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    Con autorizaciĂłn de la editorial para este libro. CoordinaciĂłn del libro a cargo de Mu-Kien Adriana Sang Ben.La versiĂłn en español de este libro puede encontrarse en el siguiente enlace: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/263728Connected Worlds: The Caribbean, Origin of Modern World. European UnionÂŽs Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska Curie grant agreement NÂș 823846.Peer reviewe

    Pacific Climate Cultures

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    This edited volume examines the opportunities to think, do, and/or create jointly afforded by digital storytelling. The contributors discuss digital storytelling in the context of educational programs, teaching anthropology, and ethnographic research involving a variety of populations and subjects that will appeal to researchers and practitioners engaged with qualitative methods and pedagogies that rely on media technology

    Landings, vol. 30, no. 1

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    Landings content emphasizes science, history, resource sustainability, economic development, and human interest stories related to Maine\u27s lobster industry. The newsletter emphasizes lobstering as a traditional, majority-European American lifeway with an economic and social heritage unique to the coast of Maine. The publication focuses how ongoing research to engage in sustainable, non-harmful, and non-wasteful commercial fishing practices benefit both the fishery and Maine\u27s coastal legacy. For more information, please visit the Maine Lobstermen’s Community Alliance (MLCA) website

    Reputational and cooperative benefits of third-party compensation

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    Landings, vol. 29, no. 12

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    Landings content emphasizes science, history, resource sustainability, economic development, and human interest stories related to Maine’s lobster industry. The newsletter emphasizes lobstering as a traditional, majority-European American lifeway with an economic and social heritage unique to the coast of Maine. The publication focuses how ongoing research to engage in sustainable, non-harmful, and non-wasteful commercial fishing practices benefit both the fishery and Maine\u27s coastal legacy. Maine Lobstermen’s Community Alliance (MLCA) started publication of Landings, a 24-page newsletter in January 2013 as the successor of the Maine Lobstermen’s Association (MLA) Newsletter. As of 2022, the MLCA published over 6,500 copies of the monthly newsletter for distribution by mail to all of Maine’s commercial lobstermen, Maine state government agency staff, Maine Legislators, members of Maine\u27s U.S. Congressional delegation, subscribers, and marine businesses. For more information, please visit the Maine Lobstermen’s Community Alliance (MLCA) website. Headlines in this issue include: MLA Announces 10MillionCampaigntoSaveMaineLobstermenAppealsCourtReinstatesLMA1ClosureWecannotwinthisbattlewithoutyoursupportAtoughtimetopredictthefutureMaineLobstermen’sAssociationUpdateMLALaunches10 Million Campaign to Save Maine Lobstermen Appeals Court Reinstates LMA1 Closure We cannot win this battle without your support A tough time to predict the future Maine Lobstermen’s Association Update MLA Launches 10 Million Campaign to Save Maine Lobstermen NMFS Releases Whale Plan Outreach Guide for Maine Update on Whale Lawsuits 2021 Herring Season Update DMR Aquaculture Lease Application Status for December (as of 11/18/21) Fishing Industry Group to Sue Over Vineyard Wind Approval Depression is a character flaw Gulf of Maine Research Institute Buys Portland’s Union Wharf Maine Investing $10 Million in Seafood Intrastructure Gouldsboro Adopts a 6-Month Finfish Aquaculture Ban ASMFC Seeks Input on Lobster Vessel Tracking Requirements Maine’s Fishing History Through One Famil

    Landings, vol. 29, no. 12

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    Landings content emphasizes science, history, resource sustainability, economic development, and human interest stories related to Maine’s lobster industry. The newsletter emphasizes lobstering as a traditional, majority-European American lifeway with an economic and social heritage unique to the coast of Maine. The publication focuses how ongoing research to engage in sustainable, non-harmful, and non-wasteful commercial fishing practices benefit both the fishery and Maine\u27s coastal legacy. Maine Lobstermen’s Community Alliance (MLCA) started publication of Landings, a 24-page newsletter in January 2013 as the successor of the Maine Lobstermen’s Association (MLA) Newsletter. As of 2022, the MLCA published over 6,500 copies of the monthly newsletter for distribution by mail to all of Maine’s commercial lobstermen, Maine state government agency staff, Maine Legislators, members of Maine\u27s U.S. Congressional delegation, subscribers, and marine businesses. For more information, please visit the Maine Lobstermen’s Community Alliance (MLCA) website. Headlines in this issue include: MLA Announces 10MillionCampaigntoSaveMaineLobstermenAppealsCourtReinstatesLMA1ClosureWecannotwinthisbattlewithoutyoursupportAtoughtimetopredictthefutureMaineLobstermen’sAssociationUpdateMLALaunches10 Million Campaign to Save Maine Lobstermen Appeals Court Reinstates LMA1 Closure We cannot win this battle without your support A tough time to predict the future Maine Lobstermen’s Association Update MLA Launches 10 Million Campaign to Save Maine Lobstermen NMFS Releases Whale Plan Outreach Guide for Maine Update on Whale Lawsuits 2021 Herring Season Update DMR Aquaculture Lease Application Status for December (as of 11/18/21) Fishing Industry Group to Sue Over Vineyard Wind Approval Depression is a character flaw Gulf of Maine Research Institute Buys Portland’s Union Wharf Maine Investing $10 Million in Seafood Intrastructure Gouldsboro Adopts a 6-Month Finfish Aquaculture Ban ASMFC Seeks Input on Lobster Vessel Tracking Requirements Maine’s Fishing History Through One Famil

    Knowledge and Civil Society

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    This open access book focuses on the role of civil society in the creation, dissemination, and interpretation of knowledge in geographical contexts. It offers original, interdisciplinary and counterintuitive perspectives on civil society. The book includes reflections on civil and uncivil society, the role of civil society as a change agent, and on civil society perspectives of undone science. Conceptual approaches go beyond the tripartite division of public, private and civic sectors to propose new frameworks of civic networks and philanthropic fields, which take an inclusive view of the connectivity of civic agency across sectors. This includes relational analyses of epistemic power in civic knowledge networks as well as of regional giving and philanthropy. The original empirical case studies examine traditional forms of civic engagement, such as the German landwomen’s associations, as well as novel types of organizations, such as giving circles and time banks in their geographical context. The book also offers insider reflections on doing civil society, such as the cases of the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong, epistemic activism in the United States, and the #FeesMustFall movement in South Africa

    Mandatory Tax Penalty Insurance

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    In a mandatory tax penalty insurance regime, taxpayers would be required to find insurers to certify portions of their tax returns. A certifying insurer would be subject to a governmental auditing regime insurers of randomly selected filings would pay an amount equal to the inverse of the selection probability multiplied by the underpayment, or they would receive money from the government in the case of overpayment. The insurers function as private auditors with no incentive to underestimate their customers\u27 tax liability. Such a regime will consume real resources, ultimately paid by taxpayers, and thus should not be imposed universally. But this regime might be especially useful in contexts where valuation is inherently subjective or where inevitable loopholes allow taxpayers to disguise economic substance. For example, if a wealth tax is too easily evaded by undervaluation of assets, a mandatory tax penalty insurance requirementf or certain high-value assets could help. With insurers bearing the risk of penalties, inconsistent treatment of taxpayers should be less of a concern, and tax law can embrace standards in some contexts in which rules would be needed with a conventional enforcement approac

    Internationalizing "International Communication"

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    International communication as a field of inquiry is, in fact, not very “internationalized.” Rather, it has been taken as a conceptual extension or empirical application of U.S. communication, and much of the world outside the West has been socialized to adopt truncated versions of Pax Americana’s notion of international communication. At stake is the “subject position” of academic and cultural inquirers: Who gets to ask what kind of questions? It is important to note that the quest to establish universally valid “laws” of human society with little regard for cultural values and variations seems to be running out of steam. Many lines of intellectual development are reckoning with the important dimensions of empathetic understanding and subjective consciousness. In Internationalizing "International Communication," Lee and others argue that we must reject both America-writ-large views of the world and self-defeating mirror images that reject anything American or Western on the grounds of cultural incompatibility or even cultural superiority. The point of departure for internationalizing “international communication” must be precisely the opposite of parochialism – namely, a spirit of cosmopolitanism. Scholars worldwide have a moral responsibility to foster global visions and mutual understanding, which forms, metaphorically, symphonic harmony made of cacophonic sounds

    Development of Ultrasonic Devices for Non-destructive Testing: Ultrasonic Vibro-tactile Sensor and FPGA-Based Research Platform

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    This thesis is focused on the development of ultrasonic devices for industrial non-destructive testing (NDT). Ultrasound is generated from mechanical vibrations and then propagates through the medium. Ultrasonic devices can make use of the ultrasound in both aspects, vibrations and propagations, to perform inspections of the objects. To this end, two devices were developed in this research, each pertaining to NDT of the objects. The first device is the vibro-tactile sensor which aims to estimate the elastic modules of soft materials with minimally invasive technique. Inspired by load sensitivity studies in the high-power ultrasonic applications, vibration characteristics in resonance were utilized to perform the inspection. Only a minimal force to ensure contact with the object surface needs to be applied for a vibro-tactile sensor to perform inspection of the object; hence, it can be used for in-vivo measurement of the soft materials’ elastic moduli without causing severe surface deformation. The design and analysis of the device were carried out using the electro-mechanical analogy to address the electro-mechanical nature of piezoelectric devices. The designed vibro-tactile sensor resonates at ~40 kHz and can be applied to differentiate the elastic modulus of isotropic soft samples with a range from 10 kPa to 70 kPa. The second device developed is a field-programmable development platform for ultrasonic pulse-echo testing. Ultrasonic testing, utilizing sound wave propagation, is a widely used technique in the industry. The commercially available equipment for industrial NDT is highly dependent on the competence of the inspector and rarely provides the access to raw data. For successful transition from traditional labor-intensive manufacturing to the next generation “smart factory” where intelligent machines replace human labor, inspection equipment with automated in-line data collection and processing capability is highly needed. To this end, a flexible platform which provides the access to raw data for algorithm development and implementation should be established. Therefore, an affordable, versatile, and researcher-friendly development platform based on field-programmable gate array (FPGA) was developed in the research. Both hardware and software development tools and procedures were discussed. In the lab experiment, the developed prototype exhibited its competence in NDT applications and successfully carried out hardware-based auto-detection algorithm for mm-level defects on steel and aluminum specimens. Comparisons with commercial systems were provided to guide future development
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