45 research outputs found
Push or Pull? Weeds Crosses the Border
No full textThe first three seasons of the Showtime series Weeds focus on a middle class widow and mother named Nancy Botwin (Mary Louise Parker), who, in order to hold onto her house, sells pot to her neighbors in the affluent suburbs of Southern California. These early seasons examine middle class suburban life in order to offer satirical observations about consumerism and success in the U.S. The fourth season begins with Nancy moving her family to a beach community near the U.S.-Mexico border. This border becomes central to the series’ development as Nancy and her friends and family become involved in moving drugs, weapons, and humans into and out of the country
Pushing the boundaries: Weeds, Motherhood, Neoliberalism and Postfeminism
No full textWeeds (2005-2012) ran for eight seasons. It is a U.S television comedy-drama which centres on Nancy Botwin, who is a mother, widow and drug dealer. Dealing in drugs can be seen as a departure from her life as a stay-at-home mother which removes her from the conservative, patriarchal suburban norms of middle-class suburbia, and its expectations of women and mothers. Throughout the seasons there is a dissident portrayal of motherhood as Nancy through her willfulness, entrepreneurial plans, overt sexuality and feminine tactics becomes a successful businesswoman. Weeds deals with taboo issues related to gender, sexuality and morality. I consider how in Weeds, Nancy’s transgressive nature situates her within a postfeminist neoliberal discourse. Weeds presents a world in which a woman can achieve success by embracing masculine, capitalist, individualistic endeavours whilst still adhering to feminine behaviours
The effects of the car sales profession on relationships
Get PDFPlan BThis research project investigated the relationship between infidelity and the car sales profession. Twenty-nine salesmen participated in the project. Sixteen salesmen were car sales professionals and thirteen salesmen sold another type of product. Both groups of salesmen responded to the questionnaire that the researcher developed. From the questionnaire a statistical analysis was compiled to determine if there was a difference between the car salesmen and other salesmen in regards to infidelity. The hypothesis was that there would be a difference between the rate of infidelity among certain types of salesmen, car salesmen having the higher rate. Significant differences were found between the rate of infidelity among car salesmen versus salesmen from other product types. Implications of the findings are discussed and recommendations for counselors, car dealerships, and future research projects are given
Intravenous adenosine triphosphate (ATP) in hemorrhagic shock in rats
No full text The effect of intravenous (iv) infusion of 6.25 mumol of ATP-MgCl2 on survival and tissue ATP levels in hemorrhagic shock was investigated using a rat model. Mortality in ATP-MgCl2-treated shocked rats was 50% compared with 53% in saline-treated controls. Tissue ATP levels in ATP-MgCl2-treated shocked rats did not differ from those in saline-treated shocked rats nor from those in sham-operated controls. After iv infusion of 6.25 mumol of [8-14C]ATP-MgCl2, shocked, sham-operated, and nephrectomized rats had similar tissue distributions of 14C. The 14C in heart, lung, kidney, and liver of shocked and sham-operated rats was present almost entirely as nonphosphorylated [8-14C]ATP catabolites. It is concluded that ATP-MgCl2 iv did not benefit survival or enhance tissue ATP levels in shocked animals and that the administered ATP was rapidly and extensively degraded. </jats:p
Social Structure and Personality Assortment Among Married Couples
Get PDFWe study the influence of social structure on assortative mating for personality in a
large national sample (n=3616) of married and cohabitating couples in the Netherlands. We find that couples with higher levels of education and from dissimilar religious origins are more similar with regard to prosocial personality characteristics. Because levels of education and religious heterogamy have increased, assortative mating for prosocial personality increases.
A cross-cultural comparison using the act frequency approach (AFA) in West Germany and the United States
Get PDFAngleitner A, Buss DM, Demtröder AI. A cross-cultural comparison using the act frequency approach (AFA) in West Germany and the United States. European journal of personality. 1990;4(3):187-207.Two studies were conducted in West Germany and the United States to investigate cultural similarities and differences on features of personality assessed through act frequency methods. The first study analysed the acts considered to be central and peripheral to each of six dispositional categories: dominance, quarrelsomeness, gregariousness, submissiveness, agreeableness, and aloofness. The results indicated moderate to strong similarity between the cultures in the prototypicality structure for all categories except agreeableness, which showed little concordance. The second study examined the manifested structure of act performance as assessed through retrospective act reports. The results indicated greater similarity of act endorsements between the two sexes within each culture than between cultures within each sex. Generally, the Americans showed higher base rates than the Germans. Furthermore, over all samples, females showed lower base rates than males. The correlations between relative base rates within each of the six different categories were moderately strong between the cultures (0.56, p < 0.001). Analyses of the relations between the prototypicality structure and the manifested structure yielded a complex picture that was highly dependent on dispositional category. For quarrelsome acts, for example, the more central acts were reported to be performed less frequently in both cultures, while other categories showed positive correlations between base rates and prototypicality. The limitations of these studies are described, and future research directions regarding expanding the range of act frequency methods and the number of nations in the search for personality functioning across cultures are suggested
Facial symmetry is positively associated with self-reported extraversion
No full textFink et al. (2005) reported significant associations between facial symmetry and scores on some of the “big five” personality dimensions derived from self-report data. In particular, they identified a positive association between facial symmetry and extraversion, but negative associations between facial symmetry and both agreeableness and openness. Fink et al. (2005) used a measure of facial symmetry based on analysis of the central region of each face. In the present study we attempted to replicate these findings with a much larger sample (N = 294) and using a landmark-based measure of facial symmetry that includes peripheral regions of the face. In both sexes, we found a significant positive association between self-reported extraversion and facial symmetry but were unable to replicate any of the other previously reported associations. Nevertheless, the positive association between symmetry and extraversion provides further support for the idea that facial appearance could predict personality and therefore makes it possible for some personality attributions to be “data driven”, i.e. driven by properties of the target
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Fusion-power demonstration. [Next step beyond MFTF-B]
No full textAs a satellite to the MARS (Mirror Advanced Reactor Study) a smaller, near-term device has been scoped, called the FPD (Fusion Power Demonstration). Envisioned as the next logical step toward a power reactor, it would advance the mirror fusion program beyond MFTF-B and provide an intermediate step toward commercial fusion power. Breakeven net electric power capability would be the goal such that no net utility power would be required to sustain the operation. A phased implementation is envisioned, with a deuterium checkout first to verify the plasma systems before significant neutron activation has occurred. Major tritium-related facilities would be installed with the second phase to produce sufficient fusion power to supply the recirculating power to maintain the neutral beams, ECRH, magnets and other auxiliary equipment
