387 research outputs found
Geographic variation in the bobcat (Felis rufus) in the southcentral United States
No full textDue to the character of the original source materials and the nature of batch digitization, quality control issues may be present in this document. Please report any quality issues you encounter to [email protected], referencing the URI of the item.Bibliography: leaves 61-63.Not availabl
An Unusual Placement Experience: The Center For Mulitcultural and Minority Health
No full textAuthor, Jody Harris, describes her internship at the Presbyterian Hospital/Cornell Medical College. She describes how her work at this internship gave her a deeper understanding of the role medical advocates play in creating more humane doctors and resolving any cross-cultural problems with patients
L-Glutamine Use In The Treatment And Prevention Of Mucositis And Cachexia: A Naturopathic Perspective
No full textThis is an article on the topic, there is also a poster from this author by the same title.L-Glutamine (L-GLN) is considered a nonessential amino acid that has a variety of applications in naturopathic medicine. It has been postulated that in the critically ill patient, GLN becomes an essential amino acid for recovery, restoration, and repair at a cellular level. Mucositis is an intestinal mucosal damage of the gastrointestinal tract—mouth, throat, stomach, intestines, rectum, and anus-that is caused directly by chemotherapies and radiotherapies. Cancer cachexia is a significant biochemical event, which is characterized by weight loss, fatigue, and indicative of depletion of skeletal muscle GLN-a hypercatabolic state. There has been some question as to the use of GLN in this patient population because of its role as a preferred energy source not only for enterocytes and lymphocytes but for malignant cells as well. This article will address the questions of safety, efficacy, dosing, and toxicity of GLN used as an integrative therapeutic in ongoing integrative cancer treatment.http://ict.sagepub.com.libproxy.bridgeport.edu/content/8/4/409.full.pdf+htm
A Bias Steam-Ironed into Women\u27s Lives : A Conversation with Author Phyllis Chesler about Women and Madness, 47 Years After Publication
No full textA conversation with Phyllis Chesler about Women and Madness, 47 years after publication, conducted by Jody Raphael. Chesler discusses her motive for writing Women and Madness and its early reception. She reflects on changes and lack of changes in views and treatment of women by society and the mental health system in the years since its publication. Her feminist analysis now includes Islamic fundamentalism, prostitution, and surrogacy, which are not always politically correct views among feminists today
Jody Rockmaker's Character Pieces for Viola and Piano (2014): A Study and Recording
No full textabstract: This document is a study of Jody Rockmaker’s Character Pieces for viola and piano (2014). The study begins with discussion of the work’s origin, then goes on to describe each of its three movements in some detail. A recording of the work with the author as violist is included.
The composer is a former violist and worked with the author on developing Character Pieces. Although the work is demanding, it was written with consideration of viola technique and the instrument’s characteristics and sound.
The composition is of approximately 15 minutes’ duration. Each movement is in a different tempo, fast-slow-fast, and with individual expression, though the pitch organization of all three movements is based on one hexachordal set. Rockmaker’s intent was to depict certain personality traits often found among violists. These attributes are evident in the titles of the movements: the Class Clown, the Mellow Fellow, and the Hipster-Intellect. The music, in addition to being intricately organized and technically suited to both instruments, also expressively portrays these character types.Dissertation/ThesisJody Rockmaker's Character Pieces for Viola and Piano(2014): I. Class ClownJody Rockmaker's Character Pieces for Viola and Piano(2014): II. Mellow FellowJody Rockmaker's Character Pieces for Viola and Piano(2014): III. Hipster-IntellectDoctoral Dissertation Music 201
Author detection on a mobile phone
No full textTraditional author detection is conducted on powerful computers using documents such as books and articles. With the explosion of mobile phone computing use, modern author detection needs to be lean enough to operate on a resource restrained mobile phone and robust enough to handle the terse and non-standard wording in text messages, Tweets, and e-mails. By testing natural language and machine learning techniques for size and speed, not just effectiveness, this thesis identifies feature and technique combinations appropriate for author detection on a mobile phone. Specifically this thesis will examine effectiveness versus storage size for word grams of size 1, 2, and 5 as well as Gappy Bigrams and Orthogonal Sparse Bigrams. To deal with the robust nature of Tweets and text message, the Google Web1T corpus will be tested for size versus effectiveness in combination with the word grams. Once appropriate feature and technique combinations are found, those combinations will be tested on actual Android mobile phones to gauge how effective the chosen techniques are on a real mobile phone.Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.Outstanding Thesishttp://archive.org/details/authordetectiono10945576
A Performer's Perspective on Double Clarinet Music: Pieces by William O. Smith, Eric Mandat, and Jody Rockmaker with Interviews and a Recording
No full textabstract: This final research paper provides both a performer's perspective and a recording of double clarinet literature by William O. Smith (b. 1926), Eric Mandat (b. 1957), and Jody Rockmaker (b. 1961). The document includes musical examples, references to the recording, and interviews with the composers. The first chapter contains a brief literature review of sources on world double clarinets, biographies of the above-mentioned composers, and other pertinent information. Chapters 2-4 include the performer's perspective on the following works: Epitaphs for Double Clarinet by William O. Smith, Double Life for Solo Clarinet by Eric Mandat, and two compositions by Jody Rockmaker, Half and Half for demi-clarinet in A, and Double Dip. The final chapter examines how double clarinet music has evolved, the challenges and limitations of the repertoire, and the future of the double clarinet genre.Dissertation/ThesisD.M.A. Music 201
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"Bound--a Trouble--": Emily Dickinson and the Archive
No full textThis dissertation looks at how archival structures have produced the canonical author Emily Dickinson, who left nearly 5,000 unpublished manuscripts at her death. With very little known about this poet, scholars have had the responsibility of constructing poems, editions, and biographies from an archive of paper fragments and tiny hand made books filled with difficult writing. I trace the early amateur editors' influences on the poems and poet through to the texts we read today, arguing that our most reliable editions began with early editors' organization and publication of the unruly manuscripts within the structures of archive and the book. These publications highlight and promote a narrative of Dickinson as homebound, lovelorn, and isolated--characteristics that still shape many critical analyses of the poet. The first chapter situates my project within post-colonial, post-structuralist, and modernist avant-garde theories of the archive before moving on to an analysis of the manuscripts that reveals their resistance to organization and publication. Chapter two gives a history of Dickinson's publication and status as an author. I perform a close reading of the poems in print that shows how "understanding" them relies upon ideas about the author's biography and the erasure of difficult details in the manuscripts. Understanding that any reading of the poet's work will be mediated by some archival structure whether digital, codex, or otherwise--the third chapter looks to interdisciplinary and multimedia responses to the work that allow for playful constructions of Dickinson's fragmented archive.By analyzing what is effaced by the structures we put around this poet and the work she left behind, this dissertation looks to the more flexible potentials of digital technology as a possible space for Dickinson's work. Looking beyond the organizational principles of the folder, box, page, and codex, this project hopes for a method of experiencing the most difficult, unorganized and fragmented features of Dickinson's work
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No full textA young man learns some valuable life lessons before joining the army when he gets involved with a soldier\u27s wife.
Articles, stories, and other compositions in this archive were written by participants in the Mighty Pen Project. The program, developed by author David L. Robbins, and in partnership with Virginia Commonwealth University and the Virginia War Memorial in Richmond, Virginia, offers veterans and their family members a customized twelve-week writing class, free of charge. The program encourages, supports, and assists participants in sharing their stories and experiences of military experience so both writer and audience may benefit
Caring Creation: Centering Survivor’s in Katy Koop’s The Amazing Cunt and Lil’Bitch take Portland!
No full texthttps://rdc.reed.edu/v1/resources/102a2094-8061-4933-be79-5f29b790bdfd/thumb/128.jpgFor my thesis, I directed a production of The Amazing Cunt and Lil’Bitch Take Portland! by Katy Koop as a part of the Reed College Theatre Department’s 2024 season. The production sought out previously created theatrical methods for dispersing political ideals and controversial opinions and compiled techniques from each in order to create a theatrical method which not only centers survivors in a production process dealing with sexual abuse, but also stays true to the level of viscerality needed to accurately represent the topic. To achieve my goal of not retraumatizing any survivors involved in the play or viewing from the audience, I explored the Epic Theatre, Theatre of Cruelty, and Theatre of the Oppressed in combination with more recent methodologies like Feminist Theatre and different Trauma-Informed approaches. After discussing the ideologies in chapter one and relating them to the script in chapter two, chapter three provides a run-down of the ways each technique was implemented in the actual process. The final chapter also discusses the results I received from the survey I created to gauge audience traumatization during the play, and feedback received from the cast and crew at the post-mortem
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