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The hidden Mickeys of Walt Disney World
\"So what exactly is a Hidden Mickey? Quite simply, it's an artistic representation of Mickey that was intentionally placed amid the architecture and design of the parks and resorts. Oftentimes it's the familiar three-circle shape of his ears and head. Other times it might be a profile of his face or a full-body silhouette. Walt Disney World Guests with keen eyes can tell you that Mickey pops up all over the resort, often in the most unexpected places. With this resortwide scavenger hunt, you'll be guided toward each Hidden Mickey, first with a general hint-if you're up for a challenge-and then with a very specific clue. It's so much search-and-find fun, you might forget about your FastPass reservation for Big Thunder Mountain Railroad!\"--Amazon.com.
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Before Fiction
Fiction has become nearly synonymous with literature itself, as if Homer and Dante and Pynchon were all engaged in the same basic activity. But one difficulty with this view is simply that a literature trafficking in openly invented characters is a quite recent development. Novelists before the nineteenth century ceaselessly asserted that their novels were true stories, and before that, poets routinely took their basic plots and heroes from the past. We have grown accustomed to thinking of the history of literature and the novel as a progression from the ideal to the real. Yet paradoxically, the modern triumph of realism is also the triumph of a literature that has shed all pretense to literalness.Before Fiction: The Ancien Régime of the Noveloffers a new understanding of the early history of the genre in England and France, one in which writers were not slowly discovering a type of fictionality we now take for granted but rather following a distinct set of practices and rationales. Nicholas D. Paige reinterprets Lafayette'sLa Princesse de Clèves, Rousseau'sJulie, ou la Nouvelle Héloïse, Diderot'sLa Religieuse, and other French texts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in light of the period's preoccupation with literal truth. Paige argues that novels like these occupied a place before fiction, a pseudofactual realm that in no way leads to modern realism. The book provides an alternate way of looking at a familiar history, and in its very idiom and methodology charts a new course for how we should study the novel and think about the evolution of cultural forms.
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Simulating fish population responses to elevated CO
Scaling experimentally derived effects of CO₂ on marine fauna to population responses is critical for informing management about potential ecological ramifications of ocean acidification. We used an individual-based model of winter flounder to extrapolate laboratory-derived effects of elevated CO₂ assumed for early life stages of fish to long-term population dynamics. An offspring module with detailed hourly to daily representations of spawning, growth, and mortality that incorporates potential elevated CO₂ effects was linked to an annual time-step parent module. We calibrated the model using a 40 yr Reference simulation (1977–2016) that included gradual warming and then performed ‘Retrospective’ simulations that assumed a suite of elevated CO₂ effects by changing fertilization rate, mortality rate of embryos due to developmental malformations, larval growth rate, and size-at-settlement. ‘Recovery’ simulations that started at low population size were then used to further explore possible interactions between the effects of CO₂ and warming on population productivity. Warming had a major negative effect on the simulated winter flounder population abundance, and reduced larval growth had the largest single impact among the CO₂ effects tested. When a combination of the assumed CO₂ effects was imposed together, average annual recruitment and spawning stock biomass were reduced by half. In the Recovery simulations, inclusion of CO₂ effects amplified the progressive decrease in population productivity with warming. Our analysis is speculative and a first step towards addressing the need for extrapolating from laboratory effects of ocean acidification to broader, ecologically relevant scales.
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Transformations of Time and Temporality in Medieval and Renaissance Art
A multifaceted picture of the dynamic concepts of time and temporality is demonstrated in medieval and Renaissance art, as adopted in speculative, ecclesiastical, socio-political, propagandist, moralistic, and poetic contexts. Questions regarding perception of time are investigated through innovative aspects of Renaissance iconography.
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Attachment representations in individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia: A projective study through the bird’s nest drawing
Objectives: This study aims to explore the attachment representations of individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia through the Bird’s Nest Drawing, a projective technique. It also seeks to compare the findings with those of individuals without a schizophrenia diagnosis to identify potential differences in attachment-related imagery and narrative themes. Methods: A total of 100 participants took part in the study: 50 individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia and 50 without any psychiatric diagnosis. Each participant was asked to draw a bird’s nest and write a brief narrative about their drawing. Quantitative data were analyzed using chi-square tests. Qualitative analysis was conducted through thematic evaluation of narratives from 15 randomly selected participants from each group. Results: Quantitative analysis showed statistically significant group differences in several aspects of the drawings, including the presence of parent bird and chick/egg, use of appropriately colored figures, frequent use of green, and whether the nest touched a surface. Qualitative analysis revealed that narratives of individuals with schizophrenia included themes of loneliness, mistrust, unmet basic needs, and disconnection from the nest. Conversely, narratives of individuals without schizophrenia reflected familial closeness, caregiving, and emotional security. Conclusions: The results suggest that individuals with schizophrenia project attachment-related difficulties - such as distrust, disconnection, and impaired bonding - more prominently in both their drawings and written narratives. The BND test appears to be a meaningful tool for exploring attachment dynamics at the projective level in clinical populations.
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Inflammation in Schizophrenia: Pathogenetic Aspects and Therapeutic Considerations
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This paper discusses the current evidence from animal and human studies for a central role of inflammation in schizophrenia. In animal models, pre- or perinatal elicitation of the immune response may increase immune reactivity throughout life, and similar findings have been described in humans. Levels of pro-inflammatory markers, such as cytokines, have been found to be increased in the blood and cerebrospinal fluid of patients with schizophrenia. Numerous epidemiological and clinical studies have provided evidence that various infectious agents are risk factors for schizophrenia and other psychoses. For example, a large-scale epidemiological study performed in Denmark clearly showed that severe infections and autoimmune disorders are such risk factors. The vulnerability-stress-inflammation model may help to explain the role of inflammation in schizophrenia because stress can increase pro-inflammatory cytokines and may even contribute to a chronic pro-inflammatory state. Schizophrenia is characterized by risk genes that promote inflammation and by environmental stress factors and alterations of the immune system. Typical alterations of dopaminergic, serotonergic, noradrenergic, and glutamatergic neurotransmission described in schizophrenia have also been found in low-level neuroinflammation and consequently may be key factors in the generation of schizophrenia symptoms. Further support for the relevance of a low-level neuroinflammatory process in schizophrenia is provided by the loss of central nervous system volume and microglial activation demonstrated in neuroimaging studies. Last but not least, the benefit of anti-inflammatory medications found in some studies and the intrinsic anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory effects of antipsychotics provide further support for the role of inflammation in this debilitating disease.
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THE TEMPLE, THE SPIRIT, AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE PEOPLE: THEMATIC TRAJECTORIES IN HAGGAI– ZECHARIAH AND EZRA-NEHEMIAH
Spirit, divine presence, prophetic word, temple, rebuilding, Zerubbabel, Joshua, Haggai, Zechariah, postexilic, allusion, wilderness tradition (ProQuest: ... denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.) The study of Ezra-Nehemiah has been dominated by two questions. The majority view today is that Ezra-Nehemiah is a single composition that is not part of the Chronicler's work.1 Following paradigmshifting work epitomized in Eskenazi's In an Age of Prose, the focus of study has shifted to the structure and themes of Ezra-Nehemiah.2 However, more attention needs to be given to Ezra-Nehemiah's relationship to the early postexilic prophetic books. Ezra 1:1 reads, \"In the first year of Cyrus, the king of Persia, in order to fulfill YHWH's word from the mouth of Jeremiah, YHWH stirred up the spirit of Cyrus, the king of Persia, so he issued a proclamation in all his kingdom, and he also [put it] in writing. \"13 This provides a sense of continuity to YHWH's actions from the beginning of the return to the renewal of the building effort under the ministry of Haggai and Zechariah.14 2. May the God who caused his name to dwell there overthrow any king or people who dares to change [this edict] or to destroy this house of God which is in Jerusalem.
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Polis and Personification in Classical Athenian Art
Ancient Greek artists pioneered in the allegorical use of personifications of political ideas, events, places, institutions, and peoples in visual arts. This book surveys and interprets these personifications within the intellectual and political climate of the golden age of Athens.
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