LMDA Review, volume 10, issue 2

Contents include: New Annual Membership Expiration Date, A Rose by Any Other Word, Report on Canadian Caucus, Script Exchange, Dramaturgy Focus Group ATHE 2000 Dramaturgy Conference Planner, Dramaturgy The Power in the Words, Profiles in Dramaturgy: Alexis Greene, The Early Career Dramaturgy Group, LMDA Online Listserv Instructions, New World Theater Plans Second International Conference, Black Theatre Network Conference, New Visions 2000: One Theater World, ISTA, and the LMDA Archive.https://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/lmdareview/1023/thumbnail.jp

LMDA Review, volume 12, issue 1

Contents include: Re-Viewing Denver, University & Student Caucus, Keynote Ashara Ekundayo, Denver Theatre Artists on Local Theatre Ecology, Workshop Sessions Round 1: Dramaturgy & Architecture, Dramaturgical Voices Inside the Theatre, Dramaturgy/Making a Life, Workshop Sessions Round 2: New Play Festivals, Dramaturgical Voices Outside the Theatre, Educational Theatre, TheatreFest Playwrights, Advocacy, Elliott Hayes Award Winner Judith Rudakoff, and Regional VP Update.https://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/lmdareview/1024/thumbnail.jp

Review: The Newsletter of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, volume 11, issue 3

Contents include: Section I: Re-Viewing Denver; The Conference in Detail; Dramaturgical Voices Outside the Theatre; Section II: Articles & Announcements. Issue editor: Gretchen Haleyhttps://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/lmdareview/1048/thumbnail.jp

Broadband Multi-wavelength Properties of M87 during the 2017 Event Horizon Telescope Campaign

Abstract: In 2017, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration succeeded in capturing the first direct image of the center of the M87 galaxy. The asymmetric ring morphology and size are consistent with theoretical expectations for a weakly accreting supermassive black hole of mass ∼6.5 × 109 M ⊙. The EHTC also partnered with several international facilities in space and on the ground, to arrange an extensive, quasi-simultaneous multi-wavelength campaign. This Letter presents the results and analysis of this campaign, as well as the multi-wavelength data as a legacy data repository. We captured M87 in a historically low state, and the core flux dominates over HST-1 at high energies, making it possible to combine core flux constraints with the more spatially precise very long baseline interferometry data. We present the most complete simultaneous multi-wavelength spectrum of the active nucleus to date, and discuss the complexity and caveats of combining data from different spatial scales into one broadband spectrum. We apply two heuristic, isotropic leptonic single-zone models to provide insight into the basic source properties, but conclude that a structured jet is necessary to explain M87’s spectrum. We can exclude that the simultaneous γ-ray emission is produced via inverse Compton emission in the same region producing the EHT mm-band emission, and further conclude that the γ-rays can only be produced in the inner jets (inward of HST-1) if there are strongly particle-dominated regions. Direct synchrotron emission from accelerated protons and secondaries cannot yet be excluded

Public health and church-based constructions of HIV prevention: black Baptist perspective

The black church is influential in shaping health behaviors within African-American communities, yet few use evidence-based strategies for HIV prevention (abstinence, monogamy, condoms, voluntary counseling and testing, and prevention with positives). Using principles of grounded theory and interpretive description, we explored the social construction of HIV prevention within black Baptist churches in North Carolina. Data collection included interviews with church leaders (n = 12) and focus groups with congregants (n = 7; 36 participants). Analytic tools included open coding and case-level comparisons. Social constructions of HIV/AIDS prevention were influenced by two worldviews: public health and church-based. Areas of compatibility and incompatibility exist between the two worldviews that inform acceptability and adaptability of current evidence-based strategies. These findings offer insight into ways to increase the compatibility of evidence-based HIV prevention strategies within the black Baptist church context

Remote Sensing of Wetland Dynamics as Indicators of Water Availability in Semi-Arid Africa

This chapter focuses on remote sensing techniques and applications for monitoring wetlands in sub-Saharan Africa, and provides three examples using different sensors. The role wetlands play in water availability, as well as their impact on people’s livelihoods, is described based on the example of Burkina Faso, a country in West Africa. The rationale for using earth observation for wetland detection, mapping, inventorying, classification, assessment, and monitoring is presented, and advantages, limitations, and gaps are discussed. Moreover, the parameters to be observed in wetlands are described based on pictures from a field study at Lac Bam, Burkina Faso. Three groups of remote sensing sensor types and the applicability of their data and methods for wetland mapping and monitoring are reviewed: optical high resolution imagery, optical medium-resolution time series, and synthetic aperture radar data. The Lac Bam case study is used to show applications of these three remote sensing sensors types. Conclusions and future perspectives for wetland remote sensing, as well as possibilities and limitations, are assessed. Remaining gaps and possible future solutions are discussed, with a focus on the European Space Agency’s new Sentinel missions. The role of wetland monitoring for both estimating water availability in semi-arid areas and indicating drought is also noted