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Catching Smoke
Get PDFCatching Smoke is a creative nonfiction essay collection that focuses on living in the south and the hardships associated with matters of poverty, addiction, incarceration, and family cycles. This collection ponders all the ways that the concept of smoke affected my family\u27s life and gives multiple meanings to the phrase and title Catching Smoke. Artifacts (pictures, letters, etc.) are used throughout to express a family narrative concerned with keeping a record, destroying family secrets, and examining the shadows of truth
Temas tempranos del feminismo en la literatura española de principios del siglo XX: Emilia Pardo Bazán al Franquismo
No full textThis presentation investigates Spanish feminist themes and how two authors—Emilia Pardo Bazán and Dolores Ibárruri—affected the role of women in their society during Franco’s regime. This presentation will discuss the main themes contributed by these two authors and how they fought against Francoism, Franco’s society, and the chauvinistic ideas and rules created for women during the regime
Implementation and Evaluation of an End-of-Life Standardized Participant Simulation into an Adult/Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program
Get PDFPalliative care interventions are in high demand due to patients living longer with chronic, life-limiting conditions. Nursing professionals are instrumental in the care of patients across their lifespan, and it is imperative that they receive end-of-life care training in their respective curriculums. The aims of this project were to 1) implement end-of-life content into an AGACNP program using the ELNEC curriculum and 2) to determine if the simulated environment affects the AGACNP students’ self-confidence and anxiety levels when making clinical decisions for end-of-life patients. As a result of the standardized participant (SP) end-of-life simulation, AGACNP students experienced an increase in self-confidence demonstrated baseline (M 114, SD 26.9) as compared to after the intervention (M 124.8, SD 23.2) t (25) = 3.27, p = .003. The study results also indicated that participants experienced the same level of anxiety before (M 59.2, SD 29.3) and after the interventions (M 59, SD 20.5) t (25) = .098, p = .923, when addressing terminal illness and end-of-life issues. This further confirms the level of uneasiness nurses feel when caring for patients nearing the end of their life. The inclusion of SP simulations related to end-of-life care in nursing curricula will give healthcare providers the confidence they need to make appropriate clinical decisions with terminally ill patients, ultimately improving patient care outcomes
To trust or not to trust? The interplay between labor-related CSR claim type and prior CSR reputation of apparel retailers
No full textPrevalent human rights violations in supply chains have tarnished apparel retailers\u27 reputations, heightening skepticism toward CSR communication. We examine the effect of labor-related CSR claim type (associative vs. substantive) on message credibility, skepticism, and retailer trust. Moreover, to determine whether CSR reputation plays a role in vulnerability to criticism, we investigate how a retailer\u27s prior CSR reputation moderates the effect of CSR claim type on consumer evaluations. Applying the framework of decoupling and cognitive dissonance theory, we propose hypotheses and test them with an online experiment. We reveal that associative CSR claims, which communicate image-oriented rather than concrete information, significantly diminish message credibility and retailer trust, while triggering skepticism. A significant interaction effect further demonstrates that when a retailer\u27s prior CSR reputation is negative, associative claims exacerbate message credibility. Our findings also indicate that positive CSR reputations do not always create a buffering halo effect. We discuss implications to develop optimal CSR communication strategies for apparel retailers
Predicting the Divestment of Prior Acquisitions
No full textWe evaluate whether, in addition to seeking higher stock performance from acquisitions, firm managers also seek predictable stock performance. Building on prior research, we argue that higher volatility in a firm\u27s stock performance following an acquisition is associated with divestment of a prior acquisition. Survival analysis of a longitudinal, panel dataset of 738 matched US acquisitions with 9,973 firm-year observations shows that higher volatility in an acquiring firm\u27s stock performance, following an acquisition, significantly predicts divestment of a prior acquisition. This effect is independent and stronger than the effect of the mean stock performance of an acquiring firm following an acquisition. We also find moderating effects for acquisition relatedness and acquiring firm stock performance after an acquisition. When an acquired unit is related to the parent firm\u27s operations, it will be more likely to be divested if subsequent stock performance displays higher volatility. Still, higher overall stock performance makes a parent firm less likely to divest an acquired unit, suggesting that larger mean returns override concerns about higher stock performance volatility during corporate restructuring
Biogeographic role of the Indonesian Seaway implicated by colonization history of purpleback flying squid, Sthenoteuthis oualaniensis (Lesson, 1830), in the Indo-Pacific Ocean
No full textAs a bio]diversity hotspot, the East Indies (Coral) Triangle possesses the highest biodiversity on the earth. However, evolutionary hypotheses around this area remain controversial; e.g., center of origin, center of accumulation, and center of overlap have been supported by different species. This study aims to answer the evolutionary influence of the Indonesian Seaway on the biodiversity of the Coral Triangle by recovering the evolutionary origins of a wide-ranging ommastrephid squid (Sthenoteuthis oualaniensis) based on integrated molecular and oceanographic clues from the Indo-Pacific. Three new clades were revealed; viz., clade I from the South China Sea, clade II from the northern East Indian Ocean, and clade III from the southern East Indian Ocean. These two Indian Ocean clades formed a monophyly closely related to clade IV from the Central-Southeast Pacific. Clade VI from the central Equatorial Pacific and clade V from the northern Eastern Pacific sit in basal positions of phylogenetic trees. Ancestral Sthenoteuthis was inferred to have originated from the Atlantic Ocean and sequentially dispersed to the northern East Pacific, central Equatorial Pacific, and West Pacific through the open Panama Seaway and being transported by westward North Equatorial Current. The East Indian Ocean was likely colonized by an ancestral population of clade IV from the Southeast Pacific. Westward South Equatorial Circulation could have promoted transoceanic migration of S. oualaniensis through the wide paleo-Indonesian Seaway. Sea level regression since the Miocene and the closure of the Indonesian Seaway at 4–3 Ma were responsible for the population genetic differentiation of S. oualaniensis in the Indo-Pacific. Therefore, the Indonesian Gateway played an important role in influencing marine organisms’ migration and population differentiation through controlling and reorganizing circulations in the Indo-Pacific
In God we trust…and Caesar too? Evaluating the link between religiosity and trust in government
No full textPurpose: The study aims to establish that religiosity has a positive link with government trust, making the secularization trend all the more likely to further erode this already fragile resource. Design/methodology/approach: Through the use of data from the World Values Survey and European Social Survey the link between religiosity and trust in government is examined. Findings: Religiosity and trust in government are positively linked in aggregate data. Research limitations/implications: The analysis is based on aggregated data, not individual countries, and religiosity is a complex concept to measure. Practical implications: Secularization will have a long-term negative effect on government trust. Low levels of trust in government in the West are likely here to stay, or even worsen, as populations continue to secularize. Social implications: With less trust in government, it will be more difficult to govern effectively. Originality/value: The author has not yet seen a full test on how secularization will impact trust in government. In fact, this study makes clear that the trend goes a long way explaining why trust in government has been falling in the developed world for decades
Prevalence and location of survivable skeletal injuries in two North American tree squirrels (Sciurus)
No full textSkeletal injuries, especially broken bones, diminish physical mobility of animals, and they may affect an individual\u27s ability to obtain food and to evade predators. We quantified and compared healed fractures in two sympatric species of tree squirrels (Sciurus niger Linnaeus, 1758 and S. carolinensis Gmelin, 1788) that differ in body size (mass) and locomotor mode. We assessed the number and location of healed fractures in two urban populations of S. carolinensis and in individuals of both species from one rural location. We found a higher-than-expected proportion of healed fractures in older animals of both species. However, we detected no deviations from expected in the number of healed fractures between the two species or between sexes within a species. Urban populations of S. carolinensis exhibited significantly higher-than-expected proportions of healed fractures, and they were approximately 4.5 times more likely to have a healed injury as compared to rural S. carolinensis. Our findings suggest that S. carolinensis in urban populations experience a higher rate of injury and/or a higher rate of survival after injury than those in rural populations
Some Properties of ID∗-n- L i e -derivations of Leibniz algebras
No full textThe concepts of Lie-derivations and Lie-central derivations have been recently presented in [G. R. Biyogmam and J. M. Casas, Lie-central derivations, Lie-centroids and Lie-stem Leibniz algebras, Publ. Math. Debrecen 97(1-2) (2020) 217-239]. This paper studies the notions of n-Lie-derivation and n-Lie-central derivation on Leibniz algebras as generalizations of these concepts. It is shown that under some conditions, n-Lie-central derivations of a non-Lie-Leibniz algebra coincide with ID-n-Lie-derivations, that is, n-Lie-derivations in which the image is contained in the (n + 1)th term of the lower Lie-central series of , and vanishes on the upper Lie-central series of . We prove some properties of these ID-n-Lie-derivations. In particular, it is shown that the Lie algebra structure of the set of ID-n-Lie-derivations is preserved under n-Lie-isoclinism
Why Recognize Miconia as the Only Genus in Tribe Miconieae (Melastomataceae)?
No full textThe tribe Miconieae is a strictly New World group of ca. 1900 species of mostly shrubs and small trees, but also including herbs, epiphytes, and climbers. The taxonomic history of the group is very complex with anything from 28 to 17 genera recognized in the tribe. Generic delimitations have often relied on a few morphological characters that are poorly defined, unevenly applied, and highly homoplasious. Thus, not surprisingly, most genera have been resolved as nonmonophyletic and rendered the highly species-rich Miconia as wildly paraphyletic. Attempts to find consistently stable clades across the tribe, that are also reciprocally monophyletic and diagnosable for the entire tribe have failed, leading most specialists to recognize a single genus within the tribe: Miconia. In this chapter, we summarize the taxonomic history of the tribe and the current status of phylogenetic and taxonomic studies in it. We then present the reasoning to recognize Miconia as the sole genus in Miconieae. Under our circumscription, Miconia becomes the seventh largest genus of flowering plants and notably the only one among the 10 largest genera of angiosperms that is restricted to the Neotropics