Multimodal Writing of University Students: The Case of Academic Posters

After having been marginalized for a long time as a second-class genre or “the poor country cousin of papers” (Swales & Feak, 2000), academic posters have recently received remarkable attention as a special multimodal genre that is indispensable for the membership of the academic community. In line with the currently growing interest in multimodal writing, the present study seeks to contribute to the limited body of knowledge on academic posters in two ways: first by investigating the textual and visual communicative strategies employed by novice multimodal writers to facilitate the comprehension of their multimodal texts and guide readers through their discourse and second by exploring the perceptions of those young multimodal writers towards that special genre. To accomplish the first objective, a corpus of 100 academic posters gathered from freshmen university students enrolled in a second language research writing course was compiled and analyzed textually and visually drawing mainly on the framework of D’Angelo (2016a) that distinguishes between interactive and interactional resources. To fulfill the second objective, a questionnaire was filled out by 66 students, and four interviews were carried out. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were used in the analysis. Descriptive statistics was employed in the multimodal analysis of the posters as well as the analysis of the questionnaire responses, and a qualitative thematic analysis was conducted to interpret the responses of the interviewees. The quantitative textual and visual analysis revealed a clear dominance of the interactive resources and, to some extent, a lack of making the best use of all the available visual resources. The analysis of the self-reported data unveiled that young multimodal writers hold quite positive perceptions towards the academic poster as a multimodal genre. Further, they tended to decode the interrelation between textual and visual resources as an illustrative or code mixing relationship where both text and visuals complement each other to communicate the intended meaning. The study has pedagogical implications relevant to introducing novice multimodal writers to the available semiotic resources

The impact of the Belt and Road initiative: in Egypts economy and foreign policy

학위논문(석사)--서울대학교 대학원 :국제대학원 국제학과(국제지역학전공),2019. 8. 한영혜.This dissertation examines the expectations impact of the Belt and Road initiative in Egypt economic and foreign policy. Particularly, that the BRI has become the focal point of Chinas national strategy. However, the objective of BRI is a subject heavily debated by think tanks, academia, and public media since its begun. This study investigates the current trends in Chinese outward foreign direct investment since the initiation of the One Belt, One Road initiative by the Chinese government in 2013. For China, meanwhile, strategic interest in Egypt was also growing. Unlike Chinas other Middle Eastern partners, ties with Egypt are not motivated by oil imports, but by a more geographic calculus. The Suez Canal has long been Chinas primary shipping route for sending goods to Europe, Chinas largest market. As a result, China has been eager to increase its presence in the crucial canal for decades. This study examine Egypts political situation with explanations of Egypts revolutions history and the Arab Spring in addition to the motives behind Egypts revolution in 2011. Furthermore, explanation for Egypts economic perspective, Egypts ODA and Egypts economic, political, and social challenges. The study additional examines the motivation behind a comprehensive strategic partnership between China and Egypt, particularly in terms of the prorated slump in United State power and influence in the Middle East. In point of fact, it is expected that China can profit successively by acquisition a foothold within the Middle East. This study found a significant potential benefit for Egypt with the chance to function as the hub for the BRI into Africa and the Middle East. The Chinese have already selected it as one of the top 5 countries for acquisitions and mergers potential over the following 5 years. The Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZone) could play a significant role for China as well by transferring Chinese production to the nations with substantial imports.이 논문은 일대일로가 이집트 경제 및 대외 정책에 가져오는 기대 효과를 조사합니다. 일대일로는 중국 국가전략의 중심에 있습니다. 그러나 일대일로의 탄생부터 그것의 목적은 싱크 탱크, 학계 및 대중 매체에 의해 심도 있게 논의되어왔다. 이 연구는 중국 정부의 일대일로 계획의 시작인 2013 년부터 최근까지의 외국인직접투자의 동향을 조사합니다. 중국의 경우 이집트를 전략적인 관점에서 더욱더 바라보았습니다. 중국의 다른 중동 파트너들과의 관계와는 다르게 이집트와의 관계는 석유의 수입이 바탕이 되지 않고 지리적인 계산이 바탕이 됩니다. 중국은 오랫동안 유럽으로 수출을 할 때 수에즈 운하를 주된 운송경로로 이용해왔습니다. 결과적으로 중국은 수십 년 동안 이 핵심적인 운하에서 입지를 강화하기를 희망하였습니다. 이 연구는 이집트의 정치적인 현황, 이집트 혁명의 역사, 아랍의 봄, 그리고 2011 년 이집트 혁명의 동기에 대하여 살펴봅니다. 또한 이집트 경제의 전망, 이집트의 공적개발원조, 그리고 이집트의 경제적, 정치적, 사회적 문제에 대하여 설명합니다. 이 연구는 더 나아가 중국과 이집트간의 포괄적인 전략적 파트너십에 대한 동기를 특히 약화되고 분배된 미국의 중동 국가에 대한 권력을 중심으로 살펴봅니다. 중국은 중동에 발판을 마련함으로써 성공적으로 이득을 취할 수 있습니다. 이 연구는 이집트가 일대일로를 아프리카와 중동 지역에 연결해주는 허브역할을 함으로써 상당한 이득을 취할 수 있다는 점을 발견했습니다. 중국은 이미 5 년 내에 인수합병 시 잠재력이 가장 높은 상위 5 개국 중 하나로 이집트를 선정했습니다. 이집트는 인수합병 대상 나라 .또한 수에즈 운하 경제 수역은 수입이 상당한 나라들에게 중국의 생산품을 전달해주는 역할을 할 수 있습니다.Chapter I. Introduction……………………………………………..…...…… 7 Chapter II. Egypts Political and Economic Situation………………..….… 12 Chapter II. BRI initiative……………………………………..……………… 50 Chapter IV. Egypt and China economic and political relation …………..…86 Chapter II. Conclusion ………………………………….……………..…..… 119Maste

NEW SECURE SOLUTIONS FOR PRIVACY AND ACCESS CONTROL IN HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGE

In the current digital age, almost every healthcare organization (HCO) has moved from storing patient health records on paper to storing them electronically. Health Information Exchange (HIE) is the ability to share (or transfer) patients’ health information between different HCOs while maintaining national security standards like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996. Over the past few years, research has been conducted to develop privacy and access control frameworks for HIE systems. The goal of this dissertation is to address the privacy and access control concerns by building practical and efficient HIE frameworks to secure the sharing of patients’ health information. The first solution allows secure HIE among different healthcare providers while focusing primarily on the privacy of patients’ information. It allows patients to authorize a certain type of health information to be retrieved, which helps prevent any unintentional leakage of information. The privacy solution also provides healthcare providers with the capability of mutual authentication and patient authentication. It also ensures the integrity and auditability of health information being exchanged. The security and performance study for the first protocol shows that it is efficient for the purpose of HIE and offers a high level of security for such exchanges. The second framework presents a new cloud-based protocol for access control to facilitate HIE across different HCOs, employing a trapdoor hash-based proxy signature in a novel manner to enable secure (authenticated and authorized) on-demand access to patient records. The proposed proxy signature-based scheme provides an explicit mechanism for patients to authorize the sharing of specific medical information with specific HCOs, which helps prevent any undesired or unintentional leakage of health information. The scheme also ensures that such authorizations are authentic with respect to both the HCOs and the patient. Moreover, the use of proxy signatures simplifies security auditing and the ability to obtain support for investigations by providing non-repudiation. Formal definitions, security specifications, and a detailed theoretical analysis, including correctness, security, and performance of both frameworks are provided which demonstrate the improvements upon other existing HIE systems

Terpenoid cell factory

Terpenen vormen de grootste, meest gevarieerde groep van natuurproducten met talrijke toepassingen als voedingssupplement of geneesmiddel. In de natuur worden de meeste terpenen in lage concentraties aangemaakt, hetgeen betekent dat hun zuivering gepaard gaat met dure extracties en met de consumptie van grote hoeveelheden natuurlijke hulpbronnen. Het uitsterven van de natuurlijke bron is soms een reële bedreiging als de hoeveelheid te isoleren verbindingen de marktvraag kan niet dekken, zoals voor het antikankermiddel paclitaxel en het antimalariamiddel artemisinine. Chemische synthese van de meeste terpenen is problematisch en duur als gevolg van de complexiteit van hun structuren. Er is dus een dringende behoefte aan alternatieve methoden voor terpeen productie. Een van de veelbelovende nieuwe methoden is de engineering van micro-organismen ten behoeve van de productie van terpenen. De tweeledige doelstelling van het proefschrift van Ingy Abdallah is het onderzoeken van de grampositieve bacterie Bacillus subtilis als platform voor de productie van terpeen én de verbetering van de biosynthetische routes van terpenen inclusief kern enzymen zoals terpeen synthases. Als resultaat van dit onderzoek is nu een nieuwe B. subtilis stam beschikbaar gekomen, waarin de terpeen biosynthese route succesvol hoog tot expressie is gebracht. Deze “Cell Factory” is gebruikt voor de productie van C30 carotenoïden en de diterpeen voorloper van paclitaxel, taxadiene. Deze nieuwe gastheer kan dienen als een universele cel-fabriek voor de productie van waardevolle terpenen. Het onderzoek in dit proefschrift is verder verdiept met een analyse van de enzym-familie van terpeen synthases. Dit heeft geleid tot een veel beter begrip van de structuur-functie relaties van amorphadiene synthase, een sleutelenzym in de productie van artemisinine, en, niet onbelangrijk, tot de verbetering van de katalytische activiteit

Catalyst: Piloting Capabilities for more Transparent Text Analytics

The surge and value of unstructured text is attracting substantial research and industry attention. Subsequently we are witnessing novel techniques and algorithms that are performing increasingly sophisticated text mining tasks. However the majority of such techniques are opaque, making it hard to trace the provenance of the analytical task on hand. We propose Catalyst, a framework to automatically transform, enrich and expose text into a linked graph-based layer to enable more transparent processing and access to the text elements. In brief, Catalyst extracts text dependencies, performs sentiment analysis, detects semantic relatedness, and links the text elements into a semantic triple-store that enables an easy access to the text entities through direct query functionalities. We plan to evaluate the performance of Catalyst by processing a dataset of user reviews around the dimensions of an evaluation model deployed in the context of e-government services

Analysis of Smile Characteristics of Adult Female Subjects with Skeletal Class II Division 2 Malocclusion

Aim: The objective of this study was to evaluate the smile characteristics of adult females with Angle Class II division 2 malocclusion compared to Angle Class I malocclusion. Materials and Methods: Two frontal photographs were taken for 30 orthodontically untreated female adult subjects with age range (18-30) years, at rest and posed smile from a fixed (1.5m) distance between the camera and the subjects. The 30 subjects were divided into 2 groups, 15 for Class II div 2 subjects and 15 for Class I subjects. The camera was focused only on the mouth, showing from the nose to the chin. Included in the capture area frame, an L shaped ruler with millimeter markings mounted on an adjustable tripod on the right side of the patient which was used to standardize the capture area. The photographs were exported to a computer, and uploaded to Adobe Photoshop CS2 where 13 soft tissue land marks were analyzed. Results: comparison between 13 soft tissue land marks for Class II div2 females and Class I females showed significant difference in lower facial height , lower lip thickness, lower lip length , maxillary incisal display, smile height and smile arch. And showed insignificant difference in rest of the measured parameters Conclusions: Angle’s Class II div.2 female subjects have significant lower mean values of the lower facial height, lower lip length, lower lip thickness than Class I female subjects. They also have significant shorter smile height. Incisor display than Class I female subjects. A higher percentage of non-consonant smile arcs were found among Class II division 2 females and it was found to be statistically significant between both groups

Quality of life and physical functioning of the diabetic middle aged and older adults

Objective: To compare the physical functioning and quality of life for the diabetic middle aged and older adults.Methodology: A descriptive study design was used, the study was conducted at the outpatient clinics of two hospitals in Alexandria, Egypt. A total number of 118 diabetic patients diagnosed with diabetes at least for one year, aged 20-59 for the middle aged adults group & ≥60 for the elderly group, had no current physical disabilities or mental impairments were included. Four measures were used in this study; the socio-demographic and clinical data structured interview questionnaire, the Katz Activities of Daily Living (ADL) Scale, the International Physical Activity Questionnaire-Short version (IPAQ), and the Short Form 36 General Health questionnaire (SF-36).Results: A statistical difference was observed between the two groups in all domains of generic health related quality of life except role limitations due to emotional problems, and social functioning. Adults' group with normal fasting blood sugar test had better quality of life and physical functioning than the elderly group.Conclusion& recommendations: The elderly patients with diabetes had poorer quality of life and functional status in comparison with the adults. These findings suggest that, health education programs that stress a balanced diet and increased activity should be a public health priority for all ages to control diabetes mellitus and its complications

Esthétique de l'intensité et du paroxysme dans les nouvelles de Stendhal

Mémoire numérisé par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal

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"Instrumentation: violin (Vanessa Garrido) & saz (Fouad Ibrahim) Recorded by Naomi Sunderland in Turku, Finland Mixed and mastered by Phil Graham at Electric Monk Music, Sunshine Coast, Australia Produced by Amir Alizade (Djamiww), Tom Hunt (Grand Pavilion, UK), Phil Graham and Naomi Sunderland

The biological heterogeneity of oestrogen receptor positive breast cancer and its phenotypic characterisation

Although global gene microarray studies have demonstrated the molecular heterogeneity of breast cancer (BC) and provided potential for clinical applications, the molecular subclassification of luminal/ER-positive tumours, which is the largest class of BC, remains unclear. Characterisation of luminal/ER-positive subtypes could have important implications in clinical decision-making and patient management. The patient study cohort is derived from a consecutive series of approximately 1902 cases of primary operable invasive breast carcinoma obtained from the Nottingham Tenovus Primary Breast Carcinoma Series, with patients presenting between 1986 and 1998. This is a well-characterized series of primary breast carcinoma that has been treated in a uniform way and previously used to study a wide range of proteins. Using gene microarray experiments in 128 frozen invasive BC derived from this series , 47,2 93 gene transcripts were analysed using a number of different bio-statistical models to identify a transcript signature for luminal/ER-positive BC, from which candidate genes were selected and that can be used to characterise ER-positive breast cancer. In addition, other biomarkers with strong relevance in ER-positive breast cancer were studied because the evidence strongly suggests an important role in the biology and molecular classification of ER-positive breast cancer. The selection criteria was based on published literature concentrating mainly on ER related pathways including ER coregulators (CARMI, PELPI), cellular proliferation (p27. TK1, cyclin B1), apoptosis (Bc12), Akt/PIK3 pathway (FOX03a), gene expression profiling (FOXA1, XBP1, TFF1) and endocrine resistance (CD71). Immunohistochemistry and high throughput tissue micro array technology were used to study the protein expression of 16 biomarkers with strong relevance to ER pathways in a well characterised consecutive series of invasive BC (n=1902) in addition to anther 9 markers that were available from the database of the breast cancer research group, University of Nottingham. The data were analysed using different clustering methods including K-means and Partitioning around Medoids. Kaplan Meier plots with Log-rank test (LR) were used to model clinical outcome. A transcript signature for ER positive BC was identified including RERG, GATA3 and other genes by a supervised classification analysis using 10-fold external cross-validation of the gene microarray data. Immunohistochemical validation studies confirmed their association with ER positive BC. Through a consensus approach using different clustering techniques applied to protein expression data 25 markers, three biological clusters (patient subclasses) in ER positive breast cancer showing significant difference in clinical outcome (LR= 28.185 & p<0.001) have been identified. Importantly, the poor prognosis cluster was significantly characterised by high tumour grade and frequent development of distant metastasis. In conclusion, our results emphasised the heterogeneity of luminal/ER-positive BC. Molecular profiling of breast cancer using protein biomarkers on TMAs can sub-classify ER-positive tumours into clinically and biologically relevant subgroups