The Dance Collector: Stories about people who can dance, people who aren't me.

The project is an ongoing exploration into the process of sharing memories, anecdotes and dance moves as a means of bringing communities together and engendering the possibilities for richer immersive performance experiences. Through the process of gathering, documenting and responding to these garnered evocations, my research considers the shifting levels of audience engagement and participation and the significance of site and location. As an integral part of this participatory art project, I adopt the role of the ‘Dance Collector’: I will try to learn your moves and will teach you mine. I cannot dance, but you can watch me try. I am particularly interested in documenting and performatively curating the experience of people whose reflections on special first meetings or of falling in love are accompanied by the excitement of dance movement. I seek to elicit memories of the intimacy, excitement, exhilaration of those dances at weddings, school discos, village halls and football stands. I want to collect these instances of social dance, interweaving them into an ongoing processual performance that transforms the testimony of others into an embodied archive. The work shown here has evolved through interactions and residencies that have taken place at various community settings including: Crewe Community Centre, Hunt & Darton’s Café (Manchester & Preston), Preston Market and The Birley Studios in Preston

Le repérage de l'affect dans l'entretien clinique avec le patient souffrant de schizophrénie : proposition méthodologique

International audienceThe authors take up the question of expression of affect in clinical interview with schizophrenic patient from analysis of interactions; they underline that verbal interaction enable privileged investigation of affect rationality. They propose a reflection about a model of analysis and formalisation; this one may initiate the construction of a model which emphasizes the types of conversational shapes underlying therapeutic strategies of change. The emotive dimension, as it is studied in psychanalytic theories can be questionned by cognitive and conversational theories. Indeed, cognitive and conversational enlightenment are used to bring out marks of affect expression, on the one hand, about syntactic and semantic structure of utterances, on the other hand, about shapes of conversational structures. So, this article presents a method which permits to study structure of conversations as ground of accomplishment of affect expression in interaction. From an illustration, the authors explain how some clinician’s interventions are a prop of exploration of affect in conversation. The studied conversational sequence invite to think that some modalities of interaction organize connection of subject with his own affects, updating it in therapeutic relation. The authors brings out the idea that conversational relation facilitate the creation of a specific psychic space permitting mutual prop between intersubjective ties and intrapsychic.Les auteurs abordent la question de l’expression de l’affect dans l’entretien clinique avec le patient soufrant des chizophrénie à partir de l’analyse des interactions langagières, en montrant que l’interaction verbale est un lieu d’investigation privilégié de la rationalité de l’affect. Ils se proposent de réfléchir à un modèle d’analyse et de formalisation permettant d’initier la construction d’un modèle qui circonscrive les types de configurations dialogiques sous-jacentes aux stratégies thérapeutiques porteuses de changement. La dimension affective telle qu’elle est étudiée parles théories psychanalytiques et réinterrogée au risque des théories cognitivo conversationnelles. L’éclairage cognitivo-dialogique est, en effet, utilisé pour mettre en évidence l’existence de marqueurs associés à l’expression des affects, d’une part, au niveau de la structure syntaxico- sémantique des énoncés, d’autre part, au niveau de la configuration des structures conversationnelles. En ce sens, l’article présente une méthode permettant d’étudier la structure des conversations en montrant en quoi elles sont la matrice de l’accomplissement de l’expression des affects dans l’interaction. À partir d’une illustration, les auteurs expliquent comment certains types d’intervention du clinicien constituent un support à l’exploration de l’affect dans l’échange. La séquence dialogique étudiée invite à penser que certaines modalités d’interaction réorganisent le rapport du sujet à ses propres affects, en actualisant dans le lien au thérapeute. Les auteurs avancent alors l’idée que la relation dialogique facilite la création d’un espace psychique particulier permettant le co-étayage entre les liens intersubjectifs et l’intrapsychique

Extending the scale of inductance using 1:1 comparator bridge

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The chalcogen elements oxygen, sulfur, and selenium are essential constituents of side chain functions of natural amino acids. Conversely, no structural and biological function has been discovered so far for the heavier and more metallic tellurium element. In the methionine series, only the sulfur-containing methionine is a proteinogenic amino acid, while selenomethionine and telluromethionine are natural amino acids that are incorporated into proteins most probably because of the tolerance of the methionyl-tRNA synthetase; so far, methoxinine the oxygen analogue has not been discovered in natural compounds. Similarly, the chalcogen analogues of tryptophan and phenylalanine in which the benzene ring has been replaced by the largely isosteric thiophene, selenophene, and more recently, even tellurophene are fully synthetic mimics that are incorporated with more or less efficiency into proteins via the related tryptophanyl- and phenylalanyl-tRNA synthetases, respectively. In the serine/cysteine series, also selenocysteine is a proteinogenic amino acid that is inserted into proteins by a special translation mechanism, while the tellurocysteine is again most probably incorporated into proteins by the tolerance of the cysteinyl-tRNA synthetase. For research purposes, all of these natural and synthetic chalcogen amino acids have been extensively applied in peptide and protein research to exploit their different physicochemical properties for modulating structural and functional properties in synthetic peptides and rDNA expressed proteins as discussed in the following review

Analyzing pathogenic (double-stranded (ds) DNA-specific) plasma cells via immunofluorescence microscopy

Introduction While protective plasma cells (PCs) are an important part of the individual’s immune defense, autoreactive plasma cells such as dsDNA-specific plasma cells contribute to the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases like systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). However, the research on dsDNA-specific plasma cells was restricted to the ELISpot technique, with its limitations, as no other attempt for identification of dsDNA-reactive plasma cells had been successful. Methods With improved fluorochrome labeling of dsDNA, removal of DNA aggregates, and enhanced blocking of unspecific binding, we were able to specifically detect dsDNA-reactive plasma cells by immunofluorescence microscopy. Results Via this novel technique we were able to distinguish short-lived (SLPCs) and long-lived (LLPCs) autoreactive plasma cells, discriminate dsDNA-specific plasma cells according to their immunoglobulin class (IgG, IgM, and IgA) and investigate autoreactive (dsDNA) and vaccine- induced ovalbumin (Ova) plasma cells in parallel. Conclusions The detection of autoreactive dsDNA-specific plasma cells via immunofluorescence microscopy allows specific studies on pathogenic and protective plasma cell subsets and their niches, detailed evaluation of therapeutic treatments and therefore offers new possibilities for basic and clinical research

A Process Engine Independent Architecture Enabling Robust Execution of Mobile Tasks in Business Processes

With the fast improvements of mobile technology in the last century, the importance of mobile and pervasive computing has increased in all disciplines of computer science. The new technologies have set the stage for a whole set of new applications (e.g., medical- and business-applications). Since Business Process Management Systems (BPMSs) are an established and widely used technique in various businesses and industries to manage recurring workflows and to support people in performing their tasks efficiently, the integration of mobile support into a business process environment is desirable. In prior research work, a framework to foster the execution of business processes on mobile devices was introduced. It describes a life cycle for mobile tasks based on an automated delegation mechanism and a backup operation for escalation handling. In this work, the framework will be extended to cope with crucial shortcomings such as the execution of mobile tasks in an unreliable network. Using this, an architectural concept for integrating mobile processes into an existing business process environment will be introduced. A three layer architecture that introducing an intermediate service layer for the mobile task execution will be used to minimize the impact on underlying systems. Additionally, a prototype has been implemented, which will be evaluated against three BPMSs, to prove the feasibility of this approach

Urban Lifewor(l)ds: Footsteps, Futures, and Narrative Repair

This article focuses on narrative encounters between people, cities, and stories, and the narrative, material, and futuristic urban plotting. It explores how people engage with narrative heritage, its objects – not just neoliberal wet dreams and dystopias, but also speculative street theatre, participatory utopian fiction, orature, or lyrics – and the practices of co-writing, reading, and listening to ask, beyond Henri Lefebvre, not simply ‘who has the right to the city’, but who can narrate its shared pasts and futures, and how. In the paper, I treat stories and urban architecture as interwoven and co-constitutive modalities of heritage preservation, destruction, repair and futurescaping, drawing attention, after Don Mitchell and Sara Zawde, to the narrative affordances of built landscapes as ‘metaphors to live by’ and to the design-making force of narratives and words. The narrative heritages I center on are, therefore, not simply literary texts but diverse narrative acts, including narrators, different media, spaces, and situated rehearsals of public and collective sci-fi storytelling, writing, and listening for togetherness and less violent futures. The article meanders across several urban narrative situations: ‘Society of the Future’ showcases designed by students after dystopian novels and urbanscapes in Boston; speculative heritage live action role-play (LARP) in the streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts, US; ‘wave writing’ experiments in Trondheim/Tråante, Norway; and Søstrene Suse’s Radiokino listening sessions in the footprints of Sámi Elsa Laula Renberg across Scandinavia. It concludes with a reflection on the archives of narrative ‘repair’ and urban otherworldliness as pedagogies of non-necrotic futuring