They’re Crying in the All-Gender Bathroom: Navigating Belonging in Higher Education While First Generation and Nonbinary

Maintaining the sociocultural and interpersonal supports needed to succeed in higher education as a first-generation student can be very difficult due to a lack of familiarity with what brings success. When this identity intersects with a nonbinary gender identity, it further complicates higher education’s challenges and may make solutions impossible to come by. My experience sits at the intersection of these two identities and their gradual collision and connection with success in higher education. Through this narrative, I seek to unpack potential difficulties and nuances for the increasingly diverse body of first generation students and bring attention to the barriers in our social systems which may be blocking current and future students from achieving their full potential

Going to a Psychiatric Hospital Saved My Life and My Student Affairs Career

The ongoing mental health crisis for college students has been a notable topic in recent years and while a necessary conversation, this often overlooks an underlying mental health crisis for higher education staff and the connection between both crises. As a former mentally ill graduate student and now (still) mentally ill student affairs practitioner, the connection is clear and a conversation now is critical. Using my personal narrative as a current practitioner, self authorship, and disability theory intersections, I am using this piece as a counternarrative and interruption to traditional student and staff development. Lastly, I seek to encourage a view of personal development as nonlinear, and even sometimes circular, and to challenge ableist notions of ‘professionalism’ for fellow staff with mental illnesses

Lichen Use by Larval Leucochrysa pavida (Neuroptera:Chrysopidae)

Leucochrysa pavida is a species of green lacewing (Neuroptera:Chrysopidae) that uses lichen fragments to build a larval debris packet. The packet is eventually used to form a cocoon used during pupation. Only minute lichen fragments are harvested for formation of the packets which makes identification of the actual lichens utilized difficult using morphological characteristics. For this reason, thin-layer chromatography was employed. The thin-layer chromatographic process identifies acetone-soluble lichen chemicals that are formed in lichen thalli. By comparing the chemistry of lichen communities at Tower Rock Recreation Area in Hardin County, Illinois, with the chemicals identified during thin-layer chromatography of larval packets, L. pavida larvae were found to use material harvested from the unstratified crustose lichens Lecanora stobilina and Lepraria sp. #1 and the stratified lichen Myelochroa aurulenta. Leucochrysa pavida larva seem to harvest mostly cortical material from stratified lichens with very little occurrence of medullar material

Lichen Use by Larval Leucochrysa pavida (Neuroptera:Chrysopidae)

Leucochrysa pavida is a species of green lacewing (Neuroptera:Chrysopidae) that uses lichen fragments to build a larval debris packet. The packet is eventually used to form a cocoon used during pupation. Only minute lichen fragments are harvested for formation of the packets which makes identification of the actual lichens utilized difficult using morphological characteristics. For this reason, thin-layer chromatography was employed. The thin-layer chromatographic process identifies acetone-soluble lichen chemicals that are formed in lichen thalli. By comparing the chemistry of lichen communities at Tower Rock Recreation Area in Hardin County, Illinois, with the chemicals identified during thin-layer chromatography of larval packets, L. pavida larvae were found to use material harvested from the unstratified crustose lichens Lecanora stobilina and Lepraria sp. #1 and the stratified lichen Myelochroa aurulenta. Leucochrysa pavida larva seem to harvest mostly cortical material from stratified lichens with very little occurrence of medullar material

Deception in the comedies and tragicomedies of John Fletcher

John Fletcher was prolific, popular, and highly praised by his comtemporaries, but has received little in-dividual critical attention. Scholars usually focus on the whole of the Beaumont and Fletcher canon, but his thirteen independently written comedies and tragicomedies are also worthy of serious criticism. The present study was undertaken as a step in the reassessment of Fletcher and examines one of the prominent techniques found in all of his unaided plays: deception. Fletcher found deceit so important that in all but two of them it is central. He used well-known devices beloved by his audiences: disguise, deception with words, and tricks like feigned physical or mental illness, fake death, and false documents. He chiefly relied on disguise--the changing of one\u27s identity by altering the outward appearance, or the alteration of one\u27s character but not his identity. His ability to take a stock technique and convention and not only make it fit organically and thematically into his play but also use it in such a way that the actor is given enormous scope is what sets him apart as a dramatist. Although the deceptions are frequently dismissed as no more than showy tricks, Fletcher\u27s skill is such that he also makes them functional, integral to plot and often to theme. He employs deception to serve a range of dra-matic purposes, chiefly to aid in plot construction, but also to comment on human follies and foibles, to reveal character, and to cure humours, among others. The dissertation discusses each play separately, finding the last of the tragicomedies–The Pilgrim,, The Island Princess, and A Wife for a Month--to be the most successful and memorable

Palaeoclimate Change

Level 3 (BSc) module with lectures and practical

How should we measure ambulance service quality and performance?

The problem Ambulance services in England treat 6.5 million people per year but get no information about what happens to patients after discharge. This has led to a reliance on measuring response times rather than outcomes to assess how well services perform, and little opportunity for identifying problems and good practice or evaluating service developments. Research aim There is a lack of consensus on which outcome measures are important for pre-hospital care so we set out to address this within the Prehospital Outcomes for Evidence Based Evaluation (PhOEBE) research programme. Methods We conducted a two round Delphi study to prioritise outcome measures identified from a systematic review and a multi-stakeholder consensus event. 20 participants scored 57 measures over two rounds. Participants included policy makers and commissioners, clinical ambulance service and ambulance service operational groups. Outcomes were scored in three categories: patient outcomes; whole service measures and clinical management. Results Highly ranked patient outcome measures related to pain, survival, recontacts and patient experience. High ranking outcomes in the Clinical Management group related to compliance with protocols and guidelines and appropriateness and accuracy of triage. In the Whole Service measures group highly ranked measures related to completeness of clinical records, staff training and time to definitive care. Conclusions The next steps are to identify which measures are suitable for measuring with routine data; use a linked dataset to build predictive models and determine what aspects of care can predict good or poor outcomes (mortality and non-mortality); measure the effectiveness and quality of ambulance service care, and; assess the practical use of the measures and the linked data as a way to support quality improvement in the NHS