A Study of the Leadership Styles of Campus Based Women\u27s Centers in Higher Education in the Southeast United States

This study examined the organizational and institutional variables that influence the leadership styles of directors of campus-based women\u27s centers at public and private four-year universities in the southeast United States. The researcher examined the leadership frame (or frames), as measured by Bolman and Deal\u27s (1990) Leadership Orientations Instrument (Self), used by the organizational leaders of campus-based women\u27s centers. This non-experimental descriptive study utilized both quantitative and descriptive methods of analysis. The quantitative component relied on the chi- square statistical test to measure the relationships between a director\u27s leadership preferences and five institutional variables. Descriptive statistics were used to describe the use of the four leadership frames and determine the frame(s) preference of campus- based women center directors. It was determined that no statically significant relationship existed between a director\u27s leadership frame(s) and the selected institutional variables

Le Jeu de la Hache: A Critical edition and dating discussion

Twenty-six years after the first edition and translation by Sydney Anglo in 1991 of the anonymous manuscript Le Jeu de la hache , many elements can still be significantly improved. This paper offers a completely new critical edition of the text, and a major revision of the translation. This article includes a detailed glossary as well as notes to discuss the many ambiguous passages in the original text. Finally, the studies of the language, the vocabulary, the dialect, the writing style and the physical document make it possible to refine the dating of the manuscript to the third quarter of the fifteenth century, between 1460 and 1485, and its origin, probably Flanders or Wallonia in the entourage of the dukes of Burgundy

Croisade et paix en Europe au XIVesiècle

Le 31 mars 1363, le pape Urbain V prêchait la Croisade en sa chapelle du palais d’Avignon. « Après la prédication faite, raconte Froissart, qui fu moult humble et moult devote de la souffrance Nostre Seigneur, li roys Jehans de Franche emprist la croix et le voa… Ossi là presentement le fistrent messires Talerans, li cardinaulx de Pierregorch, messires Jehans d’Artois, comtes d’Eu, li contes de Tankarville, li comtes de Dammartin, li grans prieurs de Franche, messires Ernouls d’Audrehen, mess..

Une anthropologie psychanalytique est-elle possible ?

Symposium organisé par Patrice Bidou, Jacques Galinier et Bernard Juillerat sous les auspices de l'Association pour la recherche en anthropologie sociale (APRAS) avec le soutien du Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, du Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale et du Laboratoire d'ethnologie et de sociologie  comparative (Paris X) 5 et 6 juin 1997 – MSH (Paris) Ce symposium s'est inscrit dans une continuité certaine par rapport à deux réunions ..

Parentés symboliques et profondeur historique

Je suis devenue ethnologue après un cursus universitaire chaotique, où pulsions personnelles et intérêts scientifiques étaient à mon insu intimement liés. Au début des années cinquante, j’étais fascinée par L’Âge d’homme de Michel Leiris ; la lecture de L’Afrique fantôme, m’avait permis de découvrir une Afrique différente de celle du Dr Schweitzer, dont la personne était une cible privilégiée de mes révoltes adolescentes, dans la Suisse endormie où je vivais. L’œuvre de Leiris, la découverte ..

Evaluation of the Potential for Soil Organic Carbon Content Monitoring With Farmers

Increasing soil organic carbon (SOC) content is crucial for soil quality and climate changemitigation. SOC monitoring is indispensable to the corresponding policies and shouldprovide results at farm scale to allow for incentives. In Switzerland, farmers performmandatory analyses of the SOC content of the 0–20 cm topsoil of every field, based ona composite sample, at least every 10 years. The corresponding results are stored in adatabase in canton of Geneva. These data may be relevant for topsoil SOC monitoring,in particular for carbon sequestration policies, provided that they show appropriatequality, which is analyzed in this study. The minimum detectable change (MDC) of pastresults calculated based on the observed SOC changes was 0.013% g g−1at cantonscale (2,700 fields). Based on extended sampling of three representative fields, differentsampling strategies were simulated to determine the best future sampling guidelines forfarmers. Collecting 20 aliquots with a gouge on the field diagonals was considered thebest sampling compromise with field MDC of∼0.1% g g−1and a sampling durationof 20 min. Compared to this procedure, former farmers’ sampling was not biased inaverage but showed a variance of 0.22% g g−1due to smaller number of aliquotsand varying sampling depths. Based on the best sampling results and assumptions onfarm-scale SOC variance or SOC differences, the MDCs at farm scale ranged from0.21 to 0.12% g g−1(5 fields) and 0.09 to 0.05% g g−1(30 fields), respectively.These MDCs are small compared to published monitoring networks MDCs and allowdetermining SOC change rates at farm scale, thus offering perspectives for inexpensiveand efficient monitoring in the frame of soil quality or climate mitigation incentives. Forthe latter, however, additional information with equivalent soil mass and deeper-layercarbon content would be necessary

Introduction

Le projet d'un numéro sur le statut de l'écrit et de l'écriture en anthropologie correspondait à la nécessité d'interroger la question de la traduction de la connaissance anthropologique à travers la « pratique textuelle ». L'idée de pratique textuelle se distingue de la notion classique de texte écrit : elle suppose l'écriture comme un acte et considère le texte comme une inscription non close, porteur d'une multitude d'éclairages. Cette multiplicité d'éclairages fut de toute évidence la quê..

Moving in Late Medieval Harness: Exploration of a Lost Embodied Knowledge

This video article presents an interdisciplinary approach dealing with the reconstruction of the lost embodied knowledge of wearers of late medieval harnesses. Our research is based on inquiries surrounding material culture (arms and armours and the relevant clothing), as well as studies of the technical literature known as fight books. The hypotheses drawn from these are then compared to results obtained from experiencing and experimenting modern-day enactments of gestures while wearing an accurate replica of a harness. Once the difference between experiencing and experimenting is explained, we outline and discuss selected results from our research processes

Are soil carbon credits empty promises? Shortcomings of current soil carbon quantification methodologies and improvement avenues

As the consequences of climate change are looming large, agricultural soil carbon credits have emerged as an increasingly advocated lever to incentivize the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and promote carbon storing farming practices. These credits are exchanged on self-regulated voluntary carbon markets, each of them using distinct protocols to assess the changes in soil carbon stocks and convert them into carbon credits. Although serious discrepancies between protocols have already been noted regarding general carbon credit accounting principles, an in-depth evaluation of how changes in soil organic carbon stocks are calculated is still lacking. In this context, the primary objective of our study was to investigate how changes in soil organic carbon stock are estimated by the major carbon credit protocols worldwide. We evaluated the requirements of each protocol regarding the estimation of the initial SOC stock as well as the modelling and/or measurement of changes in stock with time. We found that existing protocols vary greatly in their scientific rigour. We showed in particular that some protocols do not require in situ soil analyses to estimate initial soil carbon stocks but rely on regional values, leading them to potentially overestimate these stocks by up to 2.5 times. Our study also found that the protocols relying on models require different farming practices and different levels of information for each practice to estimate SOC stock changes. The protocols relying, at least partly, on soil sampling also displayed different requirements for the sampling design, sampling tools, SOC analysis methods and SOC stock calculation methods. On this basis, we suggest reforms designed to improve and standardize the quantification of carbon stock changes in soils and to improve the reliability of soil carbon credits