Lavinia Dock: Adams County Suffragette

In the aftermath of the anniversary celebrations held to commemorate women\u27s right to vote, it is fitting to remember an Adams county resident who figured prominently in the most militant phase of the suffrage campaign-Lavinia Lloyd Dock. Lavinia Dock was born February 26, 1858, the second child of Gilliard and Lavinia Lloyd Bombaugh Dock. Gilliard, who had attended Gettysburg College, was a well-to-do engineer and machinist. Both parents were liberal in their views. Lavinia said that Father had some whimsical masculine prejudices, but Mother was broad on all subjects and very tolerant and charitable towards persons. Although the family, eventually numbering five daughters and one son, grew up in this parental atmosphere that encouraged enlightened thinking, nothing in Lavinia\u27s privileged life gave any hint of the distinguished if unusual career that she would make for herself. [excerpt

Assessment of techniques for measuring hand pressures in mock deliveries on a mannequin

Shoulder dystocia is a serious obstetric emergency. Brachial plexus injuries can be caused by hyperextension of the neck or misalignment of the fetal head during traction. To address knowledge gaps relating to clinician applied forces associated with deliveries, this study analyzed hand pressures applied by obstetricians in mock deliveries and suggests improvements for pressure-sensing gloves. The subjects were obstetricians, both residents and staff, recruited from the University of Kansas Hospital. A Laerdal PROMPT Birthing Simulator was used for the mock deliveries. The experimental design involved two pressure measurement strategies. Force Sensitive Applications (FSA) pressure sensitive gloves (Vista Medical) with twelve pressure sensors for each hand provided pressure measurements with time. Fujifilm Pressure Measurement Film Prescale [Two-Sheet Type for Extreme Low Pressure (4LW)] recorded areas where pressure was applied. The two measurement techniques compared well in capturing the spatial distribution of pressures across the hands. Both indicated pressure was exerted primarily with the middle, index, and ring fingers. Pressures due to the thumb and the palm were significantly smaller. Nonzero average pressures produced by the left hand were higher than the right but not significantly so. The pressure-film data indicated that pressures applied by resident and staff subgroups were comparable, except for the left hand where staff members applied significantly higher pressure with the little finger. With the glove sensors, there were three conditions: downward traction only, excessive force, which simulated conditions where damage could occur, and full delivery. The downward traction only, excessive force, and full delivery conditions had similar results with few significant differences. The residents and staff had few significant differences for these conditions between each other and between the conditions. The staff may have been more adept at using all the regions of their hands efficiently to apply balanced pressures. The glove sensors covered a range from 0 to 20 psi (0 to 0.14 MPa). If pressures exceeded the maximum of the range, the accuracy of the data decreased. This suggested that perhaps the sensor range should be improved in newer designs. Other important design changes could include increasing the numbers of sensors

Ethel Mary Schwartz\u27s Scrapbook 1941-1942

Ethel Schwartz atended Ward-Belmont during the 1941-1942 school year.https://repository.belmont.edu/scrapbooks/1026/thumbnail.jp

Closeup: Buffalo\u27s Course on Women and Social Casework

The purpose of this course was to look at actual social work practice, using some of the critical perspectives that have emerged in the women\u27s liberation movement. Professional schools that are training practitioners obviously must take a hard look at what they are actually teaching people to do. Social work\u27s emphasis on clinical education gave us an unusual opportunity to examine our own practice. It seemed particularly important to look at the possible sexist assumptions in social work, because the profession deals with concerns that are especially relevant to women, i.e., marriage, families, medical care, abortion and family planning, child guidance, individual identity crises, etc

Paper versus Electronic Sources for Law Review Cite Checking: Should Paper Be the Gold Standard?

Despite law students\u27 reliance on electronic sources for legal research, a survey confirmed that many journals make their staff members check authors\u27 citations against paper sources. Rumsey and Schwartz argue that the advent of image-based document collections should change this practice, making life easier for law students and law school librarians

Applying Non-Energy Impacts from Other Jurisdictions in Cost-Benefit Analyses of Energy Efficiency Programs: Resources for States for Utility Customer-Funded Programs

Avoided energy and capacity costs are the primary yardstick utilities use to determine which energy efficiency programs are cost-effective for their customers. But sometimes "non-energy impacts" — not commonly recognized as directly associated with energy generation, transmission and distribution — represent substantial benefits, such as improving comfort, air quality and public health.Considering whether and how to include non-energy impacts is an important part of cost-benefit analyses for these programs. This report offers practical considerations for deciding which non-energy impacts to include and how to apply values or methods from other jurisdictions.Researchers reviewed studies quantifying non-energy impacts used in 30 states and applied a five-point system to indicate transferability of a value or method from each study for 16 categories of non-energy impacts:Water resource costs and benefitsOther fuels costs and benefitsAvoided environmental compliance costsEnvironmental impactsProductivityHealth and safety Asset valueEnergy and/or capacity price suppression effectsAvoided costs of compliance with Renewable Portfolio Standard requirementsAvoided credit and collection costsAvoided ancillary servicesComfortEconomic development and job impactsPublic health impactsEnergy security impactsIncreased reliabilityThe U.S. Department of Energy’s Building Technologies Office supported this work

The Civil Justice System and the Public Project: Family Court- Coast to Coast

The Civil Justice System and the Public is a collaborative research program founded on the belief that a lack of effective communication both within the system and between that system and the public, is a significant barrier interfering with access to justice. This research is designed to involve both the public and the justice community in identifying changes in communication practice that will improve the system. The goal of the project is to make specific and clear recommendations for effective change that will ultimately improve access to the civil justice system by increasing the ability of the system to hear, involve, and respond to the public