Introduction: Resource Flows and Maritime Infrastructures

2002 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Gordon Boyce
Keyword(s):  
Economic Activity ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Commodity Flows ◽  
Cultural Constructs ◽  
Resource Flows ◽  
Institutional Forces ◽  
Legal Structures ◽  
Productive Assets ◽  
Great Complexity

Resources and infrastructures represent two elements that interact in complex ways to support and shape economic activity. In the context of maritime endeavours, this interaction unfolds over relatively wide geographic areas and exhibits great complexity, since it is influenced by diverse and sometimes conflicting legal, social, cultural and institutional forces. Impacted in numerous ways by these variables, flows of resources, such as capital, goods, information, people and productive assets (even those that following their initial deployment become fixed) are coordinated with the aid of different kinds of infrastructures. Considering the latter from a maritime perspective immediately brings to mind physical infrastructures in particular ports. But intangible frameworks, including those networks of business contacts that constitute communication systems, social and cultural constructs that shape patterns of thought and behaviour, as well as formally constituted (legal) structures, exert a coordinating or mediating influence upon patterns of resource allocation. Both of these generic types of infrastructure – physical and intangible – develop sector-specific attributes: those employed to support maritime activities differ from those used for land-based purposes. Within these broad sectors, individual industries develop their own specialised infrastructures to meet their resource coordinating requirements. In the maritime context, the chapters below analyse both physical and intangible infrastructures. The former are examined directly by Elisabetta Tonizzi and James Reveley and Malcolm Tull, who evaluate ports and port policies in three different countries, while Michael Miller and Leos Müller and Jari Ojala consider non-physical forms – respectively, agency structures and consular networks. John Chircop explores a complex infrastructure consisting of social, cultural, economic and psychological ties. Hrefna Karlsdóttir examines a defective informal bargaining framework, and Carol Hill and Poul Holm refer to ports as well as intangible infrastructures that shaped capital and commodity flows....

Refugees from Polish territories in Russia during the First World War

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariusz Korzeniowski
Keyword(s):  
Economic Activity ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
National Consciousness ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
World War ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Political Upheaval ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Forced Resettlement ◽  
First World

This chapter concentrates on the issues raised by the forced resettlement of civilians (mainly Poles) in the Kingdom of Poland by the Tsarist authorities, beginning in 1914-15. Attention is paid to migration of the Polish population from Russian-occupied Galicia into the Russian interior. The chapter focuses on the institutional arrangements made on their behalf including the legal basis of their activity, financial, educational, cultural, economic and religious assistance to refugees, and the implications for creating and maintaining their national consciousness. Particularly noteworthy is the inclusion and participation of at least some refugees in the cultural, educational, journalistic and economic activity of Poles who had settled permanently in the Russian interior and formed ‘Polish colonies’. An important issue concerns the return of refugees to their homeland and the problems this posed at a time of internal and international political upheaval, especially after the Bolshevik seizure of power.

Resources and Infrastructures in the Maritime Economy, 1500-2000

2002 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Activity ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Physical Factors ◽  
Port Development ◽  
Resource Flow ◽  
Maritime Economy ◽  
Institutional Forces ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries

This book provides a study of both the physical and intangible frameworks that enabled maritime resources to flow and infrastructures to operate. The aim is to demonstrate the complexity and diversity of the legal, social, cultural, and institutional forces at work within maritime economics. Port development, planning, and policy-making constitute the physical frameworks, while agency structures and consular networks make up the non-physical factors under discussion. Both land and sea commodities are examined, including capital mobilised from other sectors, and a particularly pertinent maritime commodity, fish. Through case studies, theory-driven analysis, evidence from statistical data, and regional and national comparisons, it successfully illustrates the structure of resource flow and the shape of maritime economic activity on an international scale spanning the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. Nations examined include Scotland, England, New Zealand, Italy, Denmark, plus several Nordic and Mediterranean states. The book consists of three sections: the first exploring intangible infrastructures and their components; the second, resource flow and economic development; and, finally, the physical infrastructures of the ports themselves.

Agroforestry systems of a Zapotec community in the Northern Sierra of Oaxaca, Mexico

2020 ◽  
Vol 98 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-144
Author(s):  
Sunem Pascual-Mendoza ◽  
Gladys Isabel Manzanero-Medina ◽  
Alfredo Saynes-Vásquez ◽  
Marco Antonio Vásquez-Dávila
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Knowledge ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Floristic Composition ◽  
Sociodemographic Factors ◽  
Agroforestry Systems ◽  
Home Gardens ◽  
Useful Plants ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Coffee Plantations ◽  
Chi Squared

Background: Agroforestry systems have cultural, economic, social, and biodiversity conservation significance and are essential for the subsistence of communities. Questions: Is there a difference in the richness, management and use of useful plants present in the agroforestry systems (home gardens, coffee plantations, and milpa)? What is the influence of sociodemographic factors on the distribution of traditional knowledge regarding plants of these systems? Site and years of study: Las Delicias, municipality of Juquila Vijanos, Sierra Norte of Oaxaca, Mexico, from January 2016 to May 2018. Methods: Visits to three agroforestry systems and semistructured interviews with 30 families to learn how they use the plants and to calculate the use value (UV) for each species. The similarity of floristic composition between agroforestry systems and the influence of sociodemographic factors (age, gender, schooling, economic activity and language) in the traditional plant knowledge was evaluated. The methods used were chi squared and proportions analyses, and a generalized linear analysis with Poisson distribution. Results: The three agroforestry systems consisted of 211 of useful plants; home gardens and coffee plantations had a greater similarity in floristic composition; the dissimilarity of the milpa agroecosystem is related to seasonality. The plants with higher UVs were those with multiple uses, and are found mainly in coffee plantations. Production in these spaces is complemented to satisfy the needs of the inhabitants. Gender and economic activity are factors that influence the distribution of traditional knowledge. Conclusion: Agroforestry systems provide a species richness differentiated for specific purposes but complementary to each other.

Relocating Regulation in Montana's Gold Mining Industry

10.1068/a3430 ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 867-881 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Krueger
Keyword(s):  
Economic Geography ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Gold Mining ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Economic Structure ◽  
Economic Regulation ◽  
Access To Resources ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Physical Transformation ◽  
Permitting Process

In this paper I seek to make a preliminary link between the discursive representation of the ‘environment’ and the regulation of economic activity. The contemporary Montana gold mining industry belies accounts that economic regulation can be situated purely in concepts of structures and institutions. In the 1990s, the Montana gold mining industry was fundamentally transformed in the absence of concomitant changes in the economic structure of the industry or in the institutions of regulation. Indeed, the changes in the efficacy of the Montana gold mining economy can only be explicated by adding a discursive account of regulation. In particular, I link a regulationist account of reregulation with the post-structural sensibilities found in cultural economic geography. This analysis, which focuses on how nature is represented in the mine-permitting process, illustrates that how we perceive ‘environment’ in particular places and times can influence access to resources and their subsequent physical transformation.

ETIKA INDIVIDU DAN ORGANISASI DALAM BISNIS

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Masruchin Masruchin
Keyword(s):  
Economic Activity ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Economic Behavior ◽  
Business Activity ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Business World ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
Human Economic Activity

Business is a business activity wich is conducted by individuals and organizations for produce and sell goods or services in order to get profit to fulfill basic needs of society. In business by individuals and organizations nowadays are also influenced by moral values so that resulting different economic behavior or especially who applying the moral principles in business. The emergence of the discourse of business ethics thought was encouraged by business reality who ignore moral or moral values. From some parts, business is human economic activity that looking for profit only. Therefore, anything methods may be used to achieve that goal. The moral aspect of business competition, is considered an obstacle to success. In other side, business activity intended to seek the biggest profit, while the moral principles “limiting” business activity. Competition in the business world is capital strength competiton. Businessmen with big capital try to enlarge the reach of his business, so that small businessmen (small financier) are getting dragged. Similarly collusion practice, corruption, and nepotism (KKN) have played an important role in theat process. A prolonged monetary crisis in Indonesia, in fact can’t be released from the process of such economic activity, namely the depletion of moral values in its activitiess. Contrast with first group, the second group argues that business can be united with ethics. These circles reasoned that ethics are rational reasons for all human actions in all aspects of life, business aspects are no exception. The thinking of business ethic in islam ccurrently surfacing, on the grounds that Islam is a perfect religion. It’s a collection of rules of doctrine and values wwhich can deliver humans in their life toward the goal of happiness in life both in the world and the hereafter. Islam is a religion that provide a integrated way of life on the rules of social, cultural, economic, civil and political aspects. It’s also a system for all aspects of life, including the spiritual system as well as the system of economic behavior. Keywords: individual ethic, organization ethic, business.

Plant peptide hormone signalling

2015 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 115-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayane Motomitsu ◽  
Shinichiro Sawa ◽  
Takashi Ishida
Keyword(s):  
Communication Systems ◽  
Cell Communication ◽  
Peptide Hormone ◽  
Peptide Hormones ◽  
Target Cells ◽  
Signalling Molecules ◽  
Receptor Complexes ◽  
Environmental Responses ◽  
Plant Life Cycle ◽  
Multicellular Organisms

The ligand–receptor-based cell-to-cell communication system is one of the most important molecular bases for the establishment of complex multicellular organisms. Plants have evolved highly complex intercellular communication systems. Historical studies have identified several molecules, designated phytohormones, that function in these processes. Recent advances in molecular biological analyses have identified phytohormone receptors and signalling mediators, and have led to the discovery of numerous peptide-based signalling molecules. Subsequent analyses have revealed the involvement in and contribution of these peptides to multiple aspects of the plant life cycle, including development and environmental responses, similar to the functions of canonical phytohormones. On the basis of this knowledge, the view that these peptide hormones are pivotal regulators in plants is becoming increasingly accepted. Peptide hormones are transcribed from the genome and translated into peptides. However, these peptides generally undergo further post-translational modifications to enable them to exert their function. Peptide hormones are expressed in and secreted from specific cells or tissues. Apoplastic peptides are perceived by specialized receptors that are located at the surface of target cells. Peptide hormone–receptor complexes activate intracellular signalling through downstream molecules, including kinases and transcription factors, which then trigger cellular events. In this chapter we provide a comprehensive summary of the biological functions of peptide hormones, focusing on how they mature and the ways in which they modulate plant functions.

Instruction Using Augmentative and Alternative Communication Supports: Description of Current Practices by Speech-Language Pathologists Who Work With Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 586-596 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaitlyn A. Clarke ◽  
Diane L. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Augmentative And Alternative Communication ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Diagnostic Category ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Alternative Communication ◽  
Speech Language Pathologists ◽  
Processing Differences

Purpose The aim of this research study was to examine common practices of speech-language pathologists (SLPs) who work with children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) with respect to whether or not SLPs consider processing differences in ASD or the effects of input during their instruction. Method Following a qualitative research method, how SLPs instruct and present augmentative and alternative communication systems to individuals with ASD, their rationale for method selection, and their perception of the efficacy of selected interventions were probed. Semistructured interviews were conducted as part of an in-depth case report with content analysis. Results Based on completed interviews, 4 primary themes were identified: (a) instructional method , (b) input provided , (c) decision-making process , and (d) perceived efficacy of treatment . Additionally, one secondary theme, training and education received , was identified . Conclusions Clinicians reported making decisions based on the needs of the child; however, they also reported making decisions based on the diagnostic category that characterized the child (i.e., ASD). The use of modeling when teaching augmentative and alternative communication to individuals with ASD emerged as a theme, but variations in the method of modeling were noted. SLPs did not report regularly considering processing differences in ASD, nor did they consider the effects of input during instruction.

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