scholarly journals Cigarette sale within 100 meters of school boundaries in metropolitan Manila, Philippines from June to August, 2016

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Loida Alzona ◽  
Jasmin Lagahit
Keyword(s):  
Nuncius ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-77
Author(s):  
MAURIZIO TORRINI

Abstract<title> SUMMARY </title>Contemporary movements, united by their common rejection of traditional knowledge and by their common beginnings and development outside formal school boundaries, libertinism and the new science are often considered, evaluated and classified in the univocal light of modern thought introduced by Descartes. A comparison totally unfavourable to libertinism which did not benefit from the attempt made in some cases to assimilate it to the scientific revolution in the name of a common anti-dogmatic character. The movements were in fact distinct in their aims and motives and their occasional interaction must not make us forget the contemporary presence of different and often contrasting ideas at the dawn of modern thought. The aim of this paper is to overcome the historiographical approach which, by privileging a single access to modern thought, evaluates all the others according to the same measure.The paper, through an examination of the European discussion stimulated by Galileo's Sidereus nuncius, shows the philosophical consequences of the astronomical revolution and the series of projects, hopes and misunderstandings that marked its course. An event that did not encounter the indifference of libertines like Naude, who read in the celestial revolution confirmation of the crisis of terrestrial knowledge. In Italy the bond between libertine thought and the scientific revolution came tragically into being as from the condemnation of Galileo and found its consecration in the Neapolitan trial of the atheists at the end of the seventeenth century, thus reuniting in the name of a single orthodoxy, two different conceptions of nature and knowledge.


1960 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 75-86

Alexander Gibb was one of those fortunate men in whom family tradition, natural gifts and personal bent appear to have agreed from the beginning as to the choice of a career. His great-great-grandfather, William Gibb of Gartcows, belonged to that first great generation of civil engineers which included James Brindley and John Smeaton. His great-grandfather, John, was one of Thomas Telford’s most trusted deputies and a founder member of the Institution of Civil Engineers. His grandfather, Alexander, was a pupil of Telford and associate of Robert Stevenson. Elis father founded the contracting firm of Easton Gibb & Son and was engaged on railway construction in Scotland when the subject of this memoir was born at Broughty Ferry on 12 February 1872, the fourth of eleven children. Even at his preparatory school Alexander showed signs of unusual capabilities. Gardening was encouraged; and young Gibb’s operations, assisted by a system of forced labour among his juniors, were such as to enable him to sell gravel to his schoolmates for making paths, and later to supply water for irrigation. Ultimately they provided a means of egress outside the school boundaries.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Antonio García ◽  
Andres Haye ◽  
Claudia Matus ◽  
Verónica López
Keyword(s):  

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (09) ◽  
pp. 13358-13365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Subhodip Biswas ◽  
Fanglan Chen ◽  
Andreea Sistrunk ◽  
Sathappan Muthiah ◽  
Zhiqian Chen ◽  
...  

Public school boundaries are redrawn from time to time to ensure effective functioning of school systems. This process, also called school redistricting, is non-trivial due to (1) the presence of multiple design criteria such as capacity utilization, proximity and travel time which are hard for planners to consider simultaneously, (2) the fixed locations of schools with widely differing capacities that need to be balanced, (3) the spatial nature of the data and the need to preserve contiguity in school zones, and (4) the difficulty in quantifying local factors that may arise. Motivated by these challenges and the intricacy of the process, we propose a geospatial clustering algorithm called GeoKmeans for assisting planners in designing school boundaries such that students are assigned to proximal schools while ensuring effective utilization of school capacities. The algorithm operates on polygonal geometries and connects them into geographically contiguous school boundaries while balancing problem-specific constraints. We evaluate our approach on real-world data of two rapidly growing school districts in the US. Results indicate the efficacy of our approach in designing boundaries. Additionally, a case study is included to demonstrate the potential of GeoKmeans to assist planners in drawing boundaries.


2017 ◽  
Vol 99 (3) ◽  
pp. 65-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meredith P. Richards

Gerrymandering is known best as a tool to manipulate boundaries for voting districts, but school districts have long used the same tool to manipulate school boundaries. The author used geospatial techniques — mapping various kinds of demographic data onto school boundaries — to examine public school attendance zones and their effect on students. The author’s research yielded several key insights. Like congressional districts, school zones are highly gerrymandered; the gerrymandering of school zones serves to worsen the already severe racial segregation of public schools, but affirmative gerrymandering can effectively increase diversity and reduce racial segregation.


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