9575 research outputs found
Sort by
Pandemics and Cash
Full text linkWe investigate the relationship between firms’ cash holdings and pandemics. Our results show that as compared to tele-workable firms, whose employees can work remotely, non-tele-workable firms with more on-site employees increase cash during pandemics. This increase in cash comes from short-debt, preferred stocks, reduction in capital expenditures and discontinuation of some operations. Firms hold more cash as a reaction to higher default risk. For non-tele-workable firms, there is a positive relationship between abnormal stock returns and cash, suggesting that this increase in cash during pandemics is not driven by behavioral reasons, but by increases in uncertainty in labor productivity
Long-Term Impact of the Sí, Yo Puedo (Yes, I Can) Curriculum and Empowerment Program on Immigrant Latinas: Follow-Up Groups at a Police Department
No full textImmigrant Latinas (IL) experiencing incidences of intimate partner violence (IPV) require services from police departments. This study builds upon a previously mixed-method study conducted at a police department between 2015 and 2018 in the US. Thirty-three IL participated in five educational groups (ns = 7, 7, 6, 6, 7) in a culturally specific curriculum and program, Sí, Yo Puedo, designed to foster self-esteem and provide education on IPV and healthy relationships. Two follow-up groups (ns = 8, 5) were conducted in December 2020 to assess IL’s experiences post completion of the Si, Yo Puedo empowerment program. Content analysis was the method employed to review the data and generate themes of the participants experiences. Participants’ qualitative responses included positive feelings of increased confidence and self-esteem, and reports of learning about legal rights and the dynamics of IPV. Findings implicate this curriculum as a service tool for police departments working with this population
“Alice and the White Knight”: John Tenniel’s Satire of the Victorian Idea of the Medieval
No full textJohn Tenniel’s “Alice and the White Knight,” one of the illustrations he created for Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass, is based on Albrecht Dürer’s famous engraving “Knight, Death, and the Devil.” This resemblance has been noted by art historians and Lewis Carroll scholars before, but its impact on the meaning of Tenniel’s drawing has never been thoroughly explored. At the time that Tenniel was creating the illustrations for Through the Looking-Glass, Dürer’s engraving, also known under the name “The Christian Knight,” was held to be a representation of a knight as an exemplar of moral and physical strength. This paper will show how by aligning his illustration of Carroll’s character with Dürer’s famous engraving, Tenniel was able to present the White Knight as being of good character, while at the same time presenting him as somewhat ineffectual by utilizing strategic differences from Dürer’s picture. It will also demonstrate how Tenniel was able to use the satiric vocabulary that he was familiar with from his time working at Punch to simultaneously link the White Knight to the Gothic Revival as well as to ridicule that movement. Beyond the specific analysis of this one drawing, this paper will ultimately seek to show that Tenniel’s Alice illustrations are worthy of serious study beyond their connections to Carroll’s text
Spiritual Capital at the Yongning Pagoda: A Study of Glass Beads
No full textOver 150,000 monochromatic glass beads were unearthed from beneath the Yongning Buddhist Pagoda (516-534 C.E.) during the Northern Wei dynasty (386-535 C.E.). Located in Luoyang, Henan province, China, the pagoda and its surrounding monastery site were commissioned by Empress Dowager Ling. The Northern Wei dynasty was ruled by the Tuoba clan of Xianbei ethnicity. This study first considers the beads in relation to material culture by examining historic accounts of the dynasty, excavation records related to glass, and glass production in China and India. The rulers of this dynasty sponsored Buddhist art such as caves, temple sites, sculpture, and glass. The route of the glass beads found at the Yongning Pagoda may be traced from India to China. Travelers came via routes that developed across central Asia, referred to as the Ancient Silk Road (2 nd century B.C.E.). Glass art underwent major developments during this era, including the introduction of glassblowing technology, new understandings of glass’ chemical composition, and political unification. The largest development of glass was the technical understanding of its three main components (formers, fluxers, and stabilizers) which allow artisans to control melting temperature, malleability, color, and more. This study then uses gift theory to examine the role of beads as part of the processes of exchange and reciprocity within the local socio-Buddhist sphere. The Tuoba rulers, as well as Chinese Buddhists, highly valued glass objects. Glass objects were used within the realm of material and gift culture thus I argue the Yongning Pagoda beads serve as spiritual capital for Empress Dowager Ling and the local Buddhist clergy
