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Community Forestland Management, Outside Interventions and Local Responses: The case of the Thai ethnic group in the Hanh Dich commune, Que Phong district, Nghe An province, Vietnam
No full textIn an increasing interaction between indigenous or isolated ethnic communities and outside actors, a lack of confirmation of local forestland rights is seen as one of the most critical issues. Does the outsiders’ occupancy of land for rent seeking and authoritative patronage for forest management meet the dispossessed people’s aspirations? How and to what extent should local communities be involved in forestland management and play a determining role in their own future? To answer these questions, this research is based on in-depth interviews focusing on the folk traditions, cultural beliefs, customary laws, local knowledge, and comments and recommendations of the local Thai ethnic people and some outsiders residing in the Hanh Dich commune, Que Phong district, Nghe An province, Vietnam. In addition, a number of previous case studies and reports from the archive of SPERI (Social Policy Ecology Research Institute) and its alliance members have been synthesised and analysed.
The essential findings and arguments in this thesis comprise the local Thai people’s cultural traits, chronicles of outside interventions, local responses, and cognitive and methodological approaches to the study of indigenous cultures and their forestlands. It was found that local people have been upholding their holistic and unique perspectives, beliefs, customary laws, traditional organizational and institutional practices and that these inherent values and strengths can contribute effectively to forest protection and improvement of local people’s livelihood. However, it was also observed that the increasing imposition of the mainstream top-down approaches have not recognized or encouraged, that is to say, have undermined local strengths and values. In addition, on the basis of an ethnocentric view, superficial perceptions of the ethnic minority peoples and their values have pervaded in the Vietnamese media. These phenomena raise questions as to cultural rights, human rights, and the quality of the policy making process and law enforcement which are inevitably affected by these ethnocentric views and approaches.
To counteract the hurtful effects of mainstream interventions, local people have responded in a subtle and implicit way. As a result of outside interventions, they have had to find ways to adjust their productive and cultural settings. However, there remain wishes to recover traditional cultural values, especially in the minds of the elders. In an alternative bottom-up approach facilitated by SPERI, the people are stimulated to promote their own institutional and organizational strengths towards their brighter future. In a democratized and decentralized process, community’s land rights and customary rights should be officially recognized and confirmed. But official recognition should not be seen as the final goal, only as a supportive factor while the local community’s strengths and self-enforcement of their rights are determinant. To this end, indigenous peoples need further opportunities for networking, capacity building, and taking part in thorough socio-cultural ethnographic research in order to ensure that they are more truly and fairly represented
Heterogeneous and tissue-specific regulation of effector T cell responses by IFN-gamma during Plasmodium berghei ANKA infection.
No full textIFN-γ and T cells are both required for the development of experimental cerebral malaria during Plasmodium berghei ANKA infection. Surprisingly, however, the role of IFN-γ in shaping the effector CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cell response during this infection has not been examined in detail. To address this, we have compared the effector T cell responses in wild-type and IFN-γ(-/-) mice during P. berghei ANKA infection. The expansion of splenic CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells during P. berghei ANKA infection was unaffected by the absence of IFN-γ, but the contraction phase of the T cell response was significantly attenuated. Splenic T cell activation and effector function were essentially normal in IFN-γ(-/-) mice; however, the migration to, and accumulation of, effector CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells in the lung, liver, and brain was altered in IFN-γ(-/-) mice. Interestingly, activation and accumulation of T cells in various nonlymphoid organs was differently affected by lack of IFN-γ, suggesting that IFN-γ influences T cell effector function to varying levels in different anatomical locations. Importantly, control of splenic T cell numbers during P. berghei ANKA infection depended on active IFN-γ-dependent environmental signals--leading to T cell apoptosis--rather than upon intrinsic alterations in T cell programming. To our knowledge, this is the first study to fully investigate the role of IFN-γ in modulating T cell function during P. berghei ANKA infection and reveals that IFN-γ is required for efficient contraction of the pool of activated T cells
The Interaction between Christianity and Buddhism according to Paul Williams and Thich Nhat Hanh
No full textPředkládaná bakalářská práce nese název "Vzájemná interpretace křesťanství a buddhismu v pohledu Paula Williamse a Thich Nhat Hanha". První část práce je zaměřena na stručné představení buddhismu. Jsou zde objasněny i základní pojmy z této problematiky. Dále je zde uveden úvod do mezináboženského dialogu. Cílem bylo představit nejdůležitější přístupy k mezináboženskému dialogu a stručně popsat nejdůležitější historické milníky. Je zde představena kniha Mnich a Lama, která se snaží definovat rozdíly mezi křesťanstvím a buddhismem a hledá možnosti, jak vést mezináboženský dialog. Druhá část práce se zabývá představením knihy Thich Nhat Hanha - Živý Buddha, živý Kristus a knihy Paula Williamse - Neočekávaná cesta. U každého autora je předložen jeho stručný životopis, který pomůže pochopit jeho postoj, který má k buddhismu a křesťanství. Ve třetí části jsou porovnány obě knihy z hlediska přístupu autorů ke stěžejným tématům. Thich Nhat Hanh se ve své knize snažil najít body, které jsou víceméně podobné jak v buddhismu, tak i křesťanství. Chtěl ukázat, že křesťanství a buddhismus mají k sobě blízko. Naopak Paul Williams ve své knize ukazuje ty body, které jsou si jenom zdánlivě podobné. V práci bylo zjištěno, že se oba autoři snaží ve svých knihách vyjít vstříc druhému náboženství. Oba představují...The proposed bachelor thesis is entitled: "The Interaction between Christianity and Buddhism according to Paul Williams and Thich Nhat Hanh". The first part of this thesis gives an introduction of Buddhism. It also clarifies the basic terminology from this field. There is an instruction to interreligious dialogue. The goal was to introduce the most important approaches to interreligious dialogue and the most important historical milestones. There is an introduction of the book The Monk and the Lama, which tries to define the differences between Christianity and Buddhism and searches possibilities how to engage in interreligious dialogue. The second part of this thesis deals with the T. N. Hanh's book's presentation "Living Buddha, Living Christ" and P. Williams's book's "Unexpected way. On converting from Buddhism to Catholicism." There is the short biography of each author, which helps to understand their stances on Buddhism and Christianity. In the third part there are both books compared in terms of both author's attitudes to the main topics. T. N. Hanh tried to find the points of Buddhism's and Christianity's similarities. He wants to prove that Christianity and Buddhism are close to each other. On the contrary P. Williams points to seemingly similar topis in his book. In this thesis was...Protestant theological facultyEvangelická teologická fakultaEvangelická teologická fakultaProtestant Theological Facult
Wave turbulence of a rotating array of quantized vortices in the T → 0 temperature limit
No full textThe dynamics of quantized vortices in the zero temperature limit is currently of great interest, particularly in the case of the Fermi superfluid He-B. Here we study wave turbulence, generated by the librating motion of a rotating cylindrical container filled with He-B, in the limit of vanishing viscous forces at temperatures . The polarization of the quantized vortices with respect to the axis of rotation is measured using non-invasive NMR techniques. We observe a decrease of the polarization when the librating motion is started, and a two-stage relaxation process when the modulation of the rotation velocity is stopped. The first relaxation process is associated with the dissipation of large-scale flow stored in inertial waves and the solid body rotation of the vortex array. From the decay of these energy reservoirs we determine the rate of energy dissipation of large-scale flow. The later second process is related to the relaxation of Kelvin waves on individual vortices. This process is monitored by the recovery of the polarization. The existence of a Kelvin wave cascade at the lowest temperatures is currently a central open question. We supply some evidence for the cascade
sj-docx-1-npx-10.1177_1934578X231214159 - Supplemental material for GC-MS Characterization, in Vitro Antioxidant and Anti-Inflammatory Activities of Essential oil from the Leaves of <i>Litsea balansae</i> Lecomte
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-npx-10.1177_1934578X231214159 for GC-MS Characterization, in Vitro Antioxidant and Anti-Inflammatory Activities of Essential oil from the Leaves of Litsea balansae Lecomte by Duc V. Ho, Hanh N. T. Hoang, Nguyen H. Nguyen, Hang B. Do, Hung Q. Vo, Anh T. Le, Thang Q. Le and Ty V. Pham in Natural Product Communications</p
E-book : Industrial Transformation In The Developing World (author: Michael T. Rock & David P. Angel)
No full textArsip Kuliah Online 2010: E-book : Industrial Transformation In The Developing World (author: Michael T. Rock & David P. Angel
Letter from Carl Hayden to P. J Moran
No full textLetter from Carl T. Hayden to P. J. Moran concerning the alignment of the road to Bright Angel Trail
E-book : "industrial Transformations In The Developing World (author: Michael T. Rock & David. P Angel)
No full textArsip Kuliah Online 2010: E-book : "industrial Transformations In The Developing World (author: Michael T. Rock & David. P Angel
Letter from P. J. Moran to Carl Hayden
No full textLetter from P. J. Moran to Carl T. Hayden inquiring when construction will begin on the approach road to Bright Angel Trai
Measurement of the ratio of prompt χ c to J / ψ production in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV
No full textThe prompt production of charmonium χ c and J / ψ states is studied in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of √s = 7 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider. The χ c and J / ψ mesons are identified through their decays χ c → J / ψ γ and J / ψ → μ + μ - using 36 pb - 1 of data collected by the LHCb detector in 2010. The ratio of the prompt production cross-sections for χ c and J / ψ, σ (χ c → J / ψ γ) / σ (J / ψ), is determined as a function of the J / ψ transverse momentum in the range 2 < p T J / ψ < 15 GeV / c. The results are in excellent agreement with next-to-leading order non-relativistic expectations and show a significant discrepancy compared with the colour singlet model prediction at leading order, especially in the low p T J / ψ region
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