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Sixty Years of Community: St. Olaf Catholic Parish in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, 1952-2012
No full textThis paper will explore how the parish community of St. Olaf in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, established in 1952, reflects the Roman Catholic Church, specifically at the local, state, and national levels in the United States. It will also discuss the various changes that have occurred in the past 60 years of its history in terms of the various locations of worship for the members, the growth of the community outreach programs, and the effects of the Second Vatican Council. This ecumenical council was a meeting of Catholic bishops from around the whole that brought reform to the Catholic Church and affected the relationship of the Catholic Church to the world. The parish at St. Olaf has grown from having only 125 families in 1952 to over 1,000 families in 2012
Angels and Earthly Creatures : Preaching, Performance, and Gender in the Later Middle Ages /
No full textClaire M. Waters offers an original examination of the preacher's unique role as an intermediary—standing between heaven and earth, between God and people, participating in and responsible to both sides of that divide.Claire M. Waters offers an original examination of the preacher's unique role as an intermediary—standing between heaven and earth, between God and people, participating in and responsible to both sides of that divide.Electronic reproduction.Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.Claire M. Waters teaches English at the University of California, Davis.Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher’s Web site, viewed October 27 2015
Claire ponds as an experimental model for Marteilia refringens life-cycle studies: new perspectives
No full textSince its first description, the paramyxean parasite Marteilia refringens (Grizel et al.) has been recognised as a significant pathogen of the European flat oyster Ostrea edulis L. The existence of a complex life-cycle involving several hosts was postulated early on by many authors, although it remains unsolved. Recent developments in the DNA-based diagnosis of M. refringens provides new prospects for the detection of the parasite in potential hosts. However, this screening remains impeded by the number of species living in the vicinity of oyster beds. We report here on the use of semi-closed oyster ponds (so called 'claire' in Marennes-Oleron Bay) as a study model for the life-cycle of M. refringens. Claires are located in an endemic area for M. refringens and transmission of the disease to healthy oysters has been shown to be effective during the course of this study. The environmental characteristics of the claires strongly limit the number of species compared with intertidal areas and oyster beds. Consequently, extensive sampling of a limited number of species cohabiting with oysters was possible. These were preserved for future screening of M. refringens. The experimental model should bring new insights to the life-cycle of M. refringens, as it enables us to propose new conceptual schemes of M. refringens transmission. The role of species as potential hosts is discussed regarding their biology and geographical distribution.Source type: Electronic(1
Thunder, Indians, and Mythological Birds: School Mascot Changes in Western Wisconsin
No full textIn American society, people identify themselves not just with their creed, race, or ethnicity, but also their sports teams. This tightly knit identity creates a culture within itself that presents the beliefs, norms, and way of life of the people intertwined within it. While most prominent at NCAA Division I and professional levels, this identification also occurs at the local level, such as at high schools and smaller colleges. In some situations schools are forced to change their mascot or team name. This paper will examine an identity crisis at three separate schools in western Wisconsin during the second half of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries and explain how the schools went about choosing a new mascot or team name. The three different case studies will examine controversial identities, lack of an identity, and popularity creating an identity
Consumption Growth and Agricultural Shocks in Rural Madagascar
No full textThe aim of this paper is to evaluate the effect of rainfall and agricultural shocks on consumption growth in Madagascar. We are also interested in the impact of local endowments in infrastructures and social services on consumption growth. To achieve this goal, a micro model of household consumption growth is estimated thanks to household panel data collected by the Reseau des Observatoires Ruraux (ROR) between 1999 and 2004. Additional data sources include the 2001 communes census organized by the Ilo program of Cornell University. Altogether these different data sources make an unusually rich data set, at least when considered with developing country standards. We use panel data fixed effect estimation technique to remove unobserved household and community level time invariant heterogeneity. We find that production shocks have a substantial impact on consumption growth and we find sign of persistence of rainfall shocks. Roads and education seems to improve household’s consumption growth and remotness decreases it.risks, growth, poverty, Food Security and Poverty,
Seabed foraging by Antarctic krill: Implications for stock assessment, bentho-pelagic coupling, and the vertical transfer of iron
No full textA compilation of more than 30 studies shows that adult Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) may frequent benthic habitats year-round, in shelf as well as oceanic waters and throughout their circumpolar range. Net and acoustic data from the Scotia Sea show that in summer 2-20% of the population reside at depths between 200 and 2000 m, and that large aggregations can form above the seabed. Local differences in the vertical distribution of krill indicate that reduced feeding success in surface waters, either due to predator encounter or food shortage, might initiate such deep migrations and results in benthic feeding. Fatty acid and microscopic analyses of stomach content confirm two different foraging habitats for Antarctic krill: the upper ocean, where fresh phytoplankton is the main food source, and deeper water or the seabed, where detritus and copepods are consumed. Krill caught in upper waters retain signals of benthic feeding, suggesting frequent and dynamic exchange between surface and seabed. Krill contained up to 260 nmol iron per stomach when returning from seabed feeding. About 5% of this iron is labile, i.e., potentially available to phytoplankton. Due to their large biomass, frequent benthic feeding, and acidic digestion of particulate iron, krill might facilitate an input of new iron to Southern Ocean surface waters. Deep migrations and foraging at the seabed are significant parts of krill ecology, and the vertical fluxes involved in this behavior are important for the coupling of benthic and pelagic food webs and their elemental repositories
Dr. Lester M. Emans: The Educational Transformation of Teachers in Eau Claire in the 1950s and 60s
No full textThe education of teachers is a study that does not receive enough attention in terms of historical and philosophical studies. Thus, in this paper the author will identify the shaping of pre-service education for teachers and note the large transformation of education in the 1950s and 1960s. The author will focus on Lester Emans, who was a crucial supporter and promoter of advancing education for teachers in training. Emans effort helped to transform the educational department at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Emans enhanced the standards within the curriculum taught at the University by implementing a lab school on campus, improving Wisconsin's values of teaching, restructuring the secondary education department and enhancing the student teaching program at Eau Claire. His determinations to develop the educational system for future teachers has proven, in more ways than one, beneficial to the education department at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and still resonates today
Everyday conceptions of modesty: a prototype analysis
No full textGood theoretical definitions of psychological phenomena not only are rigorously formulated but also provide ample conceptual coverage. To assess the latter, we empirically surveyed everyday conceptions of modesty in a combined U.S./U.K. sample. In Study 1, participants freely generated multiple exemplars of modesty that judges subsequently sorted into superordinate categories. Exemplar frequency and priority served, respectively, as primary and secondary indices of category prototypicality that enabled central, peripheral, and marginal clusters to be identified. Follow-up studies then confirmed the ordinal prototypicality of these clusters with the aid of both explicit (Studies 2 and 3) and implicit (Study 3) methodologies. Modest people emerged centrally as humble, shy, solicitous, and not boastful and peripherally as honest, likeable, not arrogant, attention-avoiding, plain, and gracious. Everyday conceptions of modesty also spanned both mind and behavior, emphasized agreeableness and introversion, and predictably incorporated an element of humility
Thinking the literary triangle: The Bermuda Trilogy by Claire Legendre (English title)
No full textCet article explore comment la trilogie Bermudes (2018-2021) de Claire Legendre poursuit sa (méta)réflexion sur l'écriture de soi. L'autrice sonde deux formes de lectures générées par ce type de récits: une qui nous perd dans le (para)texte et celle qui permet de le transcender. À l'aune des théories proposées par Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault et Gérard Genette, la démarche de Legendre interroge simultanément le triangle littéraire qui unit irrévocablement l'auteur, le lecteur et le texte.English: This article explores how Claire Legendre's Bermuda trilogy (2018-2021) continues her (meta)reflection on self-writing. The author probes two forms of reading generated by this type of story: one that loses us in the (para)text and one that allows us to transcend it. In the light of the theories proposed by Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault and Gérard Genette, Legendre's approach simultaneously questions the literary triangle which irrevocably unites the author, the reader and the text.This article is published as Schaal, M., Penser le triangle littéraire: La trilogie Bermudes de Claire Legendre (english title: Thinking the literary triangle: The Bermuda Trilogy by Claire Legendre); The French View; 2023; 96(4);65-79;DOI: 10.1353/tfr.2023.0083. Posted with permission
Tagging of Biomedical Articles on CiteULike: A Comparison of User, Author and Professional Indexing
No full textThis paper examines the context of online indexing from the viewpoint of three different groups: users, authors, and professional indexers. User tags, author keywords and descriptors were collected from academic journal articles, which were both indexed in Pubmed and tagged on CiteULike, and analysed. Descriptive statistics, informetric measures, and thesaural term comparison shows that there are important differences in the use of keywords between the three groups in addition to similarities which can be used to enhance support for search and browse. While tags and author keywords were found that matched descriptors exactly, other terms which did not match but provided important expansion to the indexing lexicon were found. These additional terms could be used to enhance support for searching and browsing in article databases as well as to provide invaluable data for entry vocabulary and emergent terminology for regular updates to indexing systems. Additionally, the study suggests that tags support organisation by association to task, projects and subject while making important connections to traditional systems which classify into subject categories
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