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Oral History Interview, Myra Marx Ferree (1474)
No full textIn this interview, Myra Marx Ferree discusses her upbringing where she enjoyed learning about Sociology and Politics at a young age. She is an established author, writing several successful books and now works as the director of the Center for German and European Studies at UW-Madison. To learn more about this oral history, download & review the index first (or transcript if available). It will help determine which audio file(s) to download & listen to.Myra Marx Ferree was born and raised in Morristown, New Jersey. Her interest in Sociology and Politics began at a young age. She received an undergraduate degree in Political Science at Bryn Mawr College and a PhD in Social Psychology at Harvard. Professor Ferree has published multiple books such as her most recent, Global Feminism: Transitional Women’s Activism, Organizing, and Human Rights (2006). She was also a Berlin Prize Fellow at American Academy in Berlin in 2005. Currently, Professor Ferree is the director of the Center for German and European Studies as well as a member of the committee of Gender and Women’s Studies at UW-Madison
No Stones Women Redeemed from Sexual Addiction
No full textIn this book Marnie C. Ferree offers a unique resource for women struggling with sexual addiction. Written by a counselor who understands the condition from the inside out, No Stones offers practical help for those battling sexual addiction and those who want to come alongside women as they seek help. Important for pastors and church leaders, this book will also be a much sought-after resource for Christian counselors and therapists counseling women who grapple with this type of addiction.Cover -- Endorsements -- Title page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Letter to the Reader -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART ONE -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- PART TWO -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- PART THREE -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14 -- Chapter 15 -- Chapter 16 -- Chapter 17 -- Chapter 18 -- Twelve Steps -- Characteristics of a Sex and Love Addict -- Resources -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- About the Author -- About Bethesda WorkshopsIn this book Marnie C. Ferree offers a unique resource for women struggling with sexual addiction. Written by a counselor who understands the condition from the inside out, No Stones offers practical help for those battling sexual addiction and those who want to come alongside women as they seek help. Important for pastors and church leaders, this book will also be a much sought-after resource for Christian counselors and therapists counseling women who grapple with this type of addiction.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
The land we lay our heads
No full textAccess to thesis permanently restricted to Ball State community only.The Land We Lay Our Heads is a collection of eight fabulist fiction pieces set in Marion, Indiana. Centered around community and place, each of these pieces explore the themes of family, connection, and what it means to reside next door to and in unity—or disunity—with fellow human beings. Heavily inspired by authors like Kelly Link that play with magical realism, this collection pits the rural landscape up against the bizarre, using that contrast, and heightened distance from reality, to grind up against theme. Each piece requires close investigation of an actual building, place, or area in Grant County to present these themes through the lens of local color—so though the settings are mundane and unremarkable, many of the events land in a realm that suspends the familiar through metaphor, sensationalism, magical realism, or the absurd. Some pieces are inspired by real-life events or people and given a twist, like “The Marie Webster House,” others by the what-could-have-been, like “Matter Park.” This project attempts to fully explore the multiplicity of place, and perhaps most importantly, its effect on the people who choose to inhabit these places. By exploring individual degrees of separation or unification, this project aims to crack the formula of how positional closeness correlates with relational unions or
divisions—that in turn define the communities we occupy. In these pages, you’ll find that preachers wear gorilla suits, trials surround serial pudding-store robberies, walls crumble around their inhabitants, and through it all, life persists.Thesis (M.A.
Fruit crops: a summary of research, 1998
No full textPesticide deposition in orchards: effects of pesticide type, tree canopy, timing, cultivar, and leaf type / Franklin R. Hall, Jane A. Cooper, and David C. Ferree -- The influence of a synthetic foraging attractant, Bee-Scent™, on the number of honey bees visiting apple blossoms and on subsequent fruit production / James E. Tew and David C. Ferree -- The reliability of three traps vs. a single trap for determining population levels of codling moth in commercial northern Ohio apple orchards / Ted W. Gastier -- Evaluation of an empirical model for predicting sooty blotch and flyspeck of apples in Ohio / Michael A. Ellis, Laurence V. Madden, and L. Lee Wilson -- Influence of pesticides and water stress on photosynthesis and transpiration of apple / David C. Ferree, Franklin R. Hall, Charles R. Krause, Bruce R. Roberts, and Ross D. Brazee -- Influence of temporary bending and heading on branch development and flowering of vigorous young apple trees / David C. Ferree and John C. Schmid -- The effect of apple fruit bruising on total returns / Richard C. Funt, Ewen A. Cameron, and Nigel H. Banks -- Yield, berry quality, and economics of mechanical berry harvest in Ohio / Richard C. Funt, Thomas E. Wall, and Joseph C. Scheerens -- Monitoring flower thrips activities in strawberry fields at two Ohio locations / Roger N. Williams, M. Sean Ellis, Dan S. Fickle, and Carl M. Pelland -- Cluster thinning effects on fruit weight, juice quality, and fruit skin characteristics in 'Reliance' grapes / Yu Gao and Garth A. Cahoon -- Effects of various fungicide programs on powdery mildew control, percent berry sugar, yield, and vine vigor of 'Concord' grapes in Ohio / Michael A. Ellis, Laurence V. Madden, L. Lee Wilson, and Gregory R. Johns -- Influence of growth regulators, cropping, and number on replacement trunks of winter-injured 'Vidal Blanc' grapes / David C. Ferree, David M. Scurlock, and Rick Evans -- Effect of new herbicides on tissue-cultured black raspberry plants / Richard C. Funt, Thomas E. Wall, and B. Dale Stokes -- Investigating the relationship between vine vigor and berry set of field-grown 'Seyval Blanc' grapevines / Steven J. McArtney and David C. Ferree -- Summary of Ohio Fruit Growers Society apple cider competition, 1993-1997 / Winston Bash and Diane Mille
The Hydrodynamics of DNA Electrophoretic Stretch and Relaxation in a Polymer Solution
No full textAbstractTheories of DNA electrophoretic separations generally treat the DNA as a free draining polymer moving in an electric field at a rate that depends on the effective charge density of the molecule. Separations can occur in sieving media ranging from ultradilute polymer solutions to tightly cross-linked gels. It has recently been shown that DNA is not free-draining when both electric and nonelectric forces simultaneously act on the molecule, as occurs when DNA collides with a polymer during electrophoretic separations. Here we show that a semidilute polymer solution screens the hydrodynamic interaction that results from the application of these forces. Fluorescently labeled DNA tethered at one end in a semidilute solution of hydroxyl-ethyl cellulose stretch more in an electric field than they stretch in free solution, and approach free-draining behavior. The steady stretching behavior is predicted without adjustable parameters by a theory developed by Stigter using a hydrodynamic screening length found from effective medium theory. Data on the relaxation of stretched molecules after the electric field is removed agree with the Rouse model prediction, which neglects hydrodynamic interactions. The slowest relaxation time constant, τR, scales with chain length as τR ∼L1.9±0.17 when analyzed by the data collapse method, and as τR ∼L2.17±0.17 when analyzed by multiexponential fit
Electrokinetic Stretching of Tethered DNA
No full textAbstractDuring electrophoretic separations of DNA in a sieving medium, DNA molecules stretch from a compact coil into elongated conformations when encountering an obstacle and relax back to a coil upon release from the obstacle. These stretching dynamics are thought to play an important role in the separation mechanism. In this article we describe a silicon microfabricated device to measure the stretching of tethered DNA in electric fields. Upon application of an electric field, electro-osmosis generates bulk fluid flow in the device, and a protocol for eliminating this flow by attaching a polymer brush to all silicon oxide surfaces is shown to be effective. Data on the steady stretching of DNA in constant electric fields is presented. The data corroborate the approximate theory of hydrodynamic equivalence, indicating that DNA is not free-draining in the presence of both electric and nonelectric forces. Finally, these data provide the first quantitative test of a Stigter and Bustamante's detailed theory of electrophoretic stretching of DNA without adjustable parameters. The agreement between theory and experiment is good
El tratamiento de las fuentes en la cobertura de la ley audiovisual argentina: El caso de la prensa económica (marzo-octubre 2009)
No full textThis article aims to analyze the coverage that Argentine economic press made of the information sources during debate and the enactment of Law 26,522 of Audiovisual Communication Services, between March and October of 2009. Specifically, it is sought to identify the levels of standing (Ferree, Gamson , Gerhards, & Rucht, 2002) awarded to sources belonging to the ‘government sphere’, since the research is based on the presumption that the mere visibility of this type of source is not associated with a positive assessment or with its capacity to install their evaluation of the Law. This hypothesis is partially verified: although it cannot be affirmed that the standing levels obtained by this group of actors are high, nor are they explicitly discredited.Este artículo tiene como objetivo analizar el tratamiento de las fuentes que la prensa económica argentina hizo del proceso de debate y sanción de la Ley 26.522 de Servicios de Comunicación Audiovisual entre marzo y octubre de 2009. Concretamente, se busca identificar las dimensiones de standing (Ferree, Gamson, Gerhards y Rucht, 2002) o crédito adjudicadas a las fuentes pertenecientes al «ámbito gubernamental», pues se parte de la presunción de que la sola visibilidad de este tipo de fuente no está asociada a una valoración positiva ni a su capacidad de instalar la propia evaluación de la Ley. Dicha hipótesis es comprobada parcialmente: aunque no puede afirmarse que los niveles de standing obtenidos por este grupo de actores sean elevados, tampoco son desacreditados explícitamente
Mitochondria and autophagy in the context of Parkinson's disease
No full textThesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University
PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at [email protected]. Thank you.Parkinson's disease (PD) affects millions of people worldwide and currently no treatments alter the progression of the illness. The most salient feature of PD is neurodegeneration of specific cell types characterized by protein aggregation and mitochondrial dysfunction. Information about mechanisms that interconnect these well-established pathological findings has remained elusive.
Autophagy is a process for sequestration and removal of intracellular debris, such as aggregated proteins and damaged mitochondria. Beyond this vital housekeeping role, autophagy is also an essential component of responses to cellular stress. Progressive loss of autophagy in susceptible neuronal populations represents a unifying theory of PD pathology and this dissertation further elucidates connections between mitochondria, autophagy, and PD.
Mutations in LRRK2 are the most common cause of PD and we tested the effects of LRRK2 in transgenic nematodes. Expression of LRRK2 resulted in protection from mitochondrial toxins yet exacerbated sensitivity to tau toxicity. Co-expression of V337M tau with LRRK2 exacerbated tau-mediated motor deficits, which could be rescued by treatment with an enhancer of autophagic flux, ridaforolimus. Markers of oxidative stress were also increased by coexpression of V337M tau with LRRK2. Proteomics studies suggest LRRK2 alters levels of an essential lysosomal component, V-type ATPase, and an assay of autophagic flux supports this mechanism.
In separate experiments, inhibition of farnesyltransferase (FTI) was sufficient to alter autophagy. The size and direction of FTI effect was dependent on the dose of inhibitor. Doses that increase autophagic flux were protective against a lipotoxicity-based model of autophagic impairment. The effects of FTI on mitochondrial transport and performance in primary hippocampal neurons were also assayed. Using live cell imaging, we determined that mitochondrial motility was increased in hippocampal neurons treated with FTI. Increased transport correlated with enhanced mitochondrial oxygen consumption rates.
Our results strengthen associations between mitochondria, autophagy, and PD. We show that LRRK2 alters sensitivity to mitochondrial and protein toxicity. We also describe novel therapeutic approaches that modulate autophagy and mitochondria, which may be useful for treatment of PD
Can “the people” be feminists? Analysing the fate of feminist justice claims in populist grassroots movements in the United States
No full textIn this article I examine the fate of feminist justice claims in the context ofgrassroots populist movements in the United States. By exploring populism onthe left—in neighbourhood community organising—and on the right—withinthe community organising among the Tea Party—I argue that a “politics ofauthenticity” is deployed in each movement with strikingly similar effects onthe development of feminist consciousness and justice claims in eachmovement. In left-wing community organising I find that feminist claims aresuppressed in order to preserve solidarity among grassroots actors and to beperceived by movement outsiders as patriotic. On the right I demonstrate howwomen-centric practices are generated through the strategic use of an identityI label “concerned motherhood”. For the Tea Party, women appear to have theability to identify as women for local action but this process seems to threatenboth feminism and democracy by women’s support for a politics of inequality.I conclude with a discussion about whether feminism and populism can bereconciled and the perils that confront feminist activists in the current upsurgeof populist movements around the globe
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