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Letter from Donna Nakamura to George Hideo Nakamura
No full textCorrespondence from Donna Nakamura to "Daddy," that is, George Hideo Nakamura, during his service in the armed forces.The Japanese American Archival Collection documents the people, places, and daily life of Japanese Americans, primarily those who lived in the once thriving community of pre-war Florin in the Sacramento region, as well as the conditions in American incarceration camps during World War II. The approximately 7,000 original items include personal and official letters, photographs, diaries, arts and crafts, newsletters, textiles, camps artifacts, yearbooks and other publications
[Donna Moham and Father, 1999]
No full textPhotograph of Donna Moham and her father posing on the curb of a yard. Donna wears a band t-shirt, shorts, and a wristwatch. Her father wraps an arm around her shoulders. He wears large glasses and a patterned shirt. There are numerous trees near a chain-link fence behind them. [1999, Dallas, TX
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[Donna Moham and Father, 1999]
No full textPhotograph of Donna Moham and her father posing on the curb of a yard. Donna wears a band t-shirt, shorts, and a wristwatch. Her father wraps an arm around her shoulders. He wears large glasses and a patterned shirt. There are numerous trees near a chain-link fence behind them. [1999, Dallas, TX
Exploring friendships behind prison walls
No full textPositive connections between men in prison are rarely thought about or discussed in academic research. Yet as Crewe (2014),1 Laws and Lieber(2020),2 and Morey and Crewe (2018) highlight,3 considerable intimacy and camaraderie exists between imprisoned men. In this paper, we utilise academic collaborative writing — taking a knowledge equity approach — to examine friendships between imprisoned men. One author with first hand lived experience of prison (Marc)writes about their experiences freely in their own words, in the first person, and creates the wider narrative together with an academic (Donna). We suggest these conditions create a more relaxed and natural position for a person with lived experience sof prison to share them, arguably encouraging openness surrounding sensitive topics like friendships during incarceration, deepening insights. Through this process of co-production, we aim to bridge some of the distance from the conventional space of ‘research participant’towards a more equitable ‘participant author
Card from Donna Nakamura to Pvt. George Hideo Nakamura, November 18, 1945
No full textBirthday card from Donna Nakamura to George Hideo Nakamura during his service in the armed forces during World War II.The Japanese American Archival Collection documents the people, places, and daily life of Japanese Americans, primarily those who lived in the once thriving community of pre-war Florin in the Sacramento region, as well as the conditions in American incarceration camps during World War II. The approximately 7,000 original items include personal and official letters, photographs, diaries, arts and crafts, newsletters, textiles, camps artifacts, yearbooks and other publications
Donna Riley
No full textDonna Riley is Kamyar Haghighi Head of the School of Engineering Education and Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Dr. Riley joined Purdue in 2017 from Virginia Tech, where she was Professor and Interim Head in the Department of Engineering Education. From 2013-2015 she served as Program Director for Engineering Education at the National Science Foundation (NSF). Riley spent thirteen years as a founding faculty member of the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College, the first engineering program at a U.S. women’s college. In 2005 she received a NSF CAREER award on implementing and assessing pedagogies of liberation in engineering classrooms. Riley is the author of two books, Engineering and Social Justice and Engineering Thermodynamics and 21st Century Energy Problems, both published by Morgan and Claypool. Riley served a two-year term as Deputy Editor of the Journal of Engineering Education (2012-2014), rotated through the leadership of the Liberal Education/Engineering and Society (LEES) Division of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) (2007-2011), and currently serves on the ASEE Diversity Committee. She is the recipient of the 2016 Alfred N. Goldsmith Award from the IEEE Professional Communications Society, the 2012 Sterling Olmsted Award from ASEE, the 2010 Educator of the Year award from the National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals (NOGLSTP), and the 2006 Benjamin Dasher Award from Frontiers in Education. Riley earned a B.S.E. in chemical engineering from Princeton University and a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in Engineering and Public Policy. She is a fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education.https://commons.erau.edu/asee-se-bios/1000/thumbnail.jp
“Why do you bother writing those books?” Religious book publishing and its possible significance for lifelong religious education: An investigation into how authors of religious books in contemporary Ireland understand their role and whether they view their published work as contributing to lifelong religious education
No full textReligious book publishing has a notable presence in Ireland and beyond. However, it is an
area which suffers from a dearth of academic research with “a conspicuous absence in
scholarship” in what is “an enormous and uncharted field” (Smith, 2015, p. 5). If we accept
that books are crucial to the educational endeavour, it is noteworthy that little research has
focused on non-fiction authors who write on religious themes or linked their role to religious
education that is lifelong and life-wide (Moran, 1998, p.18). It is such a deficit which this
study has sought to address through investigating how thirty-four Ireland-based authors of
books on topics linked to religion understand their role and whether they view their work as
contributing to lifelong religious education. Each participant in this study has published at
least one non-fiction book associated with religion within the decade between 2005-2015.
The timeframe is significant in that it denotes a period of ecclesial, educational and societal
change in Ireland and represents a time of increasing global discussion surrounding the place
of religion in the public sphere (Habermas, 2010, 2013). Situated within a descriptive
interpretivist paradigm and underpinned by the theoretical framework of constructivism, this
qualitative study employed a research instrument in the form of a cross-sectional survey
design supplemented by a number of follow-up interviews. Data was analysed using content
analysis which uncovered four main themes. Research findings suggest that religious book
publishing in Ireland emanates predominantly from the Roman Catholic tradition and this
cohort had only limited representation from other Christian denominations. Participants
defined religious writing as implicitly or explicitly God-centred, and as encompassing
religion, and its dimensions, including faith and belief, the spiritual nature of living, prayer,
liturgy and scripture. They understood their author role variously as supporting religious,
theological, biblical and liturgical education, encouraging critical thinking, offering pastoral
support and providing theological reflection in the light of Vatican II. Their purpose was
also to advocate for church renewal and reform, to promote right relationship (including
social, gender and ecological justice), and to foster dialogue and common cause between
those of religious and non-religious worldviews in the service of the Gospel. Over two-thirds
of the cohort considered themselves to be religious authors but the remainder did not, and
for some, the word “religious” is an encumbered one. The findings documented seven
positives and six negatives associated with the publishing endeavour with chief among the
former being receiving support from others and chief among the latter revealing writing as
a most demanding task. The findings also showed that participants drew close parallels
between the aforementioned features of their role, their understanding of education and their
conceptualisation of religious education in a lifelong context. The latter they characterised
as a continuing journey of movement and development in religious understanding; a
maturing of faith and “the beginning of the wisdom”; as multi-facetted and not restricted to
formal educational settings and as including a currently under-developed and underresourced adult focus. In total, seventy-six and a half percent saw themselves as religious
educators, seventy-three percent believed or hoped their books had made a contribution to
lifelong religious education, and contributing to LRE was identified as a priority for sixtyfour percent of the cohort
The Singer or the Song? Developments in Performers' Rights from the Perspective of a Cultural Economist
No full textOver the last century, performers gradually acquired statutory protection of their economic and moral
rights. These rights are not copyright in the legal sense but neighboring rights and until recently, they
were mainly remuneration rights that are collectively administered. With the WPPT (WIPO
Performers and Phonograms Treaty), performers now have individual exclusive rights for digital
performances; this leads to the question: what has motivated this change – is it a change in the
perception of the value of performer or a change brought about by the changing technology of copying or,
indeed, a change that reflects different economic costs and benefits? The paper discusses the role of
copyright law as an incentive to performers and asks if the economic role of the performer is so different
from that of the author. The conclusion is that a complex interaction of the legal regulations, economic
conditions and institutional arrangements for administering these new rights will determine the outcome
Survey of aquatic insects in streams of Prince Edward Island National Park
No full textDonna Giberson and Michelle Dobrin.; "March 1998"--cover; "Report submitted to Parks Canada-Atlantic Region and Prince Edward Island National Park in fulfilment of Contract Number PEI 97 01"--cover; Includes appendices and bibliographical references.Source type: Print(0
2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin dechlorination is differentially enhanced by Dichlorobenzene amendment in Passaic River, NJ sediments
No full textPolychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs) are a class of toxic organic compounds released by a number of industrial processes. Sediments of the Passaic River in New Jersey are contaminated by these compounds. To explore the ability of native organohalide respiring bacteria to dechlorinate PCDDs, we first enriched bacteria from sediments of the Passaic River on two organohalides, trichloroethene (TCE) and 1,2-dichlorobenzene (DCB). We then used these enriched sediment cultures and original, unamended sediment as inoculum in a secondary experiment with 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (2,3,7,8-TeCDD), 1,2,3,4-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (1,2,3,4-TeCDD), and 2,7-dichlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (2,7-DiCDD) as target organohalides. We observed dechlorination of 1,2,3,4-TeCDD by all inocula, although to different extents. We observed progressive dechlorination of 2,3,7,8-TeCDD only in bottles inoculated with the DCB enrichment culture, and dechlorination of 2,7-DiCDD almost exclusively in bottles inoculated with original, unamended river sediment. Dechlorination of 1,2,3,4-TeCDD was more rapid than that of the other amended congeners. Phylotypes within the class Dehalococcoidia associated with organohalide dechlorination were differentially enriched in DCB versus TCE cultures, indicating that they may play a role in dechlorination of the PCDDs.Peer reviewe
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