83 research outputs found
Native Narratives and Settler-Colonia Contention with Stacy Wells
No full textIn the eighth episode of In the MIDst, Jennifer Slagus and Josh Palange interview Choctaw author Stacy Wells about her experiences. Together, they discuss critical issues, including the growing trend of book banning in schools and libraries, particularly targeting works by and about marginalized communities. They stress the importance of promoting diversity and inclusivity in children\u27s literature, challenging historical narratives, and questioning authority to combat censorship and foster a more inclusive environment. Stacy Wells emphasizes the value of accurate representation and authentic storytelling of Indigenous cultures in media, highlighting the need for diverse, joyful narratives in children\u27s literature and the significance of preserving traditional elements in modern fashion design
The Rhetorical Disengagement Phenomenon of Quiet Quitting in Organizational Behavior: Harmful Leadership, Muteness and Power
No full textElectronic Thesis or DissertationThis dissertation investigates the antecedents, mechanisms and outcomes of quiet quitting, focusing on the role of leadership behaviors and employee burnout. Invoking conservation of resources theory and muted group theory over the course of three empirical studies, this dissertation examines quiet quitting as a potential coping response to resource depletion and workplace muting of voice behaviors. Studies 1 and 2 employed a longitudinal survey design collecting data across four time points. Study 3 utilized the same survey scales to collect a single round of surveys from non-profit workers. Data were collected from U.S. employees identifying as employed full-time via Prolific.com. Moderated mediation analyses were used in all three studies to test proposed hypotheses. Study 1 interrogated the effects of supervisor undermining on job performance, organizational leadership behaviors (OCBs) and turnover intent via burnout with quiet quitting as a moderator between X and Y. Study 2 examined abusive supervision's impact on perceptions of interpersonal justice and quiet quitting with voice behaviors as a moderator of the relationship between X and Y. Study 3 focused on the non-profit sector to examine how supervisor undermining moderates the relationship between intrinsic motivation, affective commitment, burnout and quiet quitting, with transformational leadership added in post hoc analysis to discern any differences in positive vs. negative leadership behaviors. Findings across all studies indicate that harmful leadership behaviors consistently negatively influence burnout. While quiet quitting does not emerge concretely as a mitigating influence, its moderating role is statistically significant in several analyses. All three studies indicate quiet quitting serves as a symptom of disengagement and organizational disfunction. This dissertation contributes to nascent scholarship empirically defining quiet quitting and exploring its manifestation as both a coping mechanism and a muted strategy for resistance
The Author Recognition Task: Does Presentation Matter?
No full textThe Author Recognition Task (ART) developed by Stanovich and West in 1989 is a common measure of print exposure used in language research. The task has high construct validity as it correlates strongly with reading comprehension, vocabulary, observations of natural reading behavior, reading rate, and other reading related skills (Acheson, Wells, & MacDonald, 2008; Martin-Chang & Gould, 2008; Moore & Gordon, 2014; West, Stanovich, & Mitchell 1993; Payne, Goa, Noh, Anderson, & Stine-Morrow, 2012). We investigate if presentation matters in the ART; specifically, we ask if presenting the names one at a time (Serial-View) would 1) produce higher scores than presenting the names in a columned list (List-View), and 2) be a more valid measure of print exposure than List-View. A 2x2 within-subjects design was of presentation (Serial-View vs List-View) and stimulus set (Set 1 vs Set 2 of authors and foils) was employed. This experimented was completed by UNC students in a laboratory setting and by participants online via Amazon Mechanical Turk.
The experiment was repeated with new stimulus sets for Experiment 2.
Results suggested that while Serial-View does produce higher scores, the effect is only present under certain stimulus set and order conditions. There is evidence that both Serial-View and List-View have construct validity. MTurk participants scored higher on ART and vocabulary measures than UNC students, likely due to age and thus higher exposure to print. Serial-View was the more valid presentation mode for Experiment 1, MTurk and Experiment 2, UNC; List-View was more valid for Experiment 1, UNC and Experiment 2, MTurk. These inconsistent findings suggest that both modes are valid, though the scores themselves vary.Bachelor of Scienc
Perceived ability and actual recognition accuracy for unfamiliar and famous faces
No full textIn forensic person recognition tasks, mistakes in the identification of unfamiliar faces occur frequently. This study explored whether these errors might arise because observers are poor at judging their ability to recognize unfamiliar faces, and also whether they might conflate the recognition of familiar and unfamiliar faces. Across two experiments, we found that observers could predict their ability to recognize famous but not unfamiliar faces. Moreover, observers seemed to partially conflate these abilities by adjusting ability judgements for famous faces after a test of unfamiliar face recognition (Experiment 1) and vice versa (Experiment 2). These findings suggest that observers have limited insight into their ability to identify unfamiliar faces. These experiments also show that judgements of recognition abilities are malleable and can generalize across different face categories
Health consultation, north Indian Bend Wash Miller Road Treatment Facility, Scottsdale, Maricopa County, Arizona
No full textabstract: The Arizona Department of Health Services reviewed existing data and performed a health consultation to evaluate the potentially adverse health effects due to VOCs created by air emissions from the Miller Road Treatment Facility. Prior to the existence of our current environmental regulations, local industries improperly disposed of organic solvents directly onto the ground or into dry wells. This subsequently contaminated all three levels of the aquifer.Under cooperative agreement with the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.Includes bibliographical references (p. 7)
Lights and shadows: Olive Schreiner's theorising woman
No full textOlive Schreiner is perhaps best remembered for, and was in her own lifetime most famous as the author of, The Storv of an African Farm (1883; a semiautobiographical novel set in South Africa), Woman and Laooor (1911; a theoretical tract on the condition of women and the feminist movement), and numerous "dreams" or allegories (Dreams, 1890; Dream Life and Real Life, 1893; Stories, Dreams and Allagories, 1923). Prominent amongst her other works are her first novel, Undine (1929) and From Man to Mao (1926), an unfinished novel published posthumously which deals with the subject of prostitution — a subject which concerned Schreiner throughout her life and which is a recurring theme in her work.
Assessments of Olive Schreiner's work, however, have been plagued by the portrait of her constructed in Samuel Cronwright Schreiner's biography, The Life Qt Qliva Sohrainar and in his "Preface" to The Letters of Olive Schreiner. 1876-1920. As Ruth First and Ann Scott maintain in their biography of Schreiner, CronwrightSchreiner's Life written after Schreiner's death presents Schreiner as "the hysterical personality of the 18803"? They contend that Cronwright, unable to comprehend the complexities of Schreiner's emotional and intellectual constitution, constructed and perpetuated a view of her acceptable to himself by destroying much of the biographical material to which he had access. He was thus able to defuse those aspects of her life and thought which most evaded his understanding and which he could not reconcile with conventional notions of genius - and femininity. In this way, "his presentation of her personality and behaviour created the Olive Schreiner of most subsequent biographies and commentary"
Profiles of the 10 most intriguing people in Maine, including Fritz Grobe and
No full textProfiles of the 10 most intriguing people in Maine, including Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz of Buckfield\u27s Oddfellow Theater, whose Diet Coke and Mentos geysers brought them fame; Dr. Amy Arnett of Unity College, who won a Fullbright Scholarship Award to study the ant lion in Slovenia; Peter Carlisle, the Portland sports agent who represents Olympian swimmer Michael Phelps; Jennifer Norbert, the Cumberland County assistant district attorney who worked on the high profile Long Lake boating accident case; Vinalhaven artist Robert Indiana, who created the LOVE, and now, the HOPE icon; author Jaed Coffin of Portland, whose Chant To Soothe Wild Elephants, is earning rave reviews; Christian Tietje, part-time Wells resident and owner of Four Vines Winery in California; Dr. Bernard Lown, inventor of the defibrillator and Nobel-prize winner, who fled the Holocaust and grew up in Lewiston; and author and fisherman Linda Greenlaw of Isle au Haut
Teddy Roosevelt, Dandyism, and Masculinities: A Nominalist History of Fitness Centers in the United States
No full textabstract: In the latter half of the nineteenth century, colleges and universities transformed their thinking of the body as they institutionalized physical education, recreational activities, and especially physical exercise. In this study, I examine the historical discourse on physical exercise and training during this period. I employ the theoretical and methodological practices of Michel Foucault's archeological and genealogical work to write a "history of the present." I challenge the essential narrative of physical fitness on college and university campuses. I also discuss nineteenth century notions of ethics and masculinity as a way of understanding twenty-first century ethics and masculinity. Ultimately, I use the historical discourse to argue that institutionalization of recreation and fitness centers and activities have less to do with health and well-being and more to do with disciplining bodies and controlling individuals.Dissertation/ThesisM.A. Educational Leadership and Policy Studies 201
Reinforcer magnitude and demand under fixed-ratio schedules with domestic hens
No full textThis study compared three methods of normalizing demand functions to allow comparison of demand for different commodities and examined how varying reinforcer magnitudes affected these analyses. Hens responded under fixed-ratio schedules in 40-min sessions with response requirement doubling each session and with 2-s, 8-s, and 12-s access to wheat. Over the smaller fixed ratios overall response rates generally increased and were higher the shorter the magazine duration. The logarithms of the number of reinforcers obtained (consumption) and the fixed ratio (price) were well fitted by curvilinear demand functions (Hursh et al., 1988. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 50, 419–440) that were inelastic (b negative) over small fixed-ratios. The fixed ratio with maximal response rate (Pmax) increased, and the rate of change of elasticity (a) and initial consumption (L) decreased with increased magazine duration. Normalizing consumption using measures of preference for various magazine durations (3-s vs. 3-s, 2-s vs. 8-s, and 2-s vs. 12-s), obtained using concurrent schedules, gave useful results as it removed the differences in L. Normalizing consumption and price (Hursh and Winger, 1995. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 64, 373–384) unified the data functions as intended by that analysis. The exponential function (Hursh and Silberberg, 2008. Psychological Review, 115, 186–198) gave an essential value that increased (i.e., α decreased significantly) as magazine duration decreased. This was not as predicted, since α should be constant over variations in magazine duration, but is similar to previous findings using a similar procedure with different food qualities (hens) and food quantities (rats)
Engaging the manuscript: new editions and reading the 'whole book' in Chetham's Library MS 8009
No full textThis thesis considers the intersection of the manuscript and its literature through an examination of the late fifteenth century manuscript, Chetham’s Library 8009 (Mun. A.6.31) and provides four diplomatic editions. This manuscript contains fourteen texts in Middle English including romance, hagiography, courtesy literature, and a comic text. This thesis argues for the importance of reading medieval literature in its manuscript context. Although there is a growing trend to consider the ‘whole book’ and integrate analysis of the material artefact with interpretation, much work remains to be done.
In Part I, this thesis presents a new paradigm for reading medieval literature, and argues that the manuscript forms a very literal community of texts, and that each text acts as a co-creator of meaning with the others. It then demonstrates four brief contextual readings that may be made within Chetham 8009 across generic boundaries, and that produce a shift in interpretive focus .
Part II provides four diplomatic editions from Chetham 8009: the Life of St Katherine, the Liber Catonis, John Russell’s Book of Carving and Nurture, and the Book of the Duke and Emperor.
This thesis aims to contribute to the study of medieval literature by arguing for a methodological shift in the way the literature is approached and by providing access to four texts either previously unedited or not easily accessible
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