Electrodeless electrolysis of solid electrolytes Semiannual progress report, 1 Nov. 1967 - 31 May 1968

Glow discharge electrolysis of fused electrolyte

Electron beam electrolysis Second quarterly status report, Feb. 15 - May 15, 1966

Electron beam technique and its application to electrolysis of solid salts and ceramic

Hybridity, Identity and Global Music: A review of Cultural Globalization: A User’s Guide

A review by Margaretha Geertsema, Butler University, of the book Cultural Globalization: A User\u27s Guide by J. Macgregor Wise

Gender and the Digital Economy: Perspectives from the Developing World

Editors Cecilia Ng and Swasti Mitter address an important and timely topic in their new book. The book sets out to do exactly what the title says; the authors interrogate the participation of women in the Information and Communication Technologys (ICTs) industry, particularly in developing countries. As the editors point out in the introduction, there are concerns that globalization will increase inequalities and asymmetrical power relationships between the rich and the poor. Yet, they are quite optimistic about the potential enabling power of new technologies

Challenging the Lion in its Den: Dilemmas of Gender and Media Activism in South Africa

Media activism groups work to bring about change in the mainstream media, but their gains are often limited. Drawing on theories of the political function of news in a democracy, media sociology, and feminism, this article focuses on the specific experience of Gender Links, a Southern African gender and media organization founded in 2001. An analysis of institutional materials and 25 in-depth interviews shows that Gender Links is using a professional-technical approach to feminist media activism that is insufficient in bringing about deep and long-term change on an ideological level. It is suggested that Gender Links could benefit from more emphasis on political and countercultural approaches. The research also highlights some of the other dilemmas posed by issues related to funding, networking, the grassroots, press freedom, the profit motive, and the strong backlash from a patriarchal culture

Gender Mainstreaming in Journalism Education

In a time of swift technological changes in the news media, much of journalism education is focused on preparing students for careers in a new media landscape instead of focusing on gender or other diversity issues. For example, Pavlik (2013, p.213) argued in a recent article that a curriculum that ‘emphasized innovation and digital media entrepreneurship is one of the keys to a robust professional future for the field and students seeking a media career’. Even so, Pavlik (2013, p.217) recognised that most programmes in media education are holding on to an outdated professional model of journalism and mass communication, which he described as ‘a nostalgic journey to the past,’ and ‘a view aligned to the mostly white, male and gray-bearded titans of old-school media’. Pavlik (2013) did state, though, that entrepreneurial journalism education, as compared to traditional journalism education, provides the opportunity for more diversity in news content

Stoking the Research Fire: Three Views

Most academics are fired up for research right after graduate school, but after a few years on the job, the flame might wane. Perhaps you are over-burdened with service or administration and can\u27t imagine finding time for a research project. Budget cuts may have you feeling overworked or uninspired. Perhaps you\u27ve achieved your goal of becoming tenured and you wonder what comes next. The purpose of this collection of essays, presented originally at a 2011 midwinter conference, is to share ways to stoke a passion for research. The perspectives included here represent three stages of academic life: tenure-track assistant professor, tenured associate professor, and full professor

Defying Borders: Transforming Learning Through Collaborative Feminist Organizing and Interdisciplinary, Transnational Pedagogy

The authors provide a case study of how a group of faculty members was able to initiate a transformation in student learning and institutional structures at a small university in the Midwestern U.S. through the introduction of collaborative feminist organizing and pedagogy. It details faculty-led initiatives that set the stage for innovative teaching and learning, and it describes the authors\u27 experience in the face of resistance when introducing a global women\u27s human rights course into the university\u27s new core curriculum. Because of its divers, interdisciplinary and transnational content, this course challenged deeply ingrained disciplinary and pedagogical borders of both traditional area studies and the field of history. The authors argue that progress toward diverse curricula can be made when colleagues work collaboratively and apply innovative pedagogical models to the classroom. Although specific to one university, these challenges to and strategies for transformation have broader application to all faculty seeking to diversify curricula and institutions

A Novel Pipeline for Targeting Breast Cancer Patients on Twitter for Clinical Trial Recruitment

Background and Preliminary Exploration: Breast cancer is the leading form of cancer in women, estimated to reach the incidence rate of 246,660 in 2016 in the US population. Scientist have developed new therapies for mitigating the disease and side effects in recent years through conducting randomized clinical trials as the gold standard clinical research method. However, recruiting individuals into clinical trials including breast cancer patients has remained a significant challenge. Our preliminary analysis on ClinicalTrial.gov registry showed that the majority of terminated clinical trials were due to recruitment challenges. Out of 525 terminated trials on breast cancer patients registered in the database, 230 (43.8%) of the terminations happened due to low or slow accrual, 34 (6.5%) due to lack of funding, and 31 (5.9%) due to toxicity concerns. Objectives: In this study, we developed and assess a scalable framework to identify Twitter users who have breast cancer based on personal health mentions on Twitter. In fact, we are looking for “fingerprints” of patients’ health status on Twitter, a microblogging social networking service. This method could provide a new avenue for contacting potential study candidates for recruitment. Methods: We analyzed the tweets of users who were following at least one of the top 40 twitter accounts where breast cancer patients gather. The rationale behind this approach is that cancer patients are following certain Twitter accounts to access support from other patients, doctors, or healthcare institutions. Consequently, these top twitter accounts provide a central point in which to find actual patients with breast cancer. We retrieved users’ tweets from Twitter API, and processed through the framework to match cancer relevant words and phrases individually and in combinations (caner, benign, malignant, etc.), possessive terms (I, my, has, have, etc.), and supporting attributes (mass, tumor, hair loss, etc.) to determine if the user has been diagnosed with cancer. The performance of the pipeline was measured in terms of sensitivity and specificity of detecting actual breast cancer patients. Results: We retrieved 25,870,106 tweets of 40 cancer community followers on Twitter. After excluding “retweets” and non-related breast cancer messages, we selected 81,429 tweets for further processing. The developed text processing pipeline could find total of 462 tweets based on the predefined sets of rules, representing 218 unique users. Our new method of Twitter data retrieval and text processing could identify breast cancer patients with remarkable sensitivity of 88.7% and specificity of 91.0%