Home Economist From Far Away China

Mrs. Florence Pen Ho is interviewed and biographically presented through Ruby Jackson\u27s descriptio

To Each Brick Woman

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College This body of work represents both a newfound interest in “uncovering” my family’s history as it relates to my own, and in exploring how the physicality and materiality of ceramics can establish relationships between one’s body and physical forms. This collection of work is an attempt at bridging the gap between my “presence” and the past through the associations I make with color, form, material, process and scale. These pieces are intended to reference the human form through their gestures, stances, their displacement of space (the way bodies do), and other vaguely human attributes. They’re also meant to evoke the body in a larger way through the innate physical nature of clay and the necessity of working with it sculpturally using ones whole body to do so, and in smaller ways through the various marks, folds, creases, and fingerprints that remain. At this point, I feel that the flexibility and adaptability of clay has allowed me to create more freely than I had been able to in the past. I’m also interested in how these pieces can establish connections with art historical connotations by experimenting with the juxtapositions of clay and non-traditional materials, and by distorting structural components such as pedestals. One of the challenges that I’ve struggled with is how to bridge the gap between the two-dimensional and the three-dimensional in my work. This is something that has both interested and confounded me in the past, and has led me to try and make painting that can be sculptural and sculpture that seems to be about painting, and to use both as ways of exploring space in the format of an installation. This combination of interests has coincided with my participation in an archaeological dig this year, which pushed me learn more about my past and the past of ceramics. This experience led me to develop and explore my own personal archaeology in the realm of my work and clay

BBOH 012 Alfred Guarisco 10-4-2019

In this recording, Alfred Guarisco is interviewed by Ruby Staten and Kern Jackson about living in Baldwin County, and his relationship to Blakeley Bluff and the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta. Mr. Guarisco discusses his family history, and his experiences growing up in Daphne, Alabama. His parents immigrated from Italy, and he frames his discussion with the history of different ethnic groups historically immigrating to Baldwin County, and particularly the history of Italian-Americans in the area. He discusses playing in the woods and around the water, and some of the history of the waters around Daphne. Mr. Guarisco concludes the interview discussing some of the historical organizations and efforts in which he is involved

BBOH 010 Vincent Dooley 9-6-2019

In this recording, Vincent J. Dooley is interviewed by Ruby Staten and Kern Jackson about the history of Blakeley Bluff. Coach Dooley describes his experiences growing up in Mobile, Alabama, attending the University of South Alabama, and going on to coach football and serve as the athletic director at the University of Georgia for a total of 40 years. In visiting relatives living near the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta, he periodically experienced life on an island in the delta without electricity or running water. He describes his interest in gardening, and his involvement in the Civil War Trust preserving the history of Civil War battlegrounds

Prophase I arrest and progression to metaphase I in mouse oocytes are controlled by Emi1-dependent regulation of APCCdh1

Mammalian oocytes are arrested in prophase of the first meiotic division. Progression into the first meiotic division is driven by an increase in the activity of maturation-promoting factor (MPF). In mouse oocytes, we find that early mitotic inhibitor 1 (Emi1), an inhibitor of the anaphase-promoting complex (APC) that is responsible for cyclin B destruction and inactivation of MPF, is present at prophase I and undergoes Skp1–Cul1–F-box/βTrCP-mediated destruction immediately after germinal vesicle breakdown (GVBD). Exogenous Emi1 or the inhibition of Emi1 destruction in prophase-arrested oocytes leads to a stabilization of cyclin B1–GFP that is sufficient to trigger GVBD. In contrast, the depletion of Emi1 using morpholino oligonucleotides increases cyclin B1–GFP destruction, resulting in an attenuation of MPF activation and a delay of entry into the first meiotic division. Finally, we show that Emi1-dependent effects on meiosis I require the presence of Cdh1. These observations reveal a novel mechanism for the control of entry into the first meiotic division: an Emi1-dependent inhibition of APCCdh1

Why do right-wing adherents engage in more animal exploitation and meat consumption?

Despite the well-documented implications of right-wing ideological dispositions for human intergroup relations, surprisingly little is understood about the implications for human-animal relations. We investigate why right-wing ideologies – social dominance orientation (SDO) and right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) – positively predict attitudes toward animal exploitation and meat consumption. Two survey studies conducted in heterogeneous community samples (Study 1, N = 260; Study 2, N = 489) demonstrated that right-wing ideologies predict greater acceptance of animal exploitation and more meat consumption through two explaining mechanisms: (a) perceived threat from non-exploitive ideologies to the dominant carnist ideology (for both SDO and RWA) and (b) belief in human superiority over animals (for SDO). These findings hold after controlling for hedonistic pleasure from eating meat. Right-wing adherents do not simply consume more animals because they enjoy the taste of meat, but because doing so supports dominance ideologies and resistance to cultural change. Psychological parallels between human intergroup relations and human-animal relations are considered

The Iowa Homemaker vol.20, no.2

Your College Home, Editor, page 1 Home Economics Cabinet, Florence Byrnes, page 2 Study on a Budget, Dorothy Lee Conquest, page 4 Forward March with Confidence, Eleanor White, page 6 Home Economist from Far Away, Ruby Jackson, page 7 It’s a Man’s World, Gaynold Carroll, page 8 Art, Music, and Literature Mingle, Nancy Mason, page 10 Who’s Who on Campus, Dorothy Anne Roost, page 11 What’s New in Home Economics, page 12 Women’s Athletics Will Enter New Home, Jeanette Foster, page 14 Personalize Your Letter Writing, Virginia Kirkpatrick, page 15 Behind Bright Jackets, Marjorie Thomas, page 16 Coed Concoctions, Marian Dougan, page 18 Alums in the News, Bette Simpson, page 20 Give Beauty a Chance, Ida Halpin, page 22 Journalistic Spindles, Ruth Jensen, page 2

Formin is associated with left-right asymmetry in the pond snail and the frog

While components of the pathway that establishes left-right asymmetry have been identified in diverse animals, from vertebrates to flies, it is striking that the genes involved in the first symmetry-breaking step remain wholly unknown in the most obviously chiral animals, the gastropod snails. Previously, research on snails was used to show that left-right signalling of Nodal, downstream of symmetry-breaking, may be an ancestral feature of the Bilateria. Here we report that a disabling mutation in one copy of a tandemly duplicated, diaphanous-related formin is perfectly associated with symmetry-breaking in the pond snail. This is supported by the observation that an anti-formin drug treatment converts dextral snail embryos to a sinistral phenocopy, and in frogs, drug inhibition or over-expression by microinjection of formin has a chirality-randomizing effect in early (pre-cilia) embryos. Contrary to expectations based on existing models, we discovered asymmetric gene expression in 2 and 4 cell snail embryos, preceding morphological asymmetry. As the formin-actin filament has been shown to be part of an asymmetry-breaking switch in vitro, together these results are consistent with the view that animals with diverse bodyplans may derive their asymmetries from the same intracellular chiral elements

Formin is associated with left-right asymmetry in the pond snail and the frog

While components of the pathway that establishes left-right asymmetry have been identified in diverse animals, from vertebrates to flies, it is striking that the genes involved in the first symmetry-breaking step remain wholly unknown in the most obviously chiral animals, the gastropod snails. Previously, research on snails was used to show that left-right signalling of Nodal, downstream of symmetry-breaking, may be an ancestral feature of the Bilateria. Here we report that a disabling mutation in one copy of a tandemly duplicated, diaphanous-related formin is perfectly associated with symmetry-breaking in the pond snail. This is supported by the observation that an anti-formin drug treatment converts dextral snail embryos to a sinistral phenocopy, and in frogs, drug inhibition or over-expression by microinjection of formin has a chirality-randomizing effect in early (pre-cilia) embryos. Contrary to expectations based on existing models, we discovered asymmetric gene expression in 2 and 4 cell snail embryos, preceding morphological asymmetry. As the formin-actin filament has been shown to be part of an asymmetry-breaking switch in vitro, together these results are consistent with the view that animals with diverse bodyplans may derive their asymmetries from the same intracellular chiral elements