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Conserving space heritage: The case of Tranquillity Base
Get PDFOne of the most important and spectacular events in the history of space exploration was the first Moon Landing of 1969. Safe from the ravages of erosion, agriculture, industry or the expansion of human settlement, the greatest threat to the site of this momentous event - Tranquillity Base - is likely to be from a meteor impact. However, with the advent of space tourism and commercial space travel, the site of humankind's first visit to a celestial body may come under threat of a different kind - that of souvenir hunters and miners. In this paper, the historical background to the Apollo programme is outlined and the sequence of events that made up the Apollo 11 mission, which conducted the first Moon landing, is described before concluding with a consideration of the heritage conservation issues of Tranquillity Base
Adult Guidance in Ireland: New Theories, New Practice
Get PDFAdult educational and career guidance practice is still relatively new in Ireland in comparison to other countries in Europe and further afield. Since 2000, the Adult Educational Guidance Initiatives (AEGI’s) have been enabling and guiding adults to progress into education, training and employment.
However, in the space of six years, dramatic changes in work structures and social organization have occurred that are placing demands on adults to rethink their careers on a longterm basis. Added to this, are current Government policies that emphasise the need for continuous education for future economic and social mobility in an increasingly competitive global environment. Future investment in our ‘knowledge economy’ through higher education and 4th level qualifications will no doubt raise the bar for individual attainment. While, these developments are criticised by some theorists as focusing too much on individual successes, competitive individualism and the creation of wider gaps between skilled and unskilled workers in the future, (Nihof, 2005), there is no doubt it will require adults to engage in repeated career decision-making across the lifespan.
In light of such changes, guidance practitioners may need to examine new models or approaches to deal with a diverse range of clients in their current practice, as well as contribute to policy decision making for future development of guidance activities at a national level. Within this context, a brief overview of more recent theoretical perspectives and international developments in guidance are provided here
Contract Modelling for Digital Business Ecosystems
Get PDFThe aim of this paper is to discuss the legal and
technical issues of creating legally binding contracts in a digital ecosystem and to present the solution created for the DBE (Digital Business Ecosystem) project[1]. We investigate the legal implications of electronic contracts and digital signatures, and also take a brief look at the types of clauses that make up a contract. The DBE contract model for creating contracts and contract templates is presented, along with the tools created for editing these contracts as part of the DBE project
Artist Researchers – The Umha Aois Projects as Interdisciplinary Research Environment
Get PDFThe notion of interdisciplinarity has become popular in recent years, not only in art practice, which
has long been using combinations of ideas and media, but also in the more traditionally academic
fields.
Discipline boundaries have begun to dissolve, with research increasingly based on issues and
specific questions, rather than the disciplines themselves. Collaborative projects are emerging, and
scientists are more and more turning to contemporary art practice for new insights.
With increasing confidence in art as a research process, combinations such as Arts and Health, or
Art and Science, have established a prominent presence in the professional artworld in Ireland and
the UK.
The degree of freedom and input of the artist in such collaborations is often varied – the artist may
act as illustrator, technical advisor, communicator, researcher or theorist. It could be argued by
sceptics that there is a danger for artists in these relationships to simply provide the aesthetic facade
for the other parties' work. This article will explore the role of the art practitioner in such
collaborative partnerships
Men, Sexuality and crisis pregnancy: A study of men's experiences
Get PDFThis study of men’s lives, masculinities and (unplanned) fatherhood is a report of a research project commissioned by the Crisis Pregnancy Agency entitled “Men, Sexuality and Crisis Pregnancy: A study of Men’s Experience.” The report was launched on 18th June 2007 in the Gresham Hotel, Dublin. The report, a qualitative study by Professor Harry Ferguson and Fergus Hogan, is based on interviews with 45 men on their sexual histories, knowledge of sex and how they acquired it, contraception, sexual practices and outcomes of unplanned and crisis pregnancy. The researchers specifically recruited men who had experienced an unplanned pregnancy and crisis pregnancy. The report showed a lack of knowledge among men on sexual health and reproduction and identifies the need for men to be more aware of counselling and supports available to them in crisis pregnancy and abortion situations
Home Education: Visions into Practice?
Get PDFHome Education has been at the centre of many socio political debates in Ireland. Such debates appear to have lost sight of the fact that under The Constitution the parent is the primary educator. The aim of this paper is to generate discussion and debate on the concept of home education as a learning environment for early years. It is the contention of the author that parents can feel unsupported and disempowered when educating their children outside of the system or the school model as we know it. With increasing numbers of parents choosing home education in Ireland more inclusiveness needs to be attained where models of collaboration and communication between social, educational, welfare systems and parents need to be established
Harnessing Models for Policy Conflict Analysis
Get PDFPolicy conflict analysis processes based solely on the examination of
policy language constructs can not readily discern the semantics associated with
the managed system for which the policies are being defined. However, by
developing analysis processes that can link the constructs of a policy language
to the entities of an information model, we can harness knowledge relating to
relationships and associations, constraint information, behavioural
specifications codified by finite state machines, and extensive semantic
information expressed via ontologies to provide powerful policy analysis
processes
Open Negotiation Environment: An Open Source Self-Learning Decentralised Negotiation Framework for Digital Ecosystems
Get PDFChancen und Risiken der Bibliothek 2.0: Vom Bestandsnutzer zum Bestandsmitgestalter
Get PDFWith web 2.0 libraries will gain new operational structures which could induce new forms of the classic library functions collection, indexing and distribution of information. The importance of these developments is shown through various web 2.0 platforms that reached millions of users only within months. First library 2.0 services have been created. These examples of web 2.0 developments will be explained in this article by means of the electronic publishing pyramid
Listening to children: Children's stories of domestic violence
Get PDFA qualitative research study of children's experiences of living with domestic violence and their experiences of the service responses they recieved. This report was commissioned by the Office of the Minister for Children and presents the findings of 61 qualitative interviews with a sample of 22 children, (including children as young as 5), 19 mothers and 20 key professionals. The report provides considerable detail of (1) the kinds of violent households children live in and (2) how state and voluntary services respond to the adversity experienced by such children. The authors sought to place children at the centre of the research by accessing their narratives on how they had witnessed domestic violence and what they themselves had to say about service responses. The report shows that children are well able to articulate their experiences. It also shows that children were critical of how the professional system can ignore them