scholarly journals Twin Research and the Arts: Interconnections / Twin Research: Twin Studies of Sexual Orientation; A Historical Biological Twin Gem; GWAS Approach to Who Has Twins / Newsworthy: Twins on College Campuses; ‘Brainprint’: Personal Identification by Brain Waves

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 397-401
Author(s):  
Nancy L. Segal
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Twin Studies ◽  
College Campuses ◽  
Personal Identification ◽  
Multiple Birth ◽  
Theatrical Production ◽  
Twin Research ◽  
Brain Waves ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The 1960S

The interrelatedness between twin research and the arts is explored via a new play about a famous case. In the 1960s, identical twin David Bruce Reimer was accidentally castrated as an infant during circumcision to correct a urinary problem. The decision to raise him as a girl, and the consequences of that decision, are explored in the new theatrical production of Boy. Other examples of the arts mirroring science, and vice versa, are described. Next, brief reviews and summaries of twin research on sexual orientation, 1860s’ knowledge of placental arrangements and twinning mechanisms, and genes underlying multiple birth conception and fertility related measures are provided. This article concludes with a look at twins on college campuses and the identification of individuals by their brain waves. A correction and clarification regarding my article on the Brazilian Twin Registry in the last issue of THG (Segal, 2016) is also provided.

scholarly journals Musical Interests and Talent: Twin Jazz Musicians and Twin Studies/Twin Research: Loss of a Preterm Multiple; Conjoined Twin Conception; Depression in Fathers of Twins; Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome/Twin News: High-Achieving Twins; Twin Children of a Tennis Star; Conjoined Twin Separation; Twin Delivery to a Giant Panda

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 643-648 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy L. Segal
Keyword(s):  
Giant Panda ◽  
Case Reports ◽  
Twin Studies ◽  
Conjoined Twins ◽  
Multiple Birth ◽  
Twin Research ◽  
High Achieving ◽  
Twin Children ◽  
Musical Interests

Findings from twin studies of musical interests and talent are reviewed as a backdrop to the lives and careers of twin jazz musicians, Peter and Will Anderson. The Anderson twins exemplify many aspects of twin research, namely their matched musical abilities, shared musical interests, and common career. This overview is followed by reviews of studies and case reports of bereavement in families who have lost a preterm multiple birth infant, the conception of conjoined twins following in vitro fertilization (IVF), depression in fathers of twins, and twin-to-twin transfusion incidence in monochorionic-diamniotic IVF twin pairs. Twins highlighted in the media include high-achieving identical female twins with nearly identical academic standing, tennis star Roger Federer's two sets of identical twin children, surgical separation of craniopagus conjoined twins, and the rare delivery of twins to a 23-year-old giant panda.

scholarly journals Terminating Twins: Survival of One/Twin Research Reviews: Twin Discordance for Primordial Dwarfism; Twin Study of Public Service Motivation; Four-Parameter Model for Twin Research; Global Twinning at a Peak; Germline Differences of Monozygotic Twins/In the News: Twins and Dyngus Day; Triplets Born in Austrian Displaced Persons’ Camp; Superior, Film About Estranged Identical Twin Sisters; Adopting Own Twins After Surrogacy; Twins and Primordial Dwarfism Revisited

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Nancy L. Segal
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Monozygotic Twins ◽  
Twin Studies ◽  
Public Service Motivation ◽  
Identical Twin ◽  
Multiple Birth ◽  
Displaced Persons ◽  
Twin Research ◽  
The Family ◽  
Primordial Dwarfism

Abstract Selective termination is the term used for the elimination of an abnormal fetus. In contrast, multifetal pregnancy reduction refers to the termination of one or more members of a twin or higher-order multiple birth set, respectively, to reduce the high risks associated with these pregnancies. The procedure can also be used when a serious physical condition is detected prenatally in a member of a multiple birth set. In a minority of cases, selective termination has reduced two healthy fetuses to one when parents wanted just one additional child in the family. In the present article, the perspectives of a surviving twin whose family wished to terminate both healthy fetuses are examined. Next, past and present twin studies of primordial dwarfism, public service motivation, an analytical model, the global twinning rate and germline differences are summarized. The article concludes with a synopsis of twin-related news that covers twins and Dyngus Day, triplets born in an Austrian displaced persons’ camp, the film Superior — about estranged identical twin sisters, a couple adopting their own twins after surrogacy and a new case of twins and primordial dwarfism, a condition introduced in the research reviews.

scholarly journals The Norwegian Twin Registry

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas S. Nilsen ◽  
Ingunn Brandt ◽  
Nikolai Czajkowski ◽  
Peggy Knudsen ◽  
Per Magnus ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Large Population ◽  
Twin Studies ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Twin Data ◽  
Twin Research ◽  
Health Lifestyle ◽  
Twin Registry ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Access To Data

The Norwegian Twin Registry (NTR) is a large population based twin cohort for research purposes. At present,<br />the registry has 14 692 complete twin pairs with information on zygosity and to varying degree information on<br />somatic and mental health, lifestyle and demographics. The registry covers birth years 1895-1960 and 1967-<br />1991. NTR was established in 2009, at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, as a merger of three major<br />twin panels, the oldest originating in the 1960s. Since then Norwegian twin research has been a notable<br />contributor to twin research internationally. Norwegian twin researchers have published over 250 papers based<br />on Norwegian twin data, spanning a broad range of somatic and mental health phenotypes. In twin studies of<br />heritability a data structure with both variance within and between pairs is required. Therefore a large sample is<br />necessary, especially when studying rare diseases and conditions, and it is of vital importance to expand the<br />registry. NTR is actively recruiting new twins, both young and older, but declining response rates are a<br />challenge. The value of NTR is greatly enhanced through the linkage possibilities offered by Norway’s many<br />nationwide registries (medical, demographic, and socio-economic). Access to data is permitted by the NTR<br />steering group and will in most instances need permission from the Regional Ethics Committee.

Christian Feminist Theology and the Arts

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Ursic
Keyword(s):  
Performing Arts ◽  
Feminist Theology ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Female Leaders ◽  
Christian Women ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Inclusive Language ◽  
The Arts ◽  
In Christ ◽  
The 1960S

Christian theology is the study of God and religious belief based on the Christian Bible and tradition. For over 2,000 years, Christian theologians have been primarily men writing from men’s perspectives and experiences. In the 1960s, women began to study to become theologians when the women’s rights movement opened doors to higher education for women. Beginning in the 1970s and 1980s, female theologians developed Christian feminist theology with a focus on women’s perspectives and experiences. Christian feminist theology seeks to empower women through their Christian faith and supports the equality of women and men based on Christian scripture. “There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus” (Galatians 3:28). The arts have an important role in Christian feminist theology because a significant way Christians learn about their faith is through the arts, and Christians engage the arts in the practice of their faith. Christian feminist theology in the visual arts can be found in paintings, sculptures, icons, and liturgical items such as processional crosses. Themes in visual expression include female and feminine imagery of God from the Bible as well as female leaders in the scriptures. Christian feminist theology in performing arts can be found in hymns, prayers, music, liturgies, and rituals. Performative expressions include inclusive language for humanity and God as well as expressions that celebrate Christian women and address women’s life experiences. The field of Christian feminist theology and the arts is vast in terms of types of arts represented and the variety of ways Christianity is practiced around the world. Representing Christian feminist theology with art serves to communicate both visually and performatively that all are one in Christ.

scholarly journals The Boundaries of Language: Dealing with Paralinguistic Features

2012 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maciej Karpiński
Keyword(s):  
Significant Progress ◽  
Speech Technology ◽  
Flexible Approach ◽  
Speech Prosody ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Gesture Analysis ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Consistent Approach ◽  
New System

ABSTRACT Maciej Karpiński. The Boundaries of Language: Dealing with Paralinguistic Features. Lingua Posnaniensis, vol. LIV (2)/2012. The Poznań Society for the Advancement of the Arts and Sciences. PL ISSN 0079-4740, ISBN 978-83-7654-252-2, pp. 37-54. The paralinguistic component of communication attracted a great deal of attention from contemporary linguists in the 1960s. The seminal works written then by Trager, Crystal and others had a powerful influence on the concept of paralanguage that lasted for many years. But, with the focus shifting towards the socio-psychological context of communication in the 1970s, the development of spoken corpora and databases and the significant progress in speech technology in the 1980s and 1990s, the need has arisen for a more comprehensive, coherent and formalised - but also flexible - approach to paralinguistic features. This study advances some preliminary proposals for a revised treatment of paralanguage that would meet some of these requirements and provide a conceptual basis for a new system of annotation for paralinguistic features. A range of views on paralinguistic features, which come mostly from the fields of speech prosody and gesture analysis, are briefly discussed. A number of assumptions and postulates are formulated to allow for a more consistent approach to paralinguistic features. The study suggests that there should be more reliance on continua than on binary categorisations of features, that multi-functionality and multimodality should be fully acknowledged and that clear distinctions should be made among the levels of description, and between the properties of speakers and the speech signal itself.

scholarly journals Symposium in Honor of Irving I. Gottesman (December 29, 1930–June 29, 2016)

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 281-284
Author(s):  
Nancy L. Segal
Keyword(s):  
International Society ◽  
Human Genetics ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Twin Studies ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Twin Research ◽  
Profound Influence ◽  
To Come ◽  
Personal Reflections ◽  
Academic Positions

The June 2016 death of our esteemed colleague, Dr Irving I. Gottesman, was felt as an extreme loss at so many levels by colleagues, students, friends, and family across the globe. Irv's stellar contributions to the field of twin research will continue to be remembered and cited for many years to come. In commemoration of his life and work, I organized a symposium at the 16th meeting of the International Society for Twin Studies, held in Madrid, Spain, November 16–18, 2017. The panelists included mostly former students, as well as colleagues, who presented their scientific research and personal remarks reflecting Irv's profound influence in shaping their lives and careers. A chronology of Irv's academic positions and honors is included in the introduction to this special issue of Twin Research and Human Genetics, followed by brief sketches of the panel participants; their scholarly papers and personal reflections follow.

scholarly journals This Kinetic World: Rethinking the Grid (Neo-Baroque Calls)

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 285
Author(s):  
Lara D. Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Linear Perspective ◽  
Port Cities ◽  
Control Society ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Performance Research

In performance research today, as in the 1960s, the pressing question is: how to do things with systems. I return to the grid to attend both sites and modes of cultural practices and techniques� (technologies) that so powerfully harness and transform the control society.� My approach to the grid as dispositif seeks to open familiar dialogues, about variants of subjectivity and presence, to the materialities and devices of systems, structures, and bureaucratic operations. As seeing machine, the grid�s story includes linear perspective, geometricization, and fugitivity. Defined by consistency and contradition, by optics, haptics, and cybernetics, I identify grid logics with the neo-baroque. Exploring the grid through tiling, weaving, seafaring, and curating techniques that link the administrative and the algorithmic state, I discuss the arts of two architectural sites in the port cities of Cartagena, Colombia and Singapore.

scholarly journals Reflections on Twin Relationships: Twins Reared Apart and Twins of Opposite Sex / Research Reviews: Second Language Acquisition; Twin Research on Political Behavior; Twinning Rate in Cândido Godói / Human Interest: Twin ‘Cousins’ Separated at Birth; Chinese Quadruplets; Genetic Testing; KÀ (Cirque du Soleil)

2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 788-792
Author(s):  
Nancy L. Segal
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Genetic Testing ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Political Behavior ◽  
Twin Studies ◽  
Multiple Birth ◽  
General Interest ◽  
Cirque Du Soleil ◽  
Opposite Sex

The complexities of twin relationships posed by separate rearing and by opposite sex are considered. Unusual cases may highlight unique social-interactional processes and outcomes occurring in these pairs. Research reviews include recent twin studies on second language acquisition, political behavior, and multiple birth rates. Items of more general interest include twin ‘cousins’ reared apart, indistinguishable monozygotic quadruplets, a genetic testing dilemma, and a performance about separated twins.

Wertham’s Little Goblins

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Cremins
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Comic Books ◽  
Comic Book ◽  
The United States ◽  
Childhood Memories ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Comics Studies ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S

After Fawcett’s legal settlement with National in 1953, the original Captain Marvel did not return to comic books until 1973. In the meantime, comic book fans and amateur historians began writing about the character in the 1960s. This chapter traces Captain Marvel’s afterlife in these fanzines, publications that helped to establish the foundation for comics studies in the United States. The chapter also includes an overview of recent developments in the field of memory and nostalgia studies. These recent studies of the history of nostalgia in medicine, psychology, and the arts are essential for an understanding of how childhood memories have shaped comics studies as a discipline.

Epilogue

2020 ◽  
pp. 289-316
Author(s):  
Robert Kelz
Keyword(s):  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Drama Theory ◽  
The Arts ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Migrant Groups

This concluding chapter takes a look at the German theaters of Argentina between the 1930s and the 1960s. During this time, Buenos Aires was a volatile, conflict-ridden place which allowed both antifascist and nationalist German blocs to cultivate intercultural alliances without modifying many aspects of their own political platform. Here, the chapter revisits the themes introduced in this volume by linking them to a more poignantly profiled reflection on the salient themes of this study, including inclusion and exclusion, integration, transnationalism, drama theory, theatrical energies, and, of course, competition. The central role of theater enables a reexamination of German-speaking immigrants in Argentina, emphasizing previously underexplored events and individuals while offering new perspectives on more frequently studied topics. The chapter thus depicts the impact of theater on existing narratives about Germans in Argentina, as well as the power of a focus on culture and the arts to inform and shape studies of migrant groups.

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