Tyler C. Loughran (22008690), Jennifer L. Cudney (22008693), Daniel P. Crear (8554335) et al. · Figshare · 2025
<div> Climate change will continue to alter key physical and biological oceanographic processes throughout the global ocean, modifying environmental conditions for U.S. highly migratory fish species found in the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic Highly Migratory Species Climate Vulnerability Assessment evaluated the vulnerability of 58 species and stocks to projected ocean conditions, using a combined qualitative and quantitative analysis of species sensitivity (physiological, ecological, and behavioral attributes) and estimated exposure to possible future ocean stressors. Key modeled environmental variables included bottom and sea surface temperature, sea surface oxygen, and ocean acidification (pH), whereas the most influential biological attributes considered were population growth rate, stock size, and stock status. We produced vulnerability rankings (i.e., low, moderate, high, and very high) based on biological attribute sensitivity and exposure to the environmental variables, and separate analyses including estimated ability of distributional shifts, predicted directional effects of climate change, certainty, and data quality scores for the species and stocks assessed, with exceptions for species with undetermined geographic distributions. Of the 58 species and stocks assessed, 4 had very high vulnerability to climate change, 14 had high vulnerability, 22 had moderate vulnerability, 6 had low vulnerability, and 12 could not be assigned a rank. The majority (n = 45) of species and stocks had high ability for distributional shifts in response to projected changes in climate. Further, directional effect results suggest that climate change impacts on the majority of species and stocks will be neutral, implying that these species have life history or behavioral traits that impart some level of resilience and adaptability to the impacts of climate change. These results provide information for use in ecosystem-based fisheries management, particularly for prioritization of vulnerable species and stocks in conservation activities and research endeavors. </div>
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Young Min Jang · Scriptura · 2013
Apocalyptic stories, as rhetorical-symbolic narratives, urge the hearer to view his/her historical situation afresh and to act accordingly. To find out how this happens, the transforming power of the Apocalypse has been analysed according to two contexts: the literary and the socio-historical. Through his apocalyptic narrative, John wants to illumine the reality behind the context of the audience and to transform them into a Christian community with a shared vision and conviction. In a broad sense, the book is concerned with the author’s understanding of God (narrative theology), and how it can be related to the audience’s response (narrative function). From this study of the rhetorical function of the book, we may conclude that John tries to persuade the evildoers to repent and the faithful to remain witnesses in the world
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Brian Schiff · SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología · 2012
In this paper, I argue that the most salient aspect of narrative is not the arrangement of speech elements into a particular order but the kinds of actions that can be accomplished with narratives. Narrative is best thought of as a verb, “to narrate,” or the derived form, “narrating.” It is an expressive action, something that persons do. I argue that one of the primary functions of narrating is to “make present” life experience and interpretations of life in a particular time and space. Narrating brings experience and interpretations into play, into a field of action, in a specific here and now.
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In Northern Cape Breton, C. Ronald Caplan, Margaret Harry et al. · 1989
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Shannon S. Rich, Holly A. Taylor · Memory & Cognition · 2000
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Jeffrey Pence · Journal of Narrative Theory · 2004
Narrative Emotion:Feeling, Form and Function Jeffrey Pence (bio) Introduction While all would agree that emotions are a component part of some narratives, that assertion only begins to address the complicated relations between feeling and form. Emotions are a primary feature of our reactions to, or interactions with, narrative, yet this dimension of feeling's relation to narrative has often been treated as something of an embarrassment by critics. Emotional responses are often seen as less rational and mature than other responses, and hence traditionally associated with "lesser" sorts of readers (children, women, the working class, etc. . .), or with subsidiary stages or procedures of a reading experience (for example, as an aid to "getting into" a book or the basis of a compulsion to turn pages). As features of a text itself, emotions are generally seen in terms of psychological expression, either of the characters or the author herself; in either case, we rarely find emotion understood as content to be the subject of much critical interest. As tears indicate sadness and laughter pleasure, emotions are worn on sleeves—they are too easily readable. Although it is a process naturalized to the point of invisibility, it is worth reminding ourselves that we are drawn to the aesthetic again and again because its impact is registered affectively and somatically, as well as via rational cognition. Emotions exert a gravitational pull on us that derives not simply from their immediacy; rather, as the essays in this volume [End Page 273] attest, it is their complex variation and articulation that attracts our attention. In other words, emotions have forms. What are the formal relationships emotions may have with narrative? Are emotions, experienced and recalled in time and space, inherently narrative in character? At the very least, expressed emotions may become narratives, and thus bear in the materiality and structure of their expression, which is to say in their textuality, the imprint of the emotions that motivated their production. Far from assuming emotions to be transparently available content, then, we might assume their articulation to take complex forms appropriate to expressing equally complex modes of consciousness and disposition. Our relation as readers to narrative emotion we should expect to be no less complex. In this special issue, we have collected a body of work that might begin to establish the study of narrative emotion as an interdisciplinary field, drawing from the diverse methods of such discourses as textual criticism, philosophy, history and psychology. At their intersections, these approaches may generate insights into the history of the emotions, the viability of a poetics of feeling, and the impact different media and narrative modes have upon affective experience. As the study of affect and emotion begins to occupy thinkers from a variety of orientations, it is fitting that these essays share only the loosest affinities; they indicate more the variety of directions future research and writing could pursue, rather than privileging a particular avenue. Christine Chaney's essay examines the rhetoric of emotions as an authorial device that operates in the register of persona. Mary Wollstonecraft's Letters Written in Sweden was a widely successful work that established its author's fame and credibility precisely, Chaney argues, through producing in its readers a sense of a personal relationship with an admirable woman whose feelings, experiences and insights they could trust. Wollstonecraft's facility at the rhetoric of emotion—in particular, her effective elaboration of her own ethos—produces an effect of authenticity. She does not simply confess feelings, but titrates apparent disclosures in a carefully controlled fashion, so that her text succeeds both as a straightforward travel narrative and as a vehicle to establish her significance in the eyes of her readers. In a formula that will become and remain powerfully influential in the West, this impression of authenticity provides grounds for the author to press against moral and social strictures of her place and time. [End Page 274] History and melancholy are the subjects of Eluned Summers-Bremmer's essay. Reading W.G. Sebald's peripatetic fictions as enactments of a mourning for the dissolution of history, Summers-Bremmer finds affinities with Lacan's own explorations of a lost, but profoundly generative, traumatic past in...
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Kampe, Christopher William · CSUN ScholarWorks (California State University, Northridge) · 2015
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Rafał Brożek, Aaron J. Lorenz, Barbara Dorocka−Bobkowska et al. · PubMed · 2025
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Martyna Soloch, Wojciech Starczewski, Kinga Brzezińska et al. · PubMed · 2025
Air pollution is recognised as one of the primary environmental health hazards. The gas molecules including NO<sub>2</sub>, CO, SO<sub>2</sub>, O<sub>3</sub>, particulate matter (PM<sub>10</sub>, PM<sub>2.5</sub>), and volatile organic compounds are being identified as particularly harmful. Despite this, a significant portion of the global population resides in areas with unsatisfactory air quality. Research suggests that air pollutants may act as endocrine disruptors, potentially interfering with thyroid function and contributing thyroid cancer development through oxidative stress, inflammation, and hormonal dysregulation. This paper reviews current literature on the effects of air pollution on thyroid function and thyroid cancer risk, focusing on epidemiological studies and mechanisms of endocrine disruption. Air pollutants are suspected endocrine disruptors that may interfere with thyroid function through receptor binding, hormone displacement, and disruptions in hormone transport, metabolism, and gene expression. Exposure to these pollutants, particularly during fetal development, can impair neonatal thyroid homeostasis, increasing the risk of hypothyroidism and long-term cognitive complications. Prolonged exposure to PM<sub>2.5</sub> has been associated with an increased risk of papillary thyroid cancer (PTC), particularly at higher concentrations and with long-term exposure. Elevated levels of NO<sub>2</sub> and O<sub>3</sub>, as well as urban exposure to CO, have also been linked to a heightened risk of thyroid cancer. In contrast, an inverse relationship has been observed for PM<sub>10</sub> and SO<sub>2</sub>. Additionally, studies suggest a potential association between PM<sub>2.5</sub> exposure and both increased risk and mortality of thyroid cancer, although multiple confounding factors must be considered. Air pollution with PM<sub>2.5</sub>, NO<sub>2</sub>, CO has also been found to affect thyroid hormone (TH) levels, but findings remain inconsistent, with relationships varying based on age, sex, and internal factors such as obesity. While evidence suggests a link between air pollution and thyroid dysfunction, as well as thyroid cancer risk, inconsistencies in findings highlight the need for further research. A deeper understanding of the mechanisms underlying these associations is crucial to assessing health risks and developing effective public health interventions.
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John Pier, Gerald Prince · Poetics Today · 1985
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William MacDougall, Robert West, Chris Genovesi · DROPS (Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics) · 2014
The use of narrative is ubiquitous in the development, exercise, and communication of expertise. Expertise and narrative, as complex cognitive capacities, have each been investigated quite deeply, but little attention has been paid to their interdependence. We offer here the position that treating these two domains together can fruitfully inform the modeling of expert cognition and behavior, and present the framework we have been using to develop this approach, the SGOMS macro-cognitive architecture. Finally, we briefly explore the role of narrative in an SGOMS model of cooperative video game playing.
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Mahadev L. Apte, Gerald Prince · Language · 1985
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Nisha Abdul Khader, Veena Kamath, Shobha Kamath et al. · Irish Journal of Medical Science (1971 -) · 2025
Glomerular filtration rate (GFR) as a marker of kidney function is important in health and disease management because decreased kidney function is associated with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality, progression of kidney disease, predisposition to acute kidney injury (AKI), and for drug dosage modification. While measured glomerular filtration rate (mGFR) is acknowledged as the most accurate method for evaluating kidney function, it is at present not feasible to be applied in the clinical arena. Estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) is preferred due to its convenience, cost-effectiveness, and seamless integration into standard clinical practice for kidney function evaluation. The presence of multiple equations for eGFR with applications to differing populations makes their use challenging for clinicians. We reviewed available estimated glomerular filtration rate (GFR) equations and their application in different clinical settings both in normal and chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients. These formulae incorporate serum creatinine and/or serum cystatin C levels and correlate them with measured kidney function. Among the many available equations, the Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration (CKD-EPI) equation is the most recommended due to its robustness and accuracy across diverse patient populations. Strengths and limitations of different eGFR equations are discussed emphasizing the importance of selecting the appropriate equation based on specific patient demographics and clinical scenarios. There is need for regional validation studies to ensure the global applicability of these equations, considering the variations in population characteristics.
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Monica Meli · 2009
In any software production environment there is the need to estimate software projects at the most early stage. It is also known that well-defined user requirements are critical to the overall success of a software project but quite often they are not so well defined at the initial stage. In addition, in order to support project estimation and planning, effective requirements management should involve selective requirements measurement in order to support project estimating and planning. This paper explores the synergic relationship existing between requirements and Function Point Analysis in order to better illustrate how to read and estimate functional size in relation to overall specifications. To improve human capability of functional size estimation, some new techniques and tools prove to be quite useful, indeed. In this paper we will briefly present a Function Point estimation technique called Early &amp; Quick Function Point Analysis and a tool called RequEstiMate. 1. Critical aspects of software estimation Which are the key factors affecting software projects estimation? This is far from being a recent question as software estimation is part of software engineering within which relatively sophisticated estimation techniques and models have been studies and developed ranging from direct estimation methods based on direct hands-on experience, to planning models based on statistical and mathematical applications. Planning models in particular made it possible for the estimation process to be more objective and compatible thus bearing out the importance of functional dimension, one of the model variables. However it is also true that in the “high ” stages of the software life cycle, namely when estimation is required, the software functional size is quite difficult to estimate, whereas as soon as it is possible to estimate the functional size with some level of accuracy, its use becomes less valuable for planning purposes. This situation can be described as the size paradox as illustrated in the picture below. 7 6
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Maria Cecília Pereira da Silva · The International Journal of Psychoanalysis · 2016
This article describes a psychic function common to analysts that was gradually revealed through clinical work with children. It is a psychic quality derived from function α, which involves analysts' capacity for reverie - their narrative function. The author presents two clinical situations where this function developed in the analytic field in relation to patients' difficulty in symbolizing. In the first case there was an early traumatic experience unavailable for representation. The analyst lent the patient her ability to represent and produced a narrative that made it possible to create a world of phantasies and transform nightmares into 'dreamable' dreams. In other words, she removed the quality of unbearable, irrepresentable reality that characterized those raw experiences encrypted in the psyche. In the second case the analyst's narrative function sought to connect with the isolation, the shell that housed a child suffering from an autistic disorder whose ability to represent had not been established. The analyst provided meaning for the patient's repetitive, stereotyped play, thus weaving the child's subjectivity and gradually introducing a notion of alterity. The author seeks to show how this function, in the thematic construction of the session, facilitated both the working-through of a traumatic situation (with the ability to share representations) and the constitution of the psychic fabric.
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Kikvidze, Z. Z. · Digital Library of the Belarusian State University (Belarusian State University) · 2015
Contemporary world literature is still within the discourse of post-modernism irrespective of the fact that some countries have long been speaking about its end and about its substitution by another trend, for instance, alter-modernism.However, it is not a simple case as far as, for the sake of artistic expression, post-modernism applied all the currently available techniques.It turned into a certain literary enigma in which seemingly well-known categories of form and content stepped forth in a totally novel way.This trend has not created an essentially new literary technique, a new aspect determining poetics, but it already managed to accommodate available methods, artistic images, literary techniques into a new pattern, owing to which it defined both its status and principles as those of a literary trend.
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Aatos Ojala · 1988
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Yi Xiao · 2002
In narration theories,the artful selection of narrative viewpoints is an important narrative tactic.Fiction as a narrative literature includes three basic narrative viewpoints,each with a distinctive artistic function.In creative fiction writing,therefore,selection of narrative viewpoints should be made on sbjects,contents and living capacity of the staff so as to bring out the best a narrative viewpoint is able to display.
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