Poetic Exploration of Obasa’s Prolegomenous Poetry

Mere mentioning of poetics often ignites the memory of Aristotle whose admiration is hinged on the elegance and clarity of his style in poetics. Tis is as a result of the historic influence of poetics or aesthetics as well as the quality of its thought. Tus, poetics is not devoid of philosophical nuances. Based on this premise, an attempt is made here to explore the poetic strands in Obasa’s trilogy, wherein Yorubá proverbs are strung together. The paper, therefore, considers aesthetic category of artistic mimesis, intertextuality and components of all diction alongside stylistic elements because the principal task of poetics is to measure its legitimate domain in language. Tus, it is averred that literature depends on linguistic structure for its existence since language is the substance of literature (in our own instance, poetry). The essay adopts an eclectic theoretical approach since Obasa’s craftsmanship and subject-matter span an avalanche of forms and structures imbued with stylistic features. Primary data are largely drawn from his anthologies which facilitate the content analysis. In its findings, the paper has brought to the fore the fact that Obasa employed adaptation and mimesis in his presentation creatively, ̣ while different stylistic elements in his trilogy are replete with deviation. An attempt is made to bring into bold relief the suggestion that metaphor forms the hub of all other tropes that give grandeur to poetics in Obasa.

The Emergence of Global Commodity Governance

Whereas the challenges of GCG are manifold, its principal task lies in ensuring a functional commodity sector (Sect. 2.1). The ‘balanced’ mode through which it pursues this objective constitutes a departure from historical approaches to regulating transnational commodity activity (Sect. 2.2). The remainder of this treatise will be concerned with the role of the law in fostering the effectiveness of GCG (Sect. 2.3).

The Mechanics of Order: An Inquiry into the Utopian Possibilities of the Free and Open Source Ecology

<p>This is a study that concerns itself with two questions: how is order produced? and, is this order desirable? Contrary to many utopian methodologies that seek to elaborate 'what is not' but which 'ought to be', this is a study that seeks to contribute to a utopian mechanics by way of studying extant subterranean practices or ' minor traditions,' by studying elements of 'what is' that may also form something of what 'ought to be.' This study takes as its principal task to understand the production of order within a small free and open source project known as Compiz. It borrows from Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari to formulate the related concepts of the machine and the abstract machine in order to account for the ongoing production of order. These two concepts, following the lead of Bruno Latour, adhere to a 'flat social' ontology and bring forth the world of objects and space as being indispensible, alongside the members of Compiz, in accounting for the project's ordering. The study poses three primary machines of order: the Passport, the Exodus and the Module. The Passport regulates access within the virtual spaces of Compiz and produces a role known as the 'gatekeeper,' one who may exercise a power both vicarious and precarious. The machine of the Exodus makes the threat of desertion a real and ongoing possibility and in this establishes an 'imaginary counter' within the group, undermining the power of the gatekeeper and recasting him as a steward of the code, as 'maintainer.' The third machine, known as the Module, is designed to minimise the complexity of the project by way of the spatialisation and organisation of the code, but subsequently effects a concomitant spatialisation and organisation of developers and projects, coming in the end to shape the large scale order amongst free and open source projects. The study concludes by suggesting a 'present tense' and 'open ended' conception of utopia, in which both the machines of the Exodus and the Module - but not the Passport- would find themselves well placed.</p>

The Mechanics of Order: An Inquiry into the Utopian Possibilities of the Free and Open Source Ecology

<p>This is a study that concerns itself with two questions: how is order produced? and, is this order desirable? Contrary to many utopian methodologies that seek to elaborate 'what is not' but which 'ought to be', this is a study that seeks to contribute to a utopian mechanics by way of studying extant subterranean practices or ' minor traditions,' by studying elements of 'what is' that may also form something of what 'ought to be.' This study takes as its principal task to understand the production of order within a small free and open source project known as Compiz. It borrows from Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari to formulate the related concepts of the machine and the abstract machine in order to account for the ongoing production of order. These two concepts, following the lead of Bruno Latour, adhere to a 'flat social' ontology and bring forth the world of objects and space as being indispensible, alongside the members of Compiz, in accounting for the project's ordering. The study poses three primary machines of order: the Passport, the Exodus and the Module. The Passport regulates access within the virtual spaces of Compiz and produces a role known as the 'gatekeeper,' one who may exercise a power both vicarious and precarious. The machine of the Exodus makes the threat of desertion a real and ongoing possibility and in this establishes an 'imaginary counter' within the group, undermining the power of the gatekeeper and recasting him as a steward of the code, as 'maintainer.' The third machine, known as the Module, is designed to minimise the complexity of the project by way of the spatialisation and organisation of the code, but subsequently effects a concomitant spatialisation and organisation of developers and projects, coming in the end to shape the large scale order amongst free and open source projects. The study concludes by suggesting a 'present tense' and 'open ended' conception of utopia, in which both the machines of the Exodus and the Module - but not the Passport- would find themselves well placed.</p>

Co-Resident Grandparent: A Burden or a Relief? A Comparison of Gender Roles between Italians and Migrants

In the international literature, the principal task of grandparents is generally recognized as helping their children in providing childcare. Most of those studies analyzed grandparental childcare on the whole population, and few have focused on co-resident grandparent(s), which turns out to be an understudied topic in the European context. Further, most of them investigated the effect of childcare on grandparents’ health status. However, the elderly population can both provide and receive care. Using two Italian surveys released by the Italian National Institute of Statistics, the “Social Condition and Integration of Foreign Citizen (2011–2012)” and the “Multiscopo–Aspetti della vita quotidiana (2011)”, the study aims to analyze differences in grandparental childcare provided by co-resident grandparents between Italian and migrant households, considering both the role played by grandparents’ self-rated health (SRH) and gender. We identify four grandparents’ profiles by combining grandparents’ SRH and their attitude towards looking after their grandchild(ren). Subsequently, we apply multinomial logistic regressions, and we compute average marginal effects to facilitate results interpretations. Results display that migrant co-resident grandparents are less likely to declare bad SRH and no-childcare and are more likely to declare good SRH and to provide childcare than Italian grandparents. Moreover, when considering gender differences, the real role is revealed: we find that women have a higher probability to report poor health and care for their grandchild(ren) than men. Such findings illustrate that grandparents’ cohabitation decision is based upon the difference between their need for care and offer to care, and second, in addition to migrant status and SRH, gender is a determinant of grandparents’ childcare: women look after their grandchild(ren) more than men, whatever their health status.

Arrangements, Semiotic Links and Evaluations: Purifying the Familiar Environments from COVID-19 Among Serbia’s Young Professionals

Our research principally engages with the issue of encounters with COVID-19 within an everyday frame, underlining how the restoration of a “distorted” familiar environment occurs through gradual coping with such a mysterious non-human entity. The specific objective of our project was to discern how 20 young professionals from Belgrade (Serbia), whom we interviewed during the curfew, encountered, re-organized, and eventually re-settled into their common, everyday spaces and routines, while the virus was spreading in the background. Our examination first seeks to register how the distorted relationality of humans with a non-human entity – which the virus is – became distilled into everyday objectivity. More profoundly, we intended to seek understanding of what alternations the possibility of getting infected were associated with common, everyday arrangements, and how the actors pursued hygienic “purification” as a principal task. In this sense, we managed to unveil that – albeit this interplay with an invisible and rather mysterious non-human entity involved a number of confusing moments – the latter was ultimately stabilized within a specific evaluative and cognitive format that dictated the former’s actions. Being highly appreciative of domestic familiarity and intending to quite reflexively purify potentially contaminated zones and objects, our respondents also pursued a specific moral frame. In conclusion, we underline how these “purifying” actions were substantially guided by a desire to maintain the domestic order of familiarity and immediate care.

Administrasi Kurikulum

Curriculum administration is the whole process of planned and deliberately planned and committed activities and continuing coaching of the teaching and learning situation effectively and efficiently in order to help the achievement of educational goals that have been set. At any school level, the principal task of the school is to ensure that there is a good teaching program for students. Because basically the management or management of education is the focus of all efforts is on teaching and learning practices.Teaching and Learning Process. In the educational process, curriculum administration needs to be carried out so that curriculum planning, implementation, and evaluation run more effectively, efficiently, and optimally in empowering various learning resources, learning experiences, and curriculum components.

Administrasi Kurikulum

Curriculum administration is the whole process of planned and deliberately planned and committed activities and continuing coaching of the teaching and learning situation effectively and efficiently in order to help the achievement of educational goals that have been set. At any school level, the principal task of the school is to ensure that there is a good teaching program for students. Because basically the management or management of education is the focus of all efforts is on teaching and learning practices.Teaching and Learning Process. In the educational process, curriculum administration needs to be carried out so that curriculum planning, implementation, and evaluation run more effectively, efficiently, and optimally in empowering various learning resources, learning experiences, and curriculum components.

Assessment of risk management and evaluate the level of risk in construction project: Case Study

This study illustrates the risk assessment and analysis which was made as a requirement in the beginning of the project of a stadium.Risks at project are classified into ten items so that it is easy to manage and monitor them. Simple model is adopted in assessing risks such that it is easy to be understood and modified in contrast with the complex models that produce misleading. Sharing, mitigation and accepting risk are strategies adopted in the final assessment. In the case of sharing risks, it is shown that contracting strategy must be based on risk allocation. Inplanning for risk, purpose must be clear as well as responsibilities and this can be shown precisely in a form of Risk Plan. The objective that this study serves is to identify the cost needed for the whole project from the stage of design to the finishing works.This includes all facilities in the stadium like the concrete frames, buildings and so. The study was very important to provide information to the contractor (a private company) and made confidence in that the estimated cost and time needed for achieving the objectives of the project are realistic and based on sound information.The experience gained from previous similar projects was an advantage factor in that most of problems were clear. The most important problem was the likelihood of delay, which, in the worst case will lead to dramatic increasing in costs. Therefore, the assessment of this risk was principal task in the study although it is necessary to take care for all potential risks.The study shows that risks at construction projects carried by many parties found to be changing according to internal or external changes and the change of priorities can be seen by simulating changes in ranking in each case. It is shown also that badly risk communication leads to real problems as in the case of making thought of building the stadium to be late. The cost of the delay which is the primary risk was calculated for each part of the project. For the construction activities, these were assumed to be the overhead. The time costs calculated was in maximum ($ 1,500,000) which is about (10%) of the total cost of the project.