Capturing the San Francisco Sound: Psychedelic Posters of the 1960s Counterculture

The heart of 1960s American counterculture was in San Francisco. Here a hub of different people blended to reject mainstream American values and prioritize experimentation, creativity, and a freer way of life. Through art, performance, drugs, light shows, fashion, and rock music, a psychedelic scene was created. Rock music became the center of the psychedelic scene, and the San Francisco sound was developed with a new subculture of rock called acid rock, or psychedelic rock, that empowered the counterculture. The bands that highlighted the San Francisco sound include Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, and Big Brother and the Holding Company. The counterculture movement has been largely documented through poster art that was mainly used to promote concerts. Artists like Victor Moscoso, Wes Wilson, Stanley Mouse, Alton Kelly, and Rick Griffin captured the characteristics of the 1960s counterculture in their poster art. I worked with many of these posters when archiving the William C. Miles Poster Archive, which contains original rock, drug, and political posters from the 1960s and 1970s. From the collection and my research, I have designed an exhibition that illustrates the characteristics of San Francisco’s counterculture in the 1960s, focusing on the San Francisco sound and the San Francisco Scene. This project answers the question: how can printed posters communicate aspects of the American counterculture of the 1960s in San Francisco, specifically the San Francisco Sound and the San Francisco Scene? Titled A Trip to 1967, the exhibit highlights topics like Big Brother and the Holding Company, Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead, the Summer of Love, the Acid Tests, psychedelics, Haight-Ashbury, the Monterey Pop Festival, protests, and the Vietnam War

Psychological Perspectives on Gender in Negotiation

A fundamental form of human interaction, negotiation is essential to the management of relationships, the coordination of paid and household labor, the distribution of resources, and the creation of economic value. Understanding the effects of gender on negotiation gives us important insights into how micro-level interactions contribute to larger social phenomena, such as gender gaps in pay and authority. Recent research on gender in negotiation has shown us how gender stereotypes constrain women from negotiating access to resources and opportunities through lowered performance expectations and gendered behavioral constraints. However, this widening research stream is also beginning to provide hints for how individuals and organizations can overcome these limitations to women’s negotiation potential. In this chapter, I provide a brief history of psychological research on gender in negotiation, starting with the study of gender-stereotypic personality attributions and transitioning to a more sophisticated analysis of the effects of gender stereotypes on negotiation behaviors and performance. I review contemporary research on gender in negotiation using two interrelated frameworks. The first outlines the ways in which gender stereotypes influence negotiation, the second outlines situational factors that help predict when gender effects are likely to emerge in negotiation. These include ambiguity, which facilitates the emergence of gender effects, and gender triggers, which influence the salience and relevance of gender within the negotiating context. Finally, I highlight practical implications of research on gender in negotiation and point to future research directions that could transform insights about barriers to women’s negotiation performance into positive levers for change

What Could A Leader Learn From A Mediator?: Dispute Resolution Strategies for Organizational Leadership

It is hard to imagine a leadership situation that is devoid of conflict or even what the function of leadership would be on an island of perpetual harmony where all parties shared a perfectly common vision of their objectives and how to achieve them. Many of leadership’s most important challenges are born of conflict— to build coalitions among divergent interests, forge consensus from discord, and transform destructive disagreement into constructive debates (Burns, 1978; Gardner, 1990; Selznick, 1957). We easily recognize effective leaders as expert negotiators as they confront and appeal to a multiplicity of interests to achieve their objectives (Lax & Sebenius, 1986; Neustadt, 1990; Raiffa, 1982). We less often recognize when leaders are acting as informal mediators or arbitrators of disputes. Yet, the activities of mediators and arbitrators overlap a great deal with the skills and responsibilities of leadership (Raiffa, 1983)

Legalizing Gay Sex

According to Lennon-Dearing and Delavaga (2015, p. 412), “there has been a dramatic increase in anti-lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" legislative initiatives in Canada within the last several years. This policy brief discusses the complexities and contradictions associated with the relationship of policy, laws and same-sex intercourse. Although there is no law in Canada prohibiting same-sex intercourse, there are many legal discriminations and criminal regulations that negatively influence the lives of members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer community (LGBTQ+) and other related communities in Canada (Smith, 2020). This brief is intended to direct Canadian Parliament in altering section 159 of the Criminal Code, which states the Legal Age of Consent for anal sex is 18 years old, "unless it is an act engaged in, in private, between husband and wife” (Library of Parliament, 2017; Smith, 2020). This is discriminatory towards the LGBTQ+ community because the Legal Age of Consent in Canada is 16 years old (Smith, 2020). This brief recommends removing section 159 from Canada’s Criminal Code, expungement of Criminal Records of those charged with offences related to anal intercourse, and education for policymakers on the LGBTQ+ communit

South Dakota Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Program: Using Teleaudiology to Conduct Infant Diagnostic Assessments

Teleaudiology allows patients and providers to bypass several economic and geographic barriers that impede the delivery and accessibility of audiological services. The South Dakota Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) program recognized this benefit and created a teleaudiology infrastructure for the diagnostic assessment of infants. Using a hub-and-spoke model, a certified pediatric audiologist at the hub site assesses infants located at two spoke sites in South Dakota. Remote control software applications are used to provide a synchronous method of service delivery. The audiologist’s test battery includes video otoscopy, tympanometry, and auditory brainstem response (ABR) testing. Since establishing the teleaudiology program, nine infant assessments have been completed. The South Dakota EHDI program will continue improving the teleaudiology project to ensure all infants in the state have access to pediatric audiological services

The gauge-relativity of quantum light, matter, and information

We describe the physical relativity of light and matter quantum subsystems, their correlations, and energy exchanges. We examine the most commonly adopted definitions of atoms and photons, noting the significant difference in their localisation properties when expressed in terms of primitive manifestly gauge-invariant and local fields. As a result, different behaviours for entanglement generation and energy exchange occur for different definitions. We explore such differences in detail using toy models of a single photonic mode interacting with one and two dipoles.Comment: This paper is an invited contribution to the Lindblad memorial volume in Open Systems and Information Dynamics. 33 pages, 6 figure

South Dakota Parents’ Knowledge of Congenital Cytomegalovirus, Its Long-Term Health Effects, and Methods for Minimizing Exposure

Congenital CMV (cCMV) is acknowledged as one of the most common causes of nonhereditary sensorineural hearing loss and an important cause of neurodevelopmental delay in children. Despite the danger cCMV poses, many parents are unaware of the virus, its sequelae, mode of transmission, and preventative behaviors. The purpose of the study was to determine South Dakota parents’ knowledge of cCMV, its sequelae, and ways to minimize exposure. An electronic survey was utilized for data collection. Parents of children born in South Dakota from 2011 to 2018 were asked about their knowledge of CMV and cCMV, including common sequelae and ways to minimize exposure. Flyers were sent to randomly selected daycares and the link was posted on social media pages to advertise the electronic survey to South Dakota parents. After completing the survey, participants were directed to cCMV educational resources. Respondents were more knowledgeable regarding the sequelae of cCMV rather than its transmission process or ways in which viral exposure can be minimized. Results show that there remains a need for cCMV awareness in South Dakota, particularly with a large focus on preventative measures

Identifying the Role of Occupational Therapy in the Pediatric Palliative Care Team for Pediatric Cancer Patients

What is the role of occupational therapy in providing effective intervention during palliative care for pediatric cancer patients and their families during the transition to the end of life

Exceptional points in optical systems: A resonant-state expansion study

Exceptional points (EPs) in open optical systems are rigorously studied using the resonant-state expansion (RSE). A spherical resonator, specifically a homogeneous dielectric sphere in a vacuum, perturbed by two point-like defects which break the spherical symmetry and bring the optical modes to EPs, is used as a worked example. The RSE is a non-perturbative approach encoding the information about an open optical system in matrix form in a rigorous way, and thus offering a suitable tool for studying its EPs. These are simultaneous degeneracies of the eigenvalues and corresponding eigenfunctions of the system, which are rigorously described by the RSE and illustrated for perturbed whispering-gallery modes (WGMs). An exceptional arc, which is a line of adjacent EPs, is obtained analytically for perturbed dipolar WGMs. Perturbation of high-quality WGMs with large angular momentum and their EPs are found by reducing the RSE equation to a two-state problem by means of an orthogonal transformation of a large RSE matrix. WGM pairs of opposite chirality away from EPs are shown to have the same chirality at EPs. This chirality can be observed in circular dichroism measurements, as it manifested itself in a squared-Lorentzian part of the optical spectra, which we demonstrate here analytically and numerically in the Purcell enhancement factor for the perturbed dipolar WGMs.Comment: 24 pages. 13 figures (3 in Appendix). To be submitted in Physical Review A. Authors: K S Netherwood (primary author), H Riley (initial concept work), E A Muljarov (theme leader

Investigation of damage and repair of masonry piers affected by fire in the church of Santa Maria del Mar in Barcelona

The proposed thesis will involve the study of the damaged condition of the masonry piers of Santa Maria del Mar church, in Barcelona, damaged by a severe fire produced in 1035. The student will carry out a detailed inspection of the piers and will investigate the real conditions and needs for repair.Incomin