Kill Your Darlings: The Afterlives of Pepe The Frog, Sherlock Holmes, and Jim Crow

This thesis works to establish a literary theory and cultural studies as a theoretical lens with which we can view harmful emerging pop culture phenomena like the so-called alt right. The premise is supposed in three parts, with the first being a simple introduction to the Pepe character and how he is grounded in literary studies through a comparison of Sherlock Holmes and his early fandom. The second part is a survey of the legacy of Jim Crow and I present the evidence that Pepe is very much Crow’s spiritual successor in their shared preoccupation with white anxiety. The third is a discussion of language in which I bridge the use of memes as language with how that language effectively communicates. Ultimately, Pepe the Frog is able to tap into the pop culture collective through a democratizing of language facilitated by digital spaces on the internet, and his proliferation is made readily viral by the racist language he speaks through ala Jim Crow era anxieties

Moxifloxacin (Avelox) Induced Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura

We report a case of a 66-year-old African-American female who presented with complaints of progressively worsening weakness, shortness of breath on minimal exertion, lethargy for the last few days, and short episodes of aphasia lasting 20–30 seconds. Prior to presentation, she was treated with two courses of moxifloxacin for sinusitis. Laboratory examination was remarkable for anemia and thrombocytopenia with elevated lactate dehydrogenase and no evidence of renal failure. Peripheral smear showed numerous schistocytes and she was diagnosed with thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura. Moxifloxacin was identified as the offending agent. The patient was treated with prednisone and plasmapheresis. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported case of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura associated with the use of moxifloxacin. Although rare, physicians should be aware of this serious complication associated with its use

Peer Leaders’ Perceptions of Learning Experiences

Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) at Florida International University maintains a large volume of student and Peer Leader (PL) participation. Students, who participate in PLTL, on average, perform a letter grade better than their peers who do not participate in PLTL. To analyze PL perspectives on learning, a survey was conducted. The survey had a series of Likert scale statements and free response questions on learning. The nature of the questions are regarding barriers in education, individual learning strengths and weaknesses, and the perception that PLTL improved the learner’s capabilities to overcome these obstacles. Based on the survey responses, PLs perceive an improvement in the way they learn during and/or after becoming a PL. Students participating in PLTL exhibited an increase in course content retention and perceived improvement in study skills. Students in PLTL also perceived the PLTL workshop environment to be comfortable enough to address questions and misconceptions

Adesão ao grupo de Hiperdia dos pacientes da ESF residencial 2000

Uberaba é um município localizado na região do Triângulo Mineiro, estado de Minas Gerais, Brasil. Seus serviços Públicos incluem a Unidades Básicas de Saúde, que se Constituem como porta de entrada dos pacientes ao sistema de saúde. A nossa Unidade Básica de Saúde é Residencial 2000, cuja área de abrangência consta de 890 famílias e um total de 2998 pacientes. A equipe de saúde da família do PSF Residencial 2000 vem trabalhando na identificação dos principais problemas de saúde da nossa área de abrangência, e da comunidade em geral. Um tema prioritário para a saúde da população é a baixa adesão ao grupo de Hiperdia. Segundo a OMS (2002), os indivíduos com hipertensão e diabetes têm 7,5 vezes maior risco de sofrer um acidente vascular cerebral, seis vezes maior risco de insuficiência cardíaca e 2,5 vezes de cardiopatia isquêmica. Vários estudos mostram que tratar Hipertensão Arterial, independentemente da fáxia etária, traz melhora na qualidade de vida e na sobrevida, diminuindo eventos e permitindo envelhecimento mais digno. A baixa adesão ao grupo de Hiperdia dos pacientes de nossa área constitui um problema de saúde porque muitos deles não têm participação nas atividades do grupo e se encontram descontrolados, o que aumenta a morbidade e a demanda espontânea à consulta, e incrementa as complicações como AVC, cardiopatias e pé diabético. Com este trabalho temos como objetivo geral elaborar um projeto de intervenção para aumentar a adesão de pacientes ao grupo hiperdia de hipertensos e diabéticos da ESF Residencial 2000. Para o desenvolvimento do Plano de Intervenção, foi utilizado o Método do Planejamento Estratégico Situacional. Com a realização deste trabalho de intervenção, pretendemos dar atenção a fatores socioeconômicos e demográficos; aumentar o nível de conhecimento da equipe de saúde, assim como estreitar o relacionamento dos pacientes com a ESF. Espera-se aumentar o apoio à família e a comunidade, ajudando no controle das doenças e na adesão ao tratamento, assim como promover a participação ativa dos pacientes nos grupos e atividades feitas pela ESF

Causal effects of PetroCaribe on sustainable development: a synthetic control analysis

We examine the causal effects of the energy subsidy programme PetroCaribe in the three dimensions of sustainable development: economic, social and environmental. We use the synthetic control method to construct a counterfactual and compare it to the outcomes of the beneficiary countries and thus estimate the magnitude and direction of the PetroCaribe effect. PetroCaribe had a positive effect on economic growth in most of the beneficiary countries; however, this economic boost was not followed by an improvement in social development. Environmentally, PetroCaribe did not negatively or positively impact the environmental quality of the member countries, in the sense that we do not find a significant effect on the trend of urn:x-wiley:14636786:media:manc12275:manc12275-math-0001 emissions per capita

Scenarios in Multi-objective Optimisation of Process Parameters for Sustainable Machining

Sustainable machining needs to consider multiple objectives for fulfilling environmental and economic requirements. Pareto front usually employed to present multi-objective optimisation results. However, the Pareto fronts are difficult to understand and inefficient when there are more than 2 objectives. This problem is addressed in this paper, by enumerating and characterising all the 128 scenarios in sustainable machining operation involving 7 objectives including energy, cost, time, power, cutting force, tool life and surface finish. Results show that all the scenarios can be converted to single-objective situation which has a unique solution or a set of conflicting bi -objective cases which can be represented as a single Pareto front

Implementation of Code Properties via Transducers

The FAdo system is a symbolic manipulator of formal language objects, implemented in Python. In this work, we extend its capabilities by implementing methods to manipulate transducers and we go one level higher than existing formal language systems and implement methods to manipulate objects representing classes of independent languages (widely known as code properties). Our methods allow users to define their own code properties and combine them between themselves or with fixed properties such as prefix codes, suffix codes, error detecting codes, etc. The satisfaction and maximality decision questions are solvable for any of the definable properties. The new online system LaSer allows one to query about a code property and obtain the answer in a batch mode. Our work is founded on independence theory as well as the theory of rational relations and transducers, and contributes with improved algorithms on these objects