This article explores how Hanna Cormick's performance The Mermaid advances an understanding of air as a substance that connects bodies in lively, dangerous, and potentially even deadly ways. As ...someone who lives with multiple chronic health conditions that are activated by environmental or chemical pollutants, Cormick is particularly attuned to seemingly innocuous airborne substances. This article considers how The Mermaid draws on Cormick's lived experience to illustrate what Stacy Alaimo describes as 'performances of exposure', a concept that demonstrates how humans are linked in a transcorporeal relationship to the environment in life sustaining and life destroying ways. When performing live, Cormick lives with the very real possibility that she will have a seizure or an allergic reaction in response to an airborne pollutant in the performance space. This risk therefore prompts questions related to ethical spectatorship, as audiences are forced to grapple with their own complicity and responsibility in creating a safe and liveable space for Cormick and each other. In much the same way that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to the fore the dangers of shared (air) space and airborne transmission, so too does The Mermaid highlight our communal responsibility for the health and safety of others, and of the Earth. What is revealed by considering the ways we are materially linked to the air/space in which performances like The Mermaid take place? What kinds of ethical stakes emerge when we acknowledge the shared air/space of the performance as teeming with meaning? How does positioning the work as a performance of exposure make us more acutely aware of our enmeshment in the world, our culpability in the escalating effects of climate change, and our responsibility in cultivating communally liveable (and breathable) air/spaces? In posing these questions, this article considers how Cormick's work presents new forms of ethical relations that are based on a politics of atmospheric exposure.
The present study aims to highlight some themes, directions and ethical aspects revealed by Andersen's fairy tales, the conception of the world, our existence and its meaning. Andersen is a romantic ...who sees childhood as a pure, but fleeting and sometimes tragic age. Some critics spoke of metaphysical themes and his desire to draw the ideal of humanity but they also offer us a pretext for analysis and meditation.
"I listened to them children, really, at their height. What they had to tell me seemed much more interesting than anything anyone could. Luminous, powerful, touching, stirring. It's this force of ...childhood that I try to show in my novels."
One of the hallmarks of Celiac disease (CD) is intraepithelial lymphocytosis in the small intestine. Until now, investigations to characterize the T cell subpopulations within the epithelial layer ...have not discriminated between the heterodimeric co-receptor molecule, CD8αβ, and the possibly immunoregulatory CD8αα homodimer molecule. Besides TCRαβ+ CD4+ cells, no other phenotypes have been shown to be gluten-reactive. Using flow cytometry on lymphocytes from duodenal biopsies, we determined that the number of B cells (CD3- CD19+) and the number of CD3+ CD4- CD8- double-negative (DN) T cells were elevated 6-7 fold in children with CD. We next isolated and quantified intraepithelial lymphocytes (IELs) from biopsies obtained from patients (both children and adults) with CD, potential CD and non-CD controls. Flow cytometric analysis of the duodenal T cell subpopulations was performed including the markers TCRαβ, TCRγδ, CD4, CD8α and CD8β. Proportions of γδ T cells and CD8αβ+ cells among IELs were increased in CD patients, whereas proportions of CD4+ CD8αα+ and CD4+ single-positive T cells were decreased. Additionally, two gluten-reactive T cell lines (TCLs) derived from CD biopsies were analyzed for changes in proportions of T cell subsets before and after gluten stimulation. In a proliferation assay, dividing cells were tracked with carboxyfluorescein succinimidyl ester (CFSE), and both αβ and γδ T cells proliferated in response to gluten. Changes in duodenal T cell subpopulations in potential CD patients followed the same pattern as for CD patients, but with less pronounced effect.
The Danish fairy tale author Hans Christian Andersen is cultural heritage in Denmark, and his authorship is a part of The Canon of Danish Literature that contains 14 obligatory authorships in the ...Danish educational system. In this article, we examine how the cultural policy of the ideologically rooted and highly political canon affects current teaching materials on Andersen's fairy tales. Our examples show how fixed readings of the fairy tales are reproduced in Danish classrooms. We suggest that dialogic teaching approaches to the fairy tales have potential to counter such readings and offer teachers and students the opportunity to engage with canonical literature in new ways. However, based on examples from existing dialogic teaching materials for Andersen's fairy tales, we also conclude that the task of countering the inexpedient influence of cultural policy in teaching materials should not be underestimated.
Long standing vitamin D deficiency in children causes rickets with growth impairment. We investigated whether sub-ischial leg length (SLL) is shorter, and cephalo-caudal length:length (CCL:L) ratio ...and sitting height:height (SH:H) ratio larger, with lower cord s-25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) in the population-based prospective Odense Child Cohort, Denmark.
We included healthy singletons born to term with available measures of cord 25OHD and anthropometrics up to three years' age. Linear regression was stratified by sex a priori and adjusted for maternal ethnicity, pre-pregnancy body mass index and smoking during pregnancy, season of blood sampling and child age.
Median (IQR) cord 25OHD was 48.0 (34.0-62.4) nmol/L. At mean age 19.1 months, n = 504, mean (SD) SLL was 31.7 (1.7) cm; CCL:L-ratio 0.62 (0.01). At 36.3 months, n = 956, mean SLL was 42.9 (2.0) cm; SH:H-ratio 0.56 (0.01). No participants had rickets. In adjusted analyses, 19-months-old boys had 0.1 cm shorter SLL (p = 0.009) and 0.1% higher CCL:L-ratio (p = 0.04) with every 10 nmol/L increase in cord 25OHD. Similar findings were seen for late pregnancy 25OHD. In the highest cord 25OHD quartile (>60.7 nmol/L), SLL was 0.8 cm shorter (95% C.I.: 1.36;-0.29, linear trend, p = 0.004), and CCL:L-ratio 0.8% higher (95% C.I. 8.0x10-05;0.01, linear trend, p = 0.01), compared to lowest quartile (<30.7 nmol/L). Similar associations with cord 25OHD were observed in 3-year-old boys. No consistent associations between 25OHD and anthropometrics were seen in girls at either age.
No leg shortening was found with decreasing cord s-25OHD in a healthy population of infants. A small, yet significant inverse association between cord 25OHD and SLL in boys 1½-3 years warrants further investigations.
"A citi pentra întâia oarä o carte este ca ci cum ti-ai face un nou prieten" spune un proverb chinezesc, iar sala este organizatä în aça fel încât micii ei utilizatori sa-çi faca cât mai multi ...prieteni de acest fel. In sala se regäsesc materiale didactice,plançe, cärti cu poveçti, basme, enciclopedii, atlase, dictionare, publicatii în limbi sträine, cärti din bibliografia çcolara, manuale §i materiale auxiliare ci, de asemenea, pot fi consultate documente multimedia (cásete audio, cásete video, CD-uri, DVD-uri). Sala de lectura pentra copii §i tineret este un loc ideal pentra copiii care vin sä studieze sau sä-si faca témele. într-un climat pläcut, copiii pot desfäcura ci activitäti recreative (sah, monopoly, jocuri care le dezvoltä inteligenta).
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