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A Conversation with Jessica B. Harris
No full textA conversation with culinary historian and award-winning author Jessica B. Harris, moderated by Gabrielle Fulton Ponder
Jessica Stremer: Cook Prize 2024, Silver Medal Acceptance Speech
No full textAuthor Jessica Stremer gives an acceptance speech for Great Carrier Reef (Holiday House)https://educate.bankstreet.edu/cook/1013/thumbnail.jp
Jessica Pierce: The Last Walk: Caring for Our Animal Companions
No full textBioethicist and author Jessica Pierce will discuss end-of-life care, dying, and euthanasia in the lives of our companion animals.https://thekeep.eiu.edu/humanitiescenter_authenticity1314/1003/thumbnail.jp
Det machiavellistiska personlighetsdragets förekomst bland fastighetsmäklare: En studie med fokus på försäljningsprestationer
No full textTitle: The occurrence of the Machiavellian personality trait among real estate agents: A study focusing on sales performance Level: Student thesis, final assignment for Bachelor Degrees in Business Administration Author: Jessica Backman & Fanny Hellgren Supervisor: Jonas Kågström Date: 2019 - June Aim: The purpose of this research paper is to analyze the presence of the personality trait Machiavellianism among Swedish real estate agents and its impact on sales performances. Method: The study is based on a quantitative research method with a deductive approach. The primary data of this study is based on a questionnaire. The participants of this questionnaire are 106 registered real estate agents in Sweden. This data was subsequently analyzed in the program jamovi, which resulted in a descriptive analysis, a correlation analysis and a factor analysis. Result & Conclusions: The result shows that the degree of Machiavellianism negatively affects the investigated real estate agents to all sales performance measures. Furthermore, the result shows that people with a high degree of Machiavellianism thinks to a greater extent that it is okay to use cap prices, front man and to withhold information, to the extent that it occurs. Generally speaking, the participating real estate agents consider that it is not okay to use cap prices, front man and to withhold information. Furthermore, the degree of Machiavellianism is relatively low among the investigated real estate agents. Contribution of the thesis: The study has contributed to understanding the occurrence of the Machiavellian personality trait among the investigated real estate brokers and how this personality trait affects their sales performance. Suggestions for future research: In order to gain a deeper understanding of Machiavellianism's influence on sales performance, it would have been interesting to compare how Machiavellianism appears in different cultures in relation to sales performance. To increase the understanding of the subject further, a proposal is to investigate how the degree of Machiavellianism appears in different sales industries. Key words: “Machiavellianism”, “the dark triad”, “real estate”, “sales performance” and “sales
Providence College Faculty Author Series 2014-2015: Dr. Jessica Mulligan
No full textIn this installment of the Faculty Authors Series, Dr. Jessica Mulligan of the Health Policy & Management department discusses her book Unmanageable Care: An Ethnography of Health Care Privatization in Puerto Rico - elucidating the history and contemporary state of the Puerto Rican healthcare system
Providence College Faculty Author Series 2014-2015: Dr. Jessica Mulligan
No full textIn this installment of the Faculty Authors Series, Dr. Jessica Mulligan of the Health Policy & Management department discusses her book Unmanageable Care: An Ethnography of Health Care Privatization in Puerto Rico - elucidating the history and contemporary state of the Puerto Rican healthcare system
MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture: Focus Issue Seven: Female Detectives on TV
No full textWith this publication, we turn towards another outlet that has become a source of comfort and escapism during long periods of lockdown and isolation: television drama. And here, we once again celebrate the ongoing and unwavering sense of the global feminist community—a unique spirit of support for women everywhere. Our authors, peer reviewers and editors always hope to contribute to this, even in the most challenging of times. As this issue reveals, a similar set of feminist values often underpins contemporary TV narratives that feature female investigators. Perhaps this is why many of us have been almost religiously watching crime dramas with women detectives of diverse backgrounds since the start of the pandemic in 2020. Their actions on the small screen fascinate us, and often serve as a remedy for our forced inaction in real life, probably now more than ever before.
That said, this issue has been years in the making. We thank Laura Nicholson for her invaluable input on this project during its inception, and her passion for the topic. Crime drama that centres on the female detective offers one of the few spaces within global popular culture to address some of the cardinal conjectures and concerns of feminism: agency, autonomy, professional and personal identities, sexualised male violence, misogyny, race, gendered politics, and ageing (to take but a few of the themes discussed in this issue). Tanya Horeck and Jessica Ford have been instrumental in bringing this collection together, which is richly political and equally critical in examining these most popular diegetic characters. We thank them both hugely for their generosity, their insight, and their hard work and commitment to seeing this issue through to fruition. Alongside these essays, you will also find a range of miscellaneous pieces for which we are very proud to provide a platform
Jessica Hagedorn, 19th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textJessica Hagedorn Born and raised in the Philippines, Jessica Hagedorn is well-known as a performance artist, poet, and playwright. She is the author of the novel Dogeaters (Penguin), which was nominated for the National Book Award. Hagedorn wrote the screenplay for Fresh Kill, an independent first feature film directed and produced by Shu Lea Cheang and has collaborated on film projects, Color Schemes and Those Fluttering Objects of Desire. Her multimedia theater pieces include Teenytown, The Art of War: Nine situations, and Holy Food. Hagedorn is the recipient of a 1994 Lila Wallace Reader’s Digest Writers Award, and a 1995 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship. Her new novel, The Gangster of Love has been recently released by Houghton Mifflin
Reading: Jessica Bruder
No full textIn this audiovisual recording from Thursday, March 24, 2022, as part of the 53rd Annual UND Writers Conference: “Communities and the Individual,” Jessica Bruder reads excerpts from Nomadland. Bruder discusses what it means to be an immersion journalist and what brought her to write Nomadland. Bruder also responds to audience questions about the dynamic between author and those who share their stories for a novel like Nomadland, the connection between immersive journalism and the new journalism literary movement, the process of collecting, organizing, and transforming material into a novel, how faithful the film version of Nomadland was to the book, and if Linda ever got to build her Earthship.
Introduced by Dr. Lori Robison, Chair of the Department of English
Sequential Derivatization of Polar Organic Compounds in Cloud Water Using O-(2,3,4,5,6-Pentafluorobenzyl)hydroxylamine Hydrochloride, N, O-Bis(trimethylsilyl)trifluoroacetamide, and Gas-Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry Analysis
No full textCloud water samples from Whiteface Mountain, NY were used to develop a combined sampling and gas chromatography-mass spectrometric (GCMS) protocol for evaluating the complex mixture of highly polar organic compounds (HPOC) present in this atmospheric medium. Specific HPOC of interest were mono- and di keto-acids which are thought to originate from photochemical reactions of volatile unsaturated hydrocarbons from biogenic and manmade emissions and be a major fraction of atmospheric carbon. To measure HPOC mixtures and the individual keto-acids in cloud water, samples first must be derivatized for clean elution and measurement, and second, have low overall background of the target species as validated by GCMS analysis of field and laboratory blanks. Here, we discuss a dual derivatization method with PFBHA and BSTFA which targets only organic compounds that contain functional groups reacting with both reagents. The method also reduced potential contamination by minimizing the amount of sample processing from the field through the GCMS analysis steps. Once derivatized only gas chromatographic separation and selected ion monitoring (SIM) are needed to identify and quantify the polar organic compounds of interest. Concentrations of the detected total keto-acids in individual cloud water samples ranged from 27.8 to 329.3 ng mL-1 (ppb). Method detection limits for the individual HPOC ranged from 0.17 to 4.99 ng mL-1 and the quantification limits for the compounds ranged from 0.57 to 16.64 ng mL-1. The keto-acids were compared to the total organic carbon (TOC) results for the cloud water samples with concentrations of 0.607 to 3.350 mg L-1 (ppm). GCMS analysis of all samples and blanks indicated good control of the entire collection and analysis steps. Selected ion monitoring by GCMS of target keto-acids was essential for screening the complex organic carbon mixtures present at low ppb levels in cloud water. It was critical for ensuring high levels of quality assurance and quality control and for the correct identification and quantification of key marker compounds.Corrected proof of accepted manuscrip
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