987 research outputs found
Brooke Shields Addresses FIT Graduates
No full text2015 Commencement Speaker: Brooke Shields, Actor, Author, and Entrepreneur
Interview with Lauren-Brooke Eisen, author, Inside Private Prisons: An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration
No full textWho benefits from mass incarceration in the U.S.? In her new book Inside Private Prisons: An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration (Columbia University Press, 2017), Lauren-Brooke Eisen explain how, when and why the for-profit prison system emerged, the ways in which it functions throughout the criminal justice system today, and what we might do to improve it
OAC Brooke Soybean
No full textOAC Brooke is an indeterminate food-grade soybean (Glycine max [L.] Merr.) cultivar with high yield potential and high seed protein concentration. OAC Brooke is adapted to and recommended for soybean growing regions in southwestern Ontario with 3050 or greater crop heat units. OAC Brooke has a relative maturity of 2.2.The accepted manuscript in pdf format is listed with the files at the bottom of this page. The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the manuscript may differ slightly between what is listed on this page and what is listed in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript; that in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript is what was submitted by the author
The Deconstruction of Racial Identity in Christine Brooke-Rose’s *Out*
No full text*Out*, published in 1964, inaugurates Brooke-Rose's first experimental tetralogy, marking a new phase in the author's career. The scope of this article is to assess the value the novel assumes in Brooke-Rose's production as a whole, focusing in particular on the deconstructive effort the author exhibits in this first, perhaps slightly tentative, experimental text
Understanding men's body image in the context of their romantic relationships
No full textThis study examined men's body image in the context of their romantic relationships. One hundred and four heterosexual romantic dyads completed measures assessing men's body satisfaction, perceptions of men's weight change, relationship length, and sexual intimacy. Researchers also collected measures of men's height and weight. Results indicated that men's body satisfaction was negatively associated with both their actual weight status (BMI) and their perception of their weight gain during the relationship; men were more likely to be satisfied with their bodies when they perceived their partners to be and when their partners actually were satisfied with their bodies. Further analyses revealed that men expressed greater body satisfaction when there was a relatively high degree of sexual intimacy in the relationship. Findings are discussed in terms of the contributions to researchers' and practitioners' understanding of men's body satisfaction.M.A.Includes bibliographical references (p. 21-23)by Laura Brooke GoinsIncludes abstrac
Session Illustration: Brooke Warner
No full textSubject of illustration: Brooke Warner during her session. Session description:
Reflection and Takeaway: The Heart and Soul of Memoir (Brooke Warner): Memoir is more than just a story of what happened to you. Its heart and soul lies in two elements of craft that every memoirist needs to have a firm handle on: reflection and takeaway. Most beginning memoirists are so focused on the plot of their story that they forget that readers love memoir for what it says about the human condition, for its capacity to help us understand something about the world we live in or about ourselves. Reflection requires you to stop your narrative and answer the question, “What sense do I make of this part of my story?” Takeaway asks you write about your thoughts and impressions on your subject matter, to delve deeper into your experience and your message and to be a wise voice for your reader. In this session, Brooke Warner, publisher of She Writes Press and author of three books on memoir, will address reflection and takeaway and show you exactly how to implement this kind of writing into your memoir, complete with examples from published works. You’ll leave knowing how to tap into the heart of your memoir and to connect with your reader on a whole new level.https://ecommons.udayton.edu/ebww_eckstein/1005/thumbnail.jp
Estimating Disaggregate Production Functions: An Application to Northern Mexico
No full textThis paper demonstrates a robust method for achieving disaggregation in the estimation of flexible-form farm-level multi-input production functions using minimally-specified data sets. Since our ultimate goal is to address important questions related to the distributional effects of policy changes, we place emphasis on the ability of the model to reproduce the characteristics of the existing production system and to predict the outcomes of these changes at a high level of disaggregation. Achieving this requires the use of farm-level models that are estimated across a wide spectrum of sizes and types, which is often difficult to do with traditional econometric methods, due to limitations of data. The approach to estimating flexible-form production functions used in this paper overcomes these limitations, and also avoids the problems that frequently hinder the application of budget-based representative farm models to these type of analyses namely, that of poor calibration to observed behavior. In our estimation procedure, we use a two-stage approach that first generates a set of observation-specific shadow values for incompletely priced inputs, such as irrigation water or family labor, which are used in the second stage, along with the nominal input prices, to produce estimates of crop-specific production functions using Generalized Maximum Entropy (GME) methods. These functions are able to capture the individual heterogeneity of the local production environment, while still allowing the production function to replicate the input usage and outputs produced in the sample data. Since we are able to generate demand, supply, and substitution elasticities, a wide range of policy responses can be modeled. Our paper demonstrates this methodology through an empirical application to Mexico, drawing from a small set of cross-section data collected in the northern Rio Bravo regions. The estimates show that there is considerable heterogeneity in the behavioral response of farmer households of different sizes, both in terms of the returns to scale, as well as in the elasticities of substitution and derived demands for water. Compared to the aggregate-level estimation, we obtain much more accurate and informative policy response behavior, when shocks are imposed on the model.Research Methods/ Statistical Methods,
The ‘Difficult’ Relationship: Christine Brooke-Rose, Catholicism and Muriel Spark
No full textChristine Brooke-Rose has often been regarded by critics and readers alike as
‘difficult’ in the sense that her work seems to deliberately elude classification
and definitive labels. This tendency to eschew categorisation with her writing
has been well documented in academic criticism; however, most critics have
failed to recognise the displacement in her life as a contributory factor
informing the nature of her work. This essay considers Brooke-Rose’s
development as a writer through a biographical lens, not to reduce her to her
own experiences but rather to highlight her extraordinary life and the way
that it has impacted upon her work. This essay focusses upon her early
development as an author during the 1950s using the friendship she
established with Muriel Spark during this period and her frequent negotiation
of Catholicism as important biographical touchstones in an effort to enhance
the reader’s understanding of Brooke-Rose’s early development as an author.
It uses archival material alongside excepts from her novels to align the
author’s work with her biographical experiences. This is by no means a full
critical depiction of Brooke-Rose’s life or her relationship to Catholicism, but it
serves as an introduction to both in order to go some way towards
‘demystifying her origins’
Christine Brooke-Rose: motes, beams and the horse’s mouth
No full textThe founding of the Christine Brooke-Rose Society and its inaugural event prompted me to revisit my history with the author with whom I was fortunate enough to correspond during the last decade of her life. Our correspondence ran alongside my completing a PhD, gaining full-time employment as an academic, getting married, becoming a father and publishing a monograph and a number of articles, including over twenty-five thousand words of criticism on Brooke-Rose’s work. During the same time Brooke-Rose was working on her late novels and her last book of criticism, contending with accumulating illness and disability and the approach of the ultimate, end of. Our contact focused on Thru, the novel that sets itself at the intersection of the critical and the creative in an academic environment and a text she herself was already retrospectively revisiting at this time in the article that became chapter five of Invisible Author: Last Essays.1 This essay draws on that correspondence to consider Brooke-Rose’s relationship to academic criticism as a critic and novelist, the ways in which those overlapping identities affected each other and, with reference to Thru, to suggest how her work in both fields offers significant insights and opportunities relevant to both contemporary critical thought and literary practice
The design of a lunchtime relational aggression prevention program targeting elementary school aged females:
No full textAggression, in all of its forms, is a growing problem in today’s schools. Relational aggression, the attempt to harm another person through manipulation and damage of relationships with others, is a specific form of aggression that is not only increasingly prevalent, but also undertreated (Crick & Gropeter, 1995). Children gossip about peers, exclude each other from activities, and engage in name-calling, among other relationally aggressive behaviors. Females are more likely to engage in this behavior; males tend to engage in more physically aggressive behaviors (Yoon, Barton, & Taiariol, 2004). While frequently dismissed by teachers and administrators as “typical” childhood behavior, studies have shown that relational aggression can be as harmful as physical aggression (Bauman & Del Rio, 2006; Yoon et al., 2004). The purpose of this dissertation is to design and develop a classroom program for a central New Jersey public school to be implemented with third to fifth grade female students during lunch, an unstructured time of day during which children often engage in relational aggression with peers. The program is based on a thorough needs assessment conducted in the middle school for which the program is being designed (Maher, 2000). The program design also relies on Dodge’s (1986) Information Processing Model as a foundation for its design (Lochman & Dunn, 1993). The needs assessment examined students’ peer relationships and students’ bullying behaviors through student and teacher questionnaires. The program consists of ten classroom-based lessons that address bullying, relationship skills, anger management, and problem solving. The other part of the program is a teambuilding component for implementation during lunch and recess. The dissertation includes detailed lesson plans as well as session outlines for teambuilding activities. Also included are introductory lessons, which provide school personnel with a clear lesson for introducing each component of the program to students. Finally, the limitations of the program, implications for the program’s use, and future directions are also discussed.Psy.DIncludes bibliographical references (p. 138-145)by Lauren Brooke Elkinso
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