15 research outputs found
The power of personal pronouns : the Is and Yous in Sylvia Plath's early journal (1950-1953)
No full textSince it was not meant for publicatio, Sylvia Plath's journal of 1950-1953 does not feature an implied reader in the sense of a potential addressee envisioned by the author. Nevertheless, the actual reader of the published version of Plath's text often has the impression that the speaker's words are indeed directed at him or her. The present paper aims to demonstrate that this is enabled by Plath's extensive use of second person pronouns. It is argued that the "yous" of various imagined and real-life addressees of Plath's individual entries, as well as the "yous" which refer to the author herself in the frequent disputes of her divided self, appeal to the reader of the journal, inscribing him or her in the text and producing the effect of an intensely felt communication with the author. Due to the prevalence of "you" - a deictically interactive, powerful personal pronoun - reading Plath's journal is not a detached observation of the author's self-representation, but rather constitues a hermeneutic experience of active involvement and engagement. of a "face-to-face" encounter across time and space
Book Review: The Extraordinary Work of Ordinary Writing: Annie Ray\u27s Diary
Get PDFWorked hard today of course, writes Annie Ray, January 17,1881, testifying to another day. Ordinary writing suggests the functional and dull: shopping lists, inventories, thank yous, and diaries, which author Jennifer Sinor likens to things we toss once they\u27ve outlived their use. Sinor seeks to redefine and elevate these writings, insisting that ordinary is not commonplace ; their value lies in their ordering of self within a life
Vietnamese American memoirs: writing to mourn, reading to remember
No full textThis thesis critically examines three Vietnamese American memoirs: Kien Nguyen's The Unwanted (2001), Jade Huynh's South Wind Changing (1994), and Lac Su's I Love Yous are for White People (2009). Applying theories from autobiographical studies, I argue that the healing of the memoirists is contingent on the relationship between the writer and the reader. The author writes a life narrative to bear witness to his/her experiences with the Viet Nam War, but healing does not ensue until the audience recognizes the memoirists' claims. In addition, this thesis includes an appendix which uses these three texts as exempla for a pedagogical framework to integrate Vietnamese American memoirs in the literature classroom
Sustainability Awareness Week 2021: Karen Pearson, closing remarks
No full textInformation about the upcoming Sustainability Conference in April 2022 and thank yous to those involved in this year's Sustainability Awareness Week.Sustainability is a key component of FIT’s mission and is embedded in the college’s curriculum and operations. During virtual Sustainability Awareness Week, we invite our community to learn about recent innovations from leaders in the industry, FIT students, faculty, staff, and alumni; experience FIT’s efforts to make a positive impact on the earth; and discover new ways to live with a smaller footprint
Vietnamese American memoirs : writing to mourn, reading to remember
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Communication Design for an Educational AI Chatbot : Analyzing Cipherbot's Communication Style and Challenges
Get PDFWe analyzed the communication patterns of Cipherbot, an educational AI chatbot that addresses validation and transparency problems in AI-student interaction, with 44 undergraduate business students using the system. Findings show that Cipherbot delivers information grounded in learning materials, primarily focusing on statements of fact, with a 99% occurrence rate. Also, about a third (31%) of Cipherbot's messages to students contain an example, which adheres to pedagogical best practices. However, more than a third (36%) of Cipherbot's communication with students also contained traces of opinion, particularly normative statements about how companies or individuals should behave. Cipherbot also demonstrates some level of social etiquette, using thank yous and apologies (7%), but it rarely engages in requests for information, or clarifications and comprehension checks–as these categories might be useful for student engagement, future exploration into diversifying Cipherbot's communication style to support learning is required. Student feedback suggests that usability issues in educational AI chatbots comprise both communicational and technical issues, e.g., incompleteness and redundancy–iterative testing of prompts with student feedback could address many of these challenges. Based on our findings, we make six propositions about students’ interaction with educational AI chatbots.© 2024 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License.fi=vertaisarvioitu|en=peerReviewed
Pemberdayaan Ekonomi Masyarakat Melalui Desa Wisata di Air Kulim
Get PDFCOMMUNITY ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT THROUGH TOURISM VILLAGES IN AIR KULIM. This community service program aims to enhance the economic and social capacity of the residents of Air Kulim Village, Mandau District, Bengkalis Regency, through the development of a community-based tourism (CBT) village. This approach positions the local community as the main actors in planning, implementing, and managing tourism activities to ensure sustainable and inclusive development. The implementation method consists of four main stages: preparation, training, mentoring, and evaluation. The training sessions covered the concepts of tourism village development, entrepreneurship, local product innovation, destination management, and digital marketing. The program involved 15 participants. Evaluation results showed an average increase of 41% in participants’ knowledge, the establishment of the Air Kulim Tourism Village Forum (FDWAK) as a community-based tourism organization, and the creation of five local flagship products along with three thematic tourism packages that have become new economic attractions. Community income increased by 20–25% after the program, supported by effective digital promotion. Beyond economic impact, the program fostered collective awareness of the importance of environmental conservation and community collaboration in developing sustainable tourism. Therefore, this program demonstrates that CBT-based empowerment can serve as an effective model for rural economic development and for strengthening local cultural identity in Bengkalis Regence
Publisher Correction: Structural basis of ligand recognition at the human MT1 melatonin receptor (Nature, (2019), 569, 7755, (284-288), 10.1038/s41586-019-1141-3)
Get PDFChange history: In this Letter, the rotation signs around 90°, 135° and 15° were missing and in the HTML, Extended Data Tables 2 and 3 were the wrong tables; these errors have been corrected online. © 2019, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited
XFEL structures of the human MT2 melatonin receptor reveal the basis of subtype selectivity
Get PDFThe human MT1 and MT2 melatonin receptors1,2 are G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) that help to regulate circadian rhythm and sleep patterns3. Drug development efforts have targeted both receptors for the treatment of insomnia, circadian rhythm and mood disorders, and cancer3, and MT2 has also been implicated in type 2 diabetes4,5. Here we report X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) structures of the human MT2 receptor in complex with the agonists 2-phenylmelatonin (2-PMT) and ramelteon6 at resolutions of 2.8 Å and 3.3 Å, respectively, along with two structures of function-related mutants: H2085.46A (superscripts represent the Ballesteros–Weinstein residue numbering nomenclature7) and N862.50D, obtained in complex with 2-PMT. Comparison of the structures of MT2 with a published structure8 of MT1 reveals that, despite conservation of the orthosteric ligand-binding site residues, there are notable conformational variations as well as differences in [3H]melatonin dissociation kinetics that provide insights into the selectivity between melatonin receptor subtypes. A membrane-buried lateral ligand entry channel is observed in both MT1 and MT2, but in addition the MT2 structures reveal a narrow opening towards the solvent in the extracellular part of the receptor. We provide functional and kinetic data that support a prominent role for intramembrane ligand entry in both receptors, and suggest that there might also be an extracellular entry path in MT2. Our findings contribute to a molecular understanding of melatonin receptor subtype selectivity and ligand access modes, which are essential for the design of highly selective melatonin tool compounds and therapeutic agents. © 2019, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited
The Pebble Effect: Stopping incivility in clinical environments
Get PDFSession presented on Friday, July 25, 2014:
Purpose: The Pebble Effect: Stopping Incivility in Clinical Environments is a reporting of an effective educational strategy used to improve the communication patterns and staff engagement of a 400 bed hospital. Requests in our annual learning needs assessments, as well as feedback from continuing education programs identified a strong desire by interdisciplinary clinical staff to eliminate coworker incivility, horizontal hostility, bullying, lateral violence and intimidation.
Background: The literature review identified incivility as a widespread problem in healthcare. Whether labeled as coworker incivility, horizontal hostility, bullying, lateral violence or intimidation, it is known to contribute to missed communication, moral distress, preventable errors, low patient satisfaction and staff turnover. The challenge was that simply inservicing staff to \u27be nice and patient with each other\u27 is not effective in changing deep rooted behavior. The literature described numerous educational activities which focused individually on the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed to reshape the culture and therefore change the behaviors. However, no educational intervention described a combination of all three of these components. Through the efforts of a small group of clinical Educators, we developed a day-long interactive Workshop based on Kathleen Bartholomew\u27s Ending Nurse to Nurse Hostility, and Martha Griffin\u27s Teaching Cognitive Rehearsal as a Shield for Lateral Violence. To encourage nursing staff initially to participate, we provided continuing education credits for the day. Soon, we realized that providing incentives were not necessary because the demand for the solution to this problem was so high, that we actually had waiting lists of 20 or more and other disciplines were finding the topic and content appropriate and desired as well. In fact, after participating, some managers were trying to scheduling all their staff to participate.
Design approach: The teaching strategy was a workshop design because changing behavior not only needed knowledge (through reading before the workshop and lecture during) but practice with the skills and a change in attitude regarding the tolerance of poor behaviors. The skills needed to respond in various situations include use of cognitive rehearsal and DESC formulated statements for initiating difficult conversations. These skills are practiced with role playing exercises and case scenarios in the workshop. The focus on attitudes is the most challenging, yet most essential, in order to make a change in the culture. With attitude, the educational activities need to help each individual recognize how they contribute to the environment that enables these poor behaviors. When asked, many staff said that there are no problems with THAT on our unit, yet in the next breath they describe how they work around this person or avoid that person. With stakes as high as the death of a patient, the first step to changing our culture is raising awareness that poor behaviors are present in our work area and choosing to avoid only condones them. The educational activities designed to change attitudes regarding incivility include self-reflection, telling stories of targets of incivility, and the \u27I can/We can\u27 exercises. A survey was completed before the workshop began and 6 months later to compare the change in perception of incivility. The survey asked participants to score respect , support and comfort with sharing my opinions with coworkers, charge nurses, supervisors, educators and managers. They scored each individually. After the first two groups commented on how the workshop day changed their understanding of how much poor behavior was on their unit, many commented that they wanted go give different scores on the survey as a baseline. From these repeated comments, we started asking the groups to complete the survey at the beginning and at the end of the workshop day. The scores on respect and support of various members of the clinical team, as well as comfort communicating with each dropped over the course of the day. The comments explaining this were that at the beginning of the workshop they were not aware of how tolerant of poor behavior they had become and how the culture of the work group was unacceptable in this regard. One person even stated that when her Clinical Leader was mean and unapproachable, she now understands that this is not a good management style of strength, but instead is it disrespectful and causes moral distress. Therefore from the changes in scores from beginning to end of the workshop, we can conclude that awareness was heightened and attitudes open to change.
Results: The first offering of this workshop had over 50 participants with tremendous evaluations and word of mouth spread causing 4 subsequent workshops to be moved into the auditorium to accommodate 120 or more participants in each workshop. Over 650 interdisciplinary staff participated in the first 5 offerings. Anecdotal comments from unit managers described situations where they witnessed staff removing themselves from situations when others were gossiping or an increase in overheard compliments and thank-yous to coworkers. This caused one nurse practitioner to comment that they sure drank the kool-aid. Within a week of one workshop, this author received an email from a participant that used the DESC formula to assertively talk with someone about a misunderstanding and now feel a mutual respect for each other.
Conclusions/value of this presentation: The 6 month survey results will be available during the presentation along with the agenda for the workshop and description of many of the educational activities. Clearly, in order to change a culture of incivility to one of inquiry, mutual respect and genuine concern for coworkers and patients, the knowledge, skills and attitudes must be included in educational endeavors
