40 research outputs found
Delilah W. Pierce, circa 1953
No full textWritten on verso: Delilah W. Pierce, 1830 16th Street NE, Washington, DC.The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generosity of the Digital Public Library of America for supporting in part the digitization of this collection as part of the Black Women's Suffrage Digital Collection, a project made possible through funding from Pivotal Ventures, A Melinda Gates Company
Verification of SWAN with DELILAH data
No full textIn the past years the SWAN wave model was developed. SWAN is a third-generation spectral wave model for applications in coastal areas. The verification of the model has been carried out for a few laboratory and field experiments. In this thesis the DELILAH field experiment held at the property of the Field Research Facility in Duck, North Carolina, was applied. The aim was to implement SWAN for DELILAH and to obtain further improvements of the SWAN model. The bathymetry with an average slope of I: 150 is characterised by a constantly changing sandbar in the near-shore area at the Field Research Facility. At 13m depth an array of wave gauges is located (SAMSON). The boundary condition was taken from the spectra obtained at this location and was uniformly applied along a straight line through this location and parallel to the beach. The research was restricted to nine crossshore gauge locations in the near-shore zone. The I-dimensional spectral- and wave heightobservations in this area were compared to the SWAN results and interpreted. The results of the tests showed that SWAN underpredicted the dissipation of wave energy and overestimated the non-linear triad wave interactions. The first discrepancy was improved by adapting the tuning parameter in the wave breaking formulation (gamma) according to Battjes & Stive. The second discrepancy was improved by adapting the tuning parameter in the Source term for the triad interactions (a(EB)) of the action balance equation. Conclusions were that a y value based on the deep-water steepness according to Battjes & Stive improved the results of the significant wave heights significantly at the gauges where wave breaking was relevant. Secondly, small improvements in the cross-spectral distribution were obtained by increasing the value of the proportionality parameter a(EB)=0.25 to a(EB) =0.5. Interesting was that the parameter of a(EB)=O.5 gave the best results for both a case with the barred bathymetry and for a case without the bar. The final results are acceptable, but further investigation of the non-linear triad interactions is advisable to improve the approximation of the cross-spectral energy distribution.Hydraulic EngineeringCivil Engineering and Geoscience
Beyonce\u27s Lemonade and The Re-appropriation of Identity
No full textThis text explores the ways in which Beyoncé Knowles Carter’s most recent work, the visual album Lemonade, displays a consciousness of past and present social issues and black art. This consciousness allows her to redefine her creative image into that of a self-possessed artistic agent. By creatively addressing a personal familial crisis and paying homage to groundbreaking black films, such as Julie Dash’s 1991 film Daughters of the Dust, Knowles Carter asserts herself as an artist fully in conversation with the personal and communal aspects of black female life
Numerical Modelling of Infragravity Wave Response during Delilah
No full textIn this paper the nonlinear numerical model SHORECIRC is applied to simulate the intragravity wave conditions on two days during the 1990 Delilah campaign. In order to simulate the wave conditions an algorithm has been derived which synthesizes a directional of/shore wavefield from data including the bound, directional low-frequency components. The model-data comparison shows that the mean short wave transformation on the real bathymetry is predicted correctly, and that the mean longshore current is predicted very well for one of the two days without tuning the parameters. Furthermore, the structure of the infragravity spectrum as measured in the nearshore array is correctly represented but the energy level is under'estimated. Research report for Rijkswaterstaat, RIKZ.Hydraulic EngineeringCivil Engineering and Geoscience
Politics of an Indigenous Landscape: The Political Aesthetics of Delilah Montoya's, Desire Lines, Baboquivari Peak, Arizona
No full textabstract: The purpose of this project is to investigate the political aesthetics of Delilah Montoya's photographic landscape image, Desire Lines, Baboquivari Peak, Arizona (2004), an image drawn from a larger photo-documentary project by Montoya and Orlando Lara titled, Sed: Trail of Thirst (2004). This thesis employs Jacques Rancière's concept of the aesthetic regime to identify how Desire Lines functions as a political work of art, or what Rancière would consider "aesthetic art." This thesis shows that the political qualities of Desire Lines's work contrast with the aesthetic regime of art and systems in the U.S. nation state that have attempted to erase an indigenous presence. Thomás Ybarra-Frausto's and Amalia Mesa-Bains' definitions of Rasquachismo, as well as Gloria Anzalúda's concept of Nepantla, are used to assist in identifying the specific politics of Montoya's work. The first portion of this thesis investigates the image's political aesthetic within the context of the politics of art, and the second portion addresses the image's political qualities within the framework of the politics of the everyday life. This thesis shows that Desire Lines, Baboquivari Peak, Arizona reveals a Chicana/o aesthetic that challenges the dominant paradigm of postmodernism; furthermore, viewing the content of the image through the concept of Nepantla allows for a political reading which highlights the work's capacity to challenge the Eurocentric view of land in the U.S. Southwest. Desire Lines, Baboquivari Peak, Arizona is an indigenously oriented photograph, one which blurs the lines of the politics of art and the everyday and has the power to reconfigure our understanding of the U.S borderland as an indigenous palace of perseverance exemplifying the will to overcome.Dissertation/ThesisM.A. Art History 201
The implementation and evaluation of a smartphone mindfulness-based application on the mental health of critical care nurses
No full textPurpose of Project: This DNP project was a quality improvement initiative aimed at designing, implementing, and evaluating a smartphone mindfulness-based application on the mental health of critical care nurses. Methodology: The project began with a brief educational session during a virtual monthly staff meeting on mindfulness and nurses were oriented to the Insight Timer® smartphone application. Usage of the application was tracked on a weekly basis through surveys and feedback evaluation of the intervention was measured at the end of the project. Results: Out of an anticipated 50 participants, 26 MICU/CCU nurses participated in the surveys. 67%, 62%, and 38% felt that the Insight Timer® smartphone application was useful in decreasing feelings of stress, anxiety, and burnout, respectively. Open-ended questions revealed that the Insight Timer® application was user-friendly and easily accessible. Implications: Although the sample size was small, this project demonstrated the importance of providing healthcare workers a tool that is easily accessible, affordable, and beneficial at delivering mental health support. Other clinical implications include advancing healthcare policy, bettering quality & safety, expanding education to include mindfulness-based classes both locally and nationally, and improving the economic viability of the healthcare system.D.N.P.Includes bibliographical reference
Gods and Monsters: Authorial Creation in Gaiman’s Sandman and McCreery and Del Col’s Kill Shakespeare
No full textIn this article, I explore images of Shakespeare and his characters in Neil Gaiman’s Sandman (1989–1996) and Conor McCreery and Anthony Del Col’s Kill Shakespeare (2010–2014). Gaiman’s series follows Morpheus, the personification of dreams, who endows Shakespeare with creative power he comes to regret. Alternatively, in McCreery and Del Col’s series Shakespeare simply is a god, but one who shuns his creations and regrets his creative power. Worshipped and relentlessly sought, this Shakespeare is the mythic engine of a series that follows characters from across his plays who speak in a pastiche of Shakespearean lines through alternate story lines. I demonstrate that Shakespeare’s coexistence with his characters in both series complicates our collective idealisation of Shakespeare in the contrast between a playwright-god and his monstrous character-creations through their problematic construction and shifting images as gods and monsters within and across both series. Illustrating the limitations and possibilities of divinity and monstrosity allows them to shift from creation to destruction through the multimodality of graphic novels, and the pitting of gods against monsters common to fantasy and science fiction. Through images of shifting power and frailty, both interrogate these constructions, and ultimately, question the consequences of our historical Bardolatry.publishedVersion© 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way
The implementation of the generalized anxiety disorder-7 (GAD-7) screening tool in primary care
No full textPurpose of Project: The aim of the DNP project was to improve early detection of Generalized Anxiety Disorder in the primary care setting by routine screening of adult patients with the Generalized Anxiety Disorder -7 (GAD-7) screening tool.
Methodology: The project was conducted at two different primary care practices located in Budd Lake, New Jersey and Freehold, New Jersey. It began with a one-month preintervention chart review to examine the number of patients identified with Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Then, twenty-five participants from each site, regardless of their chief complaint, completed the GAD-7 survey. Majority of participants were middle-aged Caucasian men.
Results: Eight percent of participants scored an eight or higher on the screening tool thus prompting a discussion with their provider.
Implications for Practice: The project demonstrated the importance of utilizing the GAD-7 tool in primary care to address underdiagnosis and undertreatment of this disease, which in turn may improve medical, mental, and quality of life outcomes.DNPIncludes bibliographical reference
