200 research outputs found
Meena Alexander
No full textBabyak, Rachel; Boehmer, Kelly; Denis, Rachelle; Taylor, Cinthia; Curtright, Lauren. (2002). Meena Alexander. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/166059
Mixed-use development handbook
No full text[project staff, Rachelle L. Levitt ... et al.; authors: principal author and project director, Dean Schwanke ... et al.].xi, 414 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 29
Hyphenation and Its discontents: hyphenators, hyphen-haters, and the cultural politics of ambiguity
No full textThis study explores the social logic of hyphenation, moving hyphenation beyond grammar and instead highlighting the way in which it performs socio-politically. In doing so, I use hyphenation as a gateway to a discussion about the cultural politics of ambiguity. In particular, I employ two settings of “hyphenated identities,” Hyphenated Americanism and surname hyphenation, to expose a hidden debate related more generally to ambiguity and ambivalence in American culture. A reading of these settings, which includes interviews with 30 surname hyphenators, reveals a conflict between hyphenation and cultural narratives that tend to favor unity, solidity, singularity, and an either/or vision of social categories. Within these cultural narratives, so-called Hyphenated Americans and surname hyphenators have often been similarly perceived as ambivalent and such a tendency exposes a tension not only between rigid and flexible logics for classifying identity, but also a related tension between the politics of identity and the politics of ambiguity. Furthermore, the discourses surrounding the hyphenation of these identities also draw attention to the anxiety provoked by ambiguity and how this anxiety becomes shaped and reinforced by contrasting notions of purity and pollution, security and danger, and social order and disorder. My analysis examines how these identities have been constituted and contested in this way and considers the implications for social classification more generally.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Rachelle German
Fighting fire with fire: Why harsher punishments for young female offenders are not the answer
No full textDouglas College and the New Westminster Museum collaborated to host the Tick-Talk: Crime and Consequences Student Conference, which featured criminology students' presentations on a variety of crime, justice, and social issues.
Adopting a fast-paced presentation format, students raised key issues and challenges, described personal experiences, and disseminated unique ideas in a public forum. Presentation topics included the right to legal representation, the over representation of Indigenous peoples in Canada’s criminal justice system, youth justice policy, and connections between mental health and criminal justice. The conference also included several discussion sessions that generated valuable dialogue among students, academics, practitioners, and members of the public.
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Crime committed by young women has been increasing over the past several decades and researchers have few answers as to why. What is known about female offenders is that the vast majority of young women entering the criminal justice system have experienced sexual, physical and drug abuse, and mental illness. Rachelle Younie discussed the use of non-profit after-school programs, including their role in decreasing crime rates and their cost-effectiveness, as well as the harms of prison environments, including worsening mental health, increasing gang involvement and removing youth from prosocial connections. Criminal behaviour is a product of a number of sociological, psychological and economic disadvantages. Young women need positive resources to repair the underlying issues that led to their criminality, not to be punished for their upbringings.Not peer reviewe
En bloc tibial thrombectomy
No full textFirst author Rachelle N. Damle is a doctoral student in the Master of Science in Clinical Investigation program in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS) at UMass Medical School.A 58-year-old man with hypertension and 40-pack year smoking history presented to the emergency department complaining of approximately 20 hours of right lower extremity pain
The Effect of Lighting on Performance of Tasks Requiring Near Vision in Older Adults
No full textAbstract
Date Presented 4/1/2017
The study examined the impact of lighting on occupational task performance in older adults and the effect of lighting on perceived effort during task performance. Results suggest lighting may affect performance and perceived effort in older adults performing tasks requiring near vision.
Primary Author and Speaker: Karen James
Contributing Authors: Max Ito, Rachelle Dorne, JoAnne Wright</jats:p
Reasonable computing for architectural fabrication
No full textThesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2008.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Includes bibliographical references (p. 63-64).The use of digital fabrication tools in the architecture industry serve a particular group of individuals whose familiarity of the tools are by trade skill. Machines lack the understanding of people in its ability to objectify common knowledge. This thesis describes the Adeon system, a software agent for implementation at the initial design stages whereupon the designer conceptualizes about a particular building component while the Adeon system serves to bridge the gap between design and construction knowledge, fusing the two regions to ultimately inform the designer about particular construction, design, and cost analysis constraints and opportunities upon the design proposal. The system adapts to different design situations and delivers pertinent information lending to its capacity to understand design moves and translate it to machine readable instructions for direct digital fabrication.by Rachelle B. Villalon.S.M
IchneumonidsHakalau20072008
No full textRaw data accompanying the article: Gould, R.K.; Brosi, B.; Pejchar, L.; Bothwell, S.; Wolny, S.; Mendenhall, C.; Daily, G. Forest restoration and parasitoid wasp communities in montane Hawai'i. PLoS ONE in press. Data collection procedures are described in detail in that article. Please contact author (rachelle AT post.harvard.edu) with any remaining questions
Community well-being in impoverished, urban areas: a case study of Camden, New Jersey
No full textThis work was produced while the author was an undergraduate student in the Summer Research Institute of the Ronald E. McNair Post Baccalaureate Degree Achievement Program at Rutgers University
The effect of attention training on emotional vulnerability and food consumption following a stressor
No full textIndividuals with anxiety typically display an attentional bias toward threat that may contribute causally to the development and maintenance of anxiety. C. MacLeod, E. Rutherford, L. Campbell, G. Ebsworthy, and L. Holker (2002) showed that manipulating attentional bias toward and away from threat can modify emotional vulnerability. This experiment attempted to replicate and extend this finding to undergraduates (N = 67) reporting average anxiety, but above-average emotional overeating tendencies. An objective outcome was added (calories consumed during a "taste test".
Participants were double-blindly assigned to an "attend-neutral" attention training condition of the dot probe task (in which the probes replaced neutral words to train a bias toward neutral words) or an "attend-negative" condition (in which the probes replaced negative words). It was hypothesized that the attend-neutral group would report less negative affect following a stressor and consume fewer calories than the attend-negative group.
Reaction times to each of the two types of trials (where probes replaced neutral or negative words) showed high internal consistency. However, Cronbach's alpha for attentional bias scores (the difference between reaction times to detect probes replacing neutral words and probes replacing negative words) was low pre- and posttraining (.50 and .33).
Perhaps related to the dot probe task's low reliability, the attend-neutral group's bias score did not change. The attend-negative group, however, developed the predicted bias toward negative words. Contrary to predictions, both groups reported equivalent negative affect increases following the stressor and consumed equivalent calories during the "taste test." In exploratory analyses of the top one-third of the sample on trait anxiety, the attend-negative group showed a trend toward the predicted greater increase in negative affect following the stressor compared with the attend-neutral group, r = .39 (a medium effect size). The two groups, however, consumed equivalent calories. A clinically or subclinically anxious sample that displays a bias toward threat seems to increase the likelihood of training a bias away from threat. At 1-month follow-up, unexpectedly, the attend-negative group reported decreased general distress compared to the attend-neutral group, who reported an increase, possibly suggesting that training toward threat could function as exposure and decrease anxiety.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-128)
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