617 research outputs found
The Bus is for Us, illustrated by Gill Tyler
No full textA lively rhyming picture book about transport by poet and former Children's Laureate Michael Rosen, author of We're Going on a Bear Hunt. Small children take great delight in things that go – whether by bicycle, car, boat, or plane. And best of all is taking the bus, because the bus is for everyone! Complemented by beautiful artwork from Gillian Tyler, this playful book will captivate little listeners and is perfect for reading aloud
The Church and Michael Brown: The Influence of Christianity on Racialized Political Attitudes in Ferguson, Missouri
No full textThis study examines whether the Christian faith played a pacifying or inspiring role in racialized politics following the death of Michael Brown and subsequent uprisings in Ferguson, Missouri. To evaluate the role of religion in responding to racialized crisis, the author examines both the attitudes of individual citizens and the actions of faith leaders. Using data gathered from two exit-polls conducted by the author in Ferguson and the surrounding area during the period between the death of Michael Brown and the decision not to indict the officer who killed him and then again after the grand jury decision, the author finds religious and racial gaps in the acceptance of narratives about the death of Michael Brown. The analysis of exit-poll data also shows a racial cleavage in perceptions of congregational response to the Ferguson Moment. The author then uses interviews with clergy from across the St. Louis region to analyze the various ways faith leaders responded to the racial crisis and the doctrinal, demographic, and place-based variables that may have influenced these responses
Speech And Thought Representation of the Split Personality Between the Narrator and Tyler Durden In Fight Club By Chuck Palahniuk
No full textThis research is to analyze the stylistics elements of speech and thought of the narrator’s and his split personality, Tyler Durden in Fight Club (1996) is Chuck Palahniuk. The analysis employs Geoffrey Leech and Michael Short’s theory of speech and thought representation as presented in Paul Simpson’s stylistics guidebook. The method of data collection is close reading the novel and then analyzing them with descriptive qualitative method. The research shows that the narrator is prominently represented thought representation while Tyler Durden most represented by speech representation. Through the progression of the plot’s beginning, middle, and end part, the narrator and Tyler’s characterizations and development as split personalities can be seen by their speech and thought representations. By analyzing both the narrator and Tyler Durden’s speech and thought representation, it can be concluded that linguistic style choices are essential tools used by the author to enhance the reading experience.Keywords: Fight Club; novel; stylistics; speech and thought representation; split personalit
Diminutive new species of Uperoleia Grey (Anura: Myobatrachidae) from the vicinity of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
No full textA diminutive new species of Uperoleia (male snout–vent length, SVL, 17.3–21.3 mm female, SVL 21.8 mm) is described from 30 km south of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. The combination of small size, possession of maxillary and premaxillary teeth, and a completely exposed frontoparietal fontanelle distinguish the species from all other Uperoleia. The variation in number of pulses and duration of the advertisement call distinguish the species from the other sympatric Uperoleia species, Uperoleia inundata and Uperoleia lithomoda, as well as from the other Northern Territory species. The proximity of the type locality to Darwin highlights the current inadequate state of knowledge of the northern Australian frog fauna.Jeanne E. Young, Michael J. Tyler, Sally A. Ken
A Multivariate Characterization Shows that Bilingualism Predicts Attention
No full textA common, yet controversial, claim is that bilingualism confers domain-general cognitive processing benefits. Many studies support this claim, but others do not. Multiple sources of heterogeneity—including how bilingualism and cognition are conceived and measured—complicate attempts to synthesize the literature. Language questionnaires have brought some consistency to how bilingualism is measured, but the extent to which they measure common constructs is unclear. In this study, I aimed to assess the overlap between questionnaires and determine their ability to predict cognitive performance. I administered seven questionnaires and conducted a multiple factor analysis to find factors that capture variance across questionnaires. Then, I used partial least squares path modeling to determine whether these factors predict cognitive performance on four tasks measuring task switching and inhibition. Results support the adaptation theory hypothesis that bilingualism hones a low-level executive attention process that explains covariance in task performance
Edge piece on doormen and bouncers working in bars and clubs in Portland\u27s Old
No full textEdge piece on doormen and bouncers working in bars and clubs in Portland\u27s Old Port. With special focus on J. J. Villacci, the head bouncer at the Dirty Bird and the Shady Lady. Also with references to recent bouncer-related incidents in the Old Port that have prompted Portland\u27s police chief Michael Chitwood to call for stricter regulations
The evolution and stratigraphic architecture of fluvio-lacustrine deltas: reservoir characteristics from the Red River Delta, Lake Texoma and the Denton Creek Delta, Grapevine Lake, TX
No full textElongate, single-channel, non-bifurcating deltas are currently forming in many lakes throughout the United States. The Red River Delta forms an elongate, single-delta into Lake Texoma, sourced by a sand-rich, bedload dominated river system. Current models of delta formation suggest muddy rivers can form elongate deltas due to a lack of sand to form mouth bars, driving bifurcation, but do not explain a mechanism for a sandy river to form a non-bifurcating delta. We propose a model for elongate, single-channel deltas based on a process of grain-size separation within the delta channel, resulting in a sand starved river mouth that cannot bifurcate. Our results indicate that elongate, non-bifurcating deltas should be formed by muddy and sandy rivers alike, and therefore may represent the default delta. Field mapping at Lake Texoma and Grapevine Lake show that these single-channel deltas are found to be associated with overbank sand sheets that emanate laterally from the channel axis. These wings are interpreted to be blowout wings (after Tomanka, 2013) and are a modern example of lacustrine hyperpycnites (after Zavala, 2006). These wings are thin (10-40 cm) and laterally continuous, with lengths and widths spanning several hundred meters from the channel, and aspect ratios reaching 2,480 m wide per 1 m thickness. Blowout wings are found to scale to the formative depositional system, with dimensions corresponding to 5 times the channel width. The recognition of blowout wings greatly increases the potential static connectivity of fluvial bodies by connecting otherwise isolated channels through a network of laterally extensive wings. Adding blowout wings into the lexicon of high-accommodation fluvial depositional models should be considered for subsurface exploration
Increasing author counts in neurosurgical journals from 1980 to 2020
No full textOBJECTIVE: Scientific productivity, as assessed by publication volume, is a common metric by which the academic neurosurgical field assesses its members. The number of authors per peer-reviewed article has been observed to increase over time across a broad range of medical specialties. This study provides an update to this trend in the neurosurgical literature. METHODS: All publications from January 1, 1980, to April 30, 2020, were queried from four neurosurgical journals: Neurosurgery, Journal of Neurosurgery (JNS), JNS: Pediatrics, and JNS: Spine. Publication information was acquired from the National Center for Biotechnology Information Entrez database and reconciled with the Scopus database. Publication type was limited to articles and excluded editorials, letters, and reviews. The number of authors and affiliation counts were determined based on structured abstract fields provided in the two databases. RESULTS: Between January 1, 1980, and April 30, 2020, the overall increase in author count for the four neurosurgical journals was 0.12 to 0.18 authors per year (p \u3c 0.001). For Neurosurgery, the mean (SD) author count increased from 2.81 (1.4) in 1980-1985 to 7.97 (4.92) in 2016-2020 (p \u3c 0.001). For the JNS, the mean (SD) author count increased from 2.82 (1.04) in 1980-1985 to 7.6 (3.65) in 2016-2020 (p \u3c 0.001). The percentage of articles with more than 10 authors increased from 0.2% to 22.3% in Neurosurgery and from 1.9% to 17.5% in JNS. Only 28% of the author count variation was explained by an increasing number of institutional or departmental affiliations. CONCLUSIONS: Author counts for peer-reviewed articles in neurosurgical academic journals have increased significantly during the past 4 decades, with large increases in the numbers of articles with more than 10 authors in the past 5 years. A total of 28% of the variation in this increase can be explained by an increase in multiinstitutional or multidepartmental studies
The 2007 Iranian 'hostage crisis' : an Orientalist captivity narrative
No full textConcerned with the deployment of discourses within the representing culture and not principally with that which it seeks to portray. These accounts, in terms of their mediation by the newspapers concerned as well as their anticipated reception by a British readership, would be denuded of much of the urgency of their meaning without the availability of deeply embedded discourses that we can group under the umbrella of Orientalism
The Making of a COVID-19 Lab: A Business Exploration
No full textabstract: Early on in the pandemic, ASU leadership recognized an opportunity to involve the Biodesign Institute in an effort to keep local communities safe. Equipped with capital investments (and expertise) in diagnostic testing, university president Michael Crow tasked Dr. Joshua LaBaer - the executive director of Biodesign - to begin mapping out the lab’s logistic capabilities and operational plan. While initially testing through nasopharyngeal swabs, the Arizona Biodesign Clinical Testing Laboratory (ABCTL) eventually developed a saliva-based COVID-19 test that demonstrated higher efficacy and resource-efficiency. By maintaining rapid turnaround times for test results, the ABCTL has helped both the university population and local community operate safely. Lauded as a highly innovative testing site, the lab proved to be an essential asset as ASU, and the world, look to return to normalcy. The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the ABCTL’s inception and development using multi-faceted approaches from the business realm. There will be five topics discussed which are: • Volume I- Stakeholder Theory and Analysis Regarding the COVID-19 Bio-design Institute at Arizona State University (Claire Agee), • Volume II- The Lab as a Business Within a University Environment (Samuel Cosgrove) • Volume III- A Managerial Economic Perspective (Michael Qian) • Volume IV- An Analysis of its Upstream Supply Chain ( Kyle Mattson) • Volume V- An Operations Management Perspective (Corinne English) After these volumes, there will be a discussion about the growth and sustainability of the laboratory looking into the future. Although the ABCTL is young,the ever-changing market dynamics leave the organization with critical decisions going forward. (abstract
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