885 research outputs found
Melissa Fay Greene, 20th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textMelissa Fay Greene has twice been a National Book Award finalist and has won the Southern Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, the Lillian Smith Award, the Chicago Tribune Hartland Prize, the QPB New Voices Award, and the Georgia Author of the Year Award. She is author of Praying for Sheetrock, the story of the political awakening of the rural African-American community of Coastal McIntosh County and the downfall of the corrupt courthouse gang, and The Temple Bombing, about the attack on an Atlanta synagogue in October of 1958
Encouraging the use of evaluation recommendations: a case study in a division of general medical practice
No full textDeposited with permission of the author. © 2002 Dr. Fay KohnThis is an investigative study, which aims at gaining a better understanding of how recommendations are utilized. The recommendations were derived from a Needs Assessment of General Practitioner needs within a Division of General Practice in the State of Victoria, Australia. It aimed at discovering how committees of General Practitioners made decisions and what factors influenced the utilisation of these recommendations.
This study was timely as the role of Divisions of General Practice were changing and Divisions were required to address the needs of the General Practitioners in their area and include this in their strategic and business plans. There was also a gap in the literature on recommendations in understanding what influences the utilisation of some recommendations and not others.
A qualitative research approach was used, as this would provide a vast descriptive knowledge not otherwise achievable. Documents pertaining to the background, structure and management of the Division were searched to become familiar with the setting. After the initial Needs Assessment the recommendations were presented to three committees of the Western Melbourne Division of General Practice, the Education and Training Committee, the Public Relations Committee and the Information Technology Committee. Members were initially asked to reflect on the recommendations according to certain criteria. The qualitative research involved spending one year as a non-participant observer and analyzing the field notes as well as conducting interviews with the committee members one year after presenting the recommendations.
Theorists have presented a range of factors to assist and explain utilisation. The findings have shown that the evaluator and the evaluation as well as other factors affect utilisation. Although General Practitioners are a defensive group to work with a high level of utilisation was achieved. Ultimately they liked working with the evaluator, and saw this as a positive initiative. Factors like cost and committee preference were noted in affecting use. This study has shown the importance of continued involvement with an organisation in implementing findings
Fay Weldon: bliss is.. editing
No full textFor acclaimed author Fay Weldon the bliss of editing comes after the labour of invention; the close, concentrated, rewarding work of changing this word for that, that semi-colon for this full stop. The text springs to life
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No full textA Novel by Larry Brown (Algonquin Books hardcover, 14.00, ISBN: 0743205383; 4/2001) The search for love and family has seldom been portrayed with such harsh realism as in this almost literally stunning fourth novel by the highly acclaimed Mississippi author. Brown\u27s first substantial female protagonist, Fay Jones, is a 17-year-old virginal beauty who runs away from her mean and drunken father and impoverished family (migrant workers camped near Oxford, Mississippi) in a vividly detailed opening sequence that recalls the beginning of Faulkner\u27s classic Light in August. Fay is a complete innocent, can scarcely read, has never seen a movie or used a pay phone. State trooper Sam Harris finds her hitchhiking and brings her home, where his wife Amy (still grieving over the accidental death of their teenaged daughter) essentially adopts her. But a chain of bizarre coincidences ends this idyllic family relationship, and Fay is soon on the road again, now pregnant, and easy prey (as she moves south, to Biloxi) for a hard-bitten waitress who pushes her toward stripping, then for easygoing Aaron Forrest, who turns out to be an unstable drug dealer. The story builds terrific momentum as things continue to go hopelessly wrong for Fay. She leaves Aaron, attempting to return to Sam, and the three converge in a skillfully deployed and violent finale that confirms Brown\u27s close kinship both with crime novelist Jim Thompson and with that underrated master of literate southern melodrama, Erskine Caldwell. The novel is probably too long, and it goes egregiously over the top at least once (in depicting an airplane pilot\u27s fate). But it\u27s filled with spare, precise, musical, observantly detailed prose and hair-raising extended scenes (an account of the effort to rescue a gas-truck driver from a flaming wreck is a piece of action writing few contemporary authors could match). Fay herself is an intensely real character, and Brown (Father and Son, 1996, etc.) tells her lurid, sorrowful story magnificently. Close to a masterpiece. ―Copyright ©2000, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/mwp_books/1120/thumbnail.jp
Development and leadership in computer-mediated collaborative groups
No full textComputer-mediated collaboration is an important feature of modern organisational and educational settings. Despite its ever increasing popularity, it is still commonly compared unfavourably with face-to-face collaboration because non-verbal and paralinguistic cues are minimal. Although research on face-to-face group collaboration is well documented, less is known about computer-mediated collaboration.
The initial focus of this thesis was an in-depth analysis of a case study of a computer-mediated collaborative group. The case study was a large international group of volunteer researchers who collaborated on a two-year research project using asynchronous communication (email). This case study was a window on collaborative dialogue in the early 1990s (1992-94) at a time when information and communication technologies were at an early stage of development.
After identifying the issues emerging from this early case study, another case study using technologies and virtual environments developed over the past decade, was designed to further understand how groups work together on a collaborative activity. The second case study was a small group of students enrolled in a unit of study at Murdoch University who collaborated on a series of nine online workshops using synchronous communication (chat room). This case study was a window on collaborative dialogue in the year 2000 when information and communication technologies had developed at a rate which few people envisioned in the early 90s.
The primary aim of the research described in this thesis was to gain a better understanding of how computer-mediated collaborative communities develop and grow. In particular, the thesis addresses questions related to the developmental and leadership characteristics of collaborative groups.
Internet research requires a set of assumptions relating to ontology, epistemology, human nature and methodological approach that differs from traditional research assumptions. A research framework for Internet research - Complementary Explorative Data Analysis (CEDA) - was therefore developed and applied to the two case studies.
The results of the two case studies using the CEDA methodology indicate that computer-mediated collaborative groups are highly adaptive to the aim of the collaborative task to be completed, and the medium in which they collaborate. In the organisational setting, it has been found that virtual teams can devise and complete a collaborative task entirely online. It may be an advantage, but it is certainly not mandatory to have preliminary face-to-face discussions. What is more important is to ensure that time is allowed for an initial period of structuration which involves social interaction to develop a social presence and eventually cohesiveness. In the educational setting, a collaborative community increases pedagogical effectiveness. Providing collaborative projects and interdependent tasks promotes constructivist learning and a strong foundation for understanding how to collaborate in the global workplace. Again, this research has demonstrated that students can collaborate entirely online, although more pedagogical scaffolding may be required than in the organisational setting. The importance of initial social interaction to foster a sense of presence and community in a mediated environment has also been highlighted.
This research also provided greater understanding of emergent leadership in computer-mediated collaborative groups. It was found that sheer volume of words does not make a leader but frequent messages with topic-related content does contribute to leadership qualities.
The results described in this thesis have practical implications for managers of virtual teams and educators in e-learning
Klezmer Klassica / Alexander Krein Op.12:"Jewish Sketches" Movement 2
No full textKlezmer Klassica explores the richly generative but often un(der)explored meeting point of Western ‘classical’ music and Jewish ‘folk’ music, musical encounters against a complex historical, cultural, and political backdrop. Conceived by Richard Fay and Daniel Mawson, the Klezmer Klassica chamber ensemble explores this rich musical vein through fresh interpretations of pieces by composers both well-known (Bloch, Prokofiev, Shostakovich) and less well-known (Achron, Chajes, Gnessin, Saminsky, Wolfsohn), as well as by living composers (Cravitz, Fay, Kohn, Mawson)
Klezmer Klassica / Alexander Krein Op.12:"Jewish Sketches" Movement 1
No full textKlezmer Klassica explores the richly generative but often un(der)explored meeting point of Western ‘classical’ music and Jewish ‘folk’ music, musical encounters against a complex historical, cultural, and political backdrop. Conceived by Richard Fay and Daniel Mawson, the Klezmer Klassica chamber ensemble explores this rich musical vein through fresh interpretations of pieces by composers both well-known (Bloch, Prokofiev, Shostakovich) and less well-known (Achron, Chajes, Gnessin, Saminsky, Wolfsohn), as well as by living composers (Cravitz, Fay, Kohn, Mawson)
Klezmer Klassica / Alexander Krein Op.12:"Jewish Sketches" Movement 2
No full textKlezmer Klassica explores the richly generative but often un(der)explored meeting point of Western ‘classical’ music and Jewish ‘folk’ music, musical encounters against a complex historical, cultural, and political backdrop. Conceived by Richard Fay and Daniel Mawson, the Klezmer Klassica chamber ensemble explores this rich musical vein through fresh interpretations of pieces by composers both well-known (Bloch, Prokofiev, Shostakovich) and less well-known (Achron, Chajes, Gnessin, Saminsky, Wolfsohn), as well as by living composers (Cravitz, Fay, Kohn, Mawson)
Klezmer Klassica / Alexander Krein Op.12:"Jewish Sketches" Movement 1
No full textKlezmer Klassica explores the richly generative but often un(der)explored meeting point of Western ‘classical’ music and Jewish ‘folk’ music, musical encounters against a complex historical, cultural, and political backdrop. Conceived by Richard Fay and Daniel Mawson, the Klezmer Klassica chamber ensemble explores this rich musical vein through fresh interpretations of pieces by composers both well-known (Bloch, Prokofiev, Shostakovich) and less well-known (Achron, Chajes, Gnessin, Saminsky, Wolfsohn), as well as by living composers (Cravitz, Fay, Kohn, Mawson)
Klezmer Klassica / Alexander Krein Op.12:"Jewish Sketches" Movement 3
No full textKlezmer Klassica explores the richly generative but often un(der)explored meeting point of Western ‘classical’ music and Jewish ‘folk’ music, musical encounters against a complex historical, cultural, and political backdrop. Conceived by Richard Fay and Daniel Mawson, the Klezmer Klassica chamber ensemble explores this rich musical vein through fresh interpretations of pieces by composers both well-known (Bloch, Prokofiev, Shostakovich) and less well-known (Achron, Chajes, Gnessin, Saminsky, Wolfsohn), as well as by living composers (Cravitz, Fay, Kohn, Mawson).<br/
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