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The Modifying Mirror
2023
Abstract This chapter compares music listening with the infant’s experience of care. Several scholars have argued that music can be used for scaffolding one’s self-experience. Developmental psychologists, in turn, maintain a wide consensus over the claim that, in early interaction, the attuned caregiver supports and modifies the infant’s self-experience in various ways. The chapter brings these phenomena together, illustrating how the examination of the early self/other relation can teach us something important concerning the listener/music relation. The first section elaborates on the scaffolding function of music and clarifies two ambiguities haunting the debate. The second section reloca…
The belly-button chord : connections of pre- and postnatal music education with early mother-child interaction
2009
Development of Numeracy and Literacy Skills in Early Childhood—A Longitudinal Study on the Roles of Home Environment and Familial Risk for Reading an…
2021
This study examines the direct and indirect effects of home numeracy and literacy environment, and parental factors (parental reading and math difficulties, and parental education) on the development of several early numeracy and literacy skills. The 265 participating Finnish children were assessed four times between ages 2.5 and 6.5. Children’s skills in counting objects, number production, number sequence knowledge, number symbol knowledge, number naming, vocabulary, print knowledge, and letter knowledge were assessed individually. Parents (N = 202) reported on their education level, learning difficulties in math and reading (familial risk, FR), and home learning environment separately fo…
Relationship between egg features and maternal body size in the simultaneous hermaphrodite Oxynoe olivacea (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia, Sacoglossa)
2005
This paper provides information on spawn morphology and egg features of the stenophagous planktotrophic Mediterranean sacoglossan Oxynoe olivacea. Smith and Fretwell’s hypothesis, predicting that individuals of the same population growing in the same environmental conditions and varying in size should spawn eggs of a constant size, was tested in a population of O. olivacea living in the Straits of Messina. To determine whether (a) spawn mass size, (b) total egg number per spawn, and (c) egg size were related to parent size of O. olivacea, 21 egg masses (seven egg masses deposited by seven different 20 mm animals, seven egg masses deposited by seven different 25 mm animals and seven egg mass…
"Näissä runoissa ylistetään luontoa ja mollataan ihmisiä" : luonnon ja ihmisen suhde lasten runotulkinnoissa
2018
Tässä pro gradu -tutkielmassa tutkin lasten runotulkintoja suomalaisesta lastenrunoudesta ja niissä kuvaillusta luonnosta. Tutkimuksessani vaikuttaa niin kirjallisuudentutkimuksellinen kuin lapsuudentutkimuksellinen näkökulma: tutkimusaihe sijoittuu kirjallisuudentutkimuksen kentälle, kun taas tutkimukseni tavoite antaa ääni yhteiskunnassamme usein hiljennetyille lapsille noudattaa lapsuudentutkimuksen ideologiaa. Tutkimukseni metodologiset valinnat pohjaavat lapsinäkökulmaisen tutkimuksen periaatteeseen, jonka mukaan lapset tuottavat ja rakentavat tietoa kulttuurissamme. Näin ollen siirrän lastenrunouden asiantuntijuuden tutkimuksessani lapsille. Tutkimustani varten keräsin aineistoa kahde…
Sydäntautien ehkäisyn aloittamisessa ei alaikärajaa
2021
Ierīču barošanas kontrollera programmatūras izstrāde
2015
Barošanas kontrolleris ir autonoma sistēma, kas kontrolē pieslēgto ierīču, strāvas padevi un saglabā datus par ierīču stāvokli. Priekš paplašinātas funkcionalitātes ir paredzēts, ka lietotājs var savienot ierīces ar Barošanas kontrolleri caur Ethernet tīklu. Lietotājam tiek dotas 3 iespējas vadīt sistēmu: pieslēdzoties caur pārlūkprogrammu sistēmai un izmantojot tīmekļa pārlūka interfeisu, izmantojot mazākas funkcionalitātes skārienjūtīgo ekrānu, kas pieslēgts sistēmai, izmantojot tiešo pieeju pie ierīces kā piemēram: ssh, ftp utt, lai mainītu sistēmas noklusētos iestatījumus.
Data from: Microbiome symbionts and diet diversity incur costs on the immune system of insect larvae
2017
Communities of symbiotic microorganisms that colonize the gastrointestinal tract play an important role in food digestion and protection against opportunistic microbes. Diet diversity increases the number of symbionts in the intestines, a benefit that is considered to impose no cost for the host organism. However, less is known about the possible immunological investments that hosts have to make in order to control the infections caused by symbiont populations that increase due to diet diversity. By using taxonomical composition analysis of the 16S rRNA V3 region, we show that Enterococci are the dominating group of bacteria in the midgut of the larvae of the greater wax moth (Galleria mell…
Evidence that water transmits Vibrio vulnificus biotype 2 infections to eels
1995
Vibrio vulnificus biotype 2 is classically considered an obligate eel pathogen. However, it has recently been associated with one human septicemic case. In this paper, the opportunistic behavior of this pathogen is discussed. The bacterium can survive alone in brackish water or attached to eel surfaces for at least 14 days. It is able to spread through water and infect healthy eels by using skin as a portal of entry. These results suggest that water and infected eels may act as reservoirs of infection. A capsule seems to be essential for waterborne infectivity, which would explain why cells recovered from naturally diseased eels give rise to pure cultures of opaque colonies. The spread of t…
A plasma protein corona enhances the biocompatibility of Au@Fe3O4 Janus particles
2015
AbstractAu@Fe3O4 Janus particles (JPs) are heteroparticles with discrete domains defined by different materials. Their tunable composition and morphology confer multimodal and versatile capabilities for use as contrast agents and drug carriers in future medicine. Au@Fe3O4 JPs have colloidal properties and surface characteristics leading to interactions with proteins in biological fluids. The resulting protein adsorption layer (“protein corona”) critically affects their interaction with living matter. Although Au@Fe3O4 JPs displayed good biocompatibility in a standardized in vitro situation, an in-depth characterization of the protein corona is of prime importance to unravel underlying mecha…