scholarly journals Editors' Note

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Ellen R. Cohn ◽  
Jana Cason
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Current Issue ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Country Report ◽  
Letter To The Editor ◽  
Inter State

The current issue of the International Journal of Telerehabilitation (IJT) contains original research, policy, and a country report (India).  A letter to the editor describes the challenges faced by Occupational Audiologists in the United States, due to the current absence of inter-state professional license portability. 

Utopias of One

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Kotin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
World War I ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
Personal Autonomy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Original Research ◽  
The Soviet Union

This book is a new account of utopian writing. It examines how eight writers—Henry David Thoreau, W. E. B. Du Bois, Osip and Nadezhda Mandel'shtam, Anna Akhmatova, Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, and J. H. Prynne—construct utopias of one within and against modernity's two large-scale attempts to harmonize individual and collective interests: liberalism and communism. The book begins in the United States between the buildup to the Civil War and the end of Jim Crow; continues in the Soviet Union between Stalinism and the late Soviet period; and concludes in England and the United States between World War I and the end of the Cold War. In this way it captures how writers from disparate geopolitical contexts resist state and normative power to construct perfect worlds—for themselves alone. The book contributes to debates about literature and politics, presenting innovative arguments about aesthetic difficulty, personal autonomy, and complicity and dissent. It models a new approach to transnational and comparative scholarship, combining original research in English and Russian to illuminate more than a century and a half of literary and political history.

scholarly journals “How Do We Actually Do Convergence” for Disaster Resilience? Cases from Australia and the United States

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shefali Juneja Lakhina ◽  
Elaina J. Sutley ◽  
Jay Wilson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Century ◽  
Urban Resilience ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Systemic Risks ◽  
Work Community ◽  
Research Findings

AbstractIn recent years there has been an increasing emphasis on achieving convergence in disaster research, policy, and programs to reduce disaster losses and enhance social well-being. However, there remain considerable gaps in understanding “how do we actually do convergence?” In this article, we present three case studies from across geographies—New South Wales in Australia, and North Carolina and Oregon in the United States; and sectors of work—community, environmental, and urban resilience, to critically examine what convergence entails and how it can enable diverse disciplines, people, and institutions to reduce vulnerability to systemic risks in the twenty-first century. We identify key successes, challenges, and barriers to convergence. We build on current discussions around the need for convergence research to be problem-focused and solutions-based, by also considering the need to approach convergence as ethic, method, and outcome. We reflect on how convergence can be approached as an ethic that motivates a higher order alignment on “why” we come together; as a method that foregrounds “how” we come together in inclusive ways; and as an outcome that highlights “what” must be done to successfully translate research findings into the policy and public domains.

scholarly journals Don’t Unleash the Privateers!: Privateering is NOT Legal under Contemporary International Law

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leon Y. Xiao
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
International Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
Letter To The Editor

Published version with editorial changes: https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2020/july/comment-discussion. A Letter to the Editor arguing that privateering is not legal under contemporary international law, in response to Cancian and Schwartz’s article ‘Unleash the Privateers!’ and Schwartz’s article ‘U.S. Privateering Is Legal,’ both published by the Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute in April 2020.

scholarly journals Finescale Assessment of Mobile Home Tornado Vulnerability in the Central and Southeast United States

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 797-812 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen M. Strader ◽  
Walker S. Ashley
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Plains ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mobile Home ◽  
Socioeconomic Vulnerability ◽  
Mobile Homes ◽  
Emergency Managers ◽  
Disaster Potential ◽  
Social Vulnerabilities

Abstract Research has illustrated that tornado disaster potential and impact severity are controlled by hazard risk and underlying physical and social vulnerabilities. Previous vulnerability studies have suggested that an important driver of disaster consequence is the type of housing affected by tornadic winds. This study employs a Monte Carlo tornado simulation tool; mobile home location information derived from finescale, land-parcel data; and census enumerations of socioeconomic vulnerability factors to assess the tornado impact probability for one of the most wind hazard–susceptible demographics in the United States: mobile home residents. Comparative analyses between Alabama and Kansas are employed to highlight regional (i.e., Southeast vs Great Plains) differences in mobile home tornado risk, exposure, and vulnerability. Tornado impact potential on mobile homes is 4.5 times (350%) greater in Alabama than in Kansas because Alabama, in comparison to Kansas, is represented by 1) a greater number of mobile homes and 2) a more sprawling mobile home distribution. Findings reveal that the Southeast’s mobile home residents are one of the most socioeconomically and demographically marginalized populations in the United States and are more susceptible to tornado impact and death than illustrated in prior research. Policy makers, engineers, and members of integrated warning teams (i.e., National Weather Service, media, emergency managers, and first responders) should use these findings to initiate a dialogue and construct interdisciplinary actions aimed at improving societal and individual resilience before, during, and after hazardous weather events.

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