Dialogue with Raven: Bakhtinian Theory and Lee Maracle’s Ravensong

Bakhtinian theory, with its emphasis on dialogism, has been a particularly productive tool for analyzing and understanding literatures that draw on oral traditions. Lee Maracle's Ravensong raises the question of how, in a colonial context, cultural dialogue is possible on two different levels: within the story of the novel (diegetically) as it depicts the struggles of Stacey, a young Salish woman, and outside the story of the novel (extradiegetically) in the discursive strategies used to tell the story. The idea of dialogue is therefore both effected and interrogated; the work accommodates and yet resists Bakhtin's ideas as it reveals the complex dynamics of dialogue when interlocutors are separated by a cultural, social, and economic divide

CHA-CHING: Cashing in on Motivated Employees to Drive Business Success

This study discusses the common view that physical capital should be valued as the focal point of an organization‟s success. While this might hold partial truth, the idea that physical capital is the determining factor of a company‟s success neglects the very element of an organization that makes the utilization of such assets possible: employees. This study based on the three p‟s of business success: people, performance and profits, will challenge that employees are the most crucial element of a business‟s long-term success rather than physical capital. The American economy has tested the strategies of companies of all sizes, which in turn has painted a dismal employment culture for many companies. The researcher will discuss the ways that the economy has effected employment and similarly, the ways the Great Recession has constrained business. Then the study will discuss the importance of employee engagement, as the fourth critical element of human resources that is often neglected by businesses and human resources plans alike. This will be followed by a human resource best practices guide developed by the researcher to motivate employees during economic hardships so that companies can cash in on their employees and achieve long-term success. The guide, developed from various pieces of information from an ethnographic study, literature and company analyses, will focus on the necessities of smaller businesses that often do not have actual human resource departments, but face the same employment challenges as corporate America. To narrow the focus of this thesis on smaller businesses, the human resources guide will be tailored for Sunshine\u27s Coffee Shop a small coffee shop deli in Syracuse, New York that currently operates without human resources department

Implementing AB 3408 (HART BILL) in the Petaluma High School District: A Case Study

The purpose of this study was to implement AB 3408 by establishing an organizational system which would insure the development of minimum competencies and performance indicators, and also establish necessary procedures for implementing these competencies. In January 1976, the California Educational Accountability Bill (AB 3408) became law and required that prior to June 1978 minimum competencies in the areas of written expression, reading and computational skills be adopted by the local school Boards of Education. Weber\u27s Bureaucratic Organizational Model was selected at the most appropriate organizational structure for implementing AB 3408 because it optimizes precision, speed, continuity, adequate involvement of constituencies and the efficiency necessary for completion of the study within the prescribed time limitations. Committees of parents, students and teachers were selected and given their charge; namely, to solicit input from their constituencies and report their findings to the Staff Committee for the development of the competencies and performance indicators -- eventually leading to a report to the Petaluma Board of Education for adoption. The setting of the standards is the responsibility of the State Department of Education in twenty states, by local boards in eight states, and a combination of state and local boards in five states. Twenty states assess some combination of grades K-12, while nine of the states assess grades 9-12 only. Reading comprehension, writing and computational skills are stressed most often by the respondents, while multiple choice tests are used most frequently for assessment. Twenty-one states require successful achievement of minimum standard tests for awarding of a high school diploma. None of the states have legislation or mandates that mirror AB 3408, but many of them had specific experiences that were helpful in the decision-making process for the implementation of AB 3408. With the adoption of the minimum competencies and performance indicators, procedures were developed for implementation of AB 3408 in Petaluma. For this particular setting, the bureaucratic organizational model with a humanistic element was effective and resulted in a satisfactory implementation of AB 3408. Careful selection of the model, attention to existing circumstances, time limitations, budget, availability of personnel and local resources, are essential for successful implementation of AB 3408. Random model selection might result in opposite conclusions. The normal criticisms and anxiety level that often accompany change were apparently held to a minimum because of participant involvement. Normally, a bureaucratic model is perceived to be formal and impersonal, less than humanistic. The study demonstrated that people implementing a model determine the degree of humanism

The Nature of Supported Co-Mo and Ni-W and Hydrodenitrogenation and Hydrodesulfurization of Model Compounds

The catalytic vapor-phase isomerization, hydrogenolysis, and/or disproportionation of trimethylbenzen (TMB) over Co-Mo/Al2O3 and Ni-W/Al2O3 was studied at 480°C, 400 psi reactor pressure, and a constant H2 flow. Each catalyst was run in the reduced or sulfided form. The results show a marked difference in the product distributions for each catalyst, which is attributed to differences in the catalysts’ acidities. The hydrodenitrogenation (HDN) of quinolone and the hydrodesulfurization (HDS) of benzothiophene were also studied. The compounds were reacted in a 1 liter autoclave at 325°C and varying partial pressures of H2. The same supported metal catalysts used in the TMB study were evaluated in the reduced or sulfided forms for HDN and HDS activity. The differences in activity and selectivity of the two catalysts are correlated with the acidity determined by the TMB probe reaction

A Meta-Analysis of Growth Trends from Vertically Scaled Assessments

A vertical scale, in principle, provides a common metric across tests with differing difficulties (e.g., spanning multiple grades) so that statements of absolute growth can be made. This paper compares 16 states’ 2007-2008 effect size growth trends on vertically scaled reading and math assessments across grades 3 to 8. Two patterns common in past research on vertical scales, score deceleration (grade-to-grade growth that decreases over time) and scale shrinkage (variability in scale scores that decreases from lower to higher grades), are investigated. Pervasive, but modest, patterns of score deceleration are found for both math and reading. Limited evidence of scale shrinkage was found for reading, and virtually no evidence was found for math. In addition, linear regression was used to show that little of the considerable variability in the growth effect sizes across states could be explained by readily identifiable characteristics of the vertical scales. However, many scale characteristics were not well documented in available technical reports. The most important of these characteristics, along with their implications for interpretations of growth, are discussed. The results serve both as a normative baseline against which other scaling efforts can be compared. Accessed 5,304 times on https://pareonline.net from November 01, 2012 to December 31, 2019. For downloads from January 1, 2020 forward, please click on the PlumX Metrics link to the right

Velocity and density of sediments of Eirik Ridge, Labrador Sea: control by porosity and mineralogy

Journal ArticleA 767-m section of late Neogene (0-8 Ma) terrigenous sediments was cored at Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Site 646. Continuous downhole geophysical logs, 161 laboratory measurements of core porosity and density, and 63 laboratory measurements of core velocity are used to analyze in detail the effects of porosity and mineralogy on the acoustic properties at this site. Porosity (determined from a resistivity log) agrees well with rebound-corrected laboratory measurements. Mineralogical variations (potassium feldspar, quartz plus plagioclase, calcite plus opal, and clay minerals) for the interval 206-737 mbsf were determined by matrix inversion of three logs: bound water, potassium, and uranium/ thorium ratio. These calculated mineralogical variations are similar in major features to mineral abundances from smear slides, but the wide depth spacing of smear slides and their subjective, semiquantitative mineral abundances preclude a detailed comparison. Calculated grain densities from mineralogy are consistent with laboratory measurements. A pseudodensity log from porosity and grain density is similar in character to the rebound-corrected, bulk-density measurements on cores, but about 0.1 g/cm3 lower than core measurements in the interval 340-737 mbsf. We found from our analyses that a strong synergy exists between downhole geophysical logs and core measurements of porosity and density: (1) core recovery is best at shallow depths, and logs are more reliable at greater depths; and (2) agreement between laboratory and log measurements corroborates the different assumptions made when analyzing the two data types. At Site 646, this synergy does not extend to laboratory measurements of velocity; laboratory velocities are lower than in-situ velocities, but higher than expected when rebound is considered. Observed trends of laboratory and log porosity, density, and velocity as a function of depth at Site 646 are in reasonable agreement with empirical trends. In contrast, empirical relationships of velocity to porosity do not agree well with our data. Application of Hookean elastic equations to our data is hampered by the lack of shear wave velocities and the sensitivity of the technique to small errors in porosities. Nevertheless, this theoretical approach yields a pseudovelocity log that agrees remarkably well with observed in-situ log velocities

GENDER ATTITUDE TOWARDS ADOLESCENT’S PREMARITAL SEX IN SENIOR AND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS IN THE NEW JUABEN MUNICIPALITY IN GHANA

The objective of the study was to assess adolescent’s attitudes towards premarital sex in Senior and Junior High Schools in the New Juaben Municipality in Ghana. A descriptive survey design was chosen for the study. The population of the study consisted of five thousand, one hundred forty-one (5,141) in-school adolescents in Junior and Senior High Schools in New Juaben Municipality. Convenient and random sampling techniques were used to select the study area, schools and respondents for the study. A convenient sampling technique was used to select the New Juaben Municipality. A random sampling method was used to select 250 respondents (students) from two Junior High Schools and two Senior High Schools in New Juaben Municipality. The main instrument used for data collection was a questionnaire. The data collected were statistically analysed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). Both and descriptive statistics and the Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) test were used in the data analysis. Descriptive statistics such as frequency distribution in tabular form in graphical forms, and measures of central tendencies were used to analyse the data.  The study concluded that the positive sexual behaviours of adolescents in Junior and Senior High Schools are evident in their attitude towards premarital sex. Adolescents in Senior High and Junior High Schools in the New Juaben Municipality exhibit a positive attitude towards premarital sex as the majority of them do not see that abstaining from sex would make them sick or look odd in society, neither would it give them problems during intercourse when they finally marry

Downhole logging as a paeoceanographic tool on ocean drilling program leg 138: Interface between high-resolution stratigraphy and regional syntheses

On Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Leg 138, standard shipboard procedures were modified to allow for the real-time monitoring of several laboratory core-scanning systems that provide centimeter-scale measurements of saturated bulk density, magnetic susceptibility and digital color reflectance. These continuous, high-resolution data sets were used to ensure the proper offset of multiple holes and to splice together complete sedimentary sections. Typically, the spliced, continuousediment sections were found to be about 10% longer than the section drilled, as measured by the length of the drill string. While the source of this elongation is not yet fully understood, it must be compensated for in order to property determine sediment fluxes and mass accumulation rates. Downhole logging, in conjunction with inverse correlation techniques provided a means to determine where the distortion occurred and to correct back to true in sire depths. Downhole logging also provides a means, through the generation of synthetic seismograms, of precisely relating the paleoceanographic events found in the core record to the high-resolution seismic record. Once correlated to the seismic record, the spatial and temporal extent of paleoceanographic events can be traced well beyond the borehole. Most seismic events in the equatorial Pacific are related to rapid changes in carbonate contenthat, in turn, are related to both productivity events (often expressed as monospecific laminated diatom oozes) and times of enhanced dissolution. While many of these events may have oceanwide extent, others, like the absence of carbonate in the late-Miocene to Recent in the Guatemala Basin have been shown to be regional and confined to only the deeper portions of the Guatemala Basin. As we identify and trace specific paleoceanographic events in the seismic record, we can begin to explore the response of the ocean through gradients of latitude, productivity, and depth

Downhole Logging as a Paeoceanographic Tool on Ocean Drilling Program Leg 138: Interface Between High-Resolution Stratigraphy and Regional Syntheses

On Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Leg 138, standard shipboard procedures were modified to allow for the real-time monitoring of several laboratory core-scanning systems that provide centimeter-scale measurements of saturated bulk density, magnetic susceptibility and digital color reflectance. These continuous, high-resolution data sets were used to ensure the proper offset of multiple holes and to splice together complete sedimentary sections. Typically, the spliced, continuous sediment sections were found to be about 10% longer than the section drilled, as measured by the length of the drill string. While the source of this elongation is not yet fully understood, it must be compensated for in order to property determine sediment fluxes and mass accumulation rates. Downhole logging, in conjunction with inverse correlation techniques provided a means to determine where the distortion occurred and to correct back to true in situ depths. Downhole logging also provides a means, through the generation of synthetic seismograms, of precisely relating the paleoceanographic events found in the core record to the high-resolution seismic record. Once correlated to the seismic record, the spatial and temporal extent of paleoceanographic events can be traced well beyond the borehole. Most seismic events in the equatorial Pacific are related to rapid changes in carbonate content that, in turn, are related to both productivity events (often expressed as monospecific laminated diatom oozes) and times of enhanced dissolution. While many of these events may have oceanwide extent, others, like the absence of carbonate in the late-Miocene to Recent in the Guatemala Basin have been shown to be regional and confined to only the deeper portions of the Guatemala Basin. As we identify and trace specific paleoceanographic events in the seismic record, we can begin to explore the response of the ocean through gradients of latitude, productivity, and depth

Adinkra Turismo : site de turismo de Gana

Monografia (graduação)—Universidade de Brasília, Departamento de Desenho Industrial, 2013.Adinkra Turismo é uma agência de turismo que pretende fornecer informações relativas à cultura, pontos turísticos, locais de entretenimento, festivais, e destinações históricos de Gana para os países lusófonos e hispanófonos. Adinkra Turismo iria expandir a audiência internacional de Gana, fornecendo mais nações com uma visão sobre Gana, já que a maioria das agências de turismo Ganense oferecem os seus serviços em Inglês. Focando principalmente em países de língua portuguesa e espanhola, ele teria o poder de introduzir toda a América Latina, alguns países Europeus e Africanos a nossa pátria de uma perspectiva muito menos preconceituosa, mas bem mais esclarecedora. Para Adinkra Turismo ser capaz de facilitar os seus serviços aos seus clientes, um site foi projetado e implementado para uso doméstico e estrangeiro. O objetivo deste projeto é de criar com sucesso, um site que irá fornecer todos os serviços mencionados, juntamente com a possibilidade de reserva de viagens para Gana via o suporte de patrocinadores e parcerias comerciais. _____________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACTAdinkra Tourism is a tourism agency that looks to provide lusophone and hispanophone countries with information pertaining to the culture, touristic destinations, entertainment venues, festivals, and historical sights of Ghana. Being that most Ghanaian tourism agencies offer their services in English, Adinkra Tourism would expand Ghana’s international audience by providing more nations with insight on Ghana. Mainly focusing on Portuguese and Spanish speaking countries, it would have the power to introduce the whole of Latin America, some European and African nations to our motherland from a far less prejudiced but enlightening perspective. For Adinkra Tourism to be able to facilitate its services to its clients, a website was designed and implemented for further domestic and foreign use. The objective of this project is to successfully create a website that will provide all the services mentioned so far, along with the possibility of booking one’s travels to Ghana through sponsors and business partnerships