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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
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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
Katrina Palmer Reality Flickers
No full textMOT International London are delighted to present Reality Flickers, a new work by Katrina Palmer for her first solo exhibition with the gallery.
Death, sex, loss and sculpture collide in Palmer’s new installation. The melodrama begins with an encounter between the protagonist, Reality Flickers, and the Heart Beast, otherwise known as ‘the dog’, ‘the fucker’, ‘the trickster’. All that remains is a retrieved oversized steel locker and the reverberant narrative in its walls.
In Reality Flickers found and imagined objects provide the catalyst for obscure internal narratives and critical speculation. Combining writing, installed audio recording and live performance, Palmer’s practice relocates sculpture within shifting, capricious worlds and fictional spaces.
Katrina Palmer (b.1967) lives and works in London. She was recently awarded the 2013 Artangel Open Commission, for a new project which will excavate an undisclosed place in England through writing and installation. She is also the author of The Dark Object, a series of connected stories about power relations in a fictional art school.
Additional forthcoming projects include a new commission for the 2014 Whitstable Biennale and her next book, The Fabricator’s Tale, to be published by Book Works in 2014. Previous exhibitions include 21st Century, Chisenhale Gallery, London (solo: 2013); From Morn ‘Til Midnight, Supportico Lopez, Berlin (2013); Orpheus Twice, David Roberts Art Foundation, London (2013); The Weight of Living, MOT International, London (2012); Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (2011)
Truth and reconciliation at the grassroots : community truth processes in the Southern United States
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 94-98).Truth commissions are implemented in order to "deal with the past" in the context of a transition in government from authoritarian to democratic rule. At the center of a truth commission is a truth process that attempts to establish the experience of gross human rights abuse at the hands of the state, and does so in a way which places the victims of such abuse at the center of the process, through valuing victim testimony as "truth." It is done with the assumption in mind, that in order for a society, or community, to have healthy relations in the future, violent past experiences must be faced and dealt with. Communities at a local level have imitated the structure, goals and procedures of truth commissions in projects that have been termed "Unofficial Truth Projects." This thesis compares three case studies of unofficial truth projects which have taken place in the Southern United States in the past few years: The Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Greensboro, North Carolina, which sought to establish a community reconciliation process 25 years after what has come to be known as the "Greensboro Massacre"; and two civil-society based truth processes, the Katrina National Justice Commission and the International Tribunal on Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, which seek to establish truth and gain reparations for human rights abuses which have taken place in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. The author considers various projects in a comparative manner, and through examining their histories, structures and ideological make-up, analyzes the processes in terms how these factors affect the ability for the project to: gain legitimacy as a truth process, generate resources and support, acknowledge victims' experiences, and engage the community in reconciliation efforts. The author also echoes the calls for a shift in paradigm in reconciliation and transitional justice literature, which would allow for a space to exist for truth processes that may be unofficial and fall outside a context of a formal transition. Such processes could still greatly benefit communities living in post-conflict contexts and with histories of racial and political violence, such as many communities in the Southern United States
Rules Rather Than Discretion: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina
No full textThis paper explores options for programs to be put in place prior to a disaster to avoid large and often poorly-managed expenditures following a catastrophe and to provide appropriate protection against the risk of those large losses which do occur. The lack of interest in insurance protection and mitigation by property owners and by public sector agencies prior to a disaster often creates major problems following a catastrophic event for victims and the government. Property owners who suffer severe damage may not have the financial resources easily at hand to rebuild their property and hence will demand relief. The government is then likely to respond with costly but poorly targeted disaster assistance. To avoid these large and often uneven ex post expenditures, we consider the option of mandatory comprehensive private disaster insurance with risk based rates. It may be more efficient to have an ex ante public program to ensure coverage of catastrophic losses and to subsidize low income residents who cannot afford coverage rather than the current largely ex post public disaster relief program.
The Effects of Hurricane Katrina on Corn, Wheat and Soybean Futures Prices and Basis
No full textHurricane Katrina caused considerable damage to transportation infrastructure, grain export facilities, and to some crop areas in 2005. Assuming that financial market participants considered the disruption of the grain transportation system by Katrina as having an important impact on fundamental supply and demand factors, futures and/or national basis would subsequently adjust. The objective of this research was to determine the reaction in corn, wheat, and soybean futures and basis due to Katrina using an event study methodology. One parametric (Constant mean return) and one nonparametric procedure (Corrado's rank test) were used to define whether there were statistically significant abnormal returns. During Katrina abnormal returns were larger on the wheat futures market than on the corn and soybean futures markets, which could be partially explained by the timing of the Katrina's landfall with the grain export activities. However, there were only a few statistically significant daily abnormal returns in the futures prices due to the hurricane. There was some evidence of significant cumulative abnormal returns in the corn and wheat futures markets prior to and surrounding the Katrina's landfall. In conclusion, the majority of the corn market reaction to Katrina's damage occurred in the basis and not in the futures market. For the soybean market there was weak evidence of significant reaction in both basis and futures prices. In the case of wheat, the basis was not evaluated and wheat futures prices reacted to the disruption caused by Katrina. The reaction in the corn, wheat and soybean futures prices due to Katrina could have being moderated by the presence of large stocks and large expected production levels of these grains in 2005 or simply by the fact that the damage caused by the hurricane did not affect fundamental supply and demand factors; rather, they only affected transportation logistics.Marketing,
Experienced teachers’ planning practices: Orienting, inventing, and envisioning
No full textAlthough every teacher plans for instruction, little is known about how this complex practice is accomplished in everyday contexts. The bulk of research on teacher planning has construed this core practice as process of mental decision making about a narrow collection of instructional factors. This study broadens the research on teacher planning practices by moving beyond these limiting frames by investigating the planning practices of eight elementary, middle, and high school teachers. To guide my study, I have assembled a three-part theoretical framework: literate activity (Prior, 1998), mediated agency (Wertsch, 1991), and distributed cognition (Hutchins, 1995). All three of these theories invite a more holistic framing of the work of teacher planning and situate it in everyday practice. I use qualitative methodology to better situate and understand teachers' choices in their contexts. The data collection for this study extended over the course of a K-12 academic year, during which time I conducted semi-structured interviews, conducted participant observations, wrote jottings and field notes, and collected artifacts of planning and instruction, including participant-created screencast think-alouds. Findings indicated that planning is a social and distributed process that accrues over time and that it is responsive to its context. Across these findings, planning entailed teachers articulating their own activity and student activity in relation to each other through three core practices: orienting, inventing, and envisioning. In sum, I argue that theoretical attention to the development of teachers’ practices can help researchers reconceptualize how we understand, study, and support planning for student learning and teacher development.Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2018-03-13 without embargo termsThe student, Katrina Kennett, accepted the attached license on 2017-10-24 at 19:21.The student, Katrina Kennett, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2017-10-24 at 19:35.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2017-12-07 at 12:56.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #11702 on 2018-03-13 at 10:08:03Made available in DSpace on 2018-03-13T15:45:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3
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Historic tax incentives as disaster relief: a case study on post-Katrina New Orleans
No full textFederal historic preservation tax incentives for rehabilitation projects are one of the most successful preservation tools used to reinvest in and rebuild blighted neighborhoods. In this thesis, I studied how Federal historic tax credits were used to rebuild historic architecture following a natural catastrophe. By uncovering trends among project rehabilitation descriptions, project totals, and project locations throughout New Orleans, I show that preservation tax credits were successfully used as a preservation tool in overall disaster relief efforts. The information collected and developed in this thesis has the ability to inform state and national officials responsible for promoting Federal tax incentives about the nature of these projects following a catastrophic event. In post-Katrina New Orleans, the destruction of historic housing was widespread with approximately 70% of housing units damaged in the storm. In this study, I looked at all rental-residential rehabilitation projects that utilized the tax credits between 2002 and 2009 to better understand the effectiveness of the tax credits following a natural disaster. For my research, I employed visual analysis, quantitative data analysis, and interpretive mapping techniques. Through visual analysis I assessed property conditions prior to and following rehabilitation. Quantitative data was used to compare the total number of projects, the total amount of certified investments, and approximate certification time. This information was used to compare data throughout the eight years of study to identify any similarities, differences, or trends apparent prior to and following Katrina. Mapping techniques described specific locations of projects throughout the city and the state while comparing project locations prior to and following Hurricane Katrina. This technique identified any project location shifts to more flood-damaged areas following the storm
NFL Governance and the Fate of the New Orleans Saints: Some Observations
No full textPrior to 2005, New Orleans had struggled to retain its NFL franchise. The Saints remained in the city, despite an outdated stadium and small media market, only through generous direct public subsidies to the team. Paradoxically, the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in September 2005 actually improved the short-term viability of the franchise by spurring an outpouring of local support for the team and by making relocation of the Saints politically untenable for the league. The long-term outlook for the team, however, appears grim. Already a small market, New Orleans’ population and business community has declined considerably due to Katrina. The NFL’s G-3 loan program for stadium construction is tapped out. Finally, the financial success of other NFL franchises has both raised the cost of fielding a competitive team and increased the value of the Saints as a target of relocation.sports, NFL Governance, New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, football
NFL Governance and the Fate of the New Orleans Saints: Some Observations
No full textPrior to 2005, New Orleans had struggled to retain its NFL franchise. The Saints remained in the city, despite an outdated stadium and small media market, only through generous direct public subsidies to the team. Paradoxically, the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in September 2005 actually improved the short-term viability of the franchise by spurring an outpouring of local support for the team and by making relocation of the Saints politically untenable for the league. The long-term outlook for the team, however, appears grim. Already a small market, New Orleans’ population and business community has declined considerably due to Katrina. The NFL’s G-3 loan program for stadium construction is tapped out. Finally, the financial success of other NFL franchises has both raised the cost of fielding a competitive team and increased the value of the Saints as a target of relocation.sports, NFL Governance, New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, football
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