A place for "families like us": reproducing gentrification and gentrifiers in two Boston neighborhoods

This dissertation turns attention to the role middle class households with children play in processes of gentrification. Scholars have drawn attention to a burgeoning group of middle class families remaining in the city instead of suburbanizing upon the arrival of children. Often focused on families with young children, such trends are characterized as recent and removed from the history of gentrification in the U.S. As a result, residents with children who lived in early gentrifying neighborhoods of the 1970s/1980s--remain unaccounted for and raise unresolved questions about how history in a neighborhood influences responses to gentrification and subsequent interaction with the gentrified neighborhood. To understand these dynamics I utilize ethnographic observation and in-depth interviews in Egleston Square and Hyde Jackson, micro-neighborhoods in Boston experiencing processes of gentrification. By examining how middle class parents engage in residential decision making we see that changing expectations of urban living create opportunities for residents to reconcile their identities as parents with their identities as urbanites. Starting with a set of parents who arrived in the 1970s, I identify the migration of three parent cohorts, unveiling how each responds to the progression of gentrification and assigns meaning to their decision to raise children in each neighborhood. I also situate second generation residents, children raised in gentrifying neighborhoods, as an overlooked resident group, revealing how they navigate increasingly gentrified neighborhoods as adults. By examining the consumption and residential practices of second generation residents, we see the impacts of gentrification on a range of neighborhood spaces and the ways in which such residents adopt an ambivalent stance; where they maintain connections to the past while benefitting from select upscaling efforts in the present. In approaching gentrification as a migratory process, I also construct the concept of the second gentrifier, children of individuals who participated in earlier stages of gentrification and return to their childhood neighborhood via parental housing. The identification of this resident category illuminates how existing resident groups are reproduced over time. By tracing the residential decision making practices of middle class parents and children raised in gentrifying neighborhoods, I offer an unexpected perspective on the broader changes taking place in urban environments

Re:Find Distillery

When Alex and Monica Villicana started their winery in 2002, they had no intention of starting a distillery. But in order to have the right ratio of skins to juice they had to bleed off and dispose juice. Trying to find a use for the excess juice, they distilled it into vodka and gin. Much to their surprise, they quickly sold out. The case discusses licensing and technical issues of starting a distrillery

S21RS SGFB No. 5 (Swings)

A Finance Bill To appropriate a maximum of twelve thousand two hundred dollars and zero cents ($12,200.00) from the Student Government Initiatives account to purchase and install a swing set in the LSU Art Qua

Recall Of Informed Consent For Prenatal Aneuploidy Screening

Several forms of prenatal screening and diagnostic testing are available that can provide information about the likelihood of a genetic or chromosomal condition in pregnancy. Each of the available technologies entail unique benefits and limitations, and patient comprehension of the differences among these tests is crucial to uphold the principle of informed consent. The primary research goal of our study was to establish what women recall of the benefits, risks, and limitations of the prenatal aneuploidy screening they were offered as a part of their prenatal care by their medical provider. A total of 349 women were surveyed and 182 met eligibility criteria having had a recent or third-trimester pregnancy. Overall knowledge scores for participants ranged from 0 to 82.9 out of 100, with an average score of 32.8 (SD = 21.9). We found significantly higher scores in women who were offered testing by genetic professionals, met with a genetic counselor in prior pregnancies, were 35-years or older, or were given the choice of both screening and diagnostic tests. Our data support the importance of a thorough informed consent when discussing prenatal aneuploidy testing with patients

Antifungal Activity of Camptothecin, Trifolin, and Hyperoside Isolated from Camptotheca Acuminata

Leaf spots and root rots are major fungal diseases in Camptotheca acuminata that limit cultivation of the plant for camptothecin (CPT), a promising anticancer and antiviral alkaloid. Bioassays showed that pure CPT and flavonoids (trifolin and hyperoside) isolated from Camptotheca effectively control fungal pathogens in vitro, including Alternaria alternata, Epicoccum nigrum, Pestalotia guepinii, Drechslera sp., and Fusarium avenaceum, although antifungal activity of these compounds in the plant is limited. CPT inhibited mycelial growth by approximately 50% (EC50) at 10−30 μg/mL and fully inhibited growth at 75−125 μg/mL. The flavonoids were less effective than CPT at 50 μg/mL, particularly within 20 days after treatment, but more effective at 100 or 150 μg/mL. CPT, trifolin, and hyperoside may serve as leads for the development of fungicides

Antifungal Activity of Camptothecin, Trifolin, and Hyperoside Isolated from Camptotheca acuminate

Leaf spots and root rots are major fungal diseases in Camptotheca acuminata that limit cultivation of the plant for camptothecin (CPT), a promising anticancer and antiviral alkaloid. Bioassays showed that pure CPT and flavonoids (trifolin and hyperoside) isolated from Camptotheca effectively control fungal pathogens in vitro, including Alternaria alternata, Epicoccum nigrum, Pestalotia guepinii, Drechslera sp., and Fusarium avenaceum, although antifungal activity of these compounds in the plant is limited. CPT inhibited mycelial growth by approximately 50% (EC50) at 10-30 íg/mL and fully inhibited growth at 75-125 íg/mL. The flavonoids were less effective than CPT at 50 íg/mL, particularly within 20 days after treatment, but more effective at 100 or 150 íg/mL. CPT, trifolin, and hyperoside may serve as leads for the development of fungicides

How Position of Reading Questions Affects the Reading Comprehension of High and Low Ability Readers

This study investigates the optimum placement of reading questions in textbooks. Is it better to have reading questions embedded in chapters or placed at the end of chapters? One independent variable is reading question placement (embedded vs. end). Another independent variable is reading comprehension ability (higher vs. lower). Participants read a chapter from a statistics book, listened to stories as a distractor task, and then answered three types of questions about the statistics chapter. The dependent variable is the percent correct for each question type. Target questions tested the same content as a previous reading question. Related questions tested similar content. Non-target questions tested unrelated content. We will analyze our data with three 2 x 2 factorial ANOVAs. We expect embedded questions will help lower-ability readers on target and related questions. Further, embedded questions will hurt the performance of higher-ability readers on non-target questions. Higher and lower comprehenders differ in their ability to suppress irrelevant information. Embedded questions facilitate suppression processes by highlighting specific content in the reading. However, for high comprehenders who already suppress irrelevant information effectively, embedded questions may lead to “over suppression,” causing non-target information to be processed less well

Auditory communication in domestic dogs: vocal signalling in the extended social environment of a companion animal

Domestic dogs produce a range of vocalisations, including barks, growls, and whimpers, which are shared with other canid species. The source–filter model of vocal production can be used as a theoretical and applied framework to explain how and why the acoustic properties of some vocalisations are constrained by physical characteristics of the caller, whereas others are more dynamic, influenced by transient states such as arousal or motivation. This chapter thus reviews how and why particular call types are produced to transmit specific types of information, and how such information may be perceived by receivers. As domestication is thought to have caused a divergence in the vocal behaviour of dogs as compared to the ancestral wolf, evidence of both dog–human and human–dog communication is considered. Overall, it is clear that domestic dogs have the potential to acoustically broadcast a range of information, which is available to conspecific and human receivers. Moreover, dogs are highly attentive to human speech and are able to extract speaker identity, emotional state, and even some types of semantic information