Beyond dualism in the life sciences: implications for a feminist critique of gender-specific medicine

There are needed some alternative means of conceptualizing some of the central assumptions that support a dualist ontology in the life sciences. A reconceptualisation is crucial for an adequate understanding of the living body. Gender-specific medicine is important for women’s health, and it is making headway against internal conservatism and opposition. Men and women are different, what must be recognized and incorporated into health research, health care, and medical education. Sex hormones, featured as integral to the constitution of difference, are evidently influential in a multitude of sites of bodily function

How can BTEC teachers support young people to be prepared for careers in the media industries? A reflection on pedagogy

There are major discrepancies between the skills required in the media industries, and those BTEC (Business and Technology Education Council) Level 3 students develop during their course. While academics have described these courses as ‘pre-vocational’, there is an expectation from students, parents and now the Government that BTECs, which are more practical than A Levels, will offer young people preparation for employment. However, there are distinct differences in the skills required by the media industries and those taught on such courses. While pre-existing literature acknowledges this issue in part, it does not offer potential pedagogical solutions. Recent reforms in vocational education will effect at policy level but offer little practical support for teachers. This action research project proposes potential teaching and learning strategies to help narrow the gap between BTEC media education (one of the most popular courses perceived to be vocational in the United Kingdom) and the skills particularly of high demand in today's industries. The project was organised as part of a Twenty-First Century Learning Alliance teacher research fellowship, which enables teachers to investigate problems that affect their own classroom practice

Animation: textural difference and the materiality of Holocaust memory

The notion of “Holocaust animation” may seem paradoxical; how can a medium which, in the popular eye, is usually associated with comedy, play and fantasy be used to remember one of the 20th century’s most traumatic events? By examining the textural difference of animation to our lived world in texts such as Silence (Yadin and Bringas 1998) and I was a Child of Holocaust Survivors (Ann Marie Fleming 2010), it becomes clear how the medium can emphasise the fragile materiality of Holocaust memory. Adopting a methodology which blends transcendental phenomenology, as first outlined by Edmund Husserl, and existential phenomenology, brought into film studies in particular by Vivian Sobchack and Laura U. Marks, this paper considers the ability for animation to engage spectators with the materiality of memory, through bringing to the foreground a different way of experiencing the world to the quotidian

New ethical questions and social media: young people’s construction of Holocaust memory online

Much of the discourse about the ethics of Holocaust representation considers it a sacred event that imposes representational limits. Survivors are often considered “authorities” of Holocaust memory. However, Alasdair Richardson defines the Holocaust as an event “on the edge of living memory”: soon there will be no first-hand witnesses to share their stories. When the last survivor dies, the responsibility to remember will be entirely passed onto a new generation who cannot provide first-hand accounts of events; they did not literally witness this tragic past, but are called to “bear witness” in a more abstract sense as they remember the Holocaust through memorials, education and other media. While debates about the “appropriateness” of Holocaust representation have long-existed, the recent surge in online engagement with it complicates issues further and has led to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) launching social media guidelines for educators

Comparison of Seed Yield, Oil and Phenotypic Traits Among Selected Parents and Crosses of Niger

Niger (Guizotia abyssinica (L.f) Cass.) is primarily marketed as favorite seed among American goldfinches (Carduelis tristis) as well as pine siskin, redpoll, house finches, and ground feeding birds like quail and dove. As a part of a balanced diet, it is crucial for these species to consume a higher percentage of fats than other bird species. Fourteen niger accessions of Indian, Ethiopian, and American origin were obtained from USDA/ ARS germplasm collection at Pullman, WA and planted in August 2012 at the East Tennessee Research & Education Center. Five of these accessions were crossed to form different populations that were evaluated for genetic variation and heritability of seed yield, oil and agronomic traits to determine the feasibility of future breeding efforts in increasing total plant yield and oil content. A randomized complete block design with replication was used for this experiment. Each of four blocks consisted of 5 parent accessions (3 replications per block), 6 F1’s [filial 1] (5 replications per block), 6 F2’s [filial 2] (25 replications per block), and 8 backcrosses (5 replications per block). Two years of data were collected at the Research and Education Centers at Knoxville (2013 and 2014), Springfield (2013 and 2014), and Crossville (2014), TN (Appendix A). Traits, including seed yield, seed plant-1 [per plant], branches plant-1, capitula plant-1, average seed capitulum-1 [per capitulum], maturity, plant height, days to full bloom, seed oil, and fatty acid content were recorded. Parent accessions, F1’s, F2’s, and backcrosses were analyzed separately with ANOVA using SAS 9.3 (Cary, NC) statistical software to determine genetic variance and broad sense heritability estimates, and gene effects. In addition, the aforementioned traits were analyzed for correlations of seed yield with yield component traits as well as seed oil using SAS 9.3. Mean analyses resulted in significant differences among the 14 plant introductions as well as selected parents and F1 progeny. Evidence of high-parent heterosis and dominance gene effects suggest that hybrid breeding programs may be most appropriate. Creating inbred lines may prove to be difficult, however, due to the high degree of self-incompatibility

Animation and memory

In Pixar’s Inside Out (Docter and Del Carmen, 2015), Joy and Sadness navigate around their host Riley’s long-term memory where coloured orbs representing different events in her past are stored on shelves. The film imagines memory as fixed content that can be recalled as needed. However, developments in the interdisciplinary field of memory studies now consider memory to be much more complex than this. Like the term realism discussed elsewhere in this volume, memory is a slippery thing – it is better understood as always in a state of becoming, as related to the present more than the past, and as a creative, networked process rather than as a simple transmission of historical data. After introducing some of the broad ideas related to contemporary studies of media and memory, this chapter focuses on the ways in which we can remember the past through and with animation, and how the form can represent memory, concentrating particularly on issues of trauma and witnessing, collective memory and identity, and nostalgia

Chronic Sorrow in Family Members of Addicts: An Investigation of Partners of Addicts and Divorcees to Explore Chronic Sorrow as a Theoretical Understanding of the Experiences of Family Members of Addicts

CHRONIC SORROW IN FAMILY MEMBERS OF ADDICTS: AN INVESTIGATION OF PARTNERS OF ADDICTS AND DIVORCEES TO EXPLORE CHRONIC SORROW AS A THEORETICAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE EXPERIENCES OF FAMILY MEMBERS OF ADDICTS ABSTRACT This study attempted to examine chronic sorrow as a theoretical understanding of the negative psychological symptoms of family members of addicts (FMoAs). Partners of addicts (PoAs) (n = 94) were compared against divorcees (n = 66) for chronic sorrow and codependence. Males (n = 53) and females (n = 107) were also compared for chronic sorrow and codependence. Some hypotheses were supported, such as chronic sorrow increased as codependence increased; female PoAs scored significantly greater than the population mean for chronic sorrow; and male and female divorcee scores were equal to the population mean for chronic sorrow; however some hypotheses were not supported. Additionally, the statistical output appeared to indicate trends among certain groupings of variables: Both codependence and chronic sorrow may have application in a clinical setting for FMoAs, male PoAs consistently scored in the range below female PoAs, codependence was detected in both male divorcee and female PoA subgroups. The clinical application and significance of those findings for future research is explored, such as the influence of a recovery program on negative psychological symptoms of FMoAs. VICTORIA GRACE HARGENRADER MCLAUGHLIN DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY AND COUNSELOR EDUCATION THE COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY IN VIRGINI

Convective aggregation in idealised models: moving towards the real world

Great advances in our understanding of the climate have been made through utilising a hierarchy of models. In idealised models of the tropical climate, deep convection can spontaneously cluster together, a phenomenon termed convective self-aggregation. This clustering impacts the moisture and energy budgets and thus significant work has been undertaken to gain a more complete understanding of self-aggregation and its impacts on the climate. In particular, self-aggregation and convective organisation in the real world present quite differently. Thus, a key open question is how self-aggregation manifests in the real atmosphere. This thesis probes this question by incrementally increasing the complexity of a general circulation model in a radiative-convective equilibrium configuration to investigate the impact of an aerosol plume, a land continent, and a meridional sea surface temperature (SST) gradient on self-aggregation. The diabatic heating from the aerosol plume generates a large-scale, overturning circulation, which forces convection to aggregate. However, despite the aggregation being forced, self-generated feedbacks between clouds and longwave radiative fluxes are essential for amplifying the aggregation. Thus, I postulate that self-aggregation feedbacks could contribute to real-world convective organisation, even when aggregation is initially driven by external forcing. This hypothesis is reinforced when investigating the impacts of land. A land-sea thermal contrast triggers a circulation which forces convection to aggregate, but as before, self-aggregation feedbacks are necessary for this to be maintained. Finally, I develop a novel budget for the variance in transient integrated frozen moist static energy. This is used to show that self-aggregation feedbacks also drive zonal organisation over a meridional SST gradient. This thesis consistently highlights that self-aggregation feedbacks could be contributing to real-world convective organisation, whilst also showing that the inclusion of more realistic processes can fundamentally alter the geometry, spatial and temporal scales of self-aggregation