A Prison within a Prison: Segregation of HIV Positive Inmates and Double Stigma

Although the majority of state prison systems have made the move away from segregated housing for HIV positive inmates, a few still continue this practice. The purpose of this study was to learn more about the experiences of women who have carried the double stigma of being HIV positive prisoners who were segregated within the prison system because of their illness. Drawing on interviews with HIV positive women who served time in a segregated facility and are now released, I was able to explore how double stigma and segregation affect identity and daily life. By asking these women questions about their experiences as inmates who were further segregated because of their HIV status, I call attention to the strong association between power, authoritative knowledge, and policy

Assesment of the active English proficiency of speakers of English as a foreign language as a basis for syllabus design

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1969 H53Master of Scienc

An essay in the analysis of written English discourse

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1969 H56Master of Scienc

The moral obligation for interlibrary lending

A philosophical dilemma has arisen for librarians in this interconnected age: whether a library has a moral obligation to lend resources to another library. This discussion article examines a range of literature about interlibrary lending (interlending) and gives an account of librarians’ perceptions of this quandary. The literature covers the guidelines on interlending set out by library professional bodies and a historical view of interlending, as well as more recent perceptions from librarians quoted in reports. In order to explore the concept in more detail, taking a qualitative approach, a small questionnaire was circulated online to a cross section of libraries in the Midlands region of the UK. The opinions of 11 self-selected participants were forthcoming, working in a range of academic, public and community-led libraries. The data gathered was thematically categorised to identify the range of perceptions. The views expressed in the questionnaire echoed those identified in the literature, forming three groups of moral attitude: no moral obligation; an obligation if it does not outweigh the costs; and a strong moral imperative to share resources. The participants identified the benefits of interlibrary lending and generally acknowledged that resource-sharing was important. The importance of good customer service was highlighted, as well as the imperative of supporting the ongoing operation of their library service. Taking these perceptions into consideration, it was concluded that the question ‘Is there a moral obligation for one library to lend to another?’ is not the right one to ask. The moral duty of a librarian is that access to information is maintained and resources are shared for the good of society as a whole

Hydrology of JSU Campus Following Tornado

Tornadoes have a heavy presence in the Southeastern United States and have a strong impact on not only the people but the landscape as well. Tornadoes with a rating of EF-2 or higher have the potential to destroy vegetation in their paths and even take out entire forests. When a strong or violent tornado affects an area that was once heavily forested, heavy impacts on the hydrology and geomorphology can take place. Soils that were once loose due to the vegetation now become compacted with a significant decrease in infiltration, therefore leading to increased runoff, soil erosion, and sedimentation. The surrounding community can then be faced with flooding issues, widening streams, and streams, rivers, and/or lakes polluted with excessive amounts of sediment. One the evening of March 19, 2018, an EF-3 level tornado ripped through the city of Jacksonville along with the Jacksonville State University campus, damaging many of the buildings and eliminated a lot of vegetation. This project analyses the post tornado impacts on the hydrology of a headwaters watershed that originates on the JSU campus as well as providing aerial imagery and Geographic Information Systems data of the affected watersheds. This project also analyses the potential impacts in the context of climate change and the increasing frequency of tornadoes.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/ce_jsustudentsymp_2020/1010/thumbnail.jp

[Congress Avenue]

Photograph of pre-1875 Congress Avenue taken from the southwest side of the avenue

Accessing Library Materials and Services

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Meeting the Other in The Seafarer and The Ruin

This paper reads two Old English poems through an ecocritical lens. Primarily, Iidentify the need to see translation-as literary interpretation-of Other languages and environments as a site of relation to a subject. Throughout this essay the subject Other refers to both language and environment built by human and natural agents along the border of their worlds. I read The Seafarer as a space of meeting between the land- dweller and sea-dweller, then focus on The Ruin as a scene of transient human presence. A new space to feel the loss of environment-both human and natural-opens while meeting the Other. In the conclusion, I offer three examples of engagement with ecological loss including both modern and contemporary sources as the beginning of an ecocritique with the terms described in this thesis. Loss ought not place the poet in the posture of defeat, nor avoid translation in transactional terms-that is to say, by putting a price tag on the earth. Rather, I suggest reorientation of the responsibility of the poet toward meeting, speaking, and seeing the Other

DETECTION OF ThOsub2sub 2 CONTAMINATION IN SIMULATED CUTS AND ABRASIONS

Tests have been made to determine the sensitivity of various radiation detection instruments for known amounts of ThO/sub 2/ contained in simulated cuts and abrasions. A shielded Geiger-Mueller counter tube can be expected to detect at least 0.1 mg ThO/sub 2/ when counting for a reasonable length of time provided the ThO/sub 2/ deposit is on the surface of the subject being counted. A shielded gamma-spectrometer-crystal, set at a 50-kev cutoff, can be expected to detect at least 0.5 mg ThO/sub 2/ even when an absorber equivalent to 1/2 in. of paraffin is placed between the crystal and the ThO/sub 2/ sample. Duration of exposure of standard film badge photographic emulsions is inversely proportional to the amount of material present and an exposure of about 300 hr is required to detect 10 mg of surface ThO/sub 2/. Although no information is available on the amount of thorium required to induce fibrosarcomas, an extrapolation of data for plutonium indicates that of the order of 1/2 gram of thorium must be present before occurrence of fibrosarcomas would be observed. This value does not represcnt a lower limit but is more likely to be a value for which occurrence of fibrosarcomas are a virtual certainty. It appears to be most desirable to experimentally determine the lower limit value for the amount of ThO/sub 2/ required to induce fibrosarcomas, noting that this may be as much as a factor of 100 smaller than the value cited above. (auth