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Quiet Power: The Librarian’s Role, A Co-Leadership Model, and the Gendered Work of Pedagogical Partnership
Full text linkCounting Cusp Forms by Analytic Conductor
Full text linkLet F be a number field and n \u3e 1 an integer. The universal family is the set F of all unitary cuspidal automorphic representations on GLn over F, ordered by their analytic conductor. We prove an asymptotic for the size of the truncated universal family F(Q) as Q ! 1, under a spherical assumption at the archimedean places when n \u3e 3. We interpret the leading term constant geometrically and conjecturally determine the underlying Sato–Tate measure. Our methods naturally provide uniform Weyl laws with logarithmic savings in the level and strong quantitative bounds on the non-tempered discrete spectrum for GLn
“Trying Your Best in That Moment with That Person”: Maintaining Feelings of Efficacy and Relevance in the Therapeutic Relationship with Community Mental Health Clients Experiencing Psychosis
Full text linkCommunity mental health clients who experience psychosis, particularly Black and Latinx clients, are subject to numerous barriers to competent clinical care. The fundamental challenges of community mental health settings can be detrimental to clinicians’ belief that they can be effective while providing care to clients with psychosis in alignment with the common factors of therapeutic treatment and the principles of trauma-informed care. This dissertation proposes a grounded theory based on 16 participant interviews with community mental health clinicians in Philadelphia who have worked in outpatient settings with clients with psychosis. Using the frameworks of self-efficacy theory (Bandura, 1977), the common factors in therapy (Wampold, 2001), the principles of trauma-informed care (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration [SAMHSA], 2023), and critical whiteness theory (Okun & Jones, 2016), but primarily relying on the findings of study participants, this dissertation provides evidence for the following grounded theory: When clinicians do not believe that they have the skills or ability to provide care to clients with psychosis, they may sacrifice the core elements of a safe therapeutic relationship and devalue empathic connection with clients in service of actions that give the therapists a sense of agency. Clinicians engage in behaviors that may be counter to the common factors of relational psychotherapy and trauma-informed care principles to achieve a sense of efficacy in their work with psychotic clients, because the environment in which they work, and its multiple and conflicting pressures hamper their ability to provide the care they need
Surfing the Bar to the Solar Circle
Full text linkThis thesis studies a process by which a star cluster could migrate to its current position while its stellar members maintain their stable orbits by surfing the stable Lagrange points of a growing and slowing bar. NGC 6791 is a massive metal-rich open cluster in the Milky Way located within the solar circle. Its current mass is measured to be of order magnitude 1,000 solar masses. The age of the cluster is estimated to be approximately 8 Gyr old. Despite experiencing evaporation and tidal shocks, this cluster still exists defying expectations of its impending dissolution. With this purpose, a suite of tracer particle simulations are created to explore the orbits of stars placed at the stable Lagrange point using galpy. Findings showed that 95% of the stellar members stayed within approximately 5.5 pc of the cluster, when the cluster resides at a stable Lagrange point. This work found orbits of a star cluster remain bound together while residing at a bar resonance in the presence of a slowing bar. Bar induced migration is a method that could preserve the stability of orbits in star clusters resulting in a cluster migrating to its current position without dissolving. Adding a vertical component to the position of the cluster could give insight into how vertical oscillations provide an additional factor of binding that could help the cluster stay bound as it migrates to its current location
Go with the Flow: The Psychology and Ethics of Atomic Motion in Lucretius
Full text linkLucretius innovates upon prior Epicurean philosophers by making the discussion of atomic movement in his didactic epic not just a complement to his exegesis of Epicurean philosophy, but in developing new scientific explanations for Epicurean doctrine through the principles of atomic motion. I claim that Lucretian tranquility is a kinetic phenomenon, an approach which provides new insight on the psychological and the ethical elements of his philosophy, and allows his On the Nature of Things to be brought into a fuller conversation with current scholarship on Epicurean psychology and ethics. I examine how atomic movement is emulated on the individual/psychological and societal/ethical level through metaphor and allegory.The leaky vessel and the honeyed cup refer to the link between atomic turbulence and the psychological realm: representing emotional imbalance and its opposite.Meanwhile, allegories of Venus and Mars represent the unifying and disruptive effects of atomic movement in interpersonal relationships and society. Finally, I propose that Lucretius’ plague account enshrines mutual aid and self-sacrifice without violating the principles of Epicurean egoism, establishing ethical behavior as an essential component of tranquility
Renaissance as Refreshment in the Mughal Empire The Floral Carpets of Lahore and the Tarz-i Taza (Fresh Style) in Seventeenth-Century South Asia
Full text linkResearch Note: The role of ideas in radicalization to terrorism: Ideology and narrative vs. diagnostic, prognostic, and motivational action frames
No full textThe concepts of ideology and narrative have become popular in efforts to understand the role of ideas in radicalization to terrorism. This review finds that definitions of these concepts in terrorism research are inconsistent and seldom linked with measurement, and that references to these concepts can often be interpreted as one or more of the three dimensions of a collective action frame. These three dimensions--diagnostic, prognostic, and motivational framing--are relatively easy to define and measure; poll items tapping the three dimensions can track progress in the war of ideas against terrorism. Munson’s (2008) study of the anti-abortion movement in the U.S. identified four prognostic frames (politics, education, services, direct action) competing within the same anti-abortion diagnostic frame. The same four prognostic frames can be found competing within Islamist and Extreme Right movements. The distinction between diagnostic and prognostic frames leads to the suggestion that P/CVE programs should contest violent prognostic frames rather than contesting the diagnostic frames that support both violent and nonviolent prognostic frames. The review concludes with a residual puzzle: why have ideology and narrative been popular concepts in terrorism research despite their empirical weaknesses, while diagnostic, prognostic, and motivational action frames have been relatively neglected despite their empirical promise
