198 research outputs found
Mental Health of Transgender Youth: The Role of Family, School, and Community in Promoting Resilience
No full textThis archival publication may not reflect current scientific knowledge or recommendations. Current information available from the University of Minnesota Extension: https://www.extension.umn.edu.McGuire, Jenifer; Mahan, Derek; Lacey, Vanessa; Hoelscher, Mary Clark. (2017). Mental Health of Transgender Youth: The Role of Family, School, and Community in Promoting Resilience. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/187823
The role of educative thought in the life and work of Antonio Gramsci
No full textMany philosophers have propounded a vision of an improved society, what distinguishes Antonio Gramsci is his continuous effort to make it happen by understanding the process in order to put into practice. Gramsci's conviction about the importance of educative development came from both theory and experience. While there has been considerable examination of Gramsci's work in relation to the Prison Notebooks, this study will seek to address a lacuna in Gramsci scholarship. Using Gramsci's philological method, I analyse Gramsci's pre-prison activity; his pre-prison articles and letters, which, together with his letters from prison, formed part of his educative mission. This educative process was necessary, in order to construct a new party which would develop a collective will, collaboratively, with the masses.In this study therefore, I explore the contexts and formative experiences of the first part of his life together with the intellectual sources from which Gramsci developed his later theories, making central hitherto underemphasised connections between them which informed his writing and ideas. I intend to illustrate that Gramsci's underlying purpose in his writing, and political activity, was not only practical, on how to create a new socialist ruling class, but also educative in forming the mindset and values of his comrades. So that in addition to outlining his vision of a new order, he implicitly guided or explicitly explained the processes by which the necessary changes in social relations and moral climate could be made in order to achieve it. Each person had to engage with the values of the new order so that each could contribute to the construction of a new robust state. It was essential to build a hegemony at the most profound level, one which was dependent on collective understandings and a collective will
J.N. et al. v. Oregon Department of Education et al., United States District Court for the District of Oregon, Case No. 6:19-cv-00096-AA
No full textDavid Bateman, PhD, Jenifer Cline, MA CCC SLP, Sonja de Boer, PhD, BCBA-D, Stacey Gahagan, Esq.Title from PDF title page (viewed on July 7, 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.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Final : Oregon efficiency study final report
No full textsubmitted to: Office of Student Learning and Partnerships, Oregon Department of Education ; prepared by: American Institutes for Research, Thomas B. Parrish, Ed.D., Fiona K. Innes Helsel, Ph.D., Jenifer J. Harr, Ph.D.Title from PDF cover (viewed on September 27, 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.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Opportunities and costs of portfolio diversification in sadc's smallest equity markets
No full textThis paper contrasts the performance of three time series models, a simple stochastic drift, GARCH, and a time varying parameter CAPM for three of SADC's smallest equity markets: Namibia, Swaziland and Mozambique. Analysis of the portfolio characteristics for each reveals the level of integration with South Africa using optimised portfolio frontiers. In addition, the implications of adopting a minimum investment retention levy by the smaller states is examined. Namibia is found to exhibit the greatest degree of integration with South Africa, followed to a much lesser extent by Swaziland with Mozambique. The evidence suggests that investors in the smaller markets would face considerable additional costs should such a policy be adopted. © 2008 The Author. Journal compilation © 2008 The Economic Society of South Africa.Articl
An observed regime shift in the formation of warm core rings from the gulf stream
No full text© The Author(s), 2019. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Gangopadhyay, A., Gawarkiewicz, G., Silva, E. N. S., Monim, M., & Clark, J. An observed regime shift in the formation of warm core rings from the gulf stream. Scientific Reports, 9(1), (2019): 12319-019-48661-9, doi:10.1038/s41598-019-48661-9.We present observational evidence that a significant regime change occurred around the year 2000 in the formation of Warm Core Rings (WCRs) from the Gulf Stream (GS) between 75° and 55°W. The dataset for this study is a set of synoptic oceanographic charts available over the thirty-eight-year period of 1980–2017. The upward regime change shows an increase to 33 WCRs per year during 2000–2017 from an average of 18 WCRs during 1980 to 1999. A seasonal analysis confirms May-June-July as the peak time for WCR births in agreement with earlier studies. The westernmost region (75°-70°W) is least ring-productive, while the region from 65°W to 60°W is most productive. This regime shift around 2000 is detected in WCR formation for all of the four 5-degree wide sub-regions and the whole region (75°-55°W). This might be related to a reduction of the deformation radius for ring formation, allowing unstable meanders to shed more frequent rings in recent years. A number of possible factors resulting in such a regime shift related to the possible changes in reduced gravity, instability, transport of the GS, large-scale changes in the wind system and atmospheric fluxes are outlined, which suggest new research directions. The increase in WCRs has likely had an impact on the marine ecosystem since 2000, a topic worthy for future studies.The authors acknowledge financial supports from NOAA (NA11NOS0120038), NSF (OCE-0815679), SMAST and UMass Dartmouth. GG was supported by NSF under grant OCE-1657853 as well as a Senior Scientist Chair from WHOI. We have benefitted from many discussions on GS system behavior and variability with Tom Rossby, Charlie Flagg, Kathy Donohue, Randy Watts, Peter Cornillon, Magdalena Andres and on WCR identification with Jim Bisagni. The WCR data from Jenifer Clark (co-author) and Roger Pettipas were used to develop the original census. We wish to thank the Editor and two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments and encouragement to a previous version which improved the focus of this manuscript
Factors that determine use and contribute to drug abuse among adolescents, 1990
No full textThe overall objective of this study was to present the factors that determine use and contribute to drug abuse among adolescents. To attain this objective, the factors relating to drug use and abuse among adolescents were the following: (a) Peer influence; (b) Delinquency; (c) Poor commitment to education and attachment to school; (d) Poor and inconsistent family management; and (e) Parental drug use. A cross-sectional research design and a non-probability convenience sample was used in the study. A self administered questionnaire was given to adolescents from Shiloh Baptist Church and Morrow high school, located in Clayton County. The population consisted of 80 adolescents, 59 males and 21 females, ranging in the ages from 13-18. The null hypothesis was accepted. The study was an attempt to provide a clear understanding of adolescent's attitudes, beliefs and knowledge about drugs, in relationship to understanding some of the factors that determine use and contribute to drug abuse among adolescents
Streptococcus equi subsp zooepidemicus pleuropneumonia and peritonitis in a dromedary camel (Camelus dromedarius) calf in North America
No full text“Puis que ainsi est.” the material and rhetorical effects of book production on French renaissance tales
No full textCollections of nouvelles were very popular in the sixteenth century, despite their status as an “unworthy” genre. Numerous editions of some of the most popular collections were printed quickly. This study aims to determine the extent to which practices in the French book industry affected the rhetorical status and value of texts printed then; it focuses on Bonaventure Des Périers’ Nouvelles Récréations et Joyeux Devis (1558), Noël Du Fail’s Propos rustiques (1548) and Baliverneries d’Eutrapel (1549), and Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron (1558). Two of the works were published posthumously, but the public response to different editions of each author’s collection ranged from acceptance to disdain. Noël Du Fail was alive when his two collections were initially printed, and was involved in a second edition of each, but counterfeit, interpolated editions actually became dominant. The first Part of this study is an examination of practices in the book industry, and the involvement of several of the booksellers, to determine the material nature and the most likely reasons for the presence of variant editions. Questions of authenticity play an important role in the justification for printing new editions and their reception. In Part II, the focus shifts on differences between the editions themselves. We see how variants and interpolations change the rhetorical substance of a work with respect to both inventio and dispositio. The proposed “contracts” with the reader found in the beginning of the Nouvelles Récréations and the Propos rustiques and the Baliverneries d’Eutrapel are fulfilled in different ways in the alternate editions, whereas the extraordinary differences between the first two printed editions of the Heptaméron allow for a different form of comparison. Ultimately, the industry possesses the power and the incentive to alter the structure and meaning of collections of tales; while the product that contemporary readers might have known and liked best may not have been the text intended by the author, it is important to recognize that these “faulty” versions have a logic of their own and, as such, have a lot to tell us about the history and poetics of the genre.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Jenifer Branton-Desri
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The use of organophosphorus extractants in f-element separations
No full textUsed nuclear fuel reprocessing has been typically performed using solvent extraction.Different organic extractants have been developed containing nitrogen, sulfur and phosphorus;however, the only current reprocessing separation (PUREX) applied at a large scale utilizes trinbutylphosphate, an organophosphorus extractant. The lower impact of radiolysis on reagentlifetime is one reason organophosphorus extractants have seen such success in used fuelseparations. This dissertation will focus on defining several applications of organophosphorusextractants to manage used fuel, using solvent extraction and extraction chromatographicseparations.The first application will focus on the development of a sludge phase minimization process tobe employed at Hanford’s Waste Treatment Plant. The localization of actinides in the sludgephase makes minimizing the volume of waste produced particularly important. Aggressiveacidic or oxidative scrubs have been proposed; however, undesired transuranic radionuclidemigration from the solid sludge to the acidic waste stream is possible. A contaminated acidicwaste stream would require cleanup prior to disposal. An extraction chromatographicdecontamination has been proposed using trinbutylphosphate or trinoctylphosphine oxideimpregnated resins. Results indicate that successful removal of Eu, U, Np and Pu from thevialuminum and chromium aqueous phase is possible. An extension of these studies was initiatedby examining the uptake capabilities of a resin with covalently bound phosphate moieties. Theresins were ultimately determined highly susceptible to acidic degradation.The second issue addressed by the use of organphosphorus extractants is the separation oftrivalent lanthanides from trivalent actinides using organophosphorus acids in the TALSPEAK(Trivalent Actinide Lanthanide Separation by Phosphorus reagent Extraction from AqueousKomplexes) process. Much circumstantial support exists for the aggregation of extractantmolecules in the organic phase (a precursor to third phase formation). To address thepossibilities of third phase formation, variations of TALSPEAK using extractionchromatography or an organophosphonic acid were developed. Results show chromatographicAm/Ln separations were comparable to separations performed using solvent extraction. Studiesindicate the phosphonic acid is capable of providing a separation of comparable quality to“classical” TALSPEAK, but may be less prone to aggregation
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