Response to Rapid Change: Post-Tsunami Shelter in Sri Lanka

2008 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dyfed Aubrey
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Disaster Response ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Buffer Zone ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Permanent Housing ◽  
House Construction ◽  
Building Process ◽  
Speed Up

Through an overview of Goal's post tsunami shelter and reconstruction programme in Sri Lanka this study aims to highlight how design and implementation approaches had to continuously evolve in order to respond to changes in pace, priorities and policy as relief moved into recovery then permanent rehabilitation. The study begins by describing the Buffer Zone Policy that prohibited construction within a certain distance from the sea and how the policy impeded the construction of permanent housing in some areas through lack of suitable relocation sites. Then using transitional shelter as an example, the effects of the persistence of the policy when most actors anticipated change can be seen in modifications to shelters driven mainly by comfort criteria as their occupancy had to be extended from an initially predicted six month period to around two years. Following this, an overview of the permanent housing programme shows how an owner driven housing approach was chosen as an appropriate means of provision and how the process was developed through a local partnership. In this programme the owners' capacity to design and manage their own house construction was developed with the understanding that houses could be incrementally extended by the owner following the completion of the programme. Then, as the late change in the Buffer Zone Policy resulted in a sudden up-scaling of the project on a very limited time-frame, the study shows how, whilst still catering for individual aspirations and personal "ownership" in design and implementation, standardised designs were introduced to speed up the building process. The study concludes by emphasising the need for flexibility in design and implementation in order to provide the best service to affected people within the ever-changing environment of disaster response.

scholarly journals State-Building, Power-Sharing Discourse, and Political Autonomy of Minorities within Ethno-Nationalist Gloom in Sri Lanka

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 88
Author(s):  
Mohammad Agus Yusoff ◽  
Athambawa Sarjoon ◽  
Abd Rashid Abdul Wahab
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
State Building ◽  
Power Sharing ◽  
Building Projects ◽  
Political Autonomy ◽  
Minority Ethnic Groups ◽  
Building Process ◽  
Ultimate Result ◽  
Major Factors ◽  
The Right

Positioning minority concerns within a power-sharing mechanism is a key issue that has been influential in Sri Lanka’s modern state-building process experimented from the later part of the colonial period. Throughout the post-independent era, most state-building projects were critically debated with regard to sharing political autonomy between the majority Sinhalese and the minorities. This study attempts to locate the claims and concerns of minorities seeking political autonomy in Sri Lanka’s state-building and power-sharing discourse. The study found that the state-building process in Sri Lanka has always been a struggle between establishing a majoritarian-ethno-nationalist hegemonic state system and preserving the right of minority ethnic groups to political power-sharing. The study further found that (a) insufficient emphasis given towards understanding power-sharing and federalism as a means to accommodate diverse interests and rights, including the political autonomy rights of minorities, (b) the opportunistic politics of opposition parties, and (c) the ethno-nationalist agenda of the majority Sinhalese were the major factors that have induced to undermine the minorities’ claims for political autonomy. The ultimate result of this is the continuous struggles by minorities to situate their political autonomy demands within Sri Lanka’s state-building and power-sharing discourse.

IMPLEMENTASI SISTEM APLIKASI KEUANGAN TINGKAT INSTANSI DI MASA PANDEMI COVID-19 PADA KPPN PALEMBANG

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurmalia Hasanah ◽  
Sriyani Sriyani
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Financial Management ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Management Process ◽  
Directorate General ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
The Government ◽  
Sophisticated Technology

The Covid-19 pandemic necessitates a rapid change to the digital age. Currently, the Directorate General of Treasury continues to make policies that refer to the principles of E-government by developing the direction of transactions that occur in the government. One of them is the launch of SAKTI, which has been specifically designed to simplify and speed up the financial management process from planning to budget accountability, which consists of nine modules integrated into one database (single database) within the scope of the work unit. This study uses qualitative methods, data collection is done by interviewing parties related to the use of the SAKTI application and observations at KPPN Palembang. This research is expected to provide an overview of the implementation of SAKTI at KPPN Palembang. The result of this research is that the Expenditure Treasurer of KPPN Palembang as the operator of the Treasurer Module has implemented the SAKTI Treasurer Module properly according to the laws and regulations and does not mix with SILABI. Since the use of SAKTI desktop, switching to SAKTI Web has made it easier for treasurers to administer the money they manage online. However, the development of increasingly sophisticated technology must be a challenge and motivation in developing SAKTI. In addition, the quality and competence operator SAKTI is also very important and necessary in achieving the successful implementation of SAKTI.

Up from Middlebrow

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Rose
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
The United States ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
Middlebrow Culture ◽  
Two Generations

The Chinese had a word for it—wanbao quanshu. It’s a bibliographic term, which literally means “complete compendia of myriad treasures,” but an alternate translation might be “middlebrow.” These were encyclopedic works that distilled and summarized sophisticated science, history, and politics in cheap, accessible, illustrated guidebooks. Their audience (as a 1933 survey of Shanghai bookstalls confirmed) was neither the educated elite nor the impoverished peasantry, but an intermediate semi-educated class of shop-clerks, apprentices, housewives, workers, and prostitutes. Very few readers had thoroughly mastered the Chinese vocabulary of 50,000 characters, but many more, without much difficulty, had learned 2,000 basic terms, enough to read popular newspapers and wanbao quanshu. The latter commonly ran the subtitle wanshi buqiuren (“myriad matters you won’t need to ask”), which underscored their mission: self-education. They had titles like Riyong wanshi baoku choushi bixu, which could be rendered “Treasury of all daily things necessary for social relations” or (more idiomatically) “How to win friends and influence people.” Wanbao quanshu were the contemporaneous counterparts of H. G. Wells’s The Outline of History and Will Durant’s The Story of Philosophy. They flourished in Republican-era China, the same time frame that Joan Shelley Rubin identified as the heyday of American middlebrow culture. In societies where a wide gap opens up between elite and pulp literature, where literacy is growing but access to higher education is still restricted, where modernizing forces arouse both optimism and anxiety, middlebrow bridges those divides and makes sense of rapid change. Those conditions certainly prevailed in China, the United States, and Great Britain in the first half of the twentieth century, but not only then. Middlebrow has a very long history: wanbao quanshu can be traced back to the seventeenth century. And how about eighteenth-century Europe? Two generations ago historians studied the High Enlightenment of Voltaire and Rousseau, one generation ago Robert Darnton discovered a Low Enlightenment of Grub-Street hacks and smut-mongers, and now a team of young scholars at Radboud University in the Netherlands are creating the database MEDIATE: Middlebrow Enlightenment: Disseminating Ideas, Authors and Texts in Europe (1665–1820).

Design and Implementation of Modified Partial Product Reduction Tree for High Speed Multiplication

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Sachin B. Jadhav ◽  
Jayamala K. Patil ◽  
Ramesh T. Patil
Keyword(s):  
Binary Tree ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Hardware Implementation ◽  
Critical Path ◽  
Partial Product ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Multiplication Operation ◽  
Multiplication Process ◽  
Major Bottleneck ◽  
Speed Up

This paper presents the details of hardware implementation of modified partial product reduction tree using 4:2 and 5:2 compressors. Speed of multiplication operation is improved by using higher compressors .In order to improve the speed of the multiplication process within the computational unit; there is a major bottleneck that is needed to be considered that is the partial products reduction network which is used in the multiplication block. For implementation of this stage require addition of large operands that involve long paths for carry propagation. The proposed architecture is based on binary tree constructed using modified 4:2 and 5:2 compressor circuits. Increasing the speed of operation is achieved by using higher modified compressors in critical path. Our objective of work is, to increase the speed of multiplication operation by minimizing the number of combinational gates using higher n:2 compressors. The experimental test of the proposed modified compressor is done using Spartan-3FPGA device (XC3S400 PQ-208). Using tree architectures for the partial products reduction network represent an attractive solution that is frequently applied to speed up the multiplication process. The simulation result shows 4:2 and 5:2 compressor output which is done using Questa Sim 6.4c Mentor Graphics tool.

scholarly journals Complex Small-Holder Agriculture in Rainforest Buffer Zone, Sri Lanka, Supports Endemic Birds

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliana Hanle ◽  
Balangoda M. P. Singhakumara ◽  
Mark S. Ashton
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Species Richness ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Buffer Zone ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Forest Fragments ◽  
Buffer Zones ◽  
Bird Abundance ◽  
Point Counts ◽  
Zone Management

The Sinharaja rainforest in southwestern Sri Lanka is a protected forest in a largely agriculture-dominated landscape. In keeping with global UNESCO global biosphere reserves planning, the Sinharaja is surrounded by a buffer zone of regenerating forest and villages with small tea plots and multi-strata tree gardens (homegardens). Globally, however, conservation planning lacks standards on buffer zone management. We ask what relationships exist between village land use and bird assemblages, which are effective ecosystem indicators. Birds have been little studied across land use and vegetation structure in actively managed, large, protected forest buffer zones. To that end, we ran spatially- and temporally-replicated bird point counts across tree gardens, forest fragments, and tea plots within a Sinharaja village. Tree gardens held a greater abundance of birds across habitat association, conservation concern, diet, and endemic species than forest fragments or tea plots. Forest fragments and tree gardens hosted statistically similar numbers of birds in some subsets, but their species assemblages differed. In tea plots, greater shade tree species richness correlated with greater bird abundance and species richness. Our results support the argument for programs to support complex small-scale tree-based agroforestry embedded in buffer zone regenerating forest.

scholarly journals KEARIFAN LOKAL POMA AADUHUNUDI DESA SOAMAETEK KECAMATAN KAO BARAT KABUPATEN HALMAHERA UTARA

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 325
Author(s):  
Nelci Balisosa ◽  
Vicky Richard Bernhard Moniaga ◽  
Sherly Gladys Jocom
Keyword(s):  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Land Preparation ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
House Construction ◽  
The People ◽  
Building Process ◽  
Household Heads

This study aims to describe the local wisdom of “Poma Aaduhunu” that occurs in Soamaetek Village, Kao Barat District, North Halmahera Regency in terms of the cultural aspects of cooperation in the field of coconut farming, marriage culture, the culture of building a house or place of residence. This research was conducted from June to August 2019. Respondent was selected used purposive sampling method. This study used primary data and secondary data. Primary data were obtained from interviews, based on a list of questions that had been provided in the form of a questionnaire, with 20 household heads (KK) as respondents, who came from community members in Soamaetek Village. Secondary data were obtained from the village office and the officesof agencies related to the research. Data analysis using descriptive analysis method, the data is presented in tabular form and described descriptively. The results showed that the local wisdom of “Poma Aaduhunu” in Soamaetek Village, Kao Barat District, North Halmahera Regency is cooperation or mutual assistance which is still very strong in practice, namely in the field of coconut farming in land preparation and harvesting; the culture of the marriage at the marriage proposal ceremony (“maso minta”), making the “sabua” at the venue, preparing consumption for the wedding ceremony; house construction on land preparation and house building process. The people of Soamaetek Village still adhere to this local wisdom because they consider the localwisdom culture of “Poma Aaduhunu” to be very helpful in their daily lives.” Poma Aaduhunu's” local wisdom has taken root and has become a culture inherent that has been passed down from generation to generation in the Soamaetek Village community.*eprm*

scholarly journals Notifications workflows using the CERN IT central messaging infrastructure

2019 ◽  
Vol 214 ◽  
pp. 08029
Author(s):  
Zhechka Toteva ◽  
Darko Lukic ◽  
Lionel Cons
Keyword(s):  
Load Balancing ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Use Cases ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Configuration Change ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
Machine Configuration ◽  
Message Flow

In the CERN IT agile infrastructure (AI), Puppet, the CERN IT central messaging infrastructure (MI) and the Roger application are the key constituents handling the configuration of the machines of the computer centre. The machine configuration at any given moment depends on its declared state in Roger and Puppet ensures the actual implementation of the desired configuration by running the Puppet agent on the machine at regular intervals, typically every 90 minutes. Sometimes it is preferable that the configuration change is propagated immediately to the targeted machine, ahead of the next scheduled Puppet agent run on this machine. The particular need of handling notifications in a highly scalable manner for a large scale infrastructure has been satisfied with the implementation of the CERNMegabus architecture, based on the ActiveMQ messaging system. The design and implementation of the CERN-Megabus architecture are introduced, followed by the implementation of the Roger notification workflow. The choice of ActiveMQ is analysed and the message flow between the Roger notification producer and the CASTOR, EOS, BATCH and Load Balancing consumers are presented. The employment of predefined consumer modules in order to speed up the on-boarding of new CERN-Megabus use cases is also described.

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