“Somewhere listening for my name”:Black Queer Kinship and the Poetry of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic

This essay is about poetry, publication, and intergenerational caretaking in the context of a mass death event—the HIV/AIDS pandemic. It reads the work of contemporary Black, queer American poets Danez Smith, Jericho Brown, and Pamela Sneed for their intertextual and interpersonal engagement with queer and of-color literary texts and voices (in particular, those of Essex Hemphill, Melvin Dixon, and Donald Woods) under threat of erasure by HIV/AIDS and its effects and aftermaths. In doing so, it argues that Smith, Brown, and Sneed enact in their writing a political, spiritual, and historical project of recuperation and republication, taking the term “republishing” to encompass varying forms of print, performance, allusion, thematic evocation, formal echoes, and citation. In examining the complex, varied, and cross-temporal processes of poetic and scholarly caretaking and kinship—and of publication, “depublication,” and republication—this essay shows that the imprinting of HIV/AIDS into countercanonical poetry offers a crucial, ongoing, and collective counterweight to prevailing assumptions and stereotypes about the virus and the disease it causes, as well as creating and sustaining alternative sites of memory, mourning, and meaning making.The implications of the kind of republishing that Smith, Brown, and Sneed gesture toward—this way of remembering and reminding others of lost texts and writers—are manifold, if complex and unavoidably constrained, and include new readerships; the preservation of stories, legacies, and knowledge; and the mitigation of Black queer literary losses as a result of HIV/AIDS

EVALUATION OF FEASIBILITY OF FRUIT AND VEGETABLE CROPS USING MARKET WINDOW ANALYSIS

Fruits and vegetables have been identified as potential production alternatives to use available farm resources. Several "market window" studies have been undertaken to evaluate such feasibility. These state and regional studies are analyzed and compared to identify underlying assumptions and methodologies. Recommendations of the studies are evaluated on an aggregate basis and limitations of the market window technique are identified and discussed. The technique was judged to be useful in planning because it involves consideration of potential costs to be incurred, markets to be evaluated, and price expectations for the various commodities considered.Crop Production/Industries,

‘all writing is in fact cut ups’: the UK Web Archive and Beat literature

This paper uses web archives to examine the public and academic reaction to Beat literature in the UK, ion the late 20th and 21st centuries

Allocation methods of student midwives

The thesis makes an analysis of methods available for scheduling nursing staff on a week by week basis. As illustration it considers the situation pertaining at the Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion between 1973 and 1978, where student midwives have to be allocated in order to satisfy staffing requirements on each ward, while simultaneously ensuring that each nurse receives the necessary experience on different wards in the course of her year's training. Section I analyses the constraints governing nurse scheduling at the S.M.M.P. under two separate systems used between 1973 and 1978, and provides an exhaustive survey of alternative course structures and solution formulation methods. Section 2 details the existing solution in 1973 and describes two models of that situation which were formulated in order to permit computer simulation of the problem. In Section 3 the scheduling problem at the S.M.M.P. is put into the context of generalised allocation methods. The suitedness of existing mathematical techniques to this problem is considered, and that of sub-gradient optimisation is tested extensively, with modifications to published techniques being detailed where an improvement has been made in the applicability to the present problem. The method is found to be weak when applied to problems of this scale, so a new method is developed which uses a heuristic algorithm to allocate nurses to a set of acceptable schedules. This approach is more powerful and may have applications in other fields. Section 4 describes changes in the training constraints which make it possible to adopt a cyclically repetitive standard schedule at the S.M.M.P. Drawbacks in the present allocation pattern are pointed out, and a new scheduling system developed which eliminates these. In the Conclusions comparison is made between the above methods of allocation with regard to their suitability to the real situation as typified by that at the S.M.M.P