Authority and Cooperation: Five Views from Writing Center Directors

For this issue of Praxis, focusing on authority and cooperation, the editors composed a survey exploring various aspects of the topic, which we sent to several directors of writing centers around the country. The survey asked directors to think about general writing center philosophy, directive versus nondirective consulting approaches, writing center dynamics, training methods, and the consultant's authority. The following article provides an overview of the responses we received. Readers can click on the names in the following paragraph to see each director's responses in full.University Writing Cente

Global Apparel Production and Sweatshop Labor: Can Raising Retail Prices Finance Living Wages?

This paper provides some empirical evidence on issues raised by the global antisweatshop movement. We first consider the relationship between wage and employment growth, finding no consistent trade-off between them. We then measure the share of labor costs in the production of garments in the United States and Mexico. We find that the retail price increases necessary to absorb the costs of substantially raising wages are small, well within the range of price increases that polls suggest U.S. consumers are willing to pay. We close by considering some implications of these results.Global sweatshop labor; empirical analysis

My mother has a televison, does yours? : Transformation and secularization in an Ewe funeral drum tradition

This study addresses tradition and change within the funeral music and funeral culture in the town of Dzodze located in southeastern Ghana. Dzodze is located in the heart of the southern Ewe cultural area in Ghana, an area extending approximately east to west from the Volta Lake to Aflao on the Togo boarder, and north from the coast to Avenor and Hevi. Dzodze is an autonomous duko (city/state), located to the north of the Anlo, the largest duko in the region, with whom they share many cultural features.Issue title: Performance Literature II

Psychological type profile of Roman Catholic priests : an empirical enquiry in the United States

This study explores the psychological type profile of Roman Catholic priests serving in the United States, drawing on data provided by 55 priests who completed the Francis Psychological Type Scales. The data demonstrated clear preferences for introversion (67 %), sensing (64 %), and judging (91 %), and for a balance between thinking (49 %) and feeling (51 %). A very high proportion of priests reported preferences for ISTJ (27 %), compared with 16 % of men in the U.S. population. Implications of these findings are discussed for ministry in the Roman Catholic Church

Tennecetin: A New Antifungal Antibiotic

The present investigation is an outgrowth of some speculations we have entertained (and vice versa) for a number of years. These speculations revolved around the general idea of antibiotics -- their discovery, production, uses, and significance. Despite a keen fascination with the matter, our attempts to build a philosophy of antibiosis suffered from an awkward ignorance of the subject itself. There seemed to be no easy way to remedy this situation. In a field dominated by commercial interests, with a literature too recent and scattered to have been sifted and sorted, the traditional academic tools of learning did not appear, in themselves, to be entirely adequate. What was wanted, it seemed, was a maiden voyage on uncharted seas. If such a voyage did not turn out to be one of discovery, it would at least be one of exploration. In less romantic terms, this voyage must be an actual experience with a single antibiotic, preferably one not previously studied, and the experience must extend from the very beginning -- i.e., the discovery of the antibiotic itself -- to whatever fulfill­ment of understanding might be possible within the limits of our abilities and resources. Accordingly, some organisms were isolated from nature and studied for their ability to produce an anti­biotic substance. Happily, one of the first organisms so studied appeared unusual and interesting from two stand­ points: It appeared to be a species of Streptomyces with which we were entirely unfamiliar, and it produced an antibiotic active against yeasts and molds. When we became convinced that we were dealing with an antibiotic not previously described, and with an organism which could not be identified as a previously listed species, we gave the name tennecetin to the former and Streptomyces chattanoogens is to the latter. What is offered here, then, is an account of this first adventure into the field of antibiotic discovery and development. If at times it appears the author is long on adventure and short on scholarship, we submit that it could not have been the other way around

Alien Registration- Burns, James (Portland, Cumberland County)

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Absence of synaptic regulation by phosducin in retinal slices.

Phosducin is an abundant photoreceptor protein that binds G-protein βγ subunits and plays a role in modulating synaptic transmission at photoreceptor synapses under both dark-adapted and light-adapted conditions in vivo. To examine the role of phosducin at the rod-to-rod bipolar cell (RBC) synapse, we used whole-cell voltage clamp recordings to measure the light-evoked currents from both wild-type (WT) and phosducin knockout (Pd(-/-)) RBCs, in dark- and light-adapted retinal slices. Pd(-/-) RBCs showed smaller dim flash responses and steeper intensity-response relationships than WT RBCs, consistent with the smaller rod responses being selectively filtered out by the non-linear threshold at the rod-to-rod bipolar synapse. In addition, Pd(-/-) RBCs showed a marked delay in the onset of the light-evoked currents, similar to that of a WT response to an effectively dimmer flash. Comparison of the changes in flash sensitivity in the presence of steady adapting light revealed that Pd(-/-) RBCs desensitized less than WT RBCs to the same intensity. These results are quantitatively consistent with the smaller single photon responses of Pd(-/-) rods, owing to the known reduction in rod G-protein expression levels in this line. The absence of an additional synaptic phenotype in these experiments suggests that the function of phosducin at the photoreceptor synapse is abolished by the conditions of retinal slice recordings

Running Alone- And Together: Presidential Leadership In A Divided System

On the morning of November 5, 1956, Democrats across America were in despair. Dwight Eisenhower had done it again. His first victory, in 1952, had been understandable—memories of his military leadership in World War II were still fresh. But after four years of his bumbling presidency, as the Democrats saw it, Americans should have been turning back to the party of Roosevelt and Truman. But they didn’t. Even worse, Ike had improved his 1952 margin over Adlai Stevenson, this time beating him by almost ten million votes. How could this happen

A 9000-Year Old Wapiti (Cervus elaphus) Skeleton from Northern Alberta, and its Implications for the Early Holocene Environment

A complete and fully articulated adult male wapiti (Cervus elaphus) skeleton was recovered from the 50 m terrace of Smoky River, near Watino, Alberta. A collagen-based date on antler gave an age of 9075 ± 305 yr BP (S-2614). The local terrace sequence features three benches, and two previously described fossil sites are placed within it. The importance of the find is that it indicates an environment at 9000 yr BP similar to the present. A brief review of local deglaciation precedes discussion of the paleontology.Un squelette complet et entièrement articulé d'un wapiti adulte a été retiré de la terrasse de 50 m de la rivière Smoky, près de Watino, en Alberta. Le collagène du bois de l'animal a fourni une datation au radiocarbone de 9075 ± 305 BP (S-2614). La série de terrasses locales présente trois niveaux, et deux sites de fossiles déjà décrits auparavant y sont reliés. Les restes de l'animal démontrent que le milieu était, il y a environ 9000 ans, semblable à celui d'aujourd'hui. On présente également un bref compte rendu de la déglaciation locale