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Penn Library\u27s LJS 381 - Humanist copy of Sallust\u27s works on the history of Rome (Video Orientation)
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Relational Ecology: Strengthening Community Resilience for Unhoused Indigenous Peoples in Albuquerque
Get PDFObjective: Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Continuums of Care (COCs) are responsible for providing entry to integrated healthcare for unhoused people toward housing stability. A client’s safety is a crucial variable to receive services. A comprehensive safety strategy understands the importance of relationship quality for clients and their multidisciplinary healthcare teams (MHT) to prevent safety incidents. Greater depth of knowledge on participant experiences informs the development of a process model for implementing the Community Resiliency Model (CRM) for crisis prevention response to decrease health disparities among unhoused Indigenous peoples in Albuquerque.
Methods: This qualitative key informant study applied an ecological lens on Relational-Cultural Theory (RCT) and 24 participant interview content analysis. Participants include unhoused people who self-identified with Native American, about accessing and receiving homeless services and members of their MHT across COC agencies.
Findings: Participants shared a congruent understanding of the interpersonal, multidisciplinary, and organizational resilience factors for crisis stabilization and prevention. Integrated healthcare providers identified cohesion when an MHT has the organizational supports needed to consistently provided compassionate care and relevant recovery options. Interpersonal resilience emerged as the sense of belonging experienced in a compassionate and accepting relationship. Relational courage is a key facilitator of interpersonal resilience when an integrated healthcare provider can clarify with a client what is the most important and brings purpose or meaning. Participants emphasized multilevel factors for the cultivation of hope in recovery at the heart of crisis prevention.
Discussion: The findings provide a rationale for a paradigm shift to resilience for housing stability. CRM wellness skills can enhance growth-fostering connection and cultural relevance for safety planning. Significantly, cohesion enhances the capacity of an MHT to support a client’s success in recovery. Cohesion correlates with integrated healthcare providers in their OK Zones. Ethical distress escalated crises and contributed to barriers preventing safety incidents. The implications for integrated healthcare and housing policy are to increase multilevel support for organizations to provide workforce training, implementation support, and solutions to sustain MHT cohesion and maintain intra-organizational systems. Cohesion is a key variable to enhance the capacity for a comprehensive safety strategy to be successful
“Citizens with a Special Training”: Henry Stern Churchill and Democratic Ideals in Planning and Urban Renewal
Get PDFThe story of American urban renewal is frequently reduced to a struggle between autocratic supporters of mass urban clearance and the admirable individuals and communities who resisted. Henry Stern Churchill (1893-1962), the focus of this thesis, was an early advocate and practitioner of urban renewal, who, by the end of his career, became a staunch critic of the practice. Churchill, therefore, upsets the dominant narrative of renewal, showing that it is not purely a story of good vs. evil, but rather one with dynamic figures who evolved over their careers.
Churchill demonstrated a lifelong commitment to planning as a democratic practice. This manifested itself in numerous ways, from his work for the Roosevelt Administration’s Greenbelt Towns program to his housing reform advocacy with New York’s Housing Study Guild to, in the late 1950s, advising a community planning effort in Philadelphia’s Germantown neighborhood.
Throughout Churchill’s career, he was in close contact with important figures in planning. Henry Mayer, Albert Wright, and Churchill were founding members of the Housing Study Guild, and they served in the same Greenbelt project. In New York, Churchill engaged in a public dispute with Robert Moses, accusing the latter of racial prejudice in the pages of The New York Times. In Philadelphia, to which he moved in the early 1950s, Churchill was the chief planner for the Eastwick renewal project. Finally, he corresponded with Jane Jacobs, offering advice and support as she fought against urban renewal in the West Village.
Churchill, despite his liberalism, had a perspective that was, at times, exclusionary. In his community planning, he considered the community’s interest to be that which was represented by the leaders of its institutions, such as private schools, giving no place to the common resident. Moreover, Churchill, in his renewal consulting, exhibited racial bias in the identification of sites that he thought should be cleared.
Henry Stern Churchill embodies the complexity of planning past and present. As such, his story provides instruction and caution to a discipline in continual evolution
Soot in the Mortar: Climate Crisis Interpretation at The Elms
Get PDFAs climate change effects increase, historic sites with connections to the fossil fuel industry assume new meaning. These sites offer opportunities to grow public recognition of climate change history and the ways our cultural values and economic systems feed the climate crisis. This thesis investigates The Elms, coal magnate Edward Berwind’s 1901 mansion in Newport, Rhode Island, as an especially apt case study for interpreting the history of the climate crisis at historic sites and industrialist house museums. The thesis begins with an overview of recent literature on the interpretation of “hidden” and “difficult” histories at historic sites, climate change interpretation in the museum industry, and the state of climate change history as a field of study. The thesis then presents a brief history of Berwind’s coal business and an account of the businesses’ role in the current climate crisis. The Berwind-White Coal Mining Company played a significant role in global CO2 emissions during the late nineteenth century when climate change began to accelerate. The thesis proposes ways the mansion could include the origins of climate change in its public interpretation, based on a material culture study of several artifacts that offer compelling opportunities to discuss climate crisis histories with visitors. These objects include a small-gauge train used to transport coal for the furnace, the grates and boilers of The Elms’ heating system, a commemorative medallion, and a letter left by a visitor whose father worked in Berwind’s mines. These artifacts are the basis for an appendix that provides narrative scripts that can be easily inserted into The Elms’ existing audio tour. Historic sites offer an experiential way for the public to encounter the history of climate change. In-person interactions with objects and spaces hold the potential to expand understanding and awaken people to ways that contemporary values and systems continue to worsen the planetary climate crisis humanity faces
Tactical Preservation for Climate Emergency: Adaptive Reuse of 20th C. Public Schools in Puerto Rico
Get PDFPuerto Rico has experienced three major disasters in the last five years, the hurricanes María and Irma in 2017 and earthquake swarms in the winter of 2020. Post-disaster vulnerabilities studies have concluded that municipalities in rural Puerto Rico present high exposure and risk in future disasters. Parallel to this context, thousands of 20th-century public schools were closed in the last decade due to damage and disinvestment in public infrastructure on the island. Not only has this reduced educational resources but also available emergency shelters. This thesis has studied vacant 20th-century public schools in Puerto Rico as an opportunity to reclaim these spaces for emergency response and recovery through sustainable equitable revitalization of rural communities. In order to envision a future of rural preservation and self-governance, the thesis applies a three-phase model called the PLAUSIBLE FUTURES TRIANGLE. First, it studies politics of education and extensive public school construction in Puerto Rico after the American occupation in 1898, including urban and rural typologies. Second, it explores bottom-up approaches of transformative resistance paradigms employed by grassroots organizations as first responders in post-disaster scenarios. Lastly, it applies the tactical design of the Washington Irving school in Adjuntas, a 1903 rural school that exemplifies the history of 20th-century typologies. The adaptive reuse framework builds on existing grassroots programs for autonomy in disaster emergency and post-disaster reconstruction. The proposed design consists of tactics that follow the dimensional classroom transformation, independent superstructures or roofs design, and furniture systems while maintaining the character-defining elements of the historic school
Inequalities in the Structure and Delivery of U.S. Health Care
No full textAlthough healthcare inequalities by race-ethnicity and nativity have been widely explored, more research is needed to investigate how these inequalities result from structures of racial stratification and immigrant exclusion operating within U.S. health care. My dissertation employs hand coded restricted-access medical record data, linked survey data, and rich administrative data to examine the factors generating healthcare inequalities experienced by both patients and physicians. I contextualize these inequalities within a broader U.S. landscape characterized by structural racism and nativism. In the first chapter, I examine the impact of state immigration policy contexts on healthcare access of U.S. agricultural workers representing various racial-ethnic identities and legal statuses between 2005-2012. I find state-level immigration policy contexts are strongly associated with healthcare access among documented non-White Latinx agricultural workers, who report lower levels of healthcare access and greater barriers to care-seeking in increasingly restrictive policy contexts. In the second chapter, I use hand coded electronic medical record data to examine provider-patient communication disparities. Black and Latinx patients are less likely than White patients to receive provider communication regarding a new incidental medical finding diagnosis. This disparity may reflect interpersonal racism between providers and patients of color, resulting from the perpetuation of racial mythologies in medicine. In the third chapter, I use geocoded data from the American Medical Association to explore whether subgroups of international medical graduates (IMGs) experience career stratification based on their country of medical education. I find IMGs trained in developing countries chart more marginalized U.S. career paths relative to those trained in developed countries, suggesting that nativism and racism within the medical profession intersect to disadvantage physicians from developing countries, who often are also people of color. My dissertation generates empirical evidence to show how racism and nativism operating within the U.S. healthcare system generate inequalities among people of color and immigrants. These findings have important implications not only for our understanding of racial inequality and social stratification broadly, but also for informing policy and intervention to promote equity within U.S. health care
Collation Model for Ms. Codex 87: Taxe cancellarie apostolice
Get PDFOn the charges to be levied for various services by the apostolic chancery. Written in France, ca. 1500.https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/1093/thumbnail.jp
Collation Model for Oversize Ms. Codex 94: [Transaction dated July 4, 1447...]
Get PDFTransaction relating to the disagreement between the clergy of the cathedral Church of Arles and the vicar Dr. Jean Albalet over administrative jurisdiction, especially of the mensa communis, brought to terms by the intercession of the papal legate Cardinal de Foix. Written in Arles, France (f. 1r), 4 July 1447 (f. 1r).https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/1094/thumbnail.jp
Lunch: A positive intervention in the workplace?
Get PDFEverybody has to eat. In humans, meal eating is typically a social event, and there is a generally positive word, commensality, to describe this fact. Commensality seems to be a situation which promotes bonding. Many people spend one third of their waking hours at work. Lunch is the meal that happens in the middle of most people’s workday and could be an opportunity to create a form of commensality. Bonding enhances well-being. Therefore, it is reasonable to suppose that commensality will improve well-being, including at the workplace. A study was done to see if Americans perceive a commensal situation at work to demonstrate bonding and well-being, in contrast to a similar situation without food
Preface
No full textThe University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (PWPL) is an occasional series published by the Penn Graduate Linguistics Society. The series has included volumes of previously unpublished work, or work in progress, by linguists with an ongoing affiliation with the Department, as well as volumes of papers from NWAV and the Penn Linguistics Conference. This volume contains selected papers from New Ways of Analyzing Variation 49 (NWAV 49), held virtually October 19-24, 2021, by the University of Texas at Austin.
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