Indigeneous Public Administration: A Review and Deconstruction of the Idea, Concept, and Theory of Government and Governance

Indigenous Public Administration (IPA) has attracted researchers' attention and awareness of the importance of developing contextual theory and practice of public administration, especially in developing countries such as Indonesia. IPA emerges in many developing countries since the concept, theory and practice of Western Public Administration (WPA) have failed to respond to local issues, and therefore WPA practice is considered irrelevant. Basically, IPA is a constructed concept to fill a vacant space that unoccupied by Western Public Administration (WPA). This descriptive qualitative study aims to explain and criticize the theory and practice of IPA and WPA. The data were gathered from books, journals, institution reports, regulations and other relevant writings of organizations, professionals, and academicians. The technique of data analysis was based on a data analysis spiral. It reveals that IPA applies to countries such as Indonesia and China. In both countries, the practice of IPA helps to overcome public issues concerning social, economic, and political. It is expected that the findings of this study will pave the way for developing both concept and theory of IPA and responding to more complex society and government's demands and needs.

The Permanence of Temporary Urbanism

Temporary urbanism has become an established marker of city making after the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. The book offers a critical exploration of its emergence and establishment as a seductive discourse and as an entangled field of urban practice encompassing architecture, visual and performative arts, urban regeneration and planning. Drawing on seven years of semi-ethnographic research in London, it explores the politics of temporariness at time of austerity from a situated analysis of neighbourhood transformation and wider cultural and economic shifts. Through a sympathetic, longitudinal engagement with projects and practitioners, the book tests the power of aesthetic and cultural interventions and highlights tensions between the promise of practices of dissenting vacant space re-appropriation, and their practical foreclosure. Against the normalisation of ephemerality, it develops a critique of temporary urbanism as a glamorisation of the anticipatory politics of precarity, transforming subjectivities and imaginaries of urban action.

The entangled field of temporary urbanism

The chapter analyses the emergence of pop-up and temporary urbanism in the UK after the 2008 global financial crisis as an entangled field made of competing narratives and representations. Media coverage, public events and self-representation are discussed to outline how official and unofficial narratives are constructed, mobilised and performed. Focusing on London, it presents a critical cultural discussion of transfers and translations between central and local government officers, property investors and estate agents, and third-sector ‘meanwhile space’ intermediaries. Temporary urbanism at times of post-crisis austerity is confirmed as an ambiguous urban cultural discourse that raises the promise of practices of dissent and vacant space re-appropriation, such as community-oriented radical practices and squatting, while practically foreclosing them.

Non-standart position of the false door in Giza tombs - a builing mistake or a least-evil solution?

In the chapels of a number of tombs in the Giza necropolis, both rock-cut and stone (mastaba), the false door – the main place of worship of the tomb – is sometimes not located on the west wall. Given that the tradition of placing the false door precisely on the western wall had deep roots for centuries, these cases raise a legitimate question about the reasons for such an anomaly. But the paucity of examples, both in Giza and in other necropolises, made it difficult to conduct a broad analysis of this phenomenon. This question has been repeatedly raised in the literature, but it is still debatable. And after the discovery of new examples at the site of the Russian Archaeological Mission at Giza of the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS (RAMG), it became necessary to return to this problem to analyze it, to structure and summarize the early information, to try to understand the nature of the occurrence of such cases. A total of nine such cases are known in the Giza necropolis; all of them date from the time of the V–VI dynasties, when the necropolis is drastically compacted – and the tombs are occupied by any vacant space. It was not always possible to place false doors on the western wall of the chapels for each individual burial. As a result, sometimes the builders deliberately placed a false door not on the western wall but in the immediate vicinity of the burial to emphasise the connection between them.

PERSPECTIVE TRENDS OF ACCOMMODATING SPSTL SB RAS COLLECTIONS

The library stock is a very complicated object, which key characteristic is a strict order of documents it consists of. The quality of library activities and effectiveness of library functioning as a whole depend on how it is organized. The stock arranging – as the process of its organization – presupposes search and taking decisions on the optimal regulating of documents in the stock. Rational stock arranging considerably increases operativeness of servicing readers thanks to reduction of time wastes for searching and delivering the documents asked, that, undoubtedly, is an important factor in the sphere of services provision, taking into account the speed of today life. Due to the active growth of documents’ quantity, that is characteristic for depository libraries, the need in vacant space increases yearly, selection and search for sources in the stock are getting more complicated. Besides, the problem of lack of space for stocks accommodation is connected with substantial widening of functions and changing the libraries growth, taking place under exterior conditions influence. The urgent necessity for searching modern and effective ways to solve this problem has become the basic reason for specialists of the State Public Scientific Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPSTL SB RAS) to pay attention to, determined the principle task: to work out the complex of measures for optimal arrangement of the Library stocks. Based on the materials, gained in the course of work from all departments that hold collections, and with their direct collaboration the document “Strategy of accommodating SPSTL SB RAS collections for the period of 2020–2030” has been created. The object of the article is to give the notion about the current situation and possible decisions of the abovementioned problem in the largest library in Siberia and the Russian Far East.

Binding the Void: The Erotics of Place in Antony and Cleopatra

Chapter 4 analyses the erotics of bounded place and of limitless space in Antony and Cleopatra. The chapter begins by exploring Edward Casey’s philosophical history of place and space in order to consider the erotic implications of these two scenes for characters as well as for audiences. Images of bounded place in Antony and Cleopatra get their erotic charge from the language of sexual bondage, more specifically, the formal and temporal features of masochism. Chapter 4 then explores accounts of infinite space from early modern cosmologists such as Francesco Patrizi and Giordano Bruno, who theorized about the void. This chapter argues that Antony and Cleopatra eroticize the infinite void by imposing the sturdy boundaries of place onto vacant space. Binding the void allows the lovers to present this vacancy to one another, enabling pleasurable experiences of self-loss and self-forgetting.

Structural Variations in the Complete Series of Lanthanoid Complexes of a Calix[4]arene Trisamide

Lanthanoid picrate (pic) complexes of 5,11,17,23-tetra-tert-butyl-25-hydroxy-26,27,28-tris(diethylcarbamoylmethoxy)calix[4]arene (LH) have been synthesised and structurally characterised, to complete this series for all lanthanoids (other than promethium). From cerium to lutetium, three structural types are observed: Type I, [Ln(L)(O,O′-pic)](pic), Ln=Ce–Dy; Type II, [Ln(L)(O-pic)](pic), Ln=Tb, Ho; Type III, [Ln(L)(HOEt)](pic)2, Ln=Er–Lu. With lanthanum, three different ten-coordinate complexes were characterised; [Ln(L)(O,O′-pic)(HOEt)](pic), [Ln(L)(O,O′-pic)(OH2)](pic), and [Ln(L)(O,O′-pic)(HOMe)](pic). The crystallisation of Type I and II observed for terbium shows that the stability of the different structures are sensitively poised at the transition points. Nevertheless, the structures show that the vacant space in the coordination sphere left by the trisamide L tends to reduce across the series as expected. It is occupied by a bidentate picrate anion and unidentate solvent molecule with lanthanum, a bidentate picrate anion for cerium to dysprosium (Type I), a unidentate picrate anion for terbium and holmium (Type II), and finally a unidentate solvent molecule from erbium to lutetium (Type III). The coordination number thus reduces from 10 to 8 across the series.

Automatic e-Ticketing and Vehicle Parking System

Smart cities have been the vision for the country for a while, and one of the features for the development of a smart city is to develop a good mobility for transport with efficient car parking management systems. A good parking management system must assist people to find vacant parking slots and provide automatic on-line payment options, to reduce the traffic and to save time. In this paper, implementation of prototype of automatic e-ticketing and vehicle parking system is presented. The proposed system consists of automatic gate control, e-ticketing and vacant space monitoring, implemented using Raspberry Pi. Android application on user’s smart phone helps in easy user interface making the system, easy to use in real time scenario.

Car Parking System using ALPR and CPS

IoT has become the greatest demand these days due to automation. Every system that helps us on a daily basis has improvised to an internet of things where data are transferred with no human to human or human to computer interaction. There are numerous projects over IoT parking lots, but the efficiency of the system for the underlying demand of the fast world with huge data is yet to be satisfied. In the existing system, using proximity sensor, the parking lots are checked if full and the end-user is notified through app or token for the vacant space and when the lots are full the gate remains closed until space is free to park. In the proposed system the capacitive proximity sensors are used to calculate the dimensions of a car to categories them into macro, sedan, and SUV models and provides the exact level to park. The automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) is used to note the minimum time of parking used by the particular car on two or many occurrences by calculating their mean, thus making efficient usage of space and time for a thriving smart city.