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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Laboring"”.
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Laboring Lesbians at Gas Stations: Pumping the "Good Life"
… project is an interdisciplinary exploration of laboring lesbian bodies within the context of U.S. gas stations. I begin with an investigation of the history of gas stations in connection with the oil industry and the company for which they work. In addition, I examine how institutions of class, …
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The Laboring Irish: Developing Community and Industry in Early Kansas City
By 1880, the Kansas City community had experienced phenomenal growth. Since 1820, the new city had evolved from a fur trading post, an outfitting center for western trails, a trading center for Native Americans, a center for railroad construction and distribution, and became the second largest …
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REMIFENTANIL PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA USE IN LABORING WOMEN: A FEASIBILITY AND ACCEPTABILITY STUDY
<p><strong>Background/Purpose</strong>: Interest in remifentanil patient controlled analgesia (RPCA) as a treatment for labor pain has increased due to its unique pharmacodynamics and effectiveness on pain control among parturients. Despite its promise, RPCA remains infrequently used in the US. The …
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Laboring for peace and development: evaluating the United States-Jordan free trade agreement’s effects
<p>This thesis examines the United States-Jordan Free Trade Agreement in the context of American foreign and trade policy in the aftermath of the Cold War. The agreement, ratified in 2001, was the first signed by the United States which includes labor and environmental protections in the main text …
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Mais Bonito Da Região: the Cacao-Producing Region of Cachoeira Alta, Bahia, and the Transition From Wage Labor to Small Farming
… cacao-producing population from a wage-laboring class within Cachoeira Alta, a small village in southeastern Bahia, Brazil. I wanted to document the transition from wage laboring to smallholding from the perspective of the participants themselves, which requires ethnographical research. …
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Attempts to Adopt the Metric System in the United States to 1907
… efficiency and often tended to regard the laboring class much like machines. Even so, they often represented themselves as spokesmen for workers. Conversely, proponents often demonstrated much concern for the laboring class. This often came from an elitist position with a paternalistic …
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Exploring the Relationships of Power, Attitudes regarding Intermittent Fetal Monitoring, and Perceived Barriers to Research Utilization with a Labor and Delivery Nurse's Attitude toward Patient Advocacy
… continuous fetal monitoring (CEFM) with low risk laboring women. CEFM is associated with worsened outcomes for the low risk laboring woman with no benefit to the newborn. In addition, this routine practice does not allow most laboring women the right to make an informed choice regarding treatment …
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Domestic Servants on the New York and London Stages: 1880 - 1920 With an Emphasis on Costume
… same aim as its predecessor--the relief of the laboring classes from exploitation by the upperclass in whom wealth and power was vested.
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Antagonistic Roles of miR-199a-3p/miR-214 and the miR-200 Family in the Regulation of Uterine Contractility During Pregnancy and Labor
… of mice as they progressed to labor and in laboring myometrium from pregnant women. These changes were associated with a dramatic increase in expression and activity of 20α-HSD in laboring myometrium from mouse and human. In a progesterone-withdrawal mouse model of preterm labor, preterm …
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The splice variants of TREK-1 act as dominant-negative suppressors of human uterine relaxation: Implications for preterm labor
… variants of TREK-1 were identified in preterm laboring and non-laboring myometrium, and were named as SV-1 to SV-5 due to the number of deleted exons. The exon skipping contributes to heavily truncated proteins with defective TREK-1 channel properties. Quantitative real-time PCR provided …
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No Circe with wicked charms: dialectical mediation of time in South Korea’s cultural formation in the 1980s
… rationality into the everyday life of the Korean laboring classes. Korean laboring class internalized the logic of global financialization in everyday life by subjectively re-appropriating abstract time by a synchronized temporal form proposed by a new media, color TV. The Korean laboring classes …
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Makna kebahagiaan sejati (authentic happiness) calon tenaga kerja wanita yang akan bekerja di luar negeri
… candidate that will work beyond country. Women laboring candidate which will work beyond country experiences happiness that indigenous various factor. That thing gets opposite with that fact Working woman labor beyond country not nearly family, with cultural background that variably, work that …
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The Use of Intuition by Intrapartal Nurses
… study of the use of intuition in caring for laboring clients. Demographic information, including participant self-rating of intuitive ability on a visual analog scale, was obtained. Personal interviews with a predetermined interview schedule were audio-taped. Definitions of intuition and how …
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The Body Machinic: Technology, Labor, and Mechanized Bodies in Victorian Culture
… machinery relieved human toil by replicating the laboring body in structure and function. Chapters 2 examines factory workers' autobiographies which record their experiences of being treated like machine parts, disposed of when broken by gruesome factory accidents. Chapter 3 analyzes Trollope's …
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The Map is not the Territory: The Unconscious Moral Agent and the personal mythopoeic in the novels of Cormac McCarthy
That the unconscious ‘may be laboring under a moral compulsion to educate us,’ is a provocative theory posed by Cormac McCarthy in his recent work of non-fiction, the Kekulé Problem. He suggests that, for several million years — long pre-dating the arrival of complex language — the unconscious has …
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The relationship between nitric oxide synthase (NOS) and cyclooxygenase (COX) in the control of cervical ripening and parturition
… (P=0.036) mRNA. In comparing term to preterm laboring conditions, there is a significant increase in the iNOS mRNA (P=0.004) but not the COX-2 mRNA. LPS enhanced the iNOS mRNA (P<0.001) but had no effect on the COX-2 mRNA. L-NAME had no effect on the COX-2 or iNOS mRNA. SNP decreased the COX-2 …
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Coping With Labor Education for Nurses
… labor support is offered at the bedside for the laboring patient can potentially decrease cesarean rates, reduce expenses, and increase savings. The objectives of this plan are to improve patient advocacy and the level of labor support interventions labor and delivery nurses will provide for …
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The seen, the unseen, and the aesthetics of infrastructure
… and yet can be silent. I imaginatively liken laboring bodies to the inner workings of the built environment; bodies, like pipes, are put to use in an underground that is equally seen/unseen literally as well as figuratively. Domestic laborers on the street, buried pipes, underground. There are …
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Ethnographic Inquiry of Social Support throughout Women's Labor and Childbirth Experiences
… support was found to be communicated to the laboring woman by her lay supporters by the assurance of continuous presence. Support was provided by convoy members both physically present at the event and available to the woman by phone. The physical environment was seen as a major influence on …
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Gender and the Political Economy of Oil in the Niger Delta: A Feminist Critique
… are organizing against structures that make laboring as women exploitative. In Chapter 2, I synthesize the different literatures on women's labor and oil economies and argue that using a theory of capitalist patriarchy is the best way to look at the relationship between oil and women's labor …
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