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Field Notebook of Jessica Robkin from the 2021 Field Season
No full textThis document contains the field notebook kept during the 2021 field season by Jessica Robkin. It contains field notes from Burns (8BR85), Quarterman (8BR223), and Penny (8BR158)
Indian civil society and the global compact on refugees
No full textThe Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) is a voluntary framework that commits signatories to four objectives: easing pressure on host countries, enhancing
refugee self-reliance, expanding access to third country solutions, and supporting conditions in countries of origin for return in safety and dignity. Civil society actors are key stakeholders in the fulfilment of these commitments. While many civil society actors in India, such as humanitarian NGOs and faith-based groups, have long been working towards similar objectives, much of it has been siloed and project-based. The GCR, in theory, provides a framework to cohere around and to build a greater platform of advocacy for refugees—but to what extent will it (or can it) galvanise and organise national- and local-level change for enhanced refugee protection?
This paper explores the contributions that Indian civil society can make to ensure that the country adheres to its commitments under the GCR. It focuses particularly on the second GCR objective— “enhance refugee selfreliance”—and highlights how Indian civil society actors have long been working towards similar goals. As such, there are already rich experiences and data ready to be shared at GCR platforms. However, making the most of these platforms requires recognition from international/national actors that top-down collaborative frameworks are difficult for less formalised civil society actors—such as ad hoc voluntary groups and refugee self-started organisations—to participate in for a variety of reasons. Thus, for the GCR to be truly transformative in its work towards refugee protection and its inclusion of civil society contributions, non-traditional coordination and partnership approaches are also necessary
A Conversation with Jessica B. Harris
No full textA conversation with culinary historian and award-winning author Jessica B. Harris, moderated by Gabrielle Fulton Ponder
Jessica Stremer: Cook Prize 2024, Silver Medal Acceptance Speech
No full textAuthor Jessica Stremer gives an acceptance speech for Great Carrier Reef (Holiday House)https://educate.bankstreet.edu/cook/1013/thumbnail.jp
Jessica Pierce: The Last Walk: Caring for Our Animal Companions
No full textBioethicist and author Jessica Pierce will discuss end-of-life care, dying, and euthanasia in the lives of our companion animals.https://thekeep.eiu.edu/humanitiescenter_authenticity1314/1003/thumbnail.jp
Sequential Derivatization of Polar Organic Compounds in Cloud Water Using O-(2,3,4,5,6-Pentafluorobenzyl)hydroxylamine Hydrochloride, N, O-Bis(trimethylsilyl)trifluoroacetamide, and Gas-Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry Analysis
No full textCloud water samples from Whiteface Mountain, NY were used to develop a combined sampling and gas chromatography-mass spectrometric (GCMS) protocol for evaluating the complex mixture of highly polar organic compounds (HPOC) present in this atmospheric medium. Specific HPOC of interest were mono- and di keto-acids which are thought to originate from photochemical reactions of volatile unsaturated hydrocarbons from biogenic and manmade emissions and be a major fraction of atmospheric carbon. To measure HPOC mixtures and the individual keto-acids in cloud water, samples first must be derivatized for clean elution and measurement, and second, have low overall background of the target species as validated by GCMS analysis of field and laboratory blanks. Here, we discuss a dual derivatization method with PFBHA and BSTFA which targets only organic compounds that contain functional groups reacting with both reagents. The method also reduced potential contamination by minimizing the amount of sample processing from the field through the GCMS analysis steps. Once derivatized only gas chromatographic separation and selected ion monitoring (SIM) are needed to identify and quantify the polar organic compounds of interest. Concentrations of the detected total keto-acids in individual cloud water samples ranged from 27.8 to 329.3 ng mL-1 (ppb). Method detection limits for the individual HPOC ranged from 0.17 to 4.99 ng mL-1 and the quantification limits for the compounds ranged from 0.57 to 16.64 ng mL-1. The keto-acids were compared to the total organic carbon (TOC) results for the cloud water samples with concentrations of 0.607 to 3.350 mg L-1 (ppm). GCMS analysis of all samples and blanks indicated good control of the entire collection and analysis steps. Selected ion monitoring by GCMS of target keto-acids was essential for screening the complex organic carbon mixtures present at low ppb levels in cloud water. It was critical for ensuring high levels of quality assurance and quality control and for the correct identification and quantification of key marker compounds.Corrected proof of accepted manuscrip
Providence College Faculty Author Series 2014-2015: Dr. Jessica Mulligan
No full textIn this installment of the Faculty Authors Series, Dr. Jessica Mulligan of the Health Policy & Management department discusses her book Unmanageable Care: An Ethnography of Health Care Privatization in Puerto Rico - elucidating the history and contemporary state of the Puerto Rican healthcare system
Providence College Faculty Author Series 2014-2015: Dr. Jessica Mulligan
No full textIn this installment of the Faculty Authors Series, Dr. Jessica Mulligan of the Health Policy & Management department discusses her book Unmanageable Care: An Ethnography of Health Care Privatization in Puerto Rico - elucidating the history and contemporary state of the Puerto Rican healthcare system
Jessica Hagedorn, 19th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textJessica Hagedorn Born and raised in the Philippines, Jessica Hagedorn is well-known as a performance artist, poet, and playwright. She is the author of the novel Dogeaters (Penguin), which was nominated for the National Book Award. Hagedorn wrote the screenplay for Fresh Kill, an independent first feature film directed and produced by Shu Lea Cheang and has collaborated on film projects, Color Schemes and Those Fluttering Objects of Desire. Her multimedia theater pieces include Teenytown, The Art of War: Nine situations, and Holy Food. Hagedorn is the recipient of a 1994 Lila Wallace Reader’s Digest Writers Award, and a 1995 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship. Her new novel, The Gangster of Love has been recently released by Houghton Mifflin
Cross Pollination: An Interview Between Jessica Hemmings and Yuriko Saito
No full textInterview between Jessica Hemmings and Yuriko Saito conducted May 12, 2023 at the conference Designing Everyday Experience (MOME, Budapest, Hungary) . Hemmings and Saito discuss her influential book Everyday Aesthetics (2007) and developments in the field since the publication
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