Slade, London, Asia: Contrapuntal Histories between Imperialism and Decolonization 1945–1989 (Part 1)

This feature takes the Slade School of Fine Art as the starting point for a global microhistory and reimagines ways of engaging with, co-constituting, and curating a research archive in pursuit of this endeavour. It consists of two parts: contributions in this issue of British Art Studies focus on the immediate post-war period, roughly 1945 to 1965, and a forthcoming second part will consider the 1960s to the 1990s. In this issue, the feature comprises a narrative history that interrogates the Slade’s role as a contrapuntal node, and a companion archival feature that brings together materials from multiple institutional and personal archives in Asia and the United Kingdom (UK). Building upon Edward Said’s use of the musical metaphor of contrapuntalism to address both the presence of empire in the metropolis and the construction of a transnational counterpoint with multiple voices, this project seeks to surface histories at the intersection of art education, imperialism, and decolonization. By using the Slade as a transversal line that connects multiple people and histories from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia, Singapore, Nigeria, Sudan, Uganda, Britain and beyond, this essay proposes new ways of writing histories of contrapuntal—not multiple—modernisms, as well as understanding art in Britain itself as a product of empire

Pharmaceutical Formulation Facilities as Sources of Opioids and Other Pharmaceuticals to Wastewater Treatment Plant Effluents

Facilities involved in the manufacture of pharmaceutical products are an under-investigated source of pharmaceuticals to the environment. Between 2004 and 2009, 35 to 38 effluent samples were collected from each of three wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in New York and analyzed for seven pharmaceuticals including opioids and muscle relaxants. Two WWTPs (NY2 and NY3) receive substantial flows (>20% of plant flow) from pharmaceutical formulation facilities (PFF) and one (NY1) receives no PFF flow. Samples of effluents from 23 WWTPs across the United States were analyzed once for these pharmaceuticals as part of a national survey. Maximum pharmaceutical effluent concentrations for the national survey and NY1 effluent samples were generally <1 μg/L. Four pharmaceuticals (methadone, oxycodone, butalbital, and metaxalone) in samples of NY3 effluent had median concentrations ranging from 3.4 to >400 μg/L. Maximum concentrations of oxycodone (1700 μg/L) and metaxalone (3800 μg/L) in samples from NY3 effluent exceeded 1000 μg/L. Three pharmaceuticals (butalbital, carisoprodol, and oxycodone) in samples of NY2 effluent had median concentrations ranging from 2 to 11 μg/L. These findings suggest that current manufacturing practices at these PFFs can result in pharmaceuticals concentrations from 10 to 1000 times higher than those typically found in WWTP effluents

Determination of structure and origin of refractory organic matter in bio-epurated wastewater via spectroscopic methods. comparison of conventional and ozonation treatments

6 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, 23 references.With the widely used activated sludge treatment most of the organic matter (OM) of wastewater can be removed, but the composition and origin of the refractory OM in treated water are poorly known. The structures occurring in treated water are more difficult to elucidate than those of the OM originally present in wastewater, since the classical hydrolysis−chromatography methods are not suitable for the analysis of such samples. 13C and 15N solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), liquid-state 1H NMR and infrared (IR) were used in the present study. A treatment procedure including a stage of ozonation of the sludge, used to reduce the sludge production, was studied along with a conventional treatment line. The OM in the water treated through the ozonated line was mainly composed of proteins and sugars moieties, while the aliphatic compounds dominant in the wastewater were efficiently removed. The conventional treatment was more efficient in terms of OM removal but led to the formation and/or enrichment of unknown products with high oxidation and branching levels. These products contained CO groups, while the nitrogen was found in amide groups, refractory to the treatment.Peer reviewe

Le laboratoire d'analyse face à une pollution chimique accidentelle des eaux

Le présent article décrit les différentes phases de l'intervention d'un laboratoire, face à une pollution chimique accidentelle des eaux. Les objectifs du laboratoire consistent dans un premier temps à déterminer le plus rapidement possible l'origine et la nature exacte de la pollution et d'en suivre ultérieurement l'évolution. Les conséquences de ces tâches sur le fonctionnement et l'organisation du laboratoire ainsi que les stratégies analytiques mises en oeuvre sont examinées. Les mesures propres à favoriser l'expertise du laboratoire telles que la rapidité de l'alerte, l'enquête sur le terrain, l'échange d'informations sont exposées. Ces différents points sont illustrés par une sélection d'exemples vécus

Antagonisme entre 15 espèces de Basidiomycètes et 3 champignons pathogènes de racines d'arbres

Eghbaltalab M, Gay G., Bruchet Gilbert. Antagonisme entre 15 espèces de Basidiomycètes et 3 champignons pathogènes de racines d'arbres. In: Bulletin mensuel de la Société linnéenne de Lyon, 44ᵉ année, n°7, septembre 1975. pp. 203-208

Etude in vitro des activités pectinolytique et cellulolytique de Fomes annosus (Fr.) Cke et de Rosellinia quercina Hart

Eghbaltalab M, Debaud J.-C., Bruchet Gilbert. Etude in vitro des activités pectinolytique et cellulolytique de Fomes annosus (Fr.) Cke et de Rosellinia quercina Hart. In: Bulletin mensuel de la Société linnéenne de Lyon, 45ᵉ année, n°2, février 1976. pp. 85-90

Traitement des goûts et odeurs sur les eaux de la Lys

Suite à l'été chaud et ensoleillé 1990, les eaux de la Lys ont été l'objet d'une explosion de goûts et d'odeurs désagréables générés par la prolifération de micro-organismes aquatiques. L'identification des substances organiques responsables des nuisances observées a été réalisée grâce au couplage chromatographie gazeuse/spectographie de masse. Elles ont été oxydées avec un plein succès pour la qualité organoleptique des eaux produites, grâce à la combinaison ozone/peroxyde d'hydrogène