138 research outputs found
El Tlacuache Núm. 116 (2004). 116 Año 4 (2004) febrero. El Tlacuache
No full text- Museos I: El Mundo por Elba Estrada Hernández. - El Yauhtli por Margarita Avilés y Macrina Fuentes. - Museos II: México por Elba Estrada Hernández
Crystal structure of lizardite 1T from Elba Island, Italy
No full textEuhedral lizardite-1T occurs in the Monte Fico quarries, Elba Island, Italy. Unit-cell parameters, for two crystals, each with space group P31m, are a = 5.338(4) and c = 7.257(6) and a = 5.330(4) and c = 7.269(6) Å. The crystal structures were refined to Rtot = 0.034 and 0.046, using 251 and 849 independent reflections, respectively. The topology determined from previous refinements is confirmed. -from Author
El Tlacuache Núm. 31 (2002). 31 Año 2 (2002) febrero. El Tlacuache
No full text- Lo Olmeca en Morelos por Elba Estrada Hernández. - Nuestro patrimonio desconocido por Teresita Loera y Anaite Monterforte. - El Yauhtli por Margarita Avilés y Macrina Fuentes. - El rescate arqueológico de un entierro infantil en Tlacotepec, Mor. por Pablo Fernando De Jesús Pérez. - El rescate arqueológico de ofrendas prehispánicas en Tlacotepec, Mor. por Pablo Fernando De Jesús Pérez
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A Lifetime Commitment to Giving Voice: An Oral History of Elba R. Sánchez
No full textElba Rosario Sánchez was born 1949 in Atemajac, Mexico, a small town near Guadalajara. She is the oldest of three girls. Her father worked in the cotton mill until an accident injured one of his eyes. The accident sent him to the United States in search of work, first to Chicago, where the family had relatives, and then to San Francisco, where he worked as a bus boy at the Fairmount Hotel. After about eighteen months, he brought his family to San Francisco in 1960, where they lived at Divisidero and Pine, in a Black neighborhood. At the neighborhood elementary school, Elba was one of very few non-Black children; ironically, even as she struggled to adapt to a white-dominated country, in the racial definitions of that time she was considered white. She learned English quickly, and soon became the translator for her family.Within a few years of her arrival, the social movements of the 1960s altered the national landscape. Witnessing the brutal repression of Black civil rights protestors on television was formative for Sánchez’s growing political consciousness and her eventual activism as a young supporter of the United Farm Workers movement. Her early activism with the United Farm Workers boycott on grapes was impressive, particularly since her family did not approve of her protest. This activism grew intertwined with her passion for writing and for language. In the oral history, Elba vividly recalls that her first pieces of poetry were written on small pieces of paper that she then crumpled up and hid in a drawer. Her first poem, “The Price of Color,” was published in her parochial high school’s yearbook.After graduation, Sánchez attended San Francisco City College. There she was inspired by the Chicano activist spirit of several classmates who had been taking courses at San Francisco State College, where the student protests had shut the campus down. But after a semester and a half she dropped out of college to marry and have a child.In the late 1970s, Sánchez and her husband relocated to Santa Cruz so that her husband could attend UC Santa Cruz. Sánchez became a bilingual counseling aide at Santa Cruz High School. In search of UCSC students who could serve as English tutors at Santa Cruz High, Sánchez met Paco Ramirez, a lecturer in Spanish who coordinated the tutorial program at Stevenson College and Paul Lubeck, a professor in sociology. Both encouraged her to return to college and finish her B.A., which she did, graduating in Latin American studies from Merrill College. At UCSC, Sánchez was a nontraditional student who lived off campus with her husband and her three-year-old child. This experience, plus the class and cultural differences between her and the mostly white middle-class student body of UCSC at that time, led to feelings of alienation and isolation.Professor Roberto Crespi, Sánchez’s advisor in Latin American studies, encouraged her to go on to graduate school in literature at UCSC, which she did, earning her MA from UCSC. Crespi was one of very few Latino professors at UCSC in the early years of the campus. He was also one of the founders, with J. Herman Blake, of Oakes College. In 1979, Crespi also hired Sánchez as a tutor in the Spanish for Spanish Speakers Program (SPSS), which he had founded, and which was then only in its second year. Sánchez spent the next fifteen years teaching in, coordinating, and directing the multidisciplinary Spanish for Speakers Program. This pioneering, cutting-edge program, incorporated poetry readings, theatrical performances, cultural nights, political discussions, visual arts exhibitions, and small press publishing into its curriculum. Students studied Latin American history and literature in SPSS courses, and honed critical thinking, speaking, translation, and writing skills. Sánchez credits SPSS for higher levels of retention of Latino students at UCSC, and also for the successful careers of many of those students after graduation.Also while at UCSC, Sánchez was one of the founding and primary editors of REVISTA MUJERES, a bilingual literary and visual arts journal published at UC Santa Cruz from January 1984 to 1993. According to their mission statement, “REVISTA MUJERES: In Our Words and Work, Our Vision,” REVISTA wasdedicated to interviews, poetry, essays, as well as visual art work and set a page in the history, struggles, and contributions of Chicana and Latina undergraduate and graduate students, staff, and faculty members…REVISTA was also envisioned and produced as a response to the lack of access in mainstream publications for Chicana/Latina bilingual, budding as well as experienced writers, whose work was unpublished. Its aim was to promote and encourage a community of writers and artists, to plant a seed of reality and creativity. Sánchez’s commitment to honor the Spanish language, teach Latin American history, and to offer a keen critique of colonization is part of her legacy on the UC Santa Cruz campus. This commitment was particularly evident in her fervent dedication to SSSP and the co-production of Revista Mujeres. In her oral history, Sánchez describes the organizational work that went into funding, editing, producing, and distributing this groundbreaking journal, which was distributed far beyond UCSC and was the first of its kind published in the state of California. Sánchez locates REVISTA in a cultural effervescence of Chicano-Latino writing and publishing in the 1980s and 1990s. Sánchez recalls that at the time of her earliest publications, there were very few Chicana and Chicano writers who were published.Sánchez’s own development as a writer flourished during that cultural flowering. She participated in a bilingual writer’s workshop in San Francisco with several other key Chicana and Chicano writers. She is the author or coauthor of several books of poetry including Tallos de luna /Moon Shots (Moving Parts Press, 1992), From Silence to Howl (Moving Parts Press, 1993) and is a contributor to many anthologies, including Chicana Feminisms: A Critical Reader (Duke University Press, 2003), Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Feminists of Color (Aunt Lute Books, 1990). She continues to write and is currently working on flash fiction and children’s books.Elba Sánchez was interviewed in three sessions by Susy Zepeda in several locations in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area. The interviews took place on February 8, 2013, March 1, 2013, and April 5, 2013. The interviews were transcribed by Irene Reti and a transcript was returned both to Zepeda, who audited it for accuracy of transcription, and Sánchez, who edited it for flow and accuracy, corrected the Spanish. Both Zepeda and Sánchez added some footnotes. We chose not to italicize the Spanish in the transcript, a political decision that recognizes that italics can “other” Spanish words as “foreign,” or non-normative. This is a style preferred by many Latino/a writers today.It was an honor and a pleasure to interview Elba Sánchez. Her storytelling was full of heart, joy, and animation. Her oral history offers a sense of her strength, vision, and dedication to forms of resistance
Planning and preparation for natural disasters: a case study of Albany, Georgia and Elba, Alabama, 2004
No full textThis dissertation conducts a descriptive case study analysis of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Weather Service (NWS) to determine how socioeconomic and demographic factors influenced information disseminated in the black communities of Albany, Georgia and Elba, Alabama by federal, state, and local authorities. Employing both the descriptive case study and integrative assessment models allowed the study to advance knowledge related to the loss of life, income, property, and human suffering associated with tropical weather systems in the black community. Data presented in the study examined the effectiveness of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief Act of 1974 (P.L. 93288) in making black communities less vulnerable to damage to public water facilities. The Act addresses problems of racism and exclusion and supports a plan for providing preparedness and emergency relief that improves land use planning to limit future damage to bridges, streets, roads, schools, and burial grounds by storm and flood waters. The analysis in this dissertation reflects the results of an examination of whether social, economic, and political factors played a role in how decisions were made to track, forecast, and predict storm activity in black communities. The analysis shows how national, state, and local authorities responded to transportation and public health concerns caused by floodwaters. Finally, the analysis shows how the concerns of the storm and flood victims, if factored into policy changes, can be instrumental in addressing hazard mitigation and prevention. The findings of the study illustrated that environmental racism played a role in the selection and participation of blacks to serve on governing boards and organizations that make decisions regarding how public warnings are issues and how storms and floods were tracked and forecast in Albany, Georgia and Elba, Alabama. The study concludes that the problems that existed prior to Tropical Storm Alberto were addressed by federal, state, and local authorities which mitigated the impact of subsequent severe weather
Local Solar Cell Efficiency Analysis Performed by Injection-dependent PL Imaging (ELBA) and Voltage-dependent Lock-in Thermography (Local I-V)
No full textAbstractIn this contribution two methods for performing local efficiency analysis of solar cells are compared with each other by applying them to a solar cell and a neighboring wafer. The first method called “ELBA” is based on injection-dependent photoluminescence (PL) imaging of a passivated wafer. The second method called “Local I-V” is based on voltage-dependent dark lock-in thermography (DLIT) on a solar cell. The results of both methods with respect to the influence of the bulk on the local solar cell parameters are comparable with each other. However, since only “Local I-V” is investigating a finished solar cell, it may image also local ohmic shunts, inhomogeneous front- and backside and depletion region recombination, and Rs effects, whereas “ELBA” is suited for assessing bulk-related efficiency losses in detail, which are not concealed by the aforementioned cell-related loss mechanisms in this method
The effect of gender on research staff success in life sciences in the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
No full textInter-gender differences in research performance of CSIC scientists in the area of Biology and Biomedicine are analysed by means of bibliometric indicators (SCI, 1996-2000). Productivity of both men and women increases with scientific category, and inter-gender differences are not found within each category. Women with intermediate levels of seniority (11-20 and 21-30 years of working life) show lower productivity than their male counterparts, factor which might contribute to the lower promotion observed for female scientists. However, women that entered CSIC in the last 10 years overpass men in productivity, so a more balanced distribution of women by scientific ranks would be expected in the future. The need to improve the normalisation of author names in publications and bibliographic databases and even to develop a “digital author identifier” to make these studies easier is pointed out.Peer reviewe
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No full textChromatin boundaries subdivide eukaryotic chromosomes into functionally autonomous domains of genetic activity. This subdivision insulates genes and/or regulatory elements within a domain from promiscuous interactions with nearby domains. While it was previously assumed that the chromosomal domain landscape is fixed, there is now growing evidence that the landscape may be subject to tissue and stage specific regulation. Here we report the isolation and characterization of a novel developmentally restricted boundary factor, Elba. We show that Elba is an unusual hetero-tripartite protein complex that requires all three proteins for DNA binding and insulator activity
Public Awareness and Advocacy Committee: Speaking of Pronouns: An Interview with Author/Advocate Maya Christina Gonzalez
No full textAuthor and illustrator Maya Christina Gonzalez is known for her award-winning bilingual (English/Spanish) books such as My Colors, My World and I Know the River Loves Me. But this progressive educator and independent scholar/researcher has also delved into the world of pronouns.Call Me Tree was written without any gender identifying pronouns, and she has since written substantially on the topic as well as writing and illustrating three children’s books on the topic, including They She He Me: Free to Be!, The Gender Wheel, and They, She, He Easy as ABC. I asked Gonzalez to share about the importance of pronouns
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