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Improving the Quality of Women’s Gold in Mali, West Africa: The Case of Shea
No full textThe collection, primary processing, and subsequent sale of shea-based products make an important contribution to rural women’s cash income in many of Mali’s shea producing areas. Internationally, shea has recently become popular in high-valued cosmetics thanks to its therapeutic properties— a deviation away from its historic use as a cheap cocoa-butter substitute. For these reasons, international development actors have targeted the Malian shea value chain as part of their private-sector-development and rural-poverty-alleviation programs and strategies. Information asymmetry in the production and marketing of shea has led to a “Market for Lemons” scenario much like that described by Akerlof (1970), thereby compromising the subsector’s potential to serve as a powerful source of rural income growth and poverty alleviation. A combination of tools is used to describe the Malian shea value chain, including the “Structure, Conduct, Performance” framework borrowed from the industrial organization literature and the “Subsector Studies” approach popular in current export-led international development strategies. Analogies from subsectors historically plagued by adverse selection and moral hazard are used to identify potential leverage points and intervention strategies for stakeholders to help improve shea quality and returns to primary producers. The analysis suggests the Malian government has the potential to play an important role in this process as a coordinating body and channel captain, with donors and private enterprises playing complementary roles.Information asymmetry, karité, Mali, rural development, shea, women’s income, Agribusiness, Institutional and Behavioral Economics, International Development, Marketing, Q13, Q23, L15, L24, 013, O17,
Interview with Mary Shea Giffoniello
No full textMary Shea was born in Buffalo on November 24, 1900 to Michael and Josephine Carr Shea. Her father built Shea’s theater. Until she was twelve the family lived at 43 Vermont Street in Buffalo. She taught writing and history in New Jersey and married Emile Giffoniello in 1929. She returned back to Buffalo in the 1930’s and passed away on April 21, 1986. The SUNY Buffalo State Archives & Special Collections has a small collection donated by Mary concerning her father, Michael Shea.https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/bsc_oral_history/1020/thumbnail.jp
Women's Collective Action in the Shea Sector in Mali
No full textThe shea sector in Mali is fertile ground for women’s collective action (WCA). Shea production, processing and marketing are almost entirely female-dominated activities, and, in the four villages studied for the WCA research, the shea sector has always been exclusively female. Since the late 1990s, formally recognized associations and cooperatives have emerged out of pre-existing forms of community involvement in the area. The findings from Mali show that in the right conditions, the active participation of women in CA can empower individual women, thereby augmenting their decision-making power and influence within both the household and the community, contributing to lasting changes in gender relations.</p
Tree Tenure in Agroforestry Parklands: Implications for the Management, Utilisation and Ecology of Shea and Locust Bean Trees in Northern Ghana
No full textThe management and utilisation of resources in agroforestry systems are influenced by both land and tree tenure systems, especially where land and tree tenure are distinct, and rights to one do not necessarily lead to rights over the other. Most academic research has examined the impact of land tenure on management and productivity in these landscapes. This thesis investigates the impact of tree tenure alongside other socioeconomic factors through the research question: 'how do local institutional arrangements affect the management, utilisation and ecology of indigenous economic trees in agroforestry parklands?' Shea and locust bean trees, two of the most economically, culturally and ecologically important indigenous agroforestry species in Northern Ghana, are chosen for the case study. This multidisciplinary study utilises several methodologies of data collection and analysis to assess individual and household behaviour in the management of shea and locust bean trees, and the impact on the ecology of these species. The analysis of incentives (and constraints) stemming from differing tenure arrangements reveals differing attitudes among the households to the preservation and planting of these trees on their farmlands. Women, who are primary gatherers of non-timber products from these trees and hence the main beneficiaries, have differing access to these trees, depending both upon the status of their household within the community and the tenure rules in place. Econometric modelling of shea and locust bean tree densities reveals the socioeconomic and institutional determinants of these tree densities on the farmland, highlighting the importance of economic and institutional incentives and constraints in shaping the management practices, and subsequently the ecology of these indigenous economic species. The findings demonstrate that the vagaries of the resource-use dynamics should be taken into consideration by any policy targeted towards promoting sustainable management and utilisation of these valuable parkland species
Cyber Security for Nuclear Power Plants
No full textCyber Security for Nuclear Power Plants by Thomas Shea and Sandro Gaycken and Maurizio Martellini is a meticulous analysis of the current situation regarding the security of Nuclear Power Plants. It describes the current stage, outlining the motivations of potential cyberattacks and how they could be carried out.
It proceeds in presenting an all-comprehensive security circle that provides opportunities for engagement and collaboration to deal with cyberissues at various levels.
Since this paper was presented at the Seoul Nuclear Security Summit of 2012, it ends with useful recommended action for the Summit to take, in order to ensure that the peaceful use of nuclear energy is not vulnerable to cyberattacks
Mrs Roberts and Mrs Shea
No full textMrs D. A. Roberts, wife of Justice Roberts and Mrs Shea, wife of the head of the British Australia Telegraph Company.Chaffey, Jan.Date:192
Austrochloritis speculoris Shea & Griffiths 2010
No full text<i>Austrochloritis speculoris</i> Shea & Griffiths, 2010 <p> <i>Austrochloritis speculoris</i> Shea & Griffiths, 2010 (in Stanisic <i>et al</i>. 2010): 384, 536.</p> <p> <b>Material examined</b></p> <p> <i>Type material.</i> Holotype QM MO27314 (from NE New South Wales, New England NP, Point Lookout region, 31°22'50"S 152°15'25"E [leg. D. & N. Potter, 8 Mar 1990, under logs]). Paratypes AM C.378010 (Gladstone SF, Reids Ck Rd at Moodys Ck crossing, 3.3 km from Kalang Rd, 30°28'52"S 152°50'21"E), AM C.339822 (Forest Way, 14.5 km SW Pt Lookout Rd, 30°34'23"S 152°14'24"E), AM C.339819 (Styx River, ca. 79 km E Armidale, nr Pt Lookout, 30°30'36"S 152°22'E).</p> <p> <i>Non-type material</i>. NEW SOUTH WALES: New England NP, Point Lookout, 30°29'23"S 152°24'28"E (AM C.108470); Point Lookout, Platypus Valley Lookout track, 30°29'20"S 152°24'35"E (AM C.575464); New England NP, near Point Lookout, 30°29'36"S 152°24'23"E (AM C.108368); Oakes SF, Robinsons Knob Trail, nr Spring Ck, 30°33'S 152°28'23"E (AM C.337911); E of Armidale, W of Ebor, 6.6 km NW of Guy Fawkes intersection, Sandy Ck, 500m W of sand pit turnoff, 30°23'48"S 152°17'30"E (AM C.108452); E of Armidale, 750 m S of Lightning Knob, 30°30'55"S 152°10'44"E (AM C.108381); Cathedral Rock NP, northern boundary, 1 km W of Sandy Creek crossing, W of Ebor, Ebor-Guyra Rd, 30°23'35"S 152°16'33"E (AM C.575456); E of Armidale, E of Jeogla, 800m N of Forest Way on Jacks Fire Rd, 30°34'51"S 152°14'46"E (AM C.108365); Waterfall Way, 1 km S of junction with Guyra Road,W of Ebor, 30°26'31"S 152°18'58"E (AM C.561044); Oxley Wild Rivers NP, Youdales, 31°4'19"S 152°15'17"E (AM C.506320); Styx SF, Raspberry Rd, Halls Peak Rd crossing, 30°45'18"S 152°2'35"E (AM C.506286); 63 km ESE of Armidale, N of Raspberry Mt, 800m down Raspberry Rd, 30°37'17"S 152°10'30"E (AM C.339820); 63 km ESE Armidale, 15.2 km down Raspberry Rd, 30°40'47"S 152°08'E (AM C.339821).</p> <p> <b>Description</b></p> <p> <i>Shell</i> (Fig 1 D–E, Fig. 5). Medium sized (D = 12–16.5 (average 14.3) mm, H = 8.5–12 (average 10.0) mm, for n = 18 lots), turbinate in shape with moderately raised spire, with on average 4.25 rounded whorls that weakly increase in diameter, sutures moderately impressed, protoconch sculpture of scattered pustules and rugose pustulose radial ridges, teleoconch sculpture of irregular growth lines with microsculpture of crowded pustules, periostracal sculpture of crowded curved setae, microsculpture of wavy periostracal ridgelets; end of last whorl descending below whorl plane, aperture moderately tilted from axis of coiling, with moderately thickened and reflected white to dark red-brown outer lip, columella slope about 45°; umbilicus narrow, partially covered by reflected columella, V-shaped in profile; shell colour from pale yellowish brown to dark reddish brown, with or without a narrow reddish brown spiral band around the whorl periphery.</p> <p> <i>External anatomy</i>. Animal head-foot dark grey-brown; with retractable head at inner bases of ocular tentacles.</p> <p> <i>Reproductive anatomy</i> (Fig. 6). Penis cylindrical, about as long as vagina, no penial sheath, inner penial wall with corrugated interlocking short longitudinal pilasters, distally giving rise to longitudinal rows of elongate strap-like pilasters; epiphallus cylindrical, about 3 times as long as penis, distal part with short epiphallic flagellum, epiphallus opening into penial lumen through narrow, pointed and finger-like, longitudinally grooved, penial verge, about half as long as penis, opening laterally; penial retractor attached to proximal third of epiphallus; vas deferens entering head of epiphallus through a single pore just below base of epiphallic flagellum; vagina cylindrical, as long as penis, inner wall with very prominent longitudinal anastomising pilasters, usually thickened around vaginal entrance; free oviduct short; bursa copulatrix long and thin and looped or folded several times, twice as long or more than oviduct length, with inflated bulb-like head, aligning with base of albumen gland; hermaphroditic duct inserting into head of talon.</p> <p> <b>Comparative remarks</b></p> <p> Both species cannot be confidently distinguished by their shell, which is on average smaller in <i>A. speculoris</i>, but exhibits very similar characteristics otherwise. However, both species differ in some reproductive characters, such as length of the bursa copulatrix relative to length of spermoviduct (longer in <i>A. speculoris</i>), relative length of penis (about equal to vagina in <i>A. porteri</i>, but longer in <i>A. speculoris</i>), length of epiphallus relative to penis (longer in <i>A. porteri</i>), position of the penial retractor muscle (at proximal third of epiphallus in <i>A. porteri</i>, mid-epiphallus in <i>A. speculoris</i>), and relative length of the penial verge (half as long as penis in <i>A. porteri</i>), and the length of the epiphallic flagellum (much longer in <i>A. porteri</i>).</p> <p> <b>Distribution and ecology</b></p> <p>Lives in dry to moist sclerophyll forests on the eastern edge of the New England Plateau and escarpment from Gladstone State Forest in the east to the upper Guy Fawkes River drainage north of Ebor and Point Lookout areas in the north to Youdales, Oxley Wild Rivers NP in the south (Fig. 2). Mainly found at altitudes over 900 meters on granitic or basaltic bedrock. Generally found under logs, rocks and shed bark around base of trees.</p>Published as part of <i>Shea, Michael & Köhler, Frank, 2019, Towards a Systematic Revision of the Eastern Australian Land Snail Austrochloritis Pilsbry, 1891 (Eupulmonata, Camaenidae): Re-description of its Type Species, A. porteri (Cox, 1866), pp. 111-120 in Records of the Australian Museum 71 (4)</i> on pages 118-119, DOI: 10.3853/j.2201-4349.71.2019.1699, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/4653272">http://zenodo.org/record/4653272</a>
Compassionate journeys and end-of-life care
No full textAll patients deserve the right to be treated with compassion and humanity, whatever their age or circumstances and we are aware that such care can relieve symptoms and anxiety, promote faster recovery, and assist in the management of long term illness. But how can we fully understand the needs and thoughts of patients reaching the end of the human life cycle? If we have a long term disorder, we may gain support from others in the same situation, and if we are recovering from acute illness we might discuss this with other people who have experienced the same or similar illness. However, end of life is something very personal and individual, particularly at the final stages, and although it is the one thing in life that all of us can be certain of, how do we understand it if we have never experienced it? Thus, compassion towards the dying patient is essential to relieve suffering and to try to make their exit from this world as pain-free and comfortable as possible. This chapter aims to provide an introduction to approaches in end of life care and to summarize certain initiatives and practices
Shea, C L, SX5426
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/416386Surname: SHEA. Given Name(s) or Initials: C L. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: SX5426. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 19093.238539
Item: [2016.0049.48647] "Shea, C L, SX5426
Shea, K G, 408707
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/416383Surname: SHEA. Given Name(s) or Initials: K G. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: 408707. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 57378.238536
Item: [2016.0049.48644] "Shea, K G, 408707
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