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Snapshot Safari Educational Materials
No full textThese materials were created by Jessica Dewey as part of a Ph.D. program at University of Minnesota. This collection contains six educational activities to teach ecological principles via authentic learning experiences using read data from our wildlife surveys. Activity 1 guides students through setting up a Zooniverse account and take part in citizen science projects. Activity 2 helps students formulate ecological questions base on camera trap image data. Activity 3 teaches students about the different daily activity patterns of African species. Activity 4 presents students with data from a predator playback experiment and asks students to formulate hypotheses about predator-prey interactions. Activity 5 guides students through the process of connecting to the Zooniverse mobile app. Activity 6 presents an interactive timeline of conservation activities at the Snapshot Safari sites used in these programs. As a note: camera trap data is delivered to the UMN Lion Center several times a year. If a project you are interested in does not have data at the moment, check back soon! Classified images can still be accessed by clicking the "Classify" tab within individual projects.Snapshot Safari (www.snapshotsafari.org) is a cross-continental network of biodiversity monitoring programs run by the University of Minnesota Lion Center (www.lioncenter.umn.edu/snapshot-safari). To address the urgent need for accurately assessing vulnerable wildlife populations, we deployed over two dozen camera trap surveys distributed in protected areas across Africa. We rely on the help of online volunteers ("citizen scientists") to help classify animals captured in our millions of camera trap images. The citizen science platform provides a novel opportunity for public engagement and science education, and we have created educational multimedia based on the Snapshot Safari citizen science experience to promote these learning opportunities. Here, we present activities and videos aimed at a middle school-level audience that use our camera trap images to teach ecological and conservation principles.Palmer, Meredith S; Dewey, Jessica; Huebner, Sarah. (2020). Snapshot Safari Educational Materials. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://doi.org/10.13020/5r00-8c56
Placing Nature(s) on Safari
No full textThis essay examines the use of automobile technologies--like the road, vehicle and map--in the creation of place and nature on safari in Tanzania. Unlike destination-based tourism, safari, by definition, implies perpetual mobility. This historically layered process of continuous movement across and through specific landscapes defines the safari as a unique travel experience. Taking travel as performative and processual, this study investigates the role of various technologies of travel in the emplacement, erasure, traversal, and categorization of place on safari; the creation of a topology of safari places and natures by and for visitors; and local Maasai challenges to much of this place- and nature-making. This results in an “imbrication” of place, of the local and the official, of the deep and the superficial, such that the placing of safari spaces comes to be seen as a deeply dialectical, multisensory process involving multiple actors
SAFARI: SMT-based Abstraction For Arrays with Interpolants
No full textWe present SAFARI, a model checker designed to prove
(possibly universally quantified) safety properties of imperative programs
with arrays of unknown length. SAFARI is based on an extension of
lazy abstraction capable of handling existentially quantified formulæ for
symbolically representing states. A heuristics, called term abstraction,
favors the convergence of the tool by “tuning” interpolants and guessing
additional quantified variables of invariants to prune the search space
efficiently
Motifu ya Safari katika Kazi za M. S. Mohammed
No full textS. Mohammed ni mwandishi maarufu katika fasihi ya Kiswahili. Kazi zake tatu ambazo zinamulikwa katika makala haya zinamtambulisha kama mwandishi ambaye ana mazoea ya kutumia mbinu ya safari ili kukuza maudhui yake. Wahusika wake wanapitia tajriba anuwai katika safari zao ambazo zinawapelekea kukua, kujitambua, kujinasua, kukengeuka na hata kuangamia. Katika kazi zake zilizoteuliwa: Kiu, Nyota ya Rehema na Kicheko cha Ushindi. Hali hizi zinajitokeza na kuwa kama funzo kwa wasomaji ambao wanashauriwa kuzingatia waendako na waendavyo. Ni bayana kwamba motifu ya safari ina nafasi muhimu katika kazi za M. S. Mohammed na makala haya yanazamia hilo suala kwa kina. Ili kuweka mambo bayana, makala haya yametumia Sosholojia ya Kifasihi kama kurunzi ya kumulika wanayoyapitia wahusika katika kazi zilizoteuliwa
Theoretical and Textual Approaches to Contemporary Humanitarian Narrative: The Cases of Roberto Saviano’s Gomorra, Aung San Suu Kyi’s Letters from Burma, Jerry Piasecki’s Marie in the Shadow of the Lion and Nadine Gordimer’s The Ultimate Safari
No full textThe purpose of this thesis is to describe how some forms of fictional and non-fictional texts can be configured as and within the framework of humanitarian practices. In exploring the definitions and features of humanitarianism and humanitarian literature, the thesis attempts to answer the question of what purpose these texts try to serve. In examining the works Marie in the Shadow of the Lion (2000) by Jerry Piasecki, The Ultimate Safari (1989) by Nadine Gordimer, Gomorra (2006) by Roberto Saviano and Letters from Burma (1996) by Aung San Suu Kyi, we will argue that the scope of these books can be located by analogy to social and political humanitarian practices. Beyond their differences in genre, style and subject matter, these texts share a common feature: they are performative, namely they strive to do things with words. The humanitarian texts discussed in this thesis can be shown to act in the world in order to implement the values proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Morphological peculiarities of the lithium electrode from the perspective of the Marcus-Hush-Chidsey model
No full textThis work was supported by the European Union?s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program for the Solidify Project (875557)
Walking Heritage: Sandwich safari
No full textA public walk as part of the Walking Heritage project, incorporating psychogeographical approaches to heritage. Aimed at families
Participatory Usability: Supporting proactive users
No full textAfter software has been released the opportunities for users to influence development can often be limited. In this paper we review the research on post-deployment usability and make explicit its connections to open source software development. We describe issues involved in the design of end-user reporting tools with reference to the Safari web browser and a digital library prototype
Safari-tourism as one of Tourist Regional Geography Direction
No full textЗдійснено історичний екскурс походження сафарі-турів. Виділено види сафарі-туризму за тривалістю, метою подорожі, залежно від кермування транспортом, від способу і засобів пересування. Зроблено аналіз з географічної точки зору поширення сафарі-турів у світі. Done historical excursion beginning of safari-tours. Highlight kinds of safari tourism in duration, purpose of travel, depending on the steering transport, the method and means of transportation. Done the analysis of distribution safari tours in the world in geographical terms
Optical characterization of ultra-sensitive TES bolometers for SAFARI
No full textWe have characterized the optical response of prototype detectors for SAFARI, the far-infrared imaging spectrometer for the SPICA satellite. SAFARI's three bolometer arrays will image a 2’×2’ field of view with spectral information over the wavelength range 34—210 μm. SAFARI requires extremely sensitive detectors (goal NEP ~ 0.2 aW/√Hz), with correspondingly low saturation powers (~5 fW), to take advantage of SPICA's cooled optics. We have constructed an ultra-low background optical test facility containing an internal cold black-body illuminator and have recently added an internal hot black-body source and a light-pipe for external illumination. We illustrate the performance of the test facility with results including spectral-response measurements. Based on an improved understanding of the optical throughput of the test facility we find an optical efficiency of 60% for prototype SAFARI detectors. © (2014) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only
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