Study on Ecological and Cultural Characteristics of Human Settlement in Bali Island, Indonesia

2012 ◽  
Vol 598 ◽  
pp. 144-147
Author(s):  
Xin Yi Xiang ◽  
Mei Hua Zhang ◽  
Zong Yi Li ◽  
Yuan Qing Li
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Human Settlement ◽  
Cultural Characteristics ◽  
Human Settlements ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Cultural Aspects

In the process of rapid urbanization, there are many challenges people have to face. In this study, typical human settlements in Bali Island in Southeast Asia were introduced, and impact of ecological and cultural factors on human settlements in this region were especially investigated, aiming to provide inspirations to solve the problems related with rapid and uncontrolled urbanization in many other parts in Asia. Impacts of ecological and cultural aspects on style of housing building and private gardening and on public spaces were analyzed separately. It was concluded that ecological and cultural factors contribute much for both the preservation of context in traditional human settlements styles and preservation of ecological background in Bali Island.

scholarly journals Cultural Factors, Economic Affiliations And The Adoption Of International Financial Reporting Standards

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 815 ◽  
Author(s):  
Presha E. Neidermeyer ◽  
Jack Dorminey ◽  
Alan J. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Cultural Characteristics ◽  
Accounting Standard ◽  
Accounting Systems ◽  
Financial Reporting Standards ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Accelerate Convergence

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><p style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-pagination: none;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">We examine cultural characteristics in the context of economic affiliation and the timing of IFRS adoption. Prior work identifies cultural characteristics as key factors in the development of accounting systems world-wide. Our analysis extends this literature by showing that these same factors lead to economic clusters and to the propensity for adopting a universally accepted set of accounting rules. We contribute to the literature by demonstrating that, at least in one case, cultural factors are able to predict economic affiliations. Second, we provide evidence that certain cultural characteristic are affiliated with the delay in adoption of IFRS. Our results are valuable to local as well as international accounting standard setters as they look to negotiate common ground for convergence. Our examination of the cultural aspects distinctive in adoption patterns may provide insight into what specific aspects of the IFRS must be modified to expand and accelerate convergence.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span>

scholarly journals Spatial Expansion of Human Settlement during the Longshan Period (~4.5–~3.9 ka BP) and Its Hydroclimatic Contexts in the Lower Yellow River Floodplain, Eastern China

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 712
Author(s):  
Kaifeng Li ◽  
Wenhua Gao ◽  
Li Wu ◽  
Hainan Hu ◽  
Panpan Gong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Yellow River ◽  
Asian Summer Monsoon ◽  
Spatial Expansion ◽  
Human Settlement ◽  
Human Settlements ◽  
Lower Yellow River ◽  
River Floodplain ◽  
The Lower Yellow River ◽  
Asian Summer ◽  
Longshan Period

Obvious spatial expansion of human settlement occurred in the lower Yellow River floodplain during the Longshan period, but the external factors driving this expansion remain unclear. In this study, we first delineated the hydroclimatic changes at both regional and local scales within and around the lower Yellow River floodplain and then examined the relationships of human settlements with hydroclimatic settings between the pre-Longshan and Longshan periods. The results indicate that the site distribution, site density and hydroclimatic conditions exhibited significant shifts during the pre-Longshan and Longshan periods. In the pre-Longshan period, the intense East Asian summer monsoon and abundant monsoon-related precipitation caused widespread development of lakes and marshes in the lower Yellow River floodplain. As a result, the circumjacent highlands of the lower Yellow River floodplain contained concentrated human settlements. However, the persistent weakening of the East Asian summer monsoon and consequent precipitation decline, in conjunction with accelerated soil erosion due to decreasing forest vegetation and strengthening of human activities on the upstream Loess Plateau in the Longshan period, are likely to have jointly caused both shrinking and faster filling of preexisting lakes and marshes. Subsequently, a large area of arable land had been created in the lower Yellow River floodplain and thus was occupied by locally rapid increasing population, resulting in the notable spatial expansion of human settlements during the Longshan period.

Political and Cultural Indicators in Political Regimes’ Study

2011 ◽  
pp. 110-115
Author(s):  
E. Kuznetsova
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
Political Regimes ◽  
Cultural Characteristics ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Democratic Character ◽  
Regime Analysis

One of the most common methods of political regime analysis and in particular assessment of their democratic character is a rating approach that envisages political regime classification depending on belonging to one or another group or cluster of democratic and non-democratic countries. Nevertheless this approach usually ignores political-cultural aspects of studied regimes. The article outlines the most commonly used indices of political regime comparison. The example of Central and Eastern Europe region proposes political regime classification taking political-cultural characteristics into account.

scholarly journals Using Virtual Soundwalk Approach for Assessing Sound Art Soundscape Interventions in Public Spaces

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 2102
Author(s):  
Tin Oberman ◽  
Kristian Jambrošić ◽  
Marko Horvat ◽  
Bojana Bojanić Obad Šćitaroci
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Sound Art ◽  
Subjective Responses ◽  
The Public ◽  
First Order ◽  
Sound Source Identification ◽  
Acoustic Environments ◽  
Positive Effect

This paper discusses the soundscape assessment approaches to soundscape interventions with musical features introduced to public spaces as permanent sound art, with a focus on the ISO 12913 series, Method A for data collection applied in a laboratory study. Three soundscape interventions in three cities are investigated. The virtual soundwalk is used to combine the benefits of the on-site and laboratory settings. Two measurement points per location were recorded—one at a position where the intervention was clearly perceptible, the other further away to serve as a baseline condition. The participants (N = 44) were exposed to acoustic environments (N = 6) recorded using the first-order Ambisonics microphone on-site and then reproduced via the second-order Ambisonics system in laboratory. A series of rank-based Kruskal–Wallis tests were performed on the results of the subjective responses. Results revealed a statistically significant positive effect on soundscape at two locations, and limitations related to sound source identification due to cultural factors and geometrical configuration of the public space at one location.

scholarly journals Placemaking Interventions in Palestine as Demonstration Effects on the Ground

2020 ◽  
pp. 167-176
Author(s):  
Ahmad El-Atrash
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Gaza Strip ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
The West ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Urban And Rural Areas ◽  
Privately Owned

The urban development and rapid urbanization that the West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip have recently encountered have adversely affected the quality and availability of open spaces inside the Palestinian urban and rural areas. Public spaces are fundamental in the lives of any community striving to achieve a sustainable and inclusive environment and improve the quality of life of its inhabitants. In that respect, the prevailing planning practices fall short in terms of adequately addressing the provision of public spaces. Laws and regulations are designed to focus on limited physical properties of buildings (e.g. building design, elevation, heights, setbacks, parking, etc.,) with little or no attention to the residual space, inevitably, created between those blocks. Lands are chiefly privately owned, and considered of a very high value due to the artificial land scarcity phenomenon resulted from the geo-political classification of the West Bank Existing public spaces are not welcoming to the general public. Spaces are misplaced and scattered, they offer pre-defined activities and an inflexible environment. Many parts of the society feel alienated to such public spaces, created by a top-down process with minimal integration of their needs and aspirations.

Cultural aspects of future specialists training in modern conditions

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (Extra-D) ◽  
pp. 117-126
Author(s):  
Galina Bohatyryova ◽  
Yurii Horban ◽  
Oksana Koshelieva ◽  
Olga Bigus ◽  
Oleksandr Chepalov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
Cultural Environment ◽  
Cultural Characteristics ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Multicultural Environment ◽  
Teachers Attitudes ◽  
Education Of Students ◽  
Cultural Features

This study is based on the results of the OECD (2018) structured survey of 1,093 teachers at universities in Australia, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Georgia, Malta, Vietnam, Turkey, and Argentina, examined policy, the practice of cultural characteristics in training specialists, and teachers' attitudes to cultural diversity. The attitude and perception of cultural features by teachers does not determine the practice of forming a cultural environment and managing this environment to ensure quality education of students of different nations. The main culturological aspects of training are self-expression of cultural and ethnic identities, expression of cultural characteristics and their value through multicultural activities in universities, teaching students to combat ethnic or cultural discrimination. Therefore, the formation of a multicultural environment in higher education occurs through the activities of students and teachers, which complement each other.

Cultural Aspects of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale in Relation to British Mental Patients

1956 ◽  
Vol 102 (428) ◽  
pp. 612-618 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. P. S. Robertson ◽  
K. J. Batcheldor
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Clinical Psychologists ◽  
Adult Intelligence Scale ◽  
Intelligence Scale ◽  
Mental Patients ◽  
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale ◽  
Adult Intelligence ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Picture Completion ◽  
Wechsler Adult Intelligence

The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale is now rapidly replacing the Wechsler-Bellevue as the major battery used by British clinical psychologists to test intelligence or intellectual deterioration. The following investigation was conducted to ascertain divergences in British mental patients from the American order of difficulty of items in the Information, Vocabulary and Picture Completion Tests, where both obvious and subtle cultural factors are present. The equivalence of certain possible substitute items was also explored.

scholarly journals Human Settlement Assessment in Jinan From a Facility Resource Perspective

SAGE Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 215824402092405
Author(s):  
Xue-ming Li ◽  
Zhi-zhen Bai ◽  
Shen-zhen Tian ◽  
Jun Yang ◽  
Yu-jie Guo
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Spatial Density ◽  
Human Settlement ◽  
Human Settlements ◽  
Circular Structure ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Total Settlement ◽  
Density Analysis ◽  
Residential Space ◽  
Settlement Distribution

Multisource data, spatial density analysis, and a gravity model were used to evaluate and analyze differentiation and controls of human settlement locations in Jinan, China. The results indicate the following. (a) The spatial distribution of human settlements follows a block-style, is axially extended, and has a multicenter development pattern with a significant circular structure. (b) The distributions of many settlement types are similar to the total settlement distribution. Residential space exhibits the highest correlation with public space, whereas financial space has the smallest correlation with business space. A high matching value for human settlement is found at the junction of the five districts in Jinan, whereas the Pingyin and Shanghe counties exhibit the lowest value. (c) Areas with human settlement exhibit typical hierarchies. Performance is dominated by the five districts, Zhangqiu is subdominant, and other districts represent an edge-dependent hierarchical system. Radial spatial settlement structures are centered on the five districts, with a centripetal and multicentric “western dense, eastern sparse” regional pattern. (d) Topography is the main factor that generates differentiation. Road network density affects the distribution and grade of human settlement areas, gross domestic factor is a key factor that affects the formation of human settlement structures, and population aggregation is a prerequisite for human settlement distribution, as well as a catalytic factor for differentiation of human settlements.

Human settlement managers training programme: the integrated management of human settlements

1979 ◽  
Vol 4 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 155-167
Author(s):  
Division of Human Settlements and Socio-cultural Environment, UNESCO-UNEP
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Management ◽  
Training Programme ◽  
Human Settlement ◽  
Human Settlements
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