Sources for the History of Medicine in Late Medieval England

The material contained here derives from a wide variety of printed and manuscript sources, chosen to give some idea of the rich diversity of evidence available to the historian of English medicine and its place in society during the fourteenth, fifteenth, and early sixteenth centuries. Latin and French have been translated into modern English, while vernacular texts have been slightly modified, and obsolete or difficult words explained. Middle English has otherwise been retained to give the past an authentic voice and to emphasize the similarities as well as the differences between the experience of modern readers and that of the inhabitants of late medieval Englandhttps://scholarworks.wmich.edu/mip_teamsdp/1001/thumbnail.jp

Cultural Adaptation of Chinese Students in an Undergraduate Business Program in Canada

Chinese students represent the largest cohort of international students studying at Canadian university business programs. These Chinese students often experience cross-cultural barriers that inhibit their full participation in the business schools\u27 learning culture. The purpose of this case study was to identify the acculturation strategies applied by Chinese students who had successfully adapted to the learning culture in business programs. Mezirow\u27s transformative learning theory and Bennett\u27s intercultural adaptation theory provided the conceptual framework to inform the study. The research questions examined the cultural adaptation experiences of Chinese students and on the barriers and effective strategies for academic success from the perspectives of both faculty and students at the study site. Six graduating Chinese business students who had adapted well to the local learning culture and achieved academic success and 5 current faculty members with experience teaching Chinese students were purposefully identified and interviewed. Data were open coded and analyzed for themes. Themes related to key barriers and associated adaptive strategies were identified. Major barriers included differences between Chinese and Canadian educational expectations and cultures and the need for faculty understanding of students\u27 adaptation process. Adaptive strategies for students included accessing local resources and support and recognizing the combination of academic, social, and psychological factors involved in successful acculturation. A blended learning professional development project was created for faculty members to improve their skills in developing culturally sensitive pedagogy. With increased cultural competence faculty may better support these Chinese students, improve their classroom experience, and enable them to succeed in their academic pursuits

Microwave assisted decomposition of Tri-butyl phosphate in aqueous effluent-streams

An investigation into the microwave assisted remediation of organic containing aqueous solutions has been conducted. Tri-n-butyl phosphate (TBP), the nuclear thel reprocessing solvent, and its diluents, are known to be responsible for the formation of interfacial deposits (cruds) in the alkali solvent wash stage of the Purex process for reprocessing spent nuclear fuel. The presence of cruds in the process is managed by regular wash out and the collected cruds are separated from aqueous washings and stored. Chemical oxidation of the cruds is one way of destroying them. This project explored microwave assisted oxidation, using TBP as a simple simulant for the crud. Low concentration TBP streams were circulated through an activated carbon loaded glass reaction vessel. The vessel was then subject to microwave radiation applied in short pulses. Studies were performed to assess the variation in reaction parameters using two oxidants; air and hydrogen peroxide. The analytical techniques used to assess the extent of decomposition were ion chromatography and UV-V is spectroscopy. Results showed TBP was found to decompose to orthophosphate ions in solution and to di-butyl phosphoric acid (HDBP)

Introduction

As urban communities in Western Europe mushroomed from the twelfth century onward, authorities promptly responded with a plethora of regulations to facilitate, at least in theory, the orderly cohabitation of dwellers within the city walls. Many of these rules concerned public health matters, such as the disposal of waste, the protection of water supplies, and the sale of wholesome foodstuffs. In some cases, sanitary regulations drew from Ancient Greek and especially Galenic medical theory, which stressed the importance of a hygienic environment in safeguarding the urban body from disease. The effective execution of such measures relied in part on the active engagement and compliance of the population. Shared assumptions regarding physical and spiritual well-being, social cohesion, neighbourliness, and economic prosperity, as well as the pursuit of ideals of urbanity, fed into communal efforts to police the environment, the behaviour of others, and the conduct of the self. Nonetheless, conflicting interests and contradictory impulses abounded, and official bodies might wield the disciplinary stick when their efforts met with apathy, confusion, resistance, or evasion. This volume explores attempts to enforce rules and recommendations for the improvement of public health and sanitation in premodern Western Europe, while also seeking to establish how urban populations may have reacted to them. To this end, it draws upon a wide range of source material, including bylaws, court rulings, and official injunctions, together with the evidence of judicial inquiries, administrative records, urban chronicles, panegyrics, and medical texts. And in so doing it comprehensively challenges a lingering tendency on the part of historians writing for the academic as well as the popular market to employ the word ‘Medieval’ as a synonym for ignorance, superstition, and indifference to squalor

“Men are the alphas. Men can't be hurt. Men can't be victims” - Narrative, identity, and male victims of female perpetrated intimate partner abuse.

This thesis details the process and analysis of the ‘Hard to Tell’ study, a qualitative, narrative study examining how male victims of female perpetrated intimate partner abuse (IPA) tell their story, and what it might mean for their identity. The study consisted of life-story interviews with 18 self-identifying male victims. Between them they described the full range of abuse, including physical, sexual, emotional, psychological, financial, controlling, coercive, and legal and administrative. The differing nature of these forms of abuse meant that some were easier to describe in narrative form, which carried significant implications for their ability to make sense of their experiences and explain it to others. Analysis was informed by a complex and dynamic understanding of identity, including key concepts from Narrative Identity Theory (McAdams, 2018; Bamberg, 2011) and Positioning Theory (Korobov, 2010; 2015). In telling their story, these male survivors were driven to defend against powerful cultural narratives of masculinity and male perpetration that contrasted with their experience as a man and as a victim. In doing so they drew upon other cultural narratives such as mental ill-health and childhood trauma to attain a valid identity position. Cultural narratives such as those of coercive controlling abuse and narcissism, enabled them to identify their abuse and sidestep gendered assumptions of perpetration. This thesis proposes a model of identity work within autobiographical narration that incorporates key components of the individual, audience, context, and culture. A prominent feature of these men’s stories was the role played by third parties, who enabled them to reframe their experience as an abuse narrative and begin a process of escape and recovery. This places professionals at the heart of this model, as audience and co-producer within a critical process of narrative sense making and identity validation

Storage Tube Processor for High Resolution Radar

Coordinated Science Laboratory was formerly known as Control Systems LaboratoryContract DA-36-039-SC-5669