53 research outputs found
Oregon State Asylum research project, June-August 2019
Full text linkTitle from PDF caption (viewed on September 11, 2019).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
Big Data, Big Libraries, Big Problems?: the 2014 LibTech Anti-talk?
Full text linkThe desire to create automatons is a familiar theme in human history, and during the age of the Enlightenment mechanical automatons became not only an “emblem of the cosmos”, but a symbol of man’s confidence that he would unlock nature’s greatest mysteries and fully harness her power. And yet only a century later, automatons had begun to represent human repression and servitude, a theme later picked up by writers of science fiction. Man’s confidence undeterred, the endgame of the modern scientific and technological mindset, or MSTM, seems to be increasingly coming into view with the rise of “information technology” in general and “Big data” in particular. Along with those who wield them, these can be seen as functioning together as a “mechanical muse” of sorts – surprisingly alluring – and, like a physical automaton can serve as a symbol – a microcosm – of what the MSTM sees (at the very least in practice) as the cosmic machine, our “final frontier”. And yet, individuals who unreflectively participate in these things – giving themselves over to them and seeking the powers afforded by the technology apart from technology’s rightful purposes – in fact yield to the same pragmatism and reductionism those wielding them are captive to. Thus, they ultimately nullify themselves philosophically, politically, and economically – their value increasingly being only the data concerning their persons, and its perceived usefulness. Likewise libraries, the time-honored place of, and symbol for, the intellectual flowering of the individual, will, insofar as they spurn the classical liberal arts (with the idea that things are intrinsically good, and in the case of humans, special as well) in favor of the alluring embrace of MSTM-driven “information technology” and Big data - unwittingly contribute to their irrelevance and demise as they find themselves increasingly less needed, valued, wanted. Likewise for the liberal arts as a whole, and in fact history itself, if the acid of a “science” untethered from what is, in fact, good (intrinsically), continues to gain strengt
2007 Sub-Librarians Meeting
No full textMembers of the Sub-Librarians and the Red Circle of Washington met for dinner at the National Press Club during the ALA Annual Conference in Washington, DC on Monday, June 25th, 2007 from 6:30pm-8:30pm
Marsha Pollak, Sub-Librarians, and Peter E. Blau of the Red Circle of Washington welcomed the group and were hosts to a night of Sherlockian toasts and presentations. Speakers included Daniel Stashower, author of Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle, Gayle T. Harris, former librarian at the Library of Congress, and Francine Swift, long-time member and former chair of the Sub-Librarians. Francine revealed the traditional close of a Sub-Librarians gathering, the reading of Vincent Starrett\u27s poem, 221B , is to be read in unison by all attendees. Juxtaposing the new and the old: Christy Allen has created a Sub-Librarians website, and Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson were also in attendance
1990-1991: It's Bawdy, It's Brassy, It's Berserque… It's Burlesque
No full textFrom left: William Dick as Harry and Peter Silbert as JerryIt's Bawdy, It's Brassy, It's Berserque… It's Burlesque;Grayscal
Chloroform Formation from Swimming Pool Disinfection: A Significant Source of Atmospheric Chloroform in Phoenix?
Full text linkabstract: Chloroform (CHCl3) is an important atmospheric pollutant by its direct health effects as well as by its contribution to photochemical smog formation. Chloroform outgassing from swimming pools is not typically considered a source of atmospheric CHCl3 because swimming pools are scarce compared to other sources. However, large urban areas in hot climates such as Phoenix, AZ contain a substantial amount of swimming pools, potentially resulting in significant atmospheric fluxes. In this study, CHCl3 formation potential (FP) from disinfection of swimming pools in Phoenix was investigated through laboratory experiments and annual CHCl3 emission fluxes from swimming pools were estimated based on the experimental data.
Swimming pool water (collected in June 2014 in Phoenix) and model contaminants (Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (PPCPs), Endocrine Disrupting Compounds (EDCs), artificial sweeteners, and artificial human waste products) were chlorinated in controlled laboratory experiments. The CHCl3 production during chlorination was determined using Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) following solid-phase microextraction (SPME). Upon chlorination, all swimming pool water samples and contaminants produced measureable amounts of chloroform. Chlorination of swimming pool water produced 0.005-0.134 mol CHCl3/mol C and 0.004-0.062 mol CHCl3/mol Cl2 consumed. Chlorination of model contaminants produced 0.004-0.323 mol CHCl3/mol C and 0.001-0.247 mol CHCl3/mol Cl2 consumed. These numbers are comparable and indicate that the model contaminants react similarly to swimming pool water during chlorination. The CHCl3 flux from swimming pools in Phoenix was estimated at approximately 3.9-4.3 Gg/yr and was found to be largely dependent on water temperature and wind speed while air temperature had little effect. This preliminary estimate is orders of magnitude larger than previous estimates of anthropogenic emissions in Phoenix suggesting that swimming pools might be a significant source of atmospheric CHCl3 locally.Dissertation/ThesisMasters Thesis Chemistry 201
UAS Literary & Arts Journal
No full textProof copy provided by Tidal Echoes.Tidal Echoes presents an annual showcase of writers and artists who share one thing in common: a life surrounded by the rainforests and waterways of Southeast Alaska.What Have We Become? Vol. 5 / Galanin, Nicholas -- A Note From Kaleigh Lambert / Lambert, Kaleigh -- A Note From Thomas Bay / Bay, Thomas -- A Note From Andrew Lounsbury / Lounsbury, Andrew -- A Note From Emily Wall / Wall, Emily -- Sub 5 / Mundy, Joel -- Sub 1 / Mundy, Joel -- Another Morning like This / Johnson, Tina M. -- Hardest to Love /Johnson, Tina M. -- Reasons Why Pregnancy is Not My Idea of a Good Decision / Wendel, Courtney -- This Year in Haiku (a poem for you) / Dornbirer, McKenzie -- Clean Get-Away / Stokes, Richard -- Deflection of the Racism Curve / Stokes, Richard -- On Prince of Wales Island / Wilburn, Evelyn J. -- Frontier Justice / Elgie, Brooke -- Researching in the Woods / Kugo, Yoko -- Blueberry / Blefgen, Linda -- Nightfall / Boesser, Sara -- Alisa on the Flume / Helmar, Patrice -- Jalapeño & Cherry / Helmar, Patrice -- Answer the Subway Minstrel / Helmar, Patrice -- Clair on the Bus / Helmar, Patrice -- Reading the Waves / Kiffer, Dave -- Burial at Sea / Kiffer, Dave -- Interview with Featured Artist Nicholas Galanin / Lounsbury, Andrew -- I Killed and Indian Today / Galanin, Nicholas -- What Have We Become / Galanin, Nicholas -- I Killed an Indian Today 2 / Galanin, Nicholas -- What Have We Become? Vol. 5 / Galanin, Nicholas -- Indian River / Ingallinera, Kathy -- Underworld / Trainor, Amanda -- Winter Raven Totem / Blefgen, Linda -- Tactical Warfare / Boucher, Jacqueline -- Morning Stories / Eriksen, Christy NaMee -- Two Times the Girl / Eriksen, Christy NaMee -- Haiku Stand: Justice, for Allie / Eriksen, Christy NaMee -- You Bring Out the Korean Adoptee in Me / Eriksen, Christy NaMee -- The Heritage of Adam / Radford, Richard -- Search Engine / Lane, Ashia -- Color Guard / Dauenhauer, Nora Marks -- Red Dogs and Onions / Dauenhauer, Richard -- Life Support / Dauenhauer, Richard -- Atonement 2009 / Dauenhauer, Richard -- Ravens Rue The Day / Cramer, Anna -- Maggie at the Greek Festival / Helmar, Patrice -- King / Campbell, Jack -- Sitka Harbor at Sunset / Cramer, Anna -- Blue Glacier / Girven, Wendy -- Kiss Me / Lane, Ashia -- Wade / Lane, Ashia -- Sitka Blacktail in Fall Meadow / Wendel, Courtney -- Bull Orca / Wendel, Courtney -- Aloha / Glanin, Nicholas -- Raven and the First Immigrant / Galanin, Nicholas -- Imaginary Indian Series / Galanin, Nicholas -- Devilish / Galanin, Nicholas -- What Have We Become? Vol. 4 / Galanin, Nicholas -- Love Birds / Galanin, Nicholas -- Anti Hero / Galanin, Nicholas -- Killer Whale Bracelet / Galanin, Nicholas -- Love Birds 3 / Galanin, Nicholas -- Chameleon Ring / Galanin, Nicholas -- Strings / Galanin, Nicholas -- Killer Whale / Galanin, Nicholas -- French Graffiti / Laster, Kate -- Love and the Immune System / Laster, Kate -- XIII / Laster, Kate -- Interview with Heather Lende / Lounsbury, Andrew -- Ruth’s Last Fairy Ride / Lende, Heather -- Sweet Caroline / Lende, Heather -- Singing Together With One Voice / Lende, Heather -- Running Beach / Campbell, Norman -- Burying Jack, June 2008 / Lende, Heather -- Brigid’s light: A Break from Rain / Christianson, Kersten -- 7 the first time we kissed / Holloway, Robyn -- Me and Tui at 13 / Holloway, Robyn -- Sunday school / Holloway, Robyn -- Amber, Lydia, and John / Bausler, Katie -- My Core / Hoffman, Anna -- Cranberry Juice-A Family Ordeal / Hoffman, Anna -- Brown Fat Old / Buffalo, T.M. -- Wait / Fisk, Chalise -- The Shimmering Forest / Morrison, Richard -- Forgotten / Morrison, Richard -- Turn at Martin’s / Pillsbury, Kent -- Smelting Rainbows / Pillsbury, Kent -- Burning Man / Fisk, Chalise -- I’m no daddy’s girl / Fisk, Chalise -- Paper Doll / Haight, Lauren -- For Poppy / McCauley, Roberta -- For Mammy / McCauley, Roberta -- The Catch / Vaida, Catelin -- Last Days of War / Prescott, Vivian Faith -- Act Like a Man / Prescott, Vivian Faith -- Shift Change at the Theatre / Pillsbury, Kent -- Kotzebue Harvest / Merk, William S. -- Echo Canyon / Merk, William S. -- Marbled Murrelet Chick About 23 Days Old / Armstrong, Bob -- Ice Ice Baby / Rivera, Edward -- Medicine Man / Galanin, Nicholas -- Knowledge / Galanin, Nicholas -- Author & Artist Biographies -- What Have We Become? Vol. 3 / Galanin, Nichola
Resilient places? The healthcare gardens and the Maggie's Centres
Full text linkThis thesis takes as its focus the Maggie’s Cancer Centres exploring for the first time the impact of their designed gardens. This research is situated within the immediate context of Maggie’s ambitions as an organisation and looks closely at their design process. It is also set within the wider debates about the effects of green space on health and the historical context of the restorative garden. By exploring both historical and contemporary examples, it argues that a healthcare garden may be a space for transformation.
Using four different Maggie’s gardens as case studies, the research seeks to investigate the role of these outdoor spaces and their impact on users. Through ethnographic and sensory methods, each garden is considered and mapped. It looks at the design brief and the intentions of the designers’, but the core work is an exploration of the experiences of staff and visitors. The focus is on the everyday use of these gardens as well as the design historiography. The experiences of gardens within healthcare are examined in order to expose the ways in which gardens, people, health and care are entwined.
Through the qualitative research process this thesis develops a new hypothesis as to how healthcare gardens may operate – offering a new definition for them as “resilient places”. Careful analysis of the data reveals the specific networks and affordances presented by these gardens. The thesis argues, based on the evidence of users, that healthcare gardens can uniquely embrace certain “essences” where essence is defined as conveying a quality or attribute. These garden essences are identified as thresholds, sensory richness, the density of time and homeliness. The thesis also argues that a healthcare garden can provide specific and unique opportunities for care and this, in turn, can enhance the healing ethos of an organisation such as Maggie’s
The Christian Right and US Foreign Policy in the Twenty-first Century
Full text linkThe thesis discusses the role of the Christian Right in the US foreign policy decision making process. The research revealed that the Christian Right has long been fascinated with some international issues in general and US foreign policy in particular. The Christian Right’s interest in international issues increased markedly during years of the George W. Bush presidency. It successfully widened its activities from domestic social conservative issues to foreign policy issues by participating in, articulating and lobbying for its religious version of American foreign policy. In assessing the role of the Christian Right in US foreign policy making, this dissertation examines three aspects of US foreign policy, namely Israel, international religious freedom and global humanitarianism. Based on these aspects, the Christian Right is seen as skilled in framing and defining issues. The Christian Right seems effective in selecting and prioritizing international issues that have a reasonable chance of being selected by foreign policy decision makers, especially in Congress. Moreover, the Christian Right has shown its maturity in seeking engagement and cooperation with other organizations, secular and religious, in order to advance its international goals. Finally, in pursuing and conveying its international agenda, the Christian Right has adopted a more moderate and less overtly religious approach. Instead of using its traditional religious rhetoric, the Christian Right has successfully projected its foreign policy preferences into the conventional realist discourse of American foreign policy that is largely based on the objective of national interest and national security. Nevertheless, this study does not, in any way, conclude that the Christian Right was able to influence or determine the direction of US foreign policy and its outcomes; however, it does suggest that the Christian Right did contribute and have an impact on the formulation of some US foreign policy. As such, the research contends that the role of the Christian Right is similar to other interest group lobbies and that its perceived influence on US foreign policy should not be exaggerated. Finally, the research suggests that the emergence of the Christian Right as an actor in asserting its global agenda through US foreign policy can possibly provide an example of how religious beliefs and values can become a potential source of “soft power”. Together with the “climate of opinion” of the American public during the Bush administration, the “soft power” at domestic level could serve as a valuable new explanatory variable in understanding how the US foreign policy was formulated in the early 21st century
UAS Literary & Arts Journal
No full textProof copy provided by Tidal Echoes.Tidal Echoes presents an annual showcase of writers and artists who share one thing in common: a life surrounded by the rainforests and waterways of Southeast Alaska.Collage design of Jane Terzis paintings / Fisk, Chalise -- A Note from Chalise Fisk / Fisk, Chalice -- A Note from Kaleigh Lambert / Lambert, Kaleigh -- A Note from Emily Wall / Wall, Emily -- A Note from Katie Spielberger / Spielberger, Katie -- The Sacred and the Profane/ Terzis, Jane -- Wild Polaroid / Laster, Kate -- Reflecting on the Old Dock on Auke Lake / Bausler, Katie -- Dating Myself / Dauenhauer, Richard -- Forwarding John Updike's "Baseball" on The Writer's Almanac, June 22, 2009 / Dauenhauer, Richard -- Thoughts after Working on Salmon Eggs from our Grandson / Dauenhauer, Richard -- Burnt the Tea / Harris, Chelsie -- I Was in Love with a Boy Who Loved Dog-Sledding / Prescott, Vivian Faith -- The Last Word / Prescott, Vivian Faith -- Salmon Woman /Prescott, Vivian Faith -- At First Sight / Miller, Alexis Ross -- Organ Donor / Randall, SueAnna -- The Dichotomy of Dog Salmon / Miller, Alexis Ross -- Winter in Lingit Aani Brings Magpies and Ravens / Hayes, Ernestine -- To My Father, After My Last Summer Crewing on the Katrina Louise / Ross, Margaret -- Damp / Hughes-Skandijs, Kirsa -- Art 105 / Reed, Jennifer -- Portrait of a Man / Roys, Rob -- An Interview with Jane Terzis, Featured Artist / Kitchin, Hollis -- I Have the Capacity for Patience Terzis, Jane -- 4-H / Terzis, Jane -- Wildthing at the Glacier / Terzis, Jane -- I Have the Capacity for Honesty / Terzis, Jane -- I Have the Capacity for Obsessive Neatness / Terzis, Jane -- I Have the Capacity for Stubbornness / Terzis, Jane -- I Have the Capacity for Meanness / Terzis, Jane -- I Have the Capacity to Kill / Terzis, Jane -- Zora’s / Holloway, Robyn -- Thursdays after dinner / Holloway, Robyn -- Nixon’s reelection day / Holloway, Robyn -- They Break Not His Legs / Radford, Richard -- The girl / Eriksen, Christy NaMee -- How a mother remembers / Eriksen, Christy NaMee -- Atonement / Randall, SueAnn -- Romance in the Newsprint (strangely devised personal ads) / Laster, Kate -- Earthbound / Randall, SueAnn -- Memories of Winter / Lumba, Grace P. -- Metamorphosis / McQuitty, Christine -- Rivers in Washington / McQuitty, Christine -- Light at the End of the Tunnel / Bausler, Katie -- Sisters’ Islands / McQuitty, Christine -- Distress Signal / McQuitty, Christine -- Ice Caves and a Warm Wind / Bausler, Katie -- Coke Train / McCauley, Roberta -- My Backyard’s Winter Anatomy / Eckhout, Laurie -- Sunny With Chance of Feathers / Eckhout, Laurie -- Milky Way / Eckhout, Laurie -- Tag / Kiffer, Dave -- Islands / Kiffer, Dave -- Such Great Heights / Tomlinson, Elise -- The Seaweed Holt / Kirkwood, Daniel -- Sockeye / Elsensohn, Bonnie -- Insider/Outsider / Terzis, Jane -- Little Bitch / Terzis, Jane -- Pinocchio / Terzis, Jane -- Taylor, Home Depot, Tampa, 2001 / Terzis, Jane -- Danielle and Zouzou / Terzis, Jane -- My Father / Terzis, Jane -- Nine-Year-Old Kid / Terzis, Jane -- A Little Bit of Everything: Interview with Nick Jans, Featured Writer / Lambert, Kaleigh -- Crossing Sawyer / Wendel, Courtney -- Summer’s Drift / Rose, Chris -- Waterline / Ostrander, Brierley -- Ghost Meat, from the novel in process Nakolik / Jans, Nick -- The Giant’s Hand / Jans, Nick -- Rain Country / Jans, Nick -- The Stone Kyrielle / Bradac, Michael -- Autograph / Christiansen, Jack -- Shards / Chordas, Nina -- In Her Yellow Docs, She Shines / Christiansen, Summer -- Claudius Maximus / Richardson, Lacie -- Tracing Constellations / Benedict, Teslin -- Chasing the Promised Land / Lounsbury, Andy -- My Favorite Story About Elizabeth / Pasley, George R. -- The Destruction of the Russian Fort at New Archangel / Girardot, Dennis -- Jack of Hearts / Ostrander, Brierley K. -- Beached / Elsensohn, Bonnie -- Autumn Reflection / Blefgen, Linda M. -- JoJo / Miller, Linda -- Guardian / Miller, Linda -- King of the Jungle / Miller, Linda -- Child in the Woods / Stokes, Richard -- Respite / Strong, Daniel -- Burial at Sea / Radzilowski, John -- Gold / Slemmons, Mary Anne -- Geared for Drinking / Parker, Boni -- First Contact / Buffalo, T.M. -- Fish Story / Campbell, Jack -- Winter Mornings / Benedict, Helena -- Downpour / Stanway, Sondra -- Feather / Stanway, Sondra -- Snowbirds / Johnson, Tina M. -- The Sushi Chef Takes his Break During a Snowstorm on Lincoln Street / Johnson, Tina M. -- Author and Artist Biographies -- Wash Day in Cobh, Ireland / Blefgen, Linda M. -- Alaska Fisherman’s Building / Bornstein, Tom -- Bleed / Ostrander, Brierly K. -- Auke Lake Tree / Girven, Wend
African dance in England: spirituality and continuity
Full text linkBetween the 17th and 20th centuries, the British misunderstood African cultural practices and reported on those in derogatory terms. With other European nations they projected Africans as ‘savages’ without any cultural traditions and consistently devalued traditional African religions and dances. Those views have seeped into the psychology of the British mentality and specifically, may have negatively influenced African dance development in the UK.
This thesis seeks to address those issues through a re-examination of the literature and a re-appraisal of Africa’s religions and dance forms. It will illustrate that in spite of he continuous attempts to decimate African cultural expression, Africa’s cultural practices survived and re-emerged in the Caribbean through slavery and through vibrate practice. The adaptation of the forms in their new environment, especially through adopting some aspects of Christian worship, nurtured alternative ways that later enabled the forms to find expression, as theatrical dance, in the UK.
The thesis is informed by international field trips, through the use of video and Internet sources, from attendances at African and Caribbean cultural events, through a wide range of secondary sources and from interviews spanning over twelve years. It is presented in two main sections. section one includes the Introduction and chapters One and Two. The Introduction provides a backdrop of current issues in African dance development and chapters One and Two provide a framework of African cultural practice on the continent and in the Caribbean, indicating how European perceptions of the people and their practices skewed the truth. Chapters Three and Four provide a detailed account of African dance development over the past fifth years through the activities of performance companies and support agencies. Chapter Five investigates dance development in the UK, specifically focusing on the works of two London-based choreographers and exploring how their spiritually determines their practice
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