Domestic Ubimus

Domestic Employment

Elizabeth Weber Handwerker, Mina M. Kim, and Lowell Mason The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) collects data on multinational companies based in the United States—firms that have full or partial ownership of affiliate companies in foreign countries. However, BEA data offer little detail on the characteristics of these firms’ U.S. employment. Identifying such firms in BLS data can show the geog...

Domestic pigeons

Figure 1. Diversity among breeds of domestic pigeons (Columba livia). Variation among pigeon breeds is often of the magnitude observed among different species of birds, including beak size extremes of the (A) African owl and (B) Scandaroon; (C) the head crest of the Old German owl and (D) hood of the Jacobin; (E) supernumerary and elevated tail feathers of the fantail; and (F) scales versus (G)...

Domestic Violence

A sample of 248 enlisted active duty females married to civilian spouses completed a selfreport survey that asked about their own and their spouse's violence. The survey also asked about their sex-role attitudes, marital satisfaction, alcohol use, childhood trauma, and depression. Results identified patterns of intimate partner violence and their relationship to the psychosocial risk factors. F...

Helen Groth Domestic Phantasmagoria : The Victorian Literary Domestic and Experimental

Illusion is a source of trauma in the opening sections of Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. One encounter with a domestic magic lantern sends Martineau into a state of high anxiety. In its dismantled state, the lantern holds no mysteries for her. She recalls seeing it cleaned by daylight, handling all its parts, and “understanding its whole structure.” It was a different story at night, in a d...

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