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Conflictual Collaboration: Citizen Science and the Governance of Radioactive Contamination after the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

In the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, citizen scientists collectively tracked and monitored residual radioactivity in Japan, legitimizing alternative views to an official assessm

Radioactive Performances: Teaching about Radiation after the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

Following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster and its release of radioac- tive contamination, the Japanese state put into motion risk communica- tion strategies to explain the danger of radiation e

Copyright Basics

Website with an excellent (and brief) explanation of fair use to copyrighted materials, along with a useful fair-use checklist that can be used to assist in fair-use analysis.

Campus Copyright: Rights and Responsibilities

This policy guide explains the basics of American copyright law as it concerns universities, scholars, and scholarly publishers.

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Mental Health Consequences of Disaster

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What were the methods, tools and/or data used to produce the claims or arguments made in the article or report?

This article is supported with statistical studies and in-the-field interviews of clinicians and patients.

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Challenges in researching violence affecting health service delivery in complex security environments

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Who are the authors, where do they work, and what are their areas of expertise? How is the author professionally situated in respect to emergency response? Note any other publications/research foci that are of relevance to the DSTS Network.

The first listed author on the paper is Ludgivar Foghammar. Foghammar is a research fellow at Stockholm International Peace Institute (SIPI) and specializes in economics, politcal science, and global health. The second author listed is Suyoun Jang, a researcher at SIPI studies the fragile states of, security, and developement of Korean Culture. A article of note from Jang is titled 'If you can read this, you probably don't live in a dangerous place'.

If you can read this, you probably don't live in a dangerous place (B

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The Waiting Room

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What kinds of action and points of intervention are suggested by the film? If the film itself does not suggest corrective action, describe actions that you can imagine being effective.

Increase in staff and space, with an emphasis on triage. The problem with that is they all cost individual hospitals more, and offer little solution to he over all problem.

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Figure1

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Who was the system built to serve, and why?

Figure 1 is most comparible to a scientific instagram. Any medical professional can post wither sharing a cool story or ask for advice. It can be used as a learning tool, or simply as a fun thing to look at.

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1965 Title XIX Medicaid Law: IMD Exclusion

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Who does the policy apply to? (i.e. residents of California, globally, physicians)

This policy applies to the demographic deemed mentally disabled and are covered by Medicaid.

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Frontline: Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown

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What audiences does the film best address? Why?

This film is aimed at a more general audience as most of the science has been "dumbed down". It offers a more emotional portrayel as opposed to a scientific.