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Urban heat island research in Phoenix, Arizona: Theoretical contributions and policy applications
No full textabstract: This review investigates the possible reasons and motivations underpinning the large body of work, as well as summarizing specific themes, approaches, and theoretical contributions arising from such study.Corresponding Author:
Winston T. L. Chow
Arizona State University
[email protected]
Phoebus 7: Native Artists and Patrons in Colonial Latin America
No full texttableOfContents: Preface p. 9
Synthesis and Survival by Jeanette Favrot Peterson p. 14
Adaptation and Accommodation by Ellen T. Baird p. 36
The Madonna and the Horse by Tom Cummins p. 52
Colonial Visions by Carlos Espinosa p. 84
Who's Naughty and Nice by Carolyn S. Dean p. 10
Management of in-situ surface collections at Great Zimbabwe World Heritage Site
No full textThe study sought to investigate the policies and protocols of managing in-situ surface collectionsat Great Zimbabwe WHS. The research employed a number of methodological approaches that included surveying, mapping, observations, interviews and review of documents such as site conservations reports and memorandums to understand and collect data for the management of in-situ surface collections at Great Zimbabwe which was essential in addressing the research objectives. The research objectives were to identify the policies and protocols and the role of managing in-situ surface collections. To identify the variability, density and distribution of surface collections and to assess the impact of fireguards to in-situ surface collections.The study confirms that indeed there are policies in the management of in-situ surface collections at the site and that there is a great deal of surface collections found in variability across the Great Zimbabwe landscape the include potsherds, glass beads and dagga structures which play a significant role in the reconstruction of past activities at Great Zimbabwe World Heritage Site. The study also indicated negative impact of fireguard clearance to in-situ surface collections. Consequently this study relatively suggests that these policies formally recognize the international, national and local interests in the preservation of in-situ surface collections. However NMMZ is failing to be assertive and to effective in implementing these policies in
some cases of development at the site which has a detrimental effect in the management of insitu surface archaeological deposits
McIntire-Stennis Advisory Board and Committee Meeting, Clifford G. McIntire, Dean Robert T. Clapp, Emeritus Albert D. Nutting
No full textClifford G. McIntire (left), co-author of the McIntire-Stennis Act, shows Dean Robert T. Clapp (right) the memento which was presented to him by director Emeritus Albert D. Nutting (center) of the School of Forest Resources, University of Maine, during the McIntire-Stennis Tenth Anniversary Banquet.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/ua-photo-collection/4166/thumbnail.jp
Correction: Measuring the impact of an interdisciplinary learning project on nursing, architecture and landscape design students’ empathy (PLOS ONE (2019) 14:10 (E0215795) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0215795)
No full text© 2019 The PLOS ONE Staff. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. There are errors in the Author Contributions. The correct contributions are: Conceptualization: Samantha Donnelly, Suzanne Dean Data curation: Shohreh Razavy Formal analysis: Shohreh Razavy Investigation: Samantha Donnelly, Suzanne Dean Methodology: Tracy Levett-Jones Project administration: Suzanne Dean Supervision: Tracy Levett-Jones Writing–original draft: Samantha Donnelly Writing–review & editing: Shohreh Razavy, Suzanne Dean, Tracy Levett-Jones The second author, Suzanne Dean, is incorrectly noted as the corresponding author. The correct corresponding author is Samantha Donnelly. Dr. Donnelly’s email address is: [email protected]. The publisher apologizes for these errors
The construction of Karen Karnak: The multi-author-function
No full textThis thesis is situated within the comparatively recent developments of Web 2.0 and the emergence of interactive WikiMedia, and explores the mode of authorship within a Read/Write culture compared to that of a Read/Only tradition. The hypothesis of this study is that the role of the audience has become merged with the author, and as such, represents new functions and attributes, distinct from a more conventional concept of authorship, in which the roles of audience and author are more separate. Read/Write and participatory culture, as defined by this study, is focused on collaboration, and includes the influences of D.I.Y. culture, Open-Source practices and the production of text by multiple authors. Multi-authorship presents a re-thinking of several concepts which support the notion of the individual author, since the focus of multi-authorship is not on attribution and ownership of a finished text, but on the continued malleability of a text. Modes of multi-authorship, demonstrated in the use of the pseudonyms Alan Smithee and Karen Eliot, represent declarative authors whose names signify multiple origins, whilst concurrently indicating a distinct body of work. The function of these names form an important context to this study, since primary research involves the construction of an experimental mode of multi-authorship utilising WikiMedia technology and the interaction of thirty nine participants, who are invited to create a body of work under the collective pseudonym Karen Karnak. The data generated by this experiment is analysed using aspects of Michel Foucault's author-function to identify and determine power structures inherent in the WikiMedia context. The interplay of power structures, including concepts such as identity, ownership and the body of work, affect the resulting mode of authorship and contribute to the construction of Karen Karnak, suggesting further areas of research into the emerging multi-author
Addressing the education puzzle : the distribution of education and economic reform
No full textNo country has achieved sustained economic development without substantially investing in human capital. Previous studies have shown the handsome returns to various forms of basic education, research, training, learning-by-doing, and capacity-building. But education by itself does not guarantee successful development, as history has shown in the former Soviet bloc, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, and the Indian states of Kerala and West Bengal. The question is, when and how does education bring high payoffs? Although theory has suggested a strong causal link between education and growth, the empirical evidence has not been unanimous and conclusive. The authors examine two explanatory factors. First, who gets educated matters a good deal, but the distribution of education is complex and not much has been written about it. They construct an asset allocation model that elucidates the importance of the distribution of education to economic development. Second, how education affects growth is greatly affected by the economic policy environment. Policies determine what people can do with their education. Reform of trade, investment, and labor policies can increase the returns from education. Using panel data from 12 Asian and Latin American countries for 1970-94, they investigate the relationship between education, policy reform, and economic growth. Their empirical results are promising. First, the distribution of education matters. Unequal distribution of education tends to have a negative impact on per capita income in most countries. Moreover, controlling for human capital distribution and the use of appropriate functional form specifications consistent with the asset allocation model makes a difference for the effect of average schooling on per capita income. Controlling for education distribution leads to positive and significant effects of average schooling on per capita income, while failure to do so leads to insignificant, even negative effects, of average education. Second, the policy environment matters a great deal. Our results indicate that economic policies that suppress market forces tend to dramatically reduce the impact of human capital on economic growth. Investment in human capital can have little impact on growth unless people can use education in competitive and open markets. The larger and more competitive these markets are, the greater are the prospects for using education and skills.Curriculum&Instruction,Economic Theory&Research,Decentralization,Public Health Promotion,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Teaching and Learning,Curriculum&Instruction,Economic Theory&Research,Gender and Education
Back to Front: Erving Goffman’s Past and Future Impact on Tourism Research. An interview with Dean MacCannell
No full textErving Goffman never wrote about tourism and it may, therefore, seem strange to reflect, on the occasion of the centenary of his birth, on his contribution to the study of a phenomenon that he never undertook to study directly. However, many lessons can be drawn from Goffman’s sociology towards an understanding of certain central issues in tourism. By the way he captured and analyzed society in the 1950s and 1960s, Goffman offers to all those who undertake to study tourism a fundamental basis for understanding its genesis. Much of what he taught us remains unexploited, and the links that can be established between Goffman and tourism are therefore mostly indirect. However, making Goffman’s sociology a source of inspiration for the study of tourism is not far-fetched. A pioneer of the anthropology of tourism was heavily indebted to Goffman. Indeed, the tour de force that Dean MacCannell achieved in 1976 with the publication of The Tourist was largely inspired by Goffman and his unique approach to sociology. By returning with its author to the Goffmanian part of The Tourist we pay homage to what tourist studies owe to the author of The Presentation of Self. As we continue the study of tourism, what, from Goffman’s sociology, opens up a new of set of problems? Not just those that, have already influenced our analyses through Dean MacCannell, but also some that remain, a source for new interrogations 40 years after Erving Goffman’s death.Erving Goffman (1922-1982) n’a jamais écrit sur le tourisme. Il peut alors paraître étonnant, à l’occasion du centenaire de sa naissance, de réfléchir à sa contribution à l’étude d’un phénomène qu’il n’a jamais entrepris d’analyser directement. Pourtant, de nombreuses leçons peuvent être tirées de la lecture de Goffman vers une compréhension de certaines questions centrales de l’étude du tourisme. Sa sociologie de la société des années 1950 et 1960 constitue une base fondamentale pour comprendre une part de la genèse du tourisme. La majeure partie de ce que nous avons à apprendre de Goffman reste inexploitée, et les liens entre sa sociologie et celle du tourisme demeurent, de ce fait, indirects. Pourtant, chercher dans l’œuvre de Goffman une inspiration pour étudier le tourisme a bien du sens. L’un des pionniers de l’anthropologie du tourisme en a même fait une pièce centrale de sa théorie du tourisme. En effet, le tour de force que réussit Dean MacCannell avec la parution de The Tourist en 1976 est largement inspiré de Goffman et de son approche unique de la sociologie. En revenant, avec son auteur, sur la part goffmanienne de The Tourist, nous rendons hommage à ce que les études touristiques doivent à l’auteur de La mise en scène de la vie quotidienne. Quels nouveaux types de questions la sociologie goffmanienne ouvre-t-elle pour le tourisme ? Pas seulement celles qui, sous l’influence de Dean MacCannell, font déjà partie de nos analyses, mais aussi celles qui restent, quarante ans après la mort de Goffman, une source pour de nouvelles interrogations
William Taylor Muse- The Dean
No full textIt is hard to discuss William Taylor Muse, or The Dean as he was known to most of us, without using superlatives in what would appear to the uninitiated a super abundance. William T. Muse was many things-a devoted husband and father, an ardent Baptist, an enthusiastic and constant fan of athletics at the University of Richmond, a recognized scholar and legal author, a teacher of law for forty years, secre- tary and president of the Virginia State Bar Association, and a Sunday School teacher for most of his adult life. To most of us, he was pri- marily two things, The Dean and our friend. In these two capacities, his personality meshed. He was the Law School to most of us. That is not to say that the Law School, or our affections for it, disappeared with him. He visualized and epitomized the T. C. Williams School of Law as a vital and continuing institution. It does and will continue, as does our affection for him
McIntire-Stennis Advisory Board and Committee Meeting, John C. Stennis, Robert T. Clapp
No full textDean Robert T. Clapp (right) presents a plaque to Sen. John C. Stennis, co-author of the McIntire-Stennis Act, during the banquet on April 25, 1972 celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Act.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/ua-photo-collection/4171/thumbnail.jp
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