The pelican chorus & other nonsense verses

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A nonsense anthology /

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The bumblepuppy book /

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Animal analogues /

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Space and culture: Tradition verses culture

This paper proposes to examine contemporary culture, through communication and technology, in an attempt to expose some of these new or altered spatial concepts evident in film and built form, such as ratefaction and saturation

Users verses IT: Understanding prejudice in information systems development project teams

This paper investigated the phenomenon of prejudice among ISD project members. We presented a theoretical discussion followed by one qualitative and one quantitative study. In the qualitative study, we interviewed different members of the project teams to understand the different types of prejudice possessed by team members. Results of this interview study led to the development of prejudice scales for IT members and users, which was used in the quantitative study. We surveyed 128 ISD teams and found that prejudice was related task and relationship conflict, satisfaction and willingness to work together in the future. Furthermore, prejudice exerts stronger influences on users than IT members in terms of increasing task and relationship conflicts and decreasing goal commitment.

Understanding nonsense : breathing life into shibboleths and killing critical thought in higher education

In this paper, I focus on the growing "nonsense industry" which is most apparent in the writing typical of business, government departments, and the financial press. This writing, like technical writing, is characterised by heavy reliance on grammatical metaphor. It endows shibboleths - for instance, "globalisation"; "efficiencies"; "competition"; "modernisation"; "consumer sentiment"; "reform"; and so on - with anthropomorphic qualities. These anthropomorphic artefacts of technocratised language are then presented as having immutable powers over people. Thus they become banal public excuses for negligent practices in both business and government.

A Mouse Model of Early-Onset Renal Failure Due to a Xanthine Dehydrogenase Nonsense Mutation

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is characterized by renal fibrosis that can lead to end-stage renal failure, and studies have supported a strong genetic influence on the risk of developing CKD. However, investigations of the underlying molecular mechanisms are hampered by the lack of suitable hereditary models in animals. We therefore sought to establish hereditary mouse models for CKD and renal fibrosis by investigating mice treated with the chemical mutagen N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea, and identified a mouse with autosomal recessive renal failure, designated RENF. Three-week old RENF mice were smaller than their littermates, whereas at birth they had been of similar size. RENF mice, at 4-weeks of age, had elevated concentrations of plasma urea and creatinine, indicating renal failure, which was associated with small and irregularly shaped kidneys. Genetic studies using DNA from 10 affected mice and 91 single nucleotide polymorphisms mapped the Renf locus to a 5.8Mbp region on chromosome 17E1.3. DNA sequencing of the xanthine dehydrogenase (Xdh) gene revealed a nonsense mutation at codon 26 that co-segregated with affected RENF mice. The Xdh mutation resulted in loss of hepatic XDH and renal Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) expression. XDH mutations in man cause xanthinuria with undetectable plasma uric acid levels and three RENF mice had plasma uric acid levels below the limit of detection. Histological analysis of RENF kidney sections revealed abnormal arrangement of glomeruli, intratubular casts, cellular infiltration in the interstitial space, and interstitial fibrosis. TUNEL analysis of RENF kidney sections showed extensive apoptosis predominantly affecting the tubules. Thus, we have established a mouse model for autosomal recessive early-onset renal failure due to a nonsense mutation in Xdh that is a model for xanthinuria in man. This mouse model could help to increase our understanding of the molecular mechanisms associated with renal fibrosis and the specific roles of XDH and uric acid. © 2012 Piret et al.

Três versões de acordo bilateral entre o Brasil e os Estados Unidos da América para marinha mercante : treze anos de negociações

Consultoria Legislativa - Área XVIII - Direito Internacional Público e Relações Internacionais.

Anticlericalismo em mutação: as três versões de O Crime do Padre Amaro (1875-1876-1880), de Eça de Queirós

A pesquisa visa estudar as três versões de O Crime do Padre Amaro (1875, 1876, 1880) pelo viés da religiosidade, do anticlericalismo, da política. Ao abrir a dissertação, apresentar-se-á um quadro sucinto do momento histórico em que a obra foi escrita. A obra de José Maria Eça de Queirós costuma ser dividida em três fases: o primeiro momento, dito romântico, das Prosas Bárbaras (1866-1867) e da primeira versão de O Crime do Padre Amaro (1875); o segundo momento, quando, atraído pelas teorias do realismo/naturalismo, escreve a segunda e a terceira versões do Crime do Padre Amaro (1876 e 1880) e o Primo Basílio (1878); e o terceiro, desligado de normas específicas, de O Mandarim (1880), A Relíquia (1887), Os Maias (1888), A ilustre casa de Ramires (Póstumo, 1900) e A cidade e as serras (Póstumo, 1901). A história literária de O Crime do Padre Amaro inicia-se em 1875, e continua em duas outras edições, de 1876 e 1880. O objetivo do nosso estudo, ao revisitar as três versões de O Crime do Padre Amaro, é sobretudo analisar o processo de criação queirosiano na obra em tela, para, deste modo, identificar os pontos vitais que levaram o nosso autor a reescrevê-la duas vezes. Nossa hipótese maior de discussão para o problema levantado tem a ver com as teorias do realismo-naturalismo e com o anticlericalismo de Eça

No more nonsense

Discusses the approach of the courts to the quantification of beneficial interests in the family home in the event of a relationship breakdown. Assesses the clarification provided by the Court of Appeal ruling in Fowler v Barron on whether the respondent was the sole beneficial owner of a property purchased with his former partner, by means of a significant cash contribution from him and a mortgage in both their names, focusing on whether he could rebut the presumption that they held the property as joint tenants in equity where it was registered in joint names. [From Legal Journals Index]