Indian Agency in Spanish Florida: Some New Findings from Mission Santa Catalina de Guale

The resurgence of Spanish mission archaeology in the American Southeast over the last three decades demonstrates the fallacy of the rigid and misleading Borderlands perspective on Franciscan-American Indian interactions. While engaging in the archaeology of Mission Santa Catalina de Guale, I suggested a broader-based, cubist approach toward the Spanish Borderlands history to seek, multiple, simultaneous views of the subject (Thomas 1989:7). Archaeology can indeed provide a critically important window through which to glimpse the Native American and European interactions in the Borderlands as elsewhere. By democratizing the past, archaeologists are framing new perspectives on minority populations and their experiences with dominant colonial cultures (Deagan 1991; Lightfoot 2005:17). Today, such inquiries are typically folded into the language and methodologies of the postcolonial critique, which challenges traditional colonialist epistemologies and questions those colonial and imperial representations of the other being colonized. Postcolonial theorists emphasize Native agency and investigate the hybrid, novel forms of culture that develop during colonial experiences (e.g., Gosden 2001; Lightfoot 2005:17; Leibman 2008:2; Patterson 2008:31-32). In this paper, I examine how recent archaeological and ethnohistorical investigations of Mission Santa Catalina de Guale (Georgia) are contributing to a broader, more nuanced understanding of the Native-Spanish interactions that played out here

It All Adds Up: Flipped Classroom Approaches in Retail Math Instruction

A shift has begun from instructor-focused learning techniques and philosophies to those that are student-focused, where the instructor acts as a guide and not a dictator of knowledge (Marcketti, 2011, p. 548). An approach gaining wide attention as a tool for reaching 21st century students is the flipped classroom. Researchers suggest that flipped classrooms lead to better student engagement and overall learning (Bormann, 2014). However, critics note that this technique is grounded in a possibly flawed pedagogy: the lecture (Ash, 2012). A mixed methods approach was used to investigate the effectiveness of a flipped classroom approach in an apparel merchandising course. The course was redesigned with two flipped units and two lecture-based units. Results indicated no significant differences in exam scores between the units and students preferred the social aspect of learning in the lecture-based classroom over what they perceived as learning on their own in the flipped classroom

Self-Avoiding Gonihedric Srting and Spin Systems

We classify different theories of self-intersecting random surfaces assigning special weights to intersections. When self-intersection coupling constant $\kappa$ tends to zero, then the surface can freely inetrsect and it is completely self-avoiding when $\kappa$ tends to infinity. Equivalent spin systems for this general case were constructed. In two-dimension the system with $\kappa = 0$ is in complete disorder as it is in the case of 2D gauge Ising system.Comment: Preprint CRETE-TH-21, October 1993,8 pages,Late

David Hurst to H. R. Miller (20 August 1861)

Praising H. R. Miller\u27s joining the Cavalry, considering his age and position and his happiness to find all three Millers unharmed after Manassashttps://egrove.olemiss.edu/ciwar_corresp/1571/thumbnail.jp

What is the Connection Between Issues, Bugs, and Enhancements? (Lessons Learned from 800+ Software Projects)

Agile teams juggle multiple tasks so professionals are often assigned to multiple projects, especially in service organizations that monitor and maintain a large suite of software for a large user base. If we could predict changes in project conditions changes, then managers could better adjust the staff allocated to those projects.This paper builds such a predictor using data from 832 open source and proprietary applications. Using a time series analysis of the last 4 months of issues, we can forecast how many bug reports and enhancement requests will be generated next month. The forecasts made in this way only require a frequency count of this issue reports (and do not require an historical record of bugs found in the project). That is, this kind of predictive model is very easy to deploy within a project. We hence strongly recommend this method for forecasting future issues, enhancements, and bugs in a project.Comment: Accepted to 2018 International Conference on Software Engineering, at the software engineering in practice track. 10 pages, 10 figure

Geospatial mapping and data linkage uncovers variability in outcomes of foot disease according to multiple deprivation: a population cohort study of people with diabetes

Aims/hypothesis: Our aim was to investigate the geospatial distribution of diabetic foot ulceration (DFU), lower extremity amputation (LEA) and mortality rates in people with diabetes in small geographical areas with varying levels of multiple deprivation. Methods: We undertook a population cohort study to extract the health records of 112,231 people with diabetes from the Scottish Care Information – Diabetes Collaboration (SCI-Diabetes) database. We linked this to health records to identify death, LEA and DFU events. These events were geospatially mapped using multiple deprivation maps for the geographical area of National Health Service (NHS) Greater Glasgow and Clyde. Tests of spatial autocorrelation and association were conducted to evaluate geographical variation and patterning, and the association between prevalence-adjusted outcome rates and multiple deprivation by quintile. Results: Within our health board region, people with diabetes had crude prevalence-adjusted rates for DFU of 4.6% and for LEA of 1.3%, and an incidence rate of mortality preceded by either a DFU or LEA of 10.5 per 10,000 per year. Spatial autocorrelation identified statistically significant hot spot (high prevalence) and cold spot (low prevalence) clusters for all outcomes. Small-area maps effectively displayed near neighbour clustering across the health board geography. Disproportionately high numbers of hot spots within the most deprived quintile for DFU (p < 0.001), LEA (p < 0.001) and mortality (p < 0.001) rates were found. Conversely, a disproportionately higher number of cold spots was found within the least deprived quintile for LEA (p < 0.001). Conclusions/interpretation: In people with diabetes, DFU, LEA and mortality rates are associated with multiple deprivation and form geographical neighbourhood clusters

Increased Sensitization to Mold Allergens Measured by Intradermal Skin Testing following Hurricanes

Objective. To report on changes in sensitivity to mold allergens determined by changes in intradermal skin testing reactivity, after exposure to two severe hurricanes. Methods. A random, retrospective allergy charts review divided into 2 groups of 100 patients each: Group A, patients tested between 2003 and 2010 prior to hurricanes, and Group B, patients tested in 2014 and 2015 following hurricanes. Reactivity to eighteen molds was determined by intradermal skin testing. Test results, age, and respiratory symptoms were recorded. Chi-square test determined reactivity/sensitivity differences between groups. Results. Posthurricane patients had 34.6 times more positive results (p<0.0001) at weaker dilutions, all tested molds were found to be more reactive, and 95% had at least one positive test versus only 62% before the hurricanes (p<0.0001); average mold reactivity was 55% versus 16% while 17% of patients reacted to the entire panel versus none before the hurricanes (p<0.0001). The posthurricane population was younger (p<0.001) and included more patients with asthma or lower respiratory symptoms (p<0.05). Conclusion. Reactivity and sensitization to mold allergens increased compared to patients before the hurricanes. This supports climatologists’ hypothesis that environmental changes resulting from hurricanes can be a health risk as reflected in increased allergic sensitivities and symptoms and has significant implications for physicians treating patients from affected areas