Observations of the Habits of \u3ci\u3eLygaeus Kalmii Angustomarginatus\u3c/i\u3e (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae) in Southern Michigan

Lygaeus kalmii Stal (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae) is an insect found throughout the eastern United States and Canada. There is extensive taxonomic literature on this insect (Stil, 1874; Townsend, 1887; Parshey, 1919, 1923; Slater and Knopf, 1969), but very little attention has been given to the rest of its biology. This study describes the habits of kalmii populations in southern Michigan

Profiling Bat Activity and Species Presence in Managed Longleaf Pine Landscapes

Restoration of native flora or reintroduction of at-risk fauna includes management practices that while encouraging presence and proliferation of target species, may adversely affect non-focal species. An endemic ecosystem undergoing restoration within the southeastern U.S. is that of the longleaf pine (Pinus palustris). Bats inhabit key ecological niches in forest ecosystems, including the longleaf pine ecosystem, and can be indicators of ecosystem condition. This study investigated the effects of current forest management practices and landscape management history on bat species presence and activity levels within habitat undergoing longleaf pine restoration. We deployed bat detectors in two wildlife management areas within the Raccoon Creek Watershed of northwest Georgia, USA. These areas differed in landscape management history and intensity of longleaf pine restoration practices. Results indicated a significant difference in species activity between landscape management histories but no significant differences were detected in activity or species presence with respect to contemporary restoration practices. The species most active on the landscape were the big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus) and eastern red bat (Lasiurus borealis). The data collected in this study will serve as a baseline for bat activity in the region and for evaluating the impacts of the restoration methods on the local bat community

The Perceptions, Barriers, and Facilitators to Seeking Mental Health Help in College Student-Athletes (PBaS-MH and PFaS-MH): A Mixed-Methods Pilot Study

Through the COVID-19 pandemic, 1 in 10 NCAA student-athletes reported feeling so depressed it has been difficult to function (NCAA, 2020). Despite this, student-athletes are significantly less likely to seek mental-health help than their non-athlete peers. The present study sought to develop and validate the Perceptions of Barriers to Seeking Mental Health Help in Student-Athletes (PBaS-MH) and the Perceptions of Facilitators to Seeking Mental Health Help in Student-Athletes (PFaS-MH) surveys in college student-athletes, as well as determine predominant barriers and facilitators they experience with seeking mental health help. A convergence mixed-methods research design was conducted to triangulate results. The surveys were administered to 550 student-athletes at one NCAA Division-II university during scheduled team meetings. A total of 312 (56.7%) student-athletes completed the quantitative portion, while 277 (50.4%) completed the qualitative portion of the surveys. Qualitative analyses revealed awareness was the predominant theme when it comes to mental health literacy. The predominant barrier themes were self and accessibility while the predominant facilitator themes included Accessibility and community. Quantitative analyses revealed the PBaS-MH and PFaS-MH both demonstrated excellent reliability, ɑ=0.924 and ɑ=0.960, respectively. One factor (eigenvalue = 9.685) explained 32% of the variance and one factor (eigenvalue = 14.429) explained 48% of the variance, for the PBaS-MH and PFaS-MH respectively. The development of this survey is the first step towards accessing mental health barriers and facilitators in student-athletes, but further research needs to be done to assess mental health help seeking in this population in a larger sample

Crossroads Of Cultures: Contemporary Painting At The College Of Art, Kumasi

This project is an exploration of the preferred styles and imagery of contemporary artist and students of the College of Arts at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology at Kumasi. What we call the \u27Arts Word\u27 of Ghana is continually renewed and shaped within the educational system, which produces its participants. In a way this is a study of academic Ghanaian arts word through the College of Arts and the individuals and arts work, which gives it life. The specific focus of my analysis is on the debate over the necessity of having African imagery or expressing African Identity in artists work; as well as the parts the religious themes play in contemporary work

The Ursinus Weekly, March 14, 1960

Meszaros, Sandercock elected by PSEA group • Lantern sponsors competition for literary works • WSGA criticizes reception room behavior of girls • Meistersingers will tour local societies in March • May Day dancers selected for annual pageant • Sophs plan picnic dance; High Hats provide music • Dr. Tyree\u27s three day visit to UC proves a success • WAA announces program of intramural volleyball • Junior prom April 8; Mardi gras theme chosen • Student-faculty show to be presented March 18 • YM-YW speakers highlight chapel with new views • Observer • Commentary on Old spice • Clash of minds • Library suggests • Albright\u27s sports editor comments • APES intramural basketball champs; Savastio stars • Girls\u27 basketball team defeats Rosemont 83-50 • Dean\u27s list • Letters to the editor • Hampshire hospitalityhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1358/thumbnail.jp

From Print to Digital: Migrating Handbooks and Workflows into a Wiki

Poster presented at the University of Maryland Libraries Research & Innovative Practice Forum on June 11, 2019.This poster highlights considerations when moving information from a static, paper document to a digital Wiki format. These include the use of hyperlinks to external websites, or internal headings, and the using of written directions versus videos and .gifs. The differences between these two formats means that even with the same content there are different ways to use each platform to its fullest potential. Through both physical and digital documentation, and a variety of tools, information can be more easily accessible to a wider range of people

First International Microgravity Laboratory

This colorful booklet presents capsule information on every aspect of the International Microgravity Laboratory (IML). As part of Spacelab, IML is divided into Life Science Experiments and Materials Science Experiments. Because the life and materials sciences use different Spacelab resources, they are logically paired on the IML missions. Life science investigations generally require significant crew involvement, and crew members often participate as test subjects or operators. Materials missions capitalize on these complementary experiments. International cooperation consists in participation by the European Space Agency, Canada, France, Germany, and Japan who are all partners in developing hardware and experiments of IML missions. IML experiments are crucial to future space ventures, like the development of Space Station Freedom, the establishment of lunar colonies, and the exploration of other planets. Principal investigators are identified for each experiment

'The dogma is the drama': participation and sacramentality in the plays of Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy L. Sayers’s first festival play, The Zeal of Thy House (1937), was written at a time when it was widely believed among Christian drama practitioners that drama itself has a sacramental significance. This conviction took on a new urgency for Sayers as theologians and church people sought ways of establishing Christianity as a basis on which to rebuild society after the Second World War. Sayers’s The Mind of the Maker (1941), a study in theological aesthetics intended as a contribution to public debate about post-war reconstruction, outlined a trinitarian and sacramental model for human work considered as a creative activity. Sayers wrote three more festival plays between 1939 and 1951, and this study examines the four plays in the light of her sacramental emphasis. It locates Sayers’s dramatic practice in the context of those Roman and Anglo-Catholic practitioners of the arts who embraced the neo-Thomism of the French philosopher Jacques Maritain, and examines the influence of William Temple and his belief in the sacramentality of the whole material creation. The study argues that while the festival plays have the background of timeless sacramentality noted by a number of commentators, Sayers takes sacramentalism further in all four plays with the onstage enactment of a timebound sacramental event in which the protagonist, estranged from God by an imbalance in the dynamic trinitarian flow within his creative self, experiences anagnorisis, repentance and the hope of restoration to the community of believers. This sacramental enactment becomes a model for the audience’s participative reception of the play itself, and the study uses insights from contemporary theorists of medieval drama to elucidate the nature of the dramatic experience in which theatre and sacrament become reciprocally paradigmatic. The belief that art and theology can critique each other was central to Sayers’s approach to dramatising the gospels in her wartime BBC radio life of Christ, The Man Born to be King, and a chapter on this play examines its participatory hermeneutics as an extension of the sacramentality of the stage plays. A final section locates Sayers’s concept of the ‘passionate intellect’ in relation to the mid-century theological tension between faith and reason. Few commentators have given Sayers’s four plays equal weight, and many have omitted her last play. This study aims to unite literary and theological methodologies in arguing that Sayers’s festival plays demonstrate an increasingly participative sacramentality that culminates in the onstage baptism of the final play, written for the Festival of Britain, The Emperor Constantine

The Female Voice in American Musical Theatre (1940-1955): Mary Martin and the Development of Integrated Vocal Style

This study examines the changing manner of female vocalisation in the American Musical (1940-1955) through the development of the integrated singing techniques of Mary Martin, an icon of American Musical Theatre. It suggests that the vocal style that she exemplified changed from a variety of idiosyncratic vocal styles linked to particular role-types to a more flexible, integrated style better able to adapt to a range of roles required by the rapidly changing demands of the entertainment industry. Martin is situated within the historical trajectory of cultural and technological change, and the isolation of moments along that trajectory brings into focus her centrality within those changes and the intentionality of the development of her vocal style. Three central genres of early twentieth century musical theatre (operetta, the musical play and the revue) are considered, along with the female performers and vocal styles that underpinned those genres. They are situated in an historical context of rapidly developing recording technology and the expanding communications industry. The intrinsic characteristics of three dominant voice types are analysed through the lens of three significant performers active between the First and Second World Wars: Edith Day, Helen Morgan and Ethel Merman. The inability of these performers to acquiesce to the changing demands of the entertainment industry during the third and fourth decades of the twentieth century are identified. Three quantifiable measures of the voice - tessitura, vibrato and spectral analysis - are used to isolate Martin’s classical, legitimate and belt phonations, and to illustrate the emergence of her distinctive croon style through her early recordings on stage, screen and the recording studio. A period of intense vocal development is revealed in Martin’s little known radio performances on the NBC network in 1942. This was a time in which she began to consolidate different vocal techniques into a single vocal style, and to show her to manipulate the perception of public, personal and private distance through vocal timbre. An examination of Martin’s stage success in One Touch of Venus reveals both her integration of vocal techniques in the characterization of a single role, and the transferal of her techniques of intimate audience interaction to the live stage. Also shown is the establishment of Martin as a role model in the eyes of the media and the general public. The penultimate chapter of this dissertation portrays a performer unafraid of breaking new ground, as Martin changes her stage persona in a national tour of the Merman vehicle Annie Get Your Gun, and subsequently takes her place in musical theatre history as Nellie Forbush in the Pulitzer Prize winning South Pacific. The study concludes with an examination of Martin’s television performances in the first half of the 1950s, in which she displays all facets of her vocal technique and range. The immense popularity of Martin’s variety performances with Ethel Merman and Noel Coward, and her enduring broadcasts of Peter Pan, without doubt made Martin a leading role model for emerging vocalists

Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry & Practice: A Ten-Year Retrospective Review of Catholic Educational Research

The journal has a brief but important history, encompassing the support of major Catholic colleges and universities across the United States. In particular, the University of Dayton and the University of Notre Dame have provided a home for the editorial offices and the contributed services of the editors. As the journal prepares for a transition to its third home at Boston College, this article offers a summative and evaluative overview of the contents of the journal since its inception. Recommendations are offered regarding ways to continue to grow the field of educational research situated in Catholic schools