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Young Connected Migrants and Non-Normative European Family Life: Exploring Affective Human Right Claims of young E-diasporas
No full textIn the face of the contemporary so-called “European refugee crisis,”' the dichotomies of bodies that are naturalized into technology usage and the bodies that remain alienated from it betray the geographic, racial, and gendered discriminations that digital technologies, despite their claims at neutrality and flatness, continue to espouse. This article argues that “young electronic diasporas” (ye-diasporas) (Donà, 2014) present us with an unique view on how Europe is reimagined from below, as people stake out a living across geographies. The main premise is that young connected migrants' cross-border practices shows they ‘do family' in a way that does not align with the universal European, normative expectations of European family life. The author draws on three symptomatic accounts of young connected migrants that are variably situated geo-politically: 1) Moroccan-Dutch youth in the Netherlands; 2) stranded Somalis awaiting family reunification in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; and, 3) working, middle, and upper-class young people of various ethnic and class backgrounds living in London. Narratives shared by members of all three groups indicate meta-categories of the ‘migrant,' ‘user,' and ‘e-diaspora' urgently need to be de-flattened. To do this de-flattening work, new links between migrant studies, feminist and postcolonial theory and digital cultures are forged. In an era of increasing digital connectivity and mobility, transnational families are far from deterritorialized – boundaries and insurmountable distances are often forcibly and painfully felt
Young Friesian horses show familial aggregation in fitness response to a 7-week performance test
No full textThe aim of this study was to monitor the fitness level of young Friesian horses and to assess whether fitness data are predictive for final performance score and whether familial aggregation of response to training could be detected. Sixty-six young Friesian horses, the offspring of six different stallions (A, B, C, D, E and F), underwent a 7-week performance test. The horses were given a performance score for their ability for dressage (in weeks 5 and 7; 0-110 points) and were evaluated for fitness using standardised exercise tests (SETs) at the beginning (week 2, SET-I) and the end (week 6, SET-II) of the period. Heart rate (HR, beats/min) was measured in both SETs, and plasma lactate concentration (LA, mmol/L) was measured only in SET-II. Fitness of the horses improved moderately but significantly between SET-I and SET-II (P=0.015). There was a large heterogeneity in responsiveness to training; some horses were high responders, whereas others were non- or low responders. There was a familial aggregation of HR canter-1 response to training (P=0.039), while the HR of stallion C's offspring decreased significantly more than those of stallions A (P=0.09), D (P=0.013) and F (P=0.009). Horses that were reluctant to exercise did not differ in HR or LA concentrations compared to those that completed the SET, which may have been a sign of overreaching. HR had no predictive value for the performance score, but horses that did not reach the anaerobic threshold in SET-II scored significantly better (73.8 ± 5.6 points) than horses that did not (69.9 ± 5.9 points, P=0.025). The findings demonstrate for the first time in the horse a familial aggregation of HR response to training, as has been reported previously in humans. Familial aggregation suggests a genetic influence on the effect of training on fitness in horses. HR could not predict final performance score, but LA concentrations during SET-II were predictive
3-Ls: A MODEL FOR TEACHING YOUNG LEARNERS
No full textThe fact that EFL literacy in Indonesia is still low led me to conduct this study to cultivate reading habits and increase literacy skills of young learners. Using the 3-Ls—libraries, literature, and literacy—as an instructional model, the study involved five methods: Informational Text Structures; Online Resources; Partnership with Librarians; Big6; and Literature Circles. The sample consisted of 200 fifth graders divided equally into five groups, each of which was also divided into experimental and control groups. Each of tThe experimental groups was taught for three months using one method. All the students in both groups were given English tests and a questionnaire before and after the experiment. The results showed that the experimental groups outperformed the control groups with a significant mean difference of 21.73 on literacy skills and 10.15 on reading habits. Using regression analysis, it was also found that 3-Ls as a whole had given a significant contribution to both students’ reading habits (R2 0,793) and literacy skills (R 0,943) with the highest percentage contributed by every method was reading skill. However, in spite of demonstrating significant effects on students’ literacy, these methods still did not bring the students’ literacy to an acceptable level. A factor that might contribute to the low achievement of their English literacy was that the 3-Ls model requires optimal facilities
Driving into the sunset: Supporting cognitive functioning in older drivers
No full textCopyright @ 2011 Mark S. Young and David Bunce - This article has been made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund.The rise in the aging driver population presents society with a significant challenge-how to maintain safety and mobility on the roads. On the one hand, older drivers pose a higher risk of an at-fault accident on a mile-for-mile basis; on the other hand, independent mobility is a significant marker of quality of life in aging. In this paper, we review the respective literatures on cognitive neuropsychology and ergonomics to suggest a previously unexplored synergy between these two fields. We argue that this conceptual overlap can form the basis for future solutions to what has been called "the older driver problem." Such solutions could be found in a range of emerging driver assistance technologies offered by vehicle manufacturers, which have the potential to compensate for the specific cognitive decrements associated with aging that are related to driving.Support was received from the Leverhulme Trust, UK
‘Getting Qualified in Woodwork’: Young people’s reasons for choosing VET programmes in the UK
No full textThis paper reports on a qualitative study carried out in the UK during summer 2010 on behalf of City and Guilds Centre for Skills Development (CSD). The study formed part of a wider, international project which aimed to explore young people’s perceptions of vocational education and training (VET), and as such is of significance in the Australian context: it also formed part of the evidence for the influential Wolf Review of Vocational Education which reported to the UK government in 2011. The study found that serendipity, contingent events and influence of significant others are most influential in choice of vocational programme and
that young peoples’ understandings of possible career paths vary in sophistication, differentiated by age, programme level and subject area. Perceived attractiveness of VET was closely associated with societal perception of their courses (which the young
people considered to be negative) suggesting that, in the UK, pre-Coalition policy (before May 2010) has been unsuccessful in addressing issues of parity of esteem, despite considerable policy investment in the VET sector.
The paper explores the implications of these findings for the ‘English model’ of Vocational Education in the context of current Coalition policy. It concludes that whilst some recent policy initiatives, such as the proposed introduction of University Technical Colleges may be successful in raising the esteem of some forms of specialised VET, broad vocational courses at lower levels will continue to be held in lower esteem and to confer little educational advantage on those young people, largely drawn from working class backgrounds and displaying multiple exclusionary characteristics, who pursue them
Giant Magnetic Anisotropy Induced by Ligand LS Coupling in Layered Cr Compounds
No full textWe propose a novel origin of magnetic anisotropy to explain the unusual magnetic behaviors of layered ferromagnetic Cr compounds (3d(3)) wherein the anisotropy field varies from less than or similar to 0.01 to similar to 3 T on changing the ligand atom in a common hexagonal structure. The effect of the ligand p orbital spin-orbit (LS) coupling on the magnetic anisotropy is explored by using four-site full multiplet cluster model calculations for energies involving the superexchange interaction at different spin axes. Our calculation shows that the anisotropy energy, which is the energy difference for different spin axes, is strongly affected not only by the LS coupling strength but also by the degree of p-d covalency in the layered geometry. This anisotropy energy involving the superexchange appears to dominate the magnetic anisotropy and even explains the giant magnetic anisotropy as large as 3 T observed in CrI3
Young America Juvenile Library
No full text"Twenty-six years ago I bought a first copy of this book at Renaissance in Milwaukee. Here is a second copy in poorer condition. It has the same printer's error listed below. I keep it in the collection because it is a good example of the publisher's practice of taking whatever cloth he had and using it for the cover. In this case, that cover is red. Then it was blue. As I wrote then, the book's squarish page-format and short verse fables mark it off from other books. Each of the thirty-two fables (128 pages) receives one or two illustrations; many tail-pieces seem only vaguely related to the fable. The tellings seem to me at first glance to place it squarely in the tradition of Phaedrus. In many ways it is a classic book, even in its choice of fables to present. They include: WL, FK, BF, DS, LS, WC, "The Ass & Lion," OF, FS, "The Fly & Horse," DW, CJ, "The Man & Serpent," 2P, "The Lark & Her Young," "The Crab & Her Daughter," "The Mountain in Labor," SW, "The Satyr & Traveller," "Hercules & the Carter," GA, "The Ape & Her Young," DLS, DM, "The Stag & Vine," "The Mischievous Dog," "The Boys & the Frogs," "The Farmer & His Sons," "The Old Woman & Her Maids," "The Eagle & Crow," and "The Ass & Master." The printer and editor made a mistake: Fables 15-17 come after Fable 19, though the pagination works correctly."This is a hardbound book (hard cover)No Autho
Author Attributions in Medieval Text Collections: An Exploration
No full textThis article examines the role and function of author attributions in multi-text manuscripts containing Dutch, English, French or German short verse narratives. The findings represent one strand of the investigations undertaken by the cross-European project ‘The Dynamics of the Medieval Manuscript’, which analysed the dissemination of short verse narratives and the principles of organisation underlying the compilation of text collections. Whilst short verse narratives are more commonly disseminated anonymously, there are manuscripts in which authorship is repeatedly attributed to a text or corpus. Through six case studies, this article explores medieval concepts of authorship and how they relate to constructions of authority, whether regarding an empirical figure or a literary construction. In addition, it looks at how authorship plays a role in manuscript compilation, and at the effects of attributions (by author and/or compiler) on reception. The case studies include manuscripts from the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries, produced in a range of social and cultural contexts, and featuring some of the most important European authors of short verse narratives: Rutebeuf, Baudouin de Condé, Der Striker, Konrad von Würzberg, Willem of Hildegaersberch, and Geoffrey Chaucer. The preliminary findings contribute to our understanding of author attributions in text collections from across northern Europe and point towards future lines of enquiry into the role of authorship in medieval textual dissemination
Young Agents: Jonge auteurs op de vroegmoderne boekenmarkt
No full textYoung Agents: the Young Author’s Role on the Dutch Republic’s Book Market１ In this article, we investigate the role of young authors on the upcoming and flourishing book market of the Dutch Republic (1550-1800), focusing in particular on their ‘agency’. By investigating the specific contribution of young authors to this market and by discriminating between roles of young adults and adults, we introduce a new approach to early modern authorship. Combining quantitative digital experiments and qualitative textual analyses, we seek to tease out the dynamic relationship between the young authors’ independence, competences, and behaviour on the one hand, and representations, self-images and production figures on the other. The first results of our research reveal that young authors frequently showed themselves indebted to their masters, but also created their own voice, often selfconfident and engaged, by appropriating specific genres and topics in new ways. Contrary to what contemporary poetics and well-known forms of (self) reflection suggest, young authors appear to have had a clear, outspoken presence in the Dutch book market which became ever more prominent in both the consumption and production of Dutch books
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