Nell Gwyn’s many after-lives : taming ‘the Protestant Whore’ in 21st century popular fiction

Ever since her supposed self-fashioning as ‘the Protestant Whore’ in the 1660s, Nell Gwyn has become a figure of fascination, revamped and reinterpreted in a multitude of ways along the years: from the black and white films of the 1930s, the story of this Restoration orange seller turned Royal concubine continues to excite the imagination of not just film makers, but of novelists, artists and even jam makers nowadays, as much as it inflamed Restoration audiences. The aim of this paper is to analyse the discourse that lays at the basis of three modern-day reconstructions of Nell Gwyn’s figure in an attempt at drawing a connection between celebrity, pop culture and historical fiction so as to explain the reimagining of this actress as an innocent strumpet, a scheming shrew, a dignified lady and all things in between; this paper takes ideas on celebrity and historical fiction as the theoretical basis upon which to build the criticism of these revampings of Nell Gwyn to better understand the survival of her figure three centuries after her death.peer-reviewe

Schur complements in Krein spaces

The aim of this work is to generalize the notions of Schur complements and shorted operators to Krein spaces. Given a (bounded) J-selfadjoint operator A (with the unique factorization property) acting on a Krein space H and a suitable closed subspace S of H, the Schur complement A/[s]of A to S is defined. The basic properties of A/ are developed and different characterizations are given, most of them resembling those of the shorted of (bounded) positive operators on a Hilbert space.Fil: Maestripieri, Alejandra Laura. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Instituto Argentino de Matemática Alberto Calderón; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ingeniería. Departamento de Matemáticas; ArgentinaFil: Martinez Peria, Francisco Dardo. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de Matemática; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Instituto Argentino de Matemática Alberto Calderón; Argentin

Diversification of Resources in Rural King City

Lack of resources in rural King City has become a barrier for access to mental health treatment. Monterey County Behavioral Health (MCBH) provides mental health services but diverse programs like Interim Inc. are in the Salinas area. External mental health resources are difficult to obtain for some of the clients. Therefore, the ACCESS team for MCBH King City made the decision to implement a support group that would serve as a new resource for local adult clients. A Mindfulness Group was developed to help clients who suffer from anxiety and depression. The group contained content that educated clients on how to cope with anxiety using breathing techniques and present moment awareness. The effectiveness of the group was measured by having clients rate their moods at the beginning and end of each group session. Results have shown that the group has been effective. Clients reported different moods by the end of each session. It was also noted that clients reported a better mood when it was only the facilitator and client. The group has decreased anxiety symptoms for clients and has improved their everyday lives. To persist in positive changes among clients, it is recommended that the weekly mindfulness group continue to be implemented

Transfer Within Fyc Tracing The Operalization Of Writing-related Knowledge And Concepts In Composition

This study traces the transfer of writing-related knowledge and concepts from the composition classroom into the writing assignments composed by students within the same course. Working in a first-year-composition classroom taught through a writing-about-writing curriculum, the researcher observed students as they navigated from the initial learning of concepts such as rhetorical situations, writing processes, and discourse communities, into an application of these concepts in various writing assignments, including rhetorical analyses and discourse community profiles. By analyzing a composition instructor\u27s objectives for her assignments and observing the interaction between students and their instructor in a single composition course for the duration of one semester, the researcher traced how students operationalized knowledge from the classroom and applied it in their own writing. After tracing this operalization through interviews with the instructor, observation of class activities and analysis of assignment sheets and student papers, the researcher proposes that instructors may encourage transfer within their composition classrooms by adequately presenting assignment objectives to students, and by allowing sufficient scaffolding of writing tasks. In this way, the researcher explains that students may be able to understand the objectives of their writing assignments in a way that may encourage them to apply the knowledge they learned in the classroom to the writing tasks assigned by their instructor

RNA-binding protein immunoprecipitation as a tool to investigate plant miRNA processing interference by regulatory proteins of diverse origin

Background: Due to the nature of viral RNA genomes, RNA viruses depend on many RNA-binding proteins (RBP) of viral and host origin for replication, dissemination and evasion of host RNA degradation pathways. Some viruses interfere with the microRNA (miRNA) pathway to generate better fitness. The development of an adjusted, reliable and sensitive ribonucleoprotein immunoprecipitation (RIP) assay is needed to study the interaction between RBP of different origin (including viral origin) and miRNA precursors. The method could be further applied to transiently expressed heterologous proteins in different plant species. Results: Here we describe a modified RIP assay applied to nuclear epitope-tagged proteins of heterologous origin and transiently expressed in Nicotiana benthamiana. The assay includes a combination of optimized steps as well as the careful selection of control samples and rigorous data analysis. It has proven efficient to detect and quantify miRNA processing intermediates associated with regulatory proteins. Conclusions: The RIP method described here provides a reliable tool to study the interaction of RBPs, such as transiently expressed regulatory proteins with lowly represented host RNA, as is the case of miRNA precursors. This modified method was efficiently adjusted to recover nuclear proteins and reduce unspecific background. The purification scheme optimized here for GFP-tagged proteins can be applied to a wide array of RBPs. The subsequent application of next-generation sequencing technologies will permit to sequence and characterize all RNA species bound in vivo by a given RBP.Fil: Marmisollé, Facundo Ernesto. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Instituto de Biotecnología y Biología Molecular. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Instituto de Biotecnología y Biología Molecular; ArgentinaFil: Garcia, Maria Laura. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Instituto de Biotecnología y Biología Molecular. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Instituto de Biotecnología y Biología Molecular; ArgentinaFil: Reyes Martinez, Carina Andrea. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Instituto de Biotecnología y Biología Molecular. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Instituto de Biotecnología y Biología Molecular; Argentin

Childhood, migration and rights: contributions to an anthropological approach

Este ensayo analiza contextos y presenta conceptualizaciones en torno a los discursos de derechos de niñez migrante en el ámbito argentino. Los primeros apartados del trabajo ofrecen una sistematización de los contextos regionales en los que se institucionalizan estos discursos, incluyendo los problemas y demandas que se construyen desde los enfoques de derechos. En los tres apartados finales, se propone considerar otras dimensiones de análisis, orientadas a conceptualizar a la niñez migrante en relación con las políticas hacia las familias, las infancias diversas, las tensiones implícitas en las dinámicas de particularización de sujetos de derechos. El objetivo que atraviesa la propuesta es introducir problematizaciones y niveles de análisis desde la antropología, respecto de una temática atravesada por el enfoque normativo.The aim of this essay is to present conceptualizations about migrant children's rights in Argentina. The analysis is aimed at exploring categories and central discussions on national and regional regulations, documents from various agencies, and academic research. The first sections of the paper provide a systematization of the regional and national contexts in which these discourses are institutionalized, including the challenges and demands that are built from rights approaches. Subsequently, it is proposed to consider other dimensions of analysis to conceptualize migrant children regarding policies towards families, different childhoods, and tensions implicit in the dynamics of particularization of rights holders. Thereby it achieves to introduce problematizations and levels of analysis from anthropology, on an issue traversed by the regulatory approach.Fil: Martinez, Laura Victoria. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentin

How Do States' Safety Net Policies Affect Poverty?

Using Georgia, Illinois, and Massachusetts as illustrative examples, examines how states' narrow, medium, or broad policies on cash, non-cash, and tax elements of the safety net affect poverty rates among non-elderly adults and children

Antropology and teather: plays in an ethnography with migrant children

Este artículo avanza en la precisión teórica y metodológica de una estrategia de dramatización que hemos desarrollado en el marco de nuestra investigación doctoral. Nos dedicaremos a reconstruir algunos antecedentes de cruces entre antropología y teatro, pero también de las perspectivas más amplias sobre la dimensión del cuerpo con las que aquellos antecedentes dialogan. Dentro de este marco nos preguntaremos especialmente por el potencial de los abordajes históricos de la educación en sensibilidades de los dispositivos escolares modernos.Este artigo avança na precisão teórica e metodológica de uma estratégia de dramatização desenvolvida na correspondente pesquisa doutoral. Dedica-se a reconstruir alguns antecedentes de cruzamentos entre antropologia e teatro, mas também as perspectivas mais amplas sobre a dimensão do corpo com as que aqueles antecedentes dialogam. Dentro deste marco, pergunta-se pelo potencial das abordagens históricas da educação em sensibilidades nos dispositivos escolares modernos. Conclui-se com a necessidade de vincular a proposta com as discussões sobre pesquisa com infâncias.This article deepens in the theoretical and methodological accuracy of a dramatization strategy developed in the corresponding doctoral research. It recollects some precedents of convergence between anthropology and theater, and also considers the wider perspectives on the body dimension that argue with those precedents. In this context, the potential of historical approaches in the education of sensibilities within modern schooling dispositions is questioned. Finally, it states the need to connect the proposal with further discussions about the research involving infants.Fil: Martinez, Laura Victoria. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Instituto de Ciencias Antropologicas; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentin