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To What Extent is there Intergenerational Continuity in Early-Life Stressors?
No full textPrior work has investigated the correlates and consequences of early life stress within a person’s lifetime, but less is known about whether early life stressors are sustained across generations. Using multi-generational data from 1,312 offspring and their fathers (N = 518 families), we examined the extent to which there is intergenerational continuity in childhood social class, childhood home atmosphere, parent-child relationship quality, and childhood health, as well as whether person-level and family-level factors strengthen (or weaken) intergenerational continuity. Results suggest notable intergenerational continuity in childhood social class, but no continuity in childhood home atmosphere, parent-child relationship quality, or childhood health. Moreover, the intergenerational continuity of early life stressors was modified by father education level and education mobility, such that low education level conferred risks, and upward education mobility conferred benefits, for offspring adverse experiences. We discuss broader implications of the findings for future research, clinical interventions, and social policy
Curiosity and Collection in the Constcamer Paintings of Frans II Francken (1581-1642)
No full textThis dissertation investigates the ontology of the Flemish “gallery painting” genre by focusing on its understudied inventor, Frans II Francken (1581-1642), within the aesthetic and intellectual context of early modern curiosity culture and its discursive manifestation in posticonoclastic Antwerp. A morally fraught desire associated with Eve and the Fall, curiosity also drives the collector’s acquisition of knowledge and objects; “curiosity” shares its Latin derivation of cura, care, with the term “curator”, whose modern incarnation is spawned from the tradition of collecting manifest in constcamers. Nearly exclusive to Antwerp until c. 1650, gallery paintings substantiate artists’ efforts to rehabilitate the status of their craft in the wake of iconoclastic trauma by promoting collecting as an aspirational practice. Varying in content and composition, they depict meticulously curated collections – including miniature versions of well known artworks – typically examined by nobly dressed connoisseurs in elegant interiors. Gallery paintings were intended for precisely the sort of location and display they portrayed: the art rooms (constcamers) and curiosity cabinets of elite and learned collectors, particularly the liefhebbers der schilderyen (lovers of painting), officially recognized by Antwerp’s Guild of St. Luke in 1602. Of about 100 extant gallery paintings by a dozen artists, over one quarter are attributed to Francken and his family studio. Ranging from c. 1610 to his death, Francken’s production includes all four gallery painting subtypes: idealized constcamer interiors intended for sale on the open market, personalized “portraits” of verifiable collections, allegorical subjects grandly projecting Francken’s self-articulated aesthetic lineage, and still life compositions of collectable objects macroscopically re-presented such that the viewer’s eye converges with that of the collector and even the painter himself. While previous studies have investigated the gallery painting genre as a progressive whole, mine links close analysis of individual artworks with the temporally and regionally specific context of their creation, informed by the shifting cultural discourse around curiosity as derived from the history of concepts. Positing Francken’s constcamer compositions as purposeful provocations of curiosity that simultaneously instruct the viewer on its expression through collection, this dissertation is the first monograph of Frans II Francken beyond his 1989 catalogue raisonné
Entre métèques et cosmopolites : la place de Paris dans l’imaginaire des écrivains du Boom latino-américain
No full textFostering Inclusive Learning Communities Together: Intersectionality, Belongingness, and Openness
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Advancing Our Understanding of Pyranopterin-Dithiolene Contributions to Moco Enzyme Catalysis
Get PDFThe pyranopterin dithiolene ligand is remarkable in terms of its geometric and electronic structure and is uniquely found in mononuclear molybdenum and tungsten enzymes. The pyranopterindithiolene is found coordinated to the metal ion, deeply buried within the protein, and non-covalently attached to the protein via an extensive hydrogen bonding network that is enzyme specific.However, the function of pyranopterin dithiolene in enzymatic catalysis has been difficult to determine. This focused account aims to provide an overview of what has been learned from the study of pyranopterin dithiolene model complexes of molybdenum and how these results relate to the enzyme systems. This work begins with a summary of what is known about the pyranopterindithiolene ligand in the enzymes. We then introduce the development of inorganic small molecule complexes that model aspects of a coordinated pyranopterin dithiolene and discuss the results o fdetailed physical studies of the models by electronic absorption, resonance Raman, X-ray absorption and NMR spectroscopies, cyclic voltammetry, X-ray crystallography, and chemical reactivity
Second-harmonic signature of chiral spin structures in W/Pt/Co heterostructures with tunable magnetic anisotropy
Get PDFSecond-harmonic Hall voltage (SHV) measurement method has been widely used to characterize the strengths of spin–orbit torques (SOTs) in heavy metal/ferromagnet thin films saturated in the single-domain regime. Here, we show that the magnetic anisotropy of a W/Pt/Co trilayer can be robustly tuned from in-plane to out-of-plane by varying W, Pt, or Co thicknesses. Moreover, in samples with easy-cone anisotropy, SHV measurements exhibit anomalous ‘humps’ in the multidomain regime accessed by applying a nearly out-of-plane external magnetic field. These hump features can only be explained as a result of the formation of Néel-type domain walls, efficiently driven by nevertheless small SOTs in this double heavy metal heterostructure with canceling spin Hall angles
Pedagogical Partnerships: Creating and Cultivating Authentic Relationships in Minority-Serving Institutions
Get PDFSocial Identity as a Factor in Bystander Responses to Bias-Based Verbal Aggression Among College Students
Get PDFBias-based bullying is a significant problem in the United States, including aggression targeting college students with minoritized social identities. Bystander responsiveness can help to buffer the effects, but social identity factors may influence how students respond to bias-based aggression among peers. We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of a subsample (N = 7,291) of the 2018–2019 Healthy Minds Study to test correlations between racial, sexual, and gender identities and self-reported and hypothetical peer interventions. Students who identify with minoritized sexual and gender identities, across racial identities, are most likely to report past or intended interventions while students who identify as straight, cisgender, male, and White are least likely. Specifically, students with minoritized sexual and gender identities are 32% more likely than straight and cisgender peers to report that they had intervened in the past year and 36% more likely to indicate that they intend to intervene in the future. Experiences of discrimination and belonging are significant but separate covariates. Interventions to support peer responsiveness must attend to dynamics of power, oppression, and social identity to reach more students