The private-public collection museum

2019 ◽  
pp. 153-175
Author(s):  
Georgina S. Walker
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Author(s):  
Renata Cristina Ferreira Dias ◽  
Vanete Thomaz-Soccol ◽  
Aline Kuhn Sbruzzi Pasquali ◽  
Silvana Maria Alban ◽  
Ricardo Cancio Fendrich ◽  
...  

Abstract The aim of this study was to investigate the occurrence of anti-Leishmania spp. antibodies in dogs from localities in the city of Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná state, Brazil, on the border with Argentina and Paraguay. Blood samples dogs were collected to perform the following serologic tests: immunochromatographic DPP® rapid test, indirect immunoenzymatic assay (ELISA) and indirect immunofluorescence assay (IFA). In 2012, 285 dogs were analyzed on Argentina border, and in 2013, serum samples from 396 dogs on the border of Paraguay were collected. Using ELISA for screening and IFA for the confirmatory test, the results showed that the antibody prevalence was 1.8% (5/285) on the border of Argentina and 3.0% (12/396) on Paraguay border. When using the DPP® for screening and ELISA as a confirmatory analysis, we observed a seroreagent prevalence in dogs of 2.5% (7/285) on Argentina border and 5.1% (20/396) on Paraguay border. The non-public collection of domestic waste (p= 0.0004) was shown to be associated with leishmaniasis. This study shows the presence of leishmaniasis and suggest the emergence of canine visceral leishmaniasis in state of Paraná due to the confirmed occurrence of seroreactive dogs on Argentina and Paraguay border, which has environmental and geographical characteristics that favor the spread of the parasite.


Author(s):  
Christoph Lange ◽  
Michael Kohlhase

In this chapter, we present the SWiM system, a prototype semantic wiki for collaboratively building, editing, and browsing mathematical knowledge. SWiM is based on the semantic wiki IkeWiki, but replaces the wiki text with OMDoc, a markup format and ontology language for mathematical documents as the underlying knowledge representation format. Our long-term objective is to evolve SWiM into an integrated platform for ontology-based added-value services. As a social semantic work environment, it will facilitate the creation of a shared, public collection of mathematical knowledge (e.g., for education) and serve scientists as a tool for collaborative development of new theories. We discuss the architecture of the SWiM system focusing on its conceptual base, the OMDoc system ontology. In contrast to other semantic wikis, SWiM uses the system ontology to operationalize the fragments and relations of the underlying representation format, not only the domain ontology, that is, the relations between the represented objects themselves. We will present the prototype implementation of the SWiM system and propose its further evolution into a service platform for science and technology.


Author(s):  
J. Noorduyn

For more than three and a half centuries the Bodleian Library at Oxford has possessed three palm-leaf MSS originating from Java, probably the earliest of their kind to be included in a Western public collection. They bear the shelfmarks MS.Jav.b.l (R), MS.Jav.b.2 (R), and MS.Jav.b.3 (R), for which I shall use the numbers 1, 2, and 3 here for convenience sake.In the relevant published literature, to be referred to below, there exists some uncertainty, not about the identity of the two persons who donated these MSS, but about the question of which of them gave which one. This is true explicitly for MS. no. 3, and by implication for the others. When first examining this MS, I was informed by the then Keeper of Oriental Books that it “was a 17th century gift, either by Andrew James in 1627, or by the Earl of Pembroke in 1629, more probably the latter”. This dual possibility was subsequently adopted in publications about this MS. Only a recent examination of the pertinent data, both published and unpublished, has shown that they do allow of a definite conclusion being reached, as will be demonstrated below.2


PLoS ONE ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. e47974 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorjbal Dorjsuren ◽  
Daemyung Kim ◽  
Vaddadi N. Vyjayanti ◽  
David J. Maloney ◽  
Ajit Jadhav ◽  
...  

ILR Review ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda N. Edwards ◽  
Franklin R. Edwards

This study examines the hypothesis advanced by Wellington and Winter that public sector unions have greater power than private sector unions to raise wages. To test this hypothesis the authors use a unique body of 1974 data on several aspects of residential solid waste collection in 175 cities, 95 with public collection systems and 80 with private systems. In both groups of cities some work forces are unionized and some are not. The authors' analysis shows that unionization raises the wages of sanitation workers in the public sector by considerably more than it raises the wages of such workers in the private sector, thus providing strong support for the Wellington-Winter thesis.


2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 1191
Author(s):  
Zaine Lyra Mendonça ◽  
Ana Lúcia Bezerra Candeias ◽  
Vanice Fragoso Selva ◽  
Marlene Maria Silva ◽  
Gilberto Gonçalves Rodrigues ◽  
...  

 Este trabalho mostra os resultados de uma pesquisa sobre as condições sanitárias de algumas comunidades rurais, situadas no alto trecho do rio Pajeú, semiárido pernambucano. Nos períodos de estiagem, os açudes e poços são as fontes de águas mais utilizadas para o abastecimento das cisternas, equipamento de reservação presente em 100% das residências visitadas. As águas de três dessas fontes foram classificadas como doces, de acordo com a legislação em vigor.A forma de tratamento mais usada para as águas de consumo doméstico foi a aplicação de hipoclorito. Quanto aos resíduos gerados pelas famílias, onde a coleta pública municipal não está presente, o principal destino dos resíduos é a queima a céu aberto. Os dejetos de animais são, em sua maioria, utilizados como fertilizantes, embora tenha sido observada a presença desses resíduos em algumas nascentes. De forma geral, as principais práticas sanitárias encontradas nas comunidades visitadas, em sua maioria, são caracterizadas pela individualidade, devido à ausência de serviços públicos coletivos. Algumas práticas, como a queima de resíduos sólidos é diretamente nociva à saúde das pessoas, além de poder se constituir em uma importante fonte de poluição, à medida que a população e a quantidade de resíduos aumentam. Por outro lado, as famílias entrevistadas apresentaram certo nível de conhecimento quanto à necessidade de descontaminação da água usada para beber e cozinhar, e o aproveitamento agrícola dos nutrientes contidos nos dejetos de animais.Palavras-chave: saneamento básico; comunidades rurais; semiárido. Aspects of Sanitation and Use of Waterin Small Rural Communities of Pernambuco’s Semiarid ABSTRACTThis article shows the results of a research about the health conditions of some rural communities, located on the upper course of Pajeú River, in the semiarid region of Pernambuco State, Brazil. In periods of drought, dams and wells are the most used sources of water for the supply of cisterns, which are tanks or containers, for storing or holding water that are present in 100% of the visited homes. The water from three of those sources was classified as freshwater, according to the legislation. The most widely used form of treatment of water for domestic consumption was the use of hypochlorite. The waste generated by households where the municipal public collection is not available is, most of the time, burned in the open air. Animal manure is commonly used as fertilizer, although its presence has also been observed in some river sources. Overall, the main sanitary practices found in the communities visited are, in their majority, characterized by individuality, due to the absence of collective public services. Some practices, such as burning solid waste, is directly harmful to people's health, and can constitute an important source of pollution, as the population and the amount of waste increase. On the other hand, the families that were interviewed had some level of knowledge on: (i) the need for decontamination ofwater used for drinking and cooking; and (ii) the use of the nutrients contained in animal manure in agriculture.Keywords: sanitation; rural communities; semiarid. 


2010 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-131
Author(s):  
Žygintas Būčys

Vilnius UniversityThe present article provides a discussion about the collection of Oriental art acquired from Kronstadt residents in 1862 and exhibited at the Vilnius Museum of Antiquities. This was the first public collection of its kind in Lithuania. For this reason, the article is devoted to an analysis of the meanings and provisions that the Lithuanian scholarly community sought to impart to the exhibits of this collection as well as how they were perceived by the society at the time. A detailed discussion about the content of the collection, its attribution and donors is provided. 


2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 915
Author(s):  
Michele F. Fontefrancesco

Photos are by their very nature evocative objects (Turkle 2007). This paper investigates the ability of a photo's capacity to trigger narratives about the self and the past. It argues that the collection of historic, private photos and the creation of a public photographic archive build a sense of community. The paper is the result of an ethnographic work conducted in Lu (AL) between 2010 and 2012. In this village, the local museum curetted a public collection of private and public photos dating from the late decades of the 19th century to the 1960s, in order to create a freely accessible internet archive. In a few months, in a village of about 1000 people, over 1000 photos were donated. On the basis of the collected photos, the museum organized periodical exhibitions that attracted many hundreds of visitors. The research investigates the entire process of photo collection, collective organization of a new photographic archive, its use for the organization of photo exhibitions, and the participation in these initiatives by local and foreign visitors. Focusing on exhibitions as an arena of social interaction in particular, the paper investigates how the evocativeness of a community's past can create a sense of belonging in the community, and that the very sense of community is negotiated and re-shaped.


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