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Connectedness of planar self-affine sets associated with non-consecutive collinear digit sets
In the paper, we focus on the connectedness of planar self-affine sets
generated by an integer expanding matrix with and a collinear digit set , where and
such that is linearly independent. We discuss
the domain of the digit to determine the connectedness of
. Especially, a complete characterization is obtained when
we restrict to be an integer. Some results on the general case of are obtained as well.Comment: 15 pages, 10 figure
Clarify: Software for Interpreting and Presenting Statistical Results
Clarify is a program that uses Monte Carlo simulation to convert the raw output of statistical procedures into results that are of direct interest to researchers, without changing statistical assumptions or requiring new statistical models. The program, designed for use with the Stata statistics package, offers a convenient way to implement the techniques described in: Gary King, Michael Tomz, and Jason Wittenberg (2000). "Making the Most of Statistical Analyses: Improving Interpretation and Presentation." American Journal of Political Science 44, no. 2 (April 2000): 347-61. We recommend that you read this article before using the software. Clarify simulates quantities of interest for the most commonly used statistical models, including linear regression, binary logit, binary probit, ordered logit, ordered probit, multinomial logit, Poisson regression, negative binomial regression, weibull regression, seemingly unrelated regression equations, and the additive logistic normal model for compositional data. Clarify Version 2.1 is forthcoming (2003) in Journal of Statistical Software.
Three Kings: Migrant Masculinities in Irish Social Practice, Theoretical Perspective and Theatre Performance
This article examines deprivedmale migrantsâ conceptions and performative expressions of hegemonic masculinity in Ireland.It explores their widespread propensity to develop hypermasculine self-images based on ideals of cultural loyalty and economic prosperity that are, in fact, compensatory for their sense of emasculation, marginalization and social failure as a result of economic difficulties within their host societies.The first section surveys perceptions and preconceptions about migrant men and young male immigrants in a variety of Irish media, political and social discourses. The second section considers recent research and the development of theoretical perspectives about migrant masculinity in Ireland. In the third section, it is argued that these broad discourses and preconceptions are accentuated and encapsulated in a corpus of Irish theatre and film productions, such as Jimmy Murphyâs play about Irish emigrants in London,The Kings of the Kilburn High Road (2001), which was subsequently adapted by Tom Collins in the Irish language film Kings (2007). Bisi Adigunâs Arambe Productions has appropriated and complicated the Kings of the Kilburn High Road storyline in turn. Adigun reenacted the play withWest African immigrants rather than Irish emigrants in London (2006). He subsequently adapted its storyline to a contemporary London setting in Home, Sweet Home (performed in Lagos, 2010), and then he reset the play in Dublin with an African-Irish immigrant cast in The Paddies of Parnell Street (2013). In these different versions of the Kings plotline, ideals of migrant masculinity, the image of the âalienâ and the meaning of the play/film perceptibly shift depending on whether it is performed by an English-speaking Irish cast, a cast of Irish-language speakers, or an African immigrant cast in Arambeâs productions. Yet, together, these works suggest that immigrants to Ireland and returning Irish emigrants, as well as marginalized Gaelic speakers, face similar gender specific constraints in achieving recognition and gaining acceptance in modern Irish society. Each version is based on competing conceptions and performances of hegemonic masculinity that come into conflict at the culmination of the plotâs development. Both on stage and on screen, they give expression to migrant masculine ideals in Ireland that are defined by wider political and social tensions which they seek to resolve in their respective performances
The Pandemic, Contingent Faculty, and Catholic Colleges and Universities
In this paper, we explore the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on contingent faculty in Catholic higher education. As a baseline for comparison, we draw on our 2019 essay which traced the increasing reliance on contingent faculty in Catholic higher education from 2001-2017. When compared to 2020, we find three significant results. First, Catholic colleges and universities responded to the pandemic by reducing all employment â administration, staff, tenured/tenured track faculty, and contingent faculty. In this general reduction, contingent faculty was reduced by 2.6%. Second, the reduction in employment was particularly pronounced in small Catholic schools. At these schools, contingent faculty was reduced by 10.7%. Third, surprisingly, men fared worse than women at Catholic schools. The reduction in contingent faculty was 5.2% for men whereas for women it was reduced by 0.7%
Staging Famine Irish Memories of Migration and National Performance in Ireland and Québec
In Staging Famine Irish Memories of Migration and National Performance in Ireland and Québec Jason King examines recent community theater productions about the Irish Famine migration to Québec in 1847. King explores community-based and national ideas of performance and the role of remembrance in shaping and transmitting the diasporic identities of Québec\u27s Irish cultural minority. While most of the plays re-enact French-Canadian adoptions of Famine orphans as spectacles of Irish integration in Québec, David Fennario\u27s Joe Beef: (A History of Pointe Saint Charles) (1984, published 1991) rehearses the history of the Canadian/Québec nation in terms of recurrent labor exploitation epitomized by the struggles of the Famine Irish emigrants. King argues that Fennario\u27s exclusion from definitions of national performance in Québec shows the elision of its Anglophone national minority, one that should be included in Québec\u27s negotiations of national identity (Bouchard)
Porous Nation: From Ireland's 'Haemorrhage' to Immigrant Inundation - A Critique of Ireland's Immigration Act, 1999
This paper examines the impact of
metaphors of fluidity for migratory
processes upon the development of
public opinion in Ireland, both to
trace the effects of historical Irish out-migration
on perceptions of recent
immigration, and to demystify rhetorical
strategies that stigmatize asylum-
seekers and refugees in Ireland
as part of an expanding pool of illegal
immigration, rather than as victims
of persecution in need of intemational
protection. The focus throughout
the discussion is upon the range
of different discourses underlying
these metaphors of fluidity and how
they become transformed over time,
as well as their influence in engendering
public hostility towards first
emigration and then asylum-applicants
and refugees coming into the
country, following Ireland's transition
from an 'emigrant nursery' to an
immigrant host society.Cet article examine l'impact de la
métaphore de la fluidité du processus
migratoire sur le développement
de l'opinion publique en Irlande.
Cette analyse est produite Ă la fois
pour retracer les effets de l'Ă©migration
historique des irlandais sur la perception
qu'ils se font de la récente
immigration, et pour désamorcer les stratégies rhétoriques qui stigmatisent
les demandeurs d'asile et les
réfugiés en Irlande en y voyant la
manifestation d'une vague montante
d'immigration illégale, plutÎt que d'y
voir le geste de victimes de
persécutions requérant une protection
internationale. L'attention de la
discussion porte sur l'Ă©ventail de
discours distincts sous-tendant ces
métaphores de fluidité, leur transformation au fil
du temps, leur influence
sur un engendrement de l'hostilité
du public envers l'Ă©migration
historique, puis envers la venue au
pays de demandeurs d'asile et de
réfugiés, au fur et à mesure que
l'Irlande se transforme de 'pépiniÚre
Ă Ă©migrants' Ă terre d'accueil Ă
l'immigration
The Difference Between CACREP and Non-CACREP Scores on Professional Counselor Licensure Examinations
This study compared a nine-year period of scores from the National Counselor Examination (NCE), the National Clinical Mental Health Counselor Examination (NCMHCE), and the state jurisprudence examination (SJE). with graduates (n=1,740) from a Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) mental health counseling (MHC) specialization and with graduates (n=200) from a non-CACREP professional counseling specialization. Results from a t-test, Chi-Square, and Levene\u27s test for equality of variances indicated a better performance from the non-CACREP graduates.https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/archivedposters/1155/thumbnail.jp
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