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Sustainable sanitation and gaps in global climate policy and financing
Although sanitation systems are fundamental for human health and sustainable development, limited focus has been placed on their contributions to climate mitigation and adaptation. Climate change threatens existing systems, as well as efforts to increase services for 2.3 billion people who lack even a basic sanitation service. At the same time, the sanitation and wastewater sector directly produces emissions associated with breakdown of organic matter, and treatment processes require large energy inputs. In light of these challenges, we describe gaps in how sanitation is being addressed in mitigation and adaptation, discuss how this results in little inclusion of sanitation in climate policy and financing at the global level, and implications of these gaps for different sanitation systems and geographic regions. Finally, we describe the need for planning frameworks to facilitate integration of climate change into sanitation policy and programming. This will be critical to increasing understanding of sanitation and climate change linkages among stakeholders, and more effectively including sanitation in climate action.
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This Muslim American life : dispatches from the War on Terror
\"Moustafa Bayoumi reveals what the War on Terror looks like from the vantage point of Muslim Americans, highlighting the profound effect ... surveillance has had on how they live their lives. To be a Muslim American today often means to exist in an absurd space between exotic and dangerous, victim and villain, simply because of the assumptions people carry about you ... Bayoumi [posits that] contemporary politics, movies, novels, media experts, and more have together produced a culture of fear and suspicion that not only willfully forgets the Muslim American past but also threatens all of our civil liberties in the present\"--Back cover.
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This Muslim American Life
Over the last few years, Moustafa Bayoumi has been an extra inSex and the City 2playing a generic Arab, a terrorist suspect (or at least his namesake \"Mustafa Bayoumi\" was) in a detective novel, the subject of a trumped-up controversy because a book he had written was seen by right-wing media as pushing an \"anti-American, pro-Islam\" agenda, and was asked by a U.S. citizenship officer to drop his middle name of Mohamed.
Others have endured far worse fates. Sweeping arrests following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 led to the incarceration and deportation of thousands of Arabs and Muslims, based almost solely on their national origin and immigration status. The NYPD, with help from the CIA, has aggressively spied on Muslims in the New York area as they go about their ordinary lives, from noting where they get their hair cut to eavesdropping on conversations in cafés. InThis Muslim American Life, Moustafa Bayoumi reveals what the War on Terror looks like from the vantage point of Muslim Americans, highlighting the profound effect this surveillance has had on how they live their lives. To be a Muslim American today often means to exist in an absurd space between exotic and dangerous, victim and villain, simply because of the assumptions people carry about you. In gripping essays, Bayoumi exposes how contemporary politics, movies, novels, media experts and more have together produced a culture of fear and suspicion that not only willfully forgets the Muslim-American past, but also threatens all of our civil liberties in the present.
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The selected works of Edward Said, 1966-2006.
Presents key selections from the works of Edward Said.
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Leaching characteristics of uranium from El-Missikat mineralized granite
In this study, the dissolution of uranium from El-Missikat mineralized granite using either malonic or sulfuric acid was investigated, along with the kinetics of this process. The composition and leaching characteristics of the El-Missikat granite were explored. The mineralized granite and the residues remaining after it had been leached by the acids were characterized by X-ray fluorescence, inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrophotometry, and scanning electron microscopy–energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy. The results of this study were used to select the optimal leaching agent, which yielded the leach liquor with the lowest contaminant levels and the highest uranium content, thus enhancing the purity of the yellowcake product in the separation unit. The effects of parameters such as the malonic or sulfuric acid concentration, the leaching time, the temperature, as well as the solid/liquid phase ratio (S/L) on the dissolution rate were studied separately. The dissolution study showed that 1.5 M sulfuric acid and 2 M malonic acid dissolved approximately 90% and 92%, respectively, of the uranium in the granite at 25 °C when the particle diameter was < 74 µm and the phase ratio (S/L) was 1/4. The smallest amounts of the other elements in the mineralized granite (Fe, K, Ca, Al, Ti, Y, Pb, Cu, Zn, As, Co, Cr, and V) were obtained when malonic acid was applied rather than sulfuric acid. The kinetics and thermodynamics of the dissolution process using either acid indicate that the shrinking core model is applicable to this process, and that the reaction is controlled by the diffusion of acid and U(VI) through the porous product layer.
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Racing Religion
Beginning in 1790 (Act 1790) and until 1952 (Immigration 1952), the Naturalization Act had limited citizenship to \"free white persons\" but without exactly defining what makes a person white. [...] many people, primarily of Asian descent, had appeared in front of the courts before Hassan to argue that they were \"white by law,\" to borrow a phrase from Ian Haney Lopez's book (1996) of the same name.
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