Seeking Shared Success: Business Model Innovation Through Mergers, Affiliations, and Alliances

Learn how alliances, affiliations, and mergers represent a path to enhanced sustainability and greater impact for community foundations. Hear perspectives from community foundation leaders, access tools for considering a new structure, and read case studies from six community foundations

A labial art-politics

In this article we focus on the potential for an alignment of certain feminist artistic practices and poststructuralist conceptions of critique that may enable ways of theorising practices of resistance and engender ways of practicing resistance in theory, without the lurch back into masculinist forms of dogmatism. It will be claimed that an ontological conception of art, considered as that which makes a difference in the world, can not only challenge the primacy of the dogmatic and masculine ‘subject who judges’, but also instil ways of thinking about, and ways of enacting, feminist artistic encounters with the capacity to resist dogmatism. The theoretical stakes of this claim are elaborated through complimentary readings of Deleuze and Guattari’s constructivist account of philosophy and Irigaray’s feminist explorations of what it means to think from within the 'labial', rather than from the position of the dominant phallic symbolic order. We argue that this creative conjunction between Irigaray, Deleuze and Guattari provides the resources for a conceptualisation of both feminist artistic practice and the critical practice of poststructuralist philosophy as forms of resistance to the dominant patriarchal order, in ways that can avoid the collapse back into masculinist forms of dogmatism. Revel’s discussion of the role of constituent rather than constituted forms of resistance is employed to draw out the implications of this position for contentious politics. It is concluded that constituent practices of resistance can be understood as a challenge to the phallogocentric symbolic order to the extent that they are practices of a labial art-politic

A configural dominant account of contextual cueing : configural cues are stronger than colour cues

Previous work has shown that reaction times to find a target in displays that have been repeated are faster than those for displays that have never been seen before. This learning effect, termed “contextual cueing” (CC), has been shown using contexts such as the configuration of the distractors in the display and the background colour. However, it is not clear how these two contexts interact to facilitate search. We investigated this here by comparing the strengths of these two cues when they appeared together. In Experiment 1, participants searched for a target that was cued by both colour and distractor configural cues, compared with when the target was only predicted by configural information. The results showed that the addition of a colour cue did not increase contextual cueing. In Experiment 2, participants searched for a target that was cued by both colour and distractor configuration compared with when the target was only cued by colour. The results showed that adding a predictive configural cue led to a stronger CC benefit. Experiments 3 and 4 tested the disruptive effects of removing either a learned colour cue or a learned configural cue and whether there was cue competition when colour and configural cues were presented together. Removing the configural cue was more disruptive to CC than removing colour, and configural learning was shown to overshadow the learning of colour cues. The data support a configural dominant account of CC, where configural cues act as the stronger cue in comparison to colour when they are presented together

The Frontier Demimonde: Prostitution in Early Hays City, 1867-1883

Hays City, Kansas, founded in 1867, became a bustling Western frontier town due to its possession of the Eastern Division terminus of the Union Pacific Railroad and its position near a military post, Fort Hays. Prostitutes, often among the first arrivals to Western frontier towns, played an integral role in the social and economic livelihood of Hays City. Sex work brought necessary commerce to the town and helped to support other aspects of Hays City nightlife like the gambling dens and saloons. Though respectable employment was largely closed to women in the West, prostitutes in Hays City maintained a mutually beneficial relationship with the town, at least initially. As Volga Germans settled in the area, though, family farming began to replace nightlife as the economic center of the county. As this happened, attitudes toward prostitution in Hays City shifted and citizens were less tolerant of the presence of sex work. By examining court documents, census records, and newspaper accounts, historian Hollie Marquess, Fort Hays State University, explores the contributions of prostitutes to Hays City in its infancy

Women's sexuality: changing values and attitudes

This thesis explored the social and psychological factors which influence women's sexuality, and the ways in which sexual agency manifests within women's sexual self-concepts. Findings highlighted the relationship between women's sexual agency and positive sexual health outcomes, providing support for a shift in women's sexual norms in recent years

Things You\u27ve Inherited From Your Mother

Things You\u27ve Inherited From Your Mother\u27 is a second-person novel narrated by its main protagonist, Carrie, who is simultaneously narrating her experiences to herself. In light of losing her mother to ovarian cancer and refusing to confront her grief, Carrie has fragmented herself into actor and commentator, protagonist and narrator. The resultant internal monologue features a constant reference to a you, which is not meant to evoke the reader, as is common in second-person texts; instead, second-person perspective is used by the narrator-Carrie to comment on and analyze the experiences of protagonist-Carrie. Consequently, Carrie sees her life as unfolding like a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book (in which second-perspective is the standard), affording her the freedom from taking responsibility for her actions (as in such a book there is minimal choice for how to act) and a subjective reality that the narrating self has created (as the illusion of minimal choice is a construct of the narrator)

On The Same Page? Agreement Between Older Adults And Emergency Clinicians Regarding Desired Outcomes And Its Association With Return Hospital Visits

Objectives. To develop a framework for as well as examine the relationship between patient-clinician agreement on what matters to older adults in the emergency department (ED) and 30-day ED return visits.Methods. A sample of 45 emergency department patients aged 70+ and their emergency clinicians were separately asked about the patient’s desired outcomes for their ED visit. Thematic analysis of interview transcripts was conducted and dyadic agreement for each of the identified themes was recorded, then a percent agreement composite score was calculated. 30-day ED return visits were tallied and additional sociodemographic and clinical data was accumulated. Descriptive, bivariate, and multivariate analyses were then conducted. Results. The shared desired outcome themes identified were diagnosis, disposition, reassurance, and resolution of symptoms. Within the total sample, 48.9% of patient-clinician dyads had a below acceptable (\u3e75%) level of agreement regarding the desired outcome themes. Out of the 45 participants enrolled in the study, 11 had a 30-day ED return visit. No significant associations were found in bivariate or multivariate logistic regressions. Conclusion. Although no significant associations were found, the importance of and paucity of data surrounding the topic of alignment on what matters and return visits in the ED among older adults and their clinicians was highlighted. A framework was developed that may act as a foundation for further investigation into these potential relationships. More detailed research is necessary and encouraged to learn more about patient priorities for older adults and return visits to the ED

The Effects of Caloric Restriction on Physical Activity, Energy Expenditure, and Weight Loss in Obese Adults

Honors (Bachelor's)Evolutionary AnthropologyAnthropologyUniversity of Michiganhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/107741/1/hkicin.pd