In this article, I explore how vulnerability is imposed on diasporic Indigenous students in U.S. classrooms and how, through the arts, language literacy educators can remove these vulnerabilities. For this, weave elements of storytelling to first introduce Mariela students. Then, share two examples my used poetry drawing our high school English for Speakers Other Languages (ESOL) classroom over...

With the emergence of technologies to culture intestinal epithelial cells in vitro as various forms of intestinal organoids, there is growing interest in using such cultured intestinal cells as a source for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. One such approach would be to combine the organoid technology with methodologies to engineer the culture environment, particularly the three-dim...

Urinary incontinence among institutionalized elderly were analyzed from clinical and social viewpoints. The patient group included 25 males and 107 females with an average age of 78 years (ranged from 66 to 92). They had neither highly impaired performance status nor severe dementia. Forty-nine of them (37%) underwent urological examination. Urge incontinence was common among male patients, whi...

This paper is intended to analyse the concepts involved in the phenomena of social monitoring and norm-based social influence for systems of normative agents. These are here defined as deliberative agents, representing norms and deciding upon them. Normative agents can use the norms to evaluate others' behaviours and, possibly, convince them to comply with norms. Normative agents contribute to ...

With the steadily increasing volume of endometriosis articles, and titles and abstracts readily available online, there is a growing risk that references are cited without the full articles having been read by the author(s) or by referees. Too often the titles and statements in abstracts are not supported by data in the published articles. Therefore, the peer-review process should direct extra ...

Tobacco smoking has been associated with the development and exacerbation of chronically painful conditions. Conversely, there is reason to believe that smokers may be motivated to use tobacco as a means of coping with their pain. To date, no controlled, experimental studies have tested for a causal relationship between pain and smoking motivation. The primary aim of the current study was to te...