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Performing Environmental Justice. Staged Reflections
No full textWith Shweta Bhattad, Zuleikha Chaudhari, Başak Ertür, Emilie Gaillard, Shela Sheikh and Radha D’Souza
People’s Tribunals have a long history. They have served for serious reflection upon the relationship between law, rights, and justice. More recently there has been an emphasis on environmental justice, for instance in the International Monsanto Tribunal. What are appropriate epistemological and aesthetic frameworks for considering environmental harm? Can staged hearings and experimental assemblies function speculatively and propositionally in relation to existing legal forums? What might justice look like in these settings and how is it performed? What here is the status of evidence and testimony? Taking Brechts´s theoretical and unfinished text Messingkauf Dialogues as a proposal for a mutual learning encounter, the panel reflects upon various forms of performance and enactment and explores how such spaces function as sites of knowledge and reality production.
Concept: Zuleikha Chaudhari, Shela Sheik
Standardisation and evaluation of differential diagnostic systems for the detection of Entamoeba histolytica and Entamoeba dispar.
Full text linkEntamoeba histolytica is
an
invasive intestinal
amoeba
morphologically
indistinguishable from Entamoeba
dispar,
a
closely
related
organism
that
is
not
able
to
invade tissues. Differential diagnosis
under
conventional
microscopy
is therefore
impossible. Reliable tools
are
needed
for
clinical
diagnosis
and
for the
reevaluation
of
the
prevalence of infection with
the invasive
species
worldwide.
Monoclonal Antibody (MAb)
20/7D
exhibited
promising
results
when
ascites
was
used to identify cultured
isolates
of
E.
histolytica
by indirect immunofluorescence
assays
(IFA), and when used
in
a
Faecal
Antigen
Capture Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent
Assay
(FAC-ELISA) for laboratory diagnosis
of amoebic
dysentery
and
colitis.
Here, further
development of the assay was
attempted
to
increase its
sensitivity
and use
it for detection
of asymptomatic carriers of
E.
histolytica.
After
purification
and
subsequent
titration in
ELISA, MAb 20/7D
did
not
adequately
distinguish
between
crude
lysates
of cultured
E.
histolytica and E. dispar trophozoites.
MAb
20/7D
reacted
with
a
similar
soluble
antigen
of E. histolytica and
E.
dispar,
which confirmed
previous
observations
in
western
blot
analysis under non-reducing conditions.
Therefore, the
use
of
the
FAC-ELISA for
diagnosis in areas where
E.
dispar is
endemic
is
probably not viable.
A
nucleic
acid
detection method was
therefore
developed.
Polymerase
Chain Reaction
was used
to
amplify specific tandem sequences
in the
24.5 Kb
episome of
E.
histolytica
and
E.
dispar.
After PCR, internal sequences of
digoxigenin-labelled
PCR
products
were
hybridized to
specific biotin-labelled probes
for
E.
histolytica
or
E.
dispar
and
detected in
Enzyme-
Linked Immunosorbent Assay
(ELISA).
The Polymerase Chain
Reaction Solution-
Hybridisation Immunosorbent Assay (PCR-SHELA)
was evaluated
on samples
from
travellers returning from the tropics to
Barcelona.
The
sensitivity
and
specificity
were
98%
and 100% respectively,
when results
were
compared
with microscopy.
PCR-SHELA
was
also useful for differential diagnosis in
cases of amoebic
abscesses,
amoebic
dysentery,
salmonellosis, ulcerative colitis
and
in
asymptomatic
carriage
of
E.
histolytica.
The new test gives sensitive and specific
differentiation
between
E.
histolytica
and
E. dispar in clinical specimens and
it
has
proved
successful
in
screening
faecal
samples
in
endemic areas for epidemiological purposes
Bengiyo shela
No full textThe singers, who were sitting on the ground, all bent their heads on their folded arms while singing this song. It is the first opening movement of this dance before actully dancing. The dance itself is a variation of the Ndlamu stamping dance found all through Zululand and as far south as Thabankulu in the Transkei. "Bengiyo shela. Bengiyo shela ka lo bamba. Ngiyoshele malangena." Youn men's dance. Isibacha
Independence/Nakba
No full textOn June 19, we published photographs from Memory Trace, which is part of Fazal Sheikh’s magnificent Erasure Trilogy about the attempted erasure of Palestinian history and life after the Nakba. We said we would publish reflections about photographs from Erasure that were first shared at Storefront for Art and Architecture in 2016, where Fazal’s photographs were on display at Storefront’s gallery space. At this inspiring gathering, scholars and artists, Emmet Gowin, Amira Hass, Rashid Khalidi, Rosalind Morris, Shela Sheikh, Michael Wood and Sadia Abbas were each asked to speak about an image from the trilogy. Some spoke extemporaneously and some—like Rosalind, Shela, and Sadia — read from texts we had written. Rosalind chose an image from Desert Bloom and Shela from Independence/Nakba. We reached out to Rosalind and Shela to ask them if they would share their wonderful meditations with our readers, and they generously agreed. On June 25, we published Rosalind Morris’s reflection. Today we publish Shela Sheikh’s meditation
‘Politics of Fiction and Post Civil-war Memory Culture in Lebanon’
No full textPanel discussion chaired by T. J. Demos with speakers Faisal Devji and Shela Sheikh, INIVA (Institute of International Visual Arts), London, April 201
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Identifying Protocluster in the COSMOS and SHELA Fields
Full text linkProtoclusters provide insights into the evolution of the universe and what features dictate cluster evolution. I sought to identify protoclusters in the Cosmological Evolution Survey (COSMOS) and the Spitzer/HETDEX Exploratory Large Area (SHELA) field using data from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX). Protoclusters were primarily identified using geometric methods, such as Voronoi tessellation and Delaunay triangulation. I confirmed these protoclusters by inspecting redshift densities of Lyman-alpha emitters (LAEs) for redshifts 1.9 < z < 3.5. This analysis was verified by identifying known protoclusters at z 2.1 and z 2:47 in the COSMOS field. Along with these confirmed protoclusters, I also identified 6 potentially new protoclusters in the COSMOS field. I then ran my analysis on the SHELA field, which had previously not yet been analyzed for protoclusters. From this analysis
I found 5 potentially new protoclusters in the SHELA field.Astronom
Numerical modeling & analysis of plume migration effects on public drinking water wells at Lake Mirimichi
Full text linkThesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1999.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 43-47).by Shela Rahman.M.Eng
Health & Well-Being of Refugee Mothers During COVID-19 Arabic Version (Saskatchewan, Canada)
No full textThe Arabic version of resource is designed for Refugee Mothers in Saskatchewan, Canada to promote their health and well-being during COVID-19. Dr. Shela Hirani and her team acknowledged the support of Jim Pattison Children's Hospital Foundation that supported their breastfeeding refugee study in Saskatchewan, Canada.Facultyye
La terre damnée: conflits botaniques et interventions artistiques
No full textEdited French translation of Gray, Ros and Sheikh, Shela. 2018. Editor's Introduction: The Wretched Earth: Botanical Conflicts and Artistic Interventions. Third Text, 32(2-3), pp. 163-175. ISSN 0952-882
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