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Facing the Future: the Changing Shape of Academic Skills Support at Bournemouth University
No full textThis paper explores the potential impact of changes to higher education in England on student expectations, engagement, lifestyles and diversity, and outlines implications for the development of digital literacy within academic skills support at Bournemouth University (BU). We will investigate how tackling resource constraints with organisational change can also enable efficient, centralised provision of support materials that utilise networks to overcome the risk of fragmented support for digital literacy. We will also look at how changing delivery modes for support can accommodate changing student lifestyles whilst tackling a weakness of centralised support for digital literacy: that it can become detached from the student’s subject-focused academic practice. Finally we will explore how involving students in developing support can help us to face changes to student expectations and engagement whilst ensuring that materials are authentic and speak to learners in their own voice
Motivated to Adopt: The Experiences of Post-secondary Academic Advisors with New Technology
No full textAn exploratory case study examined the implementation experiences of 10 academic advisors at J. Andrew College, a large community college in the southeastern United States, within the context of a recent new academic advising technology application (NAATA) implementation. Data were collected via human instrument, using an interview guide developed after a review of literature and a formal analysis of documents. The study identified five thematic factors noted by participants that affected the NAATA implementation experience of academic advisors at J. Andrews College. In addition, three motivational readiness factors identified during the review of literature emerged in participant responses. A six-month, three-phase solution was proposed to address the aim of the study by targeting the thematic factors identified that limit the NAATA implementation experience of academic advisors. Study results suggest that leaders may enhance the implementation experience of academic advisors by 1) providing a clear and up-to-date view of the NAATA implementation and associated key stakeholders, 2) involving academic advisors early in a meaningful way, and 3) examining the potential of consolidating the use of multiple technologies, particularly for completing academic advising-related tasks.ProQuest Traditional Publishing Optio
The relationship between Ford, Kipling, Conan Doyle, Wells and British propaganda of the First World War
No full textPhDThis thesis resituates the war-writing of Ford Madox Ford, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur
Conan Doyle and H.G. Wells in relation to official British propaganda
produced during the First World War. Examining these authors' institutional
connections with propaganda that was authorised by the British government locates
some of their texts within a network of materials that were deployed to justify
Britain's involvenlent in the war. The British government, via the War Propaganda
Bureau, approached major literary figures to assist in its plan to compete
vigorously with Germany to win American support. Positioning Ford's condemnation
of Prussian culture within this institutional context reveals that his officially
commissioned books functioned as a part of the larger yet-covert government
project to influence American intellectual opinion. Although wary that Kipling's
chauvinism might offend some readers, the British government reprinted and
distributed his denunciations of the 'Hun'. Kipling was given access to censored
letters from Indian soldiers in order to assist him in depicting the Imperial forces as
united. The result, The Eyes of Asia (1918), was a set of fictional texts by Indian
soldiers celebrating French and English civilisation in contrast to German barbarism.
In addition to official propaganda, these authors produced pro-war stories, poems, and
articles independent of direct government commission. Conan Doyle's formal call for
men to volunteer to defend their country, and his public denunciations of German
atrocities, were followed by his recruitment of Sherlock Holmes to repel a possible
German invasion ("His Last Bow" (1917)). Adding to his support for the war in his
journalism and war-time fiction, Wells was appointed the Head of Enemy Propaganda
for the newly formed Ministry of Information. He resigned almost immediately
following disagreements over government strategy. This project situates historically
and examines critically these authors' differing roles in relation to British propaganda
efforts during the First World War
The dramaturgy of the tragedies of John Webster and John Ford with special reference to their use of stage imagery.
No full textPhDThe imagery of the plays of John Webster and John
Ford is not only verbal: in staging as well as language
these dramas display strongly imagistic, symbolic elements.
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the seven extant
tragedies of Webster and Ford from the point of view of
their total dramatic nature - to examine the staging,
costumes, hand and large properties, movement and gestures
as well as the verbal imagery, and the interplay of these
verbal and visual elements. The original appearance, of
these plays in their contemporary theatre, and the
dramatist's intentions for performance, can only be surmised.
The original stage directions are examined for
hints of the original presentation: these stage directions
may not always be authorial, but, especially in the case of
Ford, they seem to reveal the playwright's hand. The dialogue,
too, frequently implies particular gestures,
grouping or stage placement.
The visual imagery, it is here suggested, is created
by the dramatist for several purposes: a moral or ironical
point may be silently established; a chain of related
visual motifs may bind various actions and characters into
an organic union; a visualization may appeal outward to
other works of art or theatrical or non-dramatic conventions,
enlarging the immediate significance by this shorthand
reference; visual ceremonies may make concrete the more
ephemeral words and feelings of the characters.
Each of the tragedies is studied in a separate chapter,
in the following order: Webster's The White Devil, The
Duchess of Malfi, and Appius and Virginia (the authorship
of which is disputed); John Ford's The Broken Heart,
Love's Sacrifice, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, and Perkin
Warbeck. A conclusion indicates the differences between
Webster's more overtly theatrical visualizations and Ford's
quiet tableaux.
The thesis is accompanied by illustrations which are
either explanatory or comparative
Barbara J. Ford
No full textBarbara J. Ford is the executive director of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries in Richmond and is the immediate past president (1997-98) of the American Library Association. Prior to joining VCU in 1991 she served seven years as associate library director at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. From 1975 to 1984 she served several capacities at the University of Illinois at Chicago, including documents librarian and audiovisual librarian. In addition, she was the director of the Soybean Insect Research Information Center at the Illinois Natural History Survey and a Peace Corps volunteer in Panama and Nicaragua. She was a section secretary of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions from 1985-89 and served on the Libraries Working Group of the U.S./Mexico Commission on Cultural Cooperation in 1990. From 1989-91 she was on the board of directors of the Friends of the San Antonio Public Library and was president of the Richmond (Va.) Academic Library Consortium in 1992-93. After graduating magna cum laude with a degree in history from IWU in 1968, Ford earned a master\u27s degree in international relations at Tufts University Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, then a master\u27s degree in library science from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 1973. The author of numerous publications and presentations, Ford has traveled extensively to address such topics as information literacy, the future of academic libraries, international cooperation among libraries and virtual libraries. She is a member of the Virginia State Council of Higher Education Library advisory committee and the Virtual Library of Virginia steering committee. She serves on the boards of the Fund for America\u27s Libraries and the Freedom to Read Foundation.https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/awards_distinguished/1031/thumbnail.jp
Validation of the J-Channel Score for retrograde channel crossing in the PROGRESS-CTO registry
No full textSuccessful collateral channel (CC) crossing is essential for the success of retrograde chronic total occlusion (CTO) percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Based on the Japanese CTO PCI expert registry, the J-Channel score was developed to predict CC crossing. We examined the performance of the J-Channel score in patients who underwent retrograde CTO-PCI at 31 centers between 2013-2023 as part of the Prospective Global Registry for the Study of CTO Intervention (PROGRESS-CTO). We observed an association between successful CC crossing and the J-Channel score, its predictive efficacy was modest for both wire and microcatheter crossing
Time management issues in COTS distributed simulation: A case study
No full textCommercial off-the-shelf (COTS) simulation packages are widely used in industry. Several international groups are currently investigating techniques to integrate distributed simulation facilities in these packages. Through the use of a case study developed with the Ford Motor Company, this paper investigates time management issues in COTS simulation packages. Time management is classified on the basis of the ordering of events that are externally produced to a federate and the ordering of these with events that occur within a COTS simulation package federate. Several approaches to the latter are discussed and one approach is presented as the most effective. Finally the paper presents a bounded buffer problem and proposes the classification of information sharing with respect to the certification of solution
Perspectives on Richard Ford
No full textEdited by Huey Guagliardino, with essays by William Chernecky, Edward Dupuy, Jeffrey J. Folks, Robert N. Funk, Fred Hobson, W. Kenneth Holditch, Priscilla Leder, Elinor Ann Walker, and the editor University Press of Mississippi (Paperback, $18.00, ISBN: 1578062349, 5/2000) A comprehensive appreciation of the fiction written by this Pulitzer Prize author This is the first book-length examination of the fiction written by Richard Ford, who gained critical acclaim for The Sportswriter, the story of suburbanite Frank Bascombe\u27s struggle to survive loneliness and great loss. That novel, published in 1986, struck a chord with readers and reviewers alike, and Ford, a little-known writer who had for a time considered giving up the writing of fiction, was suddenly hailed in Newsweek as one of the best writers of his generation. The Sportswriter, along with its 1995 sequel Independence Day, which became the first novel to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award, made Ford\u27s Frank Bascombe as much a part of the American literary landscape as John Updike\u27s Rabbit Angstrom. With three other novels, a well-received volume of short stories, and a trilogy of novellas to his credit, Ford is now firmly established as a major figure among writers of the post-World War II generation. Perspectives on Richard Ford is the first collection of essays to study the body of Ford\u27s fiction. The nine essays demonstrate that Ford, like few other writers of his time, powerfully depicts what it feels like to live in the secular late-twentieth-century world, a dangerous and uncertain place where human relationships are impoverished and where human existence is often characterized by emptiness, solipsism, and, above all, by a sense of alienation. The contributors tend to view Ford\u27s narratives of alienation in a broad cultural context. His works dramatize the breakdown of the institutions of marriage, family, and community. His protagonists often typify the rootlessness and the nameless longing pervasive in a highly mobile, present-oriented society in which individuals, having lost a sense of the past, relentlessly pursue their own elusive identities in the here and now. The collection, which concludes with a compelling conversation between Ford and the editor, will prove to be an essential companion to the work of one our most intriguing contemporary writers. Huey Guagliardo is a professor of English at Louisiana State University at Eunice.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/mwp_books/1257/thumbnail.jp
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