Catastrophic Effects of Floods on Environment and Health: Evidence from Pakistan

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Falak Shad Memon ◽  
M. Yousuf Sharjeel
Keyword(s):  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Weather Forecasting ◽  
Human Life ◽  
National Level ◽  
Operational Cost ◽  
Site Assessment ◽  
Environment And Health ◽  
Forecasting System ◽  
Frame Work ◽  
Multiple Levels

<span>Torrential rains and floods have been causing irreplaceable losses to both human lives and environment in <span>Pakistan. This loss has reached to an extent of assively aggrieved situation to reinstate life at <span>operationally viable position. This paper unfolds the notion that only constructive paradigm shift to <span>overcome this phenomenon is vital as a strategy. Multiple levels of observations and on-site assessment <span>of various calamity-prone venues were considered to probe into this scenario. Some of the grave site in <span>Sindh and Punjab were observed and necessarily practicable measures were recommended to avoid loss to <span>human health and environment. The paper finds that a consistent drastic management authority on <span>national level with appropriate caliber and forecasting expertise can reduce the damage to human life and <span>environment to great extent. Weather forecasting system need to be installed at many appropriately <span>observed cities and towns in the country with adequate man power, funds and technical recourses. By <span>implementing the proper frame work of prevention and mitigation of floods country can save the major <span>costs cleanup and recovery. These measures are expected to reduce operational cost of state in terms of <span>GDP and GNP to restore life and environment.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></span>

Fiona J. Griffiths, Nuns’ Priests’ Tales: Men and Salvation in Medieval Women’s Monastic Life. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018, pp. 360, 29 illus.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 286-288
Author(s):  
Therese Martin
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Eleventh Century ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Ninth Century ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Medieval Studies ◽  
Monastic Life ◽  
Multiple Levels

The year 2018 saw the publication of two important monographs, each with groundbreaking scholarship on complementary aspects of monasticism; together they offer a clear path forward for Medieval Studies as a whole. While Fiona Griffiths’s Nuns’ Priests’ Tales and Steven Vanderputten’s Dark Age Nunneries approach the essentially interrelated natures of men’s and women’s medieval monasticism from different perspectives, it is by reading them in concert that one becomes aware of the paradigm shift they signal. In a welcome change from a traditional consideration of so-called “double” monasteries as neither fish nor fowl, Griffiths and Vanderputten offer a feast of evidence for the multiple levels of interactions between the genders—including priests and nuns, students and teachers, patrons, family members, and rulers, as well as the conventionally understood mixed religious communities of monks and nuns—at majority female monasteries in Western Christendom from the early through central Middle Ages. Vanderputten starts at the beginning of the ninth century and carries his investigation forward to the mid-eleventh, at which point Griffiths launches her study, moving the matter on from the late eleventh century into the early thirteenth.

scholarly journals Improvements in medium range weather forecasting system of India

2014 ◽  
Vol 123 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
V S PRASAD ◽  
SAJI MOHANDAS ◽  
SURYA KANTI DUTTA ◽  
M DAS GUPTA ◽  
G R IYENGAR ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Weather Forecasting ◽  
Medium Range ◽  
Forecasting System

Urban Finescale Forecasting Reveals Weather Conditions with Unprecedented Detail

2017 ◽  
Vol 98 (12) ◽  
pp. 2675-2688 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. J. Ronda ◽  
G. J. Steeneveld ◽  
B. G. Heusinkveld ◽  
J. J. Attema ◽  
A. A. M. Holtslag
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Weather Forecasting ◽  
Weather Prediction ◽  
Morphological Characteristics ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Human Thermal Comfort ◽  
Forecasting System ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Urban Weather ◽  
Neighborhood Level

Abstract Urban landscapes impact the lives of urban dwellers by influencing local weather conditions. However, weather forecasting down to the street and neighborhood scale has been beyond the capabilities of numerical weather prediction (NWP) despite the fact that observational systems are now able to monitor urban climate at these scales. In this study, weather forecasts at intra-urban scales were achieved by exploiting recent advances in topographic element mapping and aerial photography as well as looking at detailed mappings of soil characteristics and urban morphological properties, which were subsequently incorporated into a specifically adapted Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model. The urban weather forecasting system (UFS) was applied to the Amsterdam, Netherlands, metropolitan area during the summer of 2015, where it produced forecasts for the city down to the neighborhood level (a few hundred meters). Comparing these forecasts to the dense network of urban weather station observations within the Amsterdam metropolitan region showed that the forecasting system successfully determined the impact of urban morphological characteristics and urban spatial structure on local temperatures, including the cooling effect of large water bodies on local urban temperatures. The forecasting system has important practical applications for end users such as public health agencies, local governments, and energy companies. It appears that the forecasting system enables forecasts of events on a neighborhood level where human thermal comfort indices exceeded risk thresholds during warm weather episodes. These results prove that worldwide urban weather forecasting is within reach of NWP, provided that appropriate data and computing resources become available to ensure timely and efficient forecasts.

scholarly journals Mujeres y hombres. Desigualdades de género en el contexto mexicanoWomen and men. Gender inequalities in the Mexican context

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (44) ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco José Zamudio Sánchez ◽  
María Del Rosario Ayala Carrillo ◽  
Roxana Ivette Arana Ovalle
Keyword(s):  
Policy Change ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Human Life ◽  
National Level ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Harmonic Mean ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
Cultural Constructions

Las construcciones socioculturales sobre género permean todas las esferas de la vida humana generando diversas inequidades. Es necesario medirlas y proponer alternativas de solución o modificación de políticas que las atiendan. Usando una media harmónica sobre las condiciones en las que viven mujeres y hombres, se midieron atributos de once factores sociales disponibles a escala nacional. Los atributos fueron jerarquizados para cuantificar el diferencial en el cual estos factores se encuentran. No únicamente las mujeres están en condiciones de inequidad, aunque son más frecuentes y graves. Políticas públicas en seis factores deben atender, prioritariamente, a las mujeres y en cinco a los hombres. En cada factor identificamos los atributos más inequitativos para hacer posible la instrumentación de acciones pertinentes. Así, el diseño de las políticas, desde la planeación, cuenta con posibilidades de actuar en congruencia con las necesidades. Abstract Cultural constructions of gender permeate all areas of human life, generating diverse inequities. This requires knowledge of the situations in which men and women are in a particular one and, accordingly, propose solutions or policy change that pay attention to such inequities. Using a harmonic mean on the living conditions in which women and men are, attributes of eleven social factors were measured, available at national level. Such attributes were analytically nested to quantify the differential in which these factors are. Not only women are in inequity conditions, although they are more frequent and severe. Public policies in six factors should attend, mainly, to women and in five to men. We identified, inside each factor, the attributes with more inequity to make possible the implementation of appropriate actions. The corresponding design of policies has, from planning, possibilities of acting in line with the needs.

scholarly journals Comparative verification in complex topography

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonas Bhend ◽  
Jean-Christophe Orain ◽  
Vera Schönenberger ◽  
Christoph Spirig ◽  
Lionel Moret ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Weather Forecasting ◽  
Absolute Error ◽  
Time Of Day ◽  
Probabilistic Forecasts ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Direct Model ◽  
Forecasting System ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Update Frequency ◽  
Core Activity

&lt;p&gt;Verification is a core activity in weather forecasting. Insights from verification are used for monitoring, for reporting, to support and motivate development of the forecasting system, and to allow users to maximize forecast value. Due to the broad range of applications for which verification provides valuable input, the range of questions one would like to answer can be very large. Static analyses and summary verification results are often insufficient to cover this broad range. To this end, we developed an interactive verification platform at MeteoSwiss that allows users to inspect verification results from a wide range of angles to find answers to their specific questions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We present the technical setup to achieve a flexible yet performant interactive platform and two prototype applications: monitoring of direct model output from operational NWP systems and understanding of the capabilities and limitations of our pre-operational postprocessing. We present two innovations that illustrate the user-oriented approach to comparative verification adopted as part of the platform. To facilitate the comparison of a broad range of forecasts issued with varying update frequency, we rely on the concept of time of verification to collocate the most recent available forecasts at the time of day at which the forecasts are used. In addition, we offer a matrix selection to more flexibly select forecast sources and scores for comparison. Doing so, we can for example compare the mean absolute error (MAE) for deterministic forecasts to the MAE and continuous ranked probability scores of probabilistic forecasts to illustrate the benefit of using probabilistic forecasts.&lt;/p&gt;

Rancangan Undang-Undang (RUU) Pesantren Dan Pendidikan Keagamaan Dalam Perspektif Kristen (P. 69 dan P. 70)

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-30
Author(s):  
Raindy D. D. Prajitno
Keyword(s):  
Christian Education ◽  
Local Church ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Sunday School ◽  
National Level ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Church Development ◽  
Christian Perspective ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive

Lately the phenomenon on religious issues is increasingly tapering. Starting from religious radicalism, pagan stigma to efforts to discredit the Christian faith. One of the issues arising in the year 2019 is about the draft law of Pesantren specifically chapters 69 and 70 governing the Catechization and Sunday School are classified as non-Formal Christian education. This is certainly making unrest in the Christian Kalang specifically the organization of the national level Church that is the fellowship of the Churches in Indonesia (PGI). That is why, the purpose of this research is to enact a Christian perspective on the draft law of Pesantren article 69 and 70. The method used by researchers is a qualitative descriptive or also called Neuroresearch method. This method is a study on the phenomenon of various areas of human life that is measured from the theological context of the exegesis of the biblical text as the Biblical foundation. Results and discussions presented that the Catechisation and Sunday School were part of a church citizen's coaching program that differed from non-Formal Christian education. That is why, the Ministry of Christianity as a representative of Christian society in Indonesia should provide insight and understanding of the local church development program to the central government. Thus, the local church must re-define the term of the church program different from non-Formal Christian education to the central government, the local church should be concerned and evaluating the Ministry of Children and local church can learn about Solidarity for fellow local Church of the synod. Abstrak Akhir-akhir ini fenomena tentang isu agama semakin meruncing. Dimulai dari radikalisme agama, stigma kafir hingga usaha-usaha untuk mendiskreditkan iman Kristen. Salah satu isu yang timbul di tahun 2019 ialah tentang Rancangan Undang-Undang Pesantren secara khusus pasal 69 dan 70 yang mengatur tentang Katekisasi dan Sekolah Minggu diklasifikasikan sebagai Pendidikan Kristen non Formal. Hal ini tentunya membuat keresahan di kalang orang Kristen secara khusus Organisasi Gereja Aras Nasional yaitu Persekutuan Gereja-Gereja di Indonesia (PGI). Itu sebabnya, tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah menelisik perspektif Kristen tentang Rancangan Undang-Undang Pesantren Pasal 69 dan 70 tersebut. Metode yang digunakan peneliti ialah kualitatif deskriptif atau yang disebut juga dengan metode neuroresearch. Metode ini merupakan studi tentang fenomena berbagai bidang kehidupan manusia yang diukur dari konstruk teologis hasil kajian eksegesis teks Alkitab sebagai dasar biblika. Hasil dan pembahasan memaparkan bahwa Katekisasi dan Sekolah Minggu merupakan bagian dari program Pembinaan Warga Gereja yang berbeda dengan Pendidikan Agama Kristen non Formal. Itu sebabnya, Kementerian Agama Kristen sebagai wakil masyarakat Kristiani di Indonesia seharusnya memberikan wawasan dan pengertian tentang program Pembinaan Warga Gereja Lokal kepada Pemerintah Pusat. Jadi, Gereja Lokal harus kembali memahamkan istilah program Gereja yang berbeda dengan Pendidikan Agama Kristen non Formal kepada pemerintah pusat, Gereja Lokal seyogyanya memperhatikan dan mengevaluasi pelayanan Anak dan Gereja Lokal dapat belajar tentang solidaritas bagi sesama Gereja Lokal yang berbeda Sinode.

Science and Identity in Social Work

2019 ◽  
pp. 43-56
Author(s):  
John Brekke
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Behavior Change ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Disciplinary Identity ◽  
Problems In Living ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Multiple Levels ◽  
Definition Of

This chapter offers a definition of science that encompasses the interacting elements of theory, prediction, observation, and testing. The chapter also discusses disciplines and professions and their boundaries, capitalizing on the work of Abbott and Jacobs on interdisciplinarity. Disciplines are essential for science and learning, and interdisciplinarity is sometimes crucial to solving vexing problems in science—but “inter-” or “trans-” disciplinary work is only viable in the context of disciplines and disciplinary identity. A crucial linking construct in social work science is technology, which is the application of scientific knowledge to human life. In terms of identity, social work science has a dual focus on scientific understanding as well as on using and developing methods (technologies) for human behavior change on multiple levels. In many areas of society, the existence of scientific disciplines that merge with professions forms the nexus of understanding and technology for solving “problems in living.”

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