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Dr. Amy Howard – Faculty Author Interview
No full textAmy Howard, executive director of the Bonner Center for Civic Engagement and associated faculty in American studies, discusses her new book, More Than Shelter: Activism and Community in San Francisco Public Housing, published recently by the University of Minnesota Press. Her research and book looks closely at three public housing projects in San Francisco and brings to light the dramatic measures tenants have taken to create communities that mattered to them
Accumulated testimony: layering French girls' diaries on the Algerian exodus
No full textIn 1997, French-Algerian author Leïla Sebbar published an illustrated children’s book, J’étais enfant en Algérie, juin 1962 (‘I was a child in Algeria, June 1962’) in which she creates the fictional account of a young girl from the interior of Algeria leaving her home during the great exodus of the French just prior to Algerian independence. Using the genre of diary writing, Sebbar’s text reads as testimonial of fleeing their country for a homeland they do not know. Although this text is intimate, Sebbar relies on accumulated scraps of collective experience that, when joined to her own, fill in the absence of her homeland. In 2013, French artist Nicole Guiraud published her personal diaries kept before and during her exodus from Algeria from April to July 1962. Her raw representation of traumatic upheaval is couched in a rich paratext including artwork, photographs, and German translations, that simultaneously intensifies her account and distracts the reader from the extreme pain behind her words. In this article I demonstrate how fictional and real accounts published in very different historical contexts convey the exodus experienced by almost one million individuals and how each author deploys a layering technique to simultaneously draw in and distance the reader from extraordinarily painful personal experience
Remembering the 5 July 1962 Massacre in Oran, Algeria
No full textThe often nostalgically reconstructed and diverse city of Oran, Algeria, is also the site of horrific memories. On the day of Algerian Independence, 5 July 1962, a large-scale massacre of its European citizens occurred, which is now being reconstructed and debated by historians and survivors. Historians place the number of dead between 100 and 5000 people. By examining the documentary film,\ua0Algérie, histoires à ne pas dire\ua0(Algeria, stories that shouldn’t be told, 2006) which tracks the memory of four Algerian men who lived in Oran on that day, this chapter investigates what truths can be told in documentary fifty years after the massacre and how remembrance of trauma can occur when the sites of horror can no longer be accessed
A sibling-mediated behavioral intervention for promoting play skills in children with autism
No full textSiblings of children with autism often experience isolation and frustration within the sibling relationship. Studies have suggested that the quantity and quality of interaction between the pair is significantly poorer relative to sibling dyads affected by other developmental disabilities. However, research has shown that siblings can act as effective interventionists for their sibling with an Autism Spectrum Disorder. The present study assessed the efficacy of a home-based treatment program to teach siblings to use three sets of behavioral skills while playing with their brother or sister with autism. In a multiple baseline design across skills, three sibling dyads were trained to a) elicit play and play related speech, b) to deliver reinforcement and c) to prompt the child with autism following an incorrect or non-response. Siblings were also given a target word for each session which they attempted to teach. As evidenced in the completer dyad, siblings successfully acquired these behavioral skills, they maintained over time, and generalized to untrained contexts. Siblings with autism showed increases in responding to and initiating play-based interactions, and one of the children spontaneously verbalized target words. Siblings found the treatment to be acceptable, and parents indicated satisfaction with the procedures. These findings support the hypothesis that siblings can utilize behavioral skills to act as effective interventionists in a play setting with their brother or sister with autism.M.S.Includes bibliographical referencesby Amy P. Hansfor
Speaking as (Significant) Othered
No full textAmy and Christina sat together in their living room. Amy held her phone, scrolling through notes she had typed a few minutes before their meeting. Christina’s laptop lay open in front of her.
“How do we start this?” Amy asks. “Do we need an abstract?”
Christina smirks, “I don’t know if we need it right now. Even if we do, I never start by writing the abstract.”
“Then how do we start?” Amy asks again, anxiously.
“I think we can begin with what we bring to the table for this conversation about queer autoethnography: We are a queer couple in academia who often write duo/autoethnographies. It’s our chance to conceptualize how we view queer duo/autoethnography.”
“Do you think our relationship is what makes our duo/autoethnography queer? Or is it us creating a co-constructed narrative that’s hard to identify where you end and I begin?”
“I can see that. Before we fully dive into how we conceive queer duo/ autoethnography, how do you see queer autoethnography functioning?”
“At the intersection of autoethnography and queer theory, ‘just stories’ are transformed and transformative as insurrectionary acts that offer revolt through juxtaposition.1 Queering autoethnography interrogates the idea that narratives not only become stories upon the body, but also storied upon various theoretical frameworks that suggest possible lenses for decoding the author/s’ experiences. Readers are simultaneously offered insight into the residuals of the positionality of the scholar. It becomes an issue of ‘what is being read?’ in conjunction with ‘what is supposed to be read?’
Parental Bonding and Parental Alienation as Correlates of Psychological Maltreatment in Adults in Intact and Non-intact Families
No full textSeven hundred and thirty nine (739) Italian adults completed a survey about (A) the extent to which each parent engaged in parental alienation behaviors
(B) the extent to which each parent engaged in psychological maltreatment and (C) a measure of parental bonding for each parent. Associations between these variables were examined for each parent and separately for participants whose parents remained married and those who divorced/separated. Results revealed that across the board, parental alienation was associated with psychological maltreatment over and above the effects of parental bonding. These data are understood in the context of a relationship-specific model of psychological maltreatment in which the child experiences parental acceptance of the self as distinct from parental acceptance of the child’s relationship with the other parent
The postdigital-biodigital revolution
No full textThis is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Springer on 22/09/2022, available online: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-022-00338-9 The accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version. For re-use please see Springer's accepted manuscript terms of use.This article is based on a conversation between Alex, Amy, Petar, Derek, Michael, and Sarah conducted online on July 16–17, 2022 for Collective Intellectualities podcast led by Alex Means and Amy Sojot.Footnote3 The conversation revolves around themes and insights covered in two edited books recently published in the Postdigital Science and Education book series: Bioinformational Philosophy and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies (Peters et al. 2022) and Postdigital Ecopedagogies: Genealogies, Contradictions, and Possible Futures (Jandrić and Ford 2022).Published onlin
Atlas of canine and feline peripheral blood smears /
No full text"An illustrated guide to the morphology of blood cells, Atlas of Canine and Feline Peripheral Blood Smears covers patient assessment for common hematologic disorders and diseases in dogs and cats. Over 1,000 full-color photomicrographs depict abnormalities within each blood cell line, with multiple pictures of each morphologic abnormality and variations in their appearance. Written by pathology experts Amy Valenciano, Rick Cowell, Theresa Rizzi, and Ronald Tyler, this concise reference will enhance your skills as you interpret blood smears and recognize hematological cellular response to inflammation, infection, and toxicity."--Provided by publisher.Includes bibliographical references and index.Online resource; title from e-book title screen (ScienceDirect platform, viewed August 18, 2016)."An illustrated guide to the morphology of blood cells, Atlas of Canine and Feline Peripheral Blood Smears covers patient assessment for common hematologic disorders and diseases in dogs and cats. Over 1,000 full-color photomicrographs depict abnormalities within each blood cell line, with multiple pictures of each morphologic abnormality and variations in their appearance. Written by pathology experts Amy Valenciano, Rick Cowell, Theresa Rizzi, and Ronald Tyler, this concise reference will enhance your skills as you interpret blood smears and recognize hematological cellular response to inflammation, infection, and toxicity."--Provided by publisher.General assessment -- Red blood cells -- White blood cells -- Platelets -- Hematopoietic neoplasia -- Extracellular organisms.Produced by the publisher.Held by CAPER-BC, Langara College.Elsevie
The air microwave yield (AMY) experiment - A laboratory measurement of the microwave emission from extensive air showers
No full textThe AMY experiment aims to measure the microwave bremsstrahlung radiation (MBR) emitted by air-showers secondary electrons accelerating in collisions with neutral molecules of the atmosphere. The measurements are performed using a beam of 510 MeV electrons at the Beam Test Facility (BTF) of Frascati INFN National Laboratories. The goal of the AMY experiment is to measure in laboratory conditions the yield and the spectrum of the GHz emission in the frequency range between 1 and 20 GHz. The final purpose is to characterise the process to be used in a next generation detectors of ultra-high energy cosmic rays. A description of the experimental setup and the first results are presented. © Copyright owned by the author(s) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Licence
An audit of sample sizes for pilot and feasibility trials being undertaken in the United Kingdom registered in the United Kingdom Clinical Research Network database
No full textThere is little published guidance as to the sample size required for a pilot or feasibility trial despite the fact that a sample size justification is a key element in the design of a trial. A sample size justification should give the minimum number of participants needed in order to meet the objectives of the trial. This paper seeks to describe the target sample sizes set for pilot and feasibility randomised controlled trials, currently running within the United Kingdom. Data were gathered from the United Kingdom Clinical Research Network (UKCRN) database using the search terms 'pilot' and 'feasibility.' From this search 513 studies were assessed for eligibility of which 79 met the inclusion criteria. Where the data summary on the UKCRN Database was incomplete, data were also gathered from: the International Standardised Randomised Controlled Trial Number (ISRCTN) register; the clinicaltrials.gov website and the website of the funders. For 62 of the trials, it was necessary to contact members of the research team by email to ensure completeness. Of the 79 trials analysed, 50 (63.3%) were labelled as pilot trials, 25 (31.6%) feasibility and 14 were described as both pilot and feasibility trials. The majority had two arms (n = 68, 86.1%) and the two most common endpoints were continuous (n = 45, 57.0%) and dichotomous (n = 31, 39.2%). Pilot trials were found to have a smaller sample size per arm (median = 30, range = 8 to 114 participants) than feasibility trials (median = 36, range = 10 to 300 participants). By type of endpoint, across feasibility and pilot trials, the median sample size per arm was 36 (range = 10 to 300 participants) for trials with a dichotomous endpoint and 30 (range = 8 to 114 participants) for trials with a continuous endpoint. Publicly funded pilot trials appear to be larger than industry funded pilot trials: median sample sizes of 33 (range = 15 to 114 participants) and 25 (range = 8 to 100 participants) respectively. All studies should have a sample size justification. Not all studies however need to have a sample size calculation. For pilot and feasibility trials, while a sample size justification is important, a formal sample size calculation may not be appropriate. The results in this paper describe the observed sample sizes in feasibility and pilot randomised controlled trials on the UKCRN Database
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