Use of summer habitat by caribou on the north slope of a mountain near the Macmillan Pass, N.W.T.

Habitat use by woodland caribou was investigated by counting pellet-groups, sampling phytomass, and evaluating topography in nine habitat-types on the north slope of an unnamed mountain near Macmillan Pass, N.W.T. Caribou pellets were most abundant in high elevation habitat-types, and pellet density was greatest in an alpine Lichen-Grass habitat-type with a slope of <1°. The high density of pellets in alpine areas may have resulted from of the use of cool, windy, alpine habitats by caribou seeking relief from insect harassment. There were no apparent relationships between pellet abundance, and phytomass of mosses, lichens, or graminoids, possibly as a result of caribou feeding and defecating in different habitats. The occurrence of pellets with a coalesced morphology in the barren Lichen-Grass habitat-type provided indirect evidence in support of a feeding cycle, whereby caribou visit lush habitats to feed, and return to open, alpine habitats to rest and ruminate

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Construction of an E85 fueling facility at the Kennedy Space Center, Florid

Origins, endings and the posthuman imperative in Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic fiction

Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2022.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this thesis, I undertake an analysis of five primary texts in the post-apocalyptic and dystopian genres, namely: Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange, Russell Hoban’s Riddley Walker and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. Drawing chiefly upon Frank Kermode’s work in The Sense of an Ending, in which he argues that imaginings of origin and end are crucial for conferring intelligibility upon being “in the middest” (8), I show how the confrontation of a particular kind of end point characterised by the proleptic spectre of the posthuman, invoked by texts within the post-apocalyptic and dystopian genres, generates what I call a posthuman imperative to reinterpretation. This imperative is implicitly invoked by a text insofar as it raises or gestures towards the possibility of the posthuman and demands that the reader reorientate themselves, in the middest, in relation to this horizon. The process of reinterpretation of being-in-themiddest which occurs in response to the posthuman imperative, drawing upon narratives of origin and end, is primarily mediated through language and story. This process has implications for frameworks of meaning, value, ethics, truth, the self, and relation to the transcendent as well as to time and history. My analysis draws out a number of generative paradoxes which arise when attempting to write and read the possibility of the posthuman. To do so depends upon language, and yet language is brought into confrontation with its own limits as the limits of the human are approached. Further, while the posthuman imperative to reinterpretation is only generated in the face of the end, and an end in some sense is an essential precondition for the narrative concord of existence to which this process of reinterpretation is directed, the end is ultimately also that which threatens to undermine the possibility of narrative as such.AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In hierdie tesis onderneem ek 'n ontleding van vyf primêre tekste wat hoort tot die postapokaliptiese en distopiese genres, naamlik: Aldous Huxley se Brave New World, George Orwell se Nineteen Eighty-Four, Anthony Burgess se A Clockwork Orange, Russell Hoban se Riddley Walker and Cormac McCarthy se The Road. Met verwysing na hoofsaaklik Frank Kermode se The Sense of an Ending, waarin hy aanvoer dat voorstellings van oorsprong en einde deurslaggewend is om die bestaan “in the middest” te verwerk en verstaan (8), toon ek aan hoe die konfrontasie van 'n soort terminus gekenmerk deur die proleptiese skim van die postmenslike, aangeroep deur tekste in die post-apokaliptiese en distopiese genres, genereer wat ek hier na verwys as 'n “posthuman imperative” tot herinterpretasie. Hierdie imperatief word implisiet deur ‘n teks ingeroep in soverre dit die moontlikheid van die postmenslike oproep of aandui, en vereis dat die leser hulself, “in the middest,” met betrekking tot hierdie horison heroriënteer. Die proses van herinterpretasie van bestaan “in the middest,” wat plaasvind in reaksie op die “posthuman imperative,” wat op sy beurt geskoei is op narratiewe van oorsprong en einde, word hoofsaaklik deur taal en storie bemiddel. Hierdie proses het implikasies vir raamwerke van betekenis, waarde, etiek, waarheid, die self en verhouding tot die transendente sowel as tot tyd en geskiedenis. My analise stel 'n aantal generatiewe paradokse wat ontstaan wanneer daar probeer word om die moontlikheid van die postmenslike te skryf en te lees. Sodanige projek maak op die taal se ekpressiewe vermoëns staat, en tog word taal met sy eie grense in konfrontasie gebring, soos die grense van die mens benader word. Verder, terwyl die “posthuman imperative” tot herinterpretasie slegs in die aangesig van die einde gegenereer word, en 'n einde in 'n sekere sin 'n noodsaaklike voorwaarde is vir die narratiewe bestaanskonkord waarop hierdie proses van herinterpretasie gerig is, is die einde uiteindelik ook dit wat dreig om die moontlikheid van narratief as sodanig te ondermyn.Master

Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Association Between Obesity and Depression in Women

Background: It is generally accepted that obesity and depression are positively related in women. Very little prior research, however, has examined potential variation in this relationship across different racial/ethnic groups. This paper examines the association between obesity and depression in non-Hispanic White, non-Hispanic Black, and Mexican American women. Methods: The sample included women aged 20 years and older in the 2005?2008 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (n=3666). Logistic regression was used to assess the relationship between obesity and depression syndrome (assessed using the Patient Health Questionnaire-9), after adjusting for covariates. We then investigated whether this association varied by race/ethnicity. Results: Overall, obese women showed a 73% greater odds of depression (odds ratio [OR]=1.73; 95% confidence interval [CI]=1.19, 2.53) compared with normal weight women. This association varied significantly, however, by race/ethnicity. The obesity-depression associations for both Black and Mexican American women were different from the positive association found for White women (ORBlack*obese=0.24; 95% CI=0.10,0.54; ORMexican American*obese=0.42; 95% CI=1.04). Among White women, obesity was associated with significantly greater likelihood of depression (OR=2.37; 95% CI=1.41, 4.00) compared to normal weight. Among Black women, although not statistically significant, results are suggestive that obesity was inversely associated with depression (OR=0.56; 95% CI=0.28, 1.12) relative to normal weight. Among Mexican American women, obesity was not associated with depression (OR=1.01; 95% CI=0.59, 1.72). Conclusions: The results reveal that the association between obesity and depression varies by racial/ethnic categorization. White, but not Black or Mexican American women showed a positive association. Next research steps could include examination of factors that vary by race/ethnicity that may link obesity to depression.Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/140124/1/jwh.2012.4111.pd

Conversion of coal mine drainage ochre to water treatment reagent: Production, characterisation and application for P and Zn removal

Coal mine drainage ochre is a ferruginous precipitate that forms from mine water in impacted watercourses and during treatment. With thousands of tonnes per annum of such ochre arising from mine water treatment in the UK alone, management of these wastes is a substantive issue. This paper demonstrates that the ochre from both active and passive treatment of coal mine drainage can be transformed into an effective water treatment reagent by simple acid dissolution and that the reagent can be used for the removal of dissolved phosphorous from municipal wastewater and zinc from non-coal mine waters. Ochre is readily soluble in H2SO4 and HCl. Ochre is more soluble in HCl with solubilities of up to 100 g/L in 20% (w/w) HCl and 68 g/L in 10% (w/w) H2SO4. For four of the eight tested ochres solubility decreased in higher concentrations of H2SO4. Ochre compositional data demonstrate that the coal mine ochres tested are relatively free from problematic levels of elements seen by other authors from acid mine drainage-derived ochre. Comparison to British Standards for use of iron-based coagulants in drinking water treatment was used as an indicator of the acceptability of use of the ochre-derived reagents in terms of potentially problematic elements. The ochre-derived reagents were found to meet the ‘Grade 3’ specification, except for arsenic. Thus, for application in municipal wastewater and mine water treatment additional processing may not be required. There was little observed compositional difference between solutions prepared using H2SO4 or HCl. Ochre-derived reagents showed applicability for the removal of P and Zn with removals of up to 99% and 97% respectively measured for final pH 7–8, likely due to sorption/coprecipitation. Furthermore, the results demonstrate that applying a Fe dose in the form of liquid reagent leads to a better Fe:P and Fe:Zn removal ratio compared to ochre-based sorption media tested in the literature

Immune response to rabies vaccination in pediatric transplant patients

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/75049/1/j.1399-3046.2008.00936.x.pd