85 research outputs found
Consent of the Governed: Thomas Jefferson’s Relationship with Sally Hemings
No full textMany are familiar with Thomas Jefferson’s concubinage of his slave, Sally Hemings. What few realize, however, is the consequence this holds for Jefferson’s reputation and the credibility of his vision of the perfect Union.
Author information: Carley Johansson is a 2018 graduate from the University of Missouri – Columbia, where she received her Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies with an emphasis in Women’s and Gender Studies, two minors in Biological Sciences and American Constitutional Democracy, and a Multicultural Certificate
Fostering science literacy, environmental stewardship, and collaboration: assessing a garden-based approach to teaching life science
No full textRecently, schools nationwide have expressed a renewed interest in school gardens (California School Garden Network, 2010), viewing them as innovative educational tools. Most of the scant studies on these settings investigate the health/nutritional impacts, environmental attitudes, or emotional dispositions of students. However, few studies examine the science learning potential of a school garden from an informal learning perspective. Those studies that do examine learning emphasize individual learning of traditional school content (math, science, etc.) (Blaire, 2009; Dirks & Orvis, 2005; Klemmer, Waliczek & Zajicek, 2005a & b; Smith & Mostenbocker, 2005). My study sought to demonstrate the value of school garden learning through a focus on measures of learning typically associated with traditional learning environments, as well as informal learning environments. Grounded in situated, experiential, and contextual model of learning theories, the purpose of this case study was to examine the impacts of a school garden program at a K-3 elementary school. Results from pre/post tests, pre/post surveys, interviews, recorded student conversations, and student work reveal a number of affordances, including science learning, cross-curricular lessons in an authentic setting, a sense of school community, and positive shifts in attitude toward nature and working collaboratively with other students. I also analyzed this garden-based unit as a type curriculum reform in one school in an effort to explore issues of implementing effective practices in schools. Facilitators and barriers to implementing a garden-based science curriculum at a K-3 elementary school are discussed. Participants reported a number of implementation processes necessary for success: leadership, vision, and material, human, and social resources. However, in spite of facilitators, teachers reported barriers to implementing the garden-based curriculum, specifically lack of time and content knowledge.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Carley B. Fisher-Maltes
Derivational Suffixes Analysis Found in “Every Summer After” Novel by Carley Fortune
No full textThis study specifically concentrated on conducting an in-depth analysis of the various types of derivational suffixes. Derivational affixes were one of the most interesting topics to analyze, as they influence the formation of words from simple to complex ones. The data used in this analysis was sourced from the novel "Every Summer After" by the esteemed author Carley Fortune. Carley Fortune is a #1 Canadian national bestseller and has been honored with an award for her exceptional work as a journalist and author. This data was meticulously examined through the application of a qualitative analytical method. The research findings have been thoroughly explored using both formal and informal explanations. The analysis was based on Plag's theory (2003) and supported theory up by Carstairs-Mccarthy's theory (2002). This comprehensive approach helped in understand the findings in depth. This comprehensive linguistic analysis of the novel meticulously identified four distinct types of derivational suffixes: nominal, verbal, adjectival, and adverbial. The results revealed a notable prevalence of nominal suffixes, a total of 249 instances, and a smaller number of verbal suffixes, amounting to just 3 instances. Furthermore, this study found 96 instances of nominal suffixes, 86 instances of adverbial suffixes, and 64 instances of adjectival suffixes in the text. This thorough analysis provides a detailed examination of the intricate language intricacies found within Fortune's novel. Furthermore, it enhances the overall understanding of how derivational morphology is utilized in contemporary literature
Silent Conflict : a Hidden History of Early Soviet-Western Relations /
No full text"This deeply informed book traces the dramatic history of early Soviet-western relations after World War I. Michael Jabara Carley provides a lively exploration of the formative years of Soviet foreign policy making after the Bolshevik Revolution, especially focusing on Soviet relations with the West during the 1920s. Carley demonstrates beyond doubt that this seminal period--termed the 'silent conflict' by one Soviet diplomat--launched the Cold War. He shows that Soviet-western relations, at best grudging and mistrustful, were almost always hostile. Concentrating on the major western powers--Germany, France, Great Britain, and the United States--the author also examines the ongoing political upheaval in China that began with the May Fourth Movement in 1919 as a critical influence on western-Soviet relations. Carley draws on twenty-five years of research in recently declassified Soviet and western archives to present an authoritative history of the foreign policy of the Soviet state. From the earliest days of the Bolshevik Revolution, deeply anti-communist western powers attempted to overthrow the newly formed Soviet government. As the weaker party, Soviet Russia waged war when it had to, but it preferred negotiations and agreements with the West rather than armed confrontation. Equally embattled by internal struggles for power after the death of V.I. Lenin, the Soviet government was torn between its revolutionary ideals and the pragmatic need to come to terms with its capitalist adversaries. The West too had its ideologues and pragmatists. This illuminating window into the overt and covert struggle and ultimate standoff between the USSR and the West during the 1920s will be invaluable for all readers interested in the formative years of the Cold War."--Jacket.Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-429) and index."This deeply informed book traces the dramatic history of early Soviet-western relations after World War I. Michael Jabara Carley provides a lively exploration of the formative years of Soviet foreign policy making after the Bolshevik Revolution, especially focusing on Soviet relations with the West during the 1920s. Carley demonstrates beyond doubt that this seminal period--termed the 'silent conflict' by one Soviet diplomat--launched the Cold War. He shows that Soviet-western relations, at best grudging and mistrustful, were almost always hostile. Concentrating on the major western powers--Germany, France, Great Britain, and the United States--the author also examines the ongoing political upheaval in China that began with the May Fourth Movement in 1919 as a critical influence on western-Soviet relations. Carley draws on twenty-five years of research in recently declassified Soviet and western archives to present an authoritative history of the foreign policy of the Soviet state. From the earliest days of the Bolshevik Revolution, deeply anti-communist western powers attempted to overthrow the newly formed Soviet government. As the weaker party, Soviet Russia waged war when it had to, but it preferred negotiations and agreements with the West rather than armed confrontation. Equally embattled by internal struggles for power after the death of V.I. Lenin, the Soviet government was torn between its revolutionary ideals and the pragmatic need to come to terms with its capitalist adversaries. The West too had its ideologues and pragmatists. This illuminating window into the overt and covert struggle and ultimate standoff between the USSR and the West during the 1920s will be invaluable for all readers interested in the formative years of the Cold War."--Jacket
Analyzing social media in escalating crisis situations
No full textThe rapid diffusion of information and opinions through social media, such as web forums and micro-blogs, is affecting the development of crisis situations, such as the Iranian presidential election, the Egyptian protest, and the ROKS Cheonan sinking. Understanding this rapid widespread diffusion, and assessing what information is spreading, what ideas are becoming common, and who is talking about what, is critical for crisis management. This paper presents a computational system for social media assessing the flow of ideas on the web and changes in who is talking about what. This system, given raw social media data, identifies the key topics, the key paths by which topics evolve, the key individuals who contribute to the topic, and the key influence relations between the contributors. We present this system implemented with the Author-Topic model, the meta-network model, and various computational techniques to find and filter the heavy contributors and influences. We demonstrate the performance of the system, by applying it to social media data surrounding the ROKS Cheonan sinking. We describe the results of assessing the initial and changing perceptions of the event using this system
The “Ezra Scroll” of Bologna in the Crossfire of the Royal Divorce: John Fisher, Robert Wakefield and an Erased Text
No full textAs it is well known, the Sefer Torah, attributed to Ezra, preserved at the University Library in Bologna, the most ancient dated Biblical Scroll in existence, has been "corrected" in a passage (Leviticus 18,16-20) by erasing the verses which were most debated during the discussions concerning the "Royal Divorce" or rather the debates concerning the validity of Henry Tudor's marriage to Katherine of Aragon, allowed by Pope Julius II in spite of the Biblical prohibition to marry one's sister-in-law. The context of the erasure, situated, as it argued in the article, was the coronation of the Emperor Charles V in Bologna, when not only the Pope Clemens VII was in town, but also a large number of British envoys. It was not possible to identify the author of the erasure, but the presence of the British envoys at the convent of Saint Dominic, where the scroll was preserved, was registered by the Dominican friar Ludovico da Pralormo. The role of the Hebraist Robert Wakefield and of his teacher John Fisher are elucidated as the possible erudite instigators of that prophanation
Establishing Naturalized Areas in Managed Turfgrass Systems in North Carolina to Evaluate Their Potential to Offset the Effects of Urbanization and Support Biodiverse Pollinator Communities.
No full textPan-Canadian oncology symptom triage and remote support (COSTaRS) practice guides: What’s changed in version 2020?
No full textThe pan-Canadian Oncology Symptom Triage and Remote
Support (COSTaRS) practice guides present evidence on symptom
management in user-friendly formats and using plain language.
The aim of this work is to summarize changes to the practice guides
based on new evidence including management specific to immune
checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs). A systematic review of literature was
conducted to identify clinical practice guidelines and systematic
reviews. For version 2020, there is new evidence from 86 sources
(range 2–16; mean 9 per guide), including 14 specific to ICIs, and
we removed 21 outdated sources. The 15 COSTaRS practice guides
were updated and 2 new guides created for mouth dryness and skin
rash. The National Cancer Institute's common terminology criteria
for adverse events (NCI-CTCAE) grading was added to the assessment results. “Review self-care strategies” was changed to “Review
3 or more self-care strategies”. There were changes based on new
evidence and ensuring consistency across practice guides. The 2020
update was validated by oncology nurses from across Canada
Constraining chance: Chance as a creative catalyst in architectural design
No full textFull text is available to authenticated members of The University of Auckland only.The OuLiPo or ‘Workshop for Potential Literature’ were an avant garde coalition of authors, mathematicians and poets who sought ‘complete control’ of the writing process via the use of writing constraints allowing them to stretch convention, create new forms of literature and veil the author from preconception. Many of their works utilised the generative potential of chance through the use of aleatory yet systematic structures and exercises.This thesis proposes the utilisation of this form of ‘controlled chance’ as a way to invigorate the design process, catalyse creativity and break the habits of the designer. By looking closely at the OuLiPo author, Georges Perec, and his 1978 novel “Life a User’s Manual” this thesis transposes some of his constraints from literature into the discipline of architecture and employs them in the design of an apartment building in downtown Auckland
Evaluation of an educational program for nurses providing cancer symptom management: The pan-Canadian Oncology Symptom Triage and Remote Support Online Tutorial
No full textPurpose: To evaluate the acceptability of the pan-Canadian
Oncology Symptom Triage and Remote Support (COSTaRS)
open-access online tutorial and its impact on nurses’ knowledge
and perceived confidence in symptom management.
Methods: Retrospective pre-/post-test evaluation of nurses who completed the tutorial knowledge test and/or acceptability survey. The
tutorial was modeled after the previously evaluated in-person workshop to prepare nurses providing cancer symptom management
using COSTaRS practice guides.
Results: From 2017–2021, 743 nurses completed the knowledge test,
and 749 nurses evaluated the tutorial. Mean knowledge score was
4.4/6 and 83% of participants achieved passing scores. Compared
to pre-tutorial, nurses improved their perceived confidence in assessing, triaging, guiding patients in self-care (p<0.001), and ability to
use the COSTaRS guides (p<0.001). Nurses rated the tutorial as
easy to understand (95%), just the right amount of information
(92%), providing new information (75%), overall good to excellent
(89%), and would recommend it to others (83%).
Conclusions: More than 700 nurses accessed the tutorial. After
completion, nurses demonstrated good knowledge and improved
perceived confidence in cancer symptom management.Gail Macartney is part of the COSTaRS research group in Acknowledgments of the articl
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