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Technology\u27s Unexpected Consequences
No full textGetting people excited about science is the passion of Ainissa Ramirez, author and science “evangelist,” who spreads her “gospel” through books, TED Talks, online videos and the podcast “Science Underground.” She was named one of the world’s 100 Top Young Innovators by Technology Review for her contributions to transforming technology and has been the recipient of the American Institute of Physics’ Andrew Gemant Award.
Ramirez spent eight years teaching mechanical engineering & materials science as an associate professor at Yale University and also has been a visiting professor at MIT. She is the author or coauthor of three books, including 2013’s “Newton’s Football: The Science Behind America’s Game,” an entertaining and enlightening look at the big ideas underlying the science of football.
She has served as a science advisor to the American Film Institute, WGBH/NOVA and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, among others.
Her appearance is supported by the Spoerl Lectureship in Science in Society
Substantive law, technology and production of evidence
No full textIn this paper the author explains the problem of assessing the evidentiary activity carried out by the judge with the traditional standards and principles without considering the advances in technology.Fil: Ramirez Jimenez, Nelson. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Derecho. Buenos Aires, ArgentinaFil: Ramirez Jimenez, Nelson. Universidad Nacional de Lomas de Zamora. Cátedra de Maestría en Derecho Procesal Constitucional. Lomas de Zamora, ArgentinaLa actividad probatoria y, en especial, la valoración que tiene en los resultados del proceso, se explica por el autor a partir de sostener que continúan aplicando estándares y principios que dejan de lado los avances científicos y tecnológico
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Untitled, John I. C. Ramirez 2;
Love will fly, Tim Furness 3;
Untitled, Palmer Hoovestal 4;
The wave, Jerome Lightbourne 6;
The land*lord, R. Lea 7;
Song of the newborn, Heidi Muller 8;
Untitled, Mary Ostervold 9;
Good crops, Gina Larson 10;
Come, challenge the sea, Paula Schafer 12;
Untitled, Pat Dooris 14;
Untitled, Eric Peterson 16;
A flight of fancy, Tony Schaan 17;
Ode upon a london tube, Kit Warfield 18;
Sponge, Debbie Court 19;
Untitled, Debbie Court 20;
Untitled, John I. C. Ramirez 21;
Untitled, Joyce Lowry 21;
Untitled, Mary Taft 22;
Thank you, Lord [unidentified author] 23;
From generation to generation, Denise Marsh 24;
Untitled, S. M. 25;
Untitled, M. F. 26;
Brain Cramp, Francine Bergeron 27;
Untitled, Pat Dooris 28;
Untitled, Tom Mertes 30;
Untitled, John I. C. Ramirez 31;
Untitled, Dolores Bock 31;
Untitled, Christopher Perez 32;
Untitled, Pat Dooris 33;
Echoes of Innocence, Kelly Cosgrove 35;
Beloved, M. Bowen 36;
Untitled, Mary Ostervold 36
Mapping the Horizon of Transformative Peace
No full textThis article explores what it means for peace to be transformative and discusses what it takes for a peace project and its institutions to enable transformative peace. To address these questions the article offers a theoretical and conceptual approach and draws on< some examples from case studies, especially Colombia. The article deals with the resistance that transformative projects might face from the victims they are meant to benefit. It promotes an understanding of conflict and resistance as essential dimensions to bring about positive transformations in violent contexts. In so doing, the author shows that the possibilities offered by normative-based frameworks to build transformative peace are curtailed by principles such as neutrality and impartiality of international law. These principles have resulted in institutional gender and race blindness that precludes the possibilities of a peace project being transformative.Thus, she offers a debate on two aspects that might condition or enable transformative forms of peace: the temporalities of peacebuilding and the inclusion of dissensus. Building on this the author proposes an understanding of transformative peace as an orientation that has on its horizon people’s emancipation from structural oppressions. This understanding will allow peace institutions more realistic time-space scales and the opportunity to benefit from the difference and dissensus that the practice of peacemaking might have left aside.Sonia Garzon Ramirez holds a PhD in Comparative Gender Studies from the Central European University, Budapest (Hungary). From 2020 to 2022, Sonia was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University (UK). In 2021, she was a visiting researcher at swisspeace with the Dealing with the Past (DwP) team. Her current research examines nonviolent resistance and contestation to peacebuilding. Sonia combines feminist theory, intersectionality and agonistic theory to investigate how dissensus participates in shaping peacebuilding and bringing about transformative peace
Biodiversity and biogeography of hydrothermal vent species: thirty years of discovery and investigations
No full textAuthor Posting. © Oceanography Society, 2007. This article is posted here by permission of Oceanography Society for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Oceanography 20, 1 (2007): 30-41.The discovery of hydrothermal vents and the unique, often endemic
fauna that inhabit them represents one of the most extraordinary
scientific discoveries of the latter twentieth century. Not surprisingly,
after just 30 years of study of these remarkable—and extremely
remote—systems, advances in understanding the animals and microbial
communities living around hydrothermal vents seem to
occur with every fresh expedition to the seafloor. On average, two
new species are described each month—a rate of discovery that has
been sustained over the past 25–30 years. Furthermore, the physical, geological, and
geochemical features of each part of the ridge system and its associated
hydrothermal-vent structures appear to dictate which novel
biological species can live where. Only 10 percent of the ridge
system has been explored for hydrothermal activity to date (Baker
and German, 2004), yet we find different diversity patterns in that
small fraction. While it is well known that species composition varies
along discrete segments of the global ridge system, this “biogeographic
puzzle” has more pieces missing than pieces in place.E. Ramirez-Llodra is supported by
the ChEss-Census of Marine Life program
(A.P. Sloan Foundation), which
is kindly acknowledged. C.R. German
also acknowledges support from ChEss-
Census of Marine Life and further support
from the Natural Environment
Research Council (UK) and from the
US National Science Foundation (NSF)
and National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA). T. Shank
acknowledges support from NSF, the US
National Aeronautic and Space Administration
Astrobiology Program, NOAA-Ocean
Exploration, and the Deep-Ocean
Exploration Institute at the Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution
On the taxonomic status of Liolaemus filiorum Pincheira-Donoso & Ramirez, 2005 (Iguania: Liolaemidae): A response to Pincheira-Donoso
No full textArtículo de publicación ISII discuss the arguments put forth recently by Pincheira-Donoso, in which the author attempts to revalidate Liolaemus filiorum Pincheira-Donoso & Ramirez, 2005, a species which I had previously considered a junior synonym of L. puritamensis. The author of this revalidation omitted important information including: 1) the description was published without peer review, 2) one of the two types was deposited in a personal collection, 3) the diagnosis is weak and unclear, 4) the holotype was not explicitly described or illustrated. Additionally, the author did not discuss key aspects of my paper, most particularly, the incorrect designation of the holotype of L. filiorum
The port in the storm: Mario Ramirez, Hurricane Beulah, and the lower Rio Grande Valley
No full textThe author has granted permission for their work to be available to the general public.This historical analysis focuses on the Lower Rio Grande Valley, particularly Starr County. It reviewed thousands of pages of archival records, historical news reports, feature profiles, city, state, and federal government documents, interviews, videos, and academic examinations. This thesis borrows biographical, narrative, and borderlands history approaches to portray Dr. Mario E. Ramirez as a man who believed that he could make a difference in many Valley lives. It argues and demonstrates that he successfully and repeatedly realized that belief throughout the fields of medicine, politics, and education. The thesis examines 1967's Hurricane Beulah as a dramatic example of how Ramirez --who assumed a leadership role in the medical relief efforts on both sides of the Rio Grande -- utilized his community standing, his professional standing as a South Texas doctor, and his familiarity with a predominantly Mexican-American population to improve his Starr County community. The Beulah relief efforts enhanced his image as a role model, as a legitimate community voice, and as a state and national representative of Valley needs. Ramirez's political and professional achievements enabled him to guide thousands of Valley residents into medical careers. Many of them returned to the Valley, as he did, to care for their communities. His ambitions also made him a cornerstone of efforts to build and strengthen medical education and health care throughout South Texas.Histor
El Tlacuache Núm. 4 (2001). 4 Año 1 (2001) julio. El Tlacuache
No full text- Del hecho al dicho por Alfredo López Austin. - Desde Tetelcingo un cuentito de como fue el Diluvio Universal por Adriana Saldaña Ramirez. - El Yahuatli. Aihuitl o hierba del agua. Hierba del ángel. Eupator um sp. familia: Asteraceae/Compositae por Biol. Margarita Avilés y Biol. Macrina Fuentes. - Nuestro Patrimonio desconocido por Teresita Loera y Anaite Monterforte. - La conversión de los indios de la Nueva España por Arqueóloga Laura Ledesma
The educational effectiveness of bilingual education
No full textBilingual education is the use of the native tongue to instruct limited Englishspeaking children. The authors read studies of bilingual education from the earliest period of this literature to the most recent. Of the 300 program evaluations read, only 72 (25%) were methodologically acceptable - that is, they had a treatment and control group and a statistical control for pre-treatment differences where groups were not randomly assigned. Virtually all of the studies in the United States were of elementary or junior high school students and Spanish speakers; The few studies conducted outside the United States were almost all in Canada. The research evidence indicates that, on standardized achievement tests, transitional bilingual education (TBE) is better than regular classroom instruction in only 22% of the methodologically acceptable studies when the outcome is reading, 7% of the studies when the outcome is language, and 9% of the studies when the outcome is math. TBE is never better than structured immersion, a special program for limited English proficient children where the children are in a self-contained classroom composed solely of English learners, but the instruction is in English at a pace they can understand. Thus, the research evidence does not support transitional bilingual education as a superior form of instruction for limited English proficient children
The reach of a long-arm stapler: calling in microaggressions in the LIS field through zine work
No full textPreprint of article published as:
Arroyo-Ramirez, Elvia & Chou, Rose L. & Freedman, Jenna & Fujita, Simone & Orozco, Cynthia Mari. "The Reach of a Long-Arm Stapler: Calling in Microaggressions in the LIS Field through Zine Work." Library Trends, vol. 67 no. 1, 2018, pp. 107-130. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/lib.2018.0028Since its inception in March 2014, the LIS Microaggressions project (www.lismicroaggressions.com) has grown as an online source and zine publication for library and information science (LIS) workers from marginalized communities to share their experiences with microaggressions in the workplace. This article will examine the project’s efforts to move conversations on diversity, race, racism, and antiracism in the LIS field to transgressive and actionable steps. Through conference presentations, zine-making workshops, and distribution of zines at LIS conferences, the LIS Microaggressions collective wishes to “call in” or otherwise actively engage the LIS profession for critical reflection and analysis about microaggressions in the workplace with the ultimate goal of fostering support and a participatory community for library workers dealing with microaggressions
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