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How Major Risk Factors Influence Mortality Trends in the National Health Interview Survey
Get PDFThis paper estimates the contribution of changes in major risk factors to mortality trends in the United States during the period 1997-2015. The risk factors investigated include cigarette smoking, obesity, alcohol consumption, educational attainment, health insurance coverage, and mental distress. It uses National Health Interview Surveys followed into death records to investigate the relationship between mortality and risk factors and to identify changes in the prevalence of the risk factors over the period of observation. All models control for age, sex, and race/ethnicity. It concludes that increases in educational attainment and reductions in smoking prevalence are the most important contributors to mortality change over the period of study
Activating Our Tools: A Qualitative Analysis of Statewide Historic Preservation Plans
Get PDFSince the passage of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, State Historic Preservation Offices have been required to create and implement Statewide Historic Preservation Plans on a recurring cycle. Despite this longstanding requirement, State Plans have been overlooked in academic research and there have been few comprehensive evaluations of the planning process, the written plans, and their implementation. This thesis begins to fill that gap in research and suggests further areas of study for future researchers. Through interviews with staff at the National Park Service, an online survey of SHPOs in U.S. states, territories, and Freely Associated States, and follow up interviews with seven states, this thesis analyzes current practices of State Planning, including common challenges to planning, areas of success, and innovative practices. This thesis recommends best practices for SHPOs’ creation and implementation of Statewide Historic Preservation Plans, as well as ways for the NPS to assist states in their planning processes
Penn Library\u27s Ms. Codex 1679 - Heptameron des Ludowici Zypriani, de Mongold... (Video Orientation)
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Strathglass Park: Strategies for the Revitalization of a Rural Mill Town Community
Get PDFBuilt in 1902 for Oxford Paper Company mill workers, Strathglass Park is one of the finest examples of twentieth century industrial worker housing still extant today. The rural town of Rumford Falls, Maine experienced a radical population boom during the last decade of the nineteenth century when the small agrarian village was transformed into a thriving industrial pulp-and-paper company town, resulting in a major housing shortage. Brainchild of Hugh J. Chisholm (1847-1912), founder of the Oxford Paper Company, Strathglass Park consisted of 51 red-brick architect-designed duplexes organized in a professionally planned park-like setting surrounded by a granite wall. The well-constructed, spacious, and modern company-owned duplexes were rented to mill workers at an affordable rate while the company also handled maintenance and repairs in the Park—which was kept in immaculate condition until the maintenance program ended in 1949. In 1967, the family-owned Oxford Paper Company was sold to the Ethyl Corporation which started the Park and the town on a downward economic trajectory.The unified landscape of Strathglass Park deteriorated until a revitalization movement was prompted in 1973 with the nomination of the Park to the National Register of Historic Places. Since that time, sporadic interventions have been attempted to revitalize the Park, with only temporary effects achieved. This thesis examines the origins of Strathglass Park and tracks its evolution within the context of Rumford Falls. It documents and critically analyzes past preservation interventions along with contemporary community sentiment to create a framework which is used to develop a preservation strategy to reactivate Strathglass Park as one of Rumford’s most distinctive community assets. Recommendations are proposed that address community and economic challenges through financing sources, policy modifications, and community programming—leveraging the architecturally significant Strathglass Park development to facilitate a larger neighborhood evolution
Collation Model for LJS 172: [Tabulae directionum et profectionum]. [Tabella sinus recti].
Get PDFAstronomical tables of declinations and ascensions and a table of sines, copied not long after their completion by Regiomontanus in 1467.https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/1005/thumbnail.jp
Collation Model for Oversize Ms. Codex 331: Miracoli e leggende
Get PDFCollection of miracle stories and lives of the saints told in the style of contemporary novels, with the intention of making the average reader realize the punishment for sinful actions and the reward for virtuous life. Includes paraphrases of miraculous stories and legends of the Virgin and of the saints. Many of the latter category are based on early Christian literature, such as the Lives of the Fathers, which in many cases are cited as the source. The individual stories appear to be unpublished, except for the story of the childless queen. Appears to be incomplete, with one or more folios missing at the end.https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/1015/thumbnail.jp
Collation Model for Ms. Codex 1141: Omnes ad praeda venient.
Get PDFProphecy details the election of Pope Leo X in the conclave, his subsequent actions in the European church (specifically in Italy, France, and Germany) during his tenure as pope, and predicts the events following Leo\u27s death and the election of Pope Clement VII in 1523. Possibly given to Giovanni Todeschini Piccolomini (Ad Reverendissimum Cardinalem Senense, f.2r), who was the archbishop of Siena (1503-1529) and participated in the conclave of 1523. Appears to have been part of a larger manuscript, as pages are faintly foliated 29-32 in a modern hand. Leaves have been mended along lower and inside edges with strips of modern paper.https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/1017/thumbnail.jp
Collation Model for LJS 264: Ymage du monde.
Get PDFSummary of all knowledge, divided into 3 parts on the creation of the world and man, geography, and astronomy; copy of the earliest recension in 6,600 octosyllabic lines of verse, as composed in 1245 by Gautier of Metz.https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/1023/thumbnail.jp
Module 2: Infringing on Civil Liberties: Racial/Religious Profiling, Surveillance, and Targeting of Muslims
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Light And Black Magic: Alvin Langdon Coburn And The Potential Of Abstract Photography
Get PDFThanks to his dazzling Vortographs, Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882–1966) is known as one of the first to create abstract photographs. Through these remarkable pictures, made in 1916 and 1917 with a peripheral connection to the British Vorticist movement, he opened new and fertile territory within early-twentieth century avant-garde photography and within avant-garde visual culture more broadly. My dissertation brings to light the conditions that enabled Coburn to conceive of abstract photography, that guided him to the specific forms of the Vortographs, and that drove him to present the pictures as a vitally necessary breakthrough in his chosen medium.
This study begins with an examination of Coburn’s early career, during which he became dedicated to photography as an art of composition in which aesthetic value was located primarily in the carefully considered arrangement of shapes and tones. This led him to nearly abstract pictures as early as 1906. A decade later, the trying conditions of World War I drove Coburn to studio work (taking a camera outdoors would have seen him arrested on suspicion of spying) and high ambition (disturbed by the war, he sought to assert his humanity through heroic art). To better understand the abstract images that followed, I partnered with the artist and photographer Gregory Vershbow to reconstruct the processes behind Coburn’s glistening pictures, which have previously remained unexplained. Our discoveries show that the Vortographs resulted from a range of methods that were skillfully conceived to preserve the pictures’ abstraction through visual disorientation. I then trace Coburn’s promotion of his new work as proof of photography’s modernist potential, and his efforts to urge his fellow photographers towards parallel avant-garde experimentation—efforts that ultimately failed amid the traditionalism of the British photography community. Although he could not sway his contemporaries, Coburn opened the possibility of abstract photography for every artist that would follow him. In my conclusion, I describe how the Vortographs circumvent photography’s vaunted connection to indexical representation to achieve abstraction not in spite of, but through their intensive grounding in the physical world