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Busing did not fail. We did. : Doublespeak, Whiteness, and the Contradictions of Liberalism in Public Schooling

Using an interdisciplinary approach and a gear metaphor, I look at why an early 2000s school desegregation program in the Twin Cities was praised as revolutionary, but ended up resulting in greater segregation in the cities. This dissonance serves as an entry point for my greater project, in which I attempt to understand how doublespeak functions as a tool of white resistance to desegregation efforts in the North, and by extension, as a tool of white supremacy. Zooming out, I look at how the contradictions of liberalism harness the manipulation of language and the construction of whiteness to ensure that public schools serve as a site for the reproduction of white supremacy

(The) influence of Spanish literature on English literature, with special reference to the romances of chivalry and the romances of roguery.

Another copy of this thesis was scanned by the Internet Archive. Typewritten sheets in cover. Thesis (M.A.)--Boston Universit

Women and forestry : operational issues

Women are major actors in forestry throughout the developing world. Women and children are the primary collectors of fuel and fodder for home consumption and for sale to urban markets. This alone gives women a major role in the management and conservation of renewable forest resources. When convinced of the utility and practicality of a forest improvement or management scheme, women can be a powerful lobby to persuade their entire houshold or community to invest the resources necessary to make the scheme work. Involving women in forestry projects often makes the difference between achieving or not achieving project objectives, particularly for the long-term sustainability of interventions.Environmental Economics&Policies,Forests and Forestry,Forestry,Agricultural Knowledge&Information Systems,Health Monitoring&Evaluation

Methods of presenting the fundamentals of bookkeeping

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

The Coliform Kind: E. coli and Its “Cousins” The Good, the Bad, and the Deadly

Even though some intestinal bacteria strains are pathogenic and even deadly, most coliforms strains still show evidence of being one of God’s “very good” creations. In fact, bacteria serve an intrinsic role in the colon of the human body. These bacteria aid in the early development of the immune system and stimulate up to 80% of immune cells in adults. In addition, digestive enzymes, Vitamins K and B12, are produced byEscherichia coli and other coliforms. E. coli is the best-known bacteria that is classified as coliforms. The term “coliform” name was historically attributed due to the “Bacillus coli-like” forms. The bacteria are characteristically Gram-negative bacillus (rod-shaped) organisms found in the colons of man and animal. Typical genera include Escherichia, Citrobacter, Klebsiella, and Enterobacter. All these bacteria genera ferment lactose and are phenotypically similar. These genera are often used as indicators in testing the quality of water. Their presence indicates contamination that can cause transmission of infection. This leads to a bad reputation for the coliform kind. How could God consider this creation good if they cause disease

Perú: La formación inicial y continua de los profesores de matemáticas

El informe busca mostrar la situación actual en que se encuentra la formación inicial y continua de los docentes de Matemáticas en nuestro país, Perú. Se inicia con una exposición histórica sobre la formación del profesorado y se continúa con la presentación de la estructura actual de la formación inicial para dos de los niveles de formación: primaria y secundaria. Luego se expone sobre la situación de la formación continua de los docentes en ejercicio con la política actual, la situación de la Investigación en Educación Matemática y se culmina con la exposición de las fortalezas y debilidades presentes y los retos a futuro

R&D Subsidization effect and network centralization. Evidence from an agent-based micro-policy simulation

This paper presents an agent-based micro-policy simulation model assessing public R&D policy effect when R&D and non-R&D performing companies are located within a network. We set out by illustrating the behavioural structure and the computational logic of the proposed model; then, we provide a simulation experiment where the pattern of the total level of R&D activated by a fixed amount of public support is analysed as function of companies’ network topology. More specifically, the suggested simulation experiment shows that a larger “hubness” of the network is more likely accompanied with a decreasing median of the aggregated total R&D performance of the system. Since the aggregated firm idiosyncratic R&D (i.e., the part of total R&D independent of spillovers) is slightly increasing, we conclude that positive cross-firm spillover effects - in the presence of a given amount of support - have a sizeable impact within less centralized networks, where fewer hubs emerge. This may question the common wisdom suggesting that larger R&D externality effects should be more likely to arise when few central champions receive a support

Auto-motivação

The research here exposed emerges from the conclusions of a study which gave consistency to the expressed idea in literature, capability related to knowledge which constitutes the Emotional skills: Self-Motivation can and should be applied in formative contexts of Nursing Science, in such a way that achieve the intra and inter formation to a personal individual level and professional collective. The theorical construct here developed was intentionally directed to the Self-Motivation, in the Emotional Intelligence perspective, to develop a theorical profile of student, able to motivate him or herself. The methodology of that research developed itself based in the theorical hypothesis pritting from the beginning that attitudes and behaviours concerning self-motivation stated by Goleman (1999) and supported by Branco (1999) are positively and meaningfully correlated, with the ability of self-motivation. To give accomplishment to this propose, it was brought together a sample of 259 nursing students in every school of District “de Bragança” at high teaching level, being or not in “Ensino Superior” Polytechnic, were a quiz was applied with the aim of collecting that perception. The answers to the statements which integrate the applied quiz in this sample of students, are submitted to a methodology of selection and final inquiry of items, using a statistics method of analysis of essential components followed by the varimax type rotation. From the 21 items integrated in the quiz, seven Factors were come forth as sub-constructs, which, in terms of behaviour, adaptated themselves in an underlying way the capability of emotional Self-Motivation. In terms of conclusion, and trough the results of linear regression by the stepwise method, we can say that it was found seven assemblage of predicted behaviour of Self-Motivation of students of Nursing Science. The theorical hypothesis elaborated was also confirmed by the results found in this sample of students, but not exactly with the same levels of influence. The constituted Factors, correlated in a positive and meaningfully way with Self-Motivation, which constitute a behaviour profile, being original in sample and scientific point of view that’s why it doesn’t corroborate with any pattern in terms of sequence, but it integrates itself in the whole which is precognized in the construct of Goleman (1996, 1999). To sum up, it is considered that the assemblage of this seven skills are an assemblage of disorder which coordinates it self, and that is form here that emerges the concept of Self-.Motivation. In a specific and operational way the low frequencies with what students fell themselves “Illiterate… unable to use the negative energy” and the “Self negativism recognition” together with high frequencies in “Controlling the impulse”, “Rational optimism and hope” and “To stream… to feel the emotional energy…”, which give the profile to the outline of Self-Motivation of this nursing students. This assemblage of relations is considered very important to the pedagogical knowledge and interaction of students in Science