795 research outputs found
Communicating Grammatically: Evaluating a Learner Strategies Website for Spanish Grammar
No full textAdditional contributors: Angela Pinilla-Herrera; Andrew D. Cohen (faculty mentor)This website is dedicated to the pursuit of ways to enhance learners’ control of Spanish grammar.Thompson, Jonathan; Witzig, Lance. (2009). Communicating Grammatically: Evaluating a Learner Strategies Website for Spanish Grammar. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/60012
Truth Recovery: an interview with Lance Olsen
No full textLance Olsen is author of more than 30 books of and about innovative writing, including, most recently, the novels Skin Elegies (Olsen, 2021) and Always Crashing in the Same Car (Olsen, 2023). His short stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in hundreds of journals and anthologies. A Guggenheim, Berlin Prize, D.A.A.D. Artist-in-Berlin Residency, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, two-time N.E.A. Fellowship, and Pushcart Prize recipient, as well as a Fulbright Scholar, he teaches experimental narrative theory and practice at the University of Utah.
This interview is a dialogue about the blurring of fiction and non-fiction, creative writing's place and role in the 21st Century, and Olsen's commitment to experimental writing and his use of processes, concepts and ideas to subvert what many regard as traditional writing and storytelling. It also considers how narrative can be deconstructed, reconfigured, re-constructed and re-invigorated; the possibilities and ethics of remix and appropriation; the failures of mainstream publishing; and how we can or might represent our complex and confusing lives on the page. Olsen's use of (at times oppositional and contradictory) multiple or polyphonic voices, changing points of view, stylistic mutation and contrasting forms, along with a frequent blurring of story, script, prose poetry and stream-of-consciousness writing facilitate and encourage the reader to assemble their own narratives, without this ever being anything other than enjoyable.
It is to be hoped that the interview will encourage and assist others to rethink creative-writing pedagogy, or at least consider the theoretical assumptions behind normative teaching and writing
Developing consistency by consensus: Avoiding fiat in language revitalization
No full textLinguistic !eld work in Tlingit is occurring cooperatively within a triangle of linguists, teachers, and speakers who collaborate electronically and in person between Vancouver, British Columbia, Amherst, Massachusetts, and Juneau, Alaska. Their work makes it into the classroom almost immediately as they collectively refine methods of language documentation, teaching, and revitalization. While the group that works at the deepest linguistic levels of the language is small, they are wide ranging in their backgrounds and geographic locations. This makes small- group email messages and discussions the method of reaching consensus, which opens the door for quick decisions that are then implemented in documentation and teaching methodologies.
Historically, Tlingit has been impacted the most by external forces. At times, those were devastating entities like boarding schools, missionaries, and community-wide racism. At others, they were miraculous in terms of language documentation and curriculum development by missionaries and linguists. Today, There are three highly active linguists, in three different locations, and each of them are making tremendous contributions in documenting and understanding linguistic phenomena that native speakers knew intrinsically, but that teachers and students often found difficult if not impossible to document and predict. These three are all working with varying degrees of traits that are external and internal to Tlingit land, culture, and language.
There is a non-Tlingit linguist, (co-author), living in Juneau and having the most direct contact with fluent speakers, and often is associated with some of the largest gatherings of speakers of Tlingit today. Then there is the first Tlingit linguist, (author), who is studying outside of Tlingit country and feeding materials into the classroom and through speakers remotely, and is creating handbooks and presentations that will change the way Tlingit verbs and grammar are understood, taught, and learned. Finally, there is a non-Tlingit linguist (co-author), living in Massachusetts and helping refine some of the little-understood territories within Tlingit, like insubordinate clauses and other phenomena.
The linguistic discoveries made by these three are implemented into newly developing curriculum and teaching methodologies by the author. He is the first tenure-track faculty in Alaska Native Languages at the university and works collaboratively with the co-authors, and local speakers and teachers to implement shifts in language documentation and teaching. These linguistic activities are combining with an promotional campaign that is initiating a true revitalization for the Tlingit language
Add-on perampanel in Lance–Adams syndrome
No full textAbstractPerampanel (PER) is the first-in-class selective, noncompetitive α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA) receptor antagonist that has been licensed and marketed as antiepileptic drug (AED) indicated for patients with partial-onset and primary generalized tonic–clonic seizures. A positive effect was reported in some patients with epileptic myoclonic jerks in idiopathic generalized epilepsy and in progressive myoclonic epilepsy.We treated a male patient with posthypoxic nonepileptic myoclonus (Lance–Adams syndrome) with add-on PER and achieved an almost complete cessation of jerks. This effect was reproducible and, therefore, we suggest that it might be worth trying PER in comparable cases
The Shape of Green: Aesthetics, Ecology & Design
No full textArchitect, author, and strategist Lance Hosey is Chief Sustainability Officer with the global design leader RTKL. As one of the world’s largest architecture firms, RTKL has significant reach and influence on the built environment. Lance is a former Director with William McDonough + Partners and the former President & CEO of the sustainability non-profit GreenBlue. His latest book, The Shape of Green: Aesthetics, Ecology, and Design (Island Press, 2012), the first to study the relationships between sustainability and beauty, has been Amazon’s #1 bestseller for sustainable design. Hosted by the Center for Sustainability in partnership with the Interior Design Program. David Guernsey’s seminar is hosted by the Department of Management in the College of Business Administration in partnership with the Center for Sustainability and with support from the College of Science and Mathematics.https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/sustainability-seminar-series/1016/thumbnail.jp
Long, detailed first-person narrative on the political battle between Friends of
No full textLong, detailed first-person narrative on the political battle between Friends of Bigelow and the Western Mountains Foundation (WMF), over WMF\u27s proposal to build a machine-groomed cross-county ski trail inside the Bigelow Preserve. Author Lance Tapley, who organized Friends of Bigelow 30 years ago and has remained an activist, details the anatomy of the compromise that was eventually reached, and the emotional toll that came with it. With a focus on comments by Larry Warren, president of WMF; Dick Fecteau, chairman of Friends of Bigelow; and Patrick McGowan, commissioner of conservation
Labor Rights in Haiti
No full text[Excerpt] This study of labor rights in Haiti was conducted on behalf of the International Labor Rights Education and Research Fund by Lance Compa, Washington Representative of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE), who is the principal author of this report. It includes findings from a field investigation in Haiti in July 1988, and from interviews and further information supplied by Haitian trade unionists throughout 1988 and early 1989. This report also draws on information developed by a delegation of U.S. unionists and labor educators who visited Haiti July 24-31, 1988, under the sponsorship of the Washington Office on Haiti
High collocation of sand lance and protected top predators: implications for conservation and management
No full text© The Author(s), 2021. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Silva, T. L., Wiley, D. N., Thompson, M. A., Hong, P., Kaufman, L., Suca, J. A., Llopiz, J. K., Baumann, H., & Fay, G. High collocation of sand lance and protected top predators: implications for conservation and management. Conservation Science and Practice, (2021): 3:e274, doi: 10.1111/csp2.274.Spatial relationships between predators and prey provide critical information for understanding and predicting climate‐induced shifts in ecosystem dynamics and mitigating human impacts. We used Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary as a case study to investigate spatial overlap among sand lance (Ammodytes dubius), a key forage fish species, and two protected predators: humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) and great shearwaters (Ardenna gravis). We conducted 6 years (2013–2018) of standardized surveys and quantified spatial overlap using the global index of collocation. Results showed strong, consistent collocation among species across seasons and years, suggesting that humpback whales and great shearwater distributions are tightly linked to sand lance. We propose that identifying sand lance habitats may indicate areas where humpbacks and shearwaters aggregate and are particularly vulnerable to human activities. Understanding how sand lance influence predator distributions can inform species protection and sanctuary management under present and future scenarios.This work was supported by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management [IA agreement M17PG0019], NOAA Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, U.S. Geological Survey, the Volgenau Foundation, and the Mudge Foundation
Intertidal beach habitat suitability model for Pacific sand lance, Ammodytes personatus, in the Salish Sea, Canada
No full textPacific sand lance (Ammodytes personatus) support marine food webs in the Salish Sea, yet our knowledge of intertidal spawning habitat for this species is limited. Increasing participation in community science surveys for intertidal sand lance spawning has resulted in the detection of eggs on >90 beaches in the Canadian Salish Sea since 2001. Using this data, we developed a MaxEnt habitat suitability model using 6 environmental variables from a suite of 9. We estimate that only 5.4% of the intertidal zone of the Canadian Salish Sea has a moderate to high likelihood of providing suitable sand lance spawning habitat. This rare habitat was best predicted by its proximity to estuaries, shoreline slope, distance to predicted subtidal sand lance burying habitat, seabed substrate and aspect. Our model could be used as the basis for a Pacific coast-wide model in areas with less available information. Identifying intertidal spawning habitat of sand lance will support conservation efforts intended to maintain forage fish species.The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the pdf file of the accepted manuscript may differ slightly from what is displayed on the item page. The information in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript reflects the original submission by the author
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: On the Binding Biases of Time
No full textLance Strate is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University, and Executive Director of the Institute of General Semantics. He is a Past President of the New York State Communication Association, and a recipient of NYSCA\u27s John F. Wilson Award. He is a founder and Past President of the Media Ecology Association, and author of Echoes and Reflections: On Media Ecology as a Field of Study. This is the text of his Keynote Address presented at the 67th Annual Conference of the New York State Communication Association, Ellenville, NY, October 23-25, 2009
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