Success for Graduation and Beyond: College Counseling Advocacy Skills That Target the Needs of First-Generation College Students

The writer explores how the role of a college counselor can support and advocate for first-generation students in a way that can lead to attainable success beyond merely graduating from an institution. Research has shown that college faculty have been proven to be a significant source of aspirational, intellectual, and emotional support in a student’s college success. The role of a college counselor could be an ideal mentor and advocate for those students who may be at a disadvantage, such as a first-generation student. The specific barriers that first-generation students experience that differ from continuing-generation students are discussed. Additionally, the role of the college counselor is examined, and potential areas of advocacy efforts are discussed. Finally, the ACA advocacy competencies of students/clients are examined and key factors relevant to the college counselor and client relationship are identified

Curing the blood and balancing life: Understanding, impact and health seeking behaviour following stroke in Central Aceh, Indonesia

This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.Previous studies have highlighted the importance of understanding the subjective illness experience. Stroke, as the second highest cause of death and highest cause of adult morbidity internationally, is no exception. However, the research to date has significant gaps. Lay understandings of stroke in low and middle income countries remain poorly understood, and very few studies have explored the links between experience and the context in which they occur. These gaps in knowledge have resulted in insufficient attention being paid to the relevance of local contexts in the implementation of international and regional recommendations for stroke. The study presented in this thesis explores the experience of stroke in Central Aceh, Indonesia. It drew on phenomenology and ethnography and used a range of qualitative methods. People with stroke and their carers were involved in the examination of stroke understandings, its causation and mechanism, the impact of stroke on their lives, and actions taken to remediate the symptoms. This information was complemented with an in-depth study of healers, within the context of the health systems through which they operate. Further information on current social, religious and cultural practices was gathered through participant observation. The study revealed that lay understandings occurred within a range of explanatory models. Also highlighted was the complex relationship between the understanding of the condition, the impact on the family, and the health seeking behaviour. All were influenced by the specific context and an attempt to regain a homeostatic balance in life; within the person, with others, and with the supernatural. The results of this study demand critical interrogation of the international guidelines both for stroke and for policies to promote access to health personnel at the primary care leve

John Stone\u27s Chronicle: Christ Church Priory, Canterbury, 1417–1472

It is the purpose of this small book to offer to the reader selections from Stone\u27s modest compilation of the internal life of his own monastic community—obituaries of monks, the celebration of the liturgy, even the weather—set against the wider events of the tumultuous fifteenth century in England.https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/mip_teamsdp/1005/thumbnail.jp

English Folk under the Red Flag: The Impact of Alan Bush’s ‘Workers’ Music’ on 20th Century Britain’s Left-Wing Music Scene

Workers’ music: songs to fight injustice, inequality and establish the rights of the working classes. This was a new, radical genre of music which communist composer, Alan Bush, envisioned in 1930s Britain. At the time, Bush was an established figure of the musical elite and was well known for his highly modernist, serial compositions. Yet he began theorising a new cultural movement, one which would diametrically oppose pre-existing musical norms found in capitalist-driven, bourgeois-influenced society. His radical vision prompted new compositions, concerts, events, publications and recordings in the run up to the second world war. Due to the inaccessible nature of the materials and its topical subject matter, much of this music has been disregarded in academic literature. Yet, by tracing the development of the movement, this thesis attempts to shed light on its pivotal role in the left-wing music scene. It considers how it continued to grow and diversify in the postwar era, even whilst Bush’s ambitions for workers music reached a hiatus. It argues that Bush’s theories, which underpinned the socialist concept of workers’ music, were an elemental component of the work which cultivated the Second British Folksong Revival. The approach taken in this study is twofold: on the one hand it interprets vast amounts of unpublished, undocumented archival materials and, on the other, it goes on to contextualise such material within contemporary historical and cultural movements

Anthology of an empath

How can we live here together? How can we, human beings (especially those of us not considered as such, historically, presently, or in the future) and more-than-human beings live here together and care for each other? I set out to learn how a pair of permaculture farmers in Southern Humboldt lived and worked with these questions: I attempted a qualitative and quantitative analysis of twenty years of natural history journals that one of them recorded. I was particularly interested in the aesthetics of land tending, affective relationships with more-than-human beings, and disrupting settler colonialism through epistemic reparations to the Sinkyone Peoples. I was also living with the same questions myself on campus, in academia, in Wiyot Territory. As I studied critical theory and turned it into relational praxis in my life, this praxis superseded my work with the journals. I ultimately chose to not publish the note-taker’s personal story on their behalf. Instead I offer a multi-genre anthology. I present the research project as I designed it, with a critical genealogy of permaculture and natural history with respect to colonialism. I reflect on my experiences and positionality––particularly as an empath–– while participating in student coalitions against systemic racism. Finally, I present theoretical insights that I developed: I call for a spiritual conception of more-than-human-beings as part of political ecology, note convergences between systems theorists and Indigenous ethics, and present a framework for considering beauty and aesthetics

TURONIAN DINOFLAGELLATE CYST ASSEMBLAGES FROM SOUTHERN ENGLAND

Merged with duplicate record 10026.1/2029 on 13.20.2017 by CS (TIS)Little recent work has directly addressed the variation in dinoflagellate cyst assemblages and the resulting biostratigraphy from the Turonian of southern England. Sampling (every 1-2m) of the whole succession from three areas (Dover, Sussex and the Isle of Wight), together with sedimentological and macropalaeontological detail provided a good basis for what is primarily a biostratigraphical study. Altogether 328 samples were analysed. It is one of the aims of this project to expand on the knowledge and geographical limits of dinoflagellate cyst assemblages from the Turonian. Full descriptions of all dinoflagellate cyst species have been included. Two new species are believed to have been noted, first Litosphaeridium "chlidanum" n. sp. (Marshall, 1983) and ? Microdinium "tuberculatum" n. sp., which are indicators of a latest Cenomanian and Turonian age respectively. Three palynozones have been recognised for the Turonian, based upon the ranges and acmes of the following species: Senoniasphaera rotundata, Heterosphaeridium dilltile, Florentinia buspina, Florentinia torulosa and Endoscrinium campanula. Cluster analysis was applied to the data sets to look for statistically related samples and thus separate palynozones. However most of the dinoflagellate cyst species are long-ranging and this did not provide any substantial evidence for any zones. Generally the dinoflagellate cyst assemblages were of variable diversities and abundances (0-41; 0->300 respectively). The samples were barren or yielded poor assemblages at the base of the Turonian, but the flora recovered towards the middle part of the succession with increasing diversities and abundances being recorded. However, the high diversities and abundances of the Late Cenomanian were never achieved. Samples of chalk, marl and flint were analysed for their dinocyst content to see if the assemblages were lithologically constrained. It was found that the lithology did not appear to control the cyst assemblages with low to high diversities and abundances being recorded from all lithologies. It has been noted that particular types of flint (Thalassinoides) may produce richer dinoflagellate cyst assemblages (higher diversities and abundances) which may be related to the diagenetic stage represented by the flint. Statistical analyses were applied to all data sets to provide evidence to support these hypotheses. Unfortunately these methods did not produce any conclusive results. Some palaeoenvironmental interpretation has been carefully attempted using modern analogues as a guideline. The relative occurrence of three groups (Gonyaulax, Odontochitina and Cyclonephelium) have been plotted for two of the areas (Dover and Sussex) and are thought to reflect periods of changing sea-level which correspond broadly to the sea-level curves of Hancock & Kauffman (1989) and Haq et al. (1988).BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVE

Studies on the degradation kinetics of botanically diverse fibrous feeds and their apparent digestibility and rate of passage when fed to ponies

The horse evolved to obtain most of its dietary energy from the hindgut fermentation of fibrous feeds and so in the interests of health and welfare, the domestic horse should be fed forage-based diets. However, little information exists on the nutritive value of different forages that are potentially valuable feeds for horses. The aim of this thesis was to measure the in vivo apparent digestibility of a range of botanically diverse fibrous-feeds and to investigate the suitability of ruminant in sacco and in vitro techniques as routine methods for estimating, degradation kinetics and rates of passage of fibrous feeds through the gastrointestinal tract of ponies. In the first study, the in vivo apparent digestibility (AD) of hay (H), haylage (HY), big bale silage (BB) and clamp silage (CS) were determined in 4 ponies. Dry matter intake was significantly (P H > CS (2.95 kg/d). For all parameters measured AD of CS and BB were significantly (P<0.05) greater than for H, with HY being intermediate. The theoretical digestible energy and crude protein requirements of the ponies were met or exceeded by all diets except hay. Secondly, the in vivo AD, intra-caecal fermentation parameters and rates of passage of hay cubes (HC), an oat hulls:naked oats mix (OH:NO), plain sugar beet pulp (SBF), soya hulls (SH) and a hay cubes:sugar beet mix (HC:SB) were determined in 3 caecally-fistulated ponies. Total collection and mobile bag studies produced similar AD values, with SBF being greater (P<0.05) for all parameters measured than OH:NO and HC, with intermediate values for SB:HC and SH. All feeds maintained the intra-caecal pH and acetate molar proportions above 6.5 and 700 mmol/mol respectively. Higher levels of propionate and lactate and lower levels of butyrate were recorded for ponies fed the OH:NO compared with those on diets SBF and HC (P<0.05). Pre-caecal losses of total non-starch polysaccharides (TNSP) from feeds in sacco were highest for SBF (133g/kg) >SH > OH:NO > HC (51g/kg). In contrast, the highest crude protein (CP) losses were from OH:NO (771 g/kg) which were greater than SH = HC > SBF (296g/kg) (P<0.05). Of the 7 ruminant models fitted to faecal excretion data, the G3 and G4 time-dependent models of Pond et al. (1988) best described the passage of both chromium (Cr) and ytterbium (Yb) marked feeds in the three diets. Mean caecal to faecal passage rates measured using Crmordanted feed, were ca. 36 h for OH:NO, which was greater than that of HC at ca. 26 h (P<0.05). Total tract mean retention time (MRT) was measured using orally administered Yb-marked feeds and averaged 43 h for OH:NO which was greater than the 30 h noted for the HC (P<0.05). Finally, the in vitro fermentation by pony faecal inoculum of hay (H) and plain sugar beet pulp (SB) in ratios of 100% H, 75:25 H:SB 1, 50:50 H:SB2, 25:75 H:SB3 and 100%SB, in the presence (+N) or absence (-N) of added nitrogen was assessed by the manual pressure transducer technique of Theodorou et al. (1994). DM loss was significantly (P H:SB3 > H:SB2 > HSB1 > H. Addition of N reduced the time to reach 50% of gas production (tso), indicating a positive influence of N on degradation rate (P<0.05). Maximum DM loss {ca. 850 mg/g) from SB occurred within 49 h post-incubation whereas maximum degradation from the other feeds was attained at ca. 135 h incubation. A positive associative effect was noted on both the rate and extent of degradation of H when incubated with HSB3 (-N), indicating an increase in microbial activity associated with the addition of SB. Results from the experiments described in this thesis indicate that a range of botanically diverse fibrous feeds are suitable for incorporating into equid diets, and offer a valuable relatively energy-dense alternative to hay as the basal forage for stabled horses. Ruminant techniques for measuring in sacco AD and the use of markers for determining rate of passage of digesta offer rapid and reliable methods for measuring digestion of a range of fibrous feeds in ponies. In vitro gas production showed considerable potential as a routine method for determining DM loss and degradation rate of fibre feeds for horse

Development of a comprehensive protein microarray for immunoglobulin E profiling in horses with severe asthma

Background: Severe asthma in horses, known as severe equine asthma (SEA), is a prevalent, performance-limiting disease associated with increased allergen-specific immunoglobulin E (IgE) against a range of environmental aeroallergens. Objective: To develop a protein microarray platform to profile IgE against a range of proven and novel environmental proteins in SEA-affected horses. Animals: Six SEA-affected and 6 clinically healthy Warmblood performance horses. Methods: Developed a protein microarray (n = 384) using protein extracts and purified proteins from a large number of families including pollen, bacteria, fungi, and arthropods associated with the horses, environment. Conditions were optimized and assessed for printing, incubation, immunolabeling, biological fluid source, concentration techniques, reproducibility, and specificity. Results: This method identified a number of novel allergens, while also identifying an association between SEA and pollen sensitization. Immunolabeling methods confirmed the accuracy of a commercially available mouse anti-horse IgE 3H10 source (R2 = 0.91). Biological fluid source evaluation indicated that sera and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) yielded the same specific IgE profile (average R2 = 0.75). Amicon centrifugal filters were found to be the most efficient technique for concentrating BALF for IgE analysis at 40-fold. Overnight incubation maintained the same sensitization profile while increasing sensitivity. Reproducibility was demonstrated (R2 = 0.97), as was specificity using protein inhibition assays. Arthropods, fungi, and pollens showed the greatest discrimination for SEA. Conclusions and clinical importance: We have established that protein microarrays can be used for large-scale IgE mapping of allergens associated with the environment of horses. This technology provides a sound platform for specific diagnosis, management, and treatment of SEA