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Are students with disabilities getting quality secondary education in the State of California?
No full textThis study was to gather and report information from California State University (CSU) professors on whether students with disabilities are receiving quality secondary education in the State of California. The author sent out seven open-ended questions to professors who were currently teaching in the Teacher Education and Special Education departments. By using Strauss and Glaser's (1967) four-stage analysis of grounded theory to analyze the professors' responses. The two emergent themes that results indicated were that professors perceived a lower quality of secondary education for students with disabilities were receiving; the second was the lack of education that potential secondary educators were receiving within their perspective programs. The inclusive preparation model (IPM) theory that resulted from the yielded results suggested that professors believed that the current CSU teacher preparation program needed to reform their program to ensure that students with disabilities would receive the quality secondary education
Are students with disabilities getting quality secondary education in the State of California?
No full textThesis (M.A., Education (Curriculum and Instruction))--California State University, Sacramento, 2011This study was to gather and report information from California State University (CSU) professors on whether students with disabilities are receiving quality secondary education in the State of California. The author sent out seven open-ended questions to professors who were currently teaching in the Teacher Education and Special Education departments. By using Strauss and Glaser???s (1967) four-stage analysis of grounded theory to analyze the professors??? responses. The two emergent themes that results indicated were that professors perceived a lower quality of secondary education for students with disabilities were receiving; the second was the lack of education that potential secondary educators were receiving within their perspective programs. The inclusive preparation model (IPM) theory that resulted from the yielded results suggested that professors believed that the current CSU teacher preparation program needed to reform their program to ensure that students with disabilities would receive the quality secondary education.Education (Curriculum and Instruction
Isaac Cruikshank and the Notion of British Liberty
Get PDFThis is a history of communication, specifically those communications found in past (imagined) communities which augmented, shaped and renegotiated shared culture. This culture, perceptible during the late Georgian era in public forms such as books, pamphlets, prints, performance, architecture, paintings and a wide range of ephemeral material, positions itself inextricably within the visual imagination. This then is also a history of visual communicative cultures, of the various shapes and forms that occupied the ocular registers of past peoples. Graphic satire was one of these contemporary visual forms and it is therefore a task of this thesis to place this printed single-sheet medium within the lives and cultural perception of late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century Britons; specifically, due to where these satires were published, Londoners. Like all historical sources, graphic satires present specific challenges. They were publicly facing compositions designed to shock and provoke; outwardly packed with sex, titillation, violence and prurient curiosity, framed by lewd, deliciously vicious and bawdy narratives, and set against the dirt and grime of London's streets.
Hence satirical prints were as much an aspect of rude culture as visual culture, yet this does not mean they had nothing serious or important to say. Indeed one of the major thematic agendas of graphic satire in this period concerned notions of British liberty. It is therefore the central task of this thesis to unpick how and why this medium represented libertarian values in the way it did
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No full textThe new class in Vietnam
No full textPhDVietnam has posted impressive gains in growth of output, exports and poverty reduction over the last twenty years. The standard explanation of this sustained success views Vietnam‟s transition from socialism to capitalism as an extension of markets and removal of obstacles to their efficient operation. This view of transition is based on a particular view of the origins of capitalism, in which capitalism emerges due to the expansion of trade, technology and the removal of obstacles to the natural tendencies of human interaction. However, this view of the origins of capitalism cannot explain the uniqueness of capitalism as a distinct historical social formation.
A Marxist framework will be used, stressing the emergence of a new social division of labour based on the emerging class relation between capital and labour. This transformation forces a shift to accumulation through the market, requiring capitalists to operate under the market imperative in order to survive. This will be combined with Djilas (1957) and the concept of communist bureaucracies as a New Class in order to investigate the emergence of capitalism in Vietnam.
The research question is how does the appearance and reproduction of the New Class
provide insight into the development of a specifically Vietnamese capitalism? Data on
Vietnam‟s largest 200 firms will be analyzed through the New Class lens to explore the
transformation occurring in Vietnam
Reversed perspectives : a re-examination of the later novels of William Wilkie Collins
Get PDFAlthough a considerable amount of research has been done on Collins's sensation fiction, very little
critical attention has been paid to his later novels. Of those critics who have chosen to consider his
post-1870 fiction, the majority have dismissed it as so inferior to his early works as to be best
passed over as quickly as possible. Some feel that, without Dickens to guide his pen, Collins was
mcapable of writing anything worth reading; others suspect that the influence of Charles Reade was
as detrimental to Collins's talent as Dickens's had been beneficial; yet more deCided that laudanum
had fogged both his mind and his literary imagination. The purpose of this thesis is to refute these
claims, and to establish that Collins's later works remain of great interest from both a literary and a
social point of view.
The thesis is divided into seven sections-an Apology, an Introduction, four chapters, and a
conclusion.
The Apology sets out to examine the modern hostility towards the novels written in the last two
decades of his life, and to show how this frequently varies from contemporary opinion. As I do not
ascribe to the theory that Collins's novels reveal a steady decline over the years, I have chosen not
to adopt a chronological examination of his works, but rather a thematic one, which illustrates the
consistency of his philosophy.
The Introduction attempts to show that the difference between what is popularly called Collins's
'sensation' fiction and his 'thesis' novels is not so hard and fast as has often been maintained. It
also introduces the ideas which will be developed throughout the thesis, namely that, by the
sublation of many of the binary oppositions we have come to connect with Victorian literaturemasculine/
feminine, good/evil, hero/villain-Collins's works provide a reversed perspective on his
society.
Chapter 1, 'Good Girls', conSiders Heart and Science (1883), The Two Destinies (1876), and Man and
Wife (1870). The second half of the nineteenth century was, for women, a time of upheaval; the
Angel in the House had been superseded by her more dynamic and independent sister, whose
inadequacy as a role-model was a frequent theme in much of the literature of the time. Whilst
society was attempting to maintain the status quo by demanding that men be men and women
subservient, these three novels stand out as defying-or, at least, ridiculing-convention on almost
all gender-related levels.
Chapter 2, 'Fallen Women', concentrates upon The Evil Genius (1886), The New Magdalen (1873), and
The Fallen Leaves (1879). Collins was not the only author to deal with the subject of women who
transgressed the moral code, but he was one of the few who had the courage to stand by his fallen
women until the end. Rather than sentencing them to a penitential death, he allows them, reformed
and unsullied by their previous degradation, to marry and reclaim their place in society. Moreover,
he also shows that it is frequently those representatives of respectable society whose actions and
attitudes are much more at fault than those of the women they choose to censure.
Chapter 3, 'Wicked Creatures', is a long chapter which analyses '[ Say No' (1884), Blind Love (1890),
The Legacy of Cain (1888), and Jezebel's Daughter (1880). Collins's deep-seated belief in the duality
of human nature, which has already been suggested in the previous chapters, is here more fully
explored. Just as his 'heroines' have been seen to defy their conventional roles, rising gracefully
above the tribulations of pregnancy, prostitution, and persecution, so too do his villainesses flout
the rules by which such wicked creatures should more properly be governed. His household devils
are no more wholly demonic than his domestic angels are wholly sublime.
Chapter 4, 'Other Men', discusses Poor Miss Finch (1872), The Black Robe (1881), and The Law and The
Lady (1875). Not only were women expected by contemporary society to comply with an ideal, but
men also found themselves being exhorted to conform to an active and dominant masculine
archetype. The novels examined in this chapter shows the consequences of the failure to live up to
these frequently impossible standards. Rather than adhere to the binary oppositions of
selfless/selfish, wise/foolish, strong/weak, Collins presents his reader with composite figures who
are, perhaps, truer to human nature than literature usually allows.
The ConclUSion draws together the threads of the previous chapters. It also looks at Collins as a
nineteenth-century writer with surprisingly modern ideas, and examines Collins's literary legacy,
which is more usually to be found in the field of popular fiction
Dress, Distress and Desire: Clothing and Sentimental Literature.
No full textPhDThis study explores representations of the adorned female body in sentimental
literature. In particular, it addresses the intersection of the discourses of dress, fashion
and sensibility and the political anxieties such intersections expose. These concerns are
located within current critical debate upon the implications of the feminine sentimental
ideal for women readers and writers. Building upon recent scholarship, the introduction
argues that sensibility was predicated upon a concept of the body as an index of feeling.
This argument is subsequently complicated, through a reading of More's `Sensibility'
(1782), which points to the potential of dress to function as both an extension of the
corporeal index and metaphor for sensibility's propensity to lapse into affectation. Dress,
as More implies, not only exposed but embodied the paradox status of sensibility as a
symbol of selfhood externally expressed, and possibly affected mode of display. The
opening chapters explore, in greater depth, the perceived antagonism between dress and
the sentimental body. Chapter One centres on Pamela (1740) and the heroine's
contentious appearance in her homespun gown and petticoat. Chapter Two explores
textual representations of dressmakers and milliners, whose damning association with
fashion ensured that they became personifications of and further justifications for
critiques of dress as a form of social and moral encryption. Subsequent chapters on
ladies' magazines and Fordyce's Sermons to Young Women (1765) discuss how writers,
across various genres, responded to this antagonism by suggesting ways in which the
adorned female body might become a synecdoche of sentimental virtue. Such texts,
however, reveal the fault line upon which they and, by extension, sensibility rest. In
analogising appearance and worth, writers had to uncomfortably acknowledge that, once
outlined in print, such ideals became accessible to readers, potentially rendering virtue as
easy to put on as a gown or petticoat. The final chapter addresses the escalating
synonymy of fashion and sentiment in the 1790s, as critics argued that the distinction
between genuine feeling and its performance had blurred to obscurity. Edgeworth's
Belinda (1801) is read, in this context, as a counter-sentimental novel, which attempts to
divorce the two through the rehabilitation of the woman of fashion as a woman of `true'
sensibility: a wife and mother
Cerebrospinal fluid biomarker levels are not affected by aspiration or gravity drip extraction methods in Alzheimer’s disease: The AIBL study
No full textThe Endosome-Associated Protein Hrs Is Hexameric and Controls Cargo Sorting as a “Master Molecule”
No full textPlasma p‐tau181/Aβ(1‐42) ratio predicts Aβ‐PET status and correlates with CSF‐p‐tau181/Aβ(1‐42) and future cognitive decline
Get PDFBACKGROUND: In Alzheimer's disease (AD), plasma amyloid beta (Aβ)(1‐42) and phosphorylated tau (p‐tau) predict high amyloid status from Aβ positron emission tomography (PET); however, the extent to which combination of these plasma assays can predict remains unknown. METHODS: Prototype Simoa assays were used to measure plasma samples from participants who were either cognitively normal (CN) or had mild cognitive impairment (MCI)/AD in the Australian Imaging, Biomarkers and Lifestyle (AIBL) study. RESULTS: The p‐tau181/Aβ(1‐42) ratio showed the best prediction of Aβ‐PET across all participants (area under the curve [AUC] = 0.905, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.86–0.95) and in CN (AUC = 0.873; 0.80–0.94), and symptomatic (AUC = 0.908; 0.82–1.00) adults. Plasma p‐tau181/Aβ(1‐42) ratio correlated with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) p‐tau181 (Elecsys, Spearman's ρ = 0.74, P < 0.0001) and predicted abnormal CSF Aβ (AUC = 0.816; 0.74–0.89). The p‐tau181/Aβ(1‐42) ratio also predicted future rates of cognitive decline assessed by AIBL Preclinical Alzheimer Cognitive Composite or Clinical Dementia Rating Sum of Boxes (P < 0.0001). DISCUSSION: Plasma p‐tau181/Aβ(1‐42) ratio predicted both Aβ‐PET status and cognitive decline, demonstrating potential as both a diagnostic aid and as a screening and prognostic assay for preclinical AD trials
