Field Of Dreams Research Articles

Artificial Intelligence in Anesthesiology: Field of Dreams or Fire Swamp? Preemptive Strategies for Optimizing Our Inevitable Future.

Artificial Intelligence in Anesthesiology: Field of Dreams or Fire Swamp? Preemptive Strategies for Optimizing Our Inevitable Future.

The Four

The Four Cary Heinz (bio) It was spring. I love spring. One of the things I like most about spring is the return of our national pastime. Baseball. Listen to the speech by James Earl Jones in Field of Dreams. If you’re reading this, those words probably give you goose bumps. The problem was, it was the spring of 2020. Baseball wasn’t the only thing missing. We were trapped in our homes, many working from there, staring endlessly at computer screens. The NCAA tournament was canceled (my college roommate and I had a thirty- four-year annual bet paused), and the NBA postponed their season and finished it in a “bubble” in Disney World. Spring training stopped, and a shortened sixty- game season followed in late July without fans. It was surreal. With no live games, I turned to the MLB channel, noting they were filling time with any baseball content imaginable, including old movies and documentaries. Robert Redford broke a lot of lights that spring. One night after working remotely numbed my brain, I sat down on the couch with a cold beer and rewatched Ken Burns’s Baseball. I was a happy man. I am on record stating he could make a documentary explaining how Q-tips are made and it would be interesting. When this first appeared in the fall of 1994, it was much like his 1990 work The Civil War. It was long, it was interesting, and it was really good. Watching it now, as I approach the age of sixty, I am a far different man then when I viewed the original broadcast. During the episode “The Seventh Inning,” which covered the 1950s, the black- and- white ghosts, men I grew up watching now appeared in color. An amazing photograph appeared on my screen: Henry Aaron, Ernie Banks, Willie Mays, and Frank Robinson, the icons of my youth. Their faces were printed on cardboard rectangles, statistics on the back. These artifacts were the foundation of my baseball card collection I saved from my mother. She gave a treasure trove of comic books from the 1960s, which I’m sure would have little value today with the popularity of superhero movies. Excuse my sarcasm, but it still hurts. All these years later, however, I still have the cards. [End Page 104] These aren’t just four ghosts from baseball’s past; they had a remarkable amount in common. All were first- ballot Hall of Fame selections, four of the first eighteen chosen that way since 1936. Each of them hit five hundred home runs, four of the first eleven to do so. All were an MVP twice (except, inexplicably, Aaron), won at least one Golden Glove, lived past the age of eighty, and were awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honor. Banks, Mr. Cub, even had the distinction of being presented his medal by a White Sox fan, Barack Obama. I coincidentally thought of four words, all beginning with C, to describe each: Aaron, consistency; Banks, cheerfulness; Mays, charisma; and Robinson, competitiveness. Each word matches their temperament and playing style. Their statistics are legendary, especially when looked at in a Street & Smith’s Official 1978 Yearbook, the first published after their careers had ended. That was a different era, and in that context and perspective their numbers are better appreciated. At the time, all were in the top ten in home runs, hitting a combined 2,513 dingers. They played 11,626 games and created 15, 558 runs (runs scored and runs batted in). Their cumulative total base numbers added up to thirty- nine miles. They rapped out 12,580 hits and 2,082 doubles. All but Banks stole over two hundred bases, and they appeared in sixty-four All- Star rosters. Each was an All- Star more than ten times.1 Today, with the baseball that’s been played since Henry Aaron and Frank Robinson retired after the 1976 season, it’s difficult to appreciate just how good they were. In the past forty-five years, we have had a steroid era and baseballs that many have accused of being juiced. There now are twenty- eight players who...

Beyond the ‘Field of Dreams’ model in smallholder forestry: Building viable timber value chains for smallholder tree growers in developing countries

Many smallholder tree growers in developing countries and those advising them, hold a view that if they plant trees a market will materialize when the time is right. However, despite strong international demand for timber and potential for smallholders to supply this demand, this ‘Field of Dreams’ approach, i.e. if you grow it, buyers will come, is not generally a sound strategy. In this study, we aimed to identify the conditions that enable the development of viable timber value chains around smallholder tree growers in developing countries. We reviewed literature on the integration of small-scale producers into value chains, smallholder tree growing, and smallholder commercial forestry to identify conditions, and used four case studies in the Asia-Pacific Region to understand how these influence outcomes for smallholder tree growers in different settings. This analysis provided a basis for recommendations for policymakers and advising agencies on how to support timber value chains for smallholder tree growers. These included deeper understanding of biophysical suitability of locations for tree growing, smallholder capabilities and interests, and provision of clear land tenure, infrastructure, and streamlined regulations sympathetic to smallscale timber operations. Tree growing can generate financial value for smallholders in regions with high human population density, quality road networks and proximity to processing markets and ports. Careful policy design is required to make it ‘fit for purpose’ at local levels, as conditions vary widely even within a single country. This can identify catalytic interventions and work with existing or near-term market drivers and simplified regulations in the value chain to generate benefits for smallholders.

Acute Kidney Injury and the Field of Dreams—If We Predict It, Maybe They’ll Come

Acute Kidney Injury and the Field of Dreams—If We Predict It, Maybe They’ll Come

Field of Dreams: Exploration of Entrepreneurial Possibilities

Field of Dreams: Exploration of Entrepreneurial Possibilities

The local responses of aquatic ecosystems to adjacent grassland conservation: Can streams of dreams exist in a degraded riverscape?

Abstract Landscape homogenization and the removal of riparian areas have altered stream ecosystems worldwide. Numerous conservation programmes attempt to improve water quality and increase instream habitat heterogeneity to elicit desired biological responses. However, the effectiveness of many conservation efforts on isolated stream fragments remains unknown, especially in grassland regions. The effects of grassland conservation practices and the re‐establishment of riparian corridors in the James River basin, South Dakota (USA) on stream water quality, habitat availability and aquatic macroinvertebrate and fish assemblages were studied in an agriculturally dominated prairie landscape. Grassland conservation efforts may have repaired riparian condition, reduced turbidity and created more diverse instream habitat complexes at conservation sites based on comparisons with paired reference reaches. Reference sites were relatively homogeneous, with prevalent siltation, bank erosion and disturbances to the riparian vegetation. Owing to significant riparian vegetation development, overhanging and aquatic vegetation, benthic detritus and woody materials were significantly more common at conservation reaches. Restoration efforts that assume ‘if you (re‐)build it, they will come’ (i.e. the ‘field of dreams’ hypothesis) underestimate other important barriers to biodiversity restoration in dynamic, grassland riverscapes. Although aquatic organisms in grassland ecosystems are adapted to rapidly inhabit available habitats, the development of niche space at conservation reaches did not directly result in colonization by aquatic life. Grassland management actions did not address stream connectivity issues or overcome land use influences elsewhere in the riverscape that may govern the responses of aquatic macroinvertebrates and fish. Stream fragmentation and continuing, damaging land use patterns seemed to exceed the positive effects of restoring isolated stream reaches in these heavily degraded catchments. Catchment‐scale management strategies that combine reach‐level restoration actions with efforts to improve connectivity are likely to be more successful in degraded riverscapes.

The field of dreams

The field of dreams

Founding Limnology & Oceanography Letters: The challenges, risks, and rewards of launching a new scientific journal

Founding <i>Limnology &amp; Oceanography Letters</i>: The challenges, risks, and rewards of launching a new scientific journal

At Play in the Field of Dreams: Theorising Attitudes, Perceptions and Practices of Law Students in conjunction with the Reflections of Early Career Commercial Lawyers

Australian law schools are tasked with forming students in their knowledge and understanding of the law, with many students aiming to fulfil their dreams of pursuing a legal career. Utilising Bourdieu’s conceptual tools, this article considers whether aspirations of being “real lawyers” are significantly influenced by motifs of career success predominantly linked to an “elite” tier of law practice. The attitudes and perceptions of law students can also positively or adversely shape their career path amidst the information at play in the law school space. Drawing on qualitative data, we have applied Bourdieu’s tools to understand undergraduate and practical legal training students’ responses to notions of career accomplishment. This is contrasted with the reflections of early career commercial lawyers about their law school experiences. With comparisons to contemporary surveys and research on student services for law students, along with their wellbeing, the article reasons that the assorted ambitions of law students requires a law school environment promoting a more diversified perspective of “real law” and “real lawyering”.

Building the Field of Dreams: Pop culture as a means of reaching students

Building the <i>Field of Dreams</i>: Pop culture as a means of reaching students

The future of skin tightening: Mechanical or biological?

AbstractIntroductionNot too long ago, the concept of nonexcisional skin tightening was a field of dreams. Currently, the field of nonexcisional skin tightening is heavily device dependent. Though great strides have been made in both minimally invasive skin tightening and totally noninvasive devices, will these be in use for decades? Advances in biological research and development have been rapid. Consumer demand for regenerative solutions is high, despite the warnings from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) noting that benefits are unproven and that instances of charlatan practice are high. While genetic modification of food is frowned upon, the use of biomarkers in medicine has become a standard of care.Energy based devicesCurrent devices that have retained value in the skin tightening arena include transcutaneous radiofrequency (RF) and microfocused ultrasound. Laser resurfacing can improve mild skin laxity but its best use is wrinkle removal and pigment and textural improvement. RF‐based subdermal tightening consistently achieves a higher measured skin surface contraction than alternatives such as ultrasound‐assisted or laser‐assisted liposuction. High‐intensity electromagnetic field (HIFEM) improves that framework that supports the overlying skin, as well as reducing diastasis recti. HIFEM can generate a 17.9% skin surface area contraction. A combination of transcutaneous RF and targeted pressure energy significantly reduces skin surface irregularities, cellulite, and striae while measurably thickening the dermis.Injectables and biologiocalsBiologically based entries into the field include mechanically processed adipose‐derived stem cells, nanofat, and exosomes. Intradermal injection of nanofat and topical application of exosomes following microneedling can "resurface" skin by reversing many age related changes. A recently approved collagense drug can correct skin surface depressions such as cellulite, deformities following liposuction, and other areas of fibrosis.ConclusionSurgical skin excision has largely been replaced with minimally invasive and noninvasive alternatives. While energy based devices still dominate this field, biologicals are rapidly gaining ground. Substances that induce cell signaling can target cell senescence. The future of skin tightening will include treatment options that offer tightening, smoothing, dermal thickness improvement, hydration, and overall skin quality improvement.

‘If you build it … ’: exploring occupational devotion within an academic field of dreams

ABSTRACT I seek to demonstrate the extent to which meaningful truth(s) can be extracted from a work of memorable literary fiction. This evocative autoethnography employs elements of Creative Analytical Practice (CAP) within a trilogy of short stories (episodes) each inspired by ‘Shoeless Joe’, the fictional novel that provided the inspiration for the fantasy baseball movie ‘Field of Dreams’. Whether consumed individually or altogether, the three-part production offers the opportunity to experience the power and potential of producing personal narratives. Episodes One, Two and Three are piece of creative non-fiction that incorporate the aspects of personal narrative, ethnodrama and autobiography. The principles and practices of occupational devotion and heritage sports tourism are explored and exploited throughout, providing a platform for new learning and a potentially a new way of seeing the world(s) we inhabit.

Regional abundance and local breeding productivity explain occupancy of restored habitats in a migratory songbird

Ecological restoration is a key tool in offsetting habitat loss that threatens biodiversity worldwide, but few projects are rigorously evaluated to determine if conservation objectives are achieved. We tested whether restoration outcomes for an imperiled bird, the Golden-winged Warbler (Vermivora chrysoptera; GWWA) met the assumptions of the ‘Field of Dreams’ hypothesis or whether local and regional population dynamics impacted restoration success. From 2015 to 18, we surveyed 514 points located in recently restored successional habitats. We used new- and published data on the survival of 341 nests and 258 fledglings to estimate GWWA breeding productivity. Occupancy and colonization of restored habitats were significantly higher in our Western Study Region (Minnesota and Wisconsin) than our Eastern Study Region (Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey), a pattern that mirrored broader regional population trends. At local scales, productivity was high in Eastern Pennsylvania (>3 independent juveniles/pair/year) but low in Central Pennsylvania (1 juvenile/pair/year) while both Western and Central Minnesota hosted intermediate productivity (between 1 and 2 juveniles/pair/year). Productivity and occupancy covaried locally in the Eastern Study Region, while occupancy was high in the Western Study Region, despite intermediate productivity. These differences have profound implications for restoration outcomes, as GWWA possessed robust capacity to respond to habitat restoration in both regions, but this capacity was conditional upon local productivity where the species is rare. Our findings suggest that, even when restoration efforts are focused on a single species and use comparable prescriptions, interactions among processes governing habitat selection, settlement, and productivity can yield variable restoration outcomes.

Field of dreams: Restoring estuarine habitat and structure in Mississippi after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

This paper presents a Mississippi Department of Marine Resources (MDMR), Office of Coastal Restoration and Resiliency, perspective on adaptation and innovation in restoration permitting, collaboration, and design in an era shaped by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (DWH). These adaptations and innovations lay groundwork to support Mississippi’s future address of challenges stemming from its ongoing geomorphic evolution and loss of primary landforms. The Round Island project in Jackson County, Mississippi (MS), will serve as a principal example. Completed through the efforts of four agencies via a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and funded by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) this project helped break a long-standing practice of dumping large quantities of federal navigation channel dredged materials in an Offshore Dredged Material Disposal Site (ODMDS). Not only were 220 acres of new island and marsh habitat created in the Mississippi Sound, the Round Island project saved millions in federal navigation dollars because it could be more efficiently accessed than the ODMDS site. The Round Island project represents a collective, multi-agency step toward strategic scale, nature-based approaches more capable of managing Mississippi’s burgeoning restoration and resource needs.

Veillance in Verax and Āyālw (Ialu): Two countries, one concern

ABSTRACT Veillance is Steve Mann’s term for the act of mutual watching which has crept into our postmodern life and has triggered people’s concern over the widespread invasion of their personal lives. Though the different forms and practices of veillance, like surveillance, dataveillance, sousveillance, counterveillance, equiveillance, autoveillance, and dreamveillance (a term I coined), are hard to describe, graphic novels can provide stimulating points of reference for exploring them. The (non-)verbal pictorials they offer engage the readers/viewers, sharpen their understanding of the true essence of veillance and help them reflect on their own situation. The growth of veillance technologies and practices and the sur/sous/veillance nexus of mutual watching is the focus of Pratap Chatterjee and Khalil Bendib’s Verax: The True History of Whistleblowers, Drone Warfare, and Mass Surveillance and Mostafa Youssef’s Āyālw: Haql ālāḥlām (Ialu: The Field of Dreams), two black and white graphic novels from two different countries: USA and Egypt. Engaging with the works of Steven Mann and David Lyon, and other writers concerned with surveillance studies, my article considers the multiple veillance practices evident within Verax (a true story) and Ialu (a work of fantasy), and the constant sousveillant’s attempts to defy the surveillant gaze of power.

Spatial aggregation of aquatic habitats affects oviposition patterns in Aedes mosquitoes.

Colonization, including oviposition, is an important driver of population and community dynamics both within and across habitat patches. Most research has focused on the roles of habitat availability or quality on colonization and its outcomes. However, the spatial distribution of habitats also likely affects these processes. We conducted field experiments in Georgia, USA, using clustered and dispersed arrays of equal numbers of oviposition patches to investigate how patch aggregation influenced oviposition by Aedes mosquitoes. We tested the effects of aggregation on: (1) the total number of eggs an array received, (2) the proportion of patches within an array that received eggs, and (3) the number of eggs per colonized patch. We compared results to predictions from three models (Field of Dreams, Propagule Redirection, and Excess Attraction), which vary in the degree to which arrays attract colonists and apportion those colonists among patches. Clustered arrays received 22% more eggs than dispersed arrays, with clustered patches significantly more likely to receive eggs. At the species level, A. albopictus responded more to clustering than did A. triseriatus. These results are inconsistent with Propagule Redirection, but support the Excess Attraction and Field of Dreams models. Although clustered arrays occupied a relatively small area, they attracted at least as many ovipositing mosquitoes as did dispersed arrays. However, the number of eggs per colonized patch did not differ between clustered and dispersed arrays. Therefore, density dependence among larvae, and hence the production of adult mosquitoes on a per-patch basis, should be similar in dispersed and clustered landscapes.

Gene Therapy's Field of Dreams: If You Build It, Will We Pay?

Long overpromised and underdelivered, gene therapy has at last achieved clinical validation and, with the advent of improved gene editing technologies such as CRISPR, seems poised to play a rapidly expanding role in medical care. However, some of the intrinsic qualities of gene therapy pose a unique challenge to our health insurance model. Gene therapy is costly for a number of reasons. It is “personalized medicine,” which means that treatments are individualized and not for a broad audience. Additionally, the goal of gene therapy is to provide a one-time cure, so the cost is upfront and not spread over time as it would be with conventional drugs or therapeutics. As our experience to date illustrates, these issues of cost may adversely affect access. In this Article, we argue that a lack of broad access to gene therapy will deepen existing health inequities and may create a society of genetic haves and have-nots, where certain genetic diseases become something that happens only to those who cannot afford treatment. This in turn may increase stigma and decrease resources for affected individuals. For these reasons, the success of gene therapy must be considered as inextricable from issues of cost and coverage.

Fields of Dreams: An Economic Democracy Framework for Addressing NIMBYism

Local opposition to the development of socially desirable facilities is one of the most important policy challenges in the United States. Despite decades of effort, a policy formula to reduce “Not in My Back Yard” (NIMBY) political opposition is yet to be found. Cash payments, inclusive deliberation, benefits negotiations, and statutory mandates are only a few of the policy and legislative measures that have been attempted at diffusing NIMBY sentiments, mostly to no avail. This Article offers a different approach to NIMBY conflicts. I argue that disempowerment is one of the main drivers of NIMBY sentiments. People oppose certain developments largely because they feel a lack of control over decisionmaking procedures that directly affect their lives. Applying theories of participatory democracy, I develop a property-based framework to mitigate NIMBY sentiments. Ownership, I explain, empowers. It confers the power to determine and control a resource. When a resource is owned by a community, the community possesses the power to set the agenda for the resource. It follows that if communities own, develop, and manage socially desirable facilities, NIMBY sentiments will be attenuated. To test this hypothesis, I explore two recent successful examples of communal ownership — the development model for windfarms and the U.K.’s Community Right to Build reform. Both case studies demonstrate the potential of communal development to mitigate NIMBY sentiments and provide valuable legal and policy lessons for broader implementation of communal models.

Killing the Field of Dreams: George W. Bush, Empire and Politics of Misrecognition

Killing the Field of Dreams: George W. Bush, Empire and Politics of Misrecognition

A Handful of Interesting, Timely Topics, and: The Polo Grounds is my Field of Dreams

A Handful of Interesting, Timely Topics, and: The Polo Grounds is my Field of Dreams