Stillbirth Memento Photography

Research into stillbirth memento photography shows the practice to be welcomed by the bereaved. The visual attributes and content of stillbirth memento photographs are yet to be rigorously analysed however, representing a significant gap in current understanding. This study seeks to address this. 51 professionally produced stillbirth memento photographs have been sampled, anonymised and analysed. Using a content analysis methodology, imagery was characterised by aesthetic and semantic properties. The results were then cross-referenced against existing stillbirth scholarship, data from an interview study with people who had experienced pregnancy loss, and against image theories. The content analysis identified four distinctive image tropes in the sample: images of mother, father and baby, with the baby being held and the parents touching; macro photography of the baby; portrait photographs of babies lying alone with little or no physical trauma evident; and images of a parent, usually the mother, cradling the baby. The analysis also identified specific attributes, present across the sample, that appeared significant and distinctive of stillbirth memento photography. These were: (1) stylistic attributes, (2) acknowledgement and validation, (3) identity construction, (4) ambiguity and (5) embodiment

Aquilegia Volume 41 No. 2 Spring 2017

IN THIS ISSUE Western Slope Festival: June 3-4 in Gunnison FIELD TRIPS Native Plant Selections from Plant Select® Velma Richards 1917-2017 2016 State of the Society Report Conservation Corner: The Botany Bill Cinquefoils at the Elkhorn Study Area Revegetation Projects Introduce Two New Penstemon Specieshttps://epublications.regis.edu/aquilegia/1193/thumbnail.jp

Aquilegia Volume 41 No. 4 Summer 2017

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Progress on the Use of Combined Analog and Photon Counting Detection for Raman Lidar

The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) program Raman Lidar (CARL) was upgraded in 2004 with a new data system that provides simultaneous measurements of both the photomultiplier analog output voltage and photon counts. The so-called merge value added procedure (VAP) was developed to combine the analog and count-rate signals into a single signal with improved dynamic range. Earlier versions of this VAP tended to cause unacceptably large biases in the water vapor mixing ratio during the daytime as a result of improper matching between the analog and count-rate signals in the presence of elevated solar background levels. We recently identified several problems and tested a modified version of the merge VAP by comparing profiles of water vapor mixing ratio derived from CARL with simultaneous sonde data over a six month period. We show that the modified merge VAP significantly reduces the daytime bias, and results in mean differences that are within approximately 1% for both nighttime and daytime measurements

The doctoral curriculum: needs and directions in research training

[Extract] The past decade has seen unprecedented scrutiny of the purposes and practices of doctoral education as a form of research training. Regarded as the pinnacle of university scholarship, the doctorate has faced a growing range of challenges to its traditional forms and status. Of particular importance are concerns about the quality and breadth of research training in Australian universities expressed in a number of government reports and inquiries (Review Committee on Higher Education Financing and Policy (West Report), 1998; Kemp, 1999; Gallagher, 2000). However, these same issues have been raised across national boundaries and fields of study, indicating that, rather than being a problem in any particular system of higher education or research training, the concerns signal deep-seated and wide-ranging challenges to the traditions of the doctoral curriculum

Developing an e-infrastructure for social science

We outline the aims and progress to date of the National Centre for e-Social Science e-Infrastructure project. We examine the challenges faced by the project, namely in ensuring outputs are appropriate to social scientists, managing the transition from research projects to service and embedding software and data within a wider infrastructural framework. We also provide pointers to related work where issues which have ramifications for this and similar initiatives are being addressed

Aquilegia Volume 41 No.1 Winter 2017

IN THIS ISSUE:Forty Years of Progress in Pollination Biology Return of the Native: Colorado Natives in Horticulture Climate Change and Columbines The Ute Learning and Ethnobotany Garden The Urban Prairies Project Book Reviewshttps://epublications.regis.edu/aquilegia/1192/thumbnail.jp

SESSION 4: Atlanta Beltline

ABSTRACT: What Would it Take to Connect All of Greater Seattle’s Neighborhoods with Walking and Biking Trails? Major U.S. cities have endeavored, independently of each other, over the past several decades to create greenway systems connecting residents and visitors with neighborhoods and attractions, increasing opportunities for walking and biking and reducing their reliance on vehicular traffic. Atlanta’s BeltLine--a twenty-two-mile loop of historic railroad right-of-ways encircling the city’s downtown and midtown areas, seeks to reinvent the city if transformed into a green corridor—is perhaps one of the best examples of how a Seattle Greenway might be accomplished (although Atlanta’s concerted efforts through BeltLine.org are still considered a “work in progress” after fifteen years). The mostly abandoned rail corridor connects 45 diverse neighborhoods, including many of the city\u27s most underserved by parks. A December 15, 2004, Trust for Public Land (TPL) report showed that revitalizing the BeltLine would provide an extraordinary opportunity for economic development—including affordable housing—and to connect communities through green space. The Highline, in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, and Chicago’s 606, are morerecent examples of such endeavors to integrate greenspaces into densely populated urban areas. What are the political and legal steps the greater Seattle area would need to take to develop a greenway in the Emerald City that connects well-established, densely populated neighborhoods to employment centers and recreational amenities, such as parks and shorelines

Aspects of British and Irish Mesolithic and early Neolithic woodworking practice, technology and change with case-studies from south-west Britain

This thesis investigates prehistoric woodworking technology, techniques and traditions based on multi-site comparative analysis of assemblages and new data from excavated collections. The timeframe under review is the Mesolithic and early Neolithic periods in Britain and Ireland, with a particular focus on the nature of changing organic material culture during the transition between these periods. This work provides an updated review of the transition debate alongside original synthesis of relevant worked wood assemblages, detailed metric analysis of woodworking evidence from specific case-studies, and a focus on outstanding issues in understanding manufacturing toolmarks on wooden artefacts. In-depth original analysis of data from specific collections has been based on study of two significant primary case-studies; Goldcliff East (Gwent, Wales) and the Sweet and Post tracks (Somerset, England). The opportunity to study these assemblages, some of the material as yet unpublished, has allowed for comprehensive analysis of worked wood artefacts and comparison of wood working traditions in the late Mesolithic southern Wales and early Neolithic south-west England. Results of this analysis revealed the presence of a previously unreported working technique identified in both assemblages, one later Mesolithic, the other initial Neolithic, and has provided a useful mechanism to compare activity across the sites and periods. This in turn led to the development of a programme of experimental archaeology devised to investigate the nature and differences in toolmark morphology produced by different relevant tool types. Such research into prehistoric organic material culture and worked wood assemblages provides a mechanism to test and inform some of the theories and assumptions that have been proposed for these periods in wider archaeological analysis. With the results demonstrating the variety of woodworking skills available to people in the past, and highlighting the nature of resource management and wood selection choices, networks of connectivity, social organisation and specific tool use. By offering new data and understanding of activity, technology and cultural practice over the course of the Mesolithic to early Neolithic in this area of Europe, fresh perspective on the complexity of this important period is provided