Bouts of Brain Fever: Female Rebellion and the Dubiety of Illness in Victorian Fiction

In several Victorian novels, a character becomes incapacitated—and bedridden—for a period of time due to an elusive ailment known as brain fever; these mental alterations usually occur in female characters after an unexpected event or a stress-ridden situation. However, the sources of and meanings behind these fits of brain fever are limited to generic descriptions (if the author provides any explanation at all). This apparently intentional absence of information suggests that the illnesses act as symbols, alluding to or attempting to understand relevant social issues of the time. Through an in-depth study of Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton (1848), Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847), Anthony Trollope’s Lady Anna (1874), and Charles Dickens’ Little Dorrit (1857), I seek to uncover the motivations behind authors’ incorporation of brain fever into their works, identify the causes of brain fever in the characters’ lives, and analyze the lives of the inflicted characters—post-recovery

Paleomagnetic and AMS results from Oligocene ash-flow tuffs of the eastern San Juan Mountains : implications for the evolution of the western margin of the San Luis Basin, northern Rio Grande Rift

The San Luis Basin (SLB) of the northern Rio Grande rift (RGR) is a spectacular intermontane basin in south-central Colorado. The SLB is an east-dipping, half graben basin that formed in response to extension beginning ca. 26 Ma in the Cordillera. Oligocene ash-flow tuffs exposed in the eastern San Juan Mountains and along the western margin of the SLB provide an excellent opportunity to study the kinematic history of the northern Rio Grande rift using paleomagnetism. Outflow deposits of ash-flow tuffs are generally excellent recorders of the geomagnetic field and can be used to study the vertical-axis rotation component of extension related to the opening of the SLB. Four ash-flow tuffs (Carpenter Ridge, Fish Canyon, Chiquito Peak and Saguache Creek Tuffs) that were erupted between ca. 32 and 27 Ma were sampled at a total of 84 sites for paleomagnetic, rock magnetic, and magnetic fabric data. Paleomagnetic data indicate some complexities with using large-volume, regionally extensive outflow deposits of ash-flow tuffs, specifically that relatively thick outflow deposits (with thicknesses exceeding 100 m) may record paleosecular variation of the geomagnetic field. Even with these complications, the four targeted San Juan ash-flow tuffs may still be evaluated for regional domains of potential vertical-axis rotation. Overall, we observe a lack of vertical-axis rotation along the western margin of the SLB. Shear and fault linkage in the hanging wall of the major normal fault of the SLB does not appear to play a role in the evolution of slightly extended terranes. Distal outflow deposits of ash-flow tuffs may also be difficult, if not impossible, to tell apart and paleomagnetism is used to distinguish two units that have, until presently, been grouped together as the Chiquito Peak Tuff. The magnetic fabric of these Oligocene ash-flow tuffs was also measured and analyzed for complexities due to paleotopography and single-domain magnetic carriers. Preliminary results from a comparison between two magnetic fabric techniques are also presented and analyzed. Magnetic fabrics measured for all tuffs in the northeastern San Juan Mountains confirm that their flow was channelized through an Oligocene paleovalley that existed west of Saguache

Refinements of the Littlewood-Richardson Rule

In the prequel to this paper, we showed how results of Mason involving a new combinatorial formula for polynomials that are now known as Demazure atoms (characters of quotients of Demazure modules, called standard bases by Lascoux and Schutzenberger) could be used to define a new basis for the ring of quasisymmetric functions we call Quasisymmetric Schur functions (QS functions for short). In this paper we develop the combinatorics of these polynomials futher, by showing that the product of a Schur function and a Demazure atom has a positive expansion in terms of Demazure atoms. As a by-product, using the fact that both a QS function and a Demazure character have explicit expressions as a positive sum of atoms, we obtain the expansion of a product of a Schur function with a QS function (Demazure character) as a positive sum of QS functions (Demazure characters). Our formula for the coefficients in the expansion of a product of a Demazure character and a Schur function into Demazure characters is similar to known results and includes in particular the famous Littlewood-Richardson rule for the expansion of a product of Schur functions in terms of the Schur basis.Comment: 16 pages; addressed referee comments; version as accepted by Transactions of the AM

SEEK Summer Bridge Program in the Hunter College (CUNY) Libraries 2018

A description of a four session curriculum, using comics to teach students how to ask questions

Comics, Questions, Action! Engaging Students and Instruction Librarians With the Comics-Questions Curriculum

In a four-session Summer Bridge programme, we experimented with new curricular and pedagogical ideas with a group of incoming freshmen. We developed the Comics-Questions Curriculum (CQC), which melds students’ question asking with a focus on comics. The purpose of this paper is to describe the rationale for and ongoing development of the CQC as well as the ways the CQC fosters engagement of students and librarians, builds upon students’ existing skills but propels them forward toward college-level work, and positions librarians as partners in students’ college work. Although it was designed for a specific purpose initially, the CQC in its current state is widely adaptable to other contexts beyond the original scope

SEEK Summer Bridge Program in the Hunter College (CUNY) Libraries 2018

A description of a four session curriculum, using comics to teach students how to ask questions

Allied health education for disability rights: A Case study from the University of Sydney's Faculty of Health Sciences

Introduction: Persons with disabilities are vulnerable to rights violations when accessing healthcare. As allied health professionals play a significant role in the care of persons with disabilities, it is important that allied health professional competencies and education recognise the rights of persons with disabilities. However, a preliminary literature review indicated that the incorporation of disability rights within allied health professional competencies and education has not been researched. The University of Sydney's Faculty of health Sciences offers health professional education to six allied health disciplines: Occupational Therapy, Rehabilitation Counselling, Speech Pathology, Physiotherapy, Diagnostic Radiography and Exercise Physiology. Aim: This study aimed to investigate the nature and extent to which the competencies and education of thee six allied health professions focus on disability rights, and to explore the supports, barriers and recommendation for the future incorporation of human right within allied health professional education. Method: This study used a mixed method design involving quantitative keyword searches and qualitative content analyses of competency documents, education documents and transcripts of interviews conducted with co-ordinators of disability rights subjects. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006) was used as a theoretical framework during data analysis. Results: An allied health continuum emerged from the results, suggesting the extent to which the professions focus on disability rights varies. Occupational Therapy, Rehabilitation Counselling and Speech Pathology had the strongest human rights focus. Conversely disability rights were no recognised by Physiotherapy, Diagnostic Radiography or exercise Physiology education. Interviews attributed this phenomenon to a biomedical rather than a rights-based approach to disability. Conclusion: There is considerable scope for allied health professions to strengthen human eights-based education through ethical codes, competencies, and accreditation and registration requirements, with the aim of reducing rights violations experienced by persons with disabilities when accessing allied health care

Action-Packed Action Research: How Comic Books, Questions, and Reflection Can Transform Information Literacy Instruction

How many questions can you generate when looking at a single comic panel? Which are researchable, and why? These are questions that we’ve asked our students and our library colleagues. We invite you to ask these questions and more, and consider the broader significance of question-asking and reflective teaching to information literacy and ask if there is a place for comics -- or image-laden materials -- in your classroom

The SPAN cookbook: A practical guide to accessing SPAN

This is a manual for remote users who wish to send electronic mail messages from the Space Physics Analysis Network (SPAN) to scientific colleagues on other computer networks and vice versa. In several instances more than one gateway has been included for the same network. Users are provided with an introduction to each network listed with helpful details about accessing the system and mail syntax examples. Also included is information on file transfers, remote logins, and help telephone numbers

Privilege and the role of entitlement in unethical behavior

I conducted an experiment to test the hypothesis that privilege fosters a sense of entitlement, leading one to behave in unethical ways, ways that benefit the self at the expense of the welfare of others. To test this hypothesis, participants engaged in a role play exercise in which they are awarded a scholarship (conferred privilege), denied a scholarship (denied privilege), or receive no feedback (control) on a test of perceptive ability. After, participants completed measures to assess feelings of entitlement. Participants completed a difficult test of knowledge and self-report their scores. Unethical behavior was measured by the disparity between the participants actual score and reported score on the test. On the basis of my hypothesis, I predicted that participants in the conferred privilege condition would report a greater sense of entitlement and thus would cheat in reporting their test scores more than participants in the denied privilege and control conditions