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Distaste: Joyce Carol Oates And Food, David Rutledge

Bearing Witness: Joyce Carol Oates Studies

Distaste: Joyce Carol Oates and Food

Abstract

In many of her short stories and novels, Joyce Carol Oates depicts an unhealthy relationship with food. The range of these unhealthy relationships is wide, from overeating to the point of suicide, in Expensive People, to starving oneself in an attempt to deny one’s physical nature, in “Orange” and them. Overindulgence is a means for attempting to fill that space where the soul should be; undereating is often an attempt to deny one’s place in the social world. The eating disorders she portrays are rooted in both personal and social causes. …

Epigenetic Regulation Of Nuclear Hormone Receptor Dax-1, Michael B. Heskett

Master's Theses

DAX-1 (NR0B1) is an orphan nuclear receptor that plays a key role in the development and maintenance of steroidogenic tissue in mammals. Dax-1 is also expressed in mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells and is required to maintain pluripotency. Duplication of the X-chromosome in the region containing the NR0B1 gene results in sex reversal, and mutations in NR0B1 cause adrenal hypoplasia congenita. DAX-1 has been observed to act as a corepressor of other nuclear receptors including androgen receptor (AR), estrogen receptor (ER), and steroidogenic factor 1 (SF-1). In addition to pluripotent ES cells, DAX-1 is primarily expressed in select tissues of …

Just Sit For A Bit: A Moment Of Caring, Gabrielle M. Malouf

Master's Projects and Capstones

Background: Research shows that time spent sitting at the bedside promotes trust, which ultimately improves nurse satisfaction, patient satisfaction and patient outcomes. Patient satisfaction scores have been below benchmark for several months on an adult medical unit at an academic medical center.

Overview: The purpose of this project was to improve patient satisfaction in the areas of nursing courtesy, friendliness, and listening. Nurses were asked to sit down for at least 5 minutes per shift with each patient, engaging in a “moment of caring”. Nurse surveys were given and both pre and post implementation. These surveys assessed whether or not …

Regulation Of Dkk1, An Inhibitor Of The Wnt Signaling Pathway, By Dax-1 In Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells, Victor D. Gavallos

Undergraduate Honors Theses

DAX-1 is known to play a key role in the maintenance of pluripotency in mouse embryonic stem cells (mESC), such that elimination of DAX-1 (through methods such as RNAi) leads to the differentiation of ESC (Khalfallah et al. 2009). Earlier research by the Tzagarakis-Foster lab identified target genes of DAX-1 in mESC through PCR array methodology (Torres 2013). The Dickkopf 1 gene (Dkk1) was identified as a potential target of DAX-1 by these studies and has since been confirmed to be a DAX-1 target in mESC. However, to date very little is understood of the mechanism of DAX-1 repression of …

Refugee Resettlement And Family Reunification In Canada, Yohannes Kenningd Woonssi Sawassi Ys Sawassi

Master's Theses

This thesis addresses the plight of Sub-Saharan Africans who are now Canadians and are trying to settle in a new country in order to reunite with their family members. However, rather than assisting with process of resettlement, current Canadian policy has the opposite effect. It appears to create a route by which people can sponsor their loved ones, but in reality the nature of the process is arduous and filled with time delays, regulatory and processing issues and other kinds of difficulties. Consequently, what therefore appears as a hopeful situation ends up creating despair. This situation is particularly hard for …

Outpatient Medication Error Improvement, Savannah M. Klinginsmith

Master's Projects and Capstones

Patient Safety Initiative -Improving Medication Administration (Outpatient Care)

SPECIFIC AIM: We aim to Improve the medication administration process and involve all staff within 6 months

In the microsystem consisting of 14 family practice and urgent care clinics, there is not a standard process based on evidence based practices for medication administration. With and estimated of 400-600 medications (immunizations included) being administered per day, without a standard of care protocol, the risk for medication errors is evident.

Objectives and changes anticipated based on implementation of the project is to engage staff in support for improving medication administration standard of care based …

Fall Prevention Through Proactive Toileting, Kristin Smith

Master's Projects and Capstones

This paper will summarize the quality improvement falls prevention project conducted by a University of San Francisco Clinical Nurse Leader student. Falls in the hospital setting are an ongoing problem in our healthcare system as they have great physical and financial impacts (Salamon, Victory, & Bobay, 2012). Hospital A, an urban teaching hospital, uses the Schmid scale for determining if a patient is a fall risk which includes the assessment of need for ambulatory aids, history of falls, and impaired cognition among other criteria (Schmid,1990). Fall rates are climbing in the United States and the trend is similar on Hospital …

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Poets Talking Shop (The Poet’S Work, Ed. Reginald Gibbons), George Woodcock

Ontario Review

GEORGE WOODCOCK is the founding editor of Canadian Literature. Among his many books are The Canadian Novel in the Twentieth Century; Gabriel Dumont: The Metis Chief and His Lost World; and Thomas Merton: Monk and Poet. He is a contributing editor of OR.

The Authority Of Timelessness (Robert Fagles, Tess Gallagher, Artur Lundqvist, David R. Slavitt), Joyce Carol Oates

Ontario Review

JOYCE CAROL OATES'S new novel will be the gothic Bellefleur, to be published by Dutton.

New Fiction: Illumination, Participation, Tact (T. Alan Broughton, David Helwig, Hugh Hood, William Maxwell, Kent Thompson), Gary F. Waller

Ontario Review

GARY F. WALLER, a former OR contributor, teaches at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, and has published essays and reviews widely.

Abrupt Mutilations (Paul Bowles’ Collected Stories 1939-1976), Irving Malin

Ontario Review

IRVING MALIN, a frequent OR contributor, publishes essays and reviews widely in American journals. He teaches at the City College of New York.

Barometric Readings (William Heyen, Geoffrey Hill, William Matthews, Ben Howard, Brian Swann, Reginald Gibbons, And Others), John R. Reed

Ontario Review

JOHN R. REED, a frequent OR contributor, has recently completed a study of H. G. Wells' work. His first collection of poems, A Gallery of Spiders, will be published in the fall by The Ontario Review Press. He teaches at Wayne State University.

Shadowgraphs Of Montreal, Béla Egyedi

Ontario Review

BÉLA EGYEDI was born in Hungary and is now a Canadian citizen. His art work has appeared in The Antigonish Review, Fiddlehead, The West Coast Review, The Canadian Forum, and elsewhere. He is a former OR contributor.

Fire And Ice And Other Photographs, Brad Iverson

Ontario Review

BRAD IVERSON, a former OR contributor, is a full-time free-lance photographer in Detroit. His most recent one-man show was at Gallery 7 in Detroit, and work of his appeared last fall at the Sill Gallery at Eastern Michigan University.

Two Poems, John Delaney

Ontario Review

JOHN DELANEY, a graduate student at Syracuse University, has published poetry in Poetry Northwest, The Hollins Critic, The Christian Science Monitor, and elsewhere.

Two Poems, Theresa Kishkan

Ontario Review

THERESA KISHKAN of Victoria, B.C. has published three collections of poetry, the most recent being Premonitions and Gifts.

Three Poems, John Ditsky

Ontario Review

JOHN DITSKY, a former contributor, has published in many North American journals. He is Professor of English at the University of Windsor.

Two Poems, Miroslav Holub

Ontario Review

MIROSLAV HOLUB, a former OR contributor, is a distinguished immunologist and poet who lives in Prague. His latest book, in English, is Notes From a Clay Pigeon.

This Is How It Happens, Jennifer J. Rankin

Ontario Review

JENNIFER J. RANKIN of Beecroft, Australia is the author of Earth Hold. Her poems have been published in Aspect, The North American Review, Poetry Australia, and elsewhere.

Peeling Fence Posts And Other Poems, Maxine Kumin

Ontario Review

MAXINE KUMIN of Warner, New Hampshire is a poet, fiction writer, and horsewoman. Her most recent books are The Retrieval System and House, Bridge, Fountain, Gate. She has received numerous awards for her work, including a National Council on the Arts Fellowship and the Pulitzer Prize (1973, for Up Country).

From Artifacts Of An Earlier Self, Reginald Gibbons

Ontario Review

REGINALD GIBBONS of Princeton is the editor of The Poet's Work. His first book of poems is Roofs, Voices, Roads.

The Magician’S Wife, Derk Wynand

Ontario Review

DERK WYNAND'S Pointwise has recently been published by Fiddlehead, and a collection of prose, One Cook, Once Dreaming, will be published by Sono Nis this year. He teaches Creative Writing at the University of Victoria.

Four Poems, Artur Lundkvist

Ontario Review

ARTUR LUNDKVIST OF Solna, Sweden is the author of many books, including Agadir (translated into English by William Jay Smith and Leif Sjoberg, 1979). He has had a major influence on contemporary Swedish literature through both his own writings and his translations.

Anorexic, Eavan Boland

Ontario Review

EAVAN BOLAND of Dublin, Ireland is the author of The War Horse and New Territory. "Anorexic" is from a new collection of poems, In Her Own Image, to be published this spring.

Winged Victory, Annette Williams Jaffee

Ontario Review

ANNETTE WILLIAMS JAFFEE of Princeton is currently completing a novel, Adult Education. "Winged Victory" is her first published story.

The Counsellor, John Updike

Ontario Review

JOHN UPDIKE of Georgetown, Massachusetts is one of the most widely translated of contemporary American writers. His recent books are The Coup and Problems, and he is currently completing a New England novel.

A Pure Soul, Carlos Fuentes

Ontario Review

CARLOS FUENTES, the distinguished Mexican writer, has published a number of books of fiction, the most recent being Distant Relations, a novel, and Burnt Water, short stories. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, and Princeton.

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