61 research outputs found
The Future of Marketing Communications
No full textPanelists Jessica Garrett Modkins, Nathan Pieratt, Leo Morejon and Hugo Perez present The Future of Marketing Communications moderated by Whitney Drake at Integrate 2019 hosted by WVU Integrated Marketing Communications and Data Marketing Communications Graduate Programs
Duet from Moore and Kadogo's "Salt City"
No full textJessica Care Moore (poet) and Aku Kadogo (choreographer) created the techno-choreopoem "Salt City". In the 2017 Spelman Production, Makaila Garrett, a CAU student (stage left in the video) and Aliyah Miller, Spelman College student (stage right in the video), performed this duet. This recording is from Nov. 28, 2017. Keywords: Choreopoem; Spelman College; Aku Kadogo; Jessica Care Moor
Efficacy of in-school suspension practices in selected Texas schools with character education programs
No full textThe author has granted permission for their work to be available to the general public.In-school suspension (ISS) is widely used in schools, but its efficacy in deterring future misbehavior has long been suspect. Early writings on ISS indicate that the programs were expected to have a character-building aspect to them, but such aspects appear to be missing from current ISS programs. Concurrently, an increased emphasis in character education appears evident. This study questioned the extent to which ISS at schools that practice some form of character education promotes the social and academic success of students. To gauge that effectiveness, a qualitative multiple-case study was conducted. Interviews and site visits were conducted at three West Texas schools during the spring semester of the 2013-14 school year. Administrators, teachers, parents, and students were interviewed to determine their perceptions of ISS and its efficacy. Observations and descriptions of the programs as given by participants were compared to those of early writers, including a specific description given by Hayes Mizell (1978), to determine whether ISS was being practiced according to its earlier ideals. The study found that ISS in schools where character education was practiced was moderately effective in promoting the social success of assigned students, but was ineffective in promoting their academic success. Schools in this study were found to partially adhered to the principles espoused by Mizell (1978). Various affective and functional factors could have an impact on ISS efficacy as a punitive measure. Participants were divided on their assessment of ISS. Almost all participants supportive of character education efforts, but many recognized the importance of consistent expectations and reinforcement.Educational Leadership and Policy Studie
CHIRPED-PULSE FOURIER TRANSFORM MICROWAVE SPECTROSCOPY OF -CHLOROBENZALDEHYDE
No full textAuthor Institution: Department of Science and Mathematics, Coker College, 300 E College Ave., Hartsville, SC 29550.The pure rotational spectrum of \emph{meta}-chlorobenzaldehyde (\emph{m}-ClBA) has been measured from 8 - 18.5 GHz by chirped-pulse Fourier transform microwave (CP-FTMW) spectroscopy. The spectrum has been analyzed to discover the presence of two conformations of \emph{m}-ClBA in the free jet expansion. For each conformation the rotational constants, the centrifugal distortion constants, and the nuclear quadrupole coupling constants have been found for both the \textsuperscript{35}Cl and the \textsuperscript{37}Cl isotopologue. The rotational constants and the nuclear quadrupole coupling constants have been compared to \emph{ab initio} calculations performed using the Gaussian 03W software package
‘The art of salvation is but the art of memory’ : soul-agency, remembrance and expression in Donne and Shakespeare
No full textThis thesis examines how the dislocation of old beliefs in post-Reformation England affected perceptions of the soul in the work of Donne and Shakespeare. The introduction, using Augustinian discourses on the tri-partite soul, explores how the soul is imagined in post-Reformation England. Current debates on interiority, the climate of anxiety that surrounds religious upheaval, historical readings of the composition of the soul and the problems of its actual representation on the page and stage are discussed. The patterning of Augustine‟s tri-partite model of Reason, Will and Memory is examined, and the regenerative power of concordant Memory that can bind together a harmonic trinity is offered as a solution to the fractured soul. The first part of the thesis concentrates on writings that represent Donne‟s anxieties over the fate of the soul as he contemplates conversion from Catholicism to the new religious order. Chapter One is an enquiry into his unpublished works from 1601 to 1611 and examines the idea of the wandering soul, from The Progresse of the Soule, to the Divine Poems and finally to the redeemed soul seen in the form of Elizabeth Drury in the Anniversaries. In this chapter, I argue that Donne is searching for an alternative Marian aesthetic as he leaves behind his Catholic past, a new image of divine intercession for the Protestant world that might offer him comfort and a route to salvation. Chapter Two explores his very public sermons after he enters the ministry until his death. Here, a pattern of redemption is argued through the salvic properties of the living Word of the sermon that is relayed through the performative power of the preacher. The preacher‟s working space and the power of the Word to viscerally transform the congregation are central here to the soul‟s salvation. The second part examines how Shakespeare explores the „journey‟ of the soul through a selection of his plays, but where the limits of genre impose restrictions on Shakespeare‟s development of an image of redemption. Chapter Three examines the wandering soul in The Merchant of Venice and Othello. Through the trope of marriage, the fate of the souls of Jessica and Othello are explored as they find themselves marginalized in an inhospitable Venice, while their pasts have been forgotten in the attempt to convert to Christianity. Chapter Four explores the use of the female character as an image of Memory that can generate hope, reading Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and Cordelia in King Lear as “soul agents”, whose beneficence can bring about redemptive change. However, the thesis argues that the genre of tragedy examined here limits the soul agent. Chapter Five argues for an alternative genre that opens up the possibilities for the successful portrayal of the soul agent. In the romance plays, the representation of the soul can be seen working successfully to a redemptive conclusion. Romance dramas foreground their slippages in plot and take us into dreamscapes at the centre of which is an essential female influence. Marina in Pericles, Perdita in The Winter‟s Tale, Innogen in Cymbeline and Ariel/Miranda in The Tempest provide a link with Donne‟s presentation of the soul as female in the Anniversaries. Both Donne and Shakespeare suggest the idea of the female in literature as a redemptive figure, away from earlier discourses on the soul that finds itself at the mercy of epistemological wrangling. Donne and Shakespeare re-instate that sacredness and place it within art as an image of Memory, a vital component of Augustine‟s tri-partite soul, but also as an active and vibrant image of possibilit
Disciplining the Spectator: Subjectivity, the Body and Contemporary Spectatorship
No full textIn this thesis the author argues that although questions of the spectator’s corporeal engagement with film are much neglected by film theory, the body is nevertheless a central term within contemporary cinema, in its mode of address, as a locus of anxiety in media effects debate, and as site of disciplinary practices. And while the thesis begins by demonstrating both the socially and historically constructed nature of spectatorship, and the specific practices that work to create contemporary cinema’s corporeal address, the latter half of the dissertation devotes itself to revealing the regulatory implications of this physical address. That is, the author shows that cinema’s perceived capacity of affect the body of the spectator is a profound source of cultural anxiety. But more importantly, through an analysis of the films Funny Games, Irréversible, Wolf Creek, and the genre of ‘torture porn’ more generally, what is revealed in these final chapters is that the regulation of cinema in the contemporary era is less a question of the institutionalised censorship of texts, and more a question of regulating the ‘self’. In this respect, the author demonstrates the specific disciplinary practices that attempt to present the problem of violent, and sexually violent, imagery not as a textual issue per se, but a question of the formation of appropriate spectatorial relations. Moreover, this study begins the process of teasing out the ways in which the contemporary spectator is induced to see the problem of media violence as one that can be resolved through what
Foucault would term, techniques of the self
Author Correction: Diagnostic yield of pediatric and prenatal exome sequencing in a diverse population
No full textThe wrong Supplementary file was originally published with this article; it has now been replaced with the correct version. The original article has been corrected
Octopamine neuron dependent aggression requires dVGLUT from dual-transmitting neurons
No full textNeuromodulators such as monoamines are often expressed in neurons that also release at least one fast-acting neurotransmitter. The release of a combination of transmitters provides both "classical" and "modulatory" signals that could produce diverse and/or complementary effects in associated circuits. Here, we establish that the majority of Drosophila octopamine (OA) neurons are also glutamatergic and identify the individual contributions of each neurotransmitter on sex-specific behaviors. Males without OA display low levels of aggression and high levels of inter-male courtship. Males deficient for dVGLUT solely in OA-glutamate neurons (OGNs) also exhibit a reduction in aggression, but without a concurrent increase in inter-male courtship. Within OGNs, a portion of VMAT and dVGLUT puncta differ in localization suggesting spatial differences in OA signaling. Our findings establish a previously undetermined role for dVGLUT in OA neurons and suggests that glutamate uncouples aggression from OA-dependent courtship-related behavior. These results indicate that dual neurotransmission can increase the efficacy of individual neurotransmitters while maintaining unique functions within a multi-functional social behavior neuronal network. Author summary Neurons communicate with each other via electrical events and the release of chemical signals. An emerging challenge in understanding neuron communication is the realization that many neurons release more than one type of chemical signal or neurotransmitter. Here we ask how does the release of more than one neurotransmitter from a single neuron impact circuits that control behavior? We determined the monoamine octopamine and the classical transmitter glutamate are co-expressed in the Drosophila adult CNS. By manipulating the release of glutamate in OA-glutamate neurons, we demonstrated glutamate has both separable actions and complementary actions with OA on aggression and reproductive behaviors respectively. Aggression is a behavior that is highly conserved between organisms and present in many human disease states, including depression and Alzheimer's disease. Our results show that aggressive behavior requires the release of both neurotransmitters in dual-transmitting neurons and suggests within this set of neurons, glutamate may provide a new therapeutic target to modulate aggression in pathological conditions.UPMCCABEThis is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License
Assessing outcomes : a social psychological interpretation of life course trajectories for young people leaving care
No full textThis study explores the experiences of young people who have been 'looked after' during the
transitional period in which they leave 'care', moving on to live independently. The emphasis is on
making visible the way in which young people are active in their lives; interacting with, rather than
submitting to the social environment they operate within. Drawing upon life course theory
(Elder,1997) taking an interactional biographical approach (Runyan, 1982); historical time and place
are considered, particularly in relation to the social timing of life events. Of paramount importance is
the notion of 'linked lives' where developmental pathways and life course trajectories are seen to be
located within past transitions.
Drawing upon feminist empiricist and feminist postmodernist thinking, a multi-methods approach to
data collection is used. Initially, aggregate data for the 150 young people, eligible to receive leaving
care services within the Local Authority, was made available for analysis. Structured interviews with 38
young people were completed. Fourteen young people, aged 16-18 when the research
commenced, were included in the biographical phase of the research. In this phase, in-depth
information about their unique life experiences was documented over a period of 12-18 months. It
was found, in line with previous research, that care leavers experienced a much earlier transition to
independent living, continual accommodation moves and high levels of unemployment (60-70%).
The Leaving Care Scheme's risk assessment showed the largest proportion of young people
categorised as 'high risk (44%). However, leaving care provision was not accessed by 35% of those
young people eligible to receive services.
The 'stories' told in depth reveal the way in which past experiences and past transitions can be seen to
shape and direct life course trajectories; progressing the view that outcome evaluation is limited in
utility when not viewed as part of an integrated whole. An ideological account of independence had
consequentiality in terms of 'social timing' also operating as a barrier which distanced young people
from leaving care services. There is considerable evidence in the research of young people as active
agents. Such 'agency was always located within personal and situational contexts where differing
levels of personaVinterpersonal action and compliance can be observed.
The findings suggest that outcome evaluations are of limited use, and a focus on studies which
accommodate life as a continuum, a series of 'linked states' where beginnings and endings are not so
clearly defined would offer more informative representations of young people's 'post-care' lives.
Leaving care policy makers and practitioners should reflect upon the consequentiality of the ideology
with which they engage; aiming to foster more comprehensively a favourable social environment but
one where young people are not seen exclusively as submitting to social conditions
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