168 research outputs found
The Jacob A. Riis-Theodore Roosevelt Digital Archive
No full textThe Jacob A. Riis-Theodore Roosevelt Digital Archive is a digital archive focused on the Progressive Era in US history, which lasted from the late 19th century to the early 20th century. During the Progressive Era, reformers from the American middle class made significant strides in addressing social issues in urban areas and among the working and lower classes. These social issues included tenement housing, prostitution, and other forms of corruption. Some well-known reformers include Jacob Riis, the photographer and author of How The Other Half Lives, Upton Sinclair, author of The Jungle, and Jane Addams, founder of Hull House. The digital archive is specifically focused on Riis and former US president Theodore Roosevelt, the latter of whom was the founding member of the Progressive Party. This approach presents two different ways that Progressive Reform was brought about in late 19th century America: the reformer (Riis) directly worked with people afflicted by societal issues on a daily basis and knew exactly what they were going through, whereas the politician (Roosevelt) used political power and influence to encourage his colleagues and the masses to realize America\u27s social injustices and to help quell them.
The scope of the digital archive focuses solely on the New York City area, which was one of the prime locations that experienced Progressive Reform in the United States. As such, the contents of the archive were derived from the New York Public Library and other academic digital collections. The Jacob A. Riis-Theodore Roosevelt Digital Archive will make contributions to the discipline of history by making learning about a certain period of the past more interactive and resourceful for the average, tech-savvy 21st century student. In addition, visitors to the Digital Archive will get a better sense of how a digital archive operates by exploring its layout, which includes a section for collections and a section for exhibits
Letter from Nelson A. Riis about receiving a copy of the petition of concerned people from the Kamloops-Shuswap riding
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Letter from Nelson A. Riis about receiving a copy of the petition of concerned people from the Kamloops-Shuswap riding
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Pedagogik, teknik eller ekonomi? : en baslinjebestämning av KK-stiftelsens kommunbaserade skolutvecklingsprojekt. (Education, Technology or Economy? Determination of a Base Line for the KK-foundation Financed Local School Development Projects)
No full textCh 1: Why study IT in school (Ulla Riis) Ch 2: The aim of the report and methodological considerations (Ulla Riis) Ch 3: "The goal is to become the national center of computer-aided instruction . . ." 140 applications from Swedish municipalities to the Na</p
Religionssociologiske rids : forelæsninger og arbejdspapirer om religionssociologi fra 2005
No full textAgder University College in Norway has marked 'religion, ethics and
society' as one of its top priority subjects. It was therefore decided to
supplement its professor of sociology of religion, Pål Repstad,
with another professorship in the subject. This led to awarding Ole Riis
the new professorship in 2005. Ole Riis came from Denmark, where he taught
sociology of religion for several years at the University of Aarhus, and where he later
contributed to establishing a full sociology programme at
University of Aalborg, with an emphasis on methodology.
The present book contains expanded and corrected manuscripts for a series
of lectures held by Ole Riis. First and foremost, there is the opening
lecture at AUC. It presents a programme for sociology of religion as a
bridge-building discipline, interconnecting humanistic studies of religion
and theology with social sciences. The lecture points at the need for
developing new theories for subjects such as religious emotions and the
need for an enhanced awareness of the development of methods in the gap
between traditional quantitative and qualitative methods.
These issues are brought further in two of the following manuscripts. One
major chapter presents a theoretical framework for analyzing religious
emotions in a social context. The conceptual scheme is based on a
dialectical relationship between the social structure and the individual.
This relationship is first presented as a juxtaposition between processes
of an externalization of religiously based emotions and an internalization
of social standards for proper religious emotions. This is supplemented
by a juxtaposition of processes of objectification of religious emotions
in art or rituals, and of subjectification where the emotions are
experienced by a person as deep and genuine.
It is followed by a chapter which applies a field theory approach to the
church. The core example is the Danish state-supported Protestant church.
A field theory stresses the potential tensions between a set of positions,
characterized by their special interests and resources. Thereby, it is
posible to identify congruent or conflicting patterns of interest between
types of religious employees and lay members of the church. This pattern
of interests is related to the context of a late modern society. It is
argued that the state church has been dominated by interest positions
which are rooted in a pre-modern society. This helps to explain the
support of the state church from different parts of society and its status
in late modern Denmark.
The next chapter is based on a presentation of findings from a major
research project on state churches and religious pluralism for a research
seminar organized by the Nordic Council. The project was supported by the
Nordic Council under the aegis of 'The Nordic countries and Europe', and
it was affiliated with an international survey project, 'Religious and
Moral Pluralism in Europe'. The chapter presents some of the major
findings of the survey study relating to religious and ethnic pluralism.
It ties these findings to present discussions about the challenges which
immigration from non-Christian cultures have raised in relation to religious toleration in the
Nordic countries.
The final chapter discusses new methodological options for the social
sciences. It follows up on Ole Riis' book 'Metoder på tværs' (or
'Criss-crossing methods'). It criticized the paradigmatic split between
qualitative and quantitative methods, and it demonstrated that this
distinction is scientifically unecessary and unfruitful. This led to an
outline of an integrated approach based on a 'collective intellectual'
perspective. The chapter of the present book furthers this approach
by discussing some concrete methodological possibilities, such as logistic
regression analysis, small-n comparisons, correspondance analysis, and
simulation models.
It is hereby indicated that the book is not to be read as a monograph. It
is a series of pointers for further research, published by the author in
the hope that young scholars may find some inspiration from it - for their
own research and for their own purposes
". . . utvecklingen beror då inte på användningen av datorer" IT-användningen i den svenska skolan våren 1998. (". . . the school development taking place did not happen thanks to the computers" The use of IT in the Swedish school in the Spring of 1998)
No full textCh 1: ICT in school - A developmental perspective (Ulla Riis) Ch 2: What a research survey on ICT in school has taught us (Jens Pedersen) Ch 3: IT, ICT, and a new role for teachers (Gunilla Jedeskog) Ch 4: The expectation among teachers facing the introdu</p
Ethical principles for project collaboration between academic professionals or institutions and the biomedical industry
No full textPovl Riis Age Forum, State Board for Research and Age Policies, Odense, DenmarkAbstract: Ethics in biomedical research cannot be defined by etymology, and need a semantic definition based on national and contemporary values. In a Nordic cultural and historic context, key values are solidarity with one&#39;s fellow man, equality, truth, justice, responsibility, freedom, and professionalism. In contemporary medical research, such ethics are further subgrouped into research ethics, researcher ethics, societal ethics, and distributive ethics. Lately, public and academic debates have addressed the necessary strengthening of the ethical concerns and interests of patients and society. Despite considerable progress, common ethical definitions and control systems still lack uniformity or indeed do not exist. Among the cooperative partners involved, the pharmaceutical industry have preserved an important role. The same is true for the overall judgments reflected by the European Forum for Good Clinical Practice, leading peer-reviewed journals, the Nuffield Council on Bioethics for developing nations, and the latest global initiative, the Singapore Statement on Research Integrity. To help both institutions and countries, it will be valuable to include the following information in academia&ndash;industry protocols before starting a project: international authorship names; fixed agendas and time schedules for project meetings; chairperson shifts, meeting reports, and project plan changes; future author memberships; equal blinding and data distribution from disciplinary groups; an equal plan for exchange of project manuscripts at the proofing stage; contractual descriptions of all procedures, disagreements, publishing rights, prevention, and controls for suspected dishonesty; and a detailed description of who is doing what in the working process.Keywords: ethics, collaboration, academia, biomedical industr
Stochastic Model Checking of the Stochastic Quality Calculus
No full textThe Quality Calculus uses quality binders for input to express strategies for continuing the computation even when the desired input has not been received. The Stochastic Quality Calculus adds generally distributed delays for output actions and real-time constraints on the quality binders for input. This gives rise to Generalised Semi-Markov Decision Processes for which few analytical techniques are available. We restrict delays on output actions to be exponentially distributed while still admitting real-time constraints on the quality binders. This facilitates developing analytical techniques based on stochastic model checking and we compute closed form solutions for a number of interesting scenarios. The analyses are applied to the design of an intelligent smart electrical meter of the kind to be installed in European households by 2020
Invasion strategies in clonal aquatic plants: Are phenotypic differences caused by phenotypic plasticity or local adaptation?
No full textBackground and Aims: The successful spread of invasive plants in new environments is often linked to multiple introductions and a diverse gene pool that facilitates local adaptation to variable environmental conditions. For clonal plants, however, phenotypic plasticity may be equally important. Here the primary adaptive strategy in three non-native, clonally reproducing macrophytes (Egeria densa, Elodea canadensis and Lagarosiphon major) in New Zealand freshwaters were examined and an attempt was made to link observed differences in plant morphology to local variation in habitat conditions. Methods: Field populations with a large phenotypic variety were sampled in a range of lakes and streams with different chemical and physical properties. The phenotypic plasticity of the species before and after cultivation was studied in a common garden growth experiment, and the genetic diversity of these same populations was also quantified. Key Results: For all three species, greater variation in plant characteristics was found before they were grown in standardized conditions. Moreover, field populations displayed remarkably little genetic variation and there was little interaction between habitat conditions and plant morphological characteristics. Conclusions: The results indicate that at the current stage of spread into New Zealand, the primary adaptive strategy of these three invasive macrophytes is phenotypic plasticity. However, while limited, the possibility that genetic diversity between populations may facilitate ecotypic differentiation in the future cannot be excluded. These results thus indicate that invasive clonal aquatic plants adapt to new introduced areas by phenotypic plasticity. Inorganic carbon, nitrogen and phosphorous were important in controlling plant size of E. canadensis and L. major, but no other relationships between plant characteristics and habitat conditions were apparent. This implies that within-species differences in plant size can be explained by local nutrient conditions. All together this strongly suggests that invasive clonal aquatic plants adapt to a wide range of habitats in introduced areas by phenotypic plasticity rather than local adaptation. © 2010 The Author. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Annals of Botany Company. All rights reserved
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