generated) modulates the processing of the dot movement stimuli on their later integration within the motor system, such that the belief regarding their biological origin is a more important determinant of interference effects than the stimulus kinematics

HANDBOOK ON IMMIGRATION AND ASYLUM IN IRELAND 2007. ESRI RESEARCH SERIES NUMBER 5 OCTOBER 2008

In the last decade or so rapid economic growth has transformed Ireland from its long-established status as a sender of emigrants to becoming a receiver of a substantial number of immigrants, to the extent that immigrants now outnumber emigrants by a large margin. The dramatic shift towards increased immigration has resulted in a great deal of activity in policy formation and in the emergence of much new information in diverse fields, including statistics, policy and law. This Handbook aims to draw together such information up to the end of 2007 to provide a comprehensive overview of immigration and asylum in Ireland, and is intended as a reference tool for people working in the area of immigration and asylum in Ireland, including State and non-State service providers, legal and other practitioners, policy makers and researchers

Water sensitive design features: their function and effectiveness over ten years in a botanic garden

Water sensitive design (WSD) is a nature-based solution to urban stormwater problems which involves intercepting rainfall and stormwater from impervious surfaces using a range of devices. These devices rely on soils and plants to slow water flows, reduce water volumes and improve the quality of the water reaching our rivers, streams, lakes and oceans. Common devices used in Auckland, New Zealand are rain gardens and swales. Auckland Botanic Gardens (ABG) has applied a variety of these devices, often in ‘treatment trains’ and focusing on the use of native New Zealand plants, to solve an on-site environmental problem. ABG additionally supports research, advocates for the selection and effective maintenance of the native New Zealand plants, and educates the public about WSD. Recommendations for plant selection in Auckland for rain gardens and swales are made based on ten years of observations and trials at ABG

Feminist Attitudes of Non-labelers

Recent studies on those who label themselves as feminists and non-feminists have become a popular topic of research. Past research has found that many women hold feminist values, but don’t label themselves as feminists. Those who identify as feminists have been found to have higher levels of well-being than those who do not identify as a feminist (Zucker & Bay-Cheng, 2010). Other benefits have been found such as empowerment, resilience against sexism, and improved body-image (Zucker & Bay-Cheng, 2010). Yet, many women continue to not identify with labeling themselves as feminists (Fitz, Zucker, & Bay-Cheng, 2012). In the current study, we examined the phenomenon of “I’m a feminist, but…” through the relationship between feminists, non-labelers, and non-feminists. Specifically, we analyzed how they differ on feminist identity attitudes via the Feminist Identity Composite Scale consisting of five attitudes: passive acceptance, revelation, embeddedness-emanation, synthesis, and active commitment (FIC; Fischer et al., 2000). We collected usable date from 337 female undergraduate students from two universities. They were asked to indicate agreement with core feminist beliefs (Zucker, 2004), indicate whether they identified as a feminist, and complete a survey regarding feminist identity questions. A multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) was ran to test the multiple dependent variables. Preliminary results indicate a significant difference among non-labelers, feminists, and non-feminists. This suggests that researchers and practitioners in psychology should consider non-labelers to be a unique group of women separate from clear feminists and non-feministshttps://openriver.winona.edu/urc2019/1027/thumbnail.jp

Raman spectroscopic molecular fingerprinting of biomarkers for inflammatory bowel disease

Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) are increasingly dif-ficult to diagnose and differentiate despite serologicaltesting, endoscopic and histopathological assessments. Nosingle biomarker exists to predict IBD in a timely man-ner. We have developed a spectral library of candidateIBD-biomarkers,establishingcharacteristicmolecularbar-codes, through a combination of multiplex spectroscopicprofiling simultaneously detecting a panel of identifiedbiomarkers with an advanced artificial intelligence (AI)networkandclassifyingpatientsaccordingtodiseasestate.This lays the platform for rapidly and non-invasivelydetecting IBD and discriminating between the subtypesfor timely diagnoses, biomarker discovery, patient strati-fication and further potential significant developments ofdiagnostic methodologies and therapeutic monitorin

Social life cycle assessment of Swedish organic and conventional pork production

Purpose Sustainable animal food systems are increasingly important to society. Yet for pork, the most consumed meat product in Europe, there is no social life cycle assessment (S-LCA) in the literature. The breath and complexity of social issues and lack of data makes the task challenging. This study examines the risk of negative social impacts in Swedish pork production systems and includesworkers,farmers,consumers,local community,society, andpigsas stakeholders. Methods The objective was to assess the risk of negative social impacts for the production and consumption of 1000-kg pork (fork weight-bone free meat including cooking losses) originating from two different systems: organic and conventional pork production. Relevant social sustainability issues for pork production systems were identified through a literature search and a consultative workshop with experts. A life cycle inventory was conducted to collect data for activity variables and compute Social Risk (SR), a measure of the risk of negative social impacts related to a reference (here the average European social conditions). Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) was used to obtain weights for subcategories. The SR scores and the weights were used to calculate Social Risk Time (SRT) that relates the Social Risk to the functional unit by considering the 'exposure' to the risk, and the Social Hotspot Index (SHI), which relates the SRT to the worst possible situation for that system. Results and discussion The conventional pork system had 42% of inventory indicators with SR > 0.5 and the organic pork system had 32%. For all stakeholders, thepig farmhad the largest SRT in both production systems except forworkersin the organic pork system where the soybean farmhad the largest SRT. In the conventional pork system,societyas well asfarmersat thepig farmhad SHI > 0.5 slightly, meaning performing the same as European average. In the organic pork system, SHI < 0.5 for all stakeholders and subsystems. Conclusion Swedish pork production has lower risk of negative social impacts than the average European social conditions for most of the stakeholders:workers,pigs,local community, andconsumers.Farmersandsocietyat the subsystempig farmhave the same risk of negative social impacts as the average European social conditions. Due to the dependence of the results of the chosen reference level, the reliance on certification, and the indicators included, results should be interpreted and used with care

Scale-Up and Bioprocessing of Phages

A profusion of new applications for phage technologies has been developed within the last few years, stimulating investigations into the large-scale production of different phages. Applications such as antibiotic replacement, phages as gene therapy vectors, phages as vaccines, diagnostics using filamentous phages and novel optical applications such as the phage laser may need grams to kilogrammes of phage in the future. However, many of the techniques that are used for the growth and purification of bacteriophage at small scale are not transferable to large-scale production facilities of phage in industrial processes. In this chapter, the stages of production that need to be carried out at scale are examined for the efficient large-scale fermentation of the filamentous phage M13 and the Siphoviridae phage lambda (λ). A number of parameters are discussed: the multiplicity of infection (MOI) of phage to host cells, the impact of agitation on the initial infection stages, the co-growth with phage rather than static attachment, the use of engineered host cells expressing nuclease, the optimisation of both the quantity and the physiology of the E. coli inoculum and phage precipitation methods

Fair Value Measurement versus Historical Cost Accounting: A Comparative Effect on Firms’ Performance in Nigeria

This study comparatively examined the effect of fair value measurement (FVM) and historical cost accounting (HCA) on the performance of quoted firms in Nigeria. Data were sourced from the online published accounts of ten quoted firms for a period of ten years segregated into HCA regime (2007 – 2011) and FVM regime (2012-2016). Descriptive Statistics (Mean) and Inferential Statistics (Paired sample t-test) were employed in the analysis of the data collected with the aid of Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 21. Findings from the analysis revealed that a positive but insignificant difference exists in the profit after tax of the firms between the FVM and HCA regimes; and that fair value measurement exerts negative but insignificant effect on the earnings per share and return on equity of the firms. The study thus concluded that fair value measurement as it is being practiced and implemented by Nigerian firms, exerts no significant change in firms’ performance as was reported under the HCA regime. It therefore recommended, among other things, that the International Accounting Standards should review the current provisions on the fair value practices in the International Financial Reporting Standards to ensure improved operations of firms across national borders. Key Words: Fair Value Measurement, Historical Cost, performance, Earning per Share, Profit after Tax, Return on Asset