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Organizational Factors and Office Workers’ Health After the World Trade Center Terrorist Attacks: Long-Term Physical Symptoms, Psychological Distress, and Work Productivity
No full textObjective: To assess if organizational factors are predictors of workers' health and productivity after the World Trade Center attacks.Methods: We conducted a survey of 750 workers and compared those who had direct exposures to the World Trade Center attacks (south of Canal Street workers; primary victims) with those less directly exposed (north of Canal Street workers; other victims and non-victims).Results: South of Canal Street workers reported headache more frequently than north of Canal Street workers did (P = 0.0202). Primary victims reported headache and cough more frequently than did other victims and non-victims (P = 0.0086 and 0.0043, respectively). Defensive organizational culture was an independent predictor of cough and job stress, and job stress was an independent predictor of on-the-job productivity losses.Conclusion: Organizational variables may modify health and productivity outcomes after a large-scale traumatic event in the workplace.This research was supported in part by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Grant 5 R21 OH007713-02, and the NIEHS sponsored UMDNJ Center for Environmental Exposures and Disease, Grant NIEHS P30ES005022.This is a non-final version of an article published in final form in Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (50(2):112-25, 2008 Feb) a publication of Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins. The published article is available at http://journals.lww.com/joem/Fulltext/2008/02000/Organizational_Factors_and_Office_Workers__Health.4.asp
Samuel Richardson’s Views of Women in Pamela
No full textPamela is the first epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson, a masterpiece of sentimentalist literature. This paper mainly attempts to analyze Samuel Richardson’s views of women based on the image of Pamela. The paper begins with introducing the life experience and literary career of Samuel Richardson, and the situation in which Richardson created Pamela. And then, it discusses traditional virtues, such as chastity, diligence and modesty embodied in Pamela. These virtues are the base of rewards of women in society. Then the present author focuses on self-pursuit of Pamela as a modern woman who does not depend on men and make livings on their own, and comes to the conclusion that, on the one hand, Richardson praises traditional virtues of women; on the other hand, he expects women to get independence from men, which is contradictory part of Richardson’ views of women
Corum, Pamela (FA 824)
No full textFinding aid only for Folklife Archive Project 824. In the collection titled “The Oolite Rock Quarry,” the author discusses the quarry’s function, purpose, and importance to Meade County, Kentucky. This narrative was written by Pamela Corum for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University
Morality of Pamela and Richardson
No full textMany of the objections to Samuel Richardson's Pamela: or Virtue Rewarded have come about because of its alleged middle-class morality. Responsibility for the early propagation of this idea can be traced to Henry Fielding's brilliant satire of the work, Shamela. The purpose of this paper is to examine both the morality of Pamela and its most influential criticism in light of the purpose of the book and the personality of its author. Also examined is the effect of the epistolary form of writing on the clarity of Richardson's ideas. Samuel Richardson wrote Pamela as an example of the value of moral behavior. Believing in the direct intervention of God, Richardson felt that virtuous actions led to success on earth as well as in heaven. Much of his justification for this theory came from his own experience. Richardson was already a successful printer when he undertook the writing of his first novel. That success, he felt, came through honest business practices and the resultant help of God.
Richardson's novel was certainly liable to the criticism of Fielding, but to make a satiric point the intended emphasis of Pamela was changed to show Pamela as a calculating female instead of an example of virtue. A close examination of Richardson's work reveals that he did espouse middle-class values; but those values were not necessarily detrimental to the purpose of his writing
Perfecting Pamela: Samuel Richardson\u27s Final Revisions to his Earliest Novel
No full textThis author details Richardson’s revision process as he edits his first novel Pamela as the last thing he does before dying. There are three chapters detailing Richardson’s motives behind revising his first novel and his actual revision process, which included three main techniques—substitution, addition, and deletion. Motives considered and argued were: moral purpose and criticism received from others—especially analyzing Shamela, a satire of Pamela—which undermines the morality that Richardson had hoped Pamela accomplished. At the end of the essay, there is an extensive chart complied by the author, spanning a total of 55 pages, of all of Richardson’s revisions as well
Richardson, Barbauld, and the construction of an early modern fan club
No full textMPhilMuch has been written about the life and long works of the eighteenth century epistolary novelist, Samuel Richardson, but the prospect of his position as the first celebrity novelist – responsible for courting his own fame as well as initiating his own fan club – has largely been ignored. The body of manuscripts housed at the National Art Library in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London provides the modern scholar with evidence of the skeletal beginnings of an early fan club. This thesis aims to show how these manuscripts were turned into a saleable commodity by the publisher and entrepreneur Richard Phillips, while under the guiding hand of another, slightly later, literary celebrity, Anna Laetitia Barbauld. In order to restore Richardson’s reputation amongst a new nineteenth century audience, Barbauld was required to construct her own idea of him as an eighteenth century celebrity author, and in doing so the insecurities of a self-professed, apparently diffident man, are revealed. Barbauld’s capacious, but heavily edited selection of letters is analyzed in this thesis, providing ample evidence that Richardson’s correspondents were more than just eager letter writers. By using Barbauld’s biography of Richardson this thesis aims to show how she manipulates the genre of life writing in her construction of him.
This thesis offers an alternative reading of how the Richardson manuscripts are viewed, redefining them as not simply a collection of letters, but as a collective entity, deliberately selected and archived as evidence of an early modern fan club, and its celebrity managing director
Nursing Home Registered Nurses' and Licensed Practical Nurses' Knowledge of Causes of Falls
No full textReducing falls in nursing homes (NHs) requires a knowledgeable nursing workforce. To test knowledge, 8 validated vignettes, representing multifactorial fall causes were administered to 47 nurses from 3 NHs. Although Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs) scored higher than Registered Nurses in individual categories of falls, when we computed the average score of all 8 categories between groups of RNs’ versus LPNs’ we found RNs scored higher (F value =4.106; p<0.05) in identifying 8 causal reasons for older adults to fall.This is a non-final version of an article published ahead of print in Journal of Nursing Care Quality, October 7, 2015, and available at: https://dx.doi.org/10.1097/NCQ.0000000000000157Peer reviewe
PAMELA data and leptonically decaying dark matter
No full textRecently PAMELA released their first results on the positron and antiproton ratios. Stimulated by the new data, we studied the cosmic ray propagation models and calculated the secondary positron and antiproton spectra. The low energy positron ratio can be consistent with data in the convection propagation model. Above similar to 10 GeV PAMELA data shows a clear excess on the positron ratio. However, the secondary antiproton is roughly consistent with the data. The positron excess may be evidence of dark matter annihilation or decay. We compare the positron and antiproton spectra with the data by assuming that dark matter annihilates or decays into different final states. The PAMELA data actually excludes quark pairs being the main final states, and disfavors gauge boson final states. Only in the case of leptonic final states can the positron and antiproton spectra be explained simultaneously. We also compare the decaying and annihilating dark matter scenarios which can account for the PAMELA results and find that the decaying dark matter is preferred. Finally, we consider a decaying neutralino dark matter model in the frame of supersymmetry with R-parity violation. The PAMELA data is well fitted with a neutralino mass of 600 similar to 2000 GeV and a lifetime of similar to 10(26) seconds. We also demonstrate that a neutralino with mass around 2 TeV can fit PAMELA and ATIC data simultaneously.Astronomy & AstrophysicsPhysics, Particles & FieldsSCI(E)0REVIEW2null7
Freedom, resentment, and the metaphysics of morals/ Pamela Hieronymi.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index."Description An innovative reassessment of philosopher P. F. Strawson's influential "Freedom and Resentment" P. F. Strawson's 1962 paper "Freedom and Resentment" is one of the most influential in modern moral philosophy, prompting responses across multiple disciplines, from psychology to sociology. In Freedom, Resentment, and the Metaphysics of Morals , Pamela Hieronymi closely reexamines Strawson's paper and concludes that his argument has been underestimated and misunderstood. Line by line, Hieronymi carefully untangles the complex strands of Strawson's ideas. After elucidating his conception of moral responsibility and his division between "reactive" and "objective" responses to the actions and attitudes of others, Hieronymi turns to his central argument. Strawson argues that, because determinism is an entirely general thesis, true of everyone at all times, its truth does not undermine moral responsibility. Hieronymi finds the two common interpretations of this argument, "the simple Humean interpretation" and "the broadly Wittgensteinian interpretation," both deficient. Drawing on Strawson's wider work in logic, philosophy of language, and metaphysics, Hieronymi concludes that his argument rests on an implicit, and previously overlooked, metaphysics of morals, one grounded in Strawson's "social naturalism." In the final chapter, she defends this naturalistic picture against objections. Rigorous, concise, and insightful, Freedom, Resentment, and the Metaphysics of Morals sheds new light on Strawson's thinking and has profound implications for future work on free will, moral responsibility, and metaethics. Biography Pamela Hieronymi is professor of philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles. Endorsements "Hieronymi is an expert guide to the twists and turns of Strawson's 'Freedom and Resentment,' arguably the single most influential paper on free will and moral responsibility. The book is an important contribution to our understanding of Strawson, and will become an essential reference for philosophers." -Sarah Buss, coeditor of Contours of Agency "This is an exciting and groundbreaking book that has the potential to reshape our understanding of the nature of morality and our practices of holding one another responsible." - Angela M. Smith, coeditor of The Nature of Moral Responsibility Reviews - no copy text Author Photo Credit Line - no copy text Jacket Art Credit Line NONE YET. DESIGN STILL IN PROGRESS. Bookstore Categories Philosophy Special Copy Type - no copy text Other Copy & Jacket Circ - no copy text"--Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Primer on Free Will and Moral Responsibility -- Introduction -- 1. Strawson's Strategy -- Strawson's Picture of Responsibility -- The Central, and Seemingly Facile, Argument -- 2. The Resource and the Role of Statistics -- 3. The Further, Implicit Point -- The Generalization Strategy -- Making Explicit the Further Point -- Objections -- 4. Addressing the Crucial Objection -- Unearthing Strawson's Naturalism -- Social Naturalism and the Central Argument -- 5. The Remaining Objections -- Intermediate Principles and Cases -- A Pessimistic Metaphysics of Morals?Against Social Naturalism -- A Defense of Social Naturalism -- An Opening for the Generalization Strategy? -- Error, Inconsistency, and Crises -- Conclusion -- Reprint of P. F. Strawson's "Freedom and Resentment -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Index1 online resource (xx, 145 pages
Teatranti di razza. Intervista a Pamela Villoresi
No full textUna delle più importanti attrici del teatro italiano,
Pamela Villoresi, racconta il suo rapporto con Eleonora Duse, dialogando con Maria Letizia Compatangelo, autrice del monologo La musica dell’anima. Ritratto di Eleonora Duse, che da alcuni anni interpreta con successo in teatro. Dalla giovanile attrazione istintiva verso il “personaggio Duse” alla comprensione matura del valore delle sue innovazioni
nel campo della recitazione. Confronti, eredità, insegnamenti: due epoche diverse, ma lo stesso impegno
totalizzante verso il teatro.One of the most important actresses of the Italian
theatre, Pamela Villoresi, talks about her relationship with Eleonora Duse. She is in conversation with
Maria Letizia Compatangelo, author of the monologue La musica dell’anima. Ritratto di Eleonora
Duse, successfully interpreted for some years. Villoresi’s talk is from her youthful instinctive attraction to the “Duse character”, to her mature understanding of the value of her innovations in the field
of acting. Comparisons, legacies, teachings: two different periods, but the same all-encompassing commitment to the theatre
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