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Appropriations of Irish drama by modern Korean nationalist theatre : a focus on the influence of Sean O’Casey in a colonial context
No full textMy thesis explores how a translated author on the periphery of the host culture’s
translated repertoire can be at once subversive and innovative on the colonial scene,
using as an example the case of Sean O’Casey in colonial Korea. It explores the
importation of Irish drama in modern Korean theatre during the colonial period and
examines the appropriations of O’Casey’s plays by a central Korean playwright, Yu
Chi-jin, in creating his own plays. Under Japanese colonial rule in the early twentieth
century, intellectuals perceived the supreme task for the Korean people to be the
recovery of national sovereignty and independence. The modern Korean theatre
movement which rose among Korean intellectuals and dramatists during the colonial
period was to play a major part in this task. The ultimate goal of this movement was
to establish a modern national theatre promoting Korean culture and educating the
people, thereby recovering national independence. As their modernised dramatic
polysystem was still "young", Korean intellectuals and dramatists who were
involved in the theatre movement had to borrow dramatic models from other
countries. One of the models they chose was Irish playwrights, especially those who
were involved in the Irish dramatic movement. They published or staged the works
of W.B. Yeats, Lord Dunsany [Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett], Augusta
Gregory, J.M. Synge, St. J. Ervine, T.C. Murray and Sean O'Casey. Although
O'Casey was considered an important dramatist in the Irish dramatic movement, he
was a playwright on the periphery in the list of translated Irish dramatists in Korea
due to the colonisers’ censorship. However, he remained as a subversive and
innovative playwright on the colonial scene by virtue of being appropriated by Yu
Chi-jin who used O’Casey’s plays as models when creating his own works. In
discussing the subject matter of my thesis, I use Even Zohar’s polysystems theory as
a starting point in looking at ideological issues surrounding translation and extend
the discussion to offer a postcolonial perspective. While most translation in a
colonial context was considered as "an expression of the cultural power of the
colonisers," my thesis shifts the focus to translation as an expression of the cultural
power of the colonised. I explore how the colonised uses another colonised culture to
subvert the colonisers’ power
Palliative Care: A Novel Solution to the Healthcare Crisis. Syracuse Seminar Series on Aging.
No full textPalliative care is specialized healthcare for anyone who is diagnosed with a serious and life-threatening illness, starting when they get the diagnosis, regardless of the prognosis. Although hospice is a form of palliative care, most palliative care is not end-of-life care or hospice, a common misperception that deters many people from using palliative care when they would benefit from it. Palliative care improves quality of care, reduces hospital costs, and helps clinicians address the needs and wants of patients and their families, which is why I refer to it as a 'novel' solution to the longstanding healthcare crisis.palliative care, hospice, patient autonomy, access to information, pain, distress, serious illness, cancer, depression, physical discomfort, medical education,
Learning theories and interprofessional education: a user's guide
No full textThere is increasing interest in the theoretical underpinning of interprofessional education (IPE) and writers in this field are drawing on a wide range of disciplines for theories that have utility in IPE. While this has undoubtedly enriched the research literature, for the educational practitioner, whose aim is to develop and deliver an IPE curriculum that has sound theoretical underpinnings, this plethora of theories has become a confusing, and un-navigable quagmire. This article aims to provide a compass for those educational practitioners by presenting a framework that summarizes key learning theories used in IPE and the relationship between them. The study reviews key contemporary learning theories from the wider field of education used in IPE and the explicit applications of these theories in the IPE literature to either curriculum design or programme evaluation. Through presenting a broad overview and summary framework, the study clarifies the way in which learning theories can aid IPE curriculum development and evaluation. It also highlights areas where future theoretical development in the IPE field is required
K-12 SCHOOL LEADERS AND SCHOOL CRISIS: AN EXPLORATION OF PRINCIPALS’ SCHOOL CRISIS COMPETENCIES AND PREPAREDNESS
No full textOn any given day, principals could find themselves faced with a situation that could define their roles as crisis leaders. This dissertation research offers an exploratory study in the field of crisis response and educational leadership. From experts in the field of crisis response, the author compiled a list of crisis management competencies specifically for school leaders and then assessed principals’ and assistant principals’ crisis leadership preparation and perceived familiarity with the competencies.
Initially, the researcher contacted forty superintendents from The Western Pennsylvania Forum for School Superintendents and sixty-two superintendents from the Tri-State Area School Study Council to request permission to survey principals and assistant principals in their districts. One hundred ninety-two principals and assistant principals were identified and received email invitations requesting their participation in a brief survey. Of the 192 building administrators contacted, 82 responded to the survey. Two cases were excluded as incomplete, because the respondents completed fewer than half of the survey questions. Of the 80 included participants, 30 worked at the elementary school level, 18 at middle or junior high schools, and 28 at high schools (n = 76 reported). Sixty-three had completed a master’s degree and 12 had completed a
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doctoral degree (n = 75 reported). Respondents had worked as building level administrators for an average of 8.53 years.
The overall results of this exploratory study indicated that building level administrators appear to have varying levels of familiarity with limited formal training in the area of crisis leadership. Further research utilizing the crisis competencies and survey measurement tool developed in this initial research study could provide valuable knowledge and support for the future professional preparation of educational leaders
P9 project information management model, a mineral industry metadata case study
No full textThe P9 Project Information Management Model (P9IMM) is a XML-based information model that provides a structure for organizing the disparate types of information related to a particular project - P9 projects, which is a mineral processing research project. The initiative of this research program is to approach a sufficient way to reasonably manage and query the P9 information which encapsulates our understanding of the domain knowledge. The P9IMM is an information structure. There are a variety of services external to the P9IMM that provide the means for generation and manipulation of the information in the structure, such as search, parsing, extracting useful information and assigning attributes, etc. This program is one of pilot studies of the proposed extensible Mineral Information Model (MIM) with the compatibility of GML. The P9IMM is a specific structure but fundamentally extensible in the sense that users are allowed to define new entities and types to accommodation other domains in the industry
Absorbing new subjects: holography as an analog of photography
No full textI discuss the early history of holography and explore how perceptions, applications, and forecasts of the subject were shaped by prior experience. I focus on the work of Dennis Gabor (1900–1979) in England,Yury N. Denisyuk (b. 1924) in the Soviet Union, and Emmett N. Leith (1927–2005) and Juris Upatnieks (b. 1936) in the United States. I show that the evolution of holography was simultaneously promoted and constrained by its identification as an analog of photography, an association that influenced its assessment by successive audiences of practitioners, entrepreneurs, and consumers. One consequence is that holography can be seen as an example of a modern technical subject that has been shaped by cultural influences more powerfully than generally appreciated.
Conversely, the understanding of this new science and technology in terms of an older one helps
to explain why the cultural effects of holography have been more muted than anticipated by forecasters
between the 1960s and 1990s
Imaging of a Strandplain Along Lake Superior, Huron Mountains, MI : Preliminary Results From a Ground Penetrating Radar Study
No full textColor poster with text, images, tables, graphs, and maps.The purpose of this study is to examine the subsurface stratigraphy of a strandplain located
along the Huron Mountains, Marquette County, Michigan.Sponsored Programs Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates; University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire Office of Research and Sponsored Program
Walking the sustainability assessment talk — Progressing the practice of environmental impact assessment (EIA)
No full textInternationally there is a growing demand for environmental impact assessment (EIA) to move away from its traditional focus towards delivering more sustainable outcomes. South Africa is an example of a country where the EIA system seems to have embraced the concept of sustainability. In this paper we test the existing objectives for EIA in South Africa against sustainability principles and then critique the effectiveness of EIA practice in delivering these objectives. The outcome of the research suggests that notwithstanding a strong and explicit sustainability mandate through policy and legislation, the effectiveness of EIA practice falls far short of what is mandated. This shows that further legislative reform is not required to improve effectiveness but rather a focus on changing the behaviour of individual professionals. We conclude by inviting further debate on what exactly practitioners can do to give effect to sustainability in EIA practice
Targeting gene therapy to intraperitoneal ovarian carcinoma
No full textAdenovirus gene therapy for intraperitoneal cancer is limited in clinical trials by inefficient tumour cell transduction and by development of peritoneal adhesions. Retargeting adenovirus to tumour-associated receptors, such as the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), may reduce infection of non-target cells and simultaneously improve tumour cell transduction. Coating adenovirus with poly[N-(2hydroxypropyl)methacrylamide] (pHPMA) ablates infection via normal pathways including the coxsackie adenovirus receptor (CAR); it was therefore hypothesised that linkage of EGFR-binding ligands to the polymer-coated virus (pcv) might retarget infection to cancer cells and elevate the therapeutic index.
EGF retained biological activity following linkage to pHPMA via its N-terminus, stimulating phosphorylation and internalisation of EGFR in A431 cells. To permit definitive study, human EGFR was expressed in a CAR-negative murine fibroblast cell line (A9), and significant levels of EGFR-mediated transduction were demonstrated selectively using the EGF-retargeted pcv. The EGFR internalisation pathway was therefore permissive for adenovirus transduction. EGFR-dependent transduction was also shown in human cancer cell lines, proportional to the level of EGFR expression. Transduction could be inhibited using anti EGFR antibody to block EGF binding. Specific activity of transduction for EGF-retargeted pcv was similar to unmodified virus, indicating efficient intracellular processing and transgene expression following EGFR-mediated uptake. Other EGFR ligands (transforming growth factor-D and an anti-EGFR-antibody, Cetuximab) also mediated pcv retargeting. This approach was used to target lytic ‘virotherapy’ using wild type adenovirus (Ad5WT) in a peritoneal xenograft model of human ovarian cancer. Anti-cancer activity of Ad5WT was retained following polymer coating and EGF-retargeting, defined by reduced tumour load and extended survival compared to controls, and adhesion formation was decreased compared with unmodified virus.
This is the first study to demonstrate a therapeutic advantage of polymer coating and retargeting adenovirus, promising an improved anti-cancer therapeutic index
Transportation context of Latin American logistics
No full textThesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2008.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-125).Through increasing globalization and trade liberalization, many third-world and developing countries are experiencing levels of growth that are quickly shifting the world's balance of political and economic power. China and India have dominated the global discussion of emerging economies, but other regions that have received much less attention hold attractive potential as well from the perspective of United States companies -- in particular, Latin America. Domestic companies going international for the first time or even just into a type of foreign market that is very different from previous experience can find the learning curve steep and their ce-reliable intuition no longer useful. Penetrating such a market requires a taut supply chain and while there are many facets to any supply chain, we here focus on the transportation aspect and build the Latin American context surrounding it and affecting logistical decisions and paradigms. By exploring the unsuccessful and ongoing attempts at regional integration, the policies that shape the business environment, the barriers and opportunities presented by a unique geography, and the underdeveloped infrastructure, we build the context necessary to develop a holistic understanding of Latin America and its diverse member nations. Using this context, we explore a way to compare the new environment to old experiences and to provide knowledge required to plan supply chain networks in the region.by Sean D. Sweat.S.M
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