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Culture après le déluge: heritage ecology after disaster
No full textThis PhD dissertation examines the relationships between cultural heritage and the environment, focusing specifically on the devastation and rebuilding of New Orleans, Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Departing from conventional approaches to the natural world (such as documentation- and conservation-based approaches), this thesis adopts a developmental-systems based approach to cultural heritage in order to construct a new way of interpreting it, within the specific context of natural disaster. This new approach, termed ‘heritage ecology’, reinterprets cultural heritage in two ways: first, as a physical assemblage of sites, materials, traditions, beliefs, and practices that are constructed in significant ways by their natural environments; and second, as a metaphorical ecosystem which impacts back on the assessment and construction of that natural environment in turn.
In order to construct this approach, the thesis poses three interrelated questions: how is cultural heritage transformed as a result of disaster, how do societies rebuild their heritage after disaster, and how does heritage contribute to the rebuilding process? Examining a rebuilding process in real-time provides a unique window on these processes; events and developments in New Orleans taken from the first four years of recovery (2005-2009) suggest that prior understandings of how societies rebuild themselves after disaster have neglected crucial aspects of cultural heritage that are integral to that process. The examination of data from the case study -- data of diverse forms, such as historiography, the culinary arts, music, the built environment, and memorial sites and landscapes -- reveals the limitations of traditional approaches to heritage and prompts a reassessment of a range of issues central to heritage research, issues such as materiality, authenticity, and commodification. This study moreover incorporates into heritage research concepts previously unconsidered, such as infrastructure and policy. In the coming century of global climate change and increased environmental hazards, this last theme will become increasingly central to heritage policy and research; the dissertation concludes accordingly, with a reflection on contingency and future disaster
Post-typhoon prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder, major depressive disorder, panic disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder in a Vietnamese sample
No full textIn 2006, typhoon Xangsane disrupted a multiagency health needs study of 4,982 individuals in Vietnam. Following this disaster, 798 of the original participants were reinterviewed to determine prevalence and risk factors associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), major depressive disorder (MDD), panic disorder (PD), and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). Posttyphoon prevalences were PTSD 2.6%, MDD 5.9%, PD 9.3%, and GAD 2.2%. Of those meeting criteria for a disorder, 70% reported only one disorder, 15% had two, 14% had three, and 1% met criteria for all four disorders. Risk factors for posttyphoon psychopathology differed among disorders, but generally were related to high typhoon exposure, prior trauma exposure, and in contrast to Western populations, higher age, but not gender
A study of the relationship between the 2005 education reform, hurricane Katrina, and the development of charter schools in New Orleans, Louisiana, 2016
No full textThis study examines the relationship between the 2005 education reform, Hurricane Katrina, and the development of charter schools in New Orleans, Louisiana. The education reforms were established in November 2005, three months after the storm, with the enactment of the Louisiana Recovery School District Law, Act No. 35, First Extraordinary Session, 2005, House Bill No.121. The study answered three questions pertaining to the variables that follow: the relationship between the 2005 education reform and Hurricane Katrina, the relationship between the 2005 education reform and the development of charter schools, and the relationship between Hurricane Katrina and the development of charter schools. Respondents to the survey were comprised of 312 adults, ages 18 years old or older. The conclusions drawn from the findings indicated that there was not a statistically significant relationship between the variables, 2005 education reform and Hurricane Katrina, and Hurricane Katrina and the development of charter schools in New Orleans. However, the findings also revealed that there was a statistically significant relationship between the two variables, 2005 education reform and the development of charter schools in New Orleans. KEY TERMS: Education Reform, Hurricane Katrina, Charter Schools, Other Education, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Social Wor
From "being there" to "being ... where?": relocating ethnography
No full textPurpose: Expands recent discussions of research practice in organizational ethnography through engaging in a reflexive examination of the ethnographer’s situated identity work across different research spaces: academic, personal and the research site itself.
Approach: Examines concerns with the traditional notion of ‘being there’ as it applies to ethnography in contemporary organization studies and, through a confessional account exploring my own experiences as a PhD student conducting ethnography, considers ‘being ... where’ using the analytic framework of situated identity work.
Findings: Identifies both opportunities and challenges for organizational ethnographers facing the question of ‘being ... where?’ through highlighting the situated nature of researchers’ identity work in, across and between different (material and virtual) research spaces.
Practical implications: Provides researchers with prompts to examine their own situated identity work, which may prove particularly useful for novice researchers and their supervisors, while also identifying the potential for incorporating these ideas within organizational ethnography more broadly.
Value: Offers situated identity work as a means to provide renewed analytic vigour to the confessional genre whilst highlighting new opportunities for reflexive and critical ethnographic research practice
United for the city: First Grace United Methodist church in post-hurricane Katrina New Orleans
No full text2011 Summer.Includes bibliographical references.Almost six years after Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc in New Orleans, the city is still `open for impact': rebuilding its infrastructure and communities. While Katrina traumatized New Orleans, it also provided an opportunity for change, for residents to rebuild their lives in alignment with their values. First Grace United Methodist church (First Grace) is an example of this kind of paradigm shift. First Grace was founded post-Katrina in 2007 via a merger between two Mid-City Methodist churches, one predominately black and one predominately white. First Grace is now a growing, flourishing multiethnic church that has attracted the attention of local media and the international United Methodist Church organization. This thesis explores how First Grace's ethnically diverse community is united by common values and the shared goal of rebuilding their beloved city through service. These beliefs enable First Grace's congregation to engage in ethnic transcendence (Marti 2009), a process by which one's ethnic identity becomes less important than other shared identities in a diverse group. Invented traditions allow First Grace's congregants to participate in rituals that emphasize their shared present, rather than separate pasts. Like other paradoxes present in New Orleans, both in spite of and because of the mass and personal tragedies of Hurricane Katrina, First Grace has formed as a church for and of the city and all of its peoples, a silver lining to Katrina's dark cloud
The image of “SEB Global Services” company and its influencing factors.
No full textUzņēmuma “SEB Global Services” tēls un to ietekmējošie faktori. Darba autore Katrina Kaļeņikova. Darba vadītāja Dr. oec., asoc.prof. Jeļena Šalkovska. Bakalaura darba mērķis ir, balstoties uz teorētiskiem aspektiem par uzņēmuma tēlu un to ietekmējošiem faktoriem, kā arī uz klientu aptaujas rezultātiem, novērtēt “SEB Global Services” uzņēmuma tēlu, izteikt secinājumus un izstrādāt priekšlikumus “SEB Global Services” tēla pilnveidošanai. Darbā tiek analizēta zinātniskā literatūra, kas saistīta ar uzņēmuma tēla veidošanas faktoriem. Darbā tika apkopotas SEB bankas klientu aptaujas rezultāti, kā arī izveidoti priekšlikumi, uzņēmuma tēla pilnveidošanai. Darbs sastāv no 3 nodaļām - teorētiskās “Uzņēmuma tēla teorētiski aspekti”, prakstiskās “uzņēmuma “SEB Global Services” tēla novērtējums”, pētnieciskās “Pētjums par “SEB Global Services” tēla ietekmējošiem faktoriem”. Darba apjoms ir 65 lapas, 18 attēls, 1 tabula, 2 pielikumi.The image of “SEB Global Services” company and its influencing factors. Recruitment author Katrina Kalenikova. Supervisor Dr. oec., assoc.prof., Jelena Salkovska. The aim of the bachelor's thesis is to build on the theoretical aspects of image and its influencing factors, as well as on the results of a customer survey, to evaluate the image of SEB Global Services, to draw conclusions and to develop proposals for improving the image of SEB Global Services.. The work analyses the scientific literature related to the factors of creating the image of the company. The results of the SEB clients survey conducted by the author were also collected, as well as proposals were created to improve the image of the company. The work consists of 3 chapters - theoretical “theoretical aspects of the image of the company”, practical assessment of the image of SEB Global Services“, Research” research on the image-making factors of SEB Global Services”. The volume of work is 65 pages, 18 pictures, 1 table, 2 appendices
Global vulnerability to near-Earth object impact
No full textA clear appreciation of the consequences resulting from an asteroid impact is required in order to understand the near Earth object (NEO) hazard. Three main processes require modelling to analyse the entire impact event. These are the atmospheric entry phase, land impact events and ocean impact events. A range of impact generated effects (IGEs) are produced by different impact scenarios. It is these IGEs that present the threat to human populations world wide, and the infrastructure they utilise. A software system for analysing the NEO threat has been developed, entitled NEOimpactor, to examine the social and economic consequences from land and ocean impacts. Existing mathematical models for the three principal impact processes have been integrated into one complete system, which has the capability to model the various effects of a terrestrial asteroid impact and, critically, predict the consequences for the global population and infrastructure. Analysis of multiple impact simulations provides a robust method for the provision of an integrated, global vulnerability assessment of the NEO hazard. The primary graphical outputs from NEOimpactor are in the form of ‘relative consequence’ maps, and these have been designed to be comprehensible to a non-specialist audience. By the use of a series of multiple-impact simulations, the system has identified the five countries most at risk from the impact hazard, as well as indicating the various factors influencing vulnerability
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Retraction Note: Activation of the NLRP3 Inflammasome Is Associated with Valosin-Containing Protein Myopathy
No full textThe Editor-in-Chief has retracted this article. After publications, concerns were raised about similarities within Figure 4, and between Figures 4 and 6. Multiple images appear to share features in a way that suggests they might have originated from the same sample. The authors have stated the full original data set is no longer available. Author Lbachir BenMohamed disagrees with this retraction. Author Angèle Nalbandian did not respond to correspondence from the Publisher about this retraction. The Publisher has not been able to obtain a current email address for authors Arif A. Khan, Ruchi Srivastava, Katrina J. Llewellyn, Baichang Tan, Nora Shukr, Yasmin Fazli and Virginia E. Kimonis
Sharing news, making sense, saying thanks: patterns of talk on Twitter during the Queensland floods
No full textAbstract: This paper examines the discursive aspects of Twitter communication during the floods in the summer of 2010–2011 in Queensland, Australia. Using a representative sample of communication associated with the #qldfloods hashtag on Twitter, we coded and analysed the patterns of communication. We focus on key phenomena in the use of social media in crisis communication: communal sense-making practices, the negotiation of participant roles, and digital convergence around shared events. Social media is used both as a crisis communication and emergency management tool, as well as a space for participants to engage in emotional exchanges and communication of distress.Authored by Frances Shaw, Jean Burgess, Kate Crawford and Axel Bruns
Food, neighborhood markets, and neighborhood recovery in post-Katrina New Orlean
No full textThesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2008.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Page 145 blank.Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-144).In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, several neighborhoods in New Orleans created neighborhood markets. Given the fact that only one such market existed prior to the storm, this was surprising. This thesis hypothesizes that neighborhood markets are responding in part to the changing and uneven development of the food geography of New Orleans before the storm, and the lack of access to fresh food in many of the most deeply impacted communities after Katrina flooded the city. In order to understand why these neighborhood markets were established, this thesis places neighborhood markets in the larger context of the changing history of the food system in the US, as well as within the broader patterns of urban development and urban vulnerability, resilience, and risk. New Orleans' neighborhood markets are further contextualized by looking at the particular history of urban development in New Orleans and the unique food system that the city enjoyed -- particularly the robustness of the public market system in that city -- until much later into the twentieth century than any other US city. Interviews with market shoppers, vendors and market organizations for each of the eight extant neighborhood markets are used to explore claims about the roles of neighborhood markets in neighborhoods after the storm. Further interviews with city planners and recovery officials, as well as with non-profit and other community stakeholders, suggest three broad lessons from the experience of the neighborhood markets: one, that disaster has recapitulated and deepened the uneven geography of food access after the storm; two, that the continuing inability of markets to meet food access needs speaks to the fragile and tenuous nature of recovery; and three, that the city government has failed to effectively respond to the storm.(cont) The thesis concludes with general recommendations about the importance of the food system and neighborhood resilience for planners and policymakers,as well specific proposals for the New Orleans food system.by Jeffrey E. Schwartz.M.C.P
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