scholarly journals Introduction of Vernacular Architecture studies at the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 191-212
Author(s):  
Mirjana Roter-Blagojević ◽  
Marko Nikolić
Keyword(s):  
Vernacular Architecture ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Monumental Architecture ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Study Programme ◽  
Student Projects ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year

The paper examines the work of Aleksandar Deroko at the University of Belgrade's Faculty of Architecture and the inclusion of his rich personal knowledge about the vernacular architecture in the study programme, which he gained from long-term field research. As an assistant professor, he introduced the interpretation of vernacular architecture in the course on Byzantine and Old Serbian Architecture in 1929. After the study programme reform in 1935, a new course - named Old Serbian Architecture - was established, with one semester dedicated to the medieval monumental architecture and the second to rural and urban houses. In 1945/46 academic year, the course was renamed Vernacular Architecture and it incorporated medieval and vernacular architecture of the former Yugoslavia. Practical assignments dealt more with vernacular architecture and, through them the student's discovered the fundamental principles and methods of the vernacular construction. The goal of the studies was for students to comprehend and adopt basic traditional canons of construction and apply them to their own projects of cooperative centers, countryside schools, monasteries, etc. Through illustrations the paper will present, till now unpublished, student projects from the archives of Belgrade's the Faculty of Architecture's office for the architectural heritage of Serbia.

scholarly journals Analysis of the scores of competency test

2018 ◽  
Vol 210 ◽  
pp. 04006
Author(s):  
Jana Pasáčková
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Study Programme ◽  
Level Of Knowledge ◽  
Long Term Monitoring ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Term Monitoring

Since decreasing level of knowledge of mathematics is the problem at universities, not only in the Czech Republic, we try to define some reasons for that between our students from different secondary schools. The paper discusses the results of the examinations in mathematics at the university in the Czech Republic. The aim is focused on the differences between the scores of students from different secondary schools. We compare the results of two tests which students have to pass during the semester. In addition, we compare the impact of introducing a new subject called “Math seminar”. This seminar should help students to complete their knowledge of topics from mathematics of secondary schools. We observe the improvement of students who passed the Math seminar. We observe the impact of passing the school-leaving exam from mathematics as well. We would like to consider this as a part of a long-term monitoring of students in this study programme and re-analyze unsuccessful students after they pass the course “Math seminar”.

Practical Weather Routing of Sail-assisted Motor Vessels

1987 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Hagiwara ◽  
J. A. Spaans
Keyword(s):  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Weather Routing ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year

This paper reports on a study conducted during the academic year 1985–6 by Assistant Professor H. Hagiwara of the University of Mercantile Marine in Tokyo and Professor J. A. Spaans of Delft University of Technology.

Rethinking African Politics: An Interview with Crawford Young

2002 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-114
Author(s):  
Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
American Political Science Association ◽  
African Politics ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
The University ◽  
American Political Science

For political scientists, and particularly scholars and students of Africa, Crawford Young needs litde introduction. However, as he has now achieved an emeritus status at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, it is time to present his intimate understanding of African politics in the last forty years.Born in Philadelphia in November 1931, Young received his B.A, from the University of Michigan in 1953. He studied at the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London from 1955 to 1956 and at die Institut d'Etudes Politiques, University of Paris, from 1956 to 1957. He dien entered graduate school at Harvard University, completing his doctorate degree in political science in 1964. In 1963 Young was offered an assistant professor position by the Department of Political Science at die University of Wisconsin–Madison. He remained tiiere for his entire career, retiring in January 2001. He has held visiting professorships at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda (1965–66), and at the University of Dakar in Senegal (1987–88). He also served as dean of the Faculty of Social Science at the Université Nationale du Zaire from 1973 to 1975. Among his publications are twelve monographs, over one hundred articles, and chapters in numerous books. Several of Young's works have been translated into different languages.Young's professional career includes extended field research in Congo-Kinshasa, Senegal, and Uganda. He has received many prestigious awards such as the Herskovits Prize (African Studies Association) and the Ralph Bunche Award (American Political Science Association) for The Politics of Cultural Pluralism (Wisconsin, 1976), and the Gregory Luebbert Prize (APSA) for The African Colonial State in Comparative Perspective (Yale, 1994).

scholarly journals USE OF VOLUNTEERS IN CONDUCTING FIELD RESEARCH

HortScience ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 883a-883
Author(s):  
Kristen Harper ◽  
Curt R. Rom ◽  
Jason McAfee
Keyword(s):  
Field Research ◽  
University Of Arkansas ◽  
Task Management ◽  
Master Gardener ◽  
Planning Time ◽  
Training And Supervision ◽  
Fruit Samples ◽  
The University ◽  
Research Volunteers

As funding directed toward research has diminished, it has become vital seek other avenues of support to maintain long term field projects. To meet this need, the University of Arkansas Horticulture Department began the Friends of Fruit (FOF) program during 2004 engaging volunteers in conducting tree fruit field research. Volunteers were graduates of the Master Gardener program and executed tasks including data collection and plot maintenance. Objectives of this study were to evaluate the experiences and benefits to the volunteers and horticulture department, and to assess the success of the FOF program in providing assistance and support to research. All volunteers and facilitators were interviewed. Interview questions were designed to understand the motivation and level of volunteer activity, determine if training and supervision was adequate, and determine if ample recognition occurred. Volunteers sought experience and knowledge with fruit crops. Costs to volunteers included time and travel, conversely benefits included knowledge, experience and fellowship. Volunteers planned to repeat the program and were pleased with the recognition they received. Facilitators noted that volunteers had basic horticultural knowledge and the desire to learn. The program did call for improved task management and increased planning time by facilitators. The program succeeded in benefiting volunteers and horticultural research. The FOF volunteers contributed to fruit research by harvesting ≈4,000 kg of fruit samples and providing >200 hours of time.

Book Reviews

2012 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 541-543 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Assistant Professor ◽  
The United States ◽  
Western World ◽  
American Experience ◽  
Boston University ◽  
History Of ◽  
Long Term Trends ◽  
The University ◽  
Health And Mortality

Robert A. Margo of Boston University and NBER reviews “The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World since 1700” by Roderick Floud, Robert W. Fogel, Bernard Harris and Sok Chul Hong. The EconLit abstract of the reviewed work begins: Presents an introduction to the field of anthropomorphic history and surveys the causes and consequences of changes in health and mortality, diet, and the disease environment in Europe and the United States since 1700. Discusses our changing bodies -- three hundred years of technophysio evolution; investigating the interaction of biological, demographic, and economic variables from fragmentary data; the analysis of long-term trends in nutritional status, mortality, and economic growth; technophysio evolution and human health in England and Wales since 1700; height, health, and mortality in continental Europe, 1700-2100; and the American experience of technophysio evolution. Floud is Provost of Gresham College, London. Fogel is a professor of economics and Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Institutions in the Booth School of Business and Director of the Center for Population Economics at the University of Chicago. Harris is Professor of the History of Social Policy at the University of Southampton. Hong is Assistant Professor of Economics at Sogang University. Index.

scholarly journals Chronicle of the Governors’ Association: an Investigation into the Resilience and Longevity of the Co-operative Structure of the Communal Sickness Fund ‘To Our Avail’

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-54
Author(s):  
Erik J. de Jager
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Sickness Fund ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Research Project ◽  
The University ◽  
Different Sources ◽  
Archived Data

The project, Chronicle of the Governors’ Association is a combined history and anthropological field research project investigating the sustainability of a so-called ‘Institution for Collective Action’ in The Netherlands. The co-operative association, known as the ‘Governor’s’ Association’ or ‘To Our Avail’, acts as a sickness fund for male entrepreneurs, and is an expression of such an institution. Research into the functionality of this particular association was undertaken by the author during the years 2015–2016, with support from the University of Utrecht. By examining the history, background and workings of this 110-year-old co-operative sickness fund through collating data from many different sources, he identified the qualities that have ensured the long-term existence of this type of commons. The resulting archived data collection underpins the findings of this research.

scholarly journals Simulation of Insolvency Proceedings Year II – Evidence of the Long Term Effect on Cognitive Learning

2017 ◽  
Vol 65 (6) ◽  
pp. 1979-1985
Author(s):  
Martina Krásnická ◽  
Viktor Vojtko ◽  
Zdeněk Strnad ◽  
Rudolf Hrubý
Keyword(s):  
Learning Experience ◽  
Cognitive Learning ◽  
Long Term Effect ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Long Term Impact ◽  
Education Of Students ◽  
Insolvency Proceedings ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year

The aim of this paper is to draw some conclusions from a long‑term project inspired by the so‑called Mock trials experienced in the USA and applied into the Czech system of law education of students at the Faculty of Economics of the University of South Bohemia. The project involves a simulation of insolvency proceedings in case of a company bankruptcy. The students play roles of the various participants in the insolvency proceedings and learn very relevant but rather complicated process of insolvency. The results of the second academic year involve re‑testing of students included in the SIP 1.0 (Simulation of Insolvency Proceedings 2015/2016) in order to assess if the learning experience has the long‑term impact and comparison with the new group of students that undergone the SIP 2.0 (Simulation of Insolvency Proceedings 2016/2017).

scholarly journals EXPERIENCES OF SOCIAL PARTICIPATION IN THE RECOVERY OF VERNACULAR HERITAGE IN SOUTHERN ECUADOR

2020 ◽  
Vol XLIV-M-1-2020 ◽  
pp. 603-610
Author(s):  
A. Tenze ◽  
F. Cardoso ◽  
M. C. Achig
Keyword(s):  
Vernacular Architecture ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Preventive Conservation ◽  
Catholic University ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Southern Ecuador ◽  
Practical Experiences ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town

Abstract. Since 2011, within the framework of a research project shared between the University of Cuenca (UC) and the Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), several practical experiences were proposed and carried out in order to identify paths and actions that allow reversing a marked trend to the loss of built cultural assets, both in the rural and urban context. Most of these assets are made up of vernacular architecture built with technologies such as adobe or bahareque, which use the earth as an essential building material. From the beginning of the first intervention in Susudel (2011), it was important to carry out constant and sustained work with the respective communities and actors involved. It was necessary to inform them about the initiative, but, above all, to involve them consistently, completely and directly, throughout the process, in decision-making and in the search for solutions that were finally applied in the interventions. A comparison between all the interventions carried out from the year 2011 until 2018 show a very significant change of social involvement, both in quantity as well as in quality, with each new intervention. From an empirical and intuitive process, we have moved to a more technical, planned and structured one, based on participatory methodologies that allow a more intense and proactive involvement of communities in the search for solutions and commitments. The article analyzes the participatory process during 4 preventive conservation experiences applied in the town of Susudel and the city of Cuenca, in southern Ecuador, over the past 7 years.

EXPERIENCE OF THE DEPARTMENT CATALOGIZATION LIBRARY OF NEW YORK UNIVERSITY IN REMOTE MODE

Infolib ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (22) ◽  
pp. 22-25
Author(s):  
Alla Roylance ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Academic Institution ◽  
New York University ◽  
American Universities ◽  
Library System ◽  
Unique Nature ◽  
Distance Working ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year

One of the prestigious American universities, New York University, NYU, along with the entire city and state, found itself locked out and inaccessible for students, faculty and library staff since mid-March 2020. Restrictions imposed by the pandemic created an unanticipated stress on all systems of the large academic institution in the epicenter of the national outbreak. The article describes in brief the unique nature of the university and its library system, its global reach and associated established library practices. The focus of the article are the activities of KARMS, the cataloging department of the NYU Divisions of Libraries. It describes the way the cataloging department recalibrated its services to allay immediate crisis of the constituent communities in the middle of the final semester of an academic year. The article also details a number of long-term initiatives that received a much needed attention under the conditions of the so-called “distance working”. While the work of any cataloging department is intrinsically linked to physical objects, the article offers several examples of the projects that can be completed remotely

From Volunteering to Academic Programming: A Case Example

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (17) ◽  
pp. 7-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cindy Gill ◽  
Sneha Bharadwaj ◽  
Nancy Quick ◽  
Sarah Wainscott ◽  
Paula Chance
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
Cultural Relevance ◽  
Master's Program ◽  
Speech Language Pathology ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Charitable Organization ◽  
Language Pathology ◽  
The University

A speech-language pathology master's program that grew out of a partnership between the University of Zambia and a U.S.-based charitable organization, Connective Link Among Special needs Programs (CLASP) International, has just been completed in Zambia. The review of this program is outlined according to the suggested principles for community-based partnerships, a framework which may help evaluate cultural relevance and sustainability in long-term volunteer efforts (Israel, Schulz, Parker, & Becker, 1998).

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