592 research outputs found
Trousers and tiaras : growing up with Audrey Hepburn
No full textThis thesis considers the construction and circulation of the image-text 'Audrey
Hepburn', and its reception by young British women across two moments: the
1950s and 1960s, and the 1990s. The project uses a tripartite methodology: close
analysis of film texts, press and publicity relating to Hepburn; archival research
using sources including women's and film fan magazines, and interviews with
women who admire and have admired Audrey Hepburn. The thesis argues that
Hepburn can be understood as a star who offers an address to a feminine
audience, and goes on to explore the taking up of that address through analysis of
the data gathered in the interviews, paying particular attention to questions of
class, generation and socio-historical moment. The research presents a number of
different kinds of material: it considers Hepburn as a star and the reasons for her
enduring popularity; it suggests the flexibility of her image as key in
understanding this longevity and in enabling her to appeal to women across lines
of class and generation. The thesis argues that it is this flexibility, and the ways in
which Hepburn's image manages social contradictions, which have been key to
the way consent has been secured from women around her as a star. It
investigates the nature of the relationship between Hepburn and the women who
admire her, and also, through their detailed talk, offers insight into the social
history of femininity. In attending to both text and audience, the thesis attempts
to think the relationship between them outside psychoanalytically informed
theories of identification which have been hegemonic in film theory, offering
instead the terms resonance and recognition as ways of understanding that
relationship. An interdisciplinary project, the thesis represents a 'cultural studies
of film' which extends existing work on stars such as Dyer (1979,1982,1986,
1991) and Stacey (1994)
Regulation of proNGF processing and its effects on p75NTR-mediated cell death following seizure
No full textNerve growth factor (NGF) has been known to play critical roles in neuronal survival and differentiation during development. Recent studies have
discovered that its immature form, proNGF, is a ligand for the p75 neurotrophin receptor (p75NTR). proNGF binding to p75NTR activates apoptotic signaling, and
this binding occurs with a five-fold higher affinity than that of mature NGF (Lee et al., 2001). This binding preference, along with the increased prevalence of
proNGF after injury (Harrington et al., 2004), creates a cellular environment susceptible to cell death; thus, the balance between levels of pro- and mature NGF may be a key factor in determining whether a neuron lives or dies (Lee et al., 2001; Volosin et al., 2006). Using both in vitro and in vivo methods, this thesis examined the mechanisms that regulate the extracellular processing of proNGF and the consequences of that processing on p75NTR-mediated cell death following injury. The results discussed here demonstrate that 1) proNGF binding leads to cell death via the p75NTR signaling pathway; 2) after injury, proNGF is upregulated and preferentially secreted in a functional manner capable of
activating the p75NTR-mediated apoptotic pathway; 3) the enzymes plasmin and MMP7 extracellularly cleave proNGF, 4) after injury, plasmin activation and
MMP7 activity are reduced, leading to increased proNGF-induced apoptosis, and 5) restoring plasmin or MMP7 activity following brain injury reduces proNGF
levels and consequently, p75NTR-mediated apoptosis. Overall, these data suggest that increased cell death following injury may be mediated in part by a
change in the balance between extracellular proNGF and the activity of its processing enzymes, leading to increased cell death via p75NTR.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Audrey P. L
From ZZZ\u27s to A\u27s: How Your Sleep Cycle Affects How You Study
No full textStudying and sleeping are two essential parts of succeeding in an academic setting. The expression “the early bird gets the worm” suggests that people who wake up early garner more success in life. But why? This paper looks into the effect of a person’s chronotype (if you’re a morning person or an evening person) on study techniques and academic success. There are many different ways to study and comprehend material, with different techniques being most beneficial during different times of day. If you’ve ever felt like a study technique that works great for a friend is impossible for you to do, it may in part be related to your Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire score. This paper will explore the circadian rhythm, morning and evening type students, and study techniques that work best for varying personalities
Judith Butler et le féminisme postmoderne analyse théorique et conceptuelle d'un courant controversé
No full textLa question centrale de ce travail est la suivante: le féminisme postmoderne est-il utile pour le féminisme défini comme un mouvement théorique et politique visant à éliminer les rapports inégalitaires entre les hommes et les femmes? Pour tenter de répondre à cette question, ce mémoire est réparti en quatre chapitres. Le chapitre 1 vise à définir les termes utilisés dans cette recherche et a comme finalité d'expliciter ce qui constitue les contours d'une philosophie féministe postmoderne. Le chapitre 2 veut être un approfondissement des théories féministes postmodernes à travers l'analyse de la pensée de Judith Butler, une théoricienne dont le nom revient comme un véritable leitmotiv dans le corpus littéraire du courant féministe postmoderne. Le chapitre 3 cherche à comprendre les incidences concrètes de l'utilisation des théories féministes postmodernes en vue de répondre à la question initiale de ce mémoire, en les appliquant à un cas précis, celui de la discussion prostitution/travail du sexe. Le chapitre 4 a pour objectif d'exposer les arguments du débat qui oppose les féministes postmodernes et leurs détractrices et détracteurs, à travers leurs critiques réciproques."--résumé abrégé par UMI
An exploratory study of teacher leaders who work between the central office and schools
No full textUniversity of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. April 2014. Major: Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development. Advisor: Jennifer York-Barr. 1 computer file (PDF); ix, 145 pages, appendix A-F.This study describes the work of central office teacher leaders, and identifies ways they carry out their work in different parts of their school district. The author uses a qualitative interview approach to explore how central office teacher leaders enact their work as they move between the school district central office and schools. Data for the study were gathered through in-depth qualitative interviews with twelve central office teacher leaders from five Midwestern school districts. Participants perceived themselves as sensemakers who help others understand new ideas in teaching and learning, and what is going on in various parts of the school district structure. Participants engaged in a wide variety of work throughout their school districts. In their view, four core professional practices mediate the effect of central office teacher leadership, including the continuous deepening of professional expertise, gathering and sharing information, making sense of teaching and learning, and making sense of the organization. In addition, central office teacher leaders rely on critical organizational supports to increase district capacities for teaching and learning, including systemic commitment, a well-articulated plan for professional learning, time and ongoing interactions with teachers and principals, and a dual presence in schools and in the central office. The study makes three unique contributions. First, it integrates three fields of research, school district reform, teacher leadership, and job crafting. Second, this study is an early attempt to understand the day-to-day work of school district reform. Third, it examines teacher leadership in a new context, the boundary between schools and the school district central office.Murray, Audrey L.. (2014). An exploratory study of teacher leaders who work between the central office and schools. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/163279
Activities for Differentiated Instruction Addressing All Levels of Bloom\u27s Taxonomy and Eight Multiple Intelligences
No full textThis manuscript contains 13 curriculum units designed to enhance differentiated instruction for learners with special needs from grades 1-12, including gifted students. It integrates Benjamin S. Bloom\u27s levels of cognitive understanding with Howard Gardner\u27s eight domains of intelligence to provide a framework for individualized instruction. Each unit has activities for the eight multiple intelligences (logical-mathematical intelligence, linguistic intelligence, bodily-kinesthetic intelligence, spatial intelligence, musical intelligence, interpersonal intelligence, intrapersonal intelligence, and naturalistic intelligence) at each of Bloom\u27s taxonomic levels: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. The manuscript begins by explaining Bloom\u27s and Gardner\u27s contributions to educational research in the area of differentiated instruction, and then provides the following curriculum units: (1) Solar System (Jeff Hendrickson and Renee Hendrickson); (2) Energy (Chris Hiroto); (3) Antarctica (Amy La Jocies); (4) Author Study of Chris Van Allsburg (Linda Hurley Lord); (5) Omnipotent Oceans (Sheri Marshall); (6) Starting a Home Business (Vicki L. Malan); (7) Fractions (Denise C. Moriarty); (8) Whole Numbers and Decimals (Denise C. Moriarty); (9) Geometry (Denise C. Moriarty); (10) Ancient Egypt (Audrey C. Rule); (11) Energy (Cynthia Rust); (12) Garden Plants (Amy Smith); and (13) Rain Forests (Jaime Watson). (Contains 11 references.) (CR
Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing: An interpersonal Approach, Second edition
No full textAudrey Beauvais is a contributing author, Personality Disorders .
Book description: Thoroughly updated to correlate with DSM-5 diagnostic descriptions and QSEN guidelines, the second edition of this highly acclaimed undergraduatepsychiatric nursing text features concrete strategies for establishing interpersonal relationships as the basis not only for working with the psychiatricpatient population, but as a timeless foundation for all nursing practice. The text guides students through the essential phases of self-discoverynecessary to integrate interpersonal nursing theory into practice. Modules designed to foster growth in therapeutic use of self, including the importanceof boundary management, are integrated with psychodynamic and current neurobiological theories to provide sturdy theoretical underpinnings for practice.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/nursing-books/1075/thumbnail.jp
The sloan digital sky survey reverberation mapping project : ensemble spectroscopic variability of quasar broad emission lines
No full textM.Y.S. acknowledges support from the China Scholarship Council (No. [2013]3009). J.R.T. and Y.S. acknowledge support from NASA through Hubble Fellowship grants #51330 and #51314, respectively, awarded by the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., for NASA under contract NAS 5-26555. W.N.B. acknowledges support from NSF grant AST-1108604 and the V. M. Willaman Endowment. KDD is supported by an NSF AAPF fellowship awarded under NSF grant AST-1302093.We explore the variability of quasars in the Mg ii and Hβ broad emission lines and ultraviolet/optical continuum emission using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping project (SDSS-RM). This is the largest spectroscopic study of quasar variability to date: our study includes 29 spectroscopic epochs from SDSS-RM over 6 months, containing 357 quasars with Mg ii and 41 quasars with Hβ . On longer timescales, the study is also supplemented with two-epoch data from SDSS-I/II. The SDSS-I/II data include an additional 2854 quasars with Mg ii and 572 quasars with Hβ . The Mg ii emission line is significantly variable (Δƒ/ƒ ~ 10% on ~100-day timescales), a necessary prerequisite for its use for reverberation mapping studies. The data also confirm that continuum variability increases with timescale and decreases with luminosity, and the continuum light curves are consistent with a damped random-walk model on rest-frame timescales of ≳5 days. We compare the emission-line and continuum variability to investigate the structure of the broad-line region. Broad-line variability shows a shallower increase with timescale compared to the continuum emission, demonstrating that the broad-line transfer function is not a δ-function. Hβ is more variable than Mg ii (roughly by a factor of ~1.5), suggesting different excitation mechanisms, optical depths and/or geometrical configuration for each emission line. The ensemble spectroscopic variability measurements enabled by the SDSS-RM project have important consequences for future studies of reverberation mapping and black hole mass estimation of 1<픃<2 quasars.Peer reviewe
Femininity, stardom and the everyday : a comparative account of the French female cinema star and the Hollywood female cinema star in French cultural discourses of the 1950s..
No full textPhDThis thesis explores the links between ideology, stardom, nationality
and the everyday. It argues that as France underwent rapid economic
expansion and technical modernisation in the 1950s, everyday life was
subsequently rendered `unfamiliar' whilst simultaneously retaining its banal
quotidian nature or `familiarity' - i.e. it became `uncanny'. It thus became an
object of intense critical inquiry and there was also a resulting object-fetishisation
within mass culture.
The introductory chapter argues that in a climate of urbanisation, a
new `leisure' culture and the explosion of the mass media (women's
magazines, news and picture magazines such as L'Express and Paris-Match,
American cinema, the launch of Cahiers du cinema, the beginnings of
television) the American female star became newly visible in this `uncanny'
everyday existence. Her fetishised body thus became a privileged space for
expressing the processes of Americanisation and modernisation in France.
Each empirical chapter takes an aspect of how modernity effects the body
(cleanliness, spatial positioning, clothing) and then explores in detail the
different ways these attributes were inflected in representations of the female
American star in France and her French equivalent.
My thesis thus engages with the ways in which cinematic
representation effects the experience of and behaviour within everyday life,
and how cultural discourses regulate both the individual and that national
body. It closely examines Edgar Morin's writings on the mass media and also
uses established theorists such as Henri Lefebvre in a new cinematic context.
It also challenges the ways in which star studies generally concentrates on the
star in their own culture in order to address stardom as an international
phenomenon. It concludes that the presence of the female American star in
France enabled the ideological management of the contradictory construction
of femininity at this time
A preschool program for San Fernando Valley Academy
No full textAssuming that there was a need for a Seventh-day Adventist preschool in the San Fernando Valley, the author determined the wishes of the Academy concerning the program, interviewed directors of other preschools, reviewed literature on early childhood education, and then wrote an Administrative Manual. An evaluation was obtained by five experts in the field of early childhood education. When the evaluations were returned, they indicated overall approval of the Manual. The author revised or justified specific policies which were considered weaknesses by two or more of the five evaluators.California State University, Northridge. Department of Home Economics.Includes bibliographical references (pages 94-99
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