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Naomi Duff Smith papers
No full textNaomi Duff Smith (1902-1973) was a poet, author of short stories and radio scripts, and owner of a Baltimore, Maryland, public relations firm. Her collection consists of poems, short stories, correspondence, and awards documenting her literary output and business and civic achievements. Significant correspondents represented in the collection include Lizette Woodworth Reese, R. P. Harriss, Millard E. Tydings, Amy Winslow, Alan P. Hoblitzell, E. Paul Mason, Joseph R. Byrnes, Emory J. Niles, William D. MacMillan, and Hugo R. Hoffman
Distinguished Lecture: Dr. Naomi Oreskes, Science Historian and Author
No full textThe Global Change Center at Virginia Tech welcomed Dr. Naomi Oreskes, Harvard historian and author, for a Distinguished Lecture on September 2, 2015, at 4:00 p.m. at the Lyric Theatre in Blacksburg, VA. Dr. Oreskes is a professor of the history of science and affiliated professor of Earth and planetary sciences at Harvard University. Her research focuses on the earth and environmental sciences, with a particular interest in understanding scientific consensus and dissent. Dr. Oreskes has received international acclaim for her 2010 book, "Merchants of Doubt, How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco to Global Warming," co-authored with Erik M. Conway. It was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Time Book Prize, received the 2011 Watson-Davis Prize from the History of Science Society, and was recently adapted into a documentary film. Dr. Oreskes' visit represents the second in a Public Distinguished Lecture Series sponsored by the Global Change Center at Virginia Tech. The lecture series is designed to bring some of the world's leading scholars to the Blacksburg community to discuss critical environmental and societal issues in an open forum.Virginia Tech. Global Change CenterVirginia Tech. Interfaces of Global Change Interdisciplinary Graduate Education ProgramVirginia Tech. WLP Endowed Lecture FundVirginia Tech. Office of Undergraduate ResearchVirginia Tech. Department of HistoryVirginia Tech. Graduate SchoolVirginia Tech. Fralin Life Science InstituteDr. Oreskes' lecture was given at 4:00pm, September 2, 2015 at the Lyric Theatre in Blacksburg, Virginia.Video editing by Elizabeth McVo
An interview with Naomi L. Shin
No full textNaomi L. Shin is an Associate Professor of Linguistics and Hispanic Linguistics at the University of New Mexico. Her primary interests include child language acquisition, bilingualism, language contact, and sociolinguistics. Her research focuses on patterns of morphosyntactic variation, examining how these patterns are acquired during childhood and how they change in situations of language contact. Her articles have appeared in journals such as Journal of Child Language, Cognitive Linguistics, International Journal of Bilingualism, Language Acquisition, Language Variation and Change, Language in Society, Foreign Language Annals, Spanish in Context, Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, and International Journal of the Sociology of Language. She is the co-author of Gramática Española: Variación Social, which explores grammar in a way that emphasizes the social underpinnings of language.Website: http://www.unm.edu/~naomishin/index.htm
An interview with Naomi L. Shin
No full textNaomi L. Shin is an Associate Professor of Linguistics and Hispanic Linguistics at the University of New Mexico. Her primary interests include child language acquisition, bilingualism, language contact, and sociolinguistics. Her research focuses on patterns of morphosyntactic variation, examining how these patterns are acquired during childhood and how they change in situations of language contact. Her articles have appeared in journals such as Journal of Child Language, Cognitive Linguistics, International Journal of Bilingualism, Language Acquisition, Language Variation and Change, Language in Society, Foreign Language Annals, Spanish in Context, Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, and International Journal of the Sociology of Language. She is the co-author of Gramática Española: Variación Social, which explores grammar in a way that emphasizes the social underpinnings of language.Website: http://www.unm.edu/~naomishin/index.htm
Naomi Shihab Nye, 34th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textNaomi Shihab Nye is the author and/or editor of more than 25 volumes. Her books of poetry include 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East (a finalist for the National Book Award), A Maze Me: Poems for Girls, Red Suitcase, Words Under the Words, Fuel, and You & Yours. Her poems for young adults, Honeybee, won the 2008 Arab American Book Award in the children’s/young adult category. Two new books are forthcoming in winter 2012: There Is No Long Distance Now (a collection of very short stories) and Transfer (a book of poetry and prose)
2014 Common Book Convocation: Naomi Benaron, author of Running the Rift.
No full textNaomi Benaron earned an MFA from Antioch University and an MS in earth sciences from Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She teaches creative writing through UCLA Writers Extension and is a writing mentor for the Afghan Women’s Writing Project. An advocate for African refugees in her home community of Tucson, Ariz., she has also worked with genocide survivor groups in Rwanda. She won the G. S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction for her collection, Love Letters from a Fat Man. She is a marathon runner and an Ironman triathlete.https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/commonbook/1002/thumbnail.jp
Naomi
No full textNaomi is one of the dramatis personae of the book of Ruth, which is set by its author “in the days that the judges judged” (Ruth 1:1). She is introduced as wife of Elimelech and mother of Mahlon and Chilion, all of whom journeyed to Moab from Bethlehem, due to famine. By the fifth verse in the book’s first chapter, her husband and sons are dead, leaving Naomi with only her Moabite daughters-in-law, Orpah and Ruth (Ruth 1:1–5). Shortly thereafter, Orpah too exits the stage (Ruth 1:14). Against Naomi’s protestations, Ruth ties her own fate to her mother-in-law’s, joining Naomi on her journey back to Bethlehem (Ruth 1:4b, 8–19a)
Quantifying the effects of parasitism on livestock greenhouse gas emissions
No full textThe United Nations identifies climate change as one of the major global challenges faced by the world today. The concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is increasing, causing average global temperatures to reach record highs and precipitating disastrous extreme weather events worldwide. Greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere through human activity have contributed significantly to these climate events. The Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) has warned of dire consequences if anthropogenic greenhouse gases are not reduced rapidly and substantially from all industrial sectors. A major source of methane, a potent short-lived greenhouse gas, within the agricultural sector is as a by-product from ruminant enteric fermentation and many methane mitigation strategies aim to reduce methane emissions from this process.
Many countries worldwide use national inventories to monitor their greenhouse gas emission from all industrial sectors and to track improvements. National inventories use tiered formulas to estimate greenhouse gas emissions from each industry, with higher tiered formulas producing more accurate estimates. When calculating emissions from livestock, the highest-tier formula uses species, age, country and farming system-specific information in the calculations. However, the health of the animal is not considered despite the potential for illnesses to impact the emissions from livestock. Greenhouse gas emissions from the livestock sector due to poor animal health is currently unknown and unaccounted for within national inventories.
Previous research has linked animal health indirectly to increased greenhouse gas emissions from livestock, through impacts on production losses and additional husbandry requirements. However, little research has investigated the direct impacts of animal health on daily methane emissions. Gastrointestinal parasitism affects livestock farming globally and is of huge socio-economic importance. Many of the mechanisms by which parasitism causes disease in livestock have the potential to disrupt the efficiency of rumen fermentation, and therefore may impact livestock methane emissions on a daily basis. Fox et al (2018) showed that the methane yield (g methane/ kg dry matter intake) was higher in parasitised lambs infected with the gutworm, Teladorsagia circumcincta, compared to non-parasitised lambs at a single time-point near peak parasite burden. No research has previously attempted to track how methane emissions change throughout the duration of a parasite challenge, despite the host-parasite dynamics continually changing throughout a parasite challenge.
This thesis presents work that quantifies the effects of parasitism on livestock greenhouse gas emissions over the duration of infection through a combination of in-vivo experiments and mathematical modelling. First the results of two in-vivo experimental trials are presented. The first trial tests the hypothesis that different feeding regimes impact livestock methane emissions and may be a potential mechanism driving increased livestock methane yields during a parasite challenge. The second trial aims to quantify the effects of parasitism on livestock methane emissions throughout the duration of a parasite challenge by taking repeated methane emission measurements from trickle-challenged parasitised lambs and non-parasitised lambs in a longitudinal trial. An analysis, run by applying and extrapolating data collected during the longitudinal trial, aims to quantify the additional methane emissions emitted by meat-production lambs if infected with gastrointestinal parasites. Finally, mathematical models of varying complexity are used to explore broad mechanisms that may drive the higher methane yields observed in parasitised lambs. The thesis concludes with a summary of key findings and a final discussion on the potential for animal-health based methane mitigation strategies.
Due to the ubiquity of gastrointestinal parasites, such as Teladorsagia circumcincta, the results presented in this thesis show the need to consider direct impacts of animal health on livestock emissions when calculating emissions globally. This would enable the development of methane mitigation strategies focused around improving animal health and tracking these improvements worldwide
Naomi Wolf: Ethical Leadership for the 21st Century
No full textNaomi R. Wolf (born November 12, 1962) is an American liberal progressive feminist author, journalist, and former political advisor to Al Gore and Bill Clinton.
Via Wolf\u27s first book The Beauty Myth (1991),she became a leading spokeswoman of what has been described as the third wave of the feminist movement. Such leading feminists as Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan praised the work; others, including Camille Paglia and Christina Hoff Sommers, criticized it. Her later books include the bestseller The End of America in 2007 and Vagina: A New Biography. Critics have challenged the quality and veracity of the scholarship in her books, including Outrages (2019). In this case, her serious misreading of court records led to its publication in the U.S. being cancelled.
Her career in journalism began in 1995 and has included topics such as abortion, the Occupy Wall Street movement, Edward Snowden and ISIS. She has written for media outlets such as The Nation, The New Republic, The Guardian and The Huffington Post
Review of the book Shifting Ground: Knowledge and reality, transgression and trustworthiness, by Naomi Scheman
No full textDr. Jill Fellows (Douglas College) reviews the book Shifting ground: Knowledge and reality, transgression and trustworthiness by Naomi Scheman (2011).Final article published
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