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Swallow Tales
No full textLearn about the natural history of the plucky tree swallow through the trials and tribulations of one researcher
Review of Swallow Summer
No full textThe field season of 1995 (early May through late July) in western Nebraska is described in this book by the leading expert on cliff swallow (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota) behavior. This nontechnical introduction to the natural history of a colonial swallow was written for those who are interested in natural history or how field work is done. Brown's stated goals are to describe the challenges and satisfaction of long-term field work and to "tell the cliff swallow's story" (p xi). The book reads as part field notes (daily weather conditions, how many birds he caught and where), part personal diary (what frustrations with which assistant he experienced each day), and part historical account of his decade-and-a-half of research on cliff swallows.This review is from The Quarterly Review of Biology 74 (1999): 337. Posted with permission.</p
A study to determine if in-house training staff in organizations possess the key skills necessary to author web-based and computer-based training programs
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Shakespeare and child's play : performing lost boys on stage and screen
No full text'Childness' - the essential nature of being a child - remains a vital critical issue for us today. In this text, Carol Rutter shows how recent performances on stage and film have used the range of Shakespeare's insights in order to re-examine and re-think these issues in terms of today's society and culture.
Shakespeare wrote more than fifty parts for children, amounting to the first comprehensive portrait of childhood in the English theatre. Focusing mostly on boys, he put sons against fathers, servants against masters, innocence against experience, testing the notion of masculinity, manners, morals, and the limits of patriarchal power. He explored the nature of relationships and ideas about parenting in terms of nature and nurture, permissiveness and discipline, innocence and evil. He wrote about education, adolescent rebellion, delinquency, fostering, and child-killing, as well as the idea of the redemptive child who 'cures' diseased adult imaginations. 'Childness' - the essential nature of being a child - remains a vital critical issue for us today. In Shakespeare and Child's-Play Carol Rutter shows how recent performances on stage and film have used the range of Shakespeare's insights in order to re-examine and re-think these issues in terms of today's society and culture
First person - Ariadna Carol Illa
No full textFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Ariadna Carol Illa is first author on 'From early development to maturity: a phenotypic analysis of the Townes sickle cell disease mice', published in BiO. Ariadna is a PhD student in the lab of Soren Skov (first affiliation), Carsten Dan Ley (second affiliation) at the investigating in vivo models and blood diseases, such as sickle cell disease
Other Voices piece by Carol Isaacson Barash, Ph.D., of Hartford, a genetics an
No full textOther Voices piece by Carol Isaacson Barash, Ph.D., of Hartford, a genetics and ethics consultant, essayist and children\u27s book author. Barash, a trained philosopher, kept copious notes on roadside litter, and during the summers of 1995 and 1996 recorded weekly averages of 65 returnable bottles and cans
The influence of side-lying position on oropharyngeal swallow function in at-risk infants: An exploratory study
No full textSpeech-Language Pathologists (SLP) are the primary healthcare providers responsible for the evaluation and treatment of infant feeding and swallowing disorders. At-risk infants, such as those born prematurely or with certain medical conditions, are more prone to swallowing impairments (i.e., dysphagia). Dysphagia in at-risk infants can have severe consequences such as chronic respiratory symptoms, pneumonia, progressive lung disease, undernutrition, and death. Therefore, it is important to have methods of examining an infant’s swallow functioning that are both safe and accurate. A leading method of evaluating infant swallowing is the Modified Barium Swallow Study (MBS). The works contained within this dissertation document include three research studies conducted on topics related to speech-language pathology (SLP) practices in assessing and treating infants who are at-risk for swallowing and feeding disorders (i.e., dysphagia). Specifically, these three studies investigated aspects of best-practices for the Modified Barium Swallow Study.
The first study, entitled A Preliminary Investigation of the Effect of Fluoroscopic Rate on NICU Swallow Ratings and Recommendations, investigated how reducing fluoroscopic pulse rate, in an effort to reduce radiation dose, effects SLP assessment of swallow parameters and feeding recommendations for infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Segments of previously recorded infant MBS were rated on five swallow parameters. The ratings were compared between MBS rated at 30 frames per second (fps) and at 15 fps. Reducing frame rate resulted in differences in some, but not all, swallow parameter ratings. Feeding recommendations were different between MBS rated at 30fps vs 15fps. The results of this first study support the continued use of 30 pulses per second during MBS conducted for infants in the NICU, although further investigation on a larger scale is warranted.
The second study explored SLP experiences and perceptions regarding the use of side-lying position during infant MBS. Entitled Speech-Language Pathologists’ Perspectives on Side-Lying Position to Improve Swallow Performance during MBS, this qualitative study aimed to contribute greater understanding of the current practices by SLPs in the use of side-lying position during infant MBS. Qualitative data was collected through six semi-structured interviews of hospital SLPs. Interviews were transcribed, coded via initial coding and a consensus coding approach, and analyzed to develop themes. Results of this study were that while SLPs acknowledge the importance of MBS replicating an infants’ typical feeding, some SLPs who consistently use side-lying position during feeding do not conduct MBS in side-lying position. This inconsistency in practice results from the SLPs’ perceived barriers, including lack of experience, concern for interdisciplinary conflict, need for MBS protocols, and lack of research investigating the impact of side-lying position on infant swallow function and safety. SLPs report the need for additional research that investigates whether side-lying position alters, possibly improving, airway protection during swallowing for at-risk infants.
The third study, The Influence of Side-lying Position on Oropharyngeal Swallow Function in At-risk Infants: An exploratory study, examined the effect of side-lying position on infant swallow physiology, including airway invasion, swallow initiation, and suck-swallow-breathe coordination. Infant MBS recordings were retrospectively examined in matched-pairs comparing nine at-risk infants swallowing with the same liquid consistency, bottle, and nipple in both an upright/cradled position and a side-lying position. Swallow parameters were measured independently and through a consensus coding approach. Side-lying position reduced severity of airway invasion during the swallow for some, but not all, medically complex infants. Bolus location at the time of swallow initiation was overall higher, representing decreased risk of airway invasion, when at-risk infants were fed in side-lying position compared to cradled position. Infants fed in side-lying position demonstrated, on average, fewer swallows per breaths compared to when they are fed in cradled position. The results of this third study suggest that side-lying position should be considered as a viable strategy to improve swallow safety in at-risk infants who exhibit oropharyngeal dysphagia. Additional investigation with larger, randomized controlled methods would further inform the effect of side-lying position on infant swallow function
Passport Books
No full textSee the Oxford edition of 1981, a smaller pamphlet with poorer runs of the illustrations. See my comments there.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)This book has a dust jacket (book cover)Carol Barnet
The Tutor's Role
No full textThis chapter addresses three questions about being an effective online tutor: 1. Why do we still think that online tutoring can principally draw its basis from face-to-face group processes and dynamics or traditional pedagogy? 2. Does the literature tell us anything more than we would make as an intelligent guess? 3. Do we really know what an ‘effective’ online tutor would be doing? The OTiS participants have gone some way to answering these questions, through the presentation and discussion of their own online tutoring experiences. Literature in this area is still limited, and suffers from the need for timeliness of publication to be useful. Intelligent guesses are all very well, but much better as a source of information for online tutors are the reflections and documented experiences of practitioners. These experiences reveal that face-to-face pedagogy has some elements to offer the online tutor, but that there are key differences and there is a need to examine the processes and dynamics of online learning to inform online tutoring
UCE of FIT Presents: Now or Never: The Fight to Pass the Equal Rights Amendment with Carol Jenkins
No full textThe United College Employees of FIT presents this interview with Carol Jenkins, moderated by Elena Romero, a professor in the Advertising and Marketing Communications Department.Carol Jenkins is an advocate for human, civil and women’s rights, an award-winning author and Emmy-winning TV anchor and television journalist. A board member since its inception in 2014, she joined the leadership team of the ERA Coalition and the Fund for Women’s Equality in December 2018. Jenkins is also the host of the multi-award winning show Black America, on CUNY TV
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