scholarly journals Computer Music research at FEEC/Unicamp: a snapshot of 2019

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiago Tavares ◽  
Bruno Masiero
Keyword(s):  
Computer Music ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Computer Engineering ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
Music Research ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
The University ◽  
Future Work

This is a lab report paper about the state of affairs in the computer music research group at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Campinas (FEEC/Unicamp). This report discusses the people involved in the group, the efforts in teaching and the current research work performed. Last, it provides some discussions on the lessons learned from the past few years and some pointers for future work.

Archaeology at the University of Ghana, Legon

1968 ◽  
Vol 11 (03) ◽  
pp. 314-315
Author(s):  
Merrick Posnansky
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Guinea Coast ◽  
The Past ◽  
Volta Basin ◽  
Senior Research ◽  
Extensive Program ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Ghana ◽  
Source Of Information

In October 1968, the University of Ghana commenced an extensive program in African archaeology. Graduate students from overseas are eligible to enroll for courses at the University, though no scholarships are presently available for non-Ghanaians. The Department of Archaeology of the University of Ghana was established in 1951 under the professorship of A. W. Lawrence. It presently has a senior teaching establishment of four together with a curator and two senior research fellows under the chairmanship of Professor Merrick Posnansky. The Department has a small specialist library, a museum, laboratory, dark room, workshops, and a team of trained technical staff. Most of the Department's research work is normally conducted in the dry season from November to May each year. In the past Professor Oliver Davies, author of the Quaternary of the Guinea Coast (1964) and West Africa before the Europeans (1967), conducted extensive fieldwork relating to the Stone Age and neolithic periods of Ghana's past and made large surface collections from all parts of Ghana which provide a rich topographical source of information on archaeology in Ghana. The Department has conducted extensive excavations in Ghana and its research fellows are presently engaged in writing up the results of the Volta Basin Research Project, in which more than thirty sites have been excavated since 1963 in advance of the formation of a large lake consequent upon the construction of the Volta Dam. The majority of the excavated sites have been of Iron Age date. In September 1968, Mr. C. Flight commenced a new season of excavations at “Neolithic” rock shelter sites at Kintampo, where occupations and burials dated to the middle of the second millennium B.C. were uncovered in 1967. Other excavations conducted during 1968 included work by Mr. D. Calvocoressi at the funerary terracotta site of Ahinsan and by Mr. Duncan Mathewson at the seventeenth-century A.D. Gonja site of Jakpasere. In 1969 a training excavation will be conducted at Elmina on the sixteenth- to eighteenth-century A.D. town in the vicinity of the Portuguese castle.

Lessons Learned From Three Months of Pharmaceutical-Care Digital-Education at the University of Basel, Switzerland

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (11) ◽  
pp. 479-481
Author(s):  
Isabelle Arnet ◽  
Pascal C. Baumgartner ◽  
Vera Bernhardt ◽  
Markus L. Lampert ◽  
Kurt E. Hersberger
Keyword(s):  
Pharmaceutical Care ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Cell Phones ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Digital Education ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Online Format ◽  
The University

An acceptable degree of digital literacy has always been present among the pharmacy teaching staff in Basel, with PowerPoint being the main vehicle to present teaching materials in front of full or half classes. Because cell phones became inseparable from students over the past years, mobile voting (movo.ch) or e-quizzes (mentimeter.com) have been regularly used to hold the attention of all students during collective teaching. Moreover, e-assessment on iPad® with the software BeAxi (www.k2prime.com) was introduced in 2012 and is currently used for all evaluations and exams. Suddenly over the night of March 16, 2020, our university, as all universities around the world, had to transfer all courses to an online format and to empower lecturers to teach from their home. This paper offers one perspective for how this digitial experiment unfolded at the University of Basel in Basel, Switzerland.

scholarly journals Engage for Equity: A Long-Term Study of Community-Based Participatory Research and Community-Engaged Research Practices and Outcomes

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 380-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Wallerstein ◽  
John G. Oetzel ◽  
Shannon Sanchez-Youngman ◽  
Blake Boursaw ◽  
Elizabeth Dickson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Research ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Community Support ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Theory Of Change ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Engaged Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Long Term Study ◽  
The University

Community-based participatory research (CBPR) and community-engaged research have been established in the past 25 years as valued research approaches within health education, public health, and other health and social sciences for their effectiveness in reducing inequities. While early literature focused on partnering principles and processes, within the past decade, individual studies, as well as systematic reviews, have increasingly documented outcomes in community support and empowerment, sustained partnerships, healthier behaviors, policy changes, and health improvements. Despite enhanced focus on research and health outcomes, the science lags behind the practice. CBPR partnering pathways that result in outcomes remain little understood, with few studies documenting best practices. Since 2006, the University of New Mexico Center for Participatory Research with the University of Washington’s Indigenous Wellness Research Institute and partners across the country has engaged in targeted investigations to fill this gap in the science. Our inquiry, spanning three stages of National Institutes of Health funding, has sought to identify which partnering practices, under which contexts and conditions, have capacity to contribute to health, research, and community outcomes. This article presents the research design of our current grant, Engage for Equity, including its history, social justice principles, theoretical bases, measures, intervention tools and resources, and preliminary findings about collective empowerment as our middle range theory of change. We end with lessons learned and recommendations for partnerships to engage in collective reflexive practice to strengthen internal power-sharing and capacity to reach health and social equity outcomes.

scholarly journals Sosialisasi Dan Penyuluhan Hukum Tentang Hibah, Wasiat, Wakaf, Dan Waris Di Wilayah Kecamatan Cinere Kota Depok

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Ahmad Baihaki ◽  
Yulianto Syahyu ◽  
Adi Nur Rohman ◽  
Harinanto Sugiono
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Law ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
The Past ◽  
Legal Problems ◽  
The People ◽  
The Will ◽  
Additional Reference ◽  
The University ◽  
Case Data

Grants, wills, endowments, and inheritance are legal instruments that are often used by someone to transfer their assets or wealth to others. But in practice, these four things become legal issues in society, especially for Muslim residents. Legal settlement of. This case was settled by the Religious Court. Based on case data that entered the Depok City Religious Court for the past five years until 2019, there were 24 grant cases approved, 20 wills, 8 endorsed cases, and 48 s allocation for inheritance. Some of the things behind this case and the most crucial is due to the ignorance of the community against the provisions of Indonesian law regarding grants, wills, endowments, and inheritance. On that basis, a Lecturer in the Faculty of Law of the University of Bhayangkara, Greater Jakarta, conducted socialization and legal counseling on grants, wills, endowments, and inheritance on Compilation of Islamic Law for the people in the Cinere District area. The will, endowments, and inheritance in the Compilation of Islamic Law is still very minimal. After the socialization and discussion of the law, the community's knowledge and awareness will require the implementation and legalization of grants, wills, endowments, and inheritance to improve legal problems up to the increasingly increasing religious court. The output resulting from this activity is planned to be made a waqf pocketbook as an additional reference about the legal grants, wills, endowments, and inheritance according to the Compilation of Islamic Law. Besides, the results of the activities are published in the form of implementation reports and published in scientific journals to provide comprehensive and academic-wide benefits and practical levels.

scholarly journals Preparing Astronomy Majors for the Job Market of the New Millennium

2000 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-148
Author(s):  
Victor Migenes
Keyword(s):  
Job Market ◽  
Graduate Studies ◽  
Career Expectations ◽  
The Past ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
The Us ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
American Physical ◽  
Undergraduate Programs ◽  
The University

AbstractIn the past few years the American Physical Society (APS) has conducted a number of surveys among the graduate student population in the US and also among young researchers. The purpose was to get an idea of the career expectations of the students and how these are met later on in their life. Two of the conclusions were: (1) students want to work in a research environment, preferably academic, and (2) graduate and undergraduate programs are not preparing them well for the different challenges and goals found in industry, the private sector and national laboratories. Jobs in academia, especially tenured positions, have been difficult to obtain forcing many students to give up on their goals after one or two postdoctoral positions. Some have found jobs in other sectors but others feel frustrated that their careers have not met their expectations and are poorly ‘prepared’ for other options. In the areas of Physics and Astronomy there is not much of a job market without graduate studies. So most students must continue graduate work, in these or other fields, in order to compete well in the job market. Graduate and undergraduate programs must become more responsible for the present state of affairs and for implementing improvements. This can be done by broadening the scope of the present programs so that a student is better prepared to face the challenges of other job opportunities. We present here a BSc program designed by astronomers and physicists, at the University of Guanajuato, to try to address some of these concerns and better prepare the students for either continuing with graduate studies or finding employment in an ever-changing job market.

scholarly journals Utilization of digital materials as a research resource for historical materials and applied interdisciplinary research for history and archaeology, including the research work and projects of Prof. Sato and Prof. Kikuchi

Impact ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (8) ◽  
pp. 82-84
Author(s):  
Hiroki Kikuchi ◽  
Asei Sato
Keyword(s):  
Research Work ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Important Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
Historical Materials ◽  
Cultural Importance ◽  
The Past ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Important Means ◽  
The University

The preservation of historical artefacts is an important means of understanding more about the past. Japan is home to thousands of stone inscriptions, many of which are not stored in research institutions of museums, but rather, are scattered across the country in places like roadsides or graveyards in rural locations. While these inscriptions might well be of interest to local residents, there is a need to increase awareness of their cultural importance. A team led by Hiroki Kikuchi, who is based at The Historiographical Institute within The University of Tokyo in Japan, is working to create a database which will digitise 2,700 inscription rubbings. The database will be open to the public and will provide a fascinating historical narrative as well as an important research resource.

scholarly journals Een ode aan de studie naar het verleden

Paleo-aktueel ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 83-89
Author(s):  
Fardau Mulder
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
The University

An ode to archaeology. In the studies Archaeology and History at the University of Groningen, students are often asked to critically reflect on their studies. Why are we doing what we are doing and, especially, why should we get paid? This focus is understandable in our society that is focused on economic growth, resulting in little value being assigned to the humanities. However, because of this focus, we sometimes tend to forget why we are passionate about studying the past. In this article, I bring an ode to the study of the past to counter this. I believe the study of the past can bring a perspective to the present, makes it possible to imagine a future and can nuance the constant focus on linear progress. Furthermore, the people who have access to their past should be thankful for it, since this access is not a given for everyone.

Building a Cochlear Implant Practice: Five Lessons Learned

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-21
Author(s):  
Anne M. Lobdell ◽  
Joseph E. Dansie ◽  
Sarah Hargus Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Cochlear Implant ◽  
Cochlear Implants ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Clinical Aspects ◽  
University Of Utah ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Speech Science ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

Cochlear implants are becoming available to an increasing proportion of the deaf and hard-of-hearing population. As interest in and success with cochlear implants has grown, more and more private practice clinics are incorporating them into their scopes of practice. Over the past 2 years, the first 2 authors of this article have been heavily involved in developing cochlear implant programs in separate otolaryngology private practices. A recent conversation about this process revealed several common experiences and lessons learned. During these same 2 years, the third author began teaching the cochlear implant course at the University of Utah. Although her audiology and speech science background gave her extensive knowledge of the science behind cochlear implants, she had no clinical experience with them. The first author took this course the first time the third author taught it, and the experiences and insights she shared with the third author during and since the course have been an important component of the third author’s personal education in the clinical aspects of cochlear implants. In this article, the first 2 authors share 5 things we wish we had known when first beginning their work with cochlear implants.

scholarly journals Subnational Leaders and Diplomacy

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joana Setzer ◽  
Karen Anderton
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Great Effort ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
External Relations ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Subnational Governments

Subnational diplomacy has become an increasingly important part of foreign policy and international relations. This observation concerns a state of affairs that is not necessarily obvious or given. First, by definition, subnational governments usually conduct subnational activities and address problems that affect their constituencies. Second, in many countries subnational governments undertake such an agenda without an actual legal framework authorizing such initiatives. However, with an intensified global interdependency, policy areas such as environmental protection, human rights, immigration, and trade, just to name a few, require action both at the international and territorialized levels, as many of them transcend political administrative boundaries. As a result, in the early 21st century it is possible to determine various forms of international relations conducted by subnational leaders. This activity involves direct interactions undertaken by subnational leaders and bureaucrats with other actors across borders (private, non-governmental, and governmental—national or subnational), participation in transnational networks, and/or participation in international policymaking. Because subnational governments are closer to the people and can test experimental or groundbreaking policies with less risk, oftentimes they can become pioneers of measures that can be rolled out or replicated elsewhere in the international domain. Such policy leadership is just one element of subnational engagement in the diplomatic arena whereby subnational governments move across jurisdictional levels, breaking the fixed scales in which they would traditionally operate. In the past years, scholars investigating the external relations undertaken by subnational governments have dedicated great effort to understanding the motivations for regions to go into the international arena. What these studies lack, however, is an understanding of what the implications are of subnational governments’ engagement in international relations.

scholarly journals Mandating Obesity Testing Across the Curriculum: Lessons Learned

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-34
Author(s):  
James L. DeBoy ◽  
Sally B. Monsilovich
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Body Mass ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
First Year ◽  
University Faculty ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
The Past ◽  
Placement Policy ◽  
The University ◽  
Radical Approach

In response to the obesity problem that has dramatically increased over the past 30 years, Lincoln University’s HPER faculty petitioned the University faculty to accept a somewhat radical approach: test all entering first year students using Body Mass Indices (BMI) data for placing students in a Fitness for Life class. This class would constitute the intervention for students with BMI scores of 30 or higher (obese rating). This paper describes the chronology of events that unfolded once the placement policy became known beyond the campus green. Arguments both for and against the controversial course are presented. While the placement policy has been modified, the aim of the intervention has not wavered: identify those students who are most at risk for hypokinetic disease and provide them with the appropriate resources to effectively address those amenable lifestyle factors that will rob them of quality and quantity of life. 

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