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Women's Worth: A Western Misconception

Focusing on gender relations and dominance within the Gusii of Kenya, Tombema, Kaihsienkung, and India cultures this paper will focus on bridewealth and dowry, specifically what it means in terms of "women's value" or status within these cultural groups. The dominance of the male perspective in academics is one cause for women's domestic or 'secondary' subsistence work being given lower status....

What ’ S Friends ’ Advice worth ?

The growth in social networking has also brought an increase in the use of advice networks. Some sites use friends’ advice for social marketing, others may offer recommendations from knowledgeable strangers. With this research, we seek to explore the value of the advice from friends and other informants, focusing on the change in a person’s belief (probability) about the usefulness (fit for pur...

2 The Dean ’ s Problem and Spin Glasses

This paper is concerned with complex macroscopic behaviour arising in many-body systems through the combinations of competitive interactions and disorder, even with simple ingredients at the microscopic level. It attempts to indicate and illustrate the richness that has arisen, in conceptual understanding, in methodology and in application , across a large range of scientific disciplines, toget...

Three Stanford alumni to be honored with dean ’ s Medal

Surgeons and transplant centers nationwide increasingly have rejected hearts donated for transplantation despite a growing need for them, according to a new study by researchers at the School of Medicine. The study also found that the rejection of “marginal” donor hearts — those with undesirable qualities, such as being small or coming from an older donor — varied significantly across geographi...

What ’ s it worth ? Semester Thesis