THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN AUTHOR: MELVILLE AND THE IDEA OF A NATIONAL LITERATURE

In this study I examine the ways in which the idea of a national literature affected the development of both Herman Melville\u27s career and of his reputation through 1930. Melville, as a member of the New York literary group Young America, participated in an effort to define and create a national literature. His apprenticeship was served under the influence of Young America, and the group\u27s ideas about the act of writing, the defining qualities of a national work, and the relationship of writer and reader influenced the shape of his career. Although Melville\u27s exploration into the implications of Young America\u27s theories pushed him into profound religious and social questions that were, according to the group, better left unprobed, he could not escape the contradictions inherent in Young America\u27s theories--contradictions that made professional authorship and the development of a national literature mutually exclusive enterprises. The first chapter of the dissertation examines Melville\u27s relationship with Young America and the arguments of both Melville\u27s group and the more conservative Whig reviewers over the necessity of a national literature, the defining characteristics of that literature, and the role of professional authorship in America. The next six chapters trace the development of Melville\u27s career in light of his relationship with Young America. In the appendix, I examine the dramatic revaluation of Melville\u27s place in American literature during the 1920s. Just as Melville\u27s career becomes representative of the difficulties that many American writers encountered in trying to resolve the paradoxes inherent in the profession of authorship during the 1840s and 1850s, his Revival is representative of the broader revaluation of the American literary canon that occurred during the 1920s. Melville\u27s career and the history of his reputation help illuminate the central issues in America\u27s peculiarly self-conscious attempt to create and define a truly national literature.

Project Nurture: An Educational Model for Substance Use Disorder Treatment During & After Pregnancy: Saving lives, saving money, saving families, and training future doctors

BACKGROUND: • 25% of women presenting for prenatal care are using substances. • Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) in pregnancy are associated with preterm birth, intrauterine growth restriction, placental abruption, increased risk of C-section. • Infants exposed to in utero illicit substances have higher likelihood of being small for gestational age, experiencing a neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome that requires prolonged NICU hospitalization, and are at higher risk of developmental delay. • Societal costs of SUDs in pregnancy include worsening mental illness, increased utilization of the foster care system, early death secondary to overdose, and associated financial burdens. • The nature of SUDs, and how they are perceived by society, has made it difficult for pregnant women to receive appropriate care. • Pregnant women suffering from addiction often feel they cannot trust the medical system and fear the potential loss of their infants. • There is considerable variation in the way that pregnant women with chemical dependency are treated, and most models have not been adequately studied. • Project Nurture is a novel treatment model combining prenatal care, primary care, and addiction treatment with a multidisciplinary team • Housed within Providence Milwaukie Family Medicine Residency, Project Nurture has also provided doctors in training with valuable experience caring for women and babies affected by SUDs, including: • Training in Medication Assisted Therapy • Education and experience on managing high risk pregnancy care for patients with SUDs • Caring for newborns with Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome, both in and out of the NICU • Participating in an innovative primary care model • Pediatric primary care for infants with utero drug exposures • Managing buprenorphine induction during pregnancy • Continuity delivery experiences • Developing knowledge of community resources available to patients with SUDs OBJECTIVES: • Assess resident interest, experience, and goals related to addiction care for pregnant women and families • Examine common primary care outcomes for women and families involved in the Project Nurture program METHODS: 1. Pregnancy-related outcomes, social measures, and primary care outcomes were tracked for 3 years for all participating Project Nurture patients and their infants. 2. Current and former residents of Providence Milwaukie Family Medicine were surveyed on their training experience and translation to independent primary care practice. 3. Data was compiled and analyzed for review and exploration of outcomes and trends. RESULTS: • 84% of surveyed residents indicated an interest in addiction medicine prior to entering the program. • The majority of current residents indicate that they will feel comfortable managing infants with Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome in their future practice. • The majority of current residents indicate that they will feel comfortable addressing addiction with pregnant patients in their future practice. • 87% of Project Nurture patients obtained long-acting contraception (Nexplanon, intrauterine device, tubal ligation). • 80% of infants born to Project Nurture were completely up to date on their recommended vaccinations. • 77% of Project Nurture patients had successfully obtained long-term custody of their infants. • 88% of Project Nurture patients were up to date on well woman care such as cervical cancer screening. CONCLUSIONS: • Incoming residents value addiction medicine training. • Residents recognize importance of managing addiction in their future practice. • Project Nurture and other MAT models of care provide valuable training experiences. • Residents plan to care for patients and families suffering from addiction. • Resident training experiences have provided a foundation for providing addiction care in future practice.https://digitalcommons.psjhealth.org/milwaukie_family/1003/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, December 6, 2018

Snapchat Story Leads to School Enforcement of Discriminatory Acts Policy • What\u27s in Store for Martin Luther King, Jr. Week • Ursinus Celebrated the Fifth Annual #Giving2UCday on Campus • Student Employee Profiles: Facilities • The Curtain Club and how Theatre Evolved at Ursinus • Opinions: It\u27s Time to Retire the War on Christmas ; Let Students Spend Dining Dollars Off-Campus • Athlete Spotlight: Junior Quarterback Tom Garlick • Eric Williams Jr. Knocks Down 1,000th Career Point for UC Men\u27s Basketballhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1610/thumbnail.jp

Coastal Wave Powered Reverse Osmosis System

Part of the Marine Energy Collegiate Competition (MECC) is the optional Build and Test Challenge where teams are encouraged to build a portion of their proposed solution. After the conducted testing the laboratory results are compared to the simulated and calculated models. For the MECC the University of New Hampshire (UNH) team decided to use a wave energy converter to produce pressurized water. The pressurized water would be filtered through a reverse osmosis membrane to make it potable. Our system uses the power of the ocean waves to move a float up and down in heave motion. This motion drives a piston in a piston chamber. The piston and piston chamber are two separate buoys that work together to create the pressurized water. The relative motion between the piston float and the piston chamber float creates pressurized water for the reverse osmosis membrane. Our team decided to reproduce our system at a 1/8 scale and test it in the UNH wave tank in the Jere A. Chase Ocean Engineering Lab. The UNH wave tank can produce waves at specific periods and wave heights which allows testing of the device at scaled down wave heights and periods using Froude scaling

Localization of aquaporin CHIP in the human eye: implications in the pathogenesis of glaucoma and other disorders of ocular fluid balance

PURPOSE. The existence of integral membrane proteins that serve as selective water channels has been postulated to explain the movement of water across plasma membranes. Aquaporin CHIP (channel-forming integral membrane protein of 28 kd) is the first such channel to be characterized and is abundant in human erythrocytes and a variety of secretory and absorptive epithelia of the rat. Because disturbances in the movement of water characterize several ocular diseases, the distribution of CHIP in the human eye was studied. METHODS. Affinity-purified antibodies against purified CHIP protein were used for the indirect immunofluorescence localization of CHIP in human eye structures. Labeling was confirmed by immunoblot analyses of membrane preparations from eye structures. RESULTS. CHIP immunolabeling was found in the corneal endothelium, the lens epithelium, the nonpigmented epithelium of the ciliary process, the iris epithelium, and the endothelium of the trabecular meshwork and the canal of Schlemm. CONCLUSIONS. The presence of CHIP water channels in the secretory and absorptive tissues of the human eye provides a mechanism for transcellular water movement and may be important for understanding diseases of the eye that involve excess or insufficient movement of ocular fluid such as glaucoma, cataracts, and Fuch's dystrophy. In addition, the existence of CHIP in the outflow pathways of the human eye provides a novel explanation for the movement of water out of the eye

Low-cost electronic sensors for environmental research: pitfalls and opportunities

Repeat observations underpin our understanding of environmental processes, but financial constraints often limit scientists’ ability to deploy dense networks of conventional commercial instrumentation. Rapid growth in the Internet-Of-Things (IoT) and the maker movement is paving the way for low-cost electronic sensors to transform global environmental monitoring. Accessible and inexpensive sensor construction is also fostering exciting opportunities for citizen science and participatory research. Drawing on 6 years of developmental work with Arduino-based open-source hardware and software, extensive laboratory and field testing, and incor- poration of such technology into active research programmes, we outline a series of successes, failures and lessons learned in designing and deploying environmental sensors. Six case studies are presented: a water table depth probe, air and water quality sensors, multi-parameter weather stations, a time-sequencing lake sediment trap, and a sonic anemometer for monitoring sand transport. Schematics, code and purchasing guidance to reproduce our sensors are described in the paper, with detailed build instructions hosted on our King’s College London Geography Environmental Sensors Github repository and the FreeStation project website. We show in each case study that manual design and construction can produce research-grade scientific instrumentation (mean bias error for calibrated sensors –0.04 to 23%) for a fraction of the conventional cost, provided rigorous, sensor-specific calibration and field testing is conducted. In sharing our collective experiences with build-it- yourself environmental monitoring, we intend for this paper to act as a catalyst for physical geographers and the wider environmental science community to begin incorporating low-cost sensor development into their research activities. The capacity to deploy denser sensor networks should ultimately lead to superior envi- ronmental monitoring at the local to global scales

QuakeCoRE and OpenSees (Year 2) : Initiatives and Activities to Reduce Barriers to Entry and Reduce Time to Solutions

The OpenSees finite element platform (Open System for Earthquake Engineering Simulation) developed through the University of California Berkeley is the principal collaborative software identified by QuakeCoRE Technology Platform 4 for use in detailed seismic response modelling of individual infrastructure components. OpenSees was selected for this purpose due to its capabilities as an open-source platform for sequential and parallel analysis of both geotechnical and structural systems. OpenSees is one of the few tools available with all of these attributes, and due to this unique combination of features it meets all three of the underlying principles identified for QuakeCoRE Technology Platform 4: it is open-source, it is scalable (able to make use of HPC resources), and it is flexible (works for variety of problem types and able to work with other QuakeCoRE software modules). The primary objectives of OpenSees development under Technology Platform 4 coincide with the overall objectives of the tech platform. These two objectives are somewhat intertwined, but specific OpenSees-related tasks/objectives are noted for each

What Consensus? Ideology, Politics and Elections Still Matter

This article, which was prepared for an ABA Antitrust Section Panel, discusses the role of ideology and politics in antitrust enforcement and the impact of elections in the last twenty year on enforcement and policy at the federal antitrust agencies. The article explains the differences in antitrust ideologies and their impact on policy preferences. The article then uses a database of civil non-merger complaints by the DOJ and FTC over the last three Presidential administrations to analyze changes in the number, type and other characteristics of antitrust enforcement. It also discusses change in vertical merger enforcement and other antirust policies such as amicus briefs, reports and guidelines. The article concludes that elections do matter and that the impact of elections on the DOJ and FTC has differed significantly

Exile Vol. LVIII

Autumn Stiles: Biblical Brooklyn 5 Daniel Carlson: A Night Indoors 6 Moriah Ellenborgen: Cradle Drop 8 Nicco Pandolfi: Cardinality 10 Abby Current: Babies in the Snow 11 Maggie Reagan: Chimaera 13 Natalie Olivo: Treading Water 14 Julianne Hyer: Swatch Watch 21 Mimi Mendes de Leon: For Bosnia 23 A. Tangredi: How to Keep from Freezing 24 Autumn Stiles: Bodies and Bread 25 Christie Maillet: The Depth of a Song 26 Sam Heyman: First Kiss 27 Shawn Whites: Five Hundred Miles to Freedom 28 Ammon Hollister: Temptation 31 Caroline Clutterbuck: The Conspiracy in Your Smile 32 Nicco Pandolfi: Sore Subject 33 Meghan Callahan: Why Claire Left 34 Aaron Bennett: Ode to Arden 36 Daniel Carlson: Duty 37 Lindsey Clark: Snapshot 38 Steph Maniaci: Ode to an M&M 39 Abby Current: The Animal Bride 41 Julianne Hyer: Trees Pantoum 42 Ammon Hollister: Life Support 43 Maggie Reagan: Necropolis 44

Architecture for access to a compute-intensive image mosaic service in the NVO

The National Virtual Observatory (NVO) will provide on-demand access to data collections, data fusion services and compute intensive applications. The paper describes the development of a framework that will support two key aspects of these objectives: a compute engine that will deliver custom image mosaics, and a "request management system," based on an e-business applications server, for job processing, including monitoring, failover and status reporting. We will develop this request management system to support a diverse range of astronomical requests, including services scaled to operate on the emerging computational grid infrastructure. Data requests will be made through existing portals to demonstrate the system: the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED), the On-Line Archive Science Information Services (OASIS) at the NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive (IRSA); the Virtual Sky service at Caltech's Center for Advanced Computing Research (CACR), and the yourSky mosaic server at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)