234 research outputs found
Top occupations Oregon employers were hiring in 2022 job vacancies
No full textby Jessica Nelson.Title from PDF caption (viewed on April 4, 2023).Converted from HTML.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.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Teachers benefit today's youth and tomorrow's economy
No full textby Jessica Nelson.Title from PDF caption (viewed on April 23, 2020).Converted from HTML.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.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
The effects of community-based supervision on juvenile recidivism: A meta-analysis of intensive supervision probation and aftercare/re-entry programs
No full textAre the kids alright? Toward best practices for students\u27 successful transition to secondary school
No full textNomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder : (A Book Review)
No full textOn April 21, 2021, the Dolby Theatre held the 93rd Academy Awards ceremony. The event, unusual as the whole 2020–2021 cycle, abounded with surprises. Indisputably, the biggest winner of the night was the film Nomadland directed by Chloé Zhao. The movie won three Oscars: for the Best Actor, the Best Director, and most importantly, the Best Picture. Chloé Zhao became the second woman ever to win the Academy Award for the Best Director and the first woman of color in history to receive it. During her acceptance speech, Chloé Zhao addressed the real-life nomads who inspired both her and Jessica Bruder, the author of the non-fiction book on which the film was based, to tell their story to the public [...]. Recenzja książki: Nomadland : surviving America in the twenty-first century / Jessica Bruder. - New York ; London : W.W. Norton&Company, 2018
Gardner-Webb School of Divinity Hosts Award-Winning Author, Dr. Barbara Peacock
No full textAward-winning author, Dr. Barbara Peacock, will present “Soul Care in African American Practice” on April 11 at Gardner-Webb University. In her book by the same title, she examines the lives and soul care practices of 10 significant men and women―Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Darrell Griffin, Renita Weems, Harold Carter, Jessica Ingram, Coretta Scott King, James Washington, and Howard Thurman. The publication received the “Christianity Today” Award of Merit.https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/gardner-webb-newscenter-archive/3387/thumbnail.jp
Nine years of video landers at the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife's Marine Resources Program
No full textLeif K. Rasmuson, Kelly A. Lawrence, Gregory K. Krutzikowsky, Jessica L. Watson, Lindsay Aylesworth, Robert W. Hannah, Brett T. Rodomsky, Brittany Huntington, Keith Matteson, Ryan R. Easton.Title from PDF title page (viewed on April 1, 2022).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 40-46).Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Arthur William Upfield: a biography
No full textThis dissertation is an exhaustive account of the life and work of Arthur William Upfield (1890-1964). It is presented as a critical biography and narrates the life of the writer, in his socio-cultural milieu, from birth. It also positions Upfield as a writer who dealt with issues of Aboriginality at a time when this was a singularly polemical subject. My work is informed by the theory of Zygmunt Bauman and others and is posited in the context of late-modern biography theory.
English-born, Upfield arrived in Australia in 1911 and took work in the bush, serving overseas with the Australian army at the outbreak of World War I and marrying an Australian army nurse in Egypt. Returning with his wife and son to Australia in 1921 he intermittently carried his swag until he was employed patrolling the Western Australian number 1 rabbit-proof fence for three years to 1931. By that time he had published four novels, including two crime novels featuring his fictional creation, the part-Aboriginal, part-European, Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte ('Bony'), arguably the first fully-developed character in Australian popular fiction.
Leaving the fence, Upfield settled with his family in Perth and wrote full-time until joining the Melbourne Herald in 1933. Retrenched, he resumed career writing to be further interrupted by a war-time intelligence posting in 1939. In 1943 the first Bony mysteries were published in America, where Upfield's critical success was maintained until his death. In 1945 he left his wife for Jessica Uren, to whom he remained devoted.
Upfield's in all twenty-nine Bony novels, many of which have been translated across eleven languages, afforded him notable success both at home and abroad, in good part due to his descriptive gifts and the uniqueness of his fictional character, the part-Aboriginal Bony
Sex in the mediaan influence on adolescent development
No full textPlan BThe purpose of this study was to identify the prevalence of sex in the television media that adolescents watch and the magazine media targeted at adolescent females. The study was conducted by researcher observation and categorical tallying of sex related instances on various prime time television shows and commercials and in four major magazines. The television shows chosen for analysis were determined by media ratings reports indicating they are popular among adolescents. Targeted audience determined the magazines chosen for analysis. The analysis of the television shows and magazines occurred from January 2002 through April 2002. The adolescent life stage was chosen for analysis because it is a time when individuals are developing their gender identities and sexual attitudes (Durham, 1998). Media can play a large role in this development as a source of information and modeling (Committee of Public Education, 2001; Ward, 1995). Previous research shows that there is a substantial amount of sex and sex related references in the media (Kunkel, Cope, and Biely, 1999). This investigation aimed to identify the sexual content of media specifically targeted for or consumed by adolescents. Upon review of 17 television shows and four magazines, this research found evidence supporting much of the literature. There were many sex related themes on both television and in the magazines. Some of the prominent themes included sexual objectification, sex as competition, and a lack of reference to protection from sexually transmitted diseases or pregnancy. The research concludes with recommendations for how to combat the sexual influence of the medi
Neural mechanisms of position perception
No full textVisual perception is a reconstruction of the physical visual aspects of the world and subject to various biases, assumptions and noise. One aspect of visual perception is visuospatial localization. Although visual localization is typically accurate, there are various situations where healthy human subjects mislocalize objects, as well as, neurological disorders that alter visual localization behavior. These situations result in differences between the perceived and actual position of an object. These perceptual errors are useful to explore the limitations of visuospatial object localization and provide information on the underlying neural mechanisms of position perception. In particular, the following studies investigated how the brain integrates visual information across a spatially extended stimulus and ultimately results in a final percept of position. This project utilized behavioral and fMRI studies combined with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in healthy human subjects. These methods allowed us to quantify behavioral errors in localization and examine changes in the BOLD signal (as an indirect measure of changes in neural activity) in potential neural correlates of position perception. In Aim 1 we show that factors such as retinal eccentricity and attentional cues bias localization behavior via alterations of the contribution of specific object components in the integration process. Aim 2 shows that tDCS over posterior parietal cortex (PPC) yields mislocalizations that are consistent with predictions from the interhemispheric competition theory (ICT) of attention. This supports the causal role of PPC in visual spatial localization. Aim 3 extends the results from Aim 2 to show that the BOLD signal changes in PPC predict localization behavior. In addition to novel insights related to position perception, these experiments provide insight into the effects of tDCS on behavior and the interaction of tDCS with the BOLD signal. This work begins to answer how different factors influence position perception and the role of different cortical regions in position perception. This research also has implications for rehabilitation programs for patients with various visual neurological disorders that alter spatial perception.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Jessica Wrigh
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