191 research outputs found
between Gods & Dogs
between Gods & Dogs is an exhibition, comprised of two installations, that raises questions about belief, authority, knowledge, and power. The Word That Binds Them is an interactive installation involving books that have been put in positions of authority or treated as sacred by religions, political parties, academic institutions, and other communities. As viewers navigate the work, they are faced with questions surrounding power and ideological belief. The project involves consultations with the Internet Sacred Text Archive, research of citation rankings, and discussions with followers of various belief systems to inform the selections of books. All of these texts play an important role in historical and present-day power structures. The work demonstrates how art—specifically interactive art—is rich territory for questioning and deconstructing systematic ideologies and our interactions with them as humans. While The Word That Binds Them questions the beliefs, knowledge, and power we acquire from books, Most Retrieved Words questions what we might learn from an unexpected source—our canine companions. The project began by engaging the general public in order to collect sounds of their dogs barking and short writings describing what they have learned from their dogs. What can dogs teach us about freedom, play, curiosity, love, forgiveness, risk, danger, and other important concepts? The collected sounds are altered so that they embody qualities of sacred choral music. Visual content in the work is comprised of hundreds of videos of dogs that have been extracted from found footage. These individual videos are composited into an immersive four-channel video projection that contains thousands of dogs running in mass along the walls of the gallery. This paper outlines the methodologies used to create an art experience that inspects theological, political, academic, and nonanthropological sources of belief
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An investigation of credit usage among young married couples in western Oregon
This study was designed (1) to examine credit usages as they relate
to financial problems of young married couples, (2) to investigate the
similarities of financial practices of two populations, (3) to determine
the sources of educational financial assistance and guidance used by
young couples, and (4) to compare demographic characteristics of one
sample known to have had financial difficulties and one group whose
financial position was unknown at the time of the interview.
The sample consisted of 30 young married couples who were being
professionally counseled because of financial problems (group one) and
30 couples selected from a mailing list supplied by the Marion County
Extension Service (group two). The total sample was drawn from the
Salem, Oregon area.
The couples were married at least one year and not more than five
years, 11 months and the husbands were no more than 30 years of age. Data for the study were obtained through personal interviews.
Hollingshead's Two Factor Index of Social Position, based on
education and occupation of the head of household was used to classify
the subjects into five social positions, by groups. The distributions
for both groups were skewed heavily toward the lower social levels on
the scale.
The four null hypotheses that were set forth to assist in the
organization of data were rejected.
H₁ Young married couples in group one wit; show no differences
in financial practices from those in group two.
H₂ Married couples in group one will possess records with
detail no greater than that in records possessed by
group two.
H₃ Formal educational training will not vary between group
one and group two.
H₄ Financial counseling sought by young couples will not
differ between group one and group two.
Analysis of the data indicated that couples in the uncounseled
group kept records in a more readily accessable manner; they kept them
in ledger or check stub form; and a larger percentage of group two
kept track of how they spent their money.
A higher number of husbands in group one took complete charge of
financial management than the husbands in group two. There were inconsistencies
in the responses of the wives in group one. Eighty-seven
per cent of the respondents stated that they and their husbands combined
their money. However, responses by 40 per cent of the wives in group one indicated that their husbands paid the bills and handled the
finances.
Couples in both groups used a variety of credit sources. Couples
in group one held more credit cards, had a larger number of open charge
accounts, more loans from banks and consumer finance companies, as well
as a larger number of hospital, doctor and dentists bills than did the
couples in group two.
Department store and oil company credit cards were the two categories
most frequently listed when respondents were asked about credit cards
held.
Both banks and consumer finance companies loaned to couples in
group one, however, the consumer finance company had a higher incidence
of repeat loans issued to these young couples than did banks.
Ninety per cent of the young couples in the counseled group responded
that they were being counseled and looked to the professional counselor
for guidance in personal finance. The uncounseled group turned to
parents most frequently as sources of information and guidance.
Wives in group one perceived themselves as poorer users of credit
or just equal when comparing themselves to their peers.
It was apparent from this study that young couples feel inadquately
prepared for the responsibilities faced in money management during the
early years of marriage. With an affluent credit society predicted by
many for the future, young people will need to use their total resources of time, energy and income in order to maintain financial solvency.
Educators, both adult and secondary along with parents and all others
interested in the welfare of families will need to be innovative in
communicating sound personal finance principles
The elusiveness of progressive masculinity: Gender differences in conceptualizations of nontraditional gender roles
Traditional masculinity has been thoroughly explored in psychological research, but its counterpart, progressive masculinity, has undergone relatively little scientific investigation. To determine whether this lack of attention to or understanding of progressive masculinity is mirrored more largely in mainstream culture, we examined how men and women conceptualize and experience gender roles in their everyday lives. Participants were randomly assigned to describe a time in which they had behaved either traditionally or progressively with regard to their gender. Over 80% of men and women in the traditional condition and women in the progressive condition provided condition-appropriate examples. However, men in the progressive condition only provided progressive examples 17% of the time, suggesting that many men may not have an understanding of progressive masculinity. Additional themes, implications, and directions for research on progressive masculinity are discusse
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Multi-location wheat stripe rust QTL analysis: genetic background and epistatic interactions
Stripe rust is a foliar disease of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) caused by the air-borne fungus Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici and is present in most regions around the world where commercial wheat is grown. Breeding for durable resistance to stripe rust continues to be a priority, but also is a challenge due to the complexity of interactions among resistance genes and to the wide diversity and continuous evolution of the pathogen races. The goal of this study was to detect chromosomal regions for resistance to stripe rust in two winter wheat populations, ‘Tubbs’/‘NSA-98-0995’ (T/N) and ‘Einstein’/‘Tubbs’ (E/T), evaluated across seven environments and mapped with diversity array technology and simple sequence repeat markers covering polymorphic regions of ≈1480 and 1117 cM, respectively. Analysis of variance for phenotypic data revealed significant (P < 0.01) genotypic differentiation for stripe rust among the recombinant inbred lines. Results for quantitative trait loci/locus (QTL) analysis in the E/T population indicated that two major QTL located in chromosomes 2AS and 6AL, with epistatic interaction between them, were responsible for the main phenotypic response. For the T/N population, eight QTL were identified, with those in chromosomes 2AL and 2BL accounting for the largest percentage of the phenotypic variance
Breast is best: Positive mealtime interactions in breastfeeding mothers from Israel and the United Kingdom
We examined mealtime interactions to assess whether they varied according to maternal body mass index, country and mode of feeding in 41 Israeli and UK mother–infant dyads. Feeding behaviours were coded using the Simple Feeding Element Scale. Significantly, more UK mothers breastfed during the filmed meal compared to Israeli mothers. Mealtime interactions did not vary according to maternal body mass index or country. Women who breastfed (as opposed to those who bottle fed or fed solids) provided fewer distractions during the meal, a more ideal feeding environment and fed more responsively
Examining mindfulness and its relation to self-differentiation and alexithymia
Published online first in 10 July 2013Research supports the association between
mindfulness, emotion regulation, stress reduction, and
interpersonal/relational wellness. The present study evaluated
the potential effect of mindfulness on some indicators of psychological
imbalance such as low self-differentiation and
alexithymia. In this cross-sectional study, a sample of 168 undergraduates
(72 % women) completed measures of perceived
mindfulness (CAMS-R and PHLMS), self-differentiation (SIPI),
and alexithymia (TAS-20). Results revealed positive
correlations between the different dimensions of mindfulness
and negative correlations between those dimensions, selfdifferentiation,
and alexithymia. The dimensions of quality of
mindfulness and acceptance were mediators in the relationship
between self-differentiation and alexithymia. A nonsignificant
interaction between gender and alexithymia was found. All
mindfulness dimensions, but self-differentiation, contributed
to explain the allocation of the non-alexithymic group. These
results indicate that mindfulness seems to be a construct with
great therapeutic and research potential at different levels,
suggesting that some aspects of mindfulness seem to promote
a better self-differentiation and prevent alexithymia
Response of Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) Leaf Surface Defenses to Exogenous Methyl Jasmonate
Helianthus annuus, the common sunflower, produces a complex array of secondary compounds that are secreted into glandular trichomes, specialized structures found on leaf surfaces and anther appendages of flowers. The primary components of these trichome secretions are sesquiterpene lactones (STL), a diverse class of compounds produced abundantly by the plant family Compositae and believed to contribute to plant defense against herbivory. We treated wild and cultivated H. annuus accessions with exogenous methyl jasmonate, a plant hormone that mediates plant defense against insect herbivores and certain classes of fungal pathogens. The wild sunflower produced a higher density of glandular trichomes on its leaves than the cultivar. Comparison of the profiles of glandular trichome extracts obtained by liquid chromatography–mass spectroscopy (LC-MS) showed that wild and cultivated H. annuus were qualitatively similar in surface chemistry, although differing in the relative size and proportion of various compounds detected. Despite observing consistent transcriptional responses to methyl jasmonate treatment, we detected no significant effect on glandular trichome density or LC-MS profile in cultivated or wild sunflower, with wild sunflower exhibiting a declining trend in overall STL production and foliar glandular trichome density of jasmonate-treated plants. These results suggest that glandular trichomes and associated compounds may act as constitutive defenses or require greater levels of stimulus for induction than the observed transcriptional responses to exogenous jasmonate. Reduced defense investment in domesticated lines is consistent with predicted tradeoffs caused by selection for increased yield; future research will focus on the development of genetic resources to explicitly test the ecological roles of glandular trichomes and associated effects on plant growth and fitness
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