How Art Can Be Thought: A Handbook for Change

Review of How Art Can Be Thought: A Handbook for Change, Reviewed July 2019 by Ashley Hosbach, Education & Social Science Research Librarian, University of Virginia, [email protected]

Schadstoff-Emissionsregister: Information, Aufsicht, Schadstoffverminderung dank Dialog

A Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR) is a cost efficient tool to acquire data on sources of pollutant emissions and to measure the success of the reduction of polluting substances and waste over time. It promotes a sustainable development by informing the public and by motivating polluters to voluntarily take measures to reduce the environmental burden. The introduction and use of a PRTR was recommended by the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro as part of the agenda for sustainable development. PRTRs are already used in several countries as USA, Canada, or The Netherlands. For the time being the OECD is organizing workshops to prepare a guidance document for governments to help other countries in setting up their national PRTR

Herbal medicine use by surgery patients in Hungary: a descriptive study

BACKGROUND: The popularity of non-conventional treatments, especially the consumption of herbs is showing an increasing tendency all over the world. The consumption of herbal medicines might cause several complications during perioperative care. METHODS: The survey was conducted at the First Department of Surgery of Semmelweis University and focused on the demographics of patients consuming herbal medicines who had undergone elective surgery between July 1(st) 2014 and February 28(th) 2015. A one-page questionnaire, that the patients filled in individually and anonymously, was used. The response rate was 17.3 %. RESULTS: Out of the 390 patients who filled in the questionnaire, 7.2 % (28 patients) used herbal medicines, 3.6 % (14 patients) of them two weeks prior to their hospitalization. The other 3.6 % (14 patients) took herbal medicines sometime in the past. The majority of those who have ever consumed herbs are women (18/28), have completed secondary or tertiary education (23/28), more than half of them suffer from tumorous diseases and only a quarter of them (7/28) informed their physician about their use of herbal medication of their own accord. CONCLUSIONS: Attention must be paid to the exploration of herb consumption habits of surgery patients during the preoperative examinations in order to avoid potential side effects, complications or drug interactions. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12906-015-0890-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users

A Sustainable Business Proposition for Selling Irrigation Pumps in Ndola, Zambia

Robert Hosbach is proposing a sustainable business plan to bring a small‐scale irrigation pump to rural Ndola, Zambia. With hundreds of thousands of citizens living in poverty and semi‐annual starvation, Ndola is in need of a means to grow crops effectively in the rainy season. Their current agricultural practices rely solely on the inconsistent rainfall during this time. My pump will be constructed from locally‐available aluminum cans, epoxy, glue, and fasteners (refer to Appendix B for technical drawings of the pump). The business will employ only a small number of Zambians, but will bring a means of food and income to an impoverished populace. Once the business is running steadfast in Ndola, I hope to bring this service to the whole country of Zambia and even the entire continent of Africa

Behandlung der postoperativen Anämie mit Erythropoetin

Fremdblutgaben sind noch immer risikant. Kann mit dem postop. Einsatz von rhEPO die Erythropoese stimuliert und effektiv das Risiko gemindert werden? Design: n=75 Patienten, postop. Hb <12g/dl, postop. Randomisierung in: Kontrollgruppe (500 ml NaCl 0,9% am postop Tag 1+2. + 2 ml NaCl s.c.), Eisengruppe (+ 200 mg Fe pro Infusion), Gruppe III (Fe-Infusionen + je 75 IE rhEpo), Gruppe IV (+150 IE rhEpo i.v. und s.c). Die Erythropoetingabe war doppelblind, die Fe-Gabe observergeblindet. Bei rhEPO-Patienten steigen früher und stärker die Retikulozyten an. Es war hier Fremdblut nicht nötig. Ergebnisse Gruppe IV: höhere rhEPO-Dosis steigert Hkt nicht stärker, verminderte Thrombozytoseneigung, fehlender postop. Hkt.-Abfall und kürzerer stationärer Aufenthalts bei TEP-Patienten in Gruppe IV. Wir bestätigen mit geringerer Dosierung des rhEPO andere Arbeitsgruppen in der Erythropoesestimulierung. Neu sind die Auswirkungen auf die Thrombopoese und der kürzere stationäre Aufenthalt in der Gruppe IV

AN ANALYSIS OF THE MUSIC PROGRAM OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER COLLEGE

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Queer Orientations: Desire, Race and Belonging in Queer American Literature, 1900-1940

“Queer Orientations” moves between the Harlem Renaissance and American modernism to show the shared strategies and tropes through which early-twentieth-century queer American writers articulated their queerness and oriented themselves in the world as queer. Working through the frames of diaspora, Orientalist fantasy, the struggle between individuality and community, camp aesthetics and the scrapbook roman a clef, these writers offer us a varied and compelling account of how queers navigated belonging and relation during a moment when same-sex desire was caught between medical and ethnic theories of identity and subjectivity. By putting black and white writers in dialogue— Claude McKay and Willa Cather, Richard Bruce Nugent and Edward Prime-Stevenson, Nella Larsen and Djuna Barnes, Wallace Thurman, Charles Henri Ford and Parker Tyler—I demonstrate the centrality of race to queer identification and how race distinguishes encounters with shared tropes and representational strategies. McKay’s queer black diaspora offers an ephemeral utopia of transitory male community as a challenge to frameworks of diaspora grounded in the heterosexual family and the trauma of slavery. Cather’s fiction reveals how diasporic racial histories appealed to white queers estranged from their biological families and communities of origin. Nugent and Prime- Stevenson adapt Orientalist tropes to imagine a transnational, multiracial queer kinship and relocate themselves in alternate origin stories beyond the limited constructions of family and race. In their writing about same-sex female relationships, Larsen and Barnes strip the cosmopolitan gay male identity from the first two chapters of its utopian glamour to reveal how differences in desire and type simultaneously allure and disappoint the queer subject. Thurman, Ford and Tyler develop a queer aesthetic within the autobiographical novel to preserve the worlds they saw fading from view in the 1930s. Drawing together often separated movements and authors, I offer a reading of early twentieth century queer modernist literature that demonstrates the dynamic relationship between the Harlem Renaissance and American modernism. Across chapters, my research relocates the conceptual force of contemporary debates in queer studies about desire, race and belonging in an earlier historical moment, excavating this archive’s wrangling with queerness at a moment in history and tracing the echoes of that struggle across the twentieth century and into the present