scholarly journals The Good, the Bad, and the #BestOfIslaVista: Community Data Gathering and Research by Our Youth Leadership Group

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 76-91
Author(s):  
Brandon Villalva ◽  
Natalia Rios ◽  
Victor Balbuena ◽  
Briseida Martinez ◽  
Francesca Sen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Gathering ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Youth Leadership ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Santa Barbara ◽  
The Past ◽  
Teen Leadership ◽  
Leadership Group ◽  
Community Data ◽  
Town Halls

In this article, we present our teen leadership group and projects. We describe our “I’m a Student, Too!” campaign and why it is important to raise awareness about Latino/a children and families that live in Isla Vista, California, which has the reputation of being a college town. We outline our group’s mandate to create a better, safer, and healthier place where youth and families can grow up. We then describe how we collected data on people’s opinions of Isla Vista over the past two years and how we shared this information at town halls, University of California Santa Barbara orientations, and community conferences to make positive changes in our community.

A University of California, Santa Barbara Excavation in Tuscany

1973 ◽  
Vol 77 (3) ◽  
pp. 327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario A. del Chiaro ◽  
Anna Talocchini
Keyword(s):  
University Of California ◽  
Santa Barbara

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association

PMLA ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 110 (4) ◽  
pp. 882-882
Author(s):  
Cyndia Susan Clegg
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Modern Language Association ◽  
Santa Barbara ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
Local Committee ◽  
The University ◽  
Slavic Studies

The association's most significant news is its change in name from PAPC to PAMLA to strengthen its identification with the Modem Language Association and to maintain the historic presence of classical languages. The association's ninety-third annual meeting will be held 3-5 November 1995 at the University of California, Santa Barbara, hosted by the College of Letters and Science with its Division of the Humanities, and cosponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, the Department of Classics, the Comparative Literature Program, the Department of English, the Department of Germanic, Semitic, and Slavic Studies, and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Gerhart Hoffmeister, professor of German, is serving as chair of the local committee.

scholarly journals Game Studies meets Surveillance Studies at the Edge of Digital Culture: An Introduction to a special issue on Surveillance, Games and Play

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 309-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer R. Whitson ◽  
Bart Simon
Keyword(s):  
Data Gathering ◽  
Digital Games ◽  
Game Studies ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Finite Range ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Surveillance Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Social Sorting ◽  
The Relationship

While we could attribute the close ties between surveillance and video games to their shared military roots, in this editorial we argue that the relationship goes much deeper to that. Even non-digital games such as chess require a mode of watchfulness: an attention to each piece in relation to the past, present, and future; a drive to predict an opponent’s movements; and, a distillation of the player-subject into a knowable finite range of possible actions defined by the rules. Games are social sorting, disciplinary, social control machines.In this introduction we tease apart some of the intersections of games and surveillance, beginning with a discussion of the NSA documents leaked by Edward Snowden on using games to both monitor and influence unsuspecting populations. Next, we provide an overview of corporate data-gathering practices in games and further outline the production of manageable, computable subjectivities. Then, we show how the game Watch Dogs explores the surveillant capacities of games at both the game mechanical and representational scales. These three different facets of surveillance, games, and play set the scene for the special issue and the diverse articles that follow.  In the following pages we pose new lines of questioning that highlight the nuances of play and offer new modes of thinking about what games - and the processes of watching and being watched that are a foundational part of the experience – can tell us about surveillance.

scholarly journals AGRICULTURE AND CLIMATE IN CENTRAL OTAGO

1987 ◽  
pp. 15-21
Author(s):  
G.G. Cossens
Keyword(s):  
Data Gathering ◽  
Unique Combination ◽  
Resource Value ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Local Climate ◽  
Horticultural Crops ◽  
The Past ◽  
Physical Elements ◽  
Dominant Activity ◽  
Continental Climate

The variation and individuality of Central Otago result from a unique combination of climate and topography. The range and basin structures produce New Zealand's nearest approach to a "Continental" Climate, and on a yearly basis Central Otago can be one of the driest as well as one of the hottest and coldest areas in the country. There are two unique features. The first a dry central core wth horticulture as a dominant activity. The second is a high pastoral plateau, the East Otago Plateau, from 400 to 900 metres altitude, marking the Eastern boundary of Central Otago. The agricultural pattern is traditional but it is suggested there is scope for other non traditional crops. Of all the physical elements surveyed in the past, e.g. rock or soil type, slope or vegetation, there is frequently no reference to climate. However, the resource value of any locality draws from its particular local climate or "topoclimate". Climate when regarded as such requires a new approach to data gathering. Research in Central Otago aims to increase our knowledge of topoclimate on the valley floors and locate special microclimates suitable for possible and existing horticultural crops and at the same time remove some of the hazards. Keywords: topoclimate

scholarly journals Leaflet Boron Concentration Reduced with Hybrid Pistacia vera Rootstocks

HortScience ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-71
Author(s):  
Craig E. Kallsen ◽  
Dan E. Parfitt
Keyword(s):  
Interspecific Hybrids ◽  
Boron Concentration ◽  
Partial Solution ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Pistacia Vera ◽  
The West ◽  
The Past ◽  
Genetic Potential ◽  
B Uptake ◽  
Soil And Water

Excessive boron (B) in soil and water is a problem for pistachio (Pistacia vera L.) production in the San Joaquin Valley (SJV) of California. Although amenable, leaching of B requires more water than chlorine (Cl) or sodium (Na) and is increasingly difficult as B in irrigation water increases. The lack of subsurface drainage to the ocean increases soil salinity in many growing areas, especially on the west side of the SJV where B is often excessive natively in the soil and water. Pistachio rootstocks that can tolerate or exclude B may be a partial solution. For the past decade in California, the dominant rootstock has been seedlings and clonal selections of University of California Berkeley 1 (UCB-1), which is a hybrid of P. atlantica × P. integerrima. This reliance on a genetically similar pool of rootstocks has constrained Pistacia’s genetic potential for adapting to high-salt environments. This study compared scion and rootstock leaflet B concentration of novel hybrid experimental rootstocks with variable percentages of P. vera and P. integerrima heritage with UCB-1. Rootstocks with P. vera heritage limited B in both rootstock and scion leaflets compared with UCB-1. In six trials conducted over several years, leaflet B in ungrafted hybrid rootstocks having 62.5% to 75% P. vera and 25% to 37.5% P. integerrima heritage had 27.6% to 43.1% lower B leaflet concentration than did UCB-1. Depending on the experiment and year, grafted rootstocks having 37.5% P. vera and 62.5% P. integerrima heritage had 46.8% to 70.8% lower B scion leaflet concentration than did UCB-1. Genetic variation in B uptake in Pistacia species and interspecific hybrids, and among individual seedlings within populations, allows the breeding of pistachio rootstocks more tolerant of excess B.

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