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After The Ice Age: The Impact Of Post-Glacial Dispersal On The Phylogeography Of A Small Mammal, Muscardinus Avellanarius, Fraser J. Combe, Jonathan S. Ellis, Kirsty L. Lloyd, Bradley Cain, C. Philip Wheater, W. Edwin Harris

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.

Development Of Multiple Polymorphic Microsatellite Markers For Ceratina Calcarata (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Using Genome-Wide Analysis, Wyatt A. Shell, Sandra M. Rehan

New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station Publications

The small carpenter bee, Ceratina calcarata (Robertson), is a widespread native pollinator across eastern North America. The behavioral ecology and nesting biology of C. calcarata has been relatively well-studied and the species is emerging as a model organism for both native pollinator and social evolution research. C. calcarata is subsocial: reproductively mature females provide extended maternal care to their brood. As such, studies of C. calcarata may also reveal patterns of relatedness and demography unique to primitively social Hymenoptera. Here, we present 21 microsatellite loci, isolated from the recently completed C. calcarata genome. Screening in 39 individuals across their distribution …

Meet The Orientation Leaders Alex Hamlin Says Relax, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

Lein's New Book Addresses Futures Research And Environmental Sustainability, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

Contestation And Deference In The Inter-American Human Rights System, Jorge Contesse

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.

The Nature Of Conditional Sentences In Nyakyusa, Amani Lusekelo

Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

The mechanisms utilized to introduce conditional construction in Nyakyusa are partly similar to the patterns available in some Bantu languages because its protasis is introduced by the word lıınga. The counterfactual marker angali introduces the apodosis of the counterfactual sentences, similar to Zulu and Swahili. The main difference is that Nyakyusa differentiates reality and unreality situations primarily through TAM formatives. For instance, realistic situations manifest in future and present tenses while unrealistic events are primarily indicated by remoteness in past tense.

Towards An Anglophone African Literature Praxis: A Case Of A Literary Linguistic Conundrum And The Teaching Of African Letters, Michael Andindilile

Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

This article attempts to bring together various strands vital in the study and teaching of Anglophone African literature in an increasingly globalised world, which no longer has the luxury of ignoring the rich literatures from this unique continent often given an unwarranted bad name. It looks beyond the literary-linguistic conundrum to examine how the most can come out of the interpretation and teaching of Anglophone African literatures, primarily drawing on examples from Chinua Achebe’s oeuvre. It primarily argues that the increasingly transnational world has heightened the need to study and teach literatures from traditionally non-English contexts in the language, English, …

2013, San Luis Obispo Crop Report.

San Luis Obispo Crop Reports

Annual report pertaining to agriculture in San Luis Obispo County, California.

Assessing The Relevance Of Statistics And Crime Analysis Courses For Working Crime Analysts, Jonathan A. Kringen, Christopher M. Sedelmaier, Elink-Schuurman-Laura

Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

Crime analysts study criminal activity and police function to improve performance. Analysts inform operations, aid resource allocation, and evaluate programs. These tasks require high levels of statistical literacy. Given that most analysts are college-educated civilians, college coursework in statistics and/or crime analysis may represent the foundational knowledgebase within the profession. However, little research has attempted to determine if coursework teaches the skills needed by analysts. Underlying this issue is a limited understanding about what technical skills crime analysts regularly use. Analyzing parallel surveys of 98 criminal justice educators and 146 crime analysts, this study compares the skills taught in undergraduate-level …

The Impact Of Mobile Technology On Micro And Small Enterprises In Zimbabwe In The Post-Hyperinflation Economic Era, Gamuchirai B. Perekwa, Tania Prinsloo, Jp Van Deventer

The African Journal of Information Systems

This paper investigates the impact of mobile technology on Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) in the developing world in the post-hyperinflation era. Data was collected from a multi-staged sample of 114 MSE owners within the capital province of Zimbabwe, namely Harare. The data was collected and analysed using descriptive quantitative survey methods, which comprised of hard-copy questionnaires, structured interviews and online questionnaires.

The findings suggest that mobile technology has incremental, transformational and production influence on MSEs in Zimbabwe. The findings show that mobile technology amplifies communication and relations with customers, MSE’s productivity and MSE’s revenues. Mobile technology is also spurring …

The ‘Candle Of Nazareth’: Feast, Devotion And Tourism In Para (Brazil) O ‘Círio De Nazaré’: Festa, Devoção E Turismo No Pará (Brasil), Terezinha Filgueiras Pinho, Gilson De Lima Garofalo

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

This contribution analyzes the ‘Círio de Nazaré’ (‘Candle of Nazareth’), one of the largest Catholic religious events, both in Brazil and the world, which takes place on the second Sunday of October in Belém, the capital of the state of Pará and the metropolis of the Amazon. The paper deals with economic advancement and integration by bringing together religious devotees from Para, Brazil and abroad, fostering the growth of trade. Devotees enjoy the beauty offered by the state and the party mobilizes more than two million people, lasting about three weeks. It includes the opening, transfer of the image of …

Religious Rites And Ceremonies As The Expression Of Local Identity And An Opportunity For Local Development: The Case Of The “Fòcara” Di Sant’Antonio Abate” In Novoli (The Bonfire Of St Anthony Abbot) In A Small Town In The Salento Peninsula In Southern Italy, Anna Trono

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

Religious ceremonies play an important role when understood as an opportunity for improving the image of a city, improving the socio-economic situation and promoting regional development. These are the objectives of the local administration in Novoli, a small town in the Salento peninsula in Puglia, south-eastern Italy. The most important religious, social and tourist event of the year in Novoli is the feast of Saint Anthony Abbot, which falls on the 17th of January. The festivities continue for many days and include religious rites, street lights, exhibitions, food stands, popular music and brass band concerts, markets and conferences. There are …

English Cathedrals: Events And Spiritual Capital, Simon Curtis

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

This paper investigates the recent trend for cathedrals in England to develop a wider and more ambitious scope to their event and activity programmes. It sets out to explore the types of events now hosted at cathedrals, to consider barriers to such ambitions and the opportunities presented by event programming to develop new audiences and grow attendances. The research focuses on the 42 Anglican cathedrals of England and has involved a review of recent reports published by church and cathedral organisations, supported by an in-depth review of event activity and objectives at five selected cathedrals in southern England.

Despite declining …

Modeling Of Soybean Under Present And Future Climates In Mozambique, Manuel António Dina Talacuece, Flávio Barbosa Justino, Rafael De Ávila Rodrigues, Milton Edgar Pereira Flores, Jéssica Garcia Nascimento, Eduardo Eduardo Santos

Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute: Faculty Publications

This study aims to calibrate and validate the generic crop model (CROPGRO-Soybean) and estimate the soybean yield, considering simulations with different sowing times for the current period (1990–2013) and future climate scenario (2014–2030). The database used came from observed data, nine climate models of CORDEX (Coordinated Regional climate Downscaling Experiment)-Africa framework and MERRA (Modern Era Retrospective-Analysis for Research and Applications) reanalysis. The calibration and validation data for the model were acquired in field experiments, carried out in the 2009/2010 and 2010/2011 growing seasons in the experimental area of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in Angónia, Mozambique. The yield …

2003, San Luis Obispo Crop Report.

San Luis Obispo Crop Reports

Annual report pertaining to agriculture in San Luis Obispo County, California.

Graphicality: Why Is There Not Such A Word?, Robert Harland, David Craib

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The concept of graphicality first appeared in the work of Edgar Allan Poe. Taking its title from Poe’s painterly metaphor, this paper seeks to understand how graphicality may inform aspects of design thinking that have been neglected. We explore the current use, origins and aspects of graphicality, and contextualise it in some real world scenarios to reaffirm how we live in a graphic age, and how graphicality must be better understood in the way we comprehend other displays of human ability, such as musicality. Poe provides us with a starting point for relating the physical and mental domains of image …

A Sociotechnical Framework For The Design Of Collaborative Services: Diagnosis And Conceptualisation, Joon Sang Baek, Sojung Kim, Yoonee Pahk

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This study was motivated by the finding that there is a lack of design knowledge in the area of systems design of collaborative services. This study introduces a framework for developing service design strategies to foster collaborative communities and support social innovation. Based on the sociotechnical systems design, the framework allows designers to conceive the strategies, which belong to the domain of technical system, with an understanding of the social system of an organisation. It aims to achieve a seamless interaction between the social and technical systems of a community, leading to increased impact of social innovations. Social network analysis …

Problematizing Evidence-Based Design: A Case Study Of Designing For Services In The Finnish Government, Helena Sustar, Luke Feast

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The increasing complexity of design problems and degree of innovation required of design solutions today has led many authors to claim that decision making in design should be based on strong scientific evidence. However, current models of evidence-based practice are too simplistic for design since they tend to focus only on evidence strength. We investigate the role of evidence in service design through analysing a case study of creating a service design solution to improve immigration services in the Finnish public sector. By using a conceptual framework that emphasises the impact of different kinds of evidence on knowledge as justified …

Designing Participation For Commoning In Temporary Spaces: A Case Study In Aveiro, Portugal, Janaina Teles Barbosa, Maria Hellström Reimer, João Almeida Mota

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Western contemporary cities are investing in interactive spaces that promote passive participation through consumption. At the same time there are collaborative networks emerging in those urban areas enabling new forms of participation for the common good. One of the questions design research can raise is how design practices can assist in creating spaces that facilitate processes of commoning. This paper focuses on participatory processes in temporary spaces through the aesthetic experience. The concepts of “commons/commoning” and co- creation are examined from the perspective of Design for Social Innovation, Design Activism and Participatory Design. In this sense, this paper aims to …

The Future Of Design Education, Sapna Singh, Liz Sanders, Terry Irwin, Pieter Jan Stappers, Nicole Lotz, Erik Bohemia

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Design as a discipline has evolved and is expanding its impact from individual physical objects and spaces to experiences and organizations. An emerging question is 'how will the increasing influence of design impact the future of design education and create value for its stakeholders as well as for the discipline of design?' Probably a more critical question is 'how can or should design education prepare future designers for this expanding sphere of design influence?'Design education is at the crossroads and faces an uncertain future. some say “If design is to live up to its promise it must create new, enduring …

Introduction: Design Epistemology, Derek Jones, Philip Plowright, Leonard Bachman, Tiiu Poldma

DRS Biennial Conference Series

No abstract provided.

Introduction: Aesthetics, Cosmopolitics And Design, Alex Wilkie

DRS Biennial Conference Series

No abstract provided.

Introduction: Design Research – History, Theory, Practice: Histories For Future - Focused Thinking, Harriet Atkinson, Maya Rae Oppenheimer

DRS Biennial Conference Series

No abstract provided.

Framing Complexity In Design Through Theories Of Social Practice And Structuration: A Comparative Case Study Of Urban Cycling, Tobias Barnes Hofmeister, Martina Keitsch

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Even if cycling is promoted as a new form of urban lifestyle, current car- centric approaches hold this type of mobility under gridlock. This article explores dissonances between visions, planning and execution in urban mobility and proposes a practice-oriented design model based on theories of Shove and Giddens. A model as a combination of mutual influences is developed, reflecting the complexity of urban design problems. The model is applied in a comparative case study on cycling in Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany) and Trondheim (Norway). In Freiburg cycling is of mundane, everyday character, while it carries traits of mere commuting in …

Commons & Community Economies: Entry Points To Design For Eco-Social Justice?, Fabio Franz, Bianca Elzenbaumer

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Many designers today (including ourselves) are experimenting with how their practice can engage in meaningful ways with the complexity of pressing social and environmental issues. Being very much concerned with the politics and power relations that run through such issues, in this paper we will explore what points of orientation the framework of the ‘commons’ and that of ‘community economies’ – seen from an autonomist and feminist Marxist perspective – can offer when working on socially and politically engaged projects. We mobilise these two frameworks as possible entry points through which eco-socially just modes of reproducing livelihoods can be fostered. …

Designing Creative Destruction, Ashley Hall

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This research aims to make a contribution in the context of design thinking at a global cultural scale and specifically how design methods are a feature of the homogenising and heterogenising forces of globalisation via creative destruction. Since Schumpeter’s description of economic innovation destroying the old and creating the new, a number of other interpretations of creative destruction have developed including those driving cultural evolution. However a design model showing the impact of different types of design method on cultural evolution can develop an understanding on a more systemic level from the medium to longer term impact of new designs …

From Participation To Collaboration: Reflections On The Co - Creation Of Innovative Business Ideas, Cara Broadley, Katherine Champion, Michael Pierre Johnson, Lynn-Sayers Mchattie

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Design-led innovation interventions are predicated on the importance of establishing complex disciplinary collaborations. This paper reflects on the effects of different co-design methods to support knowledge exchange and the co-creation of new business ideas with multidisciplinary participants. It draws on data collected from sandpit style events entitled Chiasma, undertaken as part of the knowledge exchange hub, Design in Action (DiA) in which co-design methods were used to bring designers, entrepreneurs, and academics together to develop innovative business ideas in Scotland. Employing a thematic analysis of idea generation, team formation, and idea development, we suggest that a more nuanced range of …

The Making Of Sustainable Cultural And Creative Cluster In Hong Kong, Kaman Ka Ma Tsan, Kin Wai Michael Siu

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The setup of cultural and creative cluster became a trendy practice for generating economic revenue in the post-industrial era. Many state governments imitates those successful prescription in the setup of cluster, however, it could not guarantee the sustainable development of the cluster. This paper endeavors to identify the fundamental factors in developing a sustainable cluster in a densely populated city. Rather than considering the spatial setting as the most important factor for cluster, this paper argues that the formation of community and happening of creativity are the integral factors for creative production. A three factors model has been generated for …

Bonding Through Designing; How A Participatory Approach To Videography Can Catalyse An Emotive And Reflective Dialogue With Young People, Marianne Mcara

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Young people at risk of failing through the educational-net post compulsory schooling, or who have done so already, are too often subsumed under negative- based rhetoric such as disengaged, disaffected, and NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training). This rhetoric suggests that young people are responsible for their, supposedly, demobilised capacity and fails to acknowledge the fundamental adversities highly disadvantaged young people can face, further camouflaging the most vulnerable. In this paper I reflect on my experience of collaborating with a group of young people, identified by their schoolteachers as vulnerable and at risk of nonparticipation. I reflect on my …

Design Studio Desk And Shared Place Attachments: A Study On Ownership, Personalization, And Agency., Peter Scupelli, Bruce Hanington

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Increasing numbers of students, limited space, and decreasing budgets nudge many university administrators to shift from assigned design studio desks to flexible workspace arrangements. This paper explores student attachment to the individual desk and shared spaces in a graduate design studio in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University. The studio had four interconnected spaces with: individual desks, collaborative workspaces, a kitchen-social cafe area, and a distance- learning classroom. We explored student perspectives and attitudes on studio aesthetics, functionality, agency, ownership, personalization, and occupancy patterns with four methods (i.e., online survey, student class schedules, interviews, time-lapse study). Perception of …