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Why has the nurse practitioner been granted prescribing privileges?
No full textJudy Lumby, Michelle Robins, Michelle Wood
Interview with Martin Robins, October 2012
No full textThis document contains the content of an oral history interview and is part of a series of inter-views conducted by the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center (VTC). These interviews are personal, experiential, and interpretative, reflecting the memories and associations of individuals. All reasonable attempts are made to ensure accuracy, but statements should not be interpreted as facts endorsed by Rutgers University, the Edward J. Bloustein School, or VTC. The associated website also contains links to other resources, but does not endorse or guarantee their content.Transcrip
Body composition and migration strategies : a comparison between robins (Erithacus rubecula) from two stop-over sites in Sweden
No full textRobins captured as passage migrants by the Baltic Sea in Sweden at Falsterbo and Ottenby Bird Observatories, respectively, differ with respect to body mass, fat load and orientation behaviour. Relatively more birds with large visual fat deposits are captured at Ottenby than at Falsterbo, but robins at Falsterbo carry more fat than robins at Ottenby. Robins with small fat loads at Ottenby probably consisted of birds which had depleted their fuel reserves during a preceding extensive flight across the Baltic Sea. The difference in fat content, fat-free body mass, flight muscle and liver mass may reflect differences in physiological and ecological conditions for robins migrating mainly over land (arriving at Falsterbo) and over sea (arriving at Ottenby), respectively. -from Author
The “Sordid Story” of an Unwanted Child: Militancy, Motherhood and Abortion in Elizabeth Robins’ Votes for Women! and Way Stations
No full text© 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article reconsiders representations of the militant suffragette in two texts by the radical writer Elizabeth Robins: Votes for Women! (1907) and her collection of political speeches and articles, Way Stations (1913). Her plea for twentieth-century women writers to create new roles for women outside those of wives and sweethearts can be read in relation to the creation of her “exceptional” suffragette heroine, who thrives on her singleness in her 1907 play. Focusing particularly on the taboo issues of abortion and unmarried motherhood, the author considers the ways in which Robins developed the fallen woman on stage narrative in the early twentieth century, and how childlessness is shown to be both necessary and problematic for the suffragette heroine. The author also reassesses Robins’ complex commentaries on militancy and “quiet propaganda” in her suffrage speeches and pamphlets
Anonymity as a Bridge from Actress to Author: The Case of Elizabeth Robins
No full textAny scholar working on the origins of the feminist journey of the actress turned writer Elizabeth Robins ought to be aware of her two earliest short works of fiction she wrote and published in The New Review under nearly perfect anonymity. This paper will profile these two earlier stories, published in 1894 even before her first novel, George Mandeville\u27s Husband, attracted attention when it appeared under her perhaps thinly disguised pseudonym, C. E. Raimond.
Robins saw the potential and, yes, to her mind, the necessity, of establishing herself as a writer so that she could more securely support herself. Her journey of the 1890s is one not only of becoming a leading Ibsen actress, but includes that of securing her own voice as a writer, independent of any associations with her performances. In addition to writing for income, of course, we value where her secret personae reveal aspects of her later feminist voice.
A Lucky Sixpence, the first of these pieces, reads like the sometimes-anthologized Jemima\u27s story segment of Mary Wollstonecraft\u27s Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman. Yet Robins tells her story with some distance and irony. A poor waif of a servant becomes the target of her master\u27s affections.
The second short story from The New Review, Dedicated to John Huntley, is told from the point of view of a young writer who looks up to the more established John Huntley until Huntley dismissed –even yawned at—the oral description of a story the narrator conveys to the mentor. While the narrator is touring Central American and then recuperating from a tropical illness, he remembers his long-abandoned work and returns to complete it with fresh vigor. Meanwhile, back in London, John Huntley has appropriated the oral version of the narrator\u27s story and writes his own version of it. When the younger writer returns to London, he discovers that decent old John Huntley has plagiarized his own story--told it in a tawdry, sensational way—he is left with no choice but to burn his entire opus, down to the last sheet, Dedicated to John Huntley. This could well be read as melodrama if not for one fact: the anonymous author of The New Review story is the woman who first acted the role of Hedda Gabler on the English stage
Instructor and Student Join in Research at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Robins AFB Campus
No full textThis paper describes the voluntary student involvement in research at the ERAU Robins AFB, GA, campus in support of ERAU’s mission: “Our mission is to teach the science, practice and business of aviation and aerospace, preparing students for productive careers and leadership roles in service around the world.” Two examples will be discussed. In the first example, the student is a junior author and contributes to the research. In the second example, the student is the senior author and the instructor acts as a mentor providing additional analysis
Inter-rater reliability and concurrent validity of ROBINS-I: protocol for a cross-sectional study
No full textAbstract
Background
The Cochrane Bias Methods Group recently developed the “Risk of Bias (ROB) in Non-randomized Studies of Interventions” (ROBINS-I) tool to assess ROB for non-randomized studies of interventions (NRSI). It is important to establish consistency in its application and interpretation across review teams. In addition, it is important to understand if specialized training and guidance will improve the reliability of the results of the assessments. Therefore, the objective of this cross-sectional study is to establish the inter-rater reliability (IRR), inter-consensus reliability (ICR), and concurrent validity of ROBINS-I. Furthermore, as this is a relatively new tool, it is important to understand the barriers to using this tool (e.g., time to conduct assessments and reach consensus—evaluator burden).
Methods
Reviewers from four participating centers will appraise the ROB of a sample of NRSI publications using the ROBINS-I tool in two stages. For IRR and ICR, two pairs of reviewers will assess the ROB for each NRSI publication. In the first stage, reviewers will assess the ROB without any formal guidance. In the second stage, reviewers will be provided customized training and guidance. At each stage, each pair of reviewers will resolve conflicts and arrive at a consensus. To calculate the IRR and ICR, we will use Gwet’s AC1 statistic.
For concurrent validity, reviewers will appraise a sample of NRSI publications using both the New-castle Ottawa Scale (NOS) and ROBINS-I. We will analyze the concordance between the two tools for similar domains and for the overall judgments using Kendall’s tau coefficient.
To measure the evaluator burden, we will assess the time taken to apply the ROBINS-I (without and with guidance), and the NOS. To assess the impact of customized training and guidance on the evaluator burden, we will use the generalized linear models. We will use Microsoft Excel and SAS 9.4 to manage and analyze study data, respectively.
Discussion
The quality of evidence from systematic reviews that include NRS depends partly on the study-level ROB assessments. The findings of this study will contribute to an improved understanding of the ROBINS-I tool and how best to use it
Dr. Joe Hoyle – Faculty Author Interview
No full textDr. Joe Hoyle, Associate Professor of Accounting in the E. Claiborne Robins School of Business, discusses Introduction to Financial Accounting, a unique online textbook that incorporates many different learning and media techniques. By offering introductory videos, embedded multiple-choice questions and real-life interviews with an investment manager, Hoyle and his co-author include something for every student. The book will be published by Flat World Knowledge in early 2010
A voyage round the world, in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV.
No full textSignatures: A⁴ a⁴ b1 c-d⁴ B-3G⁴ 1 leaf unsigned."Lord Anson ... appears to have entrusted to Robins for revision the account of the voyage which had been compiled from the journals by ... Richard Walter. There has been considerable dispute as to whether Robins or Walter wrote the book... It seems probable that Robins revised and edited the work."--Dict. Nat. Biog., v. 48, p. 435.First edition.ESTCMode of access: Internet.Clark Library copy: lacks: bound in old calf; armorial bookplate of Sir Stafford H. Northcote, bart
Freedom of Speech: The Florida Implications of \u3cem\u3ePruneYard Shopping Center v. Robins\u3c/em\u3e
No full textThe expansion of individual liberties by courts interpreting state constitutions more broadly than the Federal Constitution has been a significant trend in recent years. In the area of free speech, the Supreme Court of California recently held that the California Constitution protects speech-related activities in shopping malls, subject to reasonable regulation. The United States Supreme Court found adequate state grounds to uphold that decision in PruneYard Shopping Center v. Robins, although the Federal Constitution does not extend so far. The author examines the series of cases culminating in PruneYard and discusses its relevance to Florida law
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