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Using Focus Groups to Enhance Student Voice: A Work-in-Progress Exploration of Student Learning Experiences in Large Classes
No full textWhile course evaluations are traditionally used to gauge teaching effectiveness and provide an outlet for student voice, this metric does not integrate students as collective partners in the teaching and learning process. In promoting a shared learning experience between teachers and students, this project uses a focus group approach to solicit student feedback and ideas, and disseminate the results to faculty. This paper explores the results of a qualitative pilot focus group study related to student engagement in large classes and demonstrates that a focus group approach is an effective and empowering way to prioritise student voice
And Even Dust Can Burst into Flames, Genevieve Robertson—Carbon Studies: Walking in the Dark
No full textAbout the Author: Caitlin Chaisson is an independent curator and critic. Her research-based practices intersect around questions pertaining to cultural production and the environment. She is Founder and Director of Far Afield, an artist-led initiative that supports regionally connected artistic and curatorial practices. Elsewhere, she has held positions and short-term contracts at e-flux (New York), Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson), Emily Carr University of Art and Design (Vancouver), AKA Artist-Run Centre (Saskatoon), and the Anvil Centre (New Westminster). Her writing has appeared inCanadian Art, C Magazine, Espace Magazine, Hyperallergic,andMOMUS, among others. She is currently an MA candidate in Curatorial Studies at CCS Bard
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No full textbramhall square piece describing the author\u27s move to Portland from New York City one year ago, and commenting life in Maine
Using focus groups to enhance student voice: a work-in-progress exploration of student learning experiences in large classes
No full textPreface
No full textThe University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (PWPL) is an occasional series published by the Penn Graduate Linguistics Society. The series has included volumes of previously unpublished work, or work in progress, by linguists with an ongoing affiliation with the Department, as well as volumes of papers from NWAV and the Penn Linguistics Colloquium/Conference. This volume contains selected papers from the 42nd Penn Linguistics Conference, held from March 23-25, 2018 in Philadelphia, PA, at the University of Pennsylvania.
Thanks go to Luke Adamson, Nikita Bezrukov, Ryan Budnick, Spencer Caplan, Andrea Ceolin, Nattanun Chanchaochai, Aletheia Cui, Kajsa Djärv, Ava Irani, Alexandros Kalomoiros, Wei Lai, Lefteris Paparounas, Ruaridh Purse, Nari Rhee, Ollie Sayeed, Milena Šereikaitė, Yosiane White, and Hong Zhang for their help in editing.
Since Vol. 14.2, PWPL has been an internet-only publication. As of September 2014, the entire back catalog has been digitized and made available on ScholarlyCommons@Penn. Please continue citing PWPL papers or issues as you would a print journal article, though you may also provide the URL of the manuscript.
An example is below:
Bade, Nadine and Florian Schwarz. 2019. An experimental Investigation of Antipresuppositions. In University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 25.1, ed. Ava Creemers and Caitlin Richter, 31-40. Available at: http://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/vol25/iss1/5
Publication in the University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (PWPL) does not preclude submission of papers elsewhere; copyright is retained by the author(s) of individual papers.
The PWPL editors can be contacted at: U. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, 3401-C Walnut Street, Suite 300, C Wing, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228 and [email protected].
Ava Creemers and Caitlin Richter, Issue Editor
Preface
No full textThe University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (PWPL) is an occasional series published by the Penn Graduate Linguistics Society. The series has included volumes of previously unpublished work, or work in progress, by linguists with an ongoing affiliation with the Department, as well as volumes of papers from NWAV and the Penn Linguistics Colloquium/Conference. This volume contains selected papers from the 42nd Penn Linguistics Conference, held from March 23-25, 2018 in Philadelphia, PA, at the University of Pennsylvania.
Thanks go to Luke Adamson, Nikita Bezrukov, Ryan Budnick, Spencer Caplan, Andrea Ceolin, Nattanun Chanchaochai, Aletheia Cui, Kajsa Djärv, Ava Irani, Alexandros Kalomoiros, Wei Lai, Lefteris Paparounas, Ruaridh Purse, Nari Rhee, Ollie Sayeed, Milena Šereikaitė, Yosiane White, and Hong Zhang for their help in editing.
Since Vol. 14.2, PWPL has been an internet-only publication. As of September 2014, the entire back catalog has been digitized and made available on ScholarlyCommons@Penn. Please continue citing PWPL papers or issues as you would a print journal article, though you may also provide the URL of the manuscript.
An example is below:
Bade, Nadine and Florian Schwarz. 2019. An experimental Investigation of Antipresuppositions. In University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 25.1, ed. Ava Creemers and Caitlin Richter, 31-40. Available at: http://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/vol25/iss1/5
Publication in the University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (PWPL) does not preclude submission of papers elsewhere; copyright is retained by the author(s) of individual papers.
The PWPL editors can be contacted at: U. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, 3401-C Walnut Street, Suite 300, C Wing, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228 and [email protected].
Ava Creemers and Caitlin Richter, Issue Editor
Effects of antibacterial mineral leachates on the cellular ultrastructure, morphology, and membrane integrity of <it>Escherichia coli </it>and methicillin-resistant <it>Staphylococcus aureus</it>
No full textAbstract Background We have previously identified two mineral mixtures, CB07 and BY07, and their respective aqueous leachates that exhibit in vitro antibacterial activity against a broad spectrum of pathogens. The present study assesses cellular ultrastructure and membrane integrity of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Escherichia coli after exposure to CB07 and BY07 aqueous leachates. Methods We used scanning and transmission electron microscopy to evaluate E. coli and MRSA ultrastructure and morphology following exposure to antibacterial leachates. Additionally, we employed Baclight LIVE/DEAD staining and flow cytometry to investigate the cellular membrane as a possible target for antibacterial activity. Results Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) imaging of E. coli and MRSA revealed intact cells following exposure to antibacterial mineral leachates. TEM images of MRSA showed disruption of the cytoplasmic contents, distorted cell shape, irregular membranes, and distorted septa of dividing cells. TEM images of E. coli exposed to leachates exhibited different patterns of cytoplasmic condensation with respect to the controls and no apparent change in cell envelope structure. Although bactericidal activity of the leachates occurs more rapidly in E. coli than in MRSA, LIVE/DEAD staining demonstrated that the membrane of E. coli remains intact, while the MRSA membrane is permeabilized following exposure to the leachates. Conclusions These data suggest that the leachate antibacterial mechanism of action differs for Gram-positive and Gram-negative organisms. Upon antibacterial mineral leachate exposure, structural integrity is retained, however, compromised membrane integrity accounts for bactericidal activity in Gram-positive, but not in Gram-negative cells.</p
Discretised Airy stress functions and body forces
No full textThis paper extends polyhedral Airy stress functions to incorporate body forces. Stresses of an equilibrium state of a 2D structure can be represented by the sec- ond derivatives of a smooth Airy stress function and the integrals of body forces. In the absence of body forces, a smooth Airy stress function can be discretised into a polyhedron as the corresponding structure is discretised into a truss. The differ- ence in slope across a creases represents the axial force on the bar, while the zero curvatures of the planar faces represent zero stresses voids of the structure. When body forces are present, the zero-stress condition requires the discretised Airy stress function to curve with the integrals of these body forces. Meanwhile, the isotropic angles on the creases still indicate concentrated axial forces. This paper discretises the integrals of body forces into step-wise functions, and discretises the Airy stress function into quadric faces connected by curved creases. The proposed method could provide structural designers (e.g. architects, structural engineers) with a more intuitive way to perceive stress fields.Structural Design & Mechanic
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Prison of the Setting Sun: A Translation of Ono Fuyumi's Rakushō no goku
No full textIn this thesis, I have presented my translation of the novella Rakushō no goku (落照の獄) by Ono Fuyumi, preceded by a critical introduction. In this introduction, I have provided brief biographical information about the author, context for the story and its place in the Twelve Kingdoms series of novels, an analysis of the story's use of the death penalty as allegory, and an explanation for some of my choices in the translation. In my introduction, my main purpose was to present the author, who has written multiple best-selling, award-winning novels that have received both popular and critical acclaim, yet has received little notice abroad and even less scholarly attention both in and out of Japan, as a writer meriting further study. To this end, I have used my own translation of Rakushō no goku as a primary example of the depth and value of her work, presenting my reading of the conflict in Rakushō no goku as an oblique criticism of the death penalty in Japan, and attempting to tie the story into a longstanding literary tradition of using the fantastic as allegory in order to comment on and critique contemporary culture.Master of Arts (M.A.
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