Bodies, Camera, Screen: Eiko & Koma’s Immersive Media Dances

Eiko & Koma are New York-based Japanese American dance artists known for their subtle, focused, and finely controlled movement vocabulary through which they alter the perception of time and space. For over forty years they have created works for the proscenium stage, outdoor sites, galleries, and the camera that address elemental issues of life, survival, death, and rebirth. Their close and unsparing attention to nature, mourning, and human relationships to other humans and the world around them has won them prestigious awards including Guggenheim, MacArthur, and United States Artist Fellowships, Bessies, and Doris Duke Performing Arts Awards

Sasakian geometry on lens space bundles over Riemann surfaces

We compute the cohomology of the join of a 3 manifold with the sphere and we see the dependence of this cohomology on one of the parameters

Meridians: 21:1

As a scholar of Afro-Latinidades, it is a particular pleasure for me to offer Meridians readers this issue devoted to “Black Feminisms in the Caribbean and the United States: Representation, Rebellion, Radicalism, and Reckoning.” This curated conversation about Black feminist liberation strategies, which vary and move across time and place, is aptly illustrated with cover art by Haitian artist Mafalda Nicolas Mondestin, Ann fè on ti pale (The Meeting). Ann fè on ti pale is a Haitian Kreyol expression that means “let’s chat about it” or “we should chat” (pers. comm., August 29, 2021), and, apropos of that invitation, we open the conversation with “Vodou, the Arts, and (Re)Presenting the Divine: A Conversation with Edwidge Danticat,” an especially timely and insightful interview that Kyrah Malika Daniels conducted in January 2020....https://scholarworks.smith.edu/soc_books/1013/thumbnail.jp

Queering the Dream—The Impact Trump’s Decision has on LGBTQ+ Dreamers

On June 15, 2012, President Obama created the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (“DACA”) program, which was an exercise of prosecutorial discretion that provided temporary relief from deportation to youth known as Dreamers. On September 5, 2017, the Trump administration announced that it would begin phasing out the program. The fate of the program has recently been litigated in courts including the Supreme Court, with a decision pending from the Supreme Court anytime in 2020 (although there is a push to stall a decision due to the COVID-19 pandemic). In this article I discuss the historical context of DACA and its creation, as well as its current state. Then I analyze the country conditions of the top eight home countries of DACA recipients (Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Peru, the Philippines, Colombia and the Dominican Republic), which allows me to demonstrate the risk that LGBTQ+ individuals face if they are deported back to their home countries. Finally, I give a detailed explanation of the forms of relief available if someone were to fall out of DACA status. I compare the experiences of LGBTQ+ individuals to their heterosexual counterparts to demonstrate the unique experiences that LGBTQ+ DACA recipients face. If LGBTQ+ DACA recipients are deported back to their home countries where few protections are in place, or if in place lack enforcement, they will face discrimination, beatings and possible exile. Furthermore, asking LGBTQ+ individuals to simply hide their identity and return to the “closet” also has its own psychological consequences often leading to suicide. The impact that Trump’s decision has on LGBTQ+ Dreamers is dire, and I hope this article sheds a light on why we must queer the dream

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Juan Luís CARRILLO ; Guillermo OLAGÜE de Ros, Actas del XXXIII Congreso Internacional de Historia de la Medicina. Granada-Sevilla, 1-6 de septiembre de 199

Delayed treatment with nimesulide reduces measures of oxidative stress following global ischemic brain injury in gerbils

Metabolism of arachidonic acid by cyclooxygenase is one of the primary sources of reactive oxygen species in the ischemic brain. Neuronal overexpression of cyclooxygenase-2 has recently been shown to contribute to neurodegeneration following ischemic injury. In the present study, we examined the possibility that the neuroprotective effects of the cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitor nimesulide would depend upon reduction of oxidative stress following cerebral ischemia. Gerbils were subjected to 5 min of transient global cerebral ischemia followed by 48 h of reperfusion and markers of oxidative stress were measured in hippocampus of gerbils receiving vehicle or nimesulide treatment at three different clinically relevant doses (3, 6 or 12 mg/kg). Compared with vehicle, nimesulide significantly (P<0.05) reduced hippocampal glutathione depletion and lipid peroxidation, as assessed by the levels of malondialdehyde (MDA), 4-hydroxy-alkenals (4-HDA) and lipid hydroperoxides levels, even when the treatment was delayed until 6 h after ischemia. Biochemical evidences of nimesulide neuroprotection were supported by histofluorescence findings using the novel marker of neuronal degeneration Fluoro-Jade B. Few Fluoro-Jade B positive cells were seen in CA1 region of hippocampus in ischemic animals treated with nimesulide compared with vehicle. These results suggest that nimesulide may protect neurons by attenuating oxidative stress and reperfusion injury following the ischemic insult with a wide therapeutic window of protection

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Robert JÜTTE, Poverty and Deviance in early modern Europ

Patrimonio Geomorfológico Litoral y Gestión Costera: La Tejita -El Médano- Sureste de Tenerife

Los objetivos de este trabajo son la caracterización geomorfológica de la costa entre La Tejita y El Médano, en el sureste de Tenerife, y una aproximación a la gestión litoral desarrollada, entre 2005 y 2012, por el Ayuntamiento de Granadilla de Abona al que pertenece. Lo esencial del método de análisis empleado se basa en la labor de campo y en la clasificación y determinación de los rasgos del modelado identificado. El examen de la información aportada por la autoridad municipal, relativa al logro de la Bandera Azul, es también aspecto a destacar en esta línea. El resultado del trabajo realizado es el reconocimiento de la notable diversidad de geoformas existentes, en un frente costero de tan sólo 5 kilómetros de longitud. Su puesta en valor exige atender a esa diversidad mediante propuestas de gestión específicas. Se distingue así: a) sector costero en material coherente: acantilados, plataformas de abrasión y dunas fósiles sometidas a erosión y b) sector costero en material no coherente: playas y dunas actuales.The objectives of this work are the geomorphological characterization of the coast between La Tejita and El Medano in the south east of Tenerife, and an approach to coastal management developed between 2005 and 2012, the municipality of Granadilla de Abona to which it belongs. The essence of the method of analysis used is based on field work and in determining the classification and modeling of the features identified. The review of the information provided by the municipal authority on the achievement of the blue flag, is also notable aspect in this line. The result of the work is the recognition of the remarkable diversity of existing landforms in a waterfront just 5 kilometers long. Its value requires address this diversity through specific management proposals. Is distinguished as follows: a) in the coherent material coastal area: cliffs abrasion platforms and fossil dunes subject to erosion b) coastal area in no coherent material: current beaches and dunes