The Future of Work In Cities

The latest report in our City of the Future series examines societal shifts and advancements in technology that are impacting the rapidly changing American workforce. The report outlines solutions to help city leaders plan for the fast-approaching future, while forecasting the economic viability of two distinct sectors – retail and office administration – in which a quarter of Americans are currently employed

Music: a portrait of woman

Thesis (M.A.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2012Music in today's society is ubiquitous. It is in the car, the cinema, on television, in the doctor's office, in the home, on the other end of the phone; it really is everywhere. Music arguably is a large part of culture and as such, has the ability to construct social realities. In hopes to understand how media constructs the image of the female, a contextual analysis was performed on the lyrics of the top twenty-five country and pop songs according to Billboard.com. This was done using Grounded Theory through the employment of coding. Results showed that although country and pop music depict women in a slightly different manner, they both for the most part depict women in traditional gender roles. Furthermore, the propitiation and adherence to traditional gender roles sustain and conciliate patriarchy. Therefore the depictions of women in the music lyrics were then analyzed as processes of patriarchy.1. Literature review -- 1.1. Media : the portrait of woman -- 1.1.1. Music -- 1.1.2. Television -- 1.2.3. Film -- 1.2. Intersectionality in the representation of women in the media -- 1.2.1. Black women in the media -- 1.2.1.1. General -- 1.2.1.2. Music -- 1.2.1.3. Television -- 1.2.1.4. Film -- 1.2.2. Native American and Alaskan Native women -- 1.2.3. Latina women -- 1.2.3.1. Music -- 1.2.3.2. Film -- 1.2.4. Asian women -- 1.2.4.1. Television -- 1.2.4.2. Film -- 1.3. Rationale of study -- 2. Methodology -- 2.1. Grounded theory -- 2.2. Method -- 2.3. Data collection -- 2.4. Data analysis -- 3. Results -- 3.1. Country music -- 3.1.1. Male's depiction -- 3.1.1.1. Country cutie -- 3.1.1.2. Family -- 3.1.1.3. The prop -- 3.1.1.4. Kryptonite -- 3.1.1.5. Liminal ladies -- 3.1.2. Females' depiction of self -- 3.1.2.1. Heartbroken -- 3.1.3. Duets -- 3.1.3.1. Virgin -- 3.2. Pop music -- 3.2.1. Male's depiction of female -- 3.2.1.1. Gold digger -- 3.2.1.2. Sex object -- 3.2.1.3. Bad woman -- 3.2.2. Females' depiction of self -- 3.2.2.1. Bad girl -- 3.2.2.2. Empowerment -- 3.2.2.3. Inspirational -- 3.2.2.4. Broken hearted bitch -- 3.2.2.5. Dynamic women -- 3.2.3. Duets -- 3.2.4. Emergent themes -- 4. Discussion -- 4.1. Patriarchy -- 4.2. Social construction of gender -- 4.3. Traditional female gender roles -- 4.4. Emergent theme -- 4.5. Country music and pop music : a patriarchal process -- 4.5.1. Processes of patriarchy -- 4.5.2. Country cutie and the sex object -- 4.5.2.1. Beauty ideals -- 4.5.2.2. Sexual objectification -- 4.5.3. Family -- 4.5.4. The prop -- 4.5.5. Kryptonite and the bad woman -- 4.5.6. Heartbroken and the revengeful/broken hearted bitch -- 4.5.7. Virgin -- 4.5.8. Gold digger -- 4.5.9. Bad girl and the empowered -- 4.5.10. Dynamic women and the liminal ladies -- 4.5.11. Subjugated woman -- 4.6. Theoretical exploration -- 4.6.1. Symbolic interactionism -- 4.6.2. Critical theory -- 4.7. Limitations -- 4.8. Implications of further research -- 4.9. Conclusion -- References

Demonstrating Optothermal Actuators for an Autonomous MEMS Microrobot

There are numerous applications for microrobots which are beneficial to the Air Force. However, the microrobotics field is still in its infancy, and will require extensive basic research before these applications can be fielded. The biggest hurdle to be solved, in order to create autonomous microrobots, is generating power for their actuator engines. Most present actuators require orders of magnitude more power than is presently available from micropower sources. To enable smaller microrobots, this research proposed a simplified power concept that eliminates the need for on-board power supplies and control circuitry by using actuators powered wirelessly from the environment. This research extended the basic knowledge of methods required to power Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) devices and reduce MEMS microrobot size. This research demonstrated optothermal actuators designed for use in a wirelessly propelled autonomous MEMS microrobot, without the need of an onboard power supply, through the use of lasers to directly power micrometer scale silicon thermal actuators. Optothermal actuators, intended for use on a small MEMS microrobot, were modeled, designed, fabricated and tested, using the PolyMUMPs silicon-metal chip fabrication process. Prototype design of a MEMS polysilicon-based microrobot, using optothermal actuators, was designed, fabricated and tested. Each of its parts was demonstrated to provide actuation using energy from an external laser. The optothermal actuators provided 2 m of deflection to the microrobot drive shaft, with 60 mW of pulsed laser power. The results of these experiments demonstrated the validity of a new class of wireless silicon actuators for MEMS devices, which are not directly dependant on electrical power for actuation

A Model Program to Develop Management Strategies and Training Skills for Fast Food Industry Employees in Taiwan

A model program in developing corporate personnel was designed for domestic fast food industry in Taiwan. The program emphasizes on successful business leaders\u27 skills in the basic management function of decision making, planning, organizing, communicating, directing and controlling. Meanwhile, the successful fast food employee development have focused on training activity of customer service, personal appearance, company rules and regulations. The program concentrates on two specific areas: a management model and an employee training model. More specifically the management approach and training skills are addressed through a variety of methods and activities

More than just a teacher: exploring multiple perspectives of how teachers serve as instructional leaders

Historically, roles associated with instructional leadership in schools have been the sole responsibility of the school’s principal. Increased accountability has intensified the pressure on school personnel causing a paradigm shift that has progressively acknowledged the contributions of teacher leaders as an essential component of the school improvement process. Traditionally, teacher leaders have fulfilled varying leadership roles in their schools, many of which have been administrative. With a greater call for accountability in the school improvement process, there has been a gradual shift from teacher leaders serving in administrative roles to teacher leaders serving in instructional roles. Although bureaucratic infrastructures within school systems sometimes impede teacher-focused reform, this paradigm shift supports the disposition in favor of teacher involvement in the school improvement process. In fact, scholars suggest that without the integral involvement of teachers who possess diverse and specialized skills, school improvement efforts could not achieve systematic progress towards sustainable goals (Tomal, Schilling, & Wilhite, 2014). As our nation continues to grapple with the complexity of sustainable school improvement, this dissertation introduces an innovative approach to school reform that focuses on building the instructional capacity of the teacher workforce through the development of a new group of teacher leaders—teacher instructional leaders (TILs). Three individual teacher cases and their respective school administrators participated in this qualitative case study. The following research questions guided the study: How do teachers practice as teacher instructional leaders (TILs)? How do school principals promote the development of teacher instructional leaders (TILs)? What is the impact of teacher instructional leaders (TILs) on the whole school and the teacher? Assuming that our nation is concerned with reforming our failing public schools, it would be beneficial to consider the contributions of this qualitative case study to scholarship related to educator effectiveness, teacher leadership, instructional leadership, and teacher instructional leadership. For the fate of our country will not be decided on a battlefield, it will be determined in a classroom (Weber, 2010)

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