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Selected AbstractsIt Came from Outer Space: Everyday Products and Ideas from the Space ProgramTHE JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE, Issue 1 2004Ray B. Browne No abstract is available for this article. [source] Pyramids in Las Vegas and in Outer Space: Ancient Egypt in Twentieth-Century American Architecture and FilmTHE JOURNAL OF POPULAR CULTURE, Issue 1 2000Margaret MalamudArticle first published online: 5 MAR 200 First page of article [source] Space on Earth: A Virtual Portal Between the Earth and Outer SpaceARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, Issue 3 2008Valentina Croci Abstract Every time you text or call from your mobile phone, you may be unknowingly providing essential data that is being captured for public or commercial research. Valentina Croci describes how The Senseable City Lab at MIT and the Estonian group Positium LBS with the Department of Geography at the University of Tartu have been developing projects that enable us to sense the city, dynamically mapping social movement. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] E. T. Culture: Anthropology in Outer Spaces by Debbora Battaglia, EditorTHE JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE, Issue 4 2006Donald Palumbo No abstract is available for this article. [source] Simulated conditions of microgravity increases progesterone production in I-10 cells of Leydig tumor cell lineINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF UROLOGY, Issue 3 2008Tomoyoshi Kaneko Background: The prospect of long-term residence in outer space is becoming a reality. Previously we found that testosterone secretion and spermatogenesis is reduced in model mice on which the shift of body fluids in space is simulated. The present study examines the effects of the microgravity (,G) environment on steroidogenesis of Leydig cells. Methods: I-10 cells were cultured for 24 h under a simulated ,G environment. Progesterone production was evaluated as steroidogenesis. Western blots of the enzyme, 3,hydroxy dehydrogenase (HSD) as well as of the transcription factors, Ad4bp/SF-1 and DAX-1, the amount of adenosine3,,5,-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP) and cell morphology were investigated. The ,G environment was simulated using clinostat rotation (CR). Rotational (Cont-1) and stationary (Cont-2) controls always received a regular gravity effect with and without rotatory motion, respectively. Results: Progesterone levels in cells under CR were significantly increased compared with those of both controls. Increased progesterone production was not related to the expression of either of the transcription factors or the enzyme. Although the cytoplasm expanded, the amount of cAMP produced under CR did not significantly differ from that produced under both control environments. Conclusions: Our findings showed that I-10 cells produced more progesterone under a ,G, than under control environments. Since the amounts of 3,HSD, Ad4bp/SF-1, DAX-1 and cAMP were not altered, the increase in steroid production under CR might be due to the expansion of cytoplasm, where steroidogenesis occurs. Steroidogenesis should be investigated in more detail to predict the effects of outer space on humans. [source] Robotics in urologic surgery: An evolving new technologyINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF UROLOGY, Issue 7 2006FATIH ATUG Abstract, Rapid technological developments in the past two decades have produced new inventions such as robots and incorporated them into our daily lives. Today, robots perform vital functions in homes, outer space, hospitals and on military instillations. The development of robotic surgery has given hospitals and health care providers a valuable tool that is making a profound impact on highly technical surgical procedures. The field of urology is one area of medicine that has adopted and incorporated robotic surgery into its armamentarium. Innovative robotic urologic surgical applications and techniques are being developed and reported everyday. Increased utilization and development will ultimately fuel the discovery of newer applications of robotic systems in urologic surgery. Herein we provide an overview of the history, development, and applications of robotics in surgery with a focus on urologic surgery. [source] Project English: Lessons From Curriculum Reform PastLINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 6 2007Wayne O'Neil Project English was born in 1962, a late addition to the curriculum reform movement in the USA that grew out of the Cold War race to dominate outer space. The Oregon Curriculum Study Center, one of the initial 12 Project English centers, took as its goal the complete reformation of the secondary-school language arts curriculum and the education of its teachers. During its 6-year run, the Oregon Curriculum Study Center produced a new secondary-school curriculum in grammar, rhetoric, and literature, the result of collaborative work between the teachers in the field and members of the University of Oregon English Department. Examining the Oregon Curriculum Study Center's work on the grammar component of the curriculum, this article describes the pedagogical (Socratic) and theoretical (transformational) bases of this component, its content, and its development, and offers some lessons to be learned in the context of explaining why this attempt to replace the old grammar with a new one ultimately failed, the result of both internal contradictions and of external forces beyond the Oregon Curriculum Study Center's control. [source] |