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Interview: Anne-Marie Fortier
No full textThis paper is an edited version of an email interview conducted by Debra Ferreday and Adi Kuntsman with Anne-Marie Fortier, the author of Multicultural Horizons: Diversity and the Limits of the Civil Nation (Routledge, 2008). Fortier’s work has been informative in the development of some of the arguments explored in this special issue; in their conversation Ferreday and Kuntsman asked her to comment on the ideas of haunting, racial imaginaries, nostalgia, national anxieties, political feelings and hopes for the future
Beholder halfway #25: beyond unwanted sound with Marie Thompson
No full textOn this month's episode I discuss the recent book Beyond Unwanted Sound: Noise, Affect and Aesthetic Moralism with its author, Marie Thompson. We discuss different conceptions of 'noise', as anti-music or the cacophony of industrial society, competing theories of noise and Marie's powerful argument that noise is neither inherently bothersome nor transgressive. We end by discussing some of the musicians and sound artists that Marie argues transcend the dominant morality by which noise is related to.</p
Marie-Rose: She Who Believed in Tomorrow: The Story of the Foundress of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary (Expanded Edition 2015)
No full text40 leaves; a brief history of Mother Marie-Rose, née Eulalie Durocher, and her life of service
Introduction du numéro 16, Varia
No full textLe numéro 16, un Varia, affiche la diversité des thématiques de la revue, même s’il est plus léger que d’habitude. L’équipe du Comité de rédaction de la revue est en train d’augmenter les effectifs de ses membres et de repenser les processus de publication et de fonctionnement, pour mieux tenir compte de la charge de travail ― bénévole ― que cela représente. C’est dans cette optique que nous avons décidé de mieux reconnaitre le travail d’évaluation des articles en affichant désormais le nom ..
Précisions sur les vagues/On Waves
No full textPowerful and poetic prose meditation on oceanic energy by French author, Marie Darrieussecq. Translated from the French by Peter Schulman, ODU Professor of French and International Studies.https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/worldlanguages_books/1022/thumbnail.jp
Wilhelmina Marie Williamson Lambourne
No full textWilhelmina Marie Williamson Lambourne was the wife of Alfred Lambourne, a Utah artist, author, and poet
BIOFUELS, AGRICULTURE AND CLIMATE CHANGE
No full textIn the context of ever-increasing petroleum prices combined with concerns about climate change, timing of adoption and rate of diffusion of land-based fuels and backstop technologies for transportation use are examined in this paper. A global model of land allocation joined with a Hotelling model has been developed. Using this framework, effects of climate and energy policies on world agricultural and energy markets have been explored. Further, their regional impacts are also analyzed. Whereas mandatory blending bio-fuels have substantial effects on world food prices and do not succeed in curbing down carbon emissions fluxes, carbon targets are expected to speed up date of adoption of backstop technologies. Then, sensitivity scenarios with regards to technological parameters reveal that higher is the rate of technological change, earlier backstop technologies are adopted and lower is the stock of carbon accumulated into the atmosphere. Finally, interplay between land-based fuels and deforestation has been studied. Results show that land-based fuels production speeds up world deforestation and causes substantial carbon emissions due to conversion of forests into agricultural lands.Ricardian rents, land use, biofuels, Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,
Does corruption relieve foreign investors of the burden of taxes and capital controls?
No full textIn a sample of fourteen source countries making bilateral investments in forty five countries, the author finds that taxes, capital controls, and corruption, all have large, statistically significant negative effects on foreign investment. Moreover, there is no robust support in the data for the"efficient grease"hypothesis - that corruption helps attract foreign investment by reducing firms'tax burden and the irritant of capital controls.International Terrorism&Counterterrorism,Capital Markets and Capital Flows,Decentralization,Fiscal&Monetary Policy,Economic Theory&Research,Economic Theory&Research,International Terrorism&Counterterrorism,Governance Indicators,National Governance,Capital Flows
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Spatiotemporal Trends in Aerosol Physicochemical Properties at the Surface in the Contiguous United States and Enhancement of Student Preparation for Upper-Division Laboratory Courses
No full textThe atmospheric aerosol burden affects air quality and climate, and is characterized with a variety of techniques, including optical and filter-based mass measurements. Aerosol optical properties are largely a function of particle size, which is influenced by chemical composition. Notably, aerosol composition that affects hygroscopicity plays a determining role in particle size by affecting water uptake. Aerosol liquid water (ALW) is an important and ubiquitous particle constituent. However, it is poorly characterized by regulatory surface monitoring networks that measure fine particulate matter (PM2.5) mass. Satellite measurements of aerosol optical depth (AOD) observe aerosols in situ with ALW intact. Surface measurements of PM2.5 mass concentrations are often compared to satellite AOD. This work seeks to reconcile filter-based mass and optical measurements of ambient aerosols through fundamental chemistry. I apply a thermodynamic model to ambient meteorological and particle chemical composition data across the contiguous United States (CONUS) to estimate ALW mass. I perform statistical analyses to establish significant associations among ALW and optical aerosol measurement techniques. The topics of air quality and climate often create an interested but sometimes misinformed public. Scientific literacy begins in the classroom by instructing students in fundamental science and chemistry so they can later apply these concepts in their chosen careers.My dissertation aims to 1) reconcile ambient aerosol measurements made via different mass and optical techniques and platforms through understanding aerosol chemical properties and 2) improve student learning of contextualized analytical chemistry concepts via the development of interactive virtual prelab activities for an instrumental analysis course. To address these aims I 1) investigate the differences in aerosol physicochemical properties on cloudy and clear sky days at a surface monitoring location in the Midwestern U.S. from 2010 to 2019 (945,796 samples), 2) analyze decadal trends in the PM2.5-to-AOD ratio (eta) across the U.S. as a function of chemical composition from 2006 to 2015 (5,193,448 samples), and 3) assess changes in student learning outcomes and laboratory preparation after the addition of choose-your-own-adventure (CYOA) virtual prelab activities in an upper-division instrumental analysis chemistry course. In Bondville, Illinois, I apply cloud-screening quality assurance information in the AERosol RObotic NETwork (AERONET) data record in seasonal comparison of aerosol optical and physical properties on cloudy and clear sky days. With optical measurements, I find that ambient aerosols are physically larger on cloudy days and that ALW estimated from chemically speciated PM2.5 mass measurements is a plausible contributing explanation. Through surface observations of AOD and PM2.5, I calculate eta at multiple locations across the CONUS and assess chemical and optical properties over time. I compare surface observations of eta in August 2015 and January 2016 to Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model simulations. I find the spatial and temporal variation in across humid and arid locations is influenced by chemical constituents that affect ALW mass concentrations, particularly on peak days. Comparison with two representative month-long CMAQ simulations for summer and winter reproduce similar spatial and temporal variability in eta to surface observations. I statistically compare laboratory report rubric learning outcomes between quarters with and without virtual prelab activities and conduct Likert opinion surveys across three offerings of an analytical chemistry laboratory class. I find that the addition of CYOA prelab activities improve student mastery of analytical chemistry concepts in laboratory reports and lessened student concerns about preparing for complex laboratory experiments. Future directions of this research include the need for quantitative understanding of ambient ALW and varied cloud-cover conditions, along with better preparing students via improving scientific literacy and contextualizing learning in the classroom to apply fundamentals in environmental chemistry measurements and analyses
Close Readings: Marie Watt: Lodge
No full textExhibition review of Marie Watt: Lodge, Tacoma Art Museum, June 30 - October 7, 2012.review articlesfinal article publishe
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