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    People make Places

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    For centuries Glasgow, as a bucolic fishing village and ecclesiastical centre on the banks of the River Clyde, held little of strategic significance. When success and later threats came to the city, it was as a consequence of explosive growth during the industrial era that left a significant civic presence accompanied by social and environmental challenges. Wartime damage to the fabric of the city and the subsequent implementation of modernist planning left Glasgow with a series of existential threats to the lives and the health of its people that have taken time to understand and come to terms with. In a few remarkable decades of late 20th century regeneration, Glasgow began to be put back together. The trauma of the second half of the 20th century is fading but not yet a distant memory. Existential threats from the climate emergency can provoke the reaction “what, again?” However, the resilience built over the last 50 years has instilled a belief that a constructive, pro-active and creative approach to face this challenge along with the recognition that such action can be transformational for safeguarding and improving people’s lives and the quality of their places. A process described as a just transition that has become central to Glasgow’s approach. Of Scotland’s four big cities, three are surrounded by landscape and sea only Glasgow is surrounded by itself. Even with a small territory, Glasgow is still the largest of Scotland’s big cities and by some margin. When the wider metropolitan area is considered, Glasgow is – like Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool – no mean city. People make Places begins with a review of the concept and complexities of place, discusses why these matter and reviews the growing body of evidence that place quality can deliver economic, social and environmental value. The following chapters focus on the history and evolution of modern Glasgow in four eras of 19th and early 20th century industrialisation, de- industrialisation and modernism in mid 20th century, late 20th century regeneration and a 21st century recovery towards transition and renaissance, and document the process, synthesis and the results of a major engagement programme and to explore systematic approaches to place and consensus building around the principal issues. The second half of the work reflects on a stocktaking of place in contemporary Glasgow, looking at the city through the lenses of an international, metropolitan and everyday city, concluding with a review of the places of Glasgow and what may be learned from them revealing some valuable insights presented in a series of Place Stories included. The concluding chapter sets out the findings of the investigation and analysis reviewing place goals, challenges and opportunities for Glasgow over the decades to 2030 and 2040 and ends with some recommendations about what Glasgow might do better to combine place thinking and climate awareness and setting out practical steps to mobilise Glasgow’s ‘place ecosystem’

    The place where curses are manufactured : four poets of the Vietnam War

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    The Vietnam War was unique among American wars. To pinpoint its uniqueness, it was necessary to look for a non-American voice that would enable me to articulate its distinctiveness and explore the American character as observed by an Asian. Takeshi Kaiko proved to be most helpful. From his novel, Into a Black Sun, I was able to establish a working pair of 'bookends' from which to approach the poetry of Walter McDonald, Bruce Weigl, Basil T. Paquet and Steve Mason. Chapter One is devoted to those seemingly mismatched 'bookends,' Walt Whitman and General William C. Westmoreland, and their respective anthropocentric and technocentric visions of progress and the peculiarly American concept of the "open road" as they manifest themselves in Vietnam. In Chapter, Two, I analyze the war poems of Walter McDonald. As a pilot, writing primarily about flying, his poetry manifests General Westmoreland's technocentric vision of the 'road' as determined by and manifest through technology. Chapter Three focuses on the poems of Bruce Weigl. The poems analyzed portray the literal and metaphorical descent from the technocentric, 'numbed' distance of aerial warfare to the world of ground warfare, and the initiation of a 'fucking new guy,' who discovers the contours of the self's interior through a set of experiences that lead from from aerial insertion into the jungle to the degradation of burning human feces. Chapter Four, devoted to the thirteen poems of Basil T. Paquet, focuses on the continuation of the descent begun in Chapter Two. In his capacity as a medic, Paquet's entire body of poems details his quotidian tasks which entail tending the maimed, the mortally wounded and the dead. The final chapter deals with Steve Mason's JohnnY's Song, and his depiction of the plight of Vietnam veterans back in "The World" who are still trapped inside the interior landscape of their individual "ghettoes" of the soul created by their war-time experiences

    Curriculum Subcommittee Agenda, April 7, 2022

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    Approval of 3 March 2022 Minutes Program Proposals Semester Course Approval Reviews https://usu.curriculog.com/ Other Business New Curriculum Subcommittee Chair appointment. Acceptance of membership for 2022-2023 academic year. Program Proposals Request from the Department of Plants, Soils and Climate in the College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences to offer a new specialization (Bioinformatics and Computational Biology) to the MS and PhD degrees of Plant Science. Request from the Department of Theatre Arts in the Caine College of the Arts to change the name of the Theatre Arts Theatre Education Certification Option BFA to Theatre Arts Education BFA. Request from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in the College of Engineering to create a Center for the Design and Manufacturing of Advanced Materials (CDMAM). Request from the Department of Data Analytics and Information Systems in the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business to create a new post-baccalaureate certificate in Cybersecurity. Request from the Department of Data Analytics and Information Systems in the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business to create a new post-baccalaureate certificate in Data Analytics. Request from the Department of Data Analytics and Information Systems in the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business to create a new post-baccalaureate certificate in Data Engineering. Request from the Department of Data Analytics and Information Systems in the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business to create a new post-baccalaureate certificate in Data Technologies. Request from the Department of Data Analytics and Information Systems in the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business to restructure the existing Master of Management Information Systems program to require completion of two stackable post-baccalaureate certificates (24 credits) along with six credits of information technology strategy or management courses. Request from the Department of Data Analytics and Information Systems in the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business to create a new post-baccalaureate certificate in Web Development

    Forested buffers in agricultural landscapes : mitigation effects on stream–riparian meta-ecosystems

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    Stream–riparian meta-ecosystems are strongly connected through exchanges of energy, material and organisms. Land use can disrupt ecological connectivity by affecting community composition directly and/or indirectly by altering the instream and riparian habitats that support biological structure and function. Although forested riparian buffers are increasingly used as a management intervention, our understanding of their effects on the functioning of stream–riparian metaecosystems is limited. This study assessed patterns in the longitudinal and lateral profiles of streams in modified landscapes across Europe and Sweden using a pairedreach approach, with upstream unbuffered reaches lacking woody riparian vegetation and with downstream reaches having well-developed forested buffers. The presence of buffers was positively associated with stream ecological status as well as important attributes, which included instream shading and the provision of suitable habitats for instream and riparian communities, thus supporting more aquatic insects (especially EPT taxa). Emergence of aquatic insects is particularly important because they mediate reciprocal flows of subsidies into terrestrial systems. Results of fatty acid analysis and prey DNA from spiders further supported the importance of buffers in providing more aquatic-derived quality food (i.e. essential fatty acids) for riparian spiders. Findings presented in this thesis show that buffers contribute to the strengthening of cross-ecosystem connectivity and have the potential to affect a wide range of consumers in modified landscapes

    Annals [...].

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    Pedometrics: innovation in tropics; Legacy data: how turn it useful?; Advances in soil sensing; Pedometric guidelines to systematic soil surveys.Evento online. Coordenado por: Waldir de Carvalho Junior, Helena Saraiva Koenow Pinheiro, Ricardo SimĂŁo Diniz Dalmolin

    El desmantelamiento de las fronteras. AnĂĄlisis comparativo de las actividades mercantiles de las mujeres en Brabante y Vizcaya, ca. 1420-ca. 1550

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    RESUMEN En Dismantling the Borders comparo las actividades laborales de mujeres en Brabante y Bizkaia de 1420 a 1550. Historiadores especializados en gĂ©nero han estado debatiendo las diferencias en las oportunidades laborales de mujeres premodernas en el norte y en el sur de Europa. Algunos investigadores argumentan que las diferencias en las estructuras legales y familiares conllevaron menos oportunidades econĂłmicas para las mujeres en el sur de Europa. En mi estudio, reevalĂșo este debate y argumento que se han de reevaluar los contextos locales, en concreto, las instituciones responsables de la organizaciĂłn del trabajo en las diferentes regiones. En las ciudades Brabantinas – Malinas y Amberes – la mayor parte de las ocupaciones estaban organizadas en gremio, unas instituciones extremadamente patriarcales y masculinizadas. Por ende, el trabajo de las mujeres dependĂ­a en gran medida de su estatus familiar y social. La ausencia de estas instituciones en Bilbao – la ciudad BizkaĂ­na estudiada – favoreciĂł unas oportunidades laborales mĂĄs independientes para las mujeres activas en sectores del mercado laboral poco lucrativos.ABSTRACT In Dismantling the Borders I compare women’s labour opportunities in Brabant and Biscay from 1420 to 1550. Scholars studying gender in premodern Europe have been debating differences in premodern women’s labour opportunities in northern and southern Europe. Some scholars have argued that diverging family structures and legal structures in the two regions resulted in better economic positions for women in northern Europe. In my research project, I reassess this debate and argue for involving local contexts in the regional comparison – more specifically the institutions responsible for the organization of work. In the Brabantine case studies, Antwerp and Mechelen, most occupations were organized in guilds – extremely patriarchal and masculine institutions. As a result of this organization in guilds, women’s labour opportunities in Brabant were highly dependent on their social status and marital status. In Bilbao – the Biscayan case study – occupations were rarely organized in such corporations, resulting in more independent labour opportunities for women active in less lucrative market sectors in the town

    The Adirondack Chronology

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    The Adirondack Chronology is intended to be a useful resource for researchers and others interested in the Adirondacks and Adirondack history.https://digitalworks.union.edu/arlpublications/1000/thumbnail.jp

    Evaluating the readiness of three States in the Northeastern United States to adapt important natural resources systems to climate change: practical and theoretical considerations

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    In the last decade, governments have made advances in the development and adoption of climate adaptation programs. With the rise of these programs, scholarly efforts have emerged to assess and evaluate their effectiveness and quality. Thus, researchers have developed and applied a range of climate adaptation evaluation approaches to gauge adaptation progress. In this thesis, a climate adaptation evaluation approach developed by Ford and King (2015) — the adaptation readiness framework — was applied to assess the readiness of three Northeastern US States – Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine – to adapt the natural resources systems located within their boundaries to climate change. To enable the adaptation readiness evaluation, the indicators in the adaptation readiness framework were revised to fit the context of this study shaped by scale and governmental system. Systematic reviews of the scholarly and grey literature were pursued. The revised indicators were used for the coding of documents. Indicators were then scored based on ordinal rankings. Results demonstrated that Massachusetts had the highest level of climate adaptation readiness, New Hampshire the second highest and Maine the lowest climate adaptation readiness. It was found that political leadership – one of the factors in the framework – strongly correlates with climate adaptation readiness, and that high levels of climate adaptation readiness are associated with government centralization. The conceptual strengths of the framework include its ability to illuminate adaptation deficits, and adaptation policy patterns and structures. Its weaknesses stem from the vagueness of the underlying definition of adaptation. Rather than measuring adaptation progress, the adaptation readiness framework measures the extent to which governments have established programs that fall under the category of adaptation as “adjustments”
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