Environmental education: creative place-making in Papua New Guinea

This paper addresses how experience of environment may be an important stimulant in the creative process through which appropriate architectural place may be made. We will argue that with a better understanding of their own reactions in and to environments architectural students may be more sensitive to the effects of their architectural gestures on others. Accepting that such depth experiences are mirrored in archetypal forms and patterns in indigenous architectures, we will use as a case study the education of architects and the creation of architecture in Papua New Guinea [PNG]. We argue that an appropriate architecture, responsive to the locale of PNG, offers the antithesis of the often inappropriate internationalised architecture

The Intentional Use of Service Recovery Strategies to Influence Consumer Emotion, Cognition and Behaviour

Service recovery strategies have been identified as a critical factor in the success of. service organizations. This study develops a conceptual frame work to investigate how specific service recovery strategies influence the emotional, cognitive and negative behavioural responses of . consumers., as well as how emotion and cognition influence negative behavior. Understanding the impact of specific service recovery strategies will allow service providers' to more deliberately and intentionally engage in strategies that result in positive organizational outcomes. This study was conducted using a 2 x 2 between-subjects quasi-experimental design. The results suggest that service recovery has a significant impact on emotion, cognition and negative behavior. Similarly, satisfaction, negative emotion and positive emotion all influence negative behavior but distributive justice has no effect

The Pre-modern Iranian Other: A Critique of Multiculturalist Ideology

It does not take much to realize that, concerning the topic of Iran, the lack of response and general confusion from the Left within liberal, Western democracies is deeply symptomatic. That the perplexed responses of liberals seem to be characterized by a fetishization of the Iranian Other, reducing them to an empty screen onto which the liberal ideological subject may project their fantasy, prevents the Left from acknowledging that Iranian ideology functions as an over-identification with many of the excesses which liberal ideology is so used to criticizing. The present work seeks to traverse this fantasy space, explicating the way Iran is considered to the object-cause of liberal desire and the consequences this conception has for the Left’s capacity to coherently respond to the present situation as it unfolds. Iran seems incapable of entering into the sphere of modernity, as any multiculturalist will be sure to emphasize, and yet, as any conservative will claim, in light of Iran’s control over such a huge percent of the world’s oil supply, as well as their refusal to engage in secular politics and attempts to develop nuclear technology, Iran threatens to disintegrate modernity itself. Both of these alternatives should be rejected as falling prey to the same fantastic projection to be avoide

Rare And Popular Event-Based Co-Located Pattern Recognition in Surveillance Videos Using Max-Min PPI-DBSCAN And GREVNN

Co-located pattern recognition is the process of identifying the sequence of patterns occurring in surveillance videos. In greater part of the existing works, the detection of rare and popular events for effective co-located pattern recognition is not concentrated. Therefore, this paper presents the automatic discovery of the co-located patterns based on rare and popular events in the video. First, the video is converted to frames, and the keyframes are preprocessed. Then, the foreground and background of the frames are estimated, and the rare and popular events are grouped using Maximum-Minimum Pixel-Per-Inch Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (Max-MinPPI-DBSCAN). From the grouped image, the object detection and mapping are done, and the patch is extracted from it. Next, the edges are detected and from that, for the moving objects, motion is estimated by the Kullback-Leibler Kalman Filter (KLKF). Also, for non-moving objects, the objects/persons are tracked. From the motion estimated and tracked data, time series features are extracted. Then, the optimal features are selected using the Dung Beetle State Transition Probability Optimizer (DBSTPO). Finally, the co-located pattern is classified using a Generalized Recurrent Extreme Value Neural Network (GREVNN), and the alert message is given to the authorities. Hence, the proposed model selected the features in 53239.44ms and classified the event with 99.0723% accuracy and showed better performance than existing works

Morality Grounds Personal Identity

There is a connection between moral facts and personal identity facts: morality grounds personal identity. If, for example, old Sally enters a teletransporter, and new Sally emerges, the fundamental question to ask is: is new Sally morally responsible for actions (and omissions) of old Sally? If the moral facts are such that she is morally responsible, then Sally persisted through the teletransporter event, and if not, Sally ceased to exist

As Near as May Be Agreeable to the Laws of this Kingdom : Legal Birthright and Legal Baggage at Chebucto, 1749

The Old British Empire at its greatest extent and the height of its grandeur, between 1763 and 1776, comprised thirty-three colonies, all but a few of them in North America and the Caribbean, none of them older than 1607. The most recently acquired colonies included the largest, Canada, and some of the smallest, Grenada and St. Vincent.1 The Empire was not a monolith. Differing geography, history, economics, social structure and dynamics, and ethnicity produced political societies of great variations and disparities, even between contiguous colonies. Historians of the Old Empire have found generalization difficult and dangerous, save when describing imperial policy (such as it was). The adjectives applied to the colonies as entities are preponderantly unique, sui generis, extraordinary, remarkable, singular. Consequently, a claim for the remarkableness of any one colony seems supererogatory if not superfluous. Yet one colony stood out rather more than all the rest, marked by distinctions that were truly singular in comparison with the other major-and older-colonies, and in some instances unique in Britain\u27s previous colonial experience. Nova Scotia was one of only five major colonies acquired by conquest from European power