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Interview with David Dunn on the subject of bark beetle sounds
No full textAnimaliaArthropodaInsectaColeopteraCompressed from .wav format into .mp3 delivery formatComposer and recording engineer David Dunn describes his recordings of bark beetles in New Mexico, and some of the possible causes and consequences of bark beetle infestations devastating pine forests throughout the WestSounds were recorded using a modified transducer inserted into the bark of the tree, and are taken with permission of the author from the compact disc "The Sound of Light in Trees" produced by David Dunn in collaboration with the Acoustic Ecology Institute. Scientists say that bark beetle populations are increasing in large part because of increased drought and milder winters due to global warming
A socio-rhetorical exegesis of 1 Timothy 2:8-15
No full textIn this thesis two interralted tasks are undertaken. First, this thesis is an attempt to gain mastery of an interpretive methodology, namely, socio-rhetorical analysis. Second, by looking at a crucial text that has major implications for the contemporary church, I have applied this method of analysis to a particularly Scriptural text, namely, 1 Timothy 2:8-15. In this thesis I demonstrate using socio-rhetorical analysis that the discourse contained in 1 Timothy 2:8-15 constitutes baptised patriarchal cultural practices and traditions from the dominant Greco-Roman culture of the first century. I demonstrate, therefore, that the portrayal of women in the text reflects a cultural imperative, and not a theological imperative, that was co-opted from the ""secular"" Greco-Roman culture of the day and transposed, using Scriptural texts as authentication, into the Christian community at Ephesus. Thus the text is simply re-enforcing normative Greco-Roman cultural values upon Christian women and camouflaging it as a Christian norm in order to persuade women to conform to patriarchal cultural standards. Such persuasion, however, is hardly required unless one has already accepted cultural assumptions about the subordination and silencing (objectification) of women in an androcentric hegemonic culture
Borderline Slavery: Contemporary Issues in Border Security and the Human Trade
No full textThis podcast represents the keynote speech of the LAII\u27s conference on Borderline Slavery: Contemporary Issues in Border Security and the Human Trade. In this keynote speech, Professor Dunn provides an overview of border immigration enforcement on the U.S.-Mexico border (mainly on the US side) over the past 15 years, his Border Militarization framework for interpreting it (whereby military act more like police and vice versa), and immigration trends in recent years (particularly from Mexico). Finally, he discusses the human rights implications of all of this, drawing on key concepts from the Sociology of Human Rights and briefly contrasting that with a Citizenship/National Sovereignty perspective.
Timothy Dunn, Ph.D. Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, is a Professor of Sociology at the Fulton School of Liberal Arts, Salisbury University. He is the author of two books on immigration, militarization of the border and human rights: Blockading the Border and Human Rights: The El Paso Operation that Remade Immigration Enforcement and The Militarization of the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1978-1992: Low Intensity Conflict Doctrine Comes Home. One area of research focus is on the Latino immigration story in the Maryland area and the intersection between citizenship rights and human rights, the results of which help to better inform area libraries and other social service providers about this rapidly growing population. The author of numerous professional articles and anthology chapters, Dr. Dunn\u27s most recent work was presented at American Sociological Association (ASA) meeting in August 2012 on Emerging Theories of Human Rights in Sociology: Human Agency, Social Structure, and Bureaucracy. As a faculty member at SU he has the opportunity to pursue his main interests, teaching and interacting with students. As a strong proponent of service- and experiential-learning, Dr. Dunn hopes to aid the establishment of study-abroad/international exchange programs between SU and universities in Mexico. He is also engaged in community service work related to recent Latino immigration to this area. In general, he strives to build cross-disciplinary bridges with students and faculty around issues of mutual interest, such as Latin American Studies, Border Studies, Human Rights and International Migration.https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/laii_events/1017/thumbnail.jp
DNA fusion gene vaccination mobilizes effective anti-leukemic cytotoxic T lymphocytes from a tolerized repertoire
No full textThe majority of known human tumor-associated antigens derive from non-mutated self proteins. T cell tolerance, essential to prevent autoimmunity, must therefore be cautiously circumvented to generate cytotoxic T cell responses against these targets. Our strategy uses DNA fusion vaccines to activate high levels of peptide-specific CTL. Key foreign sequences from tetanus toxin activate tolerance-breaking CD4+ T cell help. Candidate MHC class Ibinding tumor peptide sequences are fused to the C terminus for optimal processing and presentation. To model performance against a leukemia-associated antigen in a tolerized setting, we constructed a fusion vaccine encoding an immunodominant CTL epitopederived from Friend murine leukemia virus gag protein (FMuLVgag) and vaccinated tolerant FMuLVgag-transgenic (gag-Tg) mice. Vaccination with the construct induced epitopespecificIFN-c-producing CD8+ T cells in normal and gag-Tg mice. The frequency and avidity of activated cells were reduced in gag-Tg mice, and no autoimmune injury resulted. However, these CD8+ T cells did exhibit gag-specific cytotoxicity in vitro and in vivo. Also, epitope-specific CTL killed FBL-3 leukemia cells expressing endogenous FMuLVgag antigen and protected against leukemia challenge in vivo. These results demonstrate a simple strategy to engage anti-microbial T cell help to activate epitope-specific polyclonal CD8+ T cell responses from a residual tolerized repertoire
Letter to Chapter Newsletter Editors regarding AALL grants, October 26, 1987
No full textA letter from Donald Dunn to AALL Chapter Newsletter Editors (SEAALL\u27s editor at the time was Timothy Coggins) providing materials relating to AALL grants and scholarships for publication in Chapter newsletters
Note to Sue Burch concerning public relations efforts by AALL chapters, July 24, 1990
No full textA note from Timothy Coggins to Sue Burch enclosing a letter Coggins sent to Donald Dunn concerning public relations efforts by AALL chapters
A MAP OF INDEPENDENT TARTARY Containing THE COUNTRIES OF THE KALMUKS and UZBEKS, with the TIBET
No full textLooking closely at this map reveals intersting notations used by Dunn to refer to groups of people or geographical features/regions. Some examples include: "Siah Pushes or Black-Clothes People"; "Ruins of Serai". There seem to be very few places named on the map in use today
Shakyra Dunn Q & A
No full textAlt Text: Guest speaker Shakyra Dunn - voice actor, author, and singer - during her Q & A on the MetroNet Stage.https://scholarworks.uni.edu/rodcon2024_photos/1030/thumbnail.jp
Synthesis and characterisation of nanostructured BiFeO3 for photodecolourisation of azo dyes using visible light
No full textIn this work, effort is being made to synthesize a narrow band gap ferroelectric perovskite nanostructure semiconductor that is BiFeO3 (BFO). The BFO nanopowders were synthesized at 650ºC using a self-combustion method with glycine as the fuel. The effect of the different fuel concentrations, annealing temperatures and the duration of annealing are all demonstrated to influence the phase and crystallography of the synthesized nanoparticles. The author has demonstrated that the self-combustion process can be used to produce high purity BFO nanopowders which exhibit good absorption in the visible-light regime as determined by the UV-Vis-NIR spectroscopy with a measured optical band gap of 2.22 eV. Cont/d
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No full textEnsemble performance at the UNT College of Music Kenton Hall
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