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The goal of this research is to create a new understanding of the individuality of the city of Liége, by constructing a “logic of architecture”, a logic rooted in place, through a personal (dynamic) understanding of the site and its people & positioned within architectural theory, presenting a new interpretation. Hence, the design acts as a testsite for the research: testing, validating and showcasing the newfound “logic of architecture”, which is a product of the research process. The research strives to define three key elements (window, entrance, structure) within their autonomous reading as well as the part they play in the social ecology of Bressoux, thereby creating ground for the elements to propose design solutions based on the way they invite human life into their consciousness. Researching construction of the city over time through ordinary elements that give meaning to the city., Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Urbanism

Nitrogen is a major limiting element for biological productivity, and thus understanding past variations in nitrogen cycling is central to understanding past and future ocean biogeochemical cycling, global climate cycles, and biodiversity. Organic nitrogen encapsulated in fossil biominerals is generally protected from alteration, making it an important archive of the marine nitrogen cycle on seasonal to million-year timescales. The isotopic composition of fossil-bound nitrogen reflects variations in the large-scale nitrogen inventory, local sources and processing, and ecological and physiological traits of organisms. The ability to measure trace amounts of fossil-bound nitrogen has expanded with recent method developments. In this article, we review the foundations and ground truthing for three important fossil-bound proxy types: diatoms, foraminifera, and corals. We highlight their utility with examples of high-resolution evidence for anthropogenic inputs of nitrogen to the oceans, glacial-interglacial-scale assessments of nitrogen inventory change, and evidence for enhanced CO2 drawdown in the high-latitude ocean. Future directions include expanded method development, characterization of ecological and physiological variation, and exploration of extended timescales to push reconstructions further back in Earth's history.

This issue gathers contributions that emerged from the conference and workshop “Situated Knowledges – Art and Curating on the Move” in June 2021 and exemplify the partiality and situatedness of one’s own position in our respective fields of expertise, within our educational frameworks and contact zones. The term “situated knowledges” coined by Donna Haraway declares that all scientific knowledge is fundamentally conditional. Against an assumption of the apparently neutral and unmediated knowledge of the (male, white) Western idea of science and its representation through totalizing visualization techniques, Haraway develops her concept of situated and embodied knowledges., https://www.librarystack.org/situated-knowledges-curating-and-art-on-the-move/?ref=unknown

ObjectivesInformed by a social-ecological framework, this study nested undocumented students' individual mental health needs within micro-level campus factors and the macro-level immigration policy context to examine how these are associated with undocumented Latina/o/x college students' use of on-campus mental health services.MethodA large-scale survey was administered to 1,277 undocumented college students attending 4-year public universities in California. Only Latina/o/x respondents were included in this study (N = 1,181). Fifty percent of students attended a UC system (n = 589). On average, students were 21.84 years old (SE = .15), and most were women (75.3%, n = 890).ResultsGreater level of mental health symptoms and perceived mental health need, and greater use of campus-wide resources and undocumented student services predicted greater likelihood of using on-campus mental health services. Greater perceptions of social exclusion due to the immigration policy context predicted lower use of mental health services.ConclusionsResults indicate that a greater use of resources and an inclusive campus environment, as well as efforts to minimize policy-related feelings of social exclusion, may facilitate undocumented students' professional mental health help-seeking. These findings emphasize the need to take multiple and multi-level ecological factors into account when considering mental health service use, particularly in the case of undocumented immigrants and likely other structurally marginalized groups. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

In “Whisper Game: Practicing Attention Through Caring and Pacing,” Basia Sliwinska and Caroline Stevenson experienced embodied knowledge in conversation with Judah Attille, Giovanna Bragaglia, Maria Costantino, Fabiola Fiocco and Alison Green by playing a modified version of the “whisper game,” initiated by a text, asking the participants for other texts in a similar vein and related to it. This game enabled interrelating collectively in methods of knowledge transfer. This resulted in the shared written contribution, “reveal[ing] tensions, hierarchies, and agencies that shape the spaces with/in which we speak, listen, and are heard.”

This chapter traces the contemporary art practices of Chantal Peñalosa (1987, Tecate, Mexico) and Bridget Smith (1966, Essex, England) through a conversation between the artists and the author, a curator. The chapter draws on Kristeva’s (1978) concept of ‘Woman Writing’ and feminist histories of curating to propose a feminist approach to curating that relies on ‘vulnerable listening’ through sustained correspondence and exchange. Through documenting and writing with and through these artists’ practices, their processes of understanding home, place and belonging emerge as ‘epistemic locations’ (Meskimmon, 2020: p 2) – or places of knowing, with their own particular politics.

In “Whisper Game: Practicing Attention Through Caring and Pacing,” Basia Sliwinska and Caroline Stevenson experienced embodied knowledge in conversation with Judah Attille, Giovanna Bragaglia, Maria Costantino, Fabiola Fiocco and Alison Green by playing a modified version of the “whisper game,” initiated by a text, asking the participants for other texts in a similar vein and related to it. This game enabled interrelating collectively in methods of knowledge transfer. This resulted in the shared written contribution, “reveal[ing] tensions, hierarchies, and agencies that shape the spaces with/in which we speak, listen, and are heard.”

This chapter traces the contemporary art practices of Chantal Peñalosa (1987, Tecate, Mexico) and Bridget Smith (1966, Essex, England) through a conversation between the artists and the author, a curator. The chapter draws on Kristeva’s (1978) concept of ‘Woman Writing’ and feminist histories of curating to propose a feminist approach to curating that relies on ‘vulnerable listening’ through sustained correspondence and exchange. Through documenting and writing with and through these artists’ practices, their processes of understanding home, place and belonging emerge as ‘epistemic locations’ (Meskimmon, 2020: p 2) – or places of knowing, with their own particular politics.

This chapter traces the contemporary art practices of Chantal Peñalosa (1987, Tecate, Mexico) and Bridget Smith (1966, Essex, England) through a conversation between the artists and the author, a curator. The chapter draws on Kristeva’s (1978) concept of ‘Woman Writing’ and feminist histories of curating to propose a feminist approach to curating that relies on ‘vulnerable listening’ through sustained correspondence and exchange. Through documenting and writing with and through these artists’ practices, their processes of understanding home, place and belonging emerge as ‘epistemic locations’ (Meskimmon, 2020: p 2) – or places of knowing, with their own particular politics.

This chapter traces the contemporary art practices of Chantal Peñalosa (1987, Tecate, Mexico) and Bridget Smith (1966, Essex, England) through a conversation between the artists and the author, a curator. The chapter draws on Kristeva’s (1978) concept of ‘Woman Writing’ and feminist histories of curating to propose a feminist approach to curating that relies on ‘vulnerable listening’ through sustained correspondence and exchange. Through documenting and writing with and through these artists’ practices, their processes of understanding home, place and belonging emerge as ‘epistemic locations’ (Meskimmon, 2020: p 2) – or places of knowing, with their own particular politics.

This chapter traces the contemporary art practices of Chantal Peñalosa (1987, Tecate, Mexico) and Bridget Smith (1966, Essex, England) through a conversation between the artists and the author, a curator. The chapter draws on Kristeva’s (1978) concept of ‘Woman Writing’ and feminist histories of curating to propose a feminist approach to curating that relies on ‘vulnerable listening’ through sustained correspondence and exchange. Through documenting and writing with and through these artists’ practices, their processes of understanding home, place and belonging emerge as ‘epistemic locations’ (Meskimmon, 2020: p 2) – or places of knowing, with their own particular politics.

This issue gathers contributions that emerged from the conference and workshop “Situated Knowledges – Art and Curating on the Move” in June 2021 and exemplify the partiality and situatedness of one’s own position in our respective fields of expertise, within our educational frameworks and contact zones. The term “situated knowledges” coined by Donna Haraway declares that all scientific knowledge is fundamentally conditional. Against an assumption of the apparently neutral and unmediated knowledge of the (male, white) Western idea of science and its representation through totalizing visualization techniques, Haraway develops her concept of situated and embodied knowledges., https://www.librarystack.org/situated-knowledges-curating-and-art-on-the-move/?ref=unknown

In “Whisper Game: Practicing Attention Through Caring and Pacing,” Basia Sliwinska and Caroline Stevenson experienced embodied knowledge in conversation with Judah Attille, Giovanna Bragaglia, Maria Costantino, Fabiola Fiocco and Alison Green by playing a modified version of the “whisper game,” initiated by a text, asking the participants for other texts in a similar vein and related to it. This game enabled interrelating collectively in methods of knowledge transfer. This resulted in the shared written contribution, “reveal[ing] tensions, hierarchies, and agencies that shape the spaces with/in which we speak, listen, and are heard.”

In “Whisper Game: Practicing Attention Through Caring and Pacing,” Basia Sliwinska and Caroline Stevenson experienced embodied knowledge in conversation with Judah Attille, Giovanna Bragaglia, Maria Costantino, Fabiola Fiocco and Alison Green by playing a modified version of the “whisper game,” initiated by a text, asking the participants for other texts in a similar vein and related to it. This game enabled interrelating collectively in methods of knowledge transfer. This resulted in the shared written contribution, “reveal[ing] tensions, hierarchies, and agencies that shape the spaces with/in which we speak, listen, and are heard.”

In “Whisper Game: Practicing Attention Through Caring and Pacing,” Basia Sliwinska and Caroline Stevenson experienced embodied knowledge in conversation with Judah Attille, Giovanna Bragaglia, Maria Costantino, Fabiola Fiocco and Alison Green by playing a modified version of the “whisper game,” initiated by a text, asking the participants for other texts in a similar vein and related to it. This game enabled interrelating collectively in methods of knowledge transfer. This resulted in the shared written contribution, “reveal[ing] tensions, hierarchies, and agencies that shape the spaces with/in which we speak, listen, and are heard.”

This issue gathers contributions that emerged from the conference and workshop “Situated Knowledges – Art and Curating on the Move” in June 2021 and exemplify the partiality and situatedness of one’s own position in our respective fields of expertise, within our educational frameworks and contact zones. The term “situated knowledges” coined by Donna Haraway declares that all scientific knowledge is fundamentally conditional. Against an assumption of the apparently neutral and unmediated knowledge of the (male, white) Western idea of science and its representation through totalizing visualization techniques, Haraway develops her concept of situated and embodied knowledges., https://www.librarystack.org/situated-knowledges-curating-and-art-on-the-move/?ref=unknown

The meridional variability of the Subtropical Front (STF) in the Southern Hemisphere, linked to expansions or contractions of the Southern Ocean, may have played an important role in global ocean circulation by moderating the magnitude of water exchange at the Indian-Atlantic Ocean Gateway, so called Agulhas Leakage. Here we present new biomarker records of upper water column temperature ( and ) and primary productivity (chlorins and alkenones) from marine sediments at IODP Site U1475 on the Agulhas Plateau, near the STF and within the Agulhas retroflection pathway. We use these multiproxy time-series records from 1.4 to 0.3 Ma to examine implied changes in the upper oceanographic conditions at the mid-Pleistocene transition (MPT, ca. 1.2?0.8 Ma). Our reconstructions, combined with prior evidence of migrations of the STF over the last 350 ka, suggest that in the Southwestern Indian Ocean the STF may have been further south from the Agulhas Plateau during the mid-Pleistocene Interim State (MPIS, MIS 23?12) and reached its northernmost position during MIS 34?24 and MIS 10. Comparison to a Globorotalia menardii-derived Agulhas Leakage reconstruction from the Cape Basin suggests that only the most extreme northward migrations of the STF are associated with reduced Agulhas Leakage. During the MPIS, STF migrations do not appear to control Agulhas Leakage variability, we suggest previously modeled shifting westerly winds may be responsible for the patterns observed. A detachment between STF migrations and Agulhas Leakage, in addition to invoking shifting westerly winds may also help explain changes in CO2 ventilation seen during the MPIS.

The baculovirus expression vector system (BEVS) is among one of the favourites in protein expression systems due to the high protein yields attainable and relative ease of use and availability. The development of the system has been an ongoing task since its discovery as a successful protein production method. To realise the full potential of the system, key improvements are still necessary, notably to reduce DNA instability due to passage effects that impede industrial applications, as well as inherent proteolysis of produced recombinant target proteins. Through data mining and phylogenetic analysis, a putative synthetic baculoviral genome, SynBac, has been designed. In an ultimate embodiment, this SynBac genome will be devoid of all elements, which negatively affect or serve no obvious purpose in target protein expression and virus replication and infection in a laboratory environment. The hypothesis is that elimination of some or all of these presumably non-essential elements will improve the characteristics of the baculovirus, as a production tool for important biomolecules in academic and industrial research. The aim of this thesis is to iteratively create a minimal synthetic baculovirus genome, SynBac, and validate SynBac for genomic stability and protein expression properties. The first approach involved the generation of hybrid baculoviral genomes by deletion of wild-type DNA and replacement with synthetic fragments devoid of non-essential genes. Rewiring of a first fragment provided a functional initial genome, SynBac1. Addition of further synthetic fragments resulted in virus with impaired virus replication. Thus, necessitating careful identification of individual genes that were necessary to restore virus function. To streamline genome engineering, different recombinases were tested resulting in an efficient and marker-less protocol to engineer the baculoviral genome. 67 single gene deletions of the SynBac1 genome we

Aims In tropical rainforests, soil respiration accounts for the major part of ecosystem respiration, yet a deep understanding of the influence of forest type and species composition is still lacking. We therefore selected patches of the rainforest in the Central Congo basin differing in their species composition, some patches under the Scorodophloeus zenkeri Harms mixed forests (MIF) and others in the Gilbertiodendron dewevrei (De Wild.) J.Léonard monodominant forests (MOF). We measured daily soil respiration over a one-year period. Methods By fitting a simple conceptual model of soil respiration, including fine root biomass, soil organic C stocks and ground climate measurements (soil moisture and temperature), we attempted to distinguish autotrophic and heterotrophic soil respiration, and to better understand the drivers behind total soil respiration. Results On an annual basis, soil respiration was 10% higher under MOF (22.10 Mg C ha−1 y−1) compared to MIF (20.01 Mg C ha−1 y−1) (p < 10−3). While the estimated autotrophic and heterotrophic soil respiration contributed about equally to soil respiration in MOF, autotrophic soil respiration slightly dominated (59%) in MIF. In both forests, the combined contribution of litterfall inputs and fine roots productivity was lower than the heterotrophic flux, with the largest difference observed under MOF (−6.16 Mg C ha−1 year−1) compared to MIF (−2.62 Mg C ha−1 year−1). The sensitivity analysis of the model showed that the higher heterotrophic soil respiration under MOF was driven by the twofold C accumulation in MOF topsoil compared to MIF. Soil moisture was a major driver of temporal changes in soil respiration, but hardly impacted the differences in annual soil respiration between forests. Conclusion While the difference in SOC accumulation between forests was driven by the low nutrient to C ratios of Gilbertiodendron dewevrei tissues, additional research is needed to identify the causes behind the unbalanced C budget.

The baculovirus expression vector system (BEVS) is among one of the favourites in protein expression systems due to the high protein yields attainable and relative ease of use and availability. The development of the system has been an ongoing task since its discovery as a successful protein production method. To realise the full potential of the system, key improvements are still necessary, notably to reduce DNA instability due to passage effects that impede industrial applications, as well as inherent proteolysis of produced recombinant target proteins. Through data mining and phylogenetic analysis, a putative synthetic baculoviral genome, SynBac, has been designed. In an ultimate embodiment, this SynBac genome will be devoid of all elements, which negatively affect or serve no obvious purpose in target protein expression and virus replication and infection in a laboratory environment. The hypothesis is that elimination of some or all of these presumably non-essential elements will improve the characteristics of the baculovirus, as a production tool for important biomolecules in academic and industrial research. The aim of this thesis is to iteratively create a minimal synthetic baculovirus genome, SynBac, and validate SynBac for genomic stability and protein expression properties. The first approach involved the generation of hybrid baculoviral genomes by deletion of wild-type DNA and replacement with synthetic fragments devoid of non-essential genes. Rewiring of a first fragment provided a functional initial genome, SynBac1. Addition of further synthetic fragments resulted in virus with impaired virus replication. Thus, necessitating careful identification of individual genes that were necessary to restore virus function. To streamline genome engineering, different recombinases were tested resulting in an efficient and marker-less protocol to engineer the baculoviral genome. 67 single gene deletions of the SynBac1 genome we

In this dialogic chapter, we reflect on our collaborative curation of an exhibition that explored domesticity from feminist dissident perspectives. Featuring work protesting the changes to policy concerning domestic violence in Poland (Malgorzata Markiewicz), subverting, through craft, women’s maintenance of the home as both dwelling and ideal (Su Richardson), unpicking maternal subjectivities while staging a confrontation between feminist and modernist approaches to art history (CANAN), and unsettlingly recasting the home as a site of violence and resistance (Paula Chambers), Home Strike (l’étrangère, 2018) is revisited as both an unfinished inter-generational and transnational project critiquing and defamiliarising the home, and an opportunity for reflection and exchange on the curators’ own lived experiences of migration and patriarchal regimes of space. Personal meditations on (un)belonging, temporary habitats and object attachments are interspersed with critical observations on migration, xenophobia and the neoliberal demand for mobility, particularly in the case of cultural workers. As well as (a) correspondence and dialogic reflection on shared preoccupations, what follows is an exchange of letters working through the aftershocks of our co-curation of an exhibition and opening up new strands of thinking and research into projects yet unrealised. The epistolary form was adopted as a practical and equitable record-keeping of our exchange, but also for its rich tradition in feminist politics and thought: as Margaretta Jolly (2008) eloquently demonstrates, in the Women’s Liberation Movement correspondence both charted the emergence of a new consciousness and sisterly alliances, and became a lab for the development of alternative ways of thinking and engaging with one another. Following recent feminist experimentation, we aspire to occupy the space between ‘letter-writing as a formal convention’ (Meskimmon, 2014, 31) and a dialogical critical feminist methodology

The meridional variability of the Subtropical Front (STF) in the Southern Hemisphere, linked to expansions or contractions of the Southern Ocean, may have played an important role in global ocean circulation by moderating the magnitude of water exchange at the Indian-Atlantic Ocean Gateway, so called Agulhas Leakage. Here we present new biomarker records of upper water column temperature ( and ) and primary productivity (chlorins and alkenones) from marine sediments at IODP Site U1475 on the Agulhas Plateau, near the STF and within the Agulhas retroflection pathway. We use these multiproxy time-series records from 1.4 to 0.3 Ma to examine implied changes in the upper oceanographic conditions at the mid-Pleistocene transition (MPT, ca. 1.2?0.8 Ma). Our reconstructions, combined with prior evidence of migrations of the STF over the last 350 ka, suggest that in the Southwestern Indian Ocean the STF may have been further south from the Agulhas Plateau during the mid-Pleistocene Interim State (MPIS, MIS 23?12) and reached its northernmost position during MIS 34?24 and MIS 10. Comparison to a Globorotalia menardii-derived Agulhas Leakage reconstruction from the Cape Basin suggests that only the most extreme northward migrations of the STF are associated with reduced Agulhas Leakage. During the MPIS, STF migrations do not appear to control Agulhas Leakage variability, we suggest previously modeled shifting westerly winds may be responsible for the patterns observed. A detachment between STF migrations and Agulhas Leakage, in addition to invoking shifting westerly winds may also help explain changes in CO2 ventilation seen during the MPIS.

In this dialogic chapter, we reflect on our collaborative curation of an exhibition that explored domesticity from feminist dissident perspectives. Featuring work protesting the changes to policy concerning domestic violence in Poland (Malgorzata Markiewicz), subverting, through craft, women’s maintenance of the home as both dwelling and ideal (Su Richardson), unpicking maternal subjectivities while staging a confrontation between feminist and modernist approaches to art history (CANAN), and unsettlingly recasting the home as a site of violence and resistance (Paula Chambers), Home Strike (l’étrangère, 2018) is revisited as both an unfinished inter-generational and transnational project critiquing and defamiliarising the home, and an opportunity for reflection and exchange on the curators’ own lived experiences of migration and patriarchal regimes of space. Personal meditations on (un)belonging, temporary habitats and object attachments are interspersed with critical observations on migration, xenophobia and the neoliberal demand for mobility, particularly in the case of cultural workers. As well as (a) correspondence and dialogic reflection on shared preoccupations, what follows is an exchange of letters working through the aftershocks of our co-curation of an exhibition and opening up new strands of thinking and research into projects yet unrealised. The epistolary form was adopted as a practical and equitable record-keeping of our exchange, but also for its rich tradition in feminist politics and thought: as Margaretta Jolly (2008) eloquently demonstrates, in the Women’s Liberation Movement correspondence both charted the emergence of a new consciousness and sisterly alliances, and became a lab for the development of alternative ways of thinking and engaging with one another. Following recent feminist experimentation, we aspire to occupy the space between ‘letter-writing as a formal convention’ (Meskimmon, 2014, 31) and a dialogical critical feminist methodology

In this dialogic chapter, we reflect on our collaborative curation of an exhibition that explored domesticity from feminist dissident perspectives. Featuring work protesting the changes to policy concerning domestic violence in Poland (Malgorzata Markiewicz), subverting, through craft, women’s maintenance of the home as both dwelling and ideal (Su Richardson), unpicking maternal subjectivities while staging a confrontation between feminist and modernist approaches to art history (CANAN), and unsettlingly recasting the home as a site of violence and resistance (Paula Chambers), Home Strike (l’étrangère, 2018) is revisited as both an unfinished inter-generational and transnational project critiquing and defamiliarising the home, and an opportunity for reflection and exchange on the curators’ own lived experiences of migration and patriarchal regimes of space. Personal meditations on (un)belonging, temporary habitats and object attachments are interspersed with critical observations on migration, xenophobia and the neoliberal demand for mobility, particularly in the case of cultural workers. As well as (a) correspondence and dialogic reflection on shared preoccupations, what follows is an exchange of letters working through the aftershocks of our co-curation of an exhibition and opening up new strands of thinking and research into projects yet unrealised. The epistolary form was adopted as a practical and equitable record-keeping of our exchange, but also for its rich tradition in feminist politics and thought: as Margaretta Jolly (2008) eloquently demonstrates, in the Women’s Liberation Movement correspondence both charted the emergence of a new consciousness and sisterly alliances, and became a lab for the development of alternative ways of thinking and engaging with one another. Following recent feminist experimentation, we aspire to occupy the space between ‘letter-writing as a formal convention’ (Meskimmon, 2014, 31) and a dialogical critical feminist methodology

In this dialogic chapter, we reflect on our collaborative curation of an exhibition that explored domesticity from feminist dissident perspectives. Featuring work protesting the changes to policy concerning domestic violence in Poland (Malgorzata Markiewicz), subverting, through craft, women’s maintenance of the home as both dwelling and ideal (Su Richardson), unpicking maternal subjectivities while staging a confrontation between feminist and modernist approaches to art history (CANAN), and unsettlingly recasting the home as a site of violence and resistance (Paula Chambers), Home Strike (l’étrangère, 2018) is revisited as both an unfinished inter-generational and transnational project critiquing and defamiliarising the home, and an opportunity for reflection and exchange on the curators’ own lived experiences of migration and patriarchal regimes of space. Personal meditations on (un)belonging, temporary habitats and object attachments are interspersed with critical observations on migration, xenophobia and the neoliberal demand for mobility, particularly in the case of cultural workers. As well as (a) correspondence and dialogic reflection on shared preoccupations, what follows is an exchange of letters working through the aftershocks of our co-curation of an exhibition and opening up new strands of thinking and research into projects yet unrealised. The epistolary form was adopted as a practical and equitable record-keeping of our exchange, but also for its rich tradition in feminist politics and thought: as Margaretta Jolly (2008) eloquently demonstrates, in the Women’s Liberation Movement correspondence both charted the emergence of a new consciousness and sisterly alliances, and became a lab for the development of alternative ways of thinking and engaging with one another. Following recent feminist experimentation, we aspire to occupy the space between ‘letter-writing as a formal convention’ (Meskimmon, 2014, 31) and a dialogical critical feminist methodology

The meridional variability of the Subtropical Front (STF) in the Southern Hemisphere, linked to expansions or contractions of the Southern Ocean, may have played an important role in global ocean circulation by moderating the magnitude of water exchange at the Indian-Atlantic Ocean Gateway, so called Agulhas Leakage. Here we present new biomarker records of upper water column temperature ((Formula presented.) and (Formula presented.)) and primary productivity (chlorins and alkenones) from marine sediments at IODP Site U1475 on the Agulhas Plateau, near the STF and within the Agulhas retroflection pathway. We use these multiproxy time-series records from 1.4 to 0.3 Ma to examine implied changes in the upper oceanographic conditions at the mid-Pleistocene transition (MPT, ca. 1.2–0.8 Ma). Our reconstructions, combined with prior evidence of migrations of the STF over the last 350 ka, suggest that in the Southwestern Indian Ocean the STF may have been further south from the Agulhas Plateau during the mid-Pleistocene Interim State (MPIS, MIS 23–12) and reached its northernmost position during MIS 34–24 and MIS 10. Comparison to a Globorotalia menardii-derived Agulhas Leakage reconstruction from the Cape Basin suggests that only the most extreme northward migrations of the STF are associated with reduced Agulhas Leakage. During the MPIS, STF migrations do not appear to control Agulhas Leakage variability, we suggest previously modeled shifting westerly winds may be responsible for the patterns observed. A detachment between STF migrations and Agulhas Leakage, in addition to invoking shifting westerly winds may also help explain changes in CO2 ventilation seen during the MPIS.

This book examines contemporary feminist visual activism(s) through the lens of embodiment(s). The contributors explore how the arts articulate and engage with the current sense of crisis and political concerns (e.g. equality, decolonisation, social justice, democracy, precarity, vulnerability), negotiated with and through the body. Drawing upon the legacy of feminist art historical critique, the book scrutinises activist strategies, practices and resilience techniques in intersectional and transnational frameworks. It interrogates how the arts enable the creation of civil and political resilience, become engaged with politics as a response to disaster capitalism and attempt to reform and improve society.

This book examines contemporary feminist visual activism(s) through the lens of embodiment(s). The contributors explore how the arts articulate and engage with the current sense of crisis and political concerns (e.g. equality, decolonisation, social justice, democracy, precarity, vulnerability), negotiated with and through the body. Drawing upon the legacy of feminist art historical critique, the book scrutinises activist strategies, practices and resilience techniques in intersectional and transnational frameworks. It interrogates how the arts enable the creation of civil and political resilience, become engaged with politics as a response to disaster capitalism and attempt to reform and improve society.

This book examines contemporary feminist visual activism(s) through the lens of embodiment(s). The contributors explore how the arts articulate and engage with the current sense of crisis and political concerns (e.g. equality, decolonisation, social justice, democracy, precarity, vulnerability), negotiated with and through the body. Drawing upon the legacy of feminist art historical critique, the book scrutinises activist strategies, practices and resilience techniques in intersectional and transnational frameworks. It interrogates how the arts enable the creation of civil and political resilience, become engaged with politics as a response to disaster capitalism and attempt to reform and improve society.

Interdisciplinary collaborations are promoted in higher education, but relatively little research has been undertaken into what it means to work in these ways. This paper examines how a paradigmatically diverse group of university colleagues navigated the educational work of developing an innovative resource to support the enactment of international mobility experiences. By focusing on the journey (the negotiation of a community of practice) over the destination (the resource produced), this study provides insights into the experience of working across boundaries in higher education, what can be learnt from such work, and why it matters. Reflective ‘critical incident’ narratives were developed with the data revealing multiple challenges, tensions and opportunities. The findings support the notion that interfaculty collaborations are potentially rich and productive, but cannot be assumed as unproblematic. A key recommendation is that universities should invest significant time and effort to facilitate and support the collaborative process of educational work.

En rendant les éléments nutritifs disponibles aux producteurs primaires, la décomposition des litières est un processus crucial pour la fertilité des forêts tropicales humides. Cependant, les déterminants de la vitesse de décomposition et l’impact de la mixité des litières foliaires au sein de ces écosystèmes qui présentent une canopée très diversifiée restent très peu étudiés. Cette étude vise à quantifier l’impact des traits des litières foliaires, du type de milieu et du mélange d’espèces sur la vitesse de décomposition en forêt mixte à Scorodophloeus zenkeri Harms et en forêt monodominante à Gilbertiodendron dewevrei (De Wild.) J.Léonard au sein de la réserve forestière de Yoko, en République démocratique du Congo. La vitesse de décomposition de litières pures des huit espèces les plus abondantes en forêt mixte et monodominante et de leur mélange deux à deux a été étudiée sur une période maximale de six mois par la méthode des sachets de litière, et mise en relation avec les caractéristiques initiales des litières et le milieu d’incubation (forêt mixte vs dominante). Sur la période de temps considérée, la vitesse de décomposition des litières pures était reliée positivement aux teneurs en éléments Ca, K, N, P et S mais négativement aux teneurs en lignine (L) et aux rapports L:N, C:N, C:P et C:S. Durant les deux premiers mois, les litières foliaires pures de S. zenkeri et G. dewevrei se sont décomposées significativement plus rapidement sous les forêts correspondantes, même si les différences sont ténues. Dans de nombreux cas, la vitesse de décomposition d’une espèce s’est avérée significativement différente en mélange par rapport aux litières pures, résultant en des effets synergiques, neutres ou antagonistes sur la décomposition de la litière globale. Cette étude met en avant l’intérêt d’une caractérisation précise des traits fonctionnels foliaires au sein des écosystèmes forestiers. La décomposition des litières foliaires en mélange et les processus associés s

En Afrique centrale, Gilbertiodendron dewevrei (De Wild.) J.Léonard peut former de grands peuplements presque purs qui côtoient des forêts plus diversifiées à Scorodophloeus zenkeri Harms (forêt mixte). Si l’influence des traits fonctionnels, dont les caractéristiques de la litière foliaire, sur la monodominance est bien documentée, leur impact sur les flux de carbone ainsi que sur la taille et la persistance des stocks de C reste très peu investigué. Nous avons étudié comment les traits de la litière foliaire affectent la dynamique du carbone du sol (stocks et flux) en forêt mixte et monodominante sur des sols sableux fortement altérés dans la réserve de Yoko (République démocratique du Congo). Outre les stocks de carbone de la biomasse aérienne et du sol (horizons holorganiques et sol minéral jusque 220 cm de profondeur), nous avons mesuré la respiration du sol avec et sans les horizons holorganiques, la production de litière aérienne et la dynamique des racines fines en surface (horizon holorganique et 0-10 cm) durant une année, ainsi que la décomposition initiale (≤ 6 mois) des litières foliaires de huit espèces ligneuses. Alors que les stocks de carbone cumulés dans la biomasse aérienne, les horizons holorganiques et le sol minéral sont comparables en forêt mixte (429,40 ± 97,24 Mg C.ha-1) et forêt monodominante (418,55 ± 75,48 Mg C.ha-1.an-1), les stocks de carbone du sol (horizon holorganique + sol minéral jusque 220 cm) sont 30 % supérieurs en forêt monodominante. Des apports similaires en carbone ont été observés dans les deux formations forestières, mais la qualité de la litière foliaire en forêt monodominante se distingue par un éventail de traits impliqués dans la récalcitran ce de la matière organique ; en particulier, la litière foliaire de G. dewevrei se situe à l’extrémité « conservative » du spectre économique foliaire. Les taux de décomposition des litières des huit espèces sont significativement reliés à leur position le long du spectre économique

The relationship between corporeal feminism and materialisms has been addressed in a number of recently emerging writings and artistic projects. In this essay, I focus on Cathy Wilkes' exhibition in the British Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019 (although I suggest rather than being a singular event, it belongs to and further evolves her overarching constellation weaving art and life together) and explore her practice of meaning-making and questioning of production of knowledge driven by non-representationalist methodology understood as an affective material inter-action. I propose that Wilkes' practice performs embodied feminist materiality in matter-scapes activating threshold spaces in which intimate care-full encounters emerge. The figure of the threshold animates matter with/in which subjectivity is embedded and embodied, nurturing a care-full response-ability and a political responsibility in the context of patriarchal neoliberal and late-capitalist social structures marked by poverty, unpaid reproductive labour, precarity of work, refugee crisis, incomprehension and social injustice. It invokes vulnerable (resistant) transitions and liminal spaces. Wilkes' constellations grow together through vital matter and liveability.

The relationship between corporeal feminism and materialisms has been addressed in a number of recently emerging writings and artistic projects. In this essay, I focus on Cathy Wilkes' exhibition in the British Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019 (although I suggest rather than being a singular event, it belongs to and further evolves her overarching constellation weaving art and life together) and explore her practice of meaning-making and questioning of production of knowledge driven by non-representationalist methodology understood as an affective material inter-action. I propose that Wilkes' practice performs embodied feminist materiality in matter-scapes activating threshold spaces in which intimate care-full encounters emerge. The figure of the threshold animates matter with/in which subjectivity is embedded and embodied, nurturing a care-full response-ability and a political responsibility in the context of patriarchal neoliberal and late-capitalist social structures marked by poverty, unpaid reproductive labour, precarity of work, refugee crisis, incomprehension and social injustice. It invokes vulnerable (resistant) transitions and liminal spaces. Wilkes' constellations grow together through vital matter and liveability.

The relationship between corporeal feminism and materialisms has been addressed in a number of recently emerging writings and artistic projects. In this essay, I focus on Cathy Wilkes' exhibition in the British Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019 (although I suggest rather than being a singular event, it belongs to and further evolves her overarching constellation weaving art and life together) and explore her practice of meaning-making and questioning of production of knowledge driven by non-representationalist methodology understood as an affective material inter-action. I propose that Wilkes' practice performs embodied feminist materiality in matter-scapes activating threshold spaces in which intimate care-full encounters emerge. The figure of the threshold animates matter with/in which subjectivity is embedded and embodied, nurturing a care-full response-ability and a political responsibility in the context of patriarchal neoliberal and late-capitalist social structures marked by poverty, unpaid reproductive labour, precarity of work, refugee crisis, incomprehension and social injustice. It invokes vulnerable (resistant) transitions and liminal spaces. Wilkes' constellations grow together through vital matter and liveability.

The relationship between corporeal feminism and materialisms has been addressed in a number of recently emerging writings and artistic projects. In this essay, I focus on Cathy Wilkes' exhibition in the British Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019 (although I suggest rather than being a singular event, it belongs to and further evolves her overarching constellation weaving art and life together) and explore her practice of meaning-making and questioning of production of knowledge driven by non-representationalist methodology understood as an affective material inter-action. I propose that Wilkes' practice performs embodied feminist materiality in matter-scapes activating threshold spaces in which intimate care-full encounters emerge. The figure of the threshold animates matter with/in which subjectivity is embedded and embodied, nurturing a care-full response-ability and a political responsibility in the context of patriarchal neoliberal and late-capitalist social structures marked by poverty, unpaid reproductive labour, precarity of work, refugee crisis, incomprehension and social injustice. It invokes vulnerable (resistant) transitions and liminal spaces. Wilkes' constellations grow together through vital matter and liveability.

The relationship between corporeal feminism and materialisms has been addressed in a number of recently emerging writings and artistic projects. In this essay, I focus on Cathy Wilkes' exhibition in the British Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019 (although I suggest rather than being a singular event, it belongs to and further evolves her overarching constellation weaving art and life together) and explore her practice of meaning-making and questioning of production of knowledge driven by non-representationalist methodology understood as an affective material inter-action. I propose that Wilkes' practice performs embodied feminist materiality in matter-scapes activating threshold spaces in which intimate care-full encounters emerge. The figure of the threshold animates matter with/in which subjectivity is embedded and embodied, nurturing a care-full response-ability and a political responsibility in the context of patriarchal neoliberal and late-capitalist social structures marked by poverty, unpaid reproductive labour, precarity of work, refugee crisis, incomprehension and social injustice. It invokes vulnerable (resistant) transitions and liminal spaces. Wilkes' constellations grow together through vital matter and liveability.

The relationship between corporeal feminism and materialisms has been addressed in a number of recently emerging writings and artistic projects. In this essay, I focus on Cathy Wilkes' exhibition in the British Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019 (although I suggest rather than being a singular event, it belongs to and further evolves her overarching constellation weaving art and life together) and explore her practice of meaning-making and questioning of production of knowledge driven by non-representationalist methodology understood as an affective material inter-action. I propose that Wilkes' practice performs embodied feminist materiality in matter-scapes activating threshold spaces in which intimate care-full encounters emerge. The figure of the threshold animates matter with/in which subjectivity is embedded and embodied, nurturing a care-full response-ability and a political responsibility in the context of patriarchal neoliberal and late-capitalist social structures marked by poverty, unpaid reproductive labour, precarity of work, refugee crisis, incomprehension and social injustice. It invokes vulnerable (resistant) transitions and liminal spaces. Wilkes' constellations grow together through vital matter and liveability.

The relationship between corporeal feminism and materialisms has been addressed in a number of recently emerging writings and artistic projects. In this essay, I focus on Cathy Wilkes' exhibition in the British Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019 (although I suggest rather than being a singular event, it belongs to and further evolves her overarching constellation weaving art and life together) and explore her practice of meaning-making and questioning of production of knowledge driven by non-representationalist methodology understood as an affective material inter-action. I propose that Wilkes' practice performs embodied feminist materiality in matter-scapes activating threshold spaces in which intimate care-full encounters emerge. The figure of the threshold animates matter with/in which subjectivity is embedded and embodied, nurturing a care-full response-ability and a political responsibility in the context of patriarchal neoliberal and late-capitalist social structures marked by poverty, unpaid reproductive labour, precarity of work, refugee crisis, incomprehension and social injustice. It invokes vulnerable (resistant) transitions and liminal spaces. Wilkes' constellations grow together through vital matter and liveability.

This study examines gradients in depressive symptoms by socioeconomic position (SEP; i.e., income, education, employment) in a sample of men who have sex with men (MSM). Data were used from EXPLORE, a randomized, controlled behavioral HIV prevention trial for HIV-uninfected MSM in six U.S. cities (n = 4,277). Depressive symptoms were assessed using the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression scale (short form). Multiple linear regressions were fitted with interaction terms to assess additive and multiplicative relationships between SEP and depressive symptoms. Depressive symptoms were more prevalent among MSM with lower income, lower educational attainment, and those in the unemployed/other employment category. Income, education, and employment made significant contributions in additive models after adjustment. The employment-income interaction was statistically significant, indicating a multiplicative effect. This study revealed gradients in depressive symptoms across SEP of MSM, pointing to income and employment status and, to a lesser extent, education as key factors for understanding heterogeneity of depressive symptoms.

Aim: Large tropical trees form the interface between ground and airborne observations, offering a unique opportunity to capture forest properties remotely and to investigate their variations on broad scales. However, despite rapid development of metrics to characterize the forest canopy from remotely sensed data, a gap remains between aerial and field inventories. To close this gap, we propose a new pan‐tropical model to predict plot‐level forest structure properties and biomass from only the largest trees. Location: Pan‐tropical. Time period: Early 21st century. Major taxa studied: Woody plants. Methods: Using a dataset of 867 plots distributed among 118 sites across the tropics, we tested the prediction of the quadratic mean diameter, basal area, Lorey’s height, community wood density and aboveground biomass (AGB) from the ith largest trees. Results: Measuring the largest trees in tropical forests enables unbiased predictions of plot‐ and site‐level forest structure. The 20 largest trees per hectare predicted quadratic mean diameter, basal area, Lorey’s height, community wood density and AGB with 12, 16, 4, 4 and 17.7% of relative error, respectively. Most of the remaining error in biomass prediction is driven by differences in the proportion of total biomass held in medium‐sized trees (50–70 cm diameter at breast height), which shows some continental dependency, with American tropical forests presenting the highest proportion of total biomass in these intermediate‐diameter classes relative to other continents. Main conclusions: Our approach provides new information on tropical forest structure and can be used to generate accurate field estimates of tropical forest carbon stocks to support the calibration and validation of current and forthcoming space missions. It will reduce the cost of field inventories and contribute to scientific understanding of tropical forest ecosystems and response to climate change.

© 2018 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Aim: Large tropical trees form the interface between ground and airborne observations, offering a unique opportunity to capture forest properties remotely and to investigate their variations on broad scales. However, despite rapid development of metrics to characterize the forest canopy from remotely sensed data, a gap remains between aerial and field inventories. To close this gap, we propose a new pan-tropical model to predict plot-level forest structure properties and biomass from only the largest trees. Location: Pan-tropical. Time period: Early 21st century. Major taxa studied: Woody plants. Methods: Using a dataset of 867 plots distributed among 118 sites across the tropics, we tested the prediction of the quadratic mean diameter, basal area, Lorey's height, community wood density and aboveground biomass (AGB) from the ith largest trees. Results: Measuring the largest trees in tropical forests enables unbiased predictions of plot- and site-level forest structure. The 20 largest trees per hectare predicted quadratic mean diameter, basal area, Lorey's height, community wood density and AGB with 12, 16, 4, 4 and 17.7% of relative error, respectively. Most of the remaining error in biomass prediction is driven by differences in the proportion of total biomass held in medium-sized trees (50–70 cm diameter at breast height), which shows some continental dependency, with American tropical forests presenting the highest proportion of total biomass in these intermediate-diameter classes relative to other continents. Main conclusions: Our approach provides new information on tropical forest structure and can be used to generate accurate field estimates of tropical forest carbon stocks to support the calibration and validation of current and forthcoming space missions. It will reduce the cost of field inventories and contribute to scientific understanding of tropical forest ecosystems and response to climate change.