The Journal of ERW and Mine Action Issue 17.1 (2013)

Clearance Operations | Gender and Age Issues | Notes from the Field | Research and Developmen

Down the Deer Path: Reflections on the Future of Hunting in America

This collection of chapters delves into the dramatically shifting landscape of hunting sports from a personal perspective of a young hunter. As older hunters age out of the sport, hunter-funded conservation initiatives are in danger of losing support. This work examines the nature of relationships between hunters, their prey, and their worldview, as well as the elements of hunting that appeal to new hunters, and the challenges they may face as they become the hunters of the future

Mapping a Late Antique Republic of Letters

This is a study of how the letters of Procopius of Gaza, Aeneas of Gaza, Synesius of Cyrene, and Isidore of Pelusium, created circuits of intellectual sociability and exchange transcending the territorial limits of Empire and thereby affirmed their participation in a common culture of Learning. The figurative model of a Republic of Letters provides a useful organizational heuristic that illuminates the social phenomena to which these letters point: intellectual sodality conducted through the medium of a classicizing sociolect regulated by strictures of genteel conduct and the shared perception of the morality of the pursuit of knowledge. Understanding these letters as forming a Republic of Letters, I contribute to the study of social networking in Late Antiquity by elucidating the specific communications mechanisms the letter writers deployed to build ever-shifting networks of friends and colleagues. I explore the topography of identities and affiliations that these long-neglected epistolographers developed through epistolary conversations, and examine how these discursive representations suggest the letter authors' participation in greater rhythms of change and continuity in the Later Empire

Casco Bay Weekly : 8 September 1994

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Winona Daily News

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ANTENATAL CARE EQUITY & SOCIAL EQUALITY FOR WOMEN WITH FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION (FGM) IN SCOTLAND: A MULTI-STAKEHOLDER VIEW

This thesis describes a case study of an NHS Scotland antenatal care pathway for women with female genital mutilation (FGM), and includes recommendations for the field of antenatal FGM management. Over the last decade, reports of substandard antenatal FGM management from a rapidly growing population of affected women have increased demands for just and equitable healthcare. Consequently, in 2015, a health board in the central belt of Scotland established a multidisciplinary FGM management programme. To determine the impact of this programme on antenatal care equity and social equality for women with FGM its guidelines, interviews with community midwives (CMWs), FGM specialists, and women with FGM were conducted. The findings were analysed using critical communicative methodology (CCM). The findings on the development, organisation, and delivery of the pathway demonstrate the transformative impact of multidisciplinary resources for FGM management and support on equitable antenatal care access when embedded into routine antenatal policies and practices. The findings also show how the absence of robust monitoring and evaluation processes enables contested practices and limits care equity for non-pregnant women with FGM. Novel contributions of this study link social and emotional FGM training to reciprocal improvements in confidence, trust, and communication between CMWs and women with FGM. FGM specialists who empower women to advocate for themselves and their relationship with the practice of FGM are also found to be central to the delivery of sensitive, relevant, and person-led antenatal care. Furthermore, the interdisciplinary implications of this study offer relevant insight for research, development, and service provision beyond Insight. Most notably, until unjust educational and financial health system policies are challenged, experiences of unresolved intersectional discrimination will continue to disproportionately disadvantage migrant women with FGM

Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin, 1940

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Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin, 1940

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Maritime expressions:a corpus based exploration of maritime metaphors

This study uses a purpose-built corpus to explore the linguistic legacy of Britain’s maritime history found in the form of hundreds of specialised ‘Maritime Expressions’ (MEs), such as TAKEN ABACK, ANCHOR and ALOOF, that permeate modern English. Selecting just those expressions commencing with ’A’, it analyses 61 MEs in detail and describes the processes by which these technical expressions, from a highly specialised occupational discourse community, have made their way into modern English. The Maritime Text Corpus (MTC) comprises 8.8 million words, encompassing a range of text types and registers, selected to provide a cross-section of ‘maritime’ writing. It is analysed using WordSmith analytical software (Scott, 2010), with the 100 million-word British National Corpus (BNC) as a reference corpus. Using the MTC, a list of keywords of specific salience within the maritime discourse has been compiled and, using frequency data, concordances and collocations, these MEs are described in detail and their use and form in the MTC and the BNC is compared. The study examines the transformation from ME to figurative use in the general discourse, in terms of form and metaphoricity. MEs are classified according to their metaphorical strength and their transference from maritime usage into new registers and domains such as those of business, politics, sports and reportage etc. A revised model of metaphoricity is developed and a new category of figurative expression, the ‘resonator’, is proposed. Additionally, developing the work of Lakov and Johnson, Kovesces and others on Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), a number of Maritime Conceptual Metaphors are identified and their cultural significance is discussed

Telephone Flat Geothermal Development Project Environmental Impact Statement Environmental Impact Report. Final: Comments and Responses to Comments

This document is the Comments and Responses to Comments volume of the Final Environmental Impact Statement and Environmental Impact Report prepared for the proposed Telephone Flat Geothermal Development Project (Final EIS/EIR). This volume of the Final EIS/EIR provides copies of the written comments received on the Draft EIS/EIR and the leady agency responses to those comments in conformance with the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)