The text was conceived as a review, combined with an analysis and interpretation, of texts written by Polish women authors after 2010, especially novels short story collections in which the grandmother is important character. Women from 1970s 1980s, who creating various herstories, make eldest family disposers narratives, responsible for building specific bridges between past present, well guar...

Bowers challenged the common view in favor of distributed representations in psychological modeling and the main arguments given against localist and grandmother cell coding schemes. He revisited the results of several single-cell studies, arguing that they do not support distributed representations. We praise the contribution of Bowers (2009) for joining evidence from psychological modeling an...

In this context the extended family is defined as a group of relatives comprising more than an immediate family who live in ?ne, two or more households and who see each other every day or nearly every day. Within this group the old person, particularly the old woman, is supported to the end of life. The remarkable thing about old age is that it does not signify abrupt change but emphasises the ...

The 2015 publication of Nick Sousanis’s graphic dissertation, Unflattening, opened doors for artist-scholars who challenge conventional research methodologies by producing dissertations, research, and comics-based publications in academic, scientific, medical journals. Unflattening came out one year after I began a PhD program cultural studies at the University California, Davis, with proposed ...

Declaration I hereby declare that this thesis has not been submitted, either in the same or different form, to this or any other university for a degree. Acknowledgements I am very grateful to my supervisors Hilary Buxton and Inman Harvey for their constant guidance and support. They followed the whole process very closely and suggested useful ideas and insights all the way long. The frequent a...

We present a young boy whose mild ataxia and abnormal eye movements repeatedly deteriorated with fever, making him unable to sit or walk during fever episodes. SNP-array analysis identified a 202 kb deletion in chromosome 13q33.1 containing the fibroblast growth factor (FGF)14 gene, which is associated with spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) 27. This 13q deletion was also present in the proband's mot...

A young nurse, undertaking a working holiday in Australia, sees a 5-year-old Aboriginal girl while doing a locum in a remote coastal community of the Northern Territory. The young girl has been brought in by her grandmother because she has discharge coming from her eyes. From the notes, the nurse sees that the child has had multiple presentations for ear and skin infections but is otherwise wel...