Sylvester And Scott

1982 ◽  
Vol 75 (6) ◽  
pp. 490-494
Author(s):  
Patricia C. Kenschaft ◽  
KAILA KATZ
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Young Women ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Mathematical Research ◽  
Early American ◽  
Research Journal ◽  
Do So

Two British mathematicians, both the victims of discrimination in their native country, were instrumental in stimulating the mathematical research community in the United States. James Joseph Sylvester (1814-1897) and Charlotte Angas Scott (1858-1931) inspired and trained many younger mathematicians here, served as editors of the first continuing mathematical research journal in this country, and contributed substantial research to the early American journals. Both overcame obstacles in their careers and promoted the study of mathematics by young women at a time when it was unpopular to do so.

Choosing Eggs

2019 ◽  
pp. 41-69
Author(s):  
Robert L. Klitzman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome ◽  
Family Members ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ovarian Hyperstimulation ◽  
Ethical Concerns ◽  
Egg Donor ◽  
Donor Agencies ◽  
Do So

Women who fail to get pregnant using their own oocytes (or eggs) can try using another woman’s but then face challenges. Potential parents who decide to use someone else’s eggs must determine whose to use—family members’, friends’, or strangers’. In the United States, one of only three countries that legally permit individuals to buy and sell human eggs, most prospective parents who use other people’s eggs buy them from strangers, fueling a proliferation of egg donor agencies. Women and agencies selling eggs can earn relatively large fees—up to $50,000 for an egg. Yet young women selling their eggs do so primarily for money and may not sufficiently grasp the risks, especially ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome, raising ethical concerns. Many patients also grapple with whether to tell others that an outsider’s egg was used. To avoid needing others’ eggs in the future, young women also face dilemmas of whether to freeze their own eggs. Providers and patients often wrestle with uncertainties and dilemmas.

Writing Time in Metaphors

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer J. Smith
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Entire System ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Space Race ◽  
Do So

Coherence of place often exists alongside irregularities in time in cycles, and chapter three turns to cycles linked by temporal markers. Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles (1950) follows a linear chronology and describes the exploration, conquest, and repopulation of Mars by humans. Conversely, Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine (1984) jumps back and forth across time to narrate the lives of interconnected families in the western United States. Bradbury’s cycle invokes a confluence of historical forces—time as value-laden, work as a calling, and travel as necessitating standardized time—and contextualizes them in relation to anxieties about the space race. Erdrich’s cycle invokes broader, oppositional conceptions of time—as recursive and arbitrary and as causal and meaningful—to depict time as implicated in an entire system of measurement that made possible the destruction and exploitation of the Chippewa people. Both volumes understand the United States to be preoccupied with imperialist impulses. Even as they critique such projects, they also point to the tenacity with which individuals encounter these systems, and they do so by creating “interstitial temporalities,” which allow them to navigate time at the crossroads of language and culture.

Building America

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean H. Baker
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Early Republic ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Water System ◽  
The United States ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Early American ◽  
Transatlantic Exchange ◽  
The Us ◽  
Private Homes

Building America: The Life of Benjamin Henry Latrobe is a biography of America’s first professionally trained architect and engineer. Born in 1764, Latrobe was raised in Moravian communities in England and Germany. His parents expected him to follow his father and brother into the ministry, but he rebelled against the church. Moved to London, he studied architecture and engineering. In 1795 he emigrated to the United States and became part of the period’s Transatlantic Exchange. Latrobe soon was famous for his neoclassical architecture, designing important buildings, including the US Capitol and Baltimore Basilica as well as private homes. Carpenters and millwrights who built structures more cheaply and less permanently than Latrobe challenged his efforts to establish architecture as a profession. Rarely during his twenty-five years in the United States was he financially secure, and when he was, he speculated on risky ventures that lost money. He declared bankruptcy in 1817 and moved to New Orleans, the sixth American city that he lived in, hoping to recoup his finances by installing a municipal water system. He died there of yellow fever in 1820. The themes that emerge in this biography are the critical role Latrobe played in the culture of the early republic through his buildings and his genius in neoclassical design. Like the nation’s political founders, Latrobe was committed to creating an exceptional nation, expressed in his case by buildings and internal improvements. Additionally, given the extensive primary sources available for this biography, an examination of his life reveals early American attitudes toward class, family, and religion.

Explosions

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Douglas Bomberger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Puerto Rico ◽  
The United States ◽  
Woodrow Wilson ◽  
One Step ◽  
Do So ◽  
Laws And Regulations

On 2 April 1917, President Woodrow Wilson urged Congress to enter the European war, and Congress voted to do so on Friday, 6 April. On the 15th of that month, Victor released the Original Dixieland Jazz Band’s record of “Livery Stable Blues” and “Dixieland Jass Band One-Step”; it caused an immediate nationwide sensation. James Reese Europe travelled to Puerto Rico in search of woodwind players for the Fifteenth New York Regiment Band, and the Creole Band ended its vaudeville career when it missed the train to Portland, Maine. German musicians in the United States came under increased scrutiny in the weeks after the declaration of war, as the country prepared to adopt new laws and regulations for wartime.

scholarly journals Diasporic Foreign Policy Interest Groups in the United States: Democracy, Conflict, and Political Entrepreneurship

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Shubha Kamala Prasad ◽  
Filip Savatic
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
The United States ◽  
Democratic Governance ◽  
Indian American ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Political Entrepreneurs ◽  
Do So ◽  
Policy Interest

Why do some immigrant diasporas in the United States (U.S.) establish foreign policy interest groups while others do not? While scholars have demonstrated that diasporic interest groups often successfully influence U.S. foreign policy, we take a step back to ask why only certain diasporas attempt to do so in the first place. We argue that two factors increase the likelihood of diaspora mobilization: a community’s experience with democratic governance and conflict in its country of origin. We posit that these conditions make it more likely that political entrepreneurs emerge to serve as catalysts for top-down mobilization. To test our hypotheses, we collect and analyze novel data on diasporic interest groups as well as the characteristics of their respective countries of origin. In turn, we conduct the first in-depth case studies of the historical and contemporary Indian-American lobbies, using original archival and interview evidence.

scholarly journals Decline in Marriage Associated with the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 237802312098032
Author(s):  
Brandon G. Wagner ◽  
Kate H. Choi ◽  
Philip N. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cumulative Number ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Know How ◽  
The Social ◽  
Reporting Delays ◽  
Social Upheaval ◽  
Near Future ◽  
Do So

In the social upheaval arising from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, we do not yet know how union formation, particularly marriage, has been affected. Using administration records—marriage certificates and applications—gathered from settings representing a variety of COVID-19 experiences in the United States, the authors compare counts of recorded marriages in 2020 against those from the same period in 2019. There is a dramatic decrease in year-to-date cumulative marriages in 2020 compared with 2019 in each case. Similar patterns are observed for the Seattle metropolitan area when analyzing the cumulative number of marriage applications, a leading indicator of marriages in the near future. Year-to-date declines in marriage are unlikely to be due solely to closure of government agencies that administer marriage certification or reporting delays. Together, these findings suggest that marriage has declined during the COVID-19 outbreak and may continue to do so, at least in the short term.

Part-Time Residency Training

1981 ◽  
Vol 26 (7) ◽  
pp. 484-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Fisman ◽  
Lynne Ginsburg
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Career Development ◽  
Residency Training ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Royal College ◽  
The United States ◽  
Women Physicians ◽  
Psychiatry Residents ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Part Time

The development of part-time training in the United States and Canada is described. The flexibility required for young women physicians who attempt to combine childbearing and career development, together with the increasing number of women entering medicine, underlines the importance of part-time training schedules. A variety of flexible training options have been defined and a set of guidelines has been produced by the Canadian Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons. The experiences of part-time psychiatry residents at Queen's University, Kingston is presented. Thus far this has involved a total of six residents over a four year period, including the authors of this paper. The advantages and disadvantages, viewed from both the resident and system viewpoint, are discussed.

scholarly journals The United States navy attracts young women who smoke

1999 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 222-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. I WOODRUFF ◽  
T. L CONWAY ◽  
C. C EDWARDS ◽  
J. P ELDER
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Young Women ◽  
United States Navy ◽  
The United States

Is There a Trend of Increased Unwanted Childbearing Among Young Women in the United States?

2008 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 364-371 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dmitry M. Kissin ◽  
John E. Anderson ◽  
Joan Marie Kraft ◽  
Lee Warner ◽  
Denise J. Jamieson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Young Women ◽  
The United States
Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document