The Corporate Closet Managing Gay Identity on the Job

Though we tend to think of organizations in asexual terms, a certain model of heterosexuality pervades most white-collar workplaces. Heterosexual behavior and values are disguised by official ideologies that require professionals to be asexual at work, in accordance with prevailing beliefs about privacy, professionalism, etiquette, intimacy between co-workers, and the irrelevance of sexuality to work. The hegemony of this model ensures that heterosexuality is rendered invisible, while homosexuality is made to seem disruptive, conspicuous, and unprofessional. Working within these environments, gay professionals adopt one of three strategies in their management of sexual identity. Some men counterfeit a heterosexual identity through the manipulation of outward appearances. Others integrate an identity by minimizing, normalizing, politicizing or dignifying their sexuality in the workplace. Still another group tries to avoid a sexual identity altogether by verbally or situationally dodging sexual displays. Some men use more than one of these strategies, which requires them to segregate their audiences, carefully monitoring the different approach used with each. The choice of strategy is influenced by several factors. Men who counterfeit an identity usually do so to evade the stigma of being gay, but feel socially invisible, anxious, and dishonest. Avoidance strategies protect the gay professional from social situations that might expose or discredit him, but deny him social opportunities and relationships he might enjoy. Finally, men using integration strategies pay for their candor by exposing themselves to prejudice, intensified performance pressures, and the double-edged sword of tokenism. The men\u27s choice of strategy was also influenced by their co-workers\u27 attitudes towards homosexuality, by their perceived economic vulnerability, and by the availability of role models. The study draws on interviews with 70 men in five U.S. cities. They range in age from 22 to 64 and represent a wide range of professional, white-collar organizations

TOWARD A MARKETING STRATEGY FOR FRESH WILD BLUEBERRIES IN THE NORTHEAST

Marketing,

COMMUNITY ECONOMICS: A SIMULATION MODEL FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT PLANNERS

Community/Rural/Urban Development,

THE REINFORCING PROPERTY OF ETHANOL IN THE RHESUS MONKEY: I. INITIATION, MAINTENANCE AND TERMINATION OF INTRAVENOUS ETHANOL-REINFORCED RESPONDING * †

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The Determinants of a Healthy Board: A Tool for Extension Professionals

Board governance is a critical factor that affects the development of people and businesses in rural America. In this article, we explain how the health of a board can be measured based on a set of performance indicators from the board governance literature. Extension professionals can use these determinants as a tool for evaluating a board\u27s health before engaging in more specialized educational programming assistance

The feasibility of an objective photoflash eye refractometer

The feasibility of an objective photoflash eye refractomete

Modeling the Daily Variations of the Coronal X-ray Spectral Irradiance with Two Temperatures and Two Emission Measures

The Miniature X-ray Solar Spectrometer (MinXSS-1) CubeSat observed solar X-rays between 0.5 and 10 keV. A two-temperature, two-emission measure model is fit to each daily averaged spectrum. These daily average temperatures and emission measures are plotted against the corresponding daily solar 10.7 cm radio flux (F10.7) value and a linear correlation is found between each that we call the Schwab Woods Mason (SWM) model. The linear trends show that one can estimate the solar spectrum between 0.5 keV and 10 keV based on the F10.7 measurement alone. The cooler temperature component of this model represents the quiescent sun contribution to the spectra and is essentially independent of solar activity, meaning the daily average quiescent sun is accurately described by a single temperature (1.70 MK) regardless of solar intensity and only the emission measure corresponding to this temperature needs to be adjusted for higher or lower solar intensity. The warmer temperature component is shown to represent active region contributions to the spectra and varies between 5 MK to 6 MK. GOES XRS-B data between 1-8 Angstroms is used to validate this model and it is found that the ratio between the SWM model irradiance and the GOES XRS-B irradiance is close to unity on average. MinXSS-1 spectra during quiescent solar conditions have very low counts beyond around 3 keV. The SWM model can generate MinXSS-1 or DAXSS spectra at very high spectral resolution and with extended energy ranges to fill in gaps between measurements and extend predictions back to 1947

B827: Toward a Cooperative Marketing Strategy for Fresh Wild Blueberries

Marketing wild blueberries as a fresh product has become an increasingly viable alternative for Maine wild blueberry producers. This bulletin presents the results of research that identified marketing regions with the greatest profit potential for fresh wild blueberries and whether there are packaging or promotional strategies that are likely to be more successful than others within these regions. The authors analyze retail demand for fresh wild blueberries in Maine, Boston, and New York City, as well as describe the results of a survey of wholesale buyers of fresh blueberries in Boston. The conclusions based on the analysis of demand at these two levels of the marketing chain provide some interesting evidence with which to begin to develop a fresh wild blueberry marketing strategy.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/aes_bulletin/1042/thumbnail.jp

How states make their own air pollution somebody else’s problem

For now, one of the unfortunate byproducts of an industrial economy is air pollution, but states can often reap the benefits of industry and production while forcing other states to bear the costs. In a new study of tens of thousands of air polluters in the US, James E. Monogan III, David M. Konisky, and Neal D. Woods find that air polluters are more likely to be located near a downwind border compared to solid waste polluters; in effect, making air pollution another state’s problem