4,590 research outputs found
Responding to Literature Through Student–Author Interviews: Eighth-Grade Students Challenge Chris Crowe’s Mississippi Trial, 1955
No full textThis study explores virtual, student–author interviews eighth-grade students led with Chris Crowe in response to his young adult novel Mississippi Trial, 1955. The opportunity to interview the author motivated students to read the novel. Through their text-world development, students connected with the fictional and nonfictional characters, Hiram Hillburn and Emmett Till, respectively. Through their critical reader-responses, students sought truth about Emmett Till’s case as they questioned Crowe about the choices he made as an author and researcher, which supported students’ understanding of character development and historical significance of Emmett Till’s case. Crowe’s answers to the students’ critical questions were not easy, but through the student–author interview preparation and implementation process, participants captured a shared understanding of Emmett Till’s case and how its connection to the U.S. civil rights movement impacted history and is pertinent today. Ultimately, this article advocates for reader-response pedagogy to include virtual or in-person student–author interviews
Cross-linguistic consonant acquisition (McLeod & Crowe, 2018)
No full textPurpose: The aim of this study was to provide a cross-linguistic review of acquisition of consonant phonemes to inform speech-language pathologists’ expectations of children’s developmental capacity by (a) identifying characteristics of studies of consonant acquisition, (b) describing general principles of consonant acquisition, and (c) providing case studies for English, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish.Method: A cross-linguistic review was undertaken of 60 articles describing 64 studies of consonant acquisition by 26,007 children from 31 countries in 27 languages: Afrikaans, Arabic, Cantonese, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Jamaican Creole, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Maltese, Mandarin (Putonghua), Portuguese, Setswana (Tswana), Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Turkish, and Xhosa.Results: Most studies were cross-sectional and examined single word production. Combining data from 27 languages, most of the world’s consonants were acquired by 5;0 years; months old. By 5;0, children produced at least 93% of consonants correctly. Plosives, nasals, and nonpulmonic consonants (e.g., clicks) were acquired earlier than trills, flaps, fricatives, and affricates. Most labial, pharyngeal, and posterior lingual consonants were acquired earlier than consonants with anterior tongue placement. However, there was an interaction between place and manner where plosives and nasals produced with anterior tongue placement were acquired earlier than anterior trills, fricatives, and affricates.Conclusions: Children across the world acquire consonants at a young age. Five-year-old children have acquired most consonants within their ambient language; however, individual variability should be considered.Supplemental Material S1. Average age of acquisition of pulmonic and nonpulmonic consonants across studies.Supplemental Material S2. Mean age (in months) of acquisition of consonant phonemes across all languages organized by manner of articulation using 75–85% and 90–100% criteria. Reprinted with permission from McLeod and Crowe (2018).Supplemental Material S3. Mean age of acquisition of pulmonic consonant phonemes in months across all languages organized by place of articulation using 75–85% and 90–100% criteria. Reprinted with permission from McLeod and Crowe (2018).McLeod, S., & Crowe, K. (2018). Children's consonant acquisition in 27 languages: A cross-linguistic review. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1044/2018_AJSLP-17-0100</div
A transpersonal model of music therapy: Deepening practice (Crowe)
No full textThis is a review of the book "A transpersonal model of music therapy: Deepening practice" authored by Barbara Crowe.
Title: A transpersonal model of music therapy: Deepening practice Author: Barbara Crowe Publication year: 2017 Publisher: Barcelona Publishers Pages: 218 ISBN: 978194541126
Interactive effects of losing key grazers and ecosystem engineers vary with environmental context
No full textLoss of biodiversity may cause significant changes to ecosystem structure and functioning. Evidence from long-term in situ removal experiments is rare but important in determining the effects of biodiversity loss against a background of environmental variation. Limpets and mussels are thought to be important in controlling community structure on wave-exposed shores in the UK: limpets as key grazers, mussels as ecosystem engineers. A long-term factorial removal experiment revealed interactive effects that varied between 2 shores in SW England. At one site (Harlyn), removing limpets caused a significant shift in community structure, but where limpets were lost, the presence or absence of mussels made little difference. Where limpets were present, however, the removal of mussels changed the structure and variability of the community. At the other site (Polzeath), the loss of mussels caused significant changes in community structure, and limpets played a less important role. At Harlyn, fucoid algae were abundant throughout the year. There were fewer algae at Polzeath, and cover was dominated by the summer bloom of ephemerals. At Harlyn, the limpets played a major role in controlling algae, but their effects were mediated by the presence of mussels. Other grazers were not able to fulfil their role. At Polzeath, mussels were far more important, and ephemeral algae grew on them regardless of the presence or loss of limpets. These findings emphasise the need to assess spatial and temporal variation in the effects of biodiversity loss and the importance of interactive effects of loss of multiple species from different functional groups
Catherine Crowe: Gender, Genre, and Radical Politics
No full textThis is the first full-length study of the popular Victorian writer Catherine Crowe (1790–1872). Crowe is increasingly being recognised as an important and influential figure in the literary and Spiritualist circles of the nineteenth century. This monograph offers a reassessment of her major works, arguing that her writing was prescient. Best known today for her collection of “real” ghost tales The Night Side of Nature: Or Ghosts and Ghost Seers, Crowe also wrote five popular novels, as well as numerous short stories and essays. Innovative and sometimes original in their use of genre, her works covered the Newgate genre, helped to
initiate detective fiction, included elements of the social problem novels of the 1840s, and pointed the way to the Sensation novels of the 1860s.
Politically radical in many ways, Crowe was vocal about women’s oppression by men, social inequality, poverty, slavery, and animal rights.
This volume aims to restore an author who was once famous and lauded to her proper place in the scholarly discussion of Victorian literature
Taxonomy, phylogenetic and biogeographical relationships of African grassland Francolins (Genus: Scleroptila)
No full textBibliography: leaves 23-28.The potential for using a combination of molecular and whole-organismal data has opened up new avenues for avian taxonomy, phylogenetics and biogeography. Such a multifaceted approach is used here to identify diagnosable taxa within the Orange River Francolin Scleroptila levaillanloides species complex and resolve evolutionary relationships between these taxa and other mono-and polytypic forms within the Red-winged Group of francolins (= genus Scleroplila sensli lalo). Mitochondrial cytochrome-b DNA sequence data (±250 b.p.) from 50 individuals and 19 morphological characters extracted from reports in published literature were employed to achieve these aims. These characters were analysed separately and also in combination using maximum parsimony (DNA sequences and organismal data), maximum likelihood (DNA sequences) and distance (DNA sequences) analyses. Monophyly of the Red-winged Group plus the Ring-necked Francolin Dendroperdix slreptophorus was supported by all the analyses (bootstrap support ranged from 50%-94%) except distance analysis. The Orange River Francolin complex was found to be non-monophyletic. Two distinct clades were identified, one comprising taxa from southwestern and the other from northeastern Africa. Morphological analysis yielded a distinct clade of the southwestern Orange River Francolin. The other polytypic species and assemblages thereof show poor resolution. The results of this study clearly demonstrate a need for further assessment of the taxonomic status of Scleroptila spp. and their phylogenetic relationships
Experimental and theoretical (e, 2e) studies of argon (3p) ionization in asymmetric geometry
No full textM Stevenson, G J Leighton, A Crowe, K Bartschat, O K Vorov and D H Madiso
Catherine Crowe: The freethinking nineteenth-century "medium" of science, fiction, and reform
No full textCatherine Crowe was a nineteenth-century British woman writing bestselling sensational fiction featuring amateur female detectives at the same moment as Edgar Allan Poe. However, her contributions to the establishment of detective fiction and other genres and movements has, until recent decades, been largely forgotten. This dissertation uses actor-network theory to investigate facets of Crowe’s unconventional life, career, influences, and legacy which have hitherto been obscured due to archival limitations and the attempts of several powerful journal editors to silence her public promotion of unorthodox egalitarian beliefs about women and science. Specifically, this study seeks to help restore Crowe to the historical record in the following ways. Chapter one explores some early influences whose intellectual and practical support helped launch her career and shape the ideas about women’s intellectual and economic independence she espouses in her fiction. Chapter two considers the ways Crowe and another woman in her science-minded reformist network, Harriet Martineau, sought to use their fiction as learning technologies to bring scientific instruction to readers otherwise excluded from scientific education. Chapter three explores Crowe’s role in fanning the flames of the British Spiritualist and American abolition movements and the ways she was punished by Charles Dickens, John Elliotson, and other men with scientific investments and literary connections for promoting her egalitarian scientific beliefs. Chapter four revises the persistent misconception that Crowe’s career effectively ended in 1854 and explores the ways her network aided her in returning to publishing: this final chapter considers the ways she responded to her detractors and continued boldly espousing her freethinking scientific beliefs in several late-career works which, I argue, are some of her most important. Ultimately, this study seeks to demonstrate the role Catherine Crowe played within her network to help shape several important nineteenth-century literary, reform, and scientific movements
The Night Side of Nature
No full textThe novelist and children's author Catherine Crowe (c.1800–1876) published The Night Side of Nature in two volumes in 1848. This lively collection of ghostly sketches and anecdotes was a Victorian best-seller and Crowe's most popular work. Sixteen editions appeared in six years, and it was translated into several European languages. The stories are intertwined with Crowe's own interpretations and commentaries which attack the scepticism of enlightenment thought and orthodox religion. Crowe seeks instead to encourage and re-invigorate a sense of wonder and mystery in life by emphasising the supernatural. The stories in Volume 1 centre on dreams, psychic presentiments, traces, wraiths, doppelgängers, apparitions, and imaginings of the after-life. Crowe's vivid tales, written with great energy and imagination, are classic examples of nineteenth-century spiritualist writing and strongly influenced other authors as well as providing inspiration for later adherents of ghost-seeing and psychic culture.</jats:p
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