On the Role of Spatial, Temporal, and Climatic Forces on Stream Sediment Loading from Rural and Urban Ecosystems

The objective of this study was to point out multi-dimensional role of a pharmacist with a special emphasis on the hospital pharmacist. Apharmacist is a person who is involved in designing, creating or manufacturing of a drug product, dispensing of a drug, managing and planning ofa pharmaceutical care. They are experts on the action and uses of drugs, including their chemistry, pharmacology and formulation. Theprofessional life of a hospital pharmacist might seem insignificant as compared to that of doctors, but actually they are highly trained healthprofessionals who plays important role in patient safety, patient compliance, therapeutic monitoring and even in direct patient care. With thepassage of time and advancements in health care services and pharmaceuticals, the role of a hospital pharmacist has become more diversified. Toa career, a hospital pharmacist must possess a diploma/degree in pharmacy from an accredited pharmacy college and must be registered with thestate pharmacy council of their respective region. In this study, we have assessed the behavior, communication skills, qualifications of thepharmacist, prescription handling ability and other factors to evaluate the diversified role of hospital pharmacist and their comparison withpharmacists practicing in rural and urban areas. Current surveys show that the pharmacists are not practicing as per the standard due to lack ofproper guidelines and watch over their practicing sense. The rules and guidelines prescribed by the Food and drug administration (FDA) andIndian pharmacopeia commission (IPC) were not followed by the pharmacist.

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Resilience and the Mobility of Identity: Belonging and Change among Turkana Herders in Northern Kenya

Nomadic Peoples ◽

10.3197/np.2021.250204 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 25 (2) ◽

pp. 226-252

Author(s):

Greta Semplici

Keyword(s):

Collective Identity ◽

External Support ◽

Social Worlds ◽

Self Presentation ◽

Northern Kenya ◽

Shared Identity ◽

Rural And Urban ◽

Economic Transformations ◽

Political Category

Ideas of resilience are not new; they have travelled across several disciplines, stretching their original meanings to a considerable degree, turning into a 'key political category of our time' (Neocleous 2013). For the case of pastoralist groups, discussions about resilience predominantly concern the state of pastoralism as a unitary and fixed entity and its prospects for survival in a world in turmoil (climate change, diseases and epidemics, conflicts, socio-economic transformations). In this context, references to resilience generally allude to local vulnerability, purporting the need for external support. These accounts tend to ignore local voices and perceptions and neglect the role of identity, culture and change in self-presentation and everyday life. Based on fourteen months of fieldwork in the northern Kenyan drylands, this article flips dominant perspectives on pastoralism and resilience, following the herders' self-definition, their construction of a shared identity and their, at times contradictory, positioning as part of a broader society. It argues that part of their resilience rests in the feeling of belonging and solidarity around a collective identity, built in opposition to urbanities along symbolic boundaries. The article however shows how such identity remains nonetheless flexible and responsive to change, disrupting dichotomies and weaving different social worlds, such as rural and urban, together. Such flexibility is also an important element of resilience for the capacity to change, stay attentive, and mobile.

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ANALISIS TINGKAT EFEKTIVITAS PENERIMAAN PAJAK BUMI DAN BANGUNAN PERDESAAN DAN PERKOTAAN (PBB-P2) SEBELUM DAN SESUDAH DIALIHKAN MENJADI PAJAK DAERAH (Studi Kasus di Desa Watutumou, Kecamatan Kalawat, Kabupaten Minahasa Utara)

GOING CONCERN : JURNAL RISET AKUNTANSI ◽

10.32400/gc.12.2.17998.2017 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Kodoati N. Christi ◽

Treesje Runtu ◽

Stanley Kho Walandouw

Keyword(s):

Role Of Government ◽

Local Taxes ◽

Urban Buildings ◽

Rural And Urban ◽

Before And After ◽

Human Resource Training ◽

District Government ◽

Village Government ◽

The Village

Through the implementation of law No.28 of 2009 on local taxes and lavies, the tax collection authority of the land tax and rural and urban buildings (PBB-P2) is transferred to the local government. North Minahasa district government in this case Watutumou Village is one of the villages that have potentials in the local tax sector can maximize this policy as an effort to increase acceptance in realizing development in the region. This study aims to determine the level of effectiveness of Land and Building Tax revenues before and after diverted into local taxes in Watutumou Village, the effort made by the village government to overcome the obstacles that arise in the process of acceptance of PBB-P2 and how the role of village government in optimizing the acceptance of PBB-P2. This study used descriptive quantitative method. The collection of data in this case is interview and documentation. The result of the research note that the effectiveness of PBB-P2 before and after deverted into the criteria effective. But in the year before and after diverted, the realization of PBB-P2 didn’t reach the target specified due to certain obstacles, so it requires the effort and role of government in increasing the acceptance of PBB-P2. For the village government can further improve the acceptance of PBB-P2 with attention to human resource training, socialization and up to date data available in the village.Keywords : PBB-P2, effectiveness, village government

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Role of certain stream-sediment components in radioion sorption

Professional Paper ◽

10.3133/pp433f ◽

1968 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

E.A. Jenne ◽

J.S. Wahlberg

Keyword(s):

Stream Sediment

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Ecological Effect of Typical Plants for Releasing Oxygen and Declining Temperature in Anshun City

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.864-867.328 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 864-867 ◽

pp. 328-332

Author(s):

Lai Zhang

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Urban Ecosystems ◽

Active Role ◽

Living Environment ◽

Ecological Effect ◽

Species Evenness ◽

Ecological Construction ◽

Ecologically Sustainable ◽

Ecologically Sustainable Development

In the urban ecosystems , the greening as a subsystem in the beautiful urban environment , it plays an active role of maintaining urban ecological balance and sustainable development. On the basis of surveying the greening in Anshun city of Guizhou, the ccological effect of 16 typical plants of them, releasing oxygen and declining temperature were studied. The results showed that the species less, structure only, species evenness low; the ability of releasing oxygen is different for different plants in different months, but the similar law is rising in June and August, declining in July and September; in August, the law of declining temperature is consistent with releasing oxygen, but the most obvious were Platanas acerifolia (0.32°C), Ligusttrum quiuoni (0.26°C), Parthenocissus trcuspidata (0.46°C) in arbors, shrubs and climbing plants. The results provide some basis informations and valuable suggestions for Anshun city ecological construction, improving the living environment and ecologically sustainable development.

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Effects of fragmentation on plant adaptation to urban environments

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ◽

10.1098/rstb.2016.0038 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 372 (1712) ◽

pp. 20160038 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Jonathan Dubois ◽

Pierre-Olivier Cheptou

Keyword(s):

Reproductive Traits ◽

Urban Ecosystems ◽

Terrestrial Ecosystems ◽

Plant Size ◽

Urban Environments ◽

Trait Variation ◽

Fragmented Habitats ◽

Dispersal Traits ◽

Neutral Markers

Urban ecosystems are relatively recent and heavily human-altered terrestrial ecosystems with a surprisingly high diversity of animals, plants and other organisms. Urban habitats are also strongly fragmented and subject to higher temperatures, providing a compelling model for studying adaptation to global change. Crepis sancta (Asteraceae), an annual Mediterranean wasteland weed, occupies fragmented urban environments as well as certain unfragmented landscapes in southern France. We tested for shifts in dispersal, reproductive traits and size across a rural–urban gradient to learn whether and how selection may be driving changes in life history in urban and fragmented habitats. We specifically compared the structure of quantitative genetic variation and of neutral markers (microsatellites) between urban and rural and between fragmented and unfragmented habitats. We showed that fragmentation provides a better descriptor of trait variation than urbanization per se for dispersal traits. Fragmentation also affected reproductive traits and plant size though one rural population did conform to this scheme. Our study shows the role of fragmentation for dispersal traits shift in urban environments and a more complex pattern for other traits. We discuss the role of pollinator scarcity and an inhospitable matrix as drivers of adaptation. This article is part of the themed issue ‘Human influences on evolution, and the ecological and societal consequences’.

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Role of Socio-Economic Status in Cigarette Smoking Tendency of Youths

International Journal of Indian Psychology ◽

10.25215/0304.070 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 3 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Purnima Awasthi ◽

Ravi P. Pandey

Keyword(s):

Cigarette Smoking ◽

Health Professionals ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Active Drug ◽

Economic Status ◽

Recreational Drug ◽

Rural And Urban Areas ◽

Socio Economic Status ◽

Rural And Urban

Smoking is considered as one of the most common health impairing behaviors involving recreational drug use, in which tobacco is burned and the smoke is tasted or inhaled. Health professionals have identified cigarette smoking (in which the active drug is nicotine) as a most serious preventive health problem of youths worldwide. The study examines the role of socioeconomic status (SES) in smoking tendency of youths. The study was carried out with 75 male youths, who represented lower, middle, and high SES. The age of participants ranged from 19 to 25 years, and they resided in the rural and urban areas of Varanasi. Participants were given the measures of socio-economic status and smoking urges. Analysis revealed that youths of lower and higher SES, exhibited greater smoking tendencies as compared to those of middle SES. The findings are discussed and their implications are pointed out.

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