93 research outputs found
Epilepsy Metaphors
No full textBetween 1990 and 2015, American literature saw the emergence of a new corpus of epilepsy metaphors which tackle the stigma of epilepsy within three areas: society, body, and language. Eleana Vaja introduces concepts such as protometaphors, relational metaphors, epileptic texts, and metastability to categorize and examine these foci further. Applying philosophy as well as "hard sciences" (i.e. mathematics, medicine, physics) to disability studies, her study of selected works by Siri Hustvedt, Thom Jones, Reif Larsen, Dennis Mahagin, Audrey Niffenegger, Rodman Philbrick, and Lauren Slater shows how epilepsy metaphors redefine the notion of the "liminal" and the "normal".</jats:p
A study of the employment of Negroes in social work based upon a study of the present employment of graduates of the Atlanta University School of Social Work from 1930-1940, 1941
No full textRetelling racialized violence, remaking white innocence: the politics of interlocking oppressions in transgender day of remembrance
No full textTransgender Day of Remembrance has become a significant political event among those resisting violence against gender-variant persons. Commemorated in more than 250 locations worldwide, this day honors individuals who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice. However, by focusing on transphobia as the definitive cause of violence, this ritual potentially obscures the ways in which hierarchies of race, class, and sexuality constitute such acts. Taking the Transgender Day of Remembrance/Remembering Our Dead project as a case study for considering the politics of memorialization, as well as tracing the narrative history of the Fred F. C. Martinez murder case in Colorado, the author argues that deracialized accounts of violence produce seemingly innocent White witnesses who can consume these spectacles of domination without confronting their own complicity in such acts. The author suggests that remembrance practices require critical rethinking if we are to confront violence in more effective ways. Description from publisher's site: http://caliber.ucpress.net/doi/abs/10.1525/srsp.2008.5.1.2
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Eaten: A Novel
No full textThis novel operates on two levels. First, it is a story concerning the fate of a young woman named Raven Adams, who is prompted into journeying westward after witnessing what she believes to be an omen. On another level, however, the novel is intended to be a philosophical questioning of western modes of “science-based” singular conceptualizations of reality, which argue that there is only one “real world” and anyone who deviates from this is “crazy,” “stupid,” or “wrong.” Raven as a character sees the world in terms of what might be called “magical thinking” in modern psychology; her closest relationship is with a living embodiment of a story, the ancient philosopher Diogenes, which she believes is capable of possessing others and directing her journey. As the story continues the reader comes to understand Raven’s perceptions of her reality, leading to a conceptualization of reality as being “multi-layered.” Eventually these layers are collapsed and unified in the final chapters. The novel makes use of many reference points including philosophy, classical mythology, folklore, religion, and internet social media in order to guide the reader along Raven’s story
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The Nature of Things
No full textThe Nature of Things is a collection of stories and a preface that examine character motivation. The author is concerned with unexpected reactions and surprising outcomes. The stories are independent of each other and involve a wide range of characters
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The Lexicographer's Daughter: A Memoir
No full textThis creative nonfiction dissertation is a memoir of the author's search for the somewhat mysterious hidden past of her father, the lexicographer Charles J. Lovell, who died in 1960, when the author was nine. Her father's early death left the author with many unanswered questions about his past and his family and so she undertakes a search to answer, if possible, some of those questions. Her search takes her to Portland, Maine; New Bedford, Massachusetts; and Pasadena, California, where she tries to discover the facts and uncover the forces that shaped her father's life. Along the way, she realizes how profoundly his death affected and shaped her own life, contributing to the theme of loss that pervades the memoir. In addition, she begins to realize how much her mother, Dixie Hefley Lovell, whose significance she previously overlooked, shaped her life. Ultimately, she comes to understand and accept that some of her questions are unanswerable
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Salvation and Other Short Stories
No full textThis is a collection of short stories written to satisfy the requirements for a Master of Arts degree. These stories are done in several different forms in an attempt to help the author discover which one suits his personal style best. The preface to these stories is an examination of how and why the author goes about the creative process. The author has examined the lives and methods of other literary figures to see what their individual inspirations were and how they worked. This preface also looks at some of the obstacles and hazards that these men and women face while they are writing
Data from: A trait-based approach to assessing resistance and resilience to wildfire in two iconic North American conifers
No full textOngoing changes in fire activity have the potential to drive widespread shifts in Earth's vegetation. Plant traits and vital rates can be indicators of the ability of individuals to survive fire (resistance) and populations to persist (resilience) following fire and provide a method to assess vulnerability to fire-driven vegetation shifts.
In 15 study sites spanning climatic gradients in the southern Rocky Mountains, U.S.A., we quantified variation in key traits and vital rates of two co-occurring, widely-distributed conifers (Pinus ponderosa Douglas ex. P. Lawson & C. Lawson and Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco). We used mixed models to explain inter- and intraspecific variation in tree growth, survival, bark thickness, and seed cone production, as a function of species, tree life stage (i.e., diameter, height, and age), average climate, local competition, and site conditions.
P. ponderosa was predicted to survive low-severity fire at a 23% earlier age than P. menziesii. P. ponderosa had thicker bark and more rapid juvenile height growth, traits conferring greater fire resistance. In contrast, P. menziesii was predicted to produce seed cones at a 28% earlier age than P. ponderosa. For both species, larger individuals were more likely to survive fire and to produce cones. For P. ponderosa, cone production increased where average actual evapotranspiration (AET) was higher and local competition was lower. More frequent cone production on productive sites with higher AET is an important and underappreciated mechanism that may help to explain greater resilience to fire in these areas.
Synthesis: Our analyses indicated that many plant traits and vital rates related to fire differed between P. ponderosa and P. menziesii, with trade-offs between investment in traits that promote individual defence to fire and those that promote recolonization of disturbed sites. Future changes in fire activity will act as a filter throughout North American forests, with our findings providing insight into which individuals and populations of two iconic species are most vulnerable to future change and offering a framework for future inquiry in other forests facing an uncertain future.See "Rodman_J_Ecol_2020.html" in data archive for examples of use. See "README.txt" and metadata within the compressed archive files for usage notes. We encourage the user to contact the corresponding author (Kyle Rodman, [email protected]) with any additional questions regarding data usage.
Funding provided by: Australian Research CouncilCrossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000923Award Number: DP170101288Funding provided by: Joint Fire Science ProgramCrossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100015231Award Number: 17-2-01-4Funding provided by: National Science FoundationCrossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000001Award Number: DEB-1833529Datasets included in the final archive file are stored within the following subfolders. Brief descriptions are included below, but more detailed descriptions are provided in .docx files within each subfolder.
1) "AET and CWD": This folder includes two c. 250m climate grids used in the study. These data were clipped to bounds of the Southern Rocky Mountains Ecoregion (EPA Level III Ecoregion #21). Each dataset was initially calculated at 4km using the water balance equations of Dobrowski et al. (2013) and spatially downscaled using GIDS interpolation (Flint and Flint 2012). For a further description of processing, see Rodman et al. (2020; Global Ecology and Biogeography). AET is total actual evapotranspiration (evaporation constrained by moisture availability) for the calendar year. CWD is total climatic water deficit (unmet evaporative demand of the atmosphere) for the calendar year. All units are in mm/year in an average year in the 1981-2010 period. These data were extracted to field plot locations and used in statistical models
2) "Fires_SpatialData": Contains a raster grid of Landsat-derived fire severity (Relative differenced Normalized Burn Ratio following Miller and Thode, 2007) clipped to the perimeters of the 15 studied wildfires, as well as a shape file of perimeters of each fire, obtained from the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity program (Eidenshink et al. 2007)
3) "Post-Fire Seedling Data": Includes three individual .csv files that contain much of the field data describing juveniles in "burned plots" included in this study. Briefly, these data include post-fire seedling abundances of coniferous tree species throughout each of 15 studied fires, site-level variables such as fire severity (percent basal area mortality), ground cover, forest structure, as well as the age, height, and bark thickness of individual juveniles of Pinus ponderosa, Pseudotsuga menziesii, and a few other species. For additional information on field collection protocol and data processing, see Rodman et al. (2020, J. Ecology).
4) "Resistance": Contains two individual .csv files with descriptions of trees that survived or died during each of the 15 fire events. Plot information within these data correspond to .csv files in "Post-Fire Seedling Data." For additional information on field collection protocol and data processing, see Rodman et al. (2020, J. Ecology)
5) "Ring Widths": Includes raw and processed ring width data from scans of increment cores, processed using WinDendro software. Data is primarily for Pinus ponderosa and is at 17 individual stands in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico, USA. For additional information on field collection protocol and data processing, see Rodman et al. (2020, J. Ecology)
6) "Trees and Cone Scars": Includes one .csv that describes tree-level variables related to tree size, cone production, bark thickness, and other traits related to wildfire. All surveyed trees in this .csv were in stands that were unburned or burned at low severity. For additional information on field collection protocol and data processing, see Rodman et al. (2020, J. Ecology
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