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Ep. #012 - Natasha Myers
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of podcasts conducted by the Cultures of Energy at Rice University. Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition. But we also try to confront seemingly huge and insurmountable problems with insight, creativity and laughter.It’s all about plants on this week’s Cultures of Energy podcast. Our guide is anthropologist Natasha Myers, director of the Plant Studies Collaboratory at York University (https://natashamyers.wordpress.com) and author of Rendering Life Molecular: Models, Modelers, and Excitable Matter (Duke University Press, 2015). We talk about Natasha’s work in savannah ecosystems millennia in the making, how to sniff out chemical atmospheres and queer environmental monitoring practices. Natasha explains how plants conduct inquiry in their worlds, their sense and sentience, how they both catalyze and epitomize ecological relations. We discuss how plants trouble human notions of subjectivity, the possibility a plant-based phenomenology, end-of-time botanical tourism in Singapore, and whether gardening can be a redemptive practice. Natasha envisions plants as photosynthetic world-makers and tells us that if we humans want to thrive, our plants needs to thrive too. It’s time to embrace the Planthropocene
Atmospheric mineral dust emission and climatological variables for Etosha Pan, Namibia (2000-2022)
No full textCSV data files containing records of mineral dust plume events (dust point source locations lat/long, start and end time, duration, plume movement direction, and sensor used for detection), extrapolated monthly, seasonal and annual dust plume event and dust days (i.e. count of days in which a dust plume was observed) and dust optical depth (DOD) data, and associated records of meteorological and hydrological variables for dust plume events (i.e. 10 m wind speed, lake area extents, catchment precipitation totals and specific source point surface wetting frequencies by precipitation and ephemeral flooding, and El Niño Southern Oscillation [ENSO 3.4] and South Indian Ocean Dipole [SIOD] index values) for Etosha Pan, Namibia for the analysis period from July 1999 to January 2023.
All datasets are readable using CSV file viewer software.
Dust plume event data were analysed manually by the author Natasha S. Wallum. Data used for detection were sourced from Terra and Aqua satellites MODIS level 1b and Aerosol data acquired from the Atmospheric Archive and Distribution System (LAADS) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC), located in the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland (https://ladsweb.nascom.nasa.gov/) and SEVIRI data procured from the EUMETSAT Data Store (https://data.eumetsat.int/search?query=). Analysis of SEVIRI imagery utilised the Clear Sky Differencing (CSD) algorithm developed by Jon Murray and colleagues (https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2016JD025221).
Lake area extent data were derived by density thresholding of near-infrared (NIR) reflectance data from the MODIS Terra satellite obtained from NASA’s LAADS DAAC data portal (https://ladsweb.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/) and verified using Level-2 (8-day) images collected from Landsat 5 TM (1984–2012) and Landsat 8 OLI (2013 – present day) sensors were acquired through the USGS Earth Explorer data portal (www.earthexplorer.com).
The contributing catchment (Cuvelai-Etosha Basin) was derived from the HydroBASINS (Lehner and Grill, 2013) catchment database (https://hydrosheds.org/products/hydrobasins), and this area was used to derive daily precipitation inputs for 2000–2022 (July – June hydrological year) from The Integrated Multi-Satellite Retrievals for GPM (GPM-IMERG) and The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) gridded time-series of precipitation available from the Goddard Earth Science Data and Information Services Center (http://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/).
These data were augmented by limited monthly precipitation records (2000–2022) from 10 local weather stations (Mahenene, Ondjiva, Namacunde, Oshaambelo, Ogongo, Ondangwa, Okashana, Okapya, Okaukuejo, and Mannheim) provided by the Southern African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management (SASSCAL; https://sasscal.org/) and continuous rain gauge measurements recorded at Windpoort located in close proximity to Etosha Pan within the Cuvelai-Etosha Basin.
Near-surface (10 m) wind speeds (m/s) and cubed wind speed anomaly data were derived from ERA5-Land reanalysis model data product available from the Copernicus Climate Change Service Data Store (https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/).
Surface wetting frequencies and time since wetting for dust event source points were calculated by the author Natasha S. Wallum using ArcGIS Pro (education licence on behalf of the University of Oxford).
Global climate indices of SST anomalies data (ENSO 3.4 and SIOD) were obtained from the Climate Diagnostics Centre (CDC) online archives (http://psl.noaa.gov/data/climateindices) and the Indian Ocean dipole (IOD) site maintained by the Frontier Research System for Global Change (FRSGC)/Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) Climate Variations Research Program (http://www.jamstec.go.jp)
DECONSTRUCTING STUDENT NEEDS IN EAP FOR STEM: INSIGHTS FROM BALEAP 2023 SYMPOSIUM
No full textThe BALEAP STEM SIG 2023 Symposium on \u27Deconstructing student needs in EAP for STEM\u27 provided insights into the unique challenges and strategies for teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP) in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Key presentations included Natasha Rust\u27s emphasis on integrating register, genre, and discourse analysis into EAP for science courses, Sanchia Rodrigues\u27s exploration of mathematical proficiency and discourse in EAP for maths, and Aaron Woodcock and Lori-Ann Milln\u27s strategies for creating sustainable English for Specific Academic Purposes (ESAP) curricula focusing on vocabulary, speaking, mediation skills, and reflection. Audience discussions highlighted the need for flexible teaching approaches to cater to diverse STEM student groups and the importance of embedding EAP within the broader academic framework. The symposium underscored the collaborative nature of developing effective EAP programs that address both language and subject-specific needs, ensuring the preparation of students for academic success in their respective STEM fields. This interactive infographic and symposium write-up aims to summarise the presentations and discussion at the symposium, to foster ongoing discussions and developments in EAP for STEM education
Theories of Time and Space
No full textPoet Natasha Trethewey presents her "Theories of Time and Space," April 9, 2005, around Gulfport, Mississippi. Trethewey is the author of Domestic Work (2000) and Bellocq's Ophelia (2002). Her upcoming Native Guard will be published in 2006.
Trethewey's poem "Elegy for the Native Guards" is also available on Southern Spaces
Elegy for the Native Guards
No full textPoet Natasha Trethewey presents her "Elegy for the Native Guards," April 9, 2005, on Ship Island, Mississippi. Trethewey is the author of Domestic Work (2000) and Bellocq's Ophelia (2002). Her upcoming Native Guard will be published in 2006.
Trethewey's poem "Theories of Time and Space" is also available on Southern Spaces
Poverty deconcentration, housing mobility, and the construction of recent US housing policy: a discourse analysis of the policy-making process
No full textThis study seeks to answer how and why poverty deconcentration and housing mobility have dominated recent housing policy discourse and produced the Moving to Opportunity demonstration program as HUD’s primary housing initiative in the 1990-2000 period. Through the examination of the policy discourse imbuing MTO I attempt to elucidate power relations and the role of elites in cultivating the housing mobility discourse. In addition, I demonstrate the hegemonic processes through which the dominant discourse proliferates. Employing a postpositivist approach to policy analysis, I examine the process of policy deliberation to expose the deliberative and discursive mechanisms through which MTO was engendered. Towards this end, the study explores the process, nature, and dynamics of policy deliberations at HUD to understand how federal policies are formed particularly with regard to embedded power dynamics and democratic processes. By illustrating the discursive practices that produced MTO, I uncover the politics, assumptions and frames through which HUD views poverty concentration, housing mobility, and voucher recipients. By depicting the evolutionary (genealogical) stages of MTO through a frame-critical discourse analysis, this study delimits the empirical findings produced through the demonstration. To that end I employ Fischer’s logic of policy evaluation and elucidate four interrelated discourses, which “extend from concrete empirical questions pertinent to a particular situation up to the abstract normative issues concerning a way of life” (1995:18). Accordingly, I produce an overall analysis of MTO, and offer suggestions on how the demonstration could have been structured or delineated differently, and what alternative assumptions or frames might have led to different analytical results.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Natasha Ona Turs
The Private Cost of Long-Term Care in Canada: Where You Live Matters
No full textCanadians expect the same access to health care whether they are rich or poor, and wherever they live, often without direct charge at the point of service. However, we find that the private cost of long-term care differs greatly across the country, and within provinces, we find substantial variation, depending on income level, marital status, and, in Quebec alone, on assets owned. A non-married person with average income would pay more than twice as much in the Atlantic provinces as in Quebec, while a couple with one in care would pay almost four times as much in Newfoundland as in Alberta.long-term care, private cost
Distal femur nonunion: Risk factors and validation of RUST scores
No full textAbstract. Objectives:. (1) The purpose of this study was to investigate immediate postoperative weight-bearing status and other potential risk factors for nonunion after locked plating of distal femur fractures and (2) to compare clinical and radiographic union using the previously validated Radiographic Union Scale for Tibia (RUST) and modified RUST scores.
Design:. This is a retrospective cohort analysis.
Setting:. Academic Level-1 trauma center.
Patients/Participants:. Ninety patients with distal femur fractures (OTA/AO 33-A, including periprosthetic) treated with lateral locked plating over a 10-year period.
Intervention:. Distal femur fracture fixation with lateral locked plating; surgical intervention to facilitate bone healing in cases of nonunion.
Main Outcome Measurements:. Nonunion rate, construct rigidity scores, RUST, and modified RUST scores.
Results:. Seventy-eight of 90 patients (87%) achieved clinical union (13% nonunion rate). Rigidity score was significantly associated with risk of nonunion (P = 0.003). No significant association was detected between nonunion and postoperative weight-bearing status (P = 0.77) or other previously identified risk factors. Patients who achieved fracture union had significantly higher mean (SD) RUST (10.67 [1.37] vs. 6.53 [1.48], P < 0.001) and modified RUST (13.47 [2.20] vs. 6.94 [1.79], P < 0.001) scores than patients who developed nonunion. Sensitivity (Sn) analyses identified a RUST score threshold of 9 for diagnosing clinical union (Sn 93.6% and specificity [Sp] 91.7%) and a modified RUST score threshold of 8 (Sn 93.6%, Sp 91.7%).
Conclusions:. Immediate postoperative weight-bearing status does not seem to affect nonunion rates. We observed a statistically significant association between rigidity score and nonunion. This study supports the utility of the RUST and modified RUST scores in distal femur metaphyseal fractures.
Level of Evidence:. Therapeutic Level IV
"Nun's the word": restoring Catholic faith and forming national identity in 19th century Belgium
No full textMy dissertation research proposes a transdisciplinary investigation encompassing historical and literary analyses of religious biographies of nuns that contributed to and participated in the recatholicization of Belgium throughout the 19th century. Specifically, I examine the rhetorical strategies used in early 19th century Belgian biographies of founders and restorers of post-revolutionary congregations and how they were pivotal in the restoration of the Catholic faith contributing toward Belgium's independence in 1830 and toward the political victory of Catholics in Belgium by 1884.
My literary analysis examines how the writing of religious biographies recatholicizes while acknowledging the problematic issues of control and authority in writing. This research reveals a specific Belgian religious rhetorical strategy that promoted Belgian identity as inseparable from being Catholic. As platforms to political and social agendas, the religious biographies reveal an evolution in offensive and defensive rhetorical strategies toward Enlightenment dechristianization by placing emphasis on the reader's intellectual reasoning. As spiritual platforms, the innovative use of images and words produce a devotional text that engages the reader in his spirituality. The results of this research will then question the traditional classification of these religious texts in the genre of 'biography' and ponder whether they should in fact be part of Belgian literature or biographical history canons.
My historical investigation reflects upon the social and political effects of spiritual biographical writing and seeks to analyze what the lives of nuns indicate about the revolutionary, post-revolutionary, and independent period in Belgium from 1789-1933. Specifically, it will reveal how and why congregations flourished following their suppression during the revolution; what changes were implicated in the re-foundation of some pre-revolutionary congregations; what new visions of newly founded post-revolutionary congregations helped redefine the Catholic Church's mission; and lastly why religious women rather than the traditional biographical figure of clergy members became the new muse for Catholic restoration.
In my dissertation I argue that religious biographies were not only used as weapons to counteract the anti-catholic agendas, but also served to incite nationalistic ideals under very discreet, unsuspicious titles such as, The Life of Julie Billiart, Founder of the Institute of Notre-Dame of Namur.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-351)by Natasha Roegier
Natasha Bowens-Blair: author of the Color of Food: keynote and book signing
No full textFilmed by Colorado State University. Lory Student Center.Natasha Bowens Blair, author of The Color of Food, speaks at the Lory Student Center at Colorado State University, October 16, 2021. The book explores ways we can cultivate new ideas about food justice, land, bringing people together, and joining in a conversation about race and identity, both locally and around the world. Introduction by James Prichett
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