Tamar’s Legacy: The Early Reception of Genesis 38

The story of Tamar and Judah is one of the Torah’s more morally complicated narratives. As such, interpreters throughout history, but specifically early Jewish interpreters, grappled with how to relay this story in their translations of the Hebrew Bible. Using the theories and methods of reception history, this study demonstrates how the translations these early interpreters produced shed light on the dynamic relationship between a text and those who interpret it. Examining both the Greek Septuagint and Aramaic Targumim, the study identifies places in the translations where hints of the socio-historical position and theological commitments of the translators and their communities are woven into the Greek and Aramaic versions of the text

Employer satisfaction with employees with a disability

Previous research that addressed determents of employer satisfaction with employees with a disability (EWDs) mainly targeted employers’ perceptions of workplace performance. This thesis used quantitative and qualitative approaches to examine perspectives of employers and disability employment service providers (DESPs) on the complex nature of employer satisfaction with EWDs within an ecological paradigm. Three studies were undertaken. The first analysed questionnaire ratings for 656 employers of workplace performance of EWDs. Analyses found: (1) employers rated EWDs lower than non-disabled employees (NDEs) on employer satisfaction and work performance; (2) determinants of employer satisfaction differed between EWDs and NDEs; (3) employers were more satisfied with EWDs than NDEs in relation to work performance; (4) lower comparative ratings on employer satisfaction for EWDs influenced future employment intentions toward people with a disability; (5) employers’ perceptions of job-match affected ratings on employer satisfaction and performance; (6) effects of job-match on employer satisfaction were direct and indirect, through work performance; and (7) variables representing job-match were relatively more important to employers’ decisions to hire and retain a person with a disability than variables representing Social Concerns and employer/management items. A theoretical model that depicted the influence of processes (job-match) and outcomes (work performance) on employer satisfaction with EWDs was supported. The second study analysed questionnaire ratings from 36 non-employers of EWDs. Findings indicated very similar responses between employers and non-employers of EWDs on experiences related to employer satisfaction with NDEs. Views about the relative importance of variable related to hiring and retaining a person with a disability suggested that generalising findings from the first study to all employers was reasonable. The third study analysed data from interviews with 50 employers and 40 DESPs; and questionnaire responses for 56 DESPs and 36 non-employers of EWDs. This study validated the importance of job-match to successful employment outcomes; suggesting DESPs were undervaluing their services to the employers. The study also showed that Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory provided a relevant framework with which to interpret complex information from different stakeholders, important to understanding employer satisfaction. In summary, employer satisfaction was shown to be a relative concept that varied with referent, and a developmental phenomenon that was influences by many factors operating and interacting at a number of ecological levels. Policies and practices to promote employer satisfaction with EWDs need co-ordinated approaches that recognise the influence of contexts internal and external to the workplace and the dynamic nature and interrelationships of characteristics within these contexts

\u3cem\u3eHow to Save a Planet\u3c/em\u3e: Communicating Climate Change Efficacy Through Narrative

The podcast How to Save a Planet represents an emerging form of climate change communication that can be further explored through rhetorical analysis. For people who are interested in climate change but want less doom-and-gloom messaging and more applicable ways to address it, How to Save a Planet presents the unique opportunity to listen in on the discussions of science communicators and climate experts as they detangle the complexity that is climate change. By utilizing the podcast form, hosts Alex Blumberg and Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson can reach a large audience of listeners to bridge the gap between the scientists who work on climate issues and the public audience who care about resolving them. In the pentadic analysis of the podcast, its purpose, agents, and agency will be focused on, as these are the narrative elements that reflect the hosts’ rhetorical intent. After the analysis, an evaluation of the artifact determines that the implementation of these elements in How to Save a Planet bridges a connection between science experts and public audiences, as well as provide efficacy for listeners to act on climate change

An Examination of the Relationship between Authenticity and Female Sexual Dysfunction

Since the late 1990s, researchers have reported a high degree of sexual dysfunction among American women that is associated with significant negative consequences (e.g., reduced quality of life and sexual satisfaction). In addition, sexual satisfaction is a primary factor in marital stability. Because of the widespread impact on both individual well-being and marital relationships, female sexual dysfunction is a significant public health problem. Most research has supported the predominance of psychocultural factors in women\u27s sexual issues. Authenticity, defined by Kernis and Goldman as acting in accord with one\u27s natural inclinations, is associated with increased well-being, but researchers have often overlooked it in the literature on female sexual dysfunction. This study, guided by Kernis and Goldman\u27s authenticity theory, argued that gender culture impairs the ability of women to be authentic in the sexual realm, and, thereby, increases the risk of sexual problems. The purpose of this research study was to examine the relationship between authenticity, as measured by The Authenticity Inventory, Version 3, and female sexual dysfunction, as measured by The Female Sexual Function Index and The Female Sexual Distress Scale, Revised, in a group of 55 women attending an online university. The hypothesis was that women with higher rates of dysfunction and/or distress would score lower on authenticity. The results from a regression analysis did not reach significance and failed to confirm the hypothesis; however, there was an association between distress and dysfunction. This study contributes to social change by examining an association between authenticity and female sexual dysfunction that is of help to researchers and therapists working with women in the area of sexual health

Selected factors related to 4-H membership, participation and retention of eighth grade students in Bradley County, Tennessee

The purpose of this study was to compare eighth grade 4-H members and nonmembers from two junior high schools in Bradley County, Tennessee according to personal and family backgrounds, reasons for membership and nonmembership in 4-H, their opinions about the image of 4-H, parental involvement in 4-H, and participation in 4-H and other youth activities. The population of the study consisted of 633 eighth grade boys and girls who were present at school on the days that the questionnaires were administered. Information was secured by the completion of a questionnaire. The Chi square (X2) test was used to determine the significance of observed differences between 4-H members and nonmembers. The analysis of variance F test also was used to determine significance of the relationships. Values that achieved the .05 level were considered to be statistically significant. Significant findings of this study were: 1. Significantly larger percentages of 4-H members than nonmembers indicated that they would join 4-H the next year if meetings were held during school hours. 2. A greater percentage of 4-H members than nonmembers indicated that they would join 4-H the next year if meetings were held after school hours. However, only a small percentage of both members and nonmembers would join 4-H if meetings were held after school hours. 3. A significantly greater percentage of members than non-members reported parental interest in the 4-H club. 4. A significantly greater percentage of members than non-members cited the following reasons for young people remaining enrolled in 4-H; the learning experiences will make them a better person; the meetings are fun and interesting; 4-H helps youth to become leaders; 4-H will help youth to become better citizens; and most of their friends are enrolled in 4-H. 5. A significantly greater percentage of nonmembers than 4-H members cited the following reasons for young people dropping out of 4-H: too much record keeping, boring meetings and activities requiring too much time. 6. Significantly greater percentages of 4-H members than nonmembers cited the following opinions about the image of the 4-H club: 4-H is a club in which youth learn about farming; 4-H is a club in which youth learn about homemaking; 4-H is a club in which a young person could become a leader; 4-H is a fun club; 4-H is a club in which youth can earn trips; 4-H is a club that will help a young person in the future; 4-H is a great club to be a member of; 4-H is not a waste of time; 4-H is not just a club for kids; 4-H is a club in which youth can earn college scholarships; youth have interest in taking special trips on Saturdays and during summer months; 4-H club work is not boring; and 4-H is a club about which young people have some information. 7. Significantly higher percentages of members than nonmembers indicated that parents had assisted with 4-H by providing transportationVI to a 4-H event, by attending a 4-H meeting, by helping 4-H member with a project and by providing transportation for other 4-H members to attend a 4-H event. 8. Significantly greater percentages of members than nonmembers reported that their parent(s) had been a member of a club(civic, church, or social). 9. Significantly greater percentages of 4-H members than non-members indicated they had served as a club officer, was a member of a district 4-H judging team, had entered 4-H breadbaking contest, had entered a 4-H poster contest, had entered a 4-H public speaking contest, gave a demonstration for a contest, had entered a district 4-H contest, attended 4-H camp and was a member of a 4-H project group. 10. Significantly greater percentages of members than non-members indicated that they had won a 4-H ribbon, had entered an item at county demonstration day and had both read and answered the questions in a 4-H project book. 11. Significantly greater percentages of 4-H members than non-members had been members of the school paper and/or school yearbook staffs and/or had been members of an organized sports team. 12. Significantly greater percentages of members than nonmembers indicated they had interest in being on the radio, attending a 4-H contest in Chattanooga, being a member of a 4-H judging team, completing a 4-H record book, attending 4-H trips out of the county, attending weekend 4-H camps in Crossville, receiving 4-H academic credit, and attending 4-H meetings at night rather than during the day. 13. A significantly greater percentage of members than non-members, though small percentage, indicated that an Extension agent had visited their home. 14. Respondents who reported they planned to join 4-H next year had been in 4-H a significantly greater number of years, had participated in significantly greater numbers of 4-H activities and had significantly higher scores on opinions about 4-H. 15. Respondents who gave yes responses to the following had been in 4-H a significantly greater number of years, had participated in significantly greater numbers of 4-H activities and had significantly higher scores on opinions about 4-H: had knowledge about a 4-H project; knew the location of the 4-H club meeting; 4-H projects sounded interesting; parent(s) expressed interest in the 4-H club; liked to compete for awards; had some knowledge about the 4-H club; had an interest in taking special 4-H trips; indicated that ninth grade meetings were fun and interesting; a 4-H Extension agent had visited their home; had read and answered the questions in a 4-H project book; and that the 4-H club was not boring to them. 16. Those youth who usually made A\u27s and B\u27s had participated in significantly greater numbers of 4-H activities. 17. Those respondents who had brother(s), sister(s), mother or father who had been enrolled in 4-H had been enrolled in 4-H a significantly greater length of time, had participated in a greater number of 4-H activities and had higher scores on opinions about 4-H. 18. Those youth who lived on a farm, had been enrolled in 4-H a significantly greater length of time and had participated in a significantly greater number of 4-H activities. 19. Those youth who had fathers employed in farming had been enrolled in 4-H the longest number of years. 20. Those youth who listed their father\u27s employment as education had particpated in the greatest number of 4-H activites. 21. Those respondents who had participated in the following events had been a 4-H member a significantly greater number of years and had significantly higher scores on opinions about 4-H: served a a 4-H club officer, entered a 4-H breadbaking contest, entered a 4-H poster contest, entered a 4-H public speaking contest, gave a demonstration for a contest, entered a district 4-H contest, attended 4-H camp and was a member of 4-H project group. 22. Likewise, those respondents who had won a 4-H ribbon and who had received a medal or award at the achievement program had been a 4-H member a significantly greater number of years and had significantly higher scores on opinion about 4-H. Implications and recommendations also were included

CCD speed-noise optimization at 1 MHz

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF)[1] is a CCD mosaic requiring 64 differential output channels to be transmitted to electronics located over 2 m from the CCDs and digitized with less than 10 e- read noise at 1 MHz pixel rate. To minimize pixel overhead, the Reset Gate pulse is generated inside the dewar by a pin driver controlled by a very short pulse using an LVDS interface. Overlapping serial clocks spanning the entire pixel are made entirely triangular with slopes tuned to cancel substrate return current and minimize high frequency content to improve common rejection by the fully differential signal path. We document the trade between settling time after charge dump and linearity and illustrate the desirability of generating both Summing Well and Reset Gate edge close to the CCD. The parallel clocking overhead is exacerbated in ZTF by ganging multiple CCDs but is hidden by overlapping the parallel shift with pixel readout. To suppress fixed pattern due to the concurrent parallel clocks, slow overlapped triangular waveforms panning the entire line time are employed to null the substrate current, in the same manner as the serials. Both noise and speed requirements are exceeded on all 64 channels, with margin. At all pixel rates the median noise is as good as can be expected for differential transmission being √2 times the single sided noise published in the data sheet for the CCD231- C6 CCDs. Linearity is preserved even at 840 ns pixel time, and crosstalk is less than 10 ppm

Little England

Dialecto Literario. -- Sussex. -- Pertenece a la colección LD 1800-1950 del Salamanca Corpus. -- Sheila Kaye-Smith, 1887-1956. -- Little England. -- 1918.[ES]Novela que se desarrolla en Sussex y que contiene dialecto de Sussex. [EN] Novel that takes place in Sussex and which contains Sussex dialect

DNA Identification Databases: Legality, Legitimacy, and the Case for Population-Wide Coverage

Over the past decade, law enforcement authorities have amassed huge collections of DNA samples and the identifying profiles derived from them. Large DNA databanks routinely help to identify the guilty and to exonerate the innocent, but as the databanks grow, so do fears about civil liberties. Perhaps the most controversial policy issue in the creation of these databases is the question of coverage: Whose DNA profiles should be stored in them? The possibilities extend from convicted violent sex offenders to all convicted felons, to everyone arrested, to the entire population. This Article questions the rationales for drawing the line at all convicted offenders or at all arrestees. It suggests that such coverage results in sampling DNA disproportionately from racial minorities, which exacerbates racial tensions and undermines the preventative and investigative value of the databases. It argues that a population-wide database with strict privacy protections may supply the better answer to the coverage question, and to the privacy concerns raised by any government program to take and analyze individuals\u27 DNA.Part I discusses two theories that might dictate which offenders should be included in these databases. The first theory holds that by virtue of a conviction, offenders forfeit the Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. This forfeiture-of-rights theory would confine the databases to convicted offenders, but it cannot be squared with settled constitutional principles. The second theory holds that because convicted offenders are more likely to re-offend than are other groups, they pose a special risk that justifies the incursion on their Fourth Amendment rights. Although this recidivism theory may seem more protective of individual liberties, it fails to constrict coverage to convicted offenders or even to arrestees.Part II considers extensions of coverage to various groups of people who have not been convicted of crimes. It suggests that the Constitution may permit DNA to be collected from persons who have only been arrested, and even from certain groups of persons who have neither been convicted nor arrested.Part III questions the desirability of limiting database coverage to convicted offenders, or to convicted offenders plus arrestees (or suspects ). It notes that by restricting coverage to these groups, we are fast producing a racially distorted system in which, however lawfully the DNA samples are taken, they are taken disproportionately from members of racial minorities. We conclude that a population-wide database would be more effective and more fair than any system in which conviction or arrest is the threshold for database inclusion. We also indicate how such a system can be structured to protect personal privacy

Applying Newton’s Law of Cooling When The Target Keeps Changing Temperature, Such As In Stratospheric Ballooning Missions

Newton’s Law of Cooling describes how a “small” system, such as a thermometer, comes to thermal equilibrium with a “large” system, such as its environment, as a function of time. It is typically applied when the environment is in thermal equilibrium and the conditions are such that the thermal decay time for the thermometer is a constant. Neither of these conditions are met when measuring environmental (i.e. atmospheric) temperature using a thermometer mounted in a payload lofted into the stratosphere under weather balloons. In this situation the thermometer is in motion so it encounters layer after layer of atmosphere which differ in temperature, and the changing environmental conditions can influence the thermal decay time “constant” for the thermometer as well. We have used Newton’s Law of Cooling in spreadsheet-based computer simulations to explore how thermometer readings react under these conditions, to better-understand how logged temperature records from stratospheric balloon flights during both ascent (relatively slow) and descent (much faster, especially at altitude) are related to actual environmental temperatures at various altitudes

DNA Identification Databases: Legality, Legitimacy, and the Case for Population-Wide Coverage

Over the past decade, law enforcement authorities have amassed huge collections of DNA samples and the identifying profiles derived from them. Large DNA databanks routinely help to identify the guilty and to exonerate the innocent, but as the databanks grow, so do fears about civil liberties. Perhaps the most controversial policy issue in the creation of these databases is the question of coverage: Whose DNA profiles should be stored in them? The possibilities extend from convicted violent sex offenders to all convicted felons, to everyone arrested, to the entire population. This Article questions the rationales for drawing the line at all convicted offenders or at all arrestees. It suggests that such coverage results in sampling DNA disproportionately from racial minorities, which exacerbates racial tensions and undermines the preventative and investigative value of the databases. It argues that a population-wide database with strict privacy protections may supply the better answer to the coverage question, and to the privacy concerns raised by any government program to take and analyze individuals\u27 DNA.Part I discusses two theories that might dictate which offenders should be included in these databases. The first theory holds that by virtue of a conviction, offenders forfeit the Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. This forfeiture-of-rights theory would confine the databases to convicted offenders, but it cannot be squared with settled constitutional principles. The second theory holds that because convicted offenders are more likely to re-offend than are other groups, they pose a special risk that justifies the incursion on their Fourth Amendment rights. Although this recidivism theory may seem more protective of individual liberties, it fails to constrict coverage to convicted offenders or even to arrestees.Part II considers extensions of coverage to various groups of people who have not been convicted of crimes. It suggests that the Constitution may permit DNA to be collected from persons who have only been arrested, and even from certain groups of persons who have neither been convicted nor arrested.Part III questions the desirability of limiting database coverage to convicted offenders, or to convicted offenders plus arrestees (or suspects ). It notes that by restricting coverage to these groups, we are fast producing a racially distorted system in which, however lawfully the DNA samples are taken, they are taken disproportionately from members of racial minorities. We conclude that a population-wide database would be more effective and more fair than any system in which conviction or arrest is the threshold for database inclusion. We also indicate how such a system can be structured to protect personal privacy