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At the Crossroads: Ryan Coogler’s Metaphysical Meditation on Blues Music’s Power of Salvation and the Terror of Racial Predation in “Sinners”
No full textIn Sinners (2025), written and directed by Ryan Coogler, intercultural histories of music, religion and oral tradition inform a modern and complex horror tale confronting the terror of Jim Crow in the post–World War I Mississippi Delta. The film, starring frequent Coogler collaborator and muse Michael B. Jordan as twin war veterans out to reestablish their lives as juke joint owners, coalesces themes of economic repression, racial voyeurism, and secular and religious entanglements with cinematic horror allegories of objectification, consumption and possession. This review explores the film’s tense and violent examination of these themes and the lived and imagined spaces of Black freedom, transformation and free expression mediated through ecstatic musical performance and immersion
01. Probability I
No full textPart one of course materials for Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics (Physics 626), taught by Gerhard Müller at the University of Rhode Island. The available PDF includes both the lecture notes, additional materials, and exercises without solutions
08. Zwanzig-Mori Formalism
No full textPart eight of course materials for Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics (Physics 626), taught by Gerhard Müller at the University of Rhode Island. The available PDF includes both the lecture notes, additional materials, and exercises without solutions
Changes in Pyrogenic Tracers Over the Last 15,000 Years in the Congo River Catchment Through Multi-Method Analysis
No full textBlack carbon (BC), the most recalcitrant part of the pyrogenic carbon continuum, is formed by the incomplete combustion of biomass and fossil fuels. Methods for detecting BC include the chemical degradation of condensed aromatic compounds into benzenepolycarboxylic acids (BPCA), chemothermal oxidation of organic carbon at 375°C (CTO), 13C nuclear magnetic resonance combined with a molecular mixing model, thermogravimetry-differential scanning calorimetry, and the use of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons as tracers. However, there is limited knowledge about the comparability of these methods in marine sediments and their suitability as wildfire proxies. Here, we examined a sediment core from the Congo River outflow using a multi-methodological approach with environmental data and proxies to assess pyrogenic tracers from the Congo River basin over the last 15,000 years and determine commonalities between the methods. Despite differing analytical windows, both dry-weight and total organic carbon concentrations, and δ13C values for most methods showed a congruous trend. Higher BC concentrations and higher δ13C values were present during arid periods and lower during humid periods, reflecting changes in vegetation and terrestrial organic matter inputs. For all methods, the sedimentation flux identified significant variations in BC deposition only in the last 1,000 years BP due to anthropogenic land use changes. These findings deepen our understanding of BC in the global carbon cycle and show that BC proxies can reveal distinct transport pathways, with CTO-BC representing atmospheric deposition and BPCA-BC and NMR-BC indicating fluvial inputs to coastal margins, aiding in the reconstruction of past climates and landscapes
A children’s rights approach to critical media literacy in language education: Developing children’s agency in a digital networked world
No full textChildren are growing up in a culture of digitality, one infused in digital communication in and out of school (Faverio & Sidotti, 2024; Stalder, 2018). They are immersed in a digital networked world, which plays a significant role in how they develop their literacies and identities (Cannon et al., 2022) across languages. To help them participate as “active thinkers and citizens in their own right” (Wall, 2016, p. 86), educators could consider the potential of critical media literacy in language education as a pedagogical response to the commercial exploitation of information, and the liberatory potential of critical thinking and creative expression. This essay presents a conceptualization of media language education as a form of global citizenship education, with the potential to create opportunities for learning and empowerment. We explore how such a concept can uphold commitments to children’s rights and empower youth in the present and for the future
Usage Statistics: Project COUNTER R5 pr_p1 Report FY2024 - Platform Usage
No full textProject COUNTER R5 Report PR_P1 for the University of Rhode Island for the period from July 1, 2023 - June 30, 2024. The PR_P1 report is defined as Platform Usage. This report presents an annual total only and only includes those platforms successfully configured for automated harvesting via SUSHI.
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The Efficacy of India\u27s Electric Vehicle Market: Can FAME Deliver Results?
Full text linkThis commentary discusses the merits and demerits of India\u27s FAME I II and III policy frameworks to promote the use of electric vehicles (EVs). FAME III is under consideration, and some suggestions are offered to improve its effectiveness
Struggles Around Transgenderism in Hungarian Feminism: An Autoethnographic Account
Full text linkIn this autoethnography, I am using my personal experiences as data to examine the inextricable personal, political, social, and cultural aspects of one of the most decisive ruptures in Hungarian “progressive” activism of the second half of the 2010s. In the mid-2010s, I was part of an informal collective of women that started to outline a feminist approach critical of mainstream individualistic renditions of women’s rights as social progress, thereby diverging fundamentally from the country’s institutionalised feminism. As I and the circle of women I worked with focused on women’s reproductive autonomy, we encountered central feminist questions about sex and “gender” and soon faced serious backlash from political networks that felt their agenda threatened by our approach. Even though we did not intend to deal with the question of transgenderism, this question became the issue along which the feminist scene came to be divided. Through my experiences, I examine the role of institutions, the combative style of mainstream gender activists, and the co-optation strategies that eventually absorbed and defused the critique of “gender identity.” From this wider perspective, I look at how I made sense of the events, the scene, and its actors, as well as my own possible “place” in the processes