Putting Science in its Place: The Role of Sandringham Station in Fostering Arid Zone Science in Australia

2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher R. Dickman ◽  
Libby Robin
Keyword(s):  
Arid Zone ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Ephemeral Wetlands ◽  
The Past ◽  
Boom And Bust ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Ongoing Support ◽  
Scientific Questions ◽  
Simpson Desert

For the past fifty years, Sandringham Station has provided a major focus for scientific work in southwestern Queensland, an arid region that includes the Simpson Desert and the Channel Country (together 'Desert Channels'). This paper explores the role of place, chance and private enterprise in supporting science in this region. Unlike other parts of inland Australia, where government initiatives were prominent, science in Queensland's arid country was privately supported, and research there had an ecological or eco-physiological rather than an economic focus. It began later than elsewhere (1960s), and its scientific questions were different from those framed in research stations set up to address agricultural and pastoral imperatives. The location of Sandringham on the ecological edge between the ephemeral wetlands of the anastomosing channels and the dune country of the Simpson Desert created an ecotonal area that was rich in animals adapted to living in Australian desert country, and a particular opportunity to observe their adaptations to the boom-and-bust ecological conditions. The role of local observers, particularly station managers and naturalists, has been critical in studying the often cryptic animals of the region, and the ongoing support of the station itself was essential to investigations that were mostly on private leasehold lands.

scholarly journals Death and Woman: Comparing the Meaning of the Deaths of the Female Main Characters in the Works of Toni Morrison and Alice Munro

Lexicon ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Achmad Munjid
Keyword(s):  
Toni Morrison ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Alice Munro ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Set Up

This paper seeks to explore the meaning of death in two important works by two female Noble Prize winning authors, Toni Morrison and Alice Munro. Hagin’s (2010) theory of role of death in storyline is used to analyze the works. The three deaths found in the story: initial death, intermediary death and story-terminating death all have significant meaningful relation to the past and the future. They have epistemological value of revealing and/or exposing the truth from the past. Death is used as technical instrument to reveal the truth, to transform ignorance into knowledge, dishonesty into accountability, to purify the past from falsehood and lies. Death also inserts its demand in the story by removing obstacle or giving opportunity for the living to set up new goal. The demand of the dead is possible since the deceased is “remembered” by the “cult” who may follow or manipulate their legacy. The two authors articulate “feminist voice” through the struggle of the main female characters. Toni Morrison articulates the dehumanizing consequence of racism, whereas Alice Munro voices her concern on the contradictory nature of orderly neat appearance of the modern people versus scandalous dark secret beneath the surface.Keywords: dehumanization, feminist voice, initial death, intermediary death, story-terminating death, racism.

scholarly journals Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection for Romanian Citizens Abroad

2020 ◽  
pp. 409-425
Author(s):  
Felicia Nica ◽  
Madalina Moraru
Keyword(s):  
Member State ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Annual Growth ◽  
Fast Growing ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Institutional Network ◽  
The Eu

Abstract Romania is the EU Member State with the highest numbers of emigrants, according to Eurostat. The annual growth of the Romanian diaspora is one of the fastest in the world, and quite recent (over the past 20 years). In light of these developments, the institutional network for engagement with Romanians abroad, first established in the mid-1990s, has recently increased in an attempt to respond to the fast-growing Romanian diaspora. A Ministry entirely dedicated to maintaining the relations with the Romanian diaspora was formally institutionalized 10 years after Romania officially joined the EU in 2017, replacing scattered departments and institutional bodies. However, the role of the recently set up diaspora institutions still needs to be clarified and firmly determined. Policies were developed with the goal of ensuring the integration of Romanian citizens in their countries of residence, but also to encourage return to Romania. In particular, as few other European diaspora populations, the Romanian diaspora is represented in the Romanian Parliament by two Senators and four Deputies who represent the interests of three to five million Romanians abroad.

Mainstreaming Risk-Informed, Performance-Based Approaches for SMRs

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Prasad Kadambi
Keyword(s):  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Nuclear Technology ◽  
Safety Review ◽  
The Past ◽  
American Nuclear Society ◽  
Safety Strategies ◽  
Innovative Thinking ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Tools And Methods

The principles pertaining to risk-informed, performance-based (RIPB) concepts to analyze and implement safety strategies for nuclear technology have not received the investment in effort needed to fully obtain their benefits. The initiative by the USNRC to apply them in the safety review of SMRs presents industry and standards developing organizations opportunities that were previously unavailable. Tools and methods are publicly available for the benefit of all stakeholders to enable applications of these concepts. Given the economic benefits that may be available from application of RIPB approaches standards developing organizations such as the American Nuclear Society (ANS) and ASME can fulfill the role of enablers by getting volunteer experts in formally established consensus bodies to propose measures that can be reviewed subsequently from a regulatory standpoint. The ANS set up the RP3C as a committee to facilitate the transitioning of existing and proposed new standards to an RIPB framework. Recognizing the limitations of the existing framework in which deterministic and prescriptive approaches were the mainstay, ANS will engage innovative thinking to address issues that have been obstacles to RIPB approaches in the past. This paper offers information about the current and projected work of RP3C.

scholarly journals Whose Political Constitution? Citizens and Referendums

2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (12) ◽  
pp. 2185-2196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Tierney
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Account ◽  
Constitutional Change ◽  
Power Struggle ◽  
Direct Role ◽  
Notable Feature ◽  
The Past ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Zero Sum

One notable feature about the debate between “liberal” and “political” constitutionalism has been its elite focus. The courts and the legislature are discussed in efforts to determine the appropriate role of each in processes of constitution-framing and changing. But this task is often set up implicitly as a zero-sum game. Although it might be claimed that citizens are tangentially relevant to this power struggle, a detailed account of whether citizens should, and how they might, play a direct role in constitutional authorship is seldom, if ever, placed on the table. This paper considers the elite orientation of this debate, questioning whether this is in normative terms acceptable, and in empirical terms credible, particularly as we consider how, over the past three decades, the referendum has emerged as an important vehicle for constitutional change in so many states.

scholarly journals Sports Medicine and Indian Cricket: Exploring the Past, understanding the Present and accommodating a Future of Scientific Conception

2015 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 199-203
Author(s):  
Harpal Kaur Bansal ◽  
Evan Speechly
Keyword(s):  
Sports Medicine ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
Medicine Research ◽  
Sports Science ◽  
The Past ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Dressing Room ◽  
Scientific Conception

ABSTRACT Background ‘What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?’—CLR James. Cricket is one of the oldest major international team sport, however, the integration of sports medicine research into the cricketing set-up has been relatively new. Cricketing nations, such as Australia, England and South Africa, have been at the forefront and have shown an increased interest to understand this game from a scientific point of view. On the contrary, in a country where cricket is like a religion it is sad to say that the lack of scientific rigor still echoes in the Indian dressing room. Nevertheless, a fresh approach brought in by foreign medical practitioners has planted the seed in local brains to bring the concept of sports medicine into the Indian cricketing fraternity. Objectives This article will explore scientific research that has been conducted on various areas in cricket and compare the role of sports science in Indian cricket and finally identify areas of future concern which would help to bridge the gap between sports medicine and Indian cricket. How to cite this article Bansal HK, Speechly E. Sports Medicine and Indian Cricket: Exploring the Past, understanding the Present and accommodating a Future of Scientific Conception. J Postgrad Med Edu Res 2015;49(4):199-203.

Cultures of Commemoration

2012 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Usa ◽  
War Dead ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Key Questions

This book offers a comparative approach to the study of the commemoration of war. It draws together a set of contributions that combine to produce a considered approach to the changes and continuities that marked the ways in which war, and in particular the war dead, were commemorated and remembered. Chapters explore the commemorative practices of Ancient Greece and Rome, and investigate how those practices have been reflected, adapted and abandoned in more recent Western cultures, from eighteenth-century France to twentieth-century Britain, Germany and the USA. The book concentrates on monuments set up by communities, from local communities to the state, but it also considers the role of ‘private’ memorials, since the interaction between private or more personalised monuments and the commemoration of the war dead by the community often lies at the heart of commemorative practices. It furthermore explores the relationship between memory and forgetting, in the context of the longer-term idea of cultural memory. Key questions addressed by the book include: What importance does such commemoration have for the cultures that continue to live with the legacies of the commemorative actions of the recent and distant past? How is the commemoration of the war dead of the past not only used but reused? The book demonstrates that our own understanding of the treatment of the war dead has absorbed and reinterpreted the treatments already developed by past societies.

scholarly journals Archives and Technological Selection

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 17-39
Author(s):  
Trond Lundemo
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Digital Archives ◽  
Political Role ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Media ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Laws And Regulations

The archive is not a place for the undifferentiated storage of the past: the political role of the archive is to select what to include as the past and what to discard, in order to regulate the future. These selections are prescribed by laws and regulations, but they are also determined by the archival techniques available for inscription, storage, indexing and access. The author analyses the technological selections of two ages of the archive. The first age is that of the intermedial archive emerging after the end of the text archive monopoly, with the gramophone, photograph and, in particular, film. The gaps and contradictions resulting from this configuration of media are investigated through a discussion of the media set-up of Albert Kahn’s Les archives de la planète (1908-1931). The second age is that of the digital archives, and the digitization of analogue material, again with Les archives de la planète as an example. Instead of understanding these ages of archival technologies as autonomous and separate, the author argues that they should be approached as “superimposed” archival regimes in order to tease out the current interrelations between analogue and digital archives.

scholarly journals Activating the past in the Ferguson protests: Memory work, digital activism and the politics of platforms

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (9) ◽  
pp. 3119-3139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rik Smit ◽  
Ansgard Heinrich ◽  
Marcel Broersma
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Discursive Practice ◽  
Digital Activism ◽  
The Past ◽  
Memory Work ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Operational Logic

This article analyzes the Facebook page Justice for Mike Brown—set up during the 2014 Ferguson protests—in order to rethink the role of memory work within contemporary digital activism. We argue that, as a particular type of discursive practice, memory work on the page bridged personal and collective action frames. This occurred in four overlapping ways. First, the page allowed for affective commemorative engagement that helped shape Brown’s public image. Second, Brown’s death was contextualized as part of systematic injustice against African Americans. Third, the past was used to legitimize present action, wherein the present was continually connected to the past and future. And fourth, particular discursive units became recognizable symbolic markers during the protests and for future recall. Based on this typology, we show that memory work, although multidirectional and in flux, is stabilized by the interactions between the page administrator, users, and Facebook’s operational logic.

On Future Directions in Pathology

1982 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 274-277
Author(s):  
Benjamin F. Trump ◽  
Irene K. Berezesky ◽  
Raymond T. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Transmission Electron Microscopy ◽  
Clinical Pathology ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Diagnostic Pathology ◽  
The Past ◽  
Transmission Electron ◽  
Organ Systems ◽  
The Many

The role of electron microscopy and associated techniques is assured in diagnostic pathology. At the present time, most of the progress has been made on tissues examined by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and correlated with light microscopy (LM) and by cytochemistry using both plastic and paraffin-embedded materials. As mentioned elsewhere in this symposium, this has revolutionized many fields of pathology including diagnostic, anatomic and clinical pathology. It began with the kidney; however, it has now been extended to most other organ systems and to tumor diagnosis in general. The results of the past few years tend to indicate the future directions and needs of this expanding field. Now, in addition to routine EM, pathologists have access to the many newly developed methods and instruments mentioned below which should aid considerably not only in diagnostic pathology but in investigative pathology as well.

A literature review on firms' internationalisation through e-commerce

2019 ◽  
pp. 121-143
Author(s):  
Riccardo Resciniti ◽  
Federica De Vanna
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
International Business ◽  
Decision Process ◽  
Foreign Markets ◽  
New Markets ◽  
Integrative Framework ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Relationship

The rise of e-commerce has brought considerable changes to the relationship between firms and consumers, especially within international business. Hence, understanding the use of such means for entering foreign markets has become critical for companies. However, the research on this issue is new and so it is important to evaluate what has been studied in the past. In this study, we conduct a systematic review of e-commerce and internationalisation studies to explicate how firms use e-commerce to enter new markets and to export. The studies are classified by theories and methods used in the literature. Moreover, we draw upon the internationalisation decision process (antecedents-modalities-consequences) to propose an integrative framework for understanding the role of e-commerce in internationalisation

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