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Rhetoric of academic applications : Perspectives from Quentin Skinner’s Forensic Shakespeare
2019
The tools of classical and Renaissance rhetoric that Quentin Skinner uses in his Forensic Shakespeare (2014) are here applied to a contemporary context. Skinner’s discussion might have a fairly direct value for a genre of writing that most academics today must master, namely the rhetoric of applications. They have been seldom discussed from a rhetorical perspective, although knowledge of rhetoric is highly valuable for applicants, evaluators and those deciding between applications. Skinner’s book contains both advices for applicants and discussions on both the criteria of application and the possibilities of their revisions in case of innovative applications. peerReviewed
Cosmopolitan internationalism: UNESCO’s ideological ambiguity and the difference/diversity problematic
2022
This article addresses the ways in which UNESCO’s ideological engagements are negotiated in the difference/diversity discourse as they are transferred from the international standard-setting level to the national and local contexts. It proposes the discursive construction of cosmopolitan internationalism as a framework for analysing the intersections of difference, located in the practicalities of internationalism, and diversity, tied to the ideals of cosmopolitanism, as they are manifested at the level of both the implementation of UNESCO’s Diversity Convention and urban policy making in the city of Sydney. The analysis suggests that ruptures challenging the homogenising diversity discours…
Post memory and cinematic affect in The Midwife
2017
The Second World War has proved a rich source of inspiration for fiction films worldwide. The Finnish fiction film The Midwife (Kätilö, Antti J. Jokinen, 2015) is aimed at an international audience with a story that takes place in the context of the Lapland War in Finland in 1944. The film tells of a romantic relationship between a local woman and a member of the German army, in a highly affective manner. This article argues that the film downplays elements that might have interested the national, or local, audience, and that it privileges affect over knowledge. To bring out the film’s transnational character, the article begins by analysing it in the context of national, or local, and glob…
Interacting effects of simulated eutrophication, temperature increase, and microplastic exposure on Daphnia
2020
The effects of multiple stressors are difficult to separate in field studies, and their interactions may be hard to predict if studied in isolation. We studied the effects of decreasing food quality (increase in cyanobacteria from 5 to 95% simulating eutrophication), temperature increase (by 3 °C), and microplastic exposure (1% of the diet) on survival, size, reproduction, and fatty acid composition of the model freshwater cladoceran Daphnia magna. We found that food quality was the major driver of Daphnia responses. When the amount of cyanobacteria increased from 5 to 95% of the diet, there was a drastic decrease in Daphnia survival (from 81 ± 15% to 24 ± 21%), juvenile size (from 1.8 ± 0.…
Vulnerability of the North Water ecosystem to climate change
2021
High Arctic ecosystems and Indigenous livelihoods are tightly linked and exposed to climate change, yet assessing their sensitivity requires a long-term perspective. Here, we assess the vulnerability of the North Water polynya, a unique seaice ecosystem that sustains the world’s northernmost Inuit communities and several keystone Arctic species. We reconstruct mid-to-late Holocene changes in sea ice, marine primary production, and little auk colony dynamics through multi-proxy analysis of marine and lake sediment cores. Our results suggest a productive ecosystem by 4400–4200 cal yrs b2k coincident with the arrival of the first humans in Greenland. Climate forcing during the late Holocene, l…
Dafnes di Morjē noveles „Rebeka” un stāsta „Putni” ekranizācijas
2017
Šis maģistra darbs ir veltīts literāra darba adaptācijai kino. Tēmas nosaukums – “Dafnes di Morjē romāna “Rebeka” un stāsta “Putni” ekranizācijas”. Pētījumā ir salīdzināts 1938. gadā publicētais gotiskais noslēpumu romāns “Rebeka”, un 1952. gadā publicētais šausmu stāsts “Putni” ar šo literāro darbu kino ekranizācijām, kuras attiecīgi 1940. un 1963. gadā uzņēma režisors Alfrēds Hičkoks. Pētījuma mērķis ir analizēt kā šo literāro darbu pamatidejas ir attēlotas filmās, interpretējot veiktās sižeta izmaiņas un personāžu atainojumu. Pētījuma metodes ietver kā teksta analīzi, tā arī literāro darbu un filmu salīdzinošo analīzi. Teorētiskā daļa ir veltīta ekranizācijas atbilstībai oriģinālajiem li…
Režisora Aigara Graubas filmu "Baiga vasara", "Rīgas sargi" un "Sapņu komanda 1935" izmantoto tehniku un vizuālās komunikācijas analīze
2016
Bakalaura darba tēma ir „Režisora Aigara Graubas filmu "Baiga vasara", "Rīgas sargi" un "Sapņu komanda 1935" izmantoto tehniku un vizuālās komunikācijas analīze”. Bakalaura darbā pētāmā problēma ir – kādi ir filmu galvenie vizuālās komunikācijas elementi, kādas tehniskās pieejas tika izmantotas filmu veidošanā, kāpēc, un kā tas atspoguļojas filmu vizuālajā komunikācijā? Tika izvirzīti galvenie uzdevumi – izanalizēt literatūru par Latvijas kino vēsturi, vēsturisko kino žanru, digitālo kino, filmas tapšanas posmiem, vizuālo komunikāciju; intervēt filmas veidotājus (režisoru, producentu, montāžisti, operatoru); veikt filmu kvalitatīvo kontentanalīzi; apkopot un salīdzināt iegūtos rezultātus, u…
Zvaigžņotā Debess: 2015, Vasara (228)
2015
Latvijas Universitāte
High Nitrogen Removal in a Constructed Wetland Receiving Treated Wastewater in a Cold Climate
2018
Constructed wetlands provide cost-efficient nutrient removal, with minimal input of human labor and energy, and their number is globally increasing. However, in northern latitudes, wetlands are rarely utilized, because their nutrient removal efficiency has been questioned due to the cold climate. Here, we studied nutrient retention and nitrogen removal in a boreal constructed wetland (4-ha) receiving treated nitrogen-rich wastewater. On a yearly basis, most of the inorganic nutrients were retained by the wetland. The highest retention efficiency was found during the ice-free period, being 79% for ammonium-nitrogen (NH4+-N), 71% for nitrate-nitrogen (NO3--N), and 88% for phosphate-phosphorus…
Responses to Developmental Temperature Fluctuation in Life History Traits of Five Drosophila Species (Diptera: Drosophilidae) from Different Thermal …
2021
Simple Summary Most laboratory experiments on insects to date have been conducted using constant temperature settings. Even when the purpose of the study was to investigate effects of temperature, insects have mostly been kept at different but constant temperatures ignoring natural variation in temperature. Here we investigated effects of simple daily temperature fluctuation (22.5/27.5 °C and 20/30 °C) on some development characteristics in five species of fruit flies (Drosophila) originating from areas with different temperature profiles. We demonstrated how species of the same genus can show substantial differences when developing at fluctuating temperatures not always predictable by deve…