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Association between diabetes and stroke subtype on survival and functional outcome 3 months after stroke: data from the European BIOMED Stroke Projec…
2004
To the Editor: Regarding the study by Megherbi et al1 performed to evaluate stroke features, prognosis, and functional outcome in patients with diabetes compared with patients without diabetes, we would like to discuss some issues of potential interest: First, the authors analyzed diabetic patients classified in accordance with WHO diagnostic criteria for diabetes used in 1993 (fasting plasma glucose >140 mg/dL), so it is probably an underestimation of the number of diabetic subjects in the 4537 consecutive patients with ischemic stroke enrolled. Perhaps if they could have classified diabetic patients in accordance with American Diabetes Association (1997)2 criteria (fasting plasma glucose …
Teaching American Realism in Germany
2019
Starting with a critical introduction to the problematic beginnings and US-supported rise of American studies in pre– and post–WWII Germany, this chapter looks at the teaching of American realism and its development in a nation strongly influenced by US culture. Based on archival research, a statistical evaluation of annual bulletins, and information collected from fifty practitioners, the chapter offers the first quantitative and thematic analysis of course offerings at German universities (1953–2016), the first comparison of the relative importance of American realist literature in German university courses and research publications from German-speaking countries (2000–2015), and the firs…
The development of African American Vernacular English in two fiction texts: a case study
2009
Afroamerikkalainen englanti on Pohjois-Amerikassa ristiriitaisessa asemassa. Kielitieteilijät eivät ole yhteisymmärryksessä kielen syntyperästä ja näin koko kieli ja sen oikeellisuus on kyseenalaistettu Amerikassa. Kielen käyttäjät ovat useimmiten mustia amerikkalaisia, joista useat ovat joutuneet pilkan kohteiksi puhetyylinsä vuoksi. Nykyään monet mustat jopa pitävät kieltään vain slangina tai muuten virheellisenä. Siksi lisää tutkimuksia afroamerikkalaisesta englannista tarvittaisiin. Tässä tutkimuksessa vertailtiin kahta fiktiivistä afroamerikkalaista tekstiä toisiinsa, jotta nähtiin millaisia eroja ja yhtäläisyyksiä kirjailijoiden kielenkäytössä oli. Näistä eroista tehtiin myös johtopä…
Rasisms un noziegumi Voltera Moslija detektīvromānos "Velns zilā kleitā", "Sarkanā nāve" un "Balts tauriņš"
2019
Bakalauradarbs „Rasisms un kriminālsVolteraMoslijadetektīvromānos „Velnszilākleitā”, „Sarkanānāve” un „Baltstauriņš”” analizēnosauktus romānus ar uzsvaru uz aprakstītas kriminālas situācijas un rasismu ASV kopumā un Kalifornijā. Ņemot vērā ka romāni pieder pie daiļliteratūras un autora situācijas redzējums var atšķirties no reālas situācijas ASV četrdesmitajos un piecdesmitajos gados, ir savākta un apkopota informācija par rasisma un segregācijas vēsturi ASV, lai izprastu, cik patiess priekšstats par situāciju autors dod. Bakalaura darba mērķis ir atrast rasisma un segregācijas piemērus romānos; saprast, kā atrastie piemēri ilustrē rasisma, augstu ieslodzīto un apsūdzēto afroamerikāņu īpats…
Genome-wide association studies identify 137 loci for DNA methylation biomarkers of ageing
2020
AbstractBiological ageing estimators derived from DNA methylation (DNAm) data are heritable and correlate with morbidity and mortality. Leveraging DNAm and SNP data from >41,000 individuals, we identify 137 genome-wide significant loci (113 novel) from meta-analyses of four epigenetic clocks and epigenetic surrogate markers for granulocyte proportions and plasminogen activator inhibitor 1 levels, respectively. We report strong genetic correlations with longevity and lifestyle factors such as smoking, education, and obesity. Significant associations are observed in polygenic risk score analysis and to a lesser extent in Mendelian randomization analyses. This study illuminates the genetic …
Redemption and home in the african american city upon a hill: hannah crafts’s the bondwoman’s narrative.
2019
The Bondwoman’s Narrative (1857) is a novel in which the black female slave Hannah Crafts aims at the remodeling of her society and to gain self–assertion through a deeply Christian commitment and a total and honest respect to the values it impinges drawing broadly on the Bible and reshaping biblical imagery to convey her message and to submit her subjectivity and her Americanness. By using the national continuum of jeremiad rhetoric and her attachment to the values of the Christian creed, the novel partakes and yet takes a different direction from slave narratives by cagily forerunning Du Bois’s praised theory of the double consciousness. In so doing, it positions its protagonist as the fi…
A Chain of Voices: A "Masters and Slaves" Narrative
2022
Because no less than thirty different narrators take turns to tell us the story of a slave revolt, A Chain of Voices can be read as Brink's attempt at revisiting the classical "slave narrative", turning it into a polyphonic "masters and slaves" narrative in which everyone is given a say. This article examines how this polyphonic, and even multifocal, mode of narration enables Brink to write back to both classical slave narratives and to their twentieth-century counterparts, the neo-slave narratives. What it suggests is that although A Chain of Voices bears many resemblances to neo-slave narratives in terms of form, especially because of its recourse to polyphony, it is also extremely close …
Data from: Moving in the Anthropocene: global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements
2019
Animal movement is fundamental for ecosystem functioning and species survival, yet the effects of the anthropogenic footprint on animal movements have not been estimated across species. Using a unique GPS-tracking database of 803 individuals across 57 species, we found that movements of mammals in areas with a comparatively high human footprint were on average one-half to one-third the extent of their movements in areas with a low human footprint. We attribute this reduction to behavioral changes of individual animals and to the exclusion of species with long-range movements from areas with higher human impact. Global loss of vagility alters a key ecological trait of animals that affects no…