Noan Balakian, Gloria Orenstein, and Erika Duncan at The Woman's Salon.

Inscription: Verso: The Woman's Salon, New York. ; Seated on platform from left to right: Nona Balakian, Gloria Orenstein, and Erika Duncan.

Barbara Deming, Erika Duncan, Adrienne Rich, and Gloria Orenstein at The Woman's Salon

Inscription: Verso: The Woman's Salon, New York. Seated on platform: Barbara Deming, Erika Duncan, Adrienne Rich, and Gloria Orenstein.

Robin Morgan reading "Lady of the Beasts" with Erika Duncan to her right

Inscription: Verso: The Woman's Salon, New York. Robin Morgan reading "Lady of the Beasts" (left). At right is writer Erika Duncan, one of the founders of the Women's Salon.

Gloria Orenstein (left), Erika Duncan, and Judy Chicago (right) at the Woman's Salon

General note: Title and date provided by Freda Leinwand.

Gloria Orenstein (left), Erika Duncan, and Judy Chicago (right) at the Woman's Salon

Inscriptions: Verso: [stamped] Photograph by Freda Leinwand. [463 West Street, Studio 229G, New York, NY 10014].

Left to right: Adrienne Rich, Barbara Demin, Erika Duncan, Glora Orenstein at the Woman's Salon

Inscriptions: Verso: [stamped] Photograph by Freda Leinwand. [463 West Street, Studio 229G, New York, NY 10014].

'When everything old is new again' : class, consumerism and masculinity in Alasdair Duncan's Metro

Alasdair Duncan’s narrative Metro, set in Brisbane in the early twenty-first century, focuses on Liam, an unapologetically self-styled ‘white, upper middle-class brat’ whose sense of place and identity is firmly mapped by spatial and economic co-ordinates. This article considers the linkages between spatiality and identity in Duncan’s narrative, as well as the ways in which traditional, hegemonic (heterosexual) forms of masculinity are re-invigorated in the enactment of an upper-middle-class script of success, privilege and consumerism. It argues that the safeguarding of these hegemonic forms of masculine identity involves strategies of spatial and bodily expression underpinned by conspicuous consumption, relegating other forms of sexual identity to an exploitable periphery

Book Review : Criminological and Legal Consequences of Climate Change. Edited by Stephen Farrell, Tawhida Ahmed and Duncan French (Oxford : Hart Publishing, 272 pp.)

The book addresses a number of pressing social and environmental issues of global concern. It takes the reader on a socio-legal journal of climate change and explores a range of challenging and complex topics including renewable energies, emissions reduction, carbon trading, deforestation, migration and corporate governance.

Andy Duncan-Brown Portraits Boys

LBI

Erika Blumgrund Collection 1984-1986

Letter to Aufbau with a series of poems entitled: "Ich moechte wieder beten lernen" (1984); another collection of poetry entitled: Seele im Spiegel (Mirror of the Soul)

CTFS-ForestGEO: a worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change

Global change is impacting forests worldwide, threatening biodiversity and ecosystem services including climate regulation. Understanding how forests respond is critical to forest conservation and climate protection. This review describes an international network of 59 long-term forest dynamics research sites (CTFS-ForestGEO) useful for characterizing forest responses to global change. Within very large plots (median size 25ha), all stems 1cm diameter are identified to species, mapped, and regularly recensused according to standardized protocols. CTFS-ForestGEO spans 25 degrees S-61 degrees N latitude, is generally representative of the range of bioclimatic, edaphic, and topographic conditions experienced by forests worldwide, and is the only forest monitoring network that applies a standardized protocol to each of the world's major forest biomes. Supplementary standardized measurements at subsets of the sites provide additional information on plants, animals, and ecosystem and environmental variables. CTFS-ForestGEO sites are experiencing multifaceted anthropogenic global change pressures including warming (average 0.61 degrees C), changes in precipitation (up to +/- 30% change), atmospheric deposition of nitrogen and sulfur compounds (up to 3.8g Nm(-2)yr(-1) and 3.1g Sm(-2)yr(-1)), and forest fragmentation in the surrounding landscape (up to 88% reduced tree cover within 5km). The broad suite of measurements made at CTFS-ForestGEO sites makes it possible to investigate the complex ways in which global change is impacting forest dynamics. Ongoing research across the CTFS-ForestGEO network is yielding insights into how and why the forests are changing, and continued monitoring will provide vital contributions to understanding worldwide forest diversity and dynamics in an era of global change.

Estudio preliminar sobre el comportamiento reproductivo de vacas de doble propósito durante período parto-concepción en el municipio de Matiguás, departamento de Matagalpa

El presente estudio se realizó con el objetivo de estudiar el comportamiento reproductivo de vacas de doble propósito durante el período parto–concepción en el municipio de Matiguás, departamento de Matagalpa considerando factores como, raza, número de parto, condición corporal y localidad, Sobre el comportamiento reproductivo en ganado con encaste Pardo Suizo, Holstein y Cebú; bajo condiciones del trópico húmedo en fincas ubicadas en 7 localidades del municipio de Matiguás departamento de Matagalpa. Además se utilizó una base de registros para analizar y clasificar a las vacas en cuanto a su condición corporal posparto, número de parto y localidad. Se analizaron 33 registros reproductivos correspondientes a vacas preñadas de las 106 vacas consideradas en estudio. Las variables bajo estudio fueron intervalo parto concepción (IPC), intervalo entre parto (IEP) y distocia. En los análisis se utilizó el procedimiento de mínimos cuadrados y separación de medias por el método Duncan para evaluar el efecto de la raza, número de parto, condición corporal posparto y localidad, sobre las varia bles IPC e IEP. En cuanto a la variable distocia no se evaluó en los análisis debido a que no presento la suficiente prevalencia para ser considerada estadísticamente. Este análisis mostró un efecto no significativo (P> 0.05) de los factores considerados sobre las variables IPC e IEP. Las medias de mínimos cuadrados obtenidas fueron 87.54 +/- 18.57 días de IPC, 367.91 +/- 18.99 días de IEP y 2% de distocia. En lo que respecta a la prevalencia de patologías del tracto reproductivo se encontraron: 7% de re tención placentaria, 3% deprolapsos vaginales, 3% de folículos persistentes y 1% de atresia ovárica.

La inquietud de Erika

Duración (en horas): De 31 a 40 horas. Destinatario: Estudiante y Docente