Spatial Engagement with Poetry by Heather H. Yeung

Review of Spatial Engagement with Poetry by Heather H. Yeung

The Once and Future Great Lakes Country: An Ecological History by John L. Riley

Review of John L. Riley\u27s The Once and Future Great Lakes Country: An Ecological History

Teenage Motherhood: An Insight into the Discourses Concerning Teenage Mothers as Expressed in Popular Media

Background: Teenage motherhood was identified as a public health issue in 1999 influencing NHS services and potentially affecting the way teenage mothers were spoken about and seen within society. There has been a suggestion that a societal stigma and negative assumptions may exist around teenage motherhood (SmithBattle, 2013). Discourses and societal assumptions can impact on societal treatment and on the mental health of those affected by the dialogues (Cree, 2010). Research also suggests that societal discourses impact on whether or not individuals seek help if needed (Spencer et al 2015). As a result it was deemed important to explore discourses concerning teenage mothers. Aims: The aim of this study was to explore the discourses concerning teenage mothers as portrayed in English newspapers from 1999 until 2018. It hopes to understand more about societal ways of talking about teenage motherhood since the introduction of NHS services for teenage mothers in 1999. Furthermore, it also hopes these themes may be useful in understanding barriers to services and the impact on teenage mothers’ mental health. Method: one hundred and fifteen newspaper articles matching the research criteria were selected and analysed using a Thematic Analysis. This analysis was underpinned by a critical realist epistemology and was informed by the Braun and Clarke (2006) six-phased model of Thematic Analysis. Results: Three themes were constructed following the analysis: 1) it’s a problem we need to fix, 2) negative stigma, treatment and fighting the stereotype and 3) it’s not all bad. Conclusions: The findings are discussed within the context of the relevant literature and suggest there is societal stigma concerning teenage motherhood. The implications of this are discussed for clinical practice and future research

The z=0.8596 Damped Lyman Alpha Absorbing Galaxy Toward PKS 0454+039

We present {\it Hubble Space Telescope} and ground--based data on the $z_{abs}=0.8596$ metal line absorption system along the line of sight to PKS 0454+0356. The system is a moderate redshift damped Lyman alpha system, with ${\rm N(HI)}=(5.7\pm0.3)\times10^{20}$~cm$^{-2}$ as measured from the {\it Faint Object Spectrograph} spectrum. We also present ground--based images which we use to identify the galaxy which most probably gives rise to the damped system; the most likely candidate is relatively underluminous by QSO absorber standards ($M_B \sim -19.0$ for $q_0=0.5$ and $H_0=50$ \kms Mpc$^{-1}$), and lies $\sim 8.5h^{-1}$ kpc in projection from the QSO sightline. Ground--based measurements of Zn~II, Cr~II, and Fe~II absorption lines from this system allow us to infer abundances of [Zn/H]=$-1.1$, [Cr/H]=$-1.2$, and [Fe/H]=$-1.2$, indicating overall metallicity similar to damped systems at $z >2$, and that the depletion of Cr and Fe onto dust grains may be even {\it less} important than in many of the high redshift systems of comparable metallicity. Limits previously placed on the 21-cm optical depth in the $z=0.8596$ system, together with our new N(H~I) measurement, suggest a very high spin temperature for the H~I, $T_S >> 580$ K.Comment: changed uuencode header to produce .Z file so that unix uncompress command will work without modifying file nam

A comparative study of educational administration in Jamaica and in the United States of America.

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

Poking fun at the surface: exploring touch-point overloading on the multi-touch tabletop with child users

In this paper a collaborative game for children is used to explore touch-point overloading on a multi-touch tabletop. Understanding the occurrence of new interactional limitations, such as the situation of touch-point overloading in a multi-touch interface, is highly relevant for interaction designers working with emerging technologies. The game was designed for the Microsoft Surface 1.0 and during gameplay the number of simultaneous touch-points required gradually increases to beyond the physical capacity of the users. Studies were carried out involving a total of 42 children (from 2 different age groups) playing in groups of between 5-7 and all interactions were logged. From quantitative analysis of the interactions occurring during the game and observations made we explore the impact of overloading and identify other salient findings. This paper also highlights the need for empirical evaluation of the physical and cognitive limitations of interaction with emerging technologies

A computer program for anisotropic shallow-shell finite elements using symbolic integration

A FORTRAN computer program for anisotropic shallow-shell finite elements with variable curvature is described. A listing of the program is presented together with printed output for a sample case. Computation times and central memory requirements are given for several different elements. The program is based on a stiffness (displacement) finite-element model in which the fundamental unknowns consist of both the displacement and the rotation components of the reference surface of the shell. Two triangular and four quadrilateral elements are implemented in the program. The triangular elements have 6 or 10 nodes, and the quadrilateral elements have 4 or 8 nodes. Two of the quadrilateral elements have internal degrees of freedom associated with displacement modes which vanish along the edges of the elements (bubble modes). The triangular elements and the remaining two quadrilateral elements do not have bubble modes. The output from the program consists of arrays corresponding to the stiffness, the geometric stiffness, the consistent mass, and the consistent load matrices for individual elements. The integrals required for the generation of these arrays are evaluated by using symbolic (or analytic) integration in conjunction with certain group-theoretic techniques. The analytic expressions for the integrals are exact and were developed using the symbolic and algebraic manipulation language