The Shadow of a Doubt: a play in three acts by Edith Wharton

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The Shadow of a Doubt: discovering a new work by Edith Wharton

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Navigating the Child Support System: Lessons from the Fathers at Work Initiative

Research shows that nearly half of all children born in the US today will be eligible for child support before they reach the age of 18. Many low-income, noncustodial fathers -- who often struggle to make these payments -- will seek services from workforce development organizations. Yet, understanding the child support enforcement system can be challenging -- not only for noncustodial fathers but also for the workforce organizations that want to assist them.Navigating the Child Support System aims to help meet this challenge by providing information, resources and tools to use at the intersection of workforce development and child support enforcement. The guide is based on lessons from the Fathers at Work initiative, a three-year, six-site demonstration funded by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, which was designed to help young, noncustodial fathers achieve increased employment and earnings, involvement in their children's lives, and more consistent financial support of their children.The guide describes child support enforcement regulations, policies and actions that can affect fathers' willingness to seek formal employment and participate in the system, and provides examples of four services that organizations might offer to benefit fathers and their families. Navigating the Child Support System offers concrete suggestions for incorporating child support services into workforce organizations' assistance to low-income, male participants, including developing partnerships with local child support enforcement agencies. It includes seven tools for learning about child support and setting goals for enhancing services to noncustodial fathers

Isoconfigurational Elastic Constants and Liquid Fragility of a Bulk Metallic Glass Forming Alloy

Samples of Zr46.25Ti8.25Cu7.5Ni10Be27.5 were isothermally annealed and quenched near the glass transition temperature and studied by the pulse-echo overlap technique. The shear modulus G of the samples shows a strong reversible dependence on annealing temperatures and, thus, on the specific configurational potential energy of the equilibrium liquid. The low-T dependence of G of the configurationally frozen glasses shows linear temperature dependence as expected by Debye-Grüneisen theory. The T dependence of G in the liquid state is directly related to the viscosity and fragility of the liquid

Public nudity and the right to freedom of expression: Balancing competing interests

With little case law concerning nudity and the right to freedom of expression, this paper aims to uncover the appropriate frameworks to be used to determine the following questions: (a) when is public nudity “expression” for the purposes of s 14 of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990, and (b) in what circumstances involving “expressive” public nudity would it be reasonable and demonstrably justifiable to limit the right to freedom of expression using s 4(1)(a), as per s 5 of the Bill of Rights Act? As regards the first of these questions, this paper critiques the current test in use in New Zealand for determining whether conduct is expression – the test developed by the Canadian Supreme Court in Irwin Toy Ltd v Attorney-general (Quebec) – and advocates for the adoption of a purposive approach to determining the scope of the right to freedom of expression. As for the second of these questions, this paper advocates for the adoption of “the modified Hansen sequence” proposed by Professor Claudia Geiringer. This paper then uses recent examples of public nudity involving naturists and protestors to test these frameworks and to illustrate how they would operate in practice

Cumulative Risk, The Home Environment, And Interactive Book Reading Between Mother And Child As Predictors Of School Readiness

There is evidence in the literature that early school readiness predicts later school performance (Duncan et al., 2007; La Paro and Pianta, 2000). There is less research, however, on the impact of risk factors on a child\u27s school readiness, and protective factors that may lessen the negative effects of various risk factors. This study explored predictors of school readiness, including cumulative socio-demographic risk, the home environment, and interactive book reading behaviors. Participants included 104 young mothers and their children. The mother and child dyads were assessed at three time points. Cumulative socio-demographic risk was measured in the lab when the children were 18 months old. The home environment and interactive book reading were collected at the mothers\u27 homes when the children were 24 months old. The outcome measure of school readiness was collected at the mothers\u27 homes when the children were 36 months old. It was expected that cumulative socio-demographic risk, the home environment and interactive reading behaviors would each predict school readiness. It was also hypothesized that the home environment would moderate the relationship between cumulative risk and school readiness. Finally, it was expected that interactive reading behaviors would mediate the relationship between cumulative risk and school readiness. Multiple regression and hierarchical linear regressions were used to conduct statistical analyses. Cumulative socio-demographic risk, the home environment, and interactive book reading behaviors were not significant predictors of school readiness, after controlling for child\u27s temperament, gender, and maternal receptive vocabulary. The home environment did not moderate the relationship between cumulative socio-demographic risk and school readiness. Finally, interactive book reading behaviors did not mediate the relationship between cumulative socio-demographic risk and school readiness

Utility of newer and novel technologies for the diagnosis and treatment-monitoring of tuberculosis using different biological fluids

Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 127-145).Smear microscopy has a poor sensitivity, cannot identify drug resistance, and when followed up with culture tests it takes several weeks to obtain a result. Furthermore, sputum-scarce and smear negative tuberculosis is difficult to diagnose. The use of biological samples other than sputum such as blood, urine and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, are thus increasingly being used for diagnostic purposes. However, there is a low yield of rapid diagnostic tools, and the use of recently released commercially available technologies for tuberculosis diagnosis requires clarification

Making Connections Through Coaching: A Story of Finding Meaning Through Athletics and Coaching

In this thesis, I share stories of my experiences as a high school science teacher, gymnastics coach, and track and field coach and I explore my discovery of the importance of making connections in my vocation. Written in Scholarly Personal Narrative format, I reflect on my own experiences with high school and college athletics I and discuss the lessons that I learned which I find to be most important to coaches and teachers. This thesis centers around making connections with athletes and students as a coach and educator. I dive into my career and highlight the lessons that I find to be most important for myself and other teaching and coaching professionals. The strongest take-away message that I would like my readers to recognize is that teachers who express genuine interest in students’ lives can help them open up and feel like they belong. In turn, a cooperative, collaborative community can form

Protecting livelihoods? : a study of informal traders at Mitchell's Plain town centre market

The implementation of a new citywide Informal Trading By-law and a permit system for registering traders left over 200 traders without a space to trade. Using multiple qualitative research methods, document review, interviews, photography and observation, this study seeks to highlight the experiences and views of a group of MPTCM traders working to protect their livelihoods

Improving the accuracy of chemical measurements in the brain: new insights into dopaminergic mechanisms by fast-scan cyclic voltammetry and microdialysis

The neurotransmitter dopamine is implicated in cognitive function, emotion, and movement, as well as multiple disease states, like Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, and drug abuse. Two commonly used techniques used for in the in vivo measurement of dopamine are microdialysis and voltammetry with carbon fiber microelectrodes. Unfortunately, these techniques yield conflicting results, complicating our understanding of the dopaminergic mechanisms at work in the brain. Microscopy studies reveal significant disruption to the tissue surrounding microdialysis probes, suggesting that alterations in functionality of the damaged tissue might contribute to the discrepancy between microdialysis and voltammetry. In this dissertation, microelectrodes were implanted near microdialysis probes to examine the effect of probe implantation on stimulated dopamine release and uptake in the tissue surrounding microdialysis probes. Voltammetric studies revealed a gradient in the activity of stimulated dopamine release and dopamine uptake near the probe. Additional pharmacological studies revealed a disrupted blood-brain barrier near the probe, suggesting another level of tissue disruption caused by microdialysis probe implantation.Glutamate is implicated alongside dopamine in a number of the same diseases, including schizophrenia and drug abuse. Although dopaminergic and glutamatergic projections into the striatum fail to form direct synaptic contact, an earlier voltammetric study found that local antagonism of ionotropic glutamate receptors caused a decrease in striatal dopamine levels, suggesting that glutamate acts locally within the striatum to regulate extracellular dopamine levels. This dissertation expanded on that study to reveal that ionotropic glutamate receptors control a non-vesicular release process that contributes to the resting level of extracellular dopamine in the brain.Microdialysis and voltammetry results show large discrepancies between levels of dopamine after uptake inhibition. Recent voltammetric studies suggest that D2 receptors participate in a homeostatic feedback mechanism that regulates extracellular dopamine levels after uptake inhibition. In this study, the mechanism of dopamine release after uptake inhibition in rats pretreated with a D2 receptor antagonist was identified. Dopamine released after systemic nomifensine administration in sulpiride-pretreated rats originates from an impulse-dependent (vesicular) pool of dopamine, suggesting that D2 receptors may modulate release by controlling vesicular stores and/or vesicular transport