The effects of urbanization on North American amphibian species: Identifying new directions for urban conservation

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brett R. Scheffers ◽  
Cynthia A. Paszkowski
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Amphibian Species ◽  
Urban Conservation ◽  
New Directions

New Directions in the Computational Analysis of Biblical Hebrew Grammar

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia Miller-Naudé ◽  
Jacobus A Naudé
Keyword(s):  
Southern Hemisphere ◽  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
North American ◽  
Computational Analysis ◽  
Biblical Hebrew ◽  
Linguistic Theory ◽  
Linguistic Variation ◽  
European Database ◽  
New Directions ◽  
African Context

The concern of the paper is to highlight how computational analysis of Biblical Hebrew grammar can now be done in very sophisticated ways and with insightful results for exegesis. Three databases, namely, the Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and Computer (ETCBC) Database, the Accordance Hebrew Syntactic Database, and the Andersen-Forbes Syntactic Database,are compared in terms of their relation to linguistic theory (or, theories), the nature and spectrum of retrieved data, and the representation of synchronic and diachronic linguistic variation. Interaction between different contexts, including the African context, are promoted namely between linguists working on Biblical Hebrew and exegetes working on the Hebrew Bible by illustrating how exegesis and language are intimately connected, as well as among geographical contexts by comparing a European database (ETCBC), a North American database (Accordance) and a Southern hemisphere database (Andersen-Forbes).

Old Trails and New Directions: Papers of the Third North American Fur Trade Conference

Ethnohistory ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 221
Author(s):  
Shepard Krech ◽  
Carol M. Judd ◽  
Arthur J. Ray
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Fur Trade ◽  
The Third ◽  
New Directions

Maritime Communities and Traditions

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse Ransley
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Oral Histories ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Archaeological Knowledge ◽  
Maritime Heritage

Maritime communities and traditions discussed within archaeological discourse, imply either small, contemporary, indigenous communities or folklore traditions from European or North American contexts. The article discusses small-scale tradition and local maritime practices. There are three main strands within this subject—oral histories and folklore traditions, studies of contemporary “traditional” boats, and ethnography that has a maritime locus of study. This article gives a review of these three sources of information on maritime communities and traditions, and addresses the history and context of each research field. Finally, it touches on new directions in studies of maritime communities and traditions, focusing on the notion of maritime heritage. The study of maritime traditions explores the uses to which maritime archaeological knowledge is put in the contemporary world and the cultural and even the socioeconomic politics behind many of the archaeological projects.

scholarly journals Enduring Features of the North American Suburb: Built Form, Automobile Orientation, Suburban Culture and Political Mobilization

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 4-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Filion
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
The Self ◽  
Economic Diversification ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
The North ◽  
Built Form ◽  
Reproductive Effects ◽  
Electoral Campaign ◽  
New Directions

As any social phenomenon, the evolution of suburbs can be seen as at the confluence of two contradictory sets of forces. There are first forces of change, which propel suburbs in new directions. Much of the present literature on suburbs highlights suburban transitions in the form of social and economic diversification, and of new forms of development. The article attempts to rebalance the discourse on suburbs by emphasizing forces of durability. It does not deny the importance of observed suburban transitions, but argues that there is, at the heart of North American suburbs, an enduring automobility-induced transportation dynamic, which reverberates on most aspects of suburbs. The article explores the mechanisms undergirding suburban durability by linking the suburban transportation dynamic to the self-reproductive effects of a suburban lifestyle and culture and their political manifestations. These forces impede planning attempts to transform suburbs in ways that make them more environmentally sustainable. To empirically ground its argument, the article draws on two Toronto region case studies illustrating processes assuring the persistence of the durable features of North American suburbs: the layout of large suburban multifunctional centres and the themes raised by Rob Ford during his successful 2010 mayoralty electoral campaign.

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