scholarly journals Creative Mitigation: Alternative Strategies for Resources, Stakeholders, and the Public

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-219
Author(s):  
John G. Douglass ◽  
Shelby A. Manney
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Data Recovery ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Alternative Strategies ◽  
Mitigation Options ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Artifact Analysis

ABSTRACTStandard mitigation treatment for adverse effects to significant cultural resources has historically been a combination of data recovery excavation along with artifact analysis, reporting, and curation, whose purpose is to move the undertaking forward. Over the past several decades, there has been increased interest and understanding of alternative, or creative, mitigation options in these situations, which may, in the end, be the best option for the resource and more meaningful to both project stakeholders and the public. This article, the first in this special issue on creative mitigation, introduces the regulatory and conceptual framework for creative mitigation and weaves themes introduced in subsequent articles in this issue.

scholarly journals Finite-state methods and models in natural language processing

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-144
Author(s):  
ANSSI YLI-JYRÄ ◽  
ANDRÁS KORNAI ◽  
JACQUES SAKAROVITCH
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Computational Linguistics ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Current Issue ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Finite State ◽  
Final Selection

For the past two decades, specialised events on finite-state methods have been successful in presenting interesting studies on natural language processing to the public through journals and collections. The FSMNLP workshops have become well-known among researchers and are now the main forum of the Association for Computational Linguistics' (ACL) Special Interest Group on Finite-State Methods (SIGFSM). The current issue on finite-state methods and models in natural language processing was planned in 2008 in this context as a response to a call for special issue proposals. In 2010, the issue received a total of sixteen submissions, some of which were extended and updated versions of workshop papers, and others which were completely new. The final selection, consisting of only seven papers that could fit into one issue, is not fully representative, but complements the prior special issues in a nice way. The selected papers showcase a few areas where finite-state methods have less than obvious and sometimes even groundbreaking relevance to natural language processing (NLP) applications.

Introduction: Adaptation and the Battle of, and for, and over, and within the Public Humanities

Adaptation ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Leitch
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
Culture Wars ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Public Figures ◽  
Ecological Implications ◽  
Theatrical Performances ◽  
The Creation

Abstract This introduction to the special issue of Adaptation devoted to adaptation and the public humanities focuses on the ways the once-anodyne term ‘public humanities’ has become more sharply politicized and contested over the past few years. In many ways, adaptation, which generates new versions and new readings of old texts instead of cancelling, erasing, or unpublishing them, offers the possibility of transcending the conflicts in contemporary culture. But the creation and the study of adaptations offer not a retreat from the culture wars but an array of new tools for waging them more productively by reframing them in ways that lead to more open and fruitful dialogue on the subjects proposed by the essays in this issue: theatrical performances cast for the public good, the costs of performing adapted versions of oneself or of encouraging adaptation-induced tourism, the ecological implications of adaptation, and the shifting valence of adaptation when it is practiced by public figures and posthuman agents.

scholarly journals Editorial: Introduction to Special Issue on Nutrition Education: Theory and Practice

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-12
Author(s):  
Ann Gaba
Keyword(s):  
Nutrition Education ◽  
Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Training Methods ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Education Theory ◽  
Nutrition And Dietetics ◽  
And Training

A historical perspective on the education and training of dietetics students from the 1940s was recently presented in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics [1]. This history showed the development of training methods and practices as the profession evolved. Another recent paper in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition [2] described the need for nutrition education across disciplines in health professions, both to promote interdisciplinary collaboration, and to address the growing needs of the public for information and guidance. These papers clearly show that nutrition education has been important in the past, and will continue to be so into the future

scholarly journals Making Homes in Limbo? A Conceptual Framework

Refuge ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cathrine Brun ◽  
Anita Fábos
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Academic Work ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Global Order ◽  
The Past ◽  
Holistic Perspective ◽  
Forced Migrants ◽  
Policies And Practices

This article aims to conceptualize home and homemaking for people in protracted displacement. The article serves three purposes: to present an overview of the area of inquiry; to develop an analytical framework for under- standing home and homemaking for forced migrants in protracted displacement; and to introduce the special issue. It explores how protracted displacement has been defined—from policy definitions to people’s experiences of protractedness, including “waiting” and “the permanence of temporariness.” The article identifies the ambivalence embedded in experiences and practices of homemaking in long-term displacement, demonstrating how static notions of home and displacement might be unsettled. It achieves this through examining relationships between mobility and stasis, the material and symbolic, between the past, present, and future, and multiple places and scales. The article proposes a conceptual framework—a triadic constellation of home—that enables an analysis of home in different contexts of protracted displacement. The framework helps to explore home both as an idea and a practice, distinguishing among three elements: “home” as the day-to-day practices of homemaking, “Home” as representing values, traditions, memories, and feelings of home, and the broader political and historical contexts in which “HOME” is understood in the current global order and embedded in institutions. In conclusion, the article argues that a feminist and dynamic understanding of home-Home-HOME provides a more holistic perspective of making home in protracted displacement that promotes a more extensive and more sophisticated academic work, policies, and practices.

scholarly journals What Makes Some Mitigation Measures and Programs “Creative”? (And Where Does That Leave the Rest of Them?)

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 220-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynne Sebastian
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Good Thing ◽  
Mitigation Measures ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Mitigation Measure ◽  
The World ◽  
Quick Search

ABSTRACTA quick search on antonyms for “creative” yields obvious results such as “uncreative,” “unimaginative,” and “uninspired,” but also terms such as “dull,” “derivative,” and “stodgy.” In the world of cultural resources and mitigation of adverse effects, “creative” is most often opposed to “standard.” That sounds like a good thing, right? Good old, reliable, dependable, predictable standard mitigation. But as we will see from the articles in this special issue, remarkable things can happen when those designing mitigation programs replace or augment “standard” approaches. What is it about a mitigation measure or program that leads us to term it “creative”? How can we expand those defining qualities of creative mitigation measures and programs to enhance the quality of standard mitigation approaches? How can we make the standard approaches, if not creative, at least not stodgy?

scholarly journals The Role of Modeling and Synthesis in Creative Mitigation

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Heilen
Keyword(s):  
Management Strategies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Resource Management ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
The Public ◽  
Effective Strategies ◽  
The Past ◽  
National Historic Preservation Act ◽  
Do So

AbstractIn the 54 years since passage of the National Historic Preservation Act, more than 56 million ha of land have been surveyed in the United States, and nearly one million cultural resources have been identified and recorded. These efforts have produced hundreds of thousands of project reports, vast collections of data, and a wealth of descriptive information about the past. The accumulated data can be used to generate important new knowledge about the past, with many scientific and management implications, but remain largely untapped. Following current approaches, many resources will be damaged or lost before effective strategies for studying or preserving them can be developed. Synthesis and modeling are needed in creative mitigation efforts to identify which resources to preserve and study and how best to do so with limited time and funding. This article explores the potential for compiling and synthesizing large cultural and environmental datasets within a geographic information system to model the nature and distribution of cultural resources. It is argued that dedicated synthesis and modeling of cultural resource management data will allow development of more effective and proactive research and management strategies, providing lasting benefit to diverse scientific and traditional communities and the public.

Bridging Troubled Waters

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-24
Author(s):  
Michael M. Brescia
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Public History ◽  
Expert Witness ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Water Rights ◽  
American Southwest ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Public ◽  
Conducting Research

This special issue of The Public Historian examines the nature and scope of the historian’s role as a consultant and expert witness in natural resource litigation. The introductory essay identifies the major issues and challenges that historians face when they bring their knowledge, skills, and professional best standards into law offices and courtrooms, while also positing a conceptual framework for public history practitioners to better understand and appreciate the larger stakes in conducting research for environmental litigation. The author delineates his own experience as an expert in certain water rights cases in the American Southwest where knowledge of the Spanish and Mexican civil law of property is essential.

scholarly journals The Study of Term Limits in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons on Democratisation and Autocratisation

2020 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 215-227
Author(s):  
Julia Grauvogel ◽  
Charlotte Heyl
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Term Limits ◽  
Authoritarian Regimes ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Authoritarian Rule ◽  
The Past ◽  
Institutional Landscape ◽  
Sub Saharan

Studies on term limits in Africa have proliferated over the past two decades. This introduction to the special issue on the struggle over term limits contributes to advancing the research agenda with novel empirical evidence and a rigorous conceptual framework. Moreover, we propose complementing existing work on term limits and democratisation with a more explicit focus on their repercussions for authoritarian rule. Drawing on the comparative lessons of the special issue, we outline how term limits can be theorised as part of the institutional landscape in authoritarian regimes and how third-term bids can be understood as a tool of autocratisation.

How the Past Shapes the Present: Five Ways in Which History Affects China's Contemporary Foreign Relations

2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 119-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry Harding
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Foreign Relations ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Controversial Topic

AbstractThe history of China's foreign relations is an interesting and controversial topic in its own right, as the essays in this special issue so amply demonstrate. But it is also central to an understanding of China's contemporary international relations. The history of China's foreign relations is not just a chronicle of the past, but also a set of facts and ideas and images that are alive in the minds of policy-makers and the public today, thereby shaping the present and future of China's relationship with the rest of the world.

scholarly journals Nutrition Research Special Issue and an Interview With Marion Nestle by Paul Terry

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 1329-1332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul E. Terry
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Healthy Eating ◽  
First Amendment ◽  
Freedom Of Speech ◽  
Food Choices ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Nutrition Research ◽  
Alternative Facts

As much as the field of health promotion has benefited mightily in the past decades from Internet abetted access to unlimited health content, our field is also experiencing the best of times and the worst of times. When it comes to our core work of supporting healthy decision-making for individuals, organizations, and communities, the unfettered, voluminous material available has, unimaginably, made facts seem fickle. I am delighted to have Dr Marion Nestle’s insights as a preamble to this special issue of the journal. Educating about nutrition and food choices, in particular, has become as much a contest between competing interests and commercial forces, as it has been a discipline guided by credible professionals. I am all in on our Constitution’s First Amendment, and having live abroad, I am endlessly smitten with America’s robust expression and freedom of speech. But I wonder if our forefathers had seen the Internet coming whether they might have added more stipulations about telling the truth. This special issue of the American Journal of Health Promotion is dedicated to nutrition research where new discoveries, and impassioned scientists like Dr Nestle, provide the light needed to grow fresh knowledge. Exposing both academics and the public to well-done studies about how food choices are influenced is ever more crucial in an era of alternative facts about what constitutes healthy eating.

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