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Bonevac, Daniel. "John Calvin’s Multiplicity Thesis." Religions 12, no. 6 (May 31, 2021): 399. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel12060399.
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John Calvin holds that the fall radically changed humanity’s moral and epistemic capacities. Recognizing that should lead Christian philosophers to see that philosophical questions require at least two sets of answers: one reflecting our nature and capacities before the fall, and the other reflecting our nature and capacities after the fall. Our prelapsarian knowledge of God, the right, and the good is direct and noninferential; our postlapsarian knowledge of them is mostly indirect, inferential, and filled with moral and epistemic risk. Only revelation can move us beyond fragmentary and indeterminate moral and theological knowledge.
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Martin, Cathie Jo. "Party Politics and the Default Move from Coordination to Liberalism." Business History Review 87, no. 3 (2013): 431–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007680513000718.
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This article delves into the origins of the first national multi-sector employers' associations in Denmark and the United Kingdom to understand why some countries produce highly-centralized, unitary national business associations, which develop labor market coordination with unions and the state. In contrast, other countries conclude their experiment with coordination by ultimately falling back on laissez-faire liberalism. In particular, I explore how the structure of party competition works to augment or to diminish coordination among employers. I argue that the interplay of party politics in the policy-making process influenced the incentives of opposing parties to block the legislation sought by employers, informed the incentives of the business-oriented right parties to delegate policy-making authority to private business and labor organizations, and shaped the capacities of employers to get what they wanted from the state.
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Venkateswaran, Vignesh, Anusha L. K. Kumble, and Renee M. Borges. "Resource dispersion influences dispersal evolution of highly insulated insect communities." Biology Letters 14, no. 10 (October 2018): 20180111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2018.0111.
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Communities in which species are obligately associated with a single host are ideal to test adaptive responses of community traits to host-imposed selection because such communities are often highly insulated. Fig species provide oviposition resources to co-evolved fig-wasp communities. Dispersing fig-wasp communities move from one host plant to another for oviposition. We compared the spatial dispersion of two fig species and the dispersal capacities of their multitrophic wasp communities. Dispersal capacities were assessed by measuring vital dispersal correlates, namely tethered flight durations, somatic lipid contents and resting metabolic rates. We suggest that dispersal-trait distributions of congeneric wasp species across the communities are an adaptive response to host plant dispersion. Larger dispersal capacities of the entire multitrophic community are related to more widely dispersed resources. Our results provide evidence and a novel perspective for understanding the potential role of adaptation in whole-community dispersal-trait distributions.
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Allen, Joseph P., and Erin M. Miga. "Attachment in adolescence: A move to the level of emotion regulation." Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 27, no. 2 (March 2010): 181–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265407509360898.
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The early adolescent’s state of mind in the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) is more closely linked to social interactions with peers, who are unlikely to serve as attachment figures, than it is to (i) qualities of the adolescent’s interactions with parents, (ii) the AAI of the adolescent’s mother, or (iii) the adolescent’s prior Strange Situation behavior. This unexpected finding suggests the value of reconceptualizing AAI autonomy/ security as a marker of the adolescent’s capacity for emotion regulation in social interactions. Supporting this, we note that the AAI was originally validated not as a marker of attachment experiences or expectations with one’s caregivers, but as a predictor of caregiving capacity sufficient to produce secure offspring. As such, the AAI may be fruitfully viewed as primarily assessing social emotion regulation capacities that support both strong caregiving skills and strong skills relating with peers.
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Wroe, Stephen, William C. H. Parr, Justin A. Ledogar, Jason Bourke, Samuel P. Evans, Luca Fiorenza, Stefano Benazzi, et al. "Computer simulations show that Neanderthal facial morphology represents adaptation to cold and high energy demands, but not heavy biting." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 285, no. 1876 (April 4, 2018): 20180085. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.0085.
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Three adaptive hypotheses have been forwarded to explain the distinctive Neanderthal face: (i) an improved ability to accommodate high anterior bite forces, (ii) more effective conditioning of cold and/or dry air and, (iii) adaptation to facilitate greater ventilatory demands. We test these hypotheses using three-dimensional models of Neanderthals, modern humans, and a close outgroup ( Homo heidelbergensis ), applying finite-element analysis (FEA) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD). This is the most comprehensive application of either approach applied to date and the first to include both. FEA reveals few differences between H. heidelbergensis , modern humans, and Neanderthals in their capacities to sustain high anterior tooth loadings. CFD shows that the nasal cavities of Neanderthals and especially modern humans condition air more efficiently than does that of H. heidelbergensis , suggesting that both evolved to better withstand cold and/or dry climates than less derived Homo . We further find that Neanderthals could move considerably more air through the nasal pathway than could H. heidelbergensis or modern humans, consistent with the propositions that, relative to our outgroup Homo , Neanderthal facial morphology evolved to reflect improved capacities to better condition cold, dry air, and, to move greater air volumes in response to higher energetic requirements.
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Margoliash, Daniel, and Howard C. Nusbaum. "Animal comparative studies should be part of linguistics." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 32, no. 5 (October 2009): 458–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x09990690.
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AbstractUniversal Grammar promotes the study of an idealization of language behavior and language learning. In examining the diversity of actual behavioral strategies used to achieve linguistic goals, Evans & Levinson (E&L) move towards studying language as a behavior. This approach can benefit from studying communicative and cognitive capacities more broadly – across species. We exhort like-minded linguists to cast off the remaining intellectual shackles of linguistic speciesism.
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Knight, Simon, Sophie Abel, Antonette Shibani, Yoong Kuan Goh, Rianne Conijn, Andrew Gibson, Sowmya Vajjala, Elena Cotos, Ágnes Sándor, and Simon Buckingham Shum. "Are You Being Rhetorical? A Description of Rhetorical Move Annotation Tools and Open Corpus of Sample Machine-Annotated Rhetorical Moves." Journal of Learning Analytics 7, no. 3 (December 17, 2020): 138–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.18608/jla.2020.73.10.
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Writing analytics has emerged as a sub-field of learning analytics, with applications including the provision of formative feedback to students in developing their writing capacities. Rhetorical markers in writing have become a key feature in this feedback, with a number of tools being developed across research and teaching contexts. However, there is no shared corpus of texts annotated by these tools, nor is it clear how the tool annotations compare. Thus, resources are scarce for comparing tools for both tool development and pedagogic purposes. In this paper, we conduct such a comparison and introduce a sample corpus of texts representative of the particular genres, a subset of which has been annotated using three rhetorical analysis tools (one of which has two versions). This paper aims to provide both a description of the tools and a shared dataset in order to support extensions of existing analyses and tool design in support of writing skill development. We intend the description of these tools, which share a focus on rhetorical structures, alongside the corpus, to be a preliminary step to enable further research, with regard to both tool development and tool interaction
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Pohler, Nina. "Commensuration, compromises and critical capacities: Wage determination in collective firms." Social Science Information 58, no. 2 (May 17, 2019): 261–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0539018419848235.
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This article analyses pay determination as a process of commensuration as well as a process in which commensuration can fail. The analysis is based on an empirical study of two collective firms in Germany and the United Kingdom and their attempts to self-determine fair pay. Due to the formal equality of members and their democratic decision-making processes, these cases are a specifically interesting context for studying the determination of pay. Through the analysis of a failed attempt at finding a formula for fair pay, as well as a fragile compromise formula, a contribution is made to the literature on commensuration and the construction of compromises. The article also extends this literature by explaining the obstacles to the creation of a compromise that would go beyond the need for a common interest. Callon and Muniesa’s work on calculation is used to clarify the steps that are necessary to move from questions of worth to the assessment of worth and its expression in measures. To introduce the question of legitimacy in evaluation processes, Callon and Muniesa’s framework is supplemented with Boltanski and Thévenot’s work on critical capacities.
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Nutcharin, Sirival. "The Difference of Si/Al Ratio on Organo-Zeolite in the Adsorption of Atrazine and Linuron." Applied Mechanics and Materials 804 (October 2015): 295–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.804.295.
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Linuron and atrazine as a kind of pesticides were used more widely in agriculture. The toxic effect in the environments, which accumulation in soil, water and human effect. Both of pesticides were adsorped using zeolites with batch method. Three difference types of zeolite were used for comparison. Those pesticides consisted of various Si/Al ratio which were 3.61 (Y), 8.61 (Y-10) and 111.35 (Y-100). The organo-zeolite, which modified with hexadecyltrimethyl ammonium (HDTMA) surfactant were used for comparison. It was found that the adsorption capacity of linuron more than atrazine 30 % for Y , 40 % for Y-10 and 10 % for Y-100. It can be explaned that the small molecules of linuron (thickness 6.12 Ao) could move onto pore size of zeolite (7.4 Ao). While the larger molecules of atrazine (thickness 9.6 Ao) could not do this. The maximum asorption capacities of all pesticides are Y-100 and MY-100 because they have most external area and hydrophobic properties which were form their most dealuminative potential. The comparison of MY-10 and Y-10 found that MY-10 has more adsorption capacities than Y-10 as follow 4 % for linuron and 20 % for atrazine since MY-10 has more increased hydrophobic force. Adsorption capacity of MY-100 is similar to Y-100. Adsorption capacities of MY is lower than Y since it has steric effect and pore blocked with surfactant. This results were identified by XRF, XRD, FT-IR, TGA and CHNS.
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Mensch, James. "Artificial Intelligence and the Phenomenology of Flesh." PhaenEx 1, no. 1 (November 5, 2006): 73. http://dx.doi.org/10.22329/p.v1i1.44.
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A. M. Turing argued that there was "little point in trying to make a 'thinking machine' more human by dressing it up in ... artificial flesh." We should, instead, draw "a fairly sharp line between the physical and the intellectual capacities of a man." For over fifty years, drawing this line has meant disregarding the role flesh plays in our intellectual capacities. Correspondingly, intelligence has been defined in terms of the algorithms that both men and machines can perform. I would like to raise some doubts about this paradigm in artificial intelligence research. Intelligence, I believe, does not just involve the working of algorithms. It is founded on flesh's ability to move itself, to feel itself, and to engage in the body projects that accompanied our learning a language. This implies that to copy intelligence -- i.e., to produce an artificial version of it -- the flesh that forms its basis must also be reproduced.
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Nita, Piotr. "Natural Airfield Pavements, Load-Carrying Capacities There Of, Principles Of Construction And Operational Use." Journal of KONBiN 34, no. 1 (September 1, 2015): 117–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jok-2015-0029.
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Abstract The paper has been intended to present analytically derived relationships for aircraft wheels that move through the soil medium. The analyses have been conducted for both the rigid wheel and the pneumatic whell. The most fundamental principles of constructing natural(soil) and sod/grass airfield pavements have been diccussed. Characteristic of soils typical of such pavements /surfaces have been defined. Proped are criteria for the evaluation of load-carring capacities of such pavements. The most essential principles that goven the operational use there of follow.
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Opitz-Stapleton, Sarah, Roger Street, Qian Ye, Jiarui Han, and Chris D. Hewitt. "Translational Science for Climate Services: Mapping and Understanding Users’ Climate Service Needs in CSSP China." Journal of Meteorological Research 35, no. 1 (February 2021): 64–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13351-021-0077-3.
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AbstractThe Climate Science for Service Partnership China (CSSP China) is a joint program between China and the United Kingdom to build the basis for climate services to support the weather and climate resilient economic development and welfare in China. Work Package 5 (WP5) provides the translational science on identification of: different users and providers, and their mandates; factors contributing to communication gaps and capacities between various users and providers; and mechanisms to work through such issues to develop and/or evolve a range of climate services. Key findings to emerge include that users from different sectors have varying capacities, requirements, and needs for information in their decision contexts, with a current strong preference for weather information. Separating climate and weather services when engaging users is often not constructive. Furthermore, there is a need to move to a service delivery model that is more user-driven and science informed; having sound climate science is not enough to develop services that are credible, salient, reliable, or timely for diverse user groups. Greater investment in building the capacity of the research community supporting and providing climate services to conduct translational sciences and develop regular user engagement processes is much needed. Such a move would help support the China Meteorological Administration’s (CMA) ongoing efforts to improve climate services. It would also assist in potentially linking a broader group of “super” users who currently act as providers and purveyors of climate services because they find the existing offerings are not relevant to their needs or cannot access CMA’s services.
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Залюбовський, М. Г., І. В. Панасюк, and В. В. Малишев. "ДОСЛІДЖЕННЯ КІНЕМАТИЧНИХ ПАРАМЕТРІВ МАШИНИ ДЛЯ ОБРОБКИ ДЕТАЛЕЙ З ДВОМА ЄМКОСТЯМИ, ЩО ВИКОНУЮТЬ СКЛАДНИЙ ПРОСТОРОВИЙ РУХ." Bulletin of the Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design. Technical Science Series 146, no. 3 (January 11, 2021): 25–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.30857/1813-6796.2020.3.2.
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Investigation of the main kinematic parameters of a shredding machine with two moving tanks connected by a translational kinematic pair and performing complex spatial motion to be able to further predict the technological result at the design stage of such equipment and the corresponding technological operations of machining parts. Using the SolidWorks-2016 Motion computer-aided design system, 3D modeling was carried out, followed by kinematic analysis, of a machine for processing parts with two movable capacities, which are interconnected by a translational kinematic pair and perform complex spatial motion. The essence of kinematic analysis was to determine the linear velocities and accelerations of points that coincide with the ends of the working tanks of the machine. Based on 3D modeling and kinematic analysis in the SolsdWorks-2016 Motion computer-aided design system, some kinematic parameters of the machine are determined, in particular, the law of the change in the angular velocity of the driven shaft of the machine is obtained in the form of graphical dependencies, the change in the translational speed and translational acceleration of four points, which are conventionally located in the center, is studied the ends of each of the working capacities. The relationship between some kinematic parameters of the developed machine design with two moving capacities that perform complex spatial motion is established. It was found that the kinematic parameters of the two tanks of the machine differ from each other, as a result of which, during the execution of the corresponding technological operations, the intensity of movement of the working array in the two capacities will differ from each other. In addition, the ends of each of the working capacities move with almost the same kinematic parameters, which will facilitate the movement of the working array between the opposite ends of both tanks in opposite directions with the same intensity. The results obtained make it possible to determine the most rational functional purpose of the machine under study.
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Залюбовський, М. Г., І. В. Панасюк, and В. В. Малишев. "ДОСЛІДЖЕННЯ КІНЕМАТИЧНИХ ПАРАМЕТРІВ МАШИНИ ДЛЯ ОБРОБКИ ДЕТАЛЕЙ З ДВОМА ЄМКОСТЯМИ, ЩО ВИКОНУЮТЬ СКЛАДНИЙ ПРОСТОРОВИЙ РУХ." Bulletin of the Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design. Technical Science Series 146, no. 3 (January 11, 2021): 25–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.30857/1813-6796.2020.3.2.
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Investigation of the main kinematic parameters of a shredding machine with two moving tanks connected by a translational kinematic pair and performing complex spatial motion to be able to further predict the technological result at the design stage of such equipment and the corresponding technological operations of machining parts. Using the SolidWorks-2016 Motion computer-aided design system, 3D modeling was carried out, followed by kinematic analysis, of a machine for processing parts with two movable capacities, which are interconnected by a translational kinematic pair and perform complex spatial motion. The essence of kinematic analysis was to determine the linear velocities and accelerations of points that coincide with the ends of the working tanks of the machine. Based on 3D modeling and kinematic analysis in the SolsdWorks-2016 Motion computer-aided design system, some kinematic parameters of the machine are determined, in particular, the law of the change in the angular velocity of the driven shaft of the machine is obtained in the form of graphical dependencies, the change in the translational speed and translational acceleration of four points, which are conventionally located in the center, is studied the ends of each of the working capacities. The relationship between some kinematic parameters of the developed machine design with two moving capacities that perform complex spatial motion is established. It was found that the kinematic parameters of the two tanks of the machine differ from each other, as a result of which, during the execution of the corresponding technological operations, the intensity of movement of the working array in the two capacities will differ from each other. In addition, the ends of each of the working capacities move with almost the same kinematic parameters, which will facilitate the movement of the working array between the opposite ends of both tanks in opposite directions with the same intensity. The results obtained make it possible to determine the most rational functional purpose of the machine under study.
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Cuny, Pascal, and Gérard Buttoud. "Pistes pour une gestion décentralisée des ressources forestières au Mali | Towards a decentralised management of forest resources in Mali." Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Forstwesen 154, no. 2 (February 1, 2003): 31–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.3188/szf.2003.0031.
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The promotion of decentralised local management of forest resources does not always take the interests and capacities of individuals and local institutions into account. Nevertheless, despite a diversity of character, they represent the potentially strategic groups involved in specific forest actions. Their intervention, based on the complementary nature, leads one to suppose that a move towards communal forest management is possible within a global management framework of the inevitable conflicts of interest between actors and the search for a balance between informal and formal regulations.
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Roberts, Andrew. "The Politics of Healthcare Reform in Postcommunist Europe: The Importance of Access." Journal of Public Policy 29, no. 3 (October 22, 2009): 305–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0143814x09990110.
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AbstractWhy do countries move from public to private financing of healthcare? This paper explores this issue by looking at the divergent reform trajectories of three postcommunist countries – the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland. While existing accounts emphasize veto points to explain changes in healthcare systems, the present analysis finds that moves towards private financing can be better explained by differences in access to the policymaking arm of the state. Specifically, a penetrable single-party government and weak bureaucratic capacities allow physicians to capture the reform process and implement their preferred policies. The results suggest that scholars of health policy should focus more attention on the actors seeking change and their access to policy makers.
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Banalopoulou, Christina. "Moving Crisis: Dancing as Political Praxis in the Age of the Greek Depression." Congress on Research in Dance Conference Proceedings 2016 (2016): 9–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cor.2016.2.
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In the following paper, I argue that The Greek Depression is the inevitable outcome of synthetic politics that understand difference through identical opposition. It is my contention that dancing, as an embodied praxis embedded within present sociopolitical territories and stratified actualities, envelops potentiality for what Deleuze and Guattari call de-stratification and de-territorialization. Drawing from their work, I call for a neo-realist understanding of the virtual capacities of the dancing body, so we can move history beyond ordinarily conceived politics and introduce not yet imagined body politics that still remain uncaptured.
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Ryan, Jordan. "Infrastructures for Peace as a Path to Resilient Societies: An Institutional Perspective." Journal of Peacebuilding & Development 7, no. 3 (December 2012): 14–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15423166.2013.774806.
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To prevent conflict and move away from fragility towards resilient societies, states increasingly adopt systematic efforts and institutionalised mechanisms to build the necessary capacities to manage conflict and promote peace. One such approach, ‘infrastructures for peace’, offers an inclusive and respectful response. This reflective essay describes the central features of infrastructures for peace and examines how they strengthen resilience within societies. It provides examples of such structures that are being supported by the United Nations Development Programme and its national partners, and examines how they have contributed to national governance and transformed conflict situations.
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FERGUSON, HARRY. "Welfare, Social Exclusion and Reflexivity: The Case of Child and Woman Protection." Journal of Social Policy 32, no. 2 (April 2003): 199–216. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279402006967.
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Questions concerning what it means to be a human agent and the capacities of those who receive welfare services to reflect upon and shape their lives, and the kinds of social conditions which create opportunities for such ‘reflexivity’, have begun to move to the centre of social policy and social work analysis. Using empirical evidence drawn from a study of child and woman protection, this paper argues that, contrary to claims that the concept of self-reflexivity as developed in the work of Beck and Giddens is of little relevance to marginalised citizens, in late-modernity the socially excluded are using social work and welfare services in creative ways to critically engage in life-planning, to find safety and healing. However, the data suggest that much greater specificity is needed in relation to the areas in which it is possible to act to change and develop the self and the social world in late-modernity. The paper argues for a complex theory of agency and reflexivity in welfare discourse which takes account of the intersection of structural disadvantage, intervention practices and personal biography and how people adjust to adversity and cope with toxic experiences and relationships in their lives. This helps to account for the limits to the capacities of agents to reflect and know why they act as they do and their capacities to act destructively, as well as providing for an appreciation of the creative, reflexive welfare subject.
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Lamm, Freddie R., James P. Bordovsky, and Terry A. Howell Sr. "A Review of In-Canopy and Near-Canopy Sprinkler Irrigation Concepts." Transactions of the ASABE 62, no. 5 (2019): 1355–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.13031/trans.13229.
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Abstract. The use of in-canopy and near-canopy sprinkler application with mechanical-move systems is prevalent in the U.S. Great Plains. These systems can reduce evaporative losses by nearly 15%, but they introduce a much greater potential for irrigation non-uniformity and other water losses. This article is a review of these application technologies for mechanical-move sprinkler irrigation systems that have been widely adopted in the region, where irrigation capacities are typically less than those required to meet “fully irrigated” crop water demand and there is limited seasonal precipitation. Close attention to the design, installation, management, and operating guidelines for these systems can prevent many of the non-uniformity and water loss issues that reduce system performance and crop water productivity. Keywords: Center pivot, In-canopy sprinkler application, LEPA, LESA, LPIC, MESA, PARM, Sprinkler irrigation.
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Haagh, Louise. "Rethinking Democratic Theories of Justice in the Economy after COVID-19." Democratic Theory 7, no. 2 (December 1, 2020): 110–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/dt.2020.070214.
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This article argues that the COVID-19 crisis has brought to light the importance of state democratic capacities linked with humanist governance. This requires securing individuals’ silent freedoms as embedded in the way “developmental” institutions that constitute social relations and well-being are governed. I argue health and well-being inequalities brought out by the crisis are but a manifestation of the way, in the context of the competition paradigm in global governance, states have become relatedly more punitive and dis-embedded from society. The answer lies in providing a more explicit defence of the features of a human development democratic state. An implication is to move democratic theory beyond the concern with redistributive and participatory features of democracy to consider foundational institutional properties of democratic deepening and freedom in society.
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Few, Roger, Hazel Marsh, Garima Jain, Chandni Singh, and Mark Glyn Llewellyn Tebboth. "Representing Recovery: How the Construction and Contestation of Needs and Priorities Can Shape Long-term Outcomes for Disaster-affected People." Progress in Development Studies 21, no. 1 (January 2021): 7–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464993420980939.
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We contend that the representational aspects of recovery play an important but under-researched role in shaping long-term outcomes for disaster-affected populations. Ideas constructed around events, people and processes, and conveyed through discussion, texts and images, are seldom neutral and can be exclusionary in their effect. This review draws insights from literature across multiple disciplines to examine how the representation of needs, roles and approaches to recovery influences the support different social groups receive, their capacities to recover, and their rights and agency. It shows how these representations can be contested and challenged, often by disaster-affected people themselves, and calls for increased attention on how to move creatively towards more informed, inclusive and supportive recovery visions and processes.
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Poole, David C., Casey A. Kindig, Brad J. Behnke, and Andrew M. Jones. "Oxygen uptake (VO2) kinetics in different species: a brief review." Equine and Comparative Exercise Physiology 2, no. 1 (February 2005): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/ecp200445.
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AbstractWhen a human begins to move or locomote, the energetic demands of its skeletal muscles increase abruptly and the oxygen (O2) transport system responds to deliver increased amounts of O2 to the respiring mitochondria. It is intuitively reasonable that the rapidity with which O2 transport can be increased to and utilized by (VO2) the contracting muscles would be greater in those species with a higher maximal VO2 capacity (i.e., VO2max). This review explores the relationship between VO2max and VO2 dynamics or kinetics at across a range of species selected, in part, for their disparate VO2max capacities. In healthy humans there is compelling evidence that the speed of the VO2 kinetics at the onset of exercise is limited by an oxidative enzyme inertia within the exercising muscles rather than by VO2 delivery to those muscles. This appears true also for the horse and dog but possibly not for a certain species of frog. Whereas there is a significant correlation between VO2max and the speed of VO2 kinetics among different species, it is possible to identify species or individuals within a species that exhibit widely disparate mass-specific VO2max capacities but similar VO2 kinetics (i.e., superlative human athlete and horse).
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Harsasto, Priyatno. "PEMBANGUNAN BERBASIS BUDAYA SEBAGAI STRATEGI PEMBANGUNAN KOTA: REVITALISASI PASAR GEDE DI KOTA SURAKARTA." Politika: Jurnal Ilmu Politik 9, no. 1 (April 24, 2018): 34. http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/politika.9.1.2018.34-46.
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This research aims to explore the role of community mobilisation in Surakarta’s culture-led urban regeneration process by analysing the case of the Pasar Gede area. This research argues that the generation and use of cultural resources in urban regeneration lie in community mobilisation and institutional support, rather than in a state-led cultural flagship approach. In this way, local government needs to move beyond the instrumentalism of urban cultural strategies and to rediscover the spaces where local cultural activities and mobilization capacities are attached. Only through understanding the relationship between place and community mobilization will a benefit for the revitalization of a unique and historical urban area be gene
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Roussanaly, Simon, Han Deng, Geir Skaugen, and Truls Gundersen. "At what Pressure Shall CO2 Be Transported by Ship? An in-Depth Cost Comparison of 7 and 15 Barg Shipping." Energies 14, no. 18 (September 8, 2021): 5635. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en14185635.
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The pipeline has historically been the preferred means to transport CO2 due to its low cost for short distances and opportunities for economies of scale. However, interest in vessel-based transport of CO2 is growing. While most of the literature has assumed that CO2 shipping would take place at low pressure (at 7 barg and −46 °C), the issue of identifying best transport conditions, in terms of pressure, temperature, and gas composition, is becoming more relevant as ship-based carbon capture and storage chains move towards implementation. This study focuses on an in-depth comparison of the two primary and relevant transport pressures, 7 and 15 barg, for annual volumes up to 20 MtCO2/year and transport distances up to 2000 km. We also address the impact of a number of key factors on optimal transport conditions, including (a) transport between harbours versus transport to an offshore site, (b) CO2 pressure prior to conditioning, (c) the presence of impurities and of purity constraints, and (d) maximum feasible ship capacities for the 7 and 15 barg options. Overall, we have found that 7 barg shipping is the most cost-efficient option for the combinations of distance and annual volume where transport by ship is the cost-optimal means of transport. Furthermore, 7 barg shipping can enable significant cost reductions (beyond 30%) compared to 15 barg shipping for a wide range of annual volume capacities.
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VanGronigen, Bryan A., Kathleen M. W. Cunningham, and Michelle D. Young. "How Exemplary Educational Leadership Preparation Programs Hone the Interpersonal-Intrapersonal (i2) Skills of Future Leaders." Journal of Transformative Leadership & Policy Studies 7, no. 2 (April 10, 2019): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.36851/jtlps.v7i2.503.
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John P. Kotter argues that business schools continue to prepare leaders for 20th century needs, as they typically teach students how to manage an organization, rather than how to lead one. In this article, we explore how Kotter’s assertion applies to educational leadership preparation programs. We examine the ways a purposive sample of exemplary programs structure and implement learning experiences for aspiring educational leaders. Leveraging our findings from these cases and the literature on transformational learning and leadership, we argue that today’s programs should include “powerful learning experiences” that challenge and coach leadership candidates to build the skills and capacities necessary to both manage and lead organizations. If educational leaders are the “driving subsystem” for school improvement efforts, then leadership preparation must move aspiring leaders beyond technical competence and toward the more transformational aspects of leading.
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Busemeyer, Marius R., Christian Kellermann, Alexander Petring, and Andrej Stuchlík. "Overstretching solidarity? Trade unions' national perspectives on the European economic and social model." Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research 14, no. 3 (January 1, 2008): 435–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/102425890801400307.
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The development of a European economic and social model poses serious challenges for European trade unions. On the one hand, demand for a strengthening of the social dimension of the European integration project is growing and it is realised that this cannot be achieved by unilateral action at the national level. On the other hand, the identities and organisational capacities of trade unions are deeply embedded in national welfare state institutions, limiting the leeway for a common European social model. This article presents empirical evidence from over 100 interviews with trade union leaders and politicians from 17 EU Member States on trade unions' positions in various policy fields (economic, social and competition policies). The conclusion is that unions should reflect more critically on their embeddedness in national welfare state arrangements in order to move forward together towards the realisation of a Social Europe.
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Karamagi, Humphrey Cyprian, Prosper Tumusiime, Regina Titi-Ofei, Benson Droti, Hillary Kipruto, Juliet Nabyonga-Orem, Aminata Binetou-Wahebine Seydi, Felicitas Zawaira, Gerard Schmets, and Joseph Waogodo Cabore. "Towards universal health coverage in the WHO African Region: assessing health system functionality, incorporating lessons from COVID-19." BMJ Global Health 6, no. 3 (March 2021): e004618. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2020-004618.
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The move towards universal health coverage is premised on having well-functioning health systems, which can assure provision of the essential health and related services people need. Efforts to define ways to assess functionality of health systems have however varied, with many not translating into concrete policy action and influence on system development. We present an approach to provide countries with information on the functionality of their systems in a manner that will facilitate movement towards universal health coverage. We conceptualise functionality of a health system as being a construct of four capacities: access to, quality of, demand for essential services and its resilience to external shocks. We test and confirm the validity of these capacities as appropriate measures of system functionality. We thus provide results for functionality of the 47 countries of the WHO African Region based on this. The functionality of health systems ranges from 34.4 to 75.8 on a 0–100 scale. Access to essential services represents the lowest capacity in most countries of the region, specifically due to poor physical access to services. Funding levels from public and out-of-pocket sources represent the strongest predictors of system functionality, compared with other sources. By focusing on the assessment on the capacities that define system functionality, each country has concrete information on where it needs to focus, in order to improve the functionality of its health system to enable it respond to current needs including achieving universal health coverage, while responding to shocks from challenges such as the 2019 coronavirus disease. This systematic and replicable approach for assessing health system functionality can provide the guidance needed for investing in country health systems to attain universal health coverage goals.
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Caton, Lucy Catherine. "Video Data Sensing." Video Journal of Education and Pedagogy 4, no. 1 (December 5, 2019): 23–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/23644583-00401001.
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This article situates at the interstice of post qualitative inquiry and child participatory video research, in responding to the need for more work around child, camera and researcher relations, where bodies (human and otherwise) coexist and agency is not bounded in one human subject. The article makes its contribution by describing affective methodologies for dealing with vast amounts of digital video data whilst displacing dominant framings for knowing children. The author offers the technique of Video data sensing (Caton, 2019) to recognise how child subjectivities emerge out of the movements and rhythms of bodies, formlessness and chaos. The technique works in conjunction with digital software, as a way for researchers and practitioners to move beyond simply labelling children and their capacities in new and alternate ways, as light, pattern, colour and texture become sites of knowledge production within the child and camera assemblage (Deleuze and Guattari, 1987/2014).
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Parkinson, Eric A., John R. Post, and Sean P. Cox. "Linking the dynamics of harvest effort to recruitment dynamics in a multistock, spatially structured fishery." Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 61, no. 9 (September 1, 2004): 1658–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/f04-101.
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A freshwater sport fishery that targets hundreds of geographically isolated stocks is simulated by combining a model of angler behavior with a model of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) population dynamics. Ideal free distribution (IFD) theory, which suggests that angling quality will be similar on all lakes, is used to drive angler effort distribution. Model parameters are based on creel survey data from 53 lakes and empirical relationships between growth, survival, and density derived from whole-lake density manipulations on nine lakes over a period of 10 years. We compared angling quality, population density, fish size, and yield under unfished conditions, harvest rates that maximize sustained yields (MSY), and an IFD equilibrium driven by angler behavior. The IFD equilibrium rarely maximized yields. Stocks with high MSY angling quality are overexploited at the IFD equilibrium because anglers move to take advantage of exceptional angling opportunities. These stocks would often be viewed as more resistant to harvest pressure because they have higher stock productivities and habitat capacities. However, in our model, they are systematically overharvested because their high fish density attracts excessive angling pressure. Conversely, stocks with low MSY angling quality are underexploited because anglers move to take advantage of better angling quality on other lakes.
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Vertegaal, Roel, and Jeffrey S. Shell. "Attentive user interfaces: the surveillance and sousveillance of gaze-aware objects." Social Science Information 47, no. 3 (September 2008): 275–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0539018408092574.
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Attentive user interfaces are user interfaces that aim to support users' attentional capacities. By sensing users' attention for objects and people in their everyday environment and by treating user attention as a limited resource, these interfaces avoid today's ubiquitous patterns of interruption. Focusing upon attention as a central interaction channel allows development of more sociable methods of communication and repair with ubiquitous devices. Our methods are analogous to human turn-taking in group communication. Turn-taking improves the user's ability to conduct foreground processing of conversations. Attentive user interfaces bridge the gap between foreground and periphery of user activity in a similar fashion, allowing users to move smoothly in between. The authors present a framework for augmenting user attention through attentive user interfaces. We propose 5 key properties of attentive systems: to (1) sense attention, (2) reason about attention, (3) regulate interactions, (4) communicate attention and (5) augment attention. We conclude with a discussion of privacy considerations of attentive user interfaces.
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Idirisova, Klara. "The activity of transnational corporations as a factor in the development of the processing industry." Moscow University Economics Bulletin 2020, no. 6 (December 30, 2020): 208–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.38050/013001052020611.
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The role of transnational corporations (TNCs) in ensuring the dynamic development of the processing industry is considered in the article. TNCs have a positive effect on the economy of the host countries, creating a competitive production that meets modern world standards, contributes to the development of industry and allows to move to a qualitatively new stage of development. The developing countries examples showed that the allocation of TNCs capital in processing industries can increase the degree of saturation of the domestic market with food commodities and industrial goods, create new employment placements, and produce competitive products. The conclusions show that the improvement of the overall investment climate and the implementation of a targeted policy in the field of attracting TNCs to the processing industry allow for optimal use of existing capacities and available resources.
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Karavasilis, Ioannis, Kostas Zafiropoulos, and Vasiliki Vrana. "A Model for Investigating E-Governance Adoption Using TAM and DOI." International Journal of Knowledge Society Research 1, no. 3 (July 2010): 71–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jksr.2010070106.
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As governments around the world move toward e-governance, a need exists to examine citizens’ willingness to adopt e-governance services. In this paper, the authors identify the success factors of e-governance adoption by teachers in Greece, using the Technology Acceptance Model, the Diffusion of Innovation model and constructs of trust, risk and personal innovativeness. Two hundred thirty primary and secondary education teachers responded to an online survey. LISREL then analyzed the data. Model estimation used the maximum likelihood approach, with the item covariance matrix as input. A SEM validation of the proposed model reveals that personal innovativeness, compatibility and relative advantage are stronger predictors of intention to use, compared to trust, and perceived risk. Findings may enhance policymakers’ capacities by presenting them with an understanding of citizens’ attitudes.
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Jakes, Pamela J., Kristen C. Nelson, Sherry A. Enzler, Sam Burns, Antony S. Cheng, Victoria Sturtevant, Daniel R. Williams, et al. "Community wildfire protection planning: is the Healthy Forests Restoration Act's vagueness genius?" International Journal of Wildland Fire 20, no. 3 (2011): 350. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wf10038.
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The Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (HFRA) encourages communities to develop community wildfire protection plans (CWPPs) to reduce their wildland fire risk and promote healthier forested ecosystems. Communities who have developed CWPPs have done so using many different processes, resulting in plans with varied form and content. We analysed data from 13 case-study communities to illustrate how the characteristics of HFRA have encouraged communities to develop CWPPs that reflect their local social and ecological contexts. A framework for analysing policy implementation suggests that some elements of HFRA could have made CWPP development and implementation problematic, but these potential shortcomings in the statute have provided communities the freedom to develop CWPPs that are relevant to their conditions and allowed for the development of capacities that communities are using to move forward in several areas.
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Hassel, Craig Alan. "Cultural Diversity and Critical Dietetics: A Scholarship of Cross-Cultural Engagement." Critical Dietetics 3, no. 2 (December 31, 2016): 23–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.32920/cd.v3i2.1002.
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As every human society has developed its own ways of knowing nature in order to survive, dietitians can benefit from an emerging scholarship of “cross-cultural engagement” (CCE). CCE asks dietitians to move beyond the orthodoxy of their academic training by temporarily experiencing culturally diverse knowledge systems, inhabiting different background assumptions and presuppositions of how the world works. Although this practice may seem de- stabilizing, it allows for significant outcomes not afforded by conventional dietetics scholarship. First, culturally different knowledge systems including those of Africa, Ayurveda, classical Chinese medicine and indigenous societies become more empathetically understood, minimizing the distortions created when forcing conformity with biomedical paradigms. This lessens potential for erroneous interpretations. Second, implicit background assumptions of the dietetics profession become more apparent, enabling a more critical appraisal of its underlying epistemology. Third, new forms of post-colonial intercultural inquiry can begin to develop over time as dietetics professionals develop capacities to reframe food and health issues from different cultural perspectives. CCE scholarship offers dietetics professionals a means to more fully appreciate knowledge assets that lie beyond professionally maintained parameters of truth, and a practice for challenging and moving boundaries of credibility.
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Nicoară, Nicolae, and Gabriela-Florina Nicoară. "Management of Logistics Support Structures – Development and Desiderata." International conference KNOWLEDGE-BASED ORGANIZATION 26, no. 1 (June 1, 2020): 245–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/kbo-2020-0039.
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AbstractEvery single day, the personnel from the logistics work hard in order to provide continuously the needed support for the recipients. The military field is changing and developing. The combat experience of the Romanian soldiers and the common exercises carried out with the strategical partners increase the military field capacities but also its expectations. In this context, we believe that logistics should move forward in order to update and upgrade at the tactical level. It has to enhance its ability to anticipate, to improve the speed of response to requests, and to reduce the improvisation in making decisions. In this article, we will write about a few means of increasing management efficiency through structural changes. Moreover, we will take into consideration the need to upgrade the management systems and we will highlight the benefits of using the tools of management in logistics.
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Syafaq, Hammis. "Nalar Teosofis sebagai Basis Epistemologis Kajian Agama dan Pengetahuan." Teosofi: Jurnal Tasawuf dan Pemikiran Islam 3, no. 1 (October 7, 2015): 19. http://dx.doi.org/10.15642/teosofi.2013.3.1.19-38.
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<p>This article is an attempt to study the development of epistemology that combines religion and science reasoning in the form of “theosophical sense”. The goal is to provide the opportunity for religious reason and philosophy of reason to move, to walk, to work according to their capacities and freely without having to specify the amount of the portion in between. But at some point, they interact and complement each other. This study is expected to resolve the problem of the conflict between religion—which is based on religious arguments—and knowledge—which is based on human reason—, because each can meet in a single point of wisdom (meeting between aspects of divinity and humanity). Therefore, it has a humanitarian dimension of religion, as well as the knowledge which has dimensions of divinity.</p>
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Monsó, Susana, and Herwig Grimm. "An Alternative to the Orthodoxy in Animal Ethics? Limits and Merits of the Wittgensteinian Critique of Moral Individualism." Animals 9, no. 12 (December 1, 2019): 1057. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani9121057.
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In this paper, we analyse the Wittgensteinian critique of the orthodoxy in animal ethics that has been championed by Cora Diamond and Alice Crary. While Crary frames it as a critique of “moral individualism”, we show that their criticism applies most prominently to certain forms of moral individualism (namely, those that follow hedonistic or preference-satisfaction axiologies), and not to moral individualism in itself. Indeed, there is a concrete sense in which the moral individualistic stance cannot be escaped, and we believe that it is this particular limitation that justified Crary’s later move to a qualified version of moral individualism. At the same time, we also argue that there are significant merits to the Wittgensteinian critique of moral individualism, which pertain to its attack on the rationalism, naturalism, and reductionism that characterise orthodox approaches to animal ethics. We show that there is much of value in the Wittgensteinians’ call for an ethics that is more human; an ethics that fully embraces the capacities we are endowed with and one that pays heed to the richness and complexity of our moral lives.
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Mills, SL, and E. Vanden. "Workshop report - International roundtable on the self-management support of chronic conditions." Chronic Diseases and Injuries in Canada 31, no. 4 (September 2011): 176–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.24095/hpcdp.31.4.07.
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An international roundtable on self-management support (SMS) for persons living with chronic conditions (CCs) was held in Vancouver, Canada, in June 2009. It brought together 23 leading researchers, policy makers, health care practitioners and consumers from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. It also provided a forum for critically reflecting on SMS approaches and for building consensus on how to move forward in the self-management field. The deliberations resulted in a draft international framework that identifies key definitions, principles and strategic directions and also outlines sample strategies to guide those working to develop SMS capacities at the local, regional or national level. The framework is a mechanism for knowledge exchange that will hopefully act as a catalyst to shift SMS-related policy, practice and research directions to better serve the needs of all CC populations. More than 400 multi-level stakeholders in the Canadian and international community have been invited to review the framework using an e-consultation process. The final framework is scheduled for release in the late fall of 2011.
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Wohl, Sharon. "Sensing the City: Legibility in the Context of Mediated Spatial Terrains." Space and Culture 22, no. 1 (December 6, 2018): 90–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1206331218811571.
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Smartphones, with their “pervasive presence” in contact with our bodies, have come to act as sensory prosthetics that mediate our experience of the city. They activate new possibilities of navigating the urban, such that we can find exactly what we want, rather than what has been placed before us. This article argues that smartphone technologies produce a more fluid engagement with urban space: where space is not so much “given” as “enacted.” In this context, notions of “legibility” take on new algorithmic and virtual forms. Thus, according to Hamilton and colleagues, where “the legible city waited to be read, the transparent city of data waits to be accessed.” Here, stable features dissolve as urban space becomes increasingly fluid and contingent, no longer limited by static patterns of inhabitation. Instead, how we move and where we move shift in accordance with the kinds of urban resources being activated at any given location, at any given moment, and in conjunction with the shifting vicissitudes of the crowd. In this context, the virtual (in its technological definition of cyber-enabled or -enacted space) mediates and activates the virtual (in its philosophical definition pertaining to the capacities of an entity that may or may not be manifested depending on context). The article considers the implications of this novel spatial mediation using an ontological perspective informed by complex adaptive systems theory, which considers forms and objects not as absolutes but rather as contingent entities activated through interactions.
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Ebert, Rainer. "Mental-Threshold Egalitarianism." Social Theory and Practice 44, no. 1 (2018): 75–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/soctheorpract201812330.
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Mental-threshold egalitarianism, well-known examples of which include Jeff McMahan’s two-tiered account of the wrongness of killing and Tom Regan’s theory of animal rights, divides morally considerable beings into equals and unequals on the basis of their individual mental capacities. In this paper, I argue that the line that separates equals from unequals is unavoidably arbitrary and implausibly associates an insignificant difference in empirical reality with a momentous difference in moral status. In response to these objections, McMahan has proposed the introduction of an intermediate moral status. I argue that this move ultimately fails to address the problem. I conclude that, if we are not prepared to give up moral equality, our full and equal moral status must be grounded in a binary property that is not a threshold property. I tentatively suggest that the capacity for phenomenal consciousness is such a property, and a plausible candidate.
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J, Geetha, Uday Bhaskar N, and Chenna Reddy P. "An improved hadoop load rebalancer." International Journal of Engineering & Technology 7, no. 2.27 (August 6, 2018): 109. http://dx.doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i2.27.11775.
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Hadoop has taken an important space in the market as a result of quick growth of data. Load rebalancing in Hadoop is an area of major concern due to the unpredictable nature of tasks, new nodes added to cluster and node computing capacities. A load rebalancer that is efficient can help to improve the performance and reduce computation time. Load rebalancer and schedulers are used interchangeably in many cases. The main idea of this paper is to explore how load balancers / schedulers work in case of native Hadoop also included insights from some of the works, which identify and addresses the problems around schedulers and rebalancers. In this paper, an Improved Hadoop Load Re-balancer adopts a strategy to move the task to the node which has replica, which is faster and is topologically closer, which reduces the network congestion and execution time of Hadoop.
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Jin, Cheng-Jie, Wei Wang, Rui Jiang, and Hao Wang. "Cellular automaton simulations of a four-leg intersection with two-phase signalization." International Journal of Modern Physics C 25, no. 03 (February 20, 2014): 1350099. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s012918311350099x.
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In this paper, we present a cellular automaton (CA) simulation of a signalized intersection. When there is no exclusive lane for left-turn vehicles, through vehicles and left-turn vehicles have to share one lane. Under such situation usually two-phase signalization is adopted, and the conflicts between the two traffic streams need to be analyzed. We use a refined configuration for the intersection simulation: the geometry of the intersection has been considered and vehicles are assumed to move along 1/4 circle arcs. We focus on the averaged travel times on left lanes and their distributions. The diagrams of intersection approach capacities (IACs) and the corresponding phase diagrams are also presented, which depend on the approach flow rates and the percentage of left-turn vehicles. Besides, we find that the minimum green time could be determined by finding out the critical value for the travel times.
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Müller, Leos. "Sweden’s Early-Modern Neutrality: Neutral Vessels, Prize Cases and Diplomatic Actors in London in the Late Eighteenth Century." Journal of Early Modern History 23, no. 5 (October 2, 2019): 475–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700658-12342650.
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Abstract Early modern shipping under neutral flags was an activity that required many capacities, combining practices from three different fields: commerce and shipping, diplomacy, and international law. This complexity of neutral shipping is the reason why traditional diplomatic history paid limited attention to it, despite the fact that shipping and prize cases consumed much of the attention and time of diplomats of neutral nations. The neutral agents had to be able to understand, communicate and move between all three fields. This article studies seizures of Swedish neutral vessels by British privateers and the Royal Navy between 1770 and 1800, including the years of the War of American Independence and the French Revolutionary Wars. It provides examples of how exchanges between different field actors—e.g. shipmasters, ship-owners, merchants, agents, lawyers, naval officers and diplomats—were communicated and understood from the perspective of Sweden’s representatives in London.
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Villalobos Dintrans, Pablo, Mallika Mathur, Emmanuel González-Bautista, Jorge Browne, Jorge Browne, Carolina Hommes, and Enrique Vega. "Implementing long-term care systems in the Americas: a regional strategy." Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública 45 (September 1, 2021): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.26633/rpsp.2021.86.
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The Region of the Americas is facing accelerated demographic and epidemiological changes. As these trends will continue in future years, long-term care needs are expected to rise. How can countries respond to these challenges? We propose that countries in the Region should invest in the implementation of long-term care systems. Considering the heterogeneity in the Region, we propose a strategy based on three components: (i) understanding the problem; (ii) thinking about solutions; and (iii) building support and consensus. Depending on each country’s needs and capacities, these three elements suggest short-term and long-term actions and goals, from generating better information on long-term care needs to the implementation of long-term care systems. Longterm care is a relevant issue for the Region today. The task is challenging, but countries need to embrace it and move forward before it is too late.
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Peimani, Nastaran, and Hesam Kamalipour. "Online Education and the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Case Study of Online Teaching during Lockdown." Education Sciences 11, no. 2 (February 13, 2021): 72. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/educsci11020072.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has become a critical challenge for the higher education sector. Exploring the capacity of this sector to adapt in the state of uncertainty has become more significant than ever. In this paper, we critically reflect on our experience of teaching urban design research methods online during the early COVID-19 lockdown in the UK. This is an exploratory case study with a qualitative approach with an aim to inform resilient practices of teaching in the face of public health emergencies. Drawing on the experience of teaching the Research Methods and Techniques subject during lockdown, we discuss the rapid transition from face-to-face to online teaching and point to the challenges and opportunities in relation to the learning and teaching activities, assessment and feedback, and digital platforms. This paper concludes by outlining some key considerations to inform the development of more adaptive and resilient approaches to online teaching in the context of unprecedented global health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic. We argue that it is critical to move beyond fixed pedagogical frameworks to harness the productive capacities of adaptive teaching.
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Najafian, Seyed Mohsen, and Esmail Karamidehkordi. "Challenges of sustainability efforts of universities regarding the sustainable development goals: a case study in the University of Zanjan, Iran." E3S Web of Conferences 48 (2018): 04001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20184804001.
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The purpose of this presentation is to introduce some activities and programmes of the University of Zanjan in changing its campus environment towards a sustainable campus, emphasising setting and infrastructure, waste management, water management, and education and research. This comprehensive university with over 10000 students and 1000 staff is located in a semiarid area with a campus area of 421 ha and is 6 km away from the Zanjan City, center of Zanjan Province. In over four decades, it has expanded its tree cultivation to over 72 hectares, and its total vegetation area covers over 94 percent of total campus area. The university has increased and improved its investment on sustainability, smart buildings and water management in both buildings and vegetated areas. The waste management programmes have been implemented through using electronic correspondence and document submission in different activities of the university; separating plastics, glasses and papers and waste recycling; toxic waste handling in all labs; composting organic waste; inorganic waste management; and recycling sewage disposal. Though the university has provided free buses and shuttles to both staff and students inside the campus and between the city and campus to reduce private car use, it still needs to encourage bicycle use and improve its facilities to support it. Developing renewable energy for the future is still a challenge for this university and needs both innovation and investment. Students and academic staff have also been encouraged to move their conventional education and research methods and contents to more sustainable approaches, for example in courses syllabuses, student activities, research projects, publications and investments. The GreenMetric World University Ranking Network is expected to enhance its scope to contribute much more on sustainable development goals. A sustainable university should play an important role in innovation and technology research and development in sustainability; enhancing staff and students’ sustainability knowledge and social capacities; changing the campus environment to an Ecofriendly and sustainable environment; and enhancing social and human capacities of communities and public and private institutions.
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Morgan, Jennie. "Assembling the New: Studying Change Through the ‘Mundane’ in the Museum as Organization." Museum and Society 16, no. 2 (July 30, 2018): 157–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.29311/mas.v16i2.2799.
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Change is highly valued within the museum sector and related literatures. Despite this emphasis, it is claimed that the field struggles to adequately understand and explain change processes, and that new critical and methodological tools are needed to move discussion forward (Peacock 2013). This paper offers one possible route by developing an anthropologically informed, ethnographic approach to studying the museum as organization. Illustrated through selected empirical materials from the case of the refurbishment of the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, the paper focuses on a period immediately following this major capital project. It argues that change is implemented and sustained by the many different players and practices constituting the inner life-worlds of museums as organizations. By analysing the mediatory capacities of, what in some frameworks might be considered, ‘mundane’ everyday activities (such as maintenance work and tour-guiding) the paper seeks to expand understandings of what shapes the dynamics of change in museums.
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Chaudhry, Vandana. "Labouring Self-Help: Dialectics of Disability and Development in South India." Somatechnics 6, no. 2 (September 2016): 179–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/soma.2016.0190.
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Neoliberal ideologies have been globalized through development practices, and these have tended to be received as seductive, even quasi-magical solutions for all. Offering an ethnographic window into what happens when these development policies are implemented for disabled members of rural communities in contemporary India, this paper captures disabled people's experiences as they move through the circuits of neoliberal development projects of the World Bank in rural areas of South India. Based on a multi-year ethnographic study of a disability self-help group project, it analyzes various material and discursive mechanisms by which groups get comported as self-government techniques that are limiting the scope of the state. Simultaneously, it captures ways in which disabled people manage to subvert millennial development and its assemblages to create emancipatory possibilities. A disability analytic reveals fissures in the implicit promises of development—its temporalities, spatialities, socialities, and embodied capacities – and critiques its foundational assumptions through the social worlds of those at its margins.
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Sobel, David. "The Limits of the Explanatory Power of Developmentalism." Journal of Moral Philosophy 7, no. 4 (2010): 517–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/174552410x535080.
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AbstractRichard Kraut's neo-Aristotelian account of well-being, Developmentalism, aspires to explain not only which things are good for us but why those things are good for us. The key move in attempting to make good on this second aspiration involves his claim that our ordinary intuitions about what is good for a person can be successfully explained and systematized by the idea that what benefi ts a living thing develops properly that living thing's potentialities, capacities, and faculties. I argue that Kraut's understanding of such proper development plays no serious constraining role in shaping the details of the account. If this is correct, Developmentalism lacks the potential to explain or vindicate the intuitions about what is good for us that it champions. In effect, Kraut offers us a list of things that he claims benefits a person, but he lacks a theory of what those things have in common such that they benefit him.