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The Legacy of Medieval Libraries: An exploration of the long-lasting societal values shared between medieval and modern libraries
No full textDespite the chronological separation between the medieval period and our own time, certain aspects of modern libraries are visible in the libraries of the middle ages. This poster presentation explores how medieval libraries were innovative within their own historical context and how these medieval innovations have contributed to modern libraries. It discusses how medieval libraries represent a well-documented turning point for library institutions compared to the libraries of the ancient world and it describes how medieval libraries served communities of users. It also provides a detailed account of how medieval libraries organized their collections in order to provide their users with access to information. Throughout these sections, the presentation will include brief but sufficient comparisons to modern libraries. By comparing aspects of medieval libraries to aspects of modern libraries, we will not only see differences, but we can also discern some similarities between the modern library and its medieval counterpart.A poster that was presented for the Thirteenth Annual Symposium, "Bridging the Spectrum: A Symposium on Scholarship and Practice in Library and Information Science" at the Catholic University of America in 2021
Bridging Readership: Using an Institutional Repository (IR) to Promote COVID-19 Related Faculty Research
No full textHow can medical librarians utilize emerging technologies to promote readership of Covid-19 related research from their institution?
This poster shows how librarians and staff at the Himmelfarb Library at George Washington University (GW) used the Digital Commons institutional repository (IR) platform to develop a subject-specific collection designed to collocate and promote COVID-19-related faculty research. In June 2020, we established a collection entitled “COVID-19 Publications by GW Authors” and since that time we have archived citations to over 100 publications. By utilizing a Google-indexed IR, we have increased awareness of local scholarship and utilize the built-in PlumX dashboard to provide authors and institutional stakeholders with metrics that can be an asset for professional advancement. This poster concludes that emerging technologies can help to reconceptualize information organization in light of recent trends in scholarly communications
Downtown Displaced: Planning and Collaboration
No full textPhotos from the four month collaboration during Spring 2019 between students in Dan Kerr's Community Based History class and Street Sense Media artists. The group conducted eight workshops as it co-researched, co-interpreted and co-
curated the project which ultimately became the exhibit titled Downtown Displaced: A Case Study of Gentrification in Mount Vernon Square, 1840-Present. The exhibit traces gentrification and displacement in the Mount Vernon Square neighborhood of Washington, DC, home of the Carnegie Library and now Apple Inc's east coast flagship
A look back: a commentary
No full textJournalism and Mass Communication Educator, Volume 75, Issue 4, December 2020, Pages 500-504.An assistant professor and native Washingtonian looks back at the l970s and the impact of Watergate, Nixon, women in journalism and academia, and how some things have changed and how some things remain the same. The essay also examines what the AEJMC Journal was talking about during this period and what was on the minds of educators
Isogenous components of Jacobian surfaces
No full textEuropean Journal of Mathematics, Volume 6, Issue 4, December 2020, Pages 1276-1302.Let be a genus 2 curve defined over a field K, charK=p⩾0, and its Jacobian, where ι is the principal polarization of attached to . Assume that is (n, n)-geometrically reducible with E1 and E2 its elliptic components. We prove that there are only finitely many curves (up to isomorphism) defined over K such that E1 and E2 are N-isogenous for n=2 and N=2,3,5,7 with or n=2, N=3,5,7 with . The same holds if n=3 and N=5. Furthermore, we determine the Kummer and Shioda–Inose surfaces for the above and show how such results in positive characteristic p>2 suggest nice applications in cryptography
John Wyclif’s Christology in Light of De Incarnatione Verbi, Chapter 7
No full textThis dissertation begins the work of a full critical edition and translation of Wyclif’s treatise, De incarnatione Verbi (DIV). Chapters 1–4 include full codicological surveys of all eight surviving manuscripts that contain the text; justify the proposed stemma codicum in light of surviving textual variants; argue that the version contained in manuscript M is a reportatio; and explain the need for a new edition to replace Edward Harris’s edition of 1886. Chapters 5–8 contain critical editions and translations of the prologue and seventh chapter of both the reportatio and final version of the treatise. Chapter 9 discusses the treatise’s authenticity, title, genre, and date.Chapter 10 begins the themes-based portion of this dissertation. It contains the most comprehensive account of Wyclif’s Christology yet to appear in print, and advances the state of the question through translations of much hitherto unstudied material. Chapter 11 is a commentary on the material contained in chapters 7 and 8. Chapter 12 considers Wyclif’s use of his sources. Chapter 13 concludes with the intention of giving the reader a sense of a coherent whole.Unfortunately, two, persistent, and important questions regarding Wyclif’s Christology cannot be resolved at the present time. The first is Wyclif’s stance on the primacy of Christ; the second, his stance on the ubiquity of Christ’s manhood. Only at the end of his life did Wyclif explicitly deny the primacy of Christ in his De antichristo; he denied the other explicitly in his De Trinitate, around the time he wrote DIV. Both doctrines, however, in some form are required by DIV 7. It is not at present clear whether Wyclif’s stance on these doctrines remained consistent throughout the course of his career. Future scholarship must address the question as more of Wyclif’s texts are edited and translated.Finally, because a proper critical edition and translation of part of the treatise now appears in print, Wyclif’s thought can be more accurately studied by philosophers, theologians, and intellectual historians.TheologyPhilosophyMedieval historyChristology, Heresy, Incarnation, WyclifMedieval and Byzantine StudiesDegree Awarded: Ph.D. Medieval and Byzantine Studies. The Catholic University of Americ
Experiences and Quality of Life of Adult Children Caring for Parents Aging in Place
No full textAdult children in the position of caregivers to parents aging in place described their journey and how they manage caregiving responsibilities. Caregivers perpetually face the demands of caring for aging parents. With the looming rapid rise of the older adult population, the increased need for family caregivers arises. There is a plethora of research studies on family caregivers. However, this research study focused on caregiving responsibilities for parents and parents-in-law aging in place. The phenomenon of aging in place is gradually gaining attention, however, a paucity of information still remains. The research study aimed to describe the experiences and quality of life of adult children caring for parents aging in place. Espousing the grounded theory approach of Strauss and Corbin (2008), the research study entailed 22 semi-structured interviews conducted face-to-face. Using constant comparative methods to make connections in the data derived from participants, the Change-Acceptance Theory (CAT) of the Caregiving Journey emerged. The CAT consists of the following seven categories: facing the unknowns, balancing life, effect of the unknowns on caregivers, unmet expectations, managing personalities, purposeful caregiving, and meaningful caregiving. These categories depicted a change and acceptance spectrum. The CAT was paralleled with Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’ theory of the five stages of grief (Kübler-Ross & Byock, 2014), Jean Watson’s Theory of Transpersonal Caring (Watson, 2018), and Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs (Ackley, Ladwig & Makic, 2017). The CAT describes its implications for nursing research nursing practice, nursing education, health policy, and recommendations. An increased understanding of the process of caregiving may yield increased partnerships and collaboration between caregivers and health care professionals to enhance the well-being of caregivers.NursingNursingDegree Awarded: Ph.D. Nursing. The Catholic University of Americ
Preparing Parish Marriage Ministers to Accompany Families toward Missionary Discipleship as Strong Domestic Churches and Essential Agents of Evangelization
No full textThe widening disconnection between families in the United States and the Roman Catholic Church demands a pastoral solution which addresses deficiencies in the preparation of marriage ministers. Through the formation of parish marriage ministers, this Project in Ministry broadens the response of the Church to today’s families and advances efforts to more closely connect the family to the parish, where they can be supported as a domestic church in reaching the fullness of God’s plan for them and can contribute as an essential agent of evangelization to the vitality of the Church. This project develops, implements, and evaluates a training program that prepares ordained and lay individuals involved with parochial marriage ministry in offering post-marriage formation to couples who vary in their connection to their parish, engagement with their faith, and expression of sacramental marriage. The candidate provided training, presented as “Lifting Hearts: Enrichment for Parish Marriage Ministry,” through one in-person Orientation Session, five Online Modules, and one in-person Concluding Retreat to those engaged in marriage ministry in the Diocese of St. Augustine, Florida. The project was evaluated using a paper survey instrument delivered pre-project and post-project. Seventeen individuals representing eleven parishes were trained in foundational understandings and skills of marriage ministry. The change demonstrated through their participation in “Lifting Hearts” is in five areas: (1) growth in understanding of Church teaching on the family as domestic church; (2) growth in understanding of the contemporary American family; (3) growth in recognition of the family as an essential agent of evangelization; (4) growth in understanding of parish marriage ministry; (5) and growth in pastoral skills of accompaniment. These marriage ministers are better equipped to meet and accompany married couples as the foundation of the family, and to provide these couples with support and direction toward deeper engagement in their faith in relation to their married life and fuller participation in their Church. Diocesan efforts to develop and support a network of parish family life ministers were advanced. This project is a pilot program which could be locally adapted and implemented by diocesan leaders.TheologySpiritualityReligious educationDomestic Church, Evangelization, Family Life Ministry, Marriage Ministry, Ministry Formation, Parish MinistrySpiritualityDegree Awarded: D.Min. Spirituality. The Catholic University of Americ
Towards an Understanding of the Place of Professional Lay Parish Ministers in the Structure of Ecclesial Ministry
No full textIn the United States, parish communities are becoming more dependent on laypersons to provide the pastoral care once provided by priests. Pastors, responsible under canon law for the care of souls of those entrusted to them, now rely more and more on lay men and women to assist them in carrying out their responsibilities. In many cases these lay ecclesial parish ministers take on responsibilities once given by the pastor to parochial vicars, those priests assigned to the parish by the diocesan bishop to assist the pastor in providing pastoral care to the parish community. Universal law has a great deal to say about the office of parochial vicar and the formation of priest candidates, as does particular law in the United States, but little about those laypersons who dedicate themselves to service to the Church by providing pastoral care within a parish community. This dissertation examines the history of the office of parochial vicar and the development of formation requirements for priests to determine how this history might suggest ways to incorporate lay ecclesial ministry into universal and/or particular law.This dissertation first observes how the parish has become the usual place where faithful experience the pastoral care of the Church and also how leadership responsibility for providing this care changed over time. Second, this dissertation reviews how the office of parochial vicar developed. This trajectory provides a helpful benchmark for understanding the way parochial ministries develop. Third, the dissertation reviews the involvement of lay persons in the Catholic Church in the United States from pre-colonial times to the present, and presents in some detail the growth of lay ministry in the United States after the Second Vatican Council. Fourth, this study examines the development of the directives and national programs which guide the formation, education and oversight of priests and deacons in the United States, and presents the law on incardination. Fifth, the study looks at existing guidelines which address the formation of lay ecclesial ministers, and also those canons which speak to the employment of lay persons by the Church. The pattern of development of lay ministry in the United States follows closely that of the development of assistant priests (referred to in present-day canon law as parochial vicars) in the early Church. The pastor, or in some cases perhaps the diocesan curia, determines what if any formation is required for pastoral care in a specific circumstance. Unlike the mandatory norms for the formation for priestly and diaconal ministry, there are only guidelines for the formation of lay ministers. To ensure adequate pastoral care in parish communities throughout the country, the bishops of the United States should devote time and attention to the formation and retention of lay ecclesial ministers in parish communities.Canon lawcanon law, lay ministry, parochial vicarCanon LawDegree Awarded: J.C.D. Canon Law. The Catholic University of Americ
Understanding the Mechanisms of Graft Rejection and Tolerance Induction After Nonmyeloablative Haploidentical Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation for Sickle Cell Disease
No full textSickle cell disease (SCD) is an inherited red blood cell disorder that leads to significant morbidity and early mortality. Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) remains the most widely available curative approach for SCD. However, <18 % of SCD patients have human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-matched sibling donors. HLA-haploidentical (haplo) HSCT expands the donor pool considerably and it is a practical alternative for these patients, but with an increased risk of allograft rejection. Identifying unique diagnostic biomarkers and also elucidating the mechanisms of engraftment and rejection in SCD patients who underwent haplo-HSCT could potentially be helpful not only in predicting HSCT outcome, but also treating the impending graft rejection at a reversible state. We performed a proteomic analysis using plasma samples from engrafted and rejected SCD patients who underwent haplo-HSCT and found that galectin-1 (Gal-1), thrombospondin-1(Tsp-1), and platelet factor 4 (Pf-4) levels were significantly higher in engrafted patients. Next, in order to verify whether these findings can be replicated in a rodent bone marrow transplantation setting and to understand the cellular mechanism, we employed our major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-mismatched allogeneic (allo)-HSCT murine model. Transplanted mice were classified into either rejected or engrafted groups based on the presence of donor chimerism. In rejected mice, we noted significantly higher frequencies of conventional CD4+ T cells, subset of CD4+ T helper (Th) 17 cells, CD8+ T cells, NK cells; and pro-inflammatory cytokines TNF-a producing CD4+ T cells dendritic cells (DCs), macrophages, B cells, and CD8+ T cells, and IFN-g producing DCs and macrophages. Importantly cardinal features observed in engrafted mice include increased frequencies of Tregs, Tr1 cells, Th2 cells, and anti-inflammatory cytokine IL-10 positive CD4+ T cells, DCs and macrophages, and increased circulatory levels of Gal-1. Further, we delineated the association of circulatory levels of Gal-1 with enhanced proportions of Gal-1 producing CD4+ T cells, Th2 subset, Tregs, and Tr1 cells in engrafted mice. Elevated frequencies of Gal-1 positive Tregs contributed to increased Treg suppression activity, and the addition of Gal-1 siRNA resulted in attenuation of Treg suppression in engrafted mice. Additionally, our data indicated that Gal-1 positive CD4+CD25- effector T cells in engrafted mice are more susceptible to apoptosis. Here, we have shown for the first time that not only Gal-1 favors engraftment in SCD patients who underwent haplo-HSCT, but also Gal-1 contributes to bone marrow cell engraftment in our MHC-mismatched murine allo-HSCT model. Taken together, our results demonstrate that Gal-1 expressing Tregs, Tr1 and Th2 cells may play an essential role in inducing immune tolerance and stable mixed chimerism after HSCT.BiologyBiologyDegree Awarded: Ph.D. Biology. The Catholic University of Americ