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AbstractNot much is needed to get started in experimental hemostasis research. If you have not done so yet, just go to your institution's lab and ask whether you can use some of their equipment: pipette, centrifuge, microplate reader, and CaCl2, that's basically all you need. Then, let someone draw a vial of your blood and here you go, with your first blood clotting experiment. But, wait! One thing is still missing. To perform your first assay, you are advised to use a reagent that initiates clotting of your blood sample. Interested in contact activation? Wondering whether the presence of coagulation factor (F) XII really is unimportant (as indicated by the fact that a complete deficiency of FXII does not lead to bleeding)? Then do it the way Christian Kastrup and his research group did.1 Grab your backpack and collect soil and clay in the nearby countryside. Back in the lab, crush the collected soil and clay samples and add a small amount of each sample to your aliquoted blood plasma sample, then add CaCl2, and measure the plasma clotting time on the microplate reader (do not forget the negative control, i.e., the addition of buffer to plasma instead of soil or clay sample). Likely, you will detect a massive reduction of the plasma clotting time when adding soil or clay (which you may also call “dirt”) to the recalcified aliquoted plasma samples. Doing so, you just have found further evidence for the dirty-wound hypothesis of coagulation function as proposed by Brian Cooley recently.2 He explained that dirt is an unavoidable ingredient of open wounds of land-based animals, and that coagulation is activated by dirt via FXII. Still believe that FXII is irrelevant? Interesting, isn't it? Before you swing the pipette, you might also be inspired by the exciting research presented in this theme issue of Hämostaseologie entitled “Coagulation Diagnostics beyond Routine.”

“Swoop and Grab Your Rights”

Abstract This article centers community archives as sources of history as well as sites of theory to map interconnected social and ecological struggles in the Niti Valley of the central Himalayas from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. Tolchha and Marchha communities have integrated different ecological belts over centuries through lifeways of trade, pastoralism, and herb gathering. Colonial and postcolonial policies threatened to sever these lifeways through militarized borders, timber extraction, and the demarcation of the exclusive boundaries of the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve. Yet tribal communities have fought to maintain ancestral relations with land by infringing upon colonial restrictions and defying dichotomies of nature and culture through the postcolonial Chipko and Jhapto Cheeno movements. Juxtaposing official archives with community archives from Lata Village, this article argues that leaders of people's movements have sought to reclaim authority over Himalayan history and resituate rural struggles within the framework of Indigenous spatial knowledges.

Soil Base Crop Prediction using Machine Learning

In general, agriculture is the backbone [Grab your reader's attention with a great quote from the document or use this space to emphasize a key point. To place this text box anywhere on the page, just drag it.] of India and also plays an important role in Indian economy by providing a certain percentage of domestic product to ensure the food security. But now-a-days, food production and prediction is getting depleted due to unnatural climatic changes, which will adversely affect the economy of farmers by getting a poor yield and also help the farmers to remain less familiar in forecasting the future crops. This research work helps the beginner farmer in such a way to guide them for sowing the reasonable crops by deploying machine learning, one of the advanced technologies in crop prediction. Naive Bayes, a supervised learning algorithm puts forth in the way to achieve it. The seed data of the crops are collected here, with the appropriate parameters like temperature, humidity and moisture content, which helps the crops to achieve a successful growth. In addition as the software, a mobile application for Android is being developed. The users are encouraged to enter parameters like temperature and their location will be taken automatically in this application in order to start the prediction process

Soil base Crop Prediction using Machine Learning

In general, agriculture is the backbone [Grab your reader’s attention with a great quote from the document or use this space to emphasize a key point. To place this text box anywhere on the page, just drag it.]of India and also plays an important role in Indian economy by providing a certain percentage of domestic product to ensure the food security. But now-a-days, food production and prediction is getting depleted due to unnatural climatic changes, which will adversely affect the economy of farmers by getting a poor yield and also help the farmers to remain less familiar in forecasting the future crops. This research work helps the beginner farmer in such a way to guide them for sowing the reasonable crops by deploying machine learning, one of the advanced technologies in crop prediction. Naive Bayes, a supervised learning algorithm puts forth in the way to achieve it. The seed data of the crops are collected here, with the appropriate parameters like temperature, humidity and moisture content, which helps the crops to achieve a successful growth. In addition as the software, a mobile application for Android is being developed. The users are encouraged to enter parameters like temperature and their location will be taken automatically in this application in order to start the prediction process

Interest of the Students in the Lecturer's Teaching Performance in the Hybrid Classroom

Abstract. This study sought to determine whether students in the English Language Study Program are interested in the lecturer's teaching performance in learning English for Tourism subject for hybrid classroom, as well as the impact of the lecturer's teaching performance on students' interest in learning English for Tourism subject. This study employed a combination of quantitative and qualitative studies In the academic year 2021/2022, the population consisted of students of English Language Education (ELE) study program. There were 260 ELE students as the population. By addressing purposive sampling, which has some categories namely: the students who were enrolling in English for Tourism subject; the students were eager to participate in this study. There were 52 students involved as the subject. In order to obtain the data, the researchers utilized the survey questionnaires and semi-structured interview as research tools. Testing the hypotheses provided information on the relationship between lecturer’s teaching performance and students’ interest in learning English for Tourism subject. SPSS version 26 for Windows was utilized by the researcher to handle and analyze the data for this study. The findings of this study demonstrate that the majority of questionnaire computations result in. According to the findings of the interviews, the majority of students believe that the teacher's teaching performance has an impact on students' interest in learning the English for Tourism’ subject. Some implications has been proposed by the researchers namely: the beginning to build effective plans, well-prepared lecturers need to have a thorough understanding of the work at hand, they are: the language appropriate for the level; the appropriate skills; the appropriate learning resources; the appropriate teaching stages and methods; A variety of activities; Classroom management abilities; grab your online and offline studentsKeywords: Students’ Interest; Teaching Performance; Hybrid Classroom

The Blues and Older Minority Musicians XXVIII: More Than Just Music

The GSA “ ‘Bo Diddley’ Track” goes virtual again to present its 28th consecutive Annual Scientific Meeting of outstanding music, personal and musical narrative, and fun regardless of hurricanes, recessions, riots (ok-ok-so it was just a little good-natured audience rowdiness at one of the performances at GSA). Instead of the Rhythm Room or Warsaw Wally’s in Phoenix, the program returns to Chicago on 11/13, 6pm Eastern with the “Sweetheart of the Blues” - Shirley Johnson, one of the famous “Mojo Mamas” performing regularly at BLUE Chicago since the 1990s. Like so many Blues artists, she started in church at age 10 and later, influenced by Mahalia Jackson, Koko Taylor, Etta James, and Ruth Brown, her music is described as a “gritty, big-voiced blues singer” who also reaches heights of “soulful and smooth”. She turns everything she does into a work of art. Grab your favorite beverage and join us for rousing music and a great party. No rioters allowed!

Subverting the Monster

Subverting the Monster

"May I Grab Your Attention?": An Investigation Into Infants' Visual Preferences for Handled Objects Using Lookit as an Online Platform for Data Collection.

We examined the relation between 4- to 12-month-old infants' (N = 107) motor development and visual preference for handled or non-handled objects, using Lookit (lookit.mit.edu) as an online tool for data collection. Infants viewed eight pairs of objects, and their looking was recorded using their own webcam. Each pair contained one item with an easily graspable “handle-like” region and one without. Infants' duration of looking at each item was coded from the recordings, allowing us to evaluate their preference for the handled item. In addition, parents reported on their infants' motor behavior in the previous week. Overall, infants looked longer to handled items than non-handled items. Additionally, by examining the duration of infants' individual looks, we show that differences in infants' interest in the handled items varied both by infants' motor level and across the course of the 8-s trials. These findings confirm infant visual preferences can be successfully measured using Lookit and that motor development is related to infants' visual preferences for items with a graspable, handle-like region. The relative roles of age and motor development are discussed.

Rocking Chair Pop

Rocking Chair Pop

Indirect consumer activism and politics in the market

ABSTRACTSocial movement organizations use consumer activism to mobilize public pressure and cause economic or reputational damage to their target. However, current frameworks fail to explain why organizations would use indirect consumer activism: targeting one firm to elicit change from a third party. This paper aims to explain this choice, drawing upon theories of opportunity structures to explain why groups choose to use indirect strategies. I examine three campaigns using indirect strategies: US-based Grab Your Wallet and Sleeping Giants, and UK-based Stop Funding Hate. Groups use indirect strategies to reach inaccessible targets and to mobilize the public; these strategies help social movement organizations to raise public awareness at the beginning of a campaign. I conclude with some expectations for future research.

Broadway Rhythm: Imaging the City in Song by Dominic Symonds

Reviewed by: Broadway Rhythm: Imaging the City in Song by Dominic Symonds Ellen M. Peck Broadway Rhythm: Imaging the City in Song. By Dominic Symonds. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017. pp. ix + 300. $80.00 hardcover. A map is often a tourist's first experience of a city, a tool to navigate an unfamiliar place. But maps show only the basic outlines: streets, buildings, and major points of interest. They are static and two-dimensional, offering orientation but little sense of place. Dominic Symonds's "performance cartography" proposes a dynamic map of New York City as experienced on a series of virtual walks through the city based on some of its most famous songs. Using performance studies and cartographic theory methods, Symonds ditches the traditional paper map in favor of one that views New York from the vertical and horizontal, as well as the bird's eye: the "surge upward and plunge below" (129). Symonds's map of New York includes fire escapes, lost neighborhoods (like the portion of the West Side demolished to make room for Lincoln Center), imaginary places (like Sarah Brown's Save A Soul Mission), elevators, and subway trains. But unlike a traditional map that would simply identify where these structures are, Symonds digs into them to discover why and how they are, providing considerably more detail and nuance than Google Street View can ever hope to. The map motif, therefore, is only a starting point: The range of songs that typify the "Broadway Rhythm" makes possible endless permutations of a "map" of New York. Starting and ending points, and all stops in between, are determined by the whims of the explorer. Symonds begins his book not with a preface but with a "Pre-amble," a scholarly itinerary of the walks he will take his readers on. His methodology is rooted in the studies of cartographic theorists J. B. Harley, Nigel Thrift, and Paul Carter, as well as poststructural scholars Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Based on the premise that New York's rich musical history is reflected in its physical attributes, Symonds suggests that we can discover musicality in its buildings, infrastructure, traffic patterns, and pace of life. "By engaging with the city," he states, "walking, mapping, dancing, or singing—we play its score, and to whatever extent that represents, constructs, or reveals, we are performing its cartography" (26). Each chapter is one potential "walk" around the city to "map" its various musical points of interest. He ends his "pre-amble" with an invitation to the first walk, invoking lyricist Dorothy Fields: "For now, grab your coat and get your hat; let's take that walk" (31). Symonds is the best of all tour guides: beginning and ending each chapter with a friendly "Come this way," then imparting meticulous historical research and thoughtful analysis. [End Page 237] "Walk One: A Glance at New York" delves into the city's history via the then-popular "bird's-eye view" map of 1873. This type of map—common in the nineteenth century—offered a long view of the city from its southernmost point, as if the viewer were flying into the city. As such, many streets are indistinct, but one stands out as it streaks its way north: Broadway. Symonds anchors his walk on this longest and widest of streets and narrates a history of the formation of the city's grid pattern. Although Lower Manhattan retains its original jumble of streets winding in different directions, the grid dominates the majority of the island. But Broadway defies it, slicing straight up through Lower and Midtown, then jutting west above Sixtieth Street. Symonds discusses some of the earliest popular songs about Broadway that helped to establish it as New York's most iconic boulevard. After the Civil War, Broadway began to play host to theatres and other entertainment venues, further cementing the street's cultural primacy. Symonds's analysis of "Broadway Melody" (written by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown in 1929) introduces the reader to the "gapped scale," a type of musical construction evident in many songs about New York, in which the melody spans intervals of a tone and a tone and a...

Significant Others, or Textual Congress: Concerning Baudelaire and Tranter

This essay is a three step investigation of the relation between two poems, Baudelaire’s “L’Invitation au Voyage”, and the Australian poet John Tranter’s “Grab Your Passport”. The first step reject...

MELIHAT KEMUNGKINAN MODUS GEREJA SEBAGAI DASAR BAGI PENYUSUNAN MUSIK UNTUK HYMN

The standard major and minor scale have been used to compose millions of congregational song. After years of listening to music based on the same old scales, there is a way to break away from convention but still keep the music interested and more fresh. A great way to start exploring interesting and new sounding melodies and harmonies is to use modes (church modes). Modes are scales that use the same pitches of the standard major scale but in new and different ways. Because of one or two discrepancies from the typical major or minor scale, a mode can sound fresh, intriguing, and grab your listener's attention as something new.

Does this grab your attention? A comparison of attention and memory resources deployed during search for artificial and real world objects.

Does this grab your attention? A comparison of attention and memory resources deployed during search for artificial and real world objects.

Eye for positive signs: A practical approach to childhood eye disease.

Eye for positive signs: A practical approach to childhood eye disease.

“Grab Your Culture and Walk with the Global”

The globalization-based acculturation process in the Indian Himalayan region of Ladakh represents a highly complex network of intercultural interactions. Ladakhi youth negotiate their cultural orientation and identity in relation both (a) to indirect intercultural exposure through media and (b) to intermittent cultural contact through tourism in Ladakh. Additionally, many Ladakhi students take sojourns in large Indian cities. Like other Eastern populations exposed to cultural globalization, young Ladakhis are influenced by several local and global cultural streams. Within this acculturative process, Ladakhi youth are caught between ambiguous societal pressures toward both tradition and change. Through in-depth interviews, in the present study we investigated the negotiations of eight Ladakhi students’ cultural identity in Leh (Ladakh) and Delhi. In doing so, we drew pragmatically on theories of multiculturalism and dialogical self. Participants reported negotiating their cultural identity through dialogue between various personal, cultural, religious, and social voices, where these voices require selectively incorporating various cultural elements within the parameters established by societal constraints. Results indicate the vast complexity and dynamics within the Ladakhi acculturation process, with multiple interacting cultural streams, religions, and significant sociohistorical factors calling for an in-depth qualitative approach to elucidate the processes underlying globalization-based acculturation.

When I Am Told to Buck Up to Fight the Good Fight to Pull Up My Boot Straps & Build Bridges But I Am Not Ready But I Know Damn Well I Should Be Ready So I Try:

When I Am Told to Buck Up to Fight the Good Fight to Pull Up My Boot Straps & Build Bridges But I Am Not Ready But I Know Damn Well I Should Be Ready So I Try: Katie Condon (bio) Whoever despises the clitoris despises the penis Whoever despises the penis despises the cunt Whoever despises the cunt despises the life of the child. muriel rukeyser America, fuck you. Let me be specific: My mother's white America, fuck you. & fuck me, too, because I didn't makea warrior of myself & disruptmy mother's comfort by reminding her that the Presidentshe helped elect today doesn't give a shit about herconstitutional right to take pleasure in her sex that can build a people, & thereforeher President doesn't care about meeither—the daughter she's claimed [End Page 124] she'd do anything to protect.What did I hope to preservewhen I kept my mouth shut every time my mother spat nasty womanabout the woman who, regardless of everythingelse, is representative of what a vagina is capable of: creating spacefor the matriarchy to extend beyondsingle-parent homes. & here I am, as silentas I have been. I am woman, but I amwhite & have always had the power to position myself as the matriarchof my own life—Katie,grab your mother by the pussy. The long hallway that leadsto your first place of residence.Show your mother how the pussy you inherited from her continues to nourishher country's citizens each timeit makes a well of itself & invites those exhausted allies into drinkfrom the wetness that recycles itself like rain.Grab your mother by the pussy. She's forgotten she has one, nowthat menopause has emptied herof what her motherless childhoodtaught her to be ashamed of— [End Page 125] Let me be specific: My mother is humiliated by the bloodthat gave me life. Could give a shit if Trump fucks herover when he confirms her life-long lesson that women are nasty, are rented-to-own,so long as he preserves her privilege,which she enlists as erasure to mask her from the causalitiesAmerica has made of hergender & her sex. According to the polls, 1 in 2 white womenmust unlearn the lesson that a pussy is nothingbut a middle-aged woman's fetid reservoir. Do not forget how lucky we arethat with age the clit growsmore receptive to pleasure, regardless of whether your husbandor your president or your saviorgives a shit about you. If they won't do it,fuck yourselves. I'm talking to you, Mom.You heard me. Go fuck yourself—make it hurtso good. Repossess your body. [End Page 126] Let me be specific: Mom, grab yourself by the pussy. Relearnthe pressure your ridges respond best to,remember every time the man came first, so quick your pussy never had a chance to swell its wetnessup into a spring. If you recall, that chafelasts days—the idea that a pussy deems you're worthless: as long asyou let it. Mount your discomfort & ride it into a futurewhere caring about yourselfmeans casting a vote for people you've never met, & who are in fearmore constantly than youhave ever been. Do better. Do better now. Your daughter demands thisof you—your daughter who hasn't until nowhad the strength to walk away from you if you choose again to surrenderto the grating hand that grabs youlike a bitch by the collar of your sex. [End Page 127] Katie Condon Katie Condon's poetry has been recently published by Narrative, BOAAT, the Adroit Journal, Indiana Review, and elsewhere. She has received support from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and is a PhD Candidate in literature and creative writing at the University of Tennessee. Copyright © 2017 University of Nebraska Press

Misogyny and Misery on the Menu

Misogyny and Misery on the Menu

Secrets of the RCS collections

Grab your lab coat for a behind-the-scenes glimpse into current research at the RCS.

More than just Death in Venice: Irish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

We are all busy. When in our 12+ hour day is there time to read the BJGP , let alone an article on a contemporary art exhibition in Venice that you will never visit? But stop! This is no ordinary exhibition. We are presented with beautiful landscapes in crimson, purple, teal blue and hot pink hues. We see the end of a continuous stream of UN trucks disappearing into the distance, the militia learning how to patrol as they uncover burnt-out villages, or participating in what appear to be spiritual festivals. Shockingly, we also see bodies of the same militia, left in the middle of the road as a crowd gathers. While these visual horrors unfold, the delicate voice of a female folk singer is overlaid in stark contrast to the horrors unveiled on film in beautiful colours. Moments like this stop you in your tracks and grab your attention. ‘The Enclave’ is Richard Mosse’s installation representing Ireland at the 55th Venice Biennale. With a fine art and photographic background, he looked for a way to portray this conflict so that it would attract attention in this media-saturated world in which we live. With his collaborators, …