The overlooked reproductive function of the human clitoris—News media responses to the published review

The Post-apology Residential School Database, or PARSD, is a collection of digital and digitized news media responses to and representations of Indian Residential Schools since the Canadian government’s official apology in Parliament on June 11th, 2008. In this conceptual paper, we discuss PARSD tagging practices, describing how our archival description approach is informed by feminist and anti-colonial theoretical frameworks and outlining how project members and ‘guest taggers’ describe, organize, and display PARSD records to promote decolonization. We conclude by considering both the potential and possible limitations that these practices may play in decolonizing and reconciling research.La Base de données sur les pensionnats après la présentation des excuses est une collection de réactions et de représentations des pensionnats indiens dans les médias numériques et numérisés depuis les excuses officielles du gouvernement canadien au Parlement le 11 juin 2008. Dans cet article conceptuel, nous discutons des pratiques de marquage dans la base de données, en décrivant comment notre approche de description archivistique est influencée par les cadres théoriques féministes et anticoloniaux et comment les membres du projet et les 'tagueurs invités' décrivent, organisent et affichent les notices de la base de données de façon à promouvoir la décolonisation. Nous concluons en considérant à la fois les limites potentielles et possibles que ces pratiques peuvent imposer dans la décolonisation et la réconciliation de la recherche.

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Frozen Meat Against COVID-19 Misinformation: An Analysis of Steak-Umm and Positive Expectancy Violations

Journal of Business and Technical Communication ◽

10.1177/1050651920959187 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 35 (1) ◽

pp. 118-125

Author(s):

Ekaterina Bogomoletc ◽

Nicole M. Lee

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Information Flow ◽

News Media ◽

Communication Strategies ◽

Expectancy Violations ◽

Expectancy Violation ◽

Positive Expectancy ◽

Media Responses

COVID-19 has forced many businesses to adjust their communication strategies to fit a new reality. One surprising example of this strategy adjustment came from the company Steak-umm, maker of frozen sliced beef. Instead of finding new ways to promote its products, the company shifted its focus to the public’s urgent needs, breaking down possible approaches to navigating information flow during the pandemic. This resulted in overwhelming praise on social and news media, including almost 60,000 new Twitter followers within a week. Drawing on expectancy violation theory, this case study examines Steak-umm’s strategy, the content of social media responses, and why the approach was successful.

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Reduction of spermatogonia and testosterone in rat testes flown on space lab-3

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100142864 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 44 ◽

pp. 248-249

Author(s):

Delbert E. Philpott ◽

W. Sapp ◽

C. Williams ◽

T. Fast ◽

J. Stevenson ◽

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Keyword(s):

Social Interaction ◽

Social Status ◽

Population Size ◽

Physiological Response ◽

Social Rank ◽

Reproductive Function ◽

Testicular Development ◽

Organ Weights ◽

Reproductive Maturation ◽

Metabolic Activities

Space Lab 3 (SL-3) was flown on Shuttle Challenger providing an opportunity to measure the effect of spaceflight on rat testes. Cannon developed the idea that organisms react to unfavorable conditions with highly integrated metabolic activities. Selye summarized the manifestations of physiological response to nonspecific stress and he pointed out that atrophy of the gonads always occurred. Many papers have been published showing the effects of social interaction, crowding, peck order and confinement. Flickinger showed delayed testicular development in subordinate roosters influenced by group numbers, social rank and social status. Christian reported increasing population size in mice resulted in adrenal hypertrophy, inhibition of reproductive maturation and loss of reproductive function in adults. Sex organ weights also declined. Two male dogs were flown on Cosmos 110 for 22 days. Fedorova reported an increase of 30 to 70% atypical spermatozoa consisting of tail curling and/or the absence of a tail.

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