Review of 'Ageing, Gender and Illness in Anglophone Literature: Narrating Age in the Bildungsroman' by Heike Hartung

--

Media and the Folk

Historiography and Japanese Consciousness of Values and Norms, プリンストン, 2002

Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750–1850

This groundbreaking study explores the later lives and late-life writings of more than two dozen British women authors active during the long eighteenth century.Drawing on biographical materials, literary texts, and reception histories, Devoney Looser finds that far from fading into moribund old age, female literary greats such as Anna Letitia Barbauld, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Catharine Macaulay, Hester Lynch Piozzi, and Jane Porter toiled for decades after they achieved acclaim—despite seemingly concerted attempts by literary gatekeepers to marginalize their later contributions.Though these remarkable women wrote and published well into old age, Looser sees in their late careers the necessity of choosing among several different paths. These included receding into the background as authors of “classics,” adapting to grandmotherly standards of behavior, attempting to reshape masculinized conceptions of aged wisdom, or trying to create entirely new categories for older women writers. In assessing how these writers affected and were affected by the culture in which they lived, and in examining their varied reactions to the prospect of aging, Looser constructs careful portraits of each of her subjects and explains why many turned toward retrospection in their later works.In illuminating the powerful and often poorly recognized legacy of the British women writers who spurred a marketplace revolution in their earlier years only to find unanticipated barriers to acceptance in later life, Looser opens up new scholarly territory in the burgeoning field of feminist age studies

Heroine of the Peripheral: An Exploration of Feminism and Anti-feminism in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath

Recognizing that there are many legitimate ways to view Plath\u27s work, this study doesn\u27t claim a definitive reading or even a glimpse into the \u27real\u27 Sylvia Plath. Instead, the following exploration will focus on feminist and anti-feminist renderings of motherhood in Plath\u27s Crosstng the Water, Ariel, and Winter Trees. This study doesn\u27t set out to prove or disprove these labels as they relate to Plath either. My intention is not to make value judgments about various aspects of the poetry but rather to highlight the contradictions and the co-existence of feminist and anti-feminist qualities in the text

Age and Aging Studies: from Cradle to Grave

--

Examining Whether School Finances and Academic Achievement Predict the Quality of Reading Intervention Implementation in Response-to-Intervention

The purpose of this study was to examine how financial capacity and reading achievement contribute to the implementation of high-quality reading interventions in the context of RtI. As a secondary research interest, the relationship between reading achievement and intervention intensity was examined. Financial capacity was operationalized in terms of per-pupil expenditure, while achievement was examined based on performance on the state standardized test. The quality of reading interventions was defined by four indicators: 1) evidence-based reading interventions, 2) psychometrically sound progress monitoring, 3) treatment integrity measures, and 4) interventionist training. Data regarding these four indicators and intervention intensity were obtained via a state administered survey (92 respondents with a response rate of 59.0%). Using a regression-based approach (i.e., linear and ordinal regression), the present findings indicated that reading proficiency and per-pupil-expenditure were not significantly predictive of the use of high-quality reading interventions at Tier 2 or Tier 3, across any of the four quality indicators: evidence-based interventions, progress monitoring tools, treatment integrity measures, and interventionist training. The lack of significant relationships between per-pupil expenditure, achievement levels, and the quality of evidence-based reading interventions is hypothesized to have occurred for two inter-related reasons: 1) schools appear to be at varying stages of RtI implementation, and 2) most schools appear to be at an early stage of implementation. Consistent with expectations, and the theoretical RtI model, intervention provision at Tier 3 was significantly more intense than at Tier 2. This finding is encouraging in terms of schools personnel’s’ capacity to provide interventions at varying intensities based on student need. Despite these expected findings, a significant relationship was not observed between achievement levels and intervention intensity at Tier 2 or Tier 3. Collectively, results indicated that the impact of school-level funding and school-level achievement may be too distally related to the provision of interventions at an early point in implementation. These results highlight the necessity for conceptualizing school-based program implementation from a theoretical perspective, which will enable an understanding of how systems-level variables differentially impact implementation across stages and ensure that schools can be appropriately supported in their implementation

Thermally-induced clumped isotope resetting in belemnite and optical calcites: Towards material-specific kinetics

The application of carbonate clumped isotope (Δ47) thermometry in deep-time is often limited by modification of the original temperature signal by thermal resetting. New modeling approaches to estimate the initial isotopic composition of partially reset calcites and maximal burial temperatures, however, open promising avenues in temperature reconstruction. Such approaches strongly depend on laboratory-derived kinetic parameters of calcite materials, which may differ in their microstructure, water content and distribution, and minor and trace element composition, and thus may have different resetting kinetics. The rostra of belemnites, an extinct group of mollusks with a wide temporal and spatial occurrence in the Mesozoic, have been extensively used for deep-time paleoclimate reconstructions using oxygen isotope geochemistry. Belemnites are also important targets for clumped isotope-based temperature reconstructions, but often are found to have reset Δ47 compositions. Here, we present results from heating experiments on belemnite rostral calcite and optical calcite and provide belemnite-specific kinetic parameters for clumped isotope resetting. We show that belemnite calcite is altered faster and at lower temperatures than optical calcite and all other calcites reported in previous studies. We suggest that fast initial resetting results from oxygen isotope exchange of belemnite calcite with internal skeletal water present as fluid inclusions or organic-derived water, a process completed within 2–4 min at the experimental temperatures used here. Extrapolation to geological timescales using different solid-state bond reordering models shows that belemnite calcite resetting starts at lower burial temperatures than brachiopod, spar, and optical calcites. This susceptibility to thermal resetting results in a measurable (+3 ◦C) increase of the apparent Δ47 temperature even under shallow to moderate burial conditions (i.e., 40–50 ◦C for 106–107 years timescales). Following the overprint to higher apparent Δ47 temperatures during burial, the belemnite Δ47 may further reequilibrate during exhumation resulting in a decrease of apparent Δ47 temperatures. Such “retrograde resetting” is similar to what is observed for carbonatites and marbles during cooling, and may cause underestimation of the thermal resetting a sample experienced during its geological history. Overall, our results demonstrate the importance of material-specific kinetic parameters and we urge caution when interpreting Δ47-derived temperatures of biogenic carbonates from deep-time archives.Swiss National Science Foundation project number 200021_169849AF from Juan de la Cierva Fellowship (IJC2019040065-I)Spanish Ministry of Science and InnovationEuropean Development Fund and the European Social FundThe European Commission, Horizon 2020 (ICECAP; grant no. 101024218)The Research Council of Norway Centre of Excellence funding schemeProject number 223272. EBSD data for the WA-CB-11 brachiopod provided by the authors of Henkes et al. (2014)US National Science Foundation (EAR-1226832

Transitional Interface: Concept, Issues and Framework

Transitional Interfaces have emerged as a new way to interact and collaborate between different interaction spaces such as Reality, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. In this paper we explore this concept further. We introduce a descriptive model of the concept, its collaborative aspect and how it can be generalized to describe natural and continuous transitions between contexts (e.g. across space, scale, viewpoint, and representation)

Through the Looking Glass: The Use of Lenses as an Interface Tool for Augmented Reality

Stephen N. Spencer The University of Washington Program Chairs Alan Chalmers Hock Soon Seah Publisher ACM Press New York, NY, US