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Collation Model for LJS 236: Thesaurus pauperum ... [etc.] [manuscript].
Get PDFCollation model for a medical miscellany with almost the first half of the volume devoted to a copy of Thesaurus pauperum, a compilation of remedies for a variety of diseases frequently attributed to Petrus Hispanus, later Pope John XXI. The remainder includes a work by Arnaldus de Villanova, a partial copy of a work by Johannes de Rupescissa, a work attributed to Ramon Llull, and several other unattributed collections of remedies. Lists of multiple names, perhaps of teachers or students, many associated with locations in northern Italy, added by a few hands (f. 165r-167r, 265r-266r).https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/1002/thumbnail.jp
Collation Model for Ms. Codex 107: [Cartulary]
Get PDFCollation model of a cartulary of the monastery of San Andrés de Fanlo in Aragon (Spain). Ms. Codex 107 contains 13th-century copies of documents that date between the 10th century and the 1250s. The documents cover a wide variety of topics, including wills, donations, royal endowments, regulations governing vineyards (some leased by Jews), inheritances, etc. In general, the documents deal with the economic life of the community ruled by the monastery.https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/1001/thumbnail.jp
Collation Model for Ms. Codex 80: Statuta civitatis Castelli.
Get PDFStatutes of Città di Castello, in Umbria in Italy. The first section is dated 1261 (f. 1r-5v); the second section contains additions by the same scribe, also dated 1261 (f. 5v-6v); the third section contains further statutes, dated 1273 (f. 7r-14v).https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/1025/thumbnail.jp
Collation Model for LJS 23: [De natura rerum].
Get PDFGatherings from Books VII-XX of Thomas\u27s general introduction to science, including parts of his sections on fish, insects and invertebrates, trees, cosmology and astronomy, herbs, springs, gems, wind and clouds, the four elements, stars, and eclipses. One of the earliest known copies of this text. Notes in a modern German hand on front flyleaves and occasionally in margins.https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/1022/thumbnail.jp
DOCUMENTARY AS DISCOURSE: CULTIVATING NARRATIVE AGENCY THROUGH MEDIA ARTS IN MENTAL HEALTH PRACTICE WITH YOUTH
Get PDFOver the past decade, and especially within the last three years marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, increases in major mental health concerns among youth have been noted by many experts on adolescent health and well-being (Racine et al., 2021). When these trends are considered relative to specific subpopulations of youth (i.e., those with histories of complex trauma and engagement with the child welfare system) an even more concerning story begins to take shape. Young people who entered the pandemic in vulnerable spaces with regard to many aspects of their lives (academic, social, emotional, physical health) have, by in large, become even more vulnerable over its course (Goldberg et al., 2021; Herrenkohl et al., 2021; Murthy, 2022). The current trends around declining adolescent mental health and increasing awareness of the troubling impacts of complex trauma within the context of COVID-19 demand ever more sophisticated and creative approaches to mental health care access and interventions.
Today’s adolescents, across demographics, subsist in environments that offer 24-hour access to the news cycle, one another, and the curation of their own metanarratives (as well as both a worldwide audience and the means to construct and share their personal stories) but a finger swipe away. Some argue the immediate and inconsistently mitigated availability of information, media (social and otherwise), and related forms of interpersonal interaction reinforce the aforementioned trends around adolescent mental health, particularly with regard to rates of depression, anxiety, and suicidal as well as self-injurious behaviors (Primack et al., 2017; Schor, 2021; Twenge et al., 2019; Twenge 2020). While this perspective holds, a counter narrative exists. Incredible potential rests in harnessing available technologies, means of media production, and digital access, especially as they relate to societal shifts during the pandemic, within a more broadly defined therapeutic space to support youth reimagining stories, redirecting impulse, and resurrecting possibility.
This dissertation explores a theoretical framework and practical application related to one such clinical approach through two interrelated parts. The first consists of a conceptual paper that positions the history and conventions of documentary work (as a specific media arts form) as a potent mechanism to engage narrative constructs (as a particular clinical approach), orienting their intersections toward child welfare-involved youth. This conceptual paper is operationalized by a sample application, in the form of a discrete session that resides in a structured intervention protocol, that further explores and demonstrates the power of documentary arts methods within narrative-based clinical interventions to animate discourse and facilitate post-traumatic growth and healing
Virtue Resonance: Friendship in the Context of Adversity
Get PDFThis capstone examines how adversity and challenge are favorable conditions for developing friendship. In Part I, I provide an overview of positive psychology, and how my capstone topic fits into the science of well being. In Part II I gather the research and literature on friendship from positive psychology, philosophy and evolutionary psychology and bring forward their wisdom on how adversity fosters connection. In Part III, I define adversity, distinguish it from trauma and discuss how friends could seek an appropriate amount of challenge in their shared experiences. Finally in Part IV, I build on several psychological theories to introduce the theoretical foundations for my own construct: Virtue Resonance. I outline the psychological theories and research to visualize how virtue can resonate and grow between friends
Building Belonging
Get PDFThis project comes from a deep love of the idea of creating cultures of belonging, originating from my own relationship with community, in which my life was saved by the loving generosity of the 12-step community. This connects to contemporary research on both the nature of, and need for, a sense of belonging to something bigger than oneself. This project begins with a review of current literature on the experience of belonging in the workplace, and the influence that feeling a sense of belonging within one’s organization has on well-being. It then goes into an exploration of current interventions that can be utilized to create cultures of belonging, most notably high-quality connection (HQC) building and appreciative inquiry. The remainder of the paper is a collection of suggestions for interventions and next steps to take when seeking to create a more comprehensive culture of belonging in the workplace. This work helps to drive deeper the importance of having organizational community and healthy interpersonal dynamics in the workplace. The broader implication is that belonging in the workplace is becoming more of a necessity for organizations, and this work helps to guide organizations on their first steps towards a more nourishing workplace community and a culture of belonging
An Opportunity to Decrease Data Variability and to Improve Study Reproducibility: Animal Welfare and Allostatic State in Biomedical Research
No full textConcern over reliability of experimental study results is growing. Quality of data from animal model studies investigating mechanisms of diseases and response to disease intervention are of particular concern. Poor quality of published animal data has been cited as a significant contributor to clinical trial failure. Given that animal studies are foundational in guiding understanding of basic biological systems and informing investment decisions in development of new medicines, the societal costs of setting a low bar for reproducibility in animal studies is high. Current discussions on ways to improve research reproducibility focus principally on physical study design parameters, including power calculations in determination of appropriate group size, randomization procedures, and reporting bias. While attention to these elements is clearly important, a holistic approach which includes enhanced attention to animal welfare offers the greatest opportunity for improvement. The cumulative effects of stressful conditions experienced by animals throughout their entire lifecycle (rearing, transport, experimental conditions) on their physiological and psychological resilience are underappreciated study variables. The impact of chronic stress on resilience is referred to specifically as the allostatic state while the cost of adaptation to chronic stress is referred to as allostatic load. Animal welfare science provides the foundation for understanding how to reduce allostatic load and enhance positive welfare. In this presentation, I will advance a proposal that investment in conditions that reduce the allostatic load and support a positive welfare state of laboratory animals will result in more robust study outcomes
An Analysis of the Yeísmo Merger in Córdoba, Argentina: A synchronic co-existence of all diachronic processes of lleísmo to yeísmo sound change
No full textWhen two phonemes merge in a language, this does not entail that each language variety follows the same allophonic changes thereafter. One such case is the merger of lleísmo into yeísmo, which displays great allophonic variation across varieties of Spanish. In Buenos Aires Spanish, this merger has undergone allophonic change to a voiceless prepalatal fricative (Chang 2008, Fontanella de Weinberg 1978, Rohena-Madrazo 2015). Córdoba, however, appears to maintain a voiced prepalatal fricative (Colantoni 2001, Lang-Rigal 2015, Supisiche 1994). The current study examines (pre)palatal consonant variation in Córdoba to shed light into social and linguistic rationales for similar or distinct paths of sound change between dialect varieties. As no single acoustic measure distinguishes the multiple variants, the authors developed a replicable classification by coding each token based on known acoustic cues. 13,015 tokens of syllable-initial and produced by 65 speakers (37 women, 28 men) in a four-part sociolinguistic interview (semi-directed conversation, passage reading, word list, picture-naming task) were subject to mixed effect logistic regressions. The study finds that the speech of Córdoba presents five different variants, including the maintenance of the two-phoneme lleísmo distinction among older speakers in more formal styles, as well as four allophonic variants of yeísmo. Different from Buenos Aires, the dominant norm in Córdoba remains the voiced prepalatal fricative, although the voiceless prepalatal fricative is favored by women from wealthier neighborhoods. Thus, Córdoba presents a synchronic coexistence of all diachronic processes of the lleísmo to yeísmo sound change, indicatingeither a possible change from above (Labov 2001) towards the devoiced porteño norm or perhaps a maintenance of the voiced variant among most of its population due to Córdoba’s desire to preserve a unique identity from the capital (Bischoff 1979)
The Effect of Vowel Height on the Nasalization of Postposed Determiners in Haitian Creole (Kreyòl Ayisyen)
Get PDFResults from variationist analyses suggest that Haitian Creole (HC) is on the cusp of a change to the morphophonological organization of its postposed determiner clitic, LA. Speakers systematically surface nasal forms of LA in the absence of the expected conditioning environment, that is, the systematic surfacing of the nasal forms following oral nuclei according to language internal and external (social) motivators. In this study, I coded independent linguistic factors for 9,789 tokens of LA following an oral syllable. Tokens were automatically retrieved from transcribed data provided by the IARPA Babel Haitian Creole Language Pack (Andrus et al. 2017). This yielded 847 tokens of nasal variants following oral syllables. My analysis of oral versus nasal variants of LA suggests an overwhelming preference for high contexts (i.e., preceding [+high] nucleus) which I argue is due to the historical loss of a high nasal contrast in the language. To overcome this preference and glean reliable information about the patterning of nasalized LA after oral syllables, we must isolate non-high from high contexts. In doing so, we can better illustrate the rising popularity of the nasal variants over time and affirm the change taking place in HC postposed determiners