Film As a Medium to Reveal Research About Black Women's Lives

Sylvia Hamilton discusses the cultural and aesthetic contexts and challenges in the making of her 1989 film Black Mother Black Daughter.Sylvia Hamilton discute les contextes culturels et esthétiques ainsi que les défis impliqués dans la création de son film Black Mother Black Daughter (1989)

Constructing Mr. Darcy : tradition, gender, and silent spaces in Jane Austen's Pride and prejudice.

The reality of Jane Austen's characters in Pride and Prejudice is socially constructed; their goals and actions become a typification of society's institutions and conventions. Examining Austen's pivotal characters, with a particular focus on Fitzwilliam Darcy, reveals that each is a product of a socio-cultural determinism as they reflect social institutions and represent cultural conventions. Gender categorizes social interactions in everyday life. As individuals act out gendered prescripts and expectations, they create gendered systems of dominance and power. These learned patterns of gender norms and roles are carried out in everyday life with "masculine" and "feminine" perpetuated as divergent and oppositional. Austen's Mr. Darcy is the product of the social construction of gender. Darcy's actions and self-representation reflect a historicity and ideology that is founded on gendered power relations. His is the ideology of patriarchy which guarantees the hegemonic position of men and the oppression of women. Language establishes and maintains the connection between personal identity and gender identity that produces the problem of masculine/feminine duality. In an effort to recast the prevailing masculine rhetorical structures that have defined language and society, Austen creates, in Pride and Prejudice, a model of feminine writing that deconstructs the repressive structures of thinking that invent gender inequality. Jane Austen offers us a new manner of masculinity in the "transformation" of Fitzwilliam Darcy and a feminist's recasting of relations between genders

Prevalencia de anticuerpos anti-toxocara en estudiantes de la Universidad de Talca.

43 p.La toxocariasis es un síndrome producido por ascáridos de perros y gatos entre otros animales, siendo los mas importantes Toxocara canis, Toxocara cati, Toxocara leonina, Baylisacaris procyionis y otros. De ellos, T. Canis es el de mayor importancia epidemiológica. En este trabajo se realizo un estudio en búsqueda de anticuerpos anti-Toxocara en el suero de 92 estudiantes de la universidad de Talca que provenían de zonas rurales. Para la búsqueda de anticuerpos anti-Toxocara, se utilizo la técnica de ELISA de origen comercial que contiene el antigeno excretor-secretor. De las 92 muestras analizadas dieron un resultado positivo, mostrándonos un porcentaje de prevalencia mayor al esperado

The Otterbein Miscellany - December 1977

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Impact of maternal metabolic abnormalities in pregnancy on human milk and subsequent infant metabolic development: methodology and design

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Childhood obesity is on the rise and is a major risk factor for type 2 diabetes later in life. Recent evidence indicates that abnormalities that increase risk for diabetes may be initiated early in infancy. Since the offspring of women with diabetes have an increased long-term risk for obesity and type 2 diabetes, the impact of maternal metabolic abnormalities on early nutrition and infant metabolic trajectories is of considerable interest. Human breast milk, the preferred food during infancy, contains not only nutrients but also an array of bioactive substances including metabolic hormones. Nonetheless, only a few studies have reported concentrations of metabolic hormones in human milk specifically from women with metabolic abnormalities. We aim to investigate the impact of maternal metabolic abnormalities in pregnancy on human milk hormones and subsequently on infant development over the first year of life. The objective of this report is to present the methodology and design of this study.</p> <p>Methods/Design</p> <p>The current investigation is a prospective study conducted within ongoing cohort studies of women and their offspring. Pregnant women attending outpatient obstetrics clinics in Toronto, Canada were recruited. Between April 2009 and July 2010, a total of 216 pregnant women underwent a baseline oral glucose tolerance test and provided medical and lifestyle history. Follow-up visits and telephone interviews are conducted and expected to be completed in October 2011. Upon delivery, infant birth anthropometry measurements and human breast milk samples are collected. At 3 and 12 months postpartum, mothers and infants are invited for follow-up assessments. Interim telephone interviews are conducted during the first year of offspring life to characterize infant feeding and supplementation behaviors.</p> <p>Discussion</p> <p>An improved understanding of the link between maternal metabolic abnormalities in pregnancy and early infant nutrition may assist in the development of optimal prevention and intervention strategies and in the protection of nutritionally vulnerable offspring who are at risk for obesity and diabetes later in life.</p

Lipid biomarker record documents hydroclimatic variability of the Mississippi River Basin during the common era

© The Author(s), 2020. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Munoz, S. E., Porter, T. J., Bakkelund, A., Nusbaumer, J., Dee, S. G., Hamilton, B., Giosan, L., & Tierney, J. E. Lipid biomarker record documents hydroclimatic variability of the Mississippi River Basin during the common era. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(12), (2020): e2020GL087237, doi:10.1029/2020GL087237.Floods and droughts in the Mississippi River basin are perennial hazards that cause severe economic disruption. Here we develop and analyze a new lipid biomarker record from Horseshoe Lake (Illinois, USA) to evaluate the climatic conditions associated with hydroclimatic extremes that occurred in this region over the last 1,800 years. We present geochemical proxy evidence of temperature and moisture variability using branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) and plant leaf wax hydrogen isotopic composition (δ2Hwax) and use isotope‐enabled coupled model simulations to diagnose the controls on these proxies. Our data show pronounced warming during the Medieval era (CE 1000–1,600) that corresponds to midcontinental megadroughts. Severe floods on the upper Mississippi River basin also occurred during the Medieval era and correspond to periods of enhanced warm‐season moisture. Our findings imply that projected increases in temperature and warm‐season precipitation could enhance both drought and flood hazards in this economically vital region.This project was supported by grants to S. E. M and L. G. (NSF EAR‐1804107), T. J. P. (NSERC Discovery Grant), and S. G. D. (NOAA‐NA18OAR4310427)

Otterbein Miscellany , May 1970

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The Otterbein Miscellany - May 1971

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