Letter to Mary Oliver regarding the Law Library Journal, July 15, 1954

A letter from William Stern to Mary Oliver regarding the publication of Chapter member news in the Law Library Journal

Sexual Objectification in a Culture of Honor

The sexual assault of women by men is one of the most important issues facing the modern world. Previous research has identified that women in some regions of the world, home to the norms and beliefs commonly termed a “culture of honor,” experience more sexual assaults and less support in the face of such an experience. This trend indicates that men who endorse the ideology of a culture of honor are more likely to sexually objectify, and potentially assault, women. The purpose of this research is to establish the relationship between honor ideology and sexual objectification, as well as investigate potential mediators of that relationship. Three studies were run examining these variables from self-report data obtained from college (Studies 1 and 2) and Amazon Mechanical Turk (Study 3) samples. Study 1 established that there is a positive relationship between honor ideology and sexual objectification, and that sexual objectification mediates the relationship between honor ideology and attitudes about sexual violence toward women. Studies 2 and 3 explored potential mediators of the link between honor ideology and sexual objectification. Study 2 examined patriarchal beliefs alone as a potential mediator, while Study 3 looked at the relative mediating effects of patriarchal beliefs and concern for reputation in the same model. Study 2 and 3 established that patriarchal beliefs significantly mediates the relationship between honor ideology and sexual objectification, even when the effect of concern for reputation is considered. Study 3 indicated that concern for reputation does not significantly mediate the relationship between honor ideology and sexual objectification when the effect of patriarchal beliefs is considered

Letter to Sarah Leverette regarding SEAALL Annual Meeting, March 6, 1969

A letter from William Stern to Sarah Leverette responding to Leverette\u27s invite to the SEAALL Annual Meeting

Letter to Mary Oliver regarding the Law Library Journal, 1954

A letter from William Stern to Mary Oliver regarding the publication of the Carolinas Chapter of AALL annual report in the Law Library Journal

Letter to Sarah Leverette regarding SEAALL Annual Meeting, March 28, 1969

A letter from William Stern to Sarah Leverette thanking Leverette for answering his queries concerning the invite extended to him for the SEAALL Annual Meeting

Letter to Oscar Miller regarding SWAALL resolutions, September 23, 1969

A letter from William Stern to Oscar Miller providing Stern\u27s thoughts on several resolutions produced by SWAALL and adopted by SEAALL

Integration of a RSI microstructure sensing package into a Seaglider

Seagliders are a type of propeller-less AUV that glide through the water by changing their buoyancy. They have become mainstream collectors of standard oceanographic data (conductivity, temperature, pressure, dissolved oxygen, fluorescence and backscatter) and are increasingly used as trucks to carry a wide variety of hydrographic and bio-geochemical sensors. The extended sensor capability enhances the utility of the gliders for oceanographic observations. Seagliders are designed and optimized for long-term missions (up to 10 months) and deep sea profiling (up to 1000 m). They provide high resolution oceanographic data with very good temporal and spatial density, in near real-time, at a fraction of the cost of ship collected data. These performance parameters are sometimes at odds with the physical dimensions and electrical requirements of the hydrographic and bio-geochemical sensors scientists want installed in gliders. However, as the acceptance of gliders as an integral component of the oceanographic suite of measurement tools grows so do the efforts of sensor vendors to develop products that meet the size, weight and power requirements for successful glider integration. Turbulence microstructure sensors are one measurement system that scientists desired on Seagliders but that until recently did not fit the glider footprint. In collaboration with Rockland Scientific, Inc., a suite of RSI turbulence microstructure sensors was recently integrated into a Seaglider and the system’s performance validated during field tests in Puget Sound near Seattle, WA and in Loch Linnhe on the west coast of Scotland. Ocean turbulence controls the mixing of water masses, biogeochemical fluxes within them, and facilitates ocean-atmosphere gas exchange. As a result, turbulence impacts global ocean circulation, polar ice melt rates, drawdown of atmospheric carbon dioxide and carbon deposition, coastal and deep ocean ecology, commercial fisheries, and the dispersion of pollutants. Turbulent mixing is also recognized as a key parameter in global climate models, used for understanding and predicting future climate change. Seagliders equipped with turbulence microstructure sensors will allow scientists to map the geographical distribution and temporal variability of mixing in the ocean on scales not possible with ship-based measurements. This presentation discusses the technical aspects of the integration of the turbulence sensor suite on a Seaglider with an emphasis on achieving high data quality, while retaining the performance characteristics of the Seaglider. We will also describe applications for this sensor suite, examine the turbulence measurement data already collected by the Seaglider and discuss future deployment plans

A PI3K-mediated negative feedback regulates Drosophila motor neuron excitability

Negative feedback can act as a homeostatic mechanism to maintain neuronal activity at a particular specified value. At the Drosophila neuromuscular junction, a mutation in the type II metabotropic glutamate receptor gene (mGluRA) increased motor neuron excitability by disrupting an autocrine, glutamate-mediated negative feedback. We show that mGluRA mutations increase neuronal excitability by preventing PI3 kinase (PI3K) activation and consequently hyperactivating the transcription factor Foxo. Furthermore, glutamate application increases levels of phospho-Akt, a product of PI3K signaling, within motor nerve terminals in an mGluRA-dependent manner. In humans, PI3K and type II mGluRs are implicated in epilepsy, neurofibromatosis, autism, schizophrenia and other neurological disorders; however, neither the link between type II mGluRs and PI3K, nor the role of Foxo in the control of neuronal excitability, had been previously reported. Our work suggests that some of the deficits in these neurological disorders might result from disruption of glutamate-mediated homeostasis of neuronal excitability