716 research outputs found
The Contribution of Outer HI Disks to the Merging Binary Black Hole Population
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She Gets the Girl
No full textAlex Blackwood is an undeniably courageous flirt. Molly Parker is a socially awkward compassionate soul. The duo strikes a deal that helps Molly explore her flirtatious nature and helps Alex prove to her ex that she is not self-centered. The question is: Do Molly and Alex want other people or each other? Author Alyson Derrick, a No. 1 New York Times best-selling author, depicts a beautiful dichotomy between wants and needs in romance.https://ecommons.udayton.edu/ul_popularromance/1050/thumbnail.jp
Instrumental and sensory characteristics of selected nutritionally improved school foods
No full textChildhood obesity is a growing problem in the United States. Recently enacted Federal and State regulations require school foods to be improved nutritionally. The objective of this study was to determine quality of selected newly developed school foods using instrumental and sensory methods. From the National School Lunch Program reimbursable meals chicken nuggets, macaroni and cheese, and pierogies were selected. From the Competitive Foods apple snacks were used. Surface color parameters (L, a*, and b*) were determined by colorimeter and digital camera. A texture analyzer (TA-xT2i) was used to measure texture specific to each product. Sensory Quantitative Descriptive analysis was used to evaluate six to eight sensory attributes per product. The results were compared with similar traditional products. Chicken nuggets with whole grain breading were darker red (L 132.43 and a* 147.96) and coarser, while home style were more yellow (b* 188.44) with firmer breading (407.59 g) and original variety was less yellow and red (b* 182.69 and a* 138.01) with softer meat texture (462.26 g/cm). Macaroni and cheese with 26% reduced fat was significantly saltier and less viscous than original (1486.21 g), however not significantly different in color, cheese aroma, or sweetness. Pierogies with 70% more protein per serving were significantly different with a firmer, grainier filling and darker surface color with values of L 59.14 and b* 14.98 and peak force of filling 7968.9 g. Freeze dried enriched apple snacks were significantly lighter in color, more red (L 170.13 and a* 137.71), firmer texture with average 2821.24 g peak force, more sour, bitter and had a rougher surface texture than air-dried apple snacks. Instrumental color, texture, and sensory characteristics of nutritionally improved products differed significantly from the similar traditional products. Additional efforts of processors will be necessary to prepare nutritionally improved products with high children's acceptability.M.S.Includes bibliographical references (p. 94-104)by Alyson Mandevill
US97: Dover Ln to Bear Dr safety improvements, MP 97.5 to 100.5, transportation management plan
No full textprepared by: Alyson Shubert, EIT, R4 Traffic Designer ; reviewed by: Teresa Gibson, PE, R4 Traffic Analyst.Title from PDF cover (viewed on October 17, 2022)."K22520."This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
A Thesis in Seasons
No full textA personal take on a thesis. Alyson Davies uses narratives of her rural Albertan upbringing to position her art practice and experience in Emily Carr University’s MFA program. Davies painting, primarily based in autobiographical narratives, is also met by supplementary practices across other media where seasonality and nature direct the subject of the works. The thesis paper aims to contextualize Davies’ artworks along other artist’s work, and within the physical and inner worlds the work exists in.SeasonalityPrairiesFarmingFarmBetty WoodmanVanessa BellMary FeddenAnita Klei
On necrocapitalism: A plague journal
No full textM.I. Asma is the collective designation for six authors from Canada and the United States, representing a variety of revolutionary anticapitalist theoretical persuasions: J. Moufawad-Paul, Devin Zane Shaw, Mateo Andante, Johannah May Black, Alyson Escalante, and D. W. Fairlane. As the pandemic transitioned from science fiction to reality in early 2020, a number of writers and thinkers in the imperialist metropoles declared the impossibility of writing in the face of a future that is foreclosed. And yet, due to the nightmare that capitalism has been since its beginning, numerous writers and thinkers from the margins have always written in the face of such foreclosure. Meanwhile, other contemporary thinkers sought to conceptualize the unfolding pandemic according to conceptions of bio/necropolitics, forgetting the foundation upon which these conceptions have always existed.
The M.I. Asma writing group came together to stake out a different terrain, thinking through the pandemic as events unfolded while also always working to think beyond the capitalist imaginary. Writing between April 2020 and May 2021, the authors set out to produce a serial theoretical philosophical project focused on class struggle in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors approached the pandemic as an occasion to think capitalism according to what it always has been, what the pandemic reveals about its current ideological deployment, and how we can think about a communist alternative in the face of exterminism.
This book collects, with some revisions and with a new epilogue, the entries from the On Necrocapitalism blog, where M.I. Asma’s interventions first appeared.DC Author's celebration 202
Parents’ experiences and information needs while caring for a child with functional constipation: A systematic review
No full textPediatric functional constipation (FC) reportedly affects at least 1 in 10 children worldwide. Parent and family education is a key component for successful treatment, yet there is little research exploring what information families need and how to best support them. The aim of this review is to synthesize current evidence on the experiences and information needs of parents caring for a child with FC. We systematically searched published research and completed screening against a priori inclusion criteria. Thirteen studies (n = 10 quantitative, n = 3 qualitative) were included. We found 2 main themes, precarious footing and profound and pervasive effects. Heavy caregiving burdens fueled doubts, misinformation, relationship breakdown, and treatment deviation. In light of clinical recommendations, our findings reveal a potential mismatch between parents’ needs and care provision for FC. It is likely that both parents and health care providers would benefit from resources and interventions to improve care related to pediatric FC.Networks of Centres of Excellence Knowledge MobilizationWomen and Children’s Health Research FoundationCIHR FoundationStollery Children’s Hospital Foundatio
[Photograph 2012.201.B1424.0437]
No full textPhotograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "From left, with daughters Pam and Alyson and wife Sandy at his side new O-State AD Dr. Richard A. Young answers reporters' questions.
Writing Conference Interaction and Scaffolding: The Possible and the Actual
No full textWriting conferences during the freshman composition course are characterized by role-based, dyadic interactions between a teacher and his or her students that have implications for students’ development in academic writing. Scaffolding, a type of interaction associated with the novice-expert role dyad, is considered to be among the most widely used pedagogical strategies in composition instruction. Data were gathered during a single semester’s freshman composition course and included audio recordings of conferences, conference observation field notes, and post-conference interviews with student participants. Features described as possible by current literature in composition studies were synthesized into operational categories and compared with transcriptions of actual teacher-student writing conference interactions.
The transcripts of actual conferences revealed that scaffolding as described in current literature was not a pervasive type of interaction during teacher-student writing conferences. Many of the features of scaffolding described by the literature were evident, but the potential for scaffolding during the interactions was hampered by limited student contribution to dialogue, missed opportunities at critical decision points, and the inability to discern student demonstration of comprehension or increased competence as a result of the interaction.
The transcripts revealed a student preference for directive instruction, a recognition of the teacher’s authority, and a hesitance to question authority that are characteristic of the developmental stage associated with college freshmen. Implications for teacher-student interactions during writing conferences and the ability of such interactions to facilitate instruction in academic writing are discussed
Adapting musicology's use of affect theories to contemporary theatre making: Directing Martin Crimp's attempts on her life
No full textCopyright @ Intellect 2011Adopting and adapting musicology's use of affect theories, specifically Jeremy Gilbert's idea of an 'affective analysis' and David Epstein's idea of 'shaping affect', this article looks at Martin Crimp's Attempts on Her Life from a practitioner's perspective. It investigates the challenges and benefits of adopting an 'affective approach' to directing recent theatre texts that stress the musicality and corporeality of language along with, and at times above, its signifying roles. Rather than locating Aristotelian dramatic climaxes based on narratological or characterological progression, an affective approach seeks to identify moments of affective intensity, which produce a different sort of impact by working on a 'body-first' methodology, rather than the directly cerebral. That this embodied impact is not ultimately meaningless is one of affect theory's most vital assertions. This approach has resonance in terms of how directors, performers and critics/theorists approach work of this type
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