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Wessels, Paul (Mr)
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Episode 36: Barbara Palacios Wessels - An Operación Pedro Pan Survivor
No full textIn Part 2 of “Operación Pedro Pan: The Voices and Stories of Cuba’s Child Exodus—A Knights HistoryCast Mini-Series,” the Department of History’s Sebastian Garcia talked with Barbara Palacios Wessels, a Pedro Pan, who arrived in the United States from Cuba via Operación Pedro Pan (Operation Peter Pan) on September 27, 1962, with her two younger siblings. Barbara was also a panelist from Day 1, Panel 2, which featured “community experts (survivors) that shared their personal perspectives to aid our understanding of the profound impact of Pedro Pan on their lives” at the esteemed, conspicuous, and powerful “Operación Pedro Pan: Honoring the Cultural, Historical Legacy of Cuba’s Child Exodus” Two-Day Program that Florida Humanities, UCF’s Department of English and Department of Modern Languages and Literatures sponsored (see https://cah.ucf.edu/pedro-pan/ for more details on sponsors and the program in general).
In one of the most personal, emotional, riveting, and powerful Knights HistoryCast episodes ever, Barbara recounts her life, her story, and how she is a part of the history of Operación Pedro Pan forever.https://stars.library.ucf.edu/knightshistorycast/1035/thumbnail.jp
EU insolvency regulation and its impact on European business
No full textInsolvenzrecht, Internationales Recht, EU-Staaten, Bankruptcy law, International law, EU countries
1971 Pete Wessels
No full textAlt Text: UNI men\u27s basketball teammate Pete Wessels dribbles a basketball during a photo. He wears a white number 20 uniform. Black and white image.https://scholarworks.uni.edu/panther_athletics/1520/thumbnail.jp
The Institutional Architecture of CFSP after the Lisbon Treaty: Constitutional breakthrough or challenges ahead? CEPS Challenge Paper No. 10, 23 June 2008
No full textThis paper analyses the impact of the Lisbon Treaty on the institutional architecture of CFSP and the overall external action of the Union. The Lisbon Treaty has introduced some remarkable changes which might substantially influence the (inter-)institutional balance in this policy field. The authors offer two different possible readings of the CFSP provisions of the Lisbon Treaty: they could be interpreted as a major step forward in the direction of a strengthened, more coherent and more effective international actor with more supranational elements; but they may also be seen as demonstrating an ever-refined mode of ‘rationalised intergovernmentalism’. After an in-depth analysis of the ideas and norms contained in the new treaty, the institutions and the instruments, the authors find more evidence for the second interpretation, but also traces for a ‘ratched fusion’ as a third alternative explanation
Needs and preferences of patients with cancer
No full textWhat do patients prefer in cancer care and does gender matter? Introduction: To provide patient-centred care for cancer patients it is important to have insight into the patients' specific preferences for health care. To gain such insight we have developed a questionnaire based on cancer patients’ own input. We also used this questionnaire to address gender specific preferences in cancer care. Methods: Items for the questionnaire were generated during ten focus group interviews. The preliminary questionnaire was completed by 386 cancer patients (57% response rate) treated by medical oncologists in seven Dutch hospitals. Factor analysis resulted in a final questionnaire (123 items in 21 scales and 8 single items). Mann-Whitney tests were used to identify significant gender differences. For statistically significant differences, effect sizes (ESs) were calculated. Multivariable regression analysis was used to determine the impact of gender on preferences compared to other patient- and disease related factors. Results: Patients rated safety and the expertise, performance and attitude of physicians and nurses as the most important issues in cancer care. The scales ‘Presence of loved ones’, ‘Privacy’, ‘Patient habits’ and ‘Conveniences’ scored among the relatively less important items. There were significant gender differences concerning preferences in health care in fifteen out of 21 scales and two out of eight single items. Invariably, women valued care aspects in these scales and single items as more important than men. Effect sizes varied from 0.27 to 0.71. A moderate to large effect was found for the scales ‘Waiting periods’, ‘Nurse attitude’, ‘Support, counselling and rehabilitation’ and for the single item ‘Continuity in care’. Multivariable regression analysis showed that gender had the strongest impact on patient preferences. Discussion: The results of this study are a valid and reliable starting point in care renewal processes and may be used to guide decisions in improving care for cancer patients and to include gender specific differences as an integral part of care. Our questionnaire may be used to assess patients’ preferences and to come to a tailored approach of health care
Forest Forensics: A Field Guide to Reading the Forested Landscape
No full textThousands of readers have had their experience of being in a forest changed forever by reading Tom Wessels\u27s Reading the Forested Landscape. Was this forest once farmland? Was it logged in the past? Was there ever a major catastrophe like a fire or a wind storm that brought trees down?
Now Wessels takes that wonderful ability to discern much of the history of the forest from visual clues and boils it all down to a manageable field guide that you can take out to the woods and use to start playing forest detective yourself. Wessels has created a key―a fascinating series of either/or questions―to guide you through the process of analyzing what you see. You’ll feel like a woodland Sherlock Holmes. No walk in the woods will ever be the same.https://aura.antioch.edu/facbooks/1049/thumbnail.jp
An Interview with Tom Wessels
No full textAssociate Editor of Taproot, Patrick Pryor, interviewed Tom Wessels, author of two books, Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England and The Granite Landscape: A Natural History of America\u27s Mountain Domes, from Acadia to Yosemite. Tom is also Director of the Masters Degree Program in Environmental Biology, at Antioch New England Graduate School. At Antioch he helped develop the Environmental Biology program that trains field ecologists to conduct research for non-profit, environmental organizations. He is also an Ecological Consultant for The Rain Forest Alliance\u27s Smart Wood Program where he has developed green certification assessment· guidelines for timber operations in the Northeast and educates foresters about management activities that enhance diversity at the landscape level
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