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Body Image Discrepancy: The Role of Culture as a Moderator
No full textA surge of research pertaining to body image suggests that holding a discrepancy between one’s perceived physical attributes and the ideal physical attributes leads to body dissatisfaction, which consequently causes mental health problems and maladaptive eating attitudes and behaviors. It should be noted that most of the body image research has used non-Hispanic European American women, thus giving little attention to the role that certain cultural factors such as relational values orientation has on individuals from different cultures. Thus the purpose of the present study was to explore the extent to which being from a collectivistic or individualistic culture influences the relationship between different types of body image discrepancies, and behavioral and mental health problems. It was hypothesized that because Hispanics and Asian Americans tend to ascribe to collectivistic values, they would report more negative outcomes when they perceived their ideal and expected bodies from a societal standpoint. On the other hand it was expected that because European Americans tend to ascribe to individualistic values, they would report more negative outcomes when they perceived their ideal and expected bodies from a personal standpoint. Our findings did not fully support our hypotheses. However it was found that, in comparison to the collectivistic group, the individualistic group consistently reported more negative outcomes when they had greater body image discrepancies. These findings suggest that there are other cultural factors independent of relational values that influence the way one perceives his or her body, which can lead to mental health problems and disordered eating
Interview with Clark de Schweinitz '66 by Krista Oldham
No full textInterview was conducted May 27, 2016 for Haverford College's 2016 Alumni Weekend Event: Sharing Our Stories: Voices from Haverford College, Scarlet Sages Series. Interviews took place in the Group Study Room in Magill Library, Haverford Colleg
On the River, On the Road: Lower Mississippi Peddlers and their Judaism, 1820-1865
No full textScholars who study the Jews of the Southern United States often struggle to understand how Jewish identity affected the way in which Jews presented themselves, the way in which outsiders viewed them, and the extent to which they felt integrated into society. Many scholars believe that Jewish religious practice was not just adapted, but sacrificed, as part of the process of integration into Southern life and culture. Looking specifically at the region of the Lower Mississippi, this thesis offers a different approach to understanding Judaism in the context of adaptation and integration. This thesis begins with a historical review of the role of Jews as merchants in the United States and how social and economic factors in the early and mid-19th century encouraged their entry into American society as peddlers, creating the "typical peddler profile. More specifically, the thesis examines why the Lower Mississippi was a unique and advantageous setting during this time period for Jewish merchants. This thesis argues that in the Lower Mississippi during the early and mid-19th century, Jewish religious practices and spaces were not sacrificed, but rather reconceptualized. Judaism became integrated into the merchant profession, manifested through economic and familial networks that allowed Jews to practice their Judaism even in the most remote of locales. Judaism was also intertwined with the liminal position of Jews within Lower Mississippian society: not black, yet not seen as fully white, allowing Jews to sell to a customer base that was both black and white. With their economic and familial networks and adaptive Jewish practices, the Jews of the Lower Mississippi were able to become fully participating, though distinct, members of the larger society while maintaining a form of Judaism
Interview with Charlotte Lutton, wife of Clyde Lutton '66 by Krista Oldham
No full textInterview was conducted May 28, 2016 for Haverford College's 2016 Alumni Weekend Event: Sharing Our Stories: Voices from Haverford College, Scarlet Sages Series. Interviews took place in the Group Study Room in Magill Library, Haverford Colleg
Investigating the role of Drosophila melanogaster genes t48 and mist in Anopheles gambiae gastrulation
No full textEvery multicellular animal must undergo the process of gastrulation during embryonic development to form the primary cell layers – the ectoderm, mesoderm, and endoderm. During mesoderm formation in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, cells along the embryo’s ventral side change shape and move into the embryo. Understanding these mechanisms is important because they are also involved in other mechanisms such as cancer cell metastasis. However, the exact dynamics and patterns of these cell movements often vary between organisms due to differences in the expression or roles of critical genes. My thesis therefore aimed to gain insight into how these important cellular mechanisms change over the course of evolution. To do this, I intended to compare the well-characterized expression and role of t48 and mist in D. melanogaster gastrulation to their unknown expression in the mosquito Anopheles gambiae, a more divergent insect. I first created probes that were used to reveal gene expression in A. gambiae embryos with a colored stain. Due to time limitations, only the mist probe could be applied to the A. gambiae embryos. Preliminary results suggest that the probes worked well and that mist is expressed during A. gambiae embryonic development. This is the first known evidence of mist expression in A. gambiae embryos, indicating potential similarities in what is thought to be divergent mechanisms
Exploring the Relationship of the Twin-Arginine Translocation Pathway, β-Lactamase, and Efflux Pumps as Factors of Antibiotic Resistance and Cross-resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA14)
No full textPseudomonas aeruginosa, a gram-negative, opportunistic bacterial pathogen often attacks immunocompromised hosts in clinical settings. It is highly resilient, with a variety of strains having evolved multi-drug resistance (MDR) to various classes of antibiotics. With the rise of MDR strains, it has become increasingly difficult to treat Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections. The twin-arginine translocation (TAT) pathway, not found in eukaryotes, plays a role in pathogenicity by transporting a variety of virulence factors in P. aeruginosa. This makes it a good candidate target for antibiotic treatment against Pseudomonas. This study conditioned a particularly virulent strain (PA14) using doripenem (a “last-resort” antibiotic) to test the ability of tat-mutated strains (Δtat) to develop resistance, and a variety of other antibiotics to test MDR. Δtat, against my predictions, was able to condition to a slightly higher doripenem concentration – 19 μg/mL – than was the wild-type at 16 μg/mL. The two strains exhibited similar levels of cross-resistance except for ciprofloxacin, for which conditioned-Δtat showed increased susceptibility. Additionally, we assayed the production of β-lactamase, a resistance mechanism that specifically degrades antibiotic structure, and found that there is no difference in production between wild-type and Δtat for both unconditioned and conditioned strains. Lastly, we assessed the relationship between the TAT pathway and resistance-nodulation-division (RND) efflux pumps, a prominent resistance mechanism in P. aeruginosa, using RT-PCR to observe differences in RND-pump gene expression of conditioned and non-conditioned strains. Unfortunately, results for this assay were not obtained due to issues with PCR. The ultimate goal of this study was to shed light on the TAT pathway’s viability as a target for treatment against P. aeruginosa infection. These results can only be considered preliminary, with much more research needing to be done, but they generally suggest that TAT is not a viable antibiotic target
Report says U.S. Funds Channeled into Latin American Labor
No full textThis transcription of an announcement talks about how U.S. funds are going to Latin American labor groups in order to gain control over the politics of international labor
Viva La Causa Screening Flyer
No full textFlyer advertising 'Viva La Causa', video of Mexican-American history by Elizabeth Sutherlan
Puerto Rican Awareness Week Schedule
No full textSchedule for the April, 1998 Puerto Rican Awareness Wee