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Selected AbstractsBeyond ,Gender Differences': A Canadian Study of Women's and Men's Careers in EngineeringGENDER, WORK & ORGANISATION, Issue 1 2003Gillian Ranson This article explores the relationship between gender and career paths for a group of women and men who graduated as engineers during a period of labour market turbulence in western Canada during the 1980s. Using a model adapted from Brown (1982), the article uses ,career path' as a device to organize data drawn primarily from telephone and face-to-face interviews with 317 graduates. Three career paths provide the focus for the study: the ,organizational', characterized by stable employment with one employer; the ,occupational', characterized by mobility between employers; and the entrepreneurial, characterized by self-employment. The use of the career path framework moves the study beyond global comparisons (of the dichotomized ,gender differences' kind) between ,the women' and ,the men'. As well as allowing for comparison between the paths, it allows more refined and contextualized comparisons within each path. Such comparisons produce patterns of similarity and difference that sometimes transcend gender. [source] Kings and sons: princely rebellions and the structures of revolt in western Europe, c.1170,c.1280*HISTORICAL RESEARCH, Issue 215 2009Björn Weiler Uprisings by royal sons against their fathers were a common phenomenon in the politics of medieval Europe, but one that, so far, has not been fully explored in the context of the thirteenth century. This was, however, a period during which numerous norms and mechanisms were developed that continued to define the Latin West well into the early modern period. This article uses three case studies (England 1173; Germany 1234; and Castile 1282) to outline both shared features of medieval European politics at large, and characteristic differences between central regions of the medieval West. [source] Stabilized Record Base for Implant TreatmentJOURNAL OF PROSTHODONTICS, Issue 7 2010Susan S. Nimmo DDS Abstract It is important to obtain an accurate interocclusal record for the restoration of patients undergoing implant treatment. Atrophic alveolar bone in the mandible not only limits the placement of implants, but also contributes to deficient ridge morphology resulting in unstable record bases. Securing the record base to the implants is a useful way to obtain an accurate registration. The technique presented in this article uses two widely spaced implants as the optimal number of implants to stabilize record bases. [source] Treating nerves: a call to armsJOURNAL OF THE PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM, Issue 2 2008Richard A. C. Hughes Abstract The process of proving that new treatments for peripheral nerve diseases work has often been slow and inefficient. The lack of adequate evidence for some existing treatments has been highlighted by Cochrane systematic reviews. This article uses four different conditions to illustrate the need for more research. Both corticosteroid injections and surgical decompression of the median nerve are efficacious in carpal tunnel syndrome, but whether corticosteroid injections avoid the need for operation needs to be discovered. Corticosteroids are efficacious for Bell's palsy, but the role of antiviral agents needs clarification, which should come from ongoing trials. Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) and plasma exchange are both efficacious in Guillain-Barré syndrome, but corticosteroids are not. More trials are needed to discover the best dose of IVIg in severe cases and whether mild cases need treatment. In chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy, corticosteroids, IVIg and plasma exchange are all efficacious, at least in the short term, but trials are needed to discover whether and which other immunosuppressive agents help. The Peripheral Nerve Society has formed a standing committee, the Inflammatory Neuropathy Consortium (http://pns.ucsd.edu/INC.htm), to facilitate the trials needed to answer the remaining questions in the inflammatory neuropathies. [source] Cultural Politics, Communal Resistance and Identity in Andean Irrigation DevelopmentBULLETIN OF LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH, Issue 3 2005Rutgerd Boelens This article uses two case studies to illustrate how Andean irrigation development and management emerges from a hybrid mix of local community rules and the changing political forms and ideological forces of hegemonic states. Some indigenous water-control institutions are with us today because they were consonant with the extractive purposes of local elites and Inca, Spanish and post-independence Republican states. These states often appropriated and standardised local water-management rules, rights and rituals in order to gain control over the surplus produced by these irrigation systems. However, as we show in the case of two communities in Ecuador and Peru, many of these same institutions are reappropriated and redirected by local communities to counteract both classic ,exclusion-oriented' and modern ,inclusion-oriented' water and identity politics. In this way, they resist subordination, discrimination and the control of local water management by rural elites or state actors. [source] | |||||||||||||