33 research outputs found
Impacts of Hurricanes Frances and Jeanne on Two Nourished Beaches along the Southeast Florida Coast
No full textSite inspections and beacli profile surveys of nourislied beaclies in the city of Boca Raton, and Town of Palm Beach, Florida show that the nourished beaches protected the shore from hurricane impacts in 2004. Striking the southeast coast of Florida within 20 days of each other. Hurricane Frances (Sept. 5, 2004) and Hurricane Jeanne (Sept. 25, 2004) had hurricane-force winds extending more than 120 miles from the center. The eye of Frances made landfall as a Category 2 storm and Jeanne made landfall as a Category 3 storm on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Intensity Scale, Above-average waves and surge affected the entire Florida east coast. Although these beaches were on the return or weak side (southwest quadrant with winds from the southwest as the eye traversed the shore) of both hurricanes, hurricane-uiduced waves affected the coast at least three days prior to landfall. Field inspection of the study sites after the passage of both hunicanes showed significant beach erosion and loss of berm elevation. Damage to infrastructure landward of the nourished beaches was minimal while non-nourished beaches located a few miles to the north and south of the renourished beaches sustained some damage. Beach profile surveys indicated that, as a general trend, beach and inner surfzone erosion was accompanied by the formation of well-developed storm bars seaward of pre-storm bars. Beach morphological responses at the town of Palm Beach were a function of offshore geomorphology of the reef system and the presence of high relief rock outcrops located within the surf zone. Sand that eroded from the renourished beach was deposited seaward of rock outcrops in the surf zone but the rock outcrops had no measurable sediment build up. Causes of the magmtude and trends of beach performance are hypothesized in an effort to explain the observed beach behavior.Hydraulic EngineeringCivil Engineering and Geoscience
"Civil" warriors: A study on military intervention and key leader engagement in Iraq
No full textMilitary intervention forces use a variety of techniques to achieve success in counterinsurgency operations. One technique recently put into more widespread practice by military units in Iraq and Afghanistan is key leader engagement. Key leader engagements are meetings that members of intervention forces conduct with influential people within a host-nation population capable of swaying the support of broader constituencies. The intent of these engagements is to establish functional relationships with powerful local leaders to further mission objectives. This project is the first attempt to empirically evaluate the impact of key leader engagements as part of counterinsurgency operations. Using data from the Department of Defense's Combined Information Data Network Exchange (CIDNE) database during the military "Surge" of forces in Baghdad, Iraq, the author evaluates the impact of key leader engagements on reducing attacks against elements of the coalition military intervention force in the city. While some of the findings support practitioners' assertions about key leader engagements, others go counter to some of the prevailing assessments of key leader engagement effectiveness. First, the author finds that key leader engagements only impact levels of violence when conducted in conjunction with other intervention force operations. Second, the author found that—contrary to some practitioners' assessments that more engagements led to more successful counterinsurgency operations—large numbers key leader engagements were not always associated with a reduction in attacks. It was only those forces that appeared to use key leader engagements discriminately that observed a reduction in attacks. Third, key leader engagements involving promises were associated with an increase in attacks against the intervention force. Finally, contrary to the expectation that more frequent contact with small numbers of key leaders would reduce prejudice and strengthen cooperative relationships, frequent contact with small numbers of key leaders was associated with an increased propensity for attacks. Based on these findings, the author recommends that the U.S. military continue its efforts to identify "best practices" for key leader engagements, refine the methods of evaluating the effectiveness of these engagements, mandate the integration of lethal and non-lethal targeting boards, and incorporate a greater analytical capability into the evaluation of persuasive operations in war
Three Women/Three Margins: Political Engagement and the Art of Claude Cahun, Jeanne Mammen, and Paraskeva Clark
No full textEThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo
Three years of infant observation with Esther Bick
No full textIn this chapter, the author examines areas of special difficulty in the beginning, middle and last phases of the three-year observation. She illustrates some of Mrs. Esther Bick's central ideas the child in relation to his family, the role of the observer in containing the mother–baby anxieties, the role of the tutor and seminar members in helping the observer. The author reviews a vivid account not only of the infant and of the infant observation experience but also the experience of being in close contact with Bick's thinking. she describes how Bick guided her observations to recall and reflect on what might emerge of the meaning of a tiny infant's behaviour and actions is brilliant and memorable, and as the observation continues, who can be seen to be a very sensitive observer, is contained by the seminar structure and settles. The author provides substantial contributions in integrating infant observation ideas with clinical practice
Introduction to and translation of Jeanne Hyvrard's Les doigts du figuier
No full textThis thesis consists of a translation and an introductory discussion of Les Doigts du Figuier, a poetic work by the French author, Jeanne Hyvrard. The preliminary section of the introduction situates Hyvrard's work in the context of a particular stream of contemporary French women's writing known as écriture féminine. The philosophical and religious ideologies that the text draws upon and questions are discussed. The text rejects the separation of mind and body inherent in western philosophical and religious thought and challenges the oppressive use made of this hierarchical and dualistic ideology. The male has been identified positively with reason and the female negatively with the physical. Les Doigts du Figuier affirms the female body and female difference and inscribes them in language. The view, long repressed by western culture, of the world as body and of life as a cyclic process is retrieved from ancient traditions and expressed in modern everyday terms. The background of some of these traditions, alluded to in the text, is also discussed in this section.
The second part of the introduction examines a selection of the linguistic techniques by which this view is articulated and stresses the oral quality of the writing. A general translator's note concludes the introduction pointing out the main difficulties encountered in translating a text written in a spare, highly allusive style which is in essence ambiguous and open ended
Third National Transportation Security Summit: Rail Security – A Symposium onTerrorism and Business Continuity, MTI Report s-05-02
No full textThis event is one in a series of research and information transfer symposia on transportation security best practices presented by the National Transportation Security Center (NTSC) at the Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI). The symposium was held in conjunction with the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) Annual Meeting in Dallas, Texas, on September 29, 2005. With a focus on operational security and business continuity for rail transportation systems in the event of terrorist act or cataclysmic natural disaster, this one-day symposium brought together transportation, security, emergency response, and business continuity management experts. Symposium presenters included Brian Michael Jenkins, Jeanne Lin, Dr. Frances L. Edwards, and Mortimer Downey, III. A panel presentation moderated by Mr. Downey, which included Greg Chilson, Greg Hull, Ron Hynes, and Jo Strang, offered lively discussion about such topics as crisis management, security practices and policies, and recommendations for making rail transportation more robust and secure
Collaborative emergency management: better community organising, better public preparedness and response
No full textCommunity coordination requires communication and planning of precautions to take when faced with a severe threat of disaster. The unique case of the four Florida hurricanes of 2004 - Charley, Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne - is used here to assess community responses to repeated threats of hurricanes. The paper examines how effectiveness in coordinating community disaster response efforts affects future public preparedness. The findings suggest that pre-season planning, open communication between emergency managers and elected officials, and the use of technology all had a significant impact on community responses. The repeated threat scenario indicates that emergency managers must work vigilantly to keep residents informed of the seriousness of a situation. The study describes how emergency managers in Florida countered public complacency during four hurricanes in six weeks. The strategies identified as useful by public managers in the context of hurricanes are applicable to other natural and man-made disasters. © 2008 The Author(s). Journal compilation © Overseas Development Institute, 2008
A survey of the likes and dislikes of children of grades two and three for the stories in the American Book Company basal reader Over a City Bridge.
No full textThesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit
The role of institutions in poverty reduction : a focus on the productive sectors
No full textThe author of this paper contends that institutional development (ID) is critical to growth and sustainable poverty reduction. Although there is no single model for poverty-oriented institutional development, and ID initiatives vary considerably across sectors and nations, important common lessons have been learned about successful institutional development initiatives. The author presents these in terms of six components: (a) forming and strengthening local organizations; (b) supporting institutional pluralism; (c) building links between poverty-oriented institutions; (d) adopting the appropriate organizational structure and encouraging strong leadership; (e) adopting the learning process approach; and (f) mobilizing local resources and the participation of poor people. Both successful and unsuccessful programs are used to illustrate the importance of these components. Institutional investments often require unconventional, potentially costly programs and projects. ID initiatives have been criticized in terms of the costs and benefits of different approaches, the scale on which they can operate, their compatibility with conventional project frameworks, the degree and types of decentralization they require, and their political feasibility. Using case studies from different productive sectors and subsectors, the author illustrates how these objections may be unwarranted and that investments in institutional development can be both economically and politically viable.Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Poverty Assessment,Health Economics&Finance,Agricultural Knowledge&Information Systems,Governance Indicators
Autobiography as myth of origin
No full textThe following PhD thesis will explore the connection between
autobiography and myth of origin: On the one hand, I am concerned with
the ways in which women autobiographers rewrite classical myths of
origin; on the other hand, I contend that autobiography itself is a myth of
origin, a recreation of the forces that created the narrator.
Throughout this thesis, I will develop two main themes: the first is the use
of myth as a framework for autobiographical writing. This is possible
because of myth's characteristic double focus on the universal and on the
particular version, the historical context. Myth allows feminist
autobiographers to connect themselves to universal truths from which they
are barred by patriarchal tradition and to carve out their own, highly
personal version.
The second theme is that the autobiographers depict the origin as the core
of the self and utterly Other. First, the narrator has to rely on the stories of
other people, or a 'family memory'. Second, the past can be seen as
connected to or leaving traces in the present; at the same time, it can be
completely Other and incompehensible. Third, the autobiographical I is
often cut off from her origins, and a constructive return that integrates the
past and the present self is only possible through a deliberate act of
mythmaking: It is mythmaking and storytelling that provides a connection
between self and Other.
I hope to make a contribution to feminist theory of autobiography as well as
to feminist theory. Reading autobiography as myth of origin approaches the
persistent problem of the relationship between the historical author and the
autobiographical self. Moreover, I will explore the the specific relation
between women and origins, and address the necessity for feminist theory
to develop a framework where self and Other are intimately connected
