Slave Subsistence at the Upper South Mabry Site, East Tennessee: Regional Variability in Plantation Diet of the Southeastern United States

Archaeologists have identified patterns in the archaeological record of plantation sites which they attribute to the status differences of the plantation inhabitants; however, most of these investigations have been restricted to the coastal areas of the deep South. Recent excavations at plantations in Tennessee have provided the opportunity to compare this coastal subsistence pattern with data from two plantations in the Upland South. This thesis compared eight faunal assemblages from four plantations, two coastal and two inland contexts, in order to investigate whether inland plantations exhibit the same patterns which have been identified on coastal plantations. Faunal remains were used to compare dietary diversity, to examine habitat exploitation and to investigate skeletal portion utilization. Faunal assemblages from coastal plantations have revealed a fairly consistent pattern in which a lot of wild species of animals from a wide variety of habitats are represented. Slave assemblages contain a lower diversity of species than planter assemblages although both seem to exploit most of the habitats which are locally available. Slave assemblages are comprised mainly of head, back and foot portions of pig and cow while planter assemblages contain meatier portions such as steaks, roasts, hams and chops. The means of analysis used in this thesis suggest a different interpretation of coastal plantation subsistence. Slave and planter assemblages did not differ in terms of the number of species which were exploited but planter assemblages did contain more specimens from more costly habitats. Planter assemblages are not comprised mostly of high yield carcass portions but instead contain a greater proportion of middle yield portions. This analysis also indicated a difference in subsistence patterns between coastal and inland plantations. While coastal plantation residents relied most heavily on aquatic animals such as fish and reptiles, residents of inland plantations relied most heavily on mammals. Differences between the environments do contribute to the differences in animal group use but other things such as the economic base and type of labor system in use on the plantations appear to be contributing factors

Story Based Learning: A Student Centred Practice-Oriented Learning Strategy

Story based learning (SBL) has evolved as a way to promote quality in nursing education by assisting faculty to develop a student-centred learning environment. SBL is a teaching/learning strategy that also strengthens learners’ capacities to provide quality nursing care. Health professional education has been identified as a key contributor to advancing quality care. Key documents identify the pillars of quality health professional education as client–centred care, inter-professional education, teamwork and collaborative learning, knowledge mobilization and evidence-based practice, awareness of the limits of one’s knowledge as a foundation for reflective practice and life-long learning, and mastery of a field of practice. SBL incorporates elements of problem-based learning, case method teaching, and narrative pedagogy. The student-centred orientation of SBL aligns with the philosophical principles of client-centred nursing: respect for lived experience, participatory dialogue, and critical appraisal of health–related contexts. After providing an overview of SBL, we discuss the power of stories to engage learners in focused practice learning. We show how SBL sensitizes learners to: identify learning needs, develop information literacy, and recognize ethical, personal, interpersonal, and health team issues. We address how SBL fosters collaborative and participatory learning. Through a nursing lens learners using SBL identify a focus for nursing action, a process for negotiating nursing care, and appropriate nursing supports. The SBL process concludes with learners reflecting on what they have learned about learning and nursing. SBL is designed to develop in learners a habit of mind for clinical reasoning, reflective practice, and the delivery of quality nursing care. _________________ L’apprentissage au moyen de récits (AMR) est devenu une manière de favoriser la qualité de la formation en sciences infirmières en amenant le corps professoral à créer un environnement d’apprentissage centré sur l’étudiant(e). L’AMR est une stratégie d’enseignement et d’apprentissage qui renforce également les capacités des apprenants à offrir des soins infirmiers de qualité. La formation des professionnels de la santé constitue un élément essentiel pour l’amélioration de la qualité des soins. Les piliers d’une formation de qualité pour les professionnels de la santé ont été présentés dans des documents clés comme étant des soins centrés sur le client, une formation interprofessionnelle, un travail d’équipe et un apprentissage collaboratif , la mobilisation du savoir et la pratique fondée sur des résultats probants, la conscience des limites de son savoir comme fondement d’une pratique réflexive et d’un apprentissage continu, ainsi que la maîtrise d’un domaine de pratique. L’AMR intègre des éléments de l’apprentissage par problèmes, de la méthode d’ études de cas et de la pédagogie narrative. Le fait que l’AMR soit centré sur l’étudiant(e) cadre avec les principes philosophiques des soins infirmiers centrés sur le client : le respect de l’expérience vécue, le dialogue participatif et l’évaluation critique des contextes liés à la santé. Après avoir donné un aperçu de l’AMR, nous discutons du pouvoir des récits à engager les apprenants dans un apprentissage orienté vers la pratique. Nous présentons la manière dont l’AMR sensibilise les apprenants à identifier les besoins d’apprentissage, à développer une maîtrise de l’information et à reconnaître les questions éthiques, personnelles, interpersonnelles et liées à l’équipe de santé. Nous abordons la manière dont l’AMR favorise l’apprentissage collaboratif et participatif. À partir d’une perspective infirmière, les apprenants qui utilisent l’AMR déterminent une orientation pour l’intervention infirmière, un processus de négociation des soins infirmiers et les sources de soutien appropriées. Le processus d’AMR se termine en amenant les apprenants à réfléchir à ce qu’ils ont appris sur l’apprentissage et sur les sciences infirmières. L’AMR est conçu pour que les apprenants développent une habitude de la pensée pour le raisonnement clinique, la pratique réflexive et la prestation de soins infirmiers de qualité

CONTEMPORARY PEDAGOGY FOR THE ADULT LEARNING

The purpose of this article is to discuss contemporary educational pedagogy for the 21st century adult student (commonly called andragogy) with attention to current learning styles theory.   As the roles and responsibilities of current faculty continue to develop it is important to also focus on how learning styles theory and adult learning theory can be used to enhance andragogy in universities and colleges.  This article will also address research on andragogy and its practical application to teaching, as well as student strategies for success. As the role of faculty continues to evolve, higher education needs to be responsible and responsive in preparing to address the diverse, contemporary and future challenges of the 21st teacher and student.&nbsp

Barking Up the Wrong Tree: A Qualitative Study of the Potential for Dog-Owner Technology

Current approaches to dog technology are predominantly aimed at owners monitoring and remotely engaging their dogs to prevent boredom when they are left home alone. The potential of technology to enhance the collocated dog-human experience has received little attention. This paper discusses a qualitative study with 10 owners and their dogs, exploring how technology could be used to enhance dog-human interaction in the home. Results highlight that dog toys are actually targeted at play involving both dog and owner; that playful interactions between dogs and owners focus on increasing bonding and affective symbiosis; and that the play isn’t the point for neither dog nor human, the relationship is. The study concludes that dog-human technology for collocated enjoyable interaction will be significantly different than that used in remote human-dog interaction and requires further work

KSwAGS: A Swift X-ray and UV Survey of the Kepler Field. I

We introduce the first phase of the Kepler-Swift Active Galaxies and Stars survey (KSwAGS), a simultaneous X-ray and UV survey of ~6 square degrees of the Kepler field using the Swift XRT and UVOT. We detect 93 unique X-ray sources with S/N>3 with the XRT, of which 60 have observed UV counterparts. We use the Kepler Input Catalog (KIC) to obtain the optical counterparts of these sources, and construct the X-ray to optical flux ratio as a first approximation of the classification of the source. The survey produces a mixture of stellar sources, extragalactic sources, and sources which we are not able to classify with certainty. We have obtained optical spectra for thirty of these targets, and are conducting an ongoing observing campaign to fully identify the sample. For sources classified as stellar or AGN with certainty, we construct SEDs using the 2MASS, UBV and GALEX data supplied for their optical counterparts by the KIC, and show that the SEDs differ qualitatively between the source types, and so can offer a method of classification in absence of a spectrum. Future papers in this series will analyze the timing properties of the stars and AGN in our sample separately. Our survey provides the first X-ray and UV data for a number of known variable stellar sources, as well as a large number of new X-ray detections in this well-studied portion of the sky. The KSwAGS survey is currently ongoing in the K2 ecliptic plane fields.Comment: Accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal. 19 pages, 8 figures, 3 table

Accuracy of self-reported medicines use compared to pharmaceutical claims data amongst a national sample of older Australian women

This study assessed agreement between two measures of medicine use, self-report by mail and pharmaceutical claims data, for a national sample (N = 4687) of older women aged 79 to84 in2005, from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health. Medicines used for common chronic diseases in older people were selected, with pharmaceutical claims data retrieval periods of three and six months. For six month retrieval, Kappa’s ranged between 0.44 (nervous system medicines) and 0.94 (glucose lowering medicines). For three month retrieval, aspirin (Kappa: 0.35) and folic acid (Kappa = 0.48) had lowest agreement. Women were least able to accurately report use of nervous system medicines (sensitivity < 50%), and most accurately report glucose lowering medicines use (sensitivity > 80%). Specificity was consistently high across all classes, suggesting women could accurately report using a medicine. Pharmaceutical claims data can assist evaluation of judicious medicines use, changes to availability and uptake of medicines, and track medicine expenditure for chronic conditions. Over-the-counter medicines, medicines not covered by pharmaceutical subsidies and those used on an as needed basis may be best measured by self-report, as use may be underestimated using pharmaceutical claims data

Bodies on the border : between ableist cures, nationalist hostilities and deadly futures

This series of images emerges from a collaboration between academics and artists focused on organ transplantation and chronic illness. The images are part of the ongoing work of Capturing Chronic Illness, a project founded by UK-based medical humanities academics Donna McCormack (University of Strathclyde, UK) and Ingrid Young (University of Edinburgh, UK) to explore how arts may engage with health, illness, and non-normative embodiments that exceed dominant narratives. The exchange that produced the images is based directly on McCormack’s project, Transplant Imaginaries, which analyses fictional texts (novels and films) to explore biotechnological and anticolonial embodiments and relationalities in representations of transplantation. The three images, produced with Lynne Zakhour and Richard Kahwagi, explore transplant medicine beyond a curative imaginary. They point to key issues that are rarely discussed or even acknowledged in the clinic, but may be discussed in memoirs, by recipients and in fiction. These images, then, push us to reconsider how organ transplantation necessarily demands we pay attention to those embodied stories of living with the dead, crossing borders and how care, even that deemed "lifesaving," may be violent. Capturing Chronic Illness explores how the arts can listen to silenced or denied experiences of (particularly) queer health and illness

Feasibility and Preliminary Efficacy of a Physical Activity Counseling Intervention Using Fitbit in People With Knee Osteoarthritis: The TRACK-OA Study Protocol

Background Physical activity (PA) reduces pain and improves functioning in people with knee osteoarthritis (OA), but few people with the condition meet recommended PA guidelines. Successful intervention strategies to increase PA include goal setting, action planning, self-monitoring, and follow-up feedback from a healthcare professional. Recently developed consumer wearable activity trackers allow users to set activity goals, self-monitor daily goal-progress, and provide feedback on goal attainment. It is hypothesized that a multi-component physiotherapist-led intervention that includes a short (40-min) education module, guided goal-setting and action planning, the use of a wristband activity tracker, and weekly follow-up phone calls will lead to increased PA outcomes. Methods/design Thirty-six participants will be recruited from the community for a two-group pilot randomized controlled trial with a stepped-wedge design using an intention-to-treat analysis. Computer-generated block randomization will be performed using varying block sizes and a 1:1 allocation ratio. The 4-week intervention will be delivered immediately (immediate-intervention group) or after a 5-week delay (delayed-intervention group). Outcome measures of pain and disability (Knee Injury and OA Outcome Score), disease self-management ability (Partners in Health Scale), and objective bouted moderate-to-vigorous PA and sedentary time (BodyMedia SenseWear Mini Armband) will be collected at baseline (week 0) and two follow-ups (weeks 5 and 10), for a total study duration of 11&nbsp;weeks. Feasibility data relating to process, resource, management, and scientific elements of the trial will be collected. Outcome measure and feasibility data will be summarized, and an estimate of intervention efficacy will be obtained by regression model with planned comparisons. The trial began recruiting in February 2015. To date, 34 subjects have been recruited. Discussion This study will evaluate the feasibility and preliminary efficacy of a novel intervention to promote PA in people living with knee OA. The results will provide valuable information to inform a larger randomized trial to assess intervention effectiveness