375 research outputs found
Landscape in Spatial Planning: Some Evidence on Methodological Issues and Political Challenges
No full textIn recent decades, the landscape has given a new impulse to the renewal of spatial planning. This process has nevertheless raised several methodological issues about how to deal with sensitive non-functional aspects in spatial planning tools and procedures, as well as new challenges for policy design. Placemaking, landscape urbanism, and landscape planning do not differ just in scale but in their very idea of public/collective interest and the action that is required to reach them. Reflecting on some evidence from the recent Italian experience of landscape plans and policies, based on direct involvement in practice and academic debate, the author will highlight several main issues at stake today in this field. The conclusions will argue some potentially promising innovation perspectives, on both processes and contents regarding landscape-based spatial planning and policies, as well as some critical conditions of an institutional context
Cultural and gender politics in a neglected archive of Jamaican women's poetry : Una Marson and her Creole contemporaries
No full textThis thesis considers the gender and cultural politics of selected Jamaican
women's poetry published during the first half of the twentieth century and
seeks to establish that an approach to this poetry sensitive to these issues will
illuminate aspects of their work previously neglected by canonical and colonial
modes of interpretation. The central interest of this thesis is the poetry of Una
Marson, a black woman poet whose work has been critically neglected and
devalued to date. My project is to read Marson's work in some detail, and to
explore to what extent her poetry, which often works within colonial models and
with conventional notions of feminine fulfilment, employs received aesthetic
and ideological paradigms both strategically and subversively. In the belief
that critics of Jamaican women's writing should be as attentive to the gender
and cultural politics of their ways of reading, as of the texts they wish to read,
the first chapter of this thesis engages in a sustained analysis of theoretical
positions and attempts to map out the various problems and possibilities
which critical discourses present in relation to this material. The second
chapter examines the various social and literary contexts in which Jamaican
poetry was produced and received during this period, and the third chapter
looks in more detail at contemporary notions of aesthetic and cultural forms.
The fourth and fifth chapters are structured aromd close textual readings
which explore the variety and complexity of Marson's, and her Creole
contemporaries', poetic engagement with the issues of cultural and gender
identities. The thesis concludes that Marson's poetry questions dominant
notions both of identity and of aesthetics, and consequently that her poetry
offers an example of Jamaican literary expression which moves beyond the
nationalization of consciousness which has come to mark the literary
achievement of this period
Network assesses earthquake potential in Italy's Southern Alps
No full textOn 6 May 1976, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake
struck the Friuli region of northeastern Italy
near the towns of Gemona and Venzone.
Although it was not as large as some previous
earthquakes in Italy, its severe ground motion
(up to 0.36 g) affected an area with numerous
historical towns, resulting in 989 fatalities and
45,000 people left homeless.At least four other
destructive earthquakes with epicentral intensity greater than or equal to IX on the MercalliCancani-Sieberg scale have occurred in the
Friuli region in the last 5 centuries (1511,1700,
1794,and 1928) [Slejko et al.,1999].
To better understand the seismic hazards
of this vulnerable area,a network of continuously
operating Global Positioning System (GPS)
receivers—the Friuli Regional Deformation
Network (FReDNet)—was installed to monitor
the regional distribution of crustal deformatio
Birmingham News sleeve BN0021413
No full textTryouts for [Heart Is a Lonely Hunter] / Young punks leaning against light post / Hunter / Clark Theatre [theater] / Bill Eisenberg / Mark Marson / Joseph Strick / Ben Fuhrman / Jan Jones / Mark Merson / Boys trying out / [Work order included
Advisors v Legal Services Commission: Which is the Appropriate Measure of Quality Advice?
No full textThe not-for-profit (NfP) advice sector plays a vital role in ensuring the vulnerable and those in need of advice and representation have recourse to accessible, informed and quality advisors. Given the increase in social rights through legislative action and regulated benefits, the need for advocates who can assist individuals without the means to seek private legal advice is paramount in ensuring justiciable problems are resolvable. To secure that advisory agencies are providing 'quality' advice to their clients, the Government, through the Legal Services Commission (LSC), established a system of regulation. This involved State-funded agencies applying for accreditation through a system of 'Quality Marks' demonstrating the centres' level of expertise in areas of advice. This paper, from a wider study, considers how quality of advice may be identified, and undertakes this through examination of 'quality' from both the advisor's and the LSC's perspective. It concludes that quality may be a feature of advice that is not suitable to evaluation through audits and paper trails. Whilst well intentioned, attempting to offer a degree of transparency to advice and justifying public funding, clients are largely unaware of the 'Quality Mark' system and advisors have considered such regulation as a movement away from the philosophical underpinnings and ethos of the NfP sector
Behavior of Historic Buildings in Zones with Moderate Seismic Activity. Case Study: Banat Region, Romania
No full textAbstractHistoric buildings from seismic zones have recorded important damages after earthquakes. Due to this aspect, in current design codes for consolidations of some countries there are special calculations for historic buildings. The development of the investigation methods for the damages developed in the historic bearing structures revealed the fact that these damages are differentiated by the type and intensity of the earthquake. Information on these different failure modes of the historic bearing structures is not given in the current design codes for zones with medium and reduced seismic activity. In Romania there are no specific provisions for the design of the consolidation works of historic bearing structures, even though there are two important seismic zones: Vrancea region and Banat region. The Vrancea region is characterized by deep earthquakes while the Banat region is characterized by shallow earthquakes. These two types of earthquakes produce different failure modes for similar historic buildings. In this article there are presented specific failure modes of historic buildings such as orthodox churches, catholic churches, synagogues, residential buildings, and aggregate buildings from Banat region which has moderate seismic activity. The evaluation methodology of the seismic vulnerability of buildings from historic centers developed by the University of Padova was confirmed by in situ identification of failure mechanisms recorded in historic bearing structures from Timisoara. There are also presented specific recommendations regarding the design philosophy of the consolidations for zones with moderate seismic activity, by the control of the fundamental requirements for buildings: rigidity and ductility
Trade-off Analysis between Security and Efficiency of Airport Operations: A methodological underpinned modelling approach to identify, analyse and evaluate trade-offs based on empirical choice observations
No full textThis Master Thesis document presents a research on trade-off analysis between security and efficiency factors during airport operations. Over the past few decades there has been an increase in security in the air transportation industry, with even more measures taken since 9/11. Besides affecting the operational costs of airports, the stricter controls also have been having an impact on the efficiency of the operations. Although that security and efficiency factors influence each other and on a frequent basis are being compared and considered in combination to take airport security operational decisions, the trade-offs made in order to take such decisions are not fully explicit. In order to make these security and efficiency trade-offs (which these decisions are based on) more explicit; a trade-off analysis formalized by Discrete Choice Modelling was conducted. Based on this analysis; implications were provided to evaluate, by the means of Agent-based Modelling, the effects of security and efficiency trade-offs made by airport security screeners on the operations of airports.Agent-based Modelling for Airport TerminalsTransport, Infrastructure and Logistic
Segala-galanya Ambyar : Sebuah Buku Tentang Harapan
No full textApakah kamu merasa kecewa dengan hidupmu? Apakah kamu merasa cemas secara terus-menerus? Apakah kamu merasa bahwa dunia di sekelilingmu buruk dan jahat? Ya, dunia ini memang kacau, dunia ini memang ambyar, tapi itu karena Anda tidak sadar bahwa harapan Anda terlalu disilaukan oleh keinginan-keinginan Anda sendiri yang tidak masuk akal
Electronic submission and the movement towards a paperless law office in a modern university
No full textThe Government’s target of 50% of all under 30 year olds studying at higher education institutions by 2010, coupled with the National Committee Inquiry into Higher Education’ (1997) concluding that further expansion of higher education could not be afforded under the existing funding arrangements, may have serious ramifications for higher education in the UK. Alongside this increase in numbers, students are increasingly seen as educational consumers with increased choice in a demand-led market which universities must recognise. To compete in this academic environment these institutions are having to be ever more consumer aware in the services they offer and are having to increase choice to attract customers from rival enterprises. Information technology is playing an increasing role in the learning experience as noted by institutional commentators such as the Higher Education Funding Council for England, the Joint Information Systems Committee, the Electronic Books ON-screen Interface group and Lord Dearing’s Report. Technology’s use is further evidenced through institutions’ employment of the internet, e-mail and web-based learning to harness the power of this medium. This paper focuses on the concept of commercialism in the university sector and how a movement to a paperless office may be one way in which a university could gain an early competitive advantage over its rivals. The paper takes a student perspective to demonstrate whether students would wish to move towards electronic methods of submission of assessed work and considers the current problems that are encountered in physical submission of documents. This is the first paper in an on-going research project investigating the benefits and viability of a paperless law office, and the results demonstrate both that the students desire more flexibility in submission of university work and that their acceptance may be the easy first step on the road to the paperless law school
“Gout and the spider” by Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695), or the metamorphoses of a rheumatologic tale
No full textBy starting from the critical analysis of the fable “Gout and the spider”(Fables Choisies mises en vers, III,8) by Jean de La Fontaine, the author inquires into the historical and literary sources of such a tale. They lie in a short story by Francesco Petrarca (“Aranea et Podagra”), that can be found in a letter from the “Epistolae de Rebus Familiaribus” (III,13). Antecedent sources can be recognized in the Exempla by Jacques de Vitry and Jean Gobi, as well as in a brief poem by Paulus Diaconus
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