Finding home: Black queer historical scholarship in the United States Part II

This essay surveys the extant historical and historically minded scholarship about the political, social, and cultural life of African American/black LGBT/queer. Characterizing this area of inquiry as “black queer historical studies,” this essay addresses scholars’ diverse approaches to the challenge of archival research, current scholarship about the intersecting histories of blackness and queerness in the United States, and four key topical concerns: black “lesbian” histories, gender transgression, class, and community formation/politics.Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/149251/1/hic312533.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/149251/2/hic312533_am.pd

Estresse ocupacional e satisfação dos usuários com os cuidados de saúde primários em Portugal

The Portuguese primary healthcare sector has suffered changes due to a reform on the lines of the conceptual framework referred to by some authors as "New Public Management." These changes may be generating higher levels of occupational stress with a negative impact at individual and organizational levels. This study examines the experience of stress in 305 health professionals (physicians, nurses and clinical secretaries) and satisfaction with the services provided by them from 392 users. The population under scrutiny is taken from 10 type A and 10 type B Family Health Units (FHU). The results show that 84.2% of professionals report moderate to high levels of occupational stress with the nurses being those with higher levels. Users reported good levels of satisfaction, especially with the nursing services. There were no differences in stress level between type A and type B FHU, though there were at the level of user satisfaction of type B FHU users who show higher levels of satisfaction. It was seen that dimensions of user satisfaction were affected by stress related to excess work.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Bryophyte gas-exchange dynamics along varying hydration status reveal a significant carbonyl sulphide (COS) sink in the dark and COS source in the light

Carbonyl sulphide (COS) is a potential tracer of gross primary productivity (GPP), assuming a unidirectional COS flux into the vegetation that scales with GPP. However, carbonic anhydrase (CA), the enzyme that hydrolyses COS, is expected to be light independent, and thus plants without stomata should continue to take up COS in the dark. We measured net CO2 (A(C) ) and COS (A(S) ) uptake rates from two astomatous bryophytes at different relative water contents (RWCs), COS concentrations, temperatures and light intensities. We found large A(S) in the dark, indicating that CA activity continues without photosynthesis. More surprisingly, we found a nonzero COS compensation point in light and dark conditions, indicating a temperature-driven COS source with a Q10 (fractional change for a 10°C temperature increase) of 3.7. This resulted in greater A(S) in the dark than in the light at similar RWC. The processes underlying such COS emissions remain unknown. Our results suggest that ecosystems dominated by bryophytes might be strong atmospheric sinks of COS at night and weaker sinks or even sources of COS during daytime. Biotic COS production in bryophytes could result from symbiotic fungal and bacterial partners that could also be found on vascular plants.Funding was provided by the European Research Council (ERC) early career starting grant SOLCA (grant no. 338264) and the French Agence National de la Recherche (ANR) project ORCA. T.E.G. was funded by the IdEx post-doctoral programme of the Université de Bordeaux and by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Intra-European fellowship (grant no. 653223). J.R. was funded by NERC grant NE/M00113X/1

The geology of the Preesall Saltfield area:

This report was commissioned by Canatxx Gas Storage Limited, who requested BGS produce an assessment of the geology of the Preesall area and a 3D model of the (Triassic) Preesall Halite. The work was required ahead of a Public Inquiry into the proposed development of an underground gas storage facility in an area to the east of the River Wyre and west of a former ICI brinefield. The main brief was to assess the geology, review borehole data held by BGS and additional borehole and seismic reflection data made available to BGS by Canatxx, and thereby provide the best-fit model from the current database. This has been completed. This report therefore considers the data both held by BGS and supplied to BGS by Canatxx and/or Mott MacDonald, for the purposes of this study. The British Geological Survey (BGS) already possess a considerable borehole database. BGS was also supplied with the Canatxx database of the tabulated top and base salt of those ICI brinefield wells and shaft data that were not already available to, or held by, BGS. The result is that 745 boreholes over the western Fylde area that were pertinent to the study were coded and entered in to the model. Several seismic reflection lines were also made available and have been reprocessed as part of this study. At a late stage, BGS gained access to velocity (sonic log) information from the Arm Hill and The Heads boreholes. These boreholes were drilled in early 2004 and permit calibration of the seismic reflection data, and identification of the Preesall Halite interval within the seismic data. The findings and conclusions reached here will contribute to the other proofs of evidence to be submitted on behalf of Canatxx Gas Storage Limited for the Public Inquiry. It should be noted that this report forms a wholly independent assessment of the location, extent, and general characteristics of the Preesall Saltfield. The report has not considered points of issue such as rock salt (halite) quality and its suitability for underground gas storage as this is to be covered by other consultants’ expert in these fields