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Emma Gelders Sterne papers, W.0099
No full textAbstract: Contracts and business correspondence related to the publication of books written by Alabama author Emma Gelders Sterne.Scope and Content Note: This collection contains contracts and business correspondence between Alabama author Emma Gelders Sterne and her publishers at Dodd, Mead, and Company. The correspondence and contracts are dated from 1934 to 1953 and mostly include republication agreements between Sterne and the publishers. The collection includes materials related to
The Calico Ball, Some Plant Olive Trees, and
Drums of Monmouth.Biographical/Historical Note: Emma Gelders Sterne was born on May 13, 1894, in Birmingham, Alabama. She graduated from Smith College in 1916, receiving a BA. After college, Sterne returned to Birmingham, where she was involved in a number of activist efforts, including the suffrage movement.In 1917, she married lawyer Roy M. Sterne; the couple had two daughters, Ann and Barbara. The family moved to New York, where Roy worked for the Liggett Drug Company and Emma became involved in a number of activist groups, including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the American Civil Liberties Union.A prolific children's author, Sterne published a total of forty-four books during a literary career that spanned four decades. Several of her books, including
No Surrender,
Amarantha Gay, M.D., and
The Calico Ball are set in Birmingham; another work,
Some Plant Olive Trees, was inspired by the French settlement of Demopolis, Alabama.Sterne spent her final years in California; she died on August 29, 1971, in San Jose.Source:
Encyclopedia of Alabam
Conditional Cash Penalties in Education: Evidence from the Learnfare Experiment
No full textWisconsin’s influential Learnfare initiative is a conditional cash penalty program that sanctions a family’s welfare grant when covered teens fail to meet school attendance targets. In the presence of reference-dependent preferences, Learnfare provides uniquely powerful financial incentives for student performance. However, a 10-county random-assignment evaluation suggested that Learnfare had no sustained effects on school enrollment and attendance. This study evaluates the data from this randomized field experiment. In Milwaukee County, the Learnfare procedures were poorly implemented and the random-assignment process failed to produce balanced baseline traits. However, in the nine remaining counties, Learnfare increased school enrollment by 3.7 percent (effect size = 0.08) and attendance by 4.5 percent (effect size = 0.10). The hypothesis of a common treatment effect sustained throughout the six-semester study period could not be rejected. These effects were larger among subgroups at risk for dropping out of school (e.g., baseline dropouts, those over age for grade). For example, these heterogeneous treatment effects imply that Learnfare closed the enrollment gap between baseline dropouts and school attendees by 41 percent. These results suggest that well-designed financial incentives can be an effective mechanism for improving the school persistence of at-risk students at scale.
Contested Identities: Urbanisation and Indigenous Identity in the Ecuadorian Amazon
No full textThis thesis is a study of indigenous urbanisation and ethnic identity in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Taking as its focus Shuar urban residents of the rainforest city Sucúa, it argues that urban indigenous residents feel simultaneously more and less ‘indigenous’ than their more ‘rural’ counterparts.
On the one hand, the experience of living in a multiethnic city, on the ‘boundary’ of the Shuar ethnic group (Barth 1969), increases urban Shuar residents’ awareness of their ethnic identity, as Shuar and as ‘indigenous’. Furthermore, they want to identify as indigenous, as they are aware of the value that is placed on this identity by, for example, international organisations, NGOs, environmental activists, eco-tourism agencies, and indigenous political leaders. On the other hand, indigenous identity in urban areas is formed via a ‘play of mirrors’ (Novaes 1997) as a result of which urban Shuar are exposed to a variety of contradictory perspectives on what it means to be ‘indigenous’. These tend towards romanticisation and exoticisation of indigenous peoples as ‘ecologically noble savages’ (Redford 1993), creating the image of a ‘hyperreal Indian’ (Ramos 1992) that urban Shuar cannot hope to emulate. This leads many urban Shuar residents to feel that they are ‘not indigenous enough’. Nevertheless, with increased international migration and rising levels of education and professional achievement, a new urban indigenous middle class is acquiring the economic, cultural and social capital (Bourdieu 1984) to throw off the ‘burden of heritage’ (Olwig 1999) and determine for themselves what it means to be ‘indigenous’. Finally, I argue in this thesis for an anthropology of Amazonia that addresses the significant changes which are taking place in Amazonian peoples’ lives. If we continue to depict Amazonian groups as isolated, small-scale societies existing in an eternal ‘ethnographic present’ (Rubenstein 2002) we risk ignoring or misrepresenting the very real challenges and transformations that are increasingly facing our informants
Handheld-Impedance-Measurement System with seven-decade capability and potentiostatic function
No full textThis paper describes design and test of a new impedance-measurement system for nonlinear devices that exhibits a seven-decade range and works down to a frequency of 0.01 Hz. The system is specifically designed for electrochemical measurements, but the proposed architecture can be employed in many other fields where flexible signal generation and analysis are required. The system employs an unconventional signal generator based on two pulsewidth modulation (PWM) oscillators and an autocalibration system that allows uncertainties of less than 3% to be obtained over a range of 1 kΩ to 100 GΩ. A synchronous demodulation processing allows the noise superimposed to the low-amplitude input signals to be made negligibl
Emma ve Sense and sensibility adlı romanlarda okuyucunun Jane Austen tarafından kontrolü
No full textThis thesis analyses techniques employed by Jane Austen in Emma and Sense & Sensibility to control the readers when they make judgements about characters and events.The thesis will argue that the point of view used in these two novels to present events and characters has great influence upon readers. In addition, the role of skilful use of irony by Austen, and witholding of information by characters and author in keeping readers alert will be analysed.Bu çalışma Emma ve Sense and Sensibility adlı romanlarda, Jane Austen’ın okuyucular karakterler ve olaylar hakkında karar verirken onları kontrol etmek için kullangığı teknikleri incelemektedir.İki romanda da olayları ve karakterleri sunmak için kullanılan bakış açısının okuyucular üzerindeki etkisi incelenecektir.Buna ek olarak, Austen tarafından ustaca kullanılan kinaye sanatının ve karakterler veya yazar tarafından bilginin saklı tutulmasının okuyucuyu dikkatli kılmadaki rolü incelenecektir.M.A. - Master of Art
Hebrew Divine Names into Latin and Italian, Shiv'ah Shemot and other Samples from Egidio da Viterbo’s Workshop
No full textThis article deals with evidence, texts, commentaries and notes from Egidio da Viterbo’s collection of Hebrew manuscripts and from his Latin autographic manuscripts that shedding light on Egidio’s devices and perspectives in approaching the Hebrew language and the Hebrew divine names. This evidence is found in translations, marginalia, and book notes which were penned by Egidio himself and by people who assisted him in his reading the Hebrew texts. After providing an insight into Egidio’s premises and aims in the study of Hebrew literature, based on his autographic comments, the first part of the essay focuses on a set of translations from Hebrew into the Italian vernacular prepared by Jewish scribes and scholars for Egidio. The translators’ techniques, methodology, and selection of kabbalistic, aggadic, and midrashic material is examined. Although this translation project is of crucial importance for the transmission of the mystical Jewish literature to the Christian world of the Renaissance, it has received almost no scholarly attention so far.
In the second part, this article takes into account a compilation (MS London, British Library, Add. 16390, vols. A–B) that includes, in its first volume, an anonymous glossary entitled Shivʿah Shemot (Seven Names), on the divine names occurring in the Bible, accompanied by masoretic explanation, and in its second volume, excerpts of a Jewish mystical text in vernacular translation entitled Raziel. They are both to be ascribed to Egidio’s workshop and to a collaboration with Elia Levita. The final part of this article concerns two autographic notebooks by Egidio (MSS Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Lat. 596–597), in which our author records and translates Hebrew roots and divine names that he collected during his reading of Hebrew exegetical and mystical works. The combined analysis of these various witnesses opens different viewpoints on the ongoing activities which Egidio promoted, supporting the spread of Hebrew and Jewish studies in Renaissance Rome. Moreover, it enlightens on some of the propaedeutic materials which contributed to Egidio’s key endeavor to attain a mastery of Kabbalah and to shape his own syncretic kabbalistic syste
Financial constraints and capacity adjustment in the United Kingdom: Evidence from a large panel of survey data
No full textThe interrelationship between financial constraints and firm activity is a hotly debated issue. The way firms cope with financial constraints is fundamental to the analysis of monetary transmission, of financial stability and of growth and development. The CBI Industrial Trends Survey contains detailed information on the financial constraints faced by a large sample of UK manufacturers. This paper uses the quarterly CBI Industrial Trends Survey firm level data between January 1989 and October 1999. The cleaned sample contains 49,244 quarterly observations on 5,196 firms. As more than 63% of the observations refer to firms with less than 200 employees, the data set is especially well suited for comparing large and small companies. The data set is presented and a new method of checking the informational content of the data is developed. Whereas the relationship between investment activity and financial constraints is theoretically ambivalent due to simultaneity, the link between financial constraints on the one hand and the prevalence and duration of capacity gaps on the other should be unambiguously positive. Looking at the relationship between both types of constraints, two important results emerge. First, there is shown to be informational content in the survey data on financial constraints. Specifically, financially constrained firms take longer to close capacity gaps. This indicates that financial constraints do indeed play a part in the investment process. Second, small firms close their capacity gaps faster than large firms do, but financial constraints seem to be of higher relevance to their adjustment dynamics. --Financial constraints,investment,capacity adjustment,small firm finance,duration analysis
Arthur J. Russell Correspondence
No full textEntries include brief biographical information corrected in pencil, letters of introduction to Russell and his sister concerning the Maine Author Collection, a handwritten reply from Emma M. Russell, typed correspondence between Dunnack and Russell concerning books that should have been purchased right away at secondhand stores, a Maine Library Bulletin envelope with a small photographic portrait of young Russell and a full-length photograph, a page typed with a misspelling by the Maine State Library presented with a photograph of the home of Russell\u27s birth in Hallowell, Maine, and a lengthy typed biography on Minneapolis Journal stationery
Moving Anthropology: Critical Indigenous Studies
No full textThe opening years of the 21st century have seen profound shifts in Australian Indigenous affairs. The essays in this collection bring a fresh and challenging approach to the study of Australia's relationship with Indigenous otherness. The authors examine diverse aspects of contemporary Australian race relations, from the Indigenous music industry, to Toyotas in remote communities, to the repatriation of sacred objects, to the reception of the New History in the bush. These challenging and controversial contributions to current debates show how anthropology is ideally positioned to bring new insights to Indigenous studies. Contributors include Andrew Lattas, Elizabeth Povinelli, Gillian Cowlishaw, Franca Tamasari, Tim Rowse and David Turnbull. [ Aware of the usual 'moves' anthropologists make, this collection begins organically from the thinking and doing that goes on in real situations, and launches a fresh new approach within indigenous domains. Professor Stephen Muecke, University of Technology, Sydney] ['A challenging collection of ethnographies linked by a critical view of current Indigenous studies which leads us to question the future of anthropology in relation to the future existence of Indigenous societies.' Professor Barbara Glowczewski-Barker, College de France and James Cook University] ['This book... is well worth the read. However, there is more work to be done because white possession remains under-theorised as the most powerful aspect of the relationality that the contributors to this volume have claimed to address.' Profe ss or A ileen M or eton- Robin son , Que ensland Un iver sity of T ech nol ogy, fr om her Aft er word .] Dr Tess Lea is Dir ector of the Sc hool for Social and Policy Re search at Charles Darwin University. Dr Emma Kowal is completing a PhD in the Centre for Health and Society at the University of Melbourne. Professor Gillian Cowlishaw is an ARC Professorial Fellow at the University of Technology, Sydney.Forword / Dipesh Chakrabarty -- Introduction: Double binds / Gillian Cowlishaw, Emma Kowal and Tess Lea -- Ch. 1. 'Personal acquaintance': essential individuality and the possibilities of encounters / Franca Tamisari -- Ch. 2. Cars corporations, ceremonies and cash: hidden co-dependence in Australia's north / Tess Lea -- Ch. 3. White redemption rituals: reflections on the repatriation of Aboriginal secret-sacred objects / Philip Batty -- Ch. 4. Moving towards the mean: dilemmas of assimilation and improvement / Emma Kowal -- Ch. 5. 'Community benefit packages': development's encounter with pluralism in the case of the mining industry / Sarah Holcombe -- Ch. 6. Further up the road: community trucks and the moving settlement / Tony Redmond Ch. 7. Improving indigenous music makers / Ase Ottosson -- Ch. 8. Collateral damage in the history wars / Gillian Cowlishaw -- Ch. 9. Finding Bwudjut: common land, private profit, divergent objects / Elizabeth Povinelli -- Ch. 10. The politics of being pratical : Howard's fourth term challenge / Tim Rowse -- Ch. 11. Movement, boundaries, rationality and the State: the Ngaanyatjarra Land Claim, the Tordesillas Line and the West Australian Border / David Turnbull -- Ch. 12. Reviewing the reviews: intellectual fields, the liberal state and the problem of alterity / Andrew Lattas -- Afterword: How White possession moves: after the word / Aileen Moreton-Robinson -- Contributors -- IndexJira Ticket : CDU-384 : Collection Development Manager made the decision that for the books that have this message "
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