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A Profile of Policy Discussions Regarding Gender-Inclusive Housing Amongst Four-Year Public Institutions in the Midwest: A Qualitative Approach
This study utilized a qualitative approach to analyze gender-inclusive policies amongst four-year public institutions in the Midwest. This study focused primarily on residence life administrators, who are responsible for the creation and implementation of such policies on their campuses. 40 institutions completed a survey inquiring about their policies or practices, and four institutions were interviewed as a follow-up. Several themes emerged from the study, which included: 1) even if an institution did not have a policy, they more than likely have a practice; 2) change in trends are inevitable and professionals must be willing to change with them; and 3) the administrators willingness to support students has far outweighed any resistance or restrictions they encountered. This study recommended Student Affairs professionals to show a care and concern to their students in an effort to provide a supportive living-learning environment, and to constantly research and create policies in order to continue to move forward. Faculty, staff, and administrators have the ability to make a lasting impact on the students that reside on college campuses and providing an outlet where they can feel secure enough to talk about what they want to see out of their experience and environment is important
Prepositions
My work is a conscious engagement with traditions of process art that emphasize making over outcome and the desire to create art that cannot be predetermined. The art objects are primarily a by-product of engagement with my material reality. This is hard to pin down and harder to talk about. Historian Kim Grantâs introduction to the circular and sometimes impenetrable creative process is a good summation of one of the essential problems of my art [school] experience: âThe artistâs hard work often takes place without a clearly denied goal, thereby rendering the artistâs labors endless, and any results resistant to external evaluation.â** One kind of evaluation, however, comes out of ideas of endurance and how my body interacts with material. Have I repeated the individual mark to the point of muscle memory? Can my hand work by itself? If my hand isnât making active decisions, will another internal logic reveal itself? The inverse is to manipulate the whole to ind the granular. Both are correct. Printmaking allows for this multidirectional
Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE) - The Prime Focus Subsystems: Requirements and Interfaces
MSE will be a massively multiplexed survey telescope, including a segmented
primary mirror which feeds fibers at the prime focus, including an array of
approximately four thousand fibers, positioned precisely to feed banks of
spectrographs several tens of meters away. We describe the process of mapping
top-level requirements on MSE to technical specifications for subsystems
located at the MSE prime focus. This includes the overall top-level
requirements based on knowledge of similar systems at other telescopes and how
those requirements were converted into specifications so that the subsystems
could begin working on their Conceptual Design Phases. We then discuss the
verification of the engineering specifications and the compiling of lower-level
requirements and specifications into higher level performance budgets (e.g.
Image Quality). We also briefly discuss the interface specifications, their
effect on the performance of the system and the plan to manage them going
forward. We also discuss the opto-mechanical design of the telescope top end
assembly and refer readers to more details for instrumentation located at the
top end.Comment: 14 pages; Proceedings of SPIE Astronomical Telescopes +
Instrumentation 2018; Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management
for Astronomy VII
Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer Advancing from Conceptual Design
The Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE) project has completed its
Conceptual Design Phase. This paper is a status report of the MSE project
regarding its technical and programmatic progress. The technical status
includes its conceptual design and system performance, and highlights findings
and recommendations from the System and various subsystems design reviews. The
programmatic status includes the project organization and management plan for
the Preliminary Design Phase. In addition, this paper provides the latest
information related to the permitting process for Maunakea construction.Comment: 15 pages; Proceedings of SPIE Astronomical Telescopes +
Instrumentation 2018; Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VI
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Behavioral consequences of increasing adult hippocampal neurogenesis
The hippocampus is a brain structure involved in memory as well as anxiety and depression-related behavior. One unique property of the hippocampus is that adult neurogenesis occurs in this region. Rodent studies in which adult hippocampal neurogenesis is ablated have shown a role for this process in the cognitive domain, specifically in pattern separation tasks, as well as in mediating the behavioral effects of antidepressants. These studies have furnished the intriguing hypothesis that increasing adult hippocampal neurogenesis may improve these functions and therefore serve as a target for novel treatments for cognitive impairments as well as depression and anxiety disorders. Here, we use both genetic and pharmacological models to increase adult neurogenesis in mice. Under baseline conditions, we find that increasing adult hippocampal neurogenesis is sufficient to improve performance in a fear-based pattern separation task, but has no effect on exploratory, anxiety or depression-related behavior. In mice exposed to voluntary exercise, increasing adult hippocampal neurogenesis increases exploration, without affecting anxiety or depression-related behavior. Finally, in mice treated with chronic corticosterone, a model of anxiety and depression, increasing adult hippocampal neurogenesis is sufficient to prevent the behavioral effect of CORT on anxiety and depression-related behavior. Here, we therefore describe dissociations between the effects of increasing adult hippocampal neurogenesis under baseline, voluntary exercise and chronic stress conditions. Together, our results suggest that increasing adult hippocampal neurogenesis has therapeutic potential for both cognitive, and anxiety and depression-related disorders
The Ursinus Weekly, March 8, 1965
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An introduction to Elinor Glyn : her life and legacy
This special issue of Women: A Cultural Review re-evaluates an author who was once a household name, beloved by readers of romance, and whose films were distributed widely in Europe and the Americas. Elinor Glyn (1864â1943) was a British author of romantic fiction who went to Hollywood and became famous for her movies. She was a celebrity figure of the 1920s, and wrote constantly in Hearst's press. She wrote racy stories which were turned into filmsâmost famously, Three Weeks (1924) and It (1927). These were viewed by the judiciary as scandalous, but by othersâHollywood and the Spanish Catholic Churchâas acceptably conservative. Glyn has become a peripheral figure in histories of this period, marginalized in accounts of the youth-centred âflapper eraâ. Decades on, the idea of the âIt Girlâ continues to have great pertinence in the post-feminist discourses of the twenty-first century. The 1910s and 1920s saw the development of intermodal networks between print, sound and screen cultures. This introduction to Glyn's life and legacy reviews the cross-disciplinary debate sparked by renewed interest in Glyn by film scholars and literary and feminist historians, and offers a range of views of Glyn's cultural and historical significance and areas for future research
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