Poetic Performances: Tracing Castiglione\u27s Theory of Courtliness in the Poetry of John Donne and John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester

In The Book of the Courtier, Baldesar Castiglione outlines the three criteria that courtiers and would-be courtiers must implement to fashion a successful performance, one that helps them maintain or strengthen their social status: grazia, sprezzatura, and dissimulazione. Each of these elements enables and supports the others; the success of the performative act relies on the courtier’s mastery and manipulation of these three characteristics. Their poetry indicates that John Donne and John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester both attained that high level courtly skill – Donne through his novel use of the metaphysical conceit and Rochester through his representations of failed attempts at courtly performance. Their uses of Castiglione’s performative theory are at odds – the goal of Donne’s poetic performances was social mobility, while Rochester’s performances were conservative reactions against social mobility. However, recognizing Castiglione’s influence in the poetry of Donne and Rochester enable us to understand some of the more perplexing aspects of their verse by providing an insight into their anxieties as individuals within a rapidly evolving English society

Staying Power: The Future of Manufacturing in Massachusetts

Reviews the state's manufacturing employment since 1939; analyzes current data by industry, economic share, workers' demographics, and location; and projects trends through 2016. Based on surveys and interviews, examines manufacturers' perspectives

Why Peer Tutoring is Essential in the Classroom

For Longwood University’s 2020 Spring Showcase, we chose to present on why Peer Tutoring is essential in the classroom environment. Each of us has participated in a Classroom Management course this semester, taught by Dr. Katherine Matthews, that informed us about what Peer Tutoring means for both students and teachers. In our presentation, we look at various sources that explain what Peer Tutoring is and offer scientific studies that show its direct results. In addition to exploring what it is and how it benefits the classroom, we also look into potential setbacks as well as which content areas are best suited for Peer Tutoring. We hope you enjoy our presentation and we encourage everyone to ask questions or make comments in the Digital Commons space; one of our team members will answer in a timely fashion. Thank you in advance for viewing our presentation on Peer Tutoring

The factors contributing to missed care and non-compliance in infection prevention and control practices of nurses: a scoping review

Background: There is growing concern about missed nursing care and its negative impacts on patient care and nursing and organisational outcomes. Research in the area continues to grow, with a greater focus on reliable measurement, evidence-based interventions and sensitive outcomes. The relationship between missed care and adverse patient outcomes is undeniable, including increased mortality levels, and hospital acquired infections. The link between hospital acquired infections and non-compliance with infection prevention and control guidelines is also widely acknowledged. The idea of non-compliance as an element of missed nursing care has not been closely examined and this relationship is explored in this review. Objectives: The aim of this study is to identify the shared factors related to both nurse non- compliance with infection prevention and control practices and the recognised research field of missed nursing care, here in relation to infection prevention and control. Methods: A scoping review methodology was selected to help explore and map the research evidence on non-compliance with infection prevention and control practices, and missed nursing care in relation to infection prevention and control. Results: Five key themes were identified which impact on both missed nursing care and non- compliance in the area of infection prevention and control. These included (1) Organisation of Nursing Staff and Resources; (2) Workplace Environment; (3) Nursing Care Context; (4) Managerial and Inter-Professional Relationships; and (5) Individual Nurse Factors. These shared themes underline the relationship between the concepts and suggest a shared research area. Conclusion: Missed nursing care in the area of infection prevention and control, overlaps significantly with the research area of infection prevention and control non-compliance. This suggests that rather than being approached as separate or distinct entities, these research areas should be acknowledged as related or overlapping, enabling more focused attention to reducing levels of both

Dialogues that Dig Deeper: Surfacing the Multiple Faces of Homelessness in Grand Rapids, MI (Report One)

This Community dialogue was designed to discover what homeless individuals need, in terms of services and assistance, to prevent the perpetuating cycle of homelessness itself. After the discussion, our team hopes service organizations in Grand Rapids will take our findings into consideration in their efforts towards designing and implementing programs around homelessness

Methodological considerations when translating "burnout"

No study has systematically examined how researchers address cross-cultural adaptation of burnout. We conducted an integrative review to examine how researchers had adapted the instruments to the different contexts. We reviewed the Content Validity Indexing scores for the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Services Survey from the 12-country comparative nursing workforce study, RN4CAST. In the integrative review, multiple issues related to translation were found in existing studies. In the cross-cultural instrument analysis, 7 out of 22 items on the instrument received an extremely low kappa score. Investigators may need to employ more rigorous cross-cultural adaptation methods when attempting to measure burnout

Interpenetration of fractal clusters drives elasticity in colloidal gels formed upon flow cessation

Colloidal gels are out of equilibrium soft solids composed of attractive Brownian particles that form a space-spanning network at low volume fractions. The elastic properties of these systems result from the network microstructure, which is very sensitive to shear history. Here, we take advantage of such sensitivity to tune the viscoelastic properties of a colloidal gel made of carbon black nanoparticles. Starting from a fluidized state under an applied shear rate $\dot \gamma_0$, we use an abrupt flow cessation to trigger a liquid-to-solid transition. We observe that the resulting gel is all the more elastic when the shear rate $\dot \gamma_0$ is low and that the viscoelastic spectra can be mapped on a master curve. Moreover, coupling rheometry to small angle X-ray scattering allows us to show that the gel microstructure is different from gels solely formed by thermal agitation where only two length scales are observed: the dimension of the colloidal and the dimension the fractal aggregates. Competition between shear and thermal energy leads to gels with three characteristic length scales. Such gels structure in a percolated network of fractal clusters that interpenetrate each other. Experiments on gels prepared with various shear histories reveal that cluster interpenetration increases with decreasing values of the shear rate $\dot \gamma_0$ applied before flow cessation. These observations strongly suggest that cluster interpenetration drives the gel elasticity, which we confirm using a structural model. Our results, which are in stark contrast with previous literature, where gel elasticity was either linked to cluster connectivity or to bending modes, highlight a novel local parameter controlling the macroscopic viscoelastic properties of colloidal gels