The Hispanic/Latino community in the Fox Ridge Manor Apartments, Wake County, North Carolina : an action-oriented community diagnosis : findings and next steps of action

During the 2002-2003 academic year, five students from the University of North Carolina’s School of Public Health conducted a community diagnosis for Hispanic/Latino residents of Fox Ridge Manor, an apartment complex in Southeast Raleigh. The AOCD process is used to help understand the many sides of a community, including its norms, values, culture, power structure, history, and patterns of communication (Eng and Blanchard, 1991). The goal is to develop an insider’s view and understanding of the community through extensive fieldwork (Steckler et al., 1993). Eng and Blanchard (1991) highlight the basic steps of the AOCD process the Fox Ridge team followed: 1. Specify target population. 2. Review secondary data sources. 3. Conduct windshield tours. 4. Interview local service providers. 5. Interview key community informants. 6. Tabulate the results for the secondary data and primary data. 7. Present the findings back to the community. With the guidance of a preceptor from Wake County Cooperative Extension, the team engaged in a resident-focused research process that combined publicly available secondary data with primary data from interviews and field notes. The community diagnosis process was aimed at describing life in Fox Ridge’s Hispanic/Latino community; with a focus on the strengths and challenges its members share. This document opens with a description of our experiences as outsiders in Fox Ridge. Our findings in this process have been shaped both actively and passively by our biases as observers, so this section traces the brief evolution of our perspectives as recorded in our field notes. A description of the Fox Ridge Hispanic/Latino community based on secondary data follows, along with an overview of recent research findings about the community. Secondary data include sections on health, housing, education, employment and income, language, recreation, and transportation. Next, methods for primary data collection, including interviews and focus groups, are discussed. A thematic summary of primary data follows, comparing the perspectives of service providers and residents. Themes that emerged from our primary data collection include: Language as a barrier to all aspects of the lives of Latino/Hispanic residents in Fox Ridge. Lack of communication between parents and school personnel. Lack of recreational opportunities for Fox Ridge residents, both children and adults. Lack of transportation. Discrimination of Latino/Hispanic residents by landlords, service providers, police, etc. Race relations between African American and Hispanic/Latino residents. Effect of immigration status on service eligibility. The demographic change of Fox Ridge. Lack of access to health services and other social services. Lack of employment opportunities. Housing/maintenance issues. Community functioning. Community problems, such as gang activity, substance and alcohol abuse, and domestic violence. The results of primary data collection presented to community members and service providers at the Fox Ridge community forum are reviewed including the planning process and outcomes. All of the themes determined by the primary data analysis were presented, although the focuses of the community forum were childcare/recreation, knowing your rights, and the presence of gangs. Participants in the forum decided to focus on developing a childcare center in Fox Ridge and agreed to meet to discuss possible ways of accomplishing this goal. The document concludes with the team’s recommendations for future outsider approaches.Master of Public Healt

The \u3cem\u3eChlamydomonas\u3c/em\u3e Genome Reveals the Evolution of Key Animal and Plant Functions

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is a unicellular green alga whose lineage diverged from land plants over 1 billion years ago. It is a model system for studying chloroplast-based photosynthesis, as well as the structure, assembly, and function of eukaryotic flagella (cilia), which were inherited from the common ancestor of plants and animals, but lost in land plants. We sequenced the ∼120-megabase nuclear genome of Chlamydomonas and performed comparative phylogenomic analyses, identifying genes encoding uncharacterized proteins that are likely associated with the function and biogenesis of chloroplasts or eukaryotic flagella. Analyses of the Chlamydomonas genome advance our understanding of the ancestral eukaryotic cell, reveal previously unknown genes associated with photosynthetic and flagellar functions, and establish links between ciliopathy and the composition and function of flagella

The tyranny of the male preserve

Within this paper I draw on short vignettes and quotes taken from a two-year ethnographic study of boxing to think through the continuing academic merit of the notion of the male preserve. This is an important task due to evidence of shifts in social patterns of gender that have developed since the idea was first proposed in the 1970s. In aligning theoretical contributions from Lefebvre and Butler to discussions of the male preserve, we are able to add nuance to our understanding of how such social spaces are engrained with and produced by the lingering grasp of patriarchal narratives. In particular, by situating the male preserve within shifting social processes, whereby certain men’s power is increasingly undermined, I highlight the production of space within which narratives connecting men to violence, aggression and physical power can be consumed, performed and reified in a relatively unrestricted form. This specific case study contributes to gender theory as an illustration of a way in which we might explore and understand social enclaves where certain people are able to lay claim to space and power. As such, I argue that the notion of the male preserve is still a useful conceptual, theoretical and political device especially when considered as produced by the tyranny of gender power through the dramatic representation and reification of behaviours symbolically linked to patriarchal narrations of manhood

Vitalism and the Resistance to Experimentation on Life in the Eighteenth Century

There is a familiar opposition between a ‘Scientific Revolution’ ethos and practice of experimentation, including experimentation on life, and a ‘vitalist’ reaction to this outlook. The former is often allied with different forms of mechanism – if all of Nature obeys mechanical laws, including living bodies, ‘iatromechanism’ should encounter no obstructions in investigating the particularities of animal-machines – or with more chimiatric theories of life and matter, as in the ‘Oxford Physiologists’. The latter reaction also comes in different, perhaps irreducibly heterogeneous forms, ranging from metaphysical and ethical objections to the destruction of life, as in Margaret Cavendish, to more epistemological objections against the usage of instruments, the ‘anatomical’ outlook and experimentation, e.g. in Locke and Sydenham. But I will mainly focus on a third anti-interventionist argument, which I call ‘vitalist’ since it is often articulated in the writings of the so-called Montpellier Vitalists, including their medical articles for the Encyclopédie. The vitalist argument against experimentation on life is subtly different from the metaphysical, ethical and epistemological arguments, although at times it may borrow from any of them. It expresses a Hippocratic sensibility – understood as an artifact of early modernity, not as some atemporal trait of medical thought – in which Life resists the experimenter, or conversely, for the experimenter to grasp something about Life, it will have to be without torturing or radically intervening in it. I suggest that this view does not have to imply that Nature is something mysterious or sacred; nor does the vitalist have to attack experimentation on life in the name of some ‘vital force’ – which makes it less surprising to find a vivisectionist like Claude Bernard sounding so close to the vitalists

Knowledge, Fiction, and the Other in Cervantes’s La Gitanilla.

In recent years, a number of critics have brought the history of science as well as more contemporary scientific approaches to bear on Spanish baroque literature and culture with positive results (a little pun for you there, Moi). Scholars such Amy Williamsen, David Castillo and Massimo Lollini, Vicente Pérez de León, William Egginton, and Carroll Johnson, among others, have illuminated the struggles taking place between emergent, modern scientific paradigms and residual natural philosophies and how Cervantes’s aesthetic experiments perform and problematize these paradigms and their collisions. The goal of this paper is to reframe these discussions according to contemporary scientific models of inquiry in order to demonstrate how Cervantes’s timely marriage of poiesis and scientific knowledge not only questions early modern assumptions about scientific knowledge but our own as well

Reinventing nature

Item consists of a digitized copy of an audio recording of a Cecil and Ida Green lecture delivered at the Vancouver Institute by Carolyn Merchant on February 6, 1993. Original audio recording available in the University Archives (UBC AT 1886).Non UBCUnreviewedFacult