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Syllabus for Com 2340: Theories of Visual Culture and Communication.
DESCRIPTION: Colleges and universities are heralded as sites of intellectual freedom, upward mobility, and personal development. However, campuses across the country are also home to sexual assault, harassment, exploitation, and violence. Despite increased attention from politicians, administrators, and student activists, the prevalence of campus sexual violence remains stagnant. This course asks how can feminist theories and evidence-based strategies prevent sexual violence at institutions of higher education in the 21 st century United States? We will consider sexual violence as an interpersonal and institutional problem that is inherently interconnected with gender, sexuality, race, and power. We will analyze the role of policy, education, and activism in sexual violence prevention, as well as related issues such as justice, alcohol, and technology. While grounded in feminist theories, this course will also draw upon the disciplines of social science, public health, and education. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Identify and understand risk and protective factors for campus sexual violence 2. Apply feminist theories to campus sexual violence prevention methods 3. Analyze sexual violence prevention methods through evidence-based research, best practices in the field, and feminist activism 4. Create their own intervention, informed by research and feminist theories, to prevent campus sexual violence
Syllabus "Disability, Health, and Normality"
Disability, Health, and Normality SyllabusWe use words like disability, health, and illness every day, and yet we rarely pause to consider how our understanding of what is normal influences how we understand the present and how we imagine futures. This course centers the experiences of multiply-marginalized disabled people and introduces students to a transnational framework that considers how our thinking about disability is anchored in settler colonialism, capitalism, white supremacy, and patriarchy. From an intersectional, interdisciplinary perspective and based on narratives and knowledges created by disabled people-ranging from scholarly works and life writing to vlogs, television shows, and art-students will learn to critically examine the history of Western medicine, law, politics, and culture. This class offers a space in which we approach disabilities, from depression and anxiety to autism to spina bifida, as well as Deaf culture, chronic illnesses, body size, sexual orientation and gender identity, and many other forms of difference as complex sites of social expectations, personal experiences, state interventions, knowledge production, and exuberant life.
Nanobiotechnology Reports
X-ray Fluorescence Analysis of the Composition of the Alloy of Rare Figural Weights of the 5th Century with an Image of the Emperor on the Throne2023 •
For the first time, the results of X-ray fluorescence analysis of the composition of the alloy of two similar weights of the 5th century are presented with an image of the emperor sitting on the throne, originating from Chersonesos and Voronezh oblast. The opinions of researchers on identification of the image are divided. Most are inclined to believe that the figures are replicas from a large triumphal sculpture of Emperor Constantine. The weight from Chersonesos is made from gold-like brass, perhaps for greater decorative appeal. The second weight, stored in the State Historical Museum, is made from high-tin bronze with a large amount of lead. This alloy is also characterized by a beautiful golden hue. Initially, the weights were bimetallic; the cavity inside them was filled with lead to adjust specific instances of "fast" scales to the rocker arms. The figures are made in a highly artistic manner and, very likely, were a standard of reference or temple weights. The image of the emperor and the gold-like alloy of the weights served both to impart absolute authority to the ruling body and to propagate imperial power on the periphery and far beyond the borders of the Empire.
The archaeological documentation of the development of sedentary farming societies in Anatolia is not yet mirrored by a genetic understanding of the human populations involved, in contrast to the spread of farming in Europe. Sedentary farming communities emerged in parts of the Fertile Crescent during the tenth millennium and early ninth millennium calibrated (cal) BC and had appeared in central Anatolia by 8300 cal BC. Farming spread into west Anatolia by the early seventh millennium cal BC and quasi-synchronously into Europe, although the timing and process of this movement remain unclear. Using genome sequence data that we generated from nine central Anatolian Neolithic individuals, we studied the transition period from early Aceramic (Pre-Pottery) to the later Pottery Neolithic, when farming expanded west of the Fertile Crescent. We find that genetic diversity in the earliest farmers was conspicuously low, on a par with European foraging groups. With the advent of the Pottery Neolithic, genetic variation within societies reached levels later found in early European farmers. Our results confirm that the earliest Neolithic central Anatolians belonged to the same gene pool as the first Neolithic migrants spreading into Europe. Further, genetic affinities between later Anatolian farmers and fourth to third millennium BC Chalcolithic south Europeans suggest an additional wave of Anatolian migrants, after the initial Neolithic spread but before the Yamnaya-related migrations. We propose that the earliest farming societies demographically resembled foragers and that only after regional gene flow and rising heterogeneity did the farming population expansions into Europe occur.
Upah merupakan salah satu alasan bagi seseorang untuk bekerja dan barangkali merupakan alasan yang paling penting diantara yang lain seperti untuk berprestasi, mengembangkan diri atau untuk mengaktualisasikan diri atau sumber penghasilan guna memenuhi kebutuhan diri pekerja itu sendiri maupun keluarganya serta cerminan kepuasan kerja. Gaji adalah balas jasa dalam bentuk uang yang diterima pegawai sebagai konsekuensi dari kedudukannya sebagai seorang pegawai yang memberikan sumbangan dalam mencapai tujuan organisasi. Adapun upah adalah kata lain dari gaji yang sering kali ditujukan pada pegawai tertentu, biasanya pada pegawai bagian operasi atau produksi. Sedangkan bonus adalah pembayaran tambahan diluar upah yang ditujukan untuk merangsang agar pekerja dapat menjalankan tugasnya lebih baikdan penuh tanggung jawab. Sedangkan kompensasi merupakan keseluruhan balas jasa yang diterima oleh pegawai sebagai akibat dari pelaksanaan pekerjaan di organisasi dalam bentuk uang atau lainnya yang dapat berupa upah, bonus, komisi dan tunjangan lainnya. Kompensasi paling sedikit harus dapat memenuhi kebutuhan minimal. UMR (Upah Minimum Regional) ditetapkan oleh pemerintah yang harus dipenuhi oleh perusahaan kepada karyawan. Kompensasi ini harus menarik dan dapat menimbulkan ketertarikan karyawan terhadap perusahaan, harus adil, dinamis, tidak kaku, harus dapat ditinjau kembali sesuai dengan prestasi karyawan. Sementara bagi pengusaha melihat upah sebagai bagian dari biaya produksi, sehingga harus dioptimalkan penggunaannya dalam meningkatkan produktivitas dan etos kerja. Para pengusaha berusaha mendapat keuntungan sebesar-besarnya dengan menekan biaya berupa upah seminimal mungkin karena faktor upah merupakan faktor biaya bagi pengusaha. Akan tetapi dalam pemberian upah ini pengusaha tidak dibenarkan memberi upah serendah-rendahnya karena menyangkut segi kehidupan anggota masyarakat dan diatur oleh pemerintah dengan peraturan upah minimum. Masalah upah adalah masalah yang tidak pernah selesai diperdebatkan oleh pihak manajemen, apapun bentuk organisasinya. Upah seolah-olah kata yang selalu membuat pihak manajemen perusahaan berpikir ulang dari waktu ke waktu untuk menetapkan kebijakan tentang upah. Upah juga selalu memicu konflik antara pihak
Abstract: This paper is a brief summary of the Formants approach in Comparative Law. The method is defined in its basic tenets and it is analyzed in relation with the Critical Studies as a first attempt to derive newer tools to manage cross-system analysis in legal matters. In an Appendix something is suggestd about how to afford Comparative Law in the field of Cultural Studies using the theory of Complex Orders and the notion of Eliot effect.
Breve texto sobre as relações entre Portugal e Moçambique, a propósito de uma votação acontecida na Assembleia da República portuguesa.
Desafios da Antropologia Brasileira reúne análises críticas e propositivas sobre a prática antropológica e a produção do conhecimento numa conjuntura marcada pela expansão, reconfiguração e internacionalização da antropologia brasileira. Dirigida à comunidade científica e ao público em geral, essa coletânea de textos expõe os dilemas, desafios e perspectivas ao exercício da antropologia e à prática da pesquisa antropológica no Brasil contemporâneo. Descortina, assim, um caleidoscópio de temáticas intercruzadas que traz à tona as conexões existentes na antropologia brasileira entre pesquisa e ação social, as mudanças das relações entre pesquisadores e as populações estudadas no âmbito do trabalho de campo antropológico, os dilemas suscitados pelas crescentes demandas por antropólogos e antropólogas no mercado de trabalho, as incursões em pesquisa comparativa transnacional e a relevância da investigação etnográfica para a revisão e reelaboração de paradigmas teórico-metodológicos e, portanto, para a produção do conhecimento.
International journal of applied research
Predictive relationship between academic motivation and academic performance of adolescents2023 •
Latin American Research Review, Vol. 49, No. 3
La territorialización de reformas políticas en Colombia: Chocó como caso de estudio (traducción)2014 •
2016 •
Journal of Applied Polymer Science
Water flux through blends from waste materials: Cellulose acetate (from sugar cane bagasse) with polystyrene (from plastic cups)2005 •
2016 •
2015 •
Novel research in sciences
A Tool for Early Detection of Septoriatritici blotch of Wheat2021 •