Greening the revolution revisited - Farmers, NGOs and the Cuban state

In this thesis I revisit the acclaimed transformation towards organic agriculture in Cuba. Using Lefebvre's trialectics of space, I explore how dominant representations of Organic' agricultural space in Cuba, the so-called 'Greening of the Revolution’, was created through government institutions and public policy. I further investigate the locally lived gendered realities of farmers in a selected cooperative. I argue that the prevailing imaginary of a state-led nationwide transformation needs to be deconstructed and the role of NGOs, in particular Northern NGOs, to be fully acknowledged in the creation of 'organic' agriculture in Cuba. Northern NGOs were attracted by the romanticist environmental imagery of Cuba’s green agriculture. เท securing funding from donors, they have framed agr๐-ecology in Cuba according to their own understandings as well as needs of 'logframes', budget codes and project cycles. Northern NGOs are acting as transmission belts for Western understandings of NGO characteristics and agency. This has resulted in a re-shaping and positioning of Cuban NGO identity, creating new dependencies and tensions in the process and introducing fashionable themes, such as gender. 'Gender mainstreaming' is an outsider-driven process, as donors and Northern NGOs have requested the integration of gender into projects. Their practices neither go beyond the 'incorporation of women in the workforce', nor engage sufficiently with the gendered realities of the everyday, as I show in my case-study in a cooperative. Farmers are performing, negotiating or at times resisting the dominant 'representations of space' - i.e. the state, regulations and policies, but also - increasingly - NGO discourses and agendas/frameworks. This thesis employs empirical data collected during 10-months of research in Cuba

Note: A Painful Catch-22: Why Tort Liability for Inadequate Pain Management Will Make for Bad Medicine

Part I of this note reviews current issues relating to pain treatment. Part II examines theoretical justifications of proposed tort liability for inadequate pain management. Part III examines how pain mismanagement does not fit within traditional notions of medical malpractice. Part IV studies the issues relating to a physician’s role as “gate-keeper” for opioids and suggests why tort liability could compromise this legislatively imposed role. Part V examines the issue of pain management in the context of end-of-life care. Part VI discusses current shifts in pain management philosophies and explains how these movements will effectuate the changes suggested by advocates of expanded tort liability

Note: A Painful Catch-22: Why Tort Liability for Inadequate Pain Management Will Make for Bad Medicine

Part I of this note reviews current issues relating to pain treatment. Part II examines theoretical justifications of proposed tort liability for inadequate pain management. Part III examines how pain mismanagement does not fit within traditional notions of medical malpractice. Part IV studies the issues relating to a physician’s role as “gate-keeper” for opioids and suggests why tort liability could compromise this legislatively imposed role. Part V examines the issue of pain management in the context of end-of-life care. Part VI discusses current shifts in pain management philosophies and explains how these movements will effectuate the changes suggested by advocates of expanded tort liability

Study of the Energy Spectrum of Solar Neutrinos Above 5.5 MeV.

Data collected at the Super-Kamiokande detector have been used to make observations of the flux and spectrum of neutrinos that originate in the fusion reactions inside the center of the Sun. Previous observations of solar neutrinos have resulted in fluxes that are one third to one half the values predicted by solar models, a situation that has been labeled the solar neutrino problem . The phenomena of neutrino oscillations is investigated as a possible solution to this problem. The Super-Kamiokande detector, located in Gifu, Japan, is a ring-imaging Cherenkov detector that detects the scattered electrons from neutrino-electron elastic scattering in the water of the detector. Recoil electrons with energies greater than 5.5 MeV are used to measure the total flux and spectrum of solar neutrinos. The observed scattering rate is found to be 15.58 +/- 0.31(stat.) events/day in the 22.5 kton fiducial volume. This is a factor of 0.458 +/- 0.009( stat.) +0.011-0.007 (sys.) of the expected rate predicted by the solar model of Bahcall and Pinsonneault, verifying the previous observations of the solar neutrino problem. Observations of the spectrum of recoil electrons and variations in the neutrino flux in different times of the day and different seasons of the year are also performed. A comparison of the neutrino fluxes measured during day and night time periods is consistent with no difference, D-N0.5D+N = -0.039(stat.) +/- 0.007(sys .). The observed spectrum and flux variations appear to be consistent with the results predicted in the absence of neutrino oscillations. These results are therefore used to generate exclusion regions in the neutrino oscillation parameter space. This dissertation describes in detail the analysis which generated these results

My isle of golden dreams : song

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Your Eyes Have Told Me So

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Gendered patterns of IMT adoption and use: Learning from action research

This paper illustrates the value of using an action research methodology to improve understanding of gendered patterns of adoption and non-adoption of Intermediate Means of Transport (IMTs) and similar gender-related transport issues. It presents results from a novel action research project undertaken in five farming villages in southern Ghana, a region where IMT usage is currently low. The participatory action research study not only revealed important issues around differences between stated preferences and actual gendered patterns of adoption and non-adoption in the particular context of southern Ghana, but offers a methodology which may have value in many other gender and transport contexts across sub-Saharan Africa and beyond

Swanee Ripples : A Rag Novelette

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Dearest One

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