FFEM Project ‘Réhabilitation des Ecosystèmes Insulaires’. Island Conservation Society & MENRT (Seychelles).

O presente artigo desenvolve uma analise do Sensacionismo da estetica modernista do poeta Fernando (Antonio Nogueira) Pessoa (Portugal, 1888-1935) em dialogo com a teologia da arte de Paul Tillich (1886-1965). O objetivo do mesmo e definir a relacao entre religiao e literatura na modernidade como problema investigativo para uma abordagem do Sensacionismo como ideia central da poetica pessoana e chave de compreensao de sua proposta teorica modernista. Na condicao de projeto estetico, o Sensacionismo representou a essencia do modernismo portugues em sua primeira geracao, tomando a sensacao como categoria determinante para a poetica, a compreensao e a expressao da condicao humana. Desse modo, o Sensacionismo fornecia a Pessoa uma compreensao hermeneutica da arte intrinsecamente vinculada a vida. A problematica da investigacao, por sua vez, investe na identificacao e na analise do significado existencial-religioso do modernismo de Pessoa. Para tal, em um primeiro momento, situaremos a r...

Art is as beautiful as sunshine and as important as nourishment to our body. Though art is a stimulating aspect, art appreciation is regarded as a highly subjective phenomenon. Art education and art appreciation is known to enrich the lives of children. Various factors including one’s experience, knowledge, and exposure to arts as well as processing fluency are known to influence one’s aesthetic appreciation. The objective of the present study is to examine children’s expressions of art appreciation. The quantitative study examines how children respond to artworks from different artistic genres. The participants in this study are sixty grade IX children in the age group of 13-15 years, from rural and urban backgrounds from the state of Telangana. The study employed equal number of boys and girls. Images of nine famous artworks depicting landscapes are used as stimuli. The images of artworks belonged to three artistic genres: representational, semi-representational, and abstract artw...

The purpose of this study is to determine whether service quality perceptions of hotel employees affect their work job satisfaction and to reveal whether internal market orientation has an intermediary role in this interaction. The population of the research is “All employees working in hotels with tourism establishment certificates which were operating in Turkey throughout the month of June 2019”. Data obtained from AKTOB – Association of Mediterranean Tourism, were used to determine the population size of the research. Within the scope of the data obtained, the size of the population was set as 315.513 people. Since it was not possible for the population, random sampling was used. In sampling, out of random sampling methods, the “field sampling method” was adopted. For this study, a test model has been developed and a survey has been conducted on 303 employees. In this study, internal market orientation was researched by using the structural equation model by associating the perce...

Transplantation of pancreatic islets can provide long-lasting insulin independence for diabetic patients, but the current islet supply is limited. Here we describe a new in vitro system that utilizes adult human pancreatic islet-enriched fractions to generate hormone-producing cells over 3–4 weeks of culture. By labeling proliferating cells with a retrovirus-expressing green fluorescent protein, we show that in this system hormone-producing cells are generated de novo. These hormone-producing cells aggregate to form islet-like cell clusters. The cell clusters, when tested in vitro, release insulin in response to glucose and other secretagogues. After transplantation into immunodeficient, nondiabetic mice, the islet-like cell clusters survive and release human insulin. We propose that this system will be useful as an experimental tool for investigating mechanisms for generating new islet cells from the postnatal pancreas, and for designing strategies to generate physiologically compe...

This research is about the mitigation or prevention of social disasters based on local wisdom that occurred in the Wadaslintang area, Wonosobo Regency. This study uses a qualitative approach. Data were collected through this research method using the method of literature study or literature study. This method was chosen because of the short research time and to find references on the basis of theories that are relevant to the cases or problems found. This study aims to determine one of the local wisdoms used to prevent social disasters. The results showed that: (a). The slamatan (tumpengan) which is given the name buceng stands for "nyebuto sing kenceng" which means praying together in earnest, which is exchanged for those present which is interpreted as friendship, mutual cooperation and kinship between members of the community so that they live safely, securely, and peacefully. (b). Wayang kulit performances at night are a means of learning for the younger generation to...

Despite significant investments and reforms, First Nations students have poorer educational outcomes than non-indigenous students. Scholars have pointed to the need to improve the cultural competence of teachers and school leaders, revise punitive and exclusionary disciplinary procedures. and promote the use of culturally responsive practices to mitigate the impacts of colonization, transgenerational trauma and ongoing structural inequities on students. The development of such trauma-informed, culturally responsive systems in schools requires educators to respectfully work in partnership with First Nations communities, as well as health and community services supporting First Nations families. This pilot study evaluates the impact of multi-tier trauma-informed behavior support practices in a regional primary school with a large population of First Nations students. Utilizing a multiple time series, quasi-experimental, within-subjects design, data on the rates of school attendance an...

Rice bran was extracted using ultrasonic method with varied solvents (ethanol, ethyl acetate and n-hexane) and extraction times (20, 25 and 30 minutes). The aim of this study was to determine toxicity value of rice bran extract with variation of solvents and extraction times. Rice bran extracts were tested its toxicity by BSLT method and its secondary metabolite by phytochemical test with reagents. Mortality data of shrimp larvae was analyzed by probit to determine LC50 values. Yield of ethanolic extract of rice bran for E1-20, E1-25 and E1-30 samples was 18.159, 19.132 and 18.280%, respectively. Rice bran extracts by ethyl acetate solvent (E2) and n-hexane (E3) gave different yields such as 8.302% (E2-20), 7.282% (E2-25), 9.18% (E2-30), 7.815% (E3-20), 7.125% (E3-25), and 7.279% (E3-30). All of rice bran extracts contained flavonoids, steroids and triterpenoids. LC50 values in ethanolic extract of rice bran for E1-20, E1-25 dan E1-30 samples were 613.258, 673.210 and 2217.255 ppm,...

In this article we present our experience with the concept of the unstable aortic sac after endovascular aortic aneurysm repair. The improvements in ultrasound technology and features suggestive of sac instability are described. Patients with this condition are usually considered to have endotension, in which the aortic sac undergoes progressive enlargement in the absence of any demonstrable endoleak. We have found, however that approximately one third of these patients have intermittent or posture-dependent endoleaks. The secondary ultrasound manoeuvres that enable these endoleaks to be diagnosed are described. An awareness of the potential presence of these endoleaks may avoid unnecessary conversion to open repair or late rupture.