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This presentation analyzes two contrasting cultural discourses surrounding women’s consumption of cosmetic surgery in post-socialist China: cosmetic hospitals’ marketing materials and women consumers’ interview narratives. Contextualizing my analysis within China’s neoliberal market imperatives and postfeminist mentality, I find that the sampled data point to the fomentation of hegemonic feminine ideals that hinge on not only narrowly defined aesthetic and self-regulating moral standards, but also patriarchal, heterosexual gender roles. The hegemonic femininity embodied by a Ms. White Wealthy Beautiful (the thus labeled “Bai Fu Mei”), for instance, has left indelible imprints on both selling and consuming cosmetic surgical procedures. Remapping intertwined class and gender codes on the female body, cosmetic surgery has paradoxically brought about the promise of upward class mobility and the predicament of regressive gender mandate. Whereas neoliberal social transformation and evolving gender politics foment new configurations of Chinese femininity, I further posit that consumers of cosmetic surgery play a complex, complicit role in constructing oppressive subtexts of feminine normalcy, which reinscribes cultural control over the female body

Habitat loss due to anthropogenic development is one of the greatest threats to birds, particularly in urban and suburban areas. While it is clear that avian assemblages are adversely affected by unsuitable habitat in such situations, there is less known about which aspects of this type of development are the important ones affecting birds. In order to explore anthropogenic impacts on birds influenced by cities, I monitored bird diversity at 25 woodlot study sites in and around Fort Wayne, Indiana, over the course of a breeding season. Point counts were conducted in each site and visited 3 times to obtain a species richness list. Study sites were characterized by area, the area to perimeter ratio, percent canopy cover, and mid- and overstory vegetation. The identity, number, and size of the vegetation was measured. The landscape matrix around the sites was characterized by distance to woodlots larger than the site itself, and distance to rivers, lakes/ponds, and wetlands. To obtain measurements of the urban matrix, the densities of habitable structures, distances of roads, and volume of vehicle traffic were measured in 5 concentric buffers ranging from 100 m to 3 km distance from the site. After removing collinear factors with variance inflation factors u3e 5, within each buffer size multiple linear regressions were chosen on the basis of best subsets analyses with all significant predictors. The models were ranked with Akaike Information Criterion with correction. Log transformed site area appeared in every model and had the largest positive effect on woodland bird richness. Greater mean area of an individual stem and distance to rivers were also positive predictors of richness in the 300 m buffer model. The densities roads, buildings, and vehicles adversely affected richness. Roads adversely affected richness in the 100 m buffer model. The effect of buildings extended to 300 m and had the largest negative impact, while vehicles appeared in the 300 m and 3000 m buffer models. The effect of vehicles, likely an indication of the degree of site isolation, was present out to 3 km demonstrating that urban and suburban development influences deciduous woodlot birds in a large radius around the site. The results from my study reinforce the findings from other researchers that site area is a very important factor for predicting bird diversity. Consequently, maintaining suitable habitat in patches of substantial size is the best way to aid birds. While of less importance but still of significance, forests with larger trees, associated with a forest’s age, should be maintained. The ramification of this is that forests must be left alone without removal of the larger trees in order to best provide for birds. Building development should be kept to at least 300 m from these patches as a greater density of habitable buildings nearer significantly caused a decrease in the bird richness. With these things in mind, site preservation for birds should focus on large mature sites surrounded by the least amount of urban development

Landscape modifications are often implemented to improve habitat quality for a variety of imperiled species. However, relatively little is known regarding how rare snakes, including eastern massasaugas Sistrurus catenatus, respond to such manipulations. Between 2002 and 2014 we used radio telemetry to monitor short-term (1-2 years) and u3e5 years response to experimental clear-cutting in northern Michigan for this species. More recently, a fire in 2010 occurred within habitat historically used by massasaugas during activity periods and for overwintering. Both habitat alterations removed vegetative structure, potentially altering the quality of basking habitat. Use of clear cut habitat by telemetered snakes was lower than would be expected by chance during the first two years. However, use increased over time and included multiple successful parturition events. Additionally, massasaugas continued to use recently burned habitat for overwintering and parturition. Our findings suggest that massasaugas are resilient to landscape changes and may benefit from habitat alterations

Desired business results are the direct result of the system design. It is also theorized that the u27thinkingu27 within an organization creates the organizationu27s u27structureu27 or design, which then drives the systemu27s u27behavior.u27 Achievement of enduring change in a systemu27s performance must begin with a change in the thinking of all the people in the enterprise, but especially that of leadership. In the absence of such a change in the thinking, the needed structural changes within a system may result in short-lived, point solutions, resulting in localized optimization of sub-systems versus systemic improvement. Axiomatic design, applied to a manufacturing system, is a design methodology to best reflect, understand and control the inherent complexity of large-scale integrated systems. System stability, and ultimately cost and span-time reduction, are the desired objectives of system design. This paper provides an overview of the manufacturing system design decomposition, and discusses the integrated use of data analytics to identify bottlenecks for system-improvement and use of the manufacturing system design decomposition to cost-justify resource allocation decisions for improvement

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Many people have social media connections with co-workers. An important question that arises is how such connections impact important organizational factors. This study begins to look at such impact by examining how a useru27s total number of co-worker social media connections and the percentage of total social media connections that are co-workers impacts perceptions of organizational support and organizational spontaneity. In a sample of 106 union members across a number of organizations it is found that percentage of co-worker social media connections has a significant positive relationship with both perceptions of organizational support and organizational spontaneity. Total co-worker social media connections was not related to either organizational support or organizational spontaneity. Implications and reasons for these results are discussed, as well as important directions for future research

The present research examined whether social anxiety moderates the potential relationship between conversation medium and interpersonal connectedness. Hypotheses predicted that individuals with high social anxiety would demonstrate greater interpersonal connectedness following instant messaging conversations; whereas, individuals with low social anxiety would report greater interpersonal connectedness following face-to-face and phone conversations. Undergraduate participants (N = 165) were randomly assigned to one of three conversation mediums (face-to-face, phone or instant messaging) during which they engaged in an interaction with an unfamiliar partner. Participants completed a measure of social anxiety before the interaction and measures of interpersonal connectedness prior to and following the interaction. Results revealed that level of social anxiety is a significant contingent condition for the association between type of conversation medium and attitude homophily (i.e., a measure of interpersonal connectedness). For individuals with low social anxiety, scores on the attitude homophily measure were significantly lower in the instant messaging condition, compared to the face-to-face and phone conditions

Most college students are at least somewhat aware that negative personal information online can hinder their future employment prospects. In this session, we highlight a project that was designed to help management students recognize the potential pitfalls of their personal social media usage and how to be proactive about establishing a positive online reputation. In turn, these same management students are also assigned the task of helping others on campus achieve such awareness. This project therefore unites students across majors in a mutually beneficial way that serves both and deepens student learning

Reflecting on Service-Learning in Higher Education examines forms of pedagogy such as service-learning, experiential learning, and problem-based learning in order to determine how students make connections between and among abstract academic concepts and real-life issues. This edited collection is divided into three sections—Reflecting on Community Partnerships, Reflecting on Classroom Practice, and Reflecting on Diversity—so as to represent interdisciplinary subjects, diverse student populations, and differing instructional perspectives about service-learning in higher education. Contributors provide service-learning programs and plans that can be replicated or adapted at other institutions of higher education. This book is recommended for scholars and practitioners of Education

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A woman, here identified as Colleen, suffering from chronic, unresolvable back pain from failed surgery participated in music therapy utilizing the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music (BMGIM). Through this depth therapy process, she was able to make contact with unconscious material that paralleled her perception of pain and its impact on her life. Music was used to intensify feelings of “stuckness” and to encourage a recalibration of the internal sense of time as psychological issues were recognized and worked-through, resulting in a significant decrease in prescription medication usage, a return to normal everyday activities, and a renewed sense of meaning and value in daily life experiences

Out of the nearly 300 species of freshwater mussels (Family: Unionidae) represented in North America, most have exhibited declines in abundance and distribution largely due to anthropogenic impacts. I compared community composition, abundance and richness of mussels in Cedar Creek, Indiana in 2015 with published data from 1988 and 2005. In 2015, five sites in Cedar Creek and seven sites in agricultural headwater streams were surveyed. Additionally, one headwater stream in Hillsdale County, Michigan was surveyed as a high-quality reference site. At each 200 m long site, mussels were sampled with quadrats (sixteen per site) and visual searches. From each quadrat, a quart of sediment was retained for sediment analysis. Physicochemical measurements, habitat analyses, and water chemistry data were collected concurrently with surveys. Fishes were sampled using electrofishing to document the presence of fish host species. Out of thirteen sites sampled in 2015, only six had live mussels. Ten species and 84 individuals were identified and measured from these six sites. The reference and two Cedar Creek sites comprised almost 90% of the individuals found, with the furthest upstream Cedar Creek site having the greatest abundance (28). Only two agricultural headwater streams that were located close to the main stem of Cedar Creek had mussels and only six individuals were found. Lampsilis siliquoidea occurred at four sites in 2015 and was the most abundant and widespread species comprising 31% of the individuals found. The abundance of live mussels within four Cedar Creek main stem sites exhibited a decrease in individuals from 168 in 1988 to 110 in 2005 to 56 in 2015. Additionally, since 1988, no live mussels have been recorded in Cedar Creek between Waterloo and Auburn, Indiana. To assess which factors explain the variation in mussel parameters, I evaluated the relationships of instream habitat, physicochemical, and water chemistry variables with mussel abundance and species richness. Generalized linear regression models revealed a significant positive correlation between dominant riparian vegetation and mussel richness (pu3c0.01) as well as mussel abundance (pu3c0.001). A positive relationship with water temperature (pu3c0.01) and a negative relationship with host fish abundance (pu3c0.05) also significantly explained mussel abundance. In the CEAP analysis, both mussel richness and abundance were significantly negatively correlated with ammonia and total phosphorous (pu3c0.05)

This brief paper presents a work-in-progress research study aimed at investigating how selected secondary English teachers describe their experiences organizing and facilitating online professional development opportunities for their peers at a distance. Framed by scholarship problematizing traditional, top-down teacher professional development and research detailing the value of self-directed online participation as professional development, the qualitative research project described here is intended to help build an understanding of English language arts teachers’ experiences creating and leading voluntary online professional development opportunities for fellow teachers

We obtain universal bounds on the energy of codes and designs in Hamming spaces. Our bounds hold for a large class of potential functions, allow a unified treatment, and can be viewed as a generalization of the Levenshtein bounds for maximal codes

ABSTRACT. Eagle Marsh, a 289.8 ha (716-acre) wetland nature preserve located on the southwest border of Fort Wayne, Indiana, is one of the largest wetland restorations ever undertaken in Indiana. The Little River Wetlands Project (LRWP) began acquisition, planning, and restoration in 2005 to 2007. The first biodiversity survey (also known as a bioblitz) of Eagle Marsh was conducted on 31 May and 1 June 2014. Over 125 scientists, naturalists, students, and other volunteers on thirteen different taxonomic teams observed and reported 728 taxa during the event. The thirteen taxonomic teams included aquatic macroinvertebrates, beetles, birds, butterflies, dragonflies and damselflies, fish, freshwater mussels, herpetofauna, small mammals, mushrooms/fungi, singing insects, snail-killing flies, and vascular plants. This manuscript presents both a brief history of Eagle Marsh and a summary overview of the results gathered by the thirteen taxonomic teams