Shame Now: Ruth Leys Diagnoses the New Queer Shame Culture

From Guilt to Shame: Auschwitz and After by Ruth Leys. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. 216. $25.95 paper.

Introduction

This special issue grew out of the event Honoring Eve: A Symposium celebrating the Work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, which was held on 31 october 2009 at Boston University (BU), about six months after Sedgwick passed away on 12 April. More than two hundred people came to the symposium from all over the United States and as far away as Spain and Israel. they were not just academics, but artists, musicians, writers, and many others who had been touched by Sedgwick\u27s work. Within BU, faculty members from across the university prepared for the symposium by assigning Sedgwick\u27s work in courses whose diversity testifies to the breadth of her influence: from Family Trouble: Contesting Kinship In Theory And Literature to Japanese Popular Culture to Buddhism in America and the New Testament Seminar on Gender and Christian Origins. In honor of Sedgwick\u27s commitment to pedagogy and activism, in the week before the event we also held two workshops at which faculty members and one hundred undergraduates gathered to discuss her essay How to Bring Your Kids up Gay. Although this essay was written before many of these students were born, Sedgwick\u27s fiery insistence that the existence of gay people be understood not just as a fact to be tolerated but as a positive desideratum, a needed condition of life remains just as powerful as when she wrote it in 1991

Sōseki great and small: notes on “Sōseki’s Diversity”

The English original of the Introduction to a "mini-special issue" on Soseki of the Japanese journal Bungaku 文学, Nov.-Dec. 2014

Introduction: Honoring Eve: a special issue on the work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

This special issue grew out of the event "Honoring Eve: A Symposium celebrating the Work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick," which was held on October 31, 2009 at Boston University (BU), about six months after Sedgwick passed away on April 12, 2009. More than two hundred people came to the symposium from all over the United States and as far away as Spain and Israel. they were not just academics, but artists, musicians, writers, and many others who had been touched by Sedgwick's work. Within BU, faculty members from across the university prepared for the symposium by assigning Sedgwick's work in courses whose diversity testifies to the breadth of her influence: from "Family Trouble: Contesting Kinship In Theory And Literature" to "Japanese Popular Culture" to "Buddhism in America" and the "New Testament Seminar on Gender and Christian Origins." In honor of Sedgwick's commitment to pedagogy and activism, in the week before the event we also held two workshops at which faculty members and one hundred undergraduates gathered to discuss her essay "How to Bring Your Kids up Gay." Although this essay was written before many of these students were born, Sedgwick's fiery insistence that the existence of gay people be understood not just as a fact to be tolerated but as a "positive desideratum, a needed condition of life" remains just as powerful as when she wrote it in 1991

RESOURCE QUALITY AND AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY: A MULTI-COUNTRY COMPARISON

This paper builds on earlier studies of agricultural productivity by incorporating spatially referenced soil and climate data combined with high-resolution land-cover data. Econometric analysis of these data, along with panel data on agricultural inputs and outputs from 110 countries for 1961-1997, quantifies the significant impact that differences in land quality have on agricultural productivity.Productivity Analysis,

Left ear advantage in speech-related dichotic listening is not specific to auditory processing disorder in children: A machine-learning fMRI and DTI study

AbstractDichotic listening (DL) tests are among the most frequently included in batteries for the diagnosis of auditory processing disorders (APD) in children. A finding of atypical left ear advantage (LEA) for speech-related stimuli is often taken by clinical audiologists as an indicator for APD. However, the precise etiology of ear advantage in DL tests has been a source of debate for decades. It is uncertain whether a finding of LEA is truly indicative of a sensory processing deficit such as APD, or whether attentional or other supramodal factors may also influence ear advantage. Multivariate machine learning was used on diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and functional MRI (fMRI) data from a cohort of children ages 7–14 referred for APD testing with LEA, and typical controls with right-ear advantage (REA). LEA was predicted by: increased axial diffusivity in the left internal capsule (sublenticular region), and decreased functional activation in the left frontal eye fields (BA 8) during words presented diotically as compared to words presented dichotically, compared to children with right-ear advantage (REA). These results indicate that both sensory and attentional deficits may be predictive of LEA, and thus a finding of LEA, while possibly due to sensory factors, is not a specific indicator of APD as it may stem from a supramodal etiology

紫と白：子規と漱石にとっての「源氏物語」

「京都漱石の會」の会報『虞美人草』第１８号に掲載されたエッセーです

A novel split mode TFBAR device for quantitative measurements of prostate specific antigen in a small sample of whole blood.

Easy monitoring of prostate specific antigen (PSA) directly from blood samples would present a significant improvement as compared to conventional diagnostic methods. In this work, a split mode thin film bulk acoustic resonator (TFBAR) device was employed for the first time for label-free measurements of PSA concentrations in the whole blood and without sample pre-treatment. The surface of the sensor was covalently modified with anti-PSA antibodies and demonstrated a very high sensitivity of 101 kHz mL ng-1 and low limit of detection (LOD) of 0.34 ng mL-1 in model spiked solutions. It has previously been widely believed that significant pre-processing of blood samples would be required for TFBAR biosensors. Importantly, this work demonstrates that this is not the case, and TFBAR technology provides a cost-effective means for point-of-care (POC) diagnostics and monitoring of PSA in hospitals and in doctors' offices. Additionally, the accuracy of the developed biosensor, with respect to a commercial auto analyser (Beckman Coulter Access), was evaluated to analyse clinical samples, giving well-matched results between the two methods, thus showing a practical application in quantitative monitoring of PSA levels in the whole blood with very good signal recovery