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Other Media - Digital Video files - Proper Role of Religion in a Free Society, Round table discussion, 2011
No full textEpisode of 'The Global Freedom Report,' a radio program hosted by Brent Johnson. A round table discussion about the proper role of religion in a free society with panelists Constance Cumbey, Biblical Scholar, Dr. Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, Imam and author, and Tanya Smith, Atheist Alliance International. Video features still images related to the program.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/107680/1/ProperRoleOfReligion.zip-
Solving the incomplete markets model with aggregate uncertainty using the Krusell-Smith algorithm
No full textThis paper studies the properties of the solution to the heterogeneous agents model in Den Haan, Judd and Juillard (2008). To solve for the individual policy rules, we use an Euler-equation method iterating on a grid of prespecified points. To compute the aggregate law of motion, we use the stochastic-simulation approach of Krusell and Smith (1998). We also compare the stochastic- and non-stochastic-simulation versions of the Krusell-Smith algorithm, and we find that the two versions are similar in terms of their speed and accuracy.
Adam Smith and Roman Servitudes
No full textThis essay is a preprint of an article that appeared at: Tijdschrift voor Rechstsgeschiedenis, 72 (2004), 327–57.This essay discusses Adam Smith historical jurisprudence and his use of Roman law materials in his Lectures on Jurisprudence. It argues that Smith found it difficult to maintain his theory of legal development in the face of a highly developed body of Roman law literature
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No full textFour generations of Smiths - Kenneth (baby), William, Russell and Ernest Smith "Fifty-Seven Years of Good Meat Means Meet Us
Link stability estimation based on link connectivity changes in mobile ad-hoc networks
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Appendicis Ad Historiae Animalium Angliae
No full textOperâ M. Lister, è Regiâ Societate Londinensi. Item Appendicis Ad Historiam Animalium Angliæ / Ejusdem M. Lister Altera Editio hic quoque exhibitur, Unà cum Scarabaeorum Anglicanorum quibusdam Tabulis mutisDrucker R.E. ist Robert Everingham gemäss ESTCAus dem Vorbesitz von Johann Heinrich Hess (Ratsherr, 1644-1704) gemäss Exlibris auf dem VorsatzAus Vorbesitz der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Züric
From bustles to bras, 1851-1939 : honors thesis and exhibition catalog
No full textHistorical study of American women’s fashion and its trajectory in the twentieth century from mid-century to the pre- sent has been ambivalent about the significance afforded clothing in the story of social equity and women’s mobility.¹
Scholarship to date connects the material culture of women’s undergarments in the United States to eroticism and questions of health.² Researchers have not explored what I see as a consequential shift in the marketing tactics of undergar- ments from the end of the nineteenth century to the eve of WWII. Formatted as an exhibition catalog, this thesis outlines three different significant movements and events in American history that look beyond design of women’s fashion to the re- lated, but little remarked upon matter of underclothes. In order to understand these changes in undergarment fashions, my project mobilizes both primary and secondary sources with specific analysis of historical clothing, the Ladies’ Home Journal and the reverberations in its pages of the Dress Reform Movement, World War I, and the Great Depression.³
Proceeding chronologically, this thesis begins by analyzing eleven undergarments, contextualized with the history of the Dress Reform Movement, WWI, the 1920s, and the Depression.
In the United States, Amelia Bloomer and other reformers argued for the eradication of tight-lacing, crinolines, and
¹Annemarie Strassel, “Designing Women: Feminist Methodologies in American Fashion” WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly 41, no. 1 & 2 (2013), 38.
²Jill Fields, “Erotic Modesty: (Ad)dressing Female Sexuality and Propriety in Open and Closed Drawers, USA, 1800-1930” Gender and History, (2002). Elizabeth Fee, Theodore Brown, Jan Lazarus, and Paul Theerman, “The Effects of the Corset” Images of Health (2002).
long skirts. My project explores the effectiveness of the movement and the political factors surrounding their achievements and failures.⁴ I then transition into World War I and discuss how the dramatic absence of American men who participated in the war effort drastically changed women’s societal roles in the U.S. and required slimming adaptations to their underclothing.⁵ Transitioning into the post-war WWI period, the chapter focuses on suffrage, the 1920s, and particularly the Depression as salient events in the changing underclothes styles over time. Directly following World War I, American women enjoyed more independence than they had prewar. The second chapter parallels the first by exploring how the Ladies’ Home Journal advertised women’s underclothing during and directly following the Dress Reform Movement. This chapter will focus on how the Ladies’ Home Journal altered their related marketing tactics during the war. Although the majority of women would ultimately lose their wartime jobs, I aim to chart the rationale for the persistence of the new shrinking undergarments, as depicted throughout the Journal.⁶ By exploring the history of the Dress Reform Movement, World War I, and the Great Depression in conjunction with how women’s undergarments were marketed, this exhibition catalog aims to show how women’s fashions were impacted by both socioeconomic and political events and movements.
³The Ladies’ Home Journal was in publication from 1883 to 2014.
⁴Patricia Cunningham, Reforming Women’s Fashion, 1850-1920: Politics, Health, and Art, (Kent: The Kent State University Press, 2003).
⁵Lindsey German, How a Century of War Changed the Lives of Women, (Pluto Press, 2013).
⁶Adrienne Berney, “Streamlining Breasts: The Exaltation of Form and Dis- guise of Function in 1930s’ Ideals” Journal of Design History 14, no. 4 (2001), 327-342.
A shift in the purposes of women’s clothing and subsequently women’s participation in public life were interlinked, and the cultivation of their desire through advertising bolstered that shift.
The movements as detailed in the pages that follow were largely white, and certainly took place under conditions of white supremacy in the United States. The Ladies’ Home Journal, too, anticipated and cultivated a white addressee. The nec- essary next chapter, post-1939 and thus outside the bounds of the current project, would be to look specifically at magazines in mass production that focused on Black women’s lives and similarly sought their buying power, a development which largely came after 1945. Tracing the underclothing that black w omen wore in correlation to their roles in public life would be crucial to reconstructing how race impacted the marketing of underclothing and black women’s access to public engagement
Cerebral atrophy in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer disease: rates and acceleration.
No full textOBJECTIVE: To quantify the regional and global cerebral atrophy rates and assess acceleration rates in healthy controls, subjects with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and subjects with mild Alzheimer disease (AD). METHODS: Using 0-, 6-, 12-, 18-, 24-, and 36-month MRI scans of controls and subjects with MCI and AD from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) database, we calculated volume change of whole brain, hippocampus, and ventricles between all pairs of scans using the boundary shift integral. RESULTS: We found no evidence of acceleration in whole-brain atrophy rates in any group. There was evidence that hippocampal atrophy rates in MCI subjects accelerate by 0.22%/year2 on average (p = 0.037). There was evidence of acceleration in rates of ventricular enlargement in subjects with MCI (p = 0.001) and AD (p < 0.001), with rates estimated to increase by 0.27 mL/year2 (95% confidence interval 0.12, 0.43) and 0.88 mL/year2 (95% confidence interval 0.47, 1.29), respectively. A post hoc analysis suggested that the acceleration of hippocampal loss in MCI subjects was mainly driven by the MCI subjects that were observed to progress to clinical AD within 3 years of baseline, with this group showing hippocampal atrophy rate acceleration of 0.50%/year2 (p = 0.003). CONCLUSIONS: The small acceleration rates suggest a long period of transition to the pathologic losses seen in clinical AD. The acceleration in hippocampal atrophy rates in MCI subjects in the ADNI seems to be driven by those MCI subjects who concurrently progressed to a clinical diagnosis of AD
Diversity on the Altiplano: Geochemical Perspectives on 3,000 Years of Potting Practices in the Lake Titicaca Basin
No full textPotters in the Lake Titicaca basin produced a wide variety of ceramic styles over the last 3000 years. Archaeologists have drawn on this variety across space and time to track processes such as the development of multi-community polities during the Late Formative (200 BC-AD 600), the origins and expansion of Tiwanaku (AD 600–1000), the creation and maintenance of political boundaries during the Late Intermediate period (AD 1000–1400), and the strategies of Inca conquest and consolidation (AD 1400–1534). We report on LA-ICP-MS research into Titicaca ceramics and clays conducted at the Field Museum’s Elemental Analysis Facility (EAF), and present the first review of raw materials and pottery analyzed from across the region. Ceramic samples from the northern basin include samples from Taraco, Pukara, and neighboring sites, and speak to the diversity of intraregional potting practices during the Late Formative Period. Ceramic samples from the southern basin span the Middle Formative through the Inca periods, and index local and regional practices over two millennia. After presenting our specific case studies, we touch on how shifting scales of locality impact the chemical signatures explored here, the potential for comparative analyses across the region, and future directions for research collaborations
Advance Care Planning as a Shared Endeavor: Completion of ACP Documents in a Multidisciplinary Cancer Program
No full textObjective—We examined the roles of oncology providers in advance care planning (ACP) delivery in the context of a multidisciplinary cancer program.
Methods—Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 200 women with recurrent and/or metastatic breast or gynecologic cancer. Participants were asked to name providers they deemed important in their cancer care and whether they had discussed and/or completed ACP documentation. Evidence of ACP documentation was obtained from chart reviews.
Results—Fifty percent of participants self-reported completing an advance directive (AD) and 48.5% had named a healthcare power of attorney (HPA), 38.5% had completed both, and 39.0% had completed neither document. Among women who self-reported completion of the documents, only 24.0% and 14.4% of women respectively had documentation of an AD and HPA in their chart. Completion of an AD was associated with number (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] = 1.49) and percentage (AOR = 6.58) of providers with whom the participant had a conversation about end-of-life decisions. Participants who named a social worker or nurse practitioner were more likely to report having completed an AD. Participants who named at least one provider in common (e.g., named the same oncologist) were more likely to have comparable behaviors related to naming a HPA (AOR = 1.13, p = 0.011) and completion of an AD (AOR = 1.06, p = 0.114).
Conclusions—Despite the important role of physicians in facilitating ACP discussions, involvement of other staff was associated with a greater likelihood of completion of ACP documentation. Patients may benefit from opportunities to discuss ACP with multiple members of their cancer care team
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