New directions: The deconstructing 'Tis Pity?: Derrida, Barthes and Ford

At the famous climax of `Tis Pity, Giovanni enters the last scene of the play and, as he knows, his life, `with a heart upon his dagger', with which he-hearted implement he stabs his enemy and brother-in-law Soranzo, before himself being fatally stabbed in the ensuing melée. The heart, it seems, is Annahella's, removed from her after Giovanni's loving, surgical sacrifice of his pregnant sister/wife in the scene before. The `seems' here is crucial, for at first this is not clear, neither to the onstage audience, waiting for Giovanni to arrive at the banquet, nor to an audience watching the play or those reading it. The eloquent Giovanni exults in providing the explanation to both groups

The Emerging Role of the School Nurse in New York City 1902: A Historical Analysis to Inform Practice Today

The Emerging Role of the School Nurse in New York City 1902: A Historical Analysis to Inform Practice Today Purpose: This historical study investigates the evolving role and implementation of school nursing in New York City at the turn of the twentieth century. This comprehensive historical analysis of school nursing demonstrates that the emergence of the school nurse role met the health care needs of poor immigrant children and their families that previously went unmet. The data demonstrates that understanding the core fundamental concepts of school nursing from its origins and the significance of the emergence of community support for the role of the school nurse at the turn of the twentieth century can inform current policy to support school nursing and school health reform today. Methodology Design Description: Traditional historical methods; social history framework. Major primary and secondary sources: Primary sources included The Lillian D. Wald Papers New York Public Library, Lillian D. Wald Papers Columbia University Library. Published works by Lillian Wald, Lavinia Dock, Lina Rogers and other nursing leaders at the turn of the twentieth century were evaluated. Select primary source newspapers and journals included The American Journal of Nursing, The Public Health Nurse, The New York Times, and the Charities and the Commons. Secondary sources included government websites, nursing and history journals and textbooks. Findings and conclusions: The school nursing movement in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century became a transformative mission to promote both individual and community health. School nurses became an integral part of the community they served; they developed collaborative relationships with parents, physicians and educators. The first school nurses provided a clear definition of their role and capabilities, and strong evidence regarding the benefits of their position for the school children and the greater community. In doing so they obtained parental, physician, school and community support. Once the larger community understood the benefits of their position, communities were willing to pay for their services. Rationale and significance/Implications: Evidence presented in this study demonstrated that at the turn of the twentieth century, school nurses were one of the most important figures in the promotion of health and educational opportunities for an entire generation of marginalized children. During the Progressive Era, 1890 – 1920, school nurses became an invaluable component of the school health reform movement. In doing so, they altered the process of how children attended school from exclusionary in nature to inclusive. In this manner, school nurses improved the well-being of the entire community. This historical analysis demonstrated that school nurses succeeded at the above endeavors. This evidence has mostly gone unrecognized

Millicent Weber, Literary Festivals and Contemporary Book Culture

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Mine Field Breaching in Desert Storm

During the Gulf War, Iraqi troops laid over seven million mines throughout Kuwait, which resulted in a need for advanced techniques allowing American troops to quickly breach landmine-afflicted areas

The accumulation of orotic acid by a pyrimidineless mutant of Neurospora

The discovery of orotic acid (1,2-carboxyuracil) in cow's milk by Biscaro and Belloni (1), followed by its identification and synthesis (2-4), led to a number of speculations as to its biological origin and significance (,3,5,6). A definite connection of orotic acid with the biosynthesis of nucleic acid pyrimidines is provided by the finding that orotic acid (7) as well as thymine (8,9) can supplement or replace the folic acid required by certain microorganisms. As suggested by Chattaway (7), it would appear that folic acid has a function in the biosynthesis of pyrimidines. Furthermore, this function is probably concerned in some step prior to the appearance of orotic acid in the biosynthetic series. More recently it was shown by Loring and Pierce (10) that orotic acid could be substituted for uracil in satisfying the growth requirements of some pyrimidineless mutants of the mold Neurospora. Investigations of orotic acid in this laboratory have led to a new method of synthesis of the compound (11) and to some suggestions concerning its relation to the biosynthesis of nucleic acids in Neurospora (12). The results of the present work are in accord with the previous suggestions and provide further evidence on the biological origin and function of orotic acid

Microcontrollers in the Aviation Classroom

Modern commercial aircraft are increasingly dependent on digital technologies that detect sensor data and pilot control movements, interpret them, and then issue appropriate control signals to remote motors that move control surfaces. Because such technologies are innately complex, it would appear there is an unacceptably large academic burden on introducing them into the undergraduate pilot\u27s curriculum . However, in recent years there has been an explosion of interest in using micro-controllers in academic teaching (high-school and undergraduate levels) and in hobby applications, resulting in a large, online, freely available knowledgebase of techniques and solutions. Here, I demonstrate how easy it is to use hobby microcontrollers such as the Arduino in the curriculum as digital sensors, and to create proof-of-concept fly-by-wire systems that non-engineering students can appreciate. With obvious extensions to having aviation students create their own computerized weather stations, GPS trackers, and even flight-black-boxes, microcontrollers are well suited to students highly responsive to experiential learning