What is rural?

This event, a symposium, will explore the representation of landscape from farming to philosophy. The day will aim to further thinking around the intersection between art, real places and research and provide an arena for specialists to explore and challenge ideas and approaches to Rurality. The day will offer an opportunity to extend and inform current research and practice alongside developing new networks. What is Rural? aims to deepen levels of engagement and understanding in ethical, aesthetic, critical, funding, environmental and philosophical issues evident in rural spaces and related discourses. Artists, art and art practice will become the prompt that opens up a richer dialogue, encourages sharing and makes available specialist ideas to a wider public. The wide range of speakers have been linked to create a dynamic environment that will encourage audience involvement and allow for 3-way debate and discussion. This event coincides with exhibitions by Kate Genever, Adam O'Meara and Nick May

Taskscape

TASKSCAPE at The Collection by Lincolnshire based artists Kate Genever and Adam O’Meara. The exhibition is a collaboratively produced installation developed specifically for the space and will explore notions of landscape, journeying and contemporary collecting. Kate and Adam are Lincolnshire based artists, working to explore ideas related to landscape, livelihood, and dwelling. They attempt to offer an alternative and contemporary take on these age-old subjects. Their primary concern is to challenge and consider new and alternative ways of looking, thinking and representing our local landscape, whilst increasing audience access to contemporary artwork. Taskscape contains new work by both artists and has been developed especially for The Collection. Kate as an artist and farmer shows work from a growing archive that documents her family’s relationship to the land at their Lincolnshire based farm. Adam a photographer explores the relationship between rural and urban. An aspect of his visual practice will be produced in collaboration with the Cognitive Psychology Department at Lincoln University. Audience members will over several intervening Fridays be invited to re hang the show, acting as curators to restructure the space and the work. The artists will be present for questions and assistance, but we will not interfere with the choices. These re-hangs will encourage the audience to consider new meaning and ways of looking whilst allowing an exploration of landscape as a cultural construct. “We want the audience to interact with the work in a hands on, ears on, eyes on way, where we try to reinforce the relationships with the task/landscape we have built and commented on, but also as a way to demonstrate our particular views of what we have found and seen.

Worlds Collide: A Repository Based on Technical and Archival Collaboration

The failure of many institutional repositories (IR) to acquire large sets of faculty publications has shown that the traditional IR model is not sustainable without a shift in academic publishing. The Carolina Digital Repository (CDR) aims to be more than a traditional IR and instead of focusing primarily on open access publishing, it will acquire, preserve and make accessible a range of at-risk scholarly output, such as datasets, faculty papers, university records and other faculty research projects

Worlds Collide: A Repository Based on Technical and Archival Collaboration

The failure of many institutional repositories (IR) to acquire large sets of faculty publications has shown that the traditional IR model is not sustainable without a shift in academic publishing. The Carolina Digital Repository (CDR) aims to be more than a traditional IR and instead of focusing primarily on open access publishing, it will acquire, preserve and make accessible a range of at-risk scholarly output, such as datasets, faculty papers, university records and other faculty research projects

Directly Imaging Damped Ly-Alpha Galaxies at Redshifts Greater Than 2. III: The Star Formation Rates of Neutral Gas Reservoirs at Redshifts of Approximately 2.7

We present results from a survey designed to probe the star formation properties of 32 damped Ly alpha systems (DLAs) at redshifts of approximately 2.7. By using the "double-DLA" technique that eliminates the glare of the bright background quasars, we directly measure the rest-frame FUV flux from DLAs and their neighbouring galaxies. At the position of the absorbing gas, we place stringent constraints on the unobscured star formation rates (SFRs) of DLAs to 2 sigma limits of psi less than 0.090.27 solar mass yr(exp 1), corresponding to SFR surface densities sigma(sub sfr) less than 10(exp 2.6)10(exp 1.5) solar mass yr(exp 1) kpc(exp 2). The implications of these limits for the star formation law, metal enrichment, and cooling rates of DLAs are examined. By studying the distribution of impact parameters as a function of SFRs for all the galaxies detected around these DLAs, we place new direct constraints on the bright end of the UV luminosity function of DLA hosts. We find that less than or equal to 13% of the hosts have psi greater than or equal to 2 solar mass yr(exp 1) at impact parameters b(sub dla) less than or equal to (psi/solar mass yr(exp 1))(exp 0.8) + 6 kpc, differently from current samples of confirmed DLA galaxies. Our observations also disfavor a scenario in which the majority of DLAs arise from bright LBGs at distances 20 less than or equal to b(sub dla) less than 100 kpc. These new findings corroborate a picture in which DLAs do not originate from highly star forming systems that are coincident with the absorbers, and instead suggest that DLAs are associated with faint, possibly isolated, star-forming galaxies. Potential shortcomings of this scenario and future strategies for further investigation are discussed

Estrategias de comunicación organizacional durante el periodo 2019-i: caso universidad Francisco de Paula Santander – programa de comunicación social

Las Estrategias de comunicación organizacional durante el periodo 2019-I: caso Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander - Programa de Comunicación Social, surge como un análisis que busca comprender el impacto y las limitaciones que posee la comunicación organizacional dentro de la institución. Dicho interés, nace de la necesidad de conocer la relevancia de los procesos de comunicación interna y externa dentro de las instituciones, debido a que es una herramienta estratégica que puede llevar al éxito o fracaso de estas. Teniendo en cuenta lo anterior, se desarrolla una identificación de todos los elementos teóricos que conforman la estructura de estos tipos de comunicación, tales como: historia, estructura, flujos de comunicación, liderazgo, imagen corporativa, herramientas de comunicación, clima entre otros. Todo esto con el fin de identificar los conceptos y teóricos claves para la investigación

A 6-year case series of resuscitative thoracotomies performed by a helicopter emergency medical service in a mixed urban and rural area with a comparison of blunt versus penetrating trauma

Background Resuscitative thoracotomy (RT) is an intervention that can be performed in the prehospital setting for relieving cardiac tamponade and/or obtaining vascular control of suspected sub-diaphragmatic haemorrhage in patients in traumatic cardiac arrest. The aim of this retrospective case study is to compare the rates of return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) in RTs performed for both penetrating and blunt trauma over 6 years in a mixed urban and rural environment. Methods The electronic records of a single helicopter emergency medical service were reviewed between 1st June 2015 and 31st May 2021 for RTs. Anonymised data including demographics were extracted for relevant cases. Data were analysed with independent t-tests and Χ2 tests. A p value < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results Forty-four RTs were preformed within the 6 years (26 for blunt trauma). Eleven ROSCs were achieved (nine blunt, two penetrating) but no patient survived to discharge. In contrast to RTs for penetrating trauma, twelve of the RTs for blunt trauma had a cardiac output present on arrival of the prehospital team (p = 0.01). Two patients had an RT performed in a helicopter (one ROSC) and two on a helipad (both achieving ROSC), likely due to the longer transfer times seen in a more rural setting. Four of the RTs for blunt trauma (15%) were found to have a cardiac tamponade versus seven (39%) of the penetrating trauma RTs. Conclusion Prehospital RT remains a procedure with low rates of survival but may facilitate a ROSC to allow patients to reach hospital and surgery, particularly when distances to hospitals are greater. A higher-than-expected rate of cardiac tamponade was seen in RTs for blunt trauma, although not caused by a right ventricular wound but instead due to underlying vessel damage

An Update on Preclinical Research in Anesthetic-Induced Developmental Neurotoxicity in Nonhuman Primate and Rodent Models

Funding Information: Supported by NIH R01GM137213-01 to CDM.Peer reviewedPostprin