Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania

Photographs of the Bryn Mawr College campus.https://repository.brynmawr.edu/bmc_books/1003/thumbnail.jp

Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania

Photographs of the Bryn Mawr College campus.https://repository.brynmawr.edu/bmc_books/1003/thumbnail.jp

Personnel management in department stores in eastern Canada

Thesis (M.B.A.)--Boston Universit

A Linguistic Analysis of the Lyrics of Frequently Sung Hymns of Three Protestant Congregations

A monograph presented to the faculty of the Department of English at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Marjorie A. B. Thompson in January of 1972

A study of certain home-background factors in relation to the social adjustment and leadership activities of Kansas State University freshman women

Call number: LD2668 .R4 1964 T47

Rich Intercultural Music Engagement Enhances Cultural Understanding: The Impact of Learning a Musical Instrument Outside of One’s Lived Experience

Rich intercultural music engagement (RIME) is an embodied form of engagement whereby individuals immerse themselves in foreign musical practice, for example, by learning a traditional instrument from that culture. The present investigation evaluated whether RIME with Chinese or Middle Eastern music can nurture intercultural understanding. White Australian participants were randomly assigned to one of two plucked-string groups: Chinese pipa (n = 29) or Middle Eastern oud (n = 29). Before and after the RIME intervention, participants completed measures of ethnocultural empathy, tolerance, social connectedness, explicit and implicit attitudes towards ethnocultural groups, and open-ended questions about their experience. Following RIME, White Australian participants reported a significant increase in ethnocultural empathy, tolerance, feelings of social connection, and improved explicit and implicit attitudes towards Chinese and Middle Eastern people. However, these benefits differed between groups. Participants who learned Chinese pipa reported reduced bias and increased social connectedness towards Chinese people, but not towards Middle Eastern people. Conversely, participants who learned Middle Eastern oud reported a significant increase in social connectedness towards Middle Eastern people, but not towards Chinese people. This is the first experimental evidence that participatory RIME is an effective tool for understanding a culture other than one’s own, with the added potential to reduce cultural bias.</p

Nanosecond pulsed electric field thresholds for nanopore formation in neural cells.

The persistent influx of ions through nanopores created upon cellular exposure to nanosecond pulse electric fields (nsPEF) could be used to modulate neuronal function. One ion, calcium (Ca(2+)), is important to action potential firing and regulates many ion channels. However, uncontrolled hyper-excitability of neurons leads to Ca(2+) overload and neurodegeneration. Thus, to prevent unintended consequences of nsPEF-induced neural stimulation, knowledge of optimum exposure parameters is required. We determined the relationship between nsPEF exposure parameters (pulse width and amplitude) and nanopore formation in two cell types: rodent neuroblastoma (NG108) and mouse primary hippocampal neurons (PHN). We identified thresholds for nanoporation using Annexin V and FM1-43, to detect changes in membrane asymmetry, and through Ca(2+) influx using Calcium Green. The ED50 for a single 600 ns pulse, necessary to cause uptake of extracellular Ca(2+), was 1.76  kV/cm for NG108 and 0.84  kV/cm for PHN. At 16.2  kV/cm, the ED50 for pulse width was 95 ns for both cell lines. Cadmium, a nonspecific Ca(2+) channel blocker, failed to prevent Ca(2+) uptake suggesting that observed influx is likely due to nanoporation. These data demonstrate that moderate amplitude single nsPEF exposures result in rapid Ca(2+) influx that may be capable of controllably modulating neurological function

The Iowa Homemaker vol.18, no.6

A College Girl’s Creed by Ruth Jensen, page 1 Tea Timing in Taste by Harriet Beyer, page 2 You and I and Radio by Berniece Williams, page 3 Your Fortune in Fashion by Ruth Hubley Thayer, page 4 Flashes from the Field of Research by Myrtle Campbell, page 5 From Cellulose to Satin by Audrey Wells, page 6 Sally Suggests Wardrobe Resolutions by Barbara Field, page 7 What’s New in Home Economics edited by Marjorie Pettinger, page 8 Good Light for Good Sight by Virginia Thompson, page 10 Centerpiece Styles by Nancy Fifield, page 11 Explore Your Vocation by Helen Greene, page 12 Alums in the News by Grace Strohmeier, page 13 Behind Bright Jackets edited by Winnifred Cannon, page 14 Does Your Vocabulary Date You? by Eleanor White, page 15 Keeping Posted by the editor, page 1

Use of sonic tomography to detect and quantify wood decay in living trees.

Premise of the studyField methodology and image analysis protocols using acoustic tomography were developed and evaluated as a tool to estimate the amount of internal decay and damage of living trees, with special attention to tropical rainforest trees with irregular trunk shapes.Methods and resultsLiving trunks of a diversity of tree species in tropical rainforests in the Republic of Panama were scanned using an Argus Electronic PiCUS 3 Sonic Tomograph and evaluated for the amount and patterns of internal decay. A protocol using ImageJ analysis software was used to quantify the proportions of intact and compromised wood. The protocols provide replicable estimates of internal decay and cavities for trees of varying shapes, wood density, and bark thickness.ConclusionsSonic tomography, coupled with image analysis, provides an efficient, noninvasive approach to evaluate decay patterns and structural integrity of even irregularly shaped living trees