We are all angels: acting, reclaiming and moving beyond survivorship

This article aspires to an embodiment of dynamic living versus mere survival. The term cancer survivor, including a survivor who is in remission, has been legitimated (Berger and Luckmann, The social construction of reality, p. 94 1967) by language which creates knowledge of what a cancer survivor is and does. Because we act under descriptions (Hacking, The social construction of what?, p. 103 1999), those of us who have passed through illnesses such as cancer not only have been given the name and the idea of survivor, we have assumed and conform to some or most of the characteristics assigned to it; examples of some of those characteristics are discussed throughout this project. Whether or not we choose to enact all that falls under the grammar of the classification of survivor, we still live with, create, and experience ourselves and others as legitimated by such a classification. The term survivor operates through a number of institutions (medical, capitalism, and media) resulting in individuals’ awareness of such classifications about themselves and others. Many, if not most, who are aware of being classified as survivors may wish to modify or resist the constraining aspects of those classifications and their descriptions. Through layered accounts of interviews and prose, I interact with this term as one who is both caught in and wants to go against the stream of classification and description. I want to transcend what I know, yet I am aware that whatever story I make and tell is a part of the whole—my story is part of two other survivor’s stories which I include in the following telling of my own. All of our stories matter. Still, I want to look beyond what is in front of me, move beyond it, dream. I do so with a desire to tell my story as part of other survivors’ stories

Environment Energy Assessment of Trips (EEAT): An updated approach to assess the environmental impacts of urban mobility, The case of Lille Region

This paper deals with sustainable mobility in an urban context. We investigate the assessment of the impacts of the evolution of travel behaviour (travelled distance and modal choice) in terms of energy consumption and greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions at the local level. Indeed, today, the control of exhausts generated by the mobility within the urban areas is at the core of the environmental policies and the stabilisation of GHG emissions is one of the main goals of 'sustainable development'. To face this challenge in the transport sector, the national government and local authorities need a better understanding of the link between urban development choices, the operation of the different modes of transport systems, and residents and non residents' attitude, and mobility patterns at the local level.MOBILITE ; ZONE URBAINE ; POLLUTION ATMOSPHERIQUE ; ENERGIE ; CONSOMMATION DE CARBURANT

Rural community development click-by-click: Processes and dynamics of digitally supported social innovations in peripheral rural areas

Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, residents in peripheral and structurally weak rural areas began to move into the digital age. Digital tools are being used and developed to address existing challenges in rural areas such as local communication, healthcare or mobility. Against the background of a conceptual framework of social and digital innovations from a process perspective, this paper asks how the processes and dynamics of digitally supported social innovations in rural areas can be understood and described. By analysing five villages in Germany, we show that the digital initiatives - despite their different contexts, contents and driving actors - develop over three phases: an inspiration phase, an emergence phase and a consolidation phase. This dynamic process can be interpreted as "linear-circular", because while overall a very targeted development of innovative problem solutions can be observed within the three-phase process, at the same time creative development loops and new inspirations exercise influence.Bereits vor der Covid-19 Pandemie begannen Bewohnerinnen und Bewohner auch in peripheren und strukturschwachen ländlichen Räumen, den Weg ins digitale Zeitalter zu gehen. Zunehmend werden digitale Werkzeuge genutzt und entwickelt, um bestehende Herausforderungen ländlicher Räume wie lokale Kommunikation, Gesundheitsversorgung oder Mobilität anzugehen. Vor dem Hintergrund eines konzeptionellen Rahmens zu sozialen und digitalen Innovationen aus einer Prozessperspektive fragt dieser Beitrag, wie Prozesse und Dynamiken digital unterstützter sozialer Innovationen in ländlichen Räumen verstanden und beschrieben werden können. Anhand der Analyse von fünf Dörfern in Deutschland wird aufgezeigt, dass sich die digitalen Initiativen - trotz ihrer unterschiedlichen Kontexte, Inhalte und treibenden Akteure - schwerpunktmäßig über drei Phasen entwickeln. Diese definieren wir als Inspirationsphase, Emergenzphase und Konsolidierungsphase. Dieser dynamische Prozess ist dabei als "linear-zirkulär" zu deuten, da zwar insgesamt eine zielgerichtete Entwicklung innovativer Problemlösungen im Rahmen des Drei-Phasen-Prozesses beobachtet werden kann, gleichzeitig aber auch kreative Entwicklungsschleifen und neue Inspirationen auf den weiteren Prozess einwirken

Management of Salmonella Septic Bursitis in Immunocompromised Host Post Renal Transplant

Salmonella as a causative agent in septic bursitis is considered rare. We report a case of 56 year old male with history of renal transplantation and using mycophenolate mofetil, cyclosporine and methylprednisolone as maintenance, admitted due to 3-week-fever associated with tenderness and swelling on left shoulder. Upon investigation, a diagnosis of septic bursitis was established. Salmonella enteritidis as the definitive causative agent was revealed. He was treated with meropenem 1g IV three times daily and levofloxacin 500 mg IV once a day for 3 weeks, followed by oral ciprofloxacin 500 mg twice a day for 2 weeks and oral metronidazole 500 mg three times a day for 1 week with a total duration of 5 weeks of antibiotics. On the subsequent follow up there was no recurrence episode of fever and the swelling of the left shoulder subsided, no tenderness noted and the patient has no limitation of range of movement. Since immunocompromised state complicates the management, the duration of therapy may twice longer than the typical management of septic bursitis. Salmonella as etiologic agent should be considered as differential in immunocompromised patient with septic bursitis

Majorana Spin Liquids, Topology and Superconductivity in Ladders

We theoretically address spin chain analogs of the Kitaev quantum spin model on the honeycomb lattice. The emergent quantum spin liquid phases or Anderson resonating valence bond (RVB) states can be understood, as an effective model, in terms of p-wave superconductivity and Majorana fermions. We derive a generalized phase diagram for the two-leg ladder system with tunable interaction strengths between chains allowing us to vary the shape of the lattice (from square to honeycomb ribbon or brickwall ladder). We evaluate the winding number associated with possible emergent (topological) gapless modes at the edges. In the Az phase, as a result of the emergent Z2 gauge fields and pi-flux ground state, one may build spin-1/2 (loop) qubit operators by analogy to the toric code. In addition, we show how the intermediate gapless B phase evolves in the generalized ladder model. For the brickwall ladder, the $B$ phase is reduced to one line, which is analyzed through perturbation theory in a rung tensor product states representation and bosonization. Finally, we show that doping with a few holes can result in the formation of hole pairs and leads to a mapping with the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model in polyacetylene; a superconducting-insulating quantum phase transition for these hole pairs is accessible, as well as related topological properties.Comment: 25 pages, 10 figures, final version - to be published in PR