42 research outputs found
Pushing back: women-led grassroots activism in New York City's transnational communities of color, 1986-2011
No full text“Pushing Back” analyzes women-led activism of transnational communities of color through an examination of social justice campaigns around domestic work, housing, and environmental policies and practices. Through a case study of New York City from the 1980s to the present (2011), the dissertation argues that one key to progressive women’s successful organizing efforts is their ability to draw upon a range of political stances and to cross traditional identity-based boundaries. This study addresses three central questions: Which issues do organizations representing transnational communities of color identify as key to their communities and how do they frame them? What forms of advocacy do they wield and what do such approaches look like in practice? and How do they negotiate internal diversity (gender, race/nationality, class, etc.) and engage the broader community, particularly as women-led groups? The study focuses on two grassroots organizations, the pan-Asian/American CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities and the South Bronx’s largely Puerto Rican and Black Mothers on the Move/Madres en Movimiento. A complex picture of activism is produced through original archival research in previously unprocessed papers at each organization, oral history interviews, participant-observation, and the evaluation of relevant governmental and media sources.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Ariella Rabin Rotrame
Cover story: The Vengeful
No full textThe jazz era of the 1920s in America was filled with exuberant music, fast cars and young men and women determined to have a good time. But at the same time in working-class Far North Queensland, life wasn't lived at quite the same level of opulence. In a new novel, Treading Air, Queensland author Ariella Van Luyn uses fiction to investigate the life of a real young woman from Townsville named Lizzie O'Dea, who shot another woman in 1924
From millions to one: theoretical and concrete approaches to De Novo assembly using short read DNA sequences
No full textOne of the most significant advances in biology has been the ability to sequence the DNA of organisms. Even in the shadow of the completion of the human genome, intractable regions of the genome remain incomplete. Next generation high-throughput short read sequencing technologies are now available and have the ability to generate millions of short read DNA sequences per run. Although greater coverage depths are possible, de novo sequence assembly with these shorter sequences is significantly more complex than resequencing; handling them presents new computational problems and opportunities. Identifying repetitive regions, coping with sequencing errors, and manipulating the millions of short reads simultaneously, are some of the difficulties that must be overcome. As a result of these complexities and working with the short read sequences from the Waksman SOLiD sequencing platform, this work explores the problem of de novo assembly. Initially, we develop tools for filtering short read sequence data based on quality scores and find that this procedure is critical for the success of the subsequent de novo assembly. Next, we analyze the key phenomena responsible for producing contigs that are much shorter than the values provided by theoretical estimates. Finally, we explore two different routes to circumventing the difficulty imposed by short contigs. The first involves utilization of information from multiple orthologous genomes in a comparative assembly. In particular, we developed a pipeline for using the reference genome of a close by relative to improve genome assembly. The second approach uses paired read information to build scaffolds that are two orders of magnitude larger than the original contigs. For typical bacterial genomes, less than one hundred of these scaffolds are required to cover the entire genome. The combination of short reads from various platforms, assembly, and recovery pipelines brings mid-sized genomes close to completion. As a result, minimal additional work using conventional sequencing technologies are enough to close the remaining small gaps and return a finished single genome. Current advancements in sequencing technologies leave us hopeful that it would be possible to provide fairly complete assemblies for complex genomes via these technological approaches.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Ariella Syma Sasso
A World of Occupations: Life Through the Lens of Persons Who Are Experiencing Homelessness
No full textAbstract
Date Presented 3/31/2017
This research examined meanings ascribed to daily occupations of persons experiencing homelessness. Participants used photographs to document occupations. Q-sort and one-on-one interviews were used to enrich data. Thematic outcomes highlight occupational therapy’s distinct value with this population.
Primary Author and Speaker: Carol Ann Lambdin-Pattavina
Additional Authors and Speakers: Catherine Peirce, Alexandra Marous, Cody Wipperman, Ariella Bitton, Melanie Baldzicki</jats:p
'Transcending the limits of logic': poetic inquiry as a qualitative research method for working with vulnerable communities
No full text[Extract] In this chapter, we offer an overview of the diverse ways in which poetry is being used in qualitative inquiry. We seek to illuminate for readers how and why poetic inquiry has value for such researchers. Illustrative projects and poems are placed throughout the chapter to help contextualise the literature reviewed. For example, in the poem above, the first author uses the poetic form to reflect on and express her motivations for engaging in qualitative research. This poem provides an embodied demonstration of one of the ways poetry can be a useful tool for researchers; allowing researchers to express the emotional research journey through metaphors and images not available to them in traditional academic language. In this example, poetry functions as a creative form of self-reflexivity, of understanding the self and how this self shapes the interpretation and construction of knowledge produced in research. However, poetry is used in diverse ways by qualitative researchers. In poetic inquiry, poems can be a source of data, a form of data, a way of representing complex or even unspeakable social dilemmas, or a methodology or means through which to link research processes to research outcomes for transparent, powerful effect. Poetics can be viewed as a discourse articulating 'the relationship between the creative work and its critical inputs and outcomes' (Lyall, 2014, p. 134, citing the work of Lasky, 2013)
An Assessment of Genetics Providers’ Attitudes and Expectations for a Reverse Phenotyping Clinical Decision Aid
No full textThis study aimed to assess the attitudes of genetics providers regarding a clinical decision aid designed to assist in genetic diagnosis of rare pediatric disease. User experience, expectations, and opinions were investigated related to clinical decision and AI-driven software in healthcare diagnostics. Six participants employed at Montefiore Medical Center, who have experience ordering whole genome sequencing, were selected to participate in a semi-structured interview assessing their opinions and expectations for a clinical decision aid, GenomeDiver, designed to improve lab-clinician communication. Responses were assessed via manifest and latent content analysis, which was mutually reviewed for coder consensus. While all participants believed GenomeDiver could be helpful for genetic diagnostics, particularly in the case of complex patient presentations or variants of uncertain significance, they expressed concern about the risk of misinterpretation by untrained individuals, risk to patient-provider relationships, and the logistics of setting up and using the tool in a clinical setting. The results of our study highlight important considerations to be made in the development of software designed to improve diagnosis through genetic testing and help providers harness the power of “big data” in genomic diagnostics
The implementation of biological monitoring working party average score per taxon (BMWP-ASPT) in a water quality analysis at Kalibokor drainage in Surabaya region
No full textThe Imperial Origins of Photography
No full textImagine that the origin of photography goes back to 1492. What could this mean? In this lecture, Ariella Azoulay will depart from the common theories and histories that present photography as a sui-generis practice and locate its moment of emergence in the midst 19th century around technological development and male inventors. Instead she would rather propose to locate the origins of photography in the “new world,” at the earlier phases of European colonialism and study photographs alongside early accounts of imperial expeditions. Obviously there are no photos from the mass destruction of the late 15th century, but viewing later images of destruction in the context of early expeditions, unravel the premises of what is called documentary and its role in minimizing the scale of the enterprise of destruction. Photography was institutionalized as a visual and communicative practice in a world that had already been colonized and enabled the reproduction of imperial divisions and imperial rights. It nailed down in images what Azoulay conceives as the right to destroy, to accumulate, to appropriate, to differentiate, to record what has been destroyed or appropriated, to study, rescue, salvage, and exhibit it. Interpreting these imperial rights as constitutive of the practice of the documentary, is key in understanding the power accumulated in the hands of image banks and corporations such as Getty or FB.
Ariella Azoulay is Professor of Comparative Literature and Modern Culture and Media at Brown University and author of Aïm Deüelle Lüski and Horizontal Photography (Leuven University Press and Cornell University Press, 2013), From Palestine to Israel: A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation, 1947-1950 (Pluto Press, 2011), Civil Imagination: The Political Ontology of Photography (Verso, 2012) and The Civil Contract of Photography (Zone Books, 2008), co-authored with Adi Ophir, The One State Condition: Occupation and Democracy between the Sea and the River (Stanford University Press, 2012).https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/havc_conversationsoncontemporaryart/1003/thumbnail.jp
The politics of interpretation: presentist and historicist perspectives of Othello and As You Like It
No full textThis thesis explores what presentist and historicist scholarship on Othello, As You Like It, and Shakespeare more broadly reveals about not only the fundamentals of both presentism and historicism, but also the benefits and downfalls of each in analyses of Shakespeare’s works. This exploration is premised on two things. First, Othello and As You Like It provide uniquely appropriate jumping-off points for talking about race and gender through historicism and presentism. Second, there are political implications to employing these approaches that make them worth exploring in a thesis-length project
Empathy and transformation in organic inquiry: sharing research in partnership with spirit
No full text[Extract] Our narrative as authors begins with a location of ourselves in relationship to one another. The first author, Sharon, is a PhD graduate who was delighted to happen upon Organic Inquiry. This little-known qualitative methodology is a deeply connected, transformative and liberating qualitative methodology that can provoke researchers to attune to others' lived experiences through their common humanity and their own narrative. Sharon was surprised how beautifully Organic Inquiry fitted with her PhD research topic on the 'Spirituality of menstruation and birth'. The above quote from an interview transcript captures a moment in one participant's unfolding story of witnessing the spirituality of birth. The second author, Susan, the primary PhD supervisor, is a committed qualitative researcher who held some scepticism about this little-known methodology. Both authors grew to appreciate the intense, embodied, transformative capacity of Organic Inquiry and the key role of empathic relationships in the rigour and transformative potential of this methodology. Equally, the research participants reported on its powerful transformative qualities. Organic Inquiry is not known widely, and therefore some historical context is needed
