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Queer People on My Street

Non-fiction by Barbara Winder

After the Fall: Legacy Effects of Biogenic Structure on Wind-Generated Ecosystem Processes Following Mussel Bed Collapse

Blue mussels (Mytilus edulis) are ecosystem engineers with strong effects on species diversity and abundances. Mussel beds appear to be declining in the Gulf of Maine, apparently due to climate change and predation by the invasive green crab, Carcinus maenas. As mussels die, they create a legacy of large expanses of shell biogenic structure. In Maine, USA, we used bottom traps to examine effects of four bottom cover types (i.e., live mussels, whole shells, fragmented shells, bare sediment) and wind condition (i.e., days with high, intermediate, and low values) on flow-related ecosystem processes. Significant differences in transport of sediment, meiofauna, and macrofauna were found among cover types and days, with no significant interaction between the two factors. Wind condition had positive effects on transport. Shell hash, especially fragmented shells, had negative effects, possibly because it acted as bed armor to reduce wind-generated erosion and resuspension. Copepods had the greatest mobility and shortest turnover times (0.15 d), followed by nematodes (1.96 d) and the macrofauna dominant, Tubificoides benedeni (2.35 d). Shell legacy effects may play an important role in soft-bottom system responses to wind-generated ecosystem processes, particularly in collapsed mussel beds, with implications for recolonization, connectivity, and the creation and maintenance of spatial pattern

The Relationship among Caregiver Depressive Symptoms, Parenting Behavior, and Familycenter Care All

Background Parental depression has been associated with adverse child outcomes. However, the specific parenting behaviors that may result in such child outcomes and the effect of family-centered care (FCC) on positive parenting behavior of depressed parents has not previously been examined. Methods Data from the National Survey of Early Childhood Health was used (n = 2,068). Groups were stratified by the presence of parental depression and compared with regard to demographics and the mean number of specific positive parenting behaviors. Generalized linear models were developed based on testing whether individuals performed more or less than the median number of positive behaviors. Lastly, we tested whether depression independently predicted each outcome after adjustment for FCC, coping, social support, and ethnicity to evaluate if depression independently predicted each outcome after adjustment. Results No difference was found in demographic variables between parents who were depressed and not depressed. Parents who were not depressed performed significantly more routines (p = .036); reported coping better with parenting (p < .001); performed significantly less punitive behaviors (p = .022); and needed/had less social support (p = .002) compared with parents who were depressed. Individual items and scale scores were associated in the expected directions. FCC was independently associated with study variables but did not moderate the effect of depression. Conclusions These data identify specific parenting behaviors that differ between parents who report depressive symptoms compared with parents who do not have depressive symptoms. More targeted interventions coordinated through a medical home are needed for parents with depressive symptoms to reduce the child health disparities often associated with parental depression

The methodological quality of aphasia research: an investigation using the PsycBITE™ database

This paper examines methodological quality of aphasia research using the Psychological database for Brain Injury Treatment Efficacy™(www.psycbite.com). PsycBITE™ includes five designs: Systematic Reviews (SR), Randomised Controlled Trials (RCT), non-RCT (NRCT); Case Series (CS) and Single Subject Designs (SSD). Of 310 studies indexed for aphasia: SR=8 (3%); RCT=22 (7%); NRCT=17 (5%); CS=48 (15%); SSD=215 (69%). Methodological quality ratings (MQR) using the PEDro scale (scored out of 10) were available for 9 RCTs (mean MQR=4.6 SD = 1.5), 5 NRCTs (mean MQR=2.3, SD =1.1), and 12 CSs (mean MQR=0.9, SD =0.7). Methodological quality is discussed with suggestions for future treatment studies

The Industrial Training Act, 1964: Sunderland, a sample study

The Industrial Training Act, 1964 was introduced in order to ensure that the future needs of industry would be met at all levels by personnel adequately trained and appropriately educated. The Act granted to the Minister of Labour (later the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity) the power to establish a Central Training Council, and separate Industrial Training Boards for each branch of industry and commerce. Each board is authorised to raise a levy from employers within its scope and to pay grants to employers who undertake to provide training and associated education to the standards determined by the board. The educational content is the responsibility of the Department of Education and Science through the Colleges of Further Education and of the Examining Bodies. The first chapter described the situation in 1964 and suggests criteria by which developments may be evaluated. In order to place these developments in perspective, the second chapter analyses briefly the evolution of training and technical education in Britain with examples from Sunderland. The third chapter reviews the Act itself and details the powers which it embodies. Three chapters examine the work of the Shipbuilding, Construction and Engineering Industrial Training Boards respectively. In each the work of the Board is related to the aims and provisions of the Act and is illustrated by specific examples from Sunderland. Commercial and Clerical training is then considered in order to provide material for comparison. The concluding chapters summarise the achievements between1964 and 1968. An analysis is made with reference to the criteria of Chapter One. The general conclusion is that the Act creates a structure adequate to meet the needs, but the strengthening of its administration is required at both central and local levels to ensure that all employees in all industries are suitably trained and educated

Preparing Students for the Next Level: Using 3:1 Supports to Eliminate the Transition Gap

A capstone submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education in the College of Education at Morehead State University by Ryan Winders on April 8, 2019

Can you shut the door? : exploring the personal as political in the domestic bathroom

In reaction to contemporary society, where women’s authority over space and body is constantly at stake, an unapologetic utilization of the feminist lens, as both disciplinary positioning and generative design device, serves as a means to confront and redefine architecture’s relationship with body. The work of feminists within the discipline of architecture and beyond provide crucial precedents for reclaiming the subjectivity of the female body through a spectrum of subversive misuse. While cultural and societal roles of the woman in the home has existed for a long period of time prior, the Cult of Domesticity introduced an explicit vernacular and attitude of interior living. Its emphasis of values launched a new chapter in the narrative of domesticity, of the home, in which now the woman plays a completely aestheticized, orchestrated role within the space she occupied. Running parallel to this history of the domestic interior is the emergence and interiorization of the bathroom as an essential architecture. The bathroom, and subsequent realms of sanitation, developed in close proximity to regimes of power, race, and class. The notion of a second bathroom becoming a status symbol, hired help coming in to clean and sanitize a space deemed taboo by the upper classes. We now live in very specific moment in the history of the bathroom, one that elevates the notion of commodified wellness. Corporations push the idea of the bathroom as sanctuary, particularly to young women, marketing and capitalizing on “self care”: light your candles, grab your merlot, put on your moisturizing sheet mask and unwind from the long, arduous day. Investigating a portrait of American Domesticity, the traditional Levittown Cape Cod home emerges as problematic, fraught with gendered spaces and wholly constructed binaries. These are spaces where women are rendered invisible on multiple levels, including representations of labor and aestheticization. This thesis acknowledges and subsequently rejects an architectural past of gendered spaces and projects an intersectional domesticity. Utilizing a core of feminist theory, the notion of “personal as political,” the Levittown home will embody and encapsulate the subjectivity of the body in a charged context, and ultimately exist as a bathroom. In this strategy of bathroom-as-house/houseas- bathroom, architectural elements are merged and radically redefined with bathroom objects to create bodily conditions that disrupt the canon of domesticity in which Levittown was birthed. This new domesticity provides a spectrum of intense misbehavior, resulting in typologies of both/and as opposed to either/or