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The Blackhawks
No full textPhotograph - Hockey team members in uniform, Athabasca, Alberta. Left to right: C. Haufman (coach), George Grandbois, Gordon Lewis, Colin Preece, Charles Parker, David Jones, unknown, Ken Bissell, Archie Grandbois, unknow
Cataloguing the internet: CATRIONA feasibility study : report to the British Library Research & Development Department
No full textThe idea of a distributed catalogue of Internet resources integrated with standard Z39.50 library system OPAC interfaces (and hence with retrieval of information on hard copy resources) is already practical at a basic level. Geac's Z39.50 GUI OPAC client. GeoPac, can search remote Z39.50 OPACs, retrieve USMARC records with URLs in 856$u, respond by loading a viewer like Mosaic or Netscape, and utilise it to retrieve and display the remotely held electronic resources on the local workstation. A range of Z39.50 OPACs can be searched server by server, making a basic-level distributed catalogue of Internet resources feasible. At least one other Z39.50 client, Dynix Horizon is close to having similar capabilities.
Significant further development and investigation is nevertheless required. A proposed demonstrator project - based around Scottish University Libraries and the BUBL Subject Tree initiative, but sufficiently 'open' to encompass other sites and approaches - is both feasible and essential, and would provide a focus for Z39.50 developments in the UK.
Z39.50 clients and associated Z39.50 OPACs describing resources could become preferred network navigation tools with other specific NIDR client types (WWW, gopher, WAIS, others) loaded as required. Library involvement is essential to sustainable Internet cataloguing initiatives
The life and works of James Miller, 1704-1744, with particular reference to the satiric content of his poetry and plays.
No full textPhDJames Miller was born the son of a Dorset rector in 1704. He
was himself ordained, but acquired no benefice until just before his
early death, probably because of a scathing portrayal of the Bishop
of London in one of his verse satires. At Oxford he wrote a vivacious
comedy of humours, set in the University. Its production in 1730
began his dramatic career, at a time when the number of London
theatres had just doubled, and new dramatic forms were being invented.
In 1731 his poem Harlequin-Horace, a witty inversion of
the Ars Poetica, attacked pantomime and opera, but also painted a
lively portrait of the entire theatrical world, in the tradition of
the Dunciad.
After collaborating in a translation of Moliere's works Miller
wrote two plays based on this author. Of all his dramatic works
these were the most successful with his contemporaries, and were
followed by a modernisation of Much Ado, and a ballad-opera adapted
from an afterpiece by Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, and rendered highly
topical. Miller made similar use of a recent French comedy showing
a Red Indian's reactions to civilisation, a satiric "fable" by Walsh
and Voltaire's Mahomet. A large quantity of original material was
incorporated into most of these, and this is generally satirical in
nature. The Indian is made to voice almost egalitarian sentiments.
An afterpiece, "The Camp Visitants", satirised military inaction
in the war, and was apparently banned. The manuscripts of the six
plays produced after the Licensing Act bear the examiner's deletions,
and illustrate the nature of the censorship at this time.
Miller's greatest strength is probably his flexible, vigorously
colloquial dialogue. His political satire is mostly contained in
the poetry, which attacks Walpole's administration with increasing
vehemence through the seventeen-thirties, until its fall. In 1740
two poems that used Pope in symbolic contrast to Walpole caused a
sensation. In both poetry and plays Miller is also a social satirist,
who lays unusually strong emphasis on false taste and the deterioration
of culture
Delia
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Adult-child discourse: A focus on paraprofessionals in early childhood special education.
No full textEmploying paraprofessionals in early childhood special education is a growing practice in education. Most of the previous research on paraprofessionals has relied on survey data. Specifically, this investigation focused on: (a) delineating the various roles which paraprofessionals play in early childhood special education services; (b) describing these early childhood settings in terms of micro-contexts; (c) identifying variations in paraprofessional roles across contexts; and (d) describing the discourse structure between paraprofessionals and special needs children across paraprofessional roles and micro-contexts. A constant comparative design (Stainback & Stainback, 1988) characterized this qualitative investigation. Data were collected over 22 weeks (January-June, 1991) for four mornings per week. Case studies were developed with three early childhood education paraprofessionals working with special needs children in a rural Canadian school. The results show that, first, early childhood special education environments are made up of a series of micro-contexts which in turn are defined by the activity and the participants. Second, paraprofessionals play a variety of roles which clustered around four classroom functions: (a) direct instruction; (b) curriculum design; (c) classroom management; and (d) child advocacy. The definition and behavioural correlates of the roles were impacted by: (a) parents; (b) teachers; (c) administration; and (d) paraprofessionals themselves. Third, paraprofessional-special needs child discourse changed across micro-contexts in the percentage of discourse exchange types used by both the adult and child. However, the general patterns of paraprofessional and special need child discourse were remarkably stable, suggesting both parties may be using a "school register" (Cazden, 1986). Such a register was characterized by the paraprofessionals controlling most of the discourse exchanges. However, the special needs child could recognize that different contexts within the school day required different language structures. The author concluded by suggesting that the roles of paraprofessionals be expanded to include community liaisons. Paraprofessionals are also seen as being an excellent source of child advocacy. However, such roles require additional education and openness from the professional constituents.This item was digitized from a paper original and/or a microfilm copy. If you need
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Author Correction: Spatio-temporal patterns of childhood pneumonia in Bhutan: a Bayesian analysis
No full textPneumonia is one of the top 10 diseases by morbidity in Bhutan. This study aimed to investigate the spatial and temporal trends and risk factors of childhood pneumonia in Bhutan. A multivariable Zero-inflated Poisson regression model using a Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation was undertaken to quantify associations of age, sex, altitude, rainfall, maximum temperature and relative humidity with monthly pneumonia incidence and to identify the underlying spatial structure of the data. Overall childhood pneumonia incidence was 143.57 and 10.01 per 1000 persons over 108 months of observation in children aged < 5 years and 5-14 years, respectively. Children < 5 years or male sex were more likely to develop pneumonia than those 5-14 years and females. Each 1 °C increase in maximum temperature was associated with a 1.3% (95% (credible interval [CrI] 1.27%, 1.4%) increase in pneumonia cases. Each 10% increase in relative humidity was associated with a 1.2% (95% CrI 1.1%, 1.4%) reduction in the incidence of pneumonia. Pneumonia decreased by 0.3% (CrI 0.26%, 0.34%) every month. There was no statistical spatial clustering after accounting for the covariates. Seasonality and spatial heterogeneity can partly be explained by the association of pneumonia risk to climatic factors including maximum temperature and relative humidity.</p
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No full textSocial relationships have profound effects on health in humans and other primates, but
the mechanisms that explain this relationship are not well understood. Using shotgun
metagenomic data from wild baboons, we found that social group membership and social network
relationships predicted both the taxonomic structure of the gut microbiome and the structure of
genes encoded by gut microbial species. Rates of interaction directly explained variation in the gut
microbiome, even after controlling for diet, kinship, and shared environments. They therefore
strongly implicate direct physical contact among social partners in the transmission of gut
microbial species. We identified 51 socially structured taxa, which were significantly enriched for
anaerobic and non-spore-forming lifestyles. Our results argue that social interactions are an
important determinant of gut microbiome composition in natural animal populations—a
relationship with important ramifications for understanding how social relationships influence
health, as well as the evolution of group living
The history and politics of liberation archives at Fort Hare
No full textIncludes bibliographical references.This thesis, the first of its kind on liberation historiography, seeks to put the liberation movements archives housed at the University of Fort Hare in context. The thesis focuses mainly on the 1990s, when the repatriation of struggle material by Fort Hare working hand in glove with the liberation movements, mainly the African National Congress ANC), the Pan Africanist Congress(PAC) and the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM), was at its height
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