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Dropout during a driving simulator study: a survival analysis
No full textAbstract not availableNicole A. Matas, Ted Nettelbeck, Nicholas R. Burn
The elegies of Ted Hughes
No full textThe purpose of this study is to make the case that Ted Hughes (1930-1998) is one of the pre-eminent elegists writing in English in the latter half of the twentieth century. Whilst his poetry has been widely criticised for its apparent preoccupation with violence and death, it is puzzling that the links these topics have in common with elegy have never been clearly verified. This might be because Hughes's elegies do not appear to bear the characteristics frequently associated with traditional poetic laments; however, as this study shows, closer scrutiny reveals not only many similarities, but also acts of resistance within the broader scope of elegy. Drawing on both established and contemporary critical debates surrounding Hughes and elegy, this study undertakes a comprehensive reading of the poet's major works from The Hawk in the Rain to Birthday Letters, whilst also paying attention to limited editions of his verse, including Recklings, Capriccio and Howls & Whispers. Posthumous publications, including the Collected Poems. Selected Translations and Letters of Ted Hughes, are accounted for. so that (alongside the chronological reading of the poems) Hughes's development as an elegist is fully realised. One of the aims of the thesis is to demonstrate that the poet's elegies are unified in presenting what I term the ‘actual'; that is to say, that Hughes does not fabricate sensations or forge experiences that purport to be beyond the realm of recognisable human endeavour. This I term his 'unfalsifying dream’. This is striking because quite often traditional elegies appear to present the opposite: a language which is ๐mate and images which are close to beatifying the deceased, putting them at a remove from human experience and existence. 'The Hawk in the Rain' is used to illustrate Hughes's theoretical position, especially in the case of his earlier war elegies and the circumstances of Remains of Elmet and Moortown Diary. He is both the observational, seemingly dispassionate poet (the hawk), capable of a detaching himself from the experience he wishes to relay in his verse, and yet, he is also the wanderer 'in the rain, one who is immersed in the momentous instant of his own language and experience. Like his personas, Hughes is divided. He is complicit with many of elegy's practices and traditions, but he is also a reformer and renovator of elegy, writing invigorating verse which brings the realities of mortality closer to the reader. In doing so, he reaffirms the significance of life and how this life might be better lived in closer harmony to poetry and contemporary ecological urgencies. 'The Elegies of Ted Hughes' aims to prove that far from being just a 'poet of nature', Hughes has been an exemplary elegist in our own time
My Maine piece by author Ted Gup who describes with tenderness and humor his m
No full textMy Maine piece by author Ted Gup who describes with tenderness and humor his morning ritual of removing mice from the live traps in his cabin and walking them to a clearing for release back into nature
Ted Pelton Reading and Workshop
No full textAuthor Ted Pelton recites the mythology of the trickster Woodchuck, which includes tales of Woodchuck\u27s creation by God, his assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and his inexplicable habit of carrying a very personal possession in a box, in this February 20th, 2008 edition of the Rooftop Poetry Club podcast
AEIM: A new measure and method of scoring abilities-based emotional intelligence
No full textTwo hundred and seventy-two undergraduates completed the new Ability Emotional Intelligence Measure (AEIM) (The AEIM is available upon request from the first author. Patent Reference No. SPEP-12359426.), based on Mayer and Salovey’s (1997) EI definition. To facilitate better application of ability EI, limitations with existing measures were addressed via alternative emotion perception and management items, and a new scoring approach combining consensus and confidence protocols. Analyses of overall consensus and confidence scores, and low and high EI groups were undertaken. Confidence scores produced a single general EI component that was reliable, converged with fluid ability, was distinct from personality domains and incrementally predicted stress. Consensus scores produced a general EI and two-component solution. Consensus results converged with fluid and crystallised ability and empathy; were distinct from the Big Five and incrementally predicted loneliness, and GPA. Implications for the application of EI were discussed.Janette Warwick, Ted Nettelbeck and Lynn Wardhttp://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/603/description#descriptio
Ted Conover, 33rd Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textTed Conover is the critically-acclaimed author of Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America’s Hoboes; Whiteout; Coyotes: A Journey Across the Border with America’s Mexican Migrants; and Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. His latest work is The Routes of Man, which explores the ways roads are changing the world
A history of the Psychology Schools at Adelaide's universities
No full textThis book commemorates the history of the psychology schools in Adelaide’s three Universities: The University of Adelaide, Flinders University and the University of South Australia. Its publication in 2016 coincides with their 60th, 50th and 25th birthdays respectively. Their core activities comprise undergraduate teaching, postgraduate research training, research and postgraduate professional training. Commemorative activities, including this book, provide a link between our present day and the past, and help to explain the evolution of our institutions. They provide an opportunity to reflect on the achievements of each of our academic institutions, and of the individuals within them. Psychology at Adelaide’s Universities has occupied a distinctive position within the state, and the documentation of its unique history is an important step in its official chronicle.Edited by Tony Winefield and Ted Nettelbec
Inspection time predicts individual differences in everyday functioning among elderly adults: Testing discriminant validity
No full textAimInspection time (IT) is a processing speed measure, recently investigated as a biomarker of ageing. This study examined whether earlier IT predicts subsequent problems in everyday functioning in community-dwelling elderly people.MethodsParticipants completed IT at baseline, 6 months and 18 months. At 42 months, two groups of 15 elderly people matched for education and age (74-88 years) and selected for slower or faster baseline IT, completed a fourth estimate of IT and a practical assessment of everyday functioning (Timed Instrumental Activities of Daily Living - Adelaide).ResultsAt 42 months, the group with slower baseline IT had significantly poorer performance (slower completion, higher errors) on more than half of the everyday functioning tasks.ConclusionSlower IT predicts difficulties up to 4 years later in everyday functioning of elderly adults, providing discriminant validation for IT as a biomarker for future changes.Tess Gregory, Adelaide Callaghan, Ted Nettelbeck, Carlene Wilso
Personal vulnerability to victimization of people with mental retardation
No full textCopyright © 2002 SAGE Publications People with mental retardation are more vulnerable to victimization. This is a consequence of cultural, institutional, and other environmental circumstances but may include victim characteristics. To recognize this is not `to blame the victim.' Instead, acknowledgment can help identify contributory factors and improve understanding of why victimization occurs. Consistent with this viewpoint, recent research has found that although IQ and adaptive skills did not distinguish victims from nonvictims, victims reported aggressive, confrontational tendencies and acquiescing to unreasonable requests. The authors therefore advocate an interactive schema of victimization that extends current theory, which has primarily limited focus to contributory environmental factors. Some individual risk variables cannot be changed (intellectual disabilities) or are difficult to change (living situation). However, other victim characteristics reflecting interpersonal competence should be amenable to behavioral intervention. Identifying potential victim characteristics and training before victimization occurs may reduce incidence of victimization and guide development of protective procedures. Ted Nettelbeck, Carlene Wilso
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