scholarly journals Foreword Special Issue: When volcanologists meet archaeologists and other disciplines

2021 ◽  
Vol 64 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauro Antonio Di Vito ◽  
Franco Foresta Martin ◽  
Maria Clara Martinelli
Keyword(s):  
Volcanic Activity ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
International Conference ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact

This special issue of Annals of Geophysics entitled: “When Volcanologists Meet Archaeologists and Other Disciplines: Relationships Between Eruptions and Human Communities” originates from a session (S13) of the Rittmann International Conference which took place in Catania on February 13th 2020, having as its main theme the history of volcanology and the impact of volcanic activity on humans. The twelve articles collected in this special issue reflect the aims and contents of the reports presented by some participants at this session of the Rittmann conference

Special Issue on Extinction of Organisms

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 165-165
Author(s):  
Hiroyoshi Higuchi ◽  
Hideaki Karaki
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Alien Species ◽  
Volcanic Activity ◽  
Population Decline ◽  
Habitat Destruction ◽  
Chemical Pollution ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact

Plants and animals are declining or becoming extinct in many parts of the world. They include both well-known species such as the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) and the crested ibis (Nipponia nippon) and once common land snails, fireflies and small migratory birds. Factors leading to population decline or extinction include habitat destruction, chemical pollution, alien species, poaching, infectious disease, and global warming. In addition to their individual adverse impacts, these factors often overlap or interconnect in time and space, compounding their effects. In limited areas isolated by habitat destruction, for example, alien species and global warming more easily cause local populations to decline and become extinct. There are also natural disasters such as volcanic activity and meteors that diminish or exterminate flora and fauna populations. However, extinction of species and groups sometimes give an opportunity for other species and groups to occupy vacant niche and similar life styles, which may lead to adaptive radiation in evolution. Organisms have repeated such evolution and extinction throughout geological history. This special issue focuses on the extinction of plants and animals resulting from both human activity and natural disasters. In the first of seven articles, Hisashi Nagata reviews the history of extinction and the natural and human factors involved. Kazuto Kawakami looks at the impact of alien species on current ecosystems in the Ogasawara Islands, demonstrating interrelationships among different plant and animal species and pointing out what we could do about island ecosystem conservation and management. Haruo Ogi discusses the effects of fisheries by-catch on sea birds. TatsuyaKunisue and Shinsuke Tanabe detail the effects of chemical pollution on wild animals. Both factors are important in conserving biodiversity and in maintaining industries such as marine fisheries. Kazuya Ashizawa et al. focus on the population decline and extinction of plants growing along dry river beds and becoming rare as a result of human activities changing the structure of natural rivers. Yunshan Su deals with the history of the near extinction of crested ibises in China, and introduces successful recovery programs that may be useful in a similar Japanese program for the same species. Takashi Kamijo et al. detail the impact of volcanic activity on the vegetation of a small island, discussing ecosystem recovery. We hope that this special issue will lead to better understanding of the unique interrelationships among plants, animals and the inorganic world, teaching how to conserve and manage the biodiversity around us. Extinction of one species may appear to have nothing to do with human lives, but the extinction of many plants and animals sets up serious conditions in maintaining life during the changing structure and function of ecosystems comparable in process to an aircraft losing rivets one by one and finally crashing at a critical point with massive loss of life.

scholarly journals A Brief History of the Major Rickettsioses in the Asia–Australia–Pacific Region: A Capstone Review for the Special Issue of TMID

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 165
Author(s):  
Daniel H. Paris ◽  
Daryl J. Kelly ◽  
Paul A. Fuerst ◽  
Nicholas P. J. Day ◽  
Allen L. Richards
Keyword(s):  
Scrub Typhus ◽  
Spotted Fever ◽  
Specific Antigen ◽  
Far East ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Rickettsial Disease ◽  
History Of ◽  
Rickettsial Diseases ◽  
The Impact

The rickettsioses of the “Far East” or Asia–Australia–Pacific region include but are not limited to endemic typhus, scrub typhus, and more recently, tick typhus or spotted fever. These diseases embody the diversity of rickettsial disease worldwide and allow us to interconnect the various contributions to this special issue of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease. The impact of rickettsial diseases—particularly of scrub typhus—was substantial during the wars and “police actions” of the last 80 years. However, the post-World War II arrival of effective antibiotics reduced their impact, when recognized and adequately treated (chloramphenicol and tetracyclines). Presently, however, scrub typhus appears to be emerging and spreading into regions not previously reported. Better diagnostics, or higher population mobility, change in antimicrobial policies, even global warming, have been proposed as possible culprits of this phenomenon. Further, sporadic reports of possible antibiotic resistance have received the attention of clinicians and epidemiologists, raising interest in developing and testing novel diagnostics to facilitate medical diagnosis. We present a brief history of rickettsial diseases, their relative importance within the region, focusing on the so-called “tsutsugamushi triangle”, the past and present impact of these diseases within the region, and indicate how historically, these often-confused diseases were ingeniously distinguished from each another. Moreover, we will discuss the importance of DNA-sequencing efforts for Orientia tsutsugamushi, obtained from patient blood, vector chiggers, and rodent reservoirs, particularly for the dominant 56-kD type-specific antigen gene (tsa56), and whole-genome sequences, which are increasing our knowledge of the diversity of this unique agent. We explore and discuss the potential of sequencing and other effective tools to geographically trace rickettsial disease agents, and develop control strategies to better mitigate the rickettsioses.

The Colonial Experience in Education: Historical Issues and Perspectives. Edited by ANTONIO NÓVOA, MARC DEPAEPE, ERWIN V. JOHANNINGMEIER. (Pedagogica Historica: Supplementary Series, Vol. 1.) Gent: CSHP, 1995. Pp. 382. Belg. Fr. 1200 (ISSN 0030-9230; ISBN 90-800947-3-6).

1997 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-177
Author(s):  
JOHN D. HARGREAVES
Keyword(s):  
History Of Education ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
International Conference ◽  
Supplementary Series ◽  
Colonial Experience ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
Historical Issues ◽  
Selection Of

This special issue of Pedagogica Historica, a journal published from the University of Gent, presents a selection of eighteen papers from an international conference on the history of education held in Lisbon in 1993. The texts are in English and French, although there are no contributors from France or Britain. The contributions deal with general themes and European backgrounds as well as colonial experience. Six which relate to Africa will be briefly described here.

Introduction

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Margo S. Gewurtz
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Chinese Diaspora ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Medical Practices ◽  
Missionary Work ◽  
Intercultural Encounters ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Populous Country

During most of the modern history of the expansion of Western Christendom, China, as the world’s most populous country, was the great prize. Although the results were disappointing, as the numbers of converts both Protestant and Catholic remained relatively small throughout the height of China missions in the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, the promise of China missions never diminished. Despite the pre-eminence of China in overall mission history, very little attention has been given to the role and influence of China missions beyond the borders of China proper either to the Chinese diaspora or to the wider mission community. This special issue is a first attempt to explore the impact of “China” in missions beyond China’s borders. For our purposes, China becomes both a place where tactics and vocabulary could be invented and tried, a sort of laboratory for mission methodology, and a place of the imagination where “muscular” Christianity could be displayed and tested, or where medical practices were adapted with global implications. In more recent times, China missions, not allowed on the mainland after 1950, have once again as they did in the nineteenth century, addressed the needs of the Chinese diaspora in Europe and America. The essays in this collection challenge scholars to reflect more broadly on the variety of intercultural encounters enabled by missionary work, and ask us to think of this history trans-nationally by going beyond the borders of single nations or mission fields to embrace a global perspective.

Introduction to the Special Issue on Faith-Based Organizing in the USA

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 383-397
Author(s):  
Katie Day
Keyword(s):  
Community Organizing ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Social Mobilization ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Usa ◽  
History Of ◽  
Community Organizer ◽  
The Impact

Abstract This article serves as an introduction to faith-based community organizing and to this special issue of IJPT. First, an overview of the history of community organizing in the US includes introductions to the key figures (Saul Alinsky and Ed Chambers), organizing networks and methods currently employed. Then current challenges to community organizing are explored, such as technology, gender and race. Further, the rigid distinction between broad-based and issue organizing is challenged. Finally, the article notes that the impact of Barack Obama’s background as a community organizer on political discourse has raised the profile of this form of social mobilization, and it is reframing the questions raised for public theologians as community organizing moves into the future.

scholarly journals Between the Altar and the Pulpit: The (New?) Materiality of the Spiritual

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 0-136
Author(s):  
Raingard Esser ◽  
Andrea Strübind
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
The Political ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
International Conference ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Modern Europe ◽  
Parish Churches ◽  
The Impact

This special issue is based on papers presented at the international conference “Zwischen Kanzel und Altar. Die (neue) Materialität des Spirituellen” held at the Johannes a Lasco Bibliothek, Emden in April 2016. Continuity and change in church interiors were key concepts addressed at the conference. The studies presented here analyse the impact of confessional change on church interiors and intentionally move away from the cathedrals and parish churches in the political and religious centres of early modern Europe.

scholarly journals Between the Altar and the Pulpit: The (New?) Materiality of the Spiritual

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 2-13
Author(s):  
Raingard Esser ◽  
Andrea Strübind
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
The Political ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
International Conference ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Modern Europe ◽  
Parish Churches ◽  
The Impact

The special issue is based on papers presented at the international conference “Zwischen Kanzel und Altar. Die (neue) Materialität des Spirituellen” held at the Johannes a Lasco Bibliothek, Emden in April 2016. Continuity and change in church interiors were key concepts addressed at the conference. The studies presented here analyse the impact of confessional change on church interiors and intentionally move away from the cathedrals and parish churches in the political and religious centres of early modern Europe.

scholarly journals A brief history of news making in Russia

Journalism ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 146488492094195
Author(s):  
Ilya Yablokov ◽  
Elisabeth Schimpfössl
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Media Control ◽  
Journalism Studies ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
The Us ◽  
History Of ◽  
Political Intervention ◽  
The Impact

In this introductory article to our special issue on newsmaking in Russia, we provide a context for how the study of journalism evolved in Russia in contrast to Europe and the US. This brief historical overview helps make sense of the specific trajectory of journalism studies: from normative Cold War perspectives to a highly diverse and vibrant field that considers journalistic agency, the interplay of commercialisation and media control and the complexities of a rapidly changing media environment. The contributions to this special issue present nuanced approaches to self-censorship, the impact of digital technologies and political intervention.

Introduction

1980 ◽  
Vol 294 (1410) ◽  
pp. 211-215
Keyword(s):  
Satellite System ◽  
Satellite Tracking ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Station Coordinates ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Space Age ◽  
The Impact

Station coordinates can be determined at present by Doppler satellite tracking to an accuracy of about 1 m in the Navy Navigational Satellite System (N.N.S.S.). The internal precision of measurement is at the decimetre level and the main theme of the meeting is to explore means of increasing coordinate accuracy to a level approaching that of the measuring precision available. This introduction briefly reviews the impact of the space age on geodesy, outlines the history of the N.N.S.S., discusses the datum on which station coordinates are determined and looks to the future.

scholarly journals Editorial: Special Issue “Promoting STEAM in Education”

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaana Herranen ◽  
Erik Cyrus Fooladi ◽  
Marina Milner-Bolotin
Keyword(s):  
Early Years ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Student Interest ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Steam Education ◽  
Common Notion ◽  
History Of ◽  
Science Theatre ◽  
Novel Concept ◽  
The Impact

Lately STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art/aesthetics/architecture/all, mathematics) education has become a common notion. Yet, the theoretical and practical perspectives on STEAM, from its nature to classroom applications and its implementation in teacher education have unexamined potential. This special issue grew out of the International LUMAT Research Symposium “Promoting STEAM in Education” that took place at the University of Helsinki, Finland in June of 2020. With the challenges of organizing an online symposium in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, its online nature had significant advantages. The symposium drew international scholars inviting a multitude of prospective on STEAM education, while uncovering the challenges faced by educators. The issue aims at examining these challenges through a collection of papers. In this editorial, we introduce some key notions, discourses, and challenges of STEAM education, as a relatively novel concept and briefly discuss the history of STEAM and its evolution over the last decades. We also problematize STEAM and its roots through asking a question: What is “A” in STEAM representing? Then we introduce the three articles in this special issue: “Full STEAM ahead, but who has the map? – A PRISMA systematic review on the incorporation of interdisciplinary learning into schools”; Promoting STEAM learning in the early years: ‘Pequeños Científicos’ Program”; and “Promoting student interest in science: The impact of a science theatre project”. These articles challenge us to rethink STEAM education, reveal the potential of STEAM, and offer ideas for future research.

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