The Grandmother Language: Writing Community Process in Jeannette Armstrong’s Whispering in Shadows

In Whispering in Shadows, Jeannette Armstrong deftly employs non-standard English phraseology to convey Okanagan perceptions of the world. The author enacts a decolonizing process in her writing, exploring ways to evoke a proximate (but ultimately limited) experience of an Okanagan orality and world view in English. Penny Jackson’s sensibilities, which synthesize perceptions of sound, colour, and linguistic images as organically interrelated, are the primary manifestation of this process. The author's symbiosis of land, language, and community produces a creative well-spring, which encourages community-centered creative practices in keeping with the metaphoric implications of En’owkin, an Okanagan conception rooted in the belief that nurturing voluntary cooperation is essential for everyday living

Automated text analysis methods to identify the individual structure of motivation for sports and a healthy lifestyle

In this study, we set two goals: develop and test a method for assessing a person’s motivational profile, based on psychological and content analysis of the text and applicable to motivation for sports and a healthy lifestyle and test automated text analysis programs based on artificial intelligence and compare their performance with each other and with traditional expert content analysis. The selection of programs was made from 65 text analysis programs and 12 artificial intelligence-based chatbots. A total of 12 texts were used for the study, including three long interviews and speeches, and 9 short (2-6 sentences) posts on social media and online media. The evaluated texts contain 5,787 words, of which 91% are originally in Chinese and 9% in English. The content analysis methodology was substantiated in detail in our previous publications

Growing the Green Unknown: Teaching Environmental Literature in Southeastern North Carolina

Walking to class, we're still lesson planning. Indeed, although we had thought about and discussed since we were hired in fall 2006 the idea of team-teaching an environmental literature class from the perspectives of our disciplinary specialties (American Indian Studies for Jane, African American literature for Scott), our class still was a work in progress. We were excited on this first day of our brand new course at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, “Literatures of Ecoliteracy and Environmental Justice,” the first ever of its kind here. Despite its evolving character, our collaboration was strong, for we were united in our convictions: respecting our students, their communities, and their heritages; enacting environmental justice; and reconnecting ourselves, our students, and our university to our shared world

Comparison of regime‐sorted tropical cloud profiles observed by CloudSat with GEOS5 analyses and two general circulation model simulations

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/94863/1/jgrd16832.pd

Solemn laughter: Humor as subversion and resistance in the literature of Simon Ortiz and Carter Revard

Since earliest contact, Europeans have projected myriad qualities onto the being they erroneously named "Indian." Through text representations, Euramericans have constructed and reproduced profound distortions of indigenous peoples that have shaped political and material realities for Native Americans by reducing them to delimiting "types." Simultaneously, Native writers have a parallel history of representing whites as the embodiment of confusing and "uncivilized" strangeness. In writing which resists colonial definitions of externally imposed "Indianness," contemporary Native writers have increasingly recast historically racist representations by asserting authentic self-descriptions while depicting whiteness as "Other." This thesis examines the ways in which two contemporary Native writers---Simon Ortiz, Acoma, and Carter Revard, Osage---use humor as a literary strategy to subvert the Euramerican stereotypes of the "Indian" as "noble" or "wild savage" and "unscientific primitive" in order to reconstruct authentic Native identity from the true center, that lived by Native people themselves

The Grandmother Language: Writing Community Process in Jeannette Armstrong’s whispering in shadows

In whispering in shadows, Jeannette Armstrong deftly employs non-standard English phraseology to convey Okanagan perceptions of the world. The author enacts a decolonizing process in her writing, exploring ways to evoke a proximate (but ultimately limited) experience of an Okanagan orality and world view in English. Penny Jackson’s sensibilities, which synthesize perceptions of sound, colour, and linguistic images as organically interrelated, are the primary manifestation of this process. The author's symbiosis of land, language, and community produces a creative well-spring, which encourages community-centered creative practices in keeping with the metaphoric implications of En’owkin, an Okanagan conception rooted in the belief that nurturing voluntary cooperation is essential for everyday living

Patient Perceptions of Shared Decision-Making in the Acute Care Hospital and Their Association with Patient Experience and Readmission

Avoidable hospital readmissions continue to be a concerning and costly healthcare issue. While the emphasis on reducing avoidable hospital readmissions persists, incentivization strategies are evolving. Initial strategies prioritized medical care delivery, but recent regulation highlights the value of effective transitional (discharge) care planning, and particularly, patient involvement in that process. This latter aspect of care has a clear indication for the application of shared decision-making. Shared decision-making (SDM) practice in the acute care setting largely represents a gap in the literature; yet understanding patient perceptions of SDM during hospitalization is an important and timely first step in exploring the effectiveness of newly implemented regulation-driven hospital initiatives. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationships between perceptions of SDM during hospitalization, patient experience, and readmissions. This study utilized a prospective cohort design, including participant recruitment and survey distribution upon day of hospital discharge followed by an observation period to monitor for 30-day readmission. The target population was adults who were hospitalized for general medical conditions at a single community hospital. The final sample size was 83. Patient perceptions of SDM were measured using the CollaboRATE Measure of Shared Decision-Making, which was validated as part of this study. Study findings indicated that patients perceive the occurrence of SDM and participation in both care decisions and transitional planning. Most also agreed with their discharge disposition. Perceptions of SDM: varied based on patient, provider, and organizational factors during care decisions; varied based only on nurse communication during transitional care planning; were significantly related to hospital patient experience, as measured by HCAHPS subscales; were not found to be related to 30-day readmissions; however, patient agreement with discharge disposition was predictive of readmission. These findings were largely consistent with the proposed conceptual model and establish a foundation for future related research