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Doing gender and development: understanding empowerment and local gender relations
A major dilemma in Gender and Development (GAD) work is why it is that sometimes women may feel better off colluding with gendered structures that ensure their continued subordination rather than seeking approaches that will allow them to break free of this. Kandiyoti (1988 Gender and Society 2 274-90) has identified this apparent collusion as 'patriarchal bargains', which offer women greater advantages than they perceive can be achieved by challenging the prevailing order. Such women are therefore reluctant to engage in empowering activities that may challenge their gendered bargain. This paper explains this dilemma in the context of GAD work undertaken with Bedouin women in Southern Egypt
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The swept angle retarding mass spectrometer: Initial results from the Michigan auroral probe sounding rocket
Data from a sounding rocket flight of the swept angle retarding ion mass spectrometer (SARIMS) are presented to demonstrate the capability of the instrument to make measurements of thermal ions which are differential in angle, energy, and mass. The SARIMS was flown on the Michigan auroral probe over regions characterized first by discrete auroral arcs and later by diffuse precipitation. The instrument measured the temperature, densities, and flow velocities of the ions NO(+) and O(+). Measured NO(+) densities ranged from 10 to the 5th power up to 3 x 10 to the 5th power ions/cu cm, while the measured O(+) densities were a factor of 5-10 less. Ion temperatures ranged from 0.15 up to 0.33 eV. Eastward ion flows approximately 0.5 km/sec were measured near the arcs, and the observed flow magnitude decreased markedly inside the arcs
Communications technology satellite output-tube design and development
The design and development of a 200-watt-output, traveling-wave tube (TWT) for the Communications Technology Satellite (CTS) is discussed, with emphasis on the design evolution during the manufacturing phase of the development program. Possible further improvements to the tube design are identified
The biomechanical role of the chondrocranium and sutures in a lizard cranium
The role of soft tissues in skull biomechanics remains poorly understood. Not least, the chondrocranium, the portion of the braincase which persists as cartilage with varying degrees of mineralization. It also remains commonplace to overlook the biomechanical role of sutures despite evidence that they alter strain distribution. Here, we examine the role of both the sutures and the chondrocranium in the South American tegu lizard Salvator merianae. We use multi-body dynamics analysis (MDA) to provide realistic loading conditions for anterior and posterior unilateral biting and a detailed finite element model to examine strain magnitude and distribution. We find that strains within the chondrocraniumare greatest during anterior biting and are primarily tensile; also that strain within the cranium is not greatly reduced by the presence of the chondrocraniumunless it is given the same material properties as bone. This result contradicts previous suggestions that the anterior portion (the nasal septum) acts as a supporting structure. Inclusion of sutures to the cranium model not only increases overall strain magnitudes but also leads to a more complex distribution of tension and compression rather than that of a beam under sagittal bending
Electrometer system measures nanoamps at high voltage
Floating electrometer eliminates major source of error since any leakage from electrometer case, which is at high voltage, appears only as load on high voltage supply and not as part of current being measured. Commands to and data from floating electrometer are transferred across high voltage interface by means of optical channels
Unsung heroes: who supports social work students on placement?
Since the introduction of the three year degree programme in 2003, social work education has undergone a number of significant changes. The time students spend on placement has been increased to two hundred days, and the range of placement opportunities and the way in which these placements have been configured has significantly diversified. A consistent feature over the years, however, has been the presence of a Practice Educator (PE) who has guided, assessed and taught the student whilst on placement. Unsurprisingly, the role of the PE and the pivotal relationship they have with the student has been explored in the past and features in social work literature.
This paper, however, concentrates on a range of other relationships which are of significance in providing support to students on placement. In particular it draws on research to discuss the role of the university contact tutor, the place of the wider team in which the student is sited, and the support offered by family, friends and others.
Placements and the work undertaken by PEâs will continue to be integral to the delivery of social work education. It is, however, essential to recognise and value the often over looked role of others in providing support to students on placement
Identifying aspects of temporal orientation in studentsâ moral reflections
History education comprises moral issues and moral aspects, often perceived as an important and meaning-making foundation that makes learning relevant and interesting. The interrelationship between time layers fuels historical
interpretations and facilitates perceptions of moral issues. This article focuses on a study investigating how secondary school students express inter-temporal relationships in encounters with a morally challenging historical event, which for the participants would have been a moral dilemma. Using historical consciousness as the theoretical framework, a matrix linking two prominent theoretical models
â Jörn RĂŒsenâs (2004) types of narratives and Ann Chinneryâs (2013) strands of
historical consciousness â was developed to analyse and categorize secondary
school studentsâ expressions of temporal orientation. To carry out the research, 15-year-old Finnish and Swedish students read an excerpt from Christopher
Browningâs (2017) book Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (originally published in 1992). The students answered and
discussed open-ended questions regarding the relevance of the text to their lives and othersâ lives, and the applicability of this historical situation to Europe now
and in the future. Using this empirical material, the analysis provides a tentative overarching depiction of studentsâ expressions of temporal orientation, and reports on findings of how temporal orientations relate to moral reflection
Identifying aspects of temporal orientation in studentsâ moral reflections
History education comprises moral issues and moral aspects, often perceived
as an important and meaning-making foundation that makes learning relevant
and interesting. The interrelationship between time layers fuels historical
interpretations and facilitates perceptions of moral issues. This article focuses
on a study investigating how secondary school students express inter-temporal
relationships in encounters with a morally challenging historical event, which for
the participants would have been a moral dilemma. Using historical consciousness
as the theoretical framework, a matrix linking two prominent theoretical models
â Jörn RĂŒsenâs (2004) types of narratives and Ann Chinneryâs (2013) strands of
historical consciousness â was developed to analyse and categorize secondary
school studentsâ expressions of temporal orientation. To carry out the research,
15-year-old Finnish and Swedish students read an excerpt from Christopher
Browningâs (2017) book Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final
Solution in Poland (originally published in 1992). The students answered and
discussed open-ended questions regarding the relevance of the text to their lives and othersâ lives, and the applicability of this historical situation to Europe now
and in the future. Using this empirical material, the analysis provides a tentative
overarching depiction of studentsâ expressions of temporal orientation, and reports on findings of how temporal orientations relate to moral reflection
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