Gentle Student Bend Thine Ear To My Speech An Essay About Sojourner Truth, Abolitionist and Feminist

Sojourner Truth provides a powerful model of advocacy for the social work profession. This paper offers an analysis of this important historical figure that centers around the implications of being a doubly oppressed minority. An analysis of the nineteenth century chattel slavery system sets the stage for understanding the social environment. A brief biography of her life and evolution from enslaved chattel to feminist activist will highlight her social, spiritual, and personal development. Her philosophy, which is compatible with the modern feminist movement, is outlined by an analysis of her speeches

Quality of life of colorectal cancer patients

PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to investigate the long term quality of life of colorectal cancer patients who had undergone either sphincter conserving or sphincter sacrificing surgery. It was predicted that patients who underwent sphincter-sacrificing surgery resulting in the formation of a stoma would report an inferior quality of life as indicated across several domains of quality of life compared to patients with no stoma.METHOD: Thirty two patients completed a battery of questionnaires measuring quality of life at an interval of between twelve and eighteen months post surgery. Quality of life was measured using two questionnaires developed by the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer: one for cancer specific quality of life (EORTC QLQ-C30) and the supplemental colorectal cancer specific module (EORTC QLQ-CR38, Aaronson et al., 1988); Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS, Zigmond & Snaith, 1983); Body Image Scale (BIS, Hopwood, Fletcher, Lee & Al Ghazal, 2001).DATA ANALYSIS: Patient age, length of time since surgery and scores on the measures were compared using independent samples t-tests. Length of time since surgery was analysed using covariance. Person's correlation co-efficient was used to test for the level of association between measuresResults: No significant differences between the sphincter conserving and sphincter sacrificing groups were found on several domains of quality of life assessment including, physical, social, psychological and role functioning and levels of post-surgery symptoms. Significant differences were found between patients in relation to body image satisfaction and male sexual problems. Patients with a stoma showed more dissatisfaction with their body image than patients without a stoma. Males with a stoma were found to report more sexual problems than males without a stoma. Results are discussed in relation to previous research and in terms of implications for further research and psychosocial aspects of care for colorectal cancer patients

It’s all about beliefs: Believing emotions are uncontrollable is linked to symptoms of anxiety and depression through cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression

The aim of this study was to examine the link between personal beliefs about emotion controllability and symptoms of anxiety and depression, with a particular focus on the mediating role of emotion regulation. To date, there has been little research examining the mediating role of cognitive reappraisal or expressive suppression in the link between beliefs about emotion controllability and symptoms of anxiety. Online questionnaires measuring emotion regulation, beliefs about emotion controllability, and depression and anxiety, were completed by 1227 participants (n = 336 males; Mage = 25.3, SD = 10.1; range = 16 to 83 years). The results indicated that perceived control over one’s own emotions predicted better psychological health (fewer symptoms of anxiety and depression). This link between beliefs about emotion controllability and psychological heath was partially mediated by cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression, with cognitive reappraisal predicting a reduction in clinical symptoms and expressive suppression predicting an increase in clinical symptoms. These findings suggest that individuals’ beliefs about emotion controllability, leads to the use of certain emotion regulation strategies which in turn, have important consequences for psychological health

A Space In-between: Red Rock

A conversation from the points of view of Laura Hartley's work with rural women and Margaret Somerville's work with Aboriginal place stories and their intersection with a specific place, Red Rock

Hospital Community Benefits After the ACA: The Emerging Federal Framework

Outlines the federal framework on requirements for hospitals to provide community benefit activities in exchange for tax-exempt status under the 2010 healthcare reform, including community health needs assessments; state policy options; and challenges

Evaluating and Improving Semi-analytic modelling of Dust in Galaxies based on Radiative Transfer Calculations

The treatment of dust attenuation is crucial in order to compare the predictions of galaxy formation models with multiwavelength observations. Most past studies have either used simple analytic prescriptions or else full radiative transfer (RT) calculations. Here, we couple star formation histories and morphologies predicted by the semi-analytic galaxy formation model MORGANA with RT calculations from the spectrophotometric and dust code GRASIL to create a library of galaxy SEDs from the UV/optical through the far Infrared, and compare the predictions of the RT calculations with analytic prescriptions. We consider a low and high redshift sample, as well as an additional library constructed with empirical, non-cosmological star formation histories and simple (pure bulge or disc) morphologies. Based on these libraries, we derive fitting formulae for the effective dust optical depth as a function of galaxy physical properties such as metallicity, gas mass, and radius. We show that such fitting formulae can predict the V-band optical depth with a scatter smaller than 0.4 dex for both the low and high redshift samples, but that there is a large galaxy-to-galaxy scatter in the shapes of attenuation curves, probably due to geometrical variations, which our simple recipe does not capture well. However, our new recipe provides a better approximation to the GRASIL results at optical wavelength than standard analytic prescriptions from the literature, particularly at high redshift.Comment: 20 pages, 13 figures, 4 tables; accepted for publication by MNRA

The Role of Ram Pressure Stripping in the Quenching of Cluster Star Formation

Recent observations of galaxy clusters have shown that environmental effects apparently associated with the cluster begin to lower the star formation rates of galaxies at distances as great as three times the cluster virial radius. These observations may indicate preprocessing of cluster galaxies in groups or in the cluster core for galaxies on highly elliptical orbits, but may also imply that the environmental effects due to the cluster are directly affecting galaxies on their first infall. To explore these issues, we investigate different models of ram pressure stripping as it acts on satellite galaxies in clusters, and compare to observations of the radial star formation gradient in clusters. We calculate the location of the accretion shock around model clusters, and use this as the radius of onset of ram pressure stripping in the GALFORM semi-analytic model of galaxy formation. Comparison of the results of our model, and previously considered, simpler ram pressure models, with recent observations indicates that current data is unable to strongly discriminate between models of ram pressure stripping due to the complex interplay of preprocessing effects at work. However, future observations of a larger sample of clusters will likely be able to place stronger constraints on the process of ram pressure stripping and its role in shaping radial trends in and around clusters.Comment: 10 pages, 4 figures, published in the Astrophysical Journa

The Indefinite Article: A Body. An Exploration of Relationship Between Language and Body

This work explores and speaks experiences of embodied subjectivity/ies, using both the recorded talk of women and autobiographical material. As such it is a work in process, about process, a personal journey, and an intersubjective activity, one in which I consciously seek to include the reader. It is in conversation with two groups of women, and drawing on enabling aspects of feminist poststructuralist and postcolonialist theories, feminist readings of psychoanalytical and developmental theories, that I explore the terrain of relationship between language, body and subjectivity. I find the women's space of production to be located in the space between mothers and children, children and mothers and it is this which I make the focus of my analysis. I ask if we can speak the body differently, if there are ways of constructing alternative discourses to those which would discount, diminish, exclude corporeality's place in theories of experience, or which presume to set male bodies, masquerading as neutral, as a universal standard. And in exploring my own and other women's productions - of self, other, images, text and art, I consider a pivotal mediating role for the body in the spaces and dynamics of transformation

Impact of the Histidine‐Containing Phosphocarrier Protein HPr on Carbon Metabolism and Virulence in Staphylococcus aureus

Carbon catabolite repression (CCR) is a common mechanism pathogenic bacteria use to link central metabolism with virulence factor synthesis. In gram‐positive bacteria, catabolite control protein A (CcpA) and the histidine‐containing phosphocarrier protein HPr (encoded by ptsH) are the predominant mediators of CCR. In addition to modulating CcpA activity, HPr is essential for glucose import via the phosphotransferase system. While the regulatory functions of CcpA in Staphylococcus aureus are largely known, little is known about the function of HPr in CCR and infectivity. To address this knowledge gap, ptsH mutants were created in S. aureus that either lack the open reading frame or harbor a ptsH variant carrying a thymidine to guanosine mutation at position 136, and the effects of these mutations on growth and metabolism were assessed. Inactivation of ptsH altered bacterial physiology and decreased the ability of S. aureus to form a biofilm and cause infections in mice. These data demonstrate that HPr affects central metabolism and virulence in S. aureus independent of its influence on CcpA regulation