Intercultural Art Music and the Sensory Veracity of Reconciliation:Brent Michael Davids’ Powwow Symphony on the Dakota Music Tour

This article questions music’s particular stake in Indigenous initiatives of redress and reconciliation. It examines music’s media-specific relationship with redress and reconciliation, and public discourses that situate intercultural art music performance as a medium of reconciliation. In addressing intercultural art music’s abilities to engender reconciliation, the article considers its social and political efficacy from two perspectives. Firstly, it offers a brief survey of the public and academic discourses on music’s ability to engender reconciliation. Secondly, it examines how the discourse of music’s power for reconciliation played out in an a performance of Mohican composer Brent Michael Davids’ Powwow Symphony presented as part of the Dakota Music Tour (2010) in Minnesota.Cet article s’interroge sur l’enjeu particulier de la musique dans les initiatives autochtones de réparation et réconciliation. L’article examine les relations entre le medium spécifique de la musique et la réparation et la réconciliation, ainsi que les discours publics qui présentent les concerts de musique artistique interculturelle comme autant de moyens de réconciliation. Pour évaluer les capacités de la performance de musique artistique interculturelle à engendrer la réconciliation, l’article considère son efficacité sociale et politique sous deux angles. En premier lieu, il propose une brève étude des discours publics et universitaires sur la capacité de la musique à engendrer la réconciliation. Dans un deuxième temps, il examine comment le discours sur le pouvoir de réconciliation de la musique s’est joué dans le cadre d’une interprétation de la Powwow Symphony du compositeur mohican Brent Michael Davids donnée dans le cadre du Dakota Music Tour en 2010 dans le Minnesota

Matthewson St. United Methodist Church: Rehabilitation Feasiblity Report

The first-story floor plan was altered significantly during the 1951 renovations, and the entry vestibule is adorned with Neo-Gothic panelling. The chapel on the first floor is handsomely finished. The two-story sanctuary space has a semi-circular configuration with pews radiating from the altar, a balcony and substantial crown moulding

St. Mary\u27s Parish House: Reuse and Rehabilitaion Feasibility Report

Most windows in the structure are historic and in fair condition, consisting of double-hung, six-over-six, divided-light windows throughout most of the building and 12-over-8 divided- light windows in the gymnasium. Windows on the first story of the south façade, in the school addition, are wooden and one-over-one

Herreshoff Marine Museum: Historical Analysis

These methods that Herreshoff utilized can be classified as early stages of the LEAN manufacturing concept which is used today in a majority of America’s leading manufacturers. Herreshoff made sure that his entire inventory was used and nothing was wasted. By reducing/eliminating waste, Nat preserved the value of his products and increased the efficiency of operation

The Relationship between Socioeconomic Status, Family Income, and Measures of Muscular and Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Colombian Schoolchildren

Objective To determine the associations between socioeconomic status (SES) and physical fitness in a sample of Colombian youth. Study design Prueba SER is cross-sectional survey of schoolchildren in Bogota, Colombia. Mass, stature, muscular fitness (standing long-jump, handgrip), and cardiorespiratory fitness (20-m shuttle run) were measured in 52 187 schoolchildren 14-16 years of age. Area-level SES was categorized from 1 (very low) to 4 (high) and parent-reported family income was categorized as low, middle, or high. Results Converting measures into z scores showed stature, muscular, and cardiorespiratory fitness were significantly (z = 0.3-0.7) below European values. Children in the mid- and high SES groups jumped significantly further than groups with very low SES. Differences were independent of sex but became nonsignificant when adjusted for anthropometric differences. Participants in the mid-SES and high-SES groups had better handgrip scores when adjusted for body dimension. There were, however, no significant between-group differences in cardiorespiratory fitness, which was strongly clustered by school and significantly greater in students from private schools. Conclusions Area-level SES is associated with measures of muscular fitness in Colombian schoolchildren. These associations were largely explained by the large differences in body dimensions observed between SES groups. When area-level SES is considered, there was no evidence that family income influenced fitness. The clustering of outcomes reaffirms the potential importance of schools and area-level factors in promoting fitness through opportunities for physical activity. Interventions implemented in schools, can improve academic attainment; a factor likely to be important in promoting the social mobility of children from poorer families

NADPH oxidase-2 derived superoxide drives mitochondrial transfer from bone marrow stromal cells to leukemic blasts

Improvements in the understanding of the metabolic cross-talk between cancer and its micro-environment are expected to lead to novel therapeutic approaches. Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells have increased mitochondria compared to non-malignant CD34+ hematopoietic progenitor cells. Furthermore, contrary to the Warburg hypothesis, (AML) relies on oxidative phosphorylation to generate ATP. Here we report that in human AML, NOX2 generates superoxide which stimulates bone marrow stromal cells (BMSC) to AML blast transfer of mitochondria through AML derived tunnelling nanotubes. Moreover, inhibition of NOX2 was able to prevent mitochondrial transfer, increase AML apoptosis and improve NSG AML mouse survival. Although mitochondrial transfer from BMSC to non-malignant CD34+ cells occurs in response to oxidative stress, NOX2 inhibition had no detectable effect on non-malignant CD34+ cell survival. Taken together we identify tumor-specific dependence on NOX2 driven mitochondrial transfer as a novel therapeutic strategy in AML

Relational, Physical, and Mental Health: How Relationship Satisfaction Influences Exercise Self-Efficacy

Can being satisfied in a relationship create the confidence to exercise? Some research suggests a positive relationship between exercise and positive relationship events for both partners (Johnson et al., 2018), yet there may be important mediators between relationships and exercise, that have not been tested. Research has found that higher relationship satisfaction is associated with lower depressive and anxiety symptoms (Whisman, Uebelacker, & Weinstock, 2004). Another important mechanism linked with exercise is self-efficacy—or the confidence to carry out a behavior (i.e., exercise; Jackson, Tucker, & Herman, 2007). Self-efficacy and mental health are also significantly related (Bandura, 1997), as is exercise and mental health (Chekroud et al., 2018). The question remains then, how is relationship satisfaction and exercise self-efficacy linked? Utilizing dyadic data from 234 heterosexual couples, the purpose of the current study was to determine the association between relationship satisfaction and exercise self-efficacy mediated through mental health

Relationship Satisfaction & Diet: Exploring the Mechanisms through which Intimate Relationships Influence Physical Health

Understanding how intimate relationships influence physical health has been an important topic of focus; however, research remains unclear on the mechanisms through which this influence occurs. The purpose of this study was to examine how relationship satisfaction relates to diet quality, through mental health (depression and anxiety) and diet self-efficacy. Using a dyadic mediation model with a sample of 234 heterosexual couples, researchers found that women\u27s higher relationship satisfaction was associated with better diet through lower depression and higher diet self-efficacy. Results revealed the same association between women\u27s relationship satisfaction and diet through lower anxiety. Interestingly, rather than mediation through mental health, the association between men\u27s relationship satisfaction and diet was mediated through their partners\u27 diet self-efficacy. This presentation will review the gendered pathways by which relationship satisfaction influences diet in heterosexual couples and discuss the important implications of these findings for tracing how intimate relationships affect overall well-being

Pleiotropic functions of the tumor- and metastasis-suppressing Matrix Metalloproteinase-8 in mammary cancer in MMTV-PyMT transgenic mice

Matrix metalloproteinase-8 (MMP-8; neutrophil collagenase) is an important regulator of innate immunity which has onco-suppressive actions in numerous tumor types

FastHPOCR: pragmatic, fast, and accurate concept recognition using the human phenotype ontology.

MOTIVATION: Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)-based phenotype concept recognition (CR) underpins a faster and more effective mechanism to create patient phenotype profiles or to document novel phenotype-centred knowledge statements. While the increasing adoption of large language models (LLMs) for natural language understanding has led to several LLM-based solutions, we argue that their intrinsic resource-intensive nature is not suitable for realistic management of the phenotype CR lifecycle. Consequently, we propose to go back to the basics and adopt a dictionary-based approach that enables both an immediate refresh of the ontological concepts as well as efficient re-analysis of past data. RESULTS: We developed a dictionary-based approach using a pre-built large collection of clusters of morphologically equivalent tokens-to address lexical variability and a more effective CR step by reducing the entity boundary detection strictly to candidates consisting of tokens belonging to ontology concepts. Our method achieves state-of-the-art results (0.76 F1 on the GSC+ corpus) and a processing efficiency of 10 000 publication abstracts in 5 s. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: FastHPOCR is available as a Python package installable via pip. The source code is available at https://github.com/tudorgroza/fast_hpo_cr. A Java implementation of FastHPOCR will be made available as part of the Fenominal Java library available at https://github.com/monarch-initiative/fenominal. The up-to-date GCS-2024 corpus is available at https://github.com/tudorgroza/code-for-papers/tree/main/gsc-2024