34 research outputs found
Some Thoughts From a “Minority” Mother on Overrepresentation in Special Education
No full textIn this article the author, a “minority” mother, shares her observations on a special education system that appears to provide significantly different opportunities to children depending on their socioeconomic status and racial group. Culling from her own experience in challenging the disability “diagnosis” of her son and his subsequent segregated placement, and the refusal of services she requested, the author speculates upon the rampant inequities that pervade special education practices. In response, the urges the need for a genuine dialogue with school personnel where race and socioeconomic status are not held against “minority” parents who seek a fair evaluation of their children and equal access to educational resources
Ruslan and Lolita: Nabokov\u27s Pursuit of Pushkin\u27s Monsters, Maidens, and Morals
Get PDFThis article discusses the Russian precursor to Humbert’s explicit “kingdom by the sea”: Pushkin’s mock-epic Ruslan and Liudmila (RL). An amalgam of Slavic and Western folklore that scandalized the reading public in its day, Pushkin’s work underpins Nabokov’s own transnational position as a writer whose splash onto the Anglophone scene was accompanied by similar outcries of smut and pornography. In addition to a multitude of fairy-tale sources already documented in the scholarship, Lolita’s cluster of mermaids, sleeping beauties, dark magic, invisibility, pursuit and captivity, physical topography, and “brothers”-rivals finds in Pushkin’s RL a synthesizing subtext. Moreover, Pushkin’s play with genre in RL in many ways guides Nabokov’s in Lolita, oscillating between the frozen fairy-tale moment and the passage of time in a novel. Finally, RL provides a rich model for simultaneously subverting public expectations of moral lessons from “fairy tales” while engaging ethics in the artistic process more fully than any prescriptive messages can. It is here where we can begin to address the care with which the author keeps Pushkin away from Humbert’s world of references; the intricate ethics-aesthetics fusion that the author soaks up through his greatest mentor must not be available to an impostor-artist such as Humbert
Comparison of SAR techniques for luminescence dating of sediments derived from volcanic tuff
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Stratigraphy and Geologic Structure at the Chemical and Metallurgy (CMR) Building, Technical Area 3, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Get PDFNine shallow (c70 ft), closely spaced core holes were continuously cored in the upper units of the 1.22 Ma Tshirege Member of the Bandelier Tuff at Technical Area (TA)-3 of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The goal of the investigation was to identify faults that may have potential for earthquake-induced surface rupture at the site of the Chemistry and Metallurgy Research (CMR) building, a sensitive Laboratory facility that houses nuclear materials research functions. The holes were located from 25 ft to 115 ft from the building perimeter. Careful mapping of Lithologic sequences in cores, supplemented with focused sampling for geochemical analyses, yielded high confidence in the accuracy of delineating buried contacts within the Tshirege Member. Geologic analysis and investigation of the trends of surfaces interpolated from contacts in the core holes using commercially available software helped infer minor faulting in the strata beneath the building. Results show that gently north-northeast-dipping beds underlie the CMR building. The tilted beds are faulted by two small, closely spaced, parallel reverse faults with a combined vertical separation of approximately 8 ft. The faults are inferred from lithologically and geochemically repeated sections of core at about 55-ft depth in hole SHB-CMR-6. The data from nearby core holes SHB-CMR-2 and SHB-CMR-3 permit the extension of the faults, albeit with decreasing separation, toward the southwest beneath the CMR building. The fault trend is consistent with mapped lineaments from aerial photography and with nearby mapped structure, but direct evidence of the faults' orientations is lacking. No other faults were detected beneath the CMR building by this drilling and analysis method, which can detect faults with greater than about 2 ft separation
Stratigraphy and Geologic Structure at the Chemical and Metallurgy (CMR) Building, Technical Area 3, Los Alamos National Laboratory
No full textNine shallow (c70 ft), closely spaced core holes were continuously cored in the upper units of the 1.22 Ma Tshirege Member of the Bandelier Tuff at Technical Area (TA)-3 of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The goal of the investigation was to identify faults that may have potential for earthquake-induced surface rupture at the site of the Chemistry and Metallurgy Research (CMR) building, a sensitive Laboratory facility that houses nuclear materials research functions. The holes were located from 25 ft to 115 ft from the building perimeter. Careful mapping of Lithologic sequences in cores, supplemented with focused sampling for geochemical analyses, yielded high confidence in the accuracy of delineating buried contacts within the Tshirege Member. Geologic analysis and investigation of the trends of surfaces interpolated from contacts in the core holes using commercially available software helped infer minor faulting in the strata beneath the building. Results show that gently north-northeast-dipping beds underlie the CMR building. The tilted beds are faulted by two small, closely spaced, parallel reverse faults with a combined vertical separation of approximately 8 ft. The faults are inferred from lithologically and geochemically repeated sections of core at about 55-ft depth in hole SHB-CMR-6. The data from nearby core holes SHB-CMR-2 and SHB-CMR-3 permit the extension of the faults, albeit with decreasing separation, toward the southwest beneath the CMR building. The fault trend is consistent with mapped lineaments from aerial photography and with nearby mapped structure, but direct evidence of the faults' orientations is lacking. No other faults were detected beneath the CMR building by this drilling and analysis method, which can detect faults with greater than about 2 ft separation
Machado de Assis : the social structure in Quincas Borba and Esaú and Jacó
No full textThe research analyzed two Machadian novels from sociological concepts. The main author whose concepts guided this research was Max Weber. In the classic text entitled “Class, status and party” (1982), Weber discusses the different types of distribution of resources such as prestige, economic and political power among individuals, reflecting on the different distributive criteria. Weber draws distinctions between status societies, whose distinctive criteria are based on birth and traditions, and class societies, organized on economic criteria. The concepts of status, social classes and political parties developed by Weber (1982) contribute to the understanding of the concept of social structure, used in this research according to Peter Blau (1974). According to this last author, the social structure is understood as the distribution of individuals among different social positions, based on various criteria. This research analyzed the structure of Machado's society in the novels Quincas Borba and Esaú e Jacó. The first book was published in serial format between 1886 and 1891, with the final version as a novel in 1892. The second book was published as a novel in 1904. In each novel, all characters were analyzed considering aspects such as the social origin of each one of them, as well as their trajectories, occupations, ways of life, status level, beliefs, values, political behavior, networks of social relationships. When considering these aspects, we aim to place each character at a specific point in the social structure, in addition to drawing a general panorama of the latter. The choice of the novels Quincas Borba and Esaú e Jacó for this analysis was due to the fact that the narrative of the first book ends in the year in which the narrative of the second begins. There are continuities between the two novels. Machado's society is going through a slow transition, which begins but is not completed. With the decay of the nobility and status, there is the timid rise of the bourgeoisie and the emergence of class societyA pesquisa analisou dois romances machadianos a partir de conceitos sociológicos. O principal autor cujos conceitos nortearam esta pesquisa foi Max Weber. No clássico texto intitulado “Classe, estamento, partido” (1982), Weber discorre sobre os diferentes tipos de distribuições de recursos como prestígio, poder econômico e político entre indivíduos, refletindo sobre os diferentes critérios distributivos. Weber estabelece distinções entre sociedades estamentais, cujos critérios distintivos se baseiam no nascimento e nas tradições, e sociedades de classes, organizadas a partir de critérios econômicos. Os conceitos de estamento, classes sociais e partidos políticos desenvolvidos por Weber (1982) contribuem para a compreensão do conceito de estrutura social, empregado nesta pesquisa segundo Peter Blau (1974). De acordo com este último autor, a estrutura social é compreendida como a distribuição dos indivíduos entre diversas posições sociais, a partir de vários critérios. Esta pesquisa analisou a estrutura da sociedade machadiana nos romances Quincas Borba e Esaú e Jacó. O primeiro livro foi publicado no formato de folhetim entre 1886 e 1891, ganhando a versão final como romance em 1892. O segundo livro foi publicado como romance em 1904. Em cada romance foram analisadas todas as personagens considerando aspectos como a origem social de cada uma delas, assim como suas trajetórias, ocupações, modos de vida, nível de status, crenças, valores, comportamentos políticos, redes de relações sociais. Ao considerar estes aspectos, visamos situar cada personagem num ponto específico da estrutura social, além de traçar um panorama geral desta última. A escolha dos romances Quincas Borba e Esaú e Jacó para esta análise se deveu ao fato da narrativa do primeiro livro terminar no ano em que a narrativa do segundo começa. Há continuidades entre os dois romances. A sociedade machadiana passa por uma lenta transição, que se inicia mas não se completa. Com a decadência da nobreza e do estamento, há a tímida ascensão da burguesia e a emergência da sociedade de classes.CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superio
The Nature and Origins of Misperceptions: Understanding False and Unsupported Beliefs About Politics
Get PDFPublishedThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Wiley via the DOI in this record.Political misperceptions can distort public debate and undermine people's ability to form meaningful opinions. Why do people often hold these false or unsupported beliefs, and why is it sometimes so difficult to convince them otherwise? We argue that political misperceptions are typically rooted in directionally motivated reasoning, which limits the effectiveness of corrective information about controversial issues and political figures. We discuss factors known to affect the prevalence of directionally motivated reasoning and assess strategies for accurately measuring misperceptions in surveys. Finally, we address the normative implications of misperceptions for democracy and suggest important topics for future research.This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (Grant Agreement No. 682758). We thank Adam Berinsky, Daniel Diermeier, Jamie Druckman, Howie Lavine, Ben Page, Ethan Porter, Gaurav Sood, Joe Uscinski, attendees at the University of Michigan conference on How We Can Improve Health Science Communication, and especially the anonymous reviewers for useful suggestions and feedback. All remaining errors are, of course, our own. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Brendan Nyhan, Dartmouth College, Department of Government, 3 Tuck Mall, Hanover, NH 03755. E-mail: [email protected]
