Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War

Review of: "Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War," by Kimberly Jensen

Dysfluency in Autism Spectrum Disorders

AbstractThis paper will present the latest information regarding what is known and unknown about the presence, possible causes, and potential effective treatments of fluency disorders in Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs). Advanced review of cognitive features of ASDs which may play a role in contributing to dysfluencies in this population will be discussed. Examples of practical application of existing information to evaluation and treatment will be presented

Locating the Center: Exploring the Roles of In-Class Tutors in First Year Composition Classrooms

In “Diplomatic Relations: Peer Tutors in the Writing Classroom,” Teagan Decker contends that “one of the most crucial” things that defines a writing center is “the relationship it has with those who assign the writing in the first place” (17). Decker’s contention, that looking to the other can clarify the self, poses important questions that every writing center, and writing program for that matter, should ask itself: who are we and what do we do? Essentially, we conducted this study to answer these questions. As these things are wont to do, our initial questions led to other, more specific questions: how do/should CI composition faculty view our in-class tutors (ICT)? What expectations do we have for each other? Do the Writing Center and the composition department have an understanding of the authority of the ICT within the classroom space?University Writing Cente

Recipe for citizenship: Professionalization and power in World War I dietetics

This dissertation is an analysis of the professionalization tactics of white, native-born, Protestant, middle-class women who served with the U.S. armed forces as dietitians during World War I. Through the overlapping rubrics of maternalism, citizenship, and professionalism, I examine the ways in which dominant race, class, and gender ideologies inflected their quest for professionalization. I specifically examine the way hospital dietitians infused their expertise with rhetoric of race betterment and national security to acquire distinct status and authority in relation to other female medical/health practitioners. In this study, I locate the ideological origins of Public Law 36, 80 th Congress, establishing the U.S. Women\u27s Medical Specialist Corps, within the cultural sensibilities of American antebellum evangelical health reform movements. Public Law 80-36 (April 16, 1947) authorized Regular Army commissions for dietitians, physical therapists, and occupational therapists. I contend that dietetics, a central force in the rise of the home economics movement, also served as an important portal for women\u27s access to higher education in science and medicine. Finally, I hold that military service was critical to the professionalization of women\u27s labor and claims to citizenship in early twentieth century America. In other words, military service allowed native-born, Protestant, middle- and upper-class, white American women to mobilize, network, and expand the scope of their work, as well as leaven their access to professional resources and political power

Using Vapnik–Chervonenkis Dimension to Analyze the Testing Complexity of Program Segments

AbstractWe examine the complexity of testing different program constructs. We do this by defining a measure of testing complexity known as VCP-dimension, which is similar to the Vapnik–Chervonenkis dimension, and applying it to classes of programs, where all programs in a class share the same syntactic structure. VCP-dimension gives bounds on the number of test points needed to determine that a program is approximately correct, so by studying it for a class of programs we gain insight into the difficulty of testing the program construct represented by the class. We investigate the VCP-dimension of straight line code, if–then–else statements, and for loops. We also compare the VCP-dimension of nested and sequential if–then–else statements as well as that of two types of for loops with embedded if–then–else statements. Finally, we perform an empirical study to estimate the expected complexity of straight line code

Using geographic information system to address environmental justice concerns in transportation projects

Abstract only availableEnvironmental Justice concerns were brought up in the county of Cape Girardeau about impacts to the community. These impacts, caused by the construction of a new bridge (crossing the Mississippi River) and the associated relocation of Route 74 (to the bridge), need to be addressed by the Department of Transportation (since the law now states that the environmental justice concerns must be addressed for federally funded projects). This project was designed to demonstrate how to improve the transportation decisions that meet the needs of all people in the community (such as that of Cape Girardeau) by using GIS to facilitate the analyzing process for Environmental Justice in minority and low-income populations. Using data obtained from the Missouri Spatial Data Information Services and Cape Girardeau, Geographic Information Systems was used to create two different maps showing the per capita income and percent minority of that area in Cape Girardeau. This information showed that there were obvious environmental justice issues that needed to be examined

Feminist therapy: A qualitative examination of the practitioner\u27s perspective

This study was undertaken to investigate feminist therapeutic practice from the practitioner\u27s perspective. The initial goals of this study were to explore practitioner perspectives on feminism and power and their impact upon feminist practice. Additionally, the researcher sought to discover how practitioners found congruence between their feminist-informed values and therapeutic practice and if, in the course of practicing as a feminist, ethical dilemmas arose. Based on a sample of eight women who identified themselves as feminist practitioners, the researcher used semi-structured open-ended interviews to investigate the participants\u27 beliefs, values and perspectives on clinical practice. From the application of a generic qualitative analysis to the interview transcripts, five themes, twenty categories, and eighty-six sub-categories emerged. The five major themes reflected perspectives on feminism, power, feminist therapeutic practice, congruence between feminist-informed beliefs/values and therapeutic practice and ethical dilemmas. When offered, participants\u27 strategies and/or suggestions for working through ethical dilemmas were recorded and have been presented where applicable

Using Vapnik-Chervonenkis Dimension to Analyze the Testing Complexity of Program Segments

We examine the complexity of testing di erent program constructs. We do this by de ning a measure of testing complexity known as VCP-dimension, which is similar to the Vapnik-Chervonenkis dimension, and applying it to classes of programs, where all programs in a class share the same syntactic structure. VCP-dimension gives bounds on the number of test points needed to determine that a program is approximately correct, so by studying it for a class of programs we gain insight into the di culty of testing the program construct represented by the class. We investigate the VCP-dimension of straight line code, if-then- else statements, and for loops. We also compare the VCP-dimension of nested and sequential if-then-else statements as well as that of two types of for loops with embedded if-then-else statements. Finally, we perform an empirical study to estimate the expected complexity of straight line code