9. The Paradox of Hoover's Last Recovery Effort

2020 ◽  
pp. 166-180
Keyword(s):  
Recovery Effort

scholarly journals European Digital memories in a transnational era. The references from the European Observatory on Memories

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 018
Author(s):  
Jordi Guixé i Coromines
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Exponential Growth ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
The Past ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Recovery Effort ◽  
Private Support ◽  
Institutional Initiatives

This essay takes up the question of transmission in the context of politics and projects of memory from the last decade. I have dubbed this period “the decade of memory, of remembrance”. The first decade of the 21st century saw an exponential growth in digital platforms, focused on catastrophes and conflicts in the previous century as well as more recent events. Public, academic, and institutional initiatives were accompanied by a public and private support to recover the memory of the past in Spain and Europe. This recovery effort placed intangible heritage, and memory at the centre of contemporary historical efforts. Our work and references are analysed from the projects of the European Observatory on Memories (EUROM) criteria, objectives but also technical tools.

scholarly journals Simplified polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based sexing assists conservation of an endangered owl, the Norfolk Island Boobook Ninox novaeseelandiae undulata

1997 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 283-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Double ◽  
Penny Olsen
Keyword(s):  
Polymerase Chain Reaction ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Molecular Method ◽  
Chain Reaction ◽  
Norfolk Island ◽  
In The Wild ◽  
Polymerase Chain ◽  
Recovery Effort ◽  
Main Factor

In 1986 a single Norfolk Island Boobook Owl Ninox novaeseelandiae undulata remained. As part of a re-establishment programme, two male New Zealand Moreporks N. n. novaeseelandiae were introduced, one of which survived to pair with the female in the wild and breed successfully. By 1995 the population numbered 12 or 13 individuals of which seven were second generation (F2). However, there were only two breeding pairs. As the 11 hybrids could not be sexed using morphometrics we developed a molecular method based on a recently described avian polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based sexing technique. The population was found to contain six females and five males. A scarcity of mature males was established as the main factor slowing the recovery effort.

scholarly journals The haunting figure of the useless academic: Critical thinking in coronavirus time

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 662-666 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ghassan Hage
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Common Purpose ◽  
Recovery Effort

A critical intellectual, someone whose job is to think, reflect and critique can be the last thing one needs in times of practical urgency. If anything such people can be a hindrance to the recovery effort. Pardoxically, in such times, critical intellectuals are more necessary than ever. Pandemics, for instance, invite war metaphors, and unleash reactionary themes of ‘cohesion’, ‘unity’ and ‘common purpose’ that require being challenged. To be a critical intellectual in such times is to be aware of, and learn how to negotiate, such a contradiction.

Rethinking First Response: Effects of the Clean Up and Recovery Effort on Workers at the World Trade Center Disaster Site

2005 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 386-391 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara B. Johnson ◽  
Alan M. Langlieb ◽  
Stephen P. Teret ◽  
Raz Gross ◽  
Margo Schwab ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
World Trade ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
World Trade Center Disaster ◽  
First Response ◽  
The World ◽  
Trade Center ◽  
Recovery Effort

THE 1987 NEWFOUNDLAND OIL SPILL EXPERIMENT1

1989 ◽  
Vol 1989 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-103
Author(s):  
E. J. Tennyson ◽  
H. Whittaker
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Crude Oil ◽  
Oil Spill ◽  
Performance Test ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Test Procedure ◽  
Open Ocean ◽  
Chemical Additive ◽  
Recovery Effort ◽  
Spilled Oil

ABSTRACT A joint Canadian-United States exercise involving the intentional spilling of approximately 18,000 gallons of specially treated crude oil was conducted off Newfoundland in September 1987 to evaluate the containment and recovery capabilities of three state-of-the-art booms and skimmers. As part of the exercise, data were collected on a specially instrumented oil spill boom in an attempt to verify a proposed performance test procedure for open-ocean oil spill booms. A viscoelastic chemical additive was used, after the equipment evaluation was completed, to enhance recovery operations. Additional observations were made on the persistence of spilled oil slicks in advanced sea states. The containment and recovery effort was successful, despite winds and sea states commonly thought to be beyond existing capabilities.

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