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CLINICIANS PERSPECTIVE ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PERSON-CENTERED CARE IN PERSONS WITH APHASIA
Get PDFThis paper examines speech-language pathologist perspective on implementing person-centered care for persons with aphasia. Person-centered care is based on the social model, which emphasizes the importance of including the client. The survey addressed clinicians’ use of person-centered care related to collaborative goal setting and treatment planning, as well as facilitators and barriers to implementing person-centered care for individuals with aphasia based on the view of practicing clinicians across a variety of settings. The results indicated most speech-language pathologists have heard of person-centered care, understand the importance of involving clients in goal setting, ask clients about their preferences when setting goals, and indicate that clients’ goals were within the SLP’s scope of practice. However, less than 50% of clients knew their goals. Facilitators and barriers of PCC implementation related to these SLP respondents’ training, time, and access to resources, PWA’s abilities and motivation, family involvement, and facility support (administrative, insurance, productivity). By identifying the facilitators and barriers, SLPs and researchers may develop tools to embed in clinical practice targeting person-centered care. With a focus on person-centered care, SLPs may have the ability to enhance the quality of life for PWA
A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Thermal and Non-thermal Mechanisms in Galaxy Clusters
Get PDFGalaxy clusters form at the intersections of the cosmic web and carry imprints of the structure formation history of the universe. As massive, multi-component systems, they offer unique insights into the astrophysical processes that govern both structure formation and galaxy evolution. Observable across the full electromagnetic spectrum, clusters emit photons through a variety of mechanisms, each tracing different physical processes. This dissertation investigates both the thermodynamic and non-thermal properties of the intracluster medium (ICM) to better understand the physical processes shaping observed phenomena. It comprises three main studies, each targeting a different aspect of galaxy cluster physics. In the second chapter, I present a novel machine learning approach to estimate galaxy cluster masses directly from optical multi-band images. Cluster mass is a fundamental property that influences the evolution of member galaxies and plays a key role in cosmological studies. In the third chapter, I employ an autoencoder to identify the hidden signal of inverse Compton (IC) emission in galaxy clusters. Although IC emission remains undetected observationally, it is predicted by theory and supported indirectly by radio observations. Its detection would provide new insight into the relativistic electron populations within the ICM, offering a probe into the magnetic field in ICM. In the fourth chapter, I analyze XMM-Newton observations of an ancient sloshing cold front in the Virgo cluster to probe microphysical conditions in the ICM. Sloshing cold fronts are ubiquitous features in cool-core clusters like Virgo, offering valuable information about merger histories, thermodynamic structure, and the effectiveness of transport processes such as conduction and turbulence. Together, these studies demonstrate how galaxy clusters serve as laboratories for exploring both astrophysical and fundamental physical processes on cosmic scales
Feeling and Experience in American Women\u27s Writing from the First World War
Get PDFThis dissertation analyzes the political capacity of feeling in American women’s autobiographical and semi-autobiographical writing from and about their work during the First World War. Women produced emotionally complex accounts that resist easy categorization, and I argue that attending to feeling clarifies not only their emotional experiences with war work but their social and political projects. This dissertation closely examines portrayals and rhetorics of feeling, considering the intersections of gender, class, race, and labor in impacting how feelings are depicted, negotiated, and conveyed. While British women were more compelled to perform and convey feeling according to a rigid class system, white American women experienced more flexibility in expressing less desirable feelings. Black American women, however, had to conduct more complex negotiations of feeling so as to advocate for themselves as Black and as women. This dissertation builds upon work on affect by scholars such as Sara Ahmed, Sianne Ngai, bell hooks, and Lauren Berlant while considering gender and race interventions in war studies by scholars like Christine Hallett, Jennifer Keene, Mark Whalan, Santanu Das, and Claire Tylee, among others.
Considering texts in and around the canon by Ellen La Motte and Mary Borden as well as the more marginalized memoir of Addie Hunton and Kathryn Magnolia Johnson, this dissertation centers life writing, whether presented as autobiographical or loosely fictionalized. Chapter one interrogates the political capacity of disgust in La Motte’s The Backwash of War to illuminate and deconstruct war propaganda. Chapter two examines the temporal gap in Mary Borden’s The Forbidden Zone, as well as competing feelings of ease and unease, to locate Borden’s relationship to trauma within the text. Chapter three examines the efficacy of Hunton and Johnson’s rhetoric of love in Two Colored Women with the American Expeditionary Forces, arguing, identifying both the shortcomings and the social advantages of this love. I conclude by applying my argument to contemporary portrayals of war in new media to argue for affect as a means of understanding the experience of war, both past and present. The conclusion also proposes affective labor as an area of inquiry within war studies. This dissertation suggests that the study of war and feeling is not only relegated to the past but bears repeating in the present moment. More simply, examining feeling in women’s literature from the First World War informs how we read and interpret war texts (from the more traditional written book to the Instagram reel) in the present moment
Protein Bank as a Complement to Native Pasture
Get PDFBrazilian Cerrados (203 million ha) comprise very acid oxisols and ultisols. The Cerrados have 40 % of Brasil\u27s cattle (53 million heads). Native pasture are around 69 million ha (Fibge, 1979) and are the main forage source. During the dry season, grasspastures are mature and low in feed quality. Cattle growth is restricted by protein shortage in their diet. The experiment was carried out at « Centro de Pesquisa Agropecuaria dos Cerrados », near Brasilia, in a typical Cerrado environment. The study investigated the value of Leucaena leucocephala cv. Cunningham and Stylosanthes guianensis cv. Bandeirante as legume supplements to improve cattle growth grazing native pasture, in order to anticipate the first mating
Gestion et Valorization des Prairies Cultivees en Guyane Francaise
Get PDFL\u27installation de prairies cultivees sur savane ou sur defriche forestiere en Guyane Frarn;:aise se heurte a la pauvrete chirnique des sols (Cabidoche et Servant, 1982) et a une repartition des pluies irreguliere. Des especes fourrageres, issues de regions comparables, malgre des resultats encourageants en petite par celle, ont parfois des productions decevantes sous le pied ��u bovin utilise: le zebu. L\u27objectif est de definir une condmte reproductible des paturages afin d\u27assurer Ieur perennite et une production de viande par hectare suffisante pour atteindre un equilibre technico-econornique dans un systeme a niveau d\u27investissement eleve (Bourges, 1984)
Forage Management System for Lean Beef Production: Nitrogen Rate on Pasture and Roughage Level in Feedlot
Get PDFFertilizer rates have long been shown to increase forage dry matter production and growth promoting implants have been shown to increase live weight gains during either the stocker or feeder phase. There has been little evidence, however, to ascertain the influence of pasture-animal management systems on subsequent feedlot performance. The primary objectives of this study were to: (1) determine the influence of rate of fertilizer nitrogen and Zeranol implant on gain per animal and gain per acre ; and (2) determine the influence of previous pasture treatment on feedlot performance from two levels of roughage
Effects of Grazing Sainfoin Stubble Fields and Adding with Green Hay on Grass-lamb Fattening
Get PDFWith its fast turnover, low cost and high nutrition, lamb production has been developing an important industry of seasonal animal husbandry recently in China. The way of taking lambs from pastoral area and then fattened in farming area is considered to be most effective for lambs can make good use of feeds and climate resources in both farming and pastoral areas. The effects of grazing sainfoin ( Onobrychis viciifolia) stubble fields and adding with green hay on two types of lamb fattening were studied by means of measuring live-weight gains, meat quality and carcass output during 1986-1987, and the study is ever in progress
Effect of Endophyte (Acremonum coenophialum) Infection of Tall fescue and Paddock Exchange on Intake and Performance of Grazing Steers
Get PDFINTRODUCTION Tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb), grown on over 14 million ha, is the most common pasture grass in humid areas of the eastern USA and, to limited extent, in the northwestern USA. The presence of an endophyte in tall fescue has been associated with a number of animal health problems including reduced performance (Stuedemann and Hoveland, 1988). Intake was reduced in diets containing the endophyte in seed, hay or green forage (Hemken et al., 1979; Schmidt et al., 1982). However, no studies have been reported which used direct methods to determine intake differences of grazing animals as influenced by the endophyte and if a residual response might exist. The present study was conducted to determine the effect of O and 100 percent (%) endophyte levels in tall fescue pastures on intake of grazing steers and the intake response following exchange from O to 100 % infected pastures and vice versa
Effect of Nitrogen Fertilizer and Stocking Density on Grazing Cattle
Get PDFGalicia is a humid region with mild winters in the atlantic coast of the north west of Spain. White clover and perennial ryegrass perform quite well in the acids soils, after P and lime. application. White clover potential is reduced due to the dry period in July and August. Use of N in spring could compensate this potential despite increasing seasonality. When clover is included in the sward, a low response to N application was expected, as usually happens in small plo1 experiments on an annual basis (Gonzalez, 1982). This experiment attemps to evaluate, in terms of animal production, the response to fertilizer nitrogen applied to a grassclover sward grazed by young heifers
Tagasste (Chamaecytisus palmensis), AN Evergreen Fodder Tree, in Grazing Systems of Mediterranean Type Climates 1. Feeding Value for Reproduction when Grazed by Merino Ewes at Joining.
Get PDFTagasaste (Chamaecytisus palmensis), commonly called \u27tree lucerne\u27, is a hardy evergreen leguminous shrub or tree, native to Palma island in the Canary Islands. It was introduced into Australia from the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew in 1879. In south-western Australia, it has become naturalized along roadsides and at the edges of many native forests. It will grow vigorously from seed on the most infertile deep sands, reaching 3 to 5 m in height and all parts of the stem and branches are enveloped in leaves. In summer, the edible leaf and stem are around 40 % dry matter, 15 % crude protein, and 70 % digestible (Borens and Poppi, 1986). Its potential, as a fodder tree, has been promoted by a series of scientists, since 1863 (Perez, 1863 ; Snook, 1986). However, there has never been any field scale data to support their claims and their dream of an agricultural revolution based around tagasaste has remained unfulfilled. There are millions of hectares of poorly productive deep sands in south-western Australia on which plantations of tagasaste could be grown. However, before farmers commit themselves to the high cost of establishing and managing large areas of fodder trees (Mattinson and Oldham, 1989), they need to know how best to utilize this potential new resource. Merino sheep provide the major source of income in these areas and their annual production of wool and surplus sale stock is largely constrained by the Mediterranean-type climate. The summer drought typically lasts 3 to 7 months, during which the dry annual pastures are low in crude protein (around 9 %) and digestibility (around 50 %) and this is associated with a low in crude (around 9 % and digestibility (around 50 %) and this is associated with a low rate of wool growth and poor reproductive performance. Optimum stocking rates dictate that farmers must budget to hand feed grain to their sheep in late summer/autumn to guarantee their survival and production of a good quality fleece. Merino ewes are normally mated in summer on dry subterranean clover/ryegrass pasture. Therefore, an experiment was conducted to test the hypothesis that the feeding value for reproduction of tagasaste grazed by merino ewes at joining would be greater than that of dry annual pasture