Brazil and 12 Monkeys: Terry Gilliams\u27 Foucauldian-Baudrillardian Dystopias

Terry Gilliam\u27s films Brazil and 12 Monkeys are intricate dystopias with bizarre and eye-catching imagery. Using the theories of Michel Foucault and Jean Baudrillard, this thesis divides dystopian narrative into two distinct categories: Power and Technological. Once the boundaries for the categories are established, it becomes evident that Gilliam\u27s masterpieces fit the specifications for both. In creating comprehensive dystopias that address both types of dystopia, Gilliam has opened up spaces for resistence to Baudrillard\u27s hyperreality and even defies the irreversibility that Baudrillard claims is inevitable

Predictors of Prolonged Recovery from Concussion

• Sport-related concussion has been thrust to the forefront of medicine in recent years. • A high degree of variability in clinical presentation and length of recovery has made management of this condition difficult. • This review examines whether pre-existing risk factors or sign and symptom based variables exist to reliably predict a patient’s likelihood to experience a protracted recovery from concussion. • The review of literature revealed heterogeneous results. • This is due, in part, to the variability in the definition of prolonged recovery, ranging from seven to 90 days. Despite this variability, several factors emerged as having useful prognostic value. • History of previous concussions is a factor that may put individuals at increased risk for prolonged recovery. • The presenting symptoms of dizziness, migraine symptom cluster, and high symptom burden also provide an indication that a patient is up to 7.3 times (p=0.006) more likely to experience a protracted recovery (Kontos et al, 2013). • Contrary to traditional assumptions, loss of consciousness is not predictive of prolonged recovery. • Neurocognitive indicators show promise of having prognostic value but the application in primary care is currently impractical. • While these factors do not provide means to definitively identify individuals who will suffer from protracted recovery, they do allow for the identification of those at increased risk. Such information can be useful in making timely referrals, effectively managing recovery expectations, and offering anticipatory guidance. • Early identification of individuals at risk for protracted recovery can aid in the mobilization of additional support resources.https://commons.und.edu/pas-grad-posters/1083/thumbnail.jp

Curriculum, classroom assessment, instruction, and science outcomes : evidence from Kentucky\u27s scholastic audits.

Through the Kentucky Education Reform Act of 1990, Kentucky enacted sweeping reform that sought to equalize educational finance. With the foundational principle that all children can learn at high levels, the Kentucky Department of Education penned the Standards and Indicators for School Improvement (SISI) to guide the Scholastic Audit—a school improvement process, underscored by the nine standards and 88 indicators of the SISI. With the theoretical framework of Systems Theory, the current research investigates Kentucky reform through the lens of the SISI and Scholastic Audit. The central research question for the current study is the following: To what extent is Academic Performance (Standards 1-3 from Kentucky’s SISI) related to elementary science accountability scores? The current study employs a secondary Scholastic Audit database maintained by the KDE of 181 elementary schools (N = 181) who conducted a Scholastic Audit between 2001-2005. Additionally, repeat incidences of Scholastic Audit cases were removed to create a purposeful sample of 164 elementary schools (n = 164). Descriptive statistics were performed to assess various possible relationships that could affect school achievement outcomes. Factor Analysis and Cronbach’s (1951) coefficient alpha were employed to assess the possibility of data reduction for the Academic Performance standards and their respective indicators. Simultaneous multiple regressions were used to calculate possible relationships among the demographic factors, the Academic Performance standards, and the Science Academic Index. Additionally, a hierarchical multiple regression equation was employed to determine the relationships of the three Academic Performance standards on the Science Academic Index, while controlling for demographic factors. Standards 1-3 collectively explained 28% of the variance on the elementary science portion of the Academic Index, while only Standard 2, Classroom Evaluation/Assessment yielded a significant impact. Demographic factors accounted for 62.6% of the overall variance on the elementary science component of the Academic Index. The three Academic Performance standards remained fairly independent of demographic factor influence. During the hierarchical multiple regression equation, the addition of the three SISI Academic Performance standards in Step 2 added .046 in Adjusted R2 value. The final hierarchical regression model explained 68.0% of the total variance on the Science Academic Index

The jet-disk symbiosis without maximal jets: 1-D hydrodynamical jets revisited

In this work we discuss the recent criticism by Zdziarski of the maximal jet model derived in Falcke & Biermann (1995). We agree with Zdziarski that in general a jet's internal energy is not bounded by its rest-mass energy density. We describe the effects of the mistake on conclusions that have been made using the maximal jet model and show when a maximal jet is an appropriate assumption. The maximal jet model was used to derive a 1-D hydrodynamical model of jets in agnjet, a model that does multiwavelength fitting of quiescent/hard state X-ray binaries and low-luminosity active galactic nuclei. We correct algebraic mistakes made in the derivation of the 1-D Euler equation and relax the maximal jet assumption. We show that the corrections cause minor differences as long as the jet has a small opening angle and a small terminal Lorentz factor. We find that the major conclusion from the maximal jet model, the jet-disk symbiosis, can be generally applied to astrophysical jets. We also show that isothermal jets are required to match the flat radio spectra seen in low-luminosity X-ray binaries and active galactic nuclei, in agreement with other works.Comment: 7 pages, accepted by A&