\u27Broken Circle,\u27 A Play About Family Life, Memphis Little Theatre, 1967 October

\u27Broken Circle,\u27 A Play About Family Life, at Memphis Little Theatre, 1967 October. This play was most likely associated with Plays for Living. “Plays for Living” was a non-profit initiative that utilized theatre as a tool to assist with implementing social change and to address sensitive issues with members of the community. “Plays for Living” was a division of the Family Service Association of America and Family Service of Memphis locally performed numerous plays from this non-profit initiative. Rights This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-famservicememphis2/1004/thumbnail.jp

Correspondence, to Governor Gordon W. Browning, from Mrs. Tom J. Davis, 1937 July 1

Correspondence, to Honorable Gordon W. Browning, Governor, Nashville, TN, from Mrs. Tom J. Davis, Chattanooga, TN, 1937 July 1. Mrs. Davis was writing on behalf of the Republican League of Women Voters, of which she was President. She was also Vice-Chairman of the Hamilton County Executive Committee. She was expressing her and her organization\u27s support for Governor Browning and opinions on a Republican election commissioner for Hamilton County.https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-waldaueradpapers1/1005/thumbnail.jp

Shelby County Criminal Justice System

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Equity in School Counseling: School Administrations\u27 Perception of School Counselor Roles for Supporting the Academic and Social-Emotional Development of Black Students

This qualitative study explores the roles and responsibilities of school counselors, focusing on their collaboration with administrators in supporting Black students. The research aims to clarify administrator perceptions of counselors, examine systemic barriers to their collaboration, and assess institutional policies that influence equity-driven counseling practices. The study addresses three key research questions: (1) How do school counselors interpret their experiences related to power dynamics with administrators while advocating for Black students? (2) How do school administrators understand their roles and the roles of school counselors in fostering student support structures? and (3) How do school counselors and administrators perceive institutional policies affecting Black student advocacy. Using a qualitative design, semi-structured interviews were conducted with five school administrators and five school counselors. Thematic analysis revealed four major themes: (1) the importance of collaborative relationships and power structures in student advocacy, (2) role ambiguity and administrative expectations limiting counselors\u27 effectiveness, (3) institutional policies affecting equitable resource allocation and disciplinary practices, and (4) the necessity for trauma-informed professional development for educators. The findings highlight the K.I.P.E.R.S. framework as a valuable tool for analyzing the intersection of knowledge, integration, power, equity, relationships, and support in school counseling. The study calls for policy reforms that allow counselors to engage in student advocacy without bureaucratic constraints

A Dual Perspective On Fault Mechanics: Insights From Laboratory Acoustic Emissions And Induced Seismicity

Earthquakes occur across multiple spatial scales depending on fault zone characteristics and mechanics. Fault failure, the mechanism responsible for earthquakes, is driven by the complex interaction of stress, material properties, fault structure, and fluids. Understanding how these factors impact fault stability is key to seismic hazard assessment. Seismological observations provide crucial information about fault mechanics. However, directly measuring the influence of fault properties on earthquake nucleation and fault rupture remains a significant challenge. This dissertation investigates the multi-scale processes of earthquake nucleation and fault failure. This involves integrating high-precision locations of acoustic emission events (AEs) in laboratory fault gouge experiments with analysis of induced seismicity and ground deformation in the Blue Mountain Geothermal, Nevada. This multiscale approach aims to understand fault behavior as a function of stress state, structural maturity, and gouge composition. We first analyzed ground deformation and induced seismicity in the geothermal reservoir using seismic, geodetic, and hydraulic data from 2016 to 2020. High resolution InSAR mapping and high-quality earthquake locations reveal long-term surface subsidence above the reservoir, punctuated by short-lived seismicity spikes during abrupt shutdowns of operational wells. We show that these rapid seismic transients are driven by short-term poroelastic stress changes, which temporarily increase Coulomb stressing rates on the faults. On the other hand, the long-term deformation is induced by aseismic fault slip and thermal contraction. These findings demonstrate the complex interactions between fluid flow and fault failure in geothermal reservoirs. Next, to explore the microscale processes associated with earthquake nucleation and fault failure, we conducted frictional sliding experiments on fault gouge layers between corrugated polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) blocks under controlled shear and normal stresses. The AE events produced during the stick-slip and stable sliding experiments were located with millimeter accuracy. The spatiotemporal AE evolution on stick-slip fault gouge exhibits long-term strain localization followed by a brief period of delocalization immediately prior to fault failure, coinciding with rapid slip acceleration. In contrast, stable sliding fault gouge shows strain localization without the precursory delocalization phase before failure. Furthermore, we compared AE distributions from two different gouge zones: homogeneous gouge between PMMA blocks and heterogeneous gouge in granite. The results reveal that heterogeneous fault zones with off-fault damage exhibit prolonged strain partitioning from the damage zone into the gouge layer before fault slip. The findings from laboratory and geothermal reservoir demonstrate that the seismogenic potential of a fault is governed by stress state, structural maturity, and gouge composition. Together, these factors influence strain localization and earthquake nucleation. Our study emphasizes the significance of a multiscale approach to understanding fault mechanics, combining the lab and field observations. The integrated investigation of induced seismicity and labquakes under diverse conditions revealed a broad spectrum of fault behavior and may contribute to improving seismic hazard assessment and earthquake prediction

ACCURATE AND AUTOMATED QUANTIFICATION OF HEPATIC STEATOSIS AND IRON OVERLOAD USING MRI VIA SIMULATIONS, PHANTOMS AND PATIENT DATA

Hepatic steatosis and iron overload are common manifestations of diffuse liver disease. They can cause lipotoxicity and iron toxicity respectively via oxidative hepatocellular injury and can lead to progressive fibrosis, cirrhosis, and eventually, liver failure. Over the past two decades, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has emerged as a non-invasive tool to diagnose steatosis and iron overload. Multi-spectral fat-water models incorporating R2* correction have been proposed to simultaneously quantify fat and iron overload. However, there is still an ongoing debate on whether the multi-spectral signal model assuming same R2* (single-R2*) or different R2* (dual-R2*) for fat and water is accurate in the presence of fat. Additionally, current studies lack thorough investigation of R2* techniques for fat and iron quantification covering the entire clinical range. Apart from this, clinical reporting of steatosis and iron overload from MRI images requires manual liver segmentation, which is time intensive and can have reader bias, hence serving as a bottleneck in the clinical workflow. To overcome these limitations, the purpose of this dissertation is firstly, to evaluate the performance of multispectral fat-water models for fat and iron quantification using simulations covering the entire clinical spectrum and validating using phantoms and secondly, to design an automatic liver segmentation algorithm for expediting the clinical reporting of hepatic iron overload

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Promotional flyer for the February 2025 Dissertation Writers Retreat Spring Workshop

Chetolah – Residence of P.P Van Vleet

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2025 Higher Education County Profile, Montgomery County

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2025 Higher Education County Profile, Rutherford County

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