‘I Lived Through a Disaster’: Disaster Memories and Lived Experiences After the 2010 Leh Flash Floods

Bodyweight—the number on the scale—has been constructed as an objective measure of health, and weight loss as synonymous with healthier. Weight has been used as a way of classifying and controlling people, ignoring the embodied, relational, and cultural meanings attached to health and weight. Instead, these subjective experiences are lumped into a numerical category. Our society's obsession with weight is weighing us down and most of us should toss out our scales. Scale stories offer a departure from canonical narratives about physical health and body image by emphasizing emotions and lived experiences instead of bodyweight and numerical categories.

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Two Gambling Women

International Review of Qualitative Research ◽

10.1525/irqr.2012.5.1.39 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 39-49

Author(s):

Tzu-Hui Chen

Keyword(s):

Lived Experiences ◽

Personal Experience ◽

Cultural Context ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Immigrant Population ◽

The Other ◽

Mail Order ◽

Foreign Brides ◽

And Migration ◽

The Relationship

This narrative aims to explore the meaning and lived experiences of marriage that a unique immigrant population—“foreign brides” in Taiwan—possesses. This convergence narrative illustrates the dynamics and complexity of mail-order marriage and women's perseverance in a cross-cultural context. The relationship between marriage, race, and migration is analyzed. This narrative is comprised of and intertwined by two story lines. One is the story of two “foreign brides” in Taiwan. The other is my story about my cross-cultural relationship. All the dialogues are generated by 25 interviews of “foreign brides” in Taiwan and my personal experience.

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Method to Determine Emergency Stop Position of Trains to Avoid Flash Floods

IEEJ Transactions on Industry Applications ◽

10.1541/ieejias.140.497 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 140 (6) ◽

pp. 497-498

Author(s):

Daiki Okuda ◽

Takamasa Suzuki ◽

Noriko Fukasawa

Keyword(s):

Flash Floods ◽

Emergency Stop ◽

Stop Position

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Short-Term Flood Prediction System

Geoinformatica Polonica ◽

10.2478/gein-2014-0005 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Konrad Nering

Keyword(s):

Flash Floods ◽

Prediction System ◽

Short Term ◽

Data Set ◽

Flood Prediction ◽

Full Operation

AbstractThis paper describes a fully functional short-term flood prediction system. Its effect has been tested on watershed of Lubieńka river in Małopolska. To use this system it must have a data set also described in this paper. A modification of the system to adopt for predicting flash floods was described. Full operation of the system is shown on example of real flood on Lubieńka river in June 2011.

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