The Invisible Struggle: Understanding the Plights and Success Strategies of Low-Income Single Mothers in Undergraduate Programs

This qualitative life history illuminates the experiences of four low-income single mother students in their undergraduate degree pursuit. The lenses of radical feminism, Schlossberg’s Transition Theory, Intersectionality, and the concept of Stigma were used to understand the experiences. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews and document analysis and captured the interwoven nature of the women’s on and off campus lives by exploring the participant’s perception of the enabling or hindering experiences attributed to their undergraduate degree completion. Using Schlossberg’s Transition Theory, the study findings demonstrate how best to support low-income single mother students. While emotional and financial supports were found to be the largest contributors to degree completion, considering the intersectionality of the women’s identities reminds academic professionals each student brings a unique story to campus. The data also found the perceived threat of stigmatization on campus served to diminish the women’s determined mindset needed to complete their undergraduate degree

Climate Plumbing: The Use of Experts in Framing the Geoengineering Controversy in German News Media

Controlling and manipulating the weather is surely a human fantasy as old as the desire to fly. At the beginning of the Trojan War, King Agamemnon sacrifices his daughter Iphigenia to appease Artemis, providing good wind and allowing him to cross the Aegean Sea. Witches were frequently accused of brewing potent potions producing heavy storms and Native Americans like the Zuni made it rain by dancing. More recently, China’s hightech war against rain clouds at the 2008 Olympics and US American research into climatic warfare raised eyebrows everywhere. Tinkering with such elementary forces might sound very much like human hubris – Icarus’ fate is well remembered. But humanity’s impact on the planet has never been so severe and now seems to reach a critical limit. Adapting to the modern environment we created is probably humanity’s greatest challenge. Global warming and the changing climate in general appear to be the most pressing issues today with many people already being under direct threat of droughts, floods and extreme storm

Nuevas consideraciones en torno al concepto de "estar" en R. G. Kusch

Fil: Matuschka, Daniel von

Schadel Erwin (Editor) Actualitas omnium actuum: Festschrift für Heinrich Beck zum 60. Geburtstag [mismos datos] 1989 (Schriften zur Tríadik und Ontodynamik; Band 3)

Fil: Matuschka, Daniel von

Exposición y crítica del concepto de "estar" en Rodolfo G. Kusch

Fil: Von Matuschka, Daniel

Storm chasing in the Australian Tropics: Is there a record of past tropical cyclones in Lake Eacham?

The occurrence of extreme events, such as tropical cyclones, can cause large amounts of landscape and ecosystem disturbance and leave a sedimentary or erosional ‘signature’ in the landscape. The knowledge of past disturbance events can be incredibly beneficial in deciphering the future responses of these events in a time of climate variability. While there has been considerable focus on the reconstruction of tropical cyclone activity with the use of coastal sedimentary sequences, little attention has been directed in assessing the suitability of paleo lakes as recorders of tropical cyclone occurrences. Maar lakes are considered to be ideal for paleoenvironmental investigations as the sediment sequences collected in their basin can be likened to continuous archives of the environmental history of the lake and its surrounds. This study proposes that Lake Eacham (17°17’S, 145°37’E, 746m.a.s.l.), a maar lake located on the Atherton Tablelands in Northeast Queensland, contains a ‘signature’ of tropical cyclones in its sedimentary record and is a likely candidate for future investigations to construct a record of past-tropical cyclone events for the region. To identify a tropical cyclone ‘signature’, Itrax XRF, grainsize and Loss-On-Ignition analyses data was used produce a facies classification for the 40cm sediment sequence collected from the lake. The analysis of the impact of past tropical cyclones from historical climate data was also undertaken to identify events that had impacted Lake Eacham. A sediment-influx signal characterised by increased grainsize, peaks of detrital elements (Fe, Si, Rb, Ti) and reductions in organic content was evident in facies units which were associated with tropical cyclone activity. However, the relationship between the response of the catchment and tropical cyclones is significantly more complex than first assumed. Considering this, there is indeed an observable tropical cyclone ‘signature’ within the stratigraphy of Lake Eacham, however further investigations will allow for greater understanding into the non-homogenous response of the catchment to such events

Buela Lamas, Alberto (compilador). Pensadores nacionales iberoamericanos. Bs. As. Biblioteca del Congreso de la Nación, 1993 (dos tomos).

Fil: Matuschka, Daniel von

Varios autores, "Sabiduría popular, símbolo y Filosofía. Diálogo internacional en torno a una interpretación latinoamericana", editado por Juan Carlos Scannone S. I., Buenos Aires, Ed. Guadalupe, 1984. (222 págs.)

Fil: Matuschka, Daniel von. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Instituto de Filosofía Argentina y American

Cálculo y características del valor de vida del cliente en organizaciones modernas

En las últimas décadas las organizaciones tienden a focalizarse en la minimización de costos o la maximización de ingresos. Cuando una organización adopta uno de estos enfoques debe dejar de lado al otro. Por ejemplo, si una empresa se focaliza solo en la maximización de ingresos, fracasa en maximizar los beneficios. De manera similar, la minimización de costos sin tener en cuenta los beneficios afecta negativamente en la performance de la organización en el mercado. Por eso el balance de ambos es esencial para una organización que desea tener un crecimiento empujado por el mercado mientras que evalúa cuidadosamente la rentabilidad y el retorno sobre la inversión de las inversiones de marketing. En otras palabras, la clave del éxito radica en la asignación eficiente de recursos, esto es, esfuerzos focalizados en clientes rentables así como también una eficiente comunicación especial para cada segmento. Primero se analiza cómo se origina el cálculo del Valor de Vida de un Cliente (posteriormente VVC) para luego compararlo con las métricas más usadas. Se presentan dos tipos, el enfoque a nivel individual y el enfoque a nivel agregado. Luego se describirán las estrategias que se utilizarán para maximizar el VVC y los subsecuentes desafíos organizacionales que surgen cuando se quiere implementar una operatoria en torno al VVC. La aplicación de la metodología propuesta se verá a lo largo de casos de estudio y ejemplos de empresas modernas. A modo de cierre se comentará en breve el futuro de la metodología para pasar finalmente a la aplicación de la misma. La metodología se aplicó para calcular el VVC de un concesionario de automóviles mendocino así como también para mostrar los resultados de la misma a modo de conclusión. Al final de este trabajo se encuentra además un anexo que contiene un glosario de definiciones, allí se encuentran los términos técnicos utilizados en la investigación.Fil: Von Matuschka, Cristian. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas

Modulatory Effect of Cattle on Risk for Lyme Disease

TOC Summary: Low-intensity cattle grazing limits Borrelia burgdorferi s.l., but not B. miyamotoi, in vector ticks