Historical geographies of the future: airships and the making of imperial atmospheres

This article explores the elemental encounters and imaginative geographies of empire to develop a new means of engaging with the historical geographies of the future. Futures have recently become an important topic of historical and cultural inquiry, and historical geographers have an important role to play in understanding the place of the future in the past and in interrogating the role of posited futures in shaping action in historical presents. Drawing on literature from science and technology studies, a framework is developed for engaging with the material and imaginative geographies that coalesce around practices of imagination, expectation, and prediction. This framework is then used to reconstruct efforts to develop airship travel in the British Empire in the 1920s and 1930s. At a moment of imperial anxiety, airships were hoped to tie the empire together by conveying bodies, capital, and military capacity between its furthest points. Confident projections of the colonization of global airspace were nonetheless undermined by material encounters with a vibrant, often unpredictable atmospheric environment. The article aims to spur renewed work on the historical geographies of the future, while also contributing to debates on the cultural and political geographies of the atmosphere and of atmospheric knowledge making. Key Words: atmosphere, empire, future, mobility, technology

The Relationship between Car Dependency And Use of Public Transport in Duhok City- Barriers Analysis And Recommendations

This study was conducted to determine the relationship between car dependency and the use of public transportation in Duhok city. The purpose of this study was to identify the factors that hinder the use of public transportation and the reasons for the absence of public transportation, as well as to determine how to make the young generation change their mobility culture from a passenger car-based system to use public transport. This study was a qualitative study, which consists of Duhok city as a case study for this research, in which purposive, simple random and theoretical sampling was adopted. Two types of Semi-structured interview questions were used one with open-ended questions with governmental experts, the other was open, and the closed-ended question that was used with public people of Duhok city in order to collect the information about transportation situation in Duhok city. This research practiced a qualitative research approach, thus for analyzing data, a thematic coding analysis has been applied. Moreover, for the analysis of close-ended questions, some charts and graphs have been made by utilizing Microsoft Excel Program. This method has been done in order to avoid bias and support data analyzed by other methods of analysis. The study found out that the vehicle or passenger car is the main transport mode in Duhok city, the passenger car provides accessibility and flexibility which public transportation cannot and this is due to the absence of a convenient public transport in Duhok city. In addition, it was pointed out that people can change their minds about favoring the use of public transport over cars, first by developing well-constructed and planned public transport, also with the available of various modes that need to be well integrated with other forms of non-motorized transport, such as pedestrian walkway system, cycling, and taxis.</jats:p

Trace Element Concentrations inWintering Waterfowl from the Great Salt Lake, Utah

The Great Salt Lake (GSL) is an important region for millions of migratory waterbirds. However, high concentrations of some trace elements, including Hg and Se, have been detected within the GSL, and baseline ecotoxicological data are lacking for avian species in this system. We collected common goldeneye (Bucephala clangula), northern shoveler (Anas clypeata), and green-winged teal (A. crecca) from the GSL during the winters of 2004–2005 and 2005–2006 to evaluate sources of variation in liver trace element concentrations. Hg concentrations were among or exceeded the highest values reported in the published literature for common goldeneye, northern shoveler, and green-winged teal. Average Hg (total) concentrations of common goldeneye peaked in midwinter, whereas average Se concentrations peaked during late winter. During late winter, 100% and 88% of female goldeneye contained elevated concentrations of Hg [≥1.0 μg/g wet weight (ww)] and Se (≥3.0 μg/g ww), respectively, and 5% and 14% contained potentially harmful amounts of Hg (≥30.0 μg/g ww) and Se (\u3e 10.0 μg/g ww), respectively. Similarly, 30% and 16% of male goldeneye contained potentially harmful concentrations of Hg and Se, respectively. Concentrations of Hg and Se were elevated in 100% and 79%, respectively, of northern shoveler samples (sexes combined) collected during February. We suggest that waterfowl contain biologically concerning amounts of Hg and Se during winter while on the GSL and further research is needed to evaluate the effect of these elements on GSL waterbirds

sj-pdf-1-tva-10.1177_15248380211053617 – Supplemental Material for On the Association Between Trauma-Related Shame and Symptoms of Psychopathology: A Meta-Analysis

Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-tva-10.1177_15248380211053617 for On the Association Between Trauma-Related Shame and Symptoms of Psychopathology: A Meta-Analysis by Christopher R. DeCou, Shannon M. Lynch, Shelby Weber, Danielle Richner, Mozafari Ahva, Holly Huggins and Bailey Perschon in Trauma, Violence, & Abuse</p

Bicycle-sharing systems in an alternative/diverse economy perspective: a sympathetic critique

This contribution puts bicycle-sharing systems (BSSs) as a rather recent, environmentally friendly form of urban mobility in the context of broader societal changes. More specifically, we discuss to what extent BSS and their various modes of organisation can be regarded as an “alternative” consumption practice, explicitly designed to deliver more social just outcomes, taking the diverse economy framework of Gibson-Graham as a key tool of analysis. Our examination unfolds a range of limitations of BSSs for (strong) sustainable development, but also a number of obvious and less obvious prospects and opportunities

Benguela Niños: Physical Processes in Upwelling Regions and Long-Term Variability Cruise No. M189/1

April 16 – May 13, 2023 Walvis Bay (Namibia) – Walvis Bay (Namibia) BANIN

Prospective multicenter study of HX575 (biosimilar epoetin-α) in patients with chronic kidney disease applying a target hemoglobin of 10--12 g/dl.

HX575 was approved in the European Union in August 2007 as the first-ever biosimilar epoetin-α product. The present study extended the safety database on HX575 by monitoring adverse events (AEs) in clinical practice. Hemoglobin (Hb) levels and HX575 doses were recorded for the assessment of efficacy. This open, 6-month single-arm study was conducted in 10 European countries with a target enrollment of 1,500 patients with anemia due to chronic kidney disease (CKD). HX575 was intravenously (i.v.) administered aiming at an Hb target of 10 - 12 g/dl. Most patients (92.3%) had already received erythropoiesis stimulating agents (ESAs) treatment before enrolment into this study; the recorded treatments mainly comprised i.v. or subcutaneous (s.c.) administration of epoetin-α, epoetin-β or darbepoetin. The study period covered 770 patient years. The observed AE profile was in line with expectations for this patient population. Thrombotic vascular events (TVEs) were reported in 11.9% of patients (0.2612 per patient year). Tumor incidence was 1.4% (0.0299 per patient year). No subject developed anti-epoetin antibodies. Mean Hb levels were effectively maintained between 11.2 and 11.3 g/dl following the conversion from a broad spectrum of pre-study ESA treatments with stable overall mean i.v. HX575 doses. The proportion of patients within the Hb target range increased from 57.5% at baseline to 66.8% at study end