Book of monsters,

Name and address on front pastedown.

Essays and English traits,

Essays: The American scholar. An address. Man the reformer. Self-reliance. Compensation. Friendship. Heroism. The over-soul. Circles. The poet. Character. Manners. Gifts. Nature. Politics. New England reformers. Worship. Beauty.--English traits.

Synthesis and stabilization of nanocrystalline zirconia with MSU mesostructure

In the presence of nonionic block-copolymer surfactant, nanocrystalline zirconia particles with MSU mesostrucmre were synthesized by a novel solid-state reaction route. The zirconia particles possess a nanocrystalline pore wall, which renders higher thermal stability compared to an amorphous framework. To further enhance its stability, laponite, a synthetic clay, was introduced. Laponite acts as an inhibitor to crystal a growth and also as a hard template for the mesostructure. High surface area and ordered pore structure were observed in the stabilized zirconia. The results show that the formation of the MSU structure is attributed to reverse hexagonal micelles, which are the products of the cooperative self-assembly of organic and inorganic species in the solid-state synthesis system with crystalline water and hygroscopic water present.

A parent-report measure of children's anxiety: psychometric properties and comparison with child-report in a clinic and normal sample

This study examined the psychometric properties of the parent version of the Spence Children's Anxiety Scale (SCAS-P); 484 parents of anxiety disordered children and 261 parents in a normal control group participated in the study. Results of confirmatory factor analysis provided support for six intercorrelated factors, that corresponded with the child self-report as well as with the classification of anxiety disorders by DSM-IV (namely separation anxiety, generalized anxiety, social phobia, panic/agoraphobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and fear of physical injuries). A post-hoc model in which generalized anxiety functioned as the higher order factor for the other five factors described the data equally well. The reliability of the subscales was satisfactory to excellent. Evidence was found for both convergent and divergent validity: the measure correlated well with the parent report for internalizing symptoms, and lower with externalizing symptoms. Parent-child agreement ranged from 0.41 to 0.66 in the anxiety-disordered group, and from 0.23 to 0.60 in the control group. The measure differentiated significantly between anxiety-disordered children versus controls, and also between the different anxiety disorders except GAD. The SCAS-P is recommended as a screening instrument for normal children and as a diagnostic instrument in clinical settings. (C) 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Prospective memory rehabilitation for adults with traumatic brain injury: A compensatory training programme

Primary objective: To describe a prospective memory rehabilitation programme based on a compensatory training approach and report the results of three case studies. Research design: Programme evaluation using pre-and post-intervention assessments and telephone follow-up. Methods and procedures: Three participants with traumatic brain injury completed 8 weeks of training with 1 - 2 hour individual sessions. Assessments were formal prospective memory assessment, self-report and measures of diary use. Experimental interventions: Intervention aimed to identify potential barriers, establish self-awareness of memory deficits, introduce a customized compensatory tool, a cueing system and organizational strategies. A significant other was involved in training to assist generalization. Main outcomes and results: All three participants improved on formal prospective memory assessment and demonstrated successful diary use after the programme. Self-report of prospective memory failure fluctuated and may reflect increased self-awareness. Conclusion: A compensatory approach may be useful in improving prospective memory performance following TBI.

Randomized controlled trial of an educational intervention for managing fatigue in women receiving adjuvant chemotherapy for early-stage breast cancer

Purpose To evaluate the efficacy of a psychoeducational intervention in improving cancer-related fatigue. Patients and Methods This randomized controlled trial involved 109 women commencing adjuvant chemotherapy for stage I or II breast cancer in five chemotherapy treatment centers. Intervention group patients received an individualized fatigue education and support program delivered in the clinic and by phone over three 10- to 20-minute sessions 1 week apart. Instruments included a numeric rating scale assessing confidence with managing fatigue; 11-point numeric rating scales measuring fatigue at worst, average, and best; the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Fatigue and Piper Fatigue Scales; the Cancer Self-Efficacy Scale; the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire C30; and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale. For each outcome, separate analyses of covariance of change scores between baseline (T1) and the three follow-up time points (T2, T3, and T4) were conducted, controlling for the variable's corresponding baseline value. Results Compared with the intervention group, mean difference scores between the baseline (T1) and immediate after the test (T2) assessments increased significantly more for the control group for worst and average fatigue, Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Fatigue, and Piper fatigue severity and interference measures. These differences were not observed between baseline and T3 and T4 assessments. No significant differences were identified for any pre- or post-test change scores for confidence with managing fatigue, cancer self-efficacy, anxiety, depression, or quality of life. Conclusion Preparatory education and support has the potential to assist women to cope with cancer-related fatigue in the short term. However, further research is needed to identify ways to improve the potency and sustainability of psychoeducational interventions for managing cancer-related fatigue.

Kierkegaard as a paradoxical therapist

The essential problem that Soren Kierkegaard is concerned with in his authorship is that of becoming a Christian. It is argued that Kierkegaard's authorial strategy reflects the principles of paradoxical psychotherapy. These principles indicate that both the psychological problem and its solution involve an ironic process. In the Kierkegaardian frame of reference, the situation of the immature self is paradoxical, and so is the pathway to full selfhood. The philistine and the aesthete attempt to secure autonomy and personal freedom through an external orientation. But the way to the self is inwards. Consequently, these personalities get caught in an ironic process. The further they push outwards, the further they move away from the locus of genuine selfhood and freedom. This immature form of life can only lead to a loss of self and the associated experience of despair. Paradoxically, Kierkegaard advocates the choice of despair as the way to find oneself in God.

Mesoporous nanocrystalline zirconia with lamellar and MSU structure

Without introduction of any stabilizer, the mesoporous nanocrystalline zirconia with lamellar and MSU structure was obtained via solid state reaction coupled with surfactant templating method. The phase, surface area and pore structure of zirconia prepared with this novel method could be designed, tailored and controlled by varying synthesis parameters. The phase transformation was controlled by particle size. The mesostructure possesses nanocrystalline pore wall, which renders it more thermally stable than amorphous framework. The results suggest strongly that in solid state synthesis system mesostructure formation still follow the supramolecular self-assembly mechanism. The lamellar and reverse hexagonal structure could be transformed at different OH-/Zr molar ratios in order to sustain the low surface energy of the mesophases. The lamellar structure was preferred at higher OH-/Zr molar ratios but reverse hexagonal was at low ratios.

Predestination and freedom in Milton's 'Paradise lost'

John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost (1667) offers a highly creative seventeenth-century reconstruction of the doctrine of predestination, a reconstruction which both anticipates modern theological developments and sheds important light on the history of predestinarian thought. Moving beyond the framework of post-Reformation controversies, the poem emphasises both the freedom and the universality of electing grace, and the eternally decisive role of human freedom in salvation. The poem erases the distinction between an eternal election of some human beings and an eternal rejection of others, portraying reprobation instead as the temporal self-condemnation of those who wilfully reject their own election and so exclude themselves from salvation. While election is grounded in the gracious will of God, reprobation is thus grounded in the fluid sphere of human decision. Highlighting this sphere of human decision, the poem depicts the freedom of human beings to actualise the future as itself the object of divine predestination. While presenting its own unique vision of predestination, Paradise Lost thus moves towards the influential and distinctively modern formulations of later thinkers like Schleiermacher and Barth.

Supra-assembly of siliceous vesicles

We report a new approach to produce macroporous (110 nm in diameter) ordered siliceous foams (MOSF) by using block copolymers as templates in the absence of any organic cosolvent. The fine three-dimensional honeycomb structure of MOSF was determined by electron tomography. A formation mechanism of MOSF that spans from the atomic to macroscopic scale is proposed, which involves the cooperative self-assembly of unilamellar vesicles followed by the supra-assembly of vesicles. The fusion of soft vesicles finally leads to MOSF with well-ordered and defined honeycomb structures.

Generic Technique to Generate Large Branched DNA Complexes

The inherent self-recognition properties of DNA have led to its use as a scaffold for various nanotechnology self-assembly applications, with macromolecular complexes, metallic and semiconducting nanoparticles, proteins, inter alia, being assembled onto a designed DNA scaffold. Such structures may typically comprise a number of DNA molecules organized into macromolecules. Many studies have used synthetic methods to produce the constituent DNA molecules, but this typically constrains the molecules to be no longer than around 100 base pairs (30 nm). However, applications that require larger self-assembling DNA complexes, several tens of nanometers or more, need to be generated by other techniques. Here, we present a generic technique to generate large linear, branched, and/or circular DNA macromolecular complexes. The effectiveness of this technique is demonstrated here by the use of Lambda Bacteriophage DNA as a template to generate single- and double-branched DNA structures approximately 120 nm in size.

Proinsulin is encoded by an RNA splice variant in human blood myeloid cells

Genes for peripheral tissue-restricted self-antigens are expressed in thymic and hematopoietic cells. In thymic medullary epithelial cells, self-antigen expression imposes selection on developing autoreactive T cells and regulates susceptibility to autoimmune disease in mouse models. Less is known about the role of self-antigen expression by hematopoietic cells. Here we demonstrate that one of the endocrine self-antigens expressed by human blood myeloid cells, proinsulin, is encoded by an RNA splice variant. The surface expression of immunoreactive proinsulin was significantly decreased after transfection of monocytes with small interfering RNA to proinsulin. Furthermore, analogous to proinsulin transcripts in the thymus, the abundance of the proinsulin RNA splice variant in blood cells corresponded with the length of the variable number of tandem repeats 5' of the proinsulin gene, known to be associated with type 1 diabetes susceptibility. Self-antigen expression by peripheral myeloid cells extends the umbrella of immunological self and, by analogy with the thymus, may be implicated in peripheral immune tolerance.

A estética autoral da narrativa jornalística contemporânea: Histórias de Brasileiros

O trabalho analisa a narrativa jornalística praticada pela revista Brasileiros a partir de elementos textuais estilísticos que agregam ao texto, além da função informativa, a promoção do prazer estético da leitura. Junto à análise estética do objeto, uma especial atenção foi dada aos sinais de autoria identificados nas reportagens, onde o repórter supera a noção de transmissor isento da realidade e assume a posição mediador- autor. Para o estudo foram identificadas quatro categorias de análise que guiaram a observação das reportagens: subnarrativas (amplo espaço dedicado ao discurso do outro), autorreferência (a imagem de si do próprio repórter projetada nas reportagens), descrição intimista (detalhes de personagens, coisas ou lugares que aproximam o leitor das narrações), e cenas de apoio (momentos narrativos auxiliares à narrativa principal). Verificou-se que tais características, além de compor uma identidade editorial, permite a humanização das reportagens, dando ênfase às representações humanas, inclusive contemplando aspectos subjetivos, e não restringindo-se à transmissão de dados ou fatos pontuais, supostamente objetivos.(AU)

A AUTOAVALIAÇÃO INSTITUCIONAL NO ENSINO SUPERIOR: A PERSPECTIVA E ESTRATÉGIA DISCENTES

O Sistema Nacional de Avaliação da Educação Superior (SINAES) inclui, como um de seus indicadores, a Autoavaliação Institucional, de responsabilidade das próprias Instituições de Ensino Superior (IES) e promovida, em seu âmbito, pelas Comissões Permanentes de Avalição (CPA). Essas avaliações devem gerar ações internas nas IES com o intuito de qualificar seus serviços, instalações e profissionais. A avaliação cumpre funções que envolvem relações de poder e estratégias desenvolvidas por seus usuários para atingir seus objetivos. É relevante, portanto, identificar esses mecanismos que influenciam diretamente o preenchimento das ferramentas de avaliação e que impactam os resultados auferidos e as ações decorrentes desse processo. Com este trabalho, pretendemos verificar quais são os mecanismos, as estratégias e as relações de poder envolvidos na realização da avaliação institucional a partir das representações dos respondentes, incluindo professores e alunos. O objetivo é analisar, por meio de uma pesquisa qualitativa, a autoavaliação institucional no ensino superior e os mecanismos presentes em sua realização, buscando identificar as relações de poder e as estratégias desenvolvidas decorrentes de depoimentos de uma amostra composta por alunos e professores participantes do processo.

ANÁLISE COMPARATIVA DOS NÍVEIS DE ATRITO EM BRÁQUETES CONVENCIONAIS E AUTOLIGADOS

O atrito existente entre bráquetes e os fios ortodônticos é um fator importante a ser considerado quanto à eficiência do tratamento ortodôntico nas mecânicas de deslize. Em função disto, sempre se procurou maneiras de se diminuir os níveis de atrito durante a aplicação deste tipo de mecânica. Com o surgimento dos bráquetes autoligados, observou-se que uma das características principais destes dispositivos seria uma redução dos níveis de atrito entre os bráquetes e fios, e com isso poderia se obter um movimento de deslizamento eficiente com a aplicação de forças menores, quando comparado com o uso de bráquetes que tenham sistemas de amarração convencionais. O propósito deste trabalho foi comparar, por meio de ensaios laboratoriais, os níveis de atrito estático de um bráquete autoligado estético, de um bráquete autoligado metálico e dois tipos de bráquetes convencionais metálicos, com a utilização de fios ortodônticos de diferentes ligas, secção e diâmetros, para determinar quais bráquetes apresentam os menores coeficientes de atrito, em situações sem angulação, em angulações de primeira ordem e angulações de segunda ordem entre os diferentes fios e bráquetes. Os resultados demonstraram que os bráquetes autoligados apresentaram um atrito estático significativamente mais baixo nas situações onde não existiu angulação entre o fio e o bráquete e quando se utilizou fios de calibres menores e com material mais flexível, quando comparados com os bráquetes convencionais. O bráquete autoligado metálico apresentou maior atrito, semelhante aos bráquetes convencionais, com o uso dos fios de maior calibre, nas situações sem angulação. O bráquete autoligado metálico apresentou maior atrito estático que os bráquetes convencionais, nas situações de angulação, com o uso dos fios de maior calibre