Project ROSE Research Articles

Monica Jones

Abstract The following is an interview with activist Monica Jones conducted by Che Gossett and Eva Hayward. In this interview, Jones talks about her activism against the criminalization of sex work, recounting how the program Project ROSE, which was a revealing collaboration between the university and the police, functioned through carceral logics to detain and then according to a carceral economy of innocence, criminally prosecute or “reeducate” sex workers or those profiled as sex workers. Jones shows how the university is part of the carceral continuum and is a site of Black trans and sex worker and prison abolitionist struggle, which has intensified in the current organizing against police on campuses and entanglement of university and the prison-industrial complex and the policing functions of administration and university governance. Jones also shows how this is an HIV/AIDS activist issue given that the criminalization of sex work is bound up with from gentrification, displacement, and how that is exacerbated with COVID-19.

A contemporary Madonna from the Eastern Cape: Female agency in the Keiskamma Art Project's Rose Altarpiece

The Keiskamma Art Project, based in Hamburg in the Eastern Cape, produced the Rose Altarpiece in 2005. A work modelled on the Virgin of the Rose Bower altarpiece in the Church of the Dominicans in Colmar, France, that features a panel made by Martin Schongauer in 1473, the Rose Altarpiece substitutes the fifteenth-century rendition of the Virgin Mary in an enclosed garden with a representation of Nokwanda Makubalo, a project member, with a child whom she had adopted. The Rose Altarpiece may best be understood as a "parody" of the Virgin of the Rose Bower altarpiece in the sense that this term is defined by Linda Hutcheon (1985), including her concept that the various likenesses between a representation and its source serve in fact to emphasise their differences from one another. Particularly distinctive in this instance is the difference between the idea of virtuous womanhood conveyed in the two works. Whereas the iconography that informs the Virgin Mary's representation in images such as Schongauer's panel was not grounded in the empowerment of females, the Rose Altarpiece represents women as having agency and capacity to effect social transformations. Made in the context of escalating HIV/AIDS infections, the South African work gives visual form and shape to "feminist ubuntu" in its suggestion of the way in which women have sought to negotiate this health crisis.

Mathematical model of the effects of government intervention and rehabilitation of prostitution

In the United States, prostitution is considered illegal in all but one state; Nevada allows some legal activities in exchange for substantial guidelines. In 2010, approximately 43,600 females were arrested for prostitution. Numerous intervention programs were established in order to obstruct the lifestyle of a prostitute (PRP, Project ROSE, etc.). There are many documentations and programs that share their forethought on prostitution; however, few target prostitution directly. To determine the dynamics of prostitution, this paper constructs a four-class compartmental model that focuses on the effectiveness of government intervention and rehabilitation of prostitutes mathematically. The basic reproductive number, [Formula: see text], helps to discover the threshold values for the dynamics of prostitution to become both prevalent or absent in society. This paper predominately observes government intervention to curtail a prostitution prevalent society. Various parameters and variables help to define and indicate the dynamics of prostitution to construct viable simulations. Successful prostitution interaction prevention deemed essential in prostitution prevention; however, government intervention corresponding with successful rehabilitation competitively challenges prostitution interaction prevention in reducing basic reproductive values.

Astronomia, astrofísica e cosmologia para o Ensino Médio

Estudos em diversos países, no âmbito do projeto Rose, avaliaram o interesse de estudantes por temas científicos. Em geral, verificou-se que os temas relacionados a astronomia, astrofísica e cosmologia são considerados muito interessantes por alunos em idade escolar. É ainda mais notável que isso se verifica independentemente do sexo. Espera-se, portanto, que iniciativas para estimular o interesse por física e matemática devem envolver os temas em questão. Esse artigo apresenta sistematicamente tópicos interessantes dentro das três áreas, com maior ênfase em cosmologia, visando orientar o professor.

Project ROSE: An Arrest Alternative for Victims of Sex Trafficking and Prostitution

This study explores a pilot arrest alternative for sex-trafficked and prostituted adults regarding diversion program attendance, completion, and 12-month recidivism. Two groups were compared using chi-square analyses. The pilot participants were 43 women identified as having committed a prostitution-related crime. They were compared to 42 women arrested and charged with prostitution. No differences were found between the two groups regarding diversion attendance, completion or prostitution-related recidivism. Benefits of the pilot intervention include similar diversion results, cost-savings, intelligence gathering, and a community perspective of victim-centered services for prostituted adults.

Project rose ® (recycled oil saves energy): Alabama's used oil recycling program

Project ROSE is a non-profit energy conservation program funded by the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs, Science, Technology and Energy Division and sponsored by the University of Alabama. Project ROSE's goal is conserving energy, preserving a valuable natural resource and protecting the environment. To accomplish its purpose, Project ROSE educates the public recycling used oil, helps establish used oil recycling programs, and offers used oil collection and recycling assistance. Project ROSE has served the people of Alabama and the nation since 1977.

Crustal structure in the Orozco Transform Zone

Seismic refraction data from lines of small shots and from individual large shots recorded during project ROSE are used to determine the crust and upper mantle velocity structure in the Orozco transform zone. The objective of this study is to provide constraints on the origin of a deep north‐south trending trough flanked by two shallow ridges. These topographic features are incompatible with the present plate tectonic framework as defined by the regional spreading direction (approximately east‐west) and did not display any seismic activity during project ROSE. Travel times and amplitudes from reversed profile along one of the ridges reveal an anomalous crustal structure: a velocity increase approximating a gradient of 0.5 s−1 extending through most of the crust and decreasing to 0.1 s−1 at the base and a total crustal thickness of about 5.4 km. In contrast, three profiles from topographically normal oceanic crust indicate a crustal structure typical of oceanic crust throughout the oceans: a 1.5‐km‐thick layer in which velocity increases from about 3 km s−1 to 6.7 km s−1 overlying a 4.5‐km‐thick layer with a velocity of about 6.8 km s−1. The upper mantle velocity beneath both structures, determined from travel times from large shots at ranges of 30–100 km, is about 8.1 km s−1. These results are interpreted to indicate that the trough and flanking ridges represent an extinct spreading center that developed an axial valley as the spreading center progressively shifted to the present axis of the East Pacific Rise.

Variation in young oceanic crust and upper mantle structure

Seismic refraction and single‐channel reflection data taken along 0.5‐, 2.5‐, and 4.5‐m.y.‐age isochrons near the East Pacific Rise during Project ROSE are used to determine if a systematic change in the P velocity‐depth function with age can be resolved. Inversion of these data suggests that any change in crustal P velocity structure related to age is smaller than variability in the seismic velocity‐depth function along an isochron. The emergence of a ‘normal’ crust‐mantle transition by 4.5‐m.y.‐age is seen in these data. Crust and crust‐mantle transition zone heterogeneity along these isochrons may be related to the along strike variability in processes at the ridge crest. The velocity‐depth functions for the three split profile refraction lines are compared with velocity‐depth functions for the Samail ophiolite, which is thought to represent oceanic crust of similar age. The velocity‐depth functions for the ROSE data are bounded by different velocity‐depth models for the Samail ophiolite; this suggests that those models are not in disagreement but represent the lateral heterogeneity that can be expected in young oceanic crust.

Seismicity and crustal structure in the Orozco Fracture Zone: Project Rose Phase II

A total of 301 earthquakes were recorded in the vicinity of the Orozco fracture zone by seven Texas ocean bottom seismograph stations during the 2‐week period of the Rivera Ocean Seismic Experiment (ROSE) (phase II). Using data from the entire ROSE array, hypocenters of 50 earthquakes were determined. These revealed two distinct zones of seismic activity within the fracture zone. In addition to these earthquake families, many very small events were detected by a station located very close to the spreading center of the East Pacific Rise. The magnitudes of these earthquakes, defined by their duration times, were so small that most of them were recorded only at this station (station 14) in continual or swarmlike occurrences. The slope of the frequency‐magnitude distribution of these events is significantly larger than those of other earthquake groups detected during the experiment, i.e., they appear to have an unusually high b value. These results suggest that this new population of earthquakes may be associated with volcanic activity or stress release within highly fractured crustal material. Refraction studies in the fracture zone reveal the presence of a rather high‐velocity crustal layer (6.9–7.0 km/s) beneath the experiment zone. The Moho velocity and the crustal thickness are estimated at 7.8 km/s and 6.2 km, respectively.

Microearthquake activity on the Orozco Fracture Zone: Preliminary results from Project ROSE

We present preliminary hypocenter determinations for 52 earthquakes recorded by a large multi‐institutional network of ocean bottom seismometers and ocean bottom hydrophones in the Orozco Fracture Zone in the eastern Pacific during late February to mid‐March 1979. The network was deployed as part of the Rivera Ocean Seismic Experiment, also known as Project ROSE. The Orozco Fracture Zone is physiographically complex, and the pattern of microearthquake hypocenters at least partly reflects this complexity. All of the well‐located epicenters lie within the active transform fault segment of the fracture zone. About half of the recorded earthquakes were aligned along a narrow trough that extends eastward from the northern rise crest intersection in the approximate direction of the Cocos‐Pacific relative plate motion; these events appear to be characterized by strike‐slip faulting. The second major group of activity occurred in the central portion of the transform fault; the microearthquakes in this group do not display a preferred alignment parallel to the direction of spreading, and several are not obviously associated with distinct topographic features. Hypocentral depth was well resolved for many of the earthquakes reported here. Nominal depths range from 0 to 17 km below the seafloor.