Objective. Scholars who have investigated depictions of public service in children’s literature have come to a mix of conclusions regarding the portrayal of public figures in children’s literature. We revisit these studies, attempting to answer the question of how public servants are portrayed in children’s literature. Methods. We perform content analysis of 93 books and examine 868 characters ...

Author(s) Page Articles Bojko, Agnieszka 2 Memory Illusions of Pictorial Occlusions Cooper, Lynn M. 9 Question Content and Gender Influence on Depression Screening Scores Falls, Keith 17 Recall and Recognition of Television Commercials As a Function of Serial Position Heath, Timothy L. 23 Correlation Between Tenure and Individualism Hedman, Courtney 30 Physiological and Theoretical Perspectives...

This paper explores the indigenous women’s portrayal as agency and subjection by attempting to determine extent which these women become representations of third world in comparison white context new Orientalist theory postcolonial literary discourses. The selected text, Red Birds Hanif Mohammad, has been read under lens orientalism particularly relevant Lady Flower Body, Mother Dear Cathy. tho...

The process of courtship and marriage in sub-Saharan Africa has changed remarkably. These changes, however, have received scant attention, as recent research has focused on adolescent relationships' links to HIV/AIDS rather than to marriage. Drawing on detailed reports of 1,365 romantic and sexual partnerships from youths in Kisumu, Kenya, we find that marital aspirations, school enrollment, em...

The paper describes new approaches in computational cartography to assist online map portrayal e.g., in web map and location-based services. Such services demand increasing levels of flexibility to support portrayal operations such as the on-the-fly combination (conflation) of data from different sources in response to ad hoc database queries and dynamic generalisation of information in respons...

This paper interrogates migration, identity and the nuances of female migrants’ experiences in Chika Unigwe’s Better Never than Late. The notes that, although women seem to have dominated global migration flow, has mostly been considered from an overwhelmingly male perspective, perhaps, due predominance process. development, most often, creates complexes that diminish self-worth their destinati...

In this paper, we discuss the historical and current perspectives on women in computer science and the recent downward trend of women's participation in this field We then present results from a survey that asked respondents their views on why women's participation in the field of computing is decreasing, what we can do to reverse this trend, and what they predict the future holds for women in ...

The purpose of this study was to test the psychometric properties of a vertical version of horizontally oriented three Appraisal of Violent Situation scales that elicit women's subjective appraisals of severity, dangerousness, and controllability of violence. Construct validity of the vertical scale eliciting 64 abused women's perceptions of severity of violence experienced was supported by a l...

To study visual representations of sexual violence, photographs accompanying German Internet news articles that appeared between January 2013 and March 2015 (N = 42) were subjected to thematic analysis. Two main themes, consisting of several sub-themes, emerged from the data. The first theme was "rape myths," illustrating a stereotypical view of sexual violence. It consisted of three sub-themes...

Sugiarti Siswadi was regarded as one of the most influential writers in Indonesia during 1950s and 1960s. She also known an activist Lembaga Kebudayaan Rakyat (People’s Cultural Institute-Lekra) Gerakan Wanita (Indonesian Women’s Movement-Gerwani), both which were closely associated with now-defunct Indonesian Communist Party (PKI). This study analyzes three Sugiarti’s short stories: “Jang Kese...