Thinking Language Awareness at a Science Centre

Situated in the highly multilingual context of Vancouver, this article discusses aspects of a collaborative research project, intertwining the development of language awareness and scientific, technological, and multilingual literacies in a science centre environment. Participants were multilingual, kindergarten-aged children who attended an interactive, activity-based science educational program in a local science centre and participated in writing activities in a nearby community centre. The article will discuss the science centre as a transformative learning environment to harness cultural and linguistic diversity, a vital resource to simultaneously develop language awareness, and science knowledge. Multimodal data sources include visual documentation of the linguistic landscape at the science centre, as well as photographs, video recordings and field notes of children working individually or in small groups, and a selection of the products children created.

Capital and ressentiment: The totalizing power of social fragmentation

Joseph Vogl’s new book, Capital and Ressentiment (2021/2022), traces an epistemic shift from knowledge to information driven by the convergence of financialization and the platform economy. As a variable that is determined less by semantic content than by difference to existing expectations, information invites indifference to other distinctions, such as those between fact and fiction, claim and proof. The circulation of information takes the form of opinion markets wherein the production of reality itself is at stake. In this extract, taken from the book’s final chapter, “The cunning of ressentiment-driven reason”, Vogl analyses populist ressentiment as both structural affect of and vital resource for information capitalism, laying out the resulting reconfiguration of the social.

A Review of Factors Influencing the Seagrass-Sea Cucumber Association in Tropical Seagrass Meadows

In the tropical ecosystem, sea cucumbers are associated with seagrass meadows in various ways, often forming a network of ecological interactions. From this myriad of interactions, the trophic relationship between the seagrasses and sea cucumbers has received recent attention with the advent of analytical techniques. However, little is understood about the exact mechanism by which seagrasses are sustaining the sea cucumber populations in the food chain, considering the high number of refractory components in seagrasses and the lack of digestive enzymes among sea cucumbers. This manuscript aims to review existing concepts in ecology concerning the association between tropical seagrasses and sea cucumbers to provide directions for research and management of this vital resource. We searched literature from electronic databases and identified key concepts concerning sea cucumber and seagrass communities based on geographic distribution, nutrient compositions, seagrass decomposition process, and trophic enrichments in the food chain. A conceptual model was then developed detailing the factors influencing the association between the seagrass meadows and sea cucumbers. Despite the limited published information on the seagrass–sea cucumber association, a synthesis of the current understanding of this topic is provided to address the declining sea cucumber populations in the tropical seagrass meadows. We suggest that the successful restoration of sea cucumber fisheries requires a thorough understanding of the seagrass decomposition process, which is vital to the diet of sea cucumbers.

Holding water for the city: Emergent geographies of storage and the urbanization of nature

In the US West, water stories are often aqueduct stories, narratives of moving the vital resource from one place to another. This paper, in contrast, explores nascent efforts to keep the water still, in the name of helping buffer cities from the anticipated impacts of climate change. Scripted as potential holding sites for an urban water reserve, aquifers and the task of filling them now orient a range of policies and material investments across Southern California. Building on writings that explore the multi-scalar politics of storing and stockpiling vaccines, resources, and lively or uncooperative commodities, this analysis approaches storage as a key moment within circulation, a dynamic, constitutive stillness that conditions flows. Three early-stage subterranean water stockpiling projects connected to the City of Los Angeles are explored, and used to demonstrate how the pursuit of storage is remaking material and political relationships within and between urban jurisdictions, while complicating long-fraught urban–rural relations within the region's waterscape. These shifts suggest the value of reorienting the notion of the urbanization of nature to better attend to the geographies of resource storage, in addition to those of resource flows and circulations.

Evaluation Advisory Groups: Considerations for Design and Management

An evaluation advisory group can be a vital resource, particularly for evaluations of collaboration-driven initiatives, but only if we apply skills and knowledge to use them effectively. In this paper, we will discuss the basics of evaluation advisory groups on four themes: purposes, structures, processes, and pitfalls. We will discuss insights from a review and synthesis of the evaluation advisory group literature and illustrate with our own real-world experiences of developing and implementing evaluation advisory groups on a national and state-wide scale, in a university setting, and within a localized health setting.

Medical Cannabis in Palliative Psychiatry: Clinical Aspects of Affective Regulation and Legal Challenges

Millions of Americans use cannabis for medical purposes including but not limited to pain, nausea, mood changes and appetite stimulation. The use of cannabinoid in the palliative care setting is a relatively new trend. Given the fact that a patient receiving palliative care is not necessarily approaching death, the increasing need for palliative care as the American population ages, this literature review was compiled in order to examine the potential efficacy of cannabis in treating the mental health comorbidities of palliative care patients. We attempted to create the most comprehensive report on cannabinoid use in palliative psychiatry. It summarizes the most recently published science on cannabinoid use in palliative care patients and its impact on mood and anxiety symptoms. The mechanism of action of cannabinoids on their associated receptors was elucidated, as were the pharmacological roles that specific molecules in cannabinoids, like cannabidiolic acid and terpenes, play in cannabinoids’ overall efficacy. The legal impediments to widespread cannabis use were also explored. While the potential efficacy of cannabinoids has proven to be mixed, more research is necessary to ensure that a potentially vital resource in treating palliative care patients does not go underutilized.

Analisis Produktivitas Waktu Kerja Alat Berat Pada Pembangunan Lanjutan Reklamasi Dan Jalan Kawasan Kayu Merah-Kalumata

The development of the construction world has resulted in the increasing need for heavy equipment for each project. Heavy equipment is a vital resource in a construction project. However, the costs required to procure heavy equipment are not cheap. Therefore, the choice of heavy equipment has a big influence on the efficiency and profitability of construction work. Productivity is used as a guide in determining the duration of each job and the number of heavy equipment to be treated. This research was conducted by observing the field to obtain the time needed by each heavy equipment in the reclamation work which then carried out the calculation of productivity. The results of the research are that the trailer/trailer truck has a productivity of 60.614 minutes, the excavator has a productivity of 21 m³/hour, the roller vibrator has a productivity of 155.625 m³/hour, the wheel loader has a productivity of 91.098 m³ hour, the water tanker has a productivity of 14.229 m³/hour, the motor grader has a productivity is 942,880 m²/hour, and the dump truck has a productivity of 26,981 m³/hour, then after analyzing the productivity of heavy equipment the next stage is calculating the time efficiency that occurs in each work item, and the mobilization work takes 17 days or less than the expected time. it has been planned in the contract document that is 28 days, in the usual piling work from the excavation source it will take 247 days or less than the time planned in the contract document which is 287 days.