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Correspondence from Francine Perry and J. C. Fauntleroy to Vernon Jordan, April 1966
No full textCorrespondence from Francine Perry and J. C. Fauntleroy to Vernon Jordan. Enclosed is "A Background Report on the Newport News-Hampton SMSA for the Participants of the NAACP-National Student YWCA Project" written by Herbert H. Lindsay
Prayer is Serious Business: Reflections on Town of Greece
No full textIn his dissent in Marsh v. Chambers, which upheld the practice of chaplains delivering public prayers in state legislative chambers, Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., observed that “prayer is serious business – serious theological business.” This two-part essay returns to that simple but important insight in discussing the Supreme Court’s recent return to the question of legislative prayer in Town of Greece v. Galloway.
The first part is based on remarks I delivered as part of a panel discussion held several months before the Supreme Court handed down its ruling in Town of Greece. I proposed that the Court should overrule Marsh, or at least not extend its reach to local governmental bodies. But I also argued that, if the Court was unwilling to draw such bright lines, it should resist the temptation to parse individual prayer practices to make sure that they remained inoffensively “non-sectarian.”
The second part of the essay was written after Town of Greece came down. It contends that both the majority opinion and Justice Kagan’s principal dissent failed spectacularly to appreciate that “prayer is serious business.” The majority listed a litany of purposes for public prayer, but neglected to include the most obvious – to pray. And the dissent repeatedly discussed the audiences for various public prayers, but ignored the most obvious intended audience – God. The two opinions are actually remarkably alike in reducing civic prayer to political declarations of identity. For Justice Kennedy, the prayers recited in the Town of Greece reflected a patriotic and inclusive national identity that transcends specific religious expressions. For Justice Kagan, the prayers were sectarian and exclusionary. But, at the end of the day, that is mere quibbling.Please contact Charlotte Schneider ([email protected]) for any questions about this deposit
The streamwise turbulence intensity in the intermediate layer of high Reynolds turbulent pipe flow
No full textA modification of the Townsend-Perry attached eddy model is derived in order to reproduce a more realistic variation of the integral length scale. A new wavenumber range is introduced to the model at wavenumbers smaller than the Townsend-Perry k^(-1) spectrum. This necessary addition can also account for the high Reynolds number outer peak of the turbulent kinetic energy in the intermediate layer. An analytic expression is obtained for this outer peak in agreement with extremely high Reynolds number data by Hultmark et al (2012, 2013). The finding of Dallas et al (2009) that it is the eddy turnover time and not the mean flow gradient which scales with distance to the wall and skin friction velocity in the intermediate layer implies, when combined with Townsend's (1976) production-dissipation balance, that the mean flow gradient has an outer peak at the same location as the turbulent kinetic energy
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Constitutional rights, moral controversy, and the Supreme Court /
No full textIn this important book, Michael J. Perry examines three of the most disputed constitutional issues of our time: capital punishment, state laws banning abortion, and state policies denying the benefit of law to same-sex unions. The author, a leading constitutional scholar, explains that if a majority of the justices of the Supreme Court believes that a law violates the Constitution, it does not necessarily follow that the Court should rule that the law is unconstitutional. In cases in which it is argued that a law violates the Constitution, the Supreme Court must decide which of two importantly different questions it should address: is the challenged law unconstitutional? Is the lawmakers' judgment that the challenged law is constitutional a reasonable judgment? Perry not only illuminates moral controversies that implicate one or more constitutionally entrenched human rights, but also the fundamental question of the Supreme Court's proper role in adjudicating such controversies
Constitutional Rights, Moral Controversy, and the Supreme Court
No full textIn this important book, Michael J. Perry examines three of the most disputed constitutional issues of our time: capital punishment, state laws banning abortion, and state policies denying the benefit of law to same-sex unions. The author, a leading constitutional scholar, explains that if a majority of the justices of the Supreme Court believes that a law violates the Constitution, it does not necessarily follow that the Court should rule that the law is unconstitutional. In cases in which it is argued that a law violates the Constitution, the Supreme Court must decide which of two importantly different questions it should address: is the challenged law unconstitutional? Is the lawmakers\u27 judgment that the challenged law is constitutional a reasonable judgment? Perry not only illuminates moral controversies that implicate one or more constitutionally entrenched human rights, but also the fundamental question of the Supreme Court\u27s proper role in adjudicating such controversies.https://scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu/cslr-books/1079/thumbnail.jp
Ashley School Class in PE Time
No full textStudents in Isabelle Johnson\u27s first grade class at Ashley Elementary School play ball and other activities during PE in the multi-purpose room. In the left line are, Zane Gray, Derk Price, Kenneth Span, J. D. White, Stanley Reynolds, David Palmer, Matt Wach, Joe Ponder, Dee Chivers, Pul Hurst, Trent McKeachine, Mark Granada, Tom Kidd, David Gree and Randy Brown. Right line are, Shawna Palaniuk, Teresa Johnson, Kasye Daniels, Linda Perry, Doris Walker, Donna Sowards, Shelly Gray, Glenita Galley, Lorrie Hacking, Charlene HIrshi, Nancy Long, Donna McCurdy and Cindy Williams
Practical surgical neuropathology : a diagnostic approach /
No full text"Part of the in-depth and practical Pattern Recognition series, Practical Surgical Neuropathology, 2nd Edition, by Drs. Arie Perry and Daniel J. Brat, helps you arrive at an accurate CNS diagnosis by using a pattern-based approach. Leading diagnosticians in neuropathology guide you from a histological (and/or clinical, radiologic, and molecular) pattern, through the appropriate work-up, around the pitfalls, and to the best diagnosis. Almost 2,000 high-quality illustrations capture key neuropathological patterns for a full range of common and rare conditions, and a "visual index" at the beginning of the book directs you to the exact location of in-depth diagnostic guidance"--Publisher's description.Revised edition of: Practical surgical neuropathology : a diagnostic approach / [edited by] Arie Perry, Daniel J. Brat. ©2010.Includes bibliographical references.Neuropathology patterns and introduction -- Normal brain histopathology -- Intraoperative consultation and optimal processing -- Neuroradiology: the surrogate of gross neuropathology -- Integrating molecular diagnostics with surgical neuropathology -- Diffuse astrocytic and oligodendroglial tumors -- Non-diffuse astrocytoma variants -- Ependymomas and choroid plexus tumors -- Other glial neoplasms -- Neuronal and glioneuronal neoplasms -- Pineal parenchymal tumors -- Embryonal neoplasms of the central nervous system -- Meningiomas -- Mesenchymal tumors of the central nervous system -- Tumors of peripheral nerve -- Epithelial, neuroendocrine, and metastatic lesions -- Lymphomas and histiocytic tumors -- Germ cell tumors -- Melanocytic neoplasms of the central nervous system -- Histological features of pituitary adenomas and sellar region masses -- Therapy-associated neuropathology -- Familial tumor syndromes -- Infections and inflammatory disorders -- White matter and myelin disorders -- Pathology of epilepsy -- Vascular and ischemic disorders -- Biopsy pathology of neurodegenerative disorders in adults."Part of the in-depth and practical Pattern Recognition series, Practical Surgical Neuropathology, 2nd Edition, by Drs. Arie Perry and Daniel J. Brat, helps you arrive at an accurate CNS diagnosis by using a pattern-based approach. Leading diagnosticians in neuropathology guide you from a histological (and/or clinical, radiologic, and molecular) pattern, through the appropriate work-up, around the pitfalls, and to the best diagnosis. Almost 2,000 high-quality illustrations capture key neuropathological patterns for a full range of common and rare conditions, and a "visual index" at the beginning of the book directs you to the exact location of in-depth diagnostic guidance"--Publisher's description.Online resource; title from electronic title page (ClinicalKey, viewed December 14, 2017).Neuropathology patterns and introduction -- Normal brain histopathology -- Intraoperative consultation and optimal processing -- Neuroradiology: the surrogate of gross neuropathology -- Integrating molecular diagnostics with surgical neuropathology -- Diffuse astrocytic and oligodendroglial tumors -- Non-diffuse astrocytoma variants -- Ependymomas and choroid plexus tumors -- Other glial neoplasms -- Neuronal and glioneuronal neoplasms -- Pineal parenchymal tumors -- Embryonal neoplasms of the central nervous system -- Meningiomas -- Mesenchymal tumors of the central nervous system -- Tumors of peripheral nerve -- Epithelial, neuroendocrine, and metastatic lesions -- Lymphomas and histiocytic tumors -- Germ cell tumors -- Melanocytic neoplasms of the central nervous system -- Histological features of pituitary adenomas and sellar region masses -- Therapy-associated neuropathology -- Familial tumor syndromes -- Infections and inflammatory disorders -- White matter and myelin disorders -- Pathology of epilepsy -- Vascular and ischemic disorders -- Biopsy pathology of neurodegenerative disorders in adults.Elsevie
Cognition and Decision Making in the Real World
No full textTheoretical constructs and theories applied in experiments in decision making have challenges, when applied to actual healthcare, where data and time are limited. This chapter describes some alternative decision making theories that can be applied in the messy “real” world of healthcare professionals. The chapter covers several cognitive processes such as sensemaking and team reflection that are relevant to healthcare simulation and its use for system improvements. The chapter explores how these models can inform simulation practice in terms of design, conduct, and debriefing. It also describes how simulation can be used to analyze meta-cognitive processes
Human factors applications of simulation
No full textHuman Factors/Ergonomics (HF/E) is the scientific study of work systems and the interaction between elements of the system, with the aim of improving safety, well-being, and efficiency. Simulation in healthcare has evolved to focus on individual skills training and non-technical teamwork skills. Despite increasing acceptance of the complexity of healthcare systems, systems thinking has not yet been embedded fully into simulated practice. HF/E has knowledge, tools and methods that could be used to inform the design of simulated practice to include a systems approach. This would benefit the quality of healthcare systems by broadening the focus beyond skills training, to improving the design of simulation scenarios and debriefings, identifying, and informing system design improvements, and testing interventions
People : technology and complex work in healthcare
No full textHealthcare workers operate in settings that possess many of the characteristics associated with naturalistic decision-making: complexity, uncertainty, ambiguity, goal conflicts, shifting priorities, time pressure, and multiple agents. They use informational artefacts to support them in this work, both at an individual level (for example, aids to prospective memory) and on a workgroup level (coordinating work that is distributed across time, space, and workers, both within and among different professional disciplines). These uses occur throughout clinical work, but may be easily observed at certain points in time, such as transfers of responsibility for patient care. For example, workers going off-shift must transfer their authority, responsibility, and situational knowledge, assessments and plans about patients and their conditions, work in progress and remaining to be done, stance towards changes in plan, etc, to members of the on-coming shift. A variety of artefacts have been used to support this activity; they can be roughly grouped into three categories of increasing complexity: general purpose artefacts used in special ways (eg, paper notes, personal computers); manual, special purpose artefacts (eg, shared display boards); or special purpose, computer-based (eg, clinical information systems).
This panel will present analyses of ethnographic observations from a variety of clinical settings, regarding how clinical workers use these different technologies in varying ways to support their work and in particular, their functioning as a joint cognitive system. The panel will last 60 minutes and will be structured into four brief (10 minute) presentations to allow ample time for discussion. The presentations and speakers will be as follows (in roughly increasing order of technological ‘intensity’):
1. Prof. Guglielmetti is a social psychologist with research interests in decision-making in complex settings. She will discuss ethnographic observations in a medium sized emergency department (ED) in northern Italy, focusing on workarounds that triagists use to overcome limits and rigidities of the personal computer mediated communication system adopted in the ED. Because there is a shared perception that the computer-based artefact loses subtle nuances of the triagist’s perspective, work practice observations have highlighted the triagists’ activation of verbal, direct, synchronous communication to direct physicians’ attention to crucial information to facilitate management. The risks and benefits inherent to this informal practice will be presented and discussed.
2. Dr Shawna Perry in an emergency physician and researcher in patient safety. Workers in EDs and hospital wards in the US and UK have spontaneously developed a shared artefact to support both individual and collective work. These take the form of large dry erase boards, originally used for tracking patient locations but over time extended to include a great deal of additional functionality. Because they have been developed directly by frontline workers, with almost no influence from management or external regulators, they offer a window into the issues that workers find difficult and important in their work.
3. Prof Robert Wears is an emergency physician and safety researcher with a background in software engineering. For a variety of reasons, the manual “whiteboards” described above are gradually being supplanted by computer-based information systems. These computerized systems emulate the form of the manual whiteboards but often have failed to capture some of their important functionalities. This presentation will describe a before-after study of the change from manual to computerized artefacts and the positive and negative effects of the change on clinical work.
4. Stephanie Wilson is a researcher interested in design of usable technology and in studying the use of technology, particularly in healthcare settings. Increasingly, computer-based artefacts are being introduced to support important coordinative and communicative aspects of clinical work. This presentation will draw on recent ethnographic studies of handover in varied healthcare settings to describe efforts to design these kinds of technological artefacts. We try to understand not just what information is conveyed in handovers, but why it is conveyed, and to think about how to move from the "as is" situation (which may or may not be a good one) to one that embraces new opportunities without impeding the work. Key issues include supporting good situation awareness, decisions, explanations for those decisions, tasks, accurate patient data (sometimes detailed, sometimes summarised) and the evolution of the situation
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