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Get Out of That Chair: How Fat Professionals Fit in Student Affairs
In the authors’ experiences as fat, queer, people of color, they exist in a student affairs bubble that reminds them that their bodies are abject. They are forced to sort out when is it their sexualities, their skin, or their size that is the reasoning for their silence in higher education. They force themselves to ask, “when is it about just being fat?” while questioning if their fatness can be separated from their brownness and queerness. “Get Out Of That Chair: How Fat Professionals Fit in Student Affairs” creates a dialogue and discussion about how bodies are policed in the higher education and student affairs job search processes through performative writing. It demands that “normal” bodies get out the way to finally make it about fat people and seeks to exist freely regardless of the discomfort of others
An Assessment Of The Influence Of Economic Drivers Of Land Use Change On Nitrate Concentrations In The Red River Of The North Basin
In recent years there have been dramatic increases in crop prices, which would be expected to have resulted in greater production of crops and increased nitrates in surface water from increased use of fertilizer. The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that changing crop prices influence crop production and, consequently, water quality. To do this, the study intended to identify changes in crop cultivation within the Red River of the North Basin, assess whether these crops have contributed to nitrate concentrations and identify how nitrate concentrations would be influenced by alternative economic scenarios. Requisite data were obtained including observed nitrate concentrations within the basin, historical farm economic and production data and physical data such as stream discharge. From these data, two models were developed: a land use – water quality model which identified relationships between the extent and type of crop and nitrate concentrations, and an economic – land use model which predicted land use under various economic scenarios. The projected land use under a specified economic scenario could then be provided to the land use – water quality model to assess how changing economic conditions relate to nitrate concentrations in the Red River of the North Basin
Prospects for the agricultural sector in the Netherlands, Economic and technological explorations
The Dutch agricultural sector is greatly influenced by the global economy; the sector is very much focused on international trade. Every year, the agricultural sector generates an extensive positive export balance of over €20 billion (€23 billion in 2007). The proportion of agricultural products and food in total Dutch exports of goods and services is also fairly high (17%). A large proportion (around 70%) of the activities of the agro-complex is related to foreign sales, so there is heavy dependence on international trade
'Houd bij korting rekening met ongelijke verdeling'
Het LEI analyseerde de huidige verdeling van het GLB-budget over de lidstaten, en bespreekt opties voor de verdeling in de toekomst. Als na 2013 gekort wordt op het GLB-budget, zou er rekening gehouden moeten worden met wat lidstaten krijgen voor directe inkomenstoeslagen en plattelandsbeleid. In de politieke onderhandelingen speelt het totale saldo van ontvangsten en afdrachten een belangrijke rol
Stoomcursus Europees beleid
Mensen meer laten begrijpen van de Europese Unie. Dat willen de auteurs van het boek EU-beleid voor landbouw, voedsel en groen. "Er is veel onbegrip over de EU", zegt Huib Silvis, Ă©Ă©n van de samenstellers, "maar we kunnen niet zonder. Zaken als de voedselvoorziening, milieu en natuur ontstijgen nou eenmaal het nationale niveau
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Vulnerability and robustness in the essential gene complement of two bacterial species, profiled with CRISPRi
Bacterial essential genes contribute to the most fundamental processes of cellular life. The study of their functions in vivo has long been intractable to systematic genetic approaches, which are fundamental to understanding pathway level connections that govern cellular life and are a requirement for dissecting the complex cellular processes to which essential genes contribute. In Chapter 1 of this work I review recent advances in mapping gene-phenotype relationships in bacteria using the CRISPR-based technology, CRISPR interference (CRISPRi) for titratable gene knockdowns, focusing on their applications to the studies of essential genes, the exploration of chemical-genetic interactions, and the prospects for disentangling complex phenotypes in diverse bacterial species. In Chapter 2 I describe my analysis of the essential gene functions in the model Gram-negative bacterium Escherichia coli and the model Gram-positive Bacillus subtilis using datasets from paired chemical-genetic screens. In this work I identify both shared and Gram-negative specific mechanisms of collateral sensitization to antibiotic action. In Chapter 3 I investigate a fundamental property of essential genes, which is the relationship between their expression level and the cellular growth rate. Here, further developing CRISPRi tools in bacteria to predictably titrate knockdown efficacy, I interpret the knockdown-fitness relationships of each essential gene in E. coli and B. subtilis, discovering broad conservation of constraints setting and maintaining expression levels across these diverged species
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