New women, new opportunities : the new women of Chicago's World's Fairs, 1893-1934.

World's fairs, also referred to as international expositions, offer historians insight into a nation's society, populace, economy, and industry. Yet, literature in the field has made little effort to fully analyze the specific roles individuals or groups held within the expositions. The neglected groups are occasionally mentioned in articles, research papers, master's theses, doctoral dissertations, and monographs only when such information either supports their arguments or adds to the narrative. Specifically, historians have halfheartedly analyzed women's roles in world's fairs, with few exceptions. This thesis fills those gaps observed in its first chapter and examines the women who managed, exhibited, and performed at world's fairs in Chicago, Illinois, between 1893 and 1934. An analysis of the World's Columbian Exposition (1893), the Woman's World's Fairs (1925-1928), and the Century of Progress Exposition (1933-1934), produces a correlation between women's representation within the fairs and the evolution of the new woman in the United States. This correlation materializes within the second, third, and fourth chapters of New Women, New Opportunities. An examination of the new woman, women's rights, and the Woman's World's Fairs (1925-1928) presents a timeline that guides chapters three and four in their analysis of women's roles in the World's Columbian Exposition and the Century of Progress Exposition, respectively. Within the 1893 Columbian Exposition, the Board of Lady Managers regulated the image of the new woman and stifled other representations through control of women's sole exhibition space, the Woman's Building. Without such a governing body, women involved in management, exhibition, and performance at the Century of Progress Exposition freely expressed and enforced their personal ideal new woman. This thesis proclaims that the central factor contributing to the evolution of the new woman between 1893 and 1933 was autonomy, both from the government and from one another. This narrative revolutionizes the study of women's rights and further emphasizes the important role that international expositions, specifically those within Chicago, played in the history of the United States. Furthermore, it claims that an examination of women within these international expositions produces a complementary or supplemental narrative for the women's rights movement. It concludes with the assertion that both women's and world's fair scholarship require at least a basic analysis of the correlation between the new woman and world's fairs in Chicago between 1893 and 1934 in order to fully comprehend the influence the expositions had on one of the most significant social and political reform movements in the United States

Investigating the Role and Origin of Goldberry in Tolkien\u27s Mythology

Leads us to Goldberry through possible sources in classical and Celtic legend, and emphasizes her role in awakening the hobbits to the sustaining beauty of the world. Considers Goldberry as an Eve-like figure

A focus on ethics and researcher wellbeing

This chapter is primarily about the ethics of researcher care where victim-survivors are participants and/or researchers, but has wider implications for researcher wellbeing in any research area (e.g. by addressing researcher stress and need for long-term career development). Ethical procedures have substantially improved over the last three decades, such that university ethics committees now adopt independent peer review, provide standardized information, and offer template documentation (e.g. consent forms). Despite this, we continue to find ourselves arguing for enhanced support to maintain participants’ and researchers’ wellbeing. In this chapter, we have come together as victim-survivors and/or researchers/supervisors, to review the utility of existing ethical guidance for researcher wellbeing. We talk candidly about our own needs as researchers/supervisors, to develop a protocol (not one-size-fits-all) for moving forward ethically in this field. The authors have supported vulnerable people, campaigned for change, and/or researched gender-based violence (for example Bloomfield-Utting, 2018; Ballantyne, 2004; Skinner and Taylor, 2009; Smith and Skinner, 2017). Our research involves qualitative and quantitative work with victim-survivors (interviews, questionnaires, secondary data), support services (Sexual Assault Referral Centers, Rape Crisis, Independent Domestic Violence Advisors, Independent Sexual Violence Advisors), and criminal justice institutions (police, trial observations, probation)

An Innovative Approach to Pharmacy Law Education Utilizing a Mock Board of Pharmacy Meeting

A thorough understanding of pharmacy law by students is important in the molding of future pharmacy practitioners, but a standardized template for the best way to educate students in this area has not been created. A mock Board of Pharmacy meeting was designed and incorporated into the Pharmacy Law course at the University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy. Students acted as Board of Pharmacy members and utilized technology to decide outcomes of cases and requests addressed in a typical 2 day Tennessee Board of Pharmacy meeting. The actual responses to those cases, as well as similar cases and requests addressed over a 5 year period, were revealed to students after they made motions on mock scenarios. The mock Board of Pharmacy meeting engages the students in a way that lectures alone often fail to achieve with some initial evidence of successful student learning. Utilizing this teaching format as a law education tool challenges the status quo of pharmacy education and may serve as an impetus and catalyst for future innovations. Conflict of Interest We declare no conflicts of interest or financial interests that the authors or members of their immediate families have in any product or service discussed in the manuscript, including grants (pending or received), employment, gifts, stock holdings or options, honoraria, consultancies, expert testimony, patents, and royalties. Dr. Wang’s time was partly supported by the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R01AG040146 and R01AG049696. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.   Type: Idea Pape

Weaving Indigenous knowledge systems and Western sciences in terrestrial research, monitoring and management in Canada: A protocol for a systematic map

Human activities and development have contributed to declines in biodiversity across the globe.Understanding and addressing biodiversity loss will require the mobilization of diverse knowledge systems. While calls for interdisciplinary practices in environmental research date back decades, there has been a more recent push for weaving multiple knowledge systems in environmental research and management, specifically Indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) and Western sciences. The use of multiple knowledge systems in environmental research can improve understanding of socio-ecological connections, build trust in research findings and help implement evidence-based action towards biodiversity conservation. Mobilizing multiple types of knowledge in environmental research and management can be beneficial; however, challenges remain. There is a need to understand how and where studies have woven IKS and Western sciences together in order to learn about frameworks and processes used, and identify best practices. Here, we present a protocol for a systematic map that will examine the extent, range and nature of the published literature that weaves IKS and Western sciences in terrestrial ecosystems research, monitoring and management in Canada. The systematic map will aim to capture all available and relevant studies found in the published academic and grey literature. The search will use standardized search terms across four publication databases, four specialized websites and one web-based search engine. Bibliographies of relevant review articles captured by our search strategy will be cross-checked to identify additional studies. Calls for evidence among professional networks will also complement the search strategy. All searches will be conducted in English. Search results will be reviewed in two stages: (1) title and abstract and (2) full text. All screening decisions at the full-text stage will be included into the map database. The systematic map will use a narrative synthesis approach employing descriptive tables, statistics and figures (including a map with geospatially referenced studies) to summarize findings. Results from this mapping exercise can serve to support environmental research and management efforts working across IKS and Western sciences by highlighting best practices, as well as evidence gaps

Concert recording 2017-04-26

[Track 1]. Fantazia / Orlando Gibbons arranged by Fred Hemke -- [Track 2-3]. Quartette (Allegro de concert) / Caryl Florio -- [Track 4]. O magnum mysterium / Morten Lauridsen arranged by Chase Shumsky -- [Track 5]. Petite symphonie. Scherzo / Charles Gounod arranged by Aaron M. Durst -- [Track 6]. Grainger set. Mock Morris / Percy Aldridge Grainger arranged by Gary Bricault -- [Track 7]. Grainger set. Two British folk settings. I. Mo nighean dubh [Track 8]. II. The hunter in his career / Percy Aldridge Grainger arranged by Chalon Ragsdale -- [Track 9]. Molly on the shore / Percy Aldridge Grainger arranged by Jacques Larocque -- [Track 10]. The great gate of Kiev / Modest Mussorgsky and Maurice Ravel arranged by B.L. Bruske

Thermochronologic constraints on the late Cenozoic exhumation history of the Gurla Mandhata metamorphic core complex, Southwestern Tibet

This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2013TC003302/abstractHow the Tibetan plateau is geodynamically linked to the Himalayas is a topic receiving considerable attention. The Karakoram fault plays key roles in describing the structural relationship between southern Tibet and the Himalayas. In particular, considerable debate exists at the southeastern end of the Karakoram fault, where its role is interpreted in two different ways. One interpretation states that slip along the dextral Karakoram fault extends eastward along the Indus-Yalu suture zone, bypassing the Himalayas. The other interprets that fault slip is fed southward into the Himalayan thrust belt along the Gurla Mandhata detachment (GMD). To evaluate these competing models, the late Miocene history of the GMD was reconstructed from thermokinematic modeling of zircon (U-Th)/He data. Three east-west transects reveal rapid cooling of the GMD footwall from 8.0 ± 1.3 Ma to 2.6 ± 0.7 Ma. Model simulations show a southward decrease in slip magnitude and rate along the GMD. In the north, initiation of the GMD range between 14 and 11 Ma with a mean fault slip rate of 5.0 ± 0.9 mm/yr. The central transect shows an initiation age from 14 to 11 Ma with a mean fault slip rate of 3.3 ± 0.6 mm/yr. In the south, initiation began between 15 and 8 Ma with a mean fault slip rate of 3.2 ± 1.6 mm/yr. The initiation ages and slip rates match the Karakoram fault across several timescales, supporting the idea that the two are kinematically linked. Specifically, the data are consistent with the GMD acting as an extensional stepover, with slip transferred southward into the Himalayas of western Nepal

Implementation of customer relationship management and inventory control software: a multiple case study of small retailers

Gemstone Team Small Business SolutionsThis study examines the impact of customer relationship management and inventory control software on small retail stores. Our team began by conducting a literature review, retailer-needs surveys, and product design interviews. We determined that small retailers have a need for a simple reminder system to assist in tracking customers and inventory. We then designed software to address these needs and tested it in two case study stores. We also conducted a systematic review of other case studies of software implementation in small businesses and identified ten factors that influence small business adoption of software. The five factors that influenced the failure to implement the system in these stores were consistent with the framework identified in the systematic review. The identified factors are relative advantages of the system compared to competitor products, compatibility with existing applications, the user's computer self-efficacy, ease-of-use of the system, and store owners' attitude toward information technology