Over the last twenty years, fundamental changes have taken place in the structure of employment in the highly developed countries. In particular, the number of jobs in manufacturing has decreased, but service employment has increased considerably. This has been associated with an increase in the number of women in paid work, as well as with regional shifts in growth and decline. However, despit...

Katharine Bradbury and Jane Katz Abstract: One contributor to the twentieth century rise in married women’s labor force participation was declining responsiveness to husbands’ wages and other family income. Now that the rapid rise in married women’s participation has slowed and even begun to reverse, this paper asks whether married women’s cross‐wage elasticities have continued to fall. Using t...

Within media theory the worldwide shift from a 19 century print culture via a 20 century electronic culture to a 21 century digital culture is well documented. In this essay the emergence of a digital culture as amplified and accelerated by the popularity of networked computers, multiple-user software and Internet is investigated in terms of its principal components. A digital culture as an und...

The diaphragm was recognized as a distinct anatomical structure in the earliest Greek writings. However, the precise description of wounds suffered by warriors during the Trojan war by Homer was not tied to any particular function. The diaphragm was assimilated to the region that harbours thought. The first physiologic explanations of respiration by Empedocles in the 5th century BC and the conc...

The growth in female labour particpation and occupational attainment represents the most dramatic feature of labour markets in the second half of the twentieth century. This has been due in part to developments in social attitudes and the consequent changes in the prices attached to womens’ characteristics, and in part to changes in those characteristics themselves. This paper analyses these is...

OBJECTIVES We examine age differences in adults' participation in, perceived barriers to, and institutional support for educational activities provided by schools, businesses, and community organizations in the 1990s. METHODS We conduct descriptive and logistic regression analyses on a sample of respondents aged 30 to 74 from the National Household Education Surveys. RESULTS Adult education...

This conceptual paper argues that recent developments in K-12 programming education signal a new agenda in which learning to code has shifted from being a predominantly individualistic approach to one that is decidedly culturally grounded in the social creation and sharing of digital media. While this approach toward computing was long-advocated by Seymour Papert—most famously in his book Minds...

The article investigates political debates about royal succession and noble participation in fifteenth-century Hungary. language of that time was often marked by strong references to ‘own’ (seemingly ‘national’) identities aspects ‘foreignness’ were regarded as (or at least argumentatively as) unwelcome. While like this have been interpreted supposed proof a pre-modern form xenophobia, suggests...

Located in the Philippines, this study explored perceptions secondary English education majors at a public university Metro Manila, have of classroom participation. Through an open-ended questionnaire and series interviews, researcher found participants defined class participation as “recitation,” such student responses to teacher-generated questions with limited interaction peers. Participants...