Gender and the labour market in South East England. Volume 2: employers’ policies and practices

This research on gender and the labour market in South East England was funded by the South East of England Development Agency/European Social Fund. In volume 1 we set out the context: theoretical explanations for gender equality, the legal framework and organisational factors. Moreover, using a range of published data, we answered the first of our research questions: how does the labour market position of women in the government region of the South East of England compare with that of both men in the South East and that of women in Great Britain/United Kingdom? In this volume we turn our attention to our other research questions: • What policies and practices do employers in South East England adopt in respect of gender equality? • What barriers do employers and women employees in South East England identify in respect of gender and employment

African American Faces of the Civil War: An Album

Face to Face with the Civil War The sesquicentennial observance of the Civil War era will be marked by numerous publications of works. Few books will be as fascinating and informative as African American Faces of the Civil War: An Album. The third volume in a series about Civil W...

Two-temperature membrane filter method for enumeration of fecal coliform bacteria from chlorinated effluents.

Plant and Soil SciencesDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.

Living life in residential aged care: A process of continuous adjustment

The aim of this study was to examine whether, and how, residents living in residential aged care homes become involved in their care, and what areas of their care and life they work to influence or negotiate

Shaping a civilized sporting culture : the marginalization of blood sport in New Orleans, Louisiana from 1870 to 1900

The last few decades of the nineteenth century involved transformations in the assumptions and practice of American leisure. The appropriateness of certain pastimes to an emerging modem nation was increasingly an issue in rapidly urbanizing industrial centers. In particular, blood sport (e.g., cockfighting, dog fighting, bull fighting, and baiting contests) was perceived to hinder the advancement of civilization. This dissertation is a historical study of the process by which blood sport was removed from dominant culture. A case study of the marginalization of blood sport in New Orleans, Louisiana from 1870 to 1900 determined who was responsible for suppression attempts, why they wished to suppress blood sport, and how they persuaded others to adopt their values and beliefs. The concept of modernization was employed as a viable framework for analyzing the marginalization of blood sport. The process of modernization was examined through the forces of industrialization, urbanization, rationalization, civilization, nationalism, civic idealism, bourgeoisification, and Darwinism. Modernization involved an intertwining of changes in the economic, political, social, and cultural structure with deliberate attempts to shift popular mentalities toward more rational and civilized ends. Marginalization involved deliberate attempts to remove a residual traditional practice and its associated values from the dominant culture. Attempts to suppress blood sport in New Orleans were initiated by agents of the respectable and dominant class. Key intellectuals were purveyors of a popular mentality, providing meaning and value to particular institutions and the structures of domination in which they operated. Working through the influential institutions of the press, the schools, the law, the church, and modern sport, they disseminated beliefs regarding the value of blood sport to the New Orleans public. Blood sport was not obliterated from the sporting culture. Rather, it was marginalized to a sub-cultural status. The marginalization of blood sport in New Orleans during the late nineteenth century came about through the directing of popular discourse, emphasizing the brutal and uncivilized nature of blood sport. Journalists, educators, and clergy repeatedly defined blood sport as detrimental to the advancement of New Orleans, contrasting the behavior and values of enthusiasts with those of civilized people. The cultural marginalization of blood sport, combined with humane education campaigns aimed at teaching kindness toward animals, effectively turned the public against the activity. To help ensure public disapproval, legislation made blood sport illegal

Effects of the toxins of the ectoproct, Lophopodella carteri, on oxygen consumption in gill tissues of the bluegill, Lepomis macrochirus

Large and small bluegill, Lepomis macrochirus, were exposed to homogena tes of Lophopodella carteri, an ectoproct that contains substances toxic to some gilled vertebrates. Oxygen consumption tests on the excised gill tissues of the bluegill indicated that the ectoproct toxins caused a lowering of oxygen consumption of the gill tissues. Oxygen consumption of the gill tissues of the smaller fish was reduced to a greater extent than that of larger fish. An inverse relationship was found be tween the temperature of the medium and the period of time for death to occur. It is proposed that the toxins cause physiological damage to gill tissues and reduce their ability to conduct aerobic oxidation and thus ionic transport

A Data Mining Approach To identify Diabetes

Mounting amounts of data made traditional data analysis methods impractical. Data mining (DM) tools provide a useful for alternative framework that addresses this problem. This study follows a DM technique to identify diabetic patients. We develop a model that clusters diabetes patients of a large healthcare company into different subpopulation. Consequently, we show the value of applying a DM model to identify diabetic patients