105 research outputs found
[Mein lieber Freund].
No full textHandwritten and signed letter from author Max Roden regarding a review of one of his books.Author, 1881-1968.The original German-language inventory is available in the folderProcessed for digitizatio
The role of research in mentoring
No full textAdditional chapter by author from the same book deposited at: https://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.500.12289/10906In this chapter, the focus is on how mentors can make the best use of research in their work with beginning teachers. At the end of the chapter, the people should be able to: Explain why mentors should engage with research, Identify how mentors can engage with and make the best use of research and Select the kinds of research mentors and beginning teachers should engage with about the mentoring relationship as well as teaching and learning. There are convincing arguments for why mentors should engage with research. The mentor–mentee relationship can be better understood by engaging in research linked to theoretical frameworks derived from the literature. Earl and Timperley’s notion of evidence-informed learning conversations could provide a foundation for mentor–mentee relationships and discussions about teaching and learning. There is a considerable range of educational related research to choose from, and it is difficult to know which research is credible and reliable.https://www.routledge.com/Mentoring-Teachers-in-the-Primary-School-A-Practical-Guide/Howells-Lawrence-Roden/p/book/9781138389076pubpu
Orphean Operas Impact on Anaïs Mitchell\u27s Hadestown
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/node/10481/10851-thumbnail.jpgThe Orpheus story has been written and rewritten numerous times over, most notably through the opera medium. More recently, Anaïs Mitchell’s musical Hadestown rewrote the famous tale once more. But Hadestown’s alterations are not unheard of, as many aspects of the popular musical can be seen in operas dating back to the 1600s. This paper analyzes previous iterations of the story via opera from the Renaissance through the Romantic era as a framework for examining the themes of Mitchell’s Hadestown. Mitchell’s interpretation opens up a dialogue on what impacts the human soul, bringing in topics such as mental health, social class, wealth, resilience, and love.</p
Geschichte der juedischen Gemeinde Gleiwitz vom 31. 1. 1933 bis 24. 1. 1945.
No full textHistory of the Gleiwitz Jewish community during Nazi rule; survival of author because of his marriage to a Christian; November pogrom of 1938 and author's experiences in Buchenwald concentration camp.Also included are correspondence and a list of 168 Gleiwitz Jews who were killed between 1933 and 1945.Erich Schlesinger was born in Koenigshuette (Silesia) in 1886. He was a lawyer in Gleiwitz (Silesia).Brief summary in Max Kreutzberger: "Leo Baeck Institute New York, Bibliothek und Archiv; Katalog": C 35
Pharmacogenetics of Resistant Hypertension: Leveraging the Electronic Medical Record
No full textPatients with resistant hypertension have uncontrolled blood pressure despite concurrent treatment with three or more antihypertensive medications including a thiazide diuretic. Compared to patients with controlled hypertension, resistant hypertensive patients are at an increased risk for myocardial infarction, stroke, and renal disease. Despite these risks, the pathophysiology underlying resistant hypertension remains poorly understood and very few novel antihypertensive medications have been discovered to treat the condition. We hypothesized that we could use electronic medical records (EMRs) to identify patients with resistant hypertension for use in epidemiologic and genetic studies.
Using the Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) EMRs we identified patients with resistant hypertension. Consistent with previous clinical studies, the prevalence of resistant hypertension in the EMR-derived populations was greater among African Americans compared to European Americans, and patients with resistant hypertension were significantly older, heavier, more likely to have chronic kidney disease stage three, and had a higher incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus than patients with controlled hypertension. We also identified significant differences in the pharmacologic treatment of resistant hypertension in African Americans and European Americans in an academic medical center .
To demonstrate the potential for EMR-derived resistant hypertension populations to be used in genetic studies, we used the Department of Veteran Affairs Million Veterans Program database to test for an association between two loss-of-function variants in CYP4A11 and resistant hypertension. We determined there was a significant association between the two CYP4A11 variants, rs1126742 and rs3890011, and resistant hypertension (β=0.04, p=0.02; β=0.05, p<0.001, respectively).
Finally, using the VUMC EMR-derived resistant hypertension population we developed an algorithm to determine the blood pressure response to spironolactone. We determined that approximately 29% of patients with resistant hypertension do not respond to spironolactone. Higher blood pressure and changes in serum sodium, potassium and creatinine were associated with the blood pressure response to spironolactone, consistent with spironolactone’s mechanism of action to block the mineralocorticoid receptor and decrease activity of the epithelial sodium channel
Beyond the romantic imagination : Oscar Wilde's aesthetics
No full textOscar Wilde is best known as the author of The Importance of Being Earnest, The Picture of Dorian Gray and perhaps Salomé, but also as a nineteenth-century dandy and aesthete whose face is instantly recognizable to a twenty-first-century audience. On both sides of the Atlantic in the late nineteenth century, Wilde was the epitome of art for art’s sake, and when he travelled across America he did so as a Professor of Aesthetics. Aesthetics—a word that has come to mean the philosophical study of art—had its origins in Ancient Greece, where philosophers like Plato and Aristotle questioned the links between art and knowledge, and art and truth. The word was coined in the eighteenth century by A. G. Baumgarten and is derived from the Ancient Greek aisthêsis, meaning sensation, perception, and to aisthêton: the object of perception. In the current context, though, it might be best to define aesthetics with a quote from Water Pater—a prominent voice in Victorian aesthetics and a significant “influencer” in the circles in which Wilde moved, who would write in the “Preface” to his remarkable The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry (1873): “To define beauty, not in the most abstract, but in the most concrete terms possible, to find, not a universal formula for it, but the formula which expresses most adequately this or that special manifestation of it, is the aim of the true student of aesthetics” (vii)
Robert Buchanan 1841-1901: an assessment of his career.
No full textPhDRobert Buchanan was widely regarded during his
lifetime as a poet of distinction, a capable and powerful
novelist, and a critic of some perception, yet his name is
now associated only with one regrettable episode, while
those of lesser men and women continue to be remembered for
work inferior to his. A man possessing large reserves of
energy, and pressed to write for a living at an early age,
he produced much work that deserves the oblivion it has
found; but his early verse, expressing his profound compassion
for the sufferings of the unfortunate in the simplest
language, some of his ballads, and not a little of his
later more vatic verse, is still worthy of study. As a
novelist his work is provocative and readable, but too
often descends to the level of the sentimental melodrama
which earned him, for a while, a very good income from the
stage. As a critic he was not profound, but was quick to
detect and praise expression of his own sympathy for humanity
that came to represent for him art's highest aspiration;
Dickens, Browning and Whitman were his heroes, and for the
last two he did sterling work in helping them to gain widespread
recognition. As a polemist he rushed into several
arenas, for some of which his talents were not especially
suited; but he publicly supported C. S. Parnell and Oscar
Wilde when few found the courage to do so. An interesting
man of impressive variety and undoubted talent has found an
undeserved neglect, and a full-scale critical biography of
Robert Buchanan is long overdue
The Flight from the Liberal Party: Liberals who joined Labour, 1914-31
No full textFrom 1914 to 1931, many of those previously active
in Liberal politics defected to Labour. Why did so many Liberals switch their political allegiance
(‘almost like changing one’s religion’, as one
Liberal MP observed) and abandon their party, which had been in office, or coalition government, from 1906 to 1922, to enlist with the fledgling
Labour Party? And how far, if at all, did their presence influence Labour’s development during a
key period of political realignment in British
politics? Professor John Shepherd examines the histor
Arrested development: a daughter's autoethnographic exploration of paternal incarceration
No full textIn the United States, millions of children currently have an incarcerated parent, with millions more having past experiences of paternal incarceration at some point during their lives (Kjellstrand and Eddy, 2011b). My research offers entry into the often hidden, isolated and fragmented world of children with imprisoned fathers. Historically, research on children with incarcerated parents has been limited, resulting in them being deemed an ‘invisible’ population (McDonald, 2009). More recent research on children with incarcerated parents has tended to be quantitative or take a clinical focus, tending to present such children as ‘victims’ at risk of a variety of adverse childhood outcomes. Few studies utilise the voices of children themselves to understand this phenomenon.
Employing an autoethnographic approach, this thesis provides insights into the thoughts, feelings and experiences of a child who has a father in prison and how this experience impacts their sense of identity as they grow into adulthood. Stigma and shame emerge as powerful organising themes, and the life course approach demonstrates how the experience continues to influence, even construct, the adult-child experience long after their father is released.
The author invites the reader to journey with them through truthful, playful, creative and evocative renderings of memories and experiences spanning childhood into adulthood and past into present. As a storyteller and researcher, the author engages in dialogue with relevant literature to learn more about this population and to develop their own unique contribution to this field of study. Paramount in this is the inclusion of the voices of other children with incarcerated parents, with a central place given to the small body of relevant literature that utilises their voices as research data.
My hope is that this research can be used by professionals to help them better understand this ‘invisible’ population so that support services and research in the future will better aim to hear and capture their voices and respond more effectively to the needs of this group. As importantly, I hope that adult children with experience of paternal incarceration will find their experience acknowledged and affirmed in this thesis
The Imperative of Spatial Agency in the Tectonics of the Affordable Home
No full textabstract: This thesis explores the imperative of spatial agency in the context of affordable housing within a capitalist free-market economy and an age in which agency has been stripped from the architect and inhabitant alike. It defines the concepts of spatial agency of both the architect and inhabitant as well as the means to achieve this, namely prefabrication and adaptability as frameworks within the social sciences and architectural discourse. These definitions will then be further evaluated via their practical applications in several case studies dated between 1936 and the present. Ultimately, a flexible and low-impact solution will be implemented into the design of off site housing units for the Roden Crater housing project as well as one possible solution to affordable housing crises in an effort to utilize the once profit-driven means of prefabrication towards a more socialist end
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