Oakland Journal Number 15: Fall 2008
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Item type: Item , Item type: Item , Statement of Purpose(Oakland University, 2008-10-01) Nixon, Jude V.Oakland Journal Issue 15 statement of purposeItem type: Item , Table of Contents(Oakland University, 2008-10-01) Nixon, Jude V.Oakland Journal Issue 15 table of contentsItem type: Item , Editor's Notes(Oakland University, 2008-10-01) Nixon, Jude V.; Nixon, Jude V.Oakland Journal Issue 15 editorial notesItem type: Item , What Oakland Taught Me(Oakland University, 2008-10-01) Brieger, Gottfried; Nixon, Jude V.Lessons learned from forty years at Oakland University.Item type: Item , Your Brain on Love: The Three Stages to Euphoria(Oakland University, 2008-10-01) Potts, Geoff; Nixon, Jude V.A scientific look at the biological mechanisms of love,Item type: Item , Poems: Double Life, A Brief History of Chinese Food, Dictionary of Imaginary Places, A Brief History of Taxi Cabs, American Poet in Tokyo(Oakland University, 2008-10-01) Armstrong, Glen; Nixon, Jude V.PoetryItem type: Item , Not My Fault(Oakland University, 2008-10-01) McQueen, Cathy; Nixon, Jude V.An essay on the subject of personal responsibility.Item type: Item , Experience and the Presidency(Oakland University, 2008-10-01) Levine, David A.; Nixon, Jude V.How important is political experience in presidential candidates?Item type: Item , Poems: translation, panic attack, before, after, before, daydreaming, when you leave . . ., close, amnesia, too often . . .(Oakland University, 2008-10-01) Ballard, Karen; Nixon, Jude V.PoetryItem type: Item , The Chronicles of Seminarnia(Oakland University, 2008-10-01) Byrne, Bill; Nixon, Jude V.A humorous essay on the subject of seminars.Item type: Item , The Politics of Pinyin: Reflections on the Differences of Mandarin Chinese in Taiwan and China by a Novice(Oakland University, 2008-10-01) Coyl, Peter D.; Nixon, Jude V.In efforts to boost literacy, the Chinese language and its romanized transcription have been modified over the past 100 years. The changes in Chinese on the mainland and Chinese in Taiwan have been motivated by literacy and by politics.Item type: Item , The Romantic Imagination in Coleridge’s “Dejection: An Ode”(Oakland University, 2008-10-01) Nguyen, Christine; Nixon, Jude V.Coleridge’s “Dejection: An Ode” is initially a poem about the depressed state in which the author finds himself. The work is not simply a poem, but rather a reflection of the poet, who was as famous for his rise as for his fall.Item type: Item , A School of Fish (or Students)(Oakland University, 2008-10-01) Van Vliet, Jennifer; Nixon, Jude V.Short storyItem type: Item , Teleportation(Oakland University, 2008-10-01) Rojo, Alberto G.; Nixon, Jude V.The scene is illusory, in a hypothetical future where an improbable technology, teletransport, is of everyday usage. Improbable but—as we will see—not impossible.Item type: Item , Item type: Item , Changing Health Care for Vulnerable Older Adults: Five Programs of Research(Oakland University, 2008-10-01) Adams, Linda Thompson; Nixon, Jude V.Four papers discuss the relative influence of scientific, societal, and/or public policy upon the care of vulnerable older adults. Each paper addresses a program of research, an aspect of which influences the quality of health provided. Although the focus of each program of research is different, a common theme is improvement in health care provided for older adults.Item type: Item , Changing the Care Provided Persons with Dementia: The Role of Experiential Knowledge and Philosophy of Science(Oakland University, 2008-10-01) Whall, Ann L.; Nixon, Jude V.This discussion is both cautionary and hopeful, for it addresses the remaining ability of those persons with dementia as well as the effect of such lack of recognition, upon the care delivered to all vulnerable older adults.Item type: Item , Preserved Implicit Memory in Dementia Care: A Potential Model for Care(Oakland University, 2008-10-01) Harrison, Barbara E.; Nixon, Jude V.In the next decade, millions of persons with dementia will need nursing care, which will challenge our current approaches to care. This discussion explains a new nursing practice approach for the care of persons living with dementia.Item type: Item , Promoting the Well-being of Older Adults through Multi-sensory Environments(Oakland University, 2008-10-01) Riley-Doucet, Cheryl; Nixon, Jude V.The rapidly growing elderly population brings new health care issues into sharp focus, particularly that of caring for elders with neurologic and cognitive deficits related to dementia.