In the middle of the Great Depression, Montana native Julia Bennett
arrived in New York City with no money and an audacious business
plan: to identify and visit easterners who could afford to spend
...their summers at her brand new dude ranch near Ennis, Montana.
Julia, a big-game hunter whom friends described as "a clever shot
with both rifle and shotgun," flouted gender conventions to build
guest ranches in Montana and Arizona that attracted world-renowned
entertainers and artists. Bennett's entrepreneurship, however, was
not a new family development. During the Civil War, her widowed
grandmother and her seven-year-old daughter-Bennett's mother-set
out from Missouri on a ten-month journey with little more than a
yoke of oxen, a covered wagon, and the clothes on their backs. They
faced countless heartbreaks and obstacles as they struggled to
build a new life in the Montana Territory. Burning the
Breeze is the story of three generations of women and their
intrepid efforts to succeed in the American West. Excerpts from
diaries, letters, and scrapbooks, along with rare family photos,
help bring their vibrant personalities to life.
How might we expand the frame of health narratives so as to avoid genre calcification and more effectively harness these stories' transformative potential? This essay builds on the continued success ...of the "Defining Moments" forum while responding to Harter et al.'s 2020 call for "new stories shaped and shared in novel ways." Drawing on interdisciplinary research and theorizing, I suggest three narrative strategies for storytelling based on, respectively, the extended duration of a health context, the agentic power of nonhuman kinds, and the implicit collectivity of polyphonic narratives. Brief examples precede my discussion of each strategy. I invite others to join me in shaping innovative narratives that further challenge tacit assumptions of embodied health.
Perhaps the most defining feature of field-assisted sintering technology (FAST) is the application of an electric current, in addition to the uniaxial pressure, to create resistive heating in and ...around the sample region. However, with a few exceptions, most research takes this as an unchangeable part of the process. Here, this current flow has been directed to specific regions within the toolset, using boron nitride as electrically insulating material. This caused the heating to occur in differing regions within the Ti-6Al-4V sample and mould over four insulating configurations, with the shift in current density resulting in an extreme disparity in the final microstructures. The samples were imaged and analysed with deep learning in MIPAR, alongside comparisons with finite element analysis (FEA) models for 20 s and 5 min dwell times, to provide the technique with predictive capabilities for grain size and microstructure. The results gathered imply significant potential for this concept to improve the flexibility of FAST, and reduce negative effects such as undesirable temperature profiles in size scaling sintering for industry.
Despite efforts within Ecuador to combat violence against women (VAW), the country still claims some of the highest rates of violence in the Americas. In this study, we complete a cultural visual ...analysis of anti-VAW public art in a small Ecuadorian city. Visual data is examined and interpreted by way of the social-ecological model (SEM). Specifically, our analysis considers how murals engage with the depiction of (a) VAW, (b) agentic responses to VAW, and (c) the different layers of the SEM. Our analysis identifies four specific strategies for constructing public art messaging to help achieve freedom from VAW.
Most searches for Dark Matter primarily focus on the WIMP paradigm, which predicts dark matter masses in the GeV - 10 TeV range. However, these relatively low energy searches continue to produce null ...results, possibly suggesting that dark matter is something other than WIMPs. Gravitinos, on the other hand, can satisfy the cosmological constraints on dark matter, and decay with a lifetime orders of magnitude longer than the age of the universe, producing extremely high energy neutrinos. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has already had success detecting EHE extragalactic neutrinos, and is well suited to search for dark matter in this high energy regime. This analysis sets limits on the gravitino lifetime from the high energy neutrino events observed at IceCube using three possible astrophysical explanations of the neutrino flux. The most conservative limit on the gravitino lifetime using the softest two-body decay mode was found to be τDM = 1027.6s. This is the first analysis developed to place a limit on the gravitino lifetime using IceCube software and simulation files, and the results are comparable to theoretical limits based on the same data set.
A repeated measures design was used to evaluate a 12 month on-site counsellor internship programme aimed at training staff to support the recovery needs of people with co-occurring substance use and ...mental health disorders. Fifty-four interns completed measures of recovery knowledge, attitudes, confidence/competence, as well as identifying significant learning events. Statistically significant improvements were found in terms of attitudes and confidence/competence, and only one recovery knowledge factor, ‘roles of self-definition and peers in recovery’. Recovery knowledge at the end of the internship was positively associated with increases in interns’ confidence/competence but was not associated with changes in the interns’ attitudes. The mentoring, training/feedback and observational elements of the internship programme were highly valued by interns. Competency based learning events were most frequently identified as significant. Strategies to increase self-directed and interpersonally focused learning, and specific personal recovery knowledge in training are discussed.
CARDINAL DIRECTION MARKERS JAMES PEPPER HENRY; KRISTINE BRUMLEY
The Land Has Memory,
02/2009
Book Chapter
Nearly every culture on earth has a concept of the cardinal directions: north, east, south, and west. A basic means of establishing geographic orientation, they are known as the Four Directions to ...many indigenous peoples throughout the Americas and are represented in ceremony, art, clothing, and architecture.
The Four Directions have greater significance beyond their practical function. They are imbued with metaphor and supernatural powers that relate to our existence as human beings. Many Native peoples associate colors, seasons, and animals with the Four Directions, associations that form the basis of an indigenous philosophy known as the Medicine Wheel. Each
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