Italy’s Refugee Burden and the Role of the EU in Asylum Cases

Italy\u27s unique geographic location at the coast of the Mediteranean Sea gives much opportunity for the international community to criticize its dealings with asylum seekers crossing the body of water to enter Europe. The UNHCR reported that as of October 2014, 165,000 asylum seekers had taken dangerous journeys across the Mediterranean Sea; of those 165,000 people, Italy received 140,000

So We Ran...

This paper tells the true story of a Hungarian refugee who\u27s family fled the communist regime there in 1971. Gabriella Bercze\u27s story reflects on what it was like to live in Hungary under communist rule, and her family\u27s experience in escaping the country, and fleeing to Italy, where they lived in a refugee camp for months before immigrating to the United States in the early 70s

Integrated supplier management system a case study: PARL Bone Mills

Effective supplier management is vital for successful business operation of any business organization. Supplier management is a technique and continuous activity that used to control and make decision about supplier management. Cooperative managers make wise supplier management decision by using supplier management strategy as part of an organized plan. Therefore the research is to implement IS in supplier management at PARL Bone Mills. The Management Information System (MIS) will propose a decision making process for the management at PARL Bone Mills. From the initial findings, the management often faces some problems in taking the supplier record where it is done manually. Therefore, the proposed MIS system will be able to choose a useful supplier who will make available of right product as per the organization’s need. By implementing ICT strategy successfully at PARL Bone Mills, especially MIS system, it is hoped that it can bring some effective and efficient improvement to their supplier management system and this project will also help them to reduce their misuse of time

Improvements in Maximum Likelihood Estimators of Truncated Normal Samples with Prior Knowledge of σ

Researchers analyzing historical data on human stature have long sought an estimator that performs well in truncated-normal samples. This paper reviews that search, focusing on two currently widespread procedures: truncated least squares (TLS) and truncated maximum likelihood (TML). The first suffers from bias. The second suffers in practical application from excessive variability. A simple procedure is developed to convert TLS truncated means into estimates of the underlying population means, assuming the contemporary population standard deviation. This procedure is shown to be equivalent to restricted TML estimation. Simulation methods are used to establish the mean squared error performance characteristics of the restricted and unconstrained TML estimators in relation to several population and sample parameters. The results provide general insight into the bias-precision tradeoff in restricted estimation and a specific practical guide to optimal estimator choice for researchers in anthropometrics

Fictional Narrative Skills of Preschool-Age Bilingual Children with Typical Language Development

Oral narrative retells are commonly used in assessment to examine language and literacy development in young children. Due to the increasing number of bilingual children in the United States, it is necessary to understand typical development in order to assess and intervene when needed. English story retells from eight preschool-age Spanish-English bilingual children were analyzed in the present study using the Narrative Assessment Protocol. Analyses were conducted to examine differences in narrative microstructure at two time points. In the present study, a Wilcoxon Signed Rank Sum test which is a nonparametric statistical measure was used to determine whether there was a significant change in NAP scores over time. Mean scores at Time 2 were statistically significantly higher than scores at Time 1. Children’s narratives at Time 2 were more complex and contained more microstructure elements

The Timeliness of Hamilton: An American Musical

In 2015, Hamilton: An American Musical was a sweeping success on Broadway—the first rap and hip-hop display of its kind. In 2019, the show\u27s relevance remains strong. When a revolutionary (pun intended) production like Hamilton sweeps the nation, the question raised is: Why? What makes Hamilton so special? The author suggests that the reason Hamilton has been received with overwhelming positivity by everyone from Barack Obama, to Dick Cheney, to Weird Al Yankovic (Hayes & Gale 42-43) is its perfectly placed rhetorical situation. It is difficult to say whether, in another time and place, this Broadway smash hit, with its “mostly black cast [that] ‘turns the tables on the practice of using white actors to portray ethnic characters,’” would have succeeded—or if it could have been created at all (Yankovic qtd. in Hayes & Gale 42). The exigence of Hamilton created the kairos of the production. Put simply, America was ready for Hamilton

PEMILIHAN BAHASA DALAM KELUARGA CAMPURANRNDI KECAMATAN KEJURUAN MUDA KABUPATEN ACEH TAMIANG

ABSTRAKKata kunci : pemilihan bahasa, keluarga campuran, bahasa IndonesiaPenelitian yang berjudul Pemilihan Bahasa dalam Keluarga Campuran diKecamatan Kejuruan Muda Kabupaten Aceh Tamiang ini mengangkat masalah (1)bahasa apa yang dipilih oleh keluarga campuran di Kecamatan Kejuruan MudaKabupaten Aceh Tamiang dan (2) faktor apakah yang melatarbelakangi pemilihanbahasa oleh keluarga campuran di Kecamatan Kejuruan Muda Kabupaten AcehTamiang tersebut. Sumber data penelitian ini adalah keluarga campuran yang terdiriatas ayah, ibu, dan anak yang ayah dan ibunya berasal dari suku yang berbeda.Keluarga campuran yang dijadikan sumber data berjumlah 28 KK dan terdiri atasberbagai suku, yaitu: Mandailing-Jawa, Mandailing-Aceh, Aceh-Mandailing, Aceh-Tamiang, Aceh-Sunda, Aceh-Minangkabau, Aceh-Jawa, Jawa-Aceh, Jawa-Minangkabau, Minangkabau-Aceh, Minangkabau-Tamiang, Minangkabau-Batak,Batak-Jawa, Tamiang-Jawa, Tamiang-Aceh, Tamiang-Karo, dan Gayo-Aceh.Metode penilitian menggunakan metode deskriptif kualitatif. Instrumen yangdigunakan dalam penelitian terdiri atas (1) peneliti, dan (2) alat rekam dan catat.Pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan pengamatan dan cakap (wawancara)berdasarkan masing-masing keluarga campuran yang ada di Kecamatan KejuruanMuda. Penganalisisan data dilakukan dengan langkah sebagai berikut: (1) datadikelompokkan berdasarkan rumusan masalah, (2) mengklasifikasikan data sesuaidengan aspek yang diteliti, (3) membenahi hasil catatan pengamatan dan wawancara,(4) mendata semua data dan melakukan analisis ulang serta menyampaikan hasilnyasesuai dengan masalah dalam bentuk deskriptif, dan (5) membuat simpulan akhir.Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pemilihan bahasa yang dilakukan oleh keluargacampuran di Kecamatan Kejuruan Muda sebanyak 16 keluarga memilih bahasaIndonesia dalam proses komunikasi, 2 keluarga terdapat penggunaan bahasa Jawadalam proses komunikasi, 1 keluarga terdapat penggunaan bahasa Minangkabaudalam proses komunikasi, 5 keluarga terdapat penggunaan bahasa Aceh dalam proseskomunikasi, 2 keluarga terdapat penggunaan bahasa Tamiang dalam proseskomunikasi, 1 keluarga terdapat penggunaan bahasa Aceh dan Jawa di dalamkeluarganya, dan 1 keluarga terdapat penggunaan bahasa Tamiang dan Karo didalam keluarganya. Faktor yang melatarbelakangi pemilihan bahasa dalam keluargacampuran di Kecamatan Kejuruan Muda adalah (1) lingkungan tempat tinggal dansekolah, (2) orang tua tidak menurunkan bahasa daerah kepada anak, (3) hendakmerahasiakan pembicaraan, (4) penguasaan bahasa yang sama, (5) penguasaanbahasa yang berbeda, (6) kebiasaan berbahasa, (7) untuk mempermudah komunikasi,(8) motivasi, dan (9) ingin mewariskan bahasa daerah kepada anak