COVID-19’s Impact of Social Isolation on Seniors in an Assisted Living Facility

This study explores the impact of social distancing precautions in response to the rapidly evolving COVID-19 pandemic by resident seniors in an assisted living facility. Previous studies describe how social distancing regulations can amplify feelings of loneliness in all age groups. However, pandemic-related lockdowns and social distancing measures disproportionately affect vulnerable older populations. Resident seniors in an assisted living facility in Omaha, NE participated in a semi-structured interview focused on the perceived impact of COVID-19 safety precautions. Participants reported a temporal dimension of impact, specifically, an increased level of loneliness in the evening, but also discussed the importance of encouragement from a variety of sources, and various coping mechanisms. I discuss how the results create a clearer picture of the experience of seniors in a group living environment during the pandemic and identify key areas of improvement to alleviate the feelings of loneliness which may limit the long-term effect of social distancing on mental health

Resources in Europe of interest to mathematics teachers,

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University. This thesis was written in conjunction with Dennis J. Roberts, Mary Lee McLaughlin and Robert F. Pierce.Statement of the problem: It is the purpose of this thesis to formulate plans for a guided tour throughout Western Europe for secondary-school teachers with emphasis on present and past mathematical and allied science contributions. This study will serve as an answer to four fundamental questions: 1. What are the resources available in Europe of value to mathematics teachers? 2. From the standpoint of marginal utility, which of these would be the most important? 3. where are they to be found? 4. How long would it take to see each of them profitably in a limited amount of time? [TRUNCATED

Beyond the Caricature: The Benefits and Challenges of Large-Firm Practice

I am the arch-villain of Professor Schiltz\u27s article-not just a partner at a big firm, but the Hiring Partner. Because I have spent part of my career in government service and teaching, I may be uniquely positioned to react to Professor Schiltz\u27s article. After get- ting out of law school in 1976, I clerked for a federal judge for a year and then went to a big firm in Washington, D.C. In 1980, became an Assistant United States Attorney, working as a criminal prosecutor for three-and-a-half years. I then went to Vanderbilt Law School where for two years I taught criminal law, criminal constitutional law, evidence, and antitrust. In 1986, I came to Dechert Price & Rhoads where I have been ever since, except for four months in the fall of 1995 during which I acted as Chief Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee that conducted the Ruby Ridge hearings. While at Dechert, I have done a lot of high impact pro bono litigation. Because I have acted as co-counsel in these cases with various public interest organizations, I have first hand knowledge of how these organizations operate as well. Finally, for the last eight years, I have been on my firm\u27s Hiring Committee and for the last two years the Chair of that committee. I am concerned that, in an apparent effort to paint the darkest possible picture of life at a big firm, Professor Schiltz has overstated the minuses and understated the plusses of working for a big firm. Moreover, he has blamed the big firm for an imbalance between work and the rest of one\u27s life when the real culprit (if there is one) is an individual\u27s drives and needs-traits that are by no means restricted to large-firm lawyers. Professor Schiltz\u27s position is especially dangerous because he may influence law students not to go to a big firm when a big firm may be the best place for them to start-if not to finish-their law careers. I firmly believe that a first rate big firm is the best place for a new lawyer to apprentice-to learn how to be a lawyer. Big firms also present the best opportunity to do sophisticated, cutting-edge, intellectually challenging work. You may have been following the Microsoft trial that has dominated the news over the last few months. The government is represented in that case by David Boies, who was up until 1997 a partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore-a big firm-and now a partner in a small firm he started. Microsoft is represented by Sullivan & Cromwell-a big firm. If this case represents the kind of practice to which you aspire, go to a big firm. There are few other places that can give you the chance to do this kind of work

Keep the inmost me behind its veil: Nathaniel Hawthorne\u27s Manipulation of Boundaries as Lessons in Craft

In a letter written after her husband\u27s death, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne spoke of a veil Nathaniel Hawthorne had drawn around himself during his life. This complicated metaphor is an echo from Hawthorne\u27s work and life, where the construction of boundaries that are solid but not opaque, allow the writer to conceal and draw attention to the cart of concealment without revealing what, if anything, is hidden. That Hawthorne carefully considered what he would and would not reveal is clear in many of his works, and in pieces like The Minister\u27s Black Veil, where the act of concealment draws rather than deflects attention, he appears to be actively manipulating boundaries for the purposes of plot and characterization. Also considered in this thesis is the preface to The Scarlet Letter, wherein Hawthorne blends the distinction between writer, narrator and character to varying degrees, so that the piece transitions smoothly from memoir to fiction. Hawthorne is released from responsibility as a player in the piece because he can claim it as fiction, but is able to maintain a foundation of truth by drawing on vivid personal memory throughout. Following this is a section on The House of the Seven Gables and the physical structure of the same name in Salem, Massachusetts, where the boundary between fiction and reality is uncertain and liminal space between worlds may be fully experienced. The two sections together examine Hawthorne\u27s masterful treatment of boundaries, genre and a writer\u27s role in his own works, with particular attention to the ways in which the three are intimately related. The final section of this thesis contains three short stories with brief introductions that explore the treatment of boundaries in my own work. The pieces set their roots in memoir, but grew into fiction stories that allowed me greater freedom and depth as a writer. By including these pieces of my own work with the research-based thesis, I aim to illustrate how a close reading of Hawthorne\u27s work and intentions has allowed me to understand and enhance my own writing

The effect of purine and pyrimidine derivatives on a spectrophotometric assay of enolase

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston UniversityIn studies on the formation of 2,3-diphosphoglycerate (2,3-DPG) from inosine by erythrocyte preparations it was observed that the inosine interfered with the enzymatic assay for 2,3-DPG. Phosphoglyceromutase, for which 2,3-DPG is a coenzyme, and enolase were used in a coupled assay. The inosine appeared to interfere by inhibiting the enolase [TRUNCATED