The Uncharted, Uncertain Future of HOPE VI Redevelopments: The Case for Assessing Project Sustainability

Discusses the need for a third-party assessment of the management and financial stability issues posed by the publicly and privately funded redevelopment of housing projects into mixed-income, mixed-tenure properties. Explores feasibility at two sites

Building Community Through Service-Learning: The Role of the Community Partner

The students in Mike Walsh\u27s Natural Resources class at Nestucca Valley Middle School in Beaver, Oregon, are learning in the woods. Twice a month, teams are managing their own experimental forest, a quarter-mile strip of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) property in Pacific City divided into 100-by-100 foot sections. Their curriculum begins with measuring and marking out the plots, removing invasive scotch broom plants, and marking and taking inventory of the lodgepole pine trees planted in rows 30 years earlier to hold back the shifting dunes. These 7th- and 8th-grader students will develop comprehensive management plans, outlining in detail which trees they will remove from their plots, and the number, variety and location of native trees and shrubs they will select to plant in their place. As they learn, the students are providing the BLM with a healthier forest, and a group of young citizens is beginning to understand what is involved in adaptive forest management

Implications of the Babinet Principle for Casimir Interactions

We formulate the Babinet Principle (BP) as a relation between the scattering amplitudes for electromagnetic waves, and combine it with multiple scattering techniques to derive new properties of Casimir forces. We show that the Casimir force exerted by a planar conductor or dielectric on a self- complementary perforated planar mirror is approximately half that on a uniform mirror independent of the distance between them. The BP suggests that Casimir edge effects are anomalously small, supporting results obtained earlier in special cases. Finally, we illustrate how the BP can be used to estimate Casimir forces between perforated planar mirrors

Political Competence, Political Trust, and Action Orientations of University Students

Compared to mass publics in other nations, a relatively large number of Americans believe that they are politically competent—that they are able to influence political affairs. And yet, over the past several years we have witnessed the estrangement of substantial portions of the American citizenry from the political system—an estrangement accompanied by an increase in popular distrust of government

Les mondes séfarades : savoirs cognitifs et pouvoir de l’espace

Nicole Abravanel, professeur agrégée à l’Université d’Amiens Les conférences ont été conduites en continuité du séminaire « les mondes séfarades et converso : l’épreuve de l’espace » (assuré en co-responsabilité avec Natalia Muchnik et Enric Porqueres en 2008-2009). L’enjeu était de penser les relations entre espace et culture en se centrant cette fois-ci sur l’époque médiévale, période fondatrice pour le monde sépharade. L’hypothèse de départ a initialement privilégié une approche structural..

Les mondes séfarades : savoirs cognitifs et pouvoir de l’espace

Nicole Abravanel, professeur agrégée à l’Université d’Amiens Les conférences ont été conduites en continuité du séminaire « les mondes séfarades et converso : l’épreuve de l’espace » (assuré en co-responsabilité avec Natalia Muchnik et Enric Porqueres en 2008-2009). L’enjeu était de penser les relations entre espace et culture en se centrant cette fois-ci sur l’époque médiévale, période fondatrice pour le monde sépharade. L’hypothèse de départ a initialement privilégié une approche structural..

Coaching Presence: A Grounded Theory from the Coach’s Perspective

This is the first qualitative study that examines coaching presence from the coaches’ perspectives, conceptualizing presence as a multi-dimensional construct. The purpose of this research was to develop a grounded theory of coaching presence as experienced by coaches during a coaching session. The data were collected using semi-structured interviews with 16 International Coach Federation (ICF) certified coaches. Data analysis adhered to constructivist grounded theory methods of initial and focused coding using the integral-four quadrant (Wilber, 2000b, 2006) framework as a sensitizing concept. The major finding that emerged in this grounded theory study were six themes for understanding coaching presence during a coaching session: (a) Mindful Self-Awareness, (b) Authentic Connection, (c) Deep Attunement, (d) Embodied Engagement, (e) Holding Outcomes, and (f) Structural Alignment. This research presented a blossoming lotus metaphorical representation of coaching presence, as well as a four-quadrant perspective of coaching presence that supported a multi-dimensional view of coaching presence

Quelle longue durée pour l’histoire sépharade ? Productions culturelles et espace vécu

Nicole Abravanel, professeur agrégée à l’Université d’Amiens Ce cycle de sept conférences s’est inscrit dans le prolongement du séminaire 2009-2010 « mondes sépharades : savoirs cognitifs et pouvoir de l’espace ». L’an passé, les spécificités culturelles du monde sépharade, caractérisées au Moyen Âge par l’adoption des « sciences grecques », avaient été posées (et ce à l’échelle d’un temps relativement court) dans les termes d’une équation simplifiée : influence des Arabes ou pouvoir de l’esp..