231 research outputs found
Reed, Charles H.
No full textMilitary Information: Lieutenant 311th US Infantry.This project was assisted by a grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission, a division of the Department of State.Names of other Rutgers People: Cliff Luster; J.M. "Chippie/y" Coleman; Glenn S. Charles; Bovey; Harry Davies; Hand; Faint; Scarr; Ackerman (last 4 listed in NYT list of promotion's "last Sunday" [letter dated Feb. 20, 1918]; King Powell, Bill Bowles, Bob Bowlby; Pattison, Jimmy Wilhams; Slats Maar; Don Davenport, McClosky'1
Constructing Tychonoff G-spaces which are not G-Tychonoff
No full textAbstractJan de Vries' compactification problem is whether every Tychonoff G-space can be equivariantly embedded in a compact G-space. In such a case, we say that G is a V-group. De Vries showed that every locally compact group G is a V-group. The first example of a non-V-group was constructed in 1988 by the first author. Until now, this was the only known counterexample. In this paper, we give a systematic method of constructing noncompactifiable G-spaces. We show that the class of non-V-groups is large and contains all second countable (even ℵ0-bounded) nonlocally precompact groups. This establishes the existence of monothetic (even cyclic) non-V-groups, answering a question of the first author. As a related result, we obtain a characterization of locally compact groups in terms of “G-normality”
Degei's descendants : spirits, place and people in pre-cession Fiji /
No full textOnline resource; title from PDF title page (ANU, viewed September 4, 2014).Includes bibliographical references.Aubrey Parke: an enthusiastic amateur in Fiji? -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Maps -- Fijian society: the islands of Fiji (general) -- Overview of project -- The ideological sense of Vanua -- Understanding traditional Fijian society -- Factors affecting development and interaction -- The Yavusa: the ideal and the reality -- The diversity of Fijian polities -- Overview of chapters 8-10 Fijian polities in three areas in the Yasayasa Vakara -- Polities of Rakiraki Tikina -- Polities of West Vuda Tikina -- Polities of Nadi Tikina -- Polities of Nawaka Tikina -- Overview of chapters 12-13 polities of the Natu Yasawa: the Yasawa Group -- The Tikina of Naviti -- The Tikina of Yasawa -- Conclusion -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Bibliography.JSTO
Men and boys selling sex in the Bradford district
No full textThis report provides a summary of key findings from a study commissioned by Yorkshire MESMAC exploring the experiences and needs of men and boys who are involved in selling sex in the Bradford district. This study consisted of three related projects outlined below.
Project A: Survey of Agencies in the Bradford Area
The first author conducted an interviewbased survey of 31 representatives from 21 local statutory and voluntary sector agencies exploring their perceptions of the issue of men and boys involved in selling sex, and considering ways in which local services could best respond to their needs. Responses indicated that:
● 78% of agency representatives believed that young men selling sex in the Bradford area was an issue that needed to be addressed.
● 52% of agency representatives had direct evidence of young men who were involved in selling sex in the Bradford area.
● 87% felt that action should be taken to address the issue of young men involved in selling sex in the Bradford area. Suggestions offered are outlined on page 9.
Project B: Local Awareness of Men Selling Sex
Thirty-seven men under the age of 40 completed a short questionnaire (Appendix 2) exploring their levels of awareness and possible involvement in selling/purchasing sexual services. Results indicated that:
● Adverts for men selling sex had been observed by gay/bisexual and heterosexual men in the Bradford district.
● One-third of gay/bisexual men and one young heterosexual man had been approached by a man and offered sex for money on more than one occasion.
● 10% of the gay/bisexual men surveyed reported having sold sex.
Executive Summary
● Reasons for offering sexual services or receiving payment for sex included being pressurized to perform in pornographic videos or pictures, or receiving shelter/accommodation for the night.
Project C: Men Selling Sex
Seven men who sell or have sold sex in the Bradford area were interviewed by the first author using a structured interview schedule (see Appendix 3). Responses suggested that:
● Sex with young men under the age of 16 is sought by men in the Bradford area.
● Men who sell sex on the streets have less control over the types of sex for which payment is offered than those who are house/flat/hotel-based.
● Men who sell sex on the streets face much more violence than those who sell sex from a house/flat/hotel.
● Selling sex on the streets often follows a chance encounter with an exploitative older man during teenage years.
● Selling sex from a house/flat tends to be a deliberate decision by older men.
Recommendations
● Provision of a local support service responding to the needs of men and boys who are involved in selling sex.
● Commission further research exploring the issues highlighted in the report
Comment on the Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study
No full textData from the Minnesota transracial adoption study reported in Weinberg. Scarr, and Waldman (1992) is reanalyzed and shown to be consistent with the hypothesis that the mean black/white difference in IQ is significantly genetic in origin. Weinberg, Scarr, and Waldman (1992) presents follow-up data on their study of black, mixed-race, and white children adopted by white families. In retrospect, they summarize their conclusions from their initial assessment of the performance of the adoptees as indicating that "putative genetic racial differences do not account for a major portion of the IQ performance difference between racial groups" (p. 118) and they seem inclined to interpret their follow-up as consistent with that conclusion. Weinberg, in a relatively recent article, although one published before the appearance of the follow-up, takes the study to have "disputed the hypothesis that IQ differences between blacks and white are due to genetic differences" (Weinberg, 1989, p. 101), although he does allow that h 2, the proportion of variance between individuals in IQ explained by genetic variation, is .5. (To be completely explicit, we may use H 2 to denote the proportion of the variance between races in IQ that is explained by between-race genetic variation.) There is an ambiguity in this remark cited from Weinberg: It is not clear whether he means to deny that all between-race variance is explained by genetic differences between the races, which is a position no one holds, or to deny that any of the between-race variance is explained by such genetic differences. If Weinberg is disputing the latter claim, he is implicitly making the very adventurous assertion that all mean race differences are due to differences in the environments in which members of different races find themselves. What to call these various positions is more significant than most definitional questions because of the emotions surrounding the issue of the size of H 2. It may be considered unfair to define environmentalism as the hypothesis that H 2 = 0 and The author wishes to thank Arthur Jensen and an anonymous referee for help, criticisms, and suggestions
Comments on the paper by Marcus Miller and Sayantan Ghosal 'Managing Financial Crisis in Emerging Markets: New Developments in Review'.
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Parameters affecting inductive displacement sensors
No full textAn investigation of the limitations of inductive displacement sensors (IDSs) was conducted with the use of electromagnetic finite element analysis (FEA). A comparison of displacement sensing technologies highlighted the advantages of EDSs in harsh industrial environments, but an understanding of the operation of IDSs showed that they are limited by the influence of target material, width and offset. It was proposed that studying the electromagnetic field around IDSs could reveal more information than was available from the simple impedance measurements employed by a commercially available IDS.A test coil sensor and signal processing system was designed and the result was a reliable system for measuring the magnetic field around the IDS. Experiments showed that the 1 MHz field had an amplitude of 5 x 10(^-6) T at the base of the IDS and two- and three-dimensional FEA models were constructed that gave closely matching central field values. The unreliability of the IDS for different target materials was demonstrated experimentally. FEA simulations showed that changing target permeability and varying target displacement both altered the whole field amplitude uniformly. This showed that it was not possible to counteract the target dependence by monitoring the field with the test coil system in this way. Further FEA simulations revealed field patterns that changed with target offset. An experiment with the test coil system confirmed that it was possible to use the change in lobe amplitude to measure the offset of the target; for example when target displacement d, = 25 mm and offset = 1.2 times the IDS coil diameter, the distance error was 3.6 %, which corresponded to a normalised test coil output of 0.54. A similar effect was found from target width FEA simulations. Hence it was possible to correct the output signal from the IDS coil to counteract the effect of an offset small target
Loss of ash trees in riparian forests from emerald ash borer infestations has implications for aquatic invertebrate leaf-litter consumers (CJFR-2018-0259)
No full textRapid loss of ash trees in riparian forests from the invasive insect, emerald ash borer (EAB), could pose risk of altering organic matter inputs to water bodies that underpin many aquatic ecosystem processes. We measured the composition of riparian forests and their leaf litter contributions to headwater streams and determined the relative palatability of ash leaves and three other common riparian trees to aquatic invertebrate leaf-litter consumers (the stonefly, Pteronarcys sp., and the cranefly, Tipula sp.) in laboratory microcosms and whole invertebrate communities in forest streams. Ash trees contributed on average 24% to riparian tree density and 20% to total litterfall. Among the four common stream-side trees accounting for 65% of total litterfall, ash was the first or second most preferred food source for consumers. Leaf packs without ash decomposed at slower rates than packs containing 25-100% ash leaves. Preferential feeding on ash leaves infers a high quality food source selected by consumers, and this concurred with comparatively high N content and low C/N ratio of ash leaves. Aquatic invertebrate communities on leaf packs in streams differed among leaf mixtures with or without ash, although community dissimilarity was low. The loss of ash in riparian forests represents an EAB-induced reduction in a high-quality resource subsidy to organic matter consumers in streams. We discuss how this has implications for risk predictions and management response strategies.The accepted manuscript in pdf format is listed with the files at the bottom of this page. The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the manuscript may differ slightly between what is listed on this page and what is listed in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript; that in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript is what was submitted by the author
Developing a critical theory of child abuse : a discussion of the nature of child abuse as a manifestation of the social order
No full textThis thesis is an exploration into the nature and the prevalence of
child abuse. It incorporates in this investigation how children
understand abuse, and how the child may reject or oppose it. Its
origins lie in the experiences and observations I made as a local
authority social worker where children were silent, where child
abuse was seen as an event, a distinct moment within family life,
and with apparently little recognition of its relationship with the
social order. Arising from this observation, I consider how the
care of children may be a manifestation of the social order. This
thesis is therefore also a critique of the present theory and
practice of working within the field of childcare.
The premise taken here is that in order to understand abuse, there
must be an account of the individual's sense of being, as this
relates to wider issues of the political economy. Thus this
investigation uses the perspective of critical theory, since
critical theory can incorporate an analysis of both structure and
the experiential. It enables the researcher to shift perspective
and to focus on different levels and aspects of being.
Therefore, since child abuse is situated within the family, an
analysis based on the perspectives of critical theory is used to
examine family relationships. This includes an examination of the
relationships between parents, as well as of those between them and
the child. Three different facets of family life are explored:
that of gender construction from the viewpoint of feminist
psychoanalysis; the relationship between the social order and
interpersonal behaviour from the perspective of Marx and radical
feminism; and parental authority, drawing on the work of Laing.
Derived from this exploration, the key concepts of patriarchy,
alienation and mystification inform the direction of the empirical
investigation.
The empirical investigation, using firstly autobiographies of
childhood and then direct interviews with children, explores
further these concepts'. The autobiographies are used as a way of
sensitising oneself to the issues for the child, and as a means of
categorising experiences for the subsequent interviews with
children. From this reading, an alternative understanding of child
abuse is developed, one which differs from the narrow definition
used by organisations. Hence abuse can be seen as the experience
of hurt and pain, either emotional or physical, and which takes
place in a relationship based on the parental domination, control
and exploitation of the child. This understanding of abuse
situates the subjective experience within an interpersonal dynamic
of power and subordination.
Using this definition in analysing the interviews with children, it
was apparent that all children expedrience a form of abuse to some
degree. Abuse is not, therefore, the property of a small number of deviant families. Additionally it is argued that children are
silenced and rendered powerless within the family by three
mechanisms: firstly by the 'privacy control mechanism', secondly by
the 'ideology of paternalism', and thirdly by mystification. These
can be interpreted as also reinforcing the social order, since this
also depends for its maintenance on domination, powerlessness, and
mystification of the mechanisms of control.
The thesis concludes with a number of proposals for further
exploring these concepts in terms of developing sociological theory
and social work practice. The report on the death of Jasmine
Beckford is subjected to an alternative analysis, and derived from
this critique, ways of confronting violence, mystification and
privacy are discussed. Finally the thesis stresses the importance
of understanding child abuse as a personal as well as a social
phenomenon, and that it has ultimately, a political significance
“It’s a Feel. That’s What a Lot of Our Evidence Would Consist of ”: Public Health Practitioners’ Perspectives on Evidence
No full text This article describes how evidence is defined and used in two British Columbia public health departments during the implementation of a Healthy Living initiative in 2009. Through interviews with 21 public health staff and decision makers, the author sought to investigate how “evidence” was defined by both frontline and management staff and how it was used in decision making. The authors found public health staff, particularly frontline practitioners, to be drawn to grassroots and local “lived experience” evidence. This tacit wisdom, in combination with evidence from academia and clinical evidence accessed through disciplinary or professional networks, offered a knowledge transition opportunity to inform decision making, rather than what can be characterized in the literature as unidirectional knowledge translation. It is often difficult for staff to digest and interpret research as part of their work day because of the volume and density of information that typically counts as evidence. Moreover, there exist challenges to identify and gather indicators as evidence of their work. </jats:p
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