798 research outputs found
Impact of Capitation on the Non-Institutionalized Aged: An Evaluation of the Hennepin County Medicaid Demonstration Project. Final Report - Part 1.
No full textSupported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Hennepin County Office of Medicaid Demonstration; the Bush Foundation; School of Public Health and the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota.Moscovice, Ira; Lurie, Nicole; Finch, Michael; Christianson, Jon. (1990). Impact of Capitation on the Non-Institutionalized Aged: An Evaluation of the Hennepin County Medicaid Demonstration Project. Final Report - Part 1.. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/208217
Second generation bioenergy crops and climate change: a review of the effects of elevated atmospheric CO2and drought on water use and the implications for yield
No full textSecond-generation, dedicated lignocellulosic crops for bioenergy are being hailed as the sustainable alternative to food crops for the generation of liquid transport fuels, contributing to climate change mitigation and increased energy security. Across temperate regions they include tree species grown as short rotation coppice and intensive forestry (e.g. Populus and Salix species) and C4 grasses such as miscanthus and switchgrass. For bioenergy crops it is paramount that high energy yields are maintained in order to drive the industry to an economic threshold where it has competitive advantage over conventional fossil fuel alternatives. Therefore, in the face of increased planting of these species, globally, there is a pressing need for insight into their responses to predicted changes in climate to ensure these crops are 'climate proofed' in breeding and improvement programmes. In this review, we investigate the physiological responses of bioenergy crops to rising atmospheric CO2 ([Ca]) and drought, with particular emphasis on the C3Salicaceae trees and C4 grasses. We show that while crop yield is predicted to rise by up to 40% in elevated [Ca], this is tempered by the effects of water deficit. In response to elevated [Ca] stomatal conductance and evapotranspiration decline and higher leaf–water potentials are observed. However, whole-plant responses to [Ca] are often of lower magnitude and may even be positive (increased water use in elevated [Ca]). We conclude that rising [Ca] is likely to improve drought tolerance of bioenergy crop species due to improved plant water use, consequently yields in temperate environments may remain high in future climate scenario
Bengalese finch song.
No full text<p>Bengalese finch song consists of distinct acoustic elements (‘syllables’) that are arranged into stereotyped sequences as well as sequences that vary in transitions from rendition to rendition (‘branch points’). Depicted is a spectrogram (frequency on the y-axis, time on the x-axis, color as intensity) of a single rendition of an adult Bengalese finch song, with letters labeling individual syllables in the song. In this example, the sequences ‘bcd’ and ‘ghj’ are stereotyped sequences. The sequence ‘ea’ is a branch point because transitions from ‘ea’ vary across renditions: the bird transitions to ‘f’ 90% of the time and ‘k’ 10% of the time. We analyzed how the probabilities of individual syllable transitions co-varied with the duration of silent gaps between syllable transitions (e.g., gaps between ‘a’ and ‘k’ and between ‘a’ and ‘f’).</p
Integration
No full textPresented in the Finch lecture series, Fuller theological Seminary, Graduate School of Psychology, Pasadena, California, January, 1980.Printed by permission of the author. This article or any part thereof may not be reprinted without expressed permission from the author
"Mammy stories", W.0026
No full textAbstract: Handwritten manuscript by Birmingham author Julia Neely Finch describing "an old-time Southern Mammy."Scope and Content Note: This handwritten, twenty-four page manuscript by Birmingham author Julia Neely Finch describes "an old-time Southern Mammy," which Finch writes is "a picture drawn from real life." Finch provides a vivid yet lyrical description of the unnamed mammy's physical appearance, speech, and daily life.Biographical/Historical Note: Julia Neely Finch was born in Mississippi in 1850. Finch moved to Birmingham, Alabama, in 1900, and remained there until between 1910 and 1920, when she relocated to Connecticut to live with her daughter, Lucine Finch. An accomplished poet, Finch's poems and short stories were published in ladies' magazines; her most well-known work was a poem titled "The Unborn." Finch died on 17 September 1926 in Connecticut
Daily Field Checklist, Paul Sykes, Davis Finch, Jon Dunn, et al., May 2, 1981
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The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self
No full textThe Body of Poetry collects essays, reviews, and memoir by Annie Finch, one of the brightest poet-critics of her generation. Finch\u27s germinal work on the art of verse has earned her the admiration of a wide range of poets, from new formalists to hip-hop writers. Her ongoing commitment to women\u27s poetry has brought Finch a substantial following as a postmodern poetess whose critical writing embraces the past while establishing bold new traditions. The Body of Poetryincludes essays on metrical diversity, poetry and music, the place of women poets in the canon, and on poets Emily Dickinson, Phillis Wheatley, Sara Teasdale, Audre Lorde, Marilyn Hacker, and John Peck, among other topics. In Annie Finch\u27s own words, these essays were all written with one aim: to build a safe space for my own poetry. . . . [I]n the attempt, they will also have helped to nourish a new kind of American poetics, one that will prove increasingly open to poetry\u27s heart.
Poet, translator, and critic Annie Finch is director of the Stonecoast low-residency MFA program at the University of Southern Maine. She is co-editor, with Kathrine Varnes, of An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art, and author of The Ghost of Meter: Culture and Prosody in American Free Verse, Eve, and Calendars. She is the winner of the eleventh annual Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award for scholars who have made a lasting contribution to the art and science of versification.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/facbooks/1059/thumbnail.jp
Depression and Gender: The Expression and Experience of Melancholy in the Eighteenth Century
No full textThis thesis investigates the life and work of six eighteenth-century writers, two male and four female. It explores their experience of depression through their letters and other autobiographical material, and examines the ways in which they represent melancholy in their poetry and prose. The subject of Chapter Two is Thomas Gray, whose real life persona as the lonely intellectual is also identifiable in his poetry. The Scottish poet Robert Fergusson is studied in Chapter Three. Fergusson’s lively and vigorous mind was shattered in the months leading up to his death, during which time some of his writing became darkly nihilistic. Chapter Four looks at Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, a lifelong depressive who often wrote about her feelings of despair in her poetry. Chapter Five explores Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. She was a courageous and controversial figure, but despite her resilience, on occasion in her letters she reveals her vulnerability and susceptibility to low spirits, a mood which is sometimes expressed in her creative writing. Sarah Scott, whose life and work have not yet been considered in relation to the subject of melancholy, is examined in Chapter Six. Her novel includes several low-spirited and depressed female characters who are continually seeking asylum from a hostile world. Chapter Seven analyses Charlotte Smith, a mother of twelve children whose unhappy marriage ended in separation. Smith wrote extensively about her depression in her letters, prefaces, poetry and novels.
This study shows that the women in particular use their writing on melancholy and depression to express their discontent with the confined way in which they are often expected to live out their lives
Factors that promote or inhibit the implementation of e-health systems: an explanatory systematic review
No full textOBJECTIVE: To systematically review the literature on the implementation of e-health to identify: (i) barriers and facilitators to e-health implementation, and (ii) outstanding gaps in research on the subject.METHODS: MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, PSYCINFO and the Cochrane Library were searched for reviews published between 1 January 1995 and 17 March 2009. Studies had to be systematic reviews, narrative reviews, qualitative metasyntheses or meta-ethnographies of e-health implementation. Abstracts and papers were double screened and data were extracted on country of origin; e-health domain; publication date; aims and methods; databases searched; inclusion and exclusion criteria and number of papers included. Data were analysed qualitatively using normalization process theory as an explanatory coding framework.FINDINGS: Inclusion criteria were met by 37 papers; 20 had been published between 1995 and 2007 and 17 between 2008 and 2009. Methodological quality was poor: 19 papers did not specify the inclusion and exclusion criteria and 13 did not indicate the precise number of articles screened. The use of normalization process theory as a conceptual framework revealed that relatively little attention was paid to: (i) work directed at making sense of e-health systems, specifying their purposes and benefits, establishing their value to users and planning their implementation; (ii) factors promoting or inhibiting engagement and participation; (iii) effects on roles and responsibilities; (iv) risk management, and (v) ways in which implementation processes might be reconfigured by user-produced knowledge.CONCLUSION: The published literature focused on organizational issues, neglecting the wider social framework that must be considered when introducing new technologies.<br/
Exploring Brand Identity Creation of Female Athletes: The Case of Jennie Finch and Cat Osterman
No full textIn the context of human branding, athletes have become viable brands capable of providing empirical support for scholarly and industry endeavors. To add to our conceptual understanding of athlete branding and particularly in the context of female athletes, this qualitative case study investigated the brand identity creation and brand building strategies used by two female athletes, Jennie Finch and Cat Osterman, and their management teams to leverage their brand equity. Further, due to the gendered nature of sport, this case study assessed the perceived barriers female athletes face in the brand building process. Guided by brand identity theory and social role theory, interviews were conducted with Finch, Osterman, three female agents who manage female athletes��� brands, and four softball players from various levels of the softball community. Findings from this case study provide empirical support for using brand identity theory to assess the creation of an athlete���s brand identity and strategies for positioning, communicating, and leveraging the athlete���s brand.
Themes shaping brand identity creation included identifying core values, brand personality, and brand associations. Brand building strategies included positioning the brand, communicating the brand���s message, leveraging the brand���s equity, creating a unique selling proposition (USP), and brand longevity. Additionally, barriers identified specific to female athletes��� branding included an athlete���s performance is only part of the package, ban bossy female athletes, lack of consistent visibility, lack of strong brand associations in women���s sports, lack of assistance or guidance in managing a female athlete���s brand, and breaking barriers included strategies for overcoming barriers. A discussion examining the two cases of Finch and Osterman in the broader context of athlete branding is provided with support from extant literature on brand identity and branding literature. Finally, the academic and practitioner implications of this case study are provided as well as the limitations of this case study and suggestions for future research and practice
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