Symposium on Indigenous Scholarship: The Centrality of Culture and Indigenous Values

The trend of globalization has led to a strong demand for the culture-specific or emic approach in scholarly research. It is the purpose of this paper to provide an opportunity for scholars to have their voices on the issues of indigenous scholarship. The paper consists of four essays examining the theme from four aspects, namely, the centrality of culture and communication, the Asiacentric communication paradigm, the development of Chinese communication theories, and an indigenous view of the study of resilience. It is hoped that the paper will contribute to the better understanding of indigenous scholarship and further provide a possible direction for the future investigation in this line of research

Robert T. Oliver: Trailblazer in Intercultural Communication

Robert T. Oliver was a scholar extraordinaire and a towering figure in rhetoric and public address, but his contributions to the field of intercultural communication are less well known. For over sixty years, Dr. Oliver wrote prolifically about the impact of culture on rhetoric and communication. Although Dr. Oliver rarely used the words intercultural communication in his writings, which were voluminous, he contributed greatly to the development of the field. This essay focuses on Dr. Oliver’s four major contributions to intercultural communication: (1) Critiquing the Eurocentric bias of rhetoric/communication, (2) offering an Asiacentric alternative to the study of rhetoric/communication, (3) utilizing and intracultural perspective to frame rhetoric/communication research, and (4) envisioning international diplomacy as a site for examining rhetoric/communication

Research and Pedagogy in Intercultural New Media Studies

New media are ubiquitous, changing the landscape of intercultural communication. Intercultural new media studies (INMS), first introduced and conceptualized by Robert Shuter in 2012 in his article in the Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, is an exciting new field of study which explores intercultural and international communication in a digital age. It promises to contemporize existing intercultural communication theories by exploring their relevance and salience in a mediated world. INMS also offers the prospect of developing 21st century theories of intercultural communication that include new media platforms. Finally, by exploring the relationship between culture and new media, intercultural new media studies details how culture affects the social uses of new media, and how new media affects culture. This article, and the nine studies in this special issue, are an important step in further developing intercultural new media studies and realizing its’ promise. [China Media Research. 2012; 8(4): 1-5

Muro de las Lagrimas (wall of tears): Living with dementia; family experience of loss and grief

This brief paper will introduce a new theoretical framework or model which may be useful for putting a structure around the theme of ageing and its accompanying grief and loss. It is especially appropriate in the context of counselling families living with dementia, including those individuals with a diagnosis of alzheimers disease. The paper describes the origin of the Spanish expressions of the `wall of tears’ and `house of tears’ and involves an historical narrative of the first author as context to the framework

Willard D. Morgan

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Studies toward the synthesis of the microsclerodermin natural products

A concise stereo-selective synthesis of a protected form of APTO 1, an unusual amino acid component of microsclerodermin C 2, was undertaken. Sequential Sharpless Asymmetric Aminohydroxylation (AA) and Asymmetric Dihydroxylation (AD) reactions were used to introduce the chiral amino and hydroxyl groups. Specific directing groups were chosen to ensure high regio- and enantio-selectivity in these reactions. The target compound was reached in a linear reaction sequence of fourteen steps. The strategy was designed to generate common intermediates which could be used to access analogous amino acid fragments in other microsclerodermins. A protected form of AETD 3, from microsclerodermin E, was synthesised via a late-stage common intermediate. Initial studies into the modification of the sequence to allow access to AMPTD 4 and 10-methyl AMPTD 5 were made

Native and Introduced Populations of Smallmouth Bass Differ in the Concordance Between Climate and Somatic Growth

We characterized the association between climate and somatic growth in 125 North American populations of smallmouth bass, Micropterus dolomieu. Using multivariate techniques (i.e., principal components and Procrustes analyses), we found an overall significant concordance between 8 climate variables (cloud cover, frost frequency, precipitation, mean air temperature, minimum air temperature, maximum air temperature, mean summer air temperature, and growing degree days above 10 degrees Celsius) and 4 growth variables (body length increments for ages 1 to 4). Bivariate linear regressions revealed that there was a significant positive relationship between air temperature variables and early growth while growth at later ages was generally less influenced by climate. Given that the geographical range of smallmouth bass has been rapidly expanding over the past century, we also examined how the climate-growth relationships differed in populations that have been introduced outside the native distribution. Analysis of residuals from the Procrustes test indicated that the concordance between climate and growth was likely higher for populations within the native range and lower for introduced populations. Mechanisms that might generate this pattern include the possibility that the introduced populations have not had time to adapt to their new environments and the possibility that growth might respond atypically to the more extreme climates experienced outside the native range of the species

Lopinavir/ritonavir in the treatment of HIV-1 infection: a review

Lopinavir/ritonavir is the first and only coformulated HIV-1 protease inhibitor (PI). Large clinical trials have demonstrated lopinavir/ritonavir’s clinical efficacy in both antiretroviral-naïve and -experienced patients. The immunologic and virologic benefits of treatment with this agent have been proven in HIV-infected adults, adolescents, and children. Smaller studies support the use of lopinavir/ritonavir monotherapy as a therapeutic option in certain patients. The drug is characterized by a high genetic barrier to resistance, and appears to be more forgiving of non-adherence than earlier, unboosted PIs. The most frequent side effects observed are diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting. These gastrointestinal adverse effects are generally mild to moderate. Metabolic derangements, including hyperlipidemia and glucose intolerance, have also been observed in lopinavir/ritonavir recipients. As the menu of available antiretroviral agents continues to expand, lopinavir/ritonavir remains a proven and effective drug for the treatment of HIV infection

Infantile Insusceptibility to Vaccination.

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