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The impact of early stroke on identity: a discourse analytic study
This article examines the ways in which sufferers talk about early stroke and the effects this chronic condition has on identity. Traditional research into chronic illness has largely used medical, psychiatric or cognitive models. We adopt a social constructionist perspective and use a discourse analytic methodology to study data collected via focus group interaction. Analysis of the data collected shows that participants displayed sensitivity about having acquired a potentially âdamagedâ sense of self by mitigating negative features of their experiences. Participants also attended to the issue of whether their accounts were persuasive or believable. Some carers were present in these discussions. As a consequence, participants who had suffered a stroke displayed sensitivity to the way that carers might respond to mitigation of the negative aspects of stroke
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Localization of Na pumps in the tracheal epithelium of the dog.
Binding of [3H]ouabain by the dog's tracheal epithelium shows a nonspecific component depending linearly on ouabain concentration, and a specific saturable component with a Km of 10(-7) M. Control experiments showed that the tracer taken up was not trapped within the extracellular space nor bound to tissue collagen. Inhibition of the saturable uptake by high K, metabolic inhibition, low Na, and low temperature indicated that binding was to Na/K ATPase. One-sided exposures of tissue sheets to tracer showed that the submucosal side took up 10 X as much tracer as the luminal. Autoradiography localized tracer uptake under all conditions to the cells' basolateral membranes
J. K. Rowling: 14 Ways of Looking at Genius
An edited collection of 14 essays by students in Dr. Toby Widdicombe's Spring 2021 course on J. K. Rowling with a brief preface by the editor.Elsa Snodderly, âWhat Muggles and Magic Can Teach Us about Toleranceâ
Roslyn White, âAn Examination of Abuse in the Harry Potter Septetâ
Jack Butto, âWhat Makes Harry Potter a Memorable Character?â
Mackenzie Lindeman, âThe Production of a Functioning Societyâ
Charlene Ducut, âSex, Sexuality, and Love in J. K. Rowlingâs Septetâ
Melanie Brice, âGood versus Evilâ
Rosalie Makar, âPopularity of the Harry Potter Seriesâ
Tobias Horton, âThe Best of the Best and the Worst of the Bestâ
Stephanie Goens, âColors of the Wizarding Worldâ
Stephanie Goens, âThe Guardian of the Wizarding Worldâ
Heather Lee, âMuggles in a Wizard Worldâ
Phillip Granath, âCreation, ClichĂ©, and Omission: The Sins of J. K. Rowlingâ
Phillip Granath, âAzkaban and Alcatrazâ
Ashley Cook, âRon Weasley and the Perspective of the Privilegedâ
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Incarnate Spirits: The Embodied Roots of Worship
Spirituality is âhow the Spirit of Jesus enables Christians to grow into fullness with God in this life and in particular historical circumstances.â The role of the community is definitive in shaping the spirituality of an individual and the interior dynamism of spirit is contextualized by incarnate experience. This piece employs the thought of Bernard Lonergan, SJ bolstered with the work of two Lonergan scholars, Ian Bell and Timothy Brunk, on the notion of a âworshipfulâ pattern of experience
On the Task of Today\u27s Theologian
This piece was written as a reading response paper for Kristin Colbergâs Documents of Vatican II course in the Spring of 2022. It argues that todayâs theologian must take seriously the demands of the Second Vatican Council and that the task of the theologian is, in light of contemporary culture, offer an ever-new articulation of the Gospel of Christ Jesus that does not lose its ever-ancient truths. In that vein, the piece utilizes the assigned readings for a particular course meeting to, with the aid of Bernard Lonergan, outline a kind of pro-Vatican II panegyric
Everyone Wants a Revolution, No One Wants to Do the Dishes
This piece is a reflection on climate despair, filtered through the novel A Canticle for Leibowitz, the Catholic Worker Movement, and Benedictine spirituality to imagine what the response of a faithful Catholic might be. It posits that the only adequate response to, seemingly, insurmountable challenges is to hope against hope
Formation of Relativistic Axion Stars
Axions and axion-like particles are compelling candidates for the missing
dark matter of the universe. As they undergo gravitational collapse, they can
form compact objects such as axion stars or even black holes. In this paper, we
study the formation and distribution of such objects. First, we simulate the
formation of compact axion stars using numerical relativity with aspherical
initial conditions that could represent the final stages of axion dark matter
structure formation. We show that the final states of such collapse closely
follow the known relationship of initial mass and axion decay constant .
Second, we demonstrate with a toy model how this information can be used to
scan a model density field to predict the number densities and masses of such
compact objects. In addition to being detectable by the LIGO/VIRGO
gravitational wave interferometer network for axion mass of eV, we show using peak statistics that for , there
exists a "mass gap" between the masses of axion stars and black holes formed
from collapse
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