Introduction

1990 ◽  
Vol 68 (7) ◽  
pp. 1405-1408 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. M. Catling ◽  
A. Reznicek ◽  
W. J. Crins
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Plant Communities ◽  
Future Study ◽  
Vascular Plants ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Herb Layer ◽  
Ecological Studies ◽  
Ecological Information ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject

The genus Carex includes the sedges that dominate wetlands, pastures, prairies, tundra, and the herb layer of temperate forests. These plants are not only frequently dominant in terms of biomass in plant communities, but they are also prominent in terms of numbers of species. Carex is one of the largest genera in the Canadian flora with approximately 300 species, and consequently almost one-tenth of the native vascular plants of Canada are sedges. In North America there are about 500 species. Worldwide, there may be as many as 2000 species.The results of the recently increasing interest in Carex include regional taxonomic treatments, simplified identification, and many improvements to classification. Basic taxonomic work was supported through the application of chemical, anatomical, and cytological techniques. The first detailed ecological studies of Carex have been completed, and much general ecological information has accumulated. Many scientists are now actively involved in research concerning Carex, and the recent and rapid growth of this research area suggests that a review of the subject will be of value, not only to the researchers involved, but also to the general botanist.On 16 June 1987, the Systematics and Phytogeography section of the Canadian Botanical Association/l'Association botanique du Canada hosted a symposium to review major aspects of Carex research and outline appropriate directions for future study in each area. We are pleased to offer the presented papers to a wider audience as a record of the first international symposium on the systematics and ecology of one of the largest and least well known genera of plants in the temperate regions of the world.

scholarly journals Russian and International Contours of Precarious Employment

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-60
Author(s):  
Ivan D. Matskulyak
Keyword(s):  
Technological Progress ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Domestic Economy ◽  
Decent Work ◽  
Precarious Employment ◽  
Management Personnel ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Actual Content ◽  
The Subject

The Object of the Study. Socioeconomic processes and phenomena characterized as an unsustainable employment and reflected in the collective monograph published in Rossiya among the first as well as its main provisions, conclusions and recommendations. The Subject of the Study is expressed by the combination of socioeconomic relations between market-based economic entities regarding the widespread development in recent years in the world, including the Rossiyskaya Federatsiya, the precarious employment of the population and the consequences of this process. The Purpose of the Study is to attract the notice of a wide range of management personnel of both state authorities and economic bodies, as well as employers, legislators, scientists, etc., to the problem of unsustainable employment, the need of its effectively solve, especially in conditions of intensification of transformation of the domestic economy. The Main Provisions of the Article cover all six sections, including 30 paragraphs of the monograph studied, authored by 41 specialist-scientists, professionally engaged in the designated research area. The author, on the basis of the actual content of the book, has tried to present all the aspects, to convey the variety of shades of the process of unsustainable employment reflected in the monographic research. It applies both the domestic experience and international practice. The problems of the unsustainable employment are revealed compared to decent work. Their dependence on the scientific and technological progress is considered. The domestic and foreign experience of the personnel reduction is summarized on the example of a flexible employment. Risks of unsustainable employment are identified and directions of their prevention are formulated. The characteristics of precarious employment of different groups of workers - women, pensioners and others working in similar conditions of specific industries - are characterized as well as the legal coverage of unsustainable workers is analyzed, and special attention is paid to external migrants and functioning numerous institutions in the investigated economy sectors.

History and Theory in Anthropology

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Barnard
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
New Developments ◽  
The Past ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Post Colonialism ◽  
New Generation ◽  
History And Theory

In the past twenty years, there have been exciting new developments in the field of anthropology. This second edition of Barnard's classic textbook on the history and theory of anthropology has been revised and expanded to include up-to-date coverage on all the most important topics in the field. Its coverage ranges from traditional topics like the beginnings of the subject, evolutionism, functionalism, structuralism, and Marxism, to ideas about globalization, post-colonialism, and notions of 'race' and of being 'indigenous'. There are several new chapters, along with an extensive glossary, index, dates of birth and death, and award-winning diagrams. Although anthropology is often dominated by trends in Europe and North America, this edition makes plain the contributions of trendsetters in the rest of the world too. With its comprehensive yet clear coverage of concepts, this is essential reading for a new generation of anthropology students.

Video Games and the Challenge of Engaging the ‘Net' Generation

2010 ◽  
pp. 119-132
Author(s):  
Anthony Gurr
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
North America ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Net Generation ◽  
Thought Processes ◽  
Holding Power ◽  
The World ◽  
Skill Mastery ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Game Developers

Video games are a popular form of entertainment for students in North America and around the world. They provide widely diverse experiences on a variety of platforms. Participants can engage in solo play, or in games that attract thousands of other players. The levels of player participation, skill mastery, and thought processes required by many video games attract and engage students because they are able to control and eventually master challenging virtual environments. The holding power of video games and their ability to engage players is the subject of much educational research as educators recognize that game technologies are highly sophisticated. Students are interacting with subject content in ways that differ greatly from established methods of classroom instruction. This chapter reviews the current discussion among educators, researchers, and professional game developers about using video games in the classroom.

Afrasia at War

Matatu ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-147
Author(s):  
Frank Schulze-Engler
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
World War ◽  
The World ◽  
War Experiences ◽  
The Subject

Abstract Memories of global wars are often anything but global: counterfactual notions of a “white man’s war” continue to present a one-sided account of World War II centred on Europe and North America that sidelines the contributions and sacrifices of millions of soldiers from all over the world and negates their manifold agendas and forms of agency. This is particularly true of the “Afrasian” war experiences of tens of thousands of African soldiers who fought in Asia which are the subject of Biyi Bandele’s novel Burma Boy. The following essay highlights how Bandele’s text counteracts Eurocentric accounts of World War II, explores the complex motivations of African soldiers and their equally complex encounters with Asians in Burma, and draws on transregional imaginaries to produce a challenging non-heroic account of “Afrasia at war.”

Canadian proposal for changes in WMO sea ice terminology

Polar Record ◽  
1965 ◽  
Vol 12 (81) ◽  
pp. 717-722 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moira Dunbar
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Broad Spectrum ◽  
Working Group ◽  
International Agency ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
The World ◽  
Fast Ice ◽  
The Subject ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Age Category

The World Meteorological Organization International Ice Nomenclature, though it has not yet been officially published by the international agency, is in fact in general use in North America, and has been used by the Canadian ice reporting services since January 1962. As a result of this experience with the practical application of the terminology, and of a total of about ten years of operational ice reporting, Canadian users have compiled a list of proposed amendments, which has been officially submitted to WMO for consideration by the Maritime Commission. The proposal was co-ordinated through the Working Group on Ice Navigable Waters of the Canadian Committee on Oceanography, which represents virtually all Canadian agencies and individuals directly involved in ice operations and research. It thus reflects a fairly broad spectrum of Canadian opinion on the subject. The proposals are dealt with under four general headings: “Fast ice terms”, “Age categories”, “Topography”, and “Other amendments”. Many of these amendments are of a minor nature and it is not proposed to itemize them here. In view of the fact, however, that the processes of WMO are of necessity rather slow, it was felt that there might be some value in publishing the proposals in the age-category section, which are considered to be the most important, for the information and possibly discussion of those interested.

Transnational American Studies

2019 ◽  
pp. 217-238
Author(s):  
Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Railroad Workers ◽  
Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn ◽  
Transnational American Studies ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Chinese Workers ◽  
The Subject

This essay limns what American Studies scholars lose by ignoring work published outside the US or published in languages other than English. It then explores two current examples of transnational, interdisciplinary, collaborative research that cross national, disciplinary, linguistic and cultural borders. “Global Huck: A Digital Palimpsest Mapping Project, or Deep Map (DPMP)” centers on the question of how literature travels globally, taking the travels of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as the subject of its study. The essay outlines insights to be gained from looking at the novel’s travels in China, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, and Portugal. The Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford focuses on the Chinese workers who built America’s first transcontinental railroad. It brings together work by scholars in history, literature, anthropology, American Studies and archaeology in the US and Asia to generate insights into a venture that shaped the world on both sides of the Pacific. Both ventures would not have been possible before the era of digitization.

scholarly journals Flora of North America North of Mexico

Rodriguésia ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 973-981 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy R. Morin ◽  
Luc Brouillet ◽  
Geoffrey A. Levin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North America ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Vascular Plants ◽  
Florida Keys ◽  
Aleutian Islands ◽  
The World ◽  
North America North

Abstract The Flora of North America north of Mexico treats all native and naturalized vascular plants and bryophytes in Canada, Greenland, St. Pierre et Miquelon, and the continental United States including the Florida Keys and Aleutian Islands (approximately 18 million square kilometers). It provides accepted names, literature citations, basionyms, synonyms, morphological descriptions, habitat, geographical distribution, conservation or weed status, and a discussion of taxonomic issues for approximately 20,000 species. Of the total 30 volumes anticipated, 18 have been published and one is in press, treating 2021 genera and 12,393 species. For the remaining volumes, 763 genera and 5,008 species have been submitted, and 82 of the 144 families have been submitted in full. Completion is anticipated by the end of 2017. The project is managed by the Flora of North America Association. Content from published volumes is available through eFloras and JSTOR and has been provided to the World Flora informatics team.

Alignment

2016 ◽  
pp. 33-50
Author(s):  
Pier Giuseppe Rossi
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Enactive Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
Strategic Role ◽  
Education Today ◽  
Current Context ◽  
The Subject

The subject of alignment is not new to the world of education. Today however, it has come to mean different things and to have a heuristic value in education according to research in different areas, not least for neuroscience, and to attention to skills and to the alternation framework.This paper, after looking at the classic references that already attributed an important role to alignment in education processes, looks at the strategic role of alignment in the current context, outlining the shared construction processes and focusing on some of the ways in which this is put into effect.Alignment is part of a participatory, enactive approach that gives a central role to the interaction between teaching and learning, avoiding the limits of behaviourism, which has a greater bias towards teaching, and cognitivism/constructivism, which focus their attention on learning and in any case, on that which separates a teacher preparing the environment and a student working in it.

Jalan Kesempurnaan Menurut Jamaah Insan Al-Kamil di Cijati Desa Cikareo Selatan Sumedang

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-37
Author(s):  
Syarifudin Syarifudin
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Religious Sect ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

Each religious sect has its own characteristics, whether fundamental, radical, or religious. One of them is Insan Al-Kamil Congregation, which is in Cijati, South Cikareo Village, Wado District, Sumedang Regency. This congregation is Sufism with the concept of self-purification as the subject of its teachings. So, the purpose of this study is to reveal how the origin of Insan Al-Kamil Congregation, the concept of its purification, and the procedures of achieving its purification. This research uses a descriptive qualitative method with a normative theological approach as the blade of analysis. In addition, the data generated is the result of observation, interviews, and document studies. From the collected data, Jamaah Insan Al-Kamil adheres to the core teachings of Islam and is the tenth regeneration of Islam Teachings, which refers to the Prophet Muhammad SAW. According to this congregation, self-perfection becomes an obligation that must be achieved by human beings in order to remember Allah when life is done. The process of self-purification is done when human beings still live in the world by knowing His God. Therefore, the peak of self-purification is called Insan Kamil. 

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