633 research outputs found
Quake destruction / arts creation: arts therapy & the Canterbury earthquakes
No full textThis arts-based inquiry explores my experiences as beginning arts therapist during the Canterbury, New Zealand, earthquakes from 2010 to 2014. At the heart of these experiences lies my challenging dual-role as both quake-survivor and therapist – I was betwixt-and-between quake-destruction and arts-creation. I aimed to make sens/e of this in ways that may be useful to applied-arts practitioners working in similar contexts. My sens/e-making quest blended autoethnography, a/r/tography and arts therapy-as-research. This braided-methodology created a multi-faceted process: I adopted Victor Turner’s concept of liminality as my central metaphor to give theoretical and aesthetic containment. Liminality resonated with my earthquake experiences, my practice-as-therapist and this arts-based research. I teased-open the term sens/e. I used my physical-senses to generate embodiment. I befriended my implicit felt-sense and evoked my soul-sense. Drawing on the French sens for direction, I embraced therapy and research as creating life-forward direction. And I used these sens/ual processes to make meaning and render new knowledge. I created mixed-modal artworks to explore my memories, writings, artworks and photographs as quake-survivor/therapist. I opened reflexive conversations between my creations and texts addressing arts-based research, trauma, liminality, and therapy. I enacted this study via three roles inspired by Rita Irwin’s a/r/tography: As artist, I created art using my quake-arts therapy-process of ‘dropping-in’ which splices Laury Rappaport’s Focusing-Orientated Art Therapy with Shaun McNiff’s images-as-angels process. These creations expressed who I perceived I was, who I currently am, and who I am becoming as artist/researcher/therapist. As researcher, I followed McNiff’s suggestion to craft correspondence between my research process and practice of therapy. My dropping-in process, when combined with autoethnographic a/r/tography, provided a practical way to generate, gather and analyse research material. As therapist, I discovered – via personal experience of wounding/healing, and hands-on implementation of therapy for others suffering – my quake-work had stumbled upon several notions congruent with current intersubjective and embodied arts- and trauma-therapy, exemplified in Stephen Levine’s poietic approach. The outcome is an arts-rich multi-vocal layered-account containing emergent findings regarding: post-postmodern both-and-and…soul-based arts therapy and research approaches applicable to contexts of enduring liminality, in which imagical play invites new order to emerge from chaos, healing is reclaimed within the wounded/healer archetype, and internal communitas becomes a figural intention of trauma-transformation
Letter from [author unknown] to [recipient unknown], [1906 Apr] 18.
No full textEarthquakeSan Fran. 18- 315 PM San Fran without communication with [outside?] world since 11 am dead will number up in the thousands Goot has been asked for transports to bury the dead at sea to avoid plague the gas works exploded, entire city in flames from Montgomery St to the water front and south of Market street the ground is in a tremor and if another quake comes will wipe out the entire city, they are starting special trains from Los Angeles with Doctors and nurses etc. several small coast towns in ruins San Jose, Napa, Salinas, worst wrecked, [anyhow?] at Napa wrecked half the inmates killed and03714https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/29692/thumbnail.jp
When Iawlong gives birth to Thunder and Earth Quake
No full textIl s'agit du dernier des 4 fichiers de mythes de fondation sur l'origine du monde, connus par Rosaia Nianglang de Nongporiu, et redits ici par Stephen Nongsiang Les filles de Iawlong, soleil et feu, comment elles se sont séparées après la mort de leur mère et que le feu l'ai dévorée et comment elles sont revenues au service des créatures de la terre. Comment Singe est parti voler les graines de plantes comestibles pour les humains dans le ciel où elles étaient gardées par Niangsi et Marsi. Il les avait introduites dans son pénis. Comment la terre s'est crée avec le vent-parole, l'océan primordial et à la champignon l'ancêtre des créatures. Iawlong fille de la champignon donne naissance au tonnerre et au tremblement de terre
OP9 Single cell DNA amplification and De Novo Assembly
No full textSSVLaboratory of Biological Network Characterization EPFL. - Carried out in the laboratory of Stephen Quake at Stanford University, under the supervision of Paul Blaine
Heterologous reporter expression in the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea through somatic mRNA transfection
No full texthttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001663 Volkswagen Foundationhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000001 National Science Foundationhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004189 Max-Planck-Gesellschafthttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000002 National Institutes of Healthhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000997 Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundationhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100004410 European Molecular Biology Organizationhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100011098 Stanford Bio-Xhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000854 Human Frontier Science Progra
Scaling Properties of a Low-Actuation Pressure Microfluidic Valve
No full textUsing basic physical arguments, we present a design and method for the fabrication of microfluidic valves using multilayer soft lithography. These on-off valves have extremely low actuation pressures and can be used to fabricate active functions, such as pumps and mixers in integrated microfluidic chips. We characterized the performance of the valves by measuring both the actuation pressure and flow resistance over a wide range of design parameters, and compared them to both finite element simulations and alternative valve geometries
Study of erosion along Homer spit and vicinity, Kachemak Bay, Alaska
No full textThis is a progress report on the Homer Spit Beach Erosion Study. Information is presented regarding the rapid acceleration of the erosion processes due to the subsidence of the Homer Spit during the 27 March 1964 earthquake. The effect on existing groins both before and after the quake are discussed. Immediately after the quake, emergency measures were required to prevent wave and high water damage to existing structures on the Spit. The results concerning the effectiveness of these measures are presented for evaluation, along with the basic data gathered for the erosion study and some of the problems encountered
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