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How to talk about carbon removal: a communications workshop
No full textMeeting Report September 18-19, 2019. University of Massachusetts Club, Boston, MA.On September 18-19, 2019, the Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy (ICRLP) hosted a
meeting titled “How to Talk About Carbon Removal.” The meeting was intended to facilitate a
dialogue between stakeholders working on carbon removal and to provide a space to discuss
strategies for improved communication of the topic. The outcomes of the meeting are informing
an in-progress ICRLP report, being prepared by communications scholar Matthew Nisbet of
Northeastern University, on carbon removal communication.
This meeting report summarizes the discussions and outcomes that emerged from the workshop
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No full textView of the entrance to gold Spot Pack and Ship with signs posted in the window and door requiring masks for entry
Sign on a lamp post
No full textSign on a lamp post that reads, 'Wear a mask, save lives.' Above the message is a picture of a person wearing a mask inside a red heart
The God(s) of Our Ancestors: Mobility, Migration, and Inter-Religious Pluralism in Israel and Judah
No full textThe Old Testament maintains disparate representations of Israel’s God, even in portions where the centralizing momentum of particular authorial communities is apparent. These different instantiations of divine origins and character bear witness to processes of cultural exchange that occurred over the course of Israel’s history. Myriad studies have addressed the tensions arising from Yahweh’s relationship to other deities and geographic locations in biblical, iconographic, and inscriptional bodies of evidence, but to date, none have taken account of Israel’s internal religious diversity by investigating the relationship between mobility, migration, and internal religious pluralism. This project fills that lacuna by combining mobility/migration studies research with relevant textual (biblical and extra-biblical) and archaeological data in order to examine the relationship between migration and internal religious diversity in Israel and Judah from the time of Israel’s emergence in the central highlands during the Early Iron Age until the Exilic period. It makes a novel contribution to the study of Israel and Judah’s religious expressions by integrating migration studies as the primary conversation partner with the biblical texts and extra- biblical evidence. In doing so, it contributes a fresh understanding of the scope and texture of religious identities by accounting for the role of mobility in the development and exchange of religious elements that compose the broader Israelite religious heritage. The project is divided into three main parts. The introductory chapter elaborates the origins and directions of the project and clarifies important terminological and theoretical concerns surrounding the discussion of religion and migration. Chapter 2 elaborates my own methodological moorings for the study of religion in the ancient world. Chapter 3 provides further theoretical grounding for application of social scientific data on migration through an expansive introduction to modern research on migrant religiosity in contexts of mobility. It explicates the impacts of religion on migrant decision making, as well as the effects mobility and migration have on religious diversity, religious identity formation, and the spectrum of internal religious pluralism. In the second part of the project I turn to explore the concepts of mobility and migration in the ancient Near East, especially as they relate to divine mobility and transcendence. Chapter 4 presents the dominant cultures of mobility in the ancient Near East. It catalogues the various instances of large-scale movement in the lands around Canaan and explains the macro-level occurrences of cultural exchange evidenced by the archaeological, iconographic, and textual records. Chapter 5 illuminates the intersections of mobility/migration and religiosity in the lands surrounding Canaan through analysis of a variety of textual evidence. The third part of the project explores the effects of mobility on the lived religious experiences of ancient Israelites as witnessed in biblical and extra-biblical evidence. Chapter 6 narrows in on the instances of mobility and movement within Canaan in the Late Bronze through Iron Ages. Chapter 7 takes up an important discussion of Yahweh’s origins and the means by which his mobile characteristics contributed to his rise to the head of Israelite and Judahite pantheons. Chapter 8 elucidates the contours of Israelite religion in the context of Israel's emergence. Chapter 9 briefly presents the effects of mobility and migration on the compositional history of the Old Testament. In doing so, it ties the previous bodies of data together to speak about the pluriformity of religious expression in ancient Israelite Yahwism and the way pluriform religious expression is maintained in the processes of biblical authorship and redaction. Together, these chapters bear out the claims that a migration-informed internally plural Yahwism was the essence of Israel and Judah’s shared religious identity, and that various geographic manifestations of Yahweh were not viewed as different deities by Israelites, Judeans, or their neighbors. Throughout the project, I employ the heuristic categories of comprehensiveness and coherence. It will become clear that with regard to both lived religiosity and textual production, the evidence indicates a pervasive preference for efficacious comprehensiveness over systematic coherence across the human religious experience. This tendency is often exacerbated in contexts of mobility. As a result, this project explores how mobility and migration inform Israel’s tendency toward comprehensiveness.Biblical studiesReligionAncient Migration, Internal Religious Pluralism, Israel and Judah, Israelite Religion, Migration Studies, Poly-YahwismBiblical StudiesDegree Awarded: Ph.D. Biblical Studies. The Catholic University of Americ
Electronic signs at Mt. Moriah Baptist Church
No full textElectronic signs at Mt. Moriah Baptist Church.
Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law annual report 2018-2019
No full textThis annual report highlights the Center's work and achievements that have been made possible by our students, staff, and faculty
Re-orienting policy for growing food to nourish communities
No full textAgriculture and Human Values, Volume 37, Issue 3, 1 September 2020, Pages 623-625
Impact of global budget revenue policy on emergency department efficiency in the state of Maryland
No full textThe Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, Volume 20, Issue 6, 14 October 2019, Pages 885-892.INTRODUCTION: On January 1, 2014, the State of Maryland implemented the Global Budget Revenue (GBR) program. We investigate the impact of GBR on length of stay (LOS) for inpatients in emergency departments (ED) in Maryland. METHODS: We used the Hospital Compare data reports from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and CMS Cost Reports Hospital Form 2552-10 from January 1, 2012-March 31, 2016, with GBR hospitals from Maryland and hospitals from West Virginia (WV), Delaware (DE), and Rhode Island (RI). We implemented difference-in-differences analysis and investigated the impact of GBR implementation on the LOS or ED1b scores of Maryland hospitals using a mixed-effects model with a state-level fixed effect, a hospital-level random effect, and state-level heterogeneity. RESULTS: The GBR impact estimator was 9.47 (95% confidence interval [CI], 7.06 to 11.87, p-value<0.001) for Maryland GBR hospitals, which implies, on average, that GBR implementation added 9.47 minutes per year to the time that hospital inpatients spent in the ED in the first two years after GBR implementation. The effect of the total number of hospital beds was 0.21 (95% CI, 0.089 to 0.330, p-value = 0 .001), which suggests that the bigger the hospital, the longer the ED1b score. The state-level fixed effects for WV were -106.96 (95% CI, -175.06 to -38.86, p-value = 0.002), for DE it was 6.51 (95% CI, -8.80 to 21.82, p-value=0.405), and for RI it was -54.48 (95% CI, -82.85 to -26.10, p-value<0.001). CONCLUSION: Our results indicate that GBR implementation has had a statistically significant negative impact on the efficiency measure ED1b of Maryland hospital EDs from January 2014 to April 2016. We also found that the significant state-level fixed effect implies that the same inpatient might experience different ED processing times in each of the four states that we studied
The Office of Papal Legate and Canon 363 & 1: continuity and development
No full textby Reverend D. B. Thompson.Typescript.Thesis (J.C.L.)--Catholic University of America, 2019.Bibliography: leaves 58-63.Also available in microfilm.Also available in microfiche