220 research outputs found
State Conservation as Settler Colonial Governance at Kaâena Point, Hawaiâi
This paper argues, by illustrating, that liberal multiculturalism and natural resources are interlinked strategies of settler colonial governance in political debates surrounding the construction of a âpredator-proofâ fence for conservation purposes across Native Hawaiian lands of deep cultural and historical significance at Ka`ena Point, a state wilderness park in Hawai`i. First, this paper shifts debates framed in terms of the seeming recalcitrance of Native Hawaiian cultural practitioners to recognize the necessity of natural resource management. Second, it considers how these political debates are repeated in the context of legal questions over the forms through which Native Hawaiian cultural claims may be placed against settler state actions. Third, and most pertinently, the paper speaks to an emerging field of critical indigenous legal scholars who analyze the limits of law as coterminous with settler colonialism
From Sink or Swim to the Apprenticeship: Choices for Lawyer Training
Our symposium today asks the question: Is there a gap in lawyer training to be narrowed? My answer is: Probably. Is it any greater than the gap that existed twenty or thirty years ago? I think not. Law schools are graduating women and men well prepared to begin the practice of law. True, there is much that new law school graduates do not yet know. But in a short timeâtwo to three yearsâmost new law graduates gain the skills and substantive knowledge needed to be successful
Script Training Using Telepractice with Two Adults With Chronic Non-fluent Aphasia
Two male participants with chronic (> 2 years), non-fluent aphasia and their family members participated in script training using videoconferencing. Functional scripts were developed by people with aphasia (PWA) and their family members. Accuracy of scripts was measured by total target words produced per turn. Participant 1 with Brocaâs aphasia produced scripts with 0% accuracy pre-treatment and 87.5% accuracy post-treatment. Participant 2 with Transcortical Motor aphasia produced scripts with 20.2% accuracy pre-treatment and 63.5% accuracy post-treatment. Pre- and post-questionnaires for communication effectiveness and the use of telepractice for speech therapy indicated improvements in answering yes/no questions, participating in conversations with strangers, and increasing confidence and satisfaction with technology delivered treatment. The use of videoconferencing to deliver script training appears beneficial for individuals with chronic aphasia
The Representation of Women in the Albanian Ballads and in the Anglo-Saxon Ballads: A Comparative Approach
The aim of the present study is to pinpoint the corresponding and contrary ways of the depiction of women and their role in the ballads in both English and Albanian literature. The aim of this paper is to facilitate students and teachers of literature in investigating different ballads and provide them a general insight in the way literature has been treated in both languages. The main method applied in this paper is the comparative one since this paper includes two different cultures where these ballads emerge from. Even though the same form and structure are being shared by them, it is very significant to bring up that the representation of women in Anglo-Saxon ballads is quite different from the women in Albanian ballads. The paper will try to provide concrete examples and explanations in terms of the differences and similarities between these two types of ballads.Keywords: ballad, similarities, differences, English, Albanian, etc
A Theoretical Study on a Reaction of Iron(III) Hydroxide with Boron Trichloride by Ab Initio Calculation
We investigate a reaction of boron trichloride (BCl3) with iron(III)
hydroxide (Fe(OH)3) by ab initio quantum chemical calculation as a simple model
for a reaction of iron impurities in BCl3 gas. We also examine a reaction with
water. We find that compounds such as Fe(Cl)(OBCl2)2(OHBCl2) and
Fe(Cl)2(OBCl2)(OHBCl2) are formed while producing HCl and reaction paths to
them are revealed. We also analyze the stabilization mechanism of these paths
using newly-developed interaction energy density derived from electronic stress
tensor in the framework of the Regional DFT (Density Functional Theory) and
Rigged QED (Quantum ElectroDynamics).Comment: 21 pages, 12 figure
Properties of Design-Based Functional Principal Components Analysis
This work aims at performing Functional Principal Components Analysis (FPCA)
with Horvitz-Thompson estimators when the observations are curves collected
with survey sampling techniques. One important motivation for this study is
that FPCA is a dimension reduction tool which is the first step to develop
model assisted approaches that can take auxiliary information into account.
FPCA relies on the estimation of the eigenelements of the covariance operator
which can be seen as nonlinear functionals. Adapting to our functional context
the linearization technique based on the influence function developed by
Deville (1999), we prove that these estimators are asymptotically design
unbiased and consistent. Under mild assumptions, asymptotic variances are
derived for the FPCA' estimators and consistent estimators of them are
proposed. Our approach is illustrated with a simulation study and we check the
good properties of the proposed estimators of the eigenelements as well as
their variance estimators obtained with the linearization approach.Comment: Revised version for J. of Statistical Planning and Inference (January
2009
Best Practices for Building Interprofessional Telehealth: Report of a Conference
The Arizona Biomedical Research Centre (ABRC) has funded a series of workshops and conferences since 2016 to build the capacity of local, tribal, and state agencies, healthcare delivery organizations, and non-governmental organizations to engage in meaningful research related to health disparities. With the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of telehealth has dramatically increased, particularly in nursing, occupational therapy (OT), physical therapy (PT), and speech-language pathology (SLP). The purpose of this paper is to summarize the presentations and discussion from the conference titled âTelerehabilitation and Telepractice: An Interprofessional Conference to Build Connections and Best Practices,â held remotely on March 4-5, 2021. Terminology and concepts from the conference were debated, modified, and refined, based on an interprofessional audience. Presenters at the conference, all leaders in their field, discussed the current status of telehealth in their professions, including best practices, challenges, future trends, and research needs
CRISPR-KRISPR: A Method to Identify On-Target and Random Insertion of Donor DNAs and their Characterization in Knock-In Mice
CRISPR tools can generate knockout and knock-in animal models easily, but the models can contain off-target genomic lesions or random insertions of donor DNAs. Simpler methods to identify off-target lesions and random insertions, using tail or earpiece DNA, are unavailable. We develop CRISPR-KRISPR (CRISPR-Knock-ins and Random Inserts Searching PRotocol), a method to identify both off-target lesions and random insertions. CRISPR-KRISPR uses as little as 3.4 ÎŒg of genomic DNA; thus, it can be easily incorporated as an additional step to genotype founder animals for further breeding
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