scholarly journals A PANDEMIC SITUATION AND POSITIVE IMPACT ON ENVIRONMENT IN 21ST CENTURY: A CASE STUDY IN CITY OF NATURE, WEST BENGAL, INDIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (03) ◽  
pp. 811-826
Author(s):  
Pranab Sahoo ◽  
◽  
Sanjib Mahata ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Air Quality ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Human Body ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Underground Water ◽  
Dust Particles ◽  
Corona Virus ◽  
Living Things ◽  
The Town

Microorganisms are minuscule living things that are seen surrounding us and areas too little to even consider being seen by the unaided eye. They live in water, soil, and the air. All are a piece of Biodiversity that are living in our biological home of Earth. A few microorganisms make us wiped out, others are significant for our wellbeing. These are minuscule living things that are answerable for infections, for example, toxoplasmosis, jungle fever, AIDS, and distinctive influenza. In the 21ST Century, at end of 2019, they presented another infection whose name is Novel Corona Virus COVID-19. People may have almost no invulnerability against another infection. As indicated by the WHO, a pandemic includes the overall spread of another illness. While a scourge stays restricted to one city, local, or country, a pandemic spreads past public boundaries and perhaps around the world. On the off chance that a disease gets inescapable in a few nations simultaneously, it might transform into a pandemic. Hence, Policymakers and Governments of a few nations are concluded that the Lockdown strategy to take to quit blending the human body and transaction. As result, Transports, Industries, Business centers, Education establishments, Offices are lockdown for a very long time to a quarter of a year world insightful in a few nations additionally our country India. For the present circumstance, we have seen the contamination of our current circumstance is incredibly limited about 60% to 70% is decreased. The Jhargram town of West Bengal in India is a district town of South Bengal which is located under the forest area. That town is Green and Clean which is known as the City of Nature. By the inquiry, I have observed that CO2, CO, and Dust particles are decreased, the other hand O2 and RH of all air quality elements are increased during the lockdown. Pre Lockdown( Normal situation), in April 2019, I have recorded that the density of CO2 in-town atmosphere is about 420ppm to 620ppm, the amount of CO is about 12 to 14ppm, and the amount of O2 is about 20.80%. Another hand, during the Lockdown on 24th April 2020, I have recorded that the density of CO2isabout 340ppm to 345ppm, CO is about 5ppm and the amount of O2 is about 21.50 % to 21.60%. As result, the air quality of the town is highly hospitable and healthy for the Human body. Not only the improvement of air quality but also minimizedthe daily uses of Water. By the inquiry, I have measured that about 50% to 60% dailyuses of water is reduced in the town, as results little rise of underground water which rate is 1.5 to 2 feet. Finally, I have expressed that, Pandemic situation by a microbe Novel Corona Virus COVID-19 is positively influenced by environment quality as well as tocreate a Green and Healthy ecological home for the inhabitant.

scholarly journals The sacredness of the self, of society and of the human body: the case of a Finnish transgender pastor Marja-Sisko Aalto

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 13-27
Author(s):  
Veikko Anttonen
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Life Story ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Folk Biology ◽  
The Town

In 2008 the change of sex of a Finnish transgender pastor attracted media attention to Lutheran Christianity on a worldwide scale, which compared to other religious traditions seldom makes it to the world news. This article­ discusses the sex reassignment undergone by Marja-Sisko Aalto, a Lutheran pastor from the town of Imatra, in south eastern Finland, who in 2008, at the age of 54, was transformed into a woman. First some remarks on the relation between religion and the body are made and terminological issues are discussed briefly. The second part of the article presents Aalto's life story based on the author's interview with her in April 2010. In the last section the author discusses the Finnish cognitive scholar Ilkka Pyysiäinen’s reflection on folk biology as an explanation for making sense of the public image regarding a priest’s gender. The article concludes by looking at Marja-Sisko Aalto’s case from the perspective of marking boundaries between the categories of the self, the society and the human body. 

scholarly journals Food for all? Critically evaluating the role of the Incredible Edible movement in the UK

2019 ◽  
pp. 139-153
Author(s):  
Michael Hardman ◽  
Mags Adams ◽  
Melissa Barker ◽  
Luke Beesley
Keyword(s):  
Positive Impact ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Powerful Method ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Food Movement ◽  
The Town ◽  
Insight Into

With the concept of Urban Agriculture (UA) growing in popularity, more cities and towns are exploring opportunities to enable the practice and transform neglected spaces into havens for produce. This chapter provides an insight into one such town, Todmorden and its Incredible Edible movement, located in the heart of England. This chapter adopts a qualitative approach to critically exploring the IET movement and to understand its impact on Todmorden. We engaged with key actors and the public in order to ascertain views towards the schemes, analysing the positives and negatives of the model. Findings revealed that the scheme has an overwhelmingly positive impact on the town, with social, environmental and economic benefits. Furthermore, it was made clear that IET is helping to create a more just food movement in Todmorden, particularly through its free for all philosophy. However, some negatives were also highlighted during the course of the research, predominately around maintenance issues and a lack of perceived inclusivity in parts. Overall, the scheme was highly valued and seen as a powerful method for growing the wider UA movement; recommendations centred on further replicating the model and helping local food to prosper in similar locations globally.

scholarly journals Ambient Air Quality Measurement with Low-Cost Optical and Electrochemical Sensors: An Evaluation of Continuous Year-Long Operation

Environments ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 114
Author(s):  
Jiří Bílek ◽  
Ondřej Bílek ◽  
Petr Maršolek ◽  
Pavel Buček
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Sensor Network ◽  
Electrochemical Sensors ◽  
Reference Method ◽  
Ambient Air ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Dust Particles ◽  
Concentration Changes ◽  
The Impact

Sensor technology is attractive to the public due to its availability and ease of use. However, its usage raises numerous questions. The general trustworthiness of sensor data is widely discussed, especially with regard to accuracy, precision, and long-term signal stability. The VSB-Technical University of Ostrava has operated an air quality sensor network for more than two years, and its large sets of valid results can help in understanding the limitations of sensory measurement. Monitoring is focused on the concentrations of dust particles, NO2, and ozone to verify the impact of newly planted greenery on the reduction in air pollution. The sensor network currently covers an open field on the outskirts of Ostrava, between Liberty Ironworks and the nearby ISKO1650 monitoring station, where some of the worst air pollution levels in the Czech Republic are regularly measured. In the future, trees should be allowed to grow over the sensors, enabling assessment of the green barrier effect on air pollution. As expected, the service life of the sensors varies from 1 to 3 years; therefore, checks are necessary both prior to the measurement and regularly during operation, verifying output stability and overall performance. Results of the PMx sensory measurements correlated well with the reference method. Concentration values measured by NO2 sensors correlated poorly with the reference method, although timeline plots of concentration changes were in accordance. We suggest that a comparison of timelines should be used for air quality evaluations, rather than particular values. The results showed that the sensor measurements are not yet suitable to replace the reference methods, and dense sensor networks proved useful and robust tools for indicative air quality measurements (AQM).

scholarly journals PERAN KO KURIKULER DAN EKSTRAKURIKULER TERHADAP UPAYA PENCAPAIAN KURIKULUM 2013

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-270
Author(s):  
Lutviyana Hidayah
Keyword(s):  
Character Education ◽  
Extracurricular Activities ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
21St Century Learning ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
Guidance Programs ◽  
Library Research ◽  
School Guidance

This article aims to describe the role and concepts of co-curricular and extracurricular activities so that it is useful for achieving the goals of the 2013 curriculum. This 2013 curriculum has three important objectives, namely Strengthening Character Education, Strengthening Literacy Culture, and 21st Century Learning. This type of research is library research, research sources are found in the literature and sources, or the latest findings regarding the Curricular and Extracurricular activities as well as the 2013 Curriculum. The results of this research are that co-curricular and extracurricular activities play a major role in achieving the three aspects of learning contained in the curriculum 2013, namely cognitive, affective and psychomotor aspects. These three aspects are very helpful in achieving the 2013 curriculum agenda, which consists of character strengthening, literacy culture and 21st century learning. Character strengthening can be achieved through religious extracurricular activities, Hisbul Wathan and BTQ, Kultum, work assignments, and intensive post-school guidance. Literacy culture can be achieved by reading guidance programs both reading the Al-Qur'an or spelling, one verse a day program. 21st century learning is pursued by extracurricular activities, namely tambourine activities, calligraphy and so on. The expected positive impact of this article is the dissemination of information about the urgency of co-curricular and extracurricular activities in an educational institution to achieve learning objectives in the 2013 curriculum.

scholarly journals Impacts of changes in land use and land cover on atmospheric chemistry and air quality over the 21st century

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 15469-15495 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Wu ◽  
L. J. Mickley ◽  
J. O. Kaplan ◽  
D. J. Jacob
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Secondary Organic Aerosols ◽  
Surface Ozone ◽  
Organic Aerosols ◽  
Ozone Concentrations ◽  
Anthropogenic Land Use

Abstract. The effects of future land use and land cover change on the chemical composition of the atmosphere and air quality are largely unknown. To investigate the potential effects associated with future changes in vegetation driven by atmospheric CO2 concentrations, climate, and anthropogenic land use over the 21st century, we performed a series of model experiments combining a general circulation model with a dynamic global vegetation model and an atmospheric chemical-transport model. Our results indicate that climate- and CO2-induced changes in vegetation composition and density could lead to decreases in summer afternoon surface ozone of up to 10 ppb over large areas of the northern mid-latitudes. This is largely driven by the substantial increases in ozone dry deposition associated with changes in the composition of temperate and boreal forests where conifer forests are replaced by those dominated by broadleaf tree types, as well as a CO2-driven increase in vegetation density. Climate-driven vegetation changes over the period 2000–2100 lead to general increases in isoprene emissions, globally by 15 % in 2050 and 36 % in 2100. These increases in isoprene emissions result in decreases in surface ozone concentrations where the NOx levels are low, such as in remote tropical rainforests. However, over polluted regions, such as the northeastern United States, ozone concentrations are calculated to increase with higher isoprene emissions in the future. Increases in biogenic emissions also lead to higher concentrations of secondary organic aerosols, which increase globally by 10 % in 2050 and 20 % in 2100. Surface concentrations of secondary organic aerosols are calculated to increase by up to 1 μg m−3 for large areas in Eurasia. When we use a scenario of future anthropogenic land use change, we find less increase in global isoprene emissions due to replacement of higher-emitting forests by lower-emitting cropland. The global atmospheric burden of secondary organic aerosols changes little by 2100 when we account for future land use change, but both secondary organic aerosols and ozone show large regional changes at the surface.

scholarly journals PENERAPAN E-COURT DALAM PERKARA TINDAK PIDANA UMUM DALAM PRESPEKTIF HUKUM PROGRESIF

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Ari Hani Saputri
Keyword(s):  
Positive Impact ◽  
The Other ◽  
Criminal Case ◽  
Criminal Cases ◽  
Civil State ◽  
Positive Law ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Corona Virus

<p align="center"><strong><em>Abstract</em></strong></p><p><em>This article tries to discuss the implementation of e-court in general criminal cases. In fact, Perma Number 1 Year 2019 does not include criminal cases. This is because Perma Number 1 of 2019 only allows general civil, family civil, state administrative, and military administrative matters. However, with the corona virus outbreak making the implementation of criminal cases into an online trial, this has a positive impact in the form of a breakthrough for the litigation world due to the existence of e-court, it can be predicted to decrease costs for the trial, but on the other hand there are weaknesses, namely not yet arranged e court for criminal cases. To find a way out, the authors recommend implementing progressive law to fill the legal vacuum while waiting for a positive law that accommodates the implementation of e-court</em></p><p><strong><em>Keywords</em></strong><strong>: </strong><em>E-court, General Criminal Case, Progressive Law</em></p><p align="center"><strong>Abstrak</strong></p><p>Artikel ini mencoba untuk membahas mengenai pelaksaan <em>e-court</em> dalam perkara pidana umum. Sejatinya, dalam Perma Nomor 1 Tahun 2019 tidak mengikutsertakan perkara pidana. Hal ini dikarenakan Perma Nomor 1 Tahun 2019 hanya memperbolehkan perkara perdata umum, perdata keluarga, tata usaha negara, tata usaha militer. Namun dengan adanya wabah virus korona membuat pelaksaan perkara pidana menjadi sidang secara online, hal ini membawa dampak positif berupa terobosan untuk dunia litigasi dikarenakan dengan adanya <em>e-court</em> maka dapat diprediksikan menurunnya biaya untuk persidangan, namun dilain sisi terdapat kelemahan, yaitu belum diaturnya pelaksanaan <em>e-court</em> untuk perkara pidana. Untuk mencari jalan keluarnya maka penulis menganjurkan diterapkannya hukum progresif untuk mengisi kekosongan hukum sambil menunggu adanya sebuah hukum positif yang mengakomodasi pelaksanaan <em>e-court</em>.</p><p><strong>Kata Kunci: </strong><em>E-court</em>, Perkara Pidana Umum, Hukum Progresif</p>

scholarly journals THE ANALYSE OF AIR ENVIRONMENT QUALITY MONITORING IMPROVEMENT POSSIBILITIES

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 273
Author(s):  
Gotfrīds Noviks ◽  
Andris Skromulis
Keyword(s):  
Air Quality ◽  
Air Pollutants ◽  
Quality Evaluation ◽  
Quality Monitoring ◽  
Dust Particles ◽  
Action Program ◽  
Air Quality Monitoring ◽  
Environment Quality ◽  
Air Quality Measurements ◽  
Quality Measurements

Paper presents the results of air pollution analyses during last 8 years in Rezekne city. There is carried out a research of atmospheric dust particles, found correlations between concentrations of different air pollutants. Is given overview about air quality measurements in other countries, pointed out air ionization importance on air quality evaluation. The aim of the research – to ground the extension of air quality monitoring indicators including parameters of the air ionisation and to work out an action program to improve an air quality in working areas and recreating zones.

Changes of air pollutants’ concentrations in selected Romanian cities during the pandemic year 2020

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriela Iorga ◽  
George-Bogdan Burghelea
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Air Pollutants ◽  
Meteorological Parameters ◽  
Dust Particles ◽  
Spatial And Temporal Variation ◽  
Pollution Level ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Air Mass

&lt;p&gt;Present research contributes to scientific knowledge concerning spatial and temporal variation of major air pollutants with high resolution at the country scale bringing statistical information on concentrations of NOx, O&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt;, CO, SO&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt; and particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter below 10&amp;#160;&amp;#956;m (PM&lt;sub&gt;10&lt;/sub&gt;) and below 2.5&amp;#160;&amp;#956;m (PM&lt;sub&gt;2.5&lt;/sub&gt;) during the pandemic year 2020 using an observational data set from the Romanian National Air Quality Network in seven selected cities spread out over the country. These cities have different level of development, play regional roles, might have potential influence at European scale and they are expected to be impacted by different pollution sources. Among them, three cities (Bucharest, Bra&amp;#537;ov, Ia&amp;#537;i) appear frequently on the list of the European Commission with reference to the infringement procedure that the European Commission launched against Romania in the period 2007-2020 regarding air quality.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Air pollutant data was complemented with local meteorological parameters at each site (atmospheric pressure, relative humidity, temperature, global solar radiation, wind speed and direction). Statistics of air pollutants provide us with an overview of air pollution in main Romanian cities.&amp;#160; Correlations between meteorological parameters and ambient pollutant levels were analyzed. Lowest air pollution levels were measured during the lockdown period in spring, as main traffic and non-essential activities were severely restricted. Among exceptions were the construction activities that were not interrupted. During 2020, some of selected cities experienced few pollution episodes which were due to dust transport from Sahara desert. However, in Bucharest metropolitan area, some cases with high pollution level were found correlated with local anthropogenic activity namely, waste incinerations. Air mass origins were investigated for 72 hours back by computing the air mass backward trajectories using the HYSPLIT model. Dust load and spatial distribution of the aerosol optical depth with BSC-DREAM8b v2.0 and NMBM/BSC-Dust models showed the area with dust particles transport during the dust events.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The obtained results are important for investigations of sources of air pollution and for modeling of air quality.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Acknowledgment:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The research leading to these results has received funding from the NO Grants 2014-2021, under Project contract no. 31/2020, EEA-RO-NO-2019-0423 project. NOAA Air Resources Laboratory for HYSPLIT transport model, available at READY website https://www.ready.noaa.gov &amp;#160;and the Barcelona dust forecast center for BSC-DREAM8b and NMBM/BSC-Dust models, available at: &amp;#160;https://ess.bsc.es/bsc-dust-daily-forecast are also acknowledged. The data regarding ground-based air pollution and meteorology by site was extracted from the public available Romanian National Air Quality Database, www.calitateaer.ro.&lt;/p&gt;

Influence of corona virus on human body

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (17) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rupinder Singh
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Corona Virus
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