369 research outputs found
Special Collections, Primary Resources, and Information Literacy Pedagogy
No full textLiterature suggests that teaching Information Literacy (IL) as an intellectual framework, rather than a set of computer-based tools, can be challenging for numerous reasons. At the same time, other articles describe the unique value of using hands-on investigations of special collections materials to facilitate the development of critical thinking skills and IL in discipline-specific contexts for upper-level students. This article reports on a collaboration between an IL instructor and a special collections librarian to create a hands-on special collections experience for entry-level IL students. We found that exposing these students to these materials can improve their IL and research skills. We explain our methods for designing and assessing such class sessions, and report on our results with students
Developing a state communications campaign to reduce excessive alcohol use in Oregon: findings from a formative audience assessment
No full textMegan Gerdes, MPH (Interim Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Services Manager, Oregon Health Authority), Victoria Buelow, MA (Lead Alcohol Research Analyst, Oregon Health Authority), Steven C. Fiala, MPH (Evaluation Lead, Oregon Health Authority), Kate Gunby, MA, PhD (Research Director, PRR), Diana Steeble, BA (Managing Principal and National Healthcare Lead, PRR), Chien-Yu Chen, MS, PhD (Research Associate, PRR), Jordan Tuia, BA (Senior Research Coordinator, PRR (former)), Anne Frugé, MA, PhD (Senior Research Associate, PRR).Title from PDF caption (viewed on April 7, 2023).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references (pages 31-32).Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Cycling on the Verge? Exploring the Place of Utility Cycling in Contemporary New Zealand Transport Policy
No full textEfforts to increase cycling as a mode of transport (utility cycling) occur at central, regional and local levels of government through a range of supportive strategies, research, and guidelines. Despite these efforts, utility cycling levels in New Zealand have remained persistently low. This thesis examines the apparent disparity between policy intent and policy result, using a discourse analytical approach. It examines how cycling is positioned in contemporary New Zealand transport policy documents, and explores whose priorities are shaping transport policy with what implications for utility cycling.
This study uses a critical discourse analysis (CDA) approach to analyse the land transport documents from across the institutions of government. The CDA approach, grounded in the work of van Dijk and Fairclough, draws on ideas from the interpretive tradition of discourse analysis, inspired by Foucault’s concepts of knowledge and power. This approach reveals the position of utility cycling by exposing the framing, dominant discourses, and discursive strategies that privilege certain transport objectives and activities over others.
The findings show transport is promoted almost exclusively by central government as an activity to facilitate economic growth and efficiency, despite its potential (and actual) impacts on health and well-being, social justice, and environmental sustainability. The discursive practices of the government privilege private motor vehicle use, helping to both legitimate and maintain that privilege at all levels of government, while positioning utility cycling as a marginalised mode of transport.
This thesis contributes to scholarship on utility cycling and land transport policy in New Zealand by identifying how the discursive strategies of government control the position of utility cycling in New Zealand. This study underscores the need for a central government-led, long-term strategic vision for a genuinely integrated, multi-modal transport system, in order for the benefits of utility cycling to be fully maximised
The ECB as a Strategic Actor: Central Banking in a Politically Fragmented Monetary Union
No full textThe European Central Bank’s relationship to the national governments of the monetary
union was modeled as a contest between fiscal and monetary dominance early in the euro crisis
(Buiter 2010, drawing on Sargent and Wallace 1981). This paper shows how strategic behavior
helped to shape the timing and substance of ECB policy during 2010-2013 as well as the response of
governments. While ex ante bargains between the monetary and fiscal authority can in principle preempt
the struggle for dominance, political fragmentation of the euro area prevented such bargains
during the crisis. Strategic behavior largely explains the differences in the responses of the ECB, the
Federal Reserve and Bank of England to their respective crises and continues to play out as the euro
area seeks to complete the architecture of the monetary union. Deflation demonstrates that
monetary not fiscal dominance prevails in the euro area, decisively. The ECB Governing Council
should now prioritize the objective of raising the rate of inflation in light of this victory
Review: Artist as Author: Action and Intent in Late-Modernist American Painting
No full textBook review of Artist as Author: Action and Intent in Late-Modernist American Painting by Christa Noel Robbins. University of Chicago Press, June 2021. 256 p. Ill. ISBN 9780226752952 (h/c), $45.00. Reviewed November 2021 by Heather Saunders, Dean of Libraries and Archives, Acadia University, [email protected]
Leadership and management in nursing: Concepts analysis
No full textThis concept analysis explores the terms leadership and management and their application in the Clinical Nurse Manager position. Clinical Nurse Manager leadership and management preparation, understanding and application impacts on patient care delivery and outcomes (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2007; Herrin & Spears, 2007; Stanley, 2006). Interpretation and understanding of the concepts of leadership and management are inconsistent, and the terms are used interchangeably within verbal dialogue and literature. In addition, leadership and management are often specific to the context in which they are used. However, consistency in leadership and management application is an important factor in optimising patient care and outcomes in health care. This work hopes to further contribute to academic knowledge surrounding the concepts of leadership and management within the nursing context and the Clinical Nurse Manager position
X-ray polarization in relativistic jets
No full textWe investigate the polarization properties of Comptonized X-rays from relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei (AGN) using Monte Carlo simulations. We consider three scenarios commonly proposed for the observed X-ray emission in AGN: Compton scattering of blackbody photons emitted from an accretion disc; scattering of cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons and self-Comptonization of intrinsically polarized synchrotron photons emitted by jet electrons. Our simulations show that for Comptonization of disc and CMB photons, the degree of polarization of the scattered photons increases with the viewing inclination angle with respect to the jet axis. In both cases, the maximum linear polarization is ≈20 per cent. In the case of synchrotron self-Comptonization (SSC), we find that the resulting X-ray polarization depends strongly on the seed synchrotron photon injection site, with typical fractional polarizations P≈ 10–20 per cent when synchrotron emission is localized near the jet base, while P≈ 20–70 per cent for the case of uniform emission throughout the jet. These results indicate that X-ray polarimetry may be capable of providing unique clues to identify the location of particle acceleration sites in relativistic jets. In particular, if synchrotron photons are emitted quasi-uniformly throughout a jet, then the observed degree of X-ray polarization may be sufficiently different for each of the competing X-ray emission mechanisms (synchrotron, SSC or external Comptonization) to determine which is the dominant process. However, X-ray polarimetry alone is unlikely to be able to distinguish between disc and CMB Comptonization
Assessment of northern mummichog (Fundulus heteroclitus macrolepidotus) as an estuarine pollution monitoring species
No full textThe use of multiple spawning fishes in environmental effects monitoring programs has proven difficult for a number of reasons including the inability to predict reproductive investment and ensure synchronous sampling of reference and impacted populations. The estuarine resident northern mummichog (Fundulus heteroclitus macrolepidotus) has been successfully used as a sentinel for effects of pulp and paper mill effluents in Atlantic Canada and has been proposed for monitoring other anthropogenic impacts. This study investigated the spatial and temporal variability of the somatic parameters used to describe fish performance, specifically measures of energy use and storage, in estuaries located in Prince Edward Island, Canada. Three sites with varying levels of agricultural input were studied. Fish at all sites depleted their energy reserves over winter, as reflected in depressed condition, liver size, and gonad size, but then quickly replenished them in May. These population parameters were highly variable throughout the reproductive season and within an estuary. Spawning was continuous at all sites without indication of lunar or other periodicity. We conclude that repeated sampling is required to assess reproductive output in the northern mummichog and densities of adults and young-of-the-year deserve further investigation as a potentially less logistically demanding indicator of eutrophication.PT: J; UT: BIOSIS:PREV20110022533
Experimental warming shows that decomposition temperature sensitivity increases with soil organic matter recalcitrance
No full textSoil C decomposition is sensitive to changes in temperature, and even small increases in temperature may prompt large releases of C from soils. But much of what we know about soil C responses to global change is based on short-term incubation data and model output that implicitly assumes soil C pools are composed of organic matter fractions with uniform temperature sensitivities. In contrast, kinetic theory based on chemical reactions suggests that older, more-resistant C fractions may be more temperature sensitive. Recent research on the subject is inconclusive, indicating that the temperature sensitivity of labile soil organic matter (OM) decomposition could either be greater than, less than, or equivalent to that of resistant soil OM. We incubated soils at constant temperature to deplete them of labile soil OM and then successively assessed the CO2-C efflux in response to warming. We found that the decomposition response to experimental warming early during soil incubation (when more labile C remained) was less than that later when labile C was depleted. These results suggest that the temperature sensitivity of resistant soil OM pools is greater than that for labile soil OM and that global change-driven soil C losses may be greater than previously estimated
A family cluster of serogroup C meningococcal disease
No full textThe authors discuss several public health issues arising from an outbreak of meningococcal disease in a family including the protection afforded by the conjugate meningococcal C vaccine and identification of related cases of disease. (non-author abstract
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