“Doing Gender” in Public Speaking Education: A Focus Group Analysis of Biological Sex and Gender Identity in Public Speaking Education

This exploratory focus group analysis examines the ways in which students of a Capstone Communication Studies course (N = 15) perceive factors, such as their communication studies education, biological sex, and gender roles, that have impacted their experiences with Public Speaking Anxiety (PSA) and Self-Perceived Communication Competence (SPCC), as well as the effectiveness of various treatment methods for the reduction of PSA. Three independent student focus groups were conducted – one comprised of biological females (n = 5), one of males (n = 3), and one containing subjects of both biological sexes (n = 7). Herein participants discussed their personal experiences with PSA, and whether/ how their education within the communications major aided them in overcoming it. Results were analyzed using thematic analysis to draw implications for the enhancement of instructional PSA mitigation methodologies and to determine whether different PSA treatments are more effective for one biological sex or the other, or based upon identified gender roles

Alien Registration- Coburn, Margaret A. K (Brownville, Piscataquis County)

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Heat flow, weighted Bergman spaces, and real analytic Lipschitz approximation

We show that, for f any uniformly continuous (UC) complex-valued function on real Euclidean n-space ℝn, the heat flow f˜(t) is Lipschitz for all t > 0 and f˜(t) converges uniformly to f as t → 0. Analogously, let Ω be any irreducible bounded symmetric (Cartan) domain in complex n-space ℂn and consider the Bergman metric β(·,·) on Ω. For f any β-uniformly continuous function Ω, we show that there is a Berezin-Harish-Chandra flow of real analytic functions Bλf which is β-Lipschitz for each λ ≥ p (p, the genus of Ω) and Bλf converges uniformly to f as λ → ∞. For a certain subspace of UC we obtain stronger approximation results and we study the asymptotic behaviour of the Lipschitz constants. © 2015 by De Gruyter

New direction for gamma-rays

The origin of energetic gamma-ray bursts is still unknown. But the detection of polarization of gamma-rays provides fresh insight into the mechanism driving these powerful explosions.Comment: Nature "News & Views", RE Coburn & Boggs (astro-ph/0305377

The Characteristics and Roles of Rural Health Clinics in the United States: A Chartbook

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Completing the puzzle of the 2004-2005 outburst in V0332+53: the brightening phase included

Analysis of the data obtained with the RXTE observatory during a powerful outburst of the X-ray pulsar V0332+53 in 2004-2005 is presented. Observational data covering the outburst brightening phase are analysed in detail for the first time. A comparison of source parameters and their evolution during the brightening and fading phases shows no evidence for any hysteresis behaviour. It is found that the dependences of the energy of the cyclotron absorption line on the luminosity during the brightening and fading phases are almost identical. The complete data sequence including the outburst brightening and fading phases makes it possible to impose the more stringent constraints on the magnetic field in the source. The pulse profile and pulsed fraction are studied as functions of the luminosity and photon energy.Comment: 9 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in MNRA

Toeplitz quantization on Fock space

For Toeplitz operators $T_f^{(t)}$ acting on the weighted Fock space $H_t^2$, we consider the semi-commutator $T_f^{(t)}T_g^{(t)} - T_{fg}^{(t)}$, where $t > 0$ is a certain weight parameter that may be interpreted as Planck's constant $\hbar$ in Rieffel's deformation quantization. In particular, we are interested in the semi-classical limit \begin{equation}\tag{$*$} \lim\limits_{t \to 0} \|T_f^{(t)}T_g^{(t)} - T_{fg}^{(t)}\|_t. \end{equation} It is well-known that $\|T_f^{(t)}T_g^{(t)} - T_{fg}^{(t)}\|_t$ tends to $0$ under certain smoothness assumptions imposed on $f$ and $g$. This result was recently extended to f,g \in \textup{BUC}(\C^n) by Bauer and Coburn. We now further generalize $(*)$ to (not necessarily bounded) uniformly continuous functions and symbols in the algebra $\textup{VMO}\cap L^{\infty}$ of bounded functions having vanishing mean oscillation on $\mathbb{C}^n$. Our approach is based on the algebraic identity $T_f^{(t)}T_g^{(t)} - T_{fg}^{(t)} = -(H_{\bar{f}}^{(t)})^*H_g^{(t)}$, where $H_g^{(t)}$ denotes the Hankel operator corresponding to the symbol $g$, and norm estimates in terms of the (weighted) heat transform. As a consequence, only $f$ (or likewise only $g$) has to be contained in one of the above classes for $(*)$ to vanish. For $g$ we only have to impose $\limsup_{t \to 0} \|H_g^{(t)}\|_t < \infty$, e.g.~g \in L^{\infty}(\C^n). We prove that the set of all symbols $f\in L^{\infty} (\mathbb{C}^n)$ with the property that $\lim_{t \rightarrow 0}\|T^{(t)}_fT^{(t)}_g-T^{(t)}_{fg}\|_t= \lim_{t \rightarrow 0} \| T_g^{(t)}T_f^{(t)}-T_{gf}^{(t)}\|_t=0$ for all $g\in L^{\infty}(\mathbb{C}^n)$ coincides with $\textup{VMO}\cap L^{\infty}$. Additionally, we show that $\lim\limits_{t \to 0} \|T_f^{(t)}\|_t = \|f\|_{\infty}$ holds for all f \in L^{\infty}(\C^n). Finally, we present new examples, including bounded smooth functions, where $(*)$ does not vanish