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Visiting Associate Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Address: Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies (CLACS)
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02912 Providence, RI, USA
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Catálogo de la Biblioteca Personal de Jorge Luis Borge
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Air Travel Fiction and Film, 2020
This chapter identifies three main categories of identities in contemporary air travel: the Airwo... more This chapter identifies three main categories of identities in contemporary air travel: the Airworld employee, the fluid passenger, and the vulnerable traveler. The first refers to air transport professionals who, in the aerial environment, suspend their identities and adopt those dictated by their uniform and occupation. The second is composed of ordinary individuals who, while crossing the threshold of the Airworld, experience a transformation of their everyday identity into that of passengers, operating within a regime of fluidity, barcodes, and security procedures. The last category consists of vulnerable passengers, discriminated because of racial and national prejudices; travelers who are condemned to prolonged isolation, detention, deportation, and authoritarian acts that transform the Airworld into a sordid infrastructure of human ignominy.
Simulations are used to generate plausible realisations of soil and climatic variables for input ... more Simulations are used to generate plausible realisations of soil and climatic variables for input into an enterprise land suitability assessment (LSA). Subsequently we present a case study demonstrating a LSA (for hazelnuts) which takes into account the quantified uncertainties of the biophysical model input variables. This study is carried out in the Meander Valley Irrigation District, Tasmania, Australia. It is found that when comparing to a LSA that assumes inputs to be error free, there is a significant difference in the assessment of suitability. Using an approach that assumes inputs to be error free, 56% of the study area was predicted to be suitable for hazelnuts. Using the simulation approach it is revealed that there is considerable uncertainty about the 'error free' assessment, where a prediction of 'unsuitable' was made 66% of the time (on average) at each grid cell of the study area. The cause of this difference is that digital soil mapping of both soil pH and conductivity have a high quantified uncertainty in this study area. Despite differences between the comparative methods, taking account of the prediction uncertainties provide a realistic appraisal of enterprise suitability. It is advantageous also because suitability assessments are provided as continuous variables as opposed to discrete classifications. We would recommend for other studies that consider similar FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations) land evaluation framework type suitability assessments, that parameter membership functions (as opposed to discrete threshold cutoffs) together with the simulation approach are used in concert.
Revista Iberoamericana, 2021
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Catálogo de la Biblioteca Personal de Jorge Luis Borge
Texte édité, annoté et traduit
Air Travel Fiction and Film, 2020
This chapter identifies three main categories of identities in contemporary air travel: the Airwo... more This chapter identifies three main categories of identities in contemporary air travel: the Airworld employee, the fluid passenger, and the vulnerable traveler. The first refers to air transport professionals who, in the aerial environment, suspend their identities and adopt those dictated by their uniform and occupation. The second is composed of ordinary individuals who, while crossing the threshold of the Airworld, experience a transformation of their everyday identity into that of passengers, operating within a regime of fluidity, barcodes, and security procedures. The last category consists of vulnerable passengers, discriminated because of racial and national prejudices; travelers who are condemned to prolonged isolation, detention, deportation, and authoritarian acts that transform the Airworld into a sordid infrastructure of human ignominy.
Simulations are used to generate plausible realisations of soil and climatic variables for input ... more Simulations are used to generate plausible realisations of soil and climatic variables for input into an enterprise land suitability assessment (LSA). Subsequently we present a case study demonstrating a LSA (for hazelnuts) which takes into account the quantified uncertainties of the biophysical model input variables. This study is carried out in the Meander Valley Irrigation District, Tasmania, Australia. It is found that when comparing to a LSA that assumes inputs to be error free, there is a significant difference in the assessment of suitability. Using an approach that assumes inputs to be error free, 56% of the study area was predicted to be suitable for hazelnuts. Using the simulation approach it is revealed that there is considerable uncertainty about the 'error free' assessment, where a prediction of 'unsuitable' was made 66% of the time (on average) at each grid cell of the study area. The cause of this difference is that digital soil mapping of both soil pH and conductivity have a high quantified uncertainty in this study area. Despite differences between the comparative methods, taking account of the prediction uncertainties provide a realistic appraisal of enterprise suitability. It is advantageous also because suitability assessments are provided as continuous variables as opposed to discrete classifications. We would recommend for other studies that consider similar FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations) land evaluation framework type suitability assessments, that parameter membership functions (as opposed to discrete threshold cutoffs) together with the simulation approach are used in concert.
Revista Iberoamericana, 2021
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Est devoilee dans ce document une autre Trilogie, celle des avants-textes conserves qui renversen... more Est devoilee dans ce document une autre Trilogie, celle des avants-textes conserves qui renversent une fois de plus les complexes perspectives du corpus.