Resident Assistant Training and Students with High Functioning Autism

Utilizing qualitative methodology, Resident Assistants\u27 perceptions were examined with regards to the training they receive for identifying and assisting High Functioning Autistic Students. Current Resident Assistants were interviewed and themes were developed. RA\u27s expressed dissatisfaction with current training concerning the characteristics of this population. Specifically, participants shared the need for additional training on identifying HFA students and the referral process to disability services. Lastly, participants shared feeling strong support from supervisors; however, lack the knowledge and confidence to effectively support these students

El herrero del refranero

This article offers a sampling of 11 traditional Spanish proverbs and aphorisms about blacksmithing in English translation

The Search for Cervantes’s Bones: Dead Men Pen No Tales

This essay appeared in The Conversation, 9 May 2014, titled “Probing Cervantes’s pages offers more than his bones ever will.

Lizard in the Loam

This narrative poem adapts imagery from Hebrew poetry to express a youth's encounter with a father's long-buried memory

Heráclito cristianizado y David imitado en los Salmos de Quevedo

Este artículo estudia las fuentes heracliteanas del Heráclito cristiano y segunda harpa a imitación de David, en lo referente a la forma y al contenido. Partiendo de un resumen de otros tratamientos de Heráclito en el siglo XVII, sugiere que el de Quevedo destaca por ir mas allá de los tópicos y por concentrarse en el lenguaje y en las imágenes contenidas en las enseñanzas del filósofo efesio. Una lectura detallada de los Salmos quevedianos descubre una variedad de recursos verbales, estilísticos y figurativos con los que Quevedo refunde la teología de los fragmentos heracliteanos, la hace conformarse con una visión judeocristiana, y la explota para su propia y creativa expresión penitente. This article examines the Heraclitian sources of Quevedo’s Heráclito cristiano y segunda harpa a imitación de David in terms of both content and form. A survey of other sixteenth-century treatments of Heraclitus suggests that Quevedo’s is exceptional for going beyond contemporary commonplaces and for focusing on the languages and imagery of the Ephesian philosopher’s teachings. A close reading of Quevedo’s Salmos reveals a variety of verbal, stylistic, and imaginative strategies by which Quevedo reworks the theology of the Heraclitean fragments, reconciles it to a Judaeo-Christian perspective, and mines it for his creative, personal expression of repentance

Simulation of refrigeration by electron emission across nanometer-scale gaps

Nanoscale transport processes offer new possibilities for direct refrigeration by electron emission at room temperature. Because the energy of emitted electrons may be higher or lower than that of their replacement counterparts, a heating or cooling effect, known as the Nottingham effect, can occur at the emitter. Prior theoretical studies indicate the possibility of very large (\u3e100 W/cm(2)) cooling rates for emitters with low work functions; however, ultrasmall emission gaps are necessary to produce a device with a reasonably high coefficient of performance. In this regime of low work function and narrow emission gap, the traditional approach used to model electron transmission, which is based on the WKB approximation, is not suitable. In this study, a nonequilibrium Green\u27s function method is employed to simulate the energy exchange attending electron emission for a range of emitter work functions and vacuum gap distances, yielding important insights into the thermodynamics associated with electron emission across ultrasmall vacuum gaps. Cooling density and efficiency curves depending on the vacuum gap distance and applied electric field are presented for flat-plate electrodes with work functions ranging from 0.4 to 1.7 eV, and the results indicate that a practical emission device will require that the electrode work function and vacuum gap separation be reduced to approximately 0.4 eV and 20 nm, respectively

STEM and Language Arts: Two Sides of the Same Coin?

This interview makes the case for unity between STEM and language arts, and offers advice on what students can do to make the most out of whichever field they choose

Current and Future Issues in the Development of Spinal Agents for the Management of Pain.

Targeting analgesic drugs for spinal delivery reflects the fact that while the conscious experience of pain is mediated supraspinally, input initiated by high intensity stimuli, tissue injury and/or nerve injury is encoded at the level of the spinal dorsal horn and this output informs the brain as to the peripheral environment. This encoding process is subject to strong upregulation resulting in hyperesthetic states and downregulation reducing the ongoing processing of nociceptive stimuli reversing the hyperesthesia and pain processing. The present review addresses the biology of spinal nociceptive processing as relevant to the effects of intrathecally-delivered drugs in altering pain processing following acute stimulation, tissue inflammation/injury and nerve injury. The review covers i) the major classes of spinal agents currently employed as intrathecal analgesics (opioid agonists, alpha 2 agonists; sodium channel blockers; calcium channel blockers; NMDA blockers; GABA A/B agonists; COX inhibitors; ii) ongoing developments in the pharmacology of spinal therapeutics focusing on less studied agents/targets (cholinesterase inhibition; Adenosine agonists; iii) novel intrathecal targeting methodologies including gene-based approaches (viral vectors, plasmids, interfering RNAs); antisense, and toxins (botulinum toxins; resniferatoxin, substance P Saporin); and iv) issues relevant to intrathecal drug delivery (neuraxial drug distribution), infusate delivery profile, drug dosing, formulation and principals involved in the preclinical evaluation of intrathecal drug safety

The Blacksmith and His Dog

Like La Fontaine, Félix María Samaniego (1745-1801) freely adapted fables from Aesop and Phaedrus in vernacular verse. This is an English translation of Samaniego's "El herrero y el perro.

New York 1987

This translation of of Sherezada (Chiqui) Vicioso’s “Nueva York 1987” was commissioned for Belkis Ramirez’s exhibition, In Memoriam: Commemorative Works by Contemporary Artists, University of Saint Joseph Art Museum, Connecticut, January 2019