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California Italian Studies, Volume 6, Issue 2 (2016)

Rich in history and tradition, canzone Napoletana have been celebrated and venerated around the world. These songs of love, laughter, sorrow, and pain are a genuine and sincere portal into the heart, mind, and soul of millions of Italian immigrants within the Italian diaspora. Henceforth, the purpose of this article is threefold. First, it will address how canzone Napoletana have acutely impacted the Italian diaspora, becoming the metaphorical voice for the majority of Italian immigrants the world over. Second, it will outline how canzone Napoletana have significantly influenced non-Italian perceptions about Italy and Italian culture. Lastly, this article will provide a uniquely Canadian perspective by specifically illustrating the plight of Italian immigrants living in post World War II Toronto and how these immigrants used canzone Napoletana as a coping mechanism for the daily hardships and struggles of immigrant life.

    Cover page: Exploring Canzone Napoletana and Southern Italian Migration Through Three LensesCreative Commons 'BY-NC' version 4.0 license
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    UC San Diego Previously Published Works (2020)
    With the increasing popularity of extreme conditioning programmes, athletes and patients are searching for new, engaging, high-intensity, total-body workouts. The sport of Hooverball is increasingly used as a workout. First devised in the USA in 1929 to keep President Hoover physically fit, Hooverball has experienced increasing popularity in the past 15 years. The game is scored like tennis and played like volleyball, with players throwing and catching a heavy medicine ball over a volleyball net. Players use complex, multi-joint, explosive movements, featuring torsion, flexion and extension to absorb the forces involved. This paper reports a case of a Hooverball player who presented with a knee injury. The paper also reviews the origins of the sport, and its increase in popularity related to the increasing prominence of extreme conditioning programmes. A literature review, and common Hooverball-related injuries, are presented. Clinical recommendations are set out for patient safety, injury prevention and game coverage, including a prehabilitation strategy for players prior to engaging in this revived and growing sport.
      Cover page: Hooverball: Case Study, Literature Review and Clinical Recommendations
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      Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Volume 35 (2013)
        Cover page: Inductive Use of Semantic Word-Families to Accelerate Vocabulary Development and Reading Comprehension in Grades 3-4-5
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        UC San Diego Previously Published Works (2020)

        Introduction

        Cycling is known to cause groin pain, typically adductor/hamstring strains and "saddle sores" (skin abrasion, ulceration and/or folliculitis). Rarely does it result in pathological mesenchymal lesions.

        Presentation of case

        We report a case of a 52-year-old female avid cyclist with chronic groin pain. Activity alteration, bike fit, and saddle modification did not ameliorate her symptoms. MRI revealed no hamstring or bony abnormality but demonstrated low T1/high T2 signal in the right perineum inferior to the ischial tuberosity.

        Discussion

        Perineal nodular induration, or "cyclist's nodule," is a reactive fibroblastic and myofibroblastic pseudotumor almost exclusively reported in male cyclists. PNI can become so nodular that it has even been referred to as an accessory testicle or "the cyclist's third testicle."

        Conclusion

        We report an unusual case of PNI in a female cyclist and review the differential diagnosis of non-infectious soft tissue perineal pain in cyclists. Clinicians should be aware of this rare condition to avoid confusion with other mesenchymal lesions.
          Cover page: “Bumpy” ride for the female cyclist: A rare case of perineal nodular induration, the ischial hygroma
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          UC San Diego Previously Published Works (2019)
          Endurance events have experienced a significant increase in growth in the new millennium and are popular activities for participation globally. Sports nutrition recommendations for endurance exercise however remains a complex issue with often opposing views and advice by various health care professionals. A PubMed/Medline search on the topics of endurance, athletes, nutrition, and performance was undertaken and a review performed summarizing the current evidence concerning macronutrients, hydration, and supplements as it pertains to endurance athletes. Carbohydrate and hydration recommendations have not drastically changed in years, while protein and fat intake have been traditionally underemphasized in endurance athletes. Several supplements are commercially available to athletes, of which, few may be of benefit for endurance activities, including nitrates, antioxidants, caffeine, and probiotics, and are reviewed here. The topic of "train low," training in a low carbohydrate state is also discussed, and the post-exercise nutritional "recovery window" remains an important point to emphasize to endurance competitors. This review summarizes the key recommendations for macronutrients, hydration, and supplements for endurance athletes, and helps clinicians treating endurance athletes clear up misconceptions in sports nutrition research when counseling the endurance athlete.
            Cover page: Nutrition and Supplement Update for the Endurance Athlete: Review and Recommendations
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            UC San Francisco Electronic Theses and Dissertations (2015)

            Basolateral amygdala (BLA) neurons are excited by conditioned cues after appetitive or aversive Pavlovian conditioning, and these neuronal excitations are considered to be a substrate for cue- outcome associative learning. However, an equal or greater number of BLA neurons can be inhibited by conditioned cues, and the role and mechanism of this inhibitory signal are not understood. Here we show that 77% of BLA neurons demonstrate long-lasting inhibition during a reward-predictive cue that is positively correlated with both learning and extinction of reward seeking. Optogenetic activation of BLA projection neurons during cue presentation impaired conditioned behavior, consistent with cue-evoked inhibition in BLA causally contributing to this behavior. Pharmacological inactivation of the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) and optogenetic inactivation of OFC axon terminals in BLA also reduced conditioned behavior, with pharmacological inactivation of OFC additionally diminishing BLA cue-evoked inhibitions. Together, these data reveal a new role for BLA neuronal inhibitions in conditioned behavior, and suggest that this signal is mediated in part by OFC axon projections to BLA, which may activate local interneurons.

              Cover page: Role and circuit mechanism of cue-evoked neuronal inhibition in basolateral amygdala
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              Journal for Learning through the Arts, Volume 15, Issue 1 (2019)

              This paper considers the complex and somewhat nebulous term “creativity”, exploring the ways in which the pedagogical phenomenon we call “CIRT” (an acronym) can enrich classroom approaches so as to enhance Creativity, boost Innovation, and encourage Risk-Taking. In addition, we review elements that impact the creative process and explore concepts of freedom, as well as the constraints and parameters of creativity. In our role as teacher educators, we explore the connection between teaching and creativity by outlining three key examples of approaches that utilize the CIRT framework including: synesthesia, imagination, and audiation activities.

               

               

                Cover page: Using the Arts to Develop a Pedagogy of Creativity, Innovation, and Risk-Taking (CIRT)
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                Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Volume 33 (2011)
                  Cover page: Promoting Development of Geometry Concepts: Interfacing Multiple Embodied Representations with a Computer Game
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                  UC San Diego Previously Published Works (2019)
                  A 63-year-old woman with common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) presented with 1 year of insidious onset lower extremity pain and weakness. She underwent a circuitous workup, failed to improve despite treatment for various presumed diagnoses. She presented to a University physical medicine and rehabilitation clinic with continued symptoms. Electrophysiologic testing was recommended revealing a lower extremity motor greater than sensory axonal neuropathy. While CVID has known central nervous system complications, to our knowledge, this represents the second known reported case of peripheral neuropathy. We review the literature on CVID and summarize neurological disease mechanisms and manifestations. Although peripheral neuropathy is a rarely documented complication of CVID, providers need to be aware of potential peripheral nervous system complications of primary immune deficiencies such as CVID due to its significant impact on physical performance, balance, and fall risks.
                    Cover page: Peripheral Neuropathy Due to Common Variable Immunodeficiency: Case Report and Narrative Review
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                    Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Volume 39 (2017)
                    According to cognitive appraisal theory, emotion in an indi-vidual is the result of how a situation/event is evaluated by theindividual. This evaluation has different outcomes among peo-ple and it is often suggested to be operationalised by a set ofrules or beliefs acquired by the subject throughout develop-ment. Unfortunately, this view is particularly detrimental forcomputational applications of emotion appraisal. In fact, it re-quires providing a knowledge base that is particularly difficultto establish and manage, especially in systems designed forhighly complex scenarios, such as social robots. In addition,according to appraisal theory, an individual might elicit morethan one emotion at a time in reaction to an event. Hence, de-termining which emotional state should be attributed in rela-tionship to a specific event is another critical issue not yet fullyaddressed by the available literature. In this work, we showthat: (i) the cognitive appraisal process can be realised withouta complex set of rules; instead, we propose that this processcan be operationalised by knowing only the positive or nega-tive perceived effect the event has on the subject, thus facili-tating extensibility and integrability of the emotional system;(ii) the final emotional state to attribute in relation to a specificsituation is better explained by ethical reasoning mechanisms.These hypotheses are supported by our experimental results.Therefore, this contribution is particularly significant to pro-vide a more simple and generalisable explanation of cognitiveappraisal theory and to promote the integration between theo-ries of emotion and ethics studies, currently often neglected bythe available literature.
                      Cover page: A Domain-Independent Approach of Cognitive Appraisal Augmented by HigherCognitive Layer of Ethical Reasoning
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