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Isolation As A Statement of Refusal: Indigenous Policies Against The Violence of The Brazilian State
Get PDFBrief responses to the commentaries on Traditional Peoples and Biodiversity in Brazil, from the quilombola point of view
Get PDFThe Heart of Classical Work-Performance
Get PDFIn this critical study of Julian Dodd’s Being True to Works of Music (2020), I argue that the three-tier normative profile of the work-performance tradition in classical music that Dodd defends should be rejected in favour of a two-tier version. I also argue that the theory of work-performance defended in the book fits much more naturally with a contextualist ontology of musical works than with the Platonist ontology Dodd defends in Works of Music (2007), despite his arguments to the contrary in the afterword of the new book. Finally, I argue that the reasons he gives for preferring a ‘tradition-based’ over a ‘historicized’ theory of the understanding of classical scores are not convincing
Do Organizational Characteristics of Lung Procurement Operations Matter: The Association Between Transplant Center Centrality and Volume with Total Ischemic Time
No full textBackground: To understand the association of 2 organizational characteristics of transplant center (TXC), volume and closeness centrality, with total ischemic time for deceased donor lung transplants in conjunction with the removal of donation service area (DSA) lung allocation policy. The organization of donor procurements has received increased attention since DSA was removed from allocation policy. Consistent with network theories of organization, organizational characteristics of a TXC could affect procurement efficiency, as volume and closeness centrality (measuring how connected a TXC is within the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network) could be associated with total ischemic time. These associations could have changed because of the removal of DSA from allocation policy.
Methods: We conducted a retrospective, pooled cross-sectional study of total ischemic time for nonperfused deceased donor lung transplants (n = 9281) between 2015 and 2019, using within-between regression.
Results: Higher volume TXCs exhibited lower total ischemic times after the removal of DSA from lung allocation policy (P = 0.011); however, all TXCs that had increased volumes, after the removal of DSA from lung allocation policy, exhibited higher levels of total ischemic time (P ≤ 0.001). Before the removal of DSA, TXCs that had increased volumes exhibited lower levels of ischemic time (P ≤ 0.001). Both within and between closeness centrality exhibited u-shaped associations with total ischemic time (P = 0.012; P = 0.006) and the effect of closeness centrality on total ischemic time was different after DSA removal (P \u3c 0.001).
Conclusions: Organizational characteristics were associated with the efficiency of deceased organ procurements. The effects on total ischemic time were dependent on whether DSA was used for lung allocation
Electronic Fingerprint Safe
Get PDFThe objective for this project was to create a lockbox storage solution which used a fingerprint sensor (3) as the mechanism for locking and unlocking the device. A user of the device would have the ability to add or remove up to four fingerprints from the device while it is unlocked. As a backup measure for the event that a fingerprint is no longer recognized, the lockbox will have a preprogrammed PIN assigned to the device which the user can enter to unlock it. User input was implemented via a series of buttons (5) on the front panel of the lockbox. Then, to display information about the state of the lockbox and communicate any other UI information, an LCD display (4) was included on the front of the device. A stepper motor (1) positioned under the lid was also used as the mechanism for both opening and closing the lid of the lockbox via a connected lifting arm while a solenoid latch (2) also positioned inside the box was used to lock it. A buzzer will sound an alarm should a tilt sensor detect movement of the box above a certain predefined threshold
Queer Carnival: Festivals and Mardi Gras in the South
No full textFestivals like Mardi Gras and Fiesta have come to be annual events in which entire cities participate, and LGBTQ people are a visible part of these celebrations. In other words, the party is on, the party is queer, and everyone is invited. In Queer Carnival, Amy Stone takes us inside these colorful, eye-catching, and often raucous events, highlighting their importance to queer life in America’s urban South and Southwest.Drawing on five years of research, and over a hundred days at LGBTQ events in cities such as San Antonio, Santa Fe, Baton Rouge, and Mobile, Stone gives readers a front-row seat to festivals, carnivals, and Mardi Gras celebrations, vividly bringing these queer cultural spaces and the people that create and participate in them to life. Stone shows how these events serve a larger fundamental purpose, helping LGBTQ people to cultivate a sense of belonging in cities that may be otherwise hostile.Queer Carnival provides an important new perspective on queer life in the South and Southwest, showing us the ways that LGBTQ communities not only survive, but thrive, even in the most unexpected places.https://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/mono/1183/thumbnail.jp
“Homosexual People Do Not Stand Outside of Socialist Society”
No full textThis article centers on four petitions (Eingaben) presented to the East German Central Committee in the 1970s and 1980s by men attracted to other men. The East German legal apparatus required that the state address all petitions. An analysis of these Eingaben written by non-activists demonstrates a growing boldness to use the available legal structures to claim one’s rights. The petitioners used the Eingaben system to assert their legitimacy as gdr citizens, forcing officials to deal with them as any other citizen. This article moreover calls for the still young field of East German homosexual history to more fully incorporate the untold number of Eingaben written by homosexuals in the former gdr. This would help to develop a more comprehensive historical narrative as such documents provide an invaluable and unique window into everyday life under socialism