There is no school like the family school : Literacy, motherteaching, and the Alcott family

By the mid nineteenth century, Americans were increasingly recognizing the need for public education and literacy for all citizens if the United States was to survive, if not thrive. In addition, new industries and technologies were developed that would slowly transform the agrarian New England landscape into a terrain of mill towns and manufacturing sites. The industrialization of New England altered family life, as well, and lead to the rise of the motherteacher ideology, a cultural paradigm that profoundly influenced discussions of childrearing and public education in the United States. This dissertation examines the motherteaching of three famous nineteenth-century figures, Bronson, Abby, and Louisa May Alcott, in their public and private lives. In particular, I examine their attitudes toward literacy and moral education. The Alcotts promoted what literary historian Richard Brodhead terms disciplinary intimacy as a means of instructing children in proper behavior and parentally sanctioned values. My dissertation focuses on the potent relationship between literacy, maternal authority and discipline as it was envisioned and acted upon by Bronson, Abby and Louisa May Alcott. Chapter one of the dissertation traces the origins of the motherteacher paradigm and examines in detail the best-selling childrearing manual The Mother At Home written by John S. C. Abbott in 1833. Chapter two examines the early teaching career of Bronson Alcott in Cheshire, Connecticut and the motherteaching methods he used in his classroom. Chapter three focuses on the reactions of several of Bronson\u27s young students to his attempts to establish disciplinary intimacy through personal correspondence and journal keeping. Chapter four shifts the discussion to Abby Alcott as motherteacher and examines her contributions to education reform, as well as the ways in which she shaped her daughter Louisa\u27s writing voice. The final chapter traces the teaching career and writing life of Louisa and explores how she used Little Women as a vehicle to promote and revise the motherteacher paradigm she inherited from her parents. Originally published in DAI Vol. 57, No. 4. Reprinted here with corrected author name

UNAIDS Global Report 2012 : tradução do relatório do UNAIDS sobre a epidemia global da AIDS

Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso (graduação)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Letras, Departamento de Línguas Estrangeiras e Tradução, 2013.O trabalho a seguir apresenta a tradução do Relatório do UNAIDS sobre a epidemia mundial de AIDS, também denominado apenas como Relatório Global. O Programa Conjunto das Nações Unidas sobre HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) é um órgão vinculado à ONU que “reúne os esforços e recursos de dez organizações das Nações Unidas para a resposta mundial à AIDS.” 1. O Relatório Global aqui traduzido é o resultado de um consolidado de 186 países (o que representa aproximadamente a totalidade dos países que fazem parte da Assembleia Geral da ONU) que divulgaram, no ano de 2012, seus formulários de respostas nacionais à AIDS. Esses formulários disponibilizam informações abrangentes de cada país sobre o processo de estratégia nacional em favor da AIDS, sobre a participação da sociedade civil frente à questão da AIDS, assim como as abordagens políticas realizadas para a prevenção e o tratamento da AIDS. A partir da compilação das informações fornecidas pelos países, o Relatório Global resume, portanto, a situação atual mundial dos esforços para, até 2015, alcançar as metas estabelecidas na Declaração Política sobre HIV e AIDS das Nações Unidas de 2011

Psychometric Profiles of Patient Populations with Excessive Daytime Sleepiness

Patients with narcolepsy have more psychiatric symptoms than normal controls as measured by psychometric tests. However, it is unclear whether these findings are specific to narcolepsy, as some studies have suggested, or related to excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) or to chronic illness. We compared a group of 56 narcoleptics to age- and sex-matched controls with EDS. A group of 48 individuals with normal sleep architecture was also used as an additional control group. Both the narcoleptic group and the EDS-control group had significantly greater scores on Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory scales hut were not different from each other. Our data suggest that the psychopathology associated with narcolepsy is not specific and may be generalized among patients with disorders of excessive sleepiness

Retrospective study of the effect of disease progression on patient reported outcomes in HER-2 negative metastatic breast cancer patients

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>This retrospective study evaluated the impact of disease progression and of specific sites of metastasis on patient reported outcomes (PROs) that assess symptom burden and health related quality of life (HRQoL) in women with metastatic breast cancer (mBC).</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>HER-2 negative mBC patients (n = 102) were enrolled from 7 U.S. community oncology practices. Demographic, disease and treatment characteristics were abstracted from electronic medical records and linked to archived Patient Care Monitor (PCM) assessments. The PCM is a self-report measure of symptom burden and HRQoL administered as part of routine care in participating practices. Linear mixed models were used to examine change in PCM scores over time.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Mean age was 57 years, with 72% of patients Caucasian, and 25% African American. Median time from mBC diagnosis to first disease progression was 8.8 months. Metastasis to bone (60%), lung (28%) and liver (26%) predominated at initial metastatic diagnosis. Results showed that PCM items assessing fatigue, physical pain and trouble sleeping were sensitive to either general effects of disease progression or to effects associated with specific sites of metastasis. Progression of disease was also associated with modest but significant worsening of General Physical Symptoms, Treatment Side Effects, Acute Distress and Impaired Performance index scores. In addition, there were marked detrimental effects of liver metastasis on Treatment Side Effects, and of brain metastasis on Acute Distress.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>Disease progression has a detrimental impact on cancer-related symptoms. Delaying disease progression may have a positive impact on patients' HRQoL.</p

A Double-Blind Trial of Protriptyline in the Treatment of Sleep Apnea Syndrome

Eight male subjects with sleep apnea syndrome were given placebo and protriptyline in a double-blind crossover design to evaluate the effects of protriptyline on respiration during sleep. Treatment with protriptyline produced significantly better oxygenation and significantly fewer arousals during sleep, but sleep staging was unchanged. The decreased number of respiratory events approached significance and was much greater in six of eight subjects. A rapid eye movement sleep-suppression explanation of the improvement in oxygenation is not supported. Alternative explanations of these findings are discussed

Blog : a space for the construction of the writing in basic education

A construção do processo da escrita tem sido um desafio desde a Educação Infantil até a Universidade. Esta investigação estudou a construção da escrita a partir da interação dos estudantes no Blogda turma, emuma Escola Pública no sul do Brasil. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa na forma de estudo de casocom estudantes de quarto ano. Apartir das diversas escritas dos estudantes no Blogforam levantadas categorias de análise. Os resultados apontarampara a escrita onlinedos estudantes como possibilidade deautonomia na escrita, recursos que podem auxiliar o educando a desenvolver com mais propriedade a criatividade eoprotagonismo dentro do processode ensino-aprendizagem, valorizando a escrita por meioda leitura compartilhada, própria do blogpúblico.The construction of the writing process has been a challenge from Kindergarten to University. This investigation studied the construction of writing from the interaction of students on the Class Blog, in a Public School in southern Brazil. This is a qualitative research in the form of a case study with fourth-year students. From the various writings of students on the Blog, categories of analysis were raised. The results pointed to the students' online writing as a possibility of autonomy in writing, resources that can help the student to more properly develop creativity and protagonism within the teaching-learning process, valuing writing through shared reading, proper of the public blog