125 research outputs found
Special Issue Introduction: Youth at Risk
No full textGuest editors MeLisa Creamer, Anna Wilkinson, Deanna Hoelscher and Steven Kelder introduce Volume 8, Issue 2 of the Journal of Applied Research on Children
Tobacco Product Use and Associated Factors among Middle and High School Students \u2014 United States, 2019
No full textTobacco Product Use and Associated Factors Among Middle and High School Students \u2014 United States, 2019 / Teresa W. Wang, PhD; Andrea S. Gentzke, PhD; MeLisa R. Creamer, PhD; et al
Made in the Image of God: Rethinking Accessible to All
No full textDisabilities Awareness Week lecture by Deborah B. Creamer, recorded April 16, 2015. Dr. Deborah B. Creamer, is Director of Accreditation and Institutional Evaluation at the Association for Theological Schools in the US and Canada. She is the author of "Disability and Christian Theology: Embodied Limits and Constructive Possibilities." Dr. Creamer's lecture was co-sponsored by Church of the Apostles UCC, Lancaster, Pa. Digital MP4 HD video recording. Duration: 42 minutes, 44 seconds
Treatment for Six Characters
No full textAn artist film made by Anne-Marie Creamer between 2012-15.
During a Scholarship at the British School at Rome Creamer adapted a 1935 text by Italian writer Luigi Pirandello called Treatment for Six Characters. Written over 10 years this was intended to be a precursor to Pirandello’s seminal 1921 meta-play Six Characters in Search of an Author; had it been realised the film was to feature a fictional version of the development of his play, allowing Pirandello to explore the ethics of the creative process.
It presents a famous author - clearly based on Pirandello himself – who meets a family who become unwitting catalysts for his imagination. He behaves destructively with tragic consequences. Tantalisingly Pirandello's text concludes with the historical premier of Six Characters at Teatro Valle, Rome’s oldest working theatre. Together the play and the film form an innovative temporal loop precisely united in place by the complex presence of the stage at Teatro Valle.
Apart from one sequence the locations of Creamer's film were lit and filmed without actors, part of a deliberately oblique approach intended to propose a ‘cinema of the mind’: she considered Pirandello’s film a kind of ruin and not intending to make his film in its entirety she set out to construct her work around the paradoxical lures and failures of another, absent film.
The film is narrated by veteran Italian actor Norman Mozzato, also featuring Pirandello’s home in Rome, Studio di Luigi Pirandello and iconic Italian fashion atelier Fondazione Micol Fontana. At the time of production the influential Teatro Valle was under occupation, by Fondazione Teatro Valle Occupato who collaborated with Creamer, and gave her on-going access to the theatre. Pirandello’s film is then not just set in the locations he wished but also within a newly intense social and political space whose urgencies add new dimensions to Pirandello’s unrealized project.
High Definition video - Colour. 33 mins duration.
Language: Italian, with English subtitles.
Stereo sound, 48 Khz, 24 bit.
Director: Editor, & Soundtrack: Anne-Marie Creamer.
Cast: The Narrator: Norman Mozzato. The Mother: Simona Senzacqua. The Chorus: Simone Douani, Nadia Ostacchini & Lara Permiani
Technical: Lighting technician, Teatro Valle: Saba Kasmai.
Soundtrack: mastered by Enrico Pinna at Quadra Recording Studios, London.
Translation: Jacopo Benchi
The work is also discussed or focussed on on the following UAL Research Online pages:
• Article; The Dilemmas of Adaptation: Making Treatment for Six Characters
http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/8705/
• Pirandello’s Unrealized Film, Treatment for Six Characters: An Interview with Film Director and Artist Anne-Marie Creamer
http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/8706/
• Conference presentation of my film 'Treatment for Six Characters' at international conference: 'Global legacies: Pirandello across centuries and media' at Hunter College, CUNY, New York, USA, followed by Q&A before conference audience.
https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/13674
Relocation camps - the 1940s: Isle detainees revive memories with 'Jerome yearbook'
No full textArticle by Beverly Creamer in "The Honolulu advertiser" about a yearbook of Jerome incarceration camp to be published. The article is marked up and the verso has a photocopy of a declassified document noting that only those "considered potentially dangerous to national security" were brought to the mainland from Hawaii. Markups and commentary likely written by Lillian Baker.The Japanese American Relocation Collection is composed of ephemera related to the relocation program during World War II. Items include the official government report of Manzanar Relocation Center, a photo album, post-war activism materials related to preserving and remembering the camps, various clippings, and documents. The strength of this collection is found in its many perspectives on the controversial relocation program and how it has been presented since World War II
Is sexual violence associated with symptoms of depression and suicide attempts
No full textSexual assault, depression, and suicide are all very serious issues among youth today. This study sought to quantify the association between sexual violence, symptoms of depression, and suicide attempts through the use of 2007 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) data. The YRBS is a nationally representative dataset of United States high school students, grades 9-12. It was hypothesized that sexual violence is significantly associated with symptoms of depression and suicide attempts. Through multivariate logistic regression, it was determined that students who had ever experienced forced sex were 3.10 (2.7-3.6) times as likely to be depressed, in the past 12 months, and 4.22 (3.5-5.1) times as likely to have attempted suicide. Female victims were 3.43 (2.9-4.0) times as likely to be depressed; male victims were 5.40 (3.7-7.9) times as likely to have attempted suicide. Sexual violence is significantly associated with both symptoms of depression and suicide attempt when stratified by gender, grade, and race/ethnicity. These results indicate that further study of the association between sexual violence and symptoms of depression and suicide attempts need to be conducted in order to establish temporality
Tobacco use and co-varying behaviors among adolescents and young adults
No full textThe purpose of this dissertation was to explore the relationship between cigarettes and other health compromising behaviors, in adolescence and young adults. The first paper of this dissertation sought to determine trends in the use of individual and multiple tobacco products, among adolescent tobacco users, using repeated cross-sectional data from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS), from 1997-2011; and to examine differences in these trends by key socio-demographic factors. Trends indicate that there are significant changes in the prevalence and types of products used by high school students, as well key socio-demographic differences. Many of the significant trends may be attributed to an increase in smokeless tobacco use, among tobacco users. The second paper of this dissertation aimed to elucidate the temporal relationship of weight control behaviors and smoking from adolescence to young adulthood, from 1994-2002, using nationally representative longitudinal data from the Add Health Study. Regression analyses testing the bi-directional relationships between smoking and weight control behaviors showed that there is likely an association between these two behaviors. Ever smoking in young adulthood is predicted by weight control variables in late adolescence. Most models predicting weight control behaviors in young adulthood were statistically insignificant and less than one. These models did not provide evidence that early smoking led to weight control behaviors. Results of these analyses did not find consistent or overwhelming support for either behavior preceding the other. The third paper was a series of systematic literature reviews on the Fairness Doctrine on tobacco, food marketing to children, and counter-marketing campaigns and strategies to guide the development of a Fairness Doctrine-like campaign on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs). These reviews gave insight into a potential counter-marketing campaign on SSBs aimed a youth. Potential effects of the proposed campaign include increased self-regulation by the SSB industry, decreased consumption of SSB, and changes in the attitudes, beliefs, and knowledge of SSBs. A counter-marketing campaign focused on SSBs may be step in curbing the childhood obesity epidemic, and appears feasible and justifiable as one potential strategy aimed at this epidemic
Birmingham News sleeve BN0023525
No full textNew officers of Birmingham Advertising Club / Mike White / Frederick MacVicar / Author Curl / Mildred Son / Jim Creamer / Guest House / [Work order included
Nicotine Tob Res
No full textCC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHS/United States2019-07-09T00:00:00Z29300946PMC6023778643
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
No full textIntroductionTobacco use is the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the United States; nearly all tobacco product use begins during youth and young adulthood.MethodsCDC, the Food and Drug Administration, and the National Cancer Institute analyzed data from the 2011\u20132018 National Youth Tobacco Surveys to estimate tobacco product use among U.S. middle and high school students. Prevalence estimates of current (past 30-day) use of seven tobacco products were assessed; differences over time were analyzed using multivariable regression (2011\u20132018) or t-test (2017\u20132018).ResultsIn 2018, current use of any tobacco product was reported by 27.1% of high school students (4.04 million) and 7.2% of middle school students (840,000); electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) were the most commonly used product among high school (20.8%; 3.05 million) and middle school (4.9%; 570,000) students. Use of any tobacco product overall did not change significantly during 2011\u20132018 among either school level. During 2017\u20132018, current use of any tobacco product increased 38.3% (from 19.6% to 27.1%) among high school students and 28.6% (from 5.6% to 7.2%) among middle school students; e-cigarette use increased 77.8% (from 11.7% to 20.8%) among high school students and 48.5% (from 3.3% to 4.9%) among middle school students.Conclusions and Implications for Public Health PracticeA considerable increase in e-cigarette use among U.S. youths, coupled with no change in use of other tobacco products during 2017\u20132018, has erased recent progress in reducing overall tobacco product use among youths. The sustained implementation of comprehensive tobacco control strategies, in coordination with Food and Drug Administration regulation of tobacco products, can prevent and reduce the use of all forms of tobacco products among U.S. youths
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