653 research outputs found
Love On - The Life of a Suicide Survivor: A Performance Autoethnographic Study
Suicide touches the lives of millions of people each year in this country alone, yet conversations about suicide loss and survival after a loss remain taboo and often do not happen. The story I performed for this performance autoethnographic study centers on my life as a survivor of suicide. It provides a starting point for dialog regarding trauma, grief, and suicide loss. The narrative was constructed directly following the sudden death of my father, which had a direct effect on my ability to produce artistic work. The development, staging and performance of the story were altered to account for the situational depression I experienced during my creative process.
I received feedback from the audience on what aspects of my telling were well developed, and what needed further development. I was able to experience the importance of balance in an autoethnographers personal life when writing about trauma and experiencing it directly
'The red light of emotion' : reading anger in contemporary British women's working-class fiction
This thesis investigates the representation of anger in contemporary British women's
writing. It argues that Helen Zahavi, Pat Barker, Livi Michael and Anne McManus
foreground anger (frequently materialising as anxiety and offset with humour) to pose
a series of questions with regard to gender, class and sexuality and that they do so in
contemporary 'versions' of the British working-class novel. In exploring the writing
of Zahavi, Barker, Michael and McManus I define them as both feminist and
working-class writers, but not in an absolute or inviolable way. In this thesis I am
more interested in how anger, women's writing and the working-class novel offer
what Mikhail Bakhtin calls 'a play of voices in a social context'.
The introduction examines antecedent working-class novels and discusses the
4slipperiness' of such literary terms as 'the working-class novel' and 'realism'. I
suggest that the male-authored working-class novels of the late nineteenth century and
early twentieth century frequently objectify the working classes and place workingclass
women within a literary straitjacket. Chapter I explores how working-class
women writers have been silenced and are generally absent from a working-class
tradition and explores notions of anger and anxiety that relate to their absence within
the paradigms of more recent feminist theory. The subsequent chapters offer close
readings of the writers under discussion to exemplify the ways in which their
representations of anger offer original, inventive and complex interrogations of a
range of issues. The final chapter draws on a range of recent fictions by women
writers and argues that they use representations of anger strategically in imaginative
and accessible narratives that focus on contemporary British society
A score complete without themes: Henry Mancini and the frenzy experience
This dissertation examines the musical features of, and circumstances surrounding, the film score composed in 1971 by Henry Mancini for director Alfred Hitchcock's penultimate work, Frenzy. Mancini's music was rejected by Hitchcock, and replaced with a markedly different work written by British composer Ron Goodwin.
A summation of characteristic traits emerging from Mancini's compositional style is herewith considered, as recurring features found in his thematic writing - aspects of melody, harmony, rhythm, timbre, and form - were most apparent to the non-musician film directors who engaged his services. This summation also includes an examination of the composer's dramatic underscore writing; an aspect of film music often overlooked in its minutiae by viewers and filmmakers alike, and, in the case of Mancini's Frenzy music, characteristic of his scores for Laslo Benedek's 1971 production, The Night Visitor, and Terrence Young's Wait Until Dark, from 1967.
Mancini's Frenzy cue sheets, holograph, and recording were supplied by the composer's estate, allowing for an analysis which considers cue placement and length, systems of pitch and rhythmic organisation, aspects of arrangement and orchestration, and conducting and recording methods as practised by this composer. A comparison to the Goodwin score, reproduced by way of transcription from the film, is undertaken in order to explore aspects of filmic point-of-view as they play on the composer of its accompanying music, and to attempt a rationalisation of Hitchcock's displeasure with Mancini's music.
Socio-cultural considerations pertaining to Mancini, Goodwin, and the three composer's most favoured by the director for his American productions - John Waxman, Dmitri Tiomkin and Bernard Herrmann - are included in a brief biographical study of each man, as are the musicological characteristics found in the work they undertook for Hitchcock; characteristics primarily of melodicism, and the subjection of melody-based thematic material to extensive modification and repetition.
This work suggests that Mancini's admitted refusal, both in his 1987 autobiography Did They Mention the Music? and in subsequent interviews, to construct melodic themes as a unifying element within his score, opting instead to craft timbral unifiers through orchestration, was at the heart of his artistic conflict with Hitchcock
Stress, stress factors, and self-report measures : clarification of power, a new factor
ix, 125 leaves ; 28 cm.Bibliography: leaves 101-109.The Check List of Arousal and Stress (CLAS) has been developed as an alternate form of the Stress Arousal Check List (SACL). Both offer assessment of two independent mood factors, stress and arousal, one employing adjectives and the other short phrases.
A scale to assess a third factor, power, has also been developed and combined with the CLAS to form the Checklist of Arousal, Stress, and Power (CLASP). However, several items comprising the CLAS and CLASP showed small loadings on the appropriate factors. In this study, those items were replaced with other short simple phrases and their factor loadings ascertained.
To further explore and assess the third factor, power, an alternate form of the power scale of the CLASP was developed. This power scale consists of single words, similar to the original SACL scales, and which was combined with the SACL to form the SACL-P.
The study was conducted in two parts. In the first part, the original SACL was administered to 310 university students, using the symmetric response format. The results were factor analyzed to determine the effects of the symmetric response format, that is, whether the symmetric response format yielded results different (monopolar vs. bipolar) from those obtained in previous studies when an asymmetric response format was used.
Pearson Product Moment Correlation coefficients were computed. The results of these analyses were significant and indicated that Form A and Form B of the SACL are alternate forms of each other, and the SACL-P and the CLASP-R are alternate forms of each other. Pearson Product Moment Correlation coefficients also indicated that the checklists are reliable over time. (Abstract Shortened
Behavioral and Electrophysiological Indices of Negative Affect Predict Cocaine Self-Administration
The motivation to seek cocaine comes in part from a dysregulation of reward processing manifested in dysphoria, or affective withdrawal. Learning is a critical aspect of drug abuse; however, it remains unclear whether drug-associated cues can elicit the emotional withdrawal symptoms that promote cocaine use. Here we report that a cocaine-associated taste cue elicited a conditioned aversive state that was behaviorally and neurophysiologically quantifiable and predicted subsequent cocaine self-administration behavior. Specifically, brief intraoral infusions of a cocaine-predictive flavored saccharin solution elicited aversive orofacial responses that predicted early-session cocaine taking in rats. The expression of aversive taste reactivity also was associated with a shift in the predominant pattern of electrophysiological activity of nucleus accumbens (NAc) neurons from inhibitory to excitatory. The dynamic nature of this conditioned switch in affect and the neural code reveals a mechanism by which cues may exert control over drug self-administration
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Uses and Misuses of the Journal Impact Factor
The second in a series of articles published in OSU This Week by members of the Faculty Senate Library Committee regarding threats to an open and sustainable system of scholarly communication and potential solutions. Article describes what journal impact factors are and how they are determined and makes recommendations for their proper use.Keywords: Scholarly publishing, Scholarly communication, Journal impact factorsKeywords: Scholarly publishing, Scholarly communication, Journal impact factor
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Seasonal and across-shelf trends of the phytoplankton community of the Oregon coastal environment
This project, part of the Northeast Pacific GLOBEC Long Term Observation Project (NEPGLOBEC-
LTOP), constitutes the first multi-year study of phytoplankton variability in the Oregon coastal
environment. The work divides into two studies: analysis of interseasonal change and analysis of detailed
changes within the summer upwelling period. In the first study, I found that the majority of variability in
phytoplankton biomass in this system is due to changes in the abundance of chain forming diatoms,
particularly diatoms of the genera Chaetoceros and Skeletonema. The abundance of nanoflagellates (<10
μm) remains constant across the shelf. They dominate the phytoplankton community in the offshore
stations and larger cells, usually diatoms, are added inshore. Cyanobacteria, though numerically
abundant, never comprise more than approximately 10% of phytoplankton biomass.
Variation within the summer phytoplankton bloom over the shelf was analyzed based on results
from the four NEP-GLOBEC-LTOP summer cruises between August 1998 and July 2001. Nutrient
concentrations during the summer upwelling blooms show a linear decrease with increasing temperature
from 8 to 12° C. Over this range of temperatures, total Chl a and phytoplankton biomass increase, though
not significantly, and the % Chl a >10 μm remains high (>50 %). Above 12° C, when inorganic nutrients
are depleted or greatly reduced, total Chl a and % Chl a >10 μm decrease. The diatom genera
Chaetoceros and Skeletonema are also responsible for the majority of the variability in phytoplankton
stock during the summer phytoplankton bloom. Dinoflagellates, although present, are consistently less
abundant than diatoms
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