6,209 research outputs found
"I don’t really like tedious, monotonous work": working-class young women, service sector employment and social mobility in contemporary Russia
No full textThis article contributes a global perspective to the emerging literature on girlhood in western contexts by examining the changing shape of transitions to adulthood amongst working-class young women in St. Petersburg, Russia. As in many western countries, new forms of service sector employment and an increasingly accessible higher education system appear to offer young women new prospects for social mobility. In contrast to the increasingly impoverished and denigrated traditional pathways into work, the young women in the study derive significant value from these new opportunities, constructing narratives of self-actualisation and approximating notions of respectable femininity. Nevertheless, actual social mobility is elusive, as familiar patterns of classed and gendered stratification limit their prospects. Despite its specificity, the case thus further illustrates the limited nature of the transformations available to young women through the new forms of education and work characteristic of global neoliberal contexts
Irish history matters: politics, identities and commemoration
No full textWhile knowledge of history can explain our contemporary situation, an awareness of the myths and misuses of our history can bring a broader and more conciliatory approach to current political and social challenges. History or, more correctly, ‘views of the past’ or ‘historical myths’ have shaped politics in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. These views served in part to cause and sustain the ‘Troubles’. Eventually, many historical perceptions were challenged, which helped to promote the peace process. New ideas of revised and shared history were important. These changes are explored here. The public expression of history in Ireland through commemoration of important historical events and persons is investigated in a number of chapters. The impact of historical developments on identity is studied not just in Ireland, north and south, but also among the Irish diaspora, especially in America. In Irish History Matters, Brian M. Walker uses three decades of research to explore the effects historical events have had on Irish politics and society, and why they still have an important influence today
Aligning Key Concepts for Global Change Policy: Robustness, Resilience, and Sustainability
No full textGlobalization, the process by which local social-ecological systems (SESs) are becoming linked in a global network, presents policy scientists and practitioners with unique and difficult challenges. Although local SESs can be extremely complex, when they become more tightly linked in the global system, complexity increases very rapidly as multi-scale and multi-level processes become more important. Here, we argue that addressing these multi-scale and multi-level challenges requires a collection of theories and models. We suggest that the conceptual domains of sustainability, resilience, and robustness provide a sufficiently rich collection of theories and models, but overlapping definitions and confusion about how these conceptual domains articulate with one another reduces their utility. We attempt to eliminate this confusion and illustrate how sustainability, resilience, and robustness can be used in tandem to address the multi-scale and multi-level challenges associated with global change
Mechanistic Insights into the Formation of InP Quantum Dots
No full textThe molecular mechanism of InP colloidal quantum dot (QD) syntheses was investigated by NMR spectroscopy. Unlike methods for monodisperse PbSe and CdSe, existing InP syntheses result in total depletion of molecular phosphorous species following nucleation, so QD growth is due exclusively to non-molecular ripening. Amines inhibit precursor depletion by solvation (see picture), contrary to previous reports.MIT-Harvard Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence (National Institutes of Health (U.S.) 1U54-CA119349)United States. Army Research Office (ISN W911NF-07-D-0004)Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Chemistry Instrumentation Facility (CHE-980806)Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Chemistry Instrumentation Facility (DBI-9729592)National Science Foundation (U.S.). Graduate Research Fellowship Progra
The campaign for democratic socialism 1960-1964.
No full textPhDIn early 1960 it seemed likely that the official Labour
Party defence policy would be defeated by a unilateralist
resolution at the Scarborough Conference. In response to
this possibility the Campaign for Democratic Socialism,
or CDS, was established.
The CDS projected the image of a grass-roots movement
inspired by Gaitskell's "fight and fight again" speech.
But it was run by a Campaign Committee which included
leading members of the Party like Tony Crosland, Roy
Jenkins and Patrick Gordon Walker, as well as less well
known members like Bill Rodgers, Dick Taverne, Philip
Williams, Brian Walden, Denis Howell and David Marquand.
This highly talented group launched an elaborate and
successful lobbying, publicity and briefing operation
which was influential in overturning the unilateralist
vote at the Blackpool Conference of 1961. After Blackpool
the Campaign helped many of its leading members find
seats in the House of Commons while continuing to put the
"revisionist" case through its newspaper Campaign.
The importance of the CDS in the history of the Labour
Party is, primarily, as the first internal pressure group
organised by the right of the Party. It was also the
first internal Party group to use such sophisticated
lobbying techniques. Moreover, the subsequent careers of
the leading members of the Campaign influenced the
development of the Labour Party. The CDS was an important
formative political action for many of them. Finally many
of the CDS supporters set-up or joined the SDP when it
was launched
From precocious fame to mature obscurity: David Walker (1837–1917) MD, LRCSI, surgeon and naturalist to the Fox Arctic Expedition of 1857–59
No full textThe Belfast-born David Walker was the 19-year-old surgeon and naturalist on the epic Fox Arctic Expedition (1857-59) that established the fate of Sir John Franklin's unsuccessful (1845) search for the North-West Passage. On return the crew were fê ted as heroes and decorated, and shared in a £5000 government bounty: Walker was also received by the Queen and (in Ireland) by the Lord Lieutenant, was honoured by the principal British and Irish natural history societies and his portrait was exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery, London. This paper describes his adventurous life, including the Fox Expedition, which from 1862 was spent abroad and included time in the Cariboo gold fields, service in the United States Army, practice in a notorious Californian frontier town and, in later life, the comparative quiet of general and occupational medical practice in Portland, Oregon. Once a household name, his death went unrecorded in the British and Irish medical and lay press.</p
Using WHO Mortality Data For International Comparison
No full textThe World Health Organization provides detailed mortality data files through the WHO Mortality Database (WHO MDB). While valuable information is available from the WHO MDB, there are some inherent difficulties in the utilisation of such data for the user. Through describing the procedures for downloading and formatting the data, and the utilisation of the available data, the author aims to promote the MDB for wider application by mortality researchers
Identification of a novel t(7;14) translocation in multiple myeloma resulting in overexpression of EGFR
No full textIGH translocations in myeloma are a primary event and determine the prognostic outcome of a patient. These events are characterized by FISH and classical cytogenetics, but in a small proportion of samples a translocation involving the IGH locus can be detected but the partner chromosome cannot be identified. These cases are usually genetically complex and are the result of cryptic events that cannot be discerned at the resolution of FISH. Here we analyzed a sample with an unidentified translocation partner using a targeted capture and massively parallel sequencing. We identified the partner chromosome as a t(7;14) with the breakpoint upstream of EGFR. This sample over-expresses the target oncogene, EGFR. This case represents a rare and novel translocation in myeloma, from which a targeted personalized treatment, in the form of EGFR inhibitors, which are commonly used in other cancer types, could be used
Supplemental Material, sj-tiff-1-ptd-10.1177_08968608231195532 - Performance characteristics of a prototype dialysate turbidity monitoring system to detect peritonitis in patients receiving peritoneal dialysis
No full textSupplemental Material, sj-tiff-1-ptd-10.1177_08968608231195532 for Performance characteristics of a prototype dialysate turbidity monitoring system to detect peritonitis in patients receiving peritoneal dialysis by Benjamin Briggs, Guillermo Garcia-Garcia, Margarita Ibarra-Hernandez, Luz Alcantar-Vallin, Gary Walker, Eric Yu, Aly ElBadry, Brian Fisher, Don Williamson and Glenn M Chertow in Peritoneal Dialysis International</p
Polydorella prolifera Augener 1914
No full textPolydorella prolifera Augener, 1914 Type species for the genus. Type locality: Western Australia, Sharks Bay, South Passage, 9 m, 16 April 1905. S.W. Australian Expedition, 1905. Type material: Syntypes: ZMH V 10106 Slightly damaged. Location and author of most recently described material: Blake and Kudenov (1978). Recorded distribution: Australia: Western Australia (Shark Bay).Published as part of Walker, Lexie M, 2011, A review of the current status of the Polydora - complex (Polychaeta: Spionidae) in Australia and a checklist of recorded species, pp. 40-62 in Zootaxa 2751 on page 54, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20356
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