476 research outputs found
Parution: Very Important People - A. Mears
No full textMears A. (2020), Very Important People. Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit, Princeton University Press. Overview: Million-dollar birthday parties, megayachts on the French Riviera, and $40,000 bottles of champagne. In today’s New Gilded Age, the world’s moneyed classes have taken conspicuous consumption to new extremes. In Very Important People, sociologist, author, and former fashion model Ashley Mears takes readers inside the exclusive global nightclub and party circuit—from ..
Poly(NIPAM) microgel particle de-swelling: a light scattering and small-angle neutron scattering study
No full textHelen M Crowther, Brian R Saunders, Sarah J Mears, Terence Cosgrove, Brian Vincent, Stephen M King, Ga-Er Y
Fashion Culture: Norell: Master of American Fashion
No full textOn February 14, Jeffrey Banks, co-author of "Norell: Master of American Fashion," Ellin Saltzman, former fashion director and senior vice president at firms such as Saks Fifth Avenue, Macy’s and Bergdorf Goodman, Stan Herman, designer and former president of the CFDA, and Ralph Rucci, couturier, artist and author, came together for a sparkling introduction to Norman Norell — the first American designer to employ couture techniques, refined workmanship, and luxurious fabrics — whose dresses, coats, and suits were deemed by critics to be “the equal of Paris.” This panel discussion was moderated by Patricia Mears, deputy director of MFIT
True Style: The History & Principles of Classic Menswear
No full textG. Bruce Boyer, men’s fashion editor and author of True Style: The History & Principles of Classic Menswear, discussed contemporary men’s dress and its history, styles, principles, and trends. He was joined by Pulitzer Prize- winning journalist Jonathan Capehart; New York Times cultural reporter Guy Trebay, and Michael Bastian; and MFIT Deputy Director Patricia Mears
Visual tools in service industries: effects of visual tools on individual employee performance moderated by transformational leadership
No full textThis study advances the literature on Lean Six Sigma (LSS) and use of visual tools. The paper focuses on understanding the association between specific visual tools developed within LSS process improvement programs in a service industry and individual job performance, as measured by objective quality assurance reviews and moderated by the type of leader (low transformational vs. high transformational). I further build on the literature by using a within- subjects archival field methodology to test my hypothesis that quality of work will significantly change after visual tool implementation. The data was obtained from 114 employees and 23 managers of a Fortune 100 customer service company. Results show that there is a significant increase in quality scores when using visual tools. Transformational leadership did not moderate this relationship; however, individuals with highly transformational managers were significantly better performers regardless of the visual tools. Implications for further study and for organizations in how they may better design and implement organizational tools to produce positive outcomes for their employees and organizations in general are discussed.M.A.Includes bibliographical referencesby Amy Beth Mear
Department of Education and Psychology Faculty
No full textThis photograph shows the dean, chairman, and faculty of the Department of Education and Psychology. Pictured are:
Back: Stephen Daniels Clayton Allen Gary Mears Keith McCoy Marc Mosely
Front: Dr. Coxhttps://scholarworks.uttyler.edu/stewart_photos/1086/thumbnail.jp
Mears, S. R. (2022, January 14-15). The New Artisan and Engineering Know-how: a Comparative Narrative Inquiry [Poster presentation]. "Twenty-second International Conference on Knowledge, Culture, and Change in Organizations" Auckland, New Zealand.
No full texthttps://cgscholar.com/cg_event/events/M22/proposal/5976
Popularising midwifery and obstetrics in Martha Mears' "Pupil of Nature" (1797)
No full textBetween the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, major sociocultural changes affected the domain of medicine as an area of expertise and praxis and paved the way for new modes of constructing and disseminating knowledge which dramatically differed from the medieval, scholastic, logocentric science derived from Galen, Hippocrates, and other ancient writers (Patha and Taavitsainen 2011). The popularisation of medicine also involved linguistic changes, which naturally need to be contextualised according to such criteria as time, place, the role of speakers/hearers or writers/readers, purpose, and the prevailing scientific ideologies (or thought-styles) of the time. Within this area, midwifery and obstetrics manuals seem to occupy a significant niche which perfectly exemplifies this process; this paper proposes an analysis of Martha Mears’ Pupil of Nature, or, Candid Advice to the Fair Sex (1797) and of the (linguistic) popularisation strategies used by the author in order to render the discipline more accessible to the (new) female audience. Mears’ sensible approach to the subject of pregnancy and childbirth was aimed at creating an alternative public sphere in which women practitioners stood at the threshold between domesticity and state and served their duty both to mothers and the community (Forman Cody 1999), in spite of the prevailing ideologies of the time and the gendered disputes between them and the so-called “men-midwives” (Fife 2004). The manual will be compared to William Smellie’s Treatise on Midwifery (1752), which is generally acknowledged among the foregrounding works on obstetrics, and the study will highlight how differences in contexts, actors, readership, language (e.g. the use of Latin and/or the “vernacular” English; technical vocabulary; repetition; metaphors, etc.) can be accounted for as displays of the ongoing developments in the popularisation of science in late eighteenth-century Britain
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