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A Model of Transition for Sustainable Living : Sebastopol
No full textAbstract\ud
Climate change, resource depletion, and economic instability are conceivably the most\ud
pressing issues facing the world at the beginning of the second decade of the 21st century.\ud
These challenges and the irrespective magnitudes are compounding faster than the level\ud
of the activity being implemented toward their solutions. While climate change is now\ud
well documented and becoming more visible in the media. There is less public awareness\ud
around the issue of declining resources, especially fossil fuels. The imminent\ud
convergence of the decline of resources coupled with economic instability may well\ud
delay the extent of adaptations necessary to mitigate the threats posed by climate change.\ud
Government thinking on mitigation includes massive plans of adaptations, infrastructure,\ud
and investments. Business thinking on mitigation includes the manufacture of green\ud
technologies and environmentally friendly products and services to provide for the\ud
growing consumer demand to participate in the solutions. These solutions, while an\ud
important aspect of raising public awareness of these challenges, do not solve the\ud
problems. Moreover, some of these solutions actually require more of the declining\ud
resources that are already in short supply and do not necessitate critical timeframes equal\ud
to the speed and scope of the endeavor.\ud
One resource that is growing and exists in abundance is that of population. Mobilizing\ud
even a portion of this vast population toward sustainable living habits has the potential to\ud
shift the entire dominant paradigm at the speed and scope required. Education and\ud
change of behavior will provide direction to a population, which is already aware of the\ud
environmental challenges and is already motivated for action, into focused sustainable\ud
methods of living that will leverage their daily habits and purchasing decisions into a\ud
potent and measurable demand in the market place. This project provides a practical\ud
educational model that facilitates behavioral change, cultivates growth of the sustainable\ud
business community and significantly lowers carbon emissions, while fostering social\ud
responsibility and environmental stewardship.\ud
The focus of this study has been the exploration and integration of three related aspects of\ud
sustainable living. The first has been to explore practical means to conserve energy and\ud
resources, while seeking sustainable alternatives . The second has been to explore\ud
straightforward methods that facilitate behavioral changes. And the third has been to\ud
explore methods of integrating the previous findings into the daily lives of people, and\ud
their local communities. If the results of the study are implemented, a way of life will be\ud
created that rouses demand in the marketplace for sustainable goods and services,\ud
stimulates commerce, and promotes the development of a strong local resilient\ud
community. The intention of this project is to provide a model for this transition that can\ud
be put into effect as quickly and efficiently as possible
The modernist angel: Art at the Limits of the Human in D. H. Lawrence, H. D. and Mina Loy
No full textPhDThe subject of this thesis is a figure that might provisionally be called the *modemist
angel'. Focusing on modernist literature, and more particularly on the work of D. H.
Lawrence, H. D. and Mina Loy, it aims to isolate from the many angels found in all periods
and all types of art a historically specific and intellectually coherent paradigm: an angel of
and for its modernist times. A figure of precisely this type could be said to exist in the
form of Walter Benjamin's 'angel of history'. Critics who address the question of the
modern angel in texts by Franz Kafka and Rainer Maria Rilke often do so in conjunction
with the problem posed by the angel of history. Beginning with a chapter on Benjamin,
this thesis nevertheless follows a different trajectory. Over five chapters, it explores a
modernist landscape formed not only by Lawrence, H. D. and Loy, but also by European
and American writers such as A. R. Orage, Allen Upward, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens,
Havelock Ellis, Edward Carpenter, Sigmund Freud and Friedrich Nietzsche. Although the
angel that emerges from this investigation might, in some respects, be said to anticipate
Benjamin's later version, this figure is also very different, standing for a project that is
distinctively, and recognisably, modernist in nature. He/she (the sex of the modernist
angel is often open to question) represents an attempt to reconcile the divine
responsibilities of the artist with the material and gendered conditions of being,
specifically of being human, in the modem world. This thesis looks again at the clash of
intellectual paradigms in the early-twentieth century - notably, the confrontation of the
Romantic view of art as a superhuman or sacred undertaking with the psychoanalytical or
evolutionary idea that all human endeavour is underpinned by sub-human motives - and
suggests the angel as a new and instructive figure through which to think the perilous
limits between the human and the divine in modernist literature
'Pilings of Thought Under Spoken': The Poetry of Susan Howe, 1974-1993.
No full textPhDThis thesis discusses the poetry published by contemporary American poet Susan
Howe over a period of almost two decades. The dissertation is chiefly concerned with
articulating the relationship between poetic form, history, and authority in this body
of' work. Howe's poetry dredges the past for the linguistic effects of patriarchy,
colonialism and war. My reading of the work is an exploration of the ways in which a
disjunctive poetics can address such historical trauma. The poems, rather than
attempting to reinstate voices lifted from what Howe has called "the dark side of
history", are a means of reflecting the resistance that the past offers to contemporary
investigation. It is the effacement, and not the recovery, of history's victims, that is
discernible in the contours of these highly opaque texts. Notions of authority are most
often addressed in the poetry through the figure of paternal absence, which has a
threefold function in the work, serving to represent social authority, an aporetic
conception of divinity and an autobiographical narrative. Alongside the antiauthoritarian
currents in the writing - critiques, for example, of the doctrine of
Manifest Destiny or of scapegoating versions of femininity - my thesis stresses Howe's
engagement with negative theology and with a strain of American Protestant
enthusiasm that has its roots in 17th century New England. The dissertation explores
the dissonance caused by the co-existence in the poetry of elements of political dissent
and religious mysticism. Finally, I consider Howe's engagement with literary history
and authors such as Shakespeare, Swift, Thoreau and Melville. The manner in which
Howe deploys the words of others in her work, I argue, allows for a mixture of textual
polyphony and a more conventional notion of authorial 'voice'
A Model of Transition for Sustainable Living : Sebastopol
No full textClimate change, resource depletion, and economic instability are conceivably the most pressing issues facing the world at the beginning of the second decade of the 21st century. These challenges and the irrespective magnitudes are compounding faster than the level of the activity being implemented toward their solutions. While climate change is now well documented and becoming more visible in the media. There is less public awareness around the issue of declining resources, especially fossil fuels. The imminent convergence of the decline of resources coupled with economic instability may well delay the extent of adaptations necessary to mitigate the threats posed by climate change. Government thinking on mitigation includes massive plans of adaptations, infrastructure, and investments. Business thinking on mitigation includes the manufacture of green technologies and environmentally friendly products and services to provide for the growing consumer demand to participate in the solutions. These solutions, while an important aspect of raising public awareness of these challenges, do not solve the problems. Moreover, some of these solutions actually require more of the declining resources that are already in short supply and do not necessitate critical timeframes equal to the speed and scope of the endeavor. One resource that is growing and exists in abundance is that of population. Mobilizing even a portion of this vast population toward sustainable living habits has the potential to shift the entire dominant paradigm at the speed and scope required. Education and change of behavior will provide direction to a population, which is already aware of the environmental challenges and is already motivated for action, into focused sustainable methods of living that will leverage their daily habits and purchasing decisions into a potent and measurable demand in the market place. This project provides a practical educational model that facilitates behavioral change, cultivates growth of the sustainable business community and significantly lowers carbon emissions, while fostering social responsibility and environmental stewardship. The focus of this study has been the exploration and integration of three related aspects of sustainable living. The first has been to explore practical means to conserve energy and resources, while seeking sustainable alternatives . The second has been to explore straightforward methods that facilitate behavioral changes. And the third has been to explore methods of integrating the previous findings into the daily lives of people, and their local communities. If the results of the study are implemented, a way of life will be created that rouses demand in the marketplace for sustainable goods and services, stimulates commerce, and promotes the development of a strong local resilient community. The intention of this project is to provide a model for this transition that can be put into effect as quickly and efficiently as possible .Rodriguez, Susan Angel. 2010. A Model of Transition for Sustainable Living : Sebastopol. Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies, Sonoma State University
Group Psychology in the Totalitarian System: A Psychoanalytic View
No full textThis article is dedicated to Dr. Alexander Wolf who made his groups growthpromoting, free and holding environments. The author wants to thank Valerie Angel, M. S. W., Eva Papiasvili, Ph. D., Susan Kavaler, Ph. D., Maria Luisa Bastos, Ph. D., and Nancy Smith for their support, critical commentary, and helpful suggestions. - First published in Group, Vol. 14, No. 1, Spring 1990, New York: Mazel Inc.; reprinted in Yearbook of the International Erich Fromm Society, Mnster: LIT-Verlag,Vol. 3 (1992), pp. 69-8
La gestión tributaria y el impuesto predial en la municipalidad distrital de Paramonga
No full textObjetivo: La presente investigación tuvo como objetivo demostrar que la Gestión Tributaria
influye de manera significativa en el Impuesto Predial en la Municipalidad Distrital de
Paramonga. Medios y Materiales: es una investigación aplicada y de diseño no
experimental, la Población estuvo conformada por 150 personas entre Autoridades, Gerentes,
funcionarios y empleados que laboran en la Municipalidad Distrital de Paramonga,, la
muestra estuvo constituida por 108 personas, la misma fue determinada mediante el
muestreo aleatorio simple para la recolección de los datos se utilizó la técnica de la encuesta
y el instrumento empleado fue el cuestionario para el procesamiento de la información se
utilizó el programa estadístico SPSS y los estadísticos descriptivos y para la contrastación
de las hipótesis se utilizó la herramienta estadística no paramétrica denominada la Chi
Cuadrado. Resultados: Al contratar las hipótesis de la investigación los valores prácticos
fueron superiores a los valores teóricos por lo que se rechazaron las hipótesis nulas y se
aceptaron las hipótesis de estudio. Conclusiones: Se ha demostrado que la Gestión
Tributaria influye de manera significativa en el Impuesto Predial en la Municipalidad
Distrital de Paramonga
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Indigenous Memory and Nature Interact: Native Californian Stories | Greg Sarris and Beth Piatote (Lecture, 75 minutes)
No full textIndigenous Memory and Nature Interact: Native Californian Stories | Greg Sarris and Beth Piatote (Fall 2022 Speaker Series)Lecture, 75 minutes; Part of the Fall 2022 Speaker Series (Landscapes of Migration, Incarceration and Resistance)Click the title and scroll to the gray box below to access the video.Friday, September 2, 2022 Recording of presentation at @BAMPFA Osher Theater; free and open to the publicSpeakers:Greg Sarris, Tribal Chairman, Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria (Coast Miwok) and Author In conversation with Beth Piatote, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and English, UC Berkeley; Director, Arts Research CenterDescription:Indigenous leader and author Greg Sarris joined Assoc. Prof. of Comparative Literature and English Beth Piatote to discuss how literature and nature intersect with stories of Bay Area Native American history. Sarris shared insights from his memoir Becoming Story, which explores Coast Miwok culture. Centering Native lands, such as Angel Island (Coast Miwok territory) can frame a dialogue about Native American resistance and persistence in the face of settler colonialism and global migration.UC Berkeley Arts + Design Fridays: Landscapes of Migration, Incarceration, and Resistance is a lively series of talks by artists, performers, scholars, and activists exploring themes of global and US migration, exclusion, and belonging. It is also a UC Berkeley course offered as Humanities 20: Explorations of Art + Design. Organized by Susan Moffat, Creative Director of Future Histories Lab and Executive Director of the Global Urban Humanities Initiative and by Lisa Wymore, Professor of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies and Faculty Advisor of Berkeley Arts + Design. Hosted by Susan Moffat.—This speaker series is part of a program of music and dance performances, exhibitions, public conversations, and courses called A Year on Angel Island (futurehistories.berkeley.edu/angel-island/), using the historic Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay as a jumping-off point to consider landscapes from China to Australia to Mexico as sites of memory and meaning.A Year on Angel Island is organized by Future Histories Lab and the Arts + Design Initiative. UC Berkeley departmental cosponsors include the Departments of Music; Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies; Ethnic Studies; History; and American Studies. Campus partners include the Arts Research Center, the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, On the Same Page, Othering and Belonging Institute, Center for Race & Gender, Worth Ryder Gallery, and BAMPFA. Our community partner is the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation
The savings collapse during the transition in Eastern Europe
No full textThe authors assess the presence and extent of involuntary savings by comparing the predicted savings rates of market economies with those of the pre-transition economies. On balance, predicted savings rates fell short of actual savings rates, especially for the former Soviet Union and the Baltics -- providing some support for the notion of excessive pre-transition savings. Comparing the savings behavior of market economies and transition economies, they found substantial similarities, except for a negative link between savings and GDP growth. As the fastest-growing transition economies are at the bottom of the adjustment J-curve, the finding is consistent with consumption smoothing. Finally, they explored whether differences in the extent of economic liberalization affected savings rates in the cross-section of transition economies. They found that liberalization is associated with lower savings, with a one-year lag. To the extent that liberalization is perceived as an indicator of likely future growth, this behavior is consistent with smoothing in the face of a J-curve change in output.Insurance Law,Banks&Banking Reform,Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies,Insurance&Risk Mitigation,Environmental Economics&Policies,Banks&Banking Reform,Economic Theory&Research,Insurance&Risk Mitigation,Rural Poverty Reduction
migariane/eltmle: ELTMLE: Stata module for Ensemble Learning Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimation
No full texteltmle: Ensemble Learning Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimation (Implementation for Stata software)
Modern Epidemiology has been able to identify significant limitations of classic epidemiological methods, like outcome regression analysis, when estimating causal quantities such as the average treatment effect (ATE) or the causal odds ratio, for observational data.
For example, using classical regression models to estimate the ATE requires making the assumption that the effect measure is constant across levels of confounders included in the model, i.e. that there is no effect modification. Other methods do not require this assumption, including g-methods (e.g. the g-formula) and targeted maximum likelihood estimation (TMLE).
The latter estimator has the advantage of being doubly robust. Moreover, TMLE allows the inclusion of machine learning algorithms to minimize the risk of model misspecification, a problem that persists for competing estimators. Evidence shows that TMLE typically provides the least unbiased estimates of the ATE compared with other double robust estimators.
The following link provides access to a TMLE tutorial: http://migariane.github.io/TMLE.nb.html
eltmle is a Stata program implementing the targeted maximum likelihood estimation for the ATE for a binary or continuous outcome and binary treatment. Future implementations will offer more general settings. eltmle includes the use of a "Super Learner" called from the SuperLearner package v.2.0-21 (Polley E., et al. 2011). The Super-Learner uses V-fold cross-validation (10-fold by default) to assess the performance of prediction regarding the potential outcomes and the propensity score as weighted averages of a set of machine learning algorithms. We used the default SuperLearner algorithms implemented in the base installation of the tmle-R package v.1.2.0-5 (Susan G. and Van der Laan M., 2017), which included the following: i) stepwise selection, ii) generalized linear modeling (glm), iii) a glm variant that included second order polynomials and two-by-two interactions of the main terms included in the model.
Installation note
To install eltmle directly from github you need to use a Stata module for installing Stata packages from GitHub, including previous releases of a package. You can install the latest version of the github command by executing the following code in your Stata session.
Note: you need a Stata version greater or equal than 13.2, otherwise you can install the package manually downloading the files from the Github repository and placing it in your Stata ADO PERSONAL folder:
net install github, from("https://haghish.github.io/github/")
then, you can install eltmle simply using the following code in Stata:
1) Please, read carefully the help file before using eltmle in Stata):
github install migariane/eltmle
.which eltmle
.help eltmle
For both, MAC and Windows users, in case you want to uninstall the package type:
.ado uninstall eltmle
Authors
[Author and Developer] Miguel Angel Luque-Fernandez, LSHTM, NCDE, ICON Group, London, UK
Email: [email protected]
[Developer] Camille Maringe, LSHTM, NCDE, ICON Group, London, UK
Email: [email protected]
Contributors
[Intellectual advice and suggestions for improvement]
Michael Schomaker, CIDER, UCT, Cape Town, South Africa
Email: michael.schomaker at uct.ac.za
Mireille E. Schnitzer, Faculté de pharmacie,
Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
Email: mireille.schnitzer at umontreal.ca
Updates
In case you have updates or changes that you would like to make, please send me a pull request.
Alternatively, if you have any questions, please e-mail me:
Miguel Angel Luque-Fernandez
E-mail: miguel-angel.luque at lshtm.ac.uk
Twitter @WATZILEI
Acknowledgments
Miguel Angel Luque Fernandez is supported by a Miguel Servet I Investigator Award (grant CP17/00206) from the Carlos III National Institute of Health, Madrid, Spain
Assessment of the cognitive and practical competences of nursing staff in monitoring care arterial hemodynamics in the EsSalud Intensive Unit Care
No full textEl saber otorgar atención a un individuo bajo monitorización de forma invasiva y continua mediante el uso de un catéter arterial debe estar a cargo de un personal que este altamente capacitado y calificado para así evitar que se presenten complicaciones en el paciente por lo que la investigación propone como objetivo evaluar las competencias cognitivas y prácticas en el monitoreo hemodinámico arterial por el personal de enfermería en una uci de un hospital de Essalud como es el Hospital II Lima-Norte Callao Luis Negreiros Vega. Metodología: estudio descriptivo, cuantitativo de corte transversal, direccionado a una población de 22 profesionales en enfermería que ejercen en la unidad de cuidados intensivos del hospital de estudio a los mismo que, tras un consentimiento firmado, se les impartirá dos instrumentos elaborados por la autora los cuales serán validados por un juicio de expertos los cuales medirán el área cognitiva y la parte técnica que está relacionado con el procedimiento en sí. En el plan de análisis se utilizará la prueba estadística chi cuadrada con el paquete estadístico STATA versión 17 y el resultado se mostrar en gráficos y tablas.Knowing how to provide care to an individual under invasive and continuous monitoring through the use of an arterial catheter must be in charge of a highly qualified personnel in order to avoid complications in the patient. The objective was to evaluate cognitive skills and practice arterial hemodynamic monitoring by nursing staff in an ICU of an Essalud Hospital as Luis Negreiros Hospital II Lima Norte Callao. The methodology encompasses a descriptive, quantitative, cross-sectional study, addressed to a population of 22 nursing professionals who practice in the intensive care unit of the hospital who after signed consent, will be given two instruments prepared by the author which will validated by an expert judgment which will measure the cognitive area and the technical part that is related to the procedure itself. The analysis and interpretation will use the statistical package STATA version 17 and the result will be shown in graphs and tables
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