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Active Herbicide Ingredients in Roundup Ready Xtend Products, Glyphosate and Dicamba, Results in Hypoactivity in Zebrafish Larvae When Exposed During Development
Get PDFEfficacy of the Pedagogical, Cultural, and Advocacy Programming at Purdue University Asian American and Asian Resource and Cultural Center
Get PDFThe Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Situational Association Between Accentedness and Its Impact as Rated by Speakers
Get PDF“Here, Kitty, Kitty.” Community Perceptions of Free-Roaming Cats: A Northern Canadian Case Study
Get PDFFree-roaming domestic cats (Felis catus) create controversy, due to their tendency to invade neighbors’ gardens, hunt wildlife, and create disturbances. Municipal governments are often under pressure to address concerns regarding free-roaming cats. As approximately 28% of the 8.8 million cats owned in Canada free-roam (are allowed outside unsupervised and unconstrained), understanding owner rationales for letting the cat out is important for officials tasked with addressing public concerns. In 2019, we studied attitudes toward cats within a north-central British Columbia, Canada, city. The rationales cat owners use to justify free-roaming, as well as their perceptions about the risks and benefits of this decision are discussed. While a majority of non–cat owners (and former owners) were concerned about free-roaming cats, current cat owners were not. While our research suggests that many cat owners are conflicted about letting their cats out, those so doing are committed despite recognizing the risks to their cat, wildlife, and relationships with their neighbors. This suggests that education is likely ineffective. Our research suggests that owners are unlikely to be motivated by poorly enforced bylaws or conservation concerns. Instead, outreach that focuses upon the risk to free-roaming cats might be more persuasive. In conjunction with the survey, we also conducted a limited field trial of the BirdsbeSafe cat collars to determine their effectiveness in limiting predation on birds. While a small sample was obtained, our results demonstrate that the collars do limit bird predation by owned cats
Navigating Archival Silences: Black History at Purdue
Get PDFThere are gaps in the historical record of Purdue University as evidenced in the lack of source materials in the University Archives. In particular, researching history on Black alumni, faculty, and staff and other people of color in Purdue\u27s past is challenging due to the scarcity of source material. This presentation discusses gaps or archival silences in the University Archives and measures being taken to preserve and share access to Black history at Purdue
Traveling Theory and Discursive Transformation: The Reception of Walter Benjamin and Emmanuel Levinas in China
Get PDFChinese scholars are increasingly interested in Jewish philosophy and culture and the philosophical concept of redemption. That is bringing about more and more studies on Walter Benjamin and Emmanuel Levinas, two of the most well-known Jewish philosophers. In these studies, conducted with different approaches and from diverse perspectives, Chinese scholars are attempting to connect the philosophers’ theories with some of their Chinese counterparts. Overall, they are well received or Sinicized, but in different fields, and to different extent, deserving an in-depth comparative study. Obviously a large amount of works have been produced in attempts to have dialogues with Benjamin and Levinas’s philosophies, but they are in need of some general commentary and reflection. For example, the political allegories and expectations in Benjamin’s philosophy of redemption have been eliminated, while his aesthetics has been repetitively studied in apolitical ways. Similarly, Levinas is much too conservatively received, and the relationship between Levinas’s ethics of “embracing the other” and qin qin（亲亲）in Confucian ethics also needs further examination
“China Form” and the Question of the Frankfurt School
Get PDFTheories of the Frankfurt School were introduced into aesthetics studies in China at the end of the 1970s. After more than 40 years of theoretical journey, the ideas of the Frankfurt School have undergone a process from “criticism/query/opposition” to “recognition/acceptance/approval,” and have also substantially completed “theoretical linkage” with Chinese aesthetics. As a Western discourse, the theories of the Frankfurt School, like other theories, are faced with scrutinization in the Chinese context. China’s acceptance of the School plays an objective role in promoting the transformation of its contemporary aesthetic discourse, making contemporary aesthetic research in China more obvious in its problem awareness, enhancing realistic criticism of aesthetic theory, However, in the process of entering into the narrative of Chinese aesthetic theory, the Frankfurt School has also experienced theoretical reconstruction in an aesthetic sense, and hence has objectively become a “China form” of the Frankfurt School
Deleuze’s Challenge to Hegel’s Aesthetics—Chinese Aesthetics in the Confrontation between German Classical Aesthetics and Postmodernism
Get PDFGerman classical aesthetics, featuring a systematic analysis of concepts and theories, plays a fundamental role in the founding of Chinese modern aesthetics. From the 1980s, when the spread of Western theories began to flourish, Chinese scholars assimilated deconstructionist thought (for example, that of Deleuze) and started to reflect on German classical aesthetics as represented by Kant and Hegel. Chinese aesthetics presents various characteristics in the confrontation between German classical aesthetics and French deconstructionist thought. From the perspective of German classical aesthetics, China has no philosophy, tragedy, or system. The Chinese culture became a thinking resource for criticizing essentialism and dualism in the West in deconstructionist thought. With the change of frame of reference, our evaluation of traditional Chinese aesthetics has been reshaped, implying that modern Chinese aesthetics should be firmly rooted in local concerns, accept classical Western ideas critically, and secure knowledge production and creation in an open vision
You Cannot See It: Navigating Yorùbá Religious Artistic Materials
Get PDFMy research spanning two decades in Ọ̀yọ́ Palace generated series of questions about access to artistic materials in site-locational spaces, archives and private collections. I probe how scholars have navigated and negotiated these terrains, especially artworks created for religious functions. I explore alternatives to resolve field challenges and consider the effects of such hindrances in art historical research. Drawing on the concept of ọ̀gbẹ̀rì, anecdotes and personal scholarly experiences, I interrogate research access and propose approaches based on personal experience on the importance of Yoruba religion, and practice of initiation.
Iṣẹ́ ìwádì mi fún bíi ogún ọdún sẹ́yìn lórí ààfin Ọ̀yọ́ ṣe okùnfà ọ̀pọ̀lọpọ̀ ìbéèrè tó níí ṣe pẹ̀lú níní àfààní sí èròjà iṣẹ́-ọnà ní ibi-ìkó- ohun- ìṣẹ̀ǹbáyé- sí ati àwọn àkójọ àwọn aládàáni. Mo ṣe ìwádìí bí àwọn onímọ̀ ṣe ń ṣàyẹ̀wò àti àgbéyẹ̀wò pàápàá jùlọ lórí iṣẹ́-ọnà tó wúlò fún iṣẹ́ ẹ̀sìn. Síwájú sí i, mo ṣàwárí àwọn ọ̀nà mìíràn láti yanjú àwọn ìdènà wọ̀nyí, àti ipa tí àwọn ìdènà bẹ́ẹ̀ ń kó nínú ìwádìí ìtàn iṣẹ́-ọnà. Àgbéyẹ̀wò mi dúró lorí ìtumọ̀ ọ̀gbẹ́rì, àti oríṣiríṣi ìtàn àti ìrírí àwọn onímọ̀ nínú iṣẹ́-ọnà. Mo sì dábàá àwọn ọ̀nà míiràn tó dá lórí ìrírí mi, pàtàkì jùlọ lori iṣẹ́pataki ẹ̀sìn Yorùbá, iṣẹ́-ọnà àti ìmọ̀ dídára pọ̀ mọ́ awo
Türkiye\u27s Sustainable Tourism Transformation: An Overview
No full textTürkiye has initiated a paradigm shift in its tourism industry, marked by a collaboration with the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC), renowned for setting robust sustainability standards. The agreement, initiated in 2022, prioritizes sustainability commitment, commencing with formulating national program criteria and certification bodies training. The initial phase is targeted for completion by the end of 2023, with subsequent stages progressively implemented by 2025, ultimately aiming to meet all international standards by 2030.
This strategic move aims to position Turkey prominently in sustainable tourism, aligning with the goals of The Paris Agreement. Turkey has proactively steered its tourism industry towards sustainability, enhancing global competitiveness and aligning with international trends through collaboration with GSTC. Simultaneously, the nation introduced the Safe Tourism Certification Program in 2020, certifying nearly 12,000 facilities and extending its focus to include sustainability standards in accommodation facilities from April 2022.
Central to Türkiye\u27s sustainable tourism development is the Türkiye Sustainable Tourism Industry Criteria (TR-I), obligating adherence from the Turkish tourism industry. Developed collaboratively with domestic and international stakeholders, TR-I aligns with cultural and global sustainable tourism standards. The certification program, consisting of 42 criteria across three stages, has seen substantial progress, with 15.178 of Türkiye\u27s hotels verified/certified as of January 2024