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Interview: Karen Stevens on characterisation, class and ‘Brilliant Blue'
No full textJoe Bedford interview series 'Writers on Research'. Author Karen Stevens discusses the research process behind her short story collection Brilliant Blue (Barbican Press, 2025)
John Stevens Wade Correspondence
No full textEntries include a typed letter presenting the book Gallery for the Maine Author Collection and a lengthy typed biographical sketch of the author C.J. Stevens, contributed as John Stevens Wade, his pseudonym
Recovery through contradiction?
No full textWith this new drug strategy, the circle has turned. It was a Conservative government
that introduced the first drug strategy, Tackling Drugs Together, in 1995. This aimed
to reduce drug related crime, protect young people and reduce health harms by
discouraging drug use. It was criticised at the time for having unrealistic, intangible
aims and for not providing the necessary funding. New Labour’s strategies introduced
increasingly specific targets and massively expanded the funding of treatment. This
new Coalition strategy has no targets and provides no new funding
Gwendolyne Stevens
No full text"Gwendolyne Daphne was born on 7 June 1908 at Quorn, South Australia, daughter of Hugo Albert Valentine Healey, painter and later publican, and his wife Jessie Gwendolyne, n?e Napier, both South Australian born.
Gwendolyne attended several rural schools, including Innamincka Public, before proceeding to St Peter's Collegiate Girls' School, Adelaide. Miss Healey trained at Burra public and (Royal) Adelaide hospitals, and was registered as a nurse on 11 July 1929. She then moved to Parkside Mental Hospital where she gained a certificate in psychiatric nursing in 1931 and became sister-in-charge. In 1934 she bought a large house at Payneham that had been built by James Marshall, converted it into a private psychiatric hospital and named it St Margarets. As its owner and matron for eighteen years, she cared for patients suffering the early stages of nervous disorders, and provided them with a secure and restful setting, with aviaries amid beautiful gardens. That she took on such a task during the depression, and succeeded in it, testified to her business acumen, organizing ability and compassion for those in need.
At the chapel of the Collegiate School of St Peter, Adelaide, on 12 April 1940, she married George Dempster Stevens, a clerk employed by Dalgety & Co. Ltd. They were to have two daughters.
Pursuing her interest in community health, Mrs Stevens was founding president (1944-50) and a committee-member (until 1961) of the Payneham branch of the Mothers' and Babies' Health Association.
After she sold her hospital in 1952, she set up Sterling Downs, a Poll Dorset stud on 2200 acres (890 ha) at Currency Creek, in 1957. She employed a manager to supervise the stud and visited it each week. In the 1960s she sold part of the land and moved the stud to Sterling Park, McLaren Vale. The stud was later sold and its sheep replaced with cattle.
Having noticed particular outcrops of rock at Sterling Park, Stevens arranged for drilling to be conducted, as a result of which she opened a quarry and sold building sands to the local council.
In 1968 she became interested in the mining potential of the Northern Territory. She studied maps, obtained advice from geologists and concentrated on an area near Oenpelli, Arnhem Land. She received permission to prospect on 1282 sq. miles (3320 km?) of Aboriginal reserve and negotiated an exploration programme with Queensland Mines Ltd.
In 1970 that company discovered what was then described as the richest body of uranium ore in the world, at a site known to local Aborigines as Nabarlek.
Newspapers referred to Stevens as 'probably the first woman in the world with a right to mine uranium'. She visited the area twice during the early stages of exploration and was staggered by the size of the find.
In August 1971, however, Queensland Mines downgraded the ore reserves to about one-sixth of those announced a year earlier. Intending to use some of the proceeds of her investment to benefit the health of the Aborigines, she transferred the exploration licences to Queensland Mines in May 1973 and negotiated a royalty agreement. Mining at Nabarlek began in 1979.
Mrs Stevens both created and took advantage of opportunities in the areas of mental health, sheep-breeding and mining. Suffering from hypertension, she died of a cerebral haemorrhage on 3 March 1974 in her Kensington Park home and was cremated. She was survived by her husband and their daughters. Her estate was sworn for probate at $416,266." [author Tony Bott].NurseSheep BreederMining EntrepreneurHospital Proprieto
Mechanisms of neuro- and cytotoxicity of local anesthetics and their adjuvants
No full textPlaatselijke verdovingsmiddelen zetten een mechanisme in gang waarbij zenuwcellen zichzelf vernietigen. Dit kan leiden tot zenuwschade. Stevens wilde achterhalen hoe die zenuwschade ontstaat. Hij toont aan dat alle gangbare plaatselijke verdovingsmiddelen een soort zelfmoordmechanisme van zenuwcellen in gang zetten. Om de kans op deze schade te beperken, worden plaatselijke verdovingsmiddelen vaak met andere middelen gemengd. Het merendeel van deze middelen is onschadelijk. Stevens spoorde twee middelen op die de zenuwschade verergerden. Het onderzoek is uitgevoerd in celculturen, maar Stevens raadt nu al aan om deze middelen niet bij plaatselijke verdoving te gebruiken
Jane Perham Stevens Correspondence
No full textEntries are two, practically indistinguishable copies of a letter written by Thayer of the Maine State Library thanking Stevens for her 1972 book gift of Maine\u27s Treasure Chest: Gems and Minerals of Oxford County to the Maine Author Collection
Replication Data for: How can social branding mitigate racism among fans in sports? A Q-sort analysis on the value of social branding campaigns as vehicles for reducing racism among soccer fans.
No full textThese are the tables of the analyses of the study of Stevens and Cremers (2021) in the Journal of Public Administration and Governance with the title: How can social branding reduce racism among fans in sport? An explorative study on the value of social branding campaigns as vehicles for banning racism from soccer stadiums. Feel free to contact the author for information about the analysis
Stevens-Johnson Syndrome After Armodafinil Use
No full textABSTRACT: We present the case of a 21-year-old woman in whom Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) developed after initiation of armodafinil. Although this rare and life-threatening reaction is listed on armodafinil's label, no cases have been reported in the literature. This case, in addition to an update of the drug's label after post-marketing research, both support the link between armodafinil and SJS. Providers should maintain a high clinical suspicion for SJS when starting therapy to minimize associated morbidity and mortality by discontinuing armodafinil at the onset of first symptoms
A survey of the choral music of Halsey Stevens
No full textAlthough Halsey Stevens is a distinguished American composer whose works are widely accepted, and although he has forty-one published works for various choral combinations to his credit, of which four are conceived for combined choral and instrumental forces, there is at present no survey of this choral literature in existence. Since this music receives wide acceptance, the author has felt the need to provide a survey in the hope that the discussions and descriptions will enable choral conductors to discover a source of beautiful music, and to choose works pertinent to their own needs from this body of literature.Chapter I consists of a review of literature pertinent to Stevens and his style.Chapter II is an overview of analysis, including a discussion of analysis in relation to choral music.Chapter III presents a summary of stylistic characteristics as found in Stevens’ choral music. A discussion of the author’s conclusions ends the chapter.The survey is presented in chapters IV and V. Chapter IV deals with the short works. Those which are longer in duration, principally comprising combinations of choral and orchestral forces, constitute chapter V. Campion Suite, for a cappella choir, has been included with this section of longer works, since it is the author’s opinion that it is best performed as an entity.A brief data summary precedes discussion of each work. This summary includes publication information, date of composition, place of composition, any dedicatory information, voicings and instrumentations, sources of text, vocal ranges, and timings. The discussion of the work following the summary is intended to provide a succinct description, sufficient to enable a prospective director to decide whether the work is suitable to his performance needs. Musical examples are included to illustrate various aspects of Stevens’ style as well as to show unusual and interesting features of his music.Appendix I contains the musical examples referred to in the survey, while appendix II lists the published choral music in chronological order.Thesis (D.A.
"Home is Where Theatre is": Performing Dominican Transnationalism
No full textThis essay argues that a transnational approach to Dominican performance reveals a wealth of theatrical activity that addresses Dominican-U.S. migration. Like the characters in their plays who perform the social scenarios of migration, the creative endeavors of playwrights and performers such as Elizabeth Ovalle, Zaida Corniel, Chiqui Vicioso, and Josefina Báez are psychically and materially invested in more than one geopolitical space. Framed by critical approaches from Latino theater studies and migration studies, the analysis of the theme of return migration in four pieces by these authors shows that for transnational migrants, “home” can be conceived of as pluri-local and mobile. Their plays thus help to re-conceptualize dominicanidad from a diasporic perspective and to counter stereotyped portrayals of Dominican migration.Peer reviewed
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