Anne Walters Papers, 1910-1984

A prized playwright and dramatist from Webster, North Dakota who wrote several full length plays and books. Includes her works 'Choice' which is the story of the atomic bomb being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; and 'I Remember, I Remember,' a story of a North Dakota childhood. There are also her poetry files, numerous manuscript stories. The 'Anecdotage' manuscript documents memories of a North Dakota childhood which include homesteading, prairie schooner, the threshers, a country school, Cando and Starkweather, N.D., "Yust overs," the dry years, remembering mama, Maud Muller, the claim shack near Cando, farm life, a woman's life on the prairie, travelers coming by covered wagons and trains, harvesting, Dunkard settlement, living away from home so Anne could attend high school, the railroads, horses, wagons, and sleighs, the immigrants, drought, college years and World War I

Domestic violence: Service providers\u27 perceptions of factors affecting women\u27s decision to leave abusive relationships

Review of research conducted into woman abuse indicates there was an emphasis on questions looking at why women stayed in abusive relationships. Little or no research was specifically designed to answer questions about how women leave abusive relationships or determine the salient factors involved. The literature review also highlighted the importance of services and service providers because women who had experienced abuse would seek help and Knight and Hatty (1992) found that the quality of help received determined their future responses. Kurz and Stark (1988) found that workers\u27 perceptions about woman abuse influenced how workers responded to the women seeking help. Hoff (1990) indicated that workers\u27 negative responses may cause their services to be inaccessible to women who have experienced abuse. A theory emphasising an individual\u27s subjective experiences and how these perceptions influence their actions is Kelly\u27s (1955) personal construct theory. The exploratory study was designed to elicit and examine the construct systems employed by service providers, within the domestic violence domain in the Perth metropolitan area, concerning factors affecting women\u27s decisions to leave abusive relationships. Twelve participants (1 male and 11 females), ages ranging from 25-50 years (mean age= 35 years), with 2 to 15 years (mean = 5.8 years) experience volunteered for the study. They completed repertory grids, using the triadic method and 5-point rating scale, consisting of eight supplied elements selected to be representative of abusive and non-abusive relationships. Analysis of the individual and group grids was performed by REPGRID 2 and SOCIO (Shaw, 1989) using principal components analysis. Results indicated that the participants\u27 perceptions of woman abuse focused on individual characteristics which may have negative consequences for their service delivery practices as found by Hoff (1990). An inference was drawn that the factors employment status (NiCarthy, 1987), education level (Gelles & Cornell, 1990) and the presence of physical violence (Knight & Hatty, 1992) are critical factors involved in a woman\u27s decision to leave and abusive relationship. Repertory grid technique was thought to be useful in the area of woman abuse and service providers found the technique of benefit

The NSF/NIH Effect: Surveying the Effect of Data Management Requirements on Faculty, Sponsored Programs, and Institutional Repositories

The scholarly communication landscape is rapidly changing and nowhere is this more evident than in the field of data management. Mandates by major funding agencies, further expanded by executive order and pending legislation in 2013, require many research grant applicants to provide data management plans for preserving and making their research data openly available. However, do faculty researchers have the requisite skill sets and are their institutions providing the necessary infrastructure to comply with these mandates? To answer these questions, three groups were surveyed in 2012: research and teaching faculty, sponsored programs office staff, and institutional repository librarians. Survey results indicate that while faculty desire to share their data, they often lack the skills to do this effectively. Similarly, while repository managers and sponsored programs offices often provide the necessary infrastructure and knowledge, these resources are not being promoted effectively to faculty. The study offers important insights about services academic libraries can provide to support faculty in their data management efforts: providing tools for sharing research data; assisting with describing, finding, or accessing research data; providing information on copyright and ownership issues associated with data sets; and assisting with writing data management plans

Letter of Information

Letter of Information for participants in the study: The Impact of New Data Management Plan Requirements on Faculty, Sponsored Programs, and Institutional Repository Managers

Jejunoileal Absorption of Simple Nutrients in a Canine Model of Small Bowel Autotransplantation

Since 1988, more than 50 patients world-wide have received small bowel allografts, yet very little is known about the absorptive capabilities of transplanted small bowel. Background Transplantation of an organ requires the transection of all nerves and lymphatics connecting that organ to the donor. The effect this has on jejunal and ileal absorptive function is poorly documented and ambiguous. This study specifically addresses this question. Transplantation Transference of an organ fi-om donor to recipient involves several steps, each of which may potentially damage the graft; this could result in impaired absorptive function in a small bowel allograft. (a) Organ procurement: the organ is flushed and cooled with preservation solution, allowing storage. (b) Ischaemic time: from flushing of the graft with the cold preservation solution until circulation is restored in the recipient. (c) Reperfiision: when the transplanted organ is revascularised with recipient's blood. (d) Immunosuppression : pharmacological agents which dampen down the recipient's immune response are required to prevent graft rejection; e.g. cyclosporine A affects absorption. (e) Rejection: the high content of lymphoid tissue renders small bowel highly immunogenic. Acute rejection targets the mucosa, potentially affecting absorption from its onset. Aim of Study: This model of small bowel autotransplantation assesses, in isolation, the effect of denervation and lymiphatic transection on small bowel absorption. It excludes the confounding factors of transplantation injury just described. This is crucial for three reasons: 1. To assess any alterations in the physiology of absorption caused by denervation and lymphatic transection by using simple electrolyte and single nutrient solutions, with documented absorptive pathways. 2. Only after the effect of denervation and lymphatic transection has been clearly documented, can meaningful experiments on the absorptive capability of small bowel transplants be carried out, with a view to assessing the effect of transplantation injury. 3. Major absorptive defects in autotransplanted small bowel would imply their existence in transplanted small bowel, which may render it unsuitable to provide adequate nutrition in patients. This model of small bowel autotransplantation examines the absorption of a member of each of the major nutritional groups, allowing assessment of a broad spectrum of absorptive pathways. Glucose, glycine, phenylalanine, and oleic acid (a long chain fatty acid), were each studied separately, as single nutrient solutions. Canine Model of jejunoileal Autotransplantation This model represents a jejunoileum which is extrinsically denervated, with no connection of the intrinsic neural pathways to proximal or distal gut, and with total lymphatic interruption. Each dog had an 80cm isolated loop of jejunum or ileum with a perfusion cannula at the proximal end, and a distal stoma. Two control groups were created to match the two autotransplanted groups; these control animals did not undergo the model of autotransplantation, but simply had the 80cm loop of jejunum or ileum created. The four groups were: Group 1 - control jejunum Group 2 - autotransplanted jejunum Group 3 - control ileum Group 4 - autotransplanted ileum. Design and Conduct of Study The four groups of dogs, each containing a minimum of six animals, were studied at an early phase post-operatively (Week 1 and Week 2), and had the experiments repeated at a later phase (Week 8 and Week 9). Each of the five isotonic test solutions used polyethylene glycol as a non-absorbable marker to determine steady-state conditions. Each was perfused at a rate of 3ml/min at 3

Tools for Using and Organizing Online Resources to Enhance Reference and Instruction

Presentation at the 2010 Utah Library Association annual conference. This presentation addressed different tools that can be used to incorporate technology and online resources into teaching and instruction