208 research outputs found
Grandmothers Fan quilt by Misiniar Robbins Thompson
No full textImage of Grandmothers Fan quilt created in 1875-1927 by Misiniar Robbins Thompson. Also includes questionnaires describing the quilt completed by Pamela T. Morgan as part of the Utah Quilt Guild\u27s documentation days held from 1988-1994. When Misiniar was 9 yrs old she was working with the sorghum mill, met with an accident & lost hear thumb and finger on her right hand. Some said she was handicap but she worked hard all her life & did more than most others. She made & quilted boxes of quilts & other hand work, as quoted by her 1990 86 yrs old granddaughter Bosetta Tresner Stroud Wichita, Kanasa
An Outlaw Journalist's Journey through an Era Decadent and Depraved: Hunter S. Thompson in the context of America of the 1960s and early 1970s.
No full textThe thesis aims to explore the artistic personality of Hunter S. Thompson, one of the most distinctive cultural figures of post-war America, and his genesis as an author, journalist, and a counterculture idol of the 1960s. The era is now widely regarded as a turning point in contemporary American history as its deep-rooted values and norms were, over the course of a decade, gradually transformed by the young generation of social and political activists toward allegedly a more tolerant and liberal kind of community. Crucial in such an endeavor was the role of the countercultural movement that produced some of the most capable intellectual minds of the time, including Thompson. The paper thus analyzes the role and nature of the alternative culture in America as perceived by one of its most observant participants. Also, the thesis focuses on the author's role in establishing a new genre called New Journalism which can be linked with the era's countercultural efforts as well. In general, Thompson, in his texts, examines various phenomena surrounding the counterculture and provides us with a distinctive portrayal of the era's zeitgeist. However, unlike some of his contemporaries, he also remembers to examine numerous flaws and fallacies existing within contemporary American society, the American Dream..
Putování novinářského psance dobou dekadence a zvrácenosti: Hunter S. Thompson v kontextu Ameriky 60. a raných 70. let.
No full textTato diplomová práce se zaměřuje na uměleckou osobnost Huntera S. Thompsona, jednu z nejvýraznějších kulturních postav poválečné Ameriky, a jeho vývoj coby autora, novináře a idolu americké kontrakultury 60. let. Tato éra je dnes z pohledu moderní americké historie považována za přelomovou, protože v jejím průběhu došlo, zejména díky nastupující generaci mladých společenských a kulturních aktivistů, k přerodu od hluboce zakořeněného a v mnohém překonaného systému společenských hodnot a norem k postoji hlásajícímu toleranci a liberalismus. Zásadní roli v těchto snahách měla tehdejší kontrakultura, z jejíchž řad pocházelo velké množství schopných intelektuálů a umělců, mezi něž patří též Thompson. Tato práce proto analyzuje roli a podstatu tehdejší alternativní kultury v Americe z pohledu jednoho z jejích nejpozornějších účastníků. Mimoto se tento text zaměřuje i na autorovu roli ve spoluvytváření nového literárního žánru zvaného nový žurnalismus, který lze také spojovat s aktivitou tehdejší kontrakultury. Kromě toho se Thompson ve svých dílech zaměřuje na různé fenomény, které tuto alternativní kulturu obklopovaly, díky čemuž divákovi předkládá osobité zachycení ducha té doby. Nicméně, na rozdíl od některých svých současníků, autor taktéž nezapomíná vyhledávat, pojmenovávat a následně prozkoumávat...The thesis aims to explore the artistic personality of Hunter S. Thompson, one of the most distinctive cultural figures of post-war America, and his genesis as an author, journalist, and a counterculture idol of the 1960s. The era is now widely regarded as a turning point in contemporary American history as its deep-rooted values and norms were, over the course of a decade, gradually transformed by the young generation of social and political activists toward allegedly a more tolerant and liberal kind of community. Crucial in such an endeavor was the role of the countercultural movement that produced some of the most capable intellectual minds of the time, including Thompson. The paper thus analyzes the role and nature of the alternative culture in America as perceived by one of its most observant participants. Also, the thesis focuses on the author's role in establishing a new genre called New Journalism which can be linked with the era's countercultural efforts as well. In general, Thompson, in his texts, examines various phenomena surrounding the counterculture and provides us with a distinctive portrayal of the era's zeitgeist. However, unlike some of his contemporaries, he also remembers to examine numerous flaws and fallacies existing within contemporary American society, the American Dream...Department of Anglophone Literatures and CulturesÚstav anglofonních literatur a kulturFilozofická fakultaFaculty of Art
Data expertise and service development in geoscience data centers and academic libraries
No full texteScience brings the promise of advancements in scientific knowledge as well as new demands on staff who need to manage large and complex data, design user services, and enable open access. One ramification is that research institutions are extending their services and staffing to address data management concerns. As more organizations extend their operations to research data, an understanding of how to develop and support research data expertise and services is needed. How can an organization build data expertise into their staff?
This study examines how organizations develop their own data expertise and services, comparing approaches in geoscience data centers and academic libraries. Case studies of two exemplar sites are presented based on evidence from qualitative interviews and artifact collection. The case studies are extended and further informed through qualitative interviews conducted with personnel at other data centers and libraries. The study addresses how to cultivate research data expertise and staffing to support data management services. Key products include a set of expertise categories, data roles, and learning strategies. The results draw attention to the contributions that data professionals make to research projects and to ways research institutions can support data professionals and data work.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2019-12-01The student, Cheryl Thompson, accepted the attached license on 2017-09-28 at 17:10.The student, Cheryl Thompson, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2017-09-28 at 17:19.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2017-09-29 at 16:18.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #11661 on 2018-03-13 at 09:55:13Made available in DSpace on 2018-03-13T15:21:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Public participation and New Urbanism: a conflicting agenda?
No full textThe challenges to public participation in planning are numerous. Inclusive and equitable processes are recognised as an ideal in much planning theory and practice, yet this ideal is increasingly difficult to realise in today’s societies that comprise diverse and multiple publics. Within the wider sustainability debate, ‘New Urbanism’ has emerged as a pragmatic alternative to convention allow-density development. Concomitant with a range of prescribed physical outcomes, the New Urbanism movement advocates a process of ‘citizen-based participatory planning and design’. Charrettes, with urban design workshops, are the favoured tools for achieving this goal. However, it is argued that the adherence to a single type of participatory tool can be inconsistent with accepted ideals of participation processes and has several implications. Of particular concern is the role of the charrette planner or facilitator, a figure who has the potential to manipulate the public because of his/her inevitable allegiance to the New Urban agenda. In addition, the examination of a charrette process in a small New Zealand town raises several broader questions about the ability of the approach to address issues of inclusiveness and the recognition of difference, two fundamental elements of good participatory processes
Designing a New Base for Education and Art Education Curricula From an Islamic Perspective, for Use in Saudi Arabia and Other Muslim Countries
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Surveying and the ecology of belonging in the nineteenth-century United States
No full textBy the early Nineteenth-Century United States, the myth of North America’s resource superabundance sat uneasily with the nation’s liberal doctrine of individual rights. Imagining a vast continent of endless resources available to all, Americans then cordoned them off as property accessible only by the few. The arbiter of this process—the figure who came to symbolize the legal rights and guarantees of property—was the surveyor. This occupation was at once a signifier of class and education and an entryway for the aspirational. George Washington possessed the social and mathematical credentials to serve as a surveyor in colonial Virginia, and Abraham Lincoln would later receive his first political appointment as a surveyor in Illinois. As the century proceeded, the surveyor facilitated the distribution of public lands to a citizenry eager to participate in the nation’s project of settler-colonial expansion, charting townships, mapping the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains, and clearing the way for infrastructural development and westward emigration. Even a brief flight across the Midwestern United States today showcases the surveyor’s legacy in the angular patchwork of farms and roadways authorized by the Land Ordinance of 1785. Because surveyors prominently worked through the medium of land, they had an understated impact on the formation of citizenship and civic belonging as it related to property ownership; nor was this impact lost on many Americans.
In this dissertation project, I argue that land surveyors have played an outsized yet understudied role in the literary discourse of the nineteenth-century United States, symbolizing the legal guarantees of property and determining practices of land apportionment and access. Frequently, the figure of the surveyor appears in this archive of literature—a broad range of novels, short stories, sketches, essays, political publications, and surveys—as an agent of the state and the elite, protecting land monopolies and resource claims. In surprising cases, however, he is mobilized as a champion of the disenfranchised and under-classed against state overreach and the excesses of the wealthy. Because the surveyor’s contribution to placemaking often fails to conform neatly to traditional modes of pre- and post-bellum periodization in American literary study, I have instead organized my chapters geographically, focusing in turn on upstate New York, the Kansas-Nebraska Border, Manhattan and Brooklyn, and the southwestern United State. Through these sites I narrate the uneasy growth of American empire and the strategies employed to conform to or resist the social and legal frameworks of American citizenship.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2022-12-01The student, Carl Thompson, accepted the attached license on 2020-09-25 at 10:02.The student, Carl Thompson, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2020-09-25 at 10:09.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2020-09-28 at 16:46.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #15819 on 2021-03-04 at 16:18:52Made available in DSpace on 2021-03-05T21:40:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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A Multivariate Surface-Based Analysis of the Putamen in Premature Newborns: Regional Differences within the Ventral Striatum
No full textMany children born preterm exhibit frontal executive dysfunction, behavioral problems including attentional deficit/hyperactivity disorder and attention related learning disabilities. Anomalies in regional specificity of cortico-striato-thalamo-cortical circuits may underlie deficits in these disorders. Nonspecific volumetric deficits of striatal structures have been documented in these subjects, but little is known about surface deformation in these structures. For the first time, here we found regional surface morphological differences in the preterm neonatal ventral striatum. We performed regional group comparisons of the surface anatomy of the striatum (putamen and globus pallidus) between 17 preterm and 19 term-born neonates at term-equivalent age. We reconstructed striatal surfaces from manually segmented brain magnetic resonance images and analyzed them using our in-house conformal mapping program. All surfaces were registered to a template with a new surface fluid registration method. Vertex-based statistical comparisons between the two groups were performed via four methods: univariate and multivariate tensor-based morphometry, the commonly used medial axis distance, and a combination of the last two statistics. We found statistically significant differences in regional morphology between the two groups that are consistent across statistics, but more extensive for multivariate measures. Differences were localized to the ventral aspect of the striatum. In particular, we found abnormalities in the preterm anterior/inferior putamen, which is interconnected with the medial orbital/prefrontal cortex and the midline thalamic nuclei including the medial dorsal nucleus and pulvinar. These findings support the hypothesis that the ventral striatum is vulnerable, within the cortico-stiato-thalamo-cortical neural circuitry, which may underlie the risk for long-term development of frontal executive dysfunction, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and attention-related learning disabilities in preterm neonates. © 2013 Shi et al
Amblyomma hirtum Neumann 1906
No full text56. Amblyomma hirtum Neumann, 1906. Neotropical: 1) Ecuador (Guglielmone et al. 2021). Keirans (1992) did not include Amblyomma hirtum in his list of ticks of the world, but that author endorsed the validity of this species in Guglielmone et al. (2003). Amblyomma hirtum was described by Neumann (1906) from specimens collected in the Galápagos Islands and “l’île St. Paul,” an island that has been associated with Saint Paul´s Rocks, near the northeast coast of Brazil, by Guglielmone et al. (2003), but its presence there has not been confirmed. Dantas-Torres et al. (2009) doubt the presence of Amblyomma hirtum in Brazil. Hooker (1909) and Thompson (1950) listed Amblyomma hirtum as part of the ixodid fauna of the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, but that island is another doubtful locality for this species. Therefore, Brazil and Guadeloupe are not included within the range of Amblyomma hirtum.Published as part of Guglielmone, Alberto A., Nava, Santiago & Robbins, Richard G., 2023, Geographic distribution of the hard ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) of the world by countries and territories, pp. 1-274 in Zootaxa 5251 (1) on page 50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5251.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/770419
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No full textA young veteran gets a call from Special Forces to come back to the Vietnam War.
Articles, stories, and other compositions in this archive were written by participants in the Mighty Pen Project. The program, developed by author David L. Robbins, and in partnership with Virginia Commonwealth University and the Virginia War Memorial in Richmond, Virginia, offers veterans and their family members a customized twelve-week writing class, free of charge. The program encourages, supports, and assists participants in sharing their stories and experiences of military experience so both writer and audience may benefit
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