471 research outputs found
Elizabeth Webber Correspondence
No full textEntries include brief biographical information, a handwritten postcard sent in 1940 with Webber\u27s date and place of birth, a letter typed to Miss Margaret Fallin Eicks, whose cookbook review had been noticed by the Maine State Library, requesting information concerning Webber, a letter typed on Boston Evening Transcript, Editorial Rooms, stationery from woman\u27s page editor Eicks, providing Webber\u27s Cambridge, Massachusetts, street address, a typed introductory letter from the Maine State Library to Webber about the Maine Author Collection, a typed letter of reply from Webber on Dinner Is Served ---- Your Room is Ready, A Pocket Guide to Smart Tea Rooms, Hotels and Inns, stationery inked in blue with a Quimper design, concerning the forthcoming publication of a spiral-bound book of recipes sent by east coast managers, of foods relished by guests -- an enlargement of her annual June pocket guide, with news of the opening of the Buttercup Hill Tea Room, and some information concerning her years at the Patten Free Library in Bath, Maine, a typed letter from the Maine State Library thanking Webber for the Dinner Is Served Cook Book for the Maine Author Collection, and a prepublication, biographical, book review newspaper clipping
Introducing the International Palliative Nursing Network
No full text During the Ninth International Cancer Nursing Conference held in Brighton last year, an evening symposium was hosted by Alison Ferguson and Jeanette Webber on behalf of the Royal College of Nursing Palliative Nursing Group in the United Kingdom. The purpose of the meeting was to enable delegates to explore the possibility of developing an International Palliative Nursing Network (IPNN). Thirty two nurses from fifteen countries attended the symposium and there was a strong consensus that the development of the Network was both timely and viable. </jats:p
Panel C: Author-Meets-Readers Session
No full textAuthor David Webber discusses his book The Rise of the Working Class Shareholder: Labor\u27s Last Best Weapon published on Harvard University Press
LitCrit: exploring intentions as a basis for automated feedback on Related Work.
No full textLearning the skill of academic writing is critical for post-graduate (PG) students to
be successful, yet many struggle to master the required standard. Feedback can play a formative role in developing these skills, but many students do not find sufficiently helpful the kinds of feedback available to them. As the Related Work section is known to be particularly difficult for PG students to master that is the focus of this thesis.
To date, models of academic writing have been built on observational studies of
academic articles. In contrast, we carry out a user study to explore what content experts look for in Related Work and how this differs from PG students. We claim that by understanding what experts look for in Related Work and what aspects PG students struggle with, a useful author intention model can be developed to support writing feedback for Related Work sections. Our work demonstrates reliable annotation of the model intentions. Developing on existing algorithms, designed to identify rhetorical intentions in academic writing, we build a supervised machine learning classifier, showing how features focused on Related Work sections improve recognition of content aspects. Carrying out a study to rate the quality of Related Work, we demonstrate that the model is a good proxy for predicting quality, validating the choice of intentions in our model. In addition to recognising author intentions, we automate the generation of feedback based on observations of intentions that are present and missing, taking into account areas that PG students struggle to recognise.
The thesis also contributes a new prototype writing analytic tool, called LitCrit,
that supports visualising the intention narrative of Related Work and presents feedback. We claim this visualisation approach changes the PG student’s perception of Related Work, and demonstrate through a user study that it does draw attention to aspects previously missed bringing PG student responses in line with experts. Finally, we explore the performance of our classifier, originally set within the Computational Linguistics discipline, to that of Computer Graphics. This shows us that while performance may be lower when care is taken to understand those features which are discipline dependent, there is scope for improvement. Also, while a discipline may have the same intentions present in a section, their structural presentation may differ impacting feature choice
In conversation with M.G.Leanord
No full textVerity Jones and Amanda Webber caught up with M. G. Leonard, author of Beetle Boy, to talk about why getting the science right in children’s fiction is so important and how this book might inspire an interest in understanding and protecting insects
Interview with David Webber: Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of Labor\u27s Capital
No full textALVIN VELAZQUEZ: Good afternoon! My name is Alvin Velazquez. I am an Associate General Counsel at the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), where for the last fifteen years I have given advice on bankruptcy, corporate law matters, and tech matters. I’m also an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law School where I have taught employment law and am teaching a seminar called Systemic Racism, Colonialism, and Bankrupt Governments.1 Before arriving at SEIU I worked as a litigation associate at several large law firms. I also admit, rather sheepishly, that I am one of the few graduates of Cornell in the labor movement who did not attend the Industrial and Labor Relations school, but rather am a product of its government department who then attended Harvard Law School. I want to thank Claire Hill for organizing this excellent symposium and inviting me here to conduct this interview.
I am really excited to be joined by David Webber, the author of The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder: Labor’s Last Best Weapon. David Webber is a familiar name in the corporate governance world, and among labor practitioners of capital stewardship due to his prolific scholarship examining labor and its capital. He is a professor and Paul M. Siskind Scholar at Boston University, and one of the best thinkers out there concerning the interaction of how labor unions have engaged and incorporated corporate governance into their thinking. His book has received reviews or otherwise been covered in the New York Review of Books, the Financial Times, Forbes, Dissent, the National Review, C-SPAN’s BookTV, Bloomberg Radio, Publishers Weekly, the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, the Harvard OnLabor Blog, and elsewhere. It has also been the subject of op-eds for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post. Finally, his book is assigned as part of the core curriculum for the Harvard Trade Union Program. David did his undergraduate work at Columbia University and obtained his law degree at N.Y.U. Law where he was a member of its law review.
Even though I had nothing to do with it being part of the core curriculum for the Harvard Trade Union Program, I recommend his book because it tells a sweeping story of where labor’s use of capital has been, and provides some important suggestions for where labor’s capital should be going. It is highly accessible to labor practitioners, finance practitioners, and legal audiences. On a personal note, let me just say that reading your book felt like a trip down memory lane for me. You really described what was going on in the labor capital stewardship space over the course of my career in a way that I had not conceived of previously. When you are doing the work on a day-today basis it is difficult to reflect. A lot of the time you are just trying to get things done. However, your book really helped me reflect on how far the conversation concerning labor’s role has changed since I started doing this work in 2008. It also provided me with some new ways of discussing the work that I do with our members.
Let’s get started with some general questions to kick off our interview. Can you tell us what motivated you to write the book
The Development of Mana: Five Optimal Conditions for Gifted Māori Student Success
No full textThere are a growing number of gifted Māori students not just attaining educational success but thriving in the schooling context. Educational psychology has much to learn from these students, and it is incumbent upon researchers to empirically analyse the drivers of their success. While it has been acknowledged that self-concept, self-esteem, and self-efficacy affect the academic engagement of Māori students (Meissel & Rubie-Davies, Br J Educ Psychol 86(1):92–111. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12103, 2016; Webber, Look to the past, stand tall in the present: the integral nature of positive racial-ethnic identity for the academic success of Māori students. In: Vialle W (ed) Giftedness from an indigenous perspective. University of Wollongong Printery, Unanderra, pp 100–110, 2011; Zdrenka, Yogeeswaran, Stronge, & Sibley, Int J Intercult Relat 49:114–120, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2015.07.003, 2015), few studies have examined the affective and psychosocial drivers of success, or the role of cultural factors, in the academic performance of gifted Māori students. In this chapter, the author contributes to this discussion by focussing on how self-perceptions about the value of their racial-ethnic identity and family support affect the motivation and academic engagement of gifted Māori students in New Zealand. It will be argued that little will be done to improve gifted Māori students’ academic engagement and social-emotional wellbeing, until educators focus specifically on the development of students’ connectedness to their racial-ethnic identity and their sense of mana (pride, status, and esteem). The importance and manifestation of mana in gifted Māori students’ lives and other psychosocial issues facing them will be highlighted. Solutions for change will be offered using a mana model developed as part of the 2014 Ka Awatea study (Macfarlane, Webber, McRae, & Cookson-Cox, Ka Awatea: an iwi case study of Māori students’ success. [Manuscript]. University of Auckland, Auckland. Retrieved from http://www.maramatanga.co.nz/projects_publications, 2014)
[[alternative]]The Phantom of the Opera and the Cats by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
No full text[[abstract]]This paper studies the musical appreicative behavior of students of junior high school in respect to Broadway musical play. Study is focused on the musical plays “The Phantom of the Opera” and “The Cats” directed by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Survey study of descriptive research method is used in this paper. Results show students like these two plays very much and what they favour most is music in stead of story, costume, scene brought from the musical play. Suggestion is made to include these two musical plays in the musical appreciative course of junior high school. Some songs is also suggested if singing teaching is aimed.
Local and regional greenhouse gas management
No full textThe paper is the result of 20 years of research in Leicester and other cities quantifying the energy related greenhouse gas emissions. The work informed Leicester City Council's climate change policies, including the Climate Change Strategy of 2003, which was co-authored by Fleming.
Webber now works at Leicester City Council and is responsible for monitoring the Council's greenhouse gas emissions. Fleming is a member of the City Council’s Environment Scrutiny Advisory Panel and also a member of the East Midlands Regional Assembly Energy Scrutiny Panel. These panels are reviewing the progress of Leicester City Council and the East Midlands Development Agency in reducing greenhouse gas emissions based on the approach recommended in the paper.
Webber was a PhD student in the IESD, supervised by Fleming who was the lead author
Introduction to \u3ci\u3eWe All Got History: The Memory Books of Amos Webber\u3c/i\u3e
No full text[Excerpt] Who was this Amos Webber who assumed such a prominent role in this public, regional celebration of the black presence in American life? That he was a veteran was clear, but that alone did not account for his prominent position in that day\u27s events. Certainly James Monroe Trotter, the eminent musician, author, and politician, William H. Carney, and William Dupree were all more widely known in the black North. How did a man such as Amos Webber, unknown beyond his own circle, the recipient of no awards or editorials in the local or national press, achieve such prominence in May 1886? Was this an extraordinary moment whose shining aura all but obliterated the previous sixty years of common routines? Or did his involvement that May reflect a singular role, but one that emerged from and reflected a lifetime of organizational activism and public political commitment?
In the biography that follows, I have tried to explore as many of those clues as possible. In the process I have come to see that, for all of his lack of national renown, Amos Webber was a lifelong activist among the black residents he lived with in both Philadelphia and Worcester. His public commitments reflected a moral vision that insisted on both individual rectitude and social justice. Over time he claimed as his own a very specific understanding of what it meant to be an American. With fellow blacks he rescued fugitives, fought Confederates, and demanded full civil and political rights. With them he built institutions designed to provide internal structure and direction for a black population confronted with frequent, intense antagonism from whites. It was also in this collective setting that Webber struggled to understand the persistent, complex pain inherent in being both black and American
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