scholarly journals Colonists and the Natural Environment in 18th Century Sydney

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-37
Author(s):  
Graeme Aplin
Keyword(s):  
Natural Environment ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
The Moment

Early European inhabitants of Sydney found themselves in a strange natural environment, far removed from those of the Britain they had left behind. They reacted to it in various ways, were constrained by it in various ways, and began to change their new environment from the moment they first stepped ashore. This study focuses on the two-way interaction between humans and nature, from the landing of the First Fleet to the end of the 18th century. It primarily uses first-hand accounts, attempting to read between the lines or deconstruct them to gain a possible overview of the range of early European reactions to the Sydney environment, and to at least begin to understand them. It also uses this evidence to look at and better understand the constraints that the environment placed on the daily life of the colonists in early Sydney, as well as the ways in which those early Sydneysiders changed their environment. Later historical works and more recent studies of Sydney’s natural environment are also used to help in furthering these understandings.

MANAGEMENT AND SPATIAL PLANNING IN THE COASTAL ZONE OF THE CHEBOKSARY RESERVOIR

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inna Nikonorova ◽  
Inna Nikonorova
Keyword(s):  
Natural Environment ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Agricultural Landscapes ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Cheboksary Reservoir ◽  
Functional Zoning ◽  
Area Of Influence ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Special Protection Areas ◽  
Conceptual Foundations

Cheboksary reservoir impact to the coast is manifested in the geophysical impact associated with abrasion activities. Geomorphological area of influence at the moment reaches a width of about 40 m, where are the coasts reformation (erosion, collapse, slumping, sliding, transfer or accumulation of sediments, waterlogged processes). Hydrogeological impact is effect on the level of groundwater. We have proposed the conceptual foundations of functional zoning of the reservoir banks that will help to optimize its operation. Selection zones came in accordance with the principles of landscape planning: 1. The zone of strict water protection: the main purpose – preservation of needing special protection areas. 2. The zone of moderate restrictions: preservation extensively used landscapes. 3. The zone of partial restrictions: improving the pre-emptive particularly vulnerable areas and changing intensity or type of use. 4. The zone of conservation of natural components in agricultural landscapes: ensuring health of the natural environment in the habitats used in agricultural economy. 5. The zone of preservation of vacant space and the natural environment in the settlements: to maintain the required quantity and quality of available green space in the large towns. 6. The zone of improving heavily used areas: elimination of harmful stress and environmental sanitation in the countryside where economic activities and the lack of measures to reduce their risks lead to degradation natural system.

The Home at the core of Modernity, an optimistic architecture

2021 ◽  
pp. 2-3
Author(s):  
Ana Tostões
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Single Family ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
Modern Movement

Devoted to the theme of single-family houses, given the key role they played in the ideal definition of the Modern Movement architecture, as a symbolic and functional affirmation of the utopian turning of dreams into reality, the aim of this issue is to consider the transformation of daily life, and to address the architectural challenges that arose from the joy contained in what we might call the “architecture of happiness.” As we continue to endure a pandemic that has now lasted for more than a year, docomomo wishes to declare that “till the moment, the best vaccine to prevent contagion was invented by architects: the house”. Thus, in response to the question “How should we live?”, it is intended to debate the house and the home agenda as an important topic at the core of Modern Movement architecture. Nowadays, the growing emphasis on wellbeing goes beyond the seminal ideas that modern houses were “machines à habiter” and is closer to an idealistic vision of a stimulating shell for humans, which is shaped by imagination, experimentation, efficiency, and knowledge.

Human Factors in Classification and Certification

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
James C. Card ◽  
Clifford C. Baker ◽  
Kevin P. McSweeney ◽  
Denise B. McCafferty
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Maritime Safety ◽  
The Public ◽  
Human Element ◽  
The Past ◽  
Design Construction

Since the 18th century, Classification Societies have served the public interest by promoting the security of life, property, and the natural environment. This has been accomplished primarily through the development and verification of standards for the design, construction, and maintenance of marine facilities, however, new insights gained over the past decade have motivated maritime safety organizations to better address the contribution of the human element to maritime casualties and accidents.

scholarly journals Conceptual Framework for the Conservation of Natural Environment from Toxic Ionic Liquids by QSAR Model

2021 ◽  
Vol 287 ◽  
pp. 03007
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ishaq Khan ◽  
Dzulkarnain Zaini ◽  
Azmi Mohd Shariff
Keyword(s):  
Ionic Liquids ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Qsar Model ◽  
Quantitative Structure Activity Relationship ◽  
Good Choice ◽  
Ionic Structure ◽  
Quantitative Structure ◽  
Imidazolium Ionic Liquids ◽  
Structure Activity

The natural environment has been affected by human activities to fulfil daily life needs. Abundance and hazardousness of the chemicals including ionic liquids is one of the most challenging aspect to be handled by human as well as for the natural environment. Due to ionic structure, ionic liquids are very good choice for a variety of applications. The natural environment might be affected by the ionic liquids which can be toxic. Therefore, there is a need to address this problem by studying the ecotoxicological behaviour of these ionic liquids. The main objective of current research is to model the toxicity ecotoxicological behaviour is studied by quantitative structure activity relationship (QSAR). QSARs predicts the toxicity of ionic liquids. In current research a relationship between polarizability and toxicity for imidazolium ionic liquids with different alky chain length having NTF2 anion has been modelled. The success of current research will be very helpful to protect the nature by minimizing the killing of testing animals as well as ensuring the safety of biotic components of the ecosystem.

scholarly journals NEW IMAGES OF THE OB-UGRIC CULTURE: THE TRACES OF ISLAM IN THE RELIGIOUS ORNAMENT

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-330
Author(s):  
Olga Nikolaevna Naumenko
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Population ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Cultural Transformation ◽  
Greek Orthodox ◽  
The North ◽  
Applied Art ◽  
New Phenomena ◽  
External Borrowing ◽  
Muslim Culture

The article considers the process of transformation of the Ob Ugrian culture on the basis of the analysis of the unique collection of objects of decorative and applied art of the XVII-XXI centuries. This process reflects the formation of a group with a syncretic culture (Ob-Ugric Istiaks). The action of the frontier through contacts with the Siberian Tatars led to the enrichment of culture through external borrowing. The author draws attention to the fact that the Ob Ugrians were ready for cultural transformation within the framework of adoption of other, but necessary norms for survival. The article emphasizes that the Orthodox missionaries were “late” in relation to this part of the Ob Ugrians, since by the 18th century Islam (in the regional version) had already become a part of their spiritual and daily life. Evolutionary processes have led to new phenomena in the Ugric culture. The author analyzes the decorative ornaments of the felon on wooden sculptures of Nikolay Mozhaisky of the 17th century, comparing them with ornaments of the indigenous population of the North, objects related to Christian and Muslim culture. The author’s attention was drawn to the chess ornament. In the process of the analysis several hypotheses of its origin are put forward - from the connection with the Greek Orthodox culture to the reflection of the Northern traditions and the Muslim ornament-girih in its Siberian version: the article focuses on the latter option. Ob-Ugric culture is syncretic in its content, covers a variety of forms of customs, faith, language, life. In the present article the author makes a certain contribution to the study of this problem, highlighting one of the sides of the original Ob-Ugric culture.

scholarly journals Mobile accident report and road assistance application

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 124-128
Author(s):  
Nadide Duygu Solak ◽  
Murat Topaloglu
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Traffic Accident ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
Loss Assessment ◽  
The Road ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
The Moment

The number of mobile applications has been increasing rapidly in every field of life with the increasing use of smart devices. Smartphones and tablets make our lives easier with their properties and application they include. Minor or major accidents in traffic are always present in the daily life resulting in financial damage and loss of lives. There have been a number of studies done to speed up the processes to be done from the moment an accident happens. This study aims to enable people to perform all of the post-accident processes quickly and accurately with the use of mobile devices. In this way, papers and documents like photographs will be sent to the competent authorities without wasting time and effort. In addition, access to the road assistance needed will be quite easy. Keywords: Traffic accident, loss assessment and proceedings, mobile application.

The Secular Pilgrimage of Orthodoxy in America

2019 ◽  
pp. 80-93
Author(s):  
Vigen Guroian
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Natural Disaster ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Public Intellectuals ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Secular Society ◽  
American Society ◽  
Social Upheaval

With the notable exception of the Russian mission in Alaska, for the most part the Orthodox Church did not come to America as mission but followed its people’s departure from the homeland, often under extremities of war, social upheaval, or natural disaster. There was no preparation for coming here. They left behind historical Orthodox cultures and were immersed immediately into a society that the Orthodox faith had no role in shaping, a secular society that bafflingly was also religious, though not in any familiar way. Through conversation with theologians and public intellectuals like Schmemann, Parsons, Herberg, Berger, and Berry, this essay first traces the lineage of secularism back to Christianity. The unmooring of virtue from the transcendent, more specifically from the salvific sacrifice of Christ, has yielded secularism as a “step-child” of Christianity. In response, many Orthodox Americans turn to ethnic identity as a means of imbuing daily life with the faith. This, however, is more a sign of a dying church than a means of sustaining its life. The challenge is to renew a sense of the sacred, a liturgical worldview, within the pluralism of American society.

Komische Interventionen: Der Hanswurst und das Wiener Spaßtheater des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts

Daphnis ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 360-373
Author(s):  
Annette Keck
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Popular Entertainment ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Theatrical Culture

During the 17th and 18th century the ‘Hanswurst’ figures as the most prominent fool in plays of travelling theatres in German speaking countries. The following article concentrates on Vienna and its theatrical culture. It conceives the dramatic function of this special fool as an artful intervention that opens up a space of/for cultural and aesthetic negotiations. The author will argue that this ‘playground’ constitutes a culture of popular entertainment, which paradoxically ends at the moment of its instauration.

scholarly journals Interaction of both positive and negative daily-life experiences with FKBP5 haplotype on psychosis risk

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Cristóbal-Narváez ◽  
Tamara Sheinbaum ◽  
Araceli Rosa ◽  
Marta de Castro-Catala ◽  
Tecelli Domínguez-Martínez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Variants ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Symptomatic Improvement ◽  
Risk Haplotype ◽  
Environment Interaction ◽  
Nucleotide Polymorphisms ◽  
Protective Mechanisms ◽  
Fk506 Binding Protein ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Interpersonal Domain

Abstract Background. There is limited research on the interaction of both positive and negative daily-life environments with stress-related genetic variants on psychotic experiences (PEs) and negative affect (NA) across the extended psychosis phenotype. This study examined whether the FK506 binding protein 51 (FKBP5) variability moderates the association of positive and negative experiences in the moment with PEs and NA in participants with incipient psychosis and their nonclinical counterparts. Methods. A total of 233 nonclinical and 86 incipient psychosis participants were prompted for a 1-week period to assess their day-to-day experiences. Participants were genotyped for four FKBP5 single nucleotide polymorphisms (rs3800373, rs9296158, rs1360780, and rs9470080). Results. Multilevel analyses indicated that, unlike the risk haplotype, the protective FKBP5 haplotype moderated all the associations of positive experiences with diminished PEs and NA in incipient psychosis compared with nonclinical group. Conclusions. Participants with incipient psychosis showed symptomatic improvement when reporting positive appraisals in the interpersonal domain, which suggests that these act as a powerful coping mechanism. The fact that this occurred in daily-life underscores the clinical significance of this finding and pinpoints the importance of identifying protective mechanisms. In addition, results seem to concur with the vantage sensitivity model of gene–environment interaction, which poses that certain genetic variants may enhance the likelihood of benefiting from positive exposures.

Online Polygamy or Virtual Bride

2010 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 499-507 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uğur Batı ◽  
Bünyamin Atıcı
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Communication And Technology ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Technology Area

The developments that were experienced in the communication and technology area made Internet an important part of the daily life. In this respect, with the development of Internet, the changes in the social structure are closely connected with the lifestyles, attitudes, and behaviors of the people. In the study, the phenomena of virtual fellow wife and polygamy are researched and analyzed. A qualitative research, which is based on the observation fundamentally and richened with a survey and in-depth interviews, is carried out in accordance with the ethnographic research that is used in this study. The behavior-oriented observations are performed and the oral reports are arranged with the requirements that the research is performed in the natural environment. In the research, we see that two arguments such as “I have been never remorseful because I am brought/I come as a fellow wife virtually” and “Bringing a fellow wife is not a question, it is our tradition” showed the highest attitudes.

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