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Letter to Miss Emma A. McCoy from Mayor Austin Scott 1914
No full textLetter to Miss McCoy from Mayor Austin Scott, of New Brunswick, thanking her for inviting him to the Teachers Club, but expressing disappointment that she was unable to attend due to illness.Miss McCoy was Supervisor of Drawing at New Brunswick High School which was the school which she graduated from in 1883. She was actively engaged in the New Brunswick community during her lifetime. The collection reflects her activities and interests on both the local and national arenas.My dear Miss McCoy,
I write to express to you the feeling of keen disappointment. I had last evening – and still have – that you were unable to attend the pleasant meeting of the Teachers Club and their guests. Reference was made to your absence and tribute said to your energy and skill in bringing about so delightful a gathering. I hear the illness which prevented you sharing in it all is of the slightest. Let me thank you for the opportunity your information gave me of meeting our cities teachers.
Yours sincerely, Austin ScottOriginal order was unknown. For this small collection, each item has been separately foldered
Emma Willard: Feminist
No full textAnne Firor Scott gave the Cum Laude Address at the Emma Willard School (originally the Troy Seminary) in May 1978. We have cut the lecture only slightly to fit our space and audience. It is, as she wrote to us, an example of trying to persuade a group of students to look at the past of their own institution, and learn from it. I gathered, Scott added, that the students were expecting some kind of high-minded exhortation, and were pleasantly surprised
LSE Lit Fest 2017 Book Review: Ctrl Alt Delete: how I grew up online by Emma Gannon
No full textWhat has been the impact of digital technologies on the development of today’s youth? And how has the digital world changed the way we see ourselves and relate to each other? In Ctrl Alt Delete: How I Grew Up Online, blogger, author and digital consultant Emma Gannon shares her experiences of coming of age, living and working in the digital era. Gannon enfolds illuminating facts and figures into her engaging and relatable personal memoir to examine both the risks and opportunities afforded by digital technologies, writes Emma Wilson. On Saturday 25 February, Emma Gannon will be speaking alongside Rachel Coldicutt and Deana Puccio as part of the LSE Space for Thought Literary Festival 2017. ‘Growing Up Online: A Digital Revolution?’ explores the risks and benefits for young people growing up in cyberspace; tickets are free and available here
Intellektuellt kapital under pandemi och krig : En kvantitativ studie på 90 Large Cap- och Small Cap-företag
No full textTitel: Intellektuellt kapital under pandemi och krig - En kvantitativ studie på 90 Large Cap- och Small Cap-företag Nivå: Examensarbete på grundnivå (kandidatexamen) i ämnet företagsekonomi Författare: Emma Modin och Emma Carpman Handledare: Veronika Larsson Datum: 2025 - juni Syfte: Syftet med denna studie är att analysera Large Cap- och Small Cap-företags frivilliga redovisning av intellektuellt kapital i samband med Covid-19-pandemin och Rysslands invasion av Ukraina. Metod: Vi har använt en kvantitativ metod i form av innehållsanalys i denna studie där ett index av sökord kopplade till intellektuellt kapital skapats. Därefter, med hjälp av binär kodning, har vi undersökt om orden förekommit i 90 börsnoterade svenska företags engelska årsredovisningar från 2018 och 2023. Med datan har vi genomfört t-test, ANOVA-test och regressionsanalys för att undersöka våra hypoteser och besvara studiens syfte. Resultat och slutsats: Studien visar att den frivilliga redovisningen av intellektuellt kapital i snitt har ökat i de 90 svenska företagen från 2018 till 2023. Dessutom visar resultaten att den kategori av intellektuellt kapital företagen redovisade mest efter kriserna var strukturellt kapital. Vidare visar studien att företag noterade på Large Cap redovisade mer intellektuellt kapital än företag noterade på Small Cap både 2018 och 2023. Arbetets bidrag: Studien bidrar till tidigare forskning genom att undersöka den frivilliga redovisningen av intellektuellt kapital i samband med två kriser som inte har studerats tillsammans tidigare. Dessutom bidrar vårt arbete till forskningen kring signaleringsteorin då vi undersöker huruvida stora företag frivilligt redovisar mer intellektuellt kapital än mindre företag, i samband med de studerade kriserna. Förslag till fortsatt forskning: Vi föreslår att genomföra en studie lik vår efter att världsläget har stabiliserat sig, för att kunna säkerställa att den ökade redovisningen av intellektuellt kapital beror på de undersökta globala kriserna. Dessutom hade ett kvalitativt arbete eventuellt tydligare kunna hänföra ökningen av intellektuellt kapital till de studerade kriserna. Nyckelord: intellektuellt kapital, frivillig redovisning, covid-19-pandemin, krig, globala kriserTitle: Intellectual capital during pandemic and war - A quantitative study on 90 Large Cap- and Small Cap-companies Level: Bachelor thesis in Business Administration Author: Emma Modin and Emma Carpman Supervisor: Veronika Larsson Date: 2025 - june Aim: The aim of this study is to analyze Large Cap- and Small Cap-companies' voluntary disclosure of intellectual capital in connection with the COVID-19-pandemic and Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Method: We have implemented a quantitative method in the form of a content analysis where an index of keywords related to intellectual capital has been created. We have then used binary coding to examine whether the keywords have appeared in 90 Swedish listed companies' English annual reports from 2018 and 2023. Using the data we have conducted t-tests, ANOVA-tests and regression analysis to examine our hypotheses and answer the aim. Results and conclusions: This study shows that the voluntary disclosure level of intellectual capital on average has increased in the 90 Swedish companies from 2018 to 2023. The study also shows that the category of intellectual capital that companies reported the most after the crises was structural capital. Furthermore, the study shows that companies listed on Large Cap reported more intellectual capital than companies listed on Small Cap in both 2018 and 2023. Contribution of the thesis: The study contributes to previous research by examining the voluntary accounting of intellectual capital in connection with two crises that have not been studied together before. Additionally, our work contributes to the research on signaling theory by examining whether large companies voluntarily report more intellectual capital than smaller companies in connection with the studied crises. Suggestions for future research: We propose to conduct a study similar to ours once the global situation has stabilized, to ensure that the increased reporting of intellectual capital is a result of the global crises examined. In addition, qualitative work could possibly more clearly attribute the increase in intellectual capital to the crises studied. Key words: intellectual capital, voluntary disclosure, COVID-19-pandemic, war, global crisi
Emma Tennant. Rozważna i romantyczna
No full textThe article is devoted to the works of Emma Tennant, an English writer, the author of, inter alia, the continuation of Sense and Sensibility, Emma, as well as Pride and Prejudice. A characteristic feature of Tennant’s writing was the ability to give new meanings to the texts and myths of the popular culture – so she did with the story of Elinor and Marianne, or Sylvia Plath, to whom she devoted one of her better texts. The article, based on the example of Emma Tennant’s writing, focuses on the issues of the strategy of creating literature as rewriting and functioning of feminist ideas in the modern literature
sj-docx-1-aut-10.1177_13623613241229150 – Supplemental material for Access to Part C, Early Intervention for children younger than 4 years evaluated for autism spectrum disorder
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-aut-10.1177_13623613241229150 for Access to Part C, Early Intervention for children younger than 4 years evaluated for autism spectrum disorder by Adriana I. Mendez, Emma McQueen, Scott Gillespie, Ami Klin, Cheryl Klaiman and Katherine Pickard in Autism</p
Jews and gender in British literature 1815-1865.
No full textPhDThis thesis examines the variety of relationships between Jews and gender in early
to mid-nineteenth century British literature, focussing particularly on representations
of and by Jewish women. It reconstructs the social, political and literary context in
which writers produced images and narratives about Jews, and considers to what
extent stereotypes were reproduced, appropriated, or challenged. In particular it
examines the ways in which questions of gender were linked to ideas about religious
or racial difference in the Victorian period.
The study situates literary representations of Jews within the context of
contemporary debates about the participation of the Jews in the life of the modern
state. It also investigates the ways in which these political debates were gendered,
looking in particular at the relationship between the cultural construction of
femininity and English national identity.
It first considers Victorian culture's obsession with Rebecca, the Jewess created in
Walter Scott's influential novel Ivanhoe (1819). It examines Rebecca's refusal to
convert to Christianity in the context of Scott's discussion of racial separatism and
modern national unity.
Evangelical writers like Annie Webb, Amelia Bristow and Mrs Brendlah were
prolific literary producers, and preoccupied with converting Jewish women.
Particularly during the 18'40s and 1850s, evangelical writing provided an important
forum for the construction and consolidation of women's national identity.
Grace Aguilar's writing was an attempt to understand Jewish identity within the
terms of Victorian domestic ideology. In contrast, Celia and Marion Moss, in their
historical romances, offered narratives of female heroism and national liberation,
drawing on the contemporary debate about slavery.
Benjamin Disraeli's construction of a "tough version of Jewish identity was a
response both to the contemporary stereotype of the feminised Jew and to the debate
about Jewish emancipation. It also drew on the virile ideology of the Young England
movement of the 1840s
Group size and visitor numbers predict faecal glucocorticoid concentrations in zoo meerkats
No full textMeasures of physiological stress in zoo animals can give important insights into how they are affected by aspects of their captive environment. We analysed the factors influencing variation in glucocorticoid metabolites in faeces (fGCs) from zoo meerkats as a proxy for blood cortisol concentration, high levels of which are associated with a stress response. Levels of fGCs in captive meerkats declined with increasing group size. In the wild, very small groups of meerkats are at a higher risk of predation, while in larger groups, there is increased competition for resources. Indeed, group sizes in captivity resemble those seen in unstable coalitions in the wild, which may represent a stressful condition and predispose meerkats to chronic stress, even in the absence of natural predators. Individuals in large enclosures showed lower levels of stress, but meerkat density had no effect on the stress measures. In contrast with data from wild meerkats, neither sex, age nor dominance status predicted stress levels, which may reflect less food stress owing to more equal access to resources in captivity versus wild. The median number of visitors at the enclosure was positively correlated with fGC concentrations on the following day, with variation in the visitor numbers having the opposite effect. Our results are consistent with the hypothesis that there is an optimum group size which minimizes physiological stress in meerkats, and that zoo meerkats at most risk of physiological stress are those kept in small groups and small enclosures and are exposed to consistently high numbers of visitors.</jats:p
Women and independence in the nineteenth century novel : a study of Austen, Trollope and James
No full text'Women
and
independence in the nineteenth century novel : a
study
of
Austen, Trollope
and
James', begins
with the
concept of
independence
and works through the three
most common usages of
the
word.
The first, financial independence (not
needing to
earn one's
livelihood)
appears to be
a necessary prerequisite
for the
second
and third forms
of
independence,
although it is by
no means an
unequivocal good
in
any of
the
novels.
The
second,
intellectual
independence (not
depending
on others
for
one's opinion or conduct;
unwilling
to be
under obligation
to
others),
is
a matter of asserting independence
while employing
terms
which society recognizes.
The third,
of
being independent, is
exemplified
by
an
inward
struggle
for
a
knowledge
of self.
In
order
to trace the development
of
the idea
of self
during the
nineteenth century,
I have
chosen a group of novels which seem
to be
representative of
the beginning, the
middle, and the
end of
the period.
Particular
attention
is
given
to the
characterizations of
Emma
Woodhouse, Glencora Palliser, Isabel Archer, Milly Theale and
Maggie
Verver. Whereas in Jane Austen's
novels
the self
has a
definite shape
which the heroine
must
discover, and
in Anthony Trollope's
novels
the
self
(reflecting
the idea
of socially-determined man) must
learn to
accommodate social and political changes,
in Henry James's
novels
the
self
determined by
external manifestations
(hollow
man)
is
posed
against
the exercise of
the free
spirit or soul.
Jane Austen's
novels
look backward,
as she reacts against
late
eighteenth century romanticism, and
forward,
with
the development
of
the heroine
who exemplifies
intellectual independence. Anthony
Trollope's
women characters are creatures of social and political
adaptation; although
they do
not
derive their
reason
for being
from
men,
they
must accommodate
themselves to
men's wishes.
And
Henry James looks backward,
wistfully, at
Austen's
solid, comforting,
innocent
self and
forward, despairingly, to the dark,
unknowable self
of
the twentieth
century
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