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Criminal Justice Update - February 2021
Get PDFThe Criminal Justice Update is a monthly newsletter created by the Adams County Bar Foundation Fellow providing updates in criminal justice policy coming from Pennsylvania\u27s courts and legislature as well as the US Supreme Court.
Contents: Updates from PA Governor\u27s Office (no updates this month) Updates from the PA Legislature Updates from the Courts U.S. Supreme Court (no updates this month) PA Supreme Court: Criminal Law & Procedure PA Superior Court: Criminal Law & Procedur
Analyzing the Interpretation of the Civil War in Bluegrass Music
Get PDFWhile the Civil War has long fit well thematically within the existing bluegrass idiom, the way that bluegrass has approached the war over time has changed greatly. Despite bluegrass largely originating from areas with little enthusiasm for the Confederacy during the Civil War, and the genre not emphasizing partisan aspects of the war for several decades, several cultural changes culminated in the late 1960s to turn the genre on a heavily pro-Confederate tilt, with numerous songs in the early- to-mid 1970s glorifying the Confederate States of America and its leaders, while also emphasizing Lost Cause arguments. To see how this unexpected bias arrived in the music, this paper first investigates the way that proto bluegrass genres honored the Civil War, and then traces the impact of the popular folk music movement before finally looking at popular political movements and their impact on the topic
The Composer as Master of Development
No full textFigure 1 reproduces one of music theory\u27s most famous diagrams, and without a doubt the best-known contribution of Antoine Reicha\u27s monumental Traité de haute composition musicale (1824 - 1826). The grande coupe binarie is among the earliest visual representations of sonata form, conveying an understanding of this model that is in many respects still familiar today: the characteristic disposition of themes, the modulation to a secondary key, the larger formal functions of development and recapitulation — all are present in Reicha\u27s diagram, just as they are in current descriptions of sonata form. [excerpt
Impact of the Wood-Burning Justa Cookstove on Fine Particulate Matter Exposure: A Stepped-Wedge Randomized Trial in Rural Honduras
No full textTrial design We evaluated the impact of a biomass stove intervention on fine particulate matter (PM2.5) concentrations using an individual-level, stepped-wedge randomized trial. Methods We enrolled 230 women in rural Honduran households using traditional biomass stoves and randomly allocated them to one of two study arms. The Justa stove, the study intervention, was locally-sourced, wood-burning, and included an engineered combustion chamber and chimney. At each of 6 visits over 3 years, we measured 24-hour gravimetric personal and kitchen PM2.5 concentrations. Half of the households received the intervention after Visit 2 and half after Visit 4. We conducted intent-to-treat analyses to evaluate the intervention effect using linear mixed models with log-transformed kitchen or personal PM2.5 (separately) as the dependent variable, adjusting for time. We also compared PM2.5 concentrations to World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines. Results Arms 1 and 2 each had 115 participants with 664 and 632 completed visits, respectively. Median 24-hour average personal PM2.5 exposures were 81 μg/m3 (25th–75th percentile: 50–141 μg/m3) for the traditional stove condition (n=622) and 43 μg/m3 (25th–75th percentile: 27–73 μg/m3) for the Justa stove condition (n=585). Median 24-hour average kitchen concentrations were 178 μg/m3 (25th–75th percentile: 69–440 μg/m3; n=629) and 53 μg/m3 (25th–75th percentile: 29–103 μg/m3; n=578) for the traditional and Justa stove conditions, respectively. The Justa intervention resulted in a 32% reduction in geometric mean personal PM2.5 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 20–43%) and a 56% reduction (95% CI: 46–65%) in geometric mean kitchen PM2.5. During rainy and dry seasons, 53% and 41% of participants with the Justa intervention had 24-hour average personal PM2.5 exposures below the WHO interim target-3 guideline (37.5 μg/m3), respectively. Conclusion The Justa stove intervention substantially lowered personal and kitchen PM2.5 and may be a provisional solution that is feasible for Latin American communities where cleaner fuels may not be available, affordable, or acceptable for some time
Faculty Meeting Minutes – October 7, 2021
No full textMinutes of the Gettysburg College Faculty Business Meeting, October 7, 2021
JCCTL Mailer – January 14, 2021
Get PDFUpdates on training and support and useful pedagogical resources compiled and sent by the JCCTL on January 14, 2021.
Contents:
Upcoming Events: What you say and how you say it: The Syllabus as a guiding document Derailment prevention: Course design strategies for fostering respectful dialogue
Grant and other Funding Opportunities Open Educational Resources (OER) Grants Faculty-Created Working Group
Other Recommended Resources How to Teach a Good First Day of Class, James M. Lang First Day of Class, Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching Leading Lines podcast National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity, Spring Webinar Schedul
Terrorism in Your Brain: The Battles of Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
Get PDFThis paper is a review of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) looking at the phenotypes, epidemiology, etiology, pathology, and immunology. Additionally, this paper examines the clinical presentations and criteria for diagnosis along with the treatment and management of symptoms
Displacing the French? Ivorian Development and the Question of Economic Decolonisation, 1946–1975
No full textThis chapter revisits the historical mechanisms that allowed French firms to dominate the arena of development in Ivory Coast. Starting in the late colonial era, and especially during the heyday of the post-1945 modernisation of the territory, not only did French businesses receive the larger share of aid-financed work, but French involvement and deal-making would become hegemonic in the post-independence industrial expansion of the country. Having struck an alliance with the Ivorian elite during the waning years of colonialism, French interests rearticulated their clientelistic relations and networks to maintain the competitive edge over the business of postcolonial development. While Ivorian authorities attempted subsequently to ease the grips of their French development partners, their effort remained modest. By the mid-1970s, the voices of the critics of postcolonial development as implemented in Ivory Coast had gained momentum. This situation forced the Ivorian leadership to contemplate serious transformations of the country’s drive to modernity
Faculty and Student Perspectives on Open Education at Gettysburg College
Get PDFCommercially available textbooks and course materials are often expensive for students and sometimes don’t cover topics in exactly the way you might prefer to teach. Freely available and completely adaptable open educational resources (OER) have risen in popularity in recent years, both nationwide and locally, as a way to address both issues. Join us to hear from Alice Brawley Newlin (Management), Tasha Gownaris (Environmental Studies), Chris Oechler (Spanish), and Ryan Nedrow ’22 to hear about their experiences with OER in the classroom. Panelists will talk honestly about the benefits, drawbacks, challenges, and successes associated with open course materials in order to give you a better sense of whether OER might be a good fit in your own context
Student Textbook Surveys: An Important Component of a Library OER Initiative
Get PDFA student textbook survey is a potentially powerful tool in the OER advocate’s toolkit. This moderated panel features librarians working within smaller settings and includes representatives from a small, private, liberal arts college, a small public Hispanic-serving institution, and a community college. Panelists will discuss survey goals, research design considerations, approaches to data analysis, and strategies for sharing results. Participants will gain concrete ideas about whether and how a student textbook survey could advance their local OER initiatives, as well as practical tips for how to move ahead with such a project