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Cutting'aesthetic teeth' : Flannery O'Connor's habit of art
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e ExpressãoEste trabalho foi sugerido pela afirmação de Flannery O'Connor que sua "dedicação estética" nasceu através do contato com Art and Scholasticism de Jacques Maritain. O propósito foi chegar a uma interpretação do sentido da frase. Uma investigação detalhada foi feita do conteúdo de Art and Scholasticism, posteriormente contrastada com os resultados de uma pesquisa feita em seus ensaios e suas cartas, o que revelou numerosos ecos de diversos trechos constando no texto de Maritain. Três pontos principais foram escolhidos como critérios na análise do hábito artístico de O'Connor: 1) a prática de arte implica uma luta; 2) a arte somente pode ser percebida pelos sentidos; e 3) a prática de arte exige do artista a dedicação indivisa à obra nascente. O estudo conclui que, para O'Connor, o brotar da dentição estética, através da leitura de Art and Scholasticism, significou que, ao perceber na análise da natureza da arte algo com que podia concordar, ela reconheceu tanto sua própria capacidade de tornar-se uma artista literária, quanto sua vontade de assumir a tarefa de desenvolver em sua pessoa o hábito de arte
LGBTI variations in crime reporting: how sexual identity influences decisions to call the cops
No full textResearch shows that people vary in their willingness to report crime to police depending on the type of crime experienced, their gender, age, and their race or ethnicity. Whether or not lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) and heterosexual people vary in their willingness to report crime to the police is not well understood in the extant literature. In this article, I examine variations in LGBTI respondents' attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control on their intentions to report crimes to the police. Drawing on a survey of LGBTI individuals sampled from a Gay Pride community event and online LGBTI community forums (N = 329), I use quantitative statistical methods to examine whether LGBTI people's beliefs in police homophobia are also directly associated with the behavioral intention to report crime. Overall, the results indicate that LGBTI and heterosexual people differ significantly in their intention to report crime to the police, and that a belief in police homophobia strongly influences LGBTI people's intention to underreport crime to the police
Our body, Our health Quantitative Metadata
No full textThis record is related to the quantitative arm of the study. 300 Somali women completed a survey on a touchscreen laptop computer using NOVA Research Company (QDS v5.0) Audio-Computer-Assisted Self-Interviewing (ACASI). Participants completed the survey at a location of their choice (home, clinic, office). Participants were recruited in the community or at Smiley's Family Medicine and Community-University Health Care Center (CUHCC). 203 (67%) interviews were completed in Somali. Data collected was on circumcision, genital history, pain, sexual, psychological, and sociodemographic variables. This record contains supporting metadata files: study protocol, quantitative data dictionary and coding tree, survey instrument, recruitment processes, and interview processes. Due to the sensitive nature of the study and informed consent process, the data cannot be released for any reason. The raw data is stored at the Institute for Sexual and Gender Health at the University of Minnesota Medical School.The National Pain Strategy notes the importance of addressing pain in minority populations to reduce health disparities. One such population is female refugees who have been victim to female genital cutting (FGC) --- which is known to cause sexual pain. The objective of the proposed research is to collect empirical data to (1) inform the conceptualization of sexual pain and other outcomes among Somali women living in Minnesota who have experienced FGC, (2) promote healthcare practices that minimize sexual pain, and (3) develop decision- making tool(s) and education seminars driven by study findings. The majority of Somali girls undergo infibulation when originally cut, which involves stitching the vaginal opening shut. Deinfibulation (i.e. opening the circumcision/infibulation scar) may decrease pain and is necessary before vaginal birth. It is recommended before labor and delivery; however, many patients wait until labor and delivery to undergo deinfibulation – thus increasing a risk in tears. Little is known about how sexual pain and sexual function are impacted by the timing of deinfibulation. To better understand sexual pain in relation to FGC, this study relied upon conceptual models that utilize a biopsychosocial approach, integrating biological, psychological, and cultural considerations. These models include fear-avoidance, endurance, and resilience. We partnered with a community-based organization (SoLaHmo) to conduct 75 qualitative interviews of Somali-American married women 18-45 years who have experienced FGC to accomplish the following aims: Aim 1: Qualitatively investigate sexual pain characteristics and meaning ascribed to sexual pain. Aim 2: Establish reference levels using descriptive statistics to quantify sexual pain characteristics (presence, frequency, intensity), sexual function, pain responses (fear avoidance, endurance, resilience), and moderator variables (acculturation and shared decision making) in this population. Aim 3: Among women who have vaginally delivered one or more babies, determine if sexual pain characteristics and sexual function are associated with the timing of deinfibulation with first child. Aim 4: Among women reporting sexual pain in Aim 3, determine if pain responses (fear avoidance, endurance, resilience) are associated with sexual pain and sexual function, and whether these associations are modified by degree of acculturation --- while adjusting for timing of deinfibulation.National Institute of Health- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health Institute & Human DevelopmentRobinson, Beatrice "Bean"; Connor, Jennifer. (2024). Our body, Our health Quantitative Metadata. Retrieved from the Data Repository for the University of Minnesota (DRUM), https://doi.org/10.13020/R296-0G60
Factor structure and psychometric properties of the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale among Chinese adolescents
No full textObjectives: Resilience refers to psychological characteristics that promote effective coping and positive adaptation in adversity. This study investigated the factor structure and psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) among adolescents
Jenney, Margt. (Death, 1883-06-02)
No full textAddress: Sinton & AbigastAge at death: 8 yrsPg. 43/1883/57/F W S/City/Dr. Connor/Wiltsee/Spring GroveOriginal record filed in drawer labeled 'Jameson-Johnson'
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Identifying idiolect in forensic authorship attribution: an n-gram textbite approach
No full textForensic authorship attribution is concerned with identifying authors of disputed or anonymous documents, which are potentially evidential in legal cases, through the analysis of linguistic clues left behind by writers. The forensic linguist “approaches this problem of questioned authorship from the theoretical position that every native speaker has their own distinct and individual version of the language [. . . ], their own idiolect” (Coulthard, 2004: 31). However, given the diXculty in empirically substantiating a theory of idiolect, there is growing concern in the Veld that it remains too abstract to be of practical use (Kredens, 2002; Grant, 2010; Turell, 2010). Stylistic, corpus, and computational approaches to text, however, are able to identify repeated collocational patterns, or n-grams, two to six word chunks of language, similar to the popular notion of soundbites: small segments of no more than a few seconds of speech that journalists are able to recognise as having news value and which characterise the important moments of talk. The soundbite oUers an intriguing parallel for authorship attribution studies, with the following question arising: looking at any set of texts by any author, is it possible to identify ‘n-gram textbites’, small textual segments that characterise that author’s writing, providing DNA-like chunks of identifying material
Developmental pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of nizatidine
No full textTo characterize the impact of development on the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of nizatidine. Children (age range, 5 days-18 years) and adults (age range, 18-50 years) were enrolled in four open-label trials. Nizatidine formulation and dose were determined by age: infants received 2 or 4 mg/kg IV, children 2.5 or 5 mg/kg in one of three oral liquid formulations, and adolescents and adults received a fixed 150-mg capsule. Nizatidine and N-desmethylnizatidine concentrations were measured in serial post-dose plasma samples by a high-performance liquid chromatographic assay with mass spectrometric detection. Intragastric pH was recorded during a 24-hour post-dose interval. Data on 93 subjects were combined with previous values from 36 individuals to cover an age group not adequately captured and to control for formulation effects. Dose-normalized exposure estimates revealed no apparent age dependence; however, maximum plasma concentration (298.5 100.7 v 552.8 152.4 ng/mL per mg/kg dose) and AUC0- (954.4 379.8 v 1,573.0 347.4 ng*hour/mL per mg/kg dose) were reduced in extemporaneous formulations in apple juice. The apparent modest age dependence observed for total body clearance (Cl/F) (r2 = 0.365) and Vss/F (r2 = 0.221) reflected a formulation-dependent decrease in bioavailability rather than a true age effect. The age-associated changes in z observed for nizatidine and its metabolite were predictable and consistent with developmental acquisition of renal function. Mean and median pH, as well as fraction of time that the dosing interval remained above target pH values, were significantly greater with administration of the drug than without. The biodisposition of nizatidine in children and adults is similar; however, response after a comparable weight-based dose is equal and potentially greater in children. © 2004 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc
Cyber Crime and Limiting Online Child Predation: A Comprehensive Examination
No full textIn today's digital world, technology has transformed how society functions and communicates. While these advancements make it easier for people to connect and access information, they also increase the risk of online child predation. The widespread use of the internet as a platform for socializing and sharing information has created an environment where illegal activities like cybercrime endanger vulnerable groups. To reduce the risks and consequences of these criminal acts, revisions to legislation and improved support for minors are essential. This paper examines the link between cybercrime and the pressing need to decrease online child predation
PRICE-FIXING OVERCHARGES: LEGAL AND ECONOMIC EVIDENCE
No full textThis paper surveys hundreds of published social-science studies of private, hard-core cartels that contain 699 observations of long-run overcharges. The primary finding is that the median cartel overcharge for all types of cartels over all time periods is 25%: 19% for domestic cartels, 32% for international cartels, and 31% for all successful cartels. Thus, international cartels have historically been about 68% more effective in raising prices than domestic cartels. Cartel overcharges are skewed to the high side, pushing the mean overcharge for all types of cartels over all time periods to 42%. "Peak" cartel overcharges are typically double those of the long-run averages. These results are generally consistent with the few, more limited, previously published works that survey cartel overcharges. There is no evidence that convicted cartels are markedly less effective than unpunished ones. The results of a second survey of final verdicts in decided U.S. horizontal collusion cases, only three of which were international cartels, show an average median overcharge of 21% and an average mean overcharge of 30%. Outside the United States, 62 decisions of competition commissions cited median average overcharges of 25% and a mean of 47%. There are three significant policy implications. First, there is a view among some antitrust writers that there is little evidence that cartels raise prices significantly for a period long enough to justify the height of current U.S. cartel penalties. This survey's results, which are based upon an extraordinarily large amount of data spanning a broad swath of history of all types of private cartels, sharply contradict these views. In fact, the data suggest that U.S. penalties ought to be increased. Mean overcharges are three times as high as the level presumed by the U.S. Sentencing Commission. Surprisingly, bid rigging was no more injurious than other forms of collusion, which suggests that the USSC should amend its Guidelines that currently treat bid rigging more harshly than other forms of collusion. Second, the principal antitrust authorities abroad often base their typical or maximum fines on a 10% harm presumption. Average fines imposed since 1995 by Canada and the EU on identical cartels have been lower than U.S. government fines, yet overcharges generated by cartels discovered outside the United States are higher than North America-centered cartels. Consequently, anticartel laws and fine-setting practices abroad are in even greater need of strengthening. Third, cartels with multi-continental price effects are the most harmful type. Despite the evident increases in cartel detection rates and the size of monetary fines and penalties in the past decade, a good case can be made that current global anticartel regimes are under-deterring. While the recent worldwide trend towards the intensification of cartel penalties has been desirable, global cartels are more difficult to detect, have less fear from entry of rivals, achieve higher levels of sales and profitability, and systematically receive weaker corporate sanctions than comparable domestic cartels. Antitrust sanctions worldwide should be higher for global cartels than for other types.International Relations/Trade,
Geometric and information-theoretic approaches to high-dimensional search
No full textThis thesis comprises a brief introduction along with a presentation of ten selected research papers, the primary author of each being the candidate
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