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Lutheran General Hospital: An Institution Intent On A Moral Purpose, 1980, Advocate Aurora Health

Historical Documents - Combined

Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge, IL: This report, compiled in 1980, is about LGH Memory, Challenges, and Prospects. It is part of a consultative service provided by Dr. Kenneth Vaux to the formative project at Lutheran General Hospital entitled “Human Values Forum.” The report deals with vital issues, set against a background of the values which informed the founders of LGH and culminating in guidelines for future directions when confronting these issues.

Spaces Defined By Objects, William Van Nes

HCOM 434: Creative Publishing and Critical Storytelling, Spring 2023

This is an exploratory written peace that attempts to define spaces, and how objects as well as people define them. The peace takes the viewer through various images, all captured by William Van Nes throughout the United States, and tries to explain meaning, and how we prescribe our own meaning to spaces. This peace will specifically address and explore the concept of defining a space, and what it actually means to define spaces.

Infant Cognition As A Predictor Of Language Development, Casey Ripplinger

2023 SLP Posters

Through everyday interactions with their caregivers, most infants readily acquire early communication that leads to the development of listening and spoken language. However, a child's cognitive abilities may predict their language acquisition trajectory and the complexity of language they ultimately achieve. This poster describes the cognitive skills which are known predictors of language acquisition. Furthermore, this poster offers suggested intervention activities which caregivers and professionals can utilize to enhance the development of language in young children.

Terrortimes, Terrorscapes: Continuities Of Space, Time, And Memory In Twentieth-Century War And Genocide, Volker Benkert, Michael Mayer

Purdue University Press Books

Terrortimes, Terrorscapes: Continuities of Space, Time, and Memory in Twentieth-Century War and Genocide investigates interconnections between space and violence throughout the twentieth century, and how such connections informed collective memory. The interdisciplinary volume shows how entangled notions of time and space amplified by memory narratives led to continuities of violence across different conflicts creating “terrortimes” and “terrorscapes” in their wake. The volume examines such continuities of violence with the help of an analytical framework built around different themes. Its first part, spatial and temporal continuities of violence, looks at contested spaces and ideas of national, ethnic, or religious homogeneity that …

Cognition, Susan Geffen Ph.D.

Sample module-themed coursework with Sesame Street examples

This module will explore various aspects of cognition, including such processes as memory, learning, attention, perception and problem-solving. Students will use topical readings and Sesame Street video clips to learn about the processes by which children acquire, integrate, and understand information about the world around them.

Climbing The Anki Mountain, One (Review) Step At A Time: A Written And Video-Based Guide On Using Anki In Medical School To Enhance Knowledge Acquisition And Retention, Alexander Tu, Tiffany Truong, Avi Prajapati

EMET Projects

No abstract provided.

Childhood Interview With Sierra Trabosci, Dominic J. Garcia

Making History Oral Histories

A brief interview with Sierra Trabosci-Couger about her experiences in childhood and her memories of growing up.

The Importance Of Remembrance, Jf Visser

HCOM 434 Weekly Response Activities

This earlier collage addresses the passing of time. It was created in response to a question about how and why we deem things important enough to record that was raised in class.

Meaning In Architecture: Affordances, Atmosphere And Mood, Bob Condia, Michael Arbib, Colin Ellard, Brent Chamberlain, Kevin Rooney

NPP eBooks

Abstract: Meaning in Architecture: Affordances, Atmosphere and Mood, began as a public forum about human awareness of building, specifically speaking to the significance of affordances, embodied simulation theory, atmosphere and mood. It is herewith presented in copy form for broader distribution. An exchange between scientists and architects, this symposium was the inaugural Interface event of ANFA (the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture, Salk Institute) held 17 April 2018 in the Regnier Forum of APDesign, Kansas State University. The authors for Meaning in Architecture: Affordances, Atmosphere and Mood will escort you to the intersection of deep brain function, as studied by …

Cultural Memory Through Spaces: An Analysis Of A. Mitgutsch’S House Of Childhood And J. Erpenbeck’S Visitation, Rachel Lynch

Selected Undergraduate Works

Anna Mitgutsch’s House of Childhood (2000) and Jenny Erpenbeck’s Visitation (2008) use places as holders of cultural memory and historical witnesses. House of Childhood follows Max Berman as he returns to his childhood village to reclaim his Jewish family’s house. Visitation offers snapshots of German life in the same house in different time periods. Cultural memory, in Jan Assmann’s theory, is memory rooted in objectivized culture. When culture is crystallized into texts, images, buildings, landscapes, etc., these objects hold the history of a group and inform the group’s unity and self-image. Assmann outlines six characteristics of cultural memory: concretion of …

Gwu Research Prepares Student For Career As Clinical Researcher And Practitioner, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

Born with a weak immune system and no pituitary gland, Damian Chance Hutchins ’19 spent much of his early life in the hospital. The experience gave the Gardner-Webb University senior an appreciation for caring practitioners and a desire to help others. Hutchins, of Cherryville, N.C., is majoring in biology with a concentration in biomedical sciences, and his goal is to become a physician assistant and clinical researcher.

Developing And Validating Tools To Assess Higher Level Cognition In Children And Adolescents, Brainscan, Western University, Bobby Stojanoski, Marc Joanisse, Ryan Stevenson, Cambridge Brain Sciences Inc.

Project Summaries

Collaborating with CBS, we will create a unique platform for understanding, detecting and predicting delays in cognition during the formative period from childhood to adolescence. The aim of this project is to develop and validate a battery of tests specifically for children and adolescents between the ages of 7 and 15 to measure various aspects of higher-level cognitive abilities. These include short-term and episodic memory, planning, reasoning, verbal abilities and executive functioning (those processes necessary to control behaviour, such as controlling attention and inhibition, working memory, reasoning and problem solving).

Genetic Manipulation Of Lactate Metabolism To Regulate Memory And Alzheimer's Disease Pathogenesis, Brainscan , Western University, Robert Cumming, Robert Bartha, Tim Scholl

Project Summaries

Our project will attempt to determine the relative importance of astrocyte or neuronal directed lactate generation on memory by modifying mouse models to either suppress or overexpress the lactate producing enzyme in either cell type. Using these newly created transgenic mouse models, we aim to understand the processes of production and utilization of lactate and its effect on memory and cognition in health and in AD across the lifespan. The outcome of our study may lead to entirely new clinical approaches to treating cognitive and neurodegenerative disorders via drugs which alter lactate metabolism.

The Role Of Astrocytes In Memory: Focus On Pattern Separation, Brainscan , Western University, Timothy Bussey, Vania Prado, Ceci Kramar, Marco Prado, Lisa Saksida

Project Summaries

It has recently been shown that astrocytes play a leading role in a particular aspect of memory known as 'pattern separation' - differentiating between similar experiences or episodes in memory (say, recalling where you parked your car today compared to where you parked it yesterday). Pattern separation is disrupted in a wide variety of diseases of the brain so it is of considerable interest to memory researchers.

We have already shown in a small pilot study that we can improve pattern separation with selective manipulation of astrocytes in a specific brain region. In this project, we will attempt to demonstrate …

Role Of Microglia Signaling In Brain Circuit Development And Cognition, Brainscan, Western University, Vania Prado, Marco Prado, Wataru Inoue

Project Summaries

We have generated two mouse models in which we can control the Gq and Gisignalling in microglia during specific periods of brain development so we can explore the mechanisms behind abnormal microglial function.

Using our mouse models, we can stimulate these signalling pathways during the critical period of postnatal brain development to understand whether they impact adult cognition by influencing normal synaptic pruning. Mouse models of autism show issues with social memory, attention, sociability and hyperactivity. We will therefore assess those behaviors in our mouse models to determine if any autism-like behaviours are present.

Integrating Behavioural, Imaging And Transcriptional Profiling To Discover The Impact Of Midlife Stress In Alzheimer's Disease, Brainscan , Western University, Tim Bussey, Flavio Beraldo, Chakravarty Maller, Rosemary Bagot, Sylvain Williams, Claudia Kleinman

Project Summaries

We will be integrating this cognitive assessment with imaging of brain structure and function to understand the mechanisms by which a risk factor, in this case modifiable life stress, influences Alzheimer's disease-related decline. The resultant data will be integrated and disseminated using a new open-access neuroinformatics platform developed at Western (MouseBytes.ca), which will become a unique resource for open science investigations and set the standard for sharing of behavioural data across the world.

Developing Optogenetics/Electrophysiology Applications For Studying Cognitive Impairment During Stress, Brainscan, Western University, Wataru Inoue, Brian Allman, Julio Martinez-Trujillo

Project Summaries

We will develop cutting-edge techniques to:

• precisely measure and artificially manipulate the activity of CRH neurons in the PFC, and
• measure small and local releases of CRH by these neurons.

The success of our project will open the door to understand the neural mechanisms for how stress impairs cognitive functions and how it may contribute to mental disorders.

Remembering The Great War: Writing And Publishing The Experiences Of Wwi, Ian A. Isherwood

Gettysburg College Faculty Books

The horrors and tragedies of the First World War produced some of the finest literature of the century: including Memoirs of an Infantry Officer; Goodbye to All That; the poetry of Wilfred Owen and Edward Thomas; and the novels of Ford Madox Ford. Collectively detailing every campaign and action, together with the emotions and motives of the men on the ground, these 'war books' are the most important set of sources on the Great War that we have. Through looking at the war poems, memoirs and accounts published after the First World War, Ian Andrew Isherwood addresses the key issues …

The Patriot Talon (February 21, 2017), University Of Texas At Tyler

The Patriot Talon/The Patriot

The official newspaper for the University of Texas at Tyler before it was changed back to the UT Tyler Patriot. Articles in this issue include: A Hobo's Passion, Senior Khadijah Evans finds peace in art, basketball; Students, faculty honor professor's memory; New NET Health reports in MET fire show safety concerns; 5 reasons to live at O-Hall; It's a crime to waste time; We need some damn courage; What's Happening: University spring Patriot Preview Day set for March 4; Senators air 7 complaints for Sodexo; A Grammy's Recap: Can the Academy get it right? Snubs, outrage once again threaten Grammy's …

Two Years, Frances Love, Fleet Library, Special Collections

4th Student Artists' Book Contest 2018

No abstract provided.

The Memory Box, Sabina Kariat, Fleet Library, Special Collections

4th Student Artists' Book Contest 2018

No abstract provided.

7 Things I Miss About Home (In No Particular Order), Claire Wyman, Fleet Library, Special Collections

4th Student Artists' Book Contest 2018

No abstract provided.

Implementing A One Address Cpu In Logisim, Charles W. Kann

Open Educational Resources

Most computer users have an incorrect, but useful, cognitive metaphor for computers in which the user says (or types or clicks) something and a mystical, almost intelligent or magical, behavior happens. It is not a stretch to describe computer users as believing computers follow the laws of magic, where some magic incantation is entered, and the computer responds with an expected, but magical, behavior.

This magic computer does not actually exist. In reality computer are machines, and every action a computer performs reduces to a set of mechanical operations. In fact the first complete definition of a working computer …

2016 Research & Innovation Day Program, Robin Painter, Carly Vignault, Teresa Fisher, Taylor Graham, Jenny Rensby, Ashley Sherry, Kelly Maloney, Allison Speck, Victoria Beardshaw, Megan Loucks, Michelle Giffin, Amal Muselmani, Cassandra Melon, Erin Tulett, Candice Thomas, Megan Taylor, Marissa Macdonald, Kayla Bailey, Kate Sadler, Jessica Wilkins, Allyson Richter, Taylor Myers, Jessica Bouchard, Kristina Pepe, Haylee Siddall, Alyssa Churchill, Maureen Cullen, Anthony Currie, Jaimie Cameron, Kevin Co, Mary Alias, Marguerite Mayr, Christian Mclean, Kelsey Fischer, Paryank Dave, Todd Young, Rick Martin, Bronwyn Johns, Catherine Mallinger, Jessica Yassine, Victoria Ngo, Kristen Clendinning, Amy Mcmillan, Dominique Ste. Croix, Pooja Relekar, Krittika Sarkar, Feyisayo Olakanye, Onyekachukwo Okonji, Samiksha Puppalwar, Kajal Patel, Jayeshbhai Parkhiya, Alexander Ware, Victoria Rodrigues, Meghan Bondy, Alana Vandelaar, Richard Cliffen, Adam Desjardins, Brittany Usher, Anthony Valle, Jessica Cutting, Vimoshana Vijayakumar, Anthony Yip Chuck, Ashley Bilyea, Karlie Cooper, Sarah Broadfoot, Russell Vey, Andrew Ross, Jesse Bourret-Gheysen, Cole Drake, Kaitlynn Rawson, Candice Etmanskie, Allan Humphrey, Elliott Law, Julia Bowering, Deion Farrington, Ryan Figueiredo, Romik Vadhvana, Amol Pai, Aisling Laverty, Ryan Chin, Johanna Garzon, Linnea Smith, Ronak Zareardalan, Cassandra Marks, Sarah Dykstra, Jonathan Ferreira, Joshua Zeledon, Kevin Greenspan-Praktik, Nicholas Ireland, Caitlin Lam, Matthew Walcher, Jessica Pesant-Simpson, Chris Robins, Serena Teng, Asha Ramji, Melissa Lambert, Alex Stegmann, Jamie Louwagie, Zachary Alexander Klassen, William Johnston, Jacqueline Payne, Phil Waldie, Brendan Dunn, Paige Mason, Mike Vandenbrink, Kelly Donovan, Craig Docking, Jordan Mcdonald, Jesse Milley, Cameron Kok, Nick Hollinger, Nolan Leclerc, Ken Mcdonald, Sarah Benbow, Cheryl Forchuk, Carolyne Gorlick, Helene Berman, Catherine Ward-Griffin, Natalia Aguillon, Helen Harrison, John Bennett, Robert Haaf, Jodi Hall, Karen Jenkins, Holly Weaver, Billy Jones, Julie Baumann, Debbie Rudman, Lorie Donelle, Karen O'Brien, Katie Sudnicka, Seyed Goosheh, Mona Khadelwal, Annette Woloszyn, Peter Sturm, Lori Ranieri, Karen Katsademas, Matt Farrell, Sam Roodi, Kim Cechetto, Sheryl Third, Mike Sloan, Brad Smith, Pat Bethune-Davies, Karen Jenkins, Sarah Benbow

Centre for Research and Innovation Publications

A one day showcase of applied research, social innovation, scholarship projects and activities.

The Material Forms Of Memory: A Creative Arts Praxis Examining Family Archive Materiality And The Performance Of Memory Through Installation Art, Emily M. M. Hornum

Theses

This Master of Arts by Research investigates the role of new media in influencing familyarchive materiality and what effect this has on the performance of memory. The aim is to examine through creative arts praxis how installation art illuminates the participatory engagement of family archive materiality to mediate our mnemonic processes. The source materials for this project stem from my family archives dating from the early 1900s to 2013, and include photographs, 35mm slides, VHS tapes, audiotapes and personal items. The significance of this research lies in the creative outcomes that have occurred through the investigative and critical dialogues between …

The Patriot Talon (September 1, 2015), University Of Texas At Tyler

The Patriot Talon/The Patriot

The official newspaper for the University of Texas at Tyler before it was changed back to the UT Tyler Patriot. Articles in this issue include: Mirmiran full of new ideas, goals for University's success; Planning for the future; School officials looking to address parking issues;Mabry gives view of present, beyond at annual Convocation; Campus, open carry: Weighing the pros and cons of new laws; women are the best at enforcing gender stereotypes; Why photo albums are your memory box; The importance of Supplemental Instruction; SMM starts new mentoring program; Police Reports; Campus introduces smaller shuttle buses; Students hunt for options …

General Psychology: An Introduction, Tori Kearns, Deborah Lee

Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work Open Textbooks

The NOBA Project is a growing collection of expert-authored, open-licensed modules in psychology, funded by the Diener Education Fund. From these open modules, Tori Kearns and Deborah Lee created an arranged open textbook for her introductory psychology class. This textbook was created under a Round One ALG Textbook Transformation Grant.

Accessible files with optical character recognition (OCR) and auto-tagging provided by the Center for Inclusive Design and Innovation.

I Remember: Chicago Veterans Of War, Chris Green, Jim Fairhall

Big Shoulders Books

I Remember: Chicago Veterans of War weaves together the memories of fifty veterans of World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Bosnia, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Throughout the book, each veteran speaks in a series of “I remember” statements labeled by a number, not a name. This anonymous structure foregrounds the similarities of all wars. The effect is of one veteran speaking of the shock and scale of every modern war. I Remember is available free in both digital and print format.

Voz Alta: The Sound Of A Collective Memory, Sarah E. Kleinman

Graduate Research Posters

Voz Alta is a participatory, voice-activated public light installation designed by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer as a memorial for the Tlatelolco massacre, which occurred on October 2, 1968 in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Tlatelolco, Mexico. In the Plaza, Lozano-Hemmer has synchronized a megaphone with a 10 kW Xenon robotic searchlight. As each participant speaks into the megaphone, the searchlight shines to the uppermost floor of the towering Centro Cultural Tlatelolco (CCT) building where three additional searchlights instantaneously strobe, dim, and brighten, illuminating the nocturnal landscape in horizontally fixed, tangential beams. Although the aesthetic, social, historical, and political aspects of …

Digital Circuit Projects: An Overview Of Digital Circuits Through Implementing Integrated Circuits - Second Edition, Charles W. Kann

Open Educational Resources

Digital circuits, often called Integrated Circuits or ICs, are the central building blocks of a Central Processing Unit (CPU). To understand how a computer works, it is essential to understand the digital circuits which make up the CPU. This text introduces the most important of these digital circuits; adders, decoders, multiplexers, D flip-flops, and simple state machines.

What makes this textbook unique is that it puts the ability to understand these circuits into the hands of anyone, from hobbyists to students studying Computer Science. This text is designed to teach digital circuits using simple projects the reader can implement. But …