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L\u27Affaire de Providence - The Providence Affair
Get PDFCorrespondence and other documentation from 1924-1930 regarding the conflict over teaching in the English language in all parochial schools even though French language parishioners were taxed by the Church to build the schools. Materials were either written, received, or gathered by the Union St. Jean Baptiste d\u27Ameriquehttps://digitalcommons.assumption.edu/usjb-documents/1008/thumbnail.jp
Classroom Management and Remote Teaching: Tools for Defining and Teaching Expectations
Get PDFThe remote instruction context presents many challenges for teachers, including managing student behavior. The practice of defining and teaching expectations is considered a high-leverage practice in special education, and should be applied to the remote setting to support the learning of students with and without disabilities. We present four recommended steps for adapting this practice for the remote setting and use a fictional vignette with example materials to demonstrate the process. Additionally, we provide other useful online resources for providing effective online instruction for students with disabilities
The Role of Depressed Mood and Family Expressiveness in Young Adults\u27 Ability to Recognize Facial Expressions of Emotions
Get PDFYoung adults’ ability to recognize others’ emotions has been linked to the emotional expressiveness they experienced in their families of origin, with individuals from highly expressive families showing lower competency in identifying emotions. Current research has not yet explored the possible role of depressive symptoms in young adults’ perceptions of their families’ expressiveness, although there is evidence that parental depression impacts family expressiveness. In addition, past research on young adults’ emotion recognition has not considered that depression may influence correct identification of facial expressions, though studies on mothers’ Postpartum Depression suggest that depression may lead to misjudgments of the type and intensity of emotional expressions. The present study sought to examine the relationship between depressive symptoms, family expressiveness, and facial recognition of emotions in young adults. A sample of 194 undergraduate students completed an emotion recognition task consisting of 60 pictures of male and female faces portraying 5 different types of emotions (happy, sad, angry, scared, and disgusted) at 6 different intensity levels (15% to 100%). Participants also reported on their families’ positive and negative expressiveness on the Family Expressiveness Questionnaire (FEQ) as well as their depressive symptoms on the Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression Scale (CES-D). Results indicated that greater negative family expressiveness was associated with more depressive symptoms. In addition, young adults who perceived their family-of-origin expressiveness as more negative were better at recognizing facial expressions of emotions and rated expressions as more intense. Contrary to prediction, young adults who experienced greater depressive symptoms were not less accurate in their facial recognition of emotions. Negative family expressiveness may sensitize young adults to attend to facial expressions of emotions and may encourage greater competency in emotion recognition
Review of \u3cem\u3eRacial Taxation: Schools, Segregation, and Taxpayer Citizenship, 1869-1973\u3c/em\u3e by Camille Walsh
Get PDFA Preliminary Two-Phase Test of How Inequity Aversion is Modulated by Previous Dyadic Interactions
Get PDFPissing in Political Cisterns, or Laughing Into the Pot of The Flight 93 Election
Get PDFLaughter can provoke both cultural catharsis and sociopolitical critique. However, in an era of Trumpism, laughter has become troubled by vulgar rhetoric of shrugging off comic possibilities insofar as the act of “laughing-at” has overtaken US media culture. This essay argues that political laughter in the shadow of President Donald J. Trump is at risk of being enervated by an overwhelming sense of humorless ridicule. Nowhere is this more apparent than the infamous manifesto, “The Flight 93 Election,” which makes Trumpism into the laughable outgrowth of a crude comicality so prevalent in democratic—and anti-democratic—affairs
Preventing Neurodegeneration by Controlling Oxidative Stress: The Role of OXR1
Get PDFParkinson’s disease, diabetic retinopathy, hyperoxia induced retinopathy, and neuronal damage resulting from ischemia are among the notable neurodegenerative diseases in which oxidative stress occurs shortly before the onset of neurodegeneration. A shared feature of these diseases is the depletion of OXR1 (oxidation resistance 1) gene products shortly before the onset of neurodegeneration. In animal models of these diseases, restoration of OXR1 has been shown to reduce or eliminate the deleterious effects of oxidative stress induced cell death, delay the onset of symptoms, and reduce overall severity. Moreover, increasing OXR1 expression in cells further increases oxidative stress resistance and delays onset of disease while showing no detectable side effects. Thus, restoring or increasing OXR1 function shows promise as a therapeutic for multiple neurodegenerative diseases. This review examines the role of OXR1 in oxidative stress resistance and its impact on neurodegenerative diseases. We describe the potential of OXR1 as a therapeutic in light of our current understanding of its function at the cellular and molecular level and propose a possible cascade of molecular events linked to OXR1’s regulatory functions
2020 Undergraduate Symposium Brochure
Get PDFContains a schedule of the annual Undergraduate Symposium event as well as research abstracts for each student work.https://digitalcommons.assumption.edu/undergraduate-symposium-brochures/1011/thumbnail.jp
Developmental Care in the NICU: Best Practices for Preterm Infants, Expectations of Healthcare Providers, and Impact on Parents and Families
Get PDFInfants born prematurely experience a variety of medical complications, which can impair their growth and development. These complications can result in permanent disabilities and medical conditions that could necessitate a lifetime of medical treatment. Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) offer specialty units for infants born prematurely to receive excellent medical care to help them survive after being delivered at as soon as 23 weeks of gestation. A complementary form of care offered in some NICUs is developmental care, which focuses specifically on modifying the neonate’s physical environment to ensure proper growth and development. As developmental care is a relatively new practice, it is still being incorporated into standard NICU care. In this project, the offerings of top US NICUs were reviewed to determine their incorporation of developmental care. Additionally, NICU providers were interviewed to gather their opinions on the quality of care infants and their families receive in the NICU, developmental care and its impacts, and how NICU care can be improved in general. Results of these interviews indicated that while developmental care has proven to be very successful, it is not a standard of care in many NICUs and is not used as frequently as it should be. NICU providers also found that parents often are negatively impacted by a lack of support in the NICU, and should receive more specific care. Through attending conferences on developmental care, NICU providers can encourage the use of developmental care in the NICUs that they work in. Additionally, engaging parents in developmental care and keeping them informed of their infant’s treatment can help to offer them further support during their time in the NICU
Parental Self-Efficacy and Parenting through Adversity
Get PDFThis review examines the relationship between life adversities, parental well-being, parental self-efficacy, and social support as potential factors mediating parent-child relationships and children’s outcomes. Generally, research on adversity has focused on children’s experiences and the long-term impact of adversity on development and health trajectories. More recently, a focus on resilience and growth after adversity has received increasing attention. Existing literature has identified how parents can best support their children through adverse events and suggested parenting programs that emphasize skill-building to parent children who have experienced adversity. Yet often overlooked is the critical impact of adverse events on the parent and how this may interfere with the cultivation of an environment of support and increase stigmatization due to unmet parenting expectations. While parenting occurs in context, it is often judged based upon societal expectations of childrearing practices and optimal outcomes with little understanding of the factors that contribute to parenting behaviors. The experience of adversity has the potential to impact parental sense of competence and parenting practices. However, parental self-efficacy and social supports can play mediating role in the experience of adversity and parenting stress. The integration of these contextual factors allows for the development of expectations that are best suited to meet the needs of vulnerable family systems