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Mediating migration crises: Sicily and the languages of despair
No full textConnected with a broader project on crisis translation, this article presents the results of a small-scale survey of the linguistic response to the arrivals in Sicily of migrants who cross the Mediterranean Sea. The contribution focuses on how intercultural mediators, NGO operators working around ports and reception centres in Eastern Sicily, as well as migrants portray their experience of the Italian institutions' language policies supporting interlingual communication. Firstly, we provide a succinct overview of the Italian legal frameworks regulating language mediation and cultural support to migrants in the early phases of reception. Secondly, we discuss data collected through open-ended questions and observations, conducted in-situ by means of recorded interviews with a range of social actors involved in the linguistic and cultural mediations (including five interviews with intercultural mediators; five with migrants; and five with NGOs personnel and psychologists providing support in the various stages of the reception of migrants). By adopting ethnographic methods, the interview data are analysed here qualitatively and thematically to identify shared concerns and contrasting views on the ways in which immigration laws and policies regulating language mediation are interpreted by practitioners and migrants. Finally, the article reflects on these interpretations against the applicability of the legal framework as perceived by those who implement the policies and guidelines to accommodate language needs of migrants.
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Cette contribution, connectée avec un projet plus ample sur la traduction de crises, présente les résultats d’une enquête sur la réponse linguistique aux débarquements des migrants qui traversent la Méditerranée arrivant en Sicile. Cet article se concerne de la manière dont les migrants, les médiateurs interculturels et les personnels de ONG, qui travaillent dans les ports et les centres d’accueil en Sicile orientale, dépeignent leurs expériences de l’application des politiques linguistiques italiennes qui soutiennent la communication interlinguale.
D’abord, on offre un panoramique sur les cadres légaux italiens réglementant la médiation linguistique et le soutien culturel aux migrants dans les premières phases d’accueil. Depuis, on discute les données à partir de questions ouvertes et d’observations collectées pendant des entretiens enregistrés avec des divers acteurs sociaux impliqués dans les médiations linguistiques et culturelles (5 entretiens avec des médiateurs interculturels, 5 avec des migrants et 5 avec personnels de ONG et psychologues soutenant la première phase de l’accueil des migrants).
En adoptant des méthodes ethnographiques, les données des entretiens sont analysées qualitativement et thématiquement pour identifier les préoccupations partagées et les points de vue opposés sur la façon dont les politiques d’immigration italiennes, qui gèrent la médiation linguistique, sont interprétées par les praticiens et les migrants. Enfin, l’article termine en réfléchissant sur ces interprétations par rapport à leur applicabilité autant qu’elle est perçue par ceux qui doivent appliquer ces lignes directrices de la politique linguistique pour soutenir les exigences linguistiques des migrants
Trust, identity, and the intercultural mediator's role in the migrant crisis on the South East coast of Sicily
No full textA preliminary comparison of the political thought of Locke and Filmer
No full textUnreasoning fidelity to notions about government, however firmly established, is so contrary to John Locke's rational approach to politics that we believe we do Mr. Locke no dishonor by subjecting his First Treatise of Government to a thorough and rational examination. In his First Treatise, Locke claims to refute the principles of government espoused by Robert Filmer in the book, Patriarcha. In Patriarcha, Filmer argues that men are not born naturally free and at liberty to choose the form of government they prefer. The purpose of our thesis is to demonstrate that Locke does not, in fact, refute the argument that Filmer evinces in Patriarcha. [...]Political Science, Department o
Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
Fever and its treatment among the more and less poor in Sub-Saharan Africa
No full textThe author empirically explores the relationship between household poverty and the incidence and treatment of fever--as an indicator of malaria--among children in Sub-Saharan Africa. He uses household Demographic and Health Survey data collected in the 1990s from 22 countriesin which malaria is prevalent. The analysis reveals a positive, but weak, association between reported fever and poverty. The geographic association becomes insignificant, however, after controlling for the mother's education. There is some evidence that higher levels of wealth in other households in the cluster in which the household lives are associated with lower levels of reported fever in Eastern and Southern Africa. Poverty and the type of care sought for an episode of fever are significantly associated: wealthier households are substantially more likely to seek care in the modern health sector. In Central and Western Africa those from richer households are more likely to seek care from all types of sources: government hospitals, lower-level public facilities such as health clinics, as well as private sources. In Eastern and Southern Africa the rich are primarily more likely to seek care from private facilities. In both regions there is substantial use of private facilities--use that increases with wealth. Like the incidence of fever, treatment-seeking behavior is strongly associated with the level of wealth in the cluster in which the child lives.Disease Control&Prevention,Health Systems Development&Reform,Public Health Promotion,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Early Child and Children's Health,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Poverty Assessment,Communicable Diseases,Statistical&Mathematical Sciences,Health Indicators
"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States" By M. Carey.
No full text"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States: containing bried sketches of the moral and political character of those states.
By M. Carey, member of the American philosophical, and of the American Antiquarian Society, and author of The Olive Branch, Cindiciae Hibernicae, essays on banking, on political economy, and on internal improvement.
To which are now added the English editor's comments on the subject; together with Important Advice to Emigrants, and Cautions Against Impositions Practiced in the Outports
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Dr. Glendon Swarthout
No full textHosted by Roger M. Busfield, MSU Assistant Professor of Speech and Theater, Meet the Author is designed to introduce a general audience to a contemporary author and their work through in-depth interviews. This episode features a conversation between Dr. Glendon Swarthout, prolific author and English professor at MSU, and assistant professors Sam S. Baskett and Theodore B. Strandness
Patriarchalism and Paternalism in the English Seventeenth Century Philosophical Thought (Filmer, Hobbes and Locke)
No full textThe political and philosophical thought of the seventeenth century, especially the
Anglo-Saxon thought, combined the two seemingly separate issues: the ideal father
of the family and the vision of the ideal kind. At that time, many writers developed
a king-father analogy. They repeated that the king is like a father for his people and every father is the king for his family. The ideology of a patriarchal family and the idea
of monarchical absolutism penetrate and complement each other, referring to the ideals
of his father and the king. The king was to be treated like a father, the father (the
patriarch) for family and servants – like a king. One of the supporters of patriarchalism
and paternalism was Sir Robert Filmer. Another one was his most famous adversary
John Locke. Filmer was a Protestant political writer, defender of the absolute power of
the king and the patriarchal family. The controversy between Filmer, Hobbes and Locke
in the field of political thought intertwined with their reflections on the family.dr Agnieszka Szczap, Uniwersytet Zielonogórski, Instytut FilozofiiUniwersytet Zielonogórski, Instytut FilozofiiFilipowicz S., Historia myśli polityczno-prawnej, Arche, Gdańsk 2002.Filmer R., Observation upon Aristotle’s Politics Touching Forms of Government, w: Patriarcha
and Other Political Works of Sir Robert Filmer, ed. P. Laslett, Oxford Press, Oxford 1949.Filmer R., Patriarcha and other Writings, ed. J. P. Sommerville, Cambridge Press, Cambirdge
1991.Hindess B., Filozofowie władzy. Od Hobbesa do Foucaulta, tłum. D. Leszczyński, L. Rasiński,
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Simulation of thermal plant optimization and hydraulic aspects of thermal distribution loops for large campuses
No full textFollowing an introduction, the author describes Texas A&M University and its utilities system. After that, the author presents how to construct simulation models for chilled water and heating hot water distribution systems. The simulation model was used in a $2.3 million Ross Street chilled water pipe replacement project at Texas A&M University. A second project conducted at the University of Texas at San Antonio was used as an example to demonstrate how to identify and design an optimal distribution system by using a simulation model. The author found that the minor losses of these closed loop thermal distribution systems are significantly higher than potable water distribution systems. In the second part of the report, the author presents the latest development of software called the Plant Optimization Program, which can simulate cogeneration plant operation, estimate its operation cost and provide optimized operation suggestions. The author also developed detailed simulation models for a gas turbine and heat recovery steam generator and identified significant potential savings. Finally, the author also used a steam turbine as an example to present a multi-regression method on constructing simulation models by using basic statistics and optimization algorithms. This report presents a survey of the author??s working experience at the Energy Systems Laboratory (ESL) at Texas A&M University during the period of January 2002 through March 2004. The purpose of the above work was to allow the author to become familiar with the practice of engineering. The result is that the author knows how to complete a project from start to finish and understands how both technical and nontechnical aspects of a project need to be considered in order to ensure a quality deliverable and bring a project to successful completion. This report concludes that the objectives of the internship were successfully accomplished and that the requirements for the degree of Degree of Engineering have been satisfied
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