En los cuentos en Papeles de Pandora y en Las dos Venecias, Rosario Ferre escribe con el proposito didactico de iluminar la imagen de la mujer contemporanea. Ella quiere que la mujer aprenda a tomar control de su vida y deje de ser un mero reflejo, una sombra del hombre. En sus cuentos, con el uso del doble, Ferre describe dos clases de mujeres, la buena y la mala, que viven dentro de la sociedad patriarcal de Puerto Rico. Con el doble, Ferre compara a estas dos clases de mujeres con el proposito de derribar la idea machista de la mujer ideal, la mansita, la buena ama de casa, la mujer sacrificada. En Papeles de Pandora, ella muestra esa dialectica que existe entre los papeles de ambas mujeres. Mientras que en Las dos Venecias, ella sugiere que la mujer se debe hacer duena de sus propias acciones para encontrar su autenticidad. Aunque Ferre no lo dice explicitamente, vemos que la nueva mujer puertorriquena con verdadera autenticidad se parece a la taina.

The Commonwealth of Dominica has acquired a reputation as the nature island of the Caribbean. This thesis sets out to explore how Dominicans perceive and relate to nature in their nature island. It considers these perceptions and relationships as consisting not only of people’s cognitive and intellectual constructions of nature, but as also comprising their practices in and embodied engagements with the natural world. A key premise underlying this work is that people’s ideas about and relationships to nature go beyond the discursive: they arise in and from historical, geographical and social contexts, but also emerge through particular personal encounters and experiences. So, for example, tourism and conservation are two prominent means by which Western constructs and discourse of nature are brought to bear in Dominica in the present day, but they also provide opportunities for engagement with the natural world and for the cultivation and expression of experiential knowledge. The focus on engagement and experience is consonant with Dominicans’ thoughts about what it means to know and understand nature, in which considerable emphasis is placed on practical knowledge and knowledge by acquaintance. Further investigation of ideas of nature, through the use of selected collateral concepts, shows how Dominicans think about nature and certain relationships with nature as being an integral part of “what Dominica is about”. Correspondingly, Dominica can be seen as providing the context and framework for their notions of what nature is about. The findings of this sort of place-based empirical investigation can be useful to the formulation of nature-related policies, in that such policies are more likely to have practical purchase if they are seen to be germane to local ideas of and relationships to nature. Research of this kind can also provide new answers to the interesting philosophical question: what is nature?

<p> This thesis is an exploration of the transformation of body and mind through Haitian dance from depth and liberation psychological perspectives. More personally, it focuses on the author&rsquo;s transformational experience while being part of a Haitian dance community in Brooklyn, New York. Haitian dance is ingrained in Haitian culture, which embodies the history of Haitian people, mythology, gods, music, rituals, and ceremonies. This hermeneutic research examines Haitian dance as a way to access the somatic unconscious and support psychological healing and individuation. The research describes the somatic experience of archetypal energies, embodied consciousness, and myths through Haitian dance and how this enhances healing. In addition, this thesis explains how the author&rsquo;s Haitian dance class provides healing for both individuals and a community from a liberation psychology perspective. Through dance, dialogue, and activism, participants gain deeper understandings of themselves and each other&rsquo;s history and experiences. </p>

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wyoming, 2007. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on Nov. 26, 2008). Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-172).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers University, 2007. / "Graduate Program in History." Includes bibliographical references (p. 316-337).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, 2007. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Dec. 9, 2008). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-05, Section: A, page: 1931. Advisers: John Johnson; Portia Maultsby.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-11, Section: A, page: 4190. Adviser: Dara Goldman. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 132-138) Available on microfilm from Pro Quest Information and Learning.

<p> Viral latency remains the most significant obstacle to HIV eradication. Current clinical strategies aim to purge the latent CD4+ T cell reservoir by activating viral expression, but are undercut by the inability to clear the latent reservoir. We first evaluated co-drugging criteria in a quantitative manner to optimize viral expression. However, this approach faces many challenges; and thus, we proposed to identify and target dysregulated signaling pathways in latent HIV-infected cells to promote cell death as a novel approach for eradication. To identify how HIV latency and reactivation alter signal transduction pathways regulating cell death, we explored the acute signaling response of latent HIV-infected CD4+ T cells across <i>in vitro</i> human latency models using systems-level analyses. We measured phosphorylation of five signaling proteins (AKT, IKBa, ERK, p38, and JNK) after stimulation with T-cell activating agents or latency reversing agents in infected cells and uninfected cells. Using these phosphorylation signatures, we built data-driven statistical models that successfully classified infected and uninfected cells, demonstrating that latent infection alters signaling at a systems level. We further identified that the stress kinase pathways p38 and JNK exhibited elevated signaling in latently infected cells and could be targeted to specifically increase cell death, independent of HIV reactivation.</p><p> To work out the mechanisms by which latent and reactivating HIV alters cell death regulation, we further examined signaling of 31 proteins in single cells over 48 hours using mass cytometry. Mass cytometry provides measurements at single-cell resolution, enabling us to separate responses in cells with latent versus reactivating HIV based on viral expression. We used conditional density-based analysis of the single-cell data to quantify the strength of signaling activity along different pathways. We discovered that latent and HIV-expressing cells are sensitized to apoptotic cell death via activation of p38-p53 signaling and inhibition of AKT/mTOR signaling. We identified a novel interaction in infected cells, in which increased p38 signaling activates the pro-death activity of the protein BAD, leading to increased apoptosis. Finally, we show <i>in vitro</i> that p38 and AKT/mTOR pathways can be simultaneously targeted to deplete the latent reservoir by preferentially killing latently infected cells without viral activation. Overall, we demonstrate that targeting altered phosphorylation signatures of latent HIV-infected cells provides a novel and effective strategy for latent HIV eradication.</p><p>