scholarly journals Theological Libraries and “The Next Christendom:” Connecting North American Theological Education to Uses of the Book in the Global South

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 38-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
John B. Weaver
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
Theological Education ◽  
Global South ◽  
Reading Habits ◽  
The Past ◽  
Global North ◽  
World Christianity

Survey of the past thirty years of librarian literature on the documentation of world Christianity indicates a number of trends in theological librarianship, including a relative inattention to the connection between the documentation of world Christianity in ATLA libraries, and the needs of theological researchers in North America. A trilogy of recent books by Philip Jenkins on the globalization of Christianity argues for the significance of the writings of the “global South” to reading habits in the “global North.” Based on the work of Jenkins and other scholars, this paper identifies ten specific connections between North American theological education and the documentation of world Christianity – connections that are rooted in the uses of the book in the global South. These are reasons for increased promotion and support of the documentation of world Christianity among ATLA libraries.

If things go South: The renewed policy of sport mega events allocation and its implications for future research

2021 ◽  
pp. 101269022098134
Author(s):  
Billy Graeff ◽  
Jorge Knijnik
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Public Expenditure ◽  
Global South ◽  
International Olympic Committee ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Construction Costs ◽  
Mega Events ◽  
The Past ◽  
Global North ◽  
Analytical Tools

The past few decades have seen an increase of sport mega events (SMEs) held outside the Global North. This tendency has been accompanied by a growing public expenditure in these events. This paper employs selected Global South SMEs to discuss this trend. By critically analysing public documents, biddings and reports, the study traces comparisons between 21st-century Global South and Global North SMEs expenditures, in the revenue of franchise owners (FIFA and the International Olympic Committee), in construction costs within the budgets and in the costs related to security. This comprehensive and intertwined investigation shows the need for new analytical tools – such as the Renewed Policy of Sport Mega Events Allocation, a concept developed here - to better capture the central questions posed by the challenges of ‘SMEs going South’.

scholarly journals A Magical Reorientation of the Modern: Professional Organizers and Thingly Care in Contemporary North America

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 438-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie Kilroy-Marac
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Mental Disorder ◽  
North American ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Hoarding Disorder ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
Dsm V ◽  
Double Movement ◽  
Domestic Variety

Within the past decade, material disorder—especially that of the domestic variety—has come to stand alternately as evidence, symptom, and potential cause of mental disorder in the North American popular and psychiatric imagination. Sources ranging from the newly defined Hoarding Disorder diagnosis in the DSM-V, to popular media, to agents of the burgeoning clutter-management industry describe disorder in terms of an irrational attachment, closeness, or overidentification with objects. At the same time, these sources imagine order to result from the cool distance and controlled passion a person is able to maintain toward his or her possessions. Drawing on more than twenty interviews and numerous fieldwork encounters with professional organizers (POs) in Toronto between 2014 and 2015, this article describes how POs aim to reorient their clients materially, morally, and affectively to relieve the disorder they report in their lives. Here, I argue, POs emerge as a species of late capitalist healer whose interventions are animated by a paradoxical double movement. For just as POs act to loosen the object attachments and disrupt the “secret sympathy” their clients share with their possessions, they operate within a realm of magical correspondence where matter and mind are imagined to reflect and affect one another, and where bringing order to a client’s possessions means also bringing order to his or her mind.

Is Your Power Plant Headed for a HILP? How to Avoid, Detect or Mitigate High Impact–Low Probability (HILP) Events

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert R. Richwine ◽  
G. Scott Stallard ◽  
G. Michael Curley
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Root Cause ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
Sufficient Detail ◽  
Low Probability

In recent years some power companies have instituted programs aimed at reducing or eliminating their power plants’ unreliability caused by abnormal events that occur infrequently but result in extended unplanned outages when they do occur, i.e. High Impact–Low Probability events (HILPs). HILPs include catastrophic events such as turbine water induction, boiler explosions, generator winding failures, etc. Many of these successful programs have relied on the detailed reliability data contained in the North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s (NERC) Generating Availability Data System (GADS) that contains data collected over the past 25 years from 5000+ generating units in North America. Using this data, these companies have been able to 1) benchmark their fleet’s unreliability due to HILPs against their North American peers, 2) prioritize their peer group’s susceptibility to various HILP modes and 3) use root cause data contained within the NERC-GADS data base to help identify and evaluate ways to proactively prevent, detect and/or mitigate the consequences of HILP events. This paper will describe the methods used in these successful programs in sufficient detail to enable others to adopt the techniques for application at their own generating plants.

scholarly journals Pacific North American circulation pattern links external forcing and North American hydroclimatic change over the past millennium

2017 ◽  
Vol 114 (13) ◽  
pp. 3340-3345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhongfang Liu ◽  
Yanlin Tang ◽  
Zhimin Jian ◽  
Christopher J. Poulsen ◽  
Jeffrey M. Welker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
Circulation Pattern ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Pacific North American ◽  
The Past ◽  
Decadal Scale ◽  
Instrumental Record ◽  
Hydroclimatic Change ◽  
Past Millennium

Land and sea surface temperatures, precipitation, and storm tracks in North America and the North Pacific are controlled to a large degree by atmospheric variability associated with the Pacific North American (PNA) pattern. The modern instrumental record indicates a trend toward a positive PNA phase in recent decades, which has led to accelerated warming and snowpack decline in northwestern North America. The brevity of the instrumental record, however, limits our understanding of long-term PNA variability and its directional or cyclic patterns. Here we develop a 937-y-long reconstruction of the winter PNA based on a network of annually resolved tree-ring proxy records across North America. The reconstruction is consistent with previous regional records in suggesting that the recent persistent positive PNA pattern is unprecedented over the past millennium, but documents patterns of decadal-scale variability that contrast with previous reconstructions. Our reconstruction shows that PNA has been strongly and consistently correlated with sea surface temperature variation, solar irradiance, and volcanic forcing over the period of record, and played a significant role in translating these forcings into decadal-to-multidecadal hydroclimate variability over North America. Climate model ensembles show limited power to predict multidecadal variation in PNA over the period of our record, raising questions about their potential to project future hydroclimatic change modulated by this circulation pattern.

scholarly journals Tropical cooling and the onset of North American glaciation

2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 549-557 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Huybers ◽  
P. Molnar
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
Tropical Pacific ◽  
Equatorial Pacific ◽  
Climate Data ◽  
Similar Estimate ◽  
Eastern Tropical Pacific ◽  
The Past ◽  
Eastern Equatorial Pacific

Abstract. We offer a test of the idea that gradual cooling in the eastern tropical Pacific led to cooling of North America and the initiation of glaciation ~3 Myr ago. Using modern climate data we estimate how warming of the eastern tropical Pacific affects North American temperature and ice-ablation. Assuming that the modern relationship holds over the past millions of years, a ~4°C warmer eastern tropical Pacific between 3–5 Ma would increase ablation in northern North America by approximately two meters per year. By comparison, a similar estimate of the ablation response to variations in Earth's obliquity gives less than half the magnitude of the tropically-induced change. Considering that variations in Earth's obliquity appear sufficient to initiate glaciations between ~1–3 Ma, we infer that the warmer eastern equatorial Pacific prior to 3 Ma suffices to preclude glaciation.

scholarly journals Trends in Neurosurgical Fellowship Training in North America Over Two Decades 1997 to 2016

Neurosurgery ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (Supplement_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ankush Chandra ◽  
Michael G Brandel ◽  
John K Yue ◽  
Lauro Avalos ◽  
Michael William McDermott ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Peripheral Nerve ◽  
Skull Base ◽  
North American ◽  
Fellowship Training ◽  
Neurosurgical Training ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
The Past ◽  
Top 40 ◽  
Nih Funding

Abstract INTRODUCTION Neurosurgical training programs serve to create a combination of generalists and subspecialists. To better understand trends in training neurosurgical subspecialists, we investigated trends in neurosurgical fellowship enrollment in North America. METHODS Retrospective review of North American neurosurgery residents enrolled in training 1997 to 2016, using AANS membership data. RESULTS We followed 3619 North American neurosurgical residency graduates over 20 yr, of which 40.7% (n = 1472) completed a fellowship and 4.8% (n = 175) completed 2 or more different fellowships. Of completed fellowships, 27.2% (n = 456) were in spine, 14.6% (n = 245) were endovascular, 14.0% (n = 235) were pediatric, 9.6% (n = 161) were functional, 8.7% (n = 146) were skull base, 8.7% (n = 146) were open cerebrovascular, 7.2% (n = 122) were neuro-oncology, 6.2% (n = 104) other, 1.6% (n = 26) neurotrauma, 1.4% (n = 24) peripheral nerve, and 0.7% (n = 11) combined endovascular/open cerebrovascular fellowships. The overall proportion of residents pursuing fellowships increased from 1997–2006 to 2007–2016 (29.1 vs 49.6%, P < .001). The proportion of spine, cerebrovascular, and trauma fellowships decreased by 0.5% (P = .037), 0.3% (P = .029), and 0.3% (P < .001) per year, respectively, while the proportion of skull base, peripheral nerve, and combined endovascular/cerebrovascular fellowships increased by 0.5% (P = .002), 0.2% (P = .016), and 0.2% (P = .001) per year, respectively. Residents from top 40 NIH-funded institutions were more likely to complete fellowships (OR = 1.5, P = .004), whereas residents in low-population cities were less likely to complete fellowships during 2007 to 2016 (OR = 0.7, P = .030). CONCLUSION Over the past two decades, the proportion of neurosurgical residents pursuing fellowships has significantly increased, to nearly half of all neurosurgical residents in 2016. Skull base, peripheral nerve and combined endovascular/cerebrovascular fellowship enrollments have increased, while spine, cerebrovascular, and trauma fellowship enrollments have decreased. Academic interest, as assessed by departmental NIH funding, increased the likelihood of fellowship enrollment. Factors associated with academic centers in densely populated cities continue to be positive predictors for pursuit of advanced neurosurgical training.

National Policy and Western Development in North America

1956 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 461-479 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vernon C. Fowke
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Frames Of Reference ◽  
The West ◽  
General Theme ◽  
The Past ◽  
Western Development ◽  
Underdeveloped Region

The general theme of these discussions calls for a reinterpretation of the West as an underdeveloped region. This lends credence to a hypothesis occasionally encountered that history is comprised of the examination of a succession of conceptual anachronisms devised in each case by the historian's generation for the solution of contemporary problems and applied as an afterthought to the reconstruction of the past. The adoption of the concept of underdevelopment in die present circumstance is in line with this hypothesis and is, in this regard, in good company with well-worn frames of reference utilized by earlier generations of North American economic historians. Turner advanced the frontier thesis as a tool of analysis of the past at a time when major concern was arising over the frontier's disappearance. Innis fashioned the staple-trade approach to Canadian economic development in the interwar years when for a time it appeared that Canadian prosperity and material advance had vanished coincidentally with the mortal illness of the last great Canadian staple, wheat.

scholarly journals Nostalgia for Crisis: Representing Revolution in North American Popular Culture

eTopia ◽  
2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Truman
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Radical Politics ◽  
Liberal Democracies ◽  
American Popular Culture ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ideal State ◽  
Political Realities

In contemporary North America we no longer have revolutions; instead we have nostalgia for revolution. Benjamin Arditi’s Politics on the Edges of Liberalism argues that the continued presence of marginal radical politics in Western liberal democracies is evidence of our nostalgia for revolution and that we are mourning an ideal state of the past. I argue that another more widespread site of evidence for our nostalgia for revolution is the proliferation of popular artefacts branded with revolutionary iconography. As a symbol, revolution is omnipresent in North American culture. It is on our t-shirts, magazine covers, book jackets, advertising posters,and in our language and conversations describing new political realities and cultural contexts.We are collectors of revolutionary culture: we wear it, read it, buy it, and talk about it.

scholarly journals Tropical cooling and the onset of North American glaciation

2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 771-789 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Huybers ◽  
P. Molnar
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
Tropical Pacific ◽  
Equatorial Pacific ◽  
Climate Data ◽  
Similar Estimate ◽  
Eastern Tropical Pacific ◽  
The Past ◽  
Eastern Equatorial Pacific

Abstract. We offer a test of the idea that gradual cooling in the eastern tropical Pacific led to cooling of North America and the initiation of glaciation ~3 Myr ago. Using modern climate data we estimate how warming of the eastern tropical Pacific affects North American temperature and ice-ablation. Assuming that the modern relationship holds over the past millions of years, an eastern tropical Pacific warmer by ~4° between 3–5 Ma would increase ablation in northern North America by approximately two meters per year. By comparison, a similar estimate of the ablation response to variations in Earth's obliquity gives less than half the magnitude of the tropically-induced change. Considering that variations in Earth's obliquity appear sufficient to initiate glaciations between ~1–3 Ma, we infer that the warmer eastern equatorial Pacific prior to 3 Ma suffices to preclude glaciation.

scholarly journals North American entomophagy

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Schrader ◽  
D.G.A.B. Oonincx ◽  
M.P. Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
North American ◽  
Regional Differences ◽  
Insect Species ◽  
Edible Insects ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Available Information

Eating insects is not a common Northern American practice today. However, in the past a variety of insect species was consumed in Northern America (north of Mexico including Greenland). The aim of this literature review is to provide an historical overview of North American entomophagy based upon both peer and non-peer reviewed sources on this topic. Regional differences in insect consumption and reasons for being underreported are discussed. We show that North American natives, and in certain cases colonists, collected and consumed a large variety of edible insects. These are categorised per order and where available, information on how these species were collected and processed is provided. Lastly, we mention reasons for the renewed interest in edible insects in North America, and make suggestions for future studies.

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