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Deborah Harkness Book Talk and Signing
No full textThe Z. Smith Reynolds Library Lecture Series presents a talk and book signing by Deborah Harkness, author of the bestselling novels A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night. Deborah is a featured author at the 9th annual Bookmarks Festival of Books. Her Wake Forest appearance is co-sponsored by Bookmarks and ZSR Library as part of the Bookmarks Authors in Schools program
Author Deborah Heffernan of Bridgton describes how secret plans to have a Queen
No full textAuthor Deborah Heffernan of Bridgton describes how secret plans to have a Queen Anne bonnet-top high boy built for her husband Jack Heffernan turned into a community affair, while yet remaining a secret. The actual design and construction of the high boy fell on Bob Dunning, with the help cabinetmaker Greg Marston. Others involved on the project included Mary and Don Johnson and their sons Tom and Eric. With descriptive details of elements included in the highboy
Lecture: Author Deborah Eisenberg reads from her story, "Some Other, Better Otto" Nov. 2 at Vanderbilt University
No full textIncludes descriptive metadata provided by producer in MP3 file: "Listen to author Deborah Eisenberg read from her story 'Some Other, Better Otto' from her collection Twilight of the Superheroes on Nov. 2 in Buttrick Hall. Introducing Eisenberg is Nancy Reisman, assistant professor of English.
Feminismo (2019) de Deborah Cameron
No full textFeminism is a small compilation of the debates that have run through the movement, especially in the West. Narrated in a simple and entertaining style, based on compilations of different themes, studies and references, it addresses the main questions of feminism and exposes the answers that have been provided from different positions.
TECHNICAL SHEET OF THE BOOK
Title: Feminism. Author: Cameron, Deborah. Translation: Tercero, Maria Enguix. Publisher: Alianza Editorial. Language: Spanish. Pages: 176. Year: 2019. Place: Madrid. EBOOK ISBN: 978-84-9181-541-9. Original title: Feminism. 1st edition in English, 2018, Great Britain. Profile Books LTD.Feminismo es una pequeña compilación de los debates que han atravesado al movimiento, especialmente en occidente. Narrado en un estilo simple y llevadero, en base a recopilaciones de distintos temas, estudios y referentes, va abordando los principales interrogantes del feminismo y exponiendo las respuestas que se han brindado desde diferentes posiciones.
FICHA TÉCNICA DE LA OBRA
Título: Feminismo. Autora: Cameron, Deborah. Traducción: Tercero, María Enguix. Editorial: Alianza Editorial. Idioma: Castellano. Páginas: 176. Año: 2019. Lugar: Madrid. ISBN ebook: 978-84-9181-541-9. Título original: Feminism. 1° edición en inglés, 2018, Gran Bretaña. Profile Books LTD
Deborah Cheetham \u27It’s not over till the Black Lady Sings\u27.
No full textThis year’s annual Nulungu lecture at the University of Notre Dame Australia’s Broome Campus will be delivered by Deborah Cheetham, Indigenous Soprano, actor and author of the internationally acclaimed play, White Baptist Abba Fan. She is a graduate of the NSW Conservatorium of Music and Julliard School of Music.
Since her international debut in 1997 Ms Cheetham has performed in the theatres and concert halls of United States, Europe, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and throughout Australia. At the Sydney Olympics in 2000, Ms Cheetham performed her original composition, Dali Mana Gamarada.
During the 2001 Centenary of Federation celebrations Ms Cheetham performed in several major events including the January 1st Concert in Sydney’s Centennial Park when she appeared as a soloist and speaker. She performed with Argentine tenor, Jose Cura at the opening ceremony of the Rugby World Cup in 2003. This was broadcast to a worldwide audience of more than one billion. In 2005, Deborah added to her list of international credit engagements in Paris, including performances at the Australian Embassy and the La Cigale in the Marais
In 2006 Deborah was a recipient of the Australia Council, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts fellowship. The fellowship enabled Deborah to write, direct and produce a 21st century Australian opera, Pecan Summer. The work created opportunities and demonstrated the talents of Indigenous singers and musicians, actors, writers and technicians.
On 22nd February this year Deborah performed the national anthem at the memorial service for the victims of the Black Saturday bushfires. Of the service Deborah said , ‘Joined by a massed choir of over 500 voices I was honoured to pay my respect to the victims and survivors of these terrible fires by singing Advance Australia Fair.’
Deborah will be delivering the Nulungu Lecture at the Broome Campus of The University of Notre Dame, 88 Guy Street, Broome, on Thursday 20 August at 5.00pm. The Nulungu Reconciliation Lecture is to be an annual event on the Broome Campus where key speakers will be invited to address issues of Reconciliation that shape contemporary Aboriginal and Australian thought and experience. The title of Deborah’s lecture is It’s not over till the Black Lady Sings
Pathological personality traits of adult individuals with depressive features
No full textDepresija je duševna motnja, katere povod lahko razumemo v kombinaciji posameznikove osebnostne ranljivosti in stresnega življenjskega dogodka. Če osebnost razumemo kot celoto posameznikovih lastnosti in potez, ki se gibljejo na kontinuumu od povprečno do nadpovprečno izraženih, bi pri slednjih lahko govorili o osebnostnih motnjah. Pri tem motnje osebnosti razumemo kot skrajno poudarjene osebnostne poteze določenega tipa, ki vodijo v osebne težave ali oškodovanost na socialnem, zaposlitvenem ali drugem področju posameznikovega življenja. Modelov razumevanja odnosa med depresijo in motnjami osebnosti je več, pri raziskovanju pa moramo upoštevati tudi morebiten vpliv akutne depresije na rezultate samoocenjevalnih vprašalnikov osebnosti.
Namen naše raziskave je bil odkriti povezanost med depresivnostjo in patološkimi osebnostnimi potezami. Pri tem smo depresivnost obravnavali z dveh vidikov: z vidika stopnje trenutne depresivnosti, kar smo merili z Beckovim vprašalnikom depresivnosti (BDI), in z vidika zgodovine depresivne motnje, pri čemer smo udeležence raziskave uvrstili v eno izmed treh raziskovalnih skupin (skupina brez zgodovine depresivne motnje, skupina z vsaj eno preteklo depresivno epizodo in skupina z diagnozo depresivne motnje). Iskali smo povezave med potezami posameznih motenj osebnosti in depresivnostjo, prav tako pa nas je zanimalo, ali so patološke osebnostne poteze povezane s hujšimi oblikami depresije v smislu večjega števila poslabšanj in hospitalizacij, bolj intenzivno izražene depresivne simptomatike in bolj zgodnjega pojava prve depresivne epizode.
Raziskovalni vzorec je sestavljalo 176 oseb, razdeljenih v omenjene tri raziskovalne skupine. Udeleženci so odgovorili na vprašalnik demografskih značilnosti, izpolnili kratko obliko Beckovega vprašalnika depresivnosti (BDI) in vprašalnik motenj osebnosti (DIP-Q), ki omogoča vpogled v osebnostno patologijo z dimenzionalnega in kategorialnega vidika. Štiri raziskovalne hipoteze smo analizirali z bivariatnimi in multivariatnimi statističnimi analizami.
Rezultati kažejo, da imajo osebe z depresivnimi značilnostmi visoko izražene poteze vseh motenj osebnosti, prevladujejo značilnosti izogibajoče/anksiozne, odvisnostne, paranoidne, shizoidne in borderline motnje osebnosti, najnižje pa se z depresivnostjo povezujejo značilnosti antisocialne, histrionične in narcisistične motnje. Relapsi depresivne motnje so pogostejši pri osebah z značilnostmi izogibajoče/anksiozne, odvisnostne, shizoidne in borderline motnje osebnosti, pri slednjih so pogostejše tudi hospitalizacije. V primerjavi z osebami, ki so že doživele depresivno epizodo in nimajo pomembno visoko izraženih patoloških osebnostnih potez, je depresivna simptomatika izrazitejša pri tistih z visoko izraženimi potezami katere koli motnje osebnosti, razen antisocialne, histrionične in narcisitične. Vpliva osebnostne patologije na zgodnejši začetek depresivne motnje v naši raziskavi nismo ugotovili. Poudarjamo, da je s fenomenološkega vidika stopnja depresivnosti visoko povezana s stopnjo izraženosti značilnosti vseh motenj osebnosti, razen antisocialne, histrionične in narcisistične, zato odsvetujemo oceno osebnostne strukture tekom akutne depresivne epizode, če pri tem uporabljamo samo samoocenjevalne tehnike.
Na podlagi rezultatov naše raziskave in primerjav z drugimi študijami zaključujemo, da psihološka ocena osebnostne strukture oseb z depresivnimi značilnostmi omogoča jasnejši vpogled v jedro psihopatologije in individualiziran načrt zdravljenja, ki naj ob farmakoloških metodah vključuje tudi psihoterapevtske intervencije.Depression is a mental disorder that can be caused by a combination of an individual’s personal vulnerability and a stressful life event. If we perceive personality as a totality of individual’s characteristics and traits which are expressed on the continuum from average to above-average, the latter could be interpreted as personality disorders. From this perspective personality disorders are considered as extremely accentuated personality traits of a certain type which lead to subjective distress or impairment in individual’s social, occupational or other important area of functioning. There are several models of understanding the relationship between depression and personality disorders, but we must also consider the possible influence of acute depression on the self-report personality questionnaires while conducting the research.
The purpose of our study was to discover a connection between depression and pathological personality traits. We approached depression from two aspects: severity of current depression, which was measured with the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), and history of depressive disorder, where we ranked the participants into three research groups (group without any depressive disorder history, group with at least one past depressive episode, group with diagnosed depressive disorder). We searched for connections between the traits of individual personality disorders and depression, but we were also interested in determining if pathological personality traits are connected to more severe forms of depression which would reflect in a greater number of relapses and hospitalizations, more intensively expressed depression symptomatology, and an earlier onset of the first depressive episode.
The study included 176 people, divided into the three above mentioned groups. The participants answered a demographic characteristics questionnaire, a short version of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), and the DIP-Q personality disorder questionnaire which enables an insight into personality pathology from the dimensional and categorial aspect. The four research hypothesis were analyzed with bivariate and multivariate analyses.
The results show that traits of all personality disorders are highly expressed in participants with depressive characteristics. Characteristics of anxiety/avoidant, dependent, paranoid, schizoid, and borderline personality disorder are prevalent, while characteristics of antisocial, histrionic, and narcissistic disorder are the least common. Depression relapses are more common in persons with characteristics of anxiety/avoidant, dependent, schizoid, and borderline personality disorder, the latter being more likely to be hospitalized as well. In comparison to the subjects who have already experienced a depressive episode and have no highly expressed pathological personality traits, the degree of depression is higher in those with highly expressed traits of all personality disorders, except for the antisocial, histrionic, and narcissistic disorder. We did not discover an influence of personality pathology on an earlier onset of the first depressive episode in our study. We would like to stress that from the phenomenological aspect the severity of depression is strongly connected to the degree of expressed characteristics of all personality disorders, except for the antisocial, histrionic, and narcissistic disorder, if we use exclusively self-report techniques.
Based on our findings and comparisons with other studies, we conclude that a psychological evaluation of the personality structure, conducted on a person with depressive characteristics, enables a better insight into the core of psychopathology, as well as an individualized treatment plan which should include psychotherapeutic interventions in addition to pharmacological methods
The Illuminated Lyric of Lafracoth
No full textA medieval historical fiction in dramatic form for older adolescents and adults, this verse play depicts a person of conscience in early 12th century Ireland. This work is intended for late adolescents and adults who have either acquired or are engaged in higher education. The author envisions uses in classrooms, drama and book clubs in which conscience sensitive character analyses and discussions of moral life in and out of religious contexts are deemed worthy of pursuit.
The original 2008 version of The Lyric of Lafracoth without illustrations can be found at: https://hdl.handle.net/1805/16779
In this illustrated version, artist Deborah C. Galvin was asked to create five illuminations for the letters P, A, C, E and M which figure prominently in the conflicted story of Lafracoth and her father. Deborah obliged but was not satisfied with just five. Over the two years 2008-2010, she completed sixteen times that many. In 2012, these were exhibited in a crafted parchment paper version of the manuscript at The Helen Beiser MD Art Show during the 59th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in San Francisco and again that same year at the Fourth Annual Indiana University School of Medicine Art Exhibition in Indianapolis
Book Review: Deborah Rhode, Women and Leadership
No full textIn this essay, the student author reviews the book Women & Leadership by Deborah Rhode, which offers potential solutions to the all-too-common challenges faced by those seeking to increase the number of women in top leadership positions
Design and Implementation of a Pulsed Radar Using Software Defined Radio
No full textAbstract Design and Implementation of a Pulsed Radar Using Software Defined Radio By Marko Lawrence Slijepcevic Master of Science in Electrical Engineering This paper aims to demonstrate the feasibility of implementation of a pulsed radar system using commercially available Software Defined Radio (SDR). A low cost functional system is implemented and described using minimal hardware external to the SDR. The system is realized with an Ettus Research B200-Mini and all control and signal processing software is achieved in C++. The signal processing techniques and hardware implementation are described in detail and the system performance is evaluated.Includes bibliographical references (pages 39-39)California State University, Northridge. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
In the Steps of Jael and Deborah: Judith as Heroine
No full textJudith is one of the most memorable characters in Hebrew literature. In a remarkable story of courage and resourcefulness, she saves her people by one single action that is both compelling and repugnant. Leading female characters are rare enough in Israelite literature to be constantly compared with one another, and Judith has often been likened to Miriam, Deborah, Jael, the wise women of Tekoa and Abelbeth-Maacah, and Esther. And this is not an exhaustive list! I would like to argue that the comparison to Jael and Deborah is neither superficial nor coincidental, but that the author of Judith had the story of Jael and Deborah in the front of his mind as he wrote his story. In fact, in my judgment the author of Judith used the story of Jael and Deborah as the model for the story of Judith.
The first parallel to draw between the stories is the obvious one: a heroine slays an enemy of Israel singlehandedly, by attacking his head. This is, in fact, the correspondence that drew me to the two stories in the first place. However, as I began to investigate the stories, I noticed that many other exact similarities were present, in plot, character and actions. Many of these parallels have been noted by other commentators before me. However, no one, as far as I have been able to verify, has brought them all together in one place. When they are drawn together, I think that it will be plain that the author of Judith used the story of Jael and Deborah in Judges 4 and 5 as a model, and that the actions of the heroine, Judith, parallel the actions of the two heroines in Judges 4 and 5, Jael and Deborah. In this paper I will demonstrate exact similarities in the structure and plot of the stories, the characters of the stories, and certain elements common to both, particularly the song of victory
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