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Food abuse : Mealtimes, helplines and 'troubled' eating
No full textFeeding children can be one of the most challenging and frustrating aspects of raising a family. This is often exacerbated by conflicting guidelines over what the ‘correct’ amount of food and ‘proper’ eating actually entails. The issue becomes muddier still when parents are accused of mistreating their children by not feeding them properly, or when eating becomes troubled in some way. Yet how are parents to ‘know’ how much food is enough and when their child is ‘full’? How is food negotiated on a daily level? In this chapter, we show how discursive psychology can provide a way of understanding these issues that goes beyond guidelines and measurements. It enables us to examine the practices within which food is negotiated and used to hold others accountable. Like the other chapters in this section of the book, eating practices can also be situations in which an asymmetry of competence is produced; where one party is treated as being a less-than-valid person (in the case of family practices, this is often the child). As we shall see later, the asymmetry can also be reversed, where one person (adult or child) can claim to have greater ‘access’ to concepts such as ‘appetite’ and ‘hunger’. Not only does this help us to understand the complexity of eating practices; it also highlights features of the parent/child relationshipi and the institutionality of families
[Wiggins Complex under construction, 1967]
No full textPhotograph of people inspecting construction progress on the Wiggins Complex. The accompanying press release states "PLANNERS, BUILDERS INSPECT ONE YEAR'S HANDIWORK--Architect Howard W. Schmidt (pointing) shows Texas Tech Vice President M. L. Pennington one of three residence hall towers in the Wiggins complex just one year after ground was broken. On the left, Coordinator Jerry Kirkwood of Tech's Campus Planning Committee checks blue prints with construction superintendent H. H. May."
Normalisers of irreducible subfactors
No full textWe consider normalizers of an infinite index irreducible inclusion Nsubset of or equal toM of II1 factors. Unlike the finite index setting, an inclusion uNu*subset of or equal toN can be strict, forcing us to also investigate the semigroup of one-sided normalizers. We relate these one-sided normalizers of N in M to projections in the basic construction and show that every trace one projection in the relative commutant N′∩left angle bracketM,eNright-pointing angle bracket is of the form u*eNu for some unitary uset membership, variantM with uNu*subset of or equal toN generalizing the finite index situation considered by Pimsner and Popa. We use this to show that each normalizer of a tensor product of irreducible subfactors is a tensor product of normalizers modulo a unitary. We also examine normalizers of infinite index irreducible subfactors arising from subgroup–group inclusions Hsubset of or equal toG. Here the one-sided normalizers arise from appropriate group elements modulo a unitary from L(H). We are also able to identify the finite trace L(H)-bimodules in ℓ2(G) as double cosets which are also finite unions of left cosets
Charles Wiggins at Mississippi University for Women in Columbus, Mississippi
No full textDescription on back: Made at MSCW in Columbus. This is a Kodacolor Print made by Eastman Kodak Company, T. M. Regis, U. S. Pat. Off., Week Ending Mar. 10, 1956, IV Ro 1
Discursive psychology
No full textDiscursive psychology begins with psychology as it faces people living their lives. It studies how psychology is constructed, understood and displayed as people interact in everyday and more institutional situations. How does a speaker show that they are not prejudiced, while developing a damning version of an entire ethnic group? How are actions coordinated in a counselling session to manage the blame of the different parties for the relationship breakdown? How is upset displayed, understood and receipted in a call to a child protection helpline? Questions of this kind require us to understand the kinds of things that are 'psychological' for people as they act and interact in particular settings - families, workplaces and schools. And this in turn encourages us to respecify the very object psychology
Eating your words : discursive psychology and the reconstruction of eating practices
No full textPsychological research into eating practices has focused mainly on attitudes and behaviour towards food, and disorders of eating. Using experimental and questionnaire-based designs, these studies place an emphasis on individual consumption and cognitive appraisal, overlooking the interactive context in which food is eaten. The current article examines eating practices in a more naturalistic environment, using mealtime conversations tape-recorded by families at home. The empirical data highlight three issues concerning the discursive construction of eating practices, which raise problems for the existing methodologies. These are: (1) how the nature and evaluation of food are negotiable qualities; (2) the use of participants' physiological states as rhetorical devices; and (3) the variable construction of norms of eating practices. The article thus challenges some key assumptions in the dominant literature and indicates the virtues of an approach to eating practices using interactionally based methodologies
Dataset for: Cetacean distribution models based on visual and passive acoustic data
No full textThis dataset contains predicted marine mammal distributions for the Gulf of Mexico based on passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) [Gulf of Mexico (GOM); US exclusive economic zone (EEZ)]. Modeled species include sperm whales, Cuvier\u27s beaked whales, pilot whales, Stenellid dolphins, Risso’s dolphin and Kogia spp. Model predictions are based on PAM conducted between 2010 and 2012 and have been validated using PAM data from 2013, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) visual survey data from 2009. This dataset supports the publication: Frasier, K. E., Garrison, L. P., Soldevilla, M. S., Wiggins, S. M., & Hildebrand, J. A. (2021). Cetacean distribution models based on visual and passive acoustic data. Scientific Reports, 11(1). doi:10.1038/s41598-021-87577-1
sj-docx-1-aut-10.1177_13623613231193194 – Supplemental material for Using adaptive behavior scores to convey level of functioning in children with autism spectrum disorder: Evidence from the Study to Explore Early Development
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-aut-10.1177_13623613231193194 for Using adaptive behavior scores to convey level of functioning in children with autism spectrum disorder: Evidence from the Study to Explore Early Development by Sarah M Furnier, Susan Ellis Weismer, Eric Rubenstein, Ronald Gangnon, Steven Rosenberg, Cy Nadler, Lisa D Wiggins and Maureen S Durkin in Autism</p
Letter re: Amon Carter, Jr.
No full textLetter from Beatrice M. Wiggins to the secretary to Amon Carter regarding Amon, Jr. as a prisoner of war.Dallas, Texas, Oct. 20, 1943, Miss K. Deakins, Fort Worth, Texas, Dear Miss Deakins, It was so very kind of you to write me in regard to the Boys in Prison Camp. I appreciate your interest where I am concerned, for every bit of information I can get means so much to me. it encourages me so much to have a champion like Mr. Carter to espouse our Boys' cause, for no doubt they will correct some of the delays when the receiving of packages and letters means the lifting of their spirits, where time must seem so long to them. I hear from my son, Ralph, about three or four times a month. He writes very cheerfully, but like Lt. Carter craves chocolate and edibles - (?) milk and vitamin tablets - also pipe-tobacco. So far, he has received only two letters from me, and the first box which I sent in April was not received up to August 28th - the last time he wrote me. He has asked me not to worry - he was all right. His time is spent in quite an ambitious program of study; always has liked to study and is quite an avid reader of worthwhile books. Please convey my heartfelt thanks to Mr. Carter for sending the enclosed information about the camp, and also the copies of the telegrams. i am sure these telegrams will carry much weight to the "powers that be", and more power to Mr. Carter! I thank you for taking time to write me - I shall always be grateful. We are very busy building planes to send across, and I am buying all acceptable materials that go into those B-24's for our Government, with my prayers that they will be sent where they will do the most good. With best wishes, I am yours sincerely, Beatrice M. Wiggins. 723 Dover Dallas, Texas. P.S. I shall gladly send any news I receive from my son, and I shall look forward to hearing from you again. B.M.
The impacts of price discrimination on the differentiated industry
No full textTypescript (photocopy).This dissertation analyses the impact of price discrimination in a differentiated product market. Consumers are characterized by their locations over a characteristic space and their sensitivities toward the differentiated good. The consumer's utility function is of the Katz variety, defined in the form of U(x, y; ��), where x is the product variant characterized by the position of the characteristic space, y is an outside good, and �� is the level of sensitivity toward the differentiated good (product variant). Producers in an oligopolistically competitive market price discriminate consumers according to their level of sensitivity. It is shown that the pricing patterns (and consumers' preference between discriminatory and non-discriminatory pricing) depends on the level of fixed cost, the level of sensitivity, and most importantly the shape of the demand curves i.e., the type of utility function of the individual consumer. The classification of demand curves provides a clue for the so-called "perverse" result in pricing policies of differentiated products. It is also shown that under price discrimination the numbers of product varieties and the output of the industry increases while the output of individual firm decreases. Results under social welfare maximization are also derived and compared to the standard findings. In particular, it is shown that price discrimination provides "too many" varieties at a low fixed cost of production, but "too few" varieties under high fixed cost of production
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