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Returning culture to peacebuilding : contesting the liberal peace in Sierra Leone
No full textThis thesis investigates the advantages and limitations of applying culture to the analysis of violent conflict and peacebuilding, with a particular focus on liberal peacebuilding in Sierra Leone. While fully aware of the critique of the concept of culture in terms of its uses for the production of difference and ‘otherness,’ it also seeks to respond to the critique of liberal peacebuilding on the account of its low sensitivity towards local culture, which allegedly undermines the peace effort. After a careful examination of the terms of discussion about culture enabled by theoretical approaches to conflict in Chapter 2, the thesis presents a theoretical framework for the analysis of cultural aspects of conflict and peace based on the processes and effects of meaning-generation (Chapter 3), developing the conceptual apparatus and vocabulary for the subsequent empirical study. Instead of bracketing out the recursive nature of cultural theorising, the developed approach embraces the recursive dynamics which arise as a result of cultural ‘embeddedness’ of the analyst and the processes which s/he seeks to elucidate, mirroring similar dynamics in the cultural production of meaning and knowledge. The framework of ‘embedded cultural enquiry’ is then used to analyse the practices of liberal peacebuilding as a particular culture, which shapes the interaction of the liberal peace with its ‘subjects’ and critics as well as framing its reception of the cultural problematic generally (Chapter 4). The application of the analytical framework to the case study investigates the interaction between the liberal peace and ‘local culture,’ offering an alternative reading of the conflict and peace process in Sierra Leone (Chapter 5). The study concludes that a greater attention to cultural meaning-making offers a largely untapped potential for peacebuilding, although any decisions with regard to its deployment will inevitably be made from within an inherently biased cultural perspective
A Tale of Five Fishes: Supplement
No full textSupplement S1: Number of specimens and skeletal elements identified in the ichthyological Assemblage A of the Ma‘agan Mikhael B Shipwrec
Hoofprints in the Sand Supplement S5: LSI Summary Stats by Site, Period, Element
No full textTable of summary statistics produced in the LSI analysis per site, period, and skeletal element, as demonstrated in Harding, S. et al. Hoofprints in the Sand: A Metric Study of Livestock on the Southern Phoenician Coast. In preparation for Quaternary International
Hoofprints in the Sand Supplement S1: Site Descriptions
No full textHistorical context and chronological descriptions for the sites which produced samples used in the size and shape change analyses, as described in Harding, S. et al. Hoofprints in the Sand: A Metric Study of Livestock on the Southern Phoenician Coast. In preparation for Quaternary International.
v.2 included edits and updates based on peer review.
v.3 changed the spelling of Tel Shiqmon
Sierra Sage
No full textabstract: This project includes a travel blog made while studying abroad in Dublin, Ireland during spring semester of 2020. The blog is called Sierra Sage and can be found at https://sierrasage.travel.blog/. The project also includes data and analysis from six paid advertisement campaigns made on Google and Facebook/Instagram. The blog includes 24 blog posts targeted toward students interested in study abroad and/or travel, and each campaign on both platforms applies to a separate blog post written as part of the project. The paid advertisements were completed using funding from Barrett, The Honors College
Arte Rupestre en la Sierra de San Francisco: Baja California Sur
No full textLa información de esta miniguía se basa en los trabajos de Ma. de la Luz Gutiérrez Martínez.La riqueza del arte rupestre es incomparable y por su escala monumental, la calidad de su ejecución, la gran cantidad de lugares existentes y su buen estado de conservación está considerado como uno de los más notables del mundo. El estilo del arte rupestre de la Sierra de San Francisco es el conocido como "Gran Mural", caracterizado por el gran tamaño de las imágenes, en las que predominan figuras humanas y animales, pintadas principalmente en rojo, negro, blanco y amarillo. La técnica básica fue la aplicación de pintura sobre la roca. El material se obtenía mezclando pigmentos minerales pulverizados con agua y algún aglutinante.</p
Butterflies of the Sierra Nevada
No full textMarch 10, 2020.Includes bibliographical references.This publication covers the butterfly fauna of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in eastern California and a small area of the Carson Spur in western Nevada. At present (2019), 192 species, 104 subspecies and 15 segregates are known to have occurred within the range at least twice. Five additional species have been recorded at least once in the Sierra Nevada. This publication covers distributions of these butterflies within the Sierra Nevada and three National Parks, their habitats, flight periods and taxonomic issues based on current knowledge
Microbial enrichment culture responsible for the complete oxidative biodegradation of 3‑Amino-1,2,4-triazol-5-one (ATO), the reduced daughter product of the insensitive munitions compound 3‑Nitro-1,2,4-triazol-5-one (NTO)
No full text3-Nitro-1,2,4-triazol-5-one (NTO) is one of the main ingredients of many insensitive munitions, which are being used as replacements for conventional explosives. As its use becomes widespread, more research is needed to assess its environmental fate. Previous studies have shown that NTO is biologically reduced to 3-amino-1,2,4-triazol-5-one (ATO). However, the final degradation products of ATO are still unknown. We have studied the aerobic degradation of ATO by enrichment cultures derived from the soil. After multiple transfers, ATO degradation was monitored in closed bottles through measurements of inorganic carbon and nitrogen species. The results indicate that the members of the enrichment culture utilize ATO as the sole source of carbon and nitrogen. As ATO was mineralized to CO₂, N₂, and NH₄⁺, microbial growth was observed in the culture. Co-substrates addition did not increase the ATO degradation rate. Quantitative polymerase chain reaction analysis revealed that the organisms that enriched using ATO as carbon and nitrogen source were Terrimonas spp., Ramlibacter-related spp., Mesorhizobium spp., Hydrogenophaga spp., Ralstonia spp., Pseudomonas spp., Ectothiorhodospiraceae, and Sphingopyxis. This is the first study to report the complete mineralization of ATO by soil microorganisms, expanding our understanding of natural attenuation and bioremediation of the explosive NTO.Journal ArticleFinal article publishe
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