251 research outputs found
Audio Interview with Mr. Alexander (Alex) Lafferty
No full textAudio - Mr. Alex Lafferty discusses his life in Athabasca having moved here around 1906. Freighting, the railroad ,and the many captains and companies on the river are mentioned including: Captain Haight, John Shott, and Captain Mills. Mr. Magnus Brown was a boat builder and Mr. Lafferty helped to build the last ferryTape is quite good considering the age of Mr. Lafferty (90 yrs.) at the time of taping. Mr. Lafferty remembers much of early times
Halting a Runaway Train: Reforming Teacher Pensions for the 21st Century
No full textWhen it comes to public-sector pensions, writes lead author Michael B. Lafferty in this report, "A major public-policy (and public-finance) problem has been defined and measured, debated and deliberated, but not yet solved. Except where it has been." As recounted in "Halting a Runaway Train: Reforming Teacher Pensions for the 21st Century", these exceptions turn out to be revealing -- and encouraging
‘You Are the Old Entrapped Dreams of the Coyote’s Brains Oozing Liquid Through the Broken Eye Socket’: Ecomonstrous poetics and weird bioregionalism in the fiction of R. A. Lafferty (with a comparative reading of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian)
No full textThe fiction of R. A. Lafferty (1914-2002) is at once deeply ecological and deeply strange. Its incessant narrative inclusion of the nonhuman beings, places, and forces of Lafferty’s Oklahoman and otherwise (south)western bioregion evinces an imagination profoundly porous to the local specificities and abundance of one’s more-than-human context. In this way it is deeply ecological. Lafferty’s fiction is also known (among his small devoted readership, which includes such luminaries as Neil Gaiman and Harlan Ellison) as one of the most uniquely off-kilter, wildly imaginative, and arcanely erudite bodies of work in U.S. literature. In this way it is deeply strange. While it is often acknowledged that Lafferty transcends the genre of science fiction (the industry in which most of his early work was published) and that his work is sui generis, little has been done to place him as either a U.S. author generally or an author of regional place more specifically. This thesis attempts to initiate the placement of Lafferty as a bioregional writer of the Great Plains and Southwest, whilst placing equal emphasis on Lafferty’s literary mode as not so much science-fictional as weird, or monstrous (in what we will call a horror-comic or monstro-ludic key). The fusion of these concerns leads this thesis to declare Lafferty a purveyor of American Weird Bioregionalism. Toward this end, we herein assemble insights from regional western U.S. narrative traditions (the frontier tall tale and Native American storytelling) together with recent ecocritical and ecophilosophical discourses (New Materialism and Object-Oriented Ontology) to reconfigure contemporary Monsters Studies toward a more-than-human construal of monsters and the monstrous that reads Lafferty’s weird bioregional fiction through the lens of what this thesis terms an Ecomonstrous Poetics. A chapter devoted to an ecomonstrous reading of Cormac McCarthy’s southwestern novel Blood Meridian provides a canonical comparison to Lafferty with surprising overlap. A final chapter on Lafferty’s implicit ecotheology rounds out the thesis and opens it up to further research
Panel: Navigating the Labyrinth: Cultivating and Sustaining Partnerships Across the Institution
No full textAs academic institutions respond to increasing demands for greater access to transparent and reusable research data, libraries have developed services to address researchers’ data management needs. However, libraries are just one of many units across a university that play a role in supporting proper data stewardship. Building connections with other groups on campus is at the core of leveraging expertise and resources, developing sustainable service models, and implementing change at an institutional level. Forming lasting relationships can be a difficult process as other campus units may have different understandings of what issues exist, how to address these issues, and each units' specific responsibilities. This panel will begin with a brief presentation on the need to build relationships across campus to support data sharing and some of the common challenges that libraries face. Next, we will present three case studies. The University of Michigan will discuss the work and recommendations of their campus-wide Public Access to Research Data Working Group; Duke University will discuss their work with the Office of Scientific Integrity and contributions to institutional data management policies; and North Carolina State University will discuss current efforts between the Libraries, the Office of Information Technology, and the Office of Research and Innovation to design and implement a new research facilitation service. The panel will then engage in an open discussion around common themes including the importance of relationships at an institutional level, both formal and informal; the libraries’ role in the larger institutional research ecosystem; and strategies for engaging with key stakeholders. We intend for this to be a candid discussion for our audience to share their own experiences and challenges in building sustainable relationships and how we might learn from each other to identify and act on opportunities. Speakers: Jake Carlson, Susan Ivey, Sophia Lafferty-Hess Moderator: Robin Ric
Saga of the Whispering Hills - 039
No full textPhotograph - Glenda Waddle, Alex Lafferty, Mike Saluk, and Carl Carlson. Saga of the Whispering Hills, presented by the Athabasca Players for the 75th Anniversary of Athabasca, Albert
Knowledge is not power, but it’s a start : young people and employment entitlements
No full textThis paper employs empirical evidence from a survey of Queensland secondary school students to examine their knowledge about their wages and working conditions. It does so within the theoretical lens of the Gagne (or Gagne-Briggs) theory of instruction, which centres on the content of learning and how learning is acquired (Gagne, Briggs & Wager, 1988). While Gagne articulates five categories of learning, our focus here is on two; verbal information or declarative knowledge (facts that people can declare), and procedural knowledge (the rules and procedures for achieving outcomes). We show that student workers know little about the instruments governing their employment, or their workplace entitlements. Of the total sample of year 9 and year 11 students surveyed (n=892), those students who worked, or who had worked in the past year (n=438), were asked to identify whether they were employed under an award, collective agreement or AWA. Eighty three per cent of students did not know which industrial instrument set their wages. We argue that if young workers do not have declarative knowledge of their entitlements, nor basic procedural knowledge about redress, then they are not in a position to deploy Gagne’s ‘cognitive strategies’ that would enable them to take action to ensure their working conditions meet legal minima. We advocate that young workers should be given summary information on their wages and other entitlements on appointment and that such summary information should be readily available on employers’ noticeboards and electronically on company websites, and that the information should include a brief summary of avenues for redressing issues of underpayment or sub-standard conditions
WIDE-BAND TUNABLE DIODE LASER HETERODYNE MEASUREMENTS
No full text J. P. Sattler, T. L. Worchesky, K. J. Ritter, and W. J. Lafferty, Opt. Lett. 5, 21 (1980)Author Institution:A technique for rapid, accurate, and copious diode laser heterodyne measurements of infrared absorption frequencies will be discussed in By use of a wideband (3 dB width, 1.2 GHz) HgCdTe photomixer and a laser local oscillator, absorptions lying within 9 GHz of a emission line may be measured with care to within 6 MHz. The data from accurate infrared heterodyne measurements of 1,1-difluoroethylene, when supplemented with existing microwave data on the ground state, permit the calculation of submilimeter wave laser emission frequencies to within a few megahertz. Similar measurements on carbonyl sulfide increase its utility as a secondary frequency standard
HIGH RESOLUTION INFRARED SPECTRUM OF CYANOGEN
No full textA. Weber, W. J. Lafferty, and W. B. Olson, paper RE5, Thirty Ninth Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy, The Ohio State University, June 1984.Author Institution: Molecular Spectroscopy Division, National Bureau of Standards; Molecular Spectroscopy Division, National Bureau of Standards; Molecular Spectroscopy Division, National Bureau of StandardsNew measurements of the IR spectrum of were obtained with the NBS BOMEM DA3.002 Fourier transform spectrometer equipped with a 20m White cell. The spectra of the , and combination and difference bands were recorded at an apodized resolution of . Because of the low lying fundamentals and these bands are accompained by numerous hot bands which complicate the assignment process. the band system was also recorded yielding new measurements superceding those reported earlier [1]. The band of the isotope, present in the gas in natural abundance, was also observed. Results of the analysis of the band system will be presented
Acupressure in high-risk ambulatory post-operative patients to reduce PONV
No full textDouglas College student research essay submitted as partial requirement for NURS 2217. Faculty sponsor to submit this research essay to DOOR: Navneet Sahota-Bagri.
Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) have been found to be one of the most prevalent symptoms and complications experienced after surgery (Hofmann et al., 2017). PONV is extremely distressing for patients (Hofmann et al., 2017). It can result in pulmonary aspiration, electrolyte imbalances, suture line tensions, wound dehiscence and delayed discharge (Hofmann et al., 2017). PONV is a complex interaction between the vomiting centre, triggered chemoreceptors, inner ear, vagus nerve, limbic system and cerebral cortex (Lewis et al., 2019). This phenomenon occurs in approximately 30% of all patients who have undergone surgery, and up to 80% of patients who are considered to be high risk (Lewis et al, 2019). The current commonly used treatment for PONV, in developed nations, are antiemetics (Hofmann et al., 2017). There is currently no drug to fully eliminate PONV, however these antiemetics can be used prophylactically and as intervention. Often the antiemetics used are droperidol, ondansetron and metoclopramide (Hofmann et al., 2017).
Acupressure is a Chinese medicine technique (Lewis et al., 2019). Its purpose is to stimulate and strengthen the body’s energy flow to manage symptoms (Lewis et al., 2019). This technique is non-invasive and easy to learn, allowing patient’s and caretakers to perform it themselves. Acupressure has been helpful in reducing pain, dyspnea, insomnia, fatigue, allergies, nausea and vomiting (Miao et al., 2017).
Acupressure is safe, non-invasive and has little to no cost or side effects (Sahin et al., 2018).
This paper will discuss the positive effects of acupressure to reduce post-operative nausea and vomiting. I will examine my PICOT question: Do postoperative high-risk ambulatory surgical patients experience less PONV with the use of P6 acupressure when compared to those receiving only the conventional antiemetic interventions in all three phases of post-op?Not peer reviewe
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