626 research outputs found
Demographic Evolution in a Rural South Georgia County, Ramifications for Public Policy
No full textPresentation given by Georgia Southern faculty members Karen M. McCurdy and Larry R. Mutter at the Rural Sociological Society Meeting
Oral History Interview with Larry R. Churchill
No full textThis interview with Professor Larry Churchill, PhD, is part of “Moral Histories: Voices and Stories from the Founding Figures of Bioethics,” an oral history project of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. Prof. Churchill is the Ann Geddes Stahlman Professor Emeritus of Medical Ethics and Professor Emeritus of Medicine, Religion, and Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of several books, notably Everyday Ethics, What Patients Teach, Healers, and Bioethics Reenvisioned. His areas of expertise include clinical medical ethics, endof-life care, healthcare rationing, justice in healthcare, and human subject research. Churchill discusses his upbringing in Hector, Arkansas, and his education at Southwestern (now Rhodes College) and Duke University. He reflects on his early career as a Presbyterian minister and his transition to bioethics. Churchill discussed his career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, including the establishment of a social medicine department and the creation of an ethics center that highlighted the importance of humanities and social sciences in medical education. Churchill detailed his extensive work in clinical ethics rotations while at Vanderbilt and created the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society. He also describes his work in bioethics as it relates to healthcare reform; he recalls scholarship of his in which he advocated for universal coverage based on self-interest rather than altruism. He discusses the Clinton era healthcare reform failure as being due to vested interests and the persistence of healthcare lobbyists.
He emphasized the role of narrative in ethics and the need for a holistic approach that includes reason, memory, imagination, and emotions. Churchill also touched on the challenges of healthcare commodification and the importance of respect and cultural humility in bioethics. Professor Churchill shares his recent work that focuses on the significant health impacts of climate change and the need for bioethicists to address it. The interview concludes with Churchill reflecting on aging and his current work which integrates his bioethics and philosophy training with a holistic view of life that includes gratitude, awe, spiritual growth, and compassion
Oral History Interview with Larry R. Churchill
No full textThis interview with Professor Larry Churchill, PhD, is part of “Moral Histories: Voices and Stories from the Founding Figures of Bioethics,” an oral history project of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. Prof. Churchill is the Ann Geddes Stahlman Professor Emeritus of Medical Ethics and Professor Emeritus of Medicine, Religion, and Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of several books, notably Everyday Ethics, What Patients Teach, Healers, and Bioethics Reenvisioned. His areas of expertise include clinical medical ethics, endof-life care, healthcare rationing, justice in healthcare, and human subject research. Churchill discusses his upbringing in Hector, Arkansas, and his education at Southwestern (now Rhodes College) and Duke University. He reflects on his early career as a Presbyterian minister and his transition to bioethics. Churchill discussed his career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, including the establishment of a social medicine department and the creation of an ethics center that highlighted the importance of humanities and social sciences in medical education. Churchill detailed his extensive work in clinical ethics rotations while at Vanderbilt and created the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society. He also describes his work in bioethics as it relates to healthcare reform; he recalls scholarship of his in which he advocated for universal coverage based on self-interest rather than altruism. He discusses the Clinton era healthcare reform failure as being due to vested interests and the persistence of healthcare lobbyists.
He emphasized the role of narrative in ethics and the need for a holistic approach that includes reason, memory, imagination, and emotions. Churchill also touched on the challenges of healthcare commodification and the importance of respect and cultural humility in bioethics. Professor Churchill shares his recent work that focuses on the significant health impacts of climate change and the need for bioethicists to address it. The interview concludes with Churchill reflecting on aging and his current work which integrates his bioethics and philosophy training with a holistic view of life that includes gratitude, awe, spiritual growth, and compassion
High-tech capital formation and labor composition in U.S. manufacturing industries : an exploratory analysis
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (p. 37-39).Supported by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Office of Productivity and Technology, Division of Productivity Research. First author supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.Ernst R. Berndt, Catherine J. Morrison, Larry S. Rosenblum
Morrison R. Waite High School; a celebration of 100 years
No full textA celebratory look at the administration, faculty, students and athletes involved in the first 100 years of Morrison R. Waite High School in the East Side of Toledo, Ohio. The school building, designed by architect David L. Stine, opened it's doors in 1914. The authors cover the changes in the physical building as well as changes in the people who worked and learned there. Book scanned is a gift from author Larry Michaels
Shoaling of port of Astoria, Oregon, by sediment from Mt. St. Helens eruption
No full textby Larry S. Slotta, Carlos R. Cobos, and Roger S. Mustain (Civil Engineering Department, Oregon State University)."Final technical completion report."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 (pages 79-81).Project sponsored by Water Resources Research Institute; partially funded by U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, United States Department of the Interior 14-34-0001-1485.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Poems /
No full textMode of access: Internet.OSU's copy 2 forms part of the Larry Michaels Poetry Collection.OSU's copy 1 forms part of the Tuttle American Poetry Collection.OSU's copy 2 gift of Larry R. Michaels.OSU's copy 2: Green cloth stamped in gilt
Reading acts of narrative appropriation: four instances of fraudulent memoir
No full textPhDThis thesis examines acts of narrative appropriation, the telling of purportedly‘authentic’ life stories by those for whom the stories are not theirs to tell. This
misuse or subversion of genre - the discipline of historical writing and the category
of autobiography - becomes a means for cultural, social and political dissimulation,
and the analysis focuses both on the act: the event, trespass, or ‘theft’ of another’s
life story, and on the cultural meaning that this event reveals. These narrative acts
are approached theoretically through discussions of what it means to be an author, a
reader, and through the consideration of literary and social genre, category and form.
In exploring identities at particular risk of appropriation, this thesis shows how
fraudulent appropriated narratives affect our reading of the world, and in turn
influence our perception of already marginalized social groups. My primary
examples include prostitution ‘narratives’, Native North American ‘memoir,’ and
fraudulent Holocaust survivor ‘testimony,’ with each text providing decoded
evidence of ‘genre-bending’ exhibiting a social and political intent. These works
seek to be read as authentic personal narratives, as autobiography, and that is how
they have been presented to the reader. However, they are imposters – fictional tales
desiring the elevated status of historical authenticity and willing to bend the rules
and contracts of genre to achieve their end. Here the appearance of authenticity is
achieved through the use of cultural and social ‘myth,’ or perceptions of cultural
identity, and as such its fraudulent construction is first and foremost a social act,
with a social and economic motivation. As this thesis concludes, these texts are
most successful when their own political and social ideologies echo and confirm that
of the readership; when their subjects, the fraudulent ‘I’ at the center of the text is
also a performative elaboration of cultural belief
Free space optical system performance for a Gaussian beam propagating through non Kolmogorov weak turbulence
No full textAtmospheric turbulence has been described for many years by Kolmogorov's power spectral density model because of its simplicity. Unfortunately several experiments have been reported recently that show Kolmogorov theory is sometimes incomplete to describe atmospheric statistics properly, in particular in portions of the troposphere and stratosphere. It is known that free space laser system performance is limited by atmospheric turbulence. In this paper we use a non-Kolmogorov power spectrum which uses a generalized exponent instead of constant standard exponent value 11/3 and a generalized amplitude factor instead of constant value 0.033. Using this spectrum in weak turbulence, we carry out, for a Gaussian beam propagating along a horizontal path, analysis of long term beam spread, scintillation, probability of fade, mean signal to noise ratio and mean bit error rate as variation of the spectrum exponent. Our theoretical results show that for alpha values lower than 11/3 , but not for alpha close to 3 , there is a remarkable increase of scintillation and consequently a major penalty on the system performance. However when alpha assumes values close to 3 or for alpha values higher than 11/3 scintillation decreases leading to an improvement on the system performanc
Great Conversations - Daniel Ellsberg and Larry Jacobs: American Democracy in Dissent
No full textDaniel Ellsberg is a former American military analyst who precipitated a national uproar in 1971 when he leaked the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret study of the U.S. government's decision-making during the Vietnam War. The publication of this document set in motion a chain of historic events that ended both the Nixon presidency and the Vietnam War.
Ellsberg was a company commander in the Marine Corps, served in Vietnam for two years, and worked for the Pentagon under Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. Now a leading voice of moral conscience, he remains a committed anti-war activist and advocate for patriotic whistle-blowing.
He is the author of Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers(2002), which won numerous prizes including the American Book Award. In 2006, he was honored with the Right Livelihood Award, considered the "alternative Nobel Prize," "for putting peace and truth first, at considerable personal risk, and dedicating his life to a movement to free the world from the risk of nuclear war."
Ellsberg holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.Jacobs, Lawrence R.. (2008). Great Conversations - Daniel Ellsberg and Larry Jacobs: American Democracy in Dissent. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/216711
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