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Women Smuggling and the Men Who Help Them: Gender, Corruption and Illicit Networks in Senegal
(Journal Of Modern African Studies, 9/1/2012) Howson, Cynthia
This paper investigates gendered patterns of corruption and access to illicit networks among female cross-border traders near the Senegambian border. Despite a discourse of generosity and solidarity, access to corrupt networks is mediated by class and gender, furthering social differentiation, especially insofar as it depends on geographic and socio-economic affinity with customs officers, state representatives and well-connected transporters. Issues of organisational culture, occupational identity and interpersonal negotiations of power represent important sources of corruption that require an understanding of the actual dynamics of public administration. While smuggling depends on contesting legal and social boundaries, the most successful traders (and transporters) strive to fulfil ideal gender roles as closely as possible. Ironically, trading on poverty and feminine vulnerability only works for relatively affluent women.
Why are Women Buying GOOP? Women's Health and the Wellness Movement
(Birth: Issues in Perinatal Care, 9/1/2020) Jolly, Natalie
The questions that have animated the women's health movement for the last half-century-questions of autonomy, expertise, authority-appear to be bubbling up again on social media, as feminist health journalists, celebrity gynecologists, and wellness moguls once again debate the role of health and medicine in women's lives. The tensions inherent in these debates were nicely captured when journalist Jennifer Block published her commentary titled "Doctors Are Not Gods" in Scientific America at the end of November 2019-and put Twitter's favorite gynecologist Dr Jennifer Gunter in her crosshairs. Few anticipated the mayhem that ensued. To recap, feminist health journalist Jennifer Block argued that Dr Jennifer Gunter-with her New York Times column on women's health, her best-selling book "The Vagina Bible," and her robust online following-had crossed a line from friendly Twitter gyno to Internet bully. Block accused Gunter (and, broadly, medical professionals) of "gaslighting" women who partake in the wellness movement. In the hasty, arm wrestling that ensued what was lost was more than just another squabble over Gweneth Paltrow's GOOP and whether or not those jade eggs belong in women's vaginas. Instead, the rancor that has accompanied debates about conventional medicine versus the wellness movement has foreclosed the opportunity to engage in a broader discussion about the role of women's experience in women's health, and what is at stake when women do not feel heard.
What Went Wrong at the Wounded Warrior Project
(Journal of Nonprofit Education and Leadership, 1/1/2017) Bernstein, Ruth; Aulgur, Jeff
What Went Wrong at the Wounded Warrior Project? By: Ruth Bernstein and Jeff AulgurThe Legacy of the American Legacy Foundation By: Ruth Bernstein Below are two cases, Wounded Warrior Project and American Legacy Foundation, that focus on similar issues. In both cases, a lack of governance and oversight led to misuse of funds and fraud. These cases may be used together or individually. The sections on implications for theory and policy, suggestions for classroom instruction, activities, discussion questions, and resources apply to both cases. In addition, instructors may choose to zero in on the governance issues, fraud and financial oversight, or both of these topics...Purchase this special issue to continue reading
Waughop Lake Management Plan Grant G1400475
(2/1/2017) Gawel, James E.
The Lakewood City Council took a step forward in the cleanup of Waughop Lake Monday night when it approved a lake management plan aimed at restoring the water quality of the 30-acre lake.
Wapato Lake Water Quality Monitoring Data Report
(University of Washington, Tacoma, 12/20/2017) Gawel, James E.; Oliva-Membreno, Kimberly
In early 2017, University of Washington Tacoma (UWT) was contracted to provide monitoring before, during and after an alum treatment being conducted on May 9, 2017, in Wapato Lake, Tacoma, WA. Specifically, researcher Jim Gawel, Associate Professor of Environmental Chemistry and Engineering, and undergraduate student Kimberly Oliva-Membreno were contracted to carry out the following tasks: Task 1. Short-Term Impact Monitoring occurs 1 day before treatment, 2 days after treatment, and 2 weeks after treatment. Monitoring at one station includes water quality profiles for field parameters, Secchi depth, and collecting samples from near the surface and bottom for lab analysis of alkalinity, SRP, TP, chlorophyll, dissolved and total aluminum. - (if needed) Lake surface water alkalinity field testing at 2 depths Task 2. Twice Daily Monitoring occurs in the morning and evening of each treatment day and includes only water quality profiles and alkalinity field test. Task 3. Random Monitoring every hour on each treatment day (between twice daily) and includes a pH profile at the site treated one hour previously, and alkalinity from surface and bottom if pH < 6. Task 4. Produce data summary report to Herrera by December 31, 2017.
Understanding Donor Intent: Legal and Ethical Lessons From a Religious Nonprofit
(Journal of Leadership, Accountability and Ethics, 11/1/2015) Bernstein, Ruth; Hamilton, J. Brooke; Slatten, Lise Anne
To maintain public trust, nonprofit agencies are legally and ethically obligated to steward gifts according to the donor's intent. This paper examines a donor intent case complicated by more than fifty years of mismanagement of the funds. The authors highlight the legal and ethical obligations that board members and other stakeholders must abide by in managing a nonprofit to protect its reputation and 501(c)3 status. We examine the legal issues related to donor intent, findings in philosophy and moral psychology about quick/automatic and slow/deliberate ethical judgment processes, and practical implications for adoption by boards addressing donor intent challenges.
Virginia Woolf and Literary Impressionism
(Tacoma Art Museum Series on Art, 2/14/2010) Blair, Linda Nicole
The sedimentology and geomorphology of rock avalanche deposits on glaciers
(Sedimentology, 12/1/2011) Shugar, Dan H.; Clague, John J.
This article describes and compares the deposits of four large landslides on two glaciers in Alaska using field mapping and remote sensing. Digital image analysis is used to compare the sedimentological characteristics of nearly 200 000 individual surface blocks deposited by three landslides at Black Rapids Glacier in 2002. The debris sheets of one of the three landslides on Black Rapids Glacier and a landslide emplaced on Sherman Glacier in 1964 are also investigated. The three landslides on Black Rapids Glacier have undergone little post-depositional modification by glacier flow, whereas the Sherman Glacier landslide has been transported supraglacially up to ca 1 km over the past 46 years. The three debris sheets on Black Rapids Glacier have coarse blocky rims at their distal edges, and all four debris sheets have longitudinal flowbands characterized by differences in texture and produced by shearing within the moving debris. Elongated blocks are parallel to flow, except at the perimeter of the debris sheets, where they are aligned more perpendicular to flow. Blocks on the Sherman Glacier debris sheet have been reoriented by glacier flow. The matrix shows no systematic differences with depth or distance from the source. However, it appears to become coarser over a time scale of decades due to weathering.
Time Will Darken It: Reciting/Re-Sighting the Past
(Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, 2/18/2010) Blair, Linda Nicole
Using Phylogenetic Analysis to Detect Market Substitution of Atlantic Salmon for Pacific Salmon: an Introductory Biology Laboratory Experiment
(American Biology Teacher, 4/1/2012) Cline, Erica T.; Gogarten, Jennifer
We describe a laboratory exercise developed for the cell and molecular biology quarter of a year-long majors' undergraduate introductory biology sequence. In an analysis of salmon samples collected by students in their local stores and restaurants, DNA sequencing and phylogenetic analysis were used to detect market substitution of Atlantic salmon for Pacific salmon. This allowed students to apply molecular methods such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and DNA sequencing to a socially relevant issue.
The Return: A Native Environmental Health Story
(1/1/2013) Brendible, Janice; Edwards, Kelly; Forslund, Amber; James, Rose; Jamshedi, Adib; Johny, Regina Wilson; Kennedy, Mary Teri; Montgomery, Michelle; Paul, Amy; Salazar, Nicholas; Segrest, Valerie; Sharpe, Jon; Towle, Buffy
The Native Tradition, Environment And Community Health (TEACH) Project began in 2008 with a small collaborative grant funded by the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences. The Northwest Indian College and the Center for Ecogenetics and Environmental Health at the University of Washington shared the funding and co-managed the project. In the Western scientific tradition, "Environmental Health" is the study of how the environment affects people in order to promote healthier lives. One of the goals of the Native TEACH Project was to find out how Native ways of understanding the world and our place in it might lead to a unique understanding of environmental health - a "NATIVE Environmental Health Science." To do this, we got input from Tribal college students, staff and faculty from 30 Tribal colleges around the U.S. We did this through a combination of talking circles, interviews, and written surveys administered at the Northwest Indian College and at the 2009 American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) student conference in Missoula, MT. When we sifted through the information we gathered, we identified three core themes that seemed to appear over and over: Community, Wellness, and Inter-Relationship. Each of these core themes contains many rich associations and layers. Each theme can best be understood as a circle. Native Environmental Health Science is the study of how these three circles intersect and overlap, and what this means for our actions as individuals and communities. The Return is an original story based on our research findings. With it, we hope to share the essence of what we learned from the rich conversations we had with Tribal college students, staff and faculty. It can be read quietly or aloud, used as a coloring book, or even serve as the spark for a group or classroom discussion. Mostly though, it is meant as a gift back to the many people who helped create it by sharing their time, insights, and wisdom.
The Gendering of Order and Disorder: Mother Ann Lee and Shaker Architecture
(New England Quarterly, 6/1/2001) Nicoletta, Julie
The Incidence of High Medical Expenses by Health Status in Seven Developed Countries
(Health Policy (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 1/1/2016) Baird, Katherine Elizabeth
Health care policy seeks to ensure that citizens are protected from the financial risk associated with needing health care. Yet rising health care costs in many countries are leading to a greater reliance on out-of-pocket (OOP) measures. This paper uses 2010 household survey data from seven countries to measure and compare the burden OOP expenses place on individuals. It compares countries based on the extent to which citizens with health problems devote a large share of their income to OOP expenses. The paper finds that in all countries but France, and to a lesser extent Slovenia, citizens with health problems face considerably higher medical costs than do those without. As many as one-quarter of less healthy citizens in the US, Poland, Russia and Israel devote a large share of their income to OOP expenses. The paper also finds a strong cross-national correlation between the degree to which citizens face high OOP expenses, and the disparities in OOP expenses between those with and without health problems. The levels of high OOP spending uncovered, and their inequitable impact on those with health problems in the seven countries, underscore the potential for OOP measures to undermine core objectives of health care systems, including those of equitable financing, equal access, and improved health among the population.
The Phytophthora Ramorum (Sudden Oak Death) Stream Monitoring Project
(American Biology Teacher, 3/1/2012) Cline, Erica T.; Elliott, Marianne
The Elemental Composition of Stony Cosmic Spherules
(Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 3/1/1997) Brownlee, D. E; Bates, Beeway; Schramm, L.
Five hundred stony cosmic spherules collected from deep-sea sediments, polar ice, and the stratosphere have been analyzed for major and some minor element composition. Typical spherules are products of atmospheric melting of millimeter sized and smaller meteoroids. The samples are small and modified by atmospheric entry, but they are an important source of information on the composition of asteroids. The spherules in this study were all analyzed in an identical Manner, and they provide a sampling of the solar system's asteroids that is both different and less biased than provided by studies of conventional meteorites. Volatile elements such as Na and S are depleted due to atmospheric heating, while siderophiles are depleted by less understood causes. The refractory nonsiderophile elements appear not to have been significantly disturbed during atmospheric melting and provide important clues on the elemental composition of millimeter sized meteoroids colliding with the Earth. Typical spherules have CM-like composition that is distinctively different than ordinary chondrites and most other meteorite types. We assume that C-type asteroids are the primary origin of spherules with this composition. Type S asteroids should also be an important source of the spherules, and the analysis data provide constraints on their composition. A minor fraction of the spherules are melt products of precursor particles that did not have chondritic elemental compositions. The most common of these are particles that are dominated by olivine. The observed compositions of spherules are inconsistent with the possibility that an appreciable fraction of the spherules are simply chondrules remelted during atmospheric entry.
The Myth of the Green Fairy: Distilling the Scientific Truth About Absinthe
(Food, Culture, And Society, 3/1/2008) Cargill, Kima
In spite of its history and illegality, the use of absinthe, the aperitif made famous in fin de siècle Parisian cafés, is on the rise again in the United States and abroad. Writers and artists like Baudelaire, Verlaine, Wilde, van Gogh, Hemingway, Degas, Picasso and Gauguin all prominently featured absinthe in their writing and art, often attributing their creativity, as well as emotional instability, to the effects of la fée verte, or the green fairy. Consequently, absinthe has earned a reputation as a mysterious and dangerous substance capable of inducing all manner of psychosis, violence and passion. Yet contemporary science shows that the absinthe myth cannot be accounted for by the pharmacological reality. This article describes the history of absinthe and recent scientific developments, and uses a psychoanalytic framework to explain why the absinthe myth endures.
The Effect of Natal Experience on Habitat Preferences
(Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 8/1/2004) Davis, J
Several important problems in ecology, evolution and conservation biology are affected by habitat selection in dispersing animals. Experience in the natal habitat has long been considered a potential source of variation in the habitat preferences displayed when dispersers select a post-dispersal habitat. However, the taxonomic breadth of this phenomenon is underappreciated, in part because partially overlapping, taxon-specific definitions in the literature have discouraged communication. Here, we explore the phenomenon of natal habitat preference induction (NHPI) and demonstrate that NHPI has been observed in a broad range of animal taxa. We consider the potential adaptive significance of NHPI, identify implications of its occurrence for problems in evolution, ecology and conservation biology, and encourage further study of this phenomenon.
The Influence of Board Diversity, Board Diversity Policies and Practices, and Board Inclusion Behaviors on Nonprofit Governance Practices
(Journal of Business Ethics, 9/11/2014) Buse, Kathleen; Bernstein, Ruth Sessler; Bilimoria, Diana
This study examines how and when nonprofit board performance is impacted by board diversity. Specifically, we investigate board diversity policies and practices as well as board inclusion behaviors as mediating mechanisms for the influence of age, gender, and racial/ethnic diversity of the board on effective board governance practices. The empirical analysis, using a sample of 1,456 nonprofit board chief executive officers, finds that board governance practices are directly influenced by the gender and racial diversity of the board and that board inclusion behaviors together with diversity policies and practices mediate the influence of the board's gender and racial diversity on internal and external governance practices. Additionally, we found an interaction effect that indicates when boards have greater gender diversity, the negative impact of racial diversity on governance practices is mitigated. The findings suggest that board governance can be improved with more diverse membership, but only if the board behaves inclusively and there are policies and practices in place to allow the diverse members to have an impact.
Taylorism 2.0: Gamification, Scientific Management and the Capitalist Appropriation of Play
(Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds, 6/1/2014) deWinter, Jennifer; Kocurek, Carly A.; Nichols, Randall
By making work seem more like leisure time, gamification and corporate training games serve as a mechanism for solving a range of problems and, significantly, of increasing productivity. This piece examines the implications of gamification as a means of productivity gains that extend Frederick Winslow Taylor's principles of scientific management, or Taylorism. Relying on measurement and observation as a mechanism to collapse the domains of labour and leisure for the benefit of businesses (rather than for the benefit or fulfilment of workers), gamification potentially subjugates all time into productive time, even as business leaders use games to mask all labour as something to be enjoyed. In so doing, this study argues, the agency of individuals - whether worker or player - becomes subject to the rationalized nature of production. This rationalization changes the nature of play, making it a duty rather than a choice, a routine rather than a process of exploration. Taken too far or used unthinkingly, it renders Huizinga's magic circle into one more regulated office cubicle.
The Ecocritical Implications of Downing's Influence on Poe's Landscape Aesthetic
(Edgar Allan Poe Review, 1/1/2018) Bayer, E.M.
This article examines the influence of landscape architect Andrew Jackson Downing's seminal work, A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening (1841), on Poe's landscape tales. Poe knew this book through reading a review in Arcturus appearing in the same year and, as strong evidence suggests, through perusing Downing's tract firsthand sometime before 1843. Looking at the affinities between Downing's and Poe's aesthetic principles, we may see that Downing's landscape gardening theory profoundly influenced Poe's later fiction and validated his belief in the powerful role of the artist in the creation of Beauty. Two landscape tales, in particular, demonstrate the correlation between Poe's writing and the principles of landscape gardening popularized in his time: "The Domain of Arnheim" of 1847, and its "pendant," "Landor's Cottage" of 1849. Situating Poe's work in the context of landscape gardening-first by establishing Downing's influence on Poe and then by examining the environmental impact of their idealized landscapes-we may see how both literary and horticultural texts echoed the broader culture's demand for a composed American landscape without considering the environmental consequences of putting these aesthetic theories into practice. (C) 2018 The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.

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