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Parámetros Para Orientar Procesos Informales De Concertación En Movilidad Urbana Sostenible En Colombia, Erika Castro-Buitrago, Jorge E. Vásquez Santamaría Nov 2021

Parámetros Para Orientar Procesos Informales De Concertación En Movilidad Urbana Sostenible En Colombia, Erika Castro-Buitrago, Jorge E. Vásquez Santamaría

The Qualitative Report

El artículo propone desde un punto de vista jurídico los parámetros de actuación que pueden orientar los procesos de concertación informal sobre movilidad urbana sostenible entre autoridades y ciudadanos en Colombia, acudiendo a las experiencias de concertación informal de actores ciudadanos. Se empleó una metodología cualitativa, con enfoque sociojurídico y hermenéutica dialógica. La información empírica se recopiló a través de entrevistas semiestructuradas a informantes clave y el análisis de documentos. Los hallazgos mostraron que una buena parte de estos procesos tiene lugar de manera informal y los participantes no poseen directrices que dirijan su éxito. Además, la concertación de proyectos …


Identification Of Needs Of Community Schools Of Kavre, Nepal For Educational Improvement, Roshani Rajbanshi, Parbati Dhungana, Bal Luitel Nov 2021

Identification Of Needs Of Community Schools Of Kavre, Nepal For Educational Improvement, Roshani Rajbanshi, Parbati Dhungana, Bal Luitel

The Qualitative Report

Needs assessment is a method to find out the current needs of the school that can be considered for providing quality education to the students. This paper presents the needs of five community schools intending to bring changes in the school community. Thus, this paper aims to identify the needs of the five community schools of Kavre, Nepal, and recommend possible interventions. In-depth interviews, observations, and focus group discussions with different stakeholders provided rich data for this study. School-specific needs were identified from the data based on which recommendations are made for intervention, which are: Teacher professional development, contextualized curriculum, …


Embodying The Everyday Practices Of Urban Water: The Discourse Of Water Scarcity And Women's Subjectivities In Amman, Jordan, Katrin Masharqa Nov 2021

Embodying The Everyday Practices Of Urban Water: The Discourse Of Water Scarcity And Women's Subjectivities In Amman, Jordan, Katrin Masharqa

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Developing And Validating An Instrument To Assess Reading Readiness In Egyptian Kindergartners, Randa Saad Awad Nov 2021

Developing And Validating An Instrument To Assess Reading Readiness In Egyptian Kindergartners, Randa Saad Awad

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Israel's Colonial Settlement Complex And It's Ethnic Cleansing Of The Palestinian People, Philip Rizk Nov 2021

Israel's Colonial Settlement Complex And It's Ethnic Cleansing Of The Palestinian People, Philip Rizk

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


The Prefixes In Urban Arabic Dialect In Gaza: A Morphological Study, Nedal Fayez El-Shorbagy Nov 2021

The Prefixes In Urban Arabic Dialect In Gaza: A Morphological Study, Nedal Fayez El-Shorbagy

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


The International Position On The Bretton Woods Conference And Its Results (July 1-22, 1944), Dhofar Mohammed Al-Bazuni Nov 2021

The International Position On The Bretton Woods Conference And Its Results (July 1-22, 1944), Dhofar Mohammed Al-Bazuni

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The Bretton Woods conference is a very important and detailed event in the history of international relations at the monetary and financial level, as its results resulted in the collapse of the old financial system based on the exchange of all international currencies against Gold (the gold standard), after the British Pound Sterling occupied the lead among international currencies in this system, and the announcement, In doing so, the United States transformed from an economically emerging country into a dominant financial and monetary force in the new monetary system after making the dollar an international currency. How did the international …


Analysis Of The Morphometric Characteristics Of The River Network Of The Ghadhari Basin In The Muthanna Desert, Nadia Qasim Mohammed Al-Zarfi, Adnan Awda Fleih Al-Taie Nov 2021

Analysis Of The Morphometric Characteristics Of The River Network Of The Ghadhari Basin In The Muthanna Desert, Nadia Qasim Mohammed Al-Zarfi, Adnan Awda Fleih Al-Taie

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

astronomically between two latitudes (31° 18'52.977" - 30° 55'56.113") north and two longitudes (44° 55'3.491" - 45° 11'6.771") to the east in Al-Muthanna, specifically in the Salman local. The research aims to study and analyze the morphometric characteristics of the river network in Al-Ghadari basin, which takes place within areas where the geological and topographic factors differ in its upper parts (upstream) in which the valley runs in contiguous areas or in its lower parts, downstream, which takes place within the low-lying flat region. The study has found that Al-Ghadari basin, despite its proximity to elongation, is characterized by water …


The Variation Of Relative Humidity Between Barren Desert Areas And Green Areas In Al-Muthanna Governorate (Al-Warka And Al-Malha) As A Model: A Detailed Climate Study, Anmar Sami Al-Rikabi, Qusay Fadel Al-Hussaini Nov 2021

The Variation Of Relative Humidity Between Barren Desert Areas And Green Areas In Al-Muthanna Governorate (Al-Warka And Al-Malha) As A Model: A Detailed Climate Study, Anmar Sami Al-Rikabi, Qusay Fadel Al-Hussaini

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The research aims to analyze the variation in relative humidity rates in Al-Muthanna Governorate for the summer and winter seasons, with regard to the magnitude of the variance and the nature of its spatio-temporal distribution, relative humidity is directly related to the amount of water vapor in the air and inversely related to temperature, the research concluded that there is a discrepancy in the relative humidity between the barren desert areas and the areas with vegetation cover in the study area, it increases in areas with vegetation cover due to the high amount of Evaporation / transspiration and indirect solar …


Developing An Active Tool In Gis To Determine Gully Erosion Levels Depending On The Bergsma Method, Omar Abdullah Ismaeel, Rayan Ghazi Thannoun, Bashar Moneer Yahya Nov 2021

Developing An Active Tool In Gis To Determine Gully Erosion Levels Depending On The Bergsma Method, Omar Abdullah Ismaeel, Rayan Ghazi Thannoun, Bashar Moneer Yahya

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

Gully erosion is the most significant environmental threat in the field of natural resource management. Recently, one of the complexities of soil erosion studies in Iraq is the lack of information on the location of gullies, as well as relying on traditional methods in studying this type of erosion. The objective of this paper is to develop an adaptive tool for estimating gully erosion levels based on Python and modular building in ArcGIS environment. This tool can be used for dealing with the stream network and calculate the length of the valley, as well as divide the lengths of the …


Transitioning From High School Students To Aspiring Future Rural Educators: Promising Practices To Fuel The Rural Teacher Pipeline, Christine Kyser, Suzette Youngs, Amy Nelson, Tatum Monaghan Nov 2021

Transitioning From High School Students To Aspiring Future Rural Educators: Promising Practices To Fuel The Rural Teacher Pipeline, Christine Kyser, Suzette Youngs, Amy Nelson, Tatum Monaghan

Journal of Educational Research and Innovation

This study examined the potential of a residency/concurrent enrollment program to support rural students that are interested in the field of education. With 17 students in the program, the goals were to make a career in teaching more accessible to rural high school students through concurrent enrollment, to help future teachers solidify their career choice, and to establish partnerships with rural districts to continue expanding concurrent enrollment and ultimately fuel the teacher pipeline. For the purposes of this study, we investigated how these efforts might influence high school students’ understanding of teaching as a profession and examined if and how …


Families Across Borders: The Hague Children's Conventions And The Case For International Family Law In The United States, Ann Laquer Estin Nov 2021

Families Across Borders: The Hague Children's Conventions And The Case For International Family Law In The United States, Ann Laquer Estin

Florida Law Review

In our globalized world, as families form and dissolve across international borders, domestic family law does not adequately address the needs of parents and children with ties to multiple legal systems. For these cases, the Hague Children’s Conventions provide a useful legal framework developed and implemented through the cooperative efforts of more than one hundred nations. Currently, the United States participates in the 1980 Child Abduction Convention and the 1993 Intercountry Adoption Convention, and has taken steps toward ratification of the 2007 Family Maintenance Convention and the 1996 Child Protection Convention. The four Children’s Conventions offer an important opportunity for …


When Immigration Borders Move, Huyen Pham Nov 2021

When Immigration Borders Move, Huyen Pham

Florida Law Review

With recent immigration enforcement efforts, we have created a completely new paradigm of moving borders: laws, enacted at all levels of government, that require proof of legal immigration status in order to obtain a driver's license, a job, rental housing, government need-based assistance, and numerous other essential benefits. Unlike the fixed physical border, these laws require proof of immigration status at multiple, moving points within the country's interior and are triggered through everyday transactions; if unable to prove her legal status, a person is denied the restricted benefit. If a person is denied access to multiple essential benefits, then she …


Modernizing Water Law: The Example Of Florida, Christine A. Klein, Mary Jane Angelo, Richard Hamann Nov 2021

Modernizing Water Law: The Example Of Florida, Christine A. Klein, Mary Jane Angelo, Richard Hamann

Florida Law Review

This Article takes a national view of the modernization of water law. Using Florida as an example, it identifies some of the most important and controversial challenges faced by states. Part II provides an overview of the process of water law reform. As states attempt to improve water management, they have modified their common law water allocation systems with an overlay of statutory law. Often, the process occurs in a piecemeal fashion, resulting in a patchwork of rules—common law and statutory, old and new. In rare cases—including that of Florida—the process may be more comprehensive, one through which states supplement …


State Standing After Massachusetts V. Epa, Calvin Massey Nov 2021

State Standing After Massachusetts V. Epa, Calvin Massey

Florida Law Review

No abstract provided.


Colonizing The Gaza Strip: Two Phases Of Governance: A Critique Of The Idea Of State, Philip Risk Nov 2021

Colonizing The Gaza Strip: Two Phases Of Governance: A Critique Of The Idea Of State, Philip Risk

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


An Encounter With Javier Camarena, Enrique Gilardoni Nov 2021

An Encounter With Javier Camarena, Enrique Gilardoni

Newsletter of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

Since 1976 I live in Chile, a country that extends its crazy geography along more than 2,600 miles with a range that goes from the driest desert on the planet in the North to scenic South full of forests lakes and volcanoes.


Sir Christopher Lee— ‘I Still Believe I Was Born To Be An Opera Singer’, Walter B. Rudolph Nov 2021

Sir Christopher Lee— ‘I Still Believe I Was Born To Be An Opera Singer’, Walter B. Rudolph

Newsletter of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

The actor Christopher Lee, who died at the age of 93 on June 7th, 2015, may have appeared in more films than anyone of his generation. Best known for portraying villains with his 6’5” frame, he was seen in James Bond, Star Wars and Lord of the Ring films, among many, many others. Here he reflects on an opera career that might have been...


Full Issue Nov 2021

Full Issue

Newsletter of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

No abstract provided.


A National Rural Postsecondary Research Agenda, National Rural Postsecondary Research Agenda Working Group Nov 2021

A National Rural Postsecondary Research Agenda, National Rural Postsecondary Research Agenda Working Group

The Rural Educator

No abstract provided.


Accumulation Of Legacy Fallout Radionuclides In Cryoconite On Isfallsglaciären (Arctic Sweden) And Their Downstream Spatial Distribution, Caroline C. Clason, Will H. Blake, Nick Selmes, Alex Taylor, Pascal Boeckx, Jessica Kitch, Stephanie C. Mills, Giovanni Baccolo, Geoffrey E. Millward Nov 2021

Accumulation Of Legacy Fallout Radionuclides In Cryoconite On Isfallsglaciären (Arctic Sweden) And Their Downstream Spatial Distribution, Caroline C. Clason, Will H. Blake, Nick Selmes, Alex Taylor, Pascal Boeckx, Jessica Kitch, Stephanie C. Mills, Giovanni Baccolo, Geoffrey E. Millward

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Abstract. The release of legacy contaminants such as fallout radionuclides (FRNs) in response to glacier retreat is a process that has received relatively little attention to date, yet may have consequences as a source of secondary contamination as glaciers melt and down-waste in response to a warming climate. The presence of FRNs in glacier-fed catchments is poorly understood in comparison to other contaminants, yet there is now emerging evidence from multiple regions of the global cryosphere for substantially augmented FRN activities in cryoconite. Here we report concentrated FRNs in both cryoconite and proglacial sediments from the Isfallsglaciären catchment in Arctic …


Will They Stay Or Will They Go? Leadership Behaviors That Increase Teacher Retention In Rural Schools, Matthew Frahm, Marie Cianca Nov 2021

Will They Stay Or Will They Go? Leadership Behaviors That Increase Teacher Retention In Rural Schools, Matthew Frahm, Marie Cianca

The Rural Educator

Hard-to-staff rural schools often struggle to attract and retain promising educators. Experts have consistently identified administrative support in rural schools to be of unique importance for recruitment and retention, yet a lack of clarity continues to surround the specific leadership behaviors that new teachers interpret as supportive. This qualitative study collected data from three focus groups; including superintendents, principals, and teachers in a program for aspiring administrators; and found that rural schools have to try much harder and in more active ways to retain new teachers because of the constraints existing within rural education. Rural school support for new teachers …


Exploring Rural Engineering Students’ College-Choice Process At Two Land-Grant Universities, Rachel Worsham, Ashley Clayton, Joy Gaston Graves Nov 2021

Exploring Rural Engineering Students’ College-Choice Process At Two Land-Grant Universities, Rachel Worsham, Ashley Clayton, Joy Gaston Graves

The Rural Educator

This qualitative case study examines the college choice decisions of rural students enrolled in engineering majors to understand what conditions and experiences led rural students to pursue engineering at their institution. We found four themes that help illuminate rural engineering students’ college choice journeys (1) The Inextricable Nature of College, Major, and Career Choice (2) “The Smart Person Thing to Do:” The Power of Prestige, (3) “Are You Sure You Don’t Want to Change your Major?” Dissonance Between Aspirations and Expectations, and (4) School and Community as Crucial Resources in College and Major Exploration. These findings have implications for those …


Exploring Rural Engineering Students’ College Choice Process At Two Land-Grant Universities, Rachel E. Worsham, Ashley B. Clayton, Joy Gaston Gayles Nov 2021

Exploring Rural Engineering Students’ College Choice Process At Two Land-Grant Universities, Rachel E. Worsham, Ashley B. Clayton, Joy Gaston Gayles

Faculty Publications

This qualitative case study examines the college choice decisions of rural students enrolled in engineering majors to understand what conditions and experiences led rural students to pursue engineering at their institution. We found four themes that help illuminate rural engineering students’ college choice journeys (1) The Inextricable Nature of College, Major, and Career Choice (2) “The Smart Person Thing to Do:” The Power of Prestige, (3) “Are You Sure You Don’t Want to Change your Major?” Dissonance Between Aspirations and Expectations, and (4) School and Community as Crucial Resources in College and Major Exploration. These findings have implications for those …


Timing, Latency, And Live Performance, Robert Klimek, Catherine Skokan Nov 2021

Timing, Latency, And Live Performance, Robert Klimek, Catherine Skokan

Symposium on Education in Entertainment and Engineering

How important is synchronous timing in a performance? In the world of science, engineering and the arts, we cannot avoid it. In the arts, it is a living and vital concept between composer, performer and audience. During the Pandemic, with an increase in virtual meetings and performances, made us more aware of timing issues and introduced us to a path with many questions about latency and affect between audience and performer. The hand waving, head nodding and eye gestures of Renaissance musicians led eventually to the classic conductor’s baton. These all helped ensembles of dissimilar instruments and/or voices, conquer problems …


Using Sociological Images To Develop The Sociological Imagination, Georgiana Bostean, Lisa A. Leitz Nov 2021

Using Sociological Images To Develop The Sociological Imagination, Georgiana Bostean, Lisa A. Leitz

Sociology Faculty Articles and Research

We present a two-assignment series that developed students’ sociological imaginations and that could be done in a face-to-face or online course. The series used the Sociological Images blog and students’ own visual images (e.g., photographs) to meet course learning goals: (1) link sociological theories and concepts to social events/trends, (2) apply these ideas to real life by identifying sociologically relevant images in daily life, and (3) communicate sociological analysis in academic and popular written forms. The use of a blog encourages students to embrace public sociology. We present faculty and student assessment data (pretest from nonequivalent comparisons group) from six …


Ascertaining Users’ Attitude Towards Information Technology Application: A Comparative Study Of Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla And Punjabi University, Patiala, Tarvinder Singh Handa, Jagtar Singh Nov 2021

Ascertaining Users’ Attitude Towards Information Technology Application: A Comparative Study Of Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla And Punjabi University, Patiala, Tarvinder Singh Handa, Jagtar Singh

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present study was carried out to ascertain the attitude of library users towards information technology applications in two university libraries, viz. Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla and Punjabi University, Patiala. Survey method of research was used based on random sampling. 391 responses were collected from three user categories, i.e., PG Students, Research Scholars and Faculty Members in the faculties of Social Sciences and Sciences. Five departments from each faculty were taken further to attain more insight into users' attitude. The simple percentage, Chi-square test, and Mann Whitney U test were used to analyze the data collected through a structured questionnaire. …


Remote Sensing And Gis Integration For Amazon Rainforest Wildfires Applications, Cong Ma Nov 2021

Remote Sensing And Gis Integration For Amazon Rainforest Wildfires Applications, Cong Ma

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Known as the “Lung of the world”, the Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% of the oxygen of the world, which was originally a carbon pool for mitigating climate change, but in recent years it has become a significant carbon emitter due to wildfires. In 2019, a large-scale fire occurred in the Amazon rainforest, causing serious damage to the ecosystem and to humans as well. Therefore, managing wildfires effectively has become an urgent task for fire authorities. This thesis tried to incorporate spatial analysis and spatial statistics approaches to study wildfire from two aspects, namely the temporal and spatial distribution …


Ascertaining Users’ Attitude Towards Information Technology Application: A Comparative Study Of Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla And Punjabi University, Patiala, Tarvinder Singh Handa Nov 2021

Ascertaining Users’ Attitude Towards Information Technology Application: A Comparative Study Of Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla And Punjabi University, Patiala, Tarvinder Singh Handa

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present study was carried out to ascertain the attitude of library users towards information technology applications in two university libraries, viz. Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla and Punjabi University, Patiala. Survey method of research was used based on random sampling. 391 responses were collected from three user categories, i.e., PG Students, Research Scholars and Faculty Members in the faculties of Social Sciences and Sciences. Five departments from each faculty were taken further to attain more insight into users' attitude. The simple percentage, Chi-square test, and Mann Whitney U test were used to analyze the data collected through a structured questionnaire. …


The Spatial Effects Of Elderly Population Presence On Covid -19 Incidence In Dki Jakarta Before, During, And After Large-Scale Social Restriction, Chotib Chotib, I G A A Karishma Maharani Raijaya Mrs., Ahmad Aki Aki Muhaimin Mr., Novani Saputri Nov 2021

The Spatial Effects Of Elderly Population Presence On Covid -19 Incidence In Dki Jakarta Before, During, And After Large-Scale Social Restriction, Chotib Chotib, I G A A Karishma Maharani Raijaya Mrs., Ahmad Aki Aki Muhaimin Mr., Novani Saputri

Smart City

ABSTRACT

Infected cases and suspect cases of covid-19 are increasing more and more daily. This increment happens either in whole regions of Indonesia and DKI Jakarta as a capital city. The purpose of this research is to seek the pattern in spatial of Covid-19 incidence with 3 different periods of before, during, and after large-scale social restriction, and to identify the influence of the presence of the elderly and other factors. One of the scopes of this study is the presence of the elderly because the elderly population is considered as influencing the increase of Covid-19 incidence. The analysis method …