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Yang, Qinyi. "A Study of Negotiation in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth." Review of Educational Theory 3, no. 4 (2020): 70. http://dx.doi.org/10.30564/ret.v3i4.2420.
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This study examined the power relationships between male and female characters, between the white female character and women of color, and women of color’s power relationship to each other in White Teeth through analyzing sequential moves in dialogues.The exchange structure reveals that male characters are in dominance in their relationship with female characters, and female characters suffer sexual discrimination. It is also found that in their relationship to the white female character, women of color experience the discriminations of racism and classism, but they tried hard to battle against these discriminations. In addition, even within the community of women of color, women had to fight against oppressive stereotypes.
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Hudson, Barbara. "Beyond white man's justice." Theoretical Criminology 10, no. 1 (2006): 29–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1362480606059981.
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This article proposes three principles which justice should incorporate if it is to move beyond the closures and exclusions of white man's justice. After a brief review of feminist and critical race theory literature that establishes the white, male character of justice in modern liberal societies, the principles of discursiveness, relationalism and reflectiveness are explained and discussed. Their implications for restorative justice are discussed. Oppression and inequality are suggested as concepts that can guide the operation, context and limits of discursiveness, relationalism and reflectiveness. In the final section, the problem of relativism against universalism is discussed, and its relevance to the development of restorative justice suggested.
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Crous, M. "White masculine desire and despair in The good doctor by Damon Galgut." Literator 31, no. 2 (2010): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v31i2.44.
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The purpose of this article is to examine the representation of masculinity in Damon Galgut’s novel, “The good doctor”, and in particular the interaction between the two male characters, namely Frank and Laurence. The character Frank suppresses his feelings of intimacy towards the younger Laurence through his machismo and his cruelty towards the latter. The question arises whether there is a homoerotic relationship between the two men in this postapartheid setting, or whether it is merely a mutual attempt at finding intimacy and closeness in their bleak existence. Furthermore, following Horrell (2005), the concepts of desire and despair with regard to white masculinity as portrayed in the novel will be examined.
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Worthington, Marjorie. "“We'll Make Magic”: Zen Writers and Autofictional Readers in A Tale for the Time Being." Genre 54, no. 1 (2021): 89–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00166928-8911524.
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Ruth Ozeki's novel A Tale for the Time Being is an autofiction—a novel whose protagonist is a characterized version of its author and thereby straddles the line between memoir and fiction. In an American literary context, autofiction is a genre dominated by white male authors. This article argues that Ozeki's approach to autofiction is vastly different from that of most of her white, male counterparts in that the author-character “Ruth” does not lay sole claim to authorial authority, but rather works collaboratively with other characters to share creative power and the responsibility that comes with it. This innovative tactic helps chart a potential course for autofiction by women writers and writers of color.
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Lein, M. Ross, and Kendall W. Corbin. "Song and plumage phenotypes in a contact zone between subspecies of the White-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys)." Canadian Journal of Zoology 68, no. 12 (1990): 2625–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z90-366.
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We examined the transitions in a plumage character (lore color) and a learned behavioral character (song pattern) across a 400 -km intergrade zone between two subspecies of the White-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys) in southwestern Alberta. The proportion of birds with black lores, characteristic of Z. l. oriantha, shifted gradually from over 80% in southernmost localities to less than 20% at the northern end of the zone, where most individuals had grey lores, characteristic of Z. l. gambelii. The song pattern of males also showed a complete transition across the zone, but the change was significantly more abrupt than for lore color, occurring over 50–100 km in the center of the intergrade zone. We suggest that this apparent difference in degree of introgression between the two characters may result either from differential dispersal of males and females or from switches in the song patterns of young males that immigrate into populations in which a different song type predominates. Our findings indicate that male song pattern may not be an accurate indicator of the genetic history of populations in this species.
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Rohwer, Sievert, Christopher Wood, and Eldredge Bermingham. "A New Hybrid Warbler (Dendroica Nigrescens × D. Occidentalis) and Diagnosis of Similar D. Townsendi × D. Occidentalis Recombinants." Condor 102, no. 3 (2000): 713–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/condor/102.3.713.
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Abstract We use 13 color characters to describe the first known Dendroica nigrescens × D. occidentalis hybrid. Because this specimen was collected in the southeastern Cascade Mountains of Washington during the breeding season, D. townsendi, D. occidentalis, and D. nigrescens are the only plausible parents for a hybrid male falling within the black-throated clade of Dendroica warblers. Multiple character states in the hybrid refute the alternative parental combinations, townsendi × occidentalis and townsendi × nigrescens. Two characteristics of this hybrid suggested further tests of the parentage of 38 problematic hybrids that were treated previously as townsendi × occidentalis recombinants by assumption only. These hybrids lack yellow on their breast, the only character that refutes a nigrescens × occidentalis parentage. The new hybrid is intermediate between nigrescens and occidentalis in the color of its posterior face and its anterior crown; thus, we scored these new characters in the 38 problematic hybrids. None of these 38 specimens was intermediate or white in either of these regions, and there was no correlation between having tinges of white in these regions and the extent of flank streaking. These results fail to support nigrescens in the parentage of these 38 specimens; furthermore, none of the problematic hybrids carried a nigrescens mitochondrial DNA haplotype. Thus, we conclude that all are unusual recombinants of townsendi × occidentalis hybridization, rather than nigrescens × occidentalis hybrids.
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Schlueter, Jennifer. "“How you durrin?”: Chuck Knipp, Shirley Q. Liquor, and Contemporary Blackface." TDR/The Drama Review 57, no. 2 (2013): 163–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/dram_a_00266.
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F. Charles “Chuck” Knipp claims his portrayal of Shirley Q. Liquor, a saucy, middle-aged Louisiana black woman, is more “an extended drag comedy character” than a minstrel routine. But the most salient feature of the live performances by Knipp—a gay, white male—is his blackface makeup.
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Griffin, Dana, Joseph M. Williams, and Julia Bryan. "School–Family–Community Partnerships for Educational Success and Equity for Black Male Students." Professional School Counseling 25, no. 1_part_4 (2021): 2156759X2110400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2156759x211040036.
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Throughout the past decade, scholars have argued that the persistent achievement gap between Black male students and their White peers is a result of unequal and inadequate educational opportunities instead of inherent differences in their capability or character. School counselors can help support Black males by using equity-focused school–family–community partnerships that provide a strong network of support, resources, and increased educational opportunities—all of which contribute to positive academic outcomes and help eliminate barriers caused by systemic racism. In this article, we apply a step-by-step partnership process model to a case in which a school counselor used partnerships to advocate for Black students facing racism and educational inequities in a school district.
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Logvinov, S. V., Ye Yu Varakouta, A. V. Potapov, Ye P. Mikhoulya, and A. A. Zhdankina. "Morphologic changes of retina cellular elements under long low intensity light exposure." Bulletin of Siberian Medicine 5, no. 3 (2006): 31–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.20538/1682-0363-2006-3-31-36.
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Structural changes of eye retina in 40 male white rats under the influence of light with intensity of 200 lk during 1, 7, 14 and 30 days were studied using electron microscopy method and morphometric analysis. Structural changes of all cell elements of retina were revealed which were particularly expressed in neurosensory cells and in radial gliocytes. Maximum number of neurosensory cells with destruction of nucleus was observed after 7 days of exposure and achieves its maximum (4,6 ± 0,3)% compared to controls (0,40 ± 0,02)%. Changes of radial glial cells have both regressive and progressively -proliferative character. Changes of neurons of retina internal layers have mainly reversible character.
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Hara, Marcos R., and Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha. "A new species and new distribution records of Pickeliana (Opiliones: Laniatores: Stygnidae)." Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 25, no. 3 (2008): 515–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0101-81752008000300019.
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A new species of Pickeliana Mello-Leitão, 1932, P. albimaculata sp. nov., is described from Jussari, Bahia, Brazil. It can be easily distinguished from the already described species by the presence of white spots on mesotergal area I and anal opercle. It is similar to P. pickeli Mello-Leitão, 1932 by the presence of a large, ventro-apical pointed tubercle on femora III-IV. A cladistic analysis was performed adding a new character to the available character matrix, the presence of a large and ventro-apical pointed tubercle on male femur IV. According to this analysis, P. albimaculata sp. nov. is sister species of P. pickeli. Additionally, we present an identification key and an update on the geographical distribution of species of this genus in northeastern Brazil.
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Bunchuk, E. I., E. P. Shoferistov, and S. Yu Tsupka. "Intraspecific, interspecific and intergeneric hybridization of stone fruit plants." Plant Biology and Horticulture: theory, innovation, no. 150 (September 30, 2019): 112–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.36305/2019-1-150-112-122.
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Aim. The aim to identify valuable source material from the number of intraspecific, interspecific and intergeneric hybrids of stone fruit plants to improve and expand the varietal composition of peach that meets the needs of industrial and amateur gardening. Methods. Program and methods of varietal study of fruit, berry and nut crops / Ed. G. A. Lobanov. Michurinsk, 1973. 492 p. Program and methods of selection of fruit, berry and nut crops / Ed. G. A. Lobanov. Michurinsk, 1980. 529 p. Program and methods of selection of fruit, berry and nut crops / Ed. Sedova and T. P. Ogoltsova. Orel: VNIISPK, 1999. 608 p. Results. New genotypes of peach, which are sources of cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS), were selected; large-fruited peach I4 970-89 was isolated, as a pollinator for genotypes with male sterility; in the population of hybrid seedlings F2 (peach of the world x David peach) we identified new genotypes of plants with absent characters in their original species; with resistance to powdery mildew and leaf curl, dwarf plant growth, forms with decorative double flowers, white, pink and purple-red color of the petals of the corolla, bell-shaped and rosy flower types, male sterility, pollen fertility and honey taste of the fruit inherited from his wild ancestor - David peach. Summary. Selected maternal genotypes of the original parental forms of apricot, with a character of CMS - 189-88, 249-81, 498-86. They are of breeding value for the development of new peach cultivars. Peach I4 970-89 of the Nikitsky Botanical Gardens’ breeding is a pollinator for hybrids of peach with common almond, characterized by male sterility. Valuable characters of David peach could be transferred to common peach and its cultivars as a result of natural hybridization due to their joint growth in the primary Chinese-Japanese genetic center. From wild ancestor, David peach common peach cultivars inherited such valuable characteristics as resistance to powdery mildew and leaf curl, dwarf growth of plants, shapes with decorative double flowers, white, pink and purple-red petals of the corolla campanulate and rose-like types of flower, male sterility, pollen fertility and the honey taste of the fruit.
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Heinz, Sarah. "Unsettling Australia: Disturbing White Settler Homemaking in Peter Carey’s True History of the Kelly Gang." Humanities 9, no. 4 (2020): 115. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h9040115.
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Proceeding from Australia’s specific situation as a settler colony, this article discusses how the ambivalences and fissures of settler subjectivity shape processes of homemaking. Settler homemaking depends on the disturbance of Indigenous Australians’ homelands via dispossession, exclusion, and genocide, but it equally depends upon the creation of a white settler subject as innocent, entitled, and belonging to what has been called ‘white indigeneity’. The article traces this double disturbance in Peter Carey’s novel True History of the Kelly Gang (2000). Carey’s rewriting of the iconic Kelly legend uncovers the dangers of a possessive, male, white indigeneity based on effacement and exclusion. The novel’s critical staging of Ned Kelly’s construction of Australia as a home for a new class of ‘natives’ challenges an essentialist white Australianness and its narratives of embattled settlement, independence, mateship, and the Bush. The novel shows that the creation of this national character is based on the denial of Aboriginal ownership and agency. Ned’s narrative of Irish victimhood and his formation of a new sense of Australianness is therefore doomed to repeat the violence, discrimination, and exclusion of colonialism that he seems to decry.
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Mantoan, Lindsey. "The utopic vision of OSF’s Oklahoma!: Recuperative casting practices and queering early American history1." Studies in Musical Theatre 15, no. 1 (2021): 41–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/smt_00054_1.
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In the spring of 2018, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) realized artistic director Bill Rauch’s decades-long dream: to produce a queer, interracial Oklahoma!. The production participates in a new practice of recasting history through musical theatre, and does so through an innovative approach to representation and character. OSF’s production reimagined Curly as a queer Black woman; the matriarch of the town, Aunt Eller, as a trans woman; and the secondary romantic couple, Will Parker and Ado Annie (here Ado Andy), as an interracial, gay male partnership. This alteration of the characters’ identities takes a bold new step in the trajectory of theatrical casting practices, challenging the entrenched white supremacy and patriarchy of the theatre industry. In this article, I situate OSF’s method of casting Oklahoma!, which I call ‘recuperative casting’, in the landscape of broader discourse related to casting and musicals that represent US history; I argue that this casting strategy seeks to remedy the whitewashing typical of productions of canonical musicals.
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Nestadt, G., A. J. Romanoski, C. H. Brown, et al. "DSM-III compulsive personality disorder: an epidemiological survey." Psychological Medicine 21, no. 2 (1991): 461–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033291700020572.
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SYNOPSISA two-stage probability sample of community subjects was developed with a full psychiatric examination employing DSM-III criteria in conjunction with the Epidemiological Catchment Area (ECA) survey conducted in Baltimore, MD. This report details the observation on those subjects diagnosed with compulsive personality disorder and compulsive personality traits. The results indicate that this condition has a prevalence of 1·7% in a general population. Male, white, married and employed individuals receive this diagnosis most often. Our data suggest a dimensional rather than categorical character for this disorder. The disorder imparts a vulnerability for the development of anxiety disorders.
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Corber, Robert J. "Romancing Beale Street." James Baldwin Review 5, no. 1 (2019): 178–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.7227/jbr.5.12.
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The author reviews Barry Jenkins’s 2018 film adaptation of Baldwin’s novel, If Beale Street Could Talk, finding that Jenkins’s lush, painterly, and dreamlike visual style successfully translates Baldwin’s cadenced prose into cinematic language. But in interpreting the novel as the “perfect fusion” of the anger of Baldwin’s essays and the sensuality of his fiction, Jenkins overlooks the novel’s most significant aspect, its gender politics. Baldwin began working on If Beale Street Could Talk shortly after being interviewed by Black Arts poet Nikki Giovanni for the PBS television show, Soul!. Giovanni’s rejection of Baldwin’s claims that for black men to overcome the injuries of white supremacy they needed to fulfill the breadwinner role prompted him to rethink his understanding of African American manhood and deeply influenced his representation of the novel’s black male characters. The novel aims to disarticulate black masculinity from patriarchy. Jenkins’s misunderstanding of this aspect of the novel surfaces in his treatment of the character of Frank, who in the novel serves as an example of the destructiveness of patriarchal masculinity, and in his rewriting of the novel’s ending.
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Fredriksson, Martin. "The Avant-Gardist, the Male Genius and the Proprietor." Nordlit 11, no. 1 (2007): 275. http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/13.1785.
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As the title suggests, this article will deal not only with the avant-garde and the romantic idea of geniality but also with the much more mundane concept of literary property. Even though the law might seem alien to the lofty ideals of the avant-garde artist, the construction of the creative genius and the birth of copyright will eventually prove to be quite closely connected. But before I move on to the legal part I would like to start with the essentials: with the author, or the artist. The American artist John de Andreas sculpture The Artist and his model from 1980 is probably one of the most revealing pictures of the avant-gardist selfconception ever made. This is a picture of the artist at work, but I will argue it can also be regarded as a legal character. What meets the eye is however very far from the law as we know it. de Andreas sculpture is a self-portrait of the artist at work: a highly naturalistic full-scale portrait of two people. One of them is a naked woman, resting casually on a white socket and looking down on the other who is a fully dressed man. As the title clearly states, the sculpture depicts the classical relation between The Artist and his Model, and it is no coincidence that the artist has a male pronoun and the model a female body. The roles of the artist and his model are traditional stereotypes which we can find in most books on art history - one is an artist and the other is a model; one is a man and the other is a woman; one is dressed and the other one is undressed.
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Estalansa, Helna, Endang Yuniastuti, and Sri Hartati. "The Diversity of Breadfruit Plants (Artocarpus Altilis) Based on Morphological Characters." Agrotechnology Research Journal 2, no. 2 (2018): 80. http://dx.doi.org/10.20961/agrotechresj.v2i2.21800.
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<p>Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) is a plant common are all part of it can be used by humans. The research aims to determine the character of morphological breadfruit and knowing the characterization of morphological breadfruit in Yogyakarta. This research was carried out in June to October 2017 in Sleman Regency (Cangkringan, Ngemplak, Ngaglik), Gunung Kidul (Patuk, Nglipar, Gedangsari), and Bantul (Bantul, Pajangan, Imogiri) in Yogyakarta. Variables are observations include the environmental research and morphology of (trees, leaves, fl owers, and fruits). The data of the morphology are analyzed by NTSYS program. The results showed that the breadfruit trees has a plant height 16,7-17,9 m, the diameter of crown 6,1-8,8 m, shape of crown of the pyramidal, broadly pyramidal, elliptical, irregular, the patterns of branching of erect, opposite, and irregular. The length of leaf 42,2-78,6 cm, width of leaf 30,2-59,2 cm, shape of leaf ovate, and leaf colour dark green. The length of male flowers 9,0-13,4 cm, shape of female flowers globose, shape of male flowers ellipsoid, the colour of female flowers light green, the colour of male flowers light green when young, and brown when old. The length of fruit 12,2 -19,0 cm,diameter of fruit 12,8-16,4 cm, weight of fruit 0,7-1,7 kg, shape of fruit sperical and oblong, fruit skin colour greenish yellow, fruit flesh colour white and light yellow. The diversity of morphology of the breadfruit plants ranging from 3-30%.</p>
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Van Deventer, M. "Paul Slabolepszy’s angst-ridden Elvis." Literator 21, no. 1 (2000): 121–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v21i1.448.
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Paul Slabolepszy is a popular South African playwright whose plays are enjoyed by diverse multi-cultural audiences in South Africa and all over the world. Slabolepszy’s special appeal lies in his ability to reflect in his plays an authentic South African landscape with its stormy political background, diverse cultures and inhabitants, and to evoke empathy for all of his characters within this South African milieu through a variety of comic techniques. The play, The Return of Elvis du Pisanie, first performed 10 years after Slabolepszy's breakthrough play, Saturday Night at the Palace (1985), is apolitical and focuses on the plight of a white South African male. This popular play’s appeal is universal for Slabolepszy throughout evokes empathy by comically reviving with superb conviction the nostalgia of the Elvis-era, which most people are able to understand and even identify with. Through humour which is comic, sensitive and insightful, he is able to evoke empathy for his angst-ridden main character, the typical “bloke-next-door". His combination of a surreal dimension with comic humour and pathos is able to make us laugh and even wipe away a tear in this way he also intensifies our feelings of empathy for his believable and identifiable protagonist, as he takes us on a nostalgic journey through the fifties to the present, with the legendary Elvis Presley functioning as the binding force.
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Zaplatynskyi, V. S., and E. I. Fedorovych. "FOR SLAUGHTER QUALITIES OF THE OBROSHYNSKA WHITE AND GREY BREED GROUP." Animal Breeding and Genetics 54 (November 29, 2017): 37–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.31073/abg.54.05.
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The results of the control slaughter of geese Obroshynska White and Grey breed groups of different age and sex were presented. It was established that age, sex and breed affiliation have a significant impact on the meat productivity. Before the slaughter live weight females of Gray geese of 60-day age dominated over White peers on 0.33, by the weight of the unprocessed carcasses – on 0.34, by the weight of the half-processed carcasses – on 0.41 (P < 0.05), by weight of processed carcasses – 0.27 (P < 0.05), by the weight of carcass with a set of gut and neck – on 0.28 kg (P < 0.05); by weight of edible parts: muscles – on 0.26 kg (P < 0.05), liver – on 7.0 g, stomach – on 1.7, heart – on 0.3; the mass of inedible parts – bones – in 0.03 kg. Later, the above indicators also showed their superiority, however this domination in 90 days age it was by no means reliable, and in 120 days age it was probable only for weight of muscles muscle on 0.27 kg (P < 0.05) and stomach weight on 60.4 g (P < 0.01), in 150 days age – by stomach weight on 63.0 g (P < 0.05). The probable prevalence of Grey males over their White peers, based on the above indicators, was established only at 90-day age for muscle mass on 0.22 kg (P < 0.05) and weight of stomach on 81.7 g (P < 0.01); in aged of 120 and 150 days – by weight of stomach on 77.7 g (P < 0.01) і 57,7 g (P < 0.05) appropriately. However, it should be noted that in certain periods of age, Grey geese yielded White on the weight of skin with subcutaneous fat, internal fat, lungs and heart but this difference was unlikely. Geese of different sexes and different breed groups differed among themselves and in their output of slaughter products. It has been established that in most studied cases male geese of both breeds were dominating over female geese, but after the release of internal fat and skin with subcutaneous fat in all ages, the advantage was already on the side of females respectively, within the range of 0.07 – 1.03 and 0.39 – 2.00%, in White – within 0.10 – 1.93 and 0.26–2.24%. This indicates a better ability for female geese to form and accumulate fat tissue than male. In the bird of both breed groups there were some differences in the output of slaughter products with age. Thus, after the release of half-carcasses in the process of growing from the geese of both sexes of the Obroshinsky Grey group of breeds, certain regularities were not found, and the output of the carcass of the carcass, the carcasses with a set of germs and muscle tissue increased. Simultaneously the output of internal fat and skin with subcutaneous fat decreased by 120 day aged geese, and at 150-day aged geese increased. The similar results were observed in the Obroshinsky White breed group of geese. Regarding the change in the output of internal organs with the age of bird, the females and males of both breed groups of certain patterns were not found, these changes had a wave-like character We have established the group-depend end differences between the outputs of livestock products in geese. In most cases Obroshynska Grey geese breed group had advantages. However, in females at 60-day-old age it was reliable only after the exit of half-carcass, patrana, patrana with a set of giblets and neck, muscle tissue, skin with subcutaneous fat and internal fat; in the 90th day of age – at the exit of half-carcass, caraway bird with a set of gut and neck, muscles, muscular stomach and kidneys; in 120-day – at the output of half-carcasses, muscles and muscular stomach; in the 150-day – at the release of muscles, skin with subcutaneous fat, internal fat, liver and muscle stomach. Male of Grey breed group in the age of 60-day-old dominated their peers by the output of caraway patrons, skin with subcutaneous fat, internal fat and lungs; in age of 90 days – by the output of half-carcass, carrion carrot with a set of giblets and neck, muscles, muscular stomach and kidneys; in the age of 120 day – by the output of the muscular stomach; in the age of 150 days – by the output of carcasses with a set of giblets and neck, internal fat, muscular stomach and lungs. At the same time, Obroshynska Grey female geese were more likely to yield to Obroshynska White female geese peers at the age of 60-days by the kidney output, at the age of 90-day – by the bone output and at the age of 120-day – by the output of muscles and skin with subcutaneous fat, and males at 60-day age – for the output of the muscular stomach and kidneys, at the age of 120 days – by the output of skin with subcutaneous fat, internal fat and lungs, and at the age of 150 days – by the output of the lungs. With age in the poultry of both sexes of both breed groups, the ratio of meat and meat-bone index increased, and females had higher rates than males. The output of edible body parts in the experimental bird had a wave-like character, except of the 60-day age geese, – it was higher in females than in males. The stinginess of the carcasses in Obroshynska Grey group geese was decreased with age (with the exception of 90-days age females), and in Obroshinsky White breed group the changes of stinginess of the carcasses had a wave-like character, in all ages males had worse stinginess of the carcasses. It should be mentined that the meatiness of the carcasses of Grey females and males dominated White peers (with the exception of males at 120-days age), and this advantage in almost all cases was reliable. By the output of the edible parts and the meat/bone index of carcasses, gray geese was also the best (with the exception of the 120 days aged geese). At the same time, higher bone density index were noted in the geese of both sexes of Obroshynska White group geese (exception – males at 120-days age).
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Wilson, Steven F., and C. Davison Ankney. "Variation in structural size and wing stripe of Lesser and Greater scaup." Canadian Journal of Zoology 66, no. 9 (1988): 2045–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z88-300.
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Heads, wings, and feet of Lesser Scaup (Aythya affinis) and Greater Scaup (Aythya marila) were obtained from 365 birds killed by hunters to investigate differences in structural size and in the intensity and extent of the white wing stripe. Twelve morphological measurements were taken on each bird and wing stripes were quantitatively scored using soil colour charts. Principal component analysis of the structural data separated the birds into two nonoverlapping size groups. We considered the group of large birds and the group of small birds to be Greater and Lesser scaup, respectively. Variation in the wing stripe character was extensive; 9% of the birds in our sample could not be correctly classified as Lesser or Greater scaup on the basis of wing stripe alone. However, most of the variation was due to sexual differences, i.e., female Greater Scaup with unusually dark wings and male Lesser Scaup with unusually white wings.
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Chaney, Cassandra. "The character of womanhood: How African American women’s perceptions of womanhood influence marriage and motherhood." Ethnicities 11, no. 4 (2011): 512–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468796811415764.
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This qualitative paper will focus on how black women understand and perceive womanhood, and will explore how black women’s perceptions regarding womanhood shape their attitudes and behaviours toward marriage and motherhood. Using a black feminist approach, I assert that black women’s perceptions of womanhood are not based on European notions as the family structure and experiences of African American women is characteristically different from that of white women. Further, I assert that African American women create a modified version of womanhood based on their education, social class and economic position in relation to black men, and which may, in turn, inform their decisions regarding marriage and motherhood. Specifically, I examine the written responses of fifteen African American women between the ages of 18 and 55 (mean age of 32.6 years) regarding what is expected of them as women. Qualitative analyses of the data revealed that womanhood was defined in terms of feminine attitudes (strength, sensitivity and sensuality) and feminine behaviours (familial care, their own physical appearance and self-respect). In addition, womanhood was demonstrated through a woman’s ability to care for her home and to take the lead in the absence of male leadership. Supporting qualitative data are presented in connection with each theme. Recommendations for future research are also provided.
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ROWLEY, JODI J. L., HUY DUC HOANG, VINH QUANG DAU, DUONG THI THUY LE, and TRUNG TIEN CAO. "A new species of Leptolalax (Anura: Megophryidae) from central Vietnam." Zootaxa 3321, no. 1 (2012): 56. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3321.1.4.
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We describe a new species of Leptolalax from central Vietnam. Leptolalax firthi sp. nov. is distinguished from its congeners bya combination of the following characters: an absence of distinct dark brown or black dorsolateral markings; toes with rudimen-tary webbing and wide lateral dermal fringes in males and weak or absent lateral dermal fringes in females; most males withwide lateral dermal fringes on Finger II; medium size (26.4–29.2 mm in 21 adult males, 25.7–36.9 mm in 14 females); and nearimmaculate white chest and belly. The male advertisement call of the new species, consisting of 2–5 notes with a dominant fre-quency of 5.4–6.6 kHz (at 18.3–21.2º C) is also unique among Leptolalax species for which calls are known. Uncorrectedsequence divergences between L. firthi and all homologous 16S rRNA sequences available were >10%. At present, the newspecies is known from montane evergreen forest between ~860–1720 m elevation in Kon Tum and Quang Nam Provinces. Theextreme sexual dimorphism observed in L. firthi in terms of lateral dermal fringing, a morphological character often used to dis-tinguish Leptolalax species, highlights the importance of ensuring interspecific comparisons in the genus are performed separately for each sex.
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Stegeman, Janneke, Mariecke van den Berg, and Matthea Westerduin. "Indecent Calvinists and Vanilla Secularism: Redefining Decency in The Netherlands." Feminist Theology 26, no. 3 (2018): 308–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0966735018759454.
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Using Althaus-Reid’s Indecent Theology as a methodology, this article contributes to reflections on the contextuality and physical dimension of Dutch theology: its relation to the Protestant white (mostly male) bodies of its practitioners and its support of and contributions to colonial power and colonial racializing discourse. We do this in a context of a ‘return to decency’ in political discourse in which ‘our’ Calvinist roots are evoked to construct a ‘shared’ past. Using two case studies, we analyse how the in/decent is constructed in the Netherlands. As secularism is more ‘vanilla’ and Calvinism more indecent than is usually assumed, engagement with indecent texts and untidy roots of Calvinism is needed to re-member both the violent character of Calvinist hermeneutics, as well as its potential for indecent readings.
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Salovaara, Harri, and Marinella Rodi-Risberg. "El Capitan as a Site for Male Healing from Trauma in Jeff Long’s The Wall and Tommy Caldwell’s The Push." Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment 10, no. 2 (2019): 162–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.37536/ecozona.2019.10.2.2924.
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 Nature and mountains are often represented as places of healing in literature and the media, especially for white, healthy, and middleclass men. However, discussions on nature and gender in relation to trauma are rare, and a specific discussion on the representation of male mountain climbers’ traumas is missing. In this article, we are interested in how nature, particularly the famous mountain El Capitan, is represented in Jeff Long’s novel The Wall (2006) and Tommy Caldwell’s memoir The Push (2017) as a specific spatial location of healing for male rock climbers, who at the same time are both victims of traumatic events and partially responsible for the development of those events. More specifically, this article places ecofeminist and ecological masculinities scholarship in dialog with trauma studies and analyzes these texts with the aim of showing how representations of trauma relate to those of nature and masculinity. In this analysis, questions of how certain aspects of ecological and hegemonic masculinities relate to representing trauma, nature, and masculinity are central, as are issues of perpetrator trauma and the non-generic character of traumatic experience. Ultimately, we show how representations of nature, trauma, and masculinities in the primary texts converge and reflect a plurality of gendered responses to trauma and healing in nature.
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PINAR BÖLÜKTAŞ, Rukiye. "HOW NURSES ARE PORTRAYED IN AMERICAN AND TURKISH MOVIES." Gevher Nesibe Journal IESDR 6, no. 11 (2021): 06–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.46648/gnj.164.
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Purpose: The purpose of the study was to describe how nursing and nurses are portrayed in American and Turkish movies. Methods: First of all, we examined the films with the keywords nurse and nursing. The majority of the films were produced in the United States. Turkish film industry produced only six films between 1968 and 2020. Three movies from the United States (English Patient, Nurse Betty, Meet the Parents) and three movies from Turkey (Beautiful Coffee Server, Imperator, Brought by the Sea) with at least one nurse character with a significant part were covered. Thematic qualitative method was used to analyze the movies’ content. Results: All nurses, except one, were female, white, young, single, and childless. In “English Patient”, the nurse is portrayed mainly as a self-sacrificing character. In “Nurse Betty”, nursing is seen as a profession that can be done without education. “Meet the Parents” draws attention to common stereotypes about male nurses. In “Beautiful Coffee Server”, the nurse character is typically reduced to a supporting role, enforcing the message to the viewer that nurses were not really needed in healthcare. “Imperator” emphasizes the nurse’s sexual attractiveness and behavior rather than her professional work. And finally, in “Brought by the Sea”, portrayal of nurse creates a potent favorable image of nursing. Conclusion: Study findings show that movies, except “Brought by the Sea”, do not represent the reality. Nurses should be aware of the way they are portrayed in movies and team up with the media to effectively create a down to earth and accurate image of nursing.
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PINAR BÖLÜKTAŞ, Rukiye. "HOW NURSES ARE PORTRAYED IN AMERICAN AND TURKISH MOVIES." Gevher Nesibe Journal IESDR 6, no. 11 (2021): 6–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.46648/gnj.0164.
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Purpose: The purpose of the study was to describe how nursing and nurses are portrayed in American and Turkish movies. Methods: First of all, we examined the films with the keywords nurse and nursing. The majority of the films were produced in the United States. Turkish film industry produced only six films between 1968 and 2020. Three movies from the United States (English Patient, Nurse Betty, Meet the Parents) and three movies from Turkey (Beautiful Coffee Server, Imperator, Brought by the Sea) with at least one nurse character with a significant part were covered. Thematic qualitative method was used to analyze the movies’ content. Results: All nurses, except one, were female, white, young, single, and childless. In “English Patient”, the nurse is portrayed mainly as a self-sacrificing character. In “Nurse Betty”, nursing is seen as a profession that can be done without education. “Meet the Parents” draws attention to common stereotypes about male nurses. In “Beautiful Coffee Server”, the nurse character is typically reduced to a supporting role, enforcing the message to the viewer that nurses were not really needed in healthcare. “Imperator” emphasizes the nurse’s sexual attractiveness and behavior rather than her professional work. And finally, in “Brought by the Sea”, portrayal of nurse creates a potent favorable image of nursing. Conclusion: Study findings show that movies, except “Brought by the Sea”, do not represent the reality. Nurses should be aware of the way they are portrayed in movies and team up with the media to effectively create a down to earth and accurate image of nursing.
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Pratiwi, Bunga Putri. "BODY IMAGE ANAK USIA 5-6 TAHUN DALAM STIMULASI BONEKA MANUSIA." Perspektif Ilmu Pendidikan 20, no. XI (2009): 32–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.21009/pip.202.4.
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The objective of this research is to describe about body image of 5-6 years old children in Human Doll Stimulation that include human doll stimulation process, doll choosen by children to be played with, wanted physical character when children grow up, child's opinion about self physical condition, inspiring figure for children about physical beauty (beautiful or handsome), how parents and teachers grow a positive body image to children. This research was held in Early Childhood Education (PAUD) Cikita, Bogor. This research was foccused on Matahari class (class of 4-6 years old chilren) and implemented qualitative method. Data collecting was done with triangulation, which consists of interview, observation, and documentation. Data analyzing was done by transcripting, data organizing, recognition, and coding. Result of this research found that: (1) human doll stimulation process started with children choose dolls they wanted, enrobe clothing and accessories, role play. (2) the selected dolls of children for a puppet play is a representation of the human adult than baby dolls. Physical doll that children preferred are well-lean and white doll, (3) the desired physical characteristics by female children when they grow-up are well-lean and white, the desired physical characteristics of male children when they grow-up are are well-lean / muscular and white, (4) children's opinion about their own physical and well-colored fat (5) figures that inspired children about physical beauty (beautiful / handsome) is a fictional character from television as Cinderella, Barbie, the army, siblings and a cousin that phisically attractive(6) how teachers and parents instill a positive body image in children's materials in the body, body functions, religious approach, masculinitiy learning. Implications of this research is the emergence of cooperation between parents, schools, teachers, directorates of the Early Childhood Education in implementing a positive body image in children, can also be used as a discourse for the readers, especially for next researchers.
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Łobodziec, Agnieszka. "Violent Black Man and the Myth of Black Macho in Eugene O’Neill’s “The Dreamy Kid”." Respectus Philologicus 26, no. 31 (2014): 123–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/respectus.2014.26.31.9.
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The aim of this article is the investigation of the extent to which Eugene O’Neill, in his drama The Dreamy Kid, (re)constructs, or employs, the black macho myth, which negatively images black men as marginalized and violent. This undertaking questions O’Neill’s self-proclaimed progressive racial attitudes and stated focus on the universal nature of human existence, which he professed to express through drama. Moreover, the article challenges the mainstream view of The Dreamy Kid as progressive. Although the play focalizes the experience of a marginalized black man, which could be interpreted as the playwright’s concern with the unjust racial and class stratification of American society, O’Neill’s production, unfortunately, contains a number of pervasive stereotypes relative to black people’s alleged moral degeneracy, primitiveness, and violent behavior, which threatens the white dominated constructed order. In terms of gendered racial politics, in the article attention is given to O’Neill’s presentation of black male negotiations with the white patriarchal power structure, embodied by the police forces, and with black matriarchy, represented by O’Neill’s stereotypical character portrayal of a dominant elderly black woman. Lastly, an overall analysis is performed in light of the call for an autonomous black art, which emerged among black artists in opposition to the demeaning, unrealistic, stereotypical portrayals of black victims of oppression by white American writers.
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Walker, Nathaniel Robert. "Savannah's Lost Squares." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 70, no. 4 (2011): 512–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2011.70.4.512.
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In the 1920s and 1930s Savannahians argued about the future of their world-famous town plan, with its many squares. Savannah's Lost Squares: Progress versus Beauty in the Depression-era South tells how one body of modern Savannahians—primarily young, white, male business owners—argued that the squares had to be altered—paved over for parking or cut open to allow highways to penetrate them—to accommodate the automobile. Their ideas were opposed by the majority of the city's residents, who, often led by women's groups, rallied to preserve the beauty and pedestrian character of the squares. Time after time, the "progressives" were defeated, and the squares largely endured until they came under the protection of sweeping preservation laws in the 1950s. But Nathaniel Robert Walker explains that in 1935, when economic conditions were dire, the financial might of the federal highway program combined with local racism to destroy three of Savannah's squares for the making of the Coastal Highway, a path for motorized modernity.
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Riestra-Camacho, Rocío. "Analysis of Class-as-Race and Gender Ideology in the US Young Adult Sports Novel Racing Savannah (2013)." International Journal of English Studies 20, no. 3 (2020): 129–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.6018/ijes.402031.
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Equine fiction is an established genre in the English juvenile literary canon. Current works in the field appeal to adolescent readers thanks to their interface between classic motifs of vintage and contemporary forms of equine narratives. Performing a close reading of selected passages in Miranda Kenneally’s Racing Savannah (2013), this paper acknowledges how this novel is a revitalization and a challenge to this pattern. Savannah, who is more gifted than her companions, is subordinate to the decisions of the junior of the household where she works. Jack Goodwin, the protagonist’s romantic lead, educated in a neocolonialist background of male jockeying, becomes Savannah’s marker of difference according to her sex and lower socioeconomic status, which lay at the root of her later racialization despite her being a white character. My analysis attempts to expose how these difficulties encountered by the protagonist to become a professional jockey articulate past and present constraints of the horse-racing ladder.
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MALONZA, PATRICK K., STEPHEN SPAWLS, BRIAN FINCH, and AARON M. BAUER. "A new of species of the Agama lionotus Boulenger, 1896 complex (Squamata: Agamidae) from northern Kenya." Zootaxa 4920, no. 4 (2021): 543–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4920.4.5.
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Kenya has a high diversity of agamid lizards and the arid northern frontier area has the highest species richness. Among the Kenyan agama species, Agama lionotus has the widest distribution, occurring from sea level to inland areas in both dry and moist savanna as well as desert areas. This species mostly prefers rocky areas, both in granitic/metamorphic and volcanic rocks, although it also makes use of tree crevices as well as man-made structures. Recently in Marsabit, northern Kenya, a small-sized agama species, distinct from A. lionotus, was collected within a rocky lava desert area. This new species is characterized by its small size (mean SVL ~83 mm) as compared to typical A. lionotus (mean SVL ~120 mm). Past studies have shown the value of adult male throat coloration for the identification of species within the A. lionotus complex. Herein we also highlight female dorsal color pattern, which is a key character for distinguishing the new species from others in the group, including the similar A. hulbertorum. As in A. lionotus, displaying adult males have an orange to yellow head, a vertebral stripe, a bluish body coloration and an annulated white/blue tail. But the most diagnostic character is the coloration of females and non-displaying males, which exhibit a series of regular pairs of dark spots along the vertebrae as far posterior as the tail base. In addition, females have a pair of elongated orange or yellow marks on the shoulders and another on the dorsolateral margins of the abdomen. This study shows that more cryptic species in the Agama lionotus complex may still await discovery. The new species was found inhabiting dark desert lava rocks but should additionally be present in suitably similar sites in the northern frontier area. This underscores the need to re-examine populations of Agama lionotus from different microhabitats in this country.
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Mezuk, Briana, Viktoryia A. Kalesnikava, Jenni Kim, Tomohiro M. Ko, and Cassady Collins. "Not discussed: Inequalities in narrative text data for suicide deaths in the National Violent Death Reporting System." PLOS ONE 16, no. 7 (2021): e0254417. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254417.
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Background The rate of suicide in the US has increased substantially in the past two decades, and new insights are needed to support prevention efforts. The National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS), the nation’s most comprehensive registry of suicide mortality, has qualitative text narratives that describe salient circumstances of these deaths. These texts have great potential for providing novel insights about suicide risk but may be subject to information bias. Objective To examine the relationship between decedent characteristics and the presence and length of NVDRS text narratives (separately for coroner/medical examiner (C/ME) and law enforcement (LE) reports) among 233,108 suicide and undetermined deaths from 2003–2017. Methods Generalized estimating equations (GEE) logistic and quasi-Poisson modeling was used to examine variation in the narratives (proportion of missing texts and character length of the non-missing texts, respectively) as a function of decedent age, sex, race/ethnicity, education, marital status, military history, and homeless status. Models adjusted for site, year, location of death, and autopsy status. Results The frequency of missing narratives was higher for LE vs. C/ME texts (19.8% vs. 5.2%). Decedent characteristics were not consistently associated with missing text across the two types of narratives (i.e., Black decedents were more likely to be missing the LE narrative but less likely to be missing the C/ME narrative relative to non-Hispanic whites). Conditional on having a narrative, C/ME were significantly longer than LE (822.44 vs. 780.68 characters). Decedents who were older, male, had less education and some racial/ethnic minority groups had shorter narratives (both C/ME and LE) than younger, female, more educated, and non-Hispanic white decedents. Conclusion Decedent characteristics are significantly related to the presence and length of narrative texts for suicide and undetermined deaths in the NVDRS. Findings can inform future research using these data to identify novel determinants of suicide mortality.
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Yuan, Bin. "Struggle and Survival in Cultural Clash: A Case Study of Pecola in The Bluest Eye." English Language and Literature Studies 8, no. 1 (2018): 104. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ells.v8n1p104.
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Toni Morrison is not only one of the Afro-American writers who focus on the clash between black culture and the white mainstream culture in the United States as well as the marginalized existence of the blacks, but more importantly a unique Afro-American woman writer who goes beyond the simplistic dichotomies of the black male literary tradition and explores the root of the tragedy of the blacks in the mainstream society. Based on textual analysis of her first novel The Bluest Eye and a case study of Pecola, a main character in this novel and actually a victim and scapegoat, this paper, with the painful truth that Pecola’s tragedy results not just from the denial and rejection of the mainstream society, but more significantly, from the blind identification of some blacks in the mainstream culture, and their incompetence to cherish their own culture and identity, aims at exploring hope in the tragic story, and suggesting how blacks can struggle to survive so as to extend their heritage and values.
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Giaimo, Genie. "Talking back through ‘talking Black’: African American English and agency in Walter Mosley’s Devil In a Blue Dress." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 19, no. 3 (2010): 235–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963947010368308.
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With the rise in the number of ethnic detective novels published yearly it is important to consider how this new genre deviates from its predecessor, hard-boiled detective fiction; language is a place where this deviation is most apparent. Authors of ethnic detective fiction use marked varieties of English to call attention to the ethnicity of protagonists but, more important to this discussion, to highlight the complex ways in which they position themselves against White male hegemony. Ethnic detective fiction highlights the struggles, complications, dangers, and joys of the Other, a character who is typically marked by sexual, racial, or ethnic marginality, as he or she moves towards autonomy. This article examines how Walter Mosley’s Devil in a Blue Dress upends stereotypical assumptions about the legitimacy and complexity of African American English (AAE) and demonstrates how the protagonist, Easy Rawlins, utilizes certain aspects of AAE, such as signifying, multiple negatives, and the invariant form of the verb ‘be’ at key moments in the text to assert himself and shape his identity as an ethnic detective.
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WINTERTON, SHAUN L. "Revision of the stiletto fly genus Neodialineura Mann (Diptera: Therevidae): an empirical example of cybertaxonomy." Zootaxa 2157, no. 1 (2009): 1–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2157.1.1.
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The endemic Australian genus Neodialineura Mann is revised to include 13 species. Three species are previously described: N. nitens (White) and N. saxatilis (White) from southern mainland Australia and Tasmania, and N. striatithorax Mann from eastern Australia. Ten species are described as new, including N. ataxia sp. nov., N. atmis sp. nov., N. bagdad sp. nov, N. bifaria sp. nov., N. litura sp. nov., N. polygramma sp. nov., N. signum sp. nov., N. spinosa sp. nov., N. tessella sp. nov. and N. trichidion sp. nov. This revision serves as an empirical example for modernising the process of documenting global biodiversity by making taxonomic description and key development more efficient by avoiding redundancy in data handling and using digital media. Complete taxonomic descriptions were generated using online specimen and image databases, and a character matrix in Structured Descriptive Data (SDD) format developed in Lucid Builder to simultaneously generate natural language descriptions and an interactive key. Numerous web resources are provided with taxonomic descriptions throughout the document including: a) links to archived images of all species on Morphbank, b) registration of authors, publications, taxon names and other nomenclatural acts in Zoobank, with assignment of Life Science Identifiers (LSIDs) for each, c) links to Genbank accession records for DNA sequences, and d) assignment of LSIDs to specimen records with links to respective records in an online Therevidae specimen database. Colour images of male and female specimens of all Neodialineura species are included, along with a traditional dichotomous key to species.
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Williams, Rowan. "‘Know Thyself’: What Kind of an Injunction?" Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 32 (March 1992): 211–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1358246100005749.
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To be told, ‘know thyself’ is to be told that I don't know myself yet: it carries the assumption that I am in some sense distracted from what or who I actually am, that I am in error or at least ignorance about myself. It thus further suggests that my habitual stresses, confusions and frustrations are substantially the result of failure or inability to see what is most profoundly true of me: the complex character of my injuries or traumas, the distinctive potential given me by my history and temperament. I conceal my true feelings from my knowing self; I am content to accept the ways in which other people define me, and so fail to ‘take my own authority’ and decide for myself who or what I shall be. The therapy-orientated culture of the North Atlantic world in the past couple of decades has increasingly taken this picture as foundational, looking to ‘self-discovery’ or ‘self-realization’ as the precondition of moral and mental welfare. And the sense of individual alienation from a true and authoritative selfhood mirrors the political struggle for the right of hitherto disadvantaged groups, especially non-white and non-male, to establish their own self-definition. The rhetoric of discovering a true but buried identity spreads over both private and political spheres. The slogan of the earliest generation of articulate feminists, ‘The personal is the political’, expresses the recognition of how this connection might be made.
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Jennings, Amanda Brooke, and Madeline Messer. "Paying to play: an economic experiment examining children’s avatar preferences and their willingness to pay for them." Young Consumers 20, no. 3 (2019): 219–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/yc-12-2018-0910.
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Purpose The purpose of this study is a formal experimental economics test of results found in a study designed and executed by a 12-year-old who was concerned about what she perceived to be bias in gaming applications (apps) that provided male avatar characters for no cost but required in-app purchases to access female characters. The present study was designed to test empirically whether children have a revealed preference for same-gendered characters and whether such preferences are dependent on the cost of the characters. Design/methodology/approach Children from 6 to 16 years of age were recruited to participate in a framed field economics experiment in which they would earn actual money and be given opportunities to spend it on in-game avatars they could then use to continue to play. Additionally, a survey gathered data on participants’ stated preferences and experiences playing game apps on mobile phones. Findings Children do prefer to play a character of the same gender; however, they are more likely to remain the default character if choosing a different character costs money. When asked to say why they picked their character, children report most often that it is based on either the characters’ appearance or gender, followed by perceived character abilities, liking the character and the cost of a character. A vast majority (90 per cent) of children felt both male and female characters should be free. Research limitations/implications This research was limited because the experiment simulated in-app purchases but could not offer the permanence of real-world in-app purchases. Players in the experiment could not “keep” the character if they chose to pay for it. The authors adjusted for this by making the cost to change character gender much lower than it would be in the game (25 cents in the study vs approximately $10 in the app). Future research could explore ways to make in-app purchases during the study permanent for players to test if the permanence of the purchase results in greater willingness to pay to switch character gender. Practical implications This research has practical implications for video game designers. As both male and female players prefer to play with characters of the same gender, and having a cost to play a character reduces switching behavior, it is possible that having a cost for female characters reduces the popularity of the game with female players. This is especially relevant for endless running games as these games are preferred more by women than men. By making female characters free, default character and developers may increase the popularity of these games with female players. Originality/value This study adds to the body of literature about gender and video game preferences because prior studies relied solely on stated preferences about characters (using surveys and self-reported behaviors) and not on revealed preferences (observed behaviors). Additionally, this study examines character gender preferences in a casual game, while most prior studies have examine preferences in massively multiplayer online role-playing games.
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Piergentili, Roberto. "Multiple Roles of the Y Chromosome in the Biology ofDrosophila melanogaster." Scientific World JOURNAL 10 (2010): 1749–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2010.168.
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The X and Y chromosomes ofDrosophila melanogasterwere the first examples of chromosomes associated with genetic information. Thanks to the serendipitous discovery of a male with white eyes in 1910, T.H. Morgan was able to associate the X chromosome of the fruit fly with a phenotypic character (the eye color) for the first time. A few years later, his student, C.B. Bridges, demonstrated that X0 males, although phenotypically normal, are completely sterile. This means that the X chromosome, like the autosomes, harbors genes that control several phenotypic traits, while the Y chromosome is important for male fertility only. Notwithstanding its long history – almost 100 years in terms of genetic studies – most of the features of the Y chromosome are still a mystery. This is due to the intrinsic nature of this genetic element, namely, (1) its molecular composition (mainly transposable elements and satellite DNA), (2) its genetic inertia (lack of recombination due to its heterochromatic nature), (3) the absence of homology with the X (with the only exception of the nucleolar organizer), (4) the lack of visible phenotypes when it is missing (indeed, except for their sterility, X0 flies are normal males), and (5) its low density as for protein-coding sequences (to date, only 13 genes out of approximately 14,000 have been mapped on this chromosome inD. melanogaster, i.e., ~0.1% of the total). Nonetheless, a more accurate analysis reveals that this chromosome can influence several complex phenotypes: (1) it has a role in the fertility of both sexes and viability of males when over-represented; (2) it can unbalance the intracellular nucleotide pool; (3) it can interfere with the gene expression either by recruiting proteins involved in chromatin remodeling (PEV) or, to a higher extent, by influencing the expression of up to 1,000 different genes, probably by changing the availability of transcription factors; (4) it plays a major role (up to 50%) in the resistance to heat-induced male sterility; (5) it affects the behavior; and (6) it plays a role in genetic imprinting. In the present paper, all these Y-related phenotypes are described and a potential similarity with the human Y chromosome is drawn.
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Chihara, Michelle. "The Rise of Behavioral Economic Masculinity." American Literary History 32, no. 1 (2019): 77–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajz055.
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Abstract This essay begins a cultural history of the behavioral economic narrative mode in American popular media, in relation to the academic discipline but not coincident with it. From podcasts to Michael Lewis’s books and films, the behavioral economic mode of narration changes the character or figure of economic knowledge. Instead of the distant financial expert, this mode insists on the authority of the friendly explainer. In the years around the 2008 crisis, at a moment when financial scandals seemed to be losing their power to scandalize, this mode asserted behavioral economic knowledge as the new standard of realism. As the affective structures beneath earlier capitalist realist narratives diminished in power, the behavioral economic turn marked a reassertion of narrative authority. The behavioral mode instantiated a new relationship to a familiar misogyny and is perhaps best understood as a cultural shift with varied ideological commitments to economic philosophy itself. The behavioral economic mode is characterized by scenes of objectivity training or moments where the viewer or reader is trained to understand objectivity as a performance of distance from the subject’s gender or race. Not incidentally, this performance is demanded specifically of those who do not fit the neoclassical ideal of the rational agent and who are not white and not male.
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Xue, Zhao, and Yu A. Govorukhuna. "Modern Russian female prose in Chinese Russian studies." Sibirskiy filologicheskiy zhurnal, no. 3 (2020): 142–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/18137083/72/11.
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Chinese literary scholars studying Russian literature come to a conclusion by the end of the twentieth century that its history has many “white spots.” Thus, efforts are made to fill the existing lacunas, and one of them is the modern Russian female prose. The paper analyzes the Chinese reader’s receptive attitudes determining the interpretation and evaluation of the works of Russian women-writers. One reason for the interest in Russian female literature is the “women’s issue” relevance in China. “Soft” Chinese feminism is a receptive context defining the text interpretation. In the Russian literature scholars’ works, it is manifested in the desire to see harmonious intersexual relations in the Russian women-writers’ prose, in a high assessment of a “holy” type in the character sphere. The Chinese reader highly appreciates overcoming the male-female opposition, searching for forms of dialogue, and imagining a harmonious family. Continuity is a relevant cultural receptive attitude of the Chinese reader, the link with tradition being a significant criterion for evaluating a phenomenon. Chinese scholars note that female literature continues the realistic tradition of telling about the social “bottom” and “little man,” thereby provoking the reader’s interest. Russian female prose is the “young” object in Chinese Russian studies. The Russian philology specialists are looking for linguistic “connectors,” e. g. themes and a typology of heroes, to see the phenomenon as a whole. Chinese specialists focus on the themes of survival, love, and family. The hero typology includes such types as the “new Amazons,” playing women, saints.
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Saputro, Anip Dwi. "Implementasi Pengaturan Karakter, Fisik dan Jenis Kelamin Janin (dalam Kajian Tradisi, Sains dan Islam)." Istawa: Jurnal Pendidikan Islam 2, no. 1 (2017): 43. http://dx.doi.org/10.24269/ijpi.v2i1.362.
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Considering each cell between the reproductive cells contain half the amount contained in the cell body and assigned to him, the existence of post-law partner is one sign of the greatness of God in creating his creatures. This is due to the merging of both male and female reproductive cells to form the zygote, then fulfilled the specified number of chromosomes to the human species, creating diversity in character between both parents and children are increasingly enrich life and make it more alive. This diversity also prove absolusitas power of God that is designing such a process that occurs in the zygote so out of humans, animals, plants as new creatures like its predecessor in several different characters and in some other characters. In humans each body cell contains 46 chromosomes arranged in 23 pairs that are similar in terms of shape, but different in terms of structure and gene carried by each chromosome. The amount of raw character (fixed) in the cells of male and female, although there are differences in the chromosomes specified for sex. Male body cell contains 44 chromosomes, plus two chromosomes of sex are not similar, because one of them labeled masculine (Y), and the other is labeled feminine (X). with the same composition, a woman's body cells contain 44 chromosomes, in addition to the two chromosomes of sex, but they both feminism (X, X). With this process, each human character has a pair of genes, one derived from the father and predecessor, while the other comes from the mother and predecessor. Gen stronger will dominate, and the character of this gene is hereinafter referred to as the dominant character. Being weaker genes will disappear and step aside for a while to appear again later in the next generation. Therefore, the character who brought termed recessive character. Thus, the character of the child may be different from the character of his brothers, or parents or predecessors.
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Said, Fadhila Sidi. "Herman Melville’s Poetics / Politics in “The Encantadas”." Asian Journal of Humanity, Art and Literature 6, no. 2 (2019): 111–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.18034/ajhal.v6i2.356.
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Melville’s fictional narrative The Encantadas (1854) and his letter to his brother Gansevoort, a democratic politician who passionately supported U.S expansionism, will allow us to explore Melville’s politics of action; i.e., his critique of the Mexican war and his doubts about Manifest Destiny. Simone De Beauvoir, French writer and feminist, insists that we are ethically compelled to do all we can to change oppressive institutions. De Beauvoir demonstrates the need to take sides, acting politically and with an ethical vision. Her action illustrates the links she sees between the embodied individual consciousness and political action. For her the alternative is simple and clear-cut. Either you align yourself with the “contemporary butchers rather than their victims” (1962: 20) or reject their atrocities and stand against them through active fights. The idea of narrative secrecy - Hunilla’s rape - is gradually revealed to the reader through Melville’s narrative omission revealing the female character as a practitioner of narrative secrecy as her right. This paper explores the female character’s twofold otherness, the native and female as distinguished from the civilized and male, which designates her as the living embodiment of these dualities, the binary oppositions upon which Western Civilization rests. Her ‘double otherness’ is expressed in the figure in which race and gender emblematically intersect. The racial and sexual differences are equated to dramatize the power relationship between the native and the colonizer where the white male colonizer has both racial and sexual superiority. Hunilla’s otherness is most fully articulated by textual interruptions. The denunciation of rape through a narrative strategy – elision - mediates Melville’s politics as action.
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Anggraini, Fenny. "Perbedaan Karakter Siswa Pada Pembelajaran Matematika Berorientasi Alquran Berbasis Gender." Jurnal Anifa 1, no. 1 (2019): 11–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.32505/anifa.v1i1.1246.
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Character is a person's attitude or actions that are very strong and difficult to remove that are formed from the environment. Each student has a different character both male and female students. This journal aims to determine the differences in the character of male and female students in the learning of mathematics oriented in the quranic proposition. The research instrument used was the observation sheet. The research subjects were 6 students consisting of 3 male students and 3 female students. The methodology used is descriptive quantitative method. This study found that female students' character was higher than male students. The characters of male students get a percentage of 82.82% while those of female students are 86.68%.
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Rakitskii, Valery N., E. G. Chkhvirkiya, T. M. Epishina, and E. A. Mukhina. "THE ASSESSMENT OF THE ANTIOXIDANT STATUS OF THE ORGANISM OF RATS UNDER THE CHRONIC INTAKE OF SURFACE-ACTIVE SUBSTANCES BASED ON THE RAPE OIL." Hygiene and sanitation 97, no. 6 (2018): 498–500. http://dx.doi.org/10.18821/0016-9900-2018-97-6-498-500.
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Introduction. The study of the character of reactions of lipid peroxidation, as well as the state of the antioxidant system regulating their course under the conditions of the action of chemical products on the body, is an important stage of investigations. There is not enough data on the development of oxidative stress in cells exposed to pesticides, and this concerns, first of all, studies of the activity of antioxidant enzymes. The aim of the study is to execute the experimental assessment of the influence of a surface active substances (SAS) on the basis of the rape oil on antioxidant status of white male rats during its multiple peroral intakes for 6 months in doses of 0.5, 5.0 and 50.0 mg/kg body weight (on a.s.). Material and methods. Studies on the determination of enzymatic indices of the body's antioxidant defense system (superoxide dismutase, glutathione peroxidase and glutathione reductase) were performed on a ChemWell biochemical analyzer (Awareness Technology, USA) with the use of diagnostic reagent kits by Randox Laboratories Ltd (England). The catalase activity was determined by the colorimetric method. Results. Under the prolonged action of surfactants on warm-blooded organisms, changes in the activity of antioxidant enzymes were established to occur in doses of 5,0 and 50,0 mg/kg b.m. Discussion. The test substance used in a dose of 0.5 mg/kg bm does not have an inhibitory effect on the antioxidant status of the organism. The use of a surfactant based on rapeseed oil at doses of 5.0 and 50.0 mg/kg mt has a negative effect on the antioxidant status of an organism of male rats. Conclusion. Surfactants based on rapeseed oil in doses of 5.0 and 500 mg/kg b.m. have a negative effect on the antioxidant status of an organism of male rats, which is probably due to the high content of erucic acid and glucosinolates in rapeseed oil.
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Burgess, Jacqueline, and Christian Jones. "The Female Video Game Player-character Persona and Emotional Attachment." Persona Studies 6, no. 2 (2021): 7–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.21153/psj2020vol6no2art963.
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This research, using online qualitative survey questions, explored how players of the PlayStation 4 console game, Horizon Zero Dawn, formed emotional attachments to characters while playing as, and assuming the persona of the female player-character, Aloy. It was found that the respondents (approximately 71% male) formed emotional attachments to the female player-character (PC) and non-player characters. Players found the characters to be realistic and well developed and they also found engaging with the storyworld via the female PC a profound experience. This research advances knowledge about video games in general and video game character attachment specifically, as well as the emerging but under-researched areas of Persona Studies and Game Studies.
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Bhowmick, Niladri, Jotideb Mukhopadhyay, Soumyadip Kar, and Amrita Das. "Snake bite induced delayed hypopituitarism: a rare case report." International Journal of Research in Medical Sciences 8, no. 9 (2020): 3383. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2320-6012.ijrms20203699.
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Hypopituitarism following snake bite induced AKI and dialysis is an uncommon complication. Often the presentation is delayed and Can present with a myriad of features. We present a case of a 27 year old male patient, with past history of snake bite and acute kidney injury (AKI) requiring dialysis and which subsequently resolved, presenting to us with fatigability and weakness, absence of secondary sexual character and poor academic performance. On examination, the patient had pale white and coarse skin. Hoarseness of voice was present. There was proximal upper and lower limb muscle weakness present with pseudo myotonia on examination. There was loss of axillary and pubic hair with low testicular volume. Routine reports suggested mildly elevated creatinine with severely elevated Triglyceride levels. Creatine phosphokinase (CPK) was raised. Hormonal profile revealed low free thyroxine (FT4) and serum 8 a.m. Cortisol but an inadequate increase in thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) and adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) levels were suggestive of central hypopituitarism. Luteinizing hormone (LH), follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), Insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) levels were reduced. Neuroimaging revealed empty sella suggestive of pituitary apoplexy. The above were suggestive of delayed hypopituitarism following post snake bite dialysis mediated pituitary apoplexy. In all cases of snake bite, a common occurrence in our country the possibility of hypopituitarism should be kept in mind and the hormonal profile followed up closely along with the renal parameters.
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Pontius, Anneliese A. "Neuropsychiatric Update of the Crime “Profile” and “Signature” in Single or Serial Homicides: Rule out Limbic Psychotic Trigger Reaction1." Psychological Reports 73, no. 3_part_1 (1993): 875–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00332941930733pt125.
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A neuropsychiatric and -psychological update of the crime “profile” and “signature” is a necessary addition to the traditional sociopsychological model likely to miss limbic system dysfunctioning. Thus, occurrence of a brief (c. 20 minutes) limbic seizure has been proposed based on behaviors of 12 white male homicidal loners, who showed a dozen symptoms and signs: Limbic Psychotic Trigger Reaction. Readily overlooked can be (a) a transient psychosis (hallucinations and/or delusions), (b) autonomic hyperactivation (e.g., loss of bladder control, nausea, ejaculation), (c) motiveless, out-of-character, unplanned, and well-remembered homicidal acts, (d) committed with a flat affect (not emotionally or impulsively provoked), (e) typically involving a stranger who happened to provide an objectively harmless and only subjectively important stimulus. (f) Such an individualized stimulus triggered the memory revival of mild to moderate but repeatedly experienced hurts. Such a specific sequence of events implicates the specific mechanism of limbic seizure, “kindling,” which does not necessarily involve motor convulsions. Repetition of such limbic episodes with “criminal acts” is conceivable under specific circumstances including cases in which the triggering stimulus is associated with pleasurable delusions (e.g., of grandiose power or wealth) or constitutes a specific aspect of a basic drive motive. For example, eating or sexual activities might be planned but degenerate into a limbic episode with a specific core symptomatology.
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Markowski, Marcin. "Szata graficzna pieniędzy papierowych emitowanych na terenach okupowanych przez wojska niemieckie podczas pierwszej wojny światowej." Rocznik Polsko-Niemiecki, no. 23 (April 29, 2015): 17–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.35757/rpn.2015.23.02.
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The occupation authorities set up their own institutions that issued their own legal tender banknotes in the territories of the Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Romania occupied by the German army during World War I. The introduction of paper money with a new graphic design began in the middle of 1916.Lower denominations of ostrubles and ostmarks, designed for areas east of the Ober-Ost, had the poorest layout of all the money issued by the Germans in the occupied territories in the East – they were embellished only by an ornamental drawing. In contrast, the highest denominations – 100 ostrubles, 100 and 1,000 ostmarks – had a very extensive iconography, which distinguished them from paper money earmarked for the occupied territories in Eastern Europe. Banknotes intended for the General Government of Warsaw had the most national character due to the presence of the White Eagle on the intense red background. In contrast, apart from the language, paper money intended for other occupied territories did not have any graphic features that would be targeted at ethnic groups such as the Lithuanians, Latvians and Romanians. The layouts of these banknotes contain references also to the Greek and Roman mythologies. These references include male and female busts and a group of characteristic attributes that suggest that these are images of Demeter, Athena, Hermes and Ares.
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Ahmed, Maaheen, and Shiamin Kwa. "“Kill the Monster!”: My Favorite Thing Is Monsters and the Big, Ambitious (Graphic) Novel." Genre 54, no. 1 (2021): 17–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00166928-8911485.
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In his discussion of the “big, ambitious novel,” James Wood dismisses both male and female authors but singles out Zadie Smith's White Teeth for most of his critique of what he terms “hysterical realism.” For Wood, recent long novels display too much imagination but not enough substance and depth of character; the new novel has become “a picture of life.” With its deliberate foregrounding of inhumanness and spectacularity, Emil Ferris's My Favorite Thing Is Monsters commits many of Wood's list of transgressions against the traditional novel. This article examines how Ferris's book is unaffected by negative reactions to this transgressiveness, championing transgression and ignored voices as the mode of expression best suited to the big, ambitious novel of our times. The book's heroine and purported author of the book touches readers and moves them through the monstrous form she imagines for herself. Her reproductions of comics covers and art works negotiate diverse visual vocabularies and their resulting aesthetic and historical scope. In filtering its story through a young protagonist who is marginalized on all counts (age, class, race, sex, sexual orientation), Ferris's “big, ambitious (graphic) novel” is also a layered response against the criticisms of childishness levied against comics. Transgression in My Favorite Thing Is Monsters becomes a way of rethinking tradition—of comics, of novels, and of graphic novels—in the broader terms of cultural history.
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Logvinov, S. V., E. Yu Varakuta та A. V. Potapov. "The Сharacter and Development of photoreceptors photodegeneration combined with alloxan diabetes". Bulletin of Siberian Medicine 1, № 2 (2002): 47–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.20538/1682-0363-2002-2-47-52.
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The aim of the research is to determine the character and development of a alterations in photoreceptors, caused by high-intensity light on the early stage of diabetes mellitus. The methods of light and electron microscopy were used. Experiments were obtained from 80 adult white male rats. The rats of group 1 (n = 20) received 1 injection of alloxan (15 mg per 100 g of weight) in order to model diabetes mellitus. The rats of group 2 (n = 20) were exposed for light of luminecent LB-40 lamps (6000 lx) for 6 hours. The rats of group 3 (n = 20) were exposed to the light with the same parameters 1 month after alloxan injection. The last 20 rats made a control group 4. The rats groups 2 and 3 were sacrifised by decapitation 1, 7, 14, 30 days after the light exposure, the rats of group 1 on the 4, 5, 6, 8 week after the alloxan injection. Light exposure combined with diabetes causes destruction pigment epithelium inner and outer processed of photoreceptors followed by pyknosis of nucleus and replacement by vacial glia. On the 7th day after the exposure local disappearance of according retinal layers was obsevred. In these local sites of the most intensive destruction in group 3 there is 1,6 times more cells with caryopyknosis from in according sites of group 2 (just light exposure) rats. Thus, alloxan diabetes on the early stage of its development (1 month) intensifies light damage of retinal photoreceptors. Probably, increase of oxydative processes and antioxidative systems break down play an important role in this synergetic effect.