Metals and Metalla

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Mattingly
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Mineral Resources ◽  
Mining Operation ◽  
Environmental Cost ◽  
Single Case Study ◽  
Metal Production ◽  
Landscape Survey

This chapter presents a single case study of a Roman imperial mining operation (metalla) as an example of the potential environmental and human consequences of large-scale Roman metal production. As such, it stands for many instances of Rome's exploitation of the key natural resources of provincial territories. Tacitus, for instance, was explicit in describing the mineral resources of Britain as the “spoils of victory.” However, it is shown that the consequences of Rome's pursuit of economic gain carried a high human and environmental cost. It draws on the results of the Wadi Faynan landscape survey (1996–2000), an interdisciplinary and diachronic investigation of evidence of environmental and climatic change, settlement pattern, and human activity.

scholarly journals Comparing the temporal relationship of structural and functional connectivity changes in different adult human brain networks: a single-case study

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takamitsu Watanabe ◽  
Geraint Rees
Keyword(s):  
Functional Connectivity ◽  
Human Brain ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Brain Networks ◽  
Structural Connectivity ◽  
Time Lags ◽  
Single Case Study ◽  
Adult Human

Background: Despite accumulated evidence for adult brain plasticity, the temporal relationships between large-scale functional and structural connectivity changes in human brain networks remain unclear. Methods: By analysing a unique richly detailed 19-week longitudinal neuroimaging dataset, we tested whether macroscopic functional connectivity changes lead to the corresponding structural alterations in the adult human brain, and examined whether such time lags between functional and structural connectivity changes are affected by functional differences between different large-scale brain networks. Results: In this single-case study, we report that, compared to attention-related networks, functional connectivity changes in default-mode, fronto-parietal, and sensory-related networks occurred in advance of modulations of the corresponding structural connectivity with significantly longer time lags. In particular, the longest time lags were observed in sensory-related networks. In contrast, such significant temporal differences in connectivity change were not seen in comparisons between anatomically categorised different brain areas, such as frontal and occipital lobes. These observations survived even after multiple validation analyses using different connectivity definitions or using parts of the datasets. Conclusions: Although the current findings should be examined in independent datasets with different demographic background and by experimental manipulation, this single-case study indicates the possibility that plasticity of macroscopic brain networks could be affected by cognitive and perceptual functions implemented in the networks, and implies a hierarchy in the plasticity of functionally different brain systems.

scholarly journals Reaktualisasi Perjuangan Nahdlatul Ulama dalam Mewujudkan Kedaulatan Sumber Daya Agraria (Studi Gerakan Demokrasi Radikal pada FNKSDA)

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
Asri Widayati ◽  
Suparjan .
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Radical Democracy ◽  
Single Case Study ◽  
Ernesto Laclau ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Nahdlatul Ulama ◽  
The Government

Abstract: This research is aimed to explain the reactualization of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) struggle over agrarian resources related to the emergence of Front Nahdliyyin for the Sovereignty of Natural Resources (FNKSDA) in 2013. The theoretical perspective of radical democracy movement proposed by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe this article analyzed phenomenon of NU struggle over agrarian resources. This research uses qualitative method of specific case study variation type single case study. Results of this research showed many cases of living space deprivation, inequality of natural resources ownership, and other which fall on nahdliyyin in several regions. The young members of NU which have been experiencing development did not merely criticize the government at the time, however, in a further way, they have initiated the formation of movement in post-reformation era by radicalizing political space which should be more democratic. FNKSDA does not move structurally but it moves inside of NU culturally. Nevertheless, the ‘new political and cultural identity’ represent the progressive characteristic of NU.Keywords: FNKSDA, Radical Democracy Movement, Progressive Young NahdliyyinIntisari: Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk menjelaskan terjadinya reaktualisasi perjuangan Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) atas isu sumber daya agraria melalui kemunculan Front Nahdliyyin untuk Kedaulatan Sumber Daya Alam (FNKSDA) pada 2013. Paper ini menggunakan perspektif teori gerakan demokrasi radikal dari Ernesto Laclau dan Chantal Moufffe dengan mengkaji fenomena perjuangan NU atas sumber daya agraria. Kajian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif dengan variasi studi kasus spesifik tipe single case study. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan banyaknya kasus perampasan ruang hidup, ketimpangan kepemilikan sumber daya alam, dan berbagai kondisi agraria lainnya yang menimpa nahdliyyin di berbagai daerah. Berbagai kondisi tersebut disikapi dalam bentuk artikulasi oleh para kaum muda NU yang ternyata telah mengalami perkembangan, yakni tidak sekadar melayangkan kritik terhadap pemerintah, khususnya Orde Baru saat itu. Namun, telah menginisiasi terbangunnya gerakan di masa pasca reformasi dengan meradikalisasi ruang politik selayaknya menuju situasi yang lebih demokratis. FNKSDA bergerak non-struktural dalam tubuh NU. Meski demikian ‘budaya dan identitas baru politiknya’ justru tampil mewakili watak progresif NU.Kata Kunci: FNKSDA, Gerakan Demokrasi Radikal, Kaum Muda NU Progresif

Who Has Potatoes?

2003 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 148-159
Author(s):  
Keith V. Bletzer
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Home Country ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Turning Points ◽  
Farm Labor ◽  
Single Case Study ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Migrant Work

Migratory farm labor like other forms of migrant work both in and outside agriculture impedes on the opportunity to make choices. The following essay explores particular phases in the life of one man (a single case study) and examines how he considers turning points in his life that led to a long period of substance use, both as an immigrant in the country and as a working man in his home country, followed by a cessation of use and the beginning stages of recovery. / Para el migrante, viajar en busca de trabajo es díficil, ya sea que trabaje en agricultura o en otras labores. Este ensayo examina ciertas etapas en la vida de un hombre (estudio de un solo caso) que examina los cambios que le han ocurrido durante un período en que él consumía grandes cantidades de alcohol en los estados y en su país, seguido por un período de sobriedad (no tomaba alcohol, no usaba drogas) en este país en que él comienza una etapa de rehabilitación.

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