Trickster and Weetigo : Tomson Highway's Fur Queen

This project paper discusses the Cree mythology present in Tomson Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen. I contend that Highway’s conflation of the two mythological characters, Weesageechak and Weetigo, in the figure of the Fur Queen allows the dramatization of the interaction and confrontation between the aboriginal culture and colonizing culture. Through careful attention to imagistic references to the Cree Weetigo tradition, I contend that the Fur Queen is a complex metaphorical representation of the complicated reality faced by Highway’s characters. Through the Fur Queen, Weesageechak, the trickster, acts as a positive figure overseeing the success of her Aboriginal charges, while the cannibal Weetigo aspects of the Fur Queen represent the negative impacts and dangers faced by her charges within and from the colonizing Euro-Canadian culture

When you suspect ACS, which serologic marker is best?

Measurement of troponin levels provides the most sensitive and accurate serologic information in evaluating a patient with acute coronary syndrome (ACS); troponin elevations are more sensitive than elevations of creatine kinase-MB (CK-MB). Isolated elevation of troponin levels increases the likelihood of myocardial infarction (MI) or death, whereas isolated elevation of CK-MB levels doesn't. (Strength of recommendation [SOR] for all statements: A, multiple, large prospective cohort studies.) Repeated measurement of troponin levels at presentation and then 3 and 6 hours afterward increases the diagnostic sensitivity for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) (SOR: A, multiple, small prospective studies)

Ground Systems Development Environment (GSDE) interface requirements analysis

A set of procedural and functional requirements are presented for the interface between software development environments and software integration and test systems used for space station ground systems software. The requirements focus on the need for centralized configuration management of software as it is transitioned from development to formal, target based testing. This concludes the GSDE Interface Requirements study. A summary is presented of findings concerning the interface itself, possible interface and prototyping directions for further study, and results of the investigation of the Cronus distributed applications environment

The Fate of Duplicated Regions of the Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) Genome

Gene and genome duplications have played a major role in vertebrate evolution. Salmonids provide a useful resource for studying the consequences of these events as their common ancestor underwent a genome duplication between 25 and 120 million years ago. To understand how a genome reorganizes itself to cope with duplicated chromosomes and the importance of gene duplications for evolution and adaptation, homeologous regions of the Atlantic salmon genome were identified and studied within a large insert, genomic BAC library; these BACs contain the metallothionein loci, a gene known to have remained in duplicate since the tetraploidization event. A BAC from each region was subsequently shotgun subcloned and sequenced. Sequence analysis revealed the presence of 10 genes, retaining their collinearity between the BACs, although pseudogenization events have occurred in one of the duplicate loci in two instances. Comparative genomic analysis revealed the existence of extraordinary conservation of synteny over time

Peter Pan bone cells undermine skeleton

Protein that controls maturation of bone-building cells might be disease culprit

It\u27s About Communities: the Commitment to Promoting a Culturally Competent Environmental Health Workforce.

Environmental health and public health are profoundly local. The Association of Environmental Health Academic Programs (AEHAP) firmly agrees and for this reason, it is important to have local environmental health experts who know the pulse of their communities. AEHAP believes in supporting the advanced scientific education of environmental health in these communities through people from these communities. Accordingly, AEHAP has sought to promote and support accredited environmental health programs among a diverse cross-section of the U.S. higher education landscape. AEHAP’s students are diverse in many ways, including socioeconomically, racially, ethnically, and culturally. The value of this approach enhances the overall education of both the students and the faculty, while better positioning students and alumni to serve their own communities where they are better equipped to aid in the development and implementation of local public health programs and responses. Summarizing the annual undergraduate and 3-year graduate program survey data provided by the National Environmental Health Science & Protection Accreditation Council (EHAC), racially and/or ethnically diverse students represent 37% and 48% of enrolled undergraduate and graduate students, respectively. For the 2017–2018 enrollment year, 39% of undergraduates were described as contributing to diversity. In addition, 56% of the student population from the undergraduate and graduate programs is female. Female students have been the majority since 2008. The demographics of EHAC-accredited program graduates are closely aligned with the current U.S. population; however, demographics will change as our nation becomes pluralistic. AEHAP and EHAC will continue to promote cultural competency of graduates and assist accredited environmental health programs in producing cohorts reflective of the needs of their local communities