Translating Signs, Producing Subjects

TRANSLATING CULTURAL SIGNS IN CHILDREN’S PICTURE BOOKS

Every happening in one's life may be regarded by her/him as a leading phenomenon to other happenings. This leading phenomenon which can anticipate the subsequent happenings is called SIGN. Signs are unique for every group of human being and hence culture-specific. This is even true for every individual. Signs permeate in every aspect of universe. Among these fields, children's literature is stu...

Producing and translating health system evidence for improved global health.

Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, and Adjunct Faculty, McMaster Health Forum, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Research Fellow, Global Health Diplomacy Program, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Fulbright & Knox Fellow, Interfaculty Initiative in Health Policy, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, Dea...

Vital signs investigation in subjects undergoing MR imaging at 8T.

PURPOSE This study investigates physiologic vital signs in subjects, with and without cerebral pathologies, undergoing ultra-high-field (UHF) 8T MR imaging. METHODS AND SUBJECTS Eighteen normal subjects and 74 subjects with cerebral pathology consented for 8T UHF MR imaging. T2*-weighted gradient-echo and T2-weighted rapid acquisition relaxation excitement sequences were used. Physiologic vit...

Producing governable subjects : Images of childhood old and new

Conceptions of childhood in terms of ‘evil’ and ‘innocence’ transcend time and culture. These conflicting images are deployed by Chris Jenks as the Dionysian and Apollonian models of childhood to symbolize external and internal forms of control. Drawing on the literature on governmentality this article revisits these models and introduces a third – the ‘Athenian’ child – loosely analogous and s...

Translating Literary Types