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Robyn Blake, Film and TV graduate, 1992
No full textRobyn Blake, graduate from the Film and Television School in final ceremony at Swinburne. Ms Blake is a staff member in the Centre for Animation/Interactive Multimedia, 1992. Photograph originally appeared in the 'Swinburne Newsletter', 06 August 1992
Richard Dawkins in conversation with Robyn Williams
No full textDawkins and Williams discuss the intricacies, the fascinating patterns and the anomalies produced by the process of evolution on earth.
At the Melbourne Town Hall, presented by the Melbourne Writers Festival, outspoken and influential author and scientist Richard Dawkins speaks to Robyn Williams (ABC RN) about the ideas underpinning his new book, The Greatest Show on Earth. They discuss the intricacies, the fascinating patterns and the anomalies produced by the process of evolution on earth. Dawkins then takes further questions from the audience about the theory of evolution, genetic determinism, the climate change denial movement and the place of religion in the world of science. Melbourne, March 2010.
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Farm to Fork Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment for Norovirus on Frozen Strawberries
No full textFoodborne illness outbreaks have been increasingly linked to the consumption of fresh and frozen berries that were contaminated with pathogenic viruses, such as human norovirus (NoV). Contamination of berries is assumed to take place at harvest by the use of contaminated water for pesticide dilution, irrigation water source or by shedding berry pickers in the field. A quantitative microbial risk assessment simulation model was built to replicate the largest known NoV outbreak which sickened about 11,000 people over a 3-week period. The outbreak occurred in Germany in 2012 when contaminated frozen strawberries were served at nearly 400 schools and daycare centers. The risk model explicitly assumed that all contamination would arise from NoV contamination of surface water used for pesticide dilution. Input data was collected from the published literature, observational studies and assumptions. The model starts with contamination of the berries in the field, and proceeds through transportation to processing facility, washing, sanitizing, freezing, frozen transport to cargo ship, transport view of cargo ship, transport to distribution center, frozen storage at the distribution center, transport to the catering facility, food service preparation and consumption, dose response, and predicted illnesses. A total of 21 scenarios were chosen to evaluate the impact of model parameters on the number of illness associated with NoV contamination of berries. Scenarios evaluated include the initial level of NoV in surface water, the effect of seasonality on the prevalence of NoV in surface water, the strength of the pesticide used, the volume of water used to dilute the pesticide, temperature during transportation to processing facility, washing and sanitizing conditions at processing facility and preparation (heat-treatment) of berries prior to consumption. Scenarios were compared via the Factor Sensitivity technique where the logarithm of the ratio of mean illnesses was used to compare different assumptions. The input that had the greatest effect on increasing in the number of illnesses was a high NoV concentration in the water (8 log Genome Copies/L) when compared to the baseline scenario with resulting mean illnesses of 7,964 illnesses and ~2 illnesses, respectively. This assumption about the concentration of virus in the pesticide makeup water was the only variable capable of producing an outbreak similar to that observed in Germany in 2012. Heat-treatment of the berries, use of a pesticide with strong antiviral effect, and assumption about the virus concentration in the pesticide make-up water had the largest impact on decreasing illnesses.Peer reviewe
"Exploring Our Sexualities" - Noted Author and Activist Robyn Ochs to Present Workshop and Interactive Presentation at U of M Crookston on Wednesday, April 22, 2009
No full textTollefson, Elizabeth. (2009). "Exploring Our Sexualities" - Noted Author and Activist Robyn Ochs to Present Workshop and Interactive Presentation at U of M Crookston on Wednesday, April 22, 2009. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/222053
Consciousness embodied: language and the imagination in the communal world of William Blake
No full textThis dissertation examines the philosophical and spiritual beliefs that underpin William Blake’s account of the imagination, his objections to empiricism and his understanding of poetic language.
It begins by considering these beliefs in relation to the idealist principles of George Berkeley as a means of illustrating Blake’s own objections to the empiricism of John Locke. The philosophies of Locke and Berkeley were popular in Blake’s society and their philosophical positions were well known to him. Blake and Berkeley are aligned against Locke’s belief in an objective world composed of matter, and his theory of abstract ideas. Both reject Locke’s principles by affirming the primacy of the perceiving subject. However, Blake disagrees with Berkeley’s theologically traditional understanding of God. He views perception as an act of artistic creation and believes that spiritual divinity is contained within and is intrinsic to man’s human form.
This account of human perception as the creative act of an immanent divinity is further elucidated through a comparison with the twentieth-century existential phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. In the Phenomenology of Perception (1945), Merleau-Ponty examines human experience as the functioning of an embodied consciousness in a shared life-world. While Merleau-Ponty
does not make any reference to a spiritual deity, his understanding of experience offers a link between Berkeley’s criticisms of Locke and Blake’s own objections to empiricism. Through a comparative examination of Blake and Merleau-Ponty, the imagination is revealed to be the creative or formative consciousness that proceeds from the integrated mind-body complex of the “Divine Body” or “human form divine”. This embodied existence locates the perceiving self in a dynamic physical landscape that is shared with other embodied consciousnesses. It is this communal or intersubjective interaction between self and other that constitutes the experienced world. Merleau-Ponty’s account of the chiasm and his notion of flesh, discussed in The Visible and the Invisible, are applied to Blake in order to elucidate his belief in poetic vision and the constitutive power of language. The form and function of language are compared with that of the body, because both bring the individual experience of a perceiving subject into being in the world and facilitate the reciprocal exchange between the self and other. Ultimately, this dissertation
argues that Blake characterises the body and language as the living media of the imagination, which facilitate a creative exchange between a perceiving self and a shared life-world
A case study of the design, implementation, and formative evaluation of a team development program for a women's swimming and diving team in a NCAA division I university setting
No full textThis dissertation reflects a case study of the process of the design, implementation and formative evaluation of a team development program conducted with a swimming and diving team consisting of twenty-three women at a NCAA Division I university during the 2008-2009 academic year. The dissertation was undertaken to contribute to the knowledge base about how team development programs can be designed and implemented in athletic settings. As a foundation for the dissertation, the participant observer role was used in conjunction with Maher's (2000) Program Planning and Evaluation (PP&E) Framework and Maher's (2004) Student-Athlete Pyramid of Development. Relying on these approaches as procedural and technical guidance, a framework of knowledge, skills and abilities was formulated and then put into an evaluable programmatic form to assist the student-athletes on the team with interpersonal communication, within the team context. This dissertation explores how the PP&E Framework can be coupled with some of the levels of the Student-Athlete Pyramid of Development along with knowledge about team development from business, military, and sport to assist an athletic team in learning to communicate constructively. Formative evaluation data is provided from participating team members and the coaching staff about the actual and potential value of this kind of program. Finally, conclusions and recommendations are offered for the possible design and implementation of similar team development programs in athletic, business, and other contexts.Psy.DIncludes bibliographical references (p. 119-126)by Robyn L. OdegaardIncludes abstrac
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Woman as Object
No full textThis paper discusses the creation process of thirteen works by the author addressing women's issues using mannequins of actual women as a metaphor. Robyn Beirman Jamison discusses interviewing and photographing the women, creating the works, and the imagery of objectification of women by society
Musical score, "Haste Love," for voice and piano. Words by Minnie Gilmore, music by Alfred G. Robyn. Balmer and Weber Music House Company, c. 1892
No full textPatrick Gilmore's daughter, Minnie L. Gilmore, was an author in her own right. Her published works include "Songs from the Wings," "Pipes from the Prairieland," "A Son of Esau," and "The Woman Who Stood Between." One of her verses, from "Songs from the Wings," is entitled "To my father--Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore": "Though he is dead, I still may do/ Him honor, by a life akin/ To that pure life my childhood knew,/ His fatherheart within./ And for the true musician's place,/ You claimed a throne beside the priest;/ Since both, you said, redeemed the base,/ And blessed both great and least." In this song, her verse was set to music by Alfred George Robyn (1860-1935) a composer of light opera and founder of the Marion English Opera Company in New York. Balmer and Weber Music House Company, [c.] 1892
Resilienz und Digitalisierung in der deutschen Agrarwirtschaft: Lehren aus der COVID-19-Pandemie
Get PDFAnpassung an den Klimawandel – Lasten verteilen und Ernährungssicherheit schaffen
No full textGewaltsame Konflikte führen direkt oder indirekt über Risikokaskaden zu Schocks, die sich auf das Welternährungssystem auswirken. Bevölkerungswachstum, soziale Spannungen und der Klimawandel verstärken die Gefahr von Hunger und Ernährungsunsicherheit, sie sind aber nach Meinung von Reimund Schwarze, Helmholtz- Zentrum für Umweltforschung – UFZ, Leipzig, nicht deren Ursache. Diese liege in Nahrungsmittelsystemen, die nicht in der Lage seien, erschwingliche, vielfältige, sichere und nahrhafte Lebensmittel für alle zu liefern. Deshalb brauche es Strategien, um die Konfliktanfälligkeit der Nahrungsmittelsysteme der Welt zu überwinden. Robert Finger, ETH Zürich, zeigt die negativen Auswirkungen des Klimawandels auf breite Teile der europäischen Landwirtschaft. Sie könnten jedoch durch die Kombination diverser Anpassungsmöglichkeiten abgefedert werden, wobei zusätzliche Instrumente des Risikomanagements (z.B. Versicherungen), aber auch innovative Produktionsformen oder neue technologische Möglichkeiten eine große Rolle spielen. Der Sektor werde sich erfolgreich an den Klimawandel anpassen, allerdings sei dies kostspielig. Reimund P. Rötter und Mareike Köster, Universität Göttingen, analysieren, welche Anpassungsmaßnahmen in der Landwirtschaft erforderlich sind, um weltweit Ernährungssicherheit herzustellen, die natürlichen Ressourcen zu schonen und aktiven Klimaschutz voranzubringen. Hierfür werden die bereits stattfindenden Anpassungen, wie z.B. frühere Aussaattermine oder die Wahl existierender früher reifenden Pflanzenvarietäten, nicht ausreichen. Vielmehr sei die Züchtung klimaresilienter Pflanzen sowie die Erhöhung der Agrobiodiversität und Reduzierung von Treibhausgasen notwendig. Klaus Müller, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, stellt das Konzept der Agri-Photovoltaik und Landwirtschaft 4.0 vor. In diesem Fall lassen sich mindestens 85% der für die Energiegewinnung genutzten Flächen mit einer angepassten Technologie weiter bewirtschaften. Dies bietet den Unternehmen eine Chance, sich sowohl an den Klimawandel anzupassen als auch einen Beitrag zur Energiewende zu leisten. Theresa Hübsch, Maria Waldinger, Franziska Wintersteller und Gerome Wolf, ifo Institut, stellen die Situation in Subsahara-Afrika dar. Nahrungsunsicherheit sei eine große Bedrohung für die Bürger Subsahara-Afrikas, die durch den fortschreitenden Klimawandel zunehmend ernster werde. Der Klimawandel erschwere die landwirtschaftliche Produktion. Hinzu kommen gewaltsame Konflikte, die oft mit Klimawandel einhergehen und Hungerkrisen hervorrufen. Die Nahrungsunsicherheit könne durch technische Fortschritte und durch institutionelle Faktoren wie politische Stabilität, finanzielle Ressourcen und geregelte Eigentumsrechte bekämpft werden. Ulrike Grote, Etti Winter und Robyn Blake-Rath, Leibniz-Universität Hannover, weisen auf die Rolle Südamerikas als weltweit größten Nettonahrungsmittelexporteur hin, aber auch auf seine herausragende Rolle für den Klimaschutz, den Erhalt von Biodiversität und die Funktionsfähigkeit von Ökosystemen. Lateinamerika werde diese Funktionen allerdings nur erfüllen können, wenn sich sein Agrar- und Ernährungssystem in Richtung Nachhaltigkeit transformiere und die unterschiedlichen Anforderungen auf integrative statt auf konkurrierende Weise erfülle
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