Guides and Guidance: Subverting Tourist Narratives in Trans-Indigenous Time and Space

My dissertation is a study of the ways in which Indigenous writers and theorists suggest we decolonize the sites of knowledge production through our pedagogical and methodological practices. Ultimately, my dissertation is about the power of story and finding the necessary strategies to change the narratives that do harm in our daily lives. I focus on the sites of knowledge production because these are the institutions and practices with which I am the most familiar. The purpose of this work is beyond metaphorical as I strive to forefront the narratives that change the ways in which settler-Indigenous relationships are formed in a geopolitical context. The subjects of this study include textbooks, curriculum requirements, archives, gardens, fieldwork research methodologies, museums, tourist sites, and schools that utilize decolonial praxis. As its primary theoretical framework, this project relies on Doreen Massey’s conceptualization of space as interrelational and ongoing, coupled with Linda Tuhiwai Smith’s definition of intervening as an Indigenizing methodology that changes institutions to serve Indigenous peoples, rather than changing Indigenous peoples to fit institutions. Since the sites of knowledge production are often intertribal, I examine trans-Indigenous strategies for intervening in Eurocentric narrative spaces by using Chadwick Allen’s trans-Indigenous methodologies in my literary analysis. In this study, I also analyze academic tourism — yet to be explored in my field — as the conflation of research methodologies and tourist practices at museums and heritage sites where knowledge is packaged for popular consumption and risks being unethically oversimplified. I expect my dissertation fieldwork on the spatial narrative of the Indian Community School (ICS) in Milwaukee and the Milwaukee Public Museum (MPM) will illuminate necessary strategies to create spaces that reflect our shared visions for a just society

Magnetic Collapse of a Neutron Gas: No Magnetar Formation

A degenerate neutron gas in equilibrium with a background of electrons and protons in a magnetic field exerts its pressure anisotropically, having a smaller value perpendicular than along the magnetic field. For critical fields the magnetic pressure may produce the vanishing of the equatorial pressure of the neutron gas, and the outcome could be a transverse collapse of the star. This fixes a limit to the fields to be observable in stable pulsars as a function of their density. The final structure left over after the implosion might be a mixed phase of nucleons and meson ($\pi^{\pm,0},\kappa^{\pm,0}$) condensate (a strange star also likely) or a black string, but no magnetar at all.Comment: 5 pages, 1 latex file, 1 encapsulated figure. Submitted to Physical Review Letters (24/11/2000

Modifying IMSMA Training: The Mine Action Information Management Qualification Scheme

The Mine Action Information Management Qualification Scheme (MIQ) is a new training tool for the Information Management System for Mine Action. It was created in response to the Next Generation version of IMSMA, the newest version of the system. The Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining eliminated the rigid and unnecessary parts of the training-system in order to make MIQ more user-friendly. The MIQ scheme is currently being incorporated into several countries’ information-management programs, but it could still use input as it is being refined and implemented

Stability Conditions and the Single Mode Approximation in FQHE

A thermodynamic stability criterion for the spontaneous breaking of the translation invariance of many particle systems is derived. It simply requires the positive character of the wavevector dependent dielectric function as generalising the same condition for macroscopic dielectric constants. Its application to the Single Mode Approximation (SMA) for the description of the collective modes of the filling factor 1/m Laughlin states is considered. The results indicate that the stability condition is violated by the SMA for all the relevant states m=3,5,7,9 in a wavevector neighborhood of the magneto-roton minima. These conclusions are in qualitative agreement with similar results obtained from the solution of the Bethe-Salpeter equation at 1/3 filling factor for both composite fermions and phenomenologically described electrons in the Laughlin state.Comment: 14 pages, two figures, the spelling and acknowledgments were correcte

Underground Anthology vol. 1

The Underground Anthology is a journal for BIPOC authors to share their creative writing works with the world. The UA team felt there was something missing in existing creative writing publications on campus: BIPOC representation. In a predominantly white institution, and a predominantly white field of study, all we want are our stories told. UA acknowledges that it is equally as important to uplift, amplify, and empower the talented voices of underrepresented students in order to create a more vibrant and diversified campus climate. We hope that this journal will inspire change in the ways we conventionally think about literature. In doing so, we strive to expand the literary canon and encourage our fellow artists to look at creative writing through a multicultural lens

Intervenciones de enfermeria y aplicación de cuidados durante la atencion del parto de bajo de riesgo, según normas y protocolos en el Hospital Primario San José, Matiguas II semestre 2016

Se analizaron las intervenciones de Enfermería y Aplicación de cuidados durante la atención del parto de bajo riesgo según normas y protocolos en el Hospital Primario San José del Municipio Matiguas - Departamento de Matagalpa, II semestre 2016. Es de importancia porque se obtiene conocimiento acerca de la eficacia y eficiencia de las intervenciones aplicadas en los cuidados con las pacientes en estudio, logra involucrar al personal de salud y estudiantes en el manejo de los cuidados de enfermería aplicando correctamente las normas y protocolos de bajo riesgo para lograr la atención de calidad al igual que se documentaron y compararon cada una de las intervenciones de enfermería conforme a lo establecido en las Normas y protocolos con los cuidados realizados por el personal de enfermería. Es un estudio descriptivo, de corte transversal, con enfoque cualitativo de implicancia cuantitativa, con un universo de 39 pacientes, siendo esta también la muestra de 39, se concluye: a) Se enumeraron las intervenciones de enfermería durante la atención de los tres periodos del parto, en base a lo establecido por la Normativa 011, Normas y Protocolos para atención prenatal, parto, recién nacido/a y puerperio de bajo riesgo, b) se compararon las intervenciones de enfermería con los cuidados aplicados encontrando que se cumple con la mayoría de las intervenciones documentadas. c) Al evaluar las intervenciones de enfermería establecidas en la Normativa 011 conforme al cuidado que se le brinda a la usuaria en el Hospital primario san José de Matiguas en estudio, el resultado es insatisfactorio, y al observarlo desde la perspectiva del trabajo y conforme al estudio que se realizó y al momento de relacionarlo con el indicador que persigue la normativa con respecto a la satisfacción de la usuaria con un umbral del 80 al 90% los resultados de la investigación realizada siguen siendo insatisfactorio