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Mothers’ perceptions of the climate of their children’s schools: Covariations with children’s academic adjustment in families of Mexican origin
No full textAlthough Latinx parents’ perceptions of the climate of their children’s schools may play a role in their children’s academic adjustment, research examining this idea has been sparse. Every 2 years beginning when their children were in 5th grade until they were in 11th grade, Mexican-origin mothers (N = 674) reported on their perceptions of the climate of their children’s schools; information on children’s academic adjustment was collected from children and mothers. Multi-level modeling indicated that when mothers had more positive school climate perceptions, their children valued school more and performed better in school; mothers’ perceptions contributed to children’s educational expectations only in high school. Findings highlight the importance of schools in creating welcoming environments for Mexican-origin parents.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2021-08-01The student, Lynda Lin, accepted the attached license on 2019-07-03 at 21:57.The student, Lynda Lin, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2019-07-03 at 22:12.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2019-07-08 at 11:21.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #14167 on 2019-11-26 at 13:04:27Made available in DSpace on 2019-11-26T20:49:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Early transition metal complexes of carbene donors linked to cyclopentadienyl ring analogues or amidine/amidinate moieties
No full textThe new indenyl-functionalised NHC potassium salt, 1-[3-(4, 7-dimethylindenylpropyl]-3-(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidenepotassium, has been synthesised. Complexes oftitanium, zirconium and chromium containing this ligand and the two carbon bridge analogue,1-[2-(4,7-dimethylindenyl)ethyl]-3-(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imidazol-2 ylidene potassium,have been synthesised and characterised by X-ray crystallographic techniques. The followingcomplexes were tested as catalysts for the oligomerisation of ethylene in the presence ofMAO: 3-(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)-1-[2-(4,7-dimethylindenyl)ethyl]-imidazol-2-ylidene(tertbutylimido)titanium chloride, 3-(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)-1-[3-(4,7-dimethylindenyl)propyl]imidazol-2-ylidene(tert-butylimido)titanium chloride, 3-(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)-1-[3-(4,7-dimethylindenyl)propyl]imidazol-2-ylidenezirconiumtrichloride, 3-(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)-1-[2-(4,7-dimethylindenyl)ethyl]imidazol-2-ylidenezirconium trichloride, 3-(2,6-Diisopropylphenyl)-1-[2-(4,7-dimethylindenyl)ethyl]-imidazol-2-ylidenechromium dichloride, 3-(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)-1-[3-(4,7-(dimethylindenyl)propyl]imidazol-2-ylidene chromium dichloride, 3-(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)-1-[3-(4,7-dimethylindenyl)propyl]-imidazol-2-ylidene chromium methyl chloride and 3-(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)-1-[2-(4,7-dimethylindenyl)ethyl]-imidazol-2-ylidenevanadium dichloride.The following alkyl chromium complexes containing 1-[2-(4,7-dimethylindenyl)ethyl]-3-(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imidazol-2 ylidene potassium have also been synthesised: 3-(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)-1-[2-(4,7-dimethylindenyl)ethyl]-imidazol-2-ylidene chromium phenylchloride and 3-(2,6-diisopropyl-phenyl)-1-[2-(4, 7-dimethylindenyl)ethyl]-imidazol-2-ylidenechromium dibenzyl. Chromium cations have been synthesised using as starting materials thechromium alkyl complexes. The Cr(II) complex 3-(2,6-diisopropyl-phenyl)-1-[2-(4, 7-dimethylindenyl)ethyl]-imidazol-2-ylidene chromium monochloride and a partially oxidiseddimerised product were also isolated. 5-(2-chloroethyl)- 1, 2, 3, 4-tetramethylcyclopentadieneand 5-(3-chloropropyl) 1, 2, 3, 4-tetramethylcyclopentadiene were synthesised and isolated asgeminal isomers for the first time.The trialkyl chromium complex, tribenzyl chromium tris(tetrahydrofuran) was synthesisedand also it was used as starting material for the complexes di(benzyl)chromium bis(1, 3-diisopropylimidazol-2-ylindene) and tri(benzyl)chromium TACN. All complexes werecharacterised by X-ray crystallography.The imidazolium salt 3-(2.6-diisopropylphenyl)-1-[N, N-bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)acetamidyl] imidazolium chloride was synthesised and used as a precursorfor the synthesis of amidinate-functionalised NHC zirconium and amidine-functionalisedNHC silver complexes. Double deprotonation of 3-(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)-1-[N, N’-bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)acetamidyl] imidazolium chloride gave the amidinate-functionalised NHCligand, 3-(2.6-diisopropylphenyl)-1-[2-N, N’bis(2,6diisopropylphenylamidinate)ethyl]imidazol-2-ylidenepotassium. Titanium, zirconium andchromium complexes containing this ligand were synthesised and characterised by X-raycrystallographic techniques. Transmetallation of the amidine-functionalised NHC silvercomplex with [Rh(COD)Cl]2 and [Ir(COD)Cl]2 gave the corresponding species. Rh(amidinefunctionalisedNHC)(COD)Cl reacted with Na(BAr)4 (Ar = 3,5-CF3C6H3) to give the cationRh(amidine-functionalised NHC)(COD)]+[BAr4]-. These species were also characterised byX-ray diffraction techniques
Teacher-student racial or ethnic match and parents’ school involvement in the United States: Implications for Black, Latinx, and Asian families
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Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD systemAuthor requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD systemU of I OnlyResearch on parents’ involvement in their children’s education consistently finds that when families from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds are more involved in their children’s schools, children benefit (Barger, Kim, Kuncel, & Pomerantz, 2019). However, racial and ethnic minority families sometimes do not feel comfortable visiting their children’s schools and tend to be less involved in them (Hill & Torres, 2010). One promising avenue to promote the school involvement of racial and ethnic minority families is through the increased presence of racially and ethnically diverse teachers, who can act as cultural brokers and create culturally inclusive environments. However, support for this idea has been sparse. Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K:2011) national study, the goal of my dissertation was to better understand whether, and under which contexts, the racial and ethnic diversity of children’s teachers contributes to parents’ school involvement. Every year beginning when children were in kindergarten until 5th grade, parents (N = 12,740) reported on their school involvement. Multi-level modeling indicated that having a teacher-student racial or ethnic match at kindergarten was more positively associated with parents’ kindergarten school involvement for Black, Latinx, and Asian children compared to White children. These findings generally held over the elementary school years for Black and Asian, but not Latinx, children. At kindergarten, having a racially or ethnically matched teacher was particularly beneficial for the involvement of parents of Latinx and Asian children attending schools with a low proportion of same-race or ethnicity teachers. Taken together, the findings point to the importance of diversifying the teacher workforce, particularly as it can be an avenue for increasing parents’ school involvement in racial and ethnic minority families who tend to be less involved on the school front compared to White families
Author Lynda Barry Brings Gospel of Creativity to Lawrence University Convocation
No full textAward-winning cartoonist and author Lynda Barry brings her message of tapping into your innate creativity to Lawrence University in the convocation “Crossing the Fox River: From Thought to Action.”
The third presentation in the college’s 2012-13 convocation series, Barry’s address on Thursday, Jan. 24 at 11:10 a.m. in the Lawrence Memorial Chapel, is free and open to the public.
Barry has enjoyed a 35-year career as a cartoonist that began as an undergraduate at Washington State’s Evergreen State College, where she shared her comic strips with Evergreen classmate Matt Groening, the future creator of the TV hit show “The Simpsons,” who secretly slipped them into the school newspaper.
Along the way, she forged a unique path in the art world. Her weekly comic strip “Ernie Pook’s Comeek,” which ran in alternative newspapers from 1979-2008, is widely credited with expanding the literary, thematic and emotional range of American comics.
A truly multidisciplinary artist, Barry is the author of 18 books, has worked as a commentator for NPR and written monthly features for a numerous magazines, among them Esquire, Mother Jones, Mademoiselle and Salon. She recorded a spoken word album called “The Lynda Barry Experience,” adapted her first novel, “The Good Times are Killing Me,” into an off-Broadway play and has been a guest of David Letterman on his television show numerous times.
A Wisconsin native who makes her home today in rural Rock County, Barry conducts more than a dozen writing workshops a year, including some specifically for non-writers in which she coaxes her students to find that part of the brain where the story-telling talent resides.
Barry has been honored with numerous awards for her work, including two Eisner Awards, which honor creative achievement in American comic books. Her illustrated novel “Cruddy” has been translated into French, Italian, German, Catalan and Hebrew and her book “One! Hundred! Demons!” was required reading in 2008 for all incoming Stanford University freshmen
The intellectual structure of political communication research: An author co-citation analysis.
No full textThis study applies a method of author co-citation analysis to examine intellectual structure of political communication study. Primarily based on the number of their articles in communication journals, fifty-one influential authors are selected from active members of the Political Communication Divisions of the International Communication Association (ICA), the National Communication Association (NCA), and the American Political Science Association (APSA). The results of the multidimensional scaling analysis and cluster analysis of these 51 selected authors' co-citation patterns show that intellectual fragmentation exists in political communication research; scholars with different academic backgrounds have their specialities of using a particular research approach to study certain subjects in the field; scholars do not have much information exchange, and thus they are intellectually separate and confined within the boundaries of each fragment. The findings of this quantitative study complements and cross-validates the assessment made by other traditional qualitative reviews about the field
Linda Barry 3-29-2005
No full textDr. Anne Panning and Dr. Alicia Chase interview Linda Barry. Linda Barry is a cartoonist, the creator of "Ernie Pook's Comeek", author of "The Good Times Are Killing Me", "Cruddy", "One! Hundred! Demons!", and "What It Is". In 2004, she won the Lulu Award from the Women Cartoonists Hall of Fame. The interview segment opens with Lynda reading and excerpt from "What It Is". The discussion begins with Lynda's time in college and how she developed her art style. She mentions this time in her life was a period of doing her best to keep her work "serious" so she'd one day become respected as an artist. She explains how she went about submitting comics and what the general public opinion about comic strips was at the time and how that impacted her early work. Lynda talks about where the stories for her comics come from and how she conceptualizes them into comics. Lynda outlines her creative process and how that pushes her work forward. The discussion is closed with Lynda reading an excerpt from "One! Hundred! Demons!".Archived web conten
The collected letters of Robert Southey, Part Two: 1798-1803
No full textThis project is a new, complete edition of all of the letters written by the controversial author and polemicist Robert Southey (1774-1843). Part Two covers the years 1798-1803.Edited by Ian Packer and Lynda Pratt</p
Sins against science : the scientific media hoaxes of Poe, Twain, and others /
No full text"Lynda Walsh explores a provocative era in American history - the proliferation of fake news stories about scientific and technological discoveries from 1830 to 1880. These hoaxes, which fooled thousands of readers, offer a first-hand look at an intriguing guerilla tactic in the historical struggle between arts and sciences in America. Focusing on the hoaxes of Richard Adams Locke, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, and Dan De Quille, the author combines rhetorical hermeneutics, linguistic pragmatics, and reader-response theory to answer three primary questions: How did the hoaxes work? What were the hoaxers trying to accomplish? And - what is a hoax?"--Jacket.Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-290) and index.A brief natural history of hoaxing -- Method -- Poe's hoaxing and the construction of readerships -- Mark Twain and the social mechanics of laughter -- The hoaxes of Dan de Quille: building and defending the west -- The mechanics of hoaxing."Lynda Walsh explores a provocative era in American history - the proliferation of fake news stories about scientific and technological discoveries from 1830 to 1880. These hoaxes, which fooled thousands of readers, offer a first-hand look at an intriguing guerilla tactic in the historical struggle between arts and sciences in America. Focusing on the hoaxes of Richard Adams Locke, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, and Dan De Quille, the author combines rhetorical hermeneutics, linguistic pragmatics, and reader-response theory to answer three primary questions: How did the hoaxes work? What were the hoaxers trying to accomplish? And - what is a hoax?"--Jacket
Structure-function analysis of the non-helicase domain of Sgs1, the Bloom Syndrome ortholog from Saccharomyces cerevisiae
No full textBloom’s Syndrome (BS) is a rare human disease characterized by genome instability and cancer predispostion. The gene mutated in BS, BLM, encodes a member of the RecQ family of DNA helicases. BLM is unique among this family because it is the only RecQ member conserved in unicellular eukaryotes. Apart from the DNA helicase domain, BLM/SGS1 orthologs contain a poorly characterized N-terminal domain of about 650 amino acids (aa). In yeast, this domain (Sgs1 1-652) is known to be physiologically important although it’s only known roles are to bind Top3 and Rmi1 through its N-terminal 100 aa, and in vitro single-strand DNA (ssDNA) binding, ssDNA annealing and strand exchange (SE) activities, through its SE domain (Sgs1 103-323) My research consisted of structure/function analyses of Sgs1 in its poorly characterized N-terminus of aa 323-652 and I found a domain that is important to Sgs1’s function. I interrogated this region by doing systematic deletions and tested these sgs1 mutants for complementation of synthetic lethality. The allele with the smallest deletion that did not complement sgs1slx4 synthetic lethality was found to be sgs1-∆386-621, and the allele with the smallest deletion that did not complement sgs1slx5, was found to be sgs1-∆500-621. I found that sgs1-∆386-621 is physiologically important also through the Top3 slow growth assay. Furthermore I believe that the difference in results between sgs1slx4 and sgs1slx5 will prove significant and warrants further investigation. I also used a BLM/GCN4 chimera where the SE domain was replaced with the coiled coil GCN4, and again tested alleles with systematic deletions within aa 323-652 in synthetic lethality assay. I found the smallest essential domain to be sgs1/gcn4-∆500-621 in the sgs1slx4 background, and interestingly the same deletion in sgs1-∆500-621 did grow weakly and complemented synthetic lethality. Therefore I postulate there is some interaction between the SE domain and aa 500-621 that could be physiologically important and again warrants further investigation.M.S.Includes bibliographical referencesby Lynda Tuberty-Vaugha
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