Upstream : Selected Essays / by Oliver, Mary, 1963-2019, author 656023, Penguin Publishing Group (Online service) 655981

“…As she writes, “I could not be a poet without the natural world. Someone else could. But not me. For me the door to the woods is the door to the temple.” …”
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Prevalence of West Nile virus in domesticated mammals (cattle, goat, horse and pig) in selected areas of Peninsular Malaysia by Mohammed, Mohammed Nma

“…The serum samples were screened for WNV IgG using a competitive ELISA (c- ELISA) kit (ID VET, France), and for Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) IgG using double-antibody sandwich ELISA kit (Sunred, China). …”
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Self-knowledge : strengthening our privileged access and the inner sense mechanism by Nur Amirah Sabrina Mohamad

“…In the discourse of self-knowledge, the concept of privileged access and the inner sense account seems to be taken for granted in that we are not cognizant of what else it can offer. I begin this essay with a close inspection of a few accounts of privileged access and the nature of the mental states that derive from it. …”
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It is not about AI, it is about humans. Responsibility gaps and medical AI by Giubilini, A

“…In healthcare, whatever else AI will allow to do, it can prompt us to reflect more thoroughly on professional responsibility and professional obligations.…”

Data for the ‘Diagnosis London’ project by Shuttleworth, S, O'Donnell, J, Lintott, C, Frampton, S, Seymour, J

“…The result will be a large, robust dataset that will enrich the history of London’s health and which will be of interest to social, local and family historians, epidemiologists, and anyone else with an interest in the topic. The project will be launched in 2017 and will be available via the project website at www.conscicom.org/projects and on Zooniverse at https://www.zooniverse.org Project data will be uploaded to this record upon project completion. …”

Rotor angle stability-constrained dispatch and control of large-scale wind penetrated power system by Yuan, Heling

“…Hence, a robust optimization approach for coordinating generation dispatch and emergency load shedding (ELS) against transient instability under uncertain wind power output is developed. …”
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Not Function but Function Conquered: Against a Functionalist Theory of Directives by Hill, John

“…Nonattitudinal theories of speech acts try to explain directives in terms of something else. This thesis is concerned with functionalism, a nonattitudinal theory of speech acts. …”
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Christianity’s role in colonial and revolutionary Haiti 1 (Article Commentary) by Edwards, Erica Johnson

“…In the lead up to her confirmation, while senators and the media focused heavily on her Catholic faith, some on social media drew attention to the two Haitian children she and her husband adopted following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.2 The connections between Coney-Barret’s Christianity and the Haitian earthquake recalled Pat Robertson’s controversial claim that the earthquake was caused by a Haitian “pact with the devil” during the Haitian Revolution.3 Whatever else one might say about Robertson’s comments, they show his ignorance of the important but little-known role Christianity and the Catholic clergy played in eighteenth-century colonial Haiti.…”
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Narrative understanding by Prescott-Couch, A

“…Even if narrative is not the best means for providing us with causal information, it can provide us with information about something else of importance such as the events' “meanings” or others' experiences. …”

Music for plants? An investigation into the impact of exposure to acoustic stimulus in bok choy (brassica rapa) plants by Yeoh, JPS, Zhang, Z, Koh, KS, Sinniah, UR, Spence, CJ, Beh, WF

“…Three separate groups of bok choy plants were exposed to classical music, rock music, or else no music, during growth and development and the influence on yield was observed. …”

Injectable cell transplantation system for cytokine-based cancer immunotherapy by Gerard Nathanael Adrianus.

“…Genetic analysis confirmed up-regulation of several anti-tumour cytokines, TNF-α, IFN-β1, IL-10, and M-CSF by the macrophages. ELISA suggested the TNF-α was released in the first 24-hour post LPS stimulation, and then rapidly subsided. …”
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Dengue Serotype Cross-Reactive, Anti-E Protein Antibodies Confound Specific Immune Memory for 1 Year after Infection by Toh, Ying Xiu, Gan, Victor, Balakrishnan, Thavamalar, Zuest, Roland, Poidinger, Michael, Wilson, Solomonraj, Appanna, Ramapraba, Thein, Tun Linn, Ong, Adrian Kheng-Yeow, Ng, Lee Ching, Leo, Yee Sin, Fink, Katja

“…Since secondary patients rapidly produced antibodies specific for the virus envelope (E) protein, an E-specific ELISA was superior compared to a virus particle-specific ELISA to identify patients with secondary infections. …”
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The anti-circumsporozoite antibody response to repeated, seasonal booster doses of the malaria vaccine RTS,S/AS01 E by Ali, MS, Stockdale, L, Sagara, I, Zongo, I, Yerbanga, RS, Mahamar, A, Nikièma, F, Tapily, A, Sompougdou, F, Diarra, M, Bellamy, D, Provstgaard-Morys, S, Zoungrana, C, Issiaka, D, Haro, A, Sanogo, K, Sienou, AA, Kaya, M, Traore, S, Dicko, OM, Kone, Y, Yalcouye, H, Thera, I, Diarra, K

“…Results obtained with GSK ELISA and the Oxford Multiplex assay were strongly correlated (Pearson’s correlation coefficient, r = 0.94; 95% CI, 0.93–0.95). …”

Disruption of the Broadcast by Packer, Randall

“…But today, artists are plugged in and wired, like everyone else, such that the torrent of news and information that lights up our screens in such overabundance often finds its way into the artistic process. …”
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Do we need economic inequality? by Dorling, D

“…<br> Dorling shows how, amongst much else, a stabilizing population, changing gender relations and rising access to education make a more egalitarian alternative to this nightmare vision not only preferable, but realistic. …”

Asymmetric projection of introspection reveals a behavioural and neural mechanism for interindividual social coordination by Miyamoto, K, Harbison, C, Tanaka, S, Saito, M, Luo, S, Matsui, S, Sankhe, P, Mahmoodi, A, Lin, M, Trudel, N, Shea, N, Rushworth, MFS

“…We might estimate how well someone else will perform by extrapolating from estimates of how well we ourselves would perform. …”

Epstein-Barr viral latent and early antigen serology in nasopharyngeal carcinoma by Tan, Timothy Ter Ming.

“…Current methods include detection by indirect immunofluorescence assay which is laborious, subjective and requires highly-trained personnel, and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), which can be easily performed by any hospital laboratory.…”
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Translating oral histories: a podcast by Wong, Melissa Xin Yu

“…In particular, the last approach of editorial insertions renders the translator visible, a deliberate decision made to both respect the original speaker and to remind readers that someone else has shaped the stories being presented.…”
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No Simple Fix: How AI Harms Reflect Power and Jurisdiction in the Workplace by Nedzhvetskaya, Nataliya, Tan, JS

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Personality predicts words in favorite songs by Qiu, Lin, Chen, Jiayu, Ramsay, Jonathan, Lu, Jiahui

“…Our study is the first to show how one's personality is related to linguistic cues in someone else's writings. It points to the possibility that people may like certain songs because the linguistic cues in the lyrics are congruent with their personality and hence can satisfy personal needs. …”
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