131 research outputs found
Creative Approaches to Writing Center Work
No full textElizabeth Boquet, with Michele Eodice, is a contributing author, Creativity in the Writing Center: A Terrifying Conundrum.
Book description: This is the first book length attempt to address the role creativity plays in writing centers. Beginning with the premise that creativity has the potential to make work and learning environments more productive—and possibly more dangerous—the ideals in this collection will complicate visions of what writing centers can and should be. Striking a balance between theory and practice, readers will learn about creative tutor training and staff meeting activities, how to use toys to tutor and how to tutor creative writers, and, finally, how to implement creative outreach programs. Those who are in search of ways to infuse their centers with creativity and fun will find this book to be an invaluable, inspirational resource.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/english-books/1040/thumbnail.jp
Differences in Lower-Extremity Muscle Activation and Temporospatial Parameters in People Living With HIV When Walking on a Level Surface and an Inclined Surface
No full textDespite improvements in retroviral medications, people living with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) continue to present with neuromuscular impairments, leading to gait and balance deficits and increasing their risk of falls. The purpose of this study was to determine if there were differences in lower extremity muscle activation and temporospatial gait parameters in people living with HIV who were at risk for falls versus those not at risk for falls when walking on a flat versus inclined surface. Thirty-two adults living with HIV participated in this study. Each participant completed the Activities-Specific Balance Confidence (ABC) Scale before walking tests. A six-minute walk test was performed to determine average gait speed. Surface electromyography (EMG) was used to assess lower extremity muscle activation, and the Mobility Lab APDM was used to collect temporospatial data while walking on a treadmill. Participants walked on a treadmill at the average gait speed determined by their six-minute walk test for two 30-second trials at a 0% level of inclination (flat) and two 30-second trials at 8% inclination. Before data analysis, participants were divided into two groups: fall risk and non-fall risk groups, based on their ABC scores. Two MANOVAs were performed to compare the two groups and two levels of inclination for the temporospatial data and EMG data. For the temporospatial data, the double-limb stance time and single-leg stance time significantly decreased as the inclination increased, regardless of group. For the EMG data, decay of the tibialis anterior muscle was significantly less in the fall-risk group, despite the level of inclination. The duration and decay of the gastrocnemius muscle were significantly greater at an 8% incline, regardless of the fall risk group. Conclusions: Differences in muscle activation was observed at the ankle complex between fall risk groups and levels of inclination. Double limb support time was less while walking up an incline, regardless of fall risk status, and contrary to previous literature. Future research is needed to determine if the amplitude of muscle activation can better explain deficits in the timing of muscle activation observed in this study
Food and eating in fiction since 1950 with particular reference to the writing of Angela Carter, Doris Lessing, Michele Roberts and Alice Thomas Ellis.
No full textPhDEating is a fundamental activity. What people eat, how and with whom, what
they feel about food, what they do or do not want to eat and why - even who
they eat - are of crucial significance in any reading of human behaviour.
In this thesis, I consider the diverse and complex uses of food and eating
in fiction since 1950, especially that written by women. I argue both that food
and eating carry much of the meaning of a novel or story and that the acts of
cooking, feeding and eating depicted are inseparable from issues of power and
control: individually, interpersonally, culturally, politically.
My discussion centres on the writing of Angela Carter, Doris Lessing,
Michele Roberts and Alice Thomas Ellis. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory,
sociology, anthropology, Foucault, Bakhtin and others, the thesis aims to
construct an interdisciplinary perspective which both resists reductive
interpretations and emphasises the centrality, complexity and diversity of food
and eating in literature in our culture.
I begin with an examination of the ambiguities of maternal feeding and
nurturing, moving on to explore the links between appetite, eating and sexuality.
I explore cannibalism and vampirism as manifestations of oppression, but also as
indicating insatiable emptiness and transgressive appetite. The body itself is
crucial, and my argument considers the paradox of not eating as
control/enslavement, also tracing self-starvation as a positive route towards
wholeness and connection. The last part of my argument focuses on social
eating, examining conventions, rituals and food itself in connection with power
relations, and finally considers how we might truly speak of food and eating in
the context of society as a whole
LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF MONOCHLORAMINE DISINFECTION FOR LEGIONELLA AND OTHER WATERBORNE BACTERIA CONTROL IN A HOSPITAL WATER NETWORK.
No full textLONG-TERM EFFICACY OF HOSPITAL WATER NETWORK DISINFECTION BY MONOCHLORAMINE ON LEGIONELLA AND OTHER WATERBORNE BACTERIA
Author/s:
Beatrice CASINI1, Michele TOTARO1, Paola VALENTINI1, Janet STOUT2, Gaetano PRIVITERA1.
Organisation or Affiliation:
1 Department of Translational Research, N.T.M.S., University of Pisa, Italy. 2 Special Pathogens Laboratory, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Backgroung: The choice of an appropriate disinfection method represents a determining factor for reducing water-associated infections in healthcare setting.
Objectives: Describe the long-term efficacy of an experimental monochloramine-based (MC) disinfection operated on the hot water loop of the Emergency Department (ED), a 112-bed ward of a teaching hospital.
Methods: Starting from December 2010, on a monthly basis, Legionella and nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) cultures were obtained on 126 water and 121 biofilm samples collected from the faucets of six distal and proximal sites from the MC generator device (Sanipur s.r.l., Italy)
Findings and Conclusions: Before MC disinfection, in all 6 sites water and biofilm resulted positive for Legionella pneumophila ST 269 (mean count 7.2x103 CFU/L), while 3 resulted positive for NTM only in water (mean count 40 CFU/L). An hyper-chlorination shock and super-flushing were performed. Subsequently MC was regulated to 1.5 ppm and Legionella was not found in the next 30 months, except in two instances as a consequence of the device failure (100% positive sites, 8.8x104 CFU/L mean count). Legionella was recovered only in 15% (18/121) of biofilms, always associated with positive waters. An increased log density of viable Mycobacterium gordonae was detected in 5 on 6 sites, with 53% (29/55) of positive biofilms. Following the increase of MC to 2.5 ppm, NTM cultivability was no more regain from 42 water samples and only one biofilm resulted positive (1/42).
Monochloramine resulted very effective although needed to be finely adjusted to get satisfactory results in the control of Legionella as well as other waterborne pathogens
Contextualizing narrative theory: reading the politics of formal innovation in contemporary women's fiction
No full textTo ignore the strategies and structures through which stories are told, this thesis contends, is to neglect a vital dimension of their politics. Narratology provides productive analytical tools to illuminate the complex and varied mechanics of narrative form, yet it also bears the traces of its structuralist origins. Its value is therefore contingent upon its continuing reformulation as an expansive, pluralist and contextualized critical discipline. Participating in this expansion, this
thesis evidences the pertinence and vitality of some narratological models and the limitations of others. It opens up alternative critical possibilities by drawing upon insights within contemporary critical theory, from poststructuralist philosophy to transcultural feminism to
sociolinguistics. Above all, my interventions proceed from close readings of innovative fiction by women writers hitherto all but unrepresented in, and therefore potentially subversive of, existing models: Nicole Brossard, Daphne Marlatt, Hiromi Goto, Ali Smith, Jackie Kay, Erna Brodber, Dionne Brand, Aritha van Herk.
The first chapter formulates an in-between critical space where feminist and postmodernist theories of narrative intersect. It re-examines metafiction through the lens of auto(bio)graphical practice and feminist poststructuralist theories of self, and introduces the notions of folds and
echoes to describe specific structural innovations. Chapter Two examines unconventional uses of second-person address and reconsiders existing narratological approaches in their light, focusing on the `push and pull of narrative' that the `you' form enacts. Chapter Three addresses the insufficient attention paid to multiply narrated novels, theorizing them as `narrative communities' and introducing terms to describe different internal relations between narrators, relations that can often be read as determinedly 'democratic'. The final chapter contests the
hegemony of temporal models of narrativity by formulating a 'spatial poetics' that accounts both for how spatial structures can be agents of narrative change and for the complexity of textual constructions of space, which frequently exceed static definitions of 'setting'.
Running throughout is a reconception of narrative as located not with the figure of the narrator, but in relations of intersubjectivity. The narratological criticism formulated here works towards a situated ethics of reading responsive to the politics of writing: it is engaged, relational, and ever in process
The cachet of the "invisible" translator: Englishwomen translating science (1650--1850)
No full textIn a counter-argument to the invisibility of translators and of women in the history of science, this dissertation asserts the presence and examines the influence of a set of 5 female translators of scientific materials in England from 1650 to 1850. The translators are Aphra Behn, Elizabeth Carter, Mary Somerville, Ada Lovelace, and Elizabeth Sabine. The source languages are French, Italian, and German.
These five portraits (each of which includes biographical information on the translator and source text author, contextual features, and translation samples and commentary) are considered against two main backdrops: first, the image of the "invisible translator" prevalent in modern Anglo-American translation studies, and its superimposition on historical expectations of the translator for the period 1650--1850, and second, the changing face of science in the broad wake of the Scientific Revolution (i.e., the modernization and professionalization of science, the increased use of vernaculars in science communication networks, the rise of (scientific content in) the London periodical industry, topic shifts---from heliocentric cosmology, to applied and industrial processes, to the Earth-based sciences, and language shifts---from Latin to French and English, to German). In addition, two through-running translation phenomena are highlighted and discussed: translation as repatriation, and concurrent translation.
Overall, the dissertation demonstrates that female translators of scientific materials have in fact existed in history, despite modern perception to the contrary, and despite a number of historical disadvantages against their rise to visibility and influence. On these two points, a rise, peak, and fall of translator visibility is seen, especially in line with changing opportunities for learned women, yet the influence of these translators in the dissemination of scientific thought remains clear throughout. Further strengthening these portrait findings, and encouraging future research, is an appendixed set of 20 additional women (translators and authors) in science
The cachet of the "invisible" translator: Englishwomen translating science (1650--1850)
No full textIn a counter-argument to the invisibility of translators and of women in the history of science, this dissertation asserts the presence and examines the influence of a set of 5 female translators of scientific materials in England from 1650 to 1850. The translators are Aphra Behn, Elizabeth Carter, Mary Somerville, Ada Lovelace, and Elizabeth Sabine. The source languages are French, Italian, and German.
These five portraits (each of which includes biographical information on the translator and source text author, contextual features, and translation samples and commentary) are considered against two main backdrops: first, the image of the "invisible translator" prevalent in modern Anglo-American translation studies, and its superimposition on historical expectations of the translator for the period 1650--1850, and second, the changing face of science in the broad wake of the Scientific Revolution (i.e., the modernization and professionalization of science, the increased use of vernaculars in science communication networks, the rise of (scientific content in) the London periodical industry, topic shifts---from heliocentric cosmology, to applied and industrial processes, to the Earth-based sciences, and language shifts---from Latin to French and English, to German). In addition, two through-running translation phenomena are highlighted and discussed: translation as repatriation, and concurrent translation.
Overall, the dissertation demonstrates that female translators of scientific materials have in fact existed in history, despite modern perception to the contrary, and despite a number of historical disadvantages against their rise to visibility and influence. On these two points, a rise, peak, and fall of translator visibility is seen, especially in line with changing opportunities for learned women, yet the influence of these translators in the dissemination of scientific thought remains clear throughout. Further strengthening these portrait findings, and encouraging future research, is an appendixed set of 20 additional women (translators and authors) in science
An exploratory study of the experiences of women directors of U.S. public corporation boards of directors
No full textThis dissertation was an exploratory study of the experiences of women directors of U.S. public corporations. The purpose of this study was to advance the understanding of women’s experiences as U.S. public company board directors in the hope that an increased level of understanding will also lead to increased representation of women in corporate director roles. This research used the theoretical frameworks of embedded intergroup relations (Alderfer, 1987) and tokenism (Kanter, 1977) as a basis for analysis and was conducted as a qualitative study utilizing McCracken’s (1988) qualitative research methods and a semi-structured interview protocol (Whyte, 1984). In-depth interviews were conducted with 12 participants; seven of whom were token females on the corporate boards on which they serve, four who were non-tokens, and one participant who was “mixed” (token on one corporate board and non-token on another). The analysis of the interview data yielded overall participant themes in three areas: Influences of one’s professional life on being a corporate board director, quality of experience in joining a U.S. public company board, and nature of experience participating on a U.S. public company board. In comparing responses of the token and non-token participant groups, one notable difference emerged – the perception by tokens that important conversations take place outside the boardroom. A surprising finding, given the theoretical frameworks, was the emergence of a meta-theme of the women corporate directors feeling confident in their capabilities and comfortable in their board director roles, regardless of whether they were tokens. Several explanations are offered for why the results of this study do not align with the theoretical expectations of embedded intergroup relations and tokenism. These include a potential lack of trust between the participants and the researcher (leading to hesitancy by participants to fully disclose negative experiences), the salience of other group memberships in the boardroom, and the overall environment (supra system) within which corporate boards operate, among others. Limitations of the study and implications for future research are also discussed. The key themes from this study can be helpful to U.S. public companies seeking women directors and to the women who aspire to those roles.Psy.D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Mary Elizabeth Gros
Gender and the aristocracy of dissent : a comparative study of the beliefs, status and roles of women in Quaker and Unitarian communities, 1770-1830, with particular reference to Yorkshire.
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The Parker Report and beyond: Upheaval and change in the history of the Prince Edward Island Teachers' Federation
No full textThe Prince Edward Island Teachers' Federation represents the approximately 1500 teachers who are employed in the public school system in the province. This thesis traces the history of this organization; touching briefly on events that encompass a period of nearly a century and a half and more specifically on the period of the mid 1960's to the early 1970's. This period marked a critical era in the historical development of the Prince Edward Island Teachers Federation.As a result of dissatisfaction with some of the membership as to the efficicancy of the organization; a movement began rallying for change in the organization. This led to the commissioning of a report in 1967 by Dr. Tom Parker of the Nova Scotia Teachers' Union on the present operation and future potential of the PEITF. Despite the fact that, by his own admission, Parker's Report was not exhaustive, its implications were far reaching and led to a period of significant upheaval and change in the history of this organization; the details of which are the basis of this thesis.Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 40-04, page: 0833.Adviser: Anne Louise Brookes
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