Suchergebnisse

A professor of poetry uses a deck of playing cards to measure the time until her lover returns from Afghanistan. Congolese soldiers find their loneliness reflected in the lyrics of rumba songs. Survivors of the siege of Sarajevo discuss which book they would have never burned for fuel. A Romanian political prisoner writes her memoir in her head, a book no one will ever read. These are the arts of survival in times of crisis. Rumba Under Fire proposes we think differently about what it means for the arts and liberal arts to be "in crisis." In prose and poetry, the contributors to Rumba Under Fire explore what it means to do art in hard times. How do people teach, create, study, and rehearse in situations of political crisis? Can art and intellectual work really function as resistance to power? What relationship do scholars, journalists, or even memoirists have to the crises they describe and explain? How do works created in crisis, especially at the extremes of human endurance, fit into our theories of knowledge and creativity?

Introductory essay to volume 57, issue 1 of Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality.

Die Kategorie ›Gender‹ ist im Themenfeld von Macht und Herrschaft maßgebend. Im Mittelpunkt des Bandes steht die Interaktion oder auch Komplementarität von ›männlicher‹ und ›weiblicher‹ Herrschaft bzw. der Herrschaftsanteile von Männern und Frauen. Die biologischen Geschlechterkategorien ›Mann‹ und ›Frau‹ und die mit ihnen verbundenen sozialen und kulturellen Rollenzuschreibungen dienen nicht als oppositionelle, dichotomische Begriffe oder Konzepte, sondern als Analysekategorie, ohne die Macht und Herrschaft nicht angemessen untersucht werden können. Die Beiträge haben einen Schwerpunkt im (latein-)europäischen Raum, reichen aber geographisch von China bis nach Ägypten, sie bewegen sich zeitlich zwischen dem 3. Jahrtausend v. Chr. und dem 16. Jahrhundert n. Chr. Untersucht werden schriftliche Quellen, aber auch Bildzeugnisse und die materielle Kultur.The category 'gender' is essential in the context of macht and herrschaft. This volume focuses on the interaction or even complementarity of 'male' and 'female' herrschaft or the share in rule of men and women. The biological gender categories 'man' and 'woman' and the connected social and cultural roles do not serve as opposing, dichotomic notions or concepts but rather as a category for analysis, without which macht and herrschaft can not be examined appropriately. The contributions highlight Latin-European regions, yet they include regions from China to Egypt from 3rd B.C until 16th century A.D. Written texts, graphics and the material culture will be analysed.

This study integrates previously isolated findings of nursing outcomes research into an explanatory framework in which care left undone and nurse education levels are of key importance. A moderated mediation analysis of survey data from 11,549 patients and 10,733 nurses in 217 hospitals in eight European countries shows that patient care experience is better in hospitals with better nurse staffing and a more favorable work environment in which less clinical care is left undone. Clinical care left undone is a mediator in this relationship. Clinical care is left undone less frequently in hospitals with better nurse staffing and more favorable nurse work environments, and in which nurses work less overtime and are more experienced. Higher proportions of nurses with a bachelor's degree reduce the effect of worse nurse staffing on more clinical care left undone.

Women's networks – their relations with other women, men, objects and place – were a source of power in various European and neighbouring regions throughout the Middle Ages. This interdisciplinary volume considers how women's networks, and particularly women's direct and indirect relationships to other women, constituted and shaped power from roughly 300 to 1700 AD. The essays in this collection juxtapose scholarship from the fields of archaeology, art history, literature, history and religious studies, drawing on a wide variety of source types. Their aim is to highlight not only the importance of networks in understanding medieval women's power but also the different ways these networks are represented in medieval sources and can be approached today. This volume reveals how women's networks were widespread and instrumental in shaping political, familial and spiritual legacies.

A serious problem that arose with the evolution of modern industry is generation of electrical and electronic equipment waste. In the last decades, the generation of electronic waste has increased a lot and it is estimated that in 2030, almost 74 tons of electronic waste will be generated, which will represent a significant threat to the environment. The purpose of this article is to track the potential impacts on the environment, to highlight the importance of waste management strategies and to provide the latest information in the field. A presentation of the countermeasures that must be taken at the national and international level to address the sensitive problem of waste management is also realized.

The aim of the study was to develop alternative adsorbent materials based on pyritic ash, with high iron content, in order to retain phosphates from wastewater. Experimental studies of phosphate removal efficiency have shown that the phosphates removal from water using pyritic ash adsorbent materials is strongly influenced by some parameters such as: contact time, stirring speed, amount of adsorbent material or iron content. An increase of phosphate removal efficiency up to 53% could be observed for iron-rich adsorbent materials (PA1) by increasing the contact time to 6 hours and the stirring speed to 100 rpm. An increase of phosphate removal efficiency was also observed by increasing the amount of adsorbent material from 0.1 g to 0.5 g for all three adsorbent materials studied (PA1, PA2, PA3). The best efficiency was shown for PA1 (53.13%), while PA3 showed the lowest efficiency (19.74%).