208 research outputs found
Creating HESTIA: Evidence-Based Development of a Home Safety Assessment App
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Date Presented 4/1/2017
Evidence-based apps require multifaceted decisions during development. We describe processes used in the development of HESTIA to mitigate bias, including integrating technology and home assessment literature, data from research findings, and iterative design between software and content experts.
Primary Author and Speaker: Suzanne Burns
Additional Authors and Speakers: Noralyn Pickens, Roger O. Smith</jats:p
Journeys: Camosun Stories of Indigenization (2018)
No full text"Journeys: Camosun Stories of Indigenization" features stories of Indigenization from the diverse and multiple perspectives
of Camosun staff.Contributors include: John Borass, Vice President, Education; Sybil Harrison, Director, Learning Services; Suzanne Thiessen, School of Business; Shane Johnson, Facilities; Chivonne Graff, Child Care Services and Early Learning & Care; Andrew Brice, Digital Communication; Kelly Pitman, English Department; Nicole Kilburn, Anthropology Department; Brenda Petays, Visual Arts Department; Steve Walker-Duncan, Culinary Arts Department; Joan Humphries, Nursing Department; Anita Ferriss, Human Resources; Daryl Thomson, Human Resources; Merry Watts, Human Resources; Dianne Biin, Centre for Indigenous Education & Community Connections. Messages from Camosun President, Sherri Bell and Dawn Smith, Education Developer, Indigenization & Sustainability are also featured.
Art work of, and information about, Nuu-chah-nulth artist Art Thompson (Tsa Qwa Supp) is included. Additional information about Art Thompson's work in the Camosun Art Collection can be found at: https://cc.arcabc.ca/islandora/object/cc%3Apubar
Genes Suggest Ancestral Colour Polymorphisms Are Shared across Morphologically Cryptic Species in Arctic Bumblebees
No full textemail Suzanne orcd idCopyright: © 2015 Williams et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.NHM Repositor
Imagining Acadiana: Cajun Identity in Modern Louisiana
No full textThis work is embargoed by the author and will not be publicly available until May 2029.This dissertation tells the history of how a modern Cajun identity developed in 20th century Louisiana. I argue that upwardly mobile Cajun community leaders renegotiated their own collective identity by engaging directly with mass culture and modernity. This identity is rooted in two competing perceptions. First, since at least the late the 19th century, outsiders perceived Cajuns as an isolated and ignorant group, due to their largely lower-class status and Franco-Catholic Acadian ethnicity. Second, beginning in the 1920s, Cajuns began to be seen as whiter and their Acadian ethnicity more refined which resulted in increased economic, social, and political power. This tension between a mythical and whiter Acadian identity and a historical and more ethnic Cajun identity would come to define the region of Southwest Louisiana that became known as Acadiana. This history disrupts assumptions that Cajun traditions survived through cultural tenacity and isolation as well as narratives that position modernity as only a harbinger of cultural degradation by blurring the line between tradition and modernity itself. The term Acadiana captures this paradox: it linguistically weaved the memory of the Acadian past into Louisiana’s modern cultural and economic landscape but was popularized by a local television company to describe its modern Cajun viewership. By examining key moments in the development of the region’s cultural identity from the 1920s-1970s, this dissertation shows how Acadiana emerged through the creation of regional Cajun culture industries that responded to new social, political, and technological forms. The work of these local community leaders makes clear that Acadiana’s traditional cultures did not survive in spite of modernity, but by engaging with the opportunities it presented for power, profit, and preservation.2029-05-1
Ketchup and Blood: Documents, Institutions and Effects in the Performances of Paul McCarthy 1974-2013
No full textSince the 1970s, the work of Los Angeles-based artist Paul McCarthy (b. 1945) has included live performance, video, sculpture, kinetic tableaux, and installation. Tracing the development of McCarthy’s work between 1974 and 2013, I undertake a critical discussion of the development of performance in relation to visual art practices. Using one artist’s work as a guide through a number of key discussions in the history of performance art, I argue that performance has influenced every aspect of McCarthy’s artistic practice, and continues to inform critical readings of his work.
My thesis follows the trajectory of McCarthy’s performance practice as it has developed through different contexts. I begin with the early documentation and dissemination of performance in the Los Angeles-based magazine High Performance (1978-83), which established a context for the reception of performance art, and for McCarthy’s early work. I then examine specific examples of McCarthy’s practice in relation to his critical reception: live performances and videos from the 1970s are discussed alongside critical readings of his work influenced by psychoanalysis; and the wider public recognition of McCarthy’s object-based art in the 1980s and early 1990s. I then look more broadly at the recent trend of re-enacting historical performances in the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time project (2011-12), as a mode of engaging with performance history and exploring how histories of ephemeral art are re-iterated over time. Finally, I discuss a number of McCarthy’s recent exhibitions and installations that mobilises a wider consideration of the histories of performance and ephemeral practices in art institutions.
McCarthy’s work is firmly established in the art world, and I argue that his work also provides a significant touchstone for histories of performance. I look historically at how McCarthy’s work has been documented, disseminated, curated, and re-performed, and open wider discussions about ways of engaging with performance history. In turn, I complicate the relationship between performance and the art world; between ephemeral art and object-based art practices; and between scholarly engagements with performance history, and the public presentation of performance in curatorial practices and institutional contexts.This project was funded by a College Studentship from Queen Mary, University of London. Additional financial support for a research trip to Los Angeles in 2012 to undertake primary research and conduct interviews was provided by the Queen Mary Central Research Fund (now the Postgraduate Research Fund). I would also like to acknowledge the support of the Glynne Wickham Scholarship fund, which contributed to travel expenses for a conference presentation at Stanford University in 2013
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Portraits of Contemporary Ladies: Imagination and the Anxiety of Influence in Henry James and Claire Messud
No full textWhile novelist Claire Messud has openly credited the influence of Henry James’s fiction on her work, no scholarship to date has explored the question of what influence means in this context. Here, I use James’s Portrait of a Lady and Messud’s The Woman Upstairs as case studies in arguing for the existence of what I call a poetics of indirect influence. I employ that concept as a lens through which to consider 1) the relationship between James’s and Messud’s respective works, and 2) the treatment of indirect influence internal to each of their novels. I show that indirect influence, rather than direct influence, is the best lens through which to understand the question of how one author—or character—is influenced by another in this context. In so doing, I put into question some of the conventions of the mid-20th century notion of the (implicitly direct) anxiety of influence, even while considering how Messud first tries to emulate and then overtake the master. My examination of the inner lives of James’s and Messud’s female characters through their internal narratives sheds new lights on James while contributing to the lean body of work on Messud
Session 74: Discussing the enhancement of the Degree Apprentice experience through effective tri-partite meetings
No full textDegree Apprenticeships are a rapidly growing route of study in the Higher Education sector, most notably in post 1992 universities. LJMU currently offers twelve apprenticeship programmes, and this number continues to grow. Degree apprenticeships offer an alternative route to higher education whilst developing on-the-job work-based knowledge and skills and by the nature of the mode of delivery, actively widen participation, transforming the lives and workforce of the local community.
However, apprenticeships are a relatively new type of HE programme of study; they are not simply part-time programmes as per the sector standard. Learners enrolled on apprenticeship programmes are full-time employees, and as such have significant demands on their time in both the workplace and the in capacity as an enrolled student. As such it is important to structure apprenticeship programmes to support the learner in achieving the expected occupational standard of knowledge, skills and behaviours and maximise the student experience.
One mechanism through which the apprentice experience can be influenced is the tripartite review meeting however lack of consistency in the approach to these meetings means there is a potential impact on the student experience. Tripartite review meetings require employer representation and rely on suitably trained work-based mentors and adequate preparation of all parties to ensure clarity on what is expected. Here we will discuss what the tripartite meeting is, and what regulatory requirements could be included, how the tri-partite can be utilised to enhance the learner experience and identify some key concepts of best practice to be applied at a cross University level.
Finally we will discuss ideas for evaluating tripartite review meeting effectiveness, sharing best practice and providing suggestions for future practice to ensure apprentices receive a positive learning experience.
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Contextualizing narrative theory: reading the politics of formal innovation in contemporary women's fiction
No full textTo ignore the strategies and structures through which stories are told, this thesis contends, is to neglect a vital dimension of their politics. Narratology provides productive analytical tools to illuminate the complex and varied mechanics of narrative form, yet it also bears the traces of its structuralist origins. Its value is therefore contingent upon its continuing reformulation as an expansive, pluralist and contextualized critical discipline. Participating in this expansion, this
thesis evidences the pertinence and vitality of some narratological models and the limitations of others. It opens up alternative critical possibilities by drawing upon insights within contemporary critical theory, from poststructuralist philosophy to transcultural feminism to
sociolinguistics. Above all, my interventions proceed from close readings of innovative fiction by women writers hitherto all but unrepresented in, and therefore potentially subversive of, existing models: Nicole Brossard, Daphne Marlatt, Hiromi Goto, Ali Smith, Jackie Kay, Erna Brodber, Dionne Brand, Aritha van Herk.
The first chapter formulates an in-between critical space where feminist and postmodernist theories of narrative intersect. It re-examines metafiction through the lens of auto(bio)graphical practice and feminist poststructuralist theories of self, and introduces the notions of folds and
echoes to describe specific structural innovations. Chapter Two examines unconventional uses of second-person address and reconsiders existing narratological approaches in their light, focusing on the `push and pull of narrative' that the `you' form enacts. Chapter Three addresses the insufficient attention paid to multiply narrated novels, theorizing them as `narrative communities' and introducing terms to describe different internal relations between narrators, relations that can often be read as determinedly 'democratic'. The final chapter contests the
hegemony of temporal models of narrativity by formulating a 'spatial poetics' that accounts both for how spatial structures can be agents of narrative change and for the complexity of textual constructions of space, which frequently exceed static definitions of 'setting'.
Running throughout is a reconception of narrative as located not with the figure of the narrator, but in relations of intersubjectivity. The narratological criticism formulated here works towards a situated ethics of reading responsive to the politics of writing: it is engaged, relational, and ever in process
Pediatric Obesity Interventions in Racial and Ethnic Minorities: A Systematic Review
No full textBackground: The prevalence of childhood obesity has increased dramatically in the United States, disproportionately afflicting racial and ethnic minorities and producing lifelong health consequences. Various lifestyle and pharmacologic obesity interventions have been analyzed with inadequate representation of minority populations. Systematic reviews that address obesity interventions in minority populations have not been published. Even with the increasing research on pediatric obesity, many clinicians and public health professionals are uncertain of effective interventions in minority populations. Purpose: To identify pediatric obesity intervention studies in minority populations and assess the effectiveness of these interventions. Data Sources: The MEDLINE database (inception through February 2008). Study Selection: The author selected prospective studies of various pediatric obesity interventions with adequate racial and ethnic minority participation that reported an outcome related to body mass index. Data Extraction: Predefined criteria were used to extract details on study design, study duration, study population, intervention type and outcomes. The studies were then graded as good, fair or poor. The overall body of evidence was then graded as high, moderate or low. Results: Ten eligible articles were included in the systematic review, seven of which were randomized controlled trials (RCT), one of which was a secondary analysis of an existing RCT, and two of which were prospective cohort studies. African-American and Hispanic children were the most common minority population represented. Five studies were effective in reducing adiposity. Only two studies were graded as good, while many had serious methodological flaws. Moderate evidence exists for some pharmacological interventions in decreasing adiposity, but evidence for lifestyle interventions alone is limited. Conclusions: Studies that address racial and ethnic minorities are limited. Available evidence does not clearly support any obesity intervention in minority populations, although pharmacotherapy in patients at high risk for comorbidities or combined with lifestyle changes may offer some benefit.Master of Public Healt
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