11 research outputs found
The Faces of SGA-President Delton Barnes
No full textGarner-Webb Senior, Delton Barnes, has goals to produce professionals within the SGA. Being President of the Student Government Association (SGA) allows him to oversee board members. Barnes carries concerns to administration from the SGA counsel and students. He is the face of the government.https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/gwu-today/1081/thumbnail.jp
Janiten3
No full textDelton Greenhouse, operated by ethnic Latvian horticulturalist Peter Janiten, employed many Latvians, including Annie Cheple on left
Importancia de la Biblioteca para el fortalecimiento del proceso de enseñanza del Colegio Cristiano Takashi
No full textLa presente Investigación Acción Participativa se enfoca en la organización de una mini biblioteca en el Colegio Cristiano Takashi de la ciudad de Bilwi, municipio de Puerto Cabezas para el fortalecimiento de la enseñanza aprendizaje de las y los estudiantes
Meios alternativos de resolução de conflitos: um estudo comparado entre Brasil e Coreia do Sul
No full textO presente trabalho aborda, sem esgotar o tema, alguns meios alternativos de resolução de conflitos (MARCs) no Brasil e na República da Coreia. Essa abordagem inclui como a mediação, conciliação e arbitragem se institucionalizaram nesses países, assim como busca trazer uma visão contemporânea dos resultados até então gerados. Nesse sentido, após abordar cada um desses métodos separadamente por país, o trabalho também busca comparar a execução dos MARCs no Brasil e na Coreia do Sul, a fim de identificar possíveis maneiras de otimizar ambos os modelos. Também pode-se dizer que um dos objetivos do autor com esse trabalho é o de promover os estudos, na área do Direito, sobre os países asiáticos no Brasil, tendo em vista o menor número de trabalhos publicados acerca desse tema sobre tais países comparados aos da América Latina e América do Norte, por exemplo. Para isso, o autor se baseou em trabalhos publicados, artigos acadêmicos e em dados trazidos pelas instituições responsáveis por fornecerem estatísticas sobre os MARCs nos respectivos países. Após a pesquisa, foi possível concluir que os MARCs no Brasil estão mais difundidos do que na Coreia do Sul.The present work approaches, without exhausting the subject, some of the alternative dispute resolution (ADRs) methods in Brazil and in the Republic of Korea. This approach includes how mediation, conciliation and arbitration were institutionalized in these countries, as well as seeking to bring a contemporary view of the results and outcome reached so far. In this sense, after approaching each of these methods in each country specifically, this work also seeks to compare the execution of ADRs in Brazil and South Korea, in order to identify possible ways of optimization. Furthermore, another objective of this work is to promote studies and research in Brazil, in the area of law, concerning Asian countries, considering the small number of publications when compared to studies on Latin America and North America, for example. In order to do this, the author based himself on published works, academic articles and data brought by the institutions responsible for providing statistics on the ADRs in the respective countries. Beforehand it can be observed that ADRs in Brazil are more widespread than in South Korea.74 f
Tutela transnacional ambiental
No full textO direito ao meio ambiente cresceu em importância ao longo dos anos. Em grande medida, a maior relevância dada a matéria ambiental está relacionada à constatação de alterações climáticas presentes em todo o globo terrestre que, na visão de especialistas, representa um risco para o equilíbrio entre os seres vivos presentes no Planeta Terra. Uma vez que cabe à justiça garantir que qualquer um que sofra um dano, independente de sua natureza, seja devidamente reparado, é de se esperar que qualquer espécie de dano ambiental gere ao autor, na medida em que for possível, a obrigação de restabelecer a situação ambiental anterior ao dano. A partir disto, o meio ambiente ecologicamente equilibrado, para além de um direito humano fundamental, passa a ser visto como um mecanismo necessário para a manutenção da vida humana na Terra. Não à toa, a Constituição da República Federativa do Brasil, em seu artigo 225, endereçou o direito ao meio ambiente, tanto para as presentes, quanto para as futuras gerações. Assim, é possível compreender o caráter global do meio ambiente vez que os impactos oriundos de sua alteração facilmente transcendem fronteiras. Esse caráter internacional, por si só, já implica em diferentes obstáculos em prol da resolução da lide, uma vez que, havendo elementos de internacionalidade, passa-se a ter presente a soberania de diferentes Estados, sendo necessária a existência de cooperação jurídica internacional no decorrer do processo. Esse tipo de processo tende a se tornar mais recorrente a partir do fenômeno da globalização, em que pessoas, bens, serviços e mercadorias passam a circular mais livremente entre as fronteiras nacionais. Com isso, é natural que os conflitos transnacionais envolvendo o meio ambiente se tornem mais recorrentes, o que exige dos operadores do direito um maior esforço para que os entraves oriundos do processo internacional, como as imunidades de jurisdição e de execução, sejam, na melhor medida possível, superados com a finalidade de se garantir uma tutela eficaz dos direitos relacionados ao meio ambiente e uma reparação eficaz a qualquer dano ambiental transnacional.The right to the environment has grown in importance over the years. To a great extent, the greater relevance given to the environmental matter is due to the climatic changes, present in all the terrestrial globe that, in the opinion of specialists, represents a risk for the balance between the living beings present in the Planet Earth. Since it is up to justice to ensure that anyone who suffers damage, regardless of its nature, is properly repaired, it is to be expected
that any kind of environmental damage generates to the author, as far as possible, the obligation to reestablish the environmental situation to its normal. That being said, the ecologically balanced environment, in addition to a fundamental human right, comes to be seen as a necessary mechanism for the maintenance of human life on Earth. It is not by chance that the Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil, in its Article 225, addressed
the right to the environment, both for present and future generations. Thus, it is possible to understand the global character of the environment, since the impacts arising from its alteration easily transcend borders. This international character, by itself, already implies in different obstacles related to the resolution of the dispute, since, with elements of internationality, the sovereignty of different States is taken into account, requiring the
existence of international legal cooperation in the during the process. This type of process tends to become more recurrent due to the phenomenon of globalization, in which people, goods, services and goods start to circulate more freely between national borders. As a result, it is natural for transnational conflicts involving the environment to become more recurrent, which requires law operators to make a greater effort to ensure that obstacles arising from the international process, such as immunity from jurisdiction and enforcement, are at best possible, overcome in order to guarantee an effective protection of rights related to the environment and an effective remedy for any transnational environmental damage.51 f
The virtual image : Brazilian literature in English translation
No full textThe
aim of this thesis is to
examine
how the virtual
image
of Brazil
and
its literature is
constructed
in the Anglo-American world. To this
end, a survey of
Brazilian literary
works
in English translation was
carried out.
Having
gathered this data, it became
possible to establish
correlations
between the historical
moments when such translations
were made, when their number
increased,
and the events occurring at
those times in the international
panorama, as well as to look into the
role of sponsors, publishers and translators in the
selection and
production of such translations.
The data
also allowed a profile of
Brazilian literary
works
in
English translation to be drawn. It became
possible to suggest that
such works
fall into four
main categories:
`authorial
works',
'topical
works',
`ambassadorial
works'
and `consumer-oriented
works'.
In
order
to look
more closely
into how the translation process
has helped to
shape
the
virtual
image
of Brazilian literary
works
in
the Anglo-American world, an analysis of a sample of
translations
of
such works was made. Included in this
sample were
the translations
of works
by Machado de Asis, by Indianist
and
Regionalist
wirters,
culminating
in
an examination of translations of
GuimarAes Rosa's
works.
Having looked
at these aspects of
the translation
process, what
remained
to be done
was to investigate
to what extent
Brazilian
literary
works
in English translation
are read
by the English-
speaking public.
To this
end, a survey of availability and
library
readership was undertaken. Finally,
a reading experiment was carried
out
in
which native speakers of
English
were asked to read the short
story
'A terceira
margem
do
rio',
by GuimarAes Rosa.
The
conclusion attempts to pull all these threads together and
to indicate directions for further
research
Economic recessions, childhood environments, and the contingent expression of fast a slow life history strategies
No full textJust as modern economies undergo periods of boom and bust, human ancestors experienced cycles of abundance and famine. Is the adaptive response when resources become scarce to save for the future or to spend money on immediate gains? Drawing on life-history theory, we propose that people's responses to resource scarcity depend on the harshness of their early-life environment, as reflected by childhood socioeconomic status (SES). In the three experiments reported here, we tested how people from different childhood environments responded to resource scarcity. We found that people who grew up in lower-SES environments were more impulsive, took more risks, and approached temptations more quickly. Conversely, people who grew up in higher-SES environments were less impulsive, took fewer risks, and approached temptations more slowly. Responses similarly diverged according to people's oxidative-stress levels-a urinary biomarker of cumulative stress exposure. Overall, whereas tendencies associated with early-life environments were dormant in benign conditions, they emerged under conditions of economic uncertainty. © The Author(s) 2013
The effectiveness of a bonding agent in fissure sealant retention and caries prevention
No full textPLEASE NOTE: This work is protected by copyright. Downloading is restricted to the BU community: please log in with a valid BU account to access and click Download. If you are the author of this work and would like to make it publicly available, please contact [email protected] (MSD) --Boston University, Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine, 2009 (Department of Health Policy and Health Services Research).Includes bibliographic references: leaves 51-53.Background:In the Kuwait School Oral Health Program, fissure sealants are used as a preventive measure against caries along with fluoride rinsing, tablets or gel in the different governorates. Even though Kuwait has implemented these preventive programs since 1985, caries in Kuwaiti school children remains high. Some literature supports the use of a bonding agent underneath a sealant to enhance sealant retention and thus prevent caries and some did not support the use of bonding agent. Therefore, to increase sealant retention and prevent caries it was decided to perform a clinical trial using primer and bond underneath fissure sealant.
Aim: To evaluate among Kuwaiti school children the effectiveness of a bonding agent in fissure sealant retention and caries prevention.
Methods: In a split mouth study design, fissure sealant (Delton Plus) was applied to four sound first permanent molars on 78 children. All teeth were cleaned with pumice and rubber cups, isolated with rubber dam, and etched for 20 seconds. For the test teeth, two teeth were sealed with primer and bond (3M Scotch bond Multi-purpose Plus System primer and bond) and for the control teeth, two teeth were sealed without primer and bond, one in each arch. Sixty children were available for evaluation at five-years. Sealants were evaluated for retention and caries. The evaluation criteria were: completely retained sealant, partially retained sealant, completely lost sealant, caries, and restoration.
Results: At the year five examination, the gender distribution was 86.6% female and 13.3% male. The mean age at evaluation was 12.7[plus or minus]0.63 years. Overall, 22.3% of the sealants were completely retained sealant, 7.5% were partially lost sealant, 45.4% were completely lost, and 24.8% were restored. In teeth sealed with primer and bond, 19.6% of the sealants were completely retained, 9.2% were partially lost, 49.1% were completely lost, 22% were restored, and 28% were carious. In teeth sealed without primer and bond, 25% of the sealants were completely retained, 5.8% were partially lost, 41.6% were completely lost, 27.5% were restored, and 22% were carious. There were no differences seen between teeth sealed with Primer and bond, and teeth sealed without primer and bond in completely retained sealant (p=0.1 5), partially lost sealant (p=0. 16), completely lost sealant (p=0.27), restoration (p=0.16) and caries (p=0.14). In the conditional multivariate logistic regression model after controlling for gender, age at application, arch, and surface, there were no differences between teeth sealed with primer and bond and teeth sealed without primer and bond in all the outcome variables (completely retained sealant (p=0.51), complete or partially retained (p=0.79), caries free teeth (p=0.65) and caries (p=0.52).
Conclusion: If the proper technique is used in sealant application, after five years the use of a primer and bond under a sealant did not enhance sealant retention or prevent caries compared to use of sealant alone in Kuwaiti school children
Mammal collections of the Western Hemisphere: A survey and directory of collections
No full textAs a periodic assessment of the mammal collection resource, the Systematic Collections Committee (SCC) of the American Society of Mammalogists undertakes decadal surveys of the collections held in the Western Hemisphere. The SCC surveyed 429 collections and compiled a directory of 395 active collections containing 5,275,155 catalogued specimens. Over the past decade, 43 collections have been lost or transferred and 38 new or unsurveyed collections were added. Growth in number of total specimens, expansion of genomic resource collections, and substantial gains in digitization and web accessibility were documented, as well as slight shifts in proportional representation of taxonomic groups owing to increasingly balanced geographic representation of collections relative to previous surveys. While we find the overall health of Western Hemisphere collections to be adequate in some areas, gaps in spatial and temporal coverage and clear threats to long-term growth and vitality of these resources have also been identified. Major expansion of the collective mammal collection resource along with a recommitment to appropriate levels of funding will be required to meet the challenges ahead for mammalogists and other users, and to ensure samples are broad and varied enough that unanticipated future needs can be powerfully addressed. © 2018 The Author(s)
