scholarly journals CPR AT THE STATE FAIR: A 10-MINUTE TRAINING SESSION IS EFFECTIVE IN TEACHING BYSTANDER CPR TO MEMBERS OF AT-RISK COMMUNITIES

2016 ◽  
Vol 67 (13) ◽  
pp. 2355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorrel Brown ◽  
Wendy Bottinor ◽  
Travis Carroll ◽  
Glenn Hirsch
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Training Session ◽  
The State ◽  
Bystander Cpr ◽  
Risk Communities

Case study and event analysis for mitigation of unpredictable volcanic hazard

Impact ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (3) ◽  
pp. 26-28
Author(s):  
Tsukasa Ohba
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Volcanic Hazard ◽  
Hazard Mitigation ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
Mitigation Measures ◽  
Event Analysis ◽  
Traditional Methods ◽  
Risk Communities

Volcanology is an extremely important scientific discipline. Shedding light on how and why volcanoes erupt, how eruptions can be predicted and their impact on humans and the environment is crucial to public safety, economies and businesses. Understanding volcanoes means eruptions can be anticipated and at-risk communities can be forewarned, enabling them to implement mitigation measures. Professor Tsukasa Ohba is a scientist based at the Graduate School of International Resource Studies, Akita University, Japan, and specialises in volcanology and petrology. Ohba and his team are focusing on volcanic phenomena including: phreatic eruptions (a steam-driven eruption driven by the heat from magma interacting with water); lahar (volcanic mudflow); and monogenetic basalt eruptions (which consist of a group of small monogenetic volcanoes, each of which erupts only once). The researchers are working to understand the mechanisms of these phenomena using Petrology. Petrology is one of the traditional methods in volcanology but has not been applied to disastrous eruptions before. The teams research will contribute to volcanic hazard mitigation.

scholarly journals The Conservation and Management of the Cultural Heritage of Thailand: The Drafting of the Charter

MANUSYA ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-102
Author(s):  
Weeraphan Shinawatra
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
The State ◽  
Heritage Conservation ◽  
Folk Culture ◽  
Government Organizations ◽  
Cultural Heritage Conservation ◽  
Conservation And Management

This paper is an attempt to explain problems of cultural heritage conservation and management in Thailand due to the neglect of the State and the weakness of the society in understanding and protecting their cultural heritage especially the “folk culture” against globalization. The paper also points out that the impending Thailand Charter for cultural heritage conservation and management is the key solution to counterbalance today’s threats. Non-government organizations should take the lead in drafting the Charter with full public participation. Meanwhile local cultural heritage organizations which are at risk should immediately respond, with all stakeholders involved, before it is too late.

scholarly journals Testing Times: The Place of the Citizenship Test in the UK Immigration Regime and New Citizens’ Responses to it

Sociology ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 323-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bridget Byrne
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
The State ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Equal Citizenship ◽  
Successful Integration

Citizenship tests are designed to ensure that new citizens have the knowledge required for successful ‘integration’. This article explores what those who have taken the test thought about its content. It argues that new citizens had high levels of awareness of debates about immigration and anti-immigration sentiment. Considering new citizens’ views of the test, the article shows how many of them are aware of the role of the test in reassuring existing citizens of their fitness to be citizens. However, some new citizens contest this positioning in ‘acts of citizenship’ where they assert claims to citizenship which are not necessarily those constructed by the state and implied in the tests. The article will argue that the tests and the nature of the knowledge required to pass them serve to retain new citizens in a position of less-than-equal citizenship which is at risk of being discursively (if less often legally) revoked.

scholarly journals Threatened flora from the State of Santa Catarina, Brazil: Arecaceae

Hoehnea ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Guilherme Alves Elias ◽  
Joanna Marie Tucker Lima ◽  
Robson dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
Iucn Red List ◽  
The State ◽  
Conservation Assessment ◽  
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ◽  
Santa Catarina ◽  
Palm Species ◽  
Risk Of Extinction

ABSTRACT Palms (Arecaceae) are key elements that contribute to the forest biodiversity of the State of Santa Catarina. However, the official List of Endangered Flora Species of that State is incomplete, including only two Arecaceae species (Butia catarinensis Noblick & Lorenzi and B. eriospatha (Mart. Ex Drude) Becc.). Within this context, this study proposes a revision of the Official List of Arecaceae for Santa Catarina, based on the assessment of the conservation status made for each of the State’s native palm species. To assess the conservation status of the palm species in Santa Catarina, important sources on species distribution were used, including the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), a compilation of previously published, herbarium information, field observations, and data from the Floristic and Forest Inventory of Santa Catarina (IFFSC). Information for each species was imported into GeoCAT software (Geospatial Conservation Assessment Tool). All 11 native palm species of Santa Catarina were evaluated. Ten species were considered at risk of extinction according to the IUCN Red List categories and criteria. This large number of palm species at risk of extinction calls attention to the urgent need for updates of the Official List of Endangered Species in the State.

Refining the Evaluation of Treatment Foster Care

2002 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 233-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sigrid James ◽  
William Meezan
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Foster Care ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Residential Care ◽  
Knowledge Building ◽  
The State ◽  
Treatment Foster Care ◽  
Promising Alternative ◽  
Alternative Intervention

Treatment foster care (TFC) is a promising alternative intervention for children and adolescents at risk for placement in residential care settings. An examination of the processes and outcomes of TFC is complicated and leads to the conclusions that: (a) TFC is delivered with such variability that conclusions about its effectiveness are difficult to draw; (b) many variables in the child's ecology that potentially confound the effects of the intervention remain unexamined; and (c) service impacts have been defined narrowly. This article synthesizes the state of knowledge in these three domains and discusses how an ecosystemic framework can advance and refine knowledge building in this field of practice.

Buddha-Relics in the Lives of Southern Asian Polities

Numen ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 57 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 317-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Blackburn
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Royal Court ◽  
Literary Memory ◽  
Formed Part ◽  
Mainland Southeast Asia

AbstractDrawing on literary and inscriptional evidence from Sri Lanka and mainland Southeast Asia, this essay examines the place of Buddha-relics — potent traces of a Buddha — in the life cycle of southern Asian political formations. In the formation of new polities and/or new dynasties, relics were drawn into the physical landscape and literary memory of the state, in order to provide protection and to claim desirable lineage and authority. At times of heightened military and political activity, when kingdoms were at risk, the protection and deployment of relics, and their ritual engagement, formed part of the state's central technologies. During periods of victory and restoration, relic festivals and the enhancement of a landscape embedded with relics, were used to display, affirm, and protect the royal court.

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