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Treasures of the University : an examination of the identification, presentation and responses to artefacts of significance at the University of St Andrews, from 1410 to the mid-19th century; with an additional consideration of the development of the portrait collection to the early 21st century
No full textSince its foundation between 1410 and 1414 the University of St Andrews has acquired what can be considered to be ‘artefacts of significance’. This somewhat nebulous phrase is used to denote items that have, for a variety of reasons, been deemed to have some special import by the University, and have been displayed or otherwise presented in a context in which this status has been made apparent.
The types of artefacts in which particular meaning has been vested during the centuries under consideration include items of silver and gold (including the maces, sacramental vessels of the Collegiate Church of St Salvator, collegiate plate and relics of the Silver Arrow archery competition); church and college furnishings; artworks (particularly portraits); sculpture; and ethnographic specimens and other items described in University records as ‘curiosities’ held in the University Library from c. 1700-1838.
The identification of particular artefacts as significant for certain reasons in certain periods, and their presentation and display, may to some extent reflect the University's values, preoccupations and aspirations in these periods, and, to some degree, its identity. Consciously or subconsciously, the objects can be employed or operate as signifiers of meaning, representing or reflecting matters such as the status, authority and history of the University, its breadth of learning and its interest and influence in spheres from science, art and world cultures to national affairs.
This thesis provides a comprehensive examination of the growth and development of the University's holdings of 'artefacts of significance' from its foundation to the mid-19th century, and in some cases (especially portraits) beyond this date. It also offers insights into how the University viewed and presented these items and what this reveals about the University of St Andrews, its identity, which changed and developed as the living institution evolved, and the impressions that it wished to project
St Andrews University Library in the eighteenth century : Scottish education and print-culture
No full textThe context of this thesis is the growth in size and significance of the St Andrews University Library, made possible by the University's entitlement, under the Copyright Acts between 1709 and 1836, to free copies of new publications. Chapter I shows how the University used its improving Library to present to clients and visitors an image of the University's social and intellectual ideology. Both medium and message in this case told of a migration into the printed book of the University's functions, intellectual, spiritual, and moral, a migration which was going forward likewise in the other Scottish universities and in Scottish culture at large. Chapters II and III chart that migration respectively in religious discourse and in moral education. This growing importance of the book prompted some Scottish professors to devise agencies other than consumer demand to control what was read in their universities and beyond, and indeed what was printed. Chapter IV reviews those devices, one of which was the subject Rhetoric, now being reformed to bring modern literature into its discipline. Chapter V argues that the new Rhetoric tended in fact to confirm the hegemony of print by turning literary study from a general literary apprenticeship into the specialist reading of canonical printed texts. That tendency was not without opposition. Chapter VI analyses the challenge from traditional oral culture as it was expressed in the marginalia added to the Library books at St Andrews University by its students, and argues that this dissident culture helped to form the voice of the poet Robert Fergusson while he was one of those students. Chapter VII goes on to show how Fergusson used that voice to warn his countrymen of the threat which print represented to their culture, and to show how it might be resisted in the interests of both literature and conviviality
Free space optical system performance for a Gaussian beam propagating through non Kolmogorov weak turbulence
No full textAtmospheric turbulence has been described for many years by Kolmogorov's power spectral density model because of its simplicity. Unfortunately several experiments have been reported recently that show Kolmogorov theory is sometimes incomplete to describe atmospheric statistics properly, in particular in portions of the troposphere and stratosphere. It is known that free space laser system performance is limited by atmospheric turbulence. In this paper we use a non-Kolmogorov power spectrum which uses a generalized exponent instead of constant standard exponent value 11/3 and a generalized amplitude factor instead of constant value 0.033. Using this spectrum in weak turbulence, we carry out, for a Gaussian beam propagating along a horizontal path, analysis of long term beam spread, scintillation, probability of fade, mean signal to noise ratio and mean bit error rate as variation of the spectrum exponent. Our theoretical results show that for alpha values lower than 11/3 , but not for alpha close to 3 , there is a remarkable increase of scintillation and consequently a major penalty on the system performance. However when alpha assumes values close to 3 or for alpha values higher than 11/3 scintillation decreases leading to an improvement on the system performanc
Oral History Interview with Lori Andrews
No full textThis interview with Lori Andrews is a part of “Moral Histories: Voice and Stories from the Founding Figures of Bioethics,” an oral history project of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. Lori Andrews is a Professor Emerita of Law at Chicago Kent College of Law. She is the author of a number of books, both non-fiction and fiction, including I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy and Immunity. Professor Andrews is known for her expertise regarding privacy with regards to reproductive and genetic technologies. She has served as an advisor to such organizations as the March of Dimes, the World Health Organization, the National Institutes of Health, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Andrews discusses growing up in the suburbs of Chicago and the formative experience of observing her sister’s interactions with the healthcare system. She reflects on important mentors, from her elementary school teacher who impressed upon her the importance of hands-on learning to graduate school mentors. She discusses her time at Yale Law School under the mentorship of Lowell Levin, where she began to combine public health studies with legal research projects. Andrews detailed her work on the legal and ethical implications of reproductive technologies, cloning, newborn screening laws, and medical errors, in which she advocated for informed consent and patient empowerment. She also highlighted her work on genetic testing and gene patents, particularly the landmark case against Myriad Genetics. Andrews criticized the increasing role of industry and private interests on bioethics committees, the hype around technological advancements, and the lack of regulation in reproductive technologies, particularly sperm banks. The interview ends with a broad discussion of privacy, including the impact of social media and the importance of interdisciplinary approaches in bioethics
Madaba Plains Project 5: The 1994 Season at Tall al-\u27Umayri and Subsequent Studies
No full textContents An overview of the 1994 season of the Madaba Plains Project at Tall al-ʻUmayri / Larry G. Herr -- Excavation and cumulative results / Larry G. Herr -- Field A: The Ammonite administrative complex (north) / John I. Lawlor -- Field B: The western defense system / Douglas R. Clark -- Field H: The southwest acropolis / David R. Berge, Lloyd A. Willis -- The pottery / Larry G. Herr -- The objects / Elizabeth E. Platt, Larry G. Herr -- Field K: The dolmen and other features on the south slopes of Tall al-ʻUmayri / Elzbieta Dubis, Bogdan Dabrowski -- Middle Bronz IIC chamber tomb: field K02 / Mariusz Górniak, Maryla Kapica -- Report on the human bones from Tall al-ʻUmayri, 1992-1996 / Joan W. Chase -- Metal objects / Elzbieta Dubis -- The inscribed seals / Larry G. Herr -- Seals and seal impressions from excavation seasons, 1984-2000 / Jürg Eggler, Larry G. Herr, Rhonda Root -- Early and late Bronze Age transitional subsistence at Tall al-ʻUmayri / Joris Peters, Nadja Pöllath, Angela von de Driesch -- Tribes and sedentarization of the Madaba Plains and central Jordan during the Iron I and Ottoman periods / Chang-Ho C. Ji -- The objects from the 1989 season / Larry G. Herr, Elizabeth E. Platt.https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/biblical-archaeology-books/1007/thumbnail.jp
C-3 Nursing Students’ Perception of the Nursing Educational Environment at Andrews University
No full textAim:
The aim of this study is to describe how nursing students perceive their educational environment using the Dundee Ready Educational Environment Measure (DREEM) questionnaire.
Objectives:
The objectives of this study are to measure the nursing students’ perception of their educational environment; and compare nursing students’ perception of educational environment within cohorts (sophomore, junior and senior).
Background and Rationale:
The educational environment of a nursing schools have different determinants which can affect the way a student performs in the school and some of these determinants are captured in the Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM) questionnaire (Roff 2005). The Nursing program at Andrews University went through decreasing enrollment. The university planned to make positive changes. A baseline measure will give reliable data to inform planned changes. The results gained from the present study could be used to implement changes in curricula and educational environment, which may therefore improve NCLEX passing rates, and improve the students’ perceptions of the nursing program.
Research Methodology:
This is a cross sectional research study utilizing a convenience sample of all students enrolled in the nursing program during Fall 2015 semester. DREEM questionnaire was utilized with permission from the author. Hard copies were given to students with implied consent on the front page. Completed copies submitted anonymously via sealed envelopes. The study received approval from Andrews University IRB. Total DREEM scores were compared across cohorts and subscale (domain) data analyzed using ANOVA (SPSS) to determine any significance (p = 0.05). DREEM is a quantitative assessment of five domains: Perceptions of Learning (PL); Perceptions of Teaching (PT); Academic Self –Perceptions (ASP); Perceptions of Atmosphere (PA); and Social Self-Perceptions (SSP).
Results:
A total of 39 students were surveyed. 16 sophomores, 8 juniors and 15 seniors. Total DREEM scores showed 20% of the senior students perceiving their educational environment as having lots of problems and it filtered through all the DREEM domains. For example, comparisons of scores revealed that the senior students significantly scored their social self-perception lower than the sophomores, F (2, 36) = 3.912, p =.03. Though not significant, 20% of seniors also perceived their academic atmosphere as having many issues. The perception of teaching was good across all cohorts with no significant difference. The students see the teachers as model teachers. 20% of the senior students have more negative perception of their learning while other cohorts had positive perceptions. Though there is no significant difference between cohorts, 31% of sophomores had a negative academic self-perception. In general, most students perceive their educational environment as positive. The senior cohort stands out in their negative perceptions of Andrews University’s educational environment.
Conclusion:
This study highlights the need to focus on the senior year of the nursing program. A detailed analysis of the experience of the senior year will help to reveal the factors causing dissatisfaction with the seniors especially in their social life. This is more important because students prepare for the NCLEX-RN and exit examinations during their senior year
A first survey of the global population size and distribution of the Scottish Crossbill Loxia scotica
No full text"The survey was part-financed by Scottish Natural Heritage"A survey of Scottish Crossbills Loxia scotica was carried out in 3,506 km2 of conifer woodland in northern Scotland during January to April 2008 to provide the first estimate of the global population size for this endemic bird. Population estimates were also made for Common Crossbills L. curvirostra and Parrot Crossbills L. pytyopsittacus within this range. Crossbills were lured to systematically selected survey points for counting, sexing and recording their calls for later call-type (species) identification from sonograms. Crossbills were located at 451 of the 852 survey points, and adequate tape-recordings made at 387 of these. The Scottish Crossbill had a disjunct distribution, occurring largely within the eastern part of the study area, but also in the northwest. Common Crossbills had a mainly westerly distribution. The population size of postjuvenile Scottish Crossbills was estimated as 13,600 (95%C.I. 8,130–22,700), which will approximate to 6,800 (4,065–11,350) pairs. Common Crossbills were more abundant within this range (27,100, 95% C.I. 14,700–38,400) and Parrot Crossbills rare (about 100). The sex ratio was not significantly different from parity for Scottish Crossbills. The modal number at survey points was two but numbers were larger in January than later in the survey. The numbers and distribution of all crossbill species are likely to vary between years, depending upon the size of the cone crops of the different conifers: all were coning in 2008. Common Crossbill and Parrot Crossbill numbers will also be affected by irruptions from continental Europe. A monitoring scheme is required to detect any population trend, and further work on their habitat requirement (e.g. conifer selection at different seasons) is needed to inform habitat management of native and planted conifer forests to ensure a secure future for this endemic bird.Peer reviewe
Trusting God’s Purposes: Theologian John Peckham on God’s Sovereignty, Evil, and Free Will
No full textThe Nov. 9 issue of WORLD includes editor in chief Marvin Olasky’s Q&A with John Peckham, the author of Theodicy of Love and professor of theology and Christian philosophy at Andrews University, discussing God’s goodness and the problem of evil. Here are more edited excerpts from that conversation, including questions from Patrick Henry College students
Slicing the Pie: A Discussion of Seminary Book Budget Allocation at Andrews University
No full textThe allocation of a materials budget is a challenge. This paper discusses a solution for Andrews University that accounts for the more specialized needs of Ph.D. students, even though the materials may see less usage
The inferior vena caval compression theory of hypotension in obstetric spinal anaesthesia: studies in normal and preeclamptic pregnancy, a literature review and revision of fundamental concepts
No full textFull metadata records and copyright statements for publications contained in this portfolio thesis are available at the identifiers listedThree clinical investigations together with a combined editorial and review of the cardiovascular physiology
of spinal anaesthesia in normal and preeclamptic pregnancy form the basis of a thesis to be submitted for the
degree of Doctor of Medicine at the University of St Andrews. First, the longstanding consensus that spinal
anaesthesia could cause severe hypotension in severe preeclampsia was examined using three approaches.
The doses of ephedrine required to maintain systolic blood pressure above predetermined limits were first
compared in spinal versus epidural anaesthesia. The doses of ephedrine required were then similarly studied
during spinal anaesthesia in preeclamptic versus normal control subjects. The principal outcome of these
studies, that preeclamptic patients were resistant to hypotension after a spinal anaesthetic, was then further
investigated by studying pulse transit time (PTT) changes in normal versus preeclamptic pregnancy. PTT
was explored both as beat-to-beat monitor of cardiovascular function and also as an indicator of changes in
arterial stiffness. The cardiovascular physiology of obstetric spinal anaesthesia was then reviewed in the light
of the three clinical investigations, developments in reproductive vascular biology and the regulation of
venous capacitance. It is argued that the theory of a role for vena caval compression as the single cause of
spinal anaesthetic induced hypotension in obstetrics should be revised
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