Samuel Goldfine to Mr. Meredith (4 October 1962)

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Edna Aizenberg. On the Edge of the Holocaust: The Shoah in Latin America Literature and Culture. Waltham, Massachusetts: Brandeis UP, 2016.

Review of Edna Aizenberg. On the Edge of the Holocaust: The Shoah in Latin America Literature and Culture. Waltham, Massachusetts: Brandeis UP, 2016

Combining classical rhetoric with a reading and writing curriculum in a high school English classroom

Contemporary approaches to teaching writing at the secondary level are only successful in preparing students for college approximately fifty percent of the time (Stemglass 154). This statistic is disconcerting. If high schools are to meet students’ writing needs, educators must evaluate their methods of teaching composition and develop a more effective approach — one that allows high schools to graduate writers who are prepared to meet the writing demands of higher education. However, this is not to say that current, popular approaches to teaching writing should be abandoned. Rather, today’s English teachers need to examine modem approaches, identify their deficiencies, and determine how to improve their effectiveness. This thesis first explores the elements that make up a well-balanced “ideal” approach to teaching writing, thus creating a benchmark for composition studies. Next, an analysis of the Reading and Writing approach to teaching composition is presented to highlight the weaknesses and limitations of this method. Following the analysis is a discussion of how classical rhetoric can be used in the classroom to “fill the gaps” of the Reading and Writing approach, thus creating a hybrid method of teaching writing that is comprehensive and well-balanced. Additionally, two appendices are included. Appendix A is a traditional Reading and Writing syllabus. Appendix B presents the same syllabus, enhanced with elements of classical rhetoric to provide a comprehensive method of teaching writing

Conduct disorder and future substance abuse: Factors affecting drug treatment outcome

Prior research has demonstrated a relation between Conduct Disorder (CD), its severity (total number of symptoms), and substance use disorder (SUD). The current study examined 105 opioid dependent adults for a history of CD and treatment outcome characteristics over a 16 week SUD treatment program. Results demonstrate the effects of CD in regards to poorer improvement of summed Addiction Severity Index composite scores and amphetamine use. Improvement in cocaine use was found to be associated with a CD diagnosis. CD severity was found to lead to poorer improvement as measured by psychiatric impairment and alcohol intoxication. However, participants with increased CD severity were more likely to decrease sedative and cocaine use over the course of treatment. A history of CD and violent behavior was not shown to affect treatment outcome. No treatment retention or urine sample analyses differences were found among any of the comparison groups

An examination of adolescent nicotine withdrawal symptoms: A validation of the Nicotine Withdrawal Assessment for Youth

The present study evaluated the nicotine withdrawal symptoms of current adolescent cigarette smokers and examined the psychometric properties of the Nicotine Withdrawal Assessment for Youth (N-WAY), a new measure of adolescent nicotine withdrawal symptoms. Smokers and nonsmokers, ranging in age from 13-19 years old, were found to report significantly different rates of 10 of 19 purported nicotine withdrawal symptoms: anger, headaches, alertness, feeling depressed, nervousness, dizziness, irritability, conflict with family, conflict with school staff, and cigarette cravings. In addition, smokers were found to be significantly older and consume more daily caffeine than nonsmokers. The data imply that caffeine use may ameliorate certain nicotine withdrawal symptoms or caffeine withdrawal may be more responsible for symptoms falsely attributed to nicotine withdrawal. There were no indications of different rates of restlessness, trouble concentrating, feeling tired, feeling stressed, feeling hyper, waking up during sleep, hunger, trouble falling asleep, or conflict with friends among smokers and nonsmokers. Results also suggested that light smokers may experience higher rates of day-to-day nicotine withdrawal symptoms than heavy smokers. Despite being more dependent on nicotine, heavy smokers, through their frequent administration of nicotine, may be better able to prevent or quickly alleviate withdrawal symptoms than light smokers. An examination of the N-WAY demonstrated acceptable test-retest reliability (total symptom score [r = .78] and impact score [ r = .74]) and internal consistency (symptom items Cronbach\u27s alpha = .84 and impact items Cronbach\u27s alpha = .92). Its total symptom and impact score both accurately discriminated current smokers from nonsmokers. There was weak concurrent validity with an established measure of nicotine dependence, the Modified Fagerstrom Tolerance Questionnaire. This was hypothesized to support that the N-WAY validly measured nicotine withdrawal symptoms, a distinct construct from nicotine dependence symptoms. Other correlates of nicotine withdrawal symptoms, such as number of daily cigarettes smoked and prior quit attempts, accurately predicted total N-WAY impact score, further indicating that the N-WAY is a valid assessment of adolescent nicotine withdrawal symptoms. These results suggest that although adolescent smokers experience a number of nicotine withdrawal symptoms, there are a number of symptoms that nonsmokers report at equal rates and may be best explained as a normative adolescent experience

Embedding structure matters: Comparing methods to adapt multilingual vocabularies to new languages

Pre-trained multilingual language models underpin a large portion of modern NLP tools outside of English. A strong baseline for specializing these models for specific languages is Language-Adaptive Pre-Training (LAPT). However, retaining a large cross-lingual vocabulary and embedding matrix comes at considerable excess computational cost during adaptation. In this study, we propose several simple techniques to replace a cross-lingual vocabulary with a compact, language-specific one. Namely, we address strategies for re-initializing the token embedding matrix after vocabulary specialization. We then provide a systematic experimental comparison of our techniques, in addition to the recently-proposed Focus method. We demonstrate that: 1) Embedding-replacement techniques in the monolingual transfer literature are inadequate for adapting multilingual models. 2) Replacing cross-lingual vocabularies with smaller specialized ones provides an efficient method to improve performance in low-resource languages. 3) Simple embedding re-initialization techniques based on script-wise sub-distributions rival techniques such as Focus, which rely on similarity scores obtained from an auxiliary model

Development of Meandering Winding Magnetometer (MWM (Register Trademark)) Eddy Current Sensors for the Health Monitoring, Modeling and Damage Detection of High Temperature Composite Materials

The increased use of high-temperature composite materials in modern and next generation aircraft and spacecraft have led to the need for improved nondestructive evaluation and health monitoring techniques. Such technologies are desirable to improve quality control, damage detection, stress evaluation and temperature measurement capabilities. Novel eddy current sensors and sensor arrays, such as Meandering Winding Magnetometers (MWMs) have provided alternate or complimentary techniques to ultrasound and thermography for both nondestructive evaluation (NDE) and structural health monitoring (SHM). This includes imaging of composite material quality, damage detection and .the monitoring of fiber temperatures and multidirectional stresses. Historically, implementation of MWM technology for the inspection of the Space Shuttle Orbiter Reinforced Carbon-Carbon Composite (RCC) leading edge panels was developed by JENTEK Sensors and was subsequently transitioned by NASA as an operational pre and post flight in-situ inspection at the Kennedy Space Center. A manual scanner, which conformed'automatically to the curvature of the RCC panels was developed and used as a secondary technique if a defect was found during an infrared thermography screening, During a recent proof of concept study on composite overwrapped pressure vessels (COPV's), three different MWM sensors were tested at three orientations to demonstrate the ability of the technology to measure stresses at various fiber orientations and depths. These results showed excellent correlation with actual surface strain gage measurements. Recent advancements of this technology have been made applying MWM sensor technology for scanning COPVs for mechanical damage. This presentation will outline the recent advance~ in the MWM.technology and the development of MWM techniques for NDE and SHM of carbon wra~ped composite overwrapped pressure vessels (COPVs) including the measurement of internal stresses via a surface mounted sensor array. In addition, this paper will outline recent efforts to produce sensors capable of making real-time measurements at temperatures up to 850 C, and discuss previous results demonstrating capability to monitor carbon fiber temperature changes within a composite material