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Pragmatic Developmental Pathways By Saudi Learners Of English During Study Abroad, Fahad Alzahrani

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Recently, it has become increasingly popular among Saudi students to study abroad. There are, for example, currently 58,726 Saudi students studying at the university level in the United States. During their study abroad (SA) journey, when they wish to say something to someone, they need to determine the situationally-appropriate utterances: What can be said, to whom, where, when, and how. From the interlanguage pragmatic (ILP) perspective, the SA context is assumed to provide more opportunities to communicate with native speakers, and these opportunities are believed to lead to pragmatic gains (Kinginger, 2008, 2009).Guided by five research questions, this study investigated …

The Generalizability Of Two Rating Scales Of Executive Function Across Parent And Self-Reports In A School-Based Adolescent Sample, Leah Singh

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This study examined the reliability, validity, and generalizability of test scores obtained from parents and adolescents reports across two rating scales of executive function. Forty-two adolescents ages 12 to 17 enrolled in a rural public school and one of their parents participated in the study. For each adolescent-parent dyad, 2 total scores of executive function and 6 subscale scores hypothesized to measure the same theoretical constructs were calculated and scores were submitted to several Generalizability theory analyses to evaluate the instrument effect, rater effect, dimension effect, and all interactions on total scores and subscale scores. The resulting dependability coefficients were …

Characteristics Of Smoking Oncology Patients In A Community Cancer Center: A Study Of Individual Differences, Amy Susan Farrell

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Cigarette smoking can seriously impede cancer treatment and leads to poorer treatment response. Fortunately, even when patients have cancer, smoking cessation has significant benefits. However, there have not been many successful well-controlled studies assessing smoking cessation interventions in oncology settings. The present study aimed to expand upon the current literature by exploring sample characteristics and individual differences in this understudied population. Data were collected from 649 adult participants at a mid-South community-based cancer center. Three measures were developed and subjected to factor analysis to assess level of health literacy, perceived stigma, and oncology-related triggers in this sample. These variables were …

Personal Health Records And Their Impact On Breast Cancer Screening Among Women, Hyunmin Kim

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Screening for breast cancer, the most common cancer in women and the second leading cause of cancer death, facilitates early detection and timely treatment that can reduce cancer-related morbidity and mortality. Increasingly, health information technology, including personal health records (PHRs) which contain detailed health information, has been suggested as having the potential to improve outcomes and reduce disparities in health care. Updated and relevant health information can help at-risk women participate in breast cancer screening and make appropriate clinical decisions.This dissertation consists of three essays that explore health information seeking behaviors of women at potential risk of breast cancer through …

Big Top Labor: Life And Labor In The Circus World, Andrea Ringer

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

By the turn of the twentieth century, circuses had established themselves as entertainment giants throughout the United States and much of Europe. With thousands of workers and animals traveling every day in the “tented city,” the circus constituted a unique workplace. The circus was also a highly transient workplace, with a long history of exploiting its workers. As the golden age of the circus began in the 1870s, marked by a move to the railroad shows and use of big top tents, workers became part of a huge transient community that had roots only in the winter months. The show …

Non-Violent Resistance: Counter-Discourse In Irish Culture, Agnés Maillot, Jennifer Bruen

Books

Counter-discourses express new and alternative views of the world, in contrast with more established discourses which embody mainstream values, norms, beliefs and attitudes. The essays in this volume assess the role of counter-discourses as non-violent forms of resistance to the status quo in core domains of Irish social, cultural and political life. These domains encompass the Northern Ireland conflict and peace process; law enforcement, policing and surveillance; parliamentary debate and obstructionism; identity formation, marriage, divorce and the family; and institutional abuse, authoritarianism and the Catholic Church. The discourses are drawn from a diverse range of media including political and parliamentary …

Subharmonic And Endoscopic Contrast Imaging Of Pancreatic Masses: A Pilot Study., Flemming Forsberg, Maria Stanczak, Andrej Lyshchik, David E. Loren, Patrick O'Kane, Ali Siddiqui, Thomas E. Kowalski, Cynthia Miller, Traci Fox, Ji-Bin Liu, John R. Eisenbrey

Department of Radiology Faculty Papers

OBJECTIVES: To use subharmonic imaging (SHI) to depict the vascularity of pancreatic masses compared to contrast-enhanced endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) and pathologic results.

METHODS: Sixteen patients scheduled for biopsy of a pancreatic mass were enrolled in an Institutional Review Board-approved study. Pulse-inversion SHI (transmitting/receiving at 2.5/1.25 MHz) was performed on a LOGIQ 9 system (GE Healthcare, Milwaukee, WI) with a 4C transducer, whereas contrast harmonic EUS (transmitting/receiving at 4.7/9.4 MHz) was performed with a radial endoscope (GF-UTC180; Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, Japan) connected to a ProSound SSD α-10 scanner (Hitachi Aloka, Tokyo, Japan). Two injections of the contrast agent Definity (Lantheus Medical …

All Hands On Deck: How One University Pooled Resources To Educate And Advocate For Affordable Course Content, Lucinda Rush, Leo S. Lo, M'Hammed Abdous, Deri Draper

Libraries Faculty & Staff Publications

(First paragraph) A strong case can be made for academic library involvement in Open Educational Resources (OERs) and Affordable Course Content (ACC). Academic libraries typically employ librarians who are experts in topics aligned with OERs and ACC, including copyright, fair use, and Creative Commons (CC) licensing, as well as in finding resources to support and to map out academic curricula. Libraries are also in the unique position of having distinct and defined connections with members of all three stakeholder groups: students, faculty, and administrators.

Readiness For Hospital Discharge - Adult Patient Short Form - Turkish Translation, Marianne E. Weiss, Sidika Kaya

RHDS

The Readiness for Hospital Discharge Scale, Quality of Discharge Teaching Scale, and Post-Discharge Coping Difficulty Scale were developed by Dr. Marianne Weiss to measure nurse-sensitive discharge care processes and patient outcomes. Three versions of the scales were developed concurrently for different patient populations – Adult medical-surgical patients, Parents of hospitalized children, and Postpartum Patient mothers (see Weiss & Piacentine, 2006, Weiss et al., 2007, and Bobay et al., 2018 for description of the development and initial testing). Additional scales and information about translation rights are located at Marquette Nursing.

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The Readiness for Discharge Scale, Quality of Discharge …

Readiness For Hospital Discharge - Adult Patient Form - Portuguese Translation, Marianne E. Weiss, Vanessa Da Silva Carvalho Vila

RHDS

The Readiness for Hospital Discharge Scale, Quality of Discharge Teaching Scale, and Post-Discharge Coping Difficulty Scale were developed by Dr. Marianne Weiss to measure nurse-sensitive discharge care processes and patient outcomes. Three versions of the scales were developed concurrently for different patient populations – Adult medical-surgical patients, Parents of hospitalized children, and Postpartum Patient mothers (see Weiss & Piacentine, 2006, Weiss et al., 2007, and Bobay et al., 2018 for description of the development and initial testing). Additional scales and information about translation rights are located at Marquette Nursing.

PERMISSION TO USE

The Readiness for Discharge Scale, Quality of Discharge …

A Belated Arrival: The Delayed Acceptance Of Musical Modernity In Irish Composition, Mark Fitzgerald

Articles

The chronic lack of investment in the capital needed to foster the development of music during the period of colonial governance in Ireland and the early years of the Free State, combined with Ireland’s peripheral position in relation to the centres of musical modernism, resulted in composers in Ireland adopting modernist ideas at a very late stage, particularly in comparison with the chronology of Irish literary modernism. Previous literature on the subject of Irish musical modernism has frequently obscured any clear sense of the real extent of this delay through the conflation of the concept of “modernism” with styles that …

Ira-Paul Schwarz. Impressions Of A Cloud And Romantic Mementos: Duets With Piano., Paul Roe

Conference papers

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Funds Of Knowledge And The College Success Of First-Generation Students, Low-Income Students, And Students Of Color: A Transformative Mixed Methods Study, Delma Margot Ramos

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Increases in college enrollment have led to assessments of college success. These assessments consistently reveal disparities between students from historically underserved communities and students from the majority. Specifically, first-generation to college students, low-income students, and students of color continue to experience unequitable success in college. In response to these concerns, the scholarly community engages in research that expands our understanding of college success of these students and offers solutions to bolster their success. Nonetheless, much of this work engages a deficit oriented approach that centers attention on the resources that historically underrepresented communities do not possess and attributes lower college …

Matt Christopher Papers - Accession 1221, Matthew Frederick Christopher, Fredric Martin

Manuscript Collection

Matt Christopher (1917-1997) was a prolific author of children’s books having written over 100 books as well as over 300 short stories, articles, poems, and screenplays. Most of his writings dealt with sports themes, but he also wrote fantasy and mystery themed stories as well. The Matt Christopher Papers consist of both published and unpublished manuscripts, articles, and short stories. Also included are personal and business correspondence, biographical information, scrapbooks, photographs, and memorabilia.

American Association Of University Professors Records - Accession 1619, American Association Of University Professors

Manuscript Collection

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) was created in 1915 in an effort to protect the academic freedom of educators of higher education in the United States. They primarily work to ensure academic freedom is maintained for tenured professors as well as to identify and administer censure for institutions that do not promote academic freedom. This collection consists of memorandums, reports, a TIAA-CREF retirement plan, pamphlet, an issue of Academe, and finally a Title IX Self Evaluation of Winthrop College from 1975-1976 all affiliated with the AAUP. These items describe events, such as the Sixtieth Annual Meeting of the …

Twilight Home And Garden Club Records - Accession 369, Garden Club Of Rock Hill, Twilight, Twilight Home And Garden Club

Manuscript Collection

The Twilight Home and Garden Club was a club formed with the goal to celebrate a common interest in gardening. The club was created in 1961 on College Avenue in Rock Hill, SC and was later disbanded in 1998 due to a decline of membership. This collection includes the minutes, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and yearbooks related to the club. These documents detail various activities of the club both internally and related to the local area.

Dorothy Rauch Papers - Accession 1059, Dorothy Sealy Rauch

Manuscript Collection

The Dorothy Rauch Papers consist of copies of the Winthrop Alumnae Magazine, scrapbooks, 1910 Winthrop College yearbook, photographs, biographical data on Dorothy Rauch and her father Mr. J. B. Sealy, scholarship plaque, ceramic plates, and a Winthrop Training School jacket. Dorothy Rauch was the former Winthrop Director of Alumnae Affairs from 1966-1980.

Rock Hill Business And Professional Women's Club Records - Accession 1412, Business And Professional Women's Club, Rock Hill

Manuscript Collection

This Rock Hill Business and Professional Women’s Club Records consist of minutes, correspondence, reports, financial records, memberships list, yearbooks, photographs, awards, records relating to state and national level BPWC, newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks containing photographs and other paraphernalia pertaining to the Rock Hill Business and Professional Women’s Club. The collection documents the origin, history, and activities of the Business and Professional Women’s Club, especially the Rock Hill chapter. The state branch was organized in 1919 and the Rock Hill chapter in 1925. The records fall into three categories: the Rock Hill Business and Professional Women’s Club, the South Carolina Business …

Lillian Salters Dillard Collection- Accession 1413, Lillian Salters Dillard

Manuscript Collection

The Lillian Salters Dillard Collection consists of items belonging to Winthrop graduate Lillian Salters Dillard (Class of 1913). The collection includes 7 Winthrop College Journals which Lillian served as editor. There are also photocopied photographs of the Class of 1913 and memorabilia from her 60^th Reunion in 1973. There is also a cooking notebook which includes notes from her sophomore and junior cooking classes while attending Winthrop College.

Anne Edna Willis Lewis Collection - Accession 1209, Anne Edna Willis Lewis

Manuscript Collection

The Anne Edna Willis Lewis Collection consists of materials collected by Anne Edna Willis Lewis (1902-2001) during her academic career at Winthrop College from 1921-1925. She graduated as part of the Winthrop Class of 1925. Her collection consists of 11 reports cards, 2 photographs taken at her 50^th reunion, and a scrapbook containing photographs, programs, correspondence, tickets, invitations, newspaper clippings memorabilia, and commencement programs. A Winthrop scholarship was named in her and her husband’s honor titled the Anne W. Lewis and Robert M. Lewis Endowed Scholarship to assist academically talented students with financial need.

Robert Harris Papers - Accession 1168, James Robert Harris Jr., Harris Family, Bailes Family, Barham Family, Bratton Family, Brickhouse Family, Colthorp Family, Cureton Family, Elliott Family, Fullwood Family, Gordon Family, Hagins Family, Hall Family, Hawkins Family, Heath Family, Hood Family, Kirk Family, Mehaffey Family, Miller Family, Moore Family, Mulkey Family, Ormond Family, Parker Family, Pennington Family, Pettus Family, Polk Family, Potts Family, Womack Family, Wren/Wrenn Family, Yarborough Family

Manuscript Collection

Robert “Bob” Harris (1926-1998), of Lancaster, South Carolina, spent decades researching the genealogical history of the Harris family, dating back to Essex, England in the 1500s, and various branches thereof. The collection includes extensive notes, family trees, correspondence, and photocopies of original documents, such as wills and deeds, from the 1700s and 1800s. Mr. Harris, along with distant relatives and various correspondents from around the country, searched government records, archives, church records, newspapers and a variety of other sources to compile a significant collection of data pertaining to the history of various lines of Harris descendants. There are many family …

Miriam Williford Papers - Accession 1225, Miriam Williford

Manuscript Collection

The Miriam Williford Papers relate to Dr. Miriam Williford’s personal and professional life. Dr. Williford (1926-1998) was a native of Rock Hill and was a student, professor, and administrator at Winthrop College for 40 years. Her papers include information concerning biographical data, correspondence, academic papers, publications and presentations, newspaper articles, photographs, and her personal interests. Dr. Williford’s areas of interest were in philosophies of Jeremy Bentham and Latin American History. Also consult Accession 157 for more information concerning Dr. Miriam Williford.

Helen Estis Snell Papers - Accession 1377, Helen Estis Snell

Manuscript Collection

The Helen Estis Snell Papers consist of memorabilia from Winthrop Class of 1936 alumna, Helen Estis Snell (1915-1989) of Elloree, SC. The collection contains a scrapbook filled with mementos from Ms. Snell’s years at Winthrop. Items within the scrapbook are small memos from classmates, decorative Christmas napkins, gift tags, a couple photographs (cyanotype), postcards, letters, truck tags, event programs, news articles, and other memorabilia of her time at Winthrop. There are also programs for many events held during Senior Week in 1936 as well as a Senior Class of 1936 Patch.

Marilyn Frenkel Photograph Collection - Accession 1380, Marilyn Frenkel, Winthrop University, Winthrop University - Department Of Theater And Dance

Manuscript Collection

The Marilyn Frenkel Photograph Collection consists of photograph albums of Winthrop University’s Theater and Dance Department Productions from the years of 2001 through 2009. The photograph albums include the programs for each production which includes listings of the casts and production staff and photographs of Winthrop students throughout the productions. The albums were collected and organized by Marilyn Frenkel who attended the productions with her husband from 2001 through 2009. The collection consists of albums for the following productions: The Mad Woman of Chaillot, Piece of My Heart, Benedictions, Hamlet, Tartuffe, Twelfth Night, A Lie of the Mind, Blithe Spirit, …

Katherine Adelaide Pfohl Collection - Accession 1414, Katherine Adelaide Pfohl

Manuscript Collection

The Katherine Adelaide Pfohl Papers consist of two photographs, thirty seven books, and approximately eighty slides. Katherine Pfohl (1908-2012) was a professor of Music Faculty at Winthrop College from 1946-1972. Most of the collection pertains to her career at Winthrop and would be useful to any researchers looking into the Music Program and Music majors at Winthrop College from the 1940s through the 1970s.

Ball Family Papers - Accession 774, Ball Family

Manuscript Collection

The Ball Family Papers consists of 52 microfiche that covers the operation of several plantations on the Cooper River in the Berkeley County area in South Carolina. The Ball Family Papers consist of correspondence, legal documents, wills and estate papers, plantation papers and slave records, accounts, receipts, genealogical material, plats, and other items pertaining to the Ball family and related families. The collection also includes the papers of John Ball (1760-1817), William James Ball (1787-1808), Ann Simons Ball (1776-1840), John Ball (1782-1834), and William James Ball (1821-1891), as well as the journal (1715-1716) of Captain George Chicken (d. 1727). Also …

Chesnut-Miller-Manning Papers - Accession 771, Chesnut Family, John Chesnut, James Chesnut Sr., James Chesnut Jr., Stephen Decatur Miller, John Laurence Manning

Manuscript Collection

The Chesnut-Miller-Manning Family Papers consist of financial and property records, correspondence, estate records, legal documents, and other items. Included are the papers of John Chesnut (1743-1818), James Chesnut, Sr. (1773-1866), James Chesnut, Jr. (1815-1885), Stephen Decatur Miller (1787-1838), and John Laurence Manning (1816-1889). Papers pertain to the business, financial, and plantation affairs and political activities of three generations of the Chesnut family, John Chesnut, James Chesnut, Sr. and James Chesnut, Jr., as well as James Chesnut, Jr.’s father-in-law Stephen Decatur Miller and John Laurence Manning.

The Impact Of Brexit On Cross-Border Trade By The Construction Sector In Ireland: An Exploratory Study, Tara Brooks, Duga Ewuga, Lloyd Scott, John Spillane

Conference papers

Cross-border co-operation can foster learning and contribute positively to business performance and social cohesion. This paper considers construction firms' economic motivation for co-operation around the Ireland - Northern Ireland border. This area, while impacted by the Brexit uncertainty, shares many of the economic and developmental characteristics of border areas throughout Europe. The purpose of the study is to investigate the impact of Brexit on cross border trade by the construction sector in Ireland and investigate the current tensions and barriers to that sector. A qualitative methodology adopted a literature review and semi-structured interview strategy. Data was collected from purposively selected …

Patricia Royer Fitzgerald Papers - Accession 1521, Patricia Royer Fitzgerald, Brothers Family, Vidal Family, Baisieux Family

Manuscript Collection

The Patricia Royer FitzGerald Papers consists of various family genealogy research, newspaper clippings, photographs, writings, and manuscripts. The genealogy material consists of genealogical charts, biographical information, handwritten family stories and anecdotes, marriage records, birth records, death records, correspondence, research notes, photographs, and copies of articles written about the family related mostly to the Brothers Family, Baisieux family, and Vidal family. The rest of the collection consists of Pat FitzGerald (1937-2017) writings and manuscripts related to her time as a writer for the Rock Hill, SC based newspaper, The Herald predominately writing for the Travel and Lifestyle section, but also consists …

John Williams: An Evaluation Of His Impact Upon The Culture Of The Classical Guitar, Michael O'Toole

Doctoral

This thesis examines the career of the Australian guitarist John Williams and his impact upon the culture of the classical guitar. Williams has been a celebrated guitarist for more than six decades and has performed and recorded extensively during that period. He has made a remarkably varied contribution to guitar culture, performing in a wide variety of different styles, highlighting the guitar’s unique strength as a versatile and adaptable instrument. Williams’ career is in marked contrast to that of many of his contemporaries, including his mentor Andrés Segovia. Segovia believed the classical guitar must assert its individuality in order to …