662 research outputs found
Increasing cycle helmet use in school-age cyclists: an intervention based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour.
No full textFlorida Historical Quarterly Podcast 34: Summer 2017
No full textIn this episode, Dr. Daniel Murphree interviews author Derek R. Everett, a faculty member at the Metropolitan State University of Denver and Colorado State University. In the interview, Everett discusses his article titled, “The Mouse and the State House: Intersections of Florida Capitols and Walt Disney World,” that was published in the Summer 2017 issue of the Florida Historical Quarterly.https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq-podcast/1034/thumbnail.jp
A critical edition of Derek Walcott's Omeros
No full textThe thesis is a Critical Edition of Derek Walcott’s Omeros, consisting of a Critical
Introduction and Annotations. The Critical Introduction analyses:
- Narrative
- Settings
- Metaphor and Paronomasia
- Symbolism
- Historiography
- Intertexts
- Dualism
- Autobiography
- Dialects
- Prosody.
The Annotations comment on more than 1000 references that may be obscure and on
specifics of narrative, language and prosody.
This study presents new conclusions about some aspects of Omeros:
- It challenges the prevailing view that the work is written substantially in a
variation of terza rima and shows that regular quatrains predominate.
- It demonstrates ways in which the metrics follow the sense of the narrative and
takes a more balanced position on the use of Caribbean as opposed to classical
metrics than that put forward previously.
- It identifies a paragraphic structure to the verse.
- It proposes a new prosodic structure for the significant Chapter XXX/iii.
- It extends Walcott’s recognised use of numerology into word counting the
names of characters.
- It develops the idea of Walcott’s dualism and his use of pairing and
contradiction as a dialectical method.
- It defines his wide use of paronomasia and shows that many of the puns have a
metaphorical aspect beyond mere word-play.
- It analyses some of Walcott’s symbolism.
- It identifies intertextual links to his earlier works and to some thirty other
writers, and suggests homage to Hemingway and possibly Heaney.
- It provides the first complete analysis of Walcott’s rhyme types in Omeros.
In its analysis of Omeros and in the Annotations it has included commentary from
across the critical literature, to provide some sense of other views on Walcott’s
writing, and has included as many as possible of Walcott’s own comments on Omeros
and on the writer’s task, as a background to understanding the poem
Communication and satisfaction with the consultation in a general practice: A prospective examination
No full textCommunication between doctor and patient constitutes a major part of medical care, and its effectiveness has been associated with beneficial patient outcomes.The present investigation is concerned with patient satisfaction with the medical consultation, and our main objective was to examine the extent to which doctors’ communicative behaviours and patients’ characteristics predict satisfaction with the clinical encounter in a university general practice
Social psychological mediators of the relationship between demographic factors and health outcomes: A theoretical model and some preliminary data
No full textPsychological research on health is concerned with inputs, processes, and outcomes. The purpose of this paper is to argue that many of the processes that provide the links between inputs and outcomes are social psychological in nature. The paper will be divided into three parts. First we shall outline some of the most important inputs that are known to influence health outcomes, and we shall review the main social psychological processes through which the inputs and outcomes are mediated. The variables will be drawn together into a theoretical model. In the second section of the paper we shall present three projects of our own in which aspects of the model have been tested empirically: predicting first-time mothers' responses to childbirth; predicting women's responses to breast cancer screening; and predicting safe riding among motorcyclists. In the final section we shall draw together the theoretical implications of our approach for future research
Inhuman educations : Jean-François Lyotard, pedagogy, thought
No full textIn the first monograph on Lyotard and education, Derek R. Ford approaches Lyotard\u27s thought as pedagogical in itself. The result is a novel, soft, and accessible study of Lyotard organized around two inhuman educations: that of the system and that of the human. The former enforces an interminable process of development, dialogue and exchange, while the latter finds its force in the mute, secret, opaque, and inarticulable. Threading together a range of Lyotard\u27s work through four pedagogical processes-reading, writing, voicing, and listening-the author insists on the distinct educational logics that can uphold or interrupt different ways of being-together in the world, touching on a range of topics from literacy and aesthetics to time and political-economy. While Inhuman Educations can serve as an introduction to Lyotard\u27s philosophy, it also constitutes a singular, provocative, and fresh take on his thought -- Provided by publishe
Application of Mössbauer effect spectroscopy to the study of quasicrystalline materials
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