666 research outputs found
Review of \u3ci\u3eBirger Sandzen: An Illustrated Biography\u3c/i\u3e By Emory Lindquist
No full textIn Birger Sandzén Lindquist combines biography and art analysis. The first half of the book looks at Sandzen\u27s early years and his decades at Bethany College. After a rich section of forty-nine color plates, the author turns to an examination of the influences on his painting, his methods, the response of art critics, the graphic work, and Sandzen\u27s association with two friends as documented in correspondence. The overall result is a wellrounded picture of a positive adventurer, a regional painter whose work well deserves the recognition afforded it here
Does using SIOP (sheltered instruction observation protocol) help high school ELL students learn elementary mathematics?
No full textThe research question addressed in this project was, Does using SIOP (Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol) help high school ELL students learn elementary mathematics? It documents one teacher\u27s journey through creating a unique curriculum that incorporates the features of SIOP while addressing Minnesota state standards. The curriculum was developed based on Lindquist\u27s research into the methods that are successful in teaching English Language Learners. The author documents the details of the unit and uses related research literature to construct meaning and validate the study. She describes the struggles and successes of both writing and implementing the curriculum and concludes that: 1) SIOP implementation is time consuming when first adding it to lessons but leads to better student learning and 2) English Language Learners benefit from a curriculum that takes into account their unique learning situation and abilities
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Automethylation : a response to enzyme aging
No full textThis is the first study to explore the ability of an enzyme to recognize and repair
spontaneous age-dependent damage to its own sequence. Protein (D-aspartyl/L-isoaspartyl)
carboxyl methyltransferase (PCM) is known to repair damage that arises
from a spontaneous isomerization of aspartyl and asparaginyl residues in other proteins
during aging. As PCM contains several conserved aspartyl and asparaginyl residues, this
dissertation tested whether PCM can serve as a methyl acceptor in its own methylation
reaction.
In investigating the ability of PCM to automethylate, it was discovered that PCM
is damaged. The mechanism of this automethylation reaction was determined to be an
intermolecular, high affinity, slow turnover reaction and was limited to a subpopulation
of damaged PCM molecules, termed αPCM
The sublime, affective process + architectural production
No full textA year before Kate Nesbitt’s Theorising a New Agenda For Architecture (1996), the author penned a chapter on the significance of the sublime and its contribution to post-modern architecture via the uncanny or disturbing through the theories of Vidler and Eisenman (Nesbit, 1995). Twenty years on, we see its ongoing presence within the contemporary works of artists Kapoor, Ellison and Viola.\ud
Eisenmann and Libeskind aside, explicit reference to the Sublime whether through architectural praxis or theory appears to have been trumped by ecological derivatives and associated transactions, as catalyst for new architecture and architectural thinking.\ud
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For Edmund Burke (1757), the Sublime was seen as a leading, an overpowering of self to a state of intense self-presence, often leading to a state of otherness. To experience the sublime is to experience affect, physiologically overwhelming the mental faculties through intensities of astonishment, terror, obscurity, magnificence, and reverence. Key here is Burke’s articulation of the stages of the sublime encounter, particularly so, its implications for the process of production which architectural theorists appear to have overstepped in their valorisation of the sublime object.\ud
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This paper seeks to resituate the sublime within the context of architectural production. Through concepts such as material thinking, bodies and making strange, the paper explores a shift in focus toward affective processes traced from Burke’s inquiry. Rather than proposing strategies solely for affect within the work\ud
itself, the focus lies upon the designing experience, where blockage and desirous forces are critical partners in the process of production, as revealed through recent\ud
studio programs entitled Strange Space
A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach to Understanding Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms Following Two “Armed and Dangerous Person” University Lockdowns
No full textThe cognitive-behavioral approach is the prevailing framework for understanding the etiology of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The model proposes that a series of posttraumatic cognitions (i.e., maladaptive negative thoughts and beliefs related to a trauma) as well as avoidance coping behavior maintain PTSD. Although past research has found associations among posttraumatic cognitions, avoidance coping, and posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS), relatively little is known about the occurrence of these constructs following community-wide stressors, such as “armed and dangerous person” university lockdowns. The current study was designed to (a) test key tenants of the cognitive-behavioral model, and (b) to identify the characteristics of individuals among a campus community who exhibited greater PTSS following lockdowns. In the aftermath (2-6 weeks later) of two lockdowns, campus community members (N = 287; e.g., students, staff, and faculty) completed self-report measures assessing posttraumatic cognitions, avoidance coping, and PTSS. Results indicated that both posttraumatic cognitions and avoidance coping were positively associated with PTSS, with the former relationship remaining robust even after controlling for levels of general distress and peritraumatic fear. In particular, posttraumatic cognitions with negative views of oneself or the world (but not self-blame) were individually associated with PTSS. The cognitive-behavioral model appears to partially explain variability in PTSS severity, with negative appraisals of the trauma and its sequelae characterizing individuals with more severe PTSS. These findings provide additional paths for early screening of individuals experiencing distress following community-wide stressors, such as university lockdowns.Master of Art
Developing key industrial capabilities for Canadian defence small and medium enterprises: creating a competative defence industrial base
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Nearness and revealing : The edible veil of the sensible being.
No full textTaking cues from the fragility and grace enfolded within Asian cuisine, this paper explores recent experimentation of an edible rice paper veil. The veil fashions a 'secondary skin', what Jeffery Schnapp the author of 'The Fabric of Modern Times', calls an "object for prosthetic shelf extension...bearing a uniquely intimate and direct relation to the human body" (Schnapp, 1997:197). The process reveals a layered material mutable to moisture and humidity, changing its elastic state in relation to body and surroundings. The moving, breathing, sweating surface of the body further modifies both veil and bodily experience drawing forth deeper emotional responses. The implications here offer a reciprocal affect, a revealing, where new materiality evokes the threshold to a new sensible being, one aware of the depth of material consciousness and inter-corporeal engagement, and which extends the relations between thinking and being of Heidegger and Shklovsky's seminal works
From left-wing liberation army into a government : the challenges of transtion and the case of TPLF/EPRDF
No full textThe Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) is a reform rebellion that came to power in 1991 and continues to rule with varying level of success in accordance to its promises. This dissertation attempts to provide a full account of the evolution of the EPRDF government and challenges to its promised state building project, and seeks to explore the extent to which its early guiding philosophy and leadership evolved and shaped its transition to and performance as a government.
Understanding current gaps and limitations of the EPRDF in government and the key drivers for those is not possible without a comprehensive understanding of the genesis of the organization, its model of leadership and its institutional values. Unfortunately, very few and incomplete accounts of the liberation war are now available in writing as a result of the difficulties of the war environment. Accounts of the critical moments and decisions that shaped the internal institutional values and norms of the organization are mostly available in the memories of individual leaders who by now are at their retirement age and some are already passing away without writing their memoirs.
In researching and writing this dissertation, I brought a special perspective to bear as an author: I was a veteran of the armed struggle, a member of its leadership team during the revolutionary war, and played a role during the transitional government and its critical initial years in government. My role in the struggle is the strength and the limitation of this study.
The findings of the study show that it some of the critical success factors in the civil war have much to do with the EPRDF early organization and leadership philosophy that guided the movement through the different phases of its organizational growth, leading to maturity and eventual development into the governing political party. Understanding its wartime values and strategies helps understand not only the drivers for its successes in government but also its limitations.
The research examines the critical factors for the success of the rebellion in comparison to various contending rebellions that failed. It also chronicles the evolution of the EPRDF into a party that leads a government, its achievements and limitations. It also illustrates how the behavior of the organization and its model of leadership evolved in government. The evolution of the leadership is chronicled along the different phases of in war and in government. Analyzing the economic and political model of the organization is not the focus of the research and will only be covered as much as it helped understand the leadership model, which the researcher considered to be at the center of its successes and limitations.
The research places the EPRDF rebellion and government in a comparative theoretical context of African rebellions, civil wars, and transitions to democracy. It argues that the EPRDF represents an important and under-recognized case that demands a revision to the dominant paradigms on African liberation movements and their transition into government. The EPRDF case shows the limitation of the taxonomy of reform rebellions as it overlooks critical variations that shaped its internal behavior. The impact of its particular organizing philosophy of restructuring the Ethiopian state and its leadership culture of theorizing in particular played an important role in shaping its internal behavior. The study also highlights the limitation of the literature in understanding the ‘stateness’ of violent non-state actors and its impacts in their transition to a ruling party. The ERPDF’s high level of ‘stateness’ has contributed significantly to its transition from leading a war into leading a government.Graduate2019-06-2
MINDING THE BODY: THE ROLE OF INTEROCEPTION IN LINKING PHYSIOLOGY AND EMOTION DURING ACUTE STRESS
No full textAffective science has long recognized that emotional experiences are accompanied by physiological concomitants. Although evidence suggests that objective physiological changes do indeed shape affect, findings are often inconsistent. One reason for these inconsistencies might be that more subjective processes—such as people’s beliefs and self-construals about their internal bodily or interoceptive experiences—may be more proximal influencers of affective experience than objective physiological indices. Yet little work compares how subjective dimensions of interoception matter for affective experience relative to individuals’ physiological changes or objective access to said physiology (i.e., interoceptive ability). In this dissertation, healthy young adults (N=250) completed the Trier Social Stress Task with cardiac psychophysiology indices measured before, during, and after the stressor. Immediately after the stressor, individuals reported the kinds and intensity of emotions and somatic sensations they felt. At a prior session, participants completed measures of interoceptive ability, sensibility, and beliefs. Using factor analyses, latent variable structural equation modeling, and hierarchical regressions, I found that physiological reactivity, interoceptive ability, and interoceptive beliefs all mattered for individuals’ acute stress experience. Physiological reactivity was associated with more intense stress experiences, whereas both interoceptive ability and beliefs appeared to buffer against intense stress experiences. Interoceptive sensibility was unrelated to acute stress experiences. Importantly, consistent with constructionist and active inference hypotheses that “interoceptive priors” might play a crucial role in shaping subjective experience, interoceptive beliefs showed the most consistent and powerful effect sizes in relation to people’s subjective stress responses. Implications for emotion theory, interoceptive science, psychopathology, development, and health are discussed.Doctor of Philosoph
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