scholarly journals The role of bushmeat in a West African agricultural landscape

Oryx ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 643-651 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justine Shanti Alexander ◽  
James McNamara ◽  
J. Marcus Rowcliffe ◽  
James Oppong ◽  
E.J. Milner-Gulland
Keyword(s):  
Rural Economy ◽  
Agricultural Landscape ◽  
Crop Protection ◽  
Urban Centre ◽  
Full Spectrum ◽  
The Status ◽  
Agricultural Areas ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Bushmeat Hunting

AbstractThere is little information on the changing role of bushmeat hunting in the agricultural areas of West Africa. We assessed the status and role of bushmeat hunting and rural consumption in three communities in Ghana, through household surveys (n = 250), and interviews with hunters (n = 69), eatery owners (n = 18) and bushmeat traders (n = 3). Hunting was embedded within dynamic livelihood strategies, with two broad categories of hunters identified: a large group who targeted pests on their own farms using traps, and a smaller group of professional hunters. The professional hunters included a group of young men who hunted with dogs, and another group of older firearm hunters who tended to be members of Hunters’ Associations. All professional hunters reported a decline in bushmeat availability and expressed concerns about the viability of hunting as a livelihood. The frequency of consumption of bushmeat increased with distance from the region's main urban centre, Kumasi, but bushmeat was not found to be a major component of the diet in any of the villages. Few men self-identified as hunters, although bushmeat hunting continued to play an important role in the rural economy, primarily for crop protection. Conservation efforts need to consider the full spectrum of hunting behaviours. Specific measures should target forest-based hunters, who are more likely to damage forest ecosystems than crop pest hunters but also show more concern for the sustainability of hunting, and commitment to hunting as an institution.

Waking ourselves up! Re-examining the role of OD practitioners – a challenger perspective

2014 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 182-187
Author(s):  
Clare Southall
Keyword(s):  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Academic Paper ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Many ◽  
Changing Role

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the changing role of OD practitioners. Given the many significant challenges faced by organisations and their leaders, never has the role of OD been more important; it is vital that OD practitioners are able to identify the paradigm shift that is required if they are to provide the relevant challenge and support that organisations and leaders need. Design/methodology/approach – The OD role is explored through the Challenger pattern of behaviour known as Witnessing the Establishment – the ability, and the willingness, to see things as they really are, not as we wish them to be. The authors are often so much a part of the organisational system ourselves that the underpinning assumptions, beliefs, routines and rituals that exist are so transparent we can not see them for what they are. Findings – This paper focuses on one of the six patterns of behaviour identified in Challenger leaders in the book “Challenger Spirit: Organisations that disturb the status quo” by Khurshed Dehnugara and Claire Genkai Breeze, LID Publishing, 2011. Research limitations/implications – This is not an academic paper but instead a consultant/practitioner perspective grounded in day-to-day work with leaders and OD professionals in client organisations. Originality/value – A number of suggestions are given for applying the perspectives discussed, through a series of questions, diagnostic processes and models. These are directly applicable to OD practitioners themselves and can also form the basis of further conversations with the leaders and colleagues.

Symbolic Accoutrements of Power: Appropriation of Culture within the British Managerial Elite

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 456-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Warde
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Significant Degree ◽  
Cultural Consumption ◽  
Cultural Participation ◽  
Business Politics ◽  
The Status ◽  
Number Of Individuals ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Cultural Attachment

AbstractThis paper arises from a study examining cultural participation, knowledge and taste across the British population. The study includes in-depth interviews with a small number of individuals occupying prestigious positions in British business, politics and administration. A managerial elite, they exhibit a significant degree of homogeneity of cultural attachment and invest heavily in participation in many cultural activities. Their pattern of cultural consumption is described in terms of three principles: plenitude, proficiency and capability. This paper focuses on a number of mechanisms of acculturation, which are identified and illustrated. Differences associated with social trajectory are emphasised. The everyday routine nature of intensive and selective cultural consumption for this section of the population is noted and it is shown how culture is embedded in social life through social connections. Implications for the status and changing character of legitimate culture are considered, leading to reflections on the demise of the British “Establishment” and the changing role of culture in elite formation.

Changing Role of Indian Woman: A Glimpse into Two Bollywood Movies English – Vinglish and Queen

CLEaR ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-60
Author(s):  
Mahuya Bhaumik
Keyword(s):  
Indian Society ◽  
Central Character ◽  
Indian Woman ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Cultural Perspectives ◽  
The Status ◽  
Multiple Issues ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Interesting Area

Abstract Bollywood, being one of the biggest film industries of India, is an interesting area of research to understand the socio-cultural perspectives of today’s India. My paper will focus on the changing role of Indian woman. It will argue if the change is merely superficial or the Indian woman has been successful to negotiate with and challenge the patriarchal social structure. These multiple issues will be discussed with special reference to two of the latest Bollywood movies, namely, English-Vinglish and Queen. The focus on these two movies is because both concentrate on emancipation of woman. Sashi, the central character of English-Vinglish, despite facing all kinds of humiliation in her own family and finally learning English (her inability to speak in English being one of the primary reasons for her being ridiculed in her family) comes back to her family at the end. Queen showcases a different kind of emancipation where Rani, the leading lady of the movie, being dumped by her fiancé, decides to go for her honeymoon trip all by herself and recognises herself anew. These two movies are examples of the changing role of woman who does not need a male to rescue her from danger or to console her in her tears. She is a self-sufficient woman who does not forget her roots. Both the movies generate thought-provoking questions about the status of woman in present India and can be employed as lenses to see through the multiple layers of the gendered Indian society.

scholarly journals Perspectives of accounting students and teachers on the changing role of management accountants in organisations

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-162
Author(s):  
C C Shuttleworth
Keyword(s):  
Management Accounting ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Accounting Students ◽  
Changing Practice ◽  
Control Functions ◽  
Management Accountants ◽  
The Status ◽  
Strategic Role ◽  
Changing Role

Owing to a highly competitive global market, economic crises and changes in manufacturing and information technology, organisations are compelled to improve their financial planning and control functions. These and other changes have contributed to the evolving role of the management accounting function in organisations. Whereas cost accounting’s main focus was on finding the cost of manufacturing products, the objective of management accounting is to use financial and non-financial information to assist management with decision making. Although management accountants have long played multiple roles in organisations, there is a definite shift towards a more strategic approach, opening up new vistas of opportunity. However, this widening scope of the changing practice of management accounting demonstrates a lack of a recognisable and coherent occupational identity. The objective of this study was to determine whether prospective accounting students and accounting teachers are aware of the changing role and status of management accountants. This study presents the results of a survey among fi rst-year accounting students as well as interviews with accounting teachers to assess their perceptions of the current role of management accountants in organisations. This study exposes a lack of knowledge of the status of management accountants and their strategic role in organisations. Recommendations are made for tertiary institutions to alleviate this information gap and for further research on this issue.

‘Reformed Pastors’ and Bons Curés: the Changing Role of the Parish Clergy in Early Modern Europe

1989 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 249-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Green
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Half Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Status ◽  
Secular Society ◽  
Parish Clergy ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Traditional Roles

Over the last half century, a number of sociologists on both sides of the Atlantic have tried to define the contemporary role of the ministry. Among the ideas which emerged from their work, three are relevant for our purpose here. The first was that a number of roles which well-intentioned if not always well-qualified clergy had tried to play in the past had been lost or were being lost to rival professions, few of whose members were in holy orders: doctors and psychiatrists, marriage guidance counsellors and social caseworkers, solicitors and schoolteachers. Sociologists detected a sense of what was called ‘role uncertainty’ among the English clergy, and a feeling that in future they should be trained in new skills such as counselling. Allied to this disquiet was another concern, that the administrative and organizational side of the minister’s work was threatening to swamp the more important traditional roles of priest, pastor, and preacher. A third suggestion was that in an increasingly secular society the status of the ministry was declining. For centuries, it was argued, the clergy had enjoyed a unique place in society because of their sacerdotal functions and special skills, but this was now changing: the value of the Christian ministry in the eyes of the laity was falling behind that of more ‘useful’ professions such as medicine and the law.

scholarly journals O zmieniającej się roli polskich uczelni w obszarze studiów podyplomowych, kursów dokształcających i szkoleń

2018 ◽  
Vol 114 ◽  
pp. 269-276
Author(s):  
Marek Wierzbowski ◽  
Marek Grzywacz
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Doctoral Student ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Administrative Law ◽  
Education Law ◽  
Administrative Procedure ◽  
Higher Education Law ◽  
The Status ◽  
Changing Role

THE CHANGING ROLE OF ACTIVITY OF POLISH UNIVERSITIES CONCERNING POSTGRADUATE COURSES, SUPPLEMENTARY COURSES AND TRAININGSLegal diversifi cation of the status of a student of postgraduate courses as well as supplementary courses and trainings in relation to the status of student and doctoral student, resulting from the Higher Education Law, caused a transformation of the primary administrative-law relationship into a civil law relationship, based on a contract, not an administrative act. As a result, the possibility of applying to students of postgraduate courses the provisions of the Code of Administrative Procedure was excluded and it became impossible to obtain control exercised by administrative courts due to a purely contractual bond covered by the jurisdiction of common courts.

The study of interfacial reactions of nickel thin films on GaAs

1983 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 156-157
Author(s):  
L.J. Chen ◽  
Y.F. Hsieh
Keyword(s):  
Thin Films ◽  
Integrated Circuits ◽  
Interfacial Reactions ◽  
Metal Contacts ◽  
Nickel Thin Films ◽  
Thin Foils ◽  
The Status ◽  
Si Doped ◽  
Electron Microscopes

One measure of the maturity of a device technology is the ease and reliability of applying contact metallurgy. Compared to metal contact of silicon, the status of GaAs metallization is still at its primitive stage. With the advent of GaAs MESFET and integrated circuits, very stringent requirements were placed on their metal contacts. During the past few years, extensive researches have been conducted in the area of Au-Ge-Ni in order to lower contact resistances and improve uniformity. In this paper, we report the results of TEM study of interfacial reactions between Ni and GaAs as part of the attempt to understand the role of nickel in Au-Ge-Ni contact of GaAs.N-type, Si-doped, (001) oriented GaAs wafers, 15 mil in thickness, were grown by gradient-freeze method. Nickel thin films, 300Å in thickness, were e-gun deposited on GaAs wafers. The samples were then annealed in dry N2 in a 3-zone diffusion furnace at temperatures 200°C - 600°C for 5-180 minutes. Thin foils for TEM examinations were prepared by chemical polishing from the GaA.s side. TEM investigations were performed with JE0L- 100B and JE0L-200CX electron microscopes.

The changing role of the dental dean

1969 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-360
Author(s):  
JA DiBiaggio
Keyword(s):  
Changing Role
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