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Collation Model for Ms. Codex 829: Renaissance miscellany.
Get PDFMiscellany of materials from Renaissance and classical authors, including Leonardo Bruni, Poggio Bracciolini, Cicero, and Livy.https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/1146/thumbnail.jp
“Not Nearly as Bad”: Social Comparisons and the Debt Experience
Get PDFDespite the growing awareness of the role that families play in the experience of student borrowing, debt is still understood as a private experience. As student debt becomes more widespread, individuals are increasingly likely to know others with student loans, yet questions remain about how others—friends, acquaintances, and colleagues—may shape the way student borrowers make sense of their debt. This study draws on interviews with recent master’s degree recipients to examine how young adults understand their educational debt in relation to others. The author finds that borrowers are enmeshed in “debt dense” social networks that both normalize debt and facilitate evaluative social comparisons against others that accentuate borrowers’ own efforts and responsibility. These findings demonstrate a role for occupational and educational social networks in shaping borrowers’ experience of indebtedness but also suggest limits to framing student debt as a collective problem
Collation Model for LJS 361: [Astronomical and astrological tables].
Get PDFOpening and closing sections of astronomical and astrological tables on either side of a remnant of commentaries on gospel and epistle readings. The opening section (f. 2r-9r) includes tables for calculating the day of the week for any day from 1204 to 1512; the Sunday letter from 1204 to 1736; the golden letter from 1215 to 1728; movable feasts; time variation according to latitude and longitude; the conjunction of the sun and moon from January to September from 1327 to 1367; and the hours of day and night in any day of the year, as well as lists of human activities and how they are affected by the moon and planets; parts of the body with the planet that dominates each part and appropriate medical activities; and parts of the body with the zodiac sign that dominates each part and appropriate medical activities. The central section (f. 10r-42r) comprises the last 3 gatherings of what were originally 13 gatherings of commentaries on the gospel and epistle readings for the temporal cycle compiled from sermons of French Dominican scholars Durandus of St. Pourçain and Jacobus of Lausanne. The closing section (f. 42r-46v) includes tables and lists for Biblical, classical, and Mideastern dates; the position in the third house of all the planets; the significance of each house; the power and virtues of the signs of the zodiac on the parts of the body, regions, plants, stones, and stars; the virtues of each house; the movement of each house; the properties of each planet; the properties of each sign; and the sun\u27s position in the zodiac arranged by month. Some early marginal drawings and notes.https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/1118/thumbnail.jp
Collation Model for Ms. Codex 60: De descriptione terre s[an]c[t]e ... [etc.].
Get PDFContains the text of De descriptione terre sancte, of Burchardus of Monte Sion (f. 1r-42v). The author\u27s name is given in the text as Brocardus Theotonicus [i.e. Teutonicus] (f. 42v, col. 1). Also contains 4 shorter texts: De modo recuperationis terre sancte, of Marino Sanudo (f. 42v-49v.), composed in 1307 (prologue, f. 42v); In libro monachorum de temporalibus contempnendis (f. 49v); Metra moralium philosophorum de virtutibus [consisting of eight short poems] (f. 50r); and Iystoria [i.e. Historia] Beati Albani (f. 51r-56v).https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/1122/thumbnail.jp
Collation Model for Ms. Codex 64: Forme romane curie super beneficiis et questionibus... [etc.]
Get PDFPapal formulary (f. 8r-79r), with a table of rubrics (f. 1r-7v), followed by the text of another formulary, Forme romane curie ... super casibus penitentie, of Thomas of Capua (f. 80v-104r), with 179 entries and a table of rubrics (f. 79v-80v), with rubrics and entries marked with corresponding roman numerals. The author is identified in the opening rubric of the second formulary (f. 80v).https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/1123/thumbnail.jp
Oxford PlasmaLab 100 PECVD standard operating procedure
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The Downward Spiral
Get PDFThere have been more than 500,000 opioid overdose deaths since 2000. To analyze the opioid epidemic, a model is constructed where individuals, with and without pain, choose whether to misuse opioids knowing the probabilities of addiction and dying. These odds are functions of opioid use. Markov chains are estimated from the US data for the college and non-college educated that summarize the transitions into and out of opioid addiction as well as to a deadly overdose. A structural model is constructed that matches the estimated Markov chains. The epidemic\u27s drivers, and the impact of medical interventions, are examined
How international higher education graduates contribute to their home country: an example from government scholarship recipients in Kazakhstan
No full textMany countries offer government scholarships for international higher education and expect the recipients to contribute to national development. While there are many benefits from these scholarship programmes, they have been criticized as expensive. We examine the perceived contribution of Kazakhstan’s two government scholarship alumni to the development of the nation. Drawing on Kirkpatrick’s model of evaluation, we explore the influence of government scholarships on Bolashak and Nazarbayev University alumni and their contribution at organizational and societal levels. Our findings show that both groups of alumni play important roles in developing local talent and contributing to the improvement of systems, practices, and policies within their workplaces and to wider socio-economic changes. Alumni are fostering social developments bringing attention to issues of environmental protection and political engagement. However, our findings also illustrate that underdeveloped industries, limited job opportunities in some fields, low salaries, bureaucratic management culture, and resistance to change limit alumni contributions. We argue that the problem is at the system level and that the national economy is lagging in human capital development. Our findings emphasize the critical importance of developing the economy in tandem with education and human capital development to reap greater benefits from the knowledge of international education graduates
Story as Medicine: Indigenous Storytelling as a Path to Resilience
Get PDFIn many Indigenous communities around the world, storytelling was a central part of life (Erdoes & Ortiz, 1984). Stories were how wisdom was passed on, often from elders to young children; they held lessons and were something that could be ingrained into memory and helped build culture (Doucleff & Greenhalgh, 2019). As a result of the genocide of Native Americans in North America that lasted centuries (Corntassel et al., 2009), their stories changed from lessons of how the world came to be to lessons on how to overcome the deepest levels of grief and adversity. Today, some of the most popular Indigenous novels and poetry are stories of resilience born from trauma. These were not simple lessons of coyotes getting into mischief, but lessons from the deepest pain. Navigating trauma with the help of storytelling encouraged resilience (Corntassel et al., 2009; Estés, 1992; Harjo & Leen, 1995). This paper will explore the science and words behind the alchemical process of story as medicine, Indigenous storytelling as a conduit to resilience, and how it can be used for all