Picturing Aid in Haiti: Reflections on the making of a work of graphic reportage

This research-creation PhD thesis contributes to recent debates about what journalism could (or should) be in today's fast-changing media landscape by focusing on graphic reportage, a journalistic approach that relies on the drawn medium of comics. In order to assess how working in this drawn form might affect the practices that journalists use in their work, I reflect critically on my process of making Picturing Aid in Haiti, a work of graphic reportage about humanitarian interventions in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. I carried out fieldwork for this graphic project in 2013 in Port-au-Prince, where I recorded a series of interviews with Haitians who lived for more than three years in a displacement camp. During this fieldwork, I also interviewed humanitarian workers and local landowners, and I documented what I observed through notes, photographs and sketches. Based on this research, I wrote the script for a graphic book, and I began illustrating and designing sample panels and pages of graphic reportage. In my research for this graphic project, I consciously sought out information and points of view often neglected in international news coverage of humanitarian interventions in places like Haiti. Reflecting on the interviews and observational research I carried out in Haiti, I show in this thesis that the approach of graphic reportage facilitated this process. Discussing specific excerpts from my graphic project, which serves as a platform for the words, stories and images that different interviewees contributed to this project, I demonstrate that this drawn form of journalism can open up space for exploring the perspectives of people like displaced Haitians whose voices, agency and histories are often missing or negated in the news. Through specific examples from Picturing Aid in Haiti, which also foregrounds some of the complex dynamics involved in my own process of researching, writing and visually representing aid in a Haitian camp, this thesis also shows that graphic reportage has the potential to encourage greater reflexivity in journalism

Alien Registration- Macdonald, Isabel E. (Portland, Cumberland County)

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Alien Registration- Macdonald, Isabel E. (Portland, Cumberland County)

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Alien Registration- Macdonald, Isabel E. (Portland, Cumberland County)

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Alien Registration- Macdonald, Isabel E. (Portland, Cumberland County)

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Increasing Individuals’ Economic Stability through Massachusetts’ Career and Technical Education

High-school based career and technical education (CTE) programs continue to grow, fueled by labor market demand and federal funding. Amid concerns over declining rates of economic mobility and stagnating earnings for low-wage workers, the academic landscape in America’s secondary schools now places extensive focus on workforce preparation as part of the curriculum. Nationally, CTE is the most popular type of elective taken by high school students, with roughly 80 percent of high school students taking at least one course. Using data from Massachusetts, researchers from the CTEx consortium estimated that students who participated in specialized CTE programs in high school had better attendance rates, were more likely to graduate from high school, were more likely to enroll in a two-year college, and earned more money in the seven years after leaving high school.https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/gpl_reports/1037/thumbnail.jp

Increasing Individuals’ Economic Stability through Massachusetts’ Career and Technical Education

High-school based career and technical education (CTE) programs continue to grow, fueled by labor market demand and federal funding. Amid concerns over declining rates of economic mobility and stagnating earnings for low-wage workers, the academic landscape in America’s secondary schools now places extensive focus on workforce preparation as part of the curriculum. Nationally, CTE is the most popular type of elective taken by high school students, with roughly 80 percent of high school students taking at least one course. Using data from Massachusetts, researchers from the CTEx consortium estimated that students who participated in specialized CTE programs in high school had better attendance rates, were more likely to graduate from high school, were more likely to enroll in a two-year college, and earned more money in the seven years after leaving high school

Computer aided selection of candidate vaccine antigens

Immunoinformatics is an emergent branch of informatics science that long ago pullulated from the tree of knowledge that is bioinformatics. It is a discipline which applies informatic techniques to problems of the immune system. To a great extent, immunoinformatics is typified by epitope prediction methods. It has found disappointingly limited use in the design and discovery of new vaccines, which is an area where proper computational support is generally lacking. Most extant vaccines are not based around isolated epitopes but rather correspond to chemically-treated or attenuated whole pathogens or correspond to individual proteins extract from whole pathogens or correspond to complex carbohydrate. In this chapter we attempt to review what progress there has been in an as-yet-underexplored area of immunoinformatics: the computational discovery of whole protein antigens. The effective development of antigen prediction methods would significantly reduce the laboratory resource required to identify pathogenic proteins as candidate subunit vaccines. We begin our review by placing antigen prediction firmly into context, exploring the role of reverse vaccinology in the design and discovery of vaccines. We also highlight several competing yet ultimately complementary methodological approaches: sub-cellular location prediction, identifying antigens using sequence similarity, and the use of sophisticated statistical approaches for predicting the probability of antigen characteristics. We end by exploring how a systems immunomics approach to the prediction of immunogenicity would prove helpful in the prediction of antigens

Educación en riesgos de calidad en las instituciones de Turismo

Desde que el hombre surgió como especie humana siempre ha sufrido la acción de innumerables riesgos, solamente por el hecho de estar involucrado de forma activa en las diferentes esferas de la sociedad hacen que estos se agudicen cada vez más. En los momentos actuales se hace necesario la identificación y el manejo de todos estos riesgos no solo en el plano individual sino también a nivel de empresas, grupos hoteleros u otros. Este trabajo tiene por objetivo socializar la teoría consultada referente a la mejora de la gestión de riesgos de calidad aplicado a procesos de recepción Hotelera. Para dar cumplimiento a este objetivo fue necesaria una sistematización de los referentes teóricos de la investigación relacionados con la gestión de la calidad en los servicios y la evaluación de riesgos de calidad en el sub proceso operativo de recepción con lo cual se pudo constatar que la prestación de un servicio con calidad permite satisfacer a los clientes tanto internos como externos. El estudio está basado en los requisitos planteados en la norma ISO 9001:2015 y los principios de gestión de la calidad, así como las directrices para la aplicación de la 9001 mediante el análisis de la NTS ISO 9002:2017. Para el adecuado cumplimiento de estas tareas se utilizaron diferentes métodos de investigación, entre los que se destacan el histórico-lógico, la sistematización teórica, el análisis y síntesis de la información, el hipotético-deductivo, la revisión bibliográfica, la observación, encuestas y la matriz DAFO