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Annual report of Anti-Saloon League of Oregon for fiscal year ending
No full textTitle varies slightly.1922 lacks title.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Mode of access: Internet from the State Library of Oregon Oregoniana Collection.Text in English
The workshop as the work: white anti-racism organising in 1960s, 70s, and 80s US social movements
Get PDFThis thesis explores the rise of anti-racism workshops developed by white activists in various United States social movements from the late 1960s through the mid-1980s. The shifting ideology of the black freedom movement in the late 1960s, from integration to Black Power, transformed white activists‘ place within racial justice struggles. While recent scholarship has begun to turn its attention towards whites‘ ongoing racial justice activities, one of the most radical and widespread of these efforts is consistently overlooked: anti-racism workshops. Increasingly prevalent from the late 1960s through to the diversity-trainings explosion of the 1990s, this thesis demonstrates that these workshops had their roots in the black freedom, women‘s liberation and gay liberation movements. White activists from these movements led these workshops in order to examine white racial domination and privilege within both leftist social movements and larger US society.
Analysing case studies from the black freedom, women‘s liberation and gay liberation/rights movements, this thesis explores the foundational assumptions of anti-racism workshops. It seeks to explain how and why these efforts sought to frame race and racism as issues of knowledge and consciousness and why such efforts constituted radical praxis. It is argued that early anti-racism workshops were pedagogical projects that sought to confront the racial ignorance that structured the lives of whites in the US, including progressives and their liberation movements. This thesis draws attention to the efficacy and power of these workshops in terms of their epistemological effects, in the transformations they brought about in whites‘ understanding, or awareness, of racial realities
KEDAULATAN RAKYAT DALAM PERSPEKTIF DEMOKRASI PANCASILA
No full textABSTRAK Kata Kunci: Kedaulatan, Kedaulatan rakyat, Demokrasi, Demokrasi Pancasila. : Kedaulatan diartikan sebagai pemegang kekuasaan tertinggi untuk menentukan hukum dalam suatu negara. kedaulatan rakyat diartikan bahwa pemegang kekuasaan tertinggi dalam suatu negara adalah rakyat. Kedaulatan rakyat merupakan konsep dari demokrasi, yang diartikan pemerintahan oleh, dari, dan untuk rakyat. Konsep demokrasi yang diwujudkan dengan negara berkedaulatan rakyat dalam tataran praktiknya akan berbeda disetiap negara karena bergantung pada sosio-budaya bangsa masing-masing negara. Ideologi Pancasila sebagai suatu sistem nilai yang diyakini atau merupakan ideologi negara Indonesia, maka Pancasila akan memberikan pengaruh pada praktik demokrasi di Indonesia
External validation of anti-Müllerian hormone based prediction of live birth in assisted conception
Get PDF<p>Background - Chronological age and oocyte yield are independent determinants of live birth in assisted conception. Anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) is strongly associated with oocyte yield after controlled ovarian stimulation. We have previously assessed the ability of AMH and age to independently predict live birth in an Italian assisted conception cohort. Herein we report the external validation of the nomogram in 822 UK first in vitro fertilization (IVF) cycles.</p>
<p>Methods - Retrospective cohort consisting of 822 patients undergoing their first IVF treatment cycle at Glasgow Centre for Reproductive Medicine. Analyses were restricted to women aged between 25 and 42 years of age. All women had an AMH measured prior to commencing their first IVF cycle. The performance of the model was assessed; discrimination by the area under the receiver operator curve (ROCAUC) and model calibration by the predicted probability versus observed probability.</p>
<p>Results - Live births occurred in 29.4% of the cohort. The observed and predicted outcomes showed no evidence of miscalibration (p = 0.188). The ROCAUC was 0.64 (95% CI: 0.60, 0.68), suggesting moderate and similar discrimination to the original model. The ROCAUC for a continuous model of age and AMH was 0.65 (95% CI 0.61, 0.69), suggesting that the original categories of AMH were appropriate.</p>
<p>Conclusions - We confirm by external validation that AMH and age are independent predictors of live birth. Although the confidence intervals for each category are wide, our results support the assessment of AMH in larger cohorts with detailed baseline phenotyping for live birth prediction.</p>
A philosophical anchor for creating inclusive communities in early childhood education: anti-bias philosophy and Te Whāriki: Early childhood curriculum.
No full textThe basic premise of this paper is that inclusion in early childhood education in Aotearoa New Zealand is a worthy focus of early childhood education curriculum and that an anti-bias philosophy assists in developing curriculum that is inclusive. It is claimed that the early childhood curriculum in Aotearoa New Zealand is an emancipatory one, and arguments for activism and anti-bias principles in support of curriculum implementation are made. Drawing on anti-bias principles, the current curriculum statement (Te Whāriki: Early Childhood Curriculum) is examined to ascertain what support for anti-bias foci exists. Teaching strategies based upon discussion, critical thinking and an awareness of diversity themes/difference are considered in support of active anti-bias work in early childhood education
Australia's antidumping experience
Get PDFOne side of the debate about anti-dumping argues that dumping is not a problem in international trade - that it is a normal business practice which benefits the importing country's consumers and user industries - and that anti-dumping is inherently protectionist. The other side argues that an anti-dumping system has a legitimate role to play in maintaining a liberal trading order, but that the process is being abused for protectionist ends. Three sets of conclusions about reforms to anti-dumping have emerged from this dual debate: (a) tighten anti-dumping procedures to reduce scope for abuse; (b) broaden their focus, to take into account wider economic interests; and (c) abandon anti-dumping altogether. The purpose of this paper is to use the Australian experience over the past decade to shine some light on the issues raised internationally. The paper begins by briefly outlining the varied history of Australia's anti-dumping arrangements and activity since the late 1970s. It then looks at the Australian experience from the perspectives of the debate just referred to and ends with some conclusions relevant to that debate.Markets and Market Access,Access to Markets,Trade Policy,Engineering,Economic Theory&Research
Antigenic modulation limits the efficacy of anti-CD20 antibodies: implications for antibody selection
No full textRituximab, a monoclonal antibody which targets CD20 on B-cells, is now central to the treatment of a variety of malignant and autoimmune disorders. Despite this success a substantial proportion of B-cell lymphomas are unresponsive or develop resistance, hence more potent anti-CD20 mAb are continually being sought. Here we demonstrate that type II (tositumomab-like) anti-CD20 mAb are 5 times more potent than type I (rituximab-like) reagents in depleting human CD20 Tg B-cells, despite both operating exclusively via activatory FcR-expressing macrophages. Much of this disparity in performance is attributable to type I mAb-mediated internalization of CD20 by B-cells leading to reduced macrophage recruitment and the degradation of CD20:mAb complexes, shortening mAb half-life. Importantly, human B cells from healthy donors, and most cases of Chronic Lymphatic Leukemia (CLL) and Mantle Cell Lymphoma, showed rapid CD20 internalization which paralleled that seen in the Tg mouse B cells, while most Follicular Lymphoma (FL) and Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL) cells were far more resistant to CD20 loss. We postulate that differences in CD20 modulation may play a central role in determining the relative efficacy of rituximab in treating these diseases and strengthen the case for focusing on type II anti-CD20 mAb in the clinic. <br/
Retelling racialized violence, remaking white innocence: the politics of interlocking oppressions in transgender day of remembrance
Get PDFTransgender Day of Remembrance has become a significant political event among those resisting violence against gender-variant persons. Commemorated in more than 250 locations worldwide, this day honors individuals who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice. However, by focusing on transphobia as the definitive cause of violence, this ritual potentially obscures the ways in which hierarchies of race, class, and sexuality constitute such acts. Taking the Transgender Day of Remembrance/Remembering Our Dead project as a case study for considering the politics of memorialization, as well as tracing the narrative history of the Fred F. C. Martinez murder case in Colorado, the author argues that deracialized accounts of violence produce seemingly innocent White witnesses who can consume these spectacles of domination without confronting their own complicity in such acts. The author suggests that remembrance practices require critical rethinking if we are to confront violence in more effective ways. Description from publisher's site: http://caliber.ucpress.net/doi/abs/10.1525/srsp.2008.5.1.2
Keeping Small Businesses In Place: Voices From the Field
No full textIn 2022, SBAN awarded case study grants to 11 organizations to fill critical gaps in research about what small business anti-displacement strategies are effective. The case studies contained in this report are the result of a year-long process, during which the SBAN team worked with author organizations from diverse neighborhoods and metropolitan regions to tell stories about effective small business anti-displacement strategies. These cases come from four countries, including many regions of the United States, and offer varied perspectives for scholars, policymakers, small business support organizations, and others who support BIPOC- and immigrant-owned businesses. Authors outline solutions such as community property ownership, culturally relevant technical assistance, Main Street models, new types of small business loan financing, unionization, construction disruption assistance, and cultural heritage preservation. While the authors provide lessons that individual organizations can employ, they also make clear the collective policy response needed at all levels to support small businesses so they can remain vital anchors of stable, equitable, and thriving neighborhoods.
Case study author organizations:
San Francisco Heritage, San Francisco
Institut de Recherche et d’Informations Socioéconomiques, Montréal
Puerto Rican Cultural Center, Chicago
Purple Line Corridor Coalition, Washington, D.C., Metro Area
Latin Elephant, London
Chinatown Community Development Center, San Francisco
The Allapattah Collaborative CDC, Miami
Inclusive Action for the City, Los Angeles
Binita Mahato, Auburn University | Kolkata
District Bridges, Washington, D.C.
Ventures Nonprofit, Seattl
Anti-semitic journalism and authorship in Britain 1914–21
No full textThis thesis illustrates how anti-semitism has found favour,
comparatively recently, among influential sectors of the journalistic
and literary establishment, and also how periods of intense national and
international crisis can create the conditions in which conspiratorial
explanations of major events will surface with relative ease.
During the seven years following the outbreak of the First World
War (August, 1914), anti-semitism was fuelled by the recurring crises
created by a total war and its immediate aftermath. These included, the
call for national unity, with its attendant criticisms of enemy aliens,
sympathisers, and collaborators; the need to introduce and enforce
conscription; the fear of defeat; the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia
and the spectre of Bolshevism as an international force; the effects of
the Versailles Settlement and the League of Nations on Britain's
national interests; and the beginning of Britain's decline as an
imperial power.
The rapid development of anti-semitic literature during those
years, reached its high-water mark with the publication of two
pernicious books—The Jewish Peril (an English translation of the
Protocols of the Elders of Zion) and The Cause of World Unrest—both of
which transmitted a similar message of World Jewish domination. In the
immediate aftermath, even the Spectator called for a Royal Commission to
investigate Jewish involvement in revolutionary activity.
The following year an expose in The Times (August 1921) proved
that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion was closely-modelled on a book
written by a French author, Maurice Joly, published in Brussels in 1864.
This disclosure dealt a devastating blow to the intellectual armoury of
anti-semites, prevented the British establishment from becoming
seriously entangled in the ideological upsurge of Fascism, and helped foster a spirit of reason and enlightenment in which conspiracy theories
had far greater difficulties in being re-established
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