484 research outputs found
Faith in the Great Physician
Recipient of the Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize of the American Society of Church History for 2007Faith in the Great Physician tells the story of how participants in the evangelical divine healing movement of the late nineteenth century transformed the ways Americans coped with physical affliction and pursued bodily health. Examining the politics of sickness, health, and healing during this period, Heather D. Curtis encourages critical reflection on the theological, cultural, and social forces that come into play when one questions the purpose of suffering and the possibility of healing.Curtis finds that advocates of divine healing worked to revise a deep-seated Christian ethic that linked physical suffering with spiritual holiness. By engaging in devotional disciplines and participating in social reform efforts, proponents of faith cure embraced a model of spiritual experience that endorsed active service, rather than passive endurance, as the proper Christian response to illness and pain. Emphasizing the centrality of religious practices to the enterprise of divine healing, Curtis sheds light on the relationship among Christian faith, medical science, and the changing meanings of suffering and healing in American culture
THE EFFECTIVEMESS OF TEACHING BY SIBLINGS OF MANUAL SIGN LANGAUAGE
There has been little published research literature that has focused on using siblings to teach their non-verbal siblings a manual sign to communicate using the mandmodel procedure. The mand- model procedure is a naturalistic teaching strategy which has been demonstrated to improve communication and social outcomes for children with disabilities. This study investigated sibling tutors teaching their sibling tutees to use the manual sign “more” to request a want or need. The four sibling tutees were between the ages of 25 and 26 months and their sibling tutors were between the ages of 9 and 14 years. A multiple probe design across subjects was used for this study. The mand-model procedure, the independent variable, was used by the sibling tutors to teach the sibling tutees the manual sign “more.” The effectiveness of the use of the manual sign “more” was the independent variable. All four of the sibling tutees were able to successfully learn the manual sign and used the sign across maintenance and generalization phases
Secondary Handbilling: The Need For a New Response
This article will examine both the reasoning between the two diverging lines of cases regarding secondary handbilling and picketing, and the possible avenues of relief which might be available to the neutral employer that finds itself caught in the crossfire of a labor dispute
Development of a Quantitative Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) Assay for Plant Species
In order to facilitate optimal plant DNA quantitation and identification, an assay has been developed that uses generic plant PCR primers that amplify a region in the chloroplast genome of plant samples. The assay uses the SYBR green detection dye to detect the PCR product with a universal PCR primer set to the large subunit of ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase, rbcL, but can be used with any of the universal barcode primers for land plants (rbcL, matK, trnH, psbA). Standard dilutions of control wheat DNA of varying concentrations were tested to create a standard curve. Several plant DNA extractions of different species of unknown concentrations were also tested and the concentrations were quantified from the standard curve. This paper discusses the experimental procedures used to develop and optimize a real-time PCR assay for plants in order to detect plant species that is modeled after the human DNA detection system called Quantifiler for forensic applications. In principle, this can be used to quantitate DNA from any chloroplast containing plant species that is present as trace material at a crime scene, grass stains, or for food and drug analysis
Using Films to Increase Cultural Competence in Working With LGBTQ Clients
There is a dearth of research on effective strategies for teaching counselors-in-training how to work more effectively with LGBTQ clients. Experiential learning activities, such as watching films, can increase students’ knowledge of their attitudes and beliefs about themselves and culturally diverse clients. This qualitative study explored, in the context of a sexuality and counseling course, how 27 students’ awareness, knowledge, and skills were influenced by the use of two films, For the Bible Tells Me So and Normal, which illuminate the experiences of LGBTQ individuals and their families. Results and implications for counselor educators are provided
Using Films to Increase Cultural Competence in Working With LGBTQ Clients
There is a dearth of research on effective strategies for teaching counselors-in-training how to work more effectively with LGBTQ clients. Experiential learning activities, such as watching films, can increase students’ knowledge of their attitudes and beliefs about themselves and culturally diverse clients. This qualitative study explored, in the context of a sexuality and counseling course, how 27 students’ awareness, knowledge, and skills were influenced by the use of two films, For the Bible Tells Me So and Normal, which illuminate the experiences of LGBTQ individuals and their families. Results and implications for counselor educators are provided
The Cochabamba water war social movement : a successful challenge to neoliberal expansion in Bolivia?
137 leaves ; 29 cm.Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 132-137).This thesis determines how the Cochabamba water war social movement, a movement
protesting the privatization of the Cochabamba water system, impacted neoliberal policies in Bolivia. First, it examines the construction and implementation of the neoliberal model and responses to this model in the popular sector. This thesis finds that despite significant results at the international level, the transfer of the Cochabamba water system, SEMAPA, back to the public sector did not drastically improve water access or quality of water services. Finally, the research shows how the Coordinadora utilized diverse protest methods to fight against the privatization of water and to support direct political participation. The thesis concludes by arguing that despite the Coordinadora not achieving its goal of democratizing SEMAPA, it did succeed in challenging the expansion of the neoliberal policy of privatizing water by using protest methods involving direct political participation and democracy
Gyrochronology: TESS Light Curve Analysis
Gyrochronology is the observed correlation between the age of a cool main-sequence star like the Sun and its rotational period. Various methods can be used to determine stellar rotation periods, however NASA’s Kepler mission and NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission provide complementary data for this type of project. Kepler focused on a very small observational field for almost four continuous years, whereas TESS continues to survey the entire night sky for intervals of about one month at a time. Due to this difference in cadence, it is important to compare the resulting rotation periods obtained from these surveys. We have constructed TESS light curves to compare to existing Kepler light curves of the same target stars observed at different epochs. Identifying the conditions under which TESS rotation periods may differ from those derived from the Kepler mission can help identify the random and systematic biases of each data set. This poster presents some preliminary results of this comparison.
Support from NSF grants AST-1910396, AST-2108975 and NASA grants 80NSSC22K0622, 80NSSC21K0245, and NNX16AB76G is gratefully acknowledged.
*Florida Gulf Coast Universit
A map of the day-night contrast of the extrasolar planet HD 189733b
"Hot Jupiter" extrasolar planets are expected to be tidally locked because
they are close (<0.05 astronomical units, where 1 AU is the average Sun-Earth
distance) to their parent stars, resulting in permanent daysides and
nightsides. By observing systems where the planet and star periodically eclipse
each other, several groups have been able to estimate the temperatures of the
daysides of these planets. A key question is whether the atmosphere is able to
transport the energy incident upon the dayside to the nightside, which will
determine the temperature at different points on the planet's surface. Here we
report observations of HD 189733, the closest of these eclipsing planetary
systems, over half an orbital period, from which we can construct a 'map' of
the distribution of temperatures. We detected the increase in brightness as the
dayside of the planet rotated into view. We estimate a minimum brightness
temperature of 973 +/- 33 K and a maximum brightness temperature of 1212 +/- 11
K at a wavelength of 8 microns, indicating that energy from the irradiated
dayside is efficiently redistributed throughout the atmosphere, in contrast to
a recent claim for another hot Jupiter. Our data indicate that the peak
hemisphere-integrated brightness occurs 166 degrees before opposition,
corresponding to a hot spot shifted east of the substellar point. The secondary
eclipse (when the planet moves behind the star) occurs 120 +/- 24 s later than
predicted, which may indicate a slightly eccentric orbit.Comment: To appear in the May 10 2007 issue of Nature, 10 pages, 2 black and
white figures, 1 colo
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