Presenting the Applied Art Department

In the series of department sketches Margaret Read presents Applied Art faculty member

Presenting the Home Management Department

Fifth in the staff series, the Horne Management Department is sketched by Margaret Rea

Presenting the Child Development and Home Economics Education Departments

Faculty members of Education and Child Development Departments are reviewed by Margaret Kumlien Rea

Presenting the Textiles and Clothing Department

Staff members in Textiles and Clothing are briefly introduced by Margaret Kumlien Rea

Presenting the Household Equipment Staff

Margaret Kumlien Read presents the household equipment staff and reviews the work of the departmen

An analysis of informal sector unionization among marginalized agricultural workers : a study of the Sindicato Interempresa de Trabajadores Temporeros y Permanentes de Santa María

156 leaves : ill. ; 28 cm.Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 143-156).This thesis examines the politico-economic and legal structures surrounding the informal sector, and the effect these structures have on the organizational potential of workers in this sector. A case study of a particular labour force, the Temporeros, and a specific union in Chile comprised of these workers, The Interenterprise Union of Temporary and Permanent Workers of Santa Maria, forms the core of the thesis. This labour force and their Union illustrate the obstacles that such workers face during the transitional process surrounding the movement toward the creation of "formal" organizations. This thesis takes into consideration the body of literature surrounding the debate in defining the informal sector, and the two prevalent schools of thought in the area of the informal sector, the structuralist school and the legalist school. The conclusions arising from the case study point to the fact that because of the heterogeneous and controversial nature of the informal sector many of the definitions, when considered on their own, are too simple to explain the situation of all informal sector workers, such as the Temporeros. It is important not to think of the informal sector solely from an economic perspective, but to also look at the position of the workers in this sector with respect to the labour legislation and regulatory institutions. In this sense, the principal tenet of the legalist school is true, but legal structures only have relative autonomy, because they are influenced by the political economy underlying the development strategy of the country. The result is that a theoretical synthesis of the two schools of thought provides a valuable analytical framework when discussing the informal sector

Playing with Story

Bibliography and 5 storiesLearn six short audience-participation folktales from several cultures- you will leave ready-to-tell. Hints on telling and finding tellable folktales. Plus story texts and bibs. Great for those who work with young children. Or anyone who wants to add a few stories to their repertoire

Disruption of the GDP-mannose synthesis pathway in Streptomyces coelicolor results in antibiotic hyper-susceptible phenotypes

Actinomycete bacteria use polyprenol phosphate mannose as a lipid linked sugar donor for extra-cytoplasmic glycosyl transferases that transfer mannose to cell envelope polymers, including glycoproteins and glycolipids. We showed recently that strains of Streptomyces coelicolor with mutations in the gene ppm1 encoding polyprenol phosphate mannose synthase were both resistant to phage φC31 and have greatly increased susceptibility to antibiotics that mostly act on cell wall biogenesis. Here we show that mutations in the genes encoding enzymes that act upstream of Ppm1 in the polyprenol phosphate mannose synthesis pathway can also confer phage resistance and antibiotic hyper-susceptibility. GDP-mannose is a substrate for Ppm1 and is synthesised by GDP-mannose pyrophosphorylase (GMP; ManC) which uses GTP and mannose-1-phosphate as substrates. Phosphomannomutase (PMM; ManB) converts mannose-6-phosphate to mannose-1-phosphate. S. coelicolor strains with knocked down GMP activity or with a mutation in sco3028 encoding PMM acquire phenotypes that resemble those of the ppm1-mutants i.e. φC31 resistant and susceptible to antibiotics. Differences in the phenotypes of the strains were observed, however. While the ppm1-strains have a small colony phenotype, the sco3028 :: Tn5062 mutants had an extremely small colony phenotype indicative of an even greater growth defect. Moreover we were unable to generate a strain in which GMP activity encoded by sco3039 and sco4238 is completely knocked out, indicating that GMP is also an important enzyme for growth. Possibly GDP-mannose is at a metabolic branch point that supplies alternative nucleotide sugar donors