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Choose Your Own Destruction
No full textChoose Your Own Destruction is a collection of interlinked poems chronicling the last days of (the) US, naming/probing America’s fault lines that will lead to Her inevitable collapse via invective verse & a sustained narrative arc. Despite the setting of post-apocalyptic America, the manuscript’s examination of power, political and religious institutions, as well as family, and the self, keeps a lens fixed on the modern world. Each poem concludes w/ a choice of paths that determines the rest of the narrative. There are dead ends, inescapable loops, false paths, & hidden poems peppered throughout the manuscript, but much like the narrators in CYOD, the reader will inevitably realize that there’s only one way out. As the characters sojourn, rest, pilgrimage, dig in, or die, they offer up conjectures on what all went wrong, & why things never had to end this way. In the end, this book speaks to who we are & why we’re here, frustrated w/ the errors of the past but cynically hopeful for a more human tomorrow
Instructor\u27s Manual: Where\u27s My Compass?
Get PDFThe performing arts is a perennially over-subscribed market with more performers than available jobs. The COVID-19 pandemic brought a previously constrained market to a standstill. For many students graduating from musical theatre and acting programs the lack of employment opportunities in performance was discouraging. The attached case studies examine the experience of three graduates and how they used skills adjacent to their performing skills to launch small business ventures. This Instructor’s Manual uses SWOT Analysis and the Ansoff Matrix as tools to assist students in analyzing the case studies (and as planning tools for their own entrepreneurial ventures). It also examines resilience and its role in navigating difficult circumstances and how the graduate performer can develop entrepreneurial ventures in non-performance spheres while still retaining their core creative identity. Through working through these case studies and the suggested exercises, arts entrepreneurship educators can help performing arts students conceive of ideas for “side hustle” businesses to support them in their pursuit of a performing career
Robert Brinkley Snowden with family, circa 1907
No full textPhotograph of Robert Brinkley Snowden with his wife Sarah Eliza Lolly and their children Dorothy, Robert Bob, Thomas Tom, Brinkley Snowden, and John Bayard Johnny. Robert was the firstborn son of Colonel R.B. Snowden and Annie Overton Brinkley Snowden. The image was taken by Gray, circa 1907.https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-rbsnowdenfamily2/1018/thumbnail.jp
Grace Episcopal Church Float, Annie and Imogene Snowden Fargason, circa 1915
No full textPhotograph of a Grace Episcopal Church float with Annie and Imogene Snowden Fargason, riding along. The girls won a prize for their float. This image was taken by C. H. Polard, 180 S. Main Street, Memphis, Tennessee, circa 1915.
Annie and Imogene were the daughters of John Thomas Fargason II and Annie Brinkley Snowden Fargason.https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-rbsnowdenfamily2/1021/thumbnail.jp
Annie Snowden Fargason Ward, 1930s
No full textPhotograph of Annie Snowden Fargason Ward (1907-1974), the daughter of John Thomas Fargason II and Annie Brinkley Snowden Fargason, 1930s. She was the wife of Frank Watson Ward II and granddaughter of R.B. Snowden.https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-rbsnowdenfamily2/1022/thumbnail.jp
BIOM 4784: Biomedical Design Studio (Syllabus)
Get PDFCourse Description: Laboratory experience dedicated to the design, development, and fabrication of a final prototype for use in conducting engineering analysis and design loop feedback. Responsibilities will include frequent team meetings, mentor advising, and group brainstorming along with prototype designing, technical drawings, fabrication, engineering analysis, and verification/validation. Deliverables for each team will be a prototype, final design specification report with engineering reports, and a final team presentation
Extensions of Vectors in Partitioning: Analysis of Clustering for Grouped Data
No full textCluster analysis is a popular, well-utilized unsupervised machine learning technique to group individual subjects based on the similarity of their traits. In epidemiological and biomedical research, clustering individuals into groups in order to study their group patterns with respect to outcomes of interest is often useful. Popular clustering methods, including the k-means framework, are well suited to cluster individuals based on continuous, nominal, and mixed type variables. Gower’s similarity is an additional option for clustering based on mixed type data. Clustering of data that has an inherently nested structure poses unique challenges to the classic clustering methodologies, as these solutions do not have the ability to cluster individuals based on vector variables often present in high dimensional data. An example is seen in the problem of clustering individuals based on genetic/epi-genetic data which encompasses single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) information, deoxyribonucleic acid methylation (DNAm) levels information, and level of expression information across multiple genes. At the person level, this data comes together to create a set of multidimensional variables. An appropriate clustering strategy called Vectors in Partitioning has been developed by the research team at the University of Memphis School of Public Health’s Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Environmental Health division. This novel clustering strategy calculates a distance measure at the gene level, considering multiple input variables of mixed type, nested within the gene, which are summed and compared at the person level. A similar challenge is posed to the classic clustering methods by data containing grouped variables which, together, measure latent constructs. For example, epidemiological data is often structured such that various latent constructs are measures as the combination of multiple variables, representing factors that are likely to work in combination to predict health or social outcomes of interest. The aim of this dissertation is to develop two novel clustering methods which will account for this type of grouped data structure. To our knowledge, no clustering methods currently exist that account for grouped variable data structure. Our proposed methods are novel non-parametric approaches that will allow for assessment of the influence of data with grouped variable structure on various health outcomes
VIOLENCE ACROSS THE FAMILY SYSTEM: EXAMINING THE DIRECT AND INTERGENERATIONAL EFFECTS OF VIOLENCE VICTIMIZATION ON YOUTH’S SOCIAL COMPETENCE
Get PDFBackground: Mothers’ experiences of childhood violence (CV) and adulthood intimate partner violence (IPV) are linked with poorer social emotional functioning in their offspring. Little work has concurrently examined the associations between mothers’ CV, mothers’ adulthood IPV, youth’s own direct violence victimization (physical and sexual assault), and youth’s perceptions of maternal IPV on youth’s social competence. Further, family-based promotive factors, such as open mother-child communication, may affect youth’s social competence following violence exposure. Method: This study included 162 mother-child dyads from community organizations serving families in the MidSouth, United States; all mothers (Mage=35.24, SD=6.70; 80.7% Black or African American) reported IPV exposure in the past 6 months. Youth were on average 12 years old (M=12.38, SD=2.84; 59% female) and predominantly Black or African American (85.5%). Results: A mediated path model assessing the direct effects of mothers’ CV, mothers’ adulthood IPV, youth’s direct victimization, and youth’s exposure to maternal IPV on youth’s social competence, and the indirect effects of these violence variables through open mother-child communication, yielded a strong fit [χ2 (12)=12.19, p=.43; RMSEA=.01 [CI, 0.00-0.08]; CFI=.99; SRMR=.04]. An indirect-only mediation effect was found between youth’s direct victimization through open mother-child communication on youth’s social competence (β=-0.63, p=.027; 95% CI [-1.60, -0.11], such that youth exposed to more direct victimization reported less open communication, which was linked to lower social competence. Conclusions: Results demonstrate the impact of direct victimization exposure on youth’s view of themselves and their relationship with their caregivers. Increasing access to family-based interventions that create opportunities to reduce family conflict and strengthen mother-child communication could promote youth’s social competence following direct victimization. Policy level changes are necessary to increase prevention efforts intended to reduce the intergenerational transmission of violence not only within families but also in communities systematically impacted by ongoing discrimination and oppression
St. Joseph\u27s Hospital, Memphis, TN
No full textSt. Joseph Hospital, a Catholic operated facility, was founded by the Sisters of St. Francis in 1885. In 1997, the hospital began a merger with Baptist Memorial Health Care and the buildings were sold to St. Jude.https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-rpevahouse2/1009/thumbnail.jp
Vol. 42: Civil Engineering Professor and CAESER Director Dr. Brian Waldron
No full textIn this edition of the President\u27s Perspective, UofM President Bill Hardgrave speaks with Civil Engineering Professor and CAESER Director Dr. Brian Waldron about the important role the CAESER team\u27s research plays in informing and protecting the local community