263 research outputs found
The healing touch: spiritual healing in England, c.1870-1955
No full textThis thesis provides a comprehensive analysis of spiritual healing in England in its various different guises during the late-nineteenth and early- to mid-twentieth centuries. It considers the interplay between the various spiritual healing groups themselves and between their philosophies and practices and orthodox medical theory more generally. The first half examines how spiritual healing was conceptualised by those who practised it - who spiritual healers were, what they believed and how they defined illness and healing. The specific therapeutic techniques used by healers are delineated, and the themes of touch and morality explored in detail. The second half of this thesis then examines how spiritual healing was perceived by the religious and medical establishments, and explores their co-operational discourse. Firstly, the reaction of the orthodox Christian churches to spiritual healing and their fractured and inherently conservative attempts to utilise it as a means of revitalising orthodox Christianity are analysed. The final chapters then chart the chronological relationship between spiritual healing and orthodox medicine during three specific periods, and explore the way in which spiritual healing intersected and impacted upon medical reactions to the new psychology of the twentieth century
Unambiguous full multinuclear NMR assignment of 4-amino-1,1,2,2,9,9,10,10-octafluoro[2.2]paracycylophane & NMR differentiation of its enantiomers, and related compounds
No full textFor the first time the full multinuclear ¹H, ¹³C, and ¹⁹F assignments were established for 4-amino-1,1,2,2,9,9,10,10-octafluoro[2.2]paracyclophane (OFP-NH2). These were achieved by using a combination of 1D, COSY, and HETCOR NMR techniques. The assignments were later confirmed by nOe experiments. The interaction of OFP-NH₂ with different chiral shift reagents was explored, and it was shown that it is possible to clearly detect both enantiomers of the planar chiral OFP-NH₂ (in both the ¹H and ¹⁹F NMR). This method of chiral discrimination was also shown to be applicable to other similar chiral OFP derivatives.M.S.Includes bibliographical referencesby Sheryl Rabinowit
The importance of place: a national examination of the structural correlates of intimate partner homicides
No full textLittle research in the United States has focused on homicides outside cities. This study examines the impact of structural factors on intimate partner homicides in rural counties, as well as, across the nation as a whole. Expanding on the paucity of research on rural crime, this research applies the systemic reformulation of social disorganization theory and considers the importance of civic engagement and religious participation variables in influencing these outcomes. Utilizing recent Uniform Crime Report Supplementary Homicide Report data (2000-2005), U.S. Census data (2000), a study of County Characteristics (2000-2007), and the Association of Religion Data Archives Religious Congregations and Membership Study of 2000, this study investigates how the systemic reformulation of social disorganization theory explains intimate partner homicides across the country and in rural counties. In examining the structural correlates of homicide and the impact of social institutions, this research bridges the gaps between social organization theories and cultural or subcultural theories. By incorporating institutions into the analysis, this study examines the "relatively stable configuration of statuses, roles, values, and norms that emerge from the basic functional requirements of a society" (Messner and Rosenfeld, 1999: 28). Through the inclusion of religious and political institutions, this analysis adds to the understanding of the impact of institutional factors on intimate partner homicides and finds that in rural communities, especially, religious participation and voter participation are negatively correlated to intimate partner homicides. This study found that the systemic reformulation of social disorganization theory and the concepts therein significantly explained intimate partner homicide counts across the country, though religious participation was not significant. For rural counties, the model was significant but only the population structure component, which included population density and population size, and religious participation were statistically significant These findings have important policy implications .With more recently emerging literature on the importance of civic engagement, this research highlights the importance of further investigation of voter participatory norms, especially in future studies of crimes in rural locations. Additionally, religious participation must be investigated further, especially in studies involving rural communities.Ph. D.Includes abstractVitaIncludes bibliographical referencesby Sheryl Lynn Van Horn
Complicit or Co-Opted? Feminism, Neoliberalism and Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In
No full textThis senior work examines the unlikely convergence of feminism and neoliberalism in Sheryl Sandberg's influential book, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. This text, which the author calls her "feminist manifesto," represents a curious development in the historical trajectory of feminism. Although the book is already widely credited for reviving and mainstreaming feminism, the seemingly conflicting ideals of feminism and neoliberalism represented in the text encourage a more thorough examination of the "feminist" nature of the book
Diet in Diabetes Simplified: Your Personal Diabetes Nutrition Coach. Sheryl Salis
No full textThe book “Diet in diabetes simplified, your personal diabetes nutrition coach” by author, Sheryl Salis[1] is the need of the hour as sixty million diabetic citizens of “The Diabetes Capital of the world” are projected to double to a hundred million diabetics in the year 2030.[2] With stalwarts of India forwarding the book as credible and ethical, the book succeeds in closing the gap between scientific dissemination of knowledge and practical messages that prompt behavioral modifications. It has been fore-worded by infamous diabetologists such as Dr. Mohan. V, Dr. Apsi. J, including top dieticians Dr. Jagmeet Madan and Dr. Gourpriya Koppikar
Compensation for logdment of caveat without reasonable cause
No full textThis article examines s130 of the Land Title Act 1994 (Qld) in detail, and includes an analysis of authorities which have interpreted comparable provisions in other Australian jurisdictions and in New Zealand. Its purpose is to provide a comprehensive guide as to the circumstances in which the court may now be expected to award compensation in respect of the lodgment or continuance of a caveat in Queensland. Finally, the author considers whether the changes which have been embodied in s130 may now be regarded as providing adequate protection for persons who suffer damage as a result of the lodgment or continuance of a caveat which cannot ultimately be sustained
The healing touch : spiritual healing in England, c.1870-1955
No full textThis thesis provides a comprehensive analysis of spiritual healing in England in its various different guises during the late-nineteenth and early- to mid-twentieth centuries. It considers the interplay between the various spiritual healing groups themselves and between their philosophies and practices and orthodox medical theory more generally. The first half examines how spiritual healing was conceptualised by those who practised it - who spiritual healers were, what they believed and how they defined illness and healing. The specific therapeutic techniques used by healers are delineated, and the themes of touch and morality explored in detail. The second half of this thesis then examines how spiritual healing was perceived by the religious and medical establishments, and explores their co-operational discourse. Firstly, the reaction of the orthodox Christian churches to spiritual healing and their fractured and inherently conservative attempts to utilise it as a means of revitalising orthodox Christianity are analysed. The final chapters then chart the chronological relationship between spiritual healing and orthodox medicine during three specific periods, and explore the way in which spiritual healing intersected and impacted upon medical reactions to the new psychology of the twentieth century.EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceArts and Humanities Research Council (Great Britain) (AHRC)GBUnited Kingdo
Drawing from life: An autobiographical study in the creative work of Sheryl Thornton-Dibb le Tourneur with reference to selected female artists.
No full textMasters Degree. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg.This practice-based research (PBR) project facilitates the use of creative studio practice as research together with theoretical research that culminate in an integrated exhibition and written dissertation for examination for the degree: Master of Art in Fine Art – Research (MAFA-R).
This research adopts an heuristic approach to allow for flexibility, un pre-determined outcomes and tacit knowledge. Heuristics is suitable for autobiographical study as the subjective experience of the researcher is not only acknowledged but becomes the focus of the research. The phases and processes of heuristics become guides to the research process. The heuristic phases are also used in discussion of the processes and artworks of creative studio practice from a retrospective ‘bird’s eye’ view. The process becomes an immersive one in which the researcher embodies the research question and follows intuition, personal interest and emotion to engage with the materials of creative practice, to incubate inner knowledge and wait for emergent illumination. The theory of autobiography as influenced by feminism provides a theoretical framework that respects the influence of existential-phenomenological, psychoanalytic and spiritual frameworks and recognises the possibility of philosophical engagement. Autobiographical subjectivity, composed of experience, identity, memory, embodiment and agency, is implicitly and explicitly expressed in creative expression. Materiality and metaphor as embodied are also discussed as relating to autobiographical and creative expression in which varied themes emerge. The written and artistic work of Käthe Kollwitz and Wilma Cruise produced during midlife during which they experienced the loss of a loved one and psychological and/or spiritual existential crises is discussed in relation to the work and experience of personal loss and midlife of the author, Sheryl Thornton-Dibb le Tourneur. In this context the metaphors of birthing of self and creativity and nurturing creative seed within are discussed as is the equation of mother and artist. The use of figurative work and self-portraiture and the materials and processes of drawing and clay for artworks in 2D and 3D are considered in terms of their materiality and personal and implicit autobiographical expression in the quest for articulation of a personal and universal voice. Visual journaling of the process and curation of the artworks are recognised as significant in their contribution to the production and presentation of the creative studio practice and are unable to be reduced to or subsumed by the explication or exhibition
Above Vulgar Economy: Jane Austen and Money
No full textAbstract: "Above Vulgar Economy": Jane Austen and Money By: Sheryl Bonar Craig Jane Austen's career as an author coincided with a series of economic recessions leading to a major economic depression, a banking crisis that resulted in government intervention, a number of controversial economic bills that were rejected or approved by Parliament in spite of public opinion, and the grudging public acceptance of paper money and debased coins. This discussion is an attempt to clarify some of the economic and political references that modern readers of Jane Austen's novels tend to overlook or to misunderstand and, in that process, to reveal Austen's interest in political economics and her familiarity with the ideas of the leading economists of her era, including Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, Thomas Malthus, Jeremy Bentham, Frederic Eden and Patrick Colquhoun. Austen's informed and opinionated references to her nation's economy reveal an author engaged with the political/economic debates of her volatile, turbulent era, such as the Restriction Act, the Speenhamland System, the Poor Law Reform Bill and the Corn Law. As Mary Poovey notes in Genres of the Credit Economy, the economic instability during Jane Austen's adult life created a great deal of insecurity in the British public, and Austen uses "her fiction to manage the anxieties it caused" (370). Austen's books thus reveal themselves to be state-of-the-nation novels and a series of texts that respond to the ongoing deterioration of the late 18th and early 19th century British economy
The Impact of Functional, Fluid, and Crystallized Cognition on Gainful Employment of People With Neurological Disorders: A Multisite Cohort Study
No full textAbstract
Date Presented 3/31/2017
Functional cognition assessed by occupational therapy should complement neuropsychological testing of fluid and crystallized cognition if our goal is to optimize participation in work activities. Evidence suggests functional and fluid cognition as potential targets for intervention.
Primary Author and Speaker: Alex Wong
Contributing Authors: Cynthia Chen, Sheryl H. X. Ng, Alexis Young, Allen Heinemann, Bob Heaton, Carolyn Baum</jats:p
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