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Book Reviews
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Berit von der Lippe and Rune Ottosen (eds.) (2016). Gendering War and Peace Reporting. Some Insights – Some Missing Links. (Reviewed by Martine Bentsen).
Claudia Aradau, Jef Huysmans, Andrew Neal and Nadine Voelkner (eds.) (2015): Critical Security Methods: New Frameworks for Analysis. (Reviewed by Theresa Ammann)
Bayesian spatial modelling of childhood cancer incidence in Switzerland using exact point data: a nationwide study during 1985-2015.
No full textBACKGROUND
The aetiology of most childhood cancers is largely unknown. Spatially varying environmental factors such as traffic-related air pollution, background radiation and agricultural pesticides might contribute to the development of childhood cancer. This study is the first investigation of the spatial disease mapping of childhood cancers using exact geocodes of place of residence.
METHODS
We included 5947 children diagnosed with cancer in Switzerland during 1985-2015 at 0-15 years of age from the Swiss Childhood Cancer Registry. We modelled cancer risk using log-Gaussian Cox processes and indirect standardisation to adjust for age and year of diagnosis. We examined whether the spatial variation of risk can be explained by modelled ambient air concentration of NO2, modelled exposure to background ionising radiation, area-based socio-economic position (SEP), linguistic region, duration in years of general cancer registration in the canton or degree of urbanisation.
RESULTS
For all childhood cancers combined, the posterior median relative risk (RR), compared to the national level, varied by location from 0.83 to 1.13 (min to max). Corresponding ranges were 0.96 to 1.09 for leukaemia, 0.90 to 1.13 for lymphoma, and 0.82 to 1.23 for central nervous system (CNS) tumours. The covariates considered explained 72% of the observed spatial variation for all cancers, 81% for leukaemia, 82% for lymphoma and 64% for CNS tumours. There was weak evidence of an association of CNS tumour incidence with modelled exposure to background ionising radiation (RR per SD difference 1.17; 0.98-1.40) and with SEP (1.6; 1.00-1.13).
CONCLUSION
Of the investigated diagnostic groups, childhood CNS tumours showed the largest spatial variation. The selected covariates only partially explained the observed variation of CNS tumours suggesting that other environmental factors also play a role
Claudia Rankine: An Evening with Claudia Rankine
No full textAn initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest, the NEA Big Read broadens our understanding of our world, our communities, and ourselves through the joy of sharing a good book. For NEA Big Read: Hampton Roads, that book is Citizen: An American Lyric.
NEA Big Read: Hampton Roads, the President\u27s Lecture Series, and the President\u27s Task Force on Inclusive Excellence invite you to a powerful evening with Claudia Rankine, the book\u27s author, hosted by Tim Seibles, Poet Laureate for the Commonwealth of Virginia, and opening with readings by local youth poets.
Claudia Rankine has written five collections of poetry, including Citizen: An American Lyric, which was selected for the National Endowment for the Arts\u27 Big Read, and two plays. She also has participated in several video collaborations and edited anthologies including The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind.
Rankine has received fellowships from the MacArthur and Guggenheim foundations. Citizen won several honors, including the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, the PEN Open Book Award and the NAACP Image Award. Citizen also was the only poetry book to be a New York Times nonfiction bestseller. She is the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry at Yale University and chancellor of the Academy of American Poets
Portrait of Claudia Lynn Pittman.
No full textHandwritten inscription: Claudia Lynn Pittman, 20 yrs old, Hattiesburg.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/joephoto_c/1129/thumbnail.jp
Homonoia - Concorda - Sammanasya
No full textAnalysis of the divine figures of Homónoia in the Greek pantheon, Concordia in the Roman pantheon, and Sammanasya in the Vedic pantheon. Claudia Santi is the author of Homónoia; Andrzej Gillmeister is the author of Concordia; Antonio Salvati is the author of Sammanasya. As regards Homónoia, the origin of this personified abstraction seems to be traced back to the political debate of Athens in the last 5th century. Maybe it was created by Antiphon as opposed to stásis, both in the meaning of ‘psychic conflict’ and ‘internal political dissensions, civil war’
Claudia Emerson, 31st Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textClaudia Emerson was awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her book Late Wife: Poems (LSU Press, 2005). She is also the author of the poetry collections Pharaoh, Pharaoh, and Pinion: An Elegy; all volumes are published in Dave Smith’s Southern Messenger Poets series. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Southern Review, Shenandoah, TriQuarterly, New England Review and other journals. Emerson is the recipient of a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Virginia Commission for the Arts. She is an associate professor of English at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Va
Interview with Claudia Verhoeven, May 13, 2010
No full textInterview Themes: What Verhoeven hoped to achieve with The Odd Man Karakazov (00:58)
Greatest challenge of writing the book (10:02)
How historians learn to recognize the new in history (16:29)
Primary influences on Verhoeven's research and writing thus far (24:44)
Implications of Verhoeven's work for the field of Russian history (31:38)
Recent works published that suggest what is interesting now (38:00)
Verhoeven's plans for future research (40:05)Interview with Claudia Verhoeven, Assistant Professor of History at Cornell University, conducted in Ithaca, NY on May 13, 2010. Professor Verhoeven is author of "The Odd Man Karakazov: Imperial Russia, Modernity and the Birth of Modern Terrorism," published by Cornell University Press in 2009.1_yanxzrv61_iabh8g0
A brilliant blackness emerging from the deep Sea: an ancient story of slavery told to repair the future
No full textThe Book of Drexciya tells ancient stories coming to the surface.
The twelve images are part of the project The Drexciyan Empire: five chapters of the first volum from the ancient times to the present. Drexciya can be considered one of the most powerful image of Afrofuturism. Author Claudia Attimonelli and artist Abu Qadim Haqq are together in a dialogue between imagery and theory
Barney Saltzberg Claudia Lewis Award 2025 Acceptance Speech
No full textAuthor Barney Saltzberg wins the Claudia Lewis Award 2025 (younger readers) for The Smell of Wet Dog: And Other Dog Poems and Drawings from Bank Street College Children\u27s Book Committee.
The Claudia Lewis Award
The Claudia Lewis Award, given for the first time in 1998, honors the best poetry book of the year. The award commemorates the late Claudia Lewis, distinguished children’s book expert and longtime member of the Bank Street College faculty and Children’s Book Committee. She conveyed her love and understanding of poetry with humor and grace.https://educate.bankstreet.edu/cbc_awards/1024/thumbnail.jp
Marilyn Nelson Claudia Lewis Award 2023 Acceptance Speech
No full textAuthor Marilyn Nelson wins the Claudia Lewis Award 2023 for Augusta Savage: The Shape of a Sculptor’s Life from Bank Street College Children\u27s Book Committee.
The Claudia Lewis Award
The Claudia Lewis Award, given for the first time in 1998, honors the best poetry book of the year. The award commemorates the late Claudia Lewis, distinguished children’s book expert and longtime member of the Bank Street College faculty and Children’s Book Committee. She conveyed her love and understanding of poetry with humor and grace.https://educate.bankstreet.edu/cbc_awards/1011/thumbnail.jp
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