The transformative power of European technology in resource exploitation: reflections on the oil presses and railways of colonial Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 555-582
Author(s):  
Nkemjika Chimee
Keyword(s):  
Technological Innovations ◽  
Resource Exploitation ◽  
Transformative Power ◽  
The North ◽  
Indigenous Production ◽  
Impact Of Technology ◽  
Transformative Impact ◽  
North And South ◽  
European Technology

Technological innovations, which in the nineteenth century were principally developed by European nations, were a crucial factor in transforming economies – not only those of the countries in which they originated, but also those of their colonies. This case study of Nigeria explores the way the British controlled the colony and subjugated the local people as a result of their superior technology. Upon taking over the territory, to aid the country's economic development, they began to construct railway lines to link major resource zones of the north and south. This facilitated the more efficient shipment of natural resources from these zones to the coastal ports for onward shipment to Britain. Indigenous production and the rendering of palm oil were transformed by the introduction of oil presses. The article examines the transformative impact of technology in resource exploitation, focusing specifically on railways and oil presses and their impact on Nigerian society.

Music and Censorship in Vietnam since 1954

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barley Norton
Keyword(s):  
Reform Era ◽  
The North ◽  
Vietnamese American ◽  
Cultural Climate ◽  
History Of ◽  
Impact Of Technology ◽  
Conventional Systems ◽  
Cultural Freedom ◽  
The Impact ◽  
North And South

This chapter traces the history of music censorship in Vietnam since 1954 with reference to a broad range of music genres. It discusses music censorship from 1954 to 1975, when Vietnam was divided into North and South. The tight ideological control established by the Vietnamese Communist Party in the North is compared with music movements linked to antiwar protests in the South. The chapter then examines the period of severe censorship following the end of the Vietnamese-American war in 1975 and considers how the cultural climate changed in the reform era after 1986. It highlights the limits of cultural freedom in the reform era and discusses how music censorship has become intertwined with concerns about the effects of globalization on morality and national identity. Finally, the chapter addresses the impact of technology since the late 1990s, paying particular attention to Vietnamese rap and the potential for musicians to use the Internet to bypass conventional systems of state censorship.

scholarly journals POTENSI DAYA DARI SOLAR CELL TERPASANG SESUAI DENGAN POLA ATAP RUMAH BERBASIS ARSITEKTUR BALI

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
I Nyoman Apriana Arta Putra ◽  
Wayan Arta Wijaya ◽  
I.G.N Janardana
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Solar Cell ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Average Power ◽  
Solar Panels ◽  
The North ◽  
Southern Side ◽  
Maximum Warming ◽  
North And South

This study was conducted to determine the potential power obtained at home with the Balinese roof pattern when developed with renewable energy sources. Solar energy as a source of renewable energy has enormous potential, especially in Indonesia. Balinese architecture-based roof pattern has 4 fields, the north and south side are trapezoidal and the east and west sides are triangular with 350 roof inclination angle. One of Bali's traditional buildings is Bale Sari, which is a case study with an area of ??32.64 m2, length 6.40m and width 5.10m. Bale Sari's roof has a pyramid pattern, each side having the same length and width. Methods performed in this study with manual calculations to find the potential maximum power. The total number of solar panels used is 234 pieces. With this amount, obtained the best potential results on the southern side, with an average power gained of 667.67 Watt. The results are obtained when the sun is at a maximum warming point or precisely when the weather is sunny. The result of the average power potential analysis obtained by solar cell installed on the roof of the Balinese architecture house is 1,935.49 Watt.

Agriculture and Its Discontents: Coalitional Politics at the wto with Special Reference to India’s Food Security Interests

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 295-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.P. Singh ◽  
Surupa Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Developing World ◽  
Doha Round ◽  
The North ◽  
Coalition Politics ◽  
Agricultural Negotiations ◽  
Coalitional Politics ◽  
Agreement On Agriculture ◽  
North And South

The demise of the Doha round of trade negotiations is often attributed to deadlocks in agricultural negotiations between the developed and the developing world. Why has agriculture been so difficult to negotiate? This article explains North-South agricultural negotiations through the lens of coalition politics, especially the shift from bloc to issue-based diplomacy from the developing world. We argue against the proposition in the negotiation literature that multiple coalitions at the international level allow negotiators room to maneuver. Our study shows that bloc coalitions in fact allowed for compromise more than issue-based coalitions in agriculture, which are often supported by strong domestic constituencies. Empirically, the article focuses on the Uruguay Round when the North and South struck an agreement on agriculture and the Doha Round, which remains deadlocked. The article also provides an in-depth case study of India’s agricultural interests and its food security program in the context of thewto.

scholarly journals Mind the Gap: Towards a Typology of Climate Service Usability Gaps

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Raaphorst ◽  
Gerben Koers ◽  
Gerald Jan Ellen ◽  
Amy Oen ◽  
Bjørn Kalsnes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Climate Services ◽  
The North ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Climate Service ◽  
North And South

Literature on climate services presents a large diversity of different services and uses. Many climate services have ‘usability gaps’: the information provided, or the way it is visualized, may be unsuitable for end users to inform decision-making processes in relation to adaptation against climate change impacts or for the development of policies to this end. The aim of this article is to contribute to more informed and efficient decision-making processes in climate adaptation by developing a typology of usability gaps for climate services. To do so, we first present and demonstrate a so-called ‘climate information design’ (CID) template with which to study and potentially improve the visual communicative qualities of climate services. Then, two climates services are selected for a further, qualitative explorative case study of two cases in the north and south of the Netherlands. A combination of focus group sessions and semi-structured interviews are used to collect data from Dutch governmental stakeholders as well as private stakeholders and NGOs. This data is then coded to discover what usability gaps are present. We then present twelve different types of usability gaps that were encountered as a typology. This typology could be used to improve and redesign climate services.

Is the north side of the Strait of Gibraltar more diverse than the south side? A case study using the intertidal peracarids (Crustacea: Malacostraca) associated to the seaweed Corallina elongata

2009 ◽  
Vol 89 (2) ◽  
pp. 387-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
José M. Guerra-García ◽  
Pilar Cabezas ◽  
Elena Baeza-Rojano ◽  
Free Espinosa ◽  
J. Carlos García-Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Diversity Index ◽  
Common Species ◽  
Rocky Shores ◽  
Mediterranean Species ◽  
Strait Of Gibraltar ◽  
Human Pressure ◽  
The North ◽  
North Side ◽  
North And South

The objectives of this study were to describe the peracaridean fauna associated to the algae Corallina elongata from the Strait of Gibraltar, and explore possible biodiversity and biogeographical patterns of variation along the north–south and Atlantic–Mediterranean axes across the Strait of Gibraltar. Twenty-five stations were selected along the north and south coasts of the Strait to cover the broadest possible range of human pressure and environmental conditions, including both natural rocky shores and artificial breakwaters. The alga Corallina elongata was selected as substrate, and the peracaridean crustaceans were identified to species level and classified in geographical distribution groups. Univariate and multivariate analyses were conducted to explore and confirm patterns of variation. Forty peracarid species were collected, most of them with an Atlantic–Mediterranean distribution (67%) with only the gammarid Parhyale eburnea, being an endemic Mediterranean species. The most common species collected during the present study were the gammarids Hyale stebbingi, Jassa marmorata, Stenothoe monoculoides and Ampithoe spp., the caprellids Caprella grandimana and C. penantis, the isopod Ischyromene lacazei and the tanaid Tanais dulongi. The number of species per station and the diversity index were significantly higher in the stations located along the north side of the Strait of Gibraltar. However, the two-way ANOVA discarded differences between north and south due to the type of substrate (natural versus artificial) and degree of human pressure. Based on peracaridean assemblages, the Strait of Gibraltar behaves as a whole and homogeneous region, with a very similar faunal composition in all stations and there is not a clear gradient of species substitution from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic stations. Provided that we selected the same substrate in all stations, and that statistical analyses revealed that differences between north and south stations were not due to environmental factors such as anthropogenic stress or type of substrate, we should look to historical biogeographical reasons to explain the higher diversity in the north side of the Strait of Gibraltar.

The “Delaware Horror”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis B. Downey
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
African American ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
The Other ◽  
The North ◽  
North And South ◽  
Insight Into

This chapter provides a case study of a lynching at the other end of the northeastern seaboard: the mass mob execution by burning of George White, an African American, in Wilmington, Delaware, in June 1903. Delaware had been a slave state that did not join the Confederacy, and while it implemented a Jim Crow system similar to those in neighboring lower Mid-Atlantic states Maryland and Virginia, the state experienced less lynching. Delaware's evolving economy and social relations were strongly tied to the rapidly urbanizing regions of southeastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The chapter's analysis of the role of white and black Protestant ministers in the Wilmington mob execution and its aftermath offers significant insight into a well-publicized early-twentieth-century lynching that occurred somewhere between the North and South.

scholarly journals AN EVALUATION ON THE TEMPERATURE AND PRECIPITATION PREFERENCES OF THE IDA MOUNTAIN (TURKEY) FORESTS

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (01) ◽  
pp. 289-326
Author(s):  
Berna Hepbilgin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Pinus Nigra ◽  
Natural Forest ◽  
Precipitation Data ◽  
Geographical Differences ◽  
The North ◽  
Temperature And Precipitation ◽  
Tree Communities ◽  
North And South ◽  
East West

Ida Mountain presents a peculiar geographical structure in terms of the distribution of tree stands, like all the geographical differences on the north and south slopes with its location in the north of Edremit bay and with lying east-west direction roughly.Covering the area of ​​1823 km2 with its immediate surroundings, Ida Mountains natural forest section forms approximately 60% of the area. In the natural forest area of ​​Ida Mountain, Pinus brutia, Pinus nigra, Quercus, Abies, Fagus and Castanea are found as pure tree communities, and related varieties formed by the combination of these species in different bulk densities. In the eco-geographic study of forest areas, the two most basic bioclimatic factors are: knowing the temperature and precipitation preferences of tree species and stands. In this study, monthly, seasonal and annual temperature and precipitation preferences of tree stands in Ida Mountain were obtained by modeling the temperature and precipitation data obtained from meteorological stations around Mt. Ida. This case study aims to contribute to the future eco-geographical evaluations on the tree stands of Ida Mountain.

scholarly journals Physicians’ circularity in health regions in Brazil

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (suppl 1) ◽  
pp. S199-S208
Author(s):  
Paulo Henrique Seixas ◽  
Liza Yurie Teruya Uchimura ◽  
Ana Luiza d’Ávila Viana ◽  
Rodrigo Calado da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Data ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Professional Association ◽  
Work Place ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Medical Workforce ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The North ◽  
North And South

Abstract Objectives: to characterize the medical circularity in Brazil and to discuss the case in the North and South Barretos regions, São Paulo. Methods: a cross-sectional study using secondary data from the national registrations and a case study of physician’s sample in the North-Barretos and South-Barretos regions. Results: in the health regions in Brazil, on an average, 45% of the physicians in activities circulate in more than one region. The Capitals of the States have more stable physicians while more than 50% of the medical workforce work in other regions. The professionals with the greatest tendency to move from one work place to another are those who work in surgical specialties in services to uphold the diagnostic and therapy. Conclusions: there is a high circulation of physicians among the regions, with distinct characteristics between geographical and health regions. In case of Barretos area, the professionals move from one workplace to another according to their professional association and specialized practice.

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