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No full text© 2021, L. Cassidy, D. Hannibal, S. Semple, B. McCowan. This is an author produced version of a paper published in AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self- archiving policy. The final published version (version of record) is available online at the link. Some minor differences between this version and the final published version may remain. We suggest you refer to the final published version should you wish to cite from it
The Destruction of Paradise: Exploring Toni Morrison?s A Mercy and John Milton?s Paradise Lost
No full textDespite overwhelming comparisons between the work of Pulitzer Prize winning author, Toni Morrison and William Faulkner, Morrison?s work filled with many Christian motifs and concepts which enter into direct conversation with John Milton?s Paradise Lost. In her most recent novel, A Mercy, published in 2008, Morrison reexamines the ideas of creation, heaven, hell, and what it means to build a paradise. The novel is set in 1680s America where the institution of slavery corrupts any possibility for paradise. The fall of all of the characters mimics that of Milton?s Adam and Eve, yet Morrison distorts the original story as they do not fall away from God, but from their true selves. Morrison explores the meaning of mercy as a giving of oneself with no intention of personal gain, but unlike Milton, Morrison values human mercy over divine mercy as it is an act which is highly-developed, complex, and often inexplicable
ESTHER C. CASSIDY
No full textESTHER C. CASSIDY
Inducted: 1999
Citation: Science policy, physics, electrical engineering For leadership of NBS/NIST Congressional relations in turbulent years when existing NBS programs were proposed for elimination (and defended successfully) and major new programs including the Baldrige Awards, Manufacturing Extension Program and Advanced Technology Program were defined, established and implemented.
Tenure: 1955-1997
Birth: 1933, Upper Marlboro, Maryland
Education:
Manhattanville College, BA (Physics), 1955
Positions held:
Physical Scientist, Research and Development
Scientific Adviser to U.S. Representative Teno Roncalio (D-WY)
U.S. Department of Commerce Federal Women's Committee Representative
Director of Congressional and Legislative Affairs
Honors:
U.S. Department of Commerce: Silver Medal, 1970; Science and Technology Fellowship, 1973?74;
U.S. Department of Commerce and U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration Special Achievement and Incentive Awards
Memberships:
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Senior Member)
American Physical Society
Electrostatics Society of America
Publications:
Author of many articles in science and engineering journals and several patents
Russia in Afghanistan and Chechnya: Military Strategic Culture and the Paradoxes of Asymmetric Conflict
No full textThe author uses a detailed assessment of the Russian experience in Afghanistan and Chechnya to draw important conclusions about asymmetric warfare. He then uses this to provide recommendations for the U.S. military, particularly the Army. Major Cassidy points out that small wars are difficult for every great power, yet are the most common kind. Even in this era of asymmetry, the U.S. Army exhibits a cultural preference for the big war paradigm. He suggests that the U.S. military in general, including the Army, needs a cultural transformation to master the challenge of asymmetry fully. From this will grow doctrine and organizational change.https://press.armywarcollege.edu/monographs/1805/thumbnail.jp
Marsden Hartley: Race, Region, and Nation
No full textAt the vanguard of renewed interest in Maine\u27s influential early modernist Marsden Hartley (1877-1943), author Donna M. Cassidy appraises the contemporary social, political, and economic realities that shaped Hartley\u27s landmark late art. During the late 1930s and early 1940s, Hartley strove to represent the distinctive subjects of his native region--the North Atlantic folk, the Maine coast, and Mount Katahdin--producing work that demands an interpretive approach beyond art history\u27s customary biographical, stylistic, and thematic methodologies.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/facbooks/1008/thumbnail.jp
Bonny Cassidy, Folio of poetry 2016
No full textBACKGROUND - This folio updates my ongoing creative writing practice, with nine poem publications. The poems represent my current interest in twisted or unmoored lyric, in which the speaking voice adopts riddling or changing identities. Influences on this work include contemporary work by local and international poets Michael Farrell, Fiona Hile and Gig Ryan, Lucie Brock-Broido, Tomas Transtromer and Anne Carson. CONTRIBUTION - This poetic mode is a response to feminist poetics, specifically the question of the poetic speaker's identity and its relationship to traditions with gendered associations, such as confessionalism and activist poetry. These poems ask, who is speaking and do they have any relationship to the author apart from the imaginary; does poetry require emotional authenticity? Drawing these questions into my own context as a postcolonial settler writer, these works also ask how analogy, fable, riddle and drama might represent a particularly Australian female voice and experience. SIGNIFICANCE - This folio places my current work within a number of different contexts, national and international. Plumwood Mountain addresses the intersection of ecology and poetry, thus extending the critical framing of my contribution, which was selected by guest editors Peter Minter and Stuart Cooke. Island is a well-established print journal based in Tasmania, its poetry edited by Sarah Holland-Batt, and reaching a national audience of subscribers and wide retail distribution. Poetry (US) is America's foremost poetry journal, and this work will feature in a special issue of Australian work, edited by Robert Adamson. Finally, four of my poems will feature in Active Aesthetics, edited by Lyn Hejinian and published out of the University of California, Berkeley. This collection is published to accompany a symposium of the same name, to be held in April, and made available to a wide range of scholars, students and writers of poetry in America and Australia
BRIDGE
No full text<p>This repository contains the BRIDGE dataset from the paper <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.09853">Bridging RL Theory and Practice with the Effective Horizon</a>. The code used to generate the data is available at <a href="https://github.com/cassidylaidlaw/effective-horizon">https://github.com/cassidylaidlaw/effective-horizon</a>.</p>
<p>See <strong>README.md</strong> for details about the contents of the dataset. <strong>summary.csv</strong> contains an overview of properties of the MDPs. <strong>summary_sticky.csv </strong>contains an overview of the sticky-action versions of the MDPs investigated in the paper <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.08369">The Effective Horizon Explains Deep RL Performance in Stochastic Environments</a>. <strong>bridge_dataset.zip</strong> contains the tabular representations of the MDPs and analysis results.</p>
<p>If you find the dataset useful for your research, please consider citing our papers:</p>
<pre><code>@inproceedings{laidlaw2023effectivehorizon,
title={Bridging RL Theory and Practice with the Effective Horizon},
author={Laidlaw, Cassidy and Russell, Stuart and Dragan, Anca},
booktitle={NeurIPS},
year={2023}
}</code></pre>
<pre><code>@inproceedings{laidlaw2024stochasticeffectivehorizon,
title={The Effective Horizon Explains Deep RL Performance in Stochastic Environments},
author={Laidlaw, Cassidy and Zhu, Banghua and Russell, Stuart and Dragan, Anca},
booktitle={ICLR},
year={2024}
}</code></pre>
Evaluation of adherence to guidelines to prevent perinatal infections in Oregon
No full textprepared by: Mark Schmidt (PhD, MPH; ABCs Surveillance Officer, Acute & Communicable Disease Program), Sean Schafer (MD; Medical Epidemiologist, HIV/STD/TB Program), Juventila Liko (MD; Epidemiologist, Immunization Program), Maureen Cassidy (MPH; Epidemiologist, Immunization Program), and Ann Thomas (MD, MPH; ABCs Principal Investigator, Acute & Communicable Disease Program).Title from PDF caption (viewed on October 16, 2020)."Adapted from the Protocol for the Evaluation of Adherence to the 2002 Revised Guidelines for the Prevention of Perinatal GBS Disease (Unpublished), by Christina Phares, PhD, Stephanie Schrag, DPhil, Elizabeth Zell, MStat, Katie Arnold, MD, Allen Craig, MD, Ruth Lynfield, MD, Janet Mohle-Boetani, MD, Aaron Roome, PhD, and Ann Thomas, MD, MPH, for the Active Bacterial Core Surveillance Team."This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references (page 10).Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Building Breastfeeding Research Relations and Beyond: An Interview With Fiona Dykes
No full textProfessor Fiona Dykes is Professor Emerita of Maternal and Infant Health at the University of Central Lancashire in the United Kingdom (UCLAN). Fiona has a particular interest in the global, sociocultural, and political influences upon infant and young child feeding practices; her methodological expertise is in ethnography and other qualitative research methods. She founded the Maternal and Infant Nutrition and Nurture Unit (MAINN) in 2000 which she led until she retired from her full-time professorship in 2020. Fiona established the associated MAINN Conference in 2007. The MAINN conference is a 3 day, international, peer reviewed event held bi-annually in the United Kingdom and, more recently, in alternate years overseas (Sydney, Australia; Falun, Dalarna, Sweden; and Florida, United States). The conference draws together key researchers in the field of infant and young child feeding from around the world. Fiona was a founding member of the journal Maternal and Child Nutrition. She is author of Breastfeeding in Hospital: Mothers, Midwives and the Production Line (Routledge) and co-author, with Dr Tanya Cassidy, of Banking on Milk: An Ethnography of Donor Human Milk Relations (Routledge). She is also joint editor of several books including Infant and Young Child Feeding: Challenges to Implementing a Global Strategy (Wiley-Blackwell) and Ethnographic Research in Maternal and Child Health (Routledge). This interview was conducted on April 20, 2023, by Dr. Tanya Cassidy, and is based on a verbatim transcription and edited for readability
Do the Americans With Disabilities Act Grab Bar Recommendations Best Meet the Needs of Older Adults? A Pilot Study
No full textAbstract
Date Presented 3/30/2017
This study investigates whether a bilateral grab bar configuration or the recommended Americans With Disabilities Act Accessibility Guidelines grab bar configuration better meets the functional and safety needs of community-dwelling older adults. Implications for future research, occupational therapy practice, and legislation are provided.
Primary Author and Speaker: Cassidy Kemp
Additional Authors and Speakers: Kelly Ulbricht, Claire Murphy, Katie Meier, Marlene Morgan</jats:p
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