scholarly journals The Politics of Repair in a Postcolonial Context: A Minor Case Study

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cathi Ho Schar ◽  
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Daniel S. Friedman ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Deferred Maintenance ◽  
The Pacific Ocean ◽  
University Of Hawai'i ◽  
A Minor ◽  
The University

The University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa is the flagship campus for the country’s most remote and westernmost state. It lies over two thousand nautical miles from the nearest continent, roughly in the center of the Pacific Ocean, the largest division of the world hydrosphere. Until 1893, Hawai’i was a sovereign kingdom. In 1959, the U.S. government annexed Hawaiʻi as the last and newest of its fifty states. This vivid context—Pacific, Asian, Hawaiian, American, postcolonial—constitutes both a geographical and cultural orientation. In view of these numerous, vivid conditions, our paper offers a single case study based on small projects underway at Mānoa, where the senior leadership of the university invited the newly established University of Hawai‘i Community Design Center to address the chronic disrepair of campus buildings and public spaces through low-cost, high-impact design interventions. The aim of these interventions is to improve perceived qualities of public space and campus character, which have suffered under the weight of the university’s half-billion dollar deferred maintenance backlog.

Higher Learning int eh Pacific

2011 ◽  
pp. 248-273
Author(s):  
Kirk Johnson ◽  
Jonathan K. Lee ◽  
Rebecca A. Stephenson ◽  
Julius C.S. Cena
Keyword(s):  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Academic Goals ◽  
Central Focus ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The University ◽  
The Western Pacific

This chapter provides an overview of particular issues of diversity and technology within an island university. The chapter’s central focus rests on the complexity of both concepts within the context of higher education in the Pacific. In particular, the chapter highlights both the challenges and opportunities that the university faces as it attempts to address the unique multicultural landscape of the Western Pacific region and its technological realities. It focuses on a capstone senior-level course as a case study, and explores the possibilities inherent in directly addressing issues of diversity and technology while at the same time accomplishing the course’s prescribed academic goals. The chapter concludes by outlining 10 important lessons learned from the experience that others can benefit from, and establishes the importance of such a capstone experience for both students and faculty alike.

scholarly journals Large-Volume WOCE Radiocarbon Sampling in the Pacific Ocean

Radiocarbon ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 519-561 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minze Stuiver ◽  
H. G. Östlund ◽  
Robert M. Key ◽  
Paula J. Reimer
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Large Volume ◽  
University Of Washington ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Comprehensive Data ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Pacific Ocean ◽  
University Of Miami ◽  
The University

At the University of Miami Tritium Laboratory and the University of Washington Quaternary Isotope Laboratory, more than 1000 large-volume Pacific Ocean radiocarbon samples were measured for the WOCE program. Here we present a comprehensive data set, and a brief discussion of our findings.

The Graphical Records of Matthew Flinders's Voyage to Terra Australis

1984 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. N. Ferrar
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Cape Of Good Hope ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Marco Polo ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
The Pacific Ocean ◽  
The University ◽  
Sailing Ship

This second Matthew Flinders Memorial Lecture, in a series sponsored jointly by the Royal Institute of Navigation and the Hydrographic Society with the cooperation of Lincolnshire and Humberside Arts was presented at the University of Hull on 11 May 1983 with Sir John Dudding, Chairman of Lincolnshire and Humberside Arts in the Chair. The first lecture, presented by Rear-Admiral G. S. Ritchie in April 1974 (Journal27, 3) on the bicentenary of the birth of Matthew Flinders, described the hydrographic work of this exploring navigator. Miss Ferrar concentrates on the graphical records of Flinders's Australian voyages.When Marco Polo made his journey to China, overland from Venice in the thirteenth century, the lands around the Pacific Ocean were wholly unknown to Europeans. But the silks and spices with which he returned sowed the seeds of the quest for a sea route to the ‘Spice Islands’ which was to be one of the mainsprings of exploration for nearly 500 years. The Spaniards crossed the Atlantic. But instead of finding themselves on the coast of Asia as they had expected they discovered the lands (and the wealth) of the Aztecs and Incas, and their explorations extended along the Pacific coasts of Central and South America from Mexico to Peru. The Portuguese found their way around southern Africa and across the Indian Ocean to South-east Asia, where they attained their objective and established a lucrative trade with the Spice Islands. Sailing ship routes depend upon the direction of prevailing winds, so the outward voyage took them eastwards from the Cape of Good Hope and then northwards to their destination. The homeward crossing of the Indian Ocean was in more northerly latitudes.

Cognitive behaviour therapy with compulsive hoarding: a single case study

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Aasma Yousaf ◽  
Rukhsana Kausar ◽  
Iram Fatima
Keyword(s):  
Single Case ◽  
Compulsive Hoarding ◽  
Behaviour Therapy ◽  
Research Committee ◽  
Current Case ◽  
Programme Committee ◽  
Cognitive Behaviour ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University

Abstract The current case study used cognitive behaviour treatment (CBT) for the management of a 35-year-old, married man who presented with complaint of compulsive hoarding. The complaint of compulsive hoarding (excessive acquisition, difficulty in discarding saved material and cluttering) was accompanied by feeling of anger, sad mood, low confidence, decreased sleep and appetite, poor problem solving ability, indecisiveness and interpersonal conflicts. The study was approved by the institutional research committee (Departmental Doctoral Programme Committee) and followed by the university research committee (Advance Studies and Review Board) as academic requirement for the duration of 2013-2020. Written consent was also taken from the individual to publish the results of the case. Twenty-eight CBT sessions of one-hour duration were conducted, over a period of six months. Continuous...  

scholarly journals Bearing Witness 2017: Year 2 of a Pacific climate change storytelling project

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Robie
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Regional Environment ◽  
Bearing Witness ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

In 2016, the Pacific Media Centre responded to the devastation and tragedy wrought in Fiji by Severe Tropical Cyclone Winston by initiating the Bearing Witness journalism project and dispatching two postgraduate students to Viti Levu to document and report on the impact of climate change (Robie & Chand, 2017). This was followed up in 2017 in a second phase of what was hoped would become a five-year mission and expanded in future years to include other parts of the Asia-Pacific region. This project is timely, given the new 10-year Strategic Plan 2017-2026 launched by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) in March and the co-hosting by Fiji of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP23) climate change conference in Bonn, Germany, during November. The students dispatched in 2017 on the  ‘bearing witness’ journalism experiential assignment to work in collaboration with the Pacific Centre for the Environment and Sustainable Development (PaCE-SD) and the Regional Journalism Programme at the University of the South Pacific included a report about the relocation of a remote inland village of Tukuraki. They won the 2017 media and trauma prize of the Asia-Pacific Dart Centre, an agency affiliated with the Columbia School of Journalism. This article is a case study assessing the progress with this second year of the journalism project and exploring the strategic initiatives under way for more nuanced and constructive Asia-Pacific media storytelling in response to climate change.

scholarly journals Indagación biográfica, photovoice y escritura reflexiva en el practicum de futuros docentes

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ángela Saiz Linares ◽  
Noelia Ceballos López
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Shared Knowledge ◽  
Teaching Performance ◽  
Collaborative Reflection ◽  
Critical Dialogue ◽  
The Public ◽  
The University ◽  
Formación Docente

Presentamos un estudio de caso evaluativo sobre una propuesta formativa en los Grados de Educación Infantil y Primaria de la Universidad de Cantabria (España) articulado sobre asuntos pedagógicos que los estudiantes deben seleccionar y confrontar reflexivamente. Esta propuesta formativa se sustenta en las posibilidades formativas de la escritura reflexiva, la exploración biográfica y la metodología de Photovoice. Los instrumentos de recogida de información son: los seminarios, los diarios de investigación y de prácticas y las fotografías tomadas por los alumnos. Llevamos a cabo un análisis de contenido que evidencia el potencial de la propuesta formativa para registrar aquellos asuntos que son relevantes en su desempeño docente, destacando su grado de heterogeneidad; promover el diálogo crítico y el conocimiento compartido a través de la negociación de significados y sentido de las imágenes realizadas; analizar y reorientar la acción y el pensamiento docente; situar en el espacio público asuntos que son relevantes en la práctica educativa. Concluimos reflexionando sobre la virtualidad de las imágenes pedagógicas tomadas por los propios estudiantes y la deliberación colaborativa para convertirse en palancas de formación docente. We present an evaluative case study on a training proposal in the Degrees of Teaching of the University of Cantabria (Spain) that is articulated on dilemmatic situations that the students must confront reflectively. This formative proposal is based on the formative possibilities of writing, biographical exploration and the methodology of Photovoice. The instruments for gathering information are: the seminars, the student diaries and the photographs taken by the students. We carry out a content analysis that demonstrates the potential of the training proposal to record those issues that are relevant to their teaching performance; promote critical dialogue and shared knowledge through the negotiation of meanings of the images made; analyze and reorient teaching action and thinking; place in the public space issues that are relevant in educational practice. In this way, images and collaborative reflection become powerful levers of teacher training.

scholarly journals Envisioning an Interconnected Ocean: Understanding the Links Between Geological Ocean Structure and Coastal Communities in the Pacific

2021 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 68-69
Author(s):  
Megan Lubetkin ◽  
Nicole Raineault ◽  
Sarah Gaines
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Seafloor Mapping ◽  
Marine Management ◽  
Ocean Science ◽  
Ocean Exploration ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Pacific Ocean ◽  
The University

Abstract Covering nearly one third of the Earth's surface, the Pacific Ocean contains many significant interconnected geologic features extending into the coastal zone and the islands themselves. Trenches, ridges, seamount chains, faults, and fracture zones are not only fundamental expressions of Earth processes but also fundamental to life. Without awareness of these features and their natural and cultural importance, marine management and global understanding will remain disjointed. The Ocean Exploration Trust (OET) will spend the next several years in the Pacific conducting scientific expeditions to better understand the ocean through seafloor mapping and ocean exploration. Western ocean science is one of many ways to perceive and value the structural features of the Pacific. Communities across Pacific islands—often volcanic peaks emerging from deep below—are interconnected by water and by the underlying seafloor. We acknowledge the knowledge from local communities and recognize the multitude of ways to conceptualize and relate to the Pacific. With the University of Rhode Island's Coastal Resources Center (CRC), OET seeks to collaborate with local communities to reveal the structural significance and interconnected nature of oceanic features, making a link to the livelihoods of Pacific islanders. Further objectives would be co-designed with partners from local communities.

E-Government in São Paulo: the case of the restructuring of Channel 156 in the city of Limeira

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matheus Pantaroto Conejo ◽  
Gustavo Hermínio Salati Marcondes de Moraes
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Municipal Government ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Single Case Study ◽  
Government Information ◽  
Structured Interviews

The study aimed to identify the consequences of a low-cost restructuring process of an e-government initiative in the state of São Paulo. The measures adopted strengthened interaction between government and citizens and the initiative received an award for the good results achieved. A single-case study was carried out on Channel 156 of the municipal government of Limeira. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews, participation in meetings with the program’s managers and technicians, and analysis of internal documents available to researchers. The findings contribute to studies on the use of information technology by public agencies, an area as yet poorly explored. The research may help in restructuring similar initiatives in other contexts through the use of appropriate management and information technology tools, resulting in better service to citizens.Palavras chave: E-government. Information technology. Single-case study. Public management.Link: http://www.ies.ufpb.br/ojs2/index.php/ies/article/view/30850/16875 

Umzug einer Galapagos-Riesenschildkröte aus dem Zoologischen Garten in die Zoologische Sammlung

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 77-87
Author(s):  
Antje Angeli ◽  
Jürgen Fiebig XXXMLAUTOR Andreas Bick
Keyword(s):  
Polyethylene Glycol ◽  
Egg Laying ◽  
Zoological Garden ◽  
Hohes Alter ◽  
Sparse Vegetation ◽  
Galapagos Archipelago ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Pacific Ocean ◽  
Very Old Age ◽  
The University

Galápagos-Riesenschildkröten sind ausschließlich auf dem Galápagos-Archipel im Pazifischen Ozean zu finden. Dort leben sie sowohl in regennassen Regionen als auch in Gebieten mit spärlicher Vegetation. Sie sind tagaktiv und wandern vom Hochland zu ihren Eiablageplätzen in wärmeren Küstengebieten. Sie können ein sehr hohes Alter erreichen, in der Regel werden sie 50–80 Jahre alt. Im Jahr 2020 verzeichnete das Europäische Zuchtbuch für Galápagos-Riesenschildkröten 108 Tiere in 23 Zoos und Einrichtungen. In Europa wird diese Art in 12 Zoos gezeigt, darunter in Rostock und Hoyerswerda. Im Jahr 2012 wurden im Rostocker Zoo fünf Tiere gehalten, die alle aus dem Zoo Zürich kamen. Im Juni 2019 wurde eine der fünf Schildkröten, Elvida, tot in ihrem Gehege aufgefunden. Elvida wurde zur Sektion an das Leibniz-Institut für Zoo- und Wildtierforschung in Berlin übergeben. Danach wurde sie im Museum für Naturkunde Berlin präpariert. Die Präparation erfolgte mit einem Imprägnierverfahren, bei dem das Wasser der Zellen durch Polyethylenglykol (PEG) ersetzt wird. Seit Dezember 2020 ist das Exponat der Galápagos-Riesenschildkröte Elvida Teil der Zoologischen Sammlung der Universität Rostock, wo es den Studierenden für Lehrzwecke zur Verfügung steht und Teil der Ausstellung ist. Relocation of a Galapagos giant tortoise from the Zoological Garden to the Zoological Collection Abstract: Galápagos giant tortoises are found exclusively on the Galápagos archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. There they live both in rain-wet regions and in areas with sparse vegetation. They are diurnal and migrate from the highlands to their egg-laying sites in warmer coastal areas. They can reach a very old age, usually they live 50–80 years. In 2020, the European Studbook for Galápagos giant tortoises listed 108 animals in 23 zoos and institutions. In Europe, this species is kept in 12 zoos, including Rostock and Hoyerswerda. Five individuals were kept at Rostock Zoo in 2012, all of which came from Zurich Zoo. In June 2019, one of the five tortoises, Elvida, was found dead in her enclosure. Elvida was handed over to the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Berlin for dissection. After finishing the dissection, it was prepared at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. The preparation was carried out with an impregnation procedure in which the water of the cells is replaced by polyethylene glycol (PEG). Since December 2020, the exhibit of the Galápagos giant tortoise Elvida has been part of the Zoological Collection of the University of Rostock, where it is available to students for teaching purposes and is part of the exhibition.

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