The Intersection of Gender and Race in Adult Education Research

Across a fifteen year career, this researcher has labored to conduct research through a perspective that equally considered and honored gender and race, with an acceptance of the complex and often contested passion that recognized a universality to gender that is not consistent in the multifaceted system of race/racism. After an introduction of the two theoretical frames that have guided this researcher’s publications, this paper follows the progression of five exemplars chosen from over 100 publications: Women of Color in the Academy: Where’s Our Authority in the Classroom; Everyday Perspectives on Feminism: African American Women Speak Out; Sonia Sanchez: Telling What We Must Hear; Harriet Buckley: An Artist Storyteller; and Different Worlds and Divergent Paths: Academic Careers Defined by Race and Gender

It’s Been the Best of Times: My Twenty-Year Retrospective on Adult Education

This essay presents a personal assessment of the ways in which the field of Adult and Continuing Education has succeeded and faltered during the last two decades and discusses how the field can address future challenges

Quad-Polarimetric Multi-Scale Analysis of Icebergs in ALOS-2 SAR Data: A Comparison between Icebergs in West and East Greenland

Icebergs are ocean hazards which require extensive monitoring. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites can help with this, however, SAR backscattering is strongly influenced by the properties of icebergs, together with meteorological and environmental conditions. In this work, we used five images of quad-pol ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 SAR data to analyse 1332 icebergs in five locations in west and east Greenland. We investigate the backscatter and polarimetric behaviour, by using several observables and decompositions such as the Cloude–Pottier eigenvalue/eigenvector and Yamaguchi model-based decompositions. Our results show that those icebergs can contain a variety of scattering mechanisms at L-band. However, the most common scattering mechanism for icebergs is surface scattering, with the second most dominant volume scattering (or more generally, clouds of dipoles). In some cases, we observed a double bounce dominance, but this is not as common. Interestingly, we identified that different locations (e.g., glaciers) produce icebergs with different polarimetric characteristics. We also performed a multi-scale analysis using boxcar 5 × 5 and 11 × 11 window sizes and this revealed that depending on locations (and therefore, characteristics) icebergs can be a collection of strong scatterers that are packed in a denser or less dense way. This gives hope for using quad-pol polarimetry to provide some iceberg classifications in the future

Virtues, Thrift Stores, and Consumption

Discourse in philosophy on fashion is relatively thin, this, in alignment with the typical disdain for clothing and dress from this field of study. However, there is some research that measures clothing brand addiction, attachment, digital culture, self-concept, and fashion communication. I aim to add to this research, particularly to the critique of fast fashion, to inform further philosophical conversations on the practice of dress, and not only argue that self-expression and sustainability can be best realized through second-hand shopping but that consumers have a moral obligation to do so, given the surplus material supply in existence. I will continue literature reviews of journal articles by philosophers, sociologists, and psychologists, and will also apply for funding to attend the American Society for Aesthetics conference where I will attend presentations on aesthetics, ethics, artistic, social, and environmental value, as well as conduct interviews with members who attend. I will also conduct interviews with various professors and students at USD on their dress and values. My findings will be mixed testimonies including claims of dressing for functionality, self-expression, and varying ideas of the value to dressing sustainably. With this data, I argue that clothing is intimately linked to personal identity, so dressing the body involves action and deliberation; I argue that this deliberation must attend to moral considerations. These include, how necessary one needs a new garment(s), who made the particular piece(s), what is the motivation for buying, and the likelihood of finding this piece(s) at a second-hand store

Evidence that MEK1 positively promotes interhomologue double-strand break repair

During meiosis there is an imperative to create sufficient crossovers for homologue segregation. This can be achieved during repair of programmed DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs), which are biased towards using a homologue rather than sister chromatid as a repair template. Various proteins contribute to this bias, one of which is a meiosis specific kinase Mek1. It has been proposed that Mek1 establishes the bias by creating a barrier to sister chromatid repair, as distinct from enforcing strand invasion with the homologue. We looked for evidence that Mek1 positively stimulates strand invasion of the homologue. This was done by analysing repair of DSBs induced by the VMA1- derived endonuclease (VDE) and flanked by directly repeated sequences that can be used for intrachromatid single-strand annealing (SSA). SSA competes with interhomologue strand inva- sion significantly more successfully when Mek1 function is lost. We suggest the increase in intrachromosomal SSA reflects an opportunistic default repair pathway due to loss of a MEK1 stimulated bias for strand invasion of the homologous chromosome. Making use of an inhibitor sensitive mek1-as1 allele, we found that Mek1 function influences the repair pathway throughout the first 4-5 h of meiosis. Perhaps reflecting a particular need to create bias for successful interhomologue events before chromosome pairing is complete. © The Author(s) 2010. Published by Oxford University Pres

Perceptually smooth timbral guides by state-space analysis of phase-vocoder parameters

Sculptor is a phase-vocoder-based package of programs that allows users to explore timbral manipulation of sound in real time. It is the product of a research program seeking ultimately to perform gestural capture by analysis of the sound a performer makes using a conventional instrument. Since the phase-vocoder output is of high dimensionality — typically more than 1,000 channels per analysis frame—mapping phase-vocoder output to appropriate input parameters for a synthesizer is only feasible in theory

Examining the Indian Farmer Suicides through the Social and Environmental Justice Lens

Approximately 200,000 farmers have committed suicide in India over the last decade. A majority of them are the ones who have been failed by the non- yield of genetically modified cotton per hectare and are dependent on these crops for their daily livelihood. The GM cottonseeds represent the hegemony and oppression of the farmers propelled by the globalization movement. This paper provides an understanding that the social movements against the GM seeds are in fact movements pointing towards the social and environmental injustices and seeks to understand the role adult education can play in addressing the social and environmental injustice

Practicing a Culturally Responsive Feminist Pedagogy in Higher Education: An Examination of a Feminist Classroom from the Perspective of Transformative Learning

The purpose of our presentation is to explore how non-White professors, an Asian male pre-tenured professor and a Black female tenured full professor, negotiated their power in their feminist classroom

Academic Classrooms and Careers Defined by Race and Gender

The collective classroom and career experiences of a Black woman and White male professor are examined of the last twenty years are examined. It is revealed, that despite the presence of diversity classes and increases in diversity, as regards student and faculty presence, the circumstances of the faculty in this critical examination were defined by the student, faculty, and institutional reactions to their postionalities. Predictably, the White male faculty member had the more positive experiences, while the Black woman’s circumstances were more negative