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Getting Started as a Medical Teacher in Times of Change
No full textMedical school teaching is a skill that is very often learned on the job. The faculty comprised of researchers and clinicians are expert in many biomedical disciplines, but familiarity with learning theories and pedagogy are usually not included in their knowledge and skill sets. The pressure to see patients and acquire extramural funding leaves little time for faculty to learn how to teach. When coupled with the natural attrition of senior faculty it is necessary to start junior faculty on the correct path to being effective medical educators who are capable of lecturing and facilitating. Institutions cannot afford to have medical educators learn through trial and error. The standards set by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) are also creating an urgency to produce competent teachers as quickly as possible. Novice teachers need to be able to use these standards to align their teaching with goals, objectives and the appropriate pedagogy. This article is designed to be a self-directed guide describing some essentials that a newly hired faculty member can quickly use to get started. An institutional faculty development program can then serve to build upon and enrich the experience for the new faculty member.This is the authors' accepted manuscript of the article. The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1007/s40670-014-0098-y.Peer reviewe
Elizabeth F. Thompson, Leila Farsakh, and Robert Laffey discuss, Hope Arab Spring Eternal at Ford Hall Forum, video recording, 5/16/2013
No full textHow much closer are Middle Eastern countries to having functioning constitutional governments than they were in the spring of 2011? How will such governments impact their economies? What unique challenges and opportunities has each country faced in building new government? How has the culture played into the emerging politics? Elizabeth F. Thompson (author, Justice Interrupted) and Leila Farsakh (Associate Professor of Political Science, UMass Boston) join us to provide an update on happenings in the Middle East, particularly in terms of consequences we did not foresee two years ago. Robert Laffey (Assistant Professor of Government, Suffolk University) guides this discussion on post-Arab Spring sociopolitical changes, mining Thompson\u27s book for historical context and Farsakh\u27s research for current insights. Elizabeth F. Thompson will be signing and selling copies of her book, Justice Interrupted, at the end of the event.https://dc.suffolk.edu/fhf-av/1129/thumbnail.jp
The life of Elizabeth Prentiss, author of Stepping heavenward.
No full text"List of Mrs. Prentiss' writings" : v. 2, p. 342-351."Her letters ... with extracts from her journals, form the larger portion." cf. Prefatory note signed : G. L. P. [i. e. George L. Prentiss]Appeared (1882) under title : The life and letters of Elizabeth Prentiss.Mode of access: Internet
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Reading Elizabeth von Arnim Today: An Overview
No full textAn overview essays of the work of Elizabeth von Arnim -- a recently reclaimed author
Tudor women writers fashioning masculinity
No full textThis thesis contributes to the growing interest in early modern masculinity and its literary representations by introducing texts by women writers into dialogue with their male-authored counterparts. It argues for a more nuanced approach that recognises that the concepts of masculinity and femininity can only be fully understood when studied in relation with each other.
The first chapter explores how, notwithstanding the wisdom of conduct books and marriage guides, the demands of the state may not always be commensurate with those of the domestic realm and shows that this conflict necessitates a rethinking of existing definitions of masculinity by focusing on selected writings of the Tudor sisters Mary and Elizabeth and Jane Fitzalan’s *Tragedie of Iphigeneia*. The second chapter identifies how Elizabeth’s unique discursive strategies were designed to elicit support from her male subjects and subdue the belligerence that simmered under polemic like John Stubbs’ *Gaping Gulf*. In her letters to Anjou, the chapter examines how Elizabeth manoeuvred around her position as a beloved and as a monarch to fashion a husband who would not only be sympathetic but also subordinate to her political authority. This chapter also shows how the fabulous world of John Lyly’s *Galatea* consummates the Queen’s desire for the ideal male subject. The final chapter investigates the construction of martial manhood. It juxtaposes Mary Sidney’s *The Tragedy of Antonie* with William Shakespeare’s *Antony and Cleopatra* to determine how the figure of Cleopatra, common to both plays, challenges and revises the martial code of masculinity as embodied by Antony. By examining the authorial position appropriated by Cleopatra in the plays and its impact on the narrative, this chapter also extends this thesis’ interest in the extent to which female characters within texts compete for diegetic control with male protagonists
Wanner, Elizabeth (Birth, 1877-09-05)
No full textAddress: 500 Front St.4743/Pg 178/1877/F W/U.S./U.S./Mary Brown,Mid.Original record filed in drawer labeled 'WALTER- WARMACK'
Hydrographic data from Oregon coastal waters: June 1960 through May 1961
No full textby Bruce Wyatt and Norman F. Kujala ; edited by Elizabeth Strong.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.Includes bibliographical references (page 3).Office of Naval Research Nonr 1286(10) NR 083-102.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Book Review: FDR Fireside Chats ― Perspectives on American History from Presidents Washington to Biden
No full textTitle: FDR Fireside Chats ― Perspectives on American History from Presidents Washington to Biden Author: James H. Erickson, Emeritus Vice Chancellor of the University of California ASIN: B09NGRHBF2 Publisher: Independently published (December 10, 2021) Pages: 137 ISBN-13: 979-8782651480 Best Sellers Rank: #3,109,391 in Books Reviewer: Elizabeth F. R. Gingeric
Data for: “John F. Kennedy,” in: Leaders at war: How presidents shape military interventions
No full textThis project was originally published as an Active Citation Compilation, a precursor toAnnotation for Transparent Inquiry (ATI). It has now been converted to the ATI format. The assembled project can be viewed at: https://qdr.syr.edu/atipaper/john-f-kennedy
Project Summary
The broader study provides a framework for understanding when and why great powers seek to transform foreign institutions and societies through military interventions. It highlights a crucial but often-overlooked factor in international relations: the role of individual leaders. The book develops and tests a theory that explains how leaders shape both the decision to intervene and the choice of intervention strategy. It argues that leaders’ threat perceptions – specifically, whether they believe that the internal characteristics of other states are the ultimate source of threats – influence how they prepare for and confront intervention choices, especially the degree to which they try to use intervention to remake the domestic institutions of target states. The study concentrates on United States military interventions during the Cold War, allowing the author to focus on the role of leaders by holding constant the structure of the international system as well as domestic institutions. Furthermore, one might expect a particularly strong consensus about the nature of threats during the Cold War, making it a relatively easy case for realist approaches and a harder test for a theory based on causal beliefs. The empirical core of the book concentrates on three US presidents: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson. The variation in these three presidents’ causal beliefs provides strong analytical leverage in testing the theory. To refute the notion that beliefs are merely justifications for action, and to avoid conflating beliefs and behavior, the author uses archival and historical evidence from the pre-presidential period to show that each president held his beliefs prior to confronting crises and even prior to taking office. After demonstrating the importance of leaders during the Cold War period, the study also explores the theory’s applicability to other historical and contemporary settings, including the post-Cold War period and the war in Iraq.
Data Abstract
The data were collected primarily during two research trips to the Kennedy Library in 2006 and 2008 and cover the Cold War period. The archival evidence itself mainly focuses on the coding of the independent variable, leaders’ beliefs. Since this variable is measured in the pre-presidential period, most of the archival sources used are drawn from pre-presidential collections at the presidential libraries. (The dependent variables – the decision to intervene and the choice of intervention strategy – are measured primarily using published primary sources and secondary sources, since many of the cases have a rich set of published sources and secondary literatures.) The pre-presidential collections, from which the shared sources are primarily derived, differ from the presidential papers in significant ways across the three presidencies, and do not conform to the same standards used to maintain papers in a modern presidency because, of course, the papers were generated and catalogued before it was known that each man would ascend to the presidency. Kennedy’s pre-presidential papers are, however, a very rich source for measuring his foreign policy attitudes and include travel diaries, personal letters, and speech drafts.
Files Description
For most archival-based citations, images for every page of the sources referenced in the citation are available; the few exceptions include items such as diaries, only specific pages of which are copied.
Logic of Annotation and Activation
The goal of this pilot project is to give access to the archival sources cited in the book, subject to permissions. The intention is to allow the reader to view sources that could only be obtained in an archive, to see additional context and make a judgment about whether the inference is appropriate. Since this pilot is focused on archival documents and reducing the transaction costs associated with viewing archival sources, the author has only activated footnotes referring to archival sources and believes that the resources of standard university libraries and the Web provide reasonably ready access to the balance of the materials. One of the motivations for this pilot was to demonstrate the feasibility of using an existing system of organization, which the author employed while conducting the original research, to transfer these images to the QDR for depositing and for activation. The documents were captured using a digital camera and had already been organized in digital format. Because one of the main motivations was to show how scholars could leverage their existing systems to transfer data relatively easily, the author has not retroactively annotated citations. The author has included two types of data that did not appear in the endnotes to the book, however: (1) folder titles for each archival source (cut from the final manuscript for reasons of space); (2) transcriptions of portions of some documents, which the author produced while processing the archival material, winnowing the evidence, and writing up the results. Not every endnote or inference will have transcriptions, however. In many cases the author transcribed documents before making an actual inference, and transcribed more than was ultimately quoted or cited. The transcriptions are retained for the reader’s information (and to make some documents, such as handwritten diary entries, easier to read). Furthermore, one of the additional motivations for the pilot is to demonstrate how the QDR and active citation might work in cases where permissions allow the posting of full documents, so the documents are the focus and the transcriptions are simply “extra” data. Although some sources may not have transcriptions, this says nothing about their value and they will still have images for the underlying data. While the logics of activation and annotation depart somewhat from the current active citation standard, this pilot is intended to demonstrate that a significant degree of transparency can be achieved within the limits of feasibility by leveraging existing practices.</p
RoMEO Studies 4: An analysis of Journal publishers' Copyright Agreements
No full textThis article is the fourth in a series of six emanating from the UK JISC-funded RoMEO Project (Rights Metadata for Open archiving). It describes an analysis of 80 scholarly journal publishers’ copyright agreements with a particular view to their effect on author self-archiving. 90% of agreements asked for copyright transfer and 69% asked for it prior to refereeing the paper. 75% asked authors to warrant that their work had not been previously published although only two explicitly stated that they viewed self-archiving as prior publication. 28.5% of agreements provided authors with no usage rights over their own paper. Although 42.5% allowed self-archiving in some format, there was no consensus on the conditions under which self-archiving could take place. The article concludes that author-publisher copyright agreements should be reconsidered by a working party representing the needs of both partie
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