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Study subjects, including feeding condition, age, maturation status, social rank, and canine length
No full textStudy subjects (N=5 food-enhanced and 75 wild-feeding male baboons), including feeding condition, age, maturation status, social rank, and canine length. *Birthdate status indicates whether the birthdate is known or estimated, and what the error interval around the estimate is. 0 indicates an age known to within a few days; 1 indicates an estimate to within ± 1 year, 2 indicates within ± 2 years, and so on. ** ‘Researcher’ indicates who measured the canines: JA: Jeanne Altmann, and JG: Jordi Galbany
Poet and author Judith Kerman reads her selected works at the Michigan Writers Series
No full textPoet and author Judith Kerman reads selected poems, including the English translation of poems by Cuban poet Dulce Mar\ueda Loynaz, and answers questions from audience. Kerman is introduced by Michigan State University Librarian Jeanne Drewes. Part of the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held in the Main Library
Socio-ecological and endocrine predictors of cycling irregularity in the wild baboon (Papio cynocephalus): A life history characterization
No full textThis study explores the environmental and social factors that combine to exert similar effects in the
menstrual patterning of a population of wild yellow baboons (Papio cynocephalus) in Amboseli,
Kenya. Irregular cycles are associated with significantly reduced fertility as well as fetal loss in
both humans (Rowland et al 2002)(Bently 1985)(Gluckman and Hanson 2006) and baboons
(Altmann and Alberts 2003)(Gesquiere et al 2006), but the exact forces responsible for such
compensatory or senescence-related menstrual irregularity remain uncertain. The indirect effects
exerted by psychological and physiological stress on sex hormones via the hypothalamic-pituitarygonadal
axis are well documented. However, greater specificity of life history patterns in
postpartum amenorrhea and cycling irregularity needs to be established in order to assign
comparative weight to underlying socio-ecological forces, and to assess separate long-term
consequences of these occurrences (Livingston 2012). The main findings of this study are as
follows: When drought was concurrent with a female’s adolescent sub-fertility, she required two
more cycles on average to achieve first conception. Drought preceding her maturation yielded no
significant difference in the number of cycles required for her first conception. Concurrent drought
conditions interacted with multiparous females’ rank and her fGC hormone concentrations to
predict longer PPA duration, however drought alone was not a significant predictor of longer PPA.
Instead, lower rank was a stronger predictor of lengthier PPA duration; rank demonstrated an even
stronger correlation with PPA during drought conditions compared with non-drought and for
primiparous females compared with multiparous females. Primiparous females exhibited longer
PPA than multiparous females (controlling for the effects of rank, age, fGC, drought, and
accounting for female identity). Older age was not a significant predictor of longer PPA duration
after fGC was controlled for. Higher fGC hormone concentrations predicted longer PPA, when all
of the aforementioned socio-ecological predictors were controlled for. Infantile death rates (defined
by survival < 1 year) were significantly higher when drought preceded parturition, while
primiparous females also exhibited significantly higher infantile death rates than multiparous
females. Longer non-conceptive cycles did not occur more frequently during drought conditions
Author Lecture: Jeanne Marie Laskas, Hidden America (2012)
No full textHidden America From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work
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Five hundred feet underground, Jeanne Marie Laskas asked a coal miner named Smitty, “Do you think it’s weird that people know so little about you?” He replied, “I don’t think people know too much about the way the whole damn country works.”
Hidden America intends to fix that. Like John McPhee and Susan Orlean, Laskas dives deep into her subjects and emerges with character-driven narratives that are gripping, funny, and revelatory. In Hidden America, the stories are about the people who make our lives run every day—and yet we barely think of them. Laskas spent weeks in an Ohio coal mine and on an Alaskan oil rig; in a Maine migrant labor camp, a Texas beef ranch, the air traffic control tower at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, a California landfill, an Arizona gun shop, the cab of a long-haul truck in Iowa, and the stadium of the Cincinnati Ben-Gals cheerleaders. Cheerleaders? Yes. They, too, are hidden America, and you will be amazed by what Laskas tells you about them: hidden no longer
Final Project Report: A Seat at the Table: Integrating the Needs and Challenges of Underrepresented and Socially Vulnerable Populations into Coastal Hazards Planning in New Jersey
No full textThe purpose of this report is to:
Summarize approach, outcomes and deliverables of this project;
Highlight current evidence regarding impacts of changing climate-related coastal hazards on socially vulnerable populations;
Identify opportunities to address needs of socially vulnerable populations as part of coastal community climate resilience planning;
Outline possible options for coastal management policy that may enhance efforts to address needs of socially vulnerable populations as part of coastal community resilience efforts.
This report is organized with a distinct chapter dedicated to each of the four purposes outlined above followed by a bibliography and appendices.Completed for: The New Jersey Coastal Zone Management Program; New Jersey Department of Environmental ProtectionMay 31, 202
Gender practices and relations at the Jamaat Al Muslimeen in Trinidad
No full textIn an effort to bring into view critically—as actors rather than as spectacle—Muslim men and especially Muslim women in non-Islamic countries and to examine their constitutive individual as well as collective religious and social identities—that is their contextual realities as opposed to just the ideal of Islam—this project seeks via ethnographic research to investigate gender practices and relations among Muslims at the Masjid al Muslimeen and Madressa located in Trinidad and Tobago. This small community’s mundane yet resilient existence amid national, global, historical, geographical, physical, and sociopolitical ambivalences and contradictions begs revisiting how we read, interpret, represent, and deploy extant categories, theories, and methodologies articulating gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, religion, and nation. Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Jeanne P. Baptist
[Jeanne Williams, 1968]
No full textPhotograph of Jeanne Williams. The accompanying press release tucked behind the photograph states "AUTHOR PICKS SOUTHWEST COLLECTION -- Southwestern novelist and historian Jeanne Williams, shown at her working desk, has named the Southwest Collection at Texas Tech repository for her papers. (Tech Photo)"
Jeanne de Marie-Hélène Lafon
No full textThe work of the contemporary novelist and short-story writer Marie-Hélène Lafon, in which the question of origins occupies a prominent place, can be seen as fertile ground for a psychoanalytical reading. In the short story ‘Jeanne’ (2002), of which the present study constitutes the first in-depth analysis, the place held by the title character in the familial structure reveals itself to be decisive. The relations which Jeanne has with others are all marked by the weakness of her paternal figure, and Jeanne’s story can be seen to be an unconscious appeal to the maker of the law, a quest that culminates in a perversion, specifically, fetishism. This failure of the ‘name-of-the-father’ establishes an unconscious structure in which the subject, unable to find a way out of the Oedipal triangle, identifies with her lack, consoling herself in a perverse ‘jouissance’ and consequently never managing to break free of her origins and come into her own as a desiring subject. This study of ‘Jeanne’ takes into account Freud’s, and especially Lacan’s, theories pertaining to fetishism. The latter, in conceiving of perversion as an appeal to the paternal function, puts the reader in a position to see in perversion not some kind of moral failing, but rather a psychological structure obeying an ‘other’ logic, that of the signifier
[Jeanne Williams, novelist and historian]
No full textNovelist and historian Jeanne Williams, shown at her working desk, has named the Southwest Collection as the repository for her papers.Accompanying press release states: "AUTHOR PICKS SOUTHWEST COLLECTION--Southwestern novelist and historian Jeanne Williams, shown at her working desk, has named the Southwest Collection at Texas Tech repository for her papers."
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