scholarly journals The Opposing Viewpoints of Slavery in Nineteenth-Century American Poetry: An Anthology

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 36-48
Author(s):  
Madison Yeary
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
American History ◽  
Critical Time ◽  
American Poetry ◽  
Time Period

This anthology delves into a critical time period in American history, illustrates various arguments for and against slavery in the nineteenth century, and showcases some of the most powerful and insightful poems of the era.

scholarly journals Unseen Political Spaces: Gender and Nationhood in the Berlin and Paris Fashion Press during the Franco-Prussian War

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruxandra Looft
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Critical Time ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Women's Magazines ◽  
The Public ◽  
Shared History ◽  
Broad Audience ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Public Versus Private

The fashion press, and women’s magazines in general, are presumed to be spaces of political neutrality preoccupied with the trivialities of domesticity. Yet it is these very spaces that more easily evade political scrutiny that are often most powerful in reaching a broad audience on matters of politics and social change. This article explores how two Berlin and Paris fashion periodicals participated in the international dialogue on gender, nation-building, patriotism, and consumerism during a critical time between these two nations, namely during the Franco-Prussian war (July 1870 - May1871). A look at images and texts published in the Berlin-based Der Bazar and the Paris-based La Mode Illustrée during this critical time period in their shared history reveals how the fashion press contributed in complex and meaningful ways to an evolving understanding of Self, nationhood, gender, and the public versus private in nineteenth-century Europe. 

Nineteenth-Century American History

2018 ◽  
pp. 164-184
Author(s):  
GEORGE M. FREDRICKSON
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
American History

Maternal care and environmental enrichment influences on serotonin knockout mice with implications for a gene x stress model of autism

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Briana M. Kille
Keyword(s):  
Serotonin Transporter ◽  
Maternal Care ◽  
Environmental Enrichment ◽  
Environmental Influence ◽  
Repetitive Behavior ◽  
Critical Time ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Maternal Genotype ◽  
The University

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Previous research has shown a genetic variant in the serotonin transporter gene (Slc6a4) can increase the severity of a person's reaction to stress. This variant interacts with environmental stressors resulting in poorer health outcomes. Previous studies have also found that stressing pregnant mothers who carry the variant can result in an increased likelihood of autism diagnosis for the child. This maternal genotype x prenatal stress interaction has been modeled in the serotonin transporter knockout (SERT KO) mouse--dams genetically modified to mimic humans carrying the short allele were stressed during pregnancy resulting in offspring showing altered social behavior, repetitive behavior, and anxiety behavior. The first study included in this dissertation attempted to replicate this model while using a foster dam paradigm to avoid potential maternal care confounds. Surprisingly, the results showed that equalizing maternal care equalized several group differences in behavior. It is theorized that this is due to elimination of the neonatal insult from poor maternal care that would correspond to a human prenatal insult during a previously identified critical time period. The second study explored the potential effects environmentally enriched home cages on anxiety like behaviors of SERT KO mice. The study showed that all animals, regardless of genotype, showed fewer anxiety like behaviors in the open field assay. Together, these studies expand on our understanding of environmental influence on SERT KO mice used in translational studies.

scholarly journals Introduction: What is a Thing

Konturen ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Nicholas Reynolds ◽  
Jeffrey S Librett
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
American Poetry ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Everyday Objects ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Poetic Realism ◽  
Current Special Issue ◽  
Lost Object

As the modern world has seemed an increasingly material one, and so increasingly thingly, the very reality of things has often--and from many different perspectives--seemed to elude us. Questions about what things are, and how they mean, questions about how things are to be circumscribed (for example) in epistemological, ethical, aesthetic, and political terms, have arguably become--across the course of modernity (and beyond)--both increasingly pressing and increasingly vexed. -- In this extremely broad context, the contributions to the current Special Issue examine specific approaches to things from the later nineteenth century to today within the literary, philosophical, and psychoanalytic discourses. The foci range from the descriptive representationalism of nineteenth century German poetic realism to the monumentalization of everyday objects in postcolonial fiction; from the poetics of the Dinggedicht in Rilkean modernism to the Anglo-American imagist doctrine of "no ideas but in things" and the disruptions of this doctrine in contemporary German and American poetry; from Husserl's call "to the things themselves" to the Derridian displacements of the Heideggerian "thing" and on to the most recent developments in "object-oriented metaphysics"; from the Freudian notion of the unconscious as comprising "representations-of-things" to the Lacanian rereading of the lost object as das Ding.

scholarly journals How public perceptions of social distancing evolved over a critical time period: communication lessons learnt from the American state of Wisconsin

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (05) ◽  
pp. A11
Author(s):  
Kaiping Chen ◽  
Luye Bao ◽  
Anqi Shao ◽  
Pauline Ho ◽  
Shiyu Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Computational Methods ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Critical Time ◽  
Effective Communication ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Large Scale Survey ◽  
Main Barrier

Understanding how individuals perceive the barriers and benefits of precautionary actions is key for effective communication about public health crises, such as the COVID-19 outbreak. This study used innovative computational methods to analyze 30,000 open-ended responses from a large-scale survey to track how Wisconsin (U.S.A.) residents' perceptions of the benefits of and barriers to performing social distancing evolved over a critical time period (March 19th to April 1st, 2020). Initially, the main barrier was practical related, however, individuals later perceived more multifaceted barriers to social distancing. Communication about COVID-19 should be dynamic and evolve to address people's experiences and needs overtime.

scholarly journals The importance of elastin to aortic development in mice

2010 ◽  
Vol 299 (2) ◽  
pp. H257-H264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica E. Wagenseil ◽  
Christopher H. Ciliberto ◽  
Russell H. Knutsen ◽  
Marilyn A. Levy ◽  
Attila Kovacs ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Critical Time ◽  
Left Ventricular ◽  
Critical Threshold ◽  
Cardiovascular Development ◽  
Mouse Development ◽  
Hemodynamic Forces ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Stenotic Arteries ◽  
And Function

Elastin is an essential component of vertebrate arteries that provides elasticity and stores energy during the cardiac cycle. Elastin production in the arterial wall begins midgestation but increases rapidly during the last third of human and mouse development, just as blood pressure and cardiac output increase sharply. The aim of this study is to characterize the structure, hemodynamics, and mechanics of developing arteries with reduced elastin levels and determine the critical time period where elastin is required in the vertebrate cardiovascular system. Mice that lack elastin ( Eln−/−) or have approximately one-half the normal level ( Eln+/−) show relatively normal cardiovascular development up to embryonic day (E) 18 as assessed by arterial morphology, left ventricular blood pressure, and cardiac function. Previous work showed that just a few days later, at birth, Eln−/− mice die with high blood pressure and tortuous, stenotic arteries. During this period from E18 to birth, Eln+/− mice add extra layers of smooth muscle cells to the vessel wall and have a mean blood pressure 25% higher than wild-type animals. These findings demonstrate that elastin is only necessary for normal cardiovascular structure and function in mice starting in the last few days of fetal development. The large increases in blood pressure during this period may push hemodynamic forces over a critical threshold where elastin becomes required for cardiovascular function. Understanding the interplay between elastin amounts and hemodynamic forces in developing vessels will help design treatments for human elastinopathies and optimize protocols for tissue engineering.

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