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Qualitative methodology and survey instruments: South Korea field work
No full text"This Methodology Report is part of the Care Work and the Economy (CWE-GAM) Project, based at American University’s Program
on Gender Analysis in Economics (PGAE).
Care arrangement and activities in South Korea: an analysis of the 2018 Care Work Family Survey on Childcare and Eldercare
No full textGender and the effectiveness of leadership training: results from a field experiment
No full textThis study examines gender differences in leadership behaviors and whether leadership training would have different effects on leadership behaviors by gender. Using data from several hundred managers of welfare and financial agencies in Denmark, we first investigate whether leadership behaviors differ between female and male leaders. After that, we conducted a year-long field experiment with managers to examine how female and male leaders respond to leadership training interventions. In general, female managers improve more from leadership training even though leadership scores for female leaders were higher before training
Intersectionality and equity: dynamic bureaucratic representation in higher education
No full textOriginal ArticleRepresentative bureaucracy scholarship has yet to address two interrelated phenomena: intersectionality and changes in relative disadvantage over time. This manuscript addresses these gaps by assessing representation effects at the intersection of race/ethnicity and sex and in previously, but no longer, disadvantaged client groups. It also argues that if bureaucratic representation is viewed as a quest for equity, then representation will decline as disadvantaged client groups approach equity in policy outcomes. Using panel data for US higher education, this study highlights the importance of intersectional representation in bureaucratic organizations. In three of the four race/ethnic/sex combinations, students perform better in the presence of faculty who match them intersectionally (in the fourth case, race but not sex matters). The empirical results also find that as a formerly disadvantaged client group (women) becomes successful within an organization, the active representation relationship declines. These implications inform future representative bureaucracy scholarship examining intersectional groups
Farmer and non-farmer responsibility to each other: negotiating the social contracts and public good of agriculture
No full textIf farmers expect society to help protect them against the crushing effect of surpluses, they must be prepared to protect society by working out permanent arrangements for storing of reserve food supplies. Both farmers and non-farmers have a responsibility to each other, and any dodging of this responsibility by either group is likely to end in disaster. — U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Henry Wallace (1936a, 1936b:14)
Radon as a natural tracer of gas transport through trees
No full textNew Phytologist, Volume 225, Issue 4, 1 February 2020, Pages 1470-1475.Trees are sources, sinks, and conduits for gas exchange between the atmosphere and soil, and effectively link these terrestrial realms in a soil–plant–atmosphere continuum. We demonstrated that naturally produced radon-222 (222Rn) gas has the potential to disentangle the biotic and physical processes that regulate gas transfer between soils or plants and the atmosphere in field settings where exogenous tracer applications are challenging. Patterns in stem radon emissions across tree species, seasons, and diurnal periods suggest that plant transport of soil gases is controlled by plant hydraulics, whether by diffusion or mass flow via transpiration. We establish for the first time that trees emit soil gases during the night when transpiration rates are negligible, suggesting that axial diffusion is an important and understudied mechanism of plant and soil gas transmission
Development of High-Conductivity Solid-State Electrolytes for Next Generation Batteries
No full textAll solid-state batteries offer several advantages over traditional liquid electrolytes. Li10GeP2S12 (LGPS) is a superionic conductor that has an ionic conductivity matching conventional liquid electrolytes (10-3 S/cm) and thus shows exceptional potential to fulfill the promise of solid-state Li metal batteries. Conventional mechanical die pressing of LGPS powder into pellets for electrochemical testing can result in large porosity, low density, and large grain boundary resistance at the solid-solid interface with the electrodes which greatly decrease the performance of LGPS, in addition to poor mechanical stability of such pressed pellets. In this project, first, we will adopt the hot press method for the fabrication of LGPS pellets using commercially available LGPS powder and obtain LGPS solid electrolyte pellets with high ionic conductivity, high thermal stability, and high density with an optimal pressing condition (temperature and pressure). Second, we will test the interfacial stability of hot-pressed LGPS under various electrochemical potentials. The goal is to develop an artificial solid electrolyte interphase (ASEI) to stabilize the interface between LGPS solid electrolyte and Li Metal anode for its application to high energy density solid-state batteries.Materials ScienceEnergyMechanical EngineeringDegree Awarded: M.S.--Mechanical Engineering. The Catholic University of Americ
Launching LACLI: Project of open access resources for Latin American, Caribbean, U.S. Latinx, and Iberian studies
No full textIn this briefing, representatives of the Latin American North East Libraries Consortium (LANE) will present the LACLI (Latin American, Caribbean, U.S. Latinx, and Iberian Online Free E-Resources) project. The widespread closure of physical library spaces due to COVID-19 compelled educators and libraries to rely heavily on electronic resources to meet users' research needs. Launched in 2020 in response to the demand for e-resources, LACLI is a collective effort to create a warehouse of online free e-resources with Latin American, Caribbean, U.S. Latinx, and Iberian full content across research disciplines. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, to allow anyone to reuse LACLI to create their own guides or any other material for non-commercial purposes. This briefing will discuss LACLI's origins, vision, principles and strategies employed for a rapid launch of the resource, and offer a short user demonstration. LANE is an affinity group of the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials.A presentation that was delivered online in the Thirteenth Annual Symposium, "Bridging the Spectrum: A Symposium on Scholarship and Practice in Library and Information Science" at the Catholic University of America in 2021
Building a Bridge to Entrepreneurs
No full textThe Business Reference Section of the Library of Congress has a large number of resources to support research needs of entrepreneurs, but finding the relevant information within our huge, national collection and navigating the multi-building library campus was challenging. The business librarians used LibGuides to create the Small Business Hub: A Research Guide for Entrepreneurs in order to reorganize existing information, provide search tips, and encourage interactions with small business owners. This session will cover our goals for creating this guide, challenges in implementation, and how we have used it – and plan to use it – as an outreach tool to connect with the small business community.A presentation that was delivered online in the Thirteenth Annual Symposium, "Bridging the Spectrum: A Symposium on Scholarship and Practice in Library and Information Science" at the Catholic University of America in 2021
Processing the Multi-language Papers of a Scholar: A Finding Aid for the Rev. Paulinus Bellet O.S.B. Papers of the Semitics/ICOR Library
No full textThe Papers of Rev. Paulinus, O.S.B. (1913-1987), monk of the Abbey of Montserrat and distinguished Coptic scholar, are housed in the Semitics/ICOR Library at The Catholic University of America. Through an agreement between CUA and the Abbey, Fr. Bellet taught Coptic, Ethiopic and Hebrew in the Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures between 1962 and 1978.
The Bellet Papers include teaching materials; facsimile copies and transcriptions of Coptic mss from European collections; lexical and other card indexes; and twelve copper mezzotint plates. These materials provide insight into Father Bellet's work as Coptic editor of the Biblia polyglotta Matritensia (1957- ) as well his unfinished work on an edition of the Middle-Egyptian Coptic text of the Acts of the Apostles in Coptic Glazier Codex (G67).
This project examines the steps taken to process this collection and create a finding aid. Approaches to organizing correspondence and selecting periodicals for retention will be considered. Challenges related to processing collections with non-English material will also be discussed, especially as descriptions were created with DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard) standards in mind.A presentation that was delivered online in the Thirteenth Annual Symposium, "Bridging the Spectrum: A Symposium on Scholarship and Practice in Library and Information Science" at the Catholic University of America in 2021