32 research outputs found
Size Doesn't Matter: Towards a More Inclusive Philosophy of Biology
notes: As the primary author, O’Malley drafted the paper, and gathered and analysed data (scientific papers and talks). Conceptual analysis was conducted by both authors.publication-status: Publishedtypes: ArticlePhilosophers of biology, along with everyone else, generally perceive life to fall into two broad categories, the microbes and macrobes, and then pay most of their attention to the latter. ‘Macrobe’ is the word we propose for larger life forms, and we use it as part of an argument for microbial equality. We suggest that taking more notice of microbes – the dominant life form on the planet, both now and throughout evolutionary history – will transform some of the philosophy of biology’s standard ideas on ontology, evolution, taxonomy and biodiversity. We set out a number of recent developments in microbiology – including biofilm formation, chemotaxis, quorum sensing and gene transfer – that highlight microbial capacities for cooperation and communication and break down conventional thinking that microbes are solely or primarily single-celled organisms. These insights also bring new perspectives to the levels of selection debate, as well as to discussions of the evolution and nature of multicellularity, and to neo-Darwinian understandings of evolutionary mechanisms. We show how these revisions lead to further complications for microbial classification and the philosophies of systematics and biodiversity. Incorporating microbial insights into the philosophy of biology will challenge many of its assumptions, but also give greater scope and depth to its investigations
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The Minority Women Employment Project: A Demonstration Program to Facilitate Entry of Managerial, Professional, and Technical Occupations
In February 1972, the Office of Research and Development, Manpower Administration funded a pilot project, the Black Women Employment Program, to determine if the outreach strategy utilized to place minority youths into building ·trades apprenticeship
could be adapted to help minority female college graduates break into nontraditional managerial, professional and technical occupations. In March 1973, a similar project was funded separately in Houston. In November 1974, the programs in Atlanta and Houston were consolidated as the Minority Women Employment Program of RTP, Inc. and.the project was replicated in five other sites: Dallas, New Orleans, Tulsa-Oklahoma City, Cincinnati-Dayton, and Los Angeles. This paper, a status report on the consolidation and expansion of the Minority Women Employment Program, provides a description of project objectives and procedures and draws conclusions and recommendations from operations to date.U.S. Department of LaborRay Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resource
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The Minority Women Employment Program - Houston: A Pilot Project to Demonstrate Techniques for Overcoming Barriers to Employment of Minority Women in White-Collar Jobs
The Minority Women Employment Program is a demonstration project to place minority female college graduates or those with equivalent experience into non-traditional managerial technical and professional occupations. In its second year of operation,
the project has shown dramatic improvement over its first year's performance. A total of 48 placements were made from March 15, 1974 through March 14, 1975--bringing the cumulative total for both contract years to 71. Having behind them the difficulties
of physical setup, staff training, coordination with the research component, and , establishing credibility with the Houston personnel officials, the MWEP-Houston is making headway in the Houston business community. Improvements were also reflected in the number of applicants generated. By February 20, 1975, 695 registrants were on file with MWEP-Houston, including approximately 50 Chicana females.U.S. Department of LaborRay Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resource
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The Minority Women Employment Program - Atlanta: A Pilot Project to Demonstrate Techniques for Overcoming Barriers to Employment of Minority Women in White Collar Jobs
The Minority Women Employment Program (formerly entitled Black Women Employment Program) has continued to place minority women into managerial, technical and professional positions. Despite the economic downturn in Atlanta and several major organizational and staff changes this year, 64 placements were made this year, bringing the total number of placements over three years of operation to 184. This year's record, an improvement over last year's performance, was also achieved
without any apparent decline in quality of job placements. This report provides a description of project operations and accomplishments during its third year of life.U.S. Department of LaborRay Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resource