The Illegible Pan: Racial Formation, Hybridity, and Chinatown in Sui Sin Far’s “‘Its Wavering Image’”

Drawing upon Judith Butler’s theory of performativity, this article offers an interpretation of “‘Its Wavering Image’” that explains the biracial main character, Pan’s, process of racialization. The argument is two fold: first, the paper contends that in this story, Sui Sin Far theorizes that race is performative rather than biological. Race does not come from characters’ bodies, but is rather an incorporated performance of codes. Pan’s race, then, depends not on her parentage or her biology, but on the “codes” she internalizes and embodies, codes that are fleshed out throughout the article through historical contextualization of San Francisco and Chinatown. Sui Sin Far roots “‘Its Wavering Image’” firmly in space and place to emphasize the connections between Chinatown – a space that was zoned “Chinese” by the city – and racial identity formation. The second part of the argument deals with racial hybridity; the characters of “‘Its Wavering Image’” cannot understand racial hybridity because their home spaces – and the boundaries between the spaces themselves – condition them to think of and recognize race in dualistic terms, in this case, Chinese or white. Ultimately, “‘Its Wavering Image’” allows Sui Sin Far to undermine the notion that race is either stable or essential and to critique a system in which people must fit at one end of the binary or the other

Youth in Crisis: Understanding the Surge of Adolescent Suicide in South Korea

The following thesis examines South Korean history, traditional values and the effects of the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis in order to understand the political, economic, and social causes of the increase in adolescent suicides since the turn of the millennium

Chinese or White?: Racial Formation, Hybridity, and Chinatown in Sui Sin Far's 'Its Wavering Image'

Drawing upon Judith Butler's theory of performativity, this thesis offers an interpretation of "`Its Wavering Image'" that explains the biracial main character, Pan's, process of racialization. The argument is two fold: first, the paper contends that in this story, Sui Sin Far theorizes that race is performative rather than biological. Race does not come from characters' bodies, but is rather an incorporated performance of codes. Pan's race, then, depends not on her parentage or her biology, but on the "codes" she internalizes and embodies, codes that are fleshed out throughout the thesis through historical contextualization of San Francisco and Chinatown. Sui Sin Far roots "`Its Wavering Image'" firmly in space and place to emphasize the connections between Chinatown - a space that was zoned "Chinese" by the city - and racial identity formation. The second part of the argument deals with racial hybridity; the characters of "`Its Wavering Image'" cannot understand racial hybridity because their home spaces - and the boundaries between the spaces themselves - condition them to think of and recognize race in dualistic terms, in this case, Chinese or white. Ultimately, "`Its Wavering Image'" allows Sui Sin Far to undermine the notion that race is either stable or essential and to critique a system in which people must fit at one end of the binary or the other

Clubroot

Rachel Lancaster, Caroline Donald and Ian Palmer, outline some control measures for clubroot, one of the most serious diseases of crucifers world wide

"A Witch? Who is Not?": Engendering Witchcraft on the Shakespearean Stage

The main goal of my thesis is to examine the ways in which expressions of early modern witchcraft can be nontraditionally read into Shakespearean works. I hope to stress how witchcraft, while rooted in the feminine body, is not a practice exclusively performed by the old poor widow women who are commonly associated with it. As the witch of Edmonton herself recognizes, “A witch? Who is not? / Hold not that universal name in scorn then” (4.1.104-105). Reading witchcraft into Shakespeare’s work in nontraditional ways allows the analysis and discussion of witchcraft in the period to break away from the gendered construct it is often relegated to. I hope to emphasize that men, too, can be vulnerable to a marginalized discourse that shares many similarities with witchcraft. By tracking this discourse in Shakespeare’s works, we can further see how witchcraft thinking and language permeates the writing on more than just a superficial level, often shaping social and political conflict and struggles for power in telling ways.Bachelor of Art

In Vitro ELISA and Cell-Based Assays Confirm the Low Immunogenicity of VNAR Therapeutic Constructs in a Mouse Model of Human RA : An Encouraging Milestone to Further Clinical Drug Development

Funding Information: The authors wish to acknowledge the funding support for this work from Scottish Enterprise (SE) (VNAR_001 (2012)), the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) (BB/K010905/1), and Innovate UK (102865).Peer reviewedPublisher PD

In Vitro Maturation of a Humanized Shark VNAR Domain to Improve Its Biophysical Properties to Facilitate Clinical Development

Acknowledgments: The authors would like to acknowledge the funding support for this work from Scottish Enterprise [VNAR_001(2012)] and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/K010905/1).Peer reviewedPublisher PD

An Anti-hTNF-α Variable New Antigen Receptor Format Demonstrates Superior in vivo Preclinical Efficacy to Humira® in a Transgenic Mouse Autoimmune Polyarthritis Disease Model

Funding The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/K010905/1), Scottish Enterprise (VNAR_001 (2012), Innovate UK (102865). Acknowledgments The authors wish to acknowledge the funding support for this work from Scottish Enterprise (SE), the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), and Innovate UK.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Diffusion tensor imaging use in concussion diagnosis of young athletes

Concussions in young athletes have become a critical public health concern36, with over 1 million pediatric sports-related concussions reported annually32. Despite the high prevalence of concussions, especially in contact sports, conclusive quantitative measurements of the damage associated with concussions is lacking. Most of these mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBIs) occur without macroscopic damage and have therefore been difficult to quantify with traditional imaging techniques such as conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT)22,32,46. Current concussion diagnosis criteria relies upon subjective reporting, which has shown to be inconsistent and underreported22,33. The absence of a sensitive, reliable, and conclusive diagnostic measure for concussions is dangerous, causing mild concussions to frequently go undiagnosed7,20,22. This is particularly unsafe for young athletes in contact-associated sports, who, due to age-related biomechanical differences, are at an increased risk of concussive events and lasting impairments16,29,33,36. Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) has risen to the forefront of noninvasive concussion imaging research, as it is capable of indirectly measuring the integrity of the axons within the brain on a microstructural level15,20,22,38. Specifically, DTI measures the direction of water molecule diffusion and is able to detect even subtle changes in the brain tissue structure that may occur with axonal injury as a result of a concussion15,20,38. Previous studies have demonstrated the ability of DTI methods to measure significant differences in diffusivity between concussed individuals and uninjured controls6–8,17,20,26,29,30,32,34,39,44–46. Additionally, DTI is sensitive to normal neurodevelopmental changes that occur, making it especially applicable to the pediatric population20,46. It has shown to be capable of distinguishing between severities of concussions6,8,28 and predicting general functional outcomes8,22,26,33,46. While currently confined to use in research, DTI technology shows great promise in one day becoming a routine clinical imaging tool for use in concussion diagnosis2,22,23,38,45,46