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Cutting Red Tape in Health Care: How Streamlining Billing Can Reduce California's Health Care Costs
Examines inefficiencies in the state's administrative systems and proposes streamlining key processes and integrating health information networks to cut costs and add value. Offers case profiles of networks in Utah and New England as best practices
Homelessness and housing stress among police detainees: results from the DUMA program
This research reaffirms the need for intensive accommodation support services to complement criminal justice responses to crime and those who have contact with the criminal justice system.
Foreword
It is generally accepted that a personâs living situation, in particular their experience of homelessness and housing stress, can have both long-lasting and wide-ranging consequences. For criminal justice practitioners, the task of limiting homelessness and preventing crime remain key policy priorities in need of ongoing and integrated research.
This paper provides a much needed examination of homelessness and housing stress among Australiaâs criminal justice population. Using data from the AICâs Drug Use Monitoring in Australia program, this study examines the prevalence and nature of homelessness among a sample of police detainees. It is the first of its kind to examine a broader range of homelessness experiences and the reasons why some offenders have few choices but to âsleep roughâ or seek accommodation support. Importantly, the authors estimate that 22 percent of the detainee population is homeless or experiencing housing stress in some form; much higher than has been previously estimated. This research reaffirms the need for intensive accommodation support services to complement criminal justice responses to crime and those who have contact with the criminal justice system
Stan Grantâs âRacism is Destroying the Australian Dreamâ speech
âAustralians all let us rejoice, for we are young and free,â calm and practiced, Aboriginal journalist Stan Grantâs voice rings out across the stage. Iâm watching a video of a speech of his that went viral in late 2015, the subject matter being âracism is destroying the Australian dreamâ. Thus far heâs made clear points, drawing on a recent scandal surrounding Indigenous AFL player Adam Goodes. But honestly, heâs losing me a little with the national anthem. Itâs a confusing song, not least because it uses the now defunct word girt
Writing, Illustrating, and Publishing a Childrenâs Book
My book is entitled Delilah Discovers Degas, about a girl named Delilah who is very passionate about ballet dancing. When Delilah discovers the impressionist painter, Degas, his paintings serve to fuel her imagination as she goes about her daily activities before ballet class. The paintings of adult ballerinas, which Iâve incorporated into the book, represent her dream of one day becoming a professional ballerina. My target audience is 4-6 year old children.
I am studying both English and Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Rhode Island. My academic efforts culminated in creating a childrenâs book as my senior honors project for several reasons. First, I am well practiced in academic writing, but until this project had never written a work of fiction. The project has allowed me to write creatively in a genre that I could only study in the form of an honors project.
Second, I chose to include illustration as part of my project because Iâve always been interested in analyzing and producing visual rhetoric in my Writing classes. I dedicated more time to cartooning and drawing when I was younger, so illustrating has been one of the more challenging, but rewarding, aspects of the project.
The process of making a childrenâs book required that I consider rhetorical concepts. I learned to balance different elements that are in conversation with one another, including my writing, my illustrations, and Degasâ paintings. The placement of words and images on each page was carefully thought out in regards to arrangement, style, and genre. Each page is considered in terms of the style of the book as a whole and as a logical connection between proceeding pages.
One of my main goals is to have a concrete and professional product by the end of the semester. As a result, I will be donating several copies of my book to various public libraries throughout Rhode Island
Through the Words of Those Who Have Experienced It: Reading the Whitney Plantation Along Neoslave Narratives
Recent representations of slavery, however well intentioned, have provoked discussions about who should represent black pain and oppression and what purpose such representations serve. Also evoking such questions are contemporary plantation tours, most of which are white-centered, âmoonlight and magnoliaâ recreations. There have been efforts to represent slavery more accurately at plantations such as Oak Alley, and most notably, the Whitney Plantation, which opened in 2014 in Wallace, Louisiana.
This essay asks how our understanding of the Whitney Plantation, as a representation of slavery, a public history project, and an example of dark tourism, might be affected by reading the plantation in connection to both historical and fictional accounts of slavery. Using examples from well-known novels such as Octavia Butlerâs Kindred (1979) and Toni Morrisonâs Beloved (1987), I demonstrate how the Whitney, like textual narratives of slavery, employs bodily epistemology, sentimentalism, a white authenticating presence, and a focus on authenticity, making neoslave narratives useful lenses through which to read the immersive experience of the Whitney. In what follows, I historicize the Whitneyâs narrative of slavery within the broader genre of slave narratives in order to highlight the tradition of narrating slavery in which the Whitney participates.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/studythesouth/1009/thumbnail.jp
How is life experienced by teenagers with dyspraxia? An interpretative phenomenological analysis
People's perceptions and classifications of sounds heard in urban parks : semantics, affect and restoration
Sounds have been broadly categorized by researchers into âhumanâ, ânatureâ and
âmechanicalâ. It is less clear if the general public define and classify sounds in the same
way and which factors influence their classification process. Establishing peopleâs
classification and impression of urban park sounds helps identify their perception and
experience of urban parks. This in turn aides the process of defining parks with reference to
soundscapes, to produce an appreciated and potentially restorative place. This study
involved urban park sounds, identified by park users, being presented in card sorts and
survey items. Participants sorted the sounds into similar groups, in reference to a visited
park. The terminology, factors involved and classification of the sounds was assessed using
multidimensional scaling. Triangulation of the results suggests affect is a key factor in
peopleâs classification process. Participantsâ grouped sounds were labelled by affective
terms more often than their perceived physical properties. Affective evaluations of each
sound produced a similar classification structure as the card sort results. Peopleâs
classification structure also varied depending on how restorative they found their urban
park. Furthermore schematic recollections played a part with many sounds being
âexpectedâ. Overall similarities and differences with âhumanâ, ânatureâ and âmechanicalâ
classifications were observed
Shelf-to-slope sedimentation on the north Kaipara continental margin, northwestern North Island, New Zealand
Temperate mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments and authigenic minerals are the
current surficial deposits at shelf and slope depths (30-1015 m water depth) on the
north Kaipara continental margin (NKCM) in northern New Zealand. This is the
first detailed study of these NKCM deposits which are described and mapped
from the analysis of 54 surficial sediment samples collected along seven shorenormal
transects and from three short piston cores. Five surficial sediment facies
are defined from the textural and compositional characteristics of this sediment
involving relict, modern or mixed relict-modern components. Facies 1
(siliciclastic sand) forms a modern sand prism that extends out to outer shelf
depths and contains three subfacies. Subfacies 1a (quartzofeldspathic sand) is an
extensive North Island volcanic and basement rock derived sand deposit that
occurs at less than 100-200 m water depth across the entire NKCM. Subfacies 1b
(heavy mineral sand) occurs at less than 50 m water depth along only two
transects and consists of predominantly local basaltic to basaltic andesite derived
heavy mineral rich (gt30%) deposits. Subfacies 1c (mica rich sand) occurs at one
sample site at 300 m water depth and contains 20-30% mica grains, probably
sourced from South Island schists and granites. Facies 2 (glauconitic sand)
comprises medium to fine sand with over 30% and up to 95% authigenic
glauconite grains occurring in areas of low sedimentation on the outer shelf and
upper slope (150-400 m water depth) in central NKCM. Facies 3 (mixed
bryozoan-siliciclastic sand) consists of greater than 40% bryozoan skeletal
material and occurs only in the northern half of the NKCM. Facies 4 (pelletal
mud) occurs on the mid shelf (100-150 m water depth) in northern NKCM and
comprises muddy sediment dominated by greater than c. 30% mixed carbonatesiliciclastic
pellets. Facies 5 (foraminiferal mud and sand) contains at least 30%
foraminifera tests and comprises two subfacies. Subfacies 5a consists of at least
50% mud sized sediment and occurs at gt400 m water depth in southern NKCM
while subfacies 5b comprises gt70% sand sized sediment and occurs at mid to
outer shelf and slope depths in the northern NKCM.
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A number of environmental controls affect the composition and distribution of
NKCM sediments and these include: (1) variable sediment inputs to the NKCM
dominated by inshore bedload sources from the south; (2) northerly directed
nearshore littoral and combined storm-current sediment transport on the beach and
shelf, respectively; (3) offshore suspended sediment bypassing allowing
deposition of authigenic minerals and skeletal grains; (4) exchange between the
beach and shelf producing similar compositions and grain sizes at less than 150 m
water depth; and (5) the episodic rise of sea level since the Last Glaciation
maximum approximately 20 000 years ago which has resulted in much sediment
being left stranded at greater depths than would otherwise be anticipated.
Sedimentation models developed from other wave-dominated shelves generally
do not appear to apply to the NKCM sediments due to their overall relative
coarseness and their mosaic textural characteristics. In particular, the NKCM
sediments do not show the expected fining offshore trends of most wavedominated
shelf models. Consequently, sandy sediments (both siliciclastic and
authigenic) are most typical with mud becoming a dominant component in
southern NKCM sediments only at greater than 400 m water depth, over 350 m
deeper than most models suggest, a situation accentuated by the very low mud
sediment supply to the NKCM from the bordering Northland landmass
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