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Value Chain Improvements In Small-Scale Fisheries: Case Studies From West Africa, Kristine Beran

Open Access Dissertations

Seafood is one of the most traded food commodities in the world by value. Small-scale fisheries contribute significantly to the global production and supply of seafood. Yet, many small-scale fisheries in developing countries fail to maximize value of seafood products due to post-harvest loss, production, distribution, and marketing challenges. The purpose of this study is to examine how post-harvest innovations might address some of these challenges, whom they benefit along the fisheries value chain, and factors that influence adoption of innovations through two case studies in West Africa.

A multi-methods approach was used to collect extensive quantitative and qualitative data …

Jevic'S Promise: Procedural Justice In Chapter 11, Pamela Foohey

Washington Law Review Online

This piece is a response to Jonathan C. Lipson, The Secret Life of Priority: Corporate Reorganization after Jevic, 93 Wash. L. Rev. 631 (2018).

Jevic'S Promise: Procedural Justice In Chapter 11, Pamela Foohey

Washington Law Review Online

This piece is a response to Jonathan C. Lipson, The Secret Life of Priority: Corporate Reorganization after Jevic, 93 Wash. L. Rev. 631 (2018).

Expanding Private Sector Involvement In Addressing Family Planning Needs Of Young People In Egypt: Increasing The Use Of Private Sector Health Facilities For Family Planning And Reproductive Health Information And Service Provision For Egyptian Youth, Evidence Project

Reproductive Health

USAID/Egypt is supporting the Evidence Project/Population Council Egypt Office to implement a research activity to generate evidence on scalable interventions to expand private sector family planning and reproductive health programming for young Egyptians aged 18–34. The activity is investigating how to increase demand for private family planning services through peer education and social media campaigns that specifically target young people. The project targets young people in factories in Port Said in urban Souhag, both married and single, to “prepare the market” before they get married.

Michigan Academician, Volume 45, Issue 3

Michigan Academician

No abstract provided.

The Spirit-Led Coach: An Alternative Approach To Athletic Coaching, Sean Silverii

Doctor of Ministry

The world of sports is an approximate 620 billion dollar industry, claiming an attendance of a little over 124 million fans in 2016 just within the top five professional sports leagues. In the United States alone, it is estimated 20 to 30 million kids play recreational sports, while another 10 million teenagers play interscholastically each year. With these factors in mind, all forms of power, greed, corruption, violence, selfindulgence, etc. has seeped its way into athletics and culture like a virus. Recently, a bleacher report revealed that findings of an FBI probe into college basketball is expected to be released …

Satanic Influences In The American Christian Church In A Post-Modern Consumer Society, Jerry F. Ressa

Doctor of Ministry

This study seeks to propose evidences as to how and why the contemporary Christian church is satanically influenced, resulting in pain and suffering from devastating personal dysfunctions, interpersonal conflicts and divisions. This situation presents a great dilemma facing many, if not most, Christians in that they simply do not understand and are unaware of profound life altering significances of the spiritual battle being waged for souls and the satanic deceptions that draw people away from God. Satan, his fallen angels, and demons influence Christians and others through his primary tools of deceit and deception, delivered to the culture through media, …

Food And Faith: Making Food And Eating Choices Based On Evidence And Faith, James David Ahasay

Doctor of Ministry

Many leaders within the US-American Christian community are unaware of cultural influences driven by money that impact food sanctity, what we eat and the land from which our sustenance is derived. The question is asked, “What is food?” Intentional identity formation with the food we eat and its relationship to the land is important to create a physically and spiritually healthy environment for both men and women leaders, not only within the Christian community, but also throughout society at large. A large part of the problem is in thinking of food as a commodity rather than as a sacred part …

Apopo Annual Report 2018, Apopo

Global CWD Repository

APOPO is a non-profit organization with roots in Belgium. For 20 years we have trained African giant pouched rats to detect landmines and tuberculosis around the world. APOPO trains the ‘HeroRATs’ using positive reinforcement – they receive tasty treats when they identify a target scent. HeroRATs are at the core of the organization and this is reflected in the way we protect them and provide loving care and attention.

The main hub of the organization, the Training and R&D center, is located in Tanzania, where all the HeroRATs are trained before being sent to global operations. This is where all …

Pitcher, Unknown

Farid Karam M.D. Lebanon Antiquities Collection

The vessel has a broad, cylindrical neck with a simple rim. The neck descends into the body, forming a trough around the neck. The spout is attached to the body and points downward at a 20 degree angle. A groove extends along the topside of the spout. The tip of the spout appears to be broken off. The handle is formed by a bundle of five glass rods which are twisted. One of the rods is blue glass. Thumb-piece attaches along the rim; handle forms a right angle and descends to reattach along the shoulder and body, terminating in a …

Oil Lamp, Unknown

Farid Karam M.D. Lebanon Antiquities Collection

Lamp is decorated with a band of ridges radiating away from the fill hole. A bearded face embellishes the upper surface of the nozzle. Base is a central dot surrounded by three graduated rings. The knife-trimmed handle rises in a semicircular shape from the body of the lamp and opposite the nozzle. Dark residue at the nozzle indicates use.

Bowl, Unknown

Farid Karam M.D. Lebanon Antiquities Collection

Globular unglazed pot has a 2.5 cm. opening at the top; this aperture has been repaired. Foot is 1.5 cm. high and 6.0 cm. in diameter. Foot has been repaired. The upper half of the pot is decorated with three bands of designs: the uppermost band is beaded; the next band is designed with circular motifs; the last band may be an inscription in Arabic or merely fractured curved and slanting lines. The lower half of the pot is unadorned. The pot was molded in two halves and then joined at the widest part; evidence of the seam can be …

Sprinkler Flask, Unknown

Farid Karam M.D. Lebanon Antiquities Collection

Globular body is attached to a cylindrical neck which supports a flared mouth. The rim is folded in evenly. The aperture in the neck occurs midway inside the short neck. The globular body is embellished with nine ribs radiating from the shoulder to the bottom. The bottom is concave with no palpable pontil mark. The bottle is free-standing.

Bottle, Unknown

Farid Karam M.D. Lebanon Antiquities Collection

Piriform bottle has a ledge rim folded inward. The cylindrical neck transitions smoothly to the conical body. The base is slightly concave with no pontil mark.

Ewer, Unknown

Farid Karam M.D. Lebanon Antiquities Collection

Small pitcher has an in-folded rim on a cylindrical neck. The body is cylindrical, defined top and bottom by a raised band and then a convex shoulder and convex bottom. The base is flat with two raised circles, one inside the other. Handle attaches to the shoulder and the rim; the rim terminus has a thumb-piece. Loops (gadroons) decorate the shoulder and the base. The body is decorated with large motifs of eight arms.

Needle, Unknown

Farid Karam M.D. Lebanon Antiquities Collection

The dark brown metal object tapers from a rectangular cross-section at the blunt head end to a rounded point. The forged eye of the needle is 3 cm. below the blunt end. The eye is clear of debris. The shaft bulges on either side of the large eye.

Hair Ornament, Unknown

Farid Karam M.D. Lebanon Antiquities Collection

A solid shaft terminates at one end in a blunt point and at the other end in an embellishment. Three bands embellish the shaft, which then narrows before supporting the embellishment. The embellishment resembles a pointed bud, with a whorl design inscribed so that the lines terminate roughly 90 degrees from their origin at the base of the embellishment. The embellishment itself is just under 1 cm.

Tweezers, Unknown

Farid Karam M.D. Lebanon Antiquities Collection

The small tool has two flat and broad ends that are rounded and unserrated. One overhangs the other by 0.2 cm. The item is bent at the hinge in a circular shape so that the legs extend parallel to each other. The grip is sufficient for grasping lightweight material.

Forceps, Unknown

Farid Karam M.D. Lebanon Antiquities Collection

The fold-hinge tweezers are inscribed with five lines on each leg parallel to the hinge and running to the jaws. The shape describes a triangle, with the hinge at the top and the pointed jaws below. Jaws have no teeth and are straight. One jaw is broken off and worn. A hole pierces through the broad area below the hinge and above the first inscribed line. The grip is stiff and sufficient to grasp an object firmly.

Spathomele, Unknown

Farid Karam M.D. Lebanon Antiquities Collection

View description: Front view.

Spoon, Unknown

Farid Karam M.D. Lebanon Antiquities Collection

The spoon handle was made by wrapping flat metal back on itself into the shaft. The seam is evident on the back. The shovel is concave in the shape of a shield, terminating along two diagonal straight edges in a point. The left side of the spoon is cracked. The right side of the spoon has broken off and has been smoothed. The depth of the spoon is shallow.

Cyathiscomele, Unknown

Farid Karam M.D. Lebanon Antiquities Collection

Slender object has a small olivary end supported on a solid narrow shaft. Shaft increases in diameter slightly as it approaches the spoon. Between shaft and spoon is a bead inscribed with semicircles. An unadorned bead encircles the shaft just above the bowl of the spoon. The bowl of the spoon suggests a long oval shape, creased along the spine into a V-shape. The bowl of the spoon is 5.4 cm; the tip of the spoon is broken off.

Cyathiscomele, Unknown

Farid Karam M.D. Lebanon Antiquities Collection

Slender instrument has a solid cylindrical shaft. On one end is an olivary point; on the other is an oblong spoon with a rounded bowl. The bowl of the spoon is cracked and bent. The side edges of the spoon are chipped while the fore edge is rounded.

Garment Pin, Unknown

Farid Karam M.D. Lebanon Antiquities Collection

Slender item is heavily encrusted with corrosion. At the narrow end, a sharp point is exposed. The other end is adorned with a solid ball with a flat circular plate on top of that. The shaft appears to be a solid cylinder which is pierced by a forged bore between 3 and 4 cm. below the embellished end. The hole is clear of debris. The walls of the shaft are distended by the bore.

Garment Pin, Unknown

Farid Karam M.D. Lebanon Antiquities Collection

The object has a square cross-section, possibly broken at the small end. It tapers along the solid square shaft to an acorn-shaped top. The acorn embellishment is separated from the shaft by a narrow neck. The shaft is pieced by a bore lying between 1.6 and 2.0 cm. below the embellished end. The bore is clear of debris and does not distort the profile of the object.

Needle, Unknown

Farid Karam M.D. Lebanon Antiquities Collection

Solid shaft tapers from one blunt end to the other blunt end. A bore pierces the thicker end beginning 2.0 cm. below the end. The bore is clear and slightly distorts the walls of the object on either side of the hole.

Head Of A Man, Unknown

Farid Karam M.D. Lebanon Antiquities Collection

Face of a man inclines to the left. Hair radiates away from the face in furrows. Top and bottom eye lids are distinguishable, as are eyebrows. Face area includes from the ears forward; there is no back to the head. The back is flat. The nose has been broken. The head is mounted on an acrylic stand.

Head Of A Youth, Unknown

Farid Karam M.D. Lebanon Antiquities Collection

The features are so worn that gender is difficult to determine. The hair appears to be short and curly, suggesting a young man. The face inclines slightly to the left. The upper eyelids and eyebrow ridges are worked in relief. The nose has been broken and eroded. Earlobes are visible below the hair.

Unguentarium, Unknown

Farid Karam M.D. Lebanon Antiquities Collection

Unglazed bottle has a flat base that narrows before expanding into the body. At the shoulder, the bottle assumes a funnel shape and supports a neck for 4 cm. before flaring to the rim. The rim is finished with a standing collar. The bottle bears whitish residue along one side from foot to rim, indicating that the bottle lay horizontally and partly in the ground. The base is irregular; the bottle cannot stand.

Perfume Bottle, Unknown

Farid Karam M.D. Lebanon Antiquities Collection

The two-vial unit, joined along one wall, is carved from one piece of alabaster. The holes are drilled for the cavity of the vials and through the handles on either side. The drilled holes are off-center in one vial and in both handles. The walls of the vessel are translucent.