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Riddick, Sarah Sarah Ann
No full textBurwell T. Riddick - husbandhttps://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-ch-memoranda-1921/1140/thumbnail.jp
Urban reform’s forgotten stakeholders: Examining the mobilizing of inner-city communities in the formation & operation of a community-based education program
No full textAs urban community voices are often missing from conversations surrounding education policy and school reform, a central component in the schooling equation is being overlooked. To this effect, my dissertation research examines an instance of place-based community organizing embodied in an out-of-school time STEM education program, Adventures in Science Education (AISE), located in Philadelphia, PA. The question that drives my ethnographic examination is, how do human and physical resources, from an often segregated urban landscape, come together to inform the implementation of community-based enrichment programs? My research site fosters collaborative work amongst local actors from various community groups who have forged an alliance in response to limited educational opportunities afforded to local black youth. AISE, programming predicated upon a dynamic university-community partnership, reflects resources often overlooked in the city’s urban landscape that can be mobilized to enhance students’ academic achievements. Unpacking the complexities embedded in this partnership can support efforts to unearth more of the networks and capital available in urban spaces to support youth’s access to scientific knowledge, interactive curricular models, local scientists (in particular scientists of color), and their own abilities to problematize the world around them through their critical engagement with it. One of this dissertation’s central contributions is the examination and presentation of urban community groups’ meaning-making and mobilizing practices, as they are collectives often lost in the education policy arena as well as the community engagement literature grounding this project. This dissertation analyzes an instance of reciprocal engagement. Knowledge, as capital, transferring from both university and community actors to produce a community program that offers rewarding academic and social opportunities.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2021-12-01The student, Shana Riddick, accepted the attached license on 2019-12-02 at 18:28.The student, Shana Riddick, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2019-12-02 at 18:29.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2019-12-05 at 12:55.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #14652 on 2020-02-28 at 17:37:12Made available in DSpace on 2020-03-02T22:38:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Sunitinib treatment exacerbates intratumoral heterogeneity in metastatic renal cancer
No full textThis work was supported by the Chief Scientist Office, Scotland (ETM37; to G.D. Stewart, A.C.P. Riddick, M. Aitchison, and D.J. Harrison), Cancer Research UK (Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre; to T. Powles, London and D.J. Harrison, Edinburgh), Medical Research Council (to A. Laird and D.J. Harrison), Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (to A. Laird), Melville Trust (to A. Laird), Medical Research Council (MC_UU_12018/25; to I.M. Overton), Royal Society of Edinburgh Scottish Government Fellowship cofunded by Marie Curie Actions (to I.M. Overton), Renal Cancer Research Fund (to G.D. Stewart), Kidney Cancer Scotland (to G.D. Stewart) and an educational grant from Pfizer (to T. Powles).Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of VEGF targeted therapy (sunitinib) on molecular intratumoral heterogeneity (ITH) in metastatic clear cell renal cancer (mccRCC). Experimental design: Multiple tumor samples (n=187 samples) were taken from the primary renal tumors of mccRCC patients who were sunitinib treated (n=23, SuMR clinical trial) or untreated (n=23, SCOTRRCC study). ITH of pathological grade, DNA (aCGH), mRNA (Illumina Beadarray) and candidate proteins (reverse phase protein array) were evaluated using unsupervised and supervised analyses (driver mutations, hypoxia and stromal related genes). ITH was analysed using intratumoral protein variance distributions and distribution of individual patient aCGH and gene expression clustering. Results: Tumor grade heterogeneity was greater in treated compared to untreated tumors (P=0.002). In unsupervised analysis, sunitinib therapy was not associated with increased ITH in DNA or mRNA. However, there was an increase in ITH for the driver mutation gene signature (DNA and mRNA) as well as increasing variability of protein expression with treatment (p<0.05). Despite this variability, significant chromosomal and transcript changes to key targets of sunitinib, such as VHL, PBRM1 and CAIX, occurred in the treated samples. Conclusions: These findings suggest that sunitinib treatment has significant effects on the expression and ITH of key tumor and treatment specific genes/proteins in mccRCC. The results, based on primary tumor analysis, do not support the hypothesis that resistant clones are selected and predominate following targeted therapy.Peer reviewe
Review of bayesian analysis in additive hazards model
No full textIn Survival Analysis, the focus of interest is a time until the occurrence of some event. A set of explanatory variables (denoted by a vector ) is considered to analyze if there is a relationship between any of them and . Accordingly, the ``hazard function´´ is defined: [ lambda(t,z) := lim_{Delta downarrow 0} rac{P[Tleq t+ Delta ert T >t,Z=z]}{Delta} .] Several models are defined based on this, as is the case of the additive model (among others). Bayesian techniques allow to incorporate previous knowledge or presumption information about the parameters into the model. This area grows extensively since the computationally techniques increase, giving rise to powerful Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods, which allow to generate random samples from the desired distributions. The purpose of this article is to offer a summary of the research developed in Bayesian techniques to approach the additive hazard models.Fil: Alvarez, Enrique Ernesto. Universidad Nacional de la Plata. Facultad de Ingeniería. Departamento de Fisicomatemática; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Cálculo; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata; ArgentinaFil: Riddick, Maximiliano Luis. Universidad Nacional de la Plata. Facultad de Cs.exactas. Centro de Matematica de la Plata.; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata; Argentin
Scherlen, Allan “The Balance Point: Celebrating Twenty Years of a Serials Column,” Serials Review
No full textAbstract A co-editor of "The Balance Point" column looks back at its twenty-year history, its current function and its future in serving the serials professional and scholarly community. The author examines how the column emerged as an idea by then Serials Review editor Cindy Hepfer in 1988 to be a forum on important serials issues for practitioners who might not otherwise write formally on these topics. The column has continued though the 1990s and 2000s to provide that function, as well as serve as an important place where authors are invited to explore serial issues much in need of a balanced approach. The author shares comments from past "Balance Point" column editors, John Riddick, Mary Beth Clack, Ellen Finnie Duranceau, Karen Cargille, Markel Tumlin, and Kay Johnson on how they regarded the column, the rewards and challenges they faced, and how they see the future of this format in an evolving electronic communication milieu
Atlanta Outcast Motorcycle Club Iron Horsemen of the Street A study of the origin, history and behavior patterns of a motorcycle club, 1978
No full textThe primary purpose of this thesis is to provide an exploratory study and descriptive case history of the Atlanta Outcast Motorcycle Club. Motorcyclists traveling in groups give a superficial appearance of being a cohesive social group. Motorcyclists in such unions tend to be stigmatized by the society in the same manner that gangs are stigmatized. This study focuses on one outlaw club to determine the codes and behavior patterns as well as the extent to which the group can be classified as a gang. One of the questions posed and addressed by the researcher has to do with differentiating between the life styles of a conventional motorcycle club" and an "outlaw motorcycle club of Atlanta: 1) By study of the latter to determine if the social structure and culture of the Atlanta Outcast Motorcycle Club is similar to or different from those of other approved (conventional) motorcycle clubs. It is therefore necessary to determine a. what are the patterns of life characteristic of conventional clubs? b. what are the patterns of life perculiar to this outlaw club? 2) Another question raised is to determine to what extent the social patterns of the Atlanta outlaw motorcycle club may be considered deviant from the norm. Is the Atlanta Outcast Motorcycle Club a club which ordinarily exhibits acceptable behavior? 3) Does motorcycling in this kind of group lead a member to engage more extensively in activities which would justify the classification of the group as a gangland its behavior as deviant? The findings suggest that the patterns which differentiate the conventional motorcycle club from the outlaw motorcycle club are: (a) membership; (b) loyalty; (c) sexism; (d) type of dress; (e) cultural system (life style). 4) The researcher has concluded that the Atlanta Outcast Motorcycle Club is an outlaw motorcycle club. Several facts point to the public at large as being a primary source of support in defining this club as outlaw. Each member of the Atlanta Outcast Motorcycle Club in his behavior patterns tend to support the above findings. It was also determined by the researcher that this club has contributed to the changing face of motorcycle clubs in Atlanta. The social and cultural system of the Atlanta Outcast Motorcycle Club can be considered its corner stone. 5) The researcher determined the most effective means of collecting data for this study was through participant observation. The criteria mentioned above tend to I support the claim by the Atlanta Outcast Motorcycle Club that their club is an outlaw club
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Making Birth Stories Matter(s): Working Toward Reproductive Health Justice - An Examination of Health, Communication, Culture, and Identity Through Blending Critical Autoethnography and Narratives of Women Birthing with Doulas
No full textThis work is embargoed by the author and will not be publicly available until May 2026.Statistics from the CDC show the rate for maternal mortality in the United States continued to rise in 2023 with Black women reported three to four times more likely to die as a result of pregnancy-related complications than non-Hispanic White women (Eissen et al., 2019; Hoyert, 2023). COVID-19 further complicated the maternal health crisis (Hoyert, 2023). The maternal and infant mortality statistics continue to be egregious, yet conversations contextualizing these statics are silenced, rendering people and their stories “disposable”. Uncovering harmful dominant attitudes relating to reproductive health is important for transforming culture and wellbeing for marginalized women. As a community birth doula, advocate, researcher, and doctoral student, I blend multiple intersectional and culture-centered methodologies (Esposito & Evans-Winters, 2022) from critical and qualitative (Corbin & Strauss, 2014) paradigms to conduct a cultural analysis of birthing for women birthing in the United States. Birth doulas are described as trained labor-support professionals who provide continuous emotional, physical, and informational support for families during pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum periods (BADT, 2021). Birth doulas have increased healthy birth outcomes, including reducing unnecessary medical interventions and decreasing the time spent in the most intense phases of labor (Gruber, Cupito & Dobson, 2013). I present tensions from an analysis of individual semi-structured interviews (Corbin & Strauss, 2014) with women who gave birth with a doula present, along with autoethnographic accounts of my personal experiences related to reproductive justice and birth work. This project uses the tenets of the Culture Centered Approach and Reproductive Justice frameworks to interrogate the intersections of disposability and social justice for birthing women in the United States. These stories are important for transforming narratives around birth and improving health outcomes for birthing women and future generations.2026-05-1
Will of Susan Bowdoin, March 8, 1835
No full textWill in which she leaves legacies to the Bible Society, the Episcopal Education Society, Courtney Cocke, Joseph Prentis, Margaret Susan Webb, Mari Anna Saunders Riddick, Mrs. Susan Parker, Peter Bowdoin, Eliza B. Vickery; appoints as executors Joseph Prentis and Dr. Robert H. Webb; witnessed by Mary Jones and William Shepherd. April 17, 1835, signed by John T. Kilby, stating that the will was recorded in Nansemond, Co., Va., Court
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