Some social factors in Aid to Dependent Children cases: a study of some social factors involved in fifty-seven Aid to Dependent Children cases closed in 1949 and 1950 in the Warwick public assistance office of the Rhode Island Department of Social Welfare.

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston Universit

WORD BOMBS: THE USE OF STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS TO COUNTER DOMESTIC VIOLENT EXTREMISM

This thesis investigates how implementing strategic communications can counter domestic violent extremist (DVE) behavior in the United States. Strategic communications use counter-messaging based on research and intelligence of the group’s behaviors and perceptions. To develop strategic communications to counter violence, this thesis explores narratives, how they work, their persuasiveness, and how emotions play a role in influencing others. Extremists use social media to propagate images depicting violence and language promoting physical violence. This thesis explores inoculation strategies, nudge theory, psychological and social approaches, and counternarratives to counter DVEs. Reasoned action theory is used as a template for determining how background information, beliefs, and intentions form extremists’ behavior and action. Four case studies are presented using DVE group examples from anarchists, Proud Boys, Boogaloo Boys, and Atomwaffen. Each case study looks at the group’s ideology, violence, social media, demographics, and narratives to better understand the group’s themes. Next, using the reasoned action theory model as well as knowledge of the group and messaging theme, the thesis provides an example of how to craft a counternarrative. This thesis recommends that government and law enforcement invest in inoculation and nudge strategies as well as artificial intelligence, and create special strategic communication teams or units.Civilian, Washington County Sheriff's OfficeApproved for public release. Distribution is unlimited

Sacramento-San Joaquin River Basin Study Comments--San Joaquin River Exchange Contractors Water Authority

Comments on the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Basin Study prepared by the the Western Water Policy Review Advisory Commission

Proguanil plus sulfamethoxazole is not causally prophylactic in the Macaca mulatta - Plasmodium cynomolgi model

New drugs for causal prophylaxis of malaria are needed. A proguanil/sulfamethoxazole combination was investigated using a rhesus monkey model (Macaca mulatta infected with Plasmodium cynomolgi) to determine whether causal prophylaxis could be achieved. When a five-day regimen of proguanil (40 mg/kg/day) combined with sulfamethoxazole (100 mg/kg/day) was used, infection of all animals (6 of 6) was observed, with an extended prepatent period (median 40 days). Two control animals became infected on days 9 and 23 following sporozoite inoculation. Plasma concentrations indicated that proguanil and sulfamethoxazole were adequately absorbed and metabolized to cycloguanil and N-4-acetylsulfamethoxazole, respectively. Analysis of liver biopsy specimens demonstrated that the drugs were present two days following sporozoite inoculation but were not detectable one week later. Proguanil plus sulfamethoxazole does not eliminate exoerythrocytic-stage parasites in the rhesus monkey-P. cynomolgi model

Cardinal Newman's Unified Vision in Prose and Poetry

It is now over one hundred and seventy years since that genius of English life, John Henry Cardinal Newman, was born, and it is more than eighty years since he went to his certain rest as one of the most enlightened Catholics of the nineteenth century. The years between those events (on February 21, 1801, and August 11, 1890) contained a life that was a monumental pilgrimage in two fields: religion and English literature. Religion was the much more important endeavor; all the other facets of Newman’s life, especially his writing, sprang from it. Newman was a priest, almost all of his adult life, a complete man of God if there ever was one. Beside this fact, all else was minor. Only a few have been so devoted to the Church; hardly anyone else has had his whole life so colored by his involvement in hie faith. In Newman's case it leavened everything, particularly his literary art, which naturally grew and evolved as a reflection of his spirit. By the time he was a great prose master, perhaps the greatest of his language, he had long been a great soul. If he had not the time to become a great poet, albeit the writer of such first-rate selections as The Dream of Gerontius and "Lead Kindly Light" among others, it was not because of a dearth of talent, but it was the press of a deeper cause.ProQuest Traditional Publishing Optio

VERDI: SHAKESPEARE AND MACBETTO

This dissertation attempts to illustrate the influence of Shakespeare on Verdi at the writing of the original Macbetto in 1847 and its Parisian revision in 1865. It speculates about how much influence early nineteenth-century operatic practices, musical and verbal, had on the composer when he first used a Shakespearian drama for one of his librettos. As such it tries to show how Verdi changed the Macbeth which he read in the Carlo Rusconi translation--a Macbeth which is true to Shakespeare, for the most part, though lacking the original\u27s great poetry. The dissertation goes on to point out what Verdi amended for Parisian tastes in 1865 when he tried to revive the work which he believed had artistic merit. The organization of the dissertation consists of five chapters, the first of which traces Shakespeare\u27s influence in Italy through 1830. It contains the information which delineates the rise of the Italian Romantics and their veneration of Shakespeare during Verdi\u27s formative years. Chapter II outlines Verdi\u27s growth as a musical and literary artist up to the first attempt to adapt Macbeth. In particular, it shows some of Verdi\u27s relationships with the librettist Solera, with whom Verdi collaborated in writing Nabucco and Ernani, two of his early successes before Macbetto. Chapter III recalls how Verdi and Piave met, worked together, and most important, how Verdi, as the dominant partner of the team, used the Rusconi translation. Both this chapter and the one following attempt to show how Verdi used music to compensate for the loss of Shakespeare\u27s poetry and for the relative dramatic disadvantages of opera as compared to spoken drama. Chapter IV outlines the Parisian revisions, showing briefly what influenced Verdi to attempt the revival and, in more detail, why he made the 1865 changes. The last chapter speculates on the merit of Verdi\u27s work and comments on the success and failure of certain renowned parts of the opera