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New-Generation Social And Political Ideas In The 2023 Phan Waen Fah Award–Winning Short Stories, Khwanchanok Naijarun

Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia

This research is aimed at analyzing the social and political ideas of new-generation characters (i.e., teenagers, young adults, university students) in the short stories that won the Phan Waen Fah Literature Prize in 2023. The study employs a qualitative methodology to understand and interpret the ten out of thirteen prize-winning short stories. Through textual analysis, the study identifies two main concepts explored in the narratives, namely, liberal democracy, which includes freedom of sexuality and freedom of speech, and moral politics, which encompasses respecting elders, being a good person under a democratic regime, fostering unity, and being wise about using technology. …

Key Concepts In The Murals Depicting The Story Of Mahajanaka In The Ordination Hall Of Ratchaphatikaram Temple, Dusit District, Bangkok, Jiraporn Adchariyaprasit, Paiboon Chuwatthanakij

Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia

This article is aimed at studying the key concepts depicted in the murals about the past lives of the Buddha Mahajanaka in the ordination hall of Ratchaphatikaram Temple, Dusit District, Bangkok. Through an analysis of the paintings, the researchers note the following concepts: perseverance, the main theme of the murals, which is consistent with the Jataka tales or the birth stories of Buddha; the importance of knowledge and avoidance of vices; and government and national development in the context of governing the country with intellect and perseverance and developing the country using technology in conjunction with knowledge and morality. The …

The Ideal “Home/Family” Vs. (Possibly) Unbeautiful Realities: Meanings And Reflections In Kadee Rak Raang, Wipada Rattanadilok Na Phuket

Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia

This analysis of the novel Kadee Rak Raang (The Case of Abandoned Love) is aimed at studying the changing meaning of the word “home” as illustrated in the text and at examining the home as a space where the roles and identities of women are expressed. The researcher posits that home is not just a physical space, but also a cultural space. Ideally, home/family is characterized by having complete family members, being a happy space, and being a safe zone or a mental shelter. However, when this ideal cannot be maintained, the concept of home/ family may be negotiated and …

From “Black” To “Khaek”: Thai Superiority And Ethnic Assimilation In King Vajiravudh’S Adaptation Of Othello, Phaya Ratchawangsan, Faris Yothasamuth

Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia

Phaya Ratchawangsan is a Thai adaptation by King Vajiravudh in 1911 of Shakespeare’s Othello. It mainly follows the plot of Othello, but the settings and all characters are changed to resemble Thai places and names. Othello the Moor becomes the Malay general Phaya Ratchawangsan. As Othello presents the relationship between the “blackamoor” and white Europeans, so Phaya Ratchawangsan presents the relationship between the Malay outsider or “Khaek” and Thais. This article argues that as King Vajiravudh transposed Othello to the Thai setting, the racial theme persisted. While Phaya Ratchawangsan does not exhibit a direct racist thought that targets the Malay, …

The Development Of A Rabies Virus-Vectored Vaccine Against Borrelia Burgdorferi, Targeting Bbi39, Shantel Rios, Bibek Bhattachan, Kruthi Vavilikolanu, Chrysoula Kitsou, Utpal Pal, Matthias J. Schnell

Department of Microbiology and Immunology Faculty Papers

Lyme disease (LD) is the most common tick-borne illness in the United States (U.S.), Europe, and Asia. Borrelia burgdorferi, a spirochete bacterium transmitted by the tick vector Ixodes scapularis, causes LD in the U.S. If untreated, Lyme arthritis, heart block, and meningitis can occur. Given the absence of a human Lyme disease vaccine, we developed a vaccine using the rabies virus (RABV) vaccine vector BNSP333 and an outer surface borrelial protein, BBI39. BBI39 was previously utilized as a recombinant protein vaccine and was protective in challenge experiments; therefore, we decided to utilize this protective antigen in a rabies virus-vectored vaccine …

Extended Event Calculus Using Neutrosophic Logic: Method, Implementation, Analysis, Recent Progress And Future Directions, Antonios Paraskevas

Neutrosophic Systems with Applications

Brains do not reason as digital computers do. Computers reason in clear steps with statements that are either true or false, while humans reason with vague terms of common sense. Neutrosophy is a new branch of philosophy and machine intelligence that deals with neutralities, specifically the idea of indeterminacy that is evident and experienced in our everyday lives. Indeterminacy is interpreted as everything that falls between a concept, idea, statement, declaration, etc. and its opposite. The fundamental thesis of neutrosophy is to employ neutrosophic logic, an extension of fuzzy logic, to incorporate fuzzy truth into complex schemes of formal reasoning. …

Spotlight On Research: N.H.’S North Country, Nicholas Gosling

UNH Today Archive

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Impact Of Globalisation On Religious Tourism: The Case Of Vrindavan, India, Charlie Gupta, Ridhu Dhan Gahalot

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

The term ‘religious tourism’ refers to travel that is primarily inspired by spiritual beliefs (Smith, 2012). It serves as one of humanity’s oldest religious practices as well as one of the earliest examples of tourism (Timothy, 2011). Due in the main to the numerous sacred places that are dispersed throughout its vast geographic area, India, which is known for its rich heritage and culture, has attracted attention from throughout the world (Eck, 2011; Singh, 2013). As a result, it has become a well-known location for religious tourism. During the past ten years, this specific type of tourism has seen a …

Fecal Pharmacokinetics And Gut Microbiome Effects Of Oral Omadacycline Versus Vancomycin In Healthy Volunteers, Jinhee Jo, Chenlin Hu, Khurshida Begum, Weiqun Wang, Thanh M Le, Samantha Agyapong, Blake M Hanson, Hossaena Ayele, Chris Lancaster, M Jahangir Alam, Anne J Gonzales-Luna, Kevin W Garey

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

BACKGROUND: Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is a common healthcare-associated infection with limited treatment options. Omadacycline, an aminomethylcycline tetracycline, has potent in vitro activity against C difficile and a low propensity to cause CDI in clinical trials. We aimed to assess fecal pharmacokinetics and gut microbiome effects of oral omadacycline compared to oral vancomycin in healthy adults.

METHODS: This was a phase 1, nonblinded, randomized clinical trial conducted in healthy volunteers aged 18-40 years. Subjects received a 10-day course of omadacycline or vancomycin. Stool samples were collected at baseline, daily during therapy, and at follow-up visits. Omadacycline and vancomycin stool concentrations …

Therapeutic Antibodies For The Prevention And Treatment Of Cancer, Mukesh Kumar, Akansha Jalota, Sushil Kumar Sahu, Shabirul Haque

Department of Medical Oncology Faculty Papers

The developments of antibodies for cancer therapeutics have made remarkable success in recent years. There are multiple factors contributing to the success of the biological molecule including origin of the antibody, isotype, affinity, avidity and mechanism of action. With better understanding of mechanism of cancer progression and immune manipulation, recombinant formats of antibodies are used to develop therapeutic modalities for manipulating the immune cells of patients by targeting specific molecules to control the disease. These molecules have been successful in minimizing the side effects instead caused by small molecules or systemic chemotherapy but because of the developing therapeutic resistance against …

A Flexible, Quantitative Plasmonic-Fluor Lateral Flow Assay For The Rapid Detection Of Orthoebolavirus Zairense And Orthoebolavirus Sudanense, Abraham J Qavi, Qisheng Jiang, M Javad Aman, Hong Vu, Larry Zetlin, John M Dye, Jeffrey W Froude, Daisy W Leung, Frederick Holtsberg, Scott L Crick, Gaya K Amarasinghe

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Filoviruses comprise a family of single-stranded, negative-sense RNA viruses with a significant impact on human health. Given the risk for disease outbreaks, as highlighted by the recent outbreaks across Africa, there is an unmet need for flexible diagnostic technologies that can be deployed in resource-limited settings. Herein, we highlight the use of plasmonic-fluor lateral flow assays (PF-LFA) for the rapid, quantitative detection of an Ebolavirus-secreted glycoprotein, a marker for infection. Plasmonic fluors are a class of ultrabright reporter molecules that combine engineered nanorods with conventional fluorophores, resulting in improved analytical sensitivity. We have developed a PF-LFA for

Remedial Action Work Plan Silver Bow Montessori, Environmental Resource Management (Erm)

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

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Nest/Ing Un/Methodologies, Jayne Osgood, Claire Walsh

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

A dense, pungent, brown-green, intricately woven, itchy-silky, moss-strewn, twig- ridden ball brought us together.Since then, nest(ing)[i] has become a shared methodology - nest/ing has offered a praxis of getting to know each other, getting to know nests (better) and it has become a capacious writing methodology. Taking nest(ing) seriously has drawn into sharp focus the perils of human exceptionalism. Nesting has gifted opportunities to wallow in porous boundaries and to luxuriate in modes of liminal reading/writing/experimenting, informed by a feminist politics to imagine the world differently (Despret, 2016). It is through lively storytelling, involving passing patterns back and forth that …

Exploring The Potential Of Halal Tourism In A Non-Muslim Destination: The Case Of Portugal, João Domingues, Sofia Almeida

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

Halal Tourism has emerged as one of the most rapidly growing and auspicious market segments within the tourism industry. The main goal of this study is to ascertain whether Portugal has the necessary capabilities to develop a sustainable and competitive halal tourism market and if it can attract Muslim travellers. This research applied a qualitative methodology based on in-depth interviews with representatives of businesses companies and institutions from various subsectors of the tourism industry. Moreover, a netnographic technique was applied to gather secondary information. The results reveal that despite Portugal having full potential and all the conditions to develop halal …

Transformer Decoder With Tokenized Image Snapshot For Interactive Augmented Reality, D Shin

Defensive Publications Series

While augmented reality (AR) devices enable users to provide queries via different modalities such as touch, gesture, voice, camera, etc., providing multimodal queries currently requires a user to perform multiple manual steps. This disclosure describes techniques, implemented with user permission, for automatic intelligent multimodal input capture by an AR device to understand user queries by automatically capturing input from additional modalities besides the one that the user uses to provide the query. The initial query (e.g., a spoken query) is decoded, e.g., with a transformer decoder, and if the query indicates an additional modality for input, the decoding is paused, …

Insider Perspective: Streamlining Life Science Corporate Training By Embracing Ai, Jim Ferreira

Newhouse Impact Journal

In this dynamic exploration of the transformative impact of generative AI in the field of adult learning and employee education, the author, a seasoned professional at MilliporeSigma, sheds light on the rapidly evolving landscape of biotechnology. Emphasizing the pivotal role of employees, the article outlines the challenges faced by commercial sales professionals in keeping abreast of the ever-expanding knowledge landscape. The introduction of generative AI, represents a step change in creating efficient training materials at enterprise scale by enabling a shift in the role of high-value SMEs from content creators to reviewers.

Recent Literature, North American Bird Bander

North American Bird Bander

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A Tail-Mounted Radio Transmitter For Eastern Bluebirds, T. David Pitts

North American Bird Bander

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Hantavirus: Warning To Bird Banders, C. Stuart Houston

North American Bird Bander

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Recent Literature, North American Bird Bander

North American Bird Bander

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Nest Site Fidelity And Adult Longevity In The Black Swift (Cypseloides Niger), Charles T. Collins, Kevin S. Foerster

North American Bird Bander

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Western Regional News, North American Bird Bander

North American Bird Bander

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Tarsal Widths And Band Sizes For Tree Swallows And Violet-Green Swallows, Robert R. Cohen

North American Bird Bander

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Leg Bands Cause Injuries To Parakeets And Parrots, J. Michael Meyers

North American Bird Bander

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Books, North American Bird Bander

North American Bird Bander

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Recent Literature, North American Bird Bander

North American Bird Bander

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Eastern Regional News, North American Bird Bander

North American Bird Bander

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Verifying The Accuracy Of Band Recovery Information, C. Stuart Houston, Charles M. Francis

North American Bird Bander

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Techniques For Feral Pigeon Trapping, Tagging And Nest Monitoring, J. Edward Kautz, Thomas W. Seamans

North American Bird Bander

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Western Regional News, North American Bird Bander

North American Bird Bander

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