367 research outputs found
Maxine Crawley and Linda Patton
No full textThis 1963 photograph shows Maxine Crawley and Linda Patton winning the Delta Airlines Award trophy at the Mountain Youth Jamboree. Founder and director of the Mountain Youth Jamboree, Hubert H. Hayes (1901-1964) auditioned and directed youth to perform in folk dance, music, and folk and ballad singing. The jamboree was held in the Asheville City Auditorium (now known as Thomas Wolfe Auditorium) from 1948 to 1973, and Hayes’ wife, Leona Trantham Hayes (1913-1989) continued to direct the program after his death in 1964. Hubert Hayes was an author, playwright, and alumni of Duke University
Semilinear clannish algebras
No full textBennett-Tennenhaus R, Crawley-Boevey WW. Semilinear clannish algebras. Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society . 2024;129(4): e12637.We define a class of associative algebras generalizing 'clannish algebras', as introduced by the second author, but also incorporating semilinear structure, like a skew polynomial ring. Clannish algebras generalize the well-known 'string algebras' introduced by Butler and Ringel. Our main result is the classification of finite-dimensional indecomposable modules for these new algebras
‘On the brink’ or ‘designing the future’? Where next for Lifelong Learning Initial Teacher Education?
No full textThis article highlights and analyses the challenges immediately facing Lifelong Learning Initial Teacher Education (LL ITE) in the UK which have arisen as a result of the policies and actions of the UK Government. The context of the LL sector for teachers and teacher education is explored, and how this has led to a restrictive culture of teacher professionalism. Using research carried out by the author, the article profiles LL Teacher Educators, their working context and values, and their attempts to model a more expansive professionalism. Evidence of the recent achievements of LL ITE is analysed and the dangers to these achievements presented by recent government changes and proposals are highlighted. The article concludes that LL ITE is ‘on the brink’ in terms of survival, and proposes how LL Teacher Education can move forward into a more optimistic future
A New Approach to Simple Modules for Preprojective Algebras
No full textCrawley-Boevey WW, Hubery A. A New Approach to Simple Modules for Preprojective Algebras. ALGEBRAS AND REPRESENTATION THEORY. 2020;23(4):1849-1860.The work of the first author on the moment map for representations of quivers included a classification of the possible dimension vectors of simple modules for deformed preprojective algebras. That classification was later used to solve an additive analogue of the Deligne-Simpson problem. The last step in the proof of the classification involved some general position arguments; here we give a new approach which avoids such arguments
Veterinary medicine books recommended for academic libraries
No full textBy Jill Crawley-Low, MLS
[email protected]
Head, Veterinary Medicine Library
52 Campus Drive
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, S7N 5B4
CanadaThis bibliography of in-print veterinary medical books published in
English may be used as an acquisitions or evaluation tool for
developing the monograph component of new veterinary medicine
collections or existing science, technology, and medicine collections
where veterinary medicine is in the scope of the collection. The
bibliography is divided into 34 categories and consists of bibliographic
information for 419 titles. The appendix contains an author/editor
index. Prices for all entries are in US dollars, except where another
currency is noted. The total cost of all books in the bibliography is
$43,602.13 (US)
Introduction
No full textCopyright © 2020 The Author(s). This chapter provides a detailed contextualising for the book, situating the collection in a broad theoretical and historical framework. It references the meetings that brought together experts in dance and visual arts, which led to the book. The discussion outlines the two main themes in the book that are explored by the writers—the subjective, lived relations with objects and the social sphere, and the different approaches to absence, visibility and resistance. Drawing on diverse theories and viewpoints, the introduction outlines each chapter, describing how the writers open up new thinking about dance and visual art, and the connections between each discipline’s discourses and practices
Being a Parent with a Learning Disability: A Qualitative Study
No full textThis research portfolio aims to further explore the issues faced by parents with a
learning disability.
Firstly, a systematic review of qualitative research into the social support of parents
with a learning disability is presented. This not only indicated that a range of social
support is provided to parents with a learning disability and received with different
perceptions, but also highlighted the need for further qualitative research in the area,
to gain a better insight into the lived experiences of this group of parents.
Secondly, and further to the findings of the systematic review, is the empirical
research study. Adopting a qualitative design (Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis- IPA) (Smith, 1996; Smith et al., 2009), the study aimed to explore what
parents with a learning disability understood about their learning disability and how
they perceived it to impact on them in their parenting role. Analysis revealed five
themes which reflect the perceptions and experiences of a sample of eight parents
with a learning disability.
Finally, to enable efficient and effective dissemination of the findings to the wider
audience a journal article is presented. The journal article, as well as attempting to
summarise the methodology used, focused on the most salient theme of the findings,
which was how participants viewed themselves in relation to having a learning
disability and being a parent
A comparative study of staff members' experiences of challenging and offending behaviour by adults with learning disabilities within clinical and forensic services
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Was it worthwhile?: An historical analysis of five women missionaries and their encounters with the Nyungar people of south-west Australia
No full textWas it worthwhile? The thesis asks this question of the life and work of female faith missionaries who served in Western Australia with the Australian Aborigines' Mission and/or the United Aborigines' Mission, during the twentieth century.
In 1902, the New South Wales Aborigines' Mission adopted faith mission principles based on those of the China Inland Mission founded in 1865. The mission expanded into Western Australia in 1908 and changed its name to the Australian Aborigines' Mission. From 1929, it was known as the United Aborigines' Mission. The research began with a historiography of the China Inland Mission and the United Aborigines' Mission and its antecedents. The analysis of the principles of these two missions identified that some characteristics of a faith mission were present in the New South Wales Aborigines' Mission from the beginning and others were never adopted. It established that from 1902, the New South Wales Aborigines' Mission upheld the faith principles of trusting God to provide physical needs, not soliciting for funds and not entering into debt. Because most faith missionaries were female, the historiography proceeded to examine texts on women missionaries, including recent work by Australian writers. This recognised that issues of gender, race and class were present within both mission cultures.
Five case studies were chosen to cover a period from 1912 when Bertha Telfer arrived in Western Australia until the retirement of Mary Jones in 1971. Using written and oral source material from Indigenous and non-Indigenous perspectives, the research studied the work of five female faith missionaries in south-west Australia: Bertha Telfer/Alcorn, Ethel Hamer/Fryer, Hope Malcolm/Wright, Mary Jones and Melvina Langley/Rowley, with a focus on issues of Evangelicalism, race, gender and class. Preliminary investigation of the women recognized that while only one had professional training and two received missionary training, membership of the interdenominational Christian Endeavour youth movement was a formative influence on all these female missionaries. An investigation into the principles of that organisation, founded in North America in 1881, established it was influenced by the 1858-59 Revival within Evangelicalism in England and North America and it placed a strong emphasis on personal conversion and a commitment to mission. Christian Endeavour spread to Australia by 1883 and was found to have provided limited leadership opportunities to women.
The research tracked the experience of the female faith missionaries over six decades of living by faith among the Nyungar people and discovered a lack of identification with Indigenous culture that had its roots in a widely held belief in the superiority of western culture. Associated with this was the Evangelical belief in personal conversion that did not address cross-cultural issues. The UAM identification with the rise of fundamentalism from the 1920s coincided with diminished leadership opportunities for women at a time when women were gaining more choices in the wider Australian community.
The thesis concludes that the role of faith missionary was costly to women in terms of their health and wellbeing. In the context of oppressive government policies towards Indigenous Australians, the poverty and marginalisation experienced by the women, when combined with compassion, created solidarity with Nyungar people. In some cases, this reduced the barriers of race and gender and resulted in the conversion of some Nyungar people, contributing to the formation of an Indigenous and Evangelical church. These findings are significant because they point to new understanding of mission, conversion and Aboriginal-missionary relations and cultures and of the role played by female faith missionaries in the shared mission history of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Western Australians
Identification of autophosphorylation sites in eukaryotic elongation factor-2 kinase
No full texteEF2K [eEF2 (eukaryotic elongation factor 2) kinase] phosphorylates and inactivates the translation elongation factor eEF2. eEF2K is not a member of the main eukaryotic protein kinase superfamily, but instead belongs to a small group of so-called ?-kinases. The activity of eEF2K is normally dependent upon Ca2+ and calmodulin. eEF2K has previously been shown to undergo autophosphorylation, the stoichiometry of which suggested the existence of multiple sites. In the present study we have identified several autophosphorylation sites, including Thr348, Thr353, Ser366 and Ser445, all of which are highly conserved among vertebrate eEF2Ks. We also identified a number of other sites, including Ser78, a known site of phosphorylation, and others, some of which are less well conserved. None of the sites lies in the catalytic domain, but three affect eEF2K activity. Mutation of Ser78, Thr348 and Ser366 to a non-phosphorylatable alanine residue decreased eEF2K activity. Phosphorylation of Thr348 was detected by immunoblotting after transfecting wild-type eEF2K into HEK (human embryonic kidney)-293 cells, but not after transfection with a kinase-inactive construct, confirming that this is indeed a site of autophosphorylation. Thr348 appears to be constitutively autophosphorylated in vitro. Interestingly, other recent data suggest that the corresponding residue in other ?-kinases is also autophosphorylated and contributes to the activation of these enzymes [Crawley, Gharaei, Ye, Yang, Raveh, London, Schueler-Furman, Jia and Cote (2011) J. Biol. Chem. 286, 2607-2616]. Ser366 phosphorylation was also detected in intact cells, but was still observed in the kinase-inactive construct, demonstrating that this site is phosphorylated not only autocatalytically but also in trans by other kinases
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