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Promised Land? Immigration, Religiosity, and Space in Southern California

This article looks at how immigrants and their supporters appropriate and use religious space and other public spaces for religious and socio-political purposes in Southern California. While the everyday living conditions of many immigrants, particularly the unauthorized Latino immigrants, force unto them an embodied disciplinarity that maintains spatialities of restricted citizenship, the public appropriations of space for and through religious practices allow for them -even if only momentarily -to express an embodied transgression. This practice in public space helps realize spaces of freedom and hope, however ephemerally. Potentially, these rehearsing exercises can help revert internalized disempowering subjectivities and create social empowerment. Negative stereotypes about immigrants held by the larger public can also be challenged through these spatial practices, as the public demonstrations make visible the invisible. We focus on “Posadas Without Borders” and “the New Sanctuary Movement,” considering both the role of progressive civic and religious institutions in supporting immigrants and the agency of the immigrants themselves. The theoretical analysis builds on concepts drawn from a conversation between geography and religious and theological studies. We use a triangulated methodological approach that includes observation and participant observation, content-analysis of multimedia, interviews, and intellectual advocacy for the immigrant movement. The cases discussed here show that progressive religious groups and coalitions can be important allies to progressive planners, geographers, and policy makers in advancing social and environmental justice for the disenfranchised. They also show that the theological underpinnings of such groups share a lot in common with planning epistemologies for the just city

Assessing associations between the AURKAHMMR-TPX2-TUBG1 functional module and breast cancer risk in BRCA1/2 mutation carriers

While interplay between BRCA1 and AURKA-RHAMM-TPX2-TUBG1 regulates mammary epithelial polarization, common genetic variation in HMMR (gene product RHAMM) may be associated with risk of breast cancer in BRCA1 mutation carriers. Following on these observations, we further assessed the link between the AURKA-HMMR-TPX2-TUBG1 functional module and risk of breast cancer in BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation carriers. Forty-one single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were genotyped in 15,252 BRCA1 and 8,211 BRCA2 mutation carriers and subsequently analyzed using a retrospective likelihood appr

Factors Associated with Revision Surgery after Internal Fixation of Hip Fractures

Background: Femoral neck fractures are associated with high rates of revision surgery after management with internal fixation. Using data from the Fixation using Alternative Implants for the Treatment of Hip fractures (FAITH) trial evaluating methods of internal fixation in patients with femoral neck fractures, we investigated associations between baseline and surgical factors and the need for revision surgery to promote healing, relieve pain, treat infection or improve function over 24 months postsurgery. Additionally, we investigated factors associated with (1) hardware removal and (2) implant exchange from cancellous screws (CS) or sliding hip screw (SHS) to total hip arthroplasty, hemiarthroplasty, or another internal fixation device. Methods: We identified 15 potential factors a priori that may be associated with revision surgery, 7 with hardware removal, and 14 with implant exchange. We used multivariable Cox proportional hazards analyses in our investigation. Results: Factors associated with increased risk of revision surgery included: female sex, [hazard ratio (HR) 1.79, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.25-2.50; P = 0.001], higher body mass index (fo

Final Report of Project SR-163

Interpretive studies based on available information on the low-stress brittle fracture behavior of mild steel are made to suggest additional guides for the evaluation of the fracture resistance of fabricated steel structures. Linear elastic fracture mechanics is used in evaluation of the fracture toughness disclosed by the arrest of cleavage fractures in notched and welded wide plate specimens. Fracture toughness values also are obtained from strain field measurements in the vicinity of propagating cracks on the verge of arrest in 6-ft-wide plates. The results clearly show the trend towards "toughening" at higher temperatures and the major role residual stress fields can play in driving fractures. An experimental investigation was conducted to investigate the influence of welding on the yield behavior of metal from the thermally affected zone in the vicinity of a weld. The rate-temperature dependent component of the yield stress appears to be the same for base metal and metal from the thermally affected zone, but the yield stress of the thermally affected zone metal shows a substantially increased rate-temperature independent component. A critical stress model for the prediction of brittle cleavage fracture is developed. and applied to cleavage initiation, propagation, and arrest. The model approximately accounts for inelastic behavior near a flaw by truncating the elastic stress d1stribution. Effects of rate, temperature, notch' acuity, local strain hardening, residual stress, and propagation velocity are considered; the model demonstrates good qualitative representation of the effects of these parameters on the susceptibility to cleavage. Correlations with experimental results show the model is capable of quantitative representation of the effects of rate and temperature on the applied stress required for the initiation of brittle cleavage fracture and the stress required for continued cleavage propagation. The study suggests that low-stress cleavage initiation at service temperatures can be associated with a marked local reduction of critical fracture stress, that residual stresses can be responsible for the propagation through sound metal of fracture initiated in damaged material and that the critical fracture stress and fracture mechanics approaches are equivalent when applied to cleavage propagation and arrest.Ship Structure Committee. Bureau of Ships, U.S. Navy.Contract N0bs 86688Project Serial No. S-F 013 0304, Task 202

Motivasi dan organisasi perkantoran

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Organisasi Perkantoran dan Motivasi

21 cm; 477 ha

Dasar - Dasar Manajemen

19 cm; 332 ha