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Grassroots Impacts on the Civil Rights Movement: Christian Women Leaders’ Contributions to the Paradigm Shift in the Tactics of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Its Affiliates
This dissertation examines the historical factors that built grassroots movements during the civil rights era of the United States. These movements were produced by Christian women leaders, and they influenced a crucial transition in the leadership of the civil rights movement. Through their training and mobilizing tactics, women civil rights leaders utilized grassroots leadership to help major civil rights organizations, such as SCLC, SNCC, CORE, COFO, and the NAACP, work closely with local black people in the South who struggled with their underprivileged circumstances. This project investigates the key role of the grassroots leadership of Christian women leaders, which led civil rights leaders to learn how to train and work together with local black people to desegregate voter registration and which drove their voting rights movement to succeed in achieving the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The nationwide successes of the Birmingham Campaign, the Freedom Summer Project, the St. Augustine Movement, and the Selma to Montgomery marches were essentially based on the Citizenship School, and Christian women leaders trained the major civil rights activists of these movements. This dissertation identifies the contributions of the women leaders’ Citizenship School as key to these successes during the civil rights movement
Enumeration of the BranchedmZp-Coverings of Closed Surfaces
AbstractIn this paper, we enumerate the equivalence classes of regular branched coverings of surfaces whose covering transformation groups are the direct sum of m copies of Zp, p prime
Svjetski dan zdravlja 2006 (World Health Day 2006)
Svjetski dan zdravlja 2006. pruža nam priliku da proslavimo važan doprinos zdravstvenih djelatnika ljudskom zdravlju i razvoju. Š irom svijeta, nacionalni zdravstveni sustavi se suočavaju s teškoćama obrazovanja, održavanja i zadržavanja zdravstvenih djelatnika. U razvijenim zemljama, kako populacija stari i sve su prisutnije kronične bolesti, postoji stalno rastuća potreba za zdravstvenim djelatnicima. Ta potreba se sve više popunjava regrutiranjem obučenih radnika iz zemalja u razvoju, a taj trend povećava manjak zdravstvene radne snage u tim zemljama
Svjetski dan zdravlja 2006 (World Health Day 2006)
Svjetski dan zdravlja 2006. pruža nam priliku da proslavimo važan doprinos zdravstvenih djelatnika ljudskom zdravlju i razvoju. Š irom svijeta, nacionalni zdravstveni sustavi se suočavaju s teškoćama obrazovanja, održavanja i zadržavanja zdravstvenih djelatnika. U razvijenim zemljama, kako populacija stari i sve su prisutnije kronične bolesti, postoji stalno rastuća potreba za zdravstvenim djelatnicima. Ta potreba se sve više popunjava regrutiranjem obučenih radnika iz zemalja u razvoju, a taj trend povećava manjak zdravstvene radne snage u tim zemljama
Multiband perfect absorbers using metal-dielectric films with optically dense medium for angle and polarization insensitive operation
The cavity resonant properties of planar metal-dielectric layered structures with optically dense dielectric media are studied with the aim of realizing omnidirectional and polarization-insensitive operation. The angle-dependent coupling between free-space and cavity modes are revealed to be a key leverage factor in realizing nearly perfect absorbers well-matched to a wide range of incidence angles. We establish comprehensive analyses of the relationship between the structural and optical properties by means of theoretical modeling with numerical simulation results. The presented work is expected to provide a simple and cost-effective solution for light absorption and detection applications that exploit planar metal-dielectric optical devices
Proteome-Level Responses of Escherichia coli to Long-Chain Fatty Acids and Use of Fatty Acid Inducible Promoter in Protein Production
In Escherichia coli, a
long-chain acyl-CoA is a regulatory
signal that modulates gene expression
through its binding to a transcription
factor FadR. In this study,
comparative proteomic analysis of
E. coli in the presence
of glucose and oleic acid was
performed to understand cell
physiology in response to oleic acid.
Among total of 52 proteins showing
altered expression levels with oleic
acid presence, 9 proteins including
AldA, Cdd, FadA, FadB, FadL, MalE,
RbsB, Udp, and YccU were newly
synthesized. Among the genes that were
induced by oleic acid, the promoter of
the aldA gene was used
for the production of a green
fluorescent protein (GFP). Analysis of
fluorescence intensities and confocal
microscopic images revealed that
soluble GFP was highly expressed under
the control of the aldA
promoter. These results suggest that
proteomics is playing an important
role not only in biological research
but also in various biotechnological
applications
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