CORE 152

All Colgate graduates complete Core 152, Challenges of Modernity, by the end of their sophomore year, one of four courses in the Liberal Arts Core Curriculum. According to the Core 152 legislation, modernity has been used at times to describe a time period, a political project, a way of thinking, and an assortment of social, economic, and cultural changes that have introduced new problems and possibilities into human life. Within modernity, issues of identity, morality, and freedom have been critiqued in distinctive ways. People of different social classes, racial groups, ethnic backgrounds, genders and sexual identities have contributed to an increasingly rich and varied public discourse. The human psyche has been problematized, and the dynamic character of the world, both natural and social, has been explored. Imperialism has had a complex and lasting impact on the entire globe. Urbanization and technological development have transformed the patterns of everyday life. The human capability to ameliorate social and physical ills has increased exponentially, and yet so has the human capacity for mass destruction and exploitation. In my section of Core 152, students will think broadly and critically about these issues and the world we inhabit, understanding our contemporary concerns through the lens of some of the most important conversations of the last two centuries. We will contemplate, and talk, and pose questions together, learning to read—and re-read—difficult texts to respond to them, and to write with, about, and through them. We will imagine the texts of modernity not simply the page that was/is read, but also consider political speeches, painting and photography, performance (including live music and dance), film, and poetry. The course will meet three times a week and much of this time will be spent in discussion

Perception of Communication Training Need Among Pediatric Trauma Team Members

The purpose of this study is to use the APRC (Assessment of Pediatric Resuscitation Communication) as a guide to determine if trauma nurses and surgeons believe communication training is necessary. Many trauma team members have not received team communication effectiveness training in pediatric trauma settings. As a result, miscommunication between team members leads to medical errors during pediatric trauma activations. Thus, it is important to discover whether or not trauma team members believe communication training will help trauma teams improve the overall effectiveness of pediatric trauma activations. The present study provides a descriptive analysis that illustrates nurses’ and trauma surgeons’ perceptions of the need for trauma team communication training in the pediatric setting. Specifically, participants were asked to complete a questionnaire that assessed their perceptions of the importance of communication training for trauma team members who routinely participate in pediatric trauma activations

History of Women\u27s Education Open Access Portal Project

White Paper prepared for the National Endowment for the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access, Humanities Collections and Reference Resources as part of a grant for the History of Women\u27s Education Open Access Portal Project

Behavioral Fever Drives Epigenetic Modulation of the Immune Response in Fish

Ectotherms choose the best thermal conditions to mount a successful immune response, a phenomenon known as behavioral fever. The cumulative evidence suggests that behavioral fever impacts positively upon lymphocyte proliferation, inflammatory cytokine expression, and other immune functions. In this study, we have explored how thermal choice during infection impacts upon underpinning molecular processes and how temperature increase is coupled to the immune response. Our results show that behavioral fever results in a widespread, plastic imprint on gene regulation, and lymphocyte proliferation. We further explored the possible contribution of histone modification and identified global associations between temperature and histone changes that suggest epigenetic remodeling as a result of behavioral fever. Together, these results highlight the critical importance of thermal choice in mobile ectotherms, particularly in response to an infection, and demonstrate the key role of epigenetic modification to orchestrate the thermocoupling of the immune response during behavioral fever

Integration of data technology for analyzing university dropout

Dropout, defined as the abandonment of a career before obtaining the corresponding degree, considering a significant time period to rule out the possibility of return. Higher education students´ dropout generates several issues that affect students and universities. The results obtained from the data provided by the Engineering departments of the University of Mumbai, in India, determine that the variables that best explain a student's dropout are the socioeconomic factors and the income score provided by the University Admission Test (UAT). According to the decision tree technique, it is concluded that the retention is 78.3%. The quality of the classifiers allows to ensure that their predictions are correct, with statistical levels of ROC curve are 76%, 75%, and 83% successful for Bayesian network classifiers, decision tree, and neural network respectively

Desarrollo de una guía de gestión de riesgos de tecnología informática para entidades públicas, a partir de la metodología COBIT y los lineamientos del gobierno de TI

En nuestra opinión, el mayor grado de automatización de los procesos de negocio hace que las distintas áreas de una compañía se sostengan y apoyen cada vez más en los servicios de procesamiento de información. Pensamos que a medida que las organizaciones se van transformando para competir en el mundo de la información, la capacidad para explotar sus activos intangibles se está haciendo más decisiva que su capacidad para gestionar sus activos físicos. La eficacia y eficiencia futuras de las compañías dependen cada vez en mayor grado del funcionamiento ininterrumpido de los sistemas de aplicación, ya que los mismos deben hacer posible dirigir y controlar el negocio mediante la distribución de la información en forma y tiempo tales que permitan a la Gerencia cumplir con sus responsabilidades. Es aquí en donde nos atrevemos a afirmar que se hace importante el término de gobernar correctamente los recursos de tecnologías de información, también llamado por los expertos en el tema Gobierno de TI. Según nuestra investigación y experiencia, un correcto gobierno de TI hace posible el aprovechamiento al máximo de las capacidades que los sistemas de procesamiento de datos pueden brindar a una organización, esto se logra a través ciertas herramientas diseñadas especialmente para tal fin

Paramagnetic Iron-Doped Hydroxyapatite Nanoparticles with Improved Metal Sorption Properties. A Bio-Organic Substrates-Mediated Synthesis

This paper describes the synthesis of paramegnetic iron-containing hydroxyapatite nanoparticles and their increased Cu2+ sorbent capacity when using Ca2+ complexes of soluble bio-organic substrates from urban wastes as synthesis precursors. A thorough characterization of the particles by TEM, XRD, FTIR spectroscopy, specific surface area, TGA, XPS, and DLS, indicates that loss of crystallinity, a higher specific area, an increased surface oxygen content, and formation of surface iron phases strongly enhance Cu2+ adsorption capacity of hydroxyapatite-based materials. However, the major effect of the surface and morphologycal modifications is the size diminution of the aggregates formed in aqueous solutions leading to an increased effective surface available for Cu2+ adsorption. Maximum sorption values of 550 - 850 mg Cu2+ per gram of particles suspended in an aqueous solution at pH 7 were determined; almost 10 times the maximum values observed for hydroxyapatite nanoparticles suspensions under the same conditions.Fil: Mercado Castro, Donaldo Fabio. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico la Plata. Instituto de Investigaciones Fisicoquímicas Teóricas y Aplicadas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata; ArgentinaFil: Magnacca, Giuliana. Universita Di Torino; ItaliaFil: Malandrino, Mery. Universita Di Torino; ItaliaFil: Rubert, Aldo Alberto. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico la Plata. Instituto de Investigaciones Fisicoquímicas Teóricas y Aplicadas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata; ArgentinaFil: Montoneri, Enzo. Universita Di Torino; ItaliaFil: Celi, Luisella. Universita Di Torino; ItaliaFil: Bianco Prevot, Alessandra. Universita Di Torino; ItaliaFil: Gonzalez, Monica Cristina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico la Plata. Instituto de Investigaciones Fisicoquímicas Teóricas y Aplicadas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata; Argentin

Dietary Inclusion of Hydrolyzed Debaryomyces hansenii Yeasts Modulates Physiological Responses in Plasma and Immune Organs of Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) Parr Exposed to Acute Hypoxia Stress

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