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Life cycle assessment of biosolids land application and evaluation of the factors impacting human toxicity through plants uptake
Get PDFDue to the increasing environmental concerns in the wastewater treatment sector, the environmental impacts of organic waste disposal procedures require careful evaluation. However, the impacts related to the return of organic matter to agricultural soils are difficult to assess. The aim of this study is to assess the environmental impacts of land application of two types of biosolids (dried and composted, respectively) from the same wastewater treatment plant in France, and to improve the quantification of human toxicity.
A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) was carried out on a case study based on validated data from an actual wastewater treatment plant. Numerous impacts were included in this analysis, but a particular emphasis was laid on human toxicity via plant ingestion. For six out of the height impact categories included in the analysis, the dried biosolids system was more harmful to the environment than the composting route, especially regarding the consumption of primary energy. Only human toxicity via water, soil and air compartments and ozone depletion impacts were higher with the composted biosolids
Will Milne : Objects of Reconciliation
No full textMark notes Milne's challenging of technology with nature in his recent installation. Biographical notes on artist and author
Dancing made easy,
No full textThis is an expanded version of Coll's book that was originally published c. 1919. Beginning with an account of dance history ranging from the ancient Greeks to late nineteenth-century dance, Coll declares that some of "most up to the minute dances" include the Carter Waltz and the Schottisch Espagnole. The author also discusses foxtrot variations and the Virginia Reel, and provides some cotillon figures (also known as the German). The dances described by Coll were long out of fashion by 1922
Bodies of Correspondence in Contemporary Quebec: from Gabrielle Roy to le vrai Gab Roy
No full textUniversity of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. SEptember 2016. Major: French. Advisor: Eileen Sivert. 1 computer file (PDF); i, 201 pages.My dissertation explores print and digital correspondence produced in Québec between 1945-2015, drawing upon theories of psychoanalysis, feminism, deconstruction and genetic criticism to interrogate the epistolary imaginary of contemporary Québec. Each chapter considers a different constellation of texts from diverse bodies of correspondence (including personal correspondence, letter fiction and digital forms of exchange) as they converse across corpuses of epistolary expression and engage with the imaginary of the corporeal. My first chapter, “Post(e) Mélina: Reading After Gabrielle Roy’s Letter(s),” challenges the premise that archival writings are of interest only inasmuch as they precede a published work from which they are excluded, and advocates for genetic and epistolary approaches that read letters ‘beyond the before.’ Through a close reading of the author Gabrielle Roy’s personal and published, fictional and “real” letters side by side, I reflect upon the place and the power of the epistolary form for the author ever since a momentous missive to her mother penned at the start of her career. Chapter two, “When the ‘After’ is ‘Already’: Philosophical Fiction of the Postal,” considers Jacques Derrida’s reading of the epistolary as “le postal”– that is, as open and undecidable, destined in only the most dubious sense, and always already conditioned by the after. Derrida’s La carte postale provides a critical framework for my reading of the epistolary in Québec as it moves from the postcard and the postman to an epistolary afterlife in philosophical letter fiction from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s, especially Madeleine Gagnon’s La lettre infinie and Denis Thériault’s Le facteur émotif. My final chapter, “Yetis and Trolls: The Monstrum horrendum of Epistolary Fetishism,” seizes upon epistolary theorist Vincent Kaufmann’s suggestion that the letter writer is the “yéti de la littérature” (literature’s yeti), and places this fantastic formulation alongside the more recent imagining of the internet mischief-maker as “troll.” I analyze the recourse to the monstrum horrendum of the yeti and the troll in bodies of correspondence from Québec that are beholden to the masculine imaginary of epistolary fetishism.Droske, Kathryn. (2016). Bodies of Correspondence in Contemporary Quebec: from Gabrielle Roy to le vrai Gab Roy. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/183384
A Meta-Analysis of Genome-Wide Association Scans Identifies IL18RAP, PTPN2, TAGAP, and PUS10 As Shared Risk Loci for Crohn's Disease and Celiac Disease
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Lídia pelos caminhos de Angola: as intersecções entre literatura e história no romance Estação das chuvas, de José Eduardo Agualusa
Get PDFDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Literatura, Florianópolis, 2015.Nesta dissertação estão presentes questões relativas à memória individual e coletiva, porém as principais questões abordadas são as intersecções entre o discurso histórico e o literário e seus conseqüentes pontos de tensão analisados no romance Estação das chuvas (2010), de José Eduardo Agualusa. A intenção é observar as formas de representação do passado histórico na construção dos personagens ficcionais, com ênfase na trajetória da protagonista do romance, Lídia do Carmo Ferreira, e em sua inserção no contexto e sua inserção nos contextos pré e pós-independência em Angola. Além disso, serão levados em consideração os acontecimentos históricos que se entrelaçam na ficção, analisando-se as estratégias de narrativa desenvolvidas pelo autor do romance para problematizar a história angolana. A pesquisa tem como eixo fundamental a teoria pós-colonial e, terão relevo os estudos de Paul Veyne (2008), Maurice Halbwachs (2004) e Linda Hutcheon (1991). Pesquisadores(as) como Rita Chaves (2006; 2009), Tânia Macedo (2008), Carlos Ervedosa (1979) e Inocência Mata (1993) também dão base teórica a este trabalho.Abstract : This dissertation presents questions concerning individual and collective memory, more specifically, the intersections between historical and literary discourses and their points of tension analyzed based on the novel Estação de chuvas (2010) written by José Eduardo Agualusa. The objective is to observe the ways historical past is represented in the construction of fictional characters, emphasizing the trajectory of the novel?s protagonist Lídia do Carmo Ferreira within the context of post-independence Angola. Moreover, historical events that emerge within the fiction will be analyzed paying attention to the narrative strategies developed by the novel?s author in order to problematize Angola?s history. The research is based on post-colonial theory and, therefore, mosthly on the authors such as Paul Veyne (2008), Maurice Halbwachs (2004), and Linda Hutcheon (1991) . Researchers such as Rita Chaves (2006; 2009), Tânia Macedo (2008), Carlos Ervedosa (1979) and Inocência Mata (1993) will also provide theoretical support for this work
Generalized marginality and fluid everyday violence: Deus foi almoçar in Brazilian literature
No full textA presente leitura do romance Deus foi almoçar de Ferréz busca posicionar essa obra no sistema literário brasileiro, examinando e questionando pelo viés da forma literária a capacidade do artista em assimilar problemas pertinentes a uma leitura do nosso tempo. Esse empreendimento se mostra relevante diante do deslocamento de perspectiva no projeto literário do autor, mas toma nova dimensão mediante a inflexão histórica experimentada no Brasil nos anos seguintes à publicação dessa obra que está prestes a completar dez anos. O ângulo narrativo, orientado pela consciência individual de um sujeito ordinário, rompe com a previsibilidade do ponto de vista marginal ou periférico e posiciona contradições e máculas sociais em um regular cotidiano, amplificando-se na conjuntura posterior em vista do caráter determinante da realidade a partir dessa óticaThe present reading of Ferréz\'s novel Deus foi almoçar seeks to position this work in the Brazilian literary system, examining and questioning from a literary form perspective the artist\'s ability to assimilate problems relevant to a reading of our time. This undertaking is relevant given the shift in perspective in the author\'s literary project, but takes on a new dimension due to the historical inflection experienced in Brazil in the years following the publication of this work, which is about to complete ten years. The narrative angle, guided by the individual conscience of an ordinary subject, breaks with predictability from a marginal or peripheral point of view and places contradictions and social stains in a regular daily routine, amplifying in the later conjuncture in view of the determining character of reality from this perspectiv
Imposiciones de campo en los cuerpos intersubjetivos. Antropología. Boletín Oficial del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. Num. 81 Nueva Época (2008) enero-marzo
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Untangling uranium
Get PDFProfessor Gabrielle Hecht is the Frank Stanton Foundation Professor of Nuclear Security at Stanford University. She is the author of research that explores our atomic world, including Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade (2012) and The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity (1998 & 2009). She has recently published Toxic Tales from the African Anthropocene, a collection of essays that analyse the entanglement of radioactive and other types of waste in Africa. Hecht’s work on uranium communities is arguably unparalleled in its scope and significance. While unveiling and deconstructing uranium’s role in a globalised and militarised world, she has undertaken a meaningful exploration of its linkages from local injustice to planetary scale. Her work extends across and beyond nuclear fuel to explore the global circulation and regulation of the nuclear. It creates new understandings of the ‘nuclear condition’ and the constitutive role of nuclearism in the formation of national identity (Hecht, 2012). It reveals nuclearity to be an imbricated, shifting and unstable subject – a socio-culturally critical mass. Dr Becky Alexis-Martin talks with Professor Gabrielle Hecht about her motivations for understanding the networks that surround uranium, and its entangled significance to our unevenly distributed Anthropocene
Coautoria urbana: conflitos entre corpo e cidade-imagem
No full textO presente artigo tem como objeto de estudo a coautoria da cidade, ou seja, a compreensão sobre como certos seres/grupos criam novas cidades através da reversão do uso previamente pensado para elas. Este uso, proposto pelo capital, cria as “cidades-imagem”, que são mercantilizadas e controlam a espontaneidade do corpo do cidadão, o qual se vê constantemente impedido de apropriar-se delas. Ao ter este uso revertido, um conflito é criado entre a cidade e o corpo, gerando assim, a ideia de coautoria urbana. Dessa forma, ser coautor é responder à desigualdade através de sua colaboração na construção de cidade, participando ativamente com seu corpo como instrumento de resistência. Neste artigo, é trabalhado este conflito a partir dos conceitos de espetáculo e imagem em contraposição às corpografias urbanas (JACQUES, 2009), o que leva à coautoria através das maneiras de fazer (CERTEAU, 2014) e da comunalização (HARVEY, 2014).The object of study in the present paper is the co-authorship of city, that is, the comprehension about how certain beings/groups create new cities through the reversal of the use previously imagined for them. This use is proposed by capital, and creates “image-cities”, which are commodified and control the spontaneity of the citizens\u27 body. This body finds themselves constantly prevented from appropriating such "image-cities". As the uses of the city are reverted, a conflict is created between the city and the body, which generates the idea of urban co-authorship. In this sense, being a co-author means to respond to inequality through one\u27s collaboration in the construction of the city, by actively participating with one\u27s own body as an instrument of resistance. In this paper, such conflict is being approached from the concepts of spectacle and image, in opposition to the concept of urban bodygraphies (Jacques, 2009), which brings us to the co-authorship based on ways of doing (Certeau, 2014) and communization (Harvey, 2014)
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