Development: Creating Sustainable Justice

Table of Contents: Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice--p.4.Joan B. Kroc Distinguished Lecture Series--p.6.Biography--p.10.Interview--p.12.Welcome and Introduction--p.28.Lecture--p.33.Questions and Answers--p.57.Related Resources--p.75.About the University--p.76.https://digital.sandiego.edu/lecture_series/1012/thumbnail.jp

Social Inequalities and Emerging Infectious Diseases

Although many who study emerging infections subscribe to social-production-of-disease theories, few have examined the contribution of social inequalities to disease emergence. Yet such inequalities have powerfully sculpted not only the distribution of infectious diseases, but also the course of disease in those affected. Outbreaks of Ebola, AIDS, and tuberculosis suggest that models of disease emergence need to be dynamic, systemic, and critical. Such models--which strive to incorporate change and complexity, and are global yet alive to local variation--are critical of facile claims of causality, particularly those that scant the pathogenic roles of social inequalities. Critical perspectives on emerging infections ask how large-scale social forces influence unequally positioned individuals in increasingly interconnected populations; a critical epistemology of emerging infectious diseases asks what features of disease emergence are obscured by dominant analytic frameworks. Research questions stemming from such a reexamination of disease emergence would demand close collaboration between basic scientists, clinicians, and the social scientists and epidemiologists who adopt such perspectives

Educational videos – Tell me what you want, what you really, really want

Given the current popularity of educational videos, and given the time, effort and expense academics and institutions are investing to provide educational videos to students, it was thought worthwhile to evaluate whether students at the University of Northampton (UoN) actually want and use these resources. Moreover if it was found they do use educational videos, investigation was required to determine if they are in a format that students want. The study was carried out in two distinct stages. The first stage was a questionnaire which was followed by a focus group. It was found that students at Northampton do overwhelmingly use educational videos. Furthermore, the research found that students prefer videos to any other resource and that videos can increase motivation. Additionally, high-risk production strategies such as seeing the presenter on screen, and the use of animation, humour and quizzes were identified, and it was found that the use of music in an educational video was considered a negative component of a video. The optimum length of the video is less clear; however it is recommended they are kept to less than 10 minutes (although this is dependent upon the level of study of the student). The key recommendation when producing videos is to ensure they have been designed taking cognitive research into account. The key strength of a well-designed educational video, it is concluded, is to give the students something additional they cannot find in another resource, in a way which encourages effective learning

El estigma del sida y su evolución social: una visión desde Haití1

El artículo analiza las contribuciones teóricas de la antropología para estudiar el estigma del sida y su evolución social, y propone la violencia estructural como marco conceptual. Se apoya en la experiencia del sida en Haití.The article analyzes the theoretical contributions of anthropology to the understanding of AIDS-related stigma and its social course, and proposes structural violence as a conceptual framework. It is based on the experience of AIDS in Haiti

Conceptual design of a synchronous Mars telecommunications satellite

Future missions to Mars will require a communications system to link activities on the Martian surface with each other and with mission controllers on Earth. A conceptual design is presented for an aerosynchronous communications satellite to provide these links. The satellite provides the capability for voice, data/command, and video transmissions. The mission scenario assumed for the design is described, and a description of a single aerosynchronous satellite is explained. A viable spacecraft design is then presented. Communication band selection and channel allocation are discussed. The communications system conceptual design is presented along with the trades used in sizing each of the required antennas. Also, the analyses used to develop the supporting subsystem designs are described as is the communications impact on each subsystem design

Anatomy of a Competition: Urban Design for Milwaukee’s Lakefront

This study explores the professional ideas and attitudes reflected in 140 entries to the 1980 Milwaukee Lakefront International Design Competition. Design ideas are evaluated and recommendations made for using the best ideas from different solutions. The report received a 1982 Award from Progressive Architecture for its innovative analysis of how design competitions can be better understood and used effectively. Reprinted in 1985.https://dc.uwm.edu/caupr_mono/1042/thumbnail.jp

Diary in the Plague Year: Roaming the lockdown in images and words in a year like no other

This book explores issues of 'inequality and storytelling' in the context of the discussion of an event and global collective experience from the viewpoint and in terms of the issues of Cornwall, a part of the United Kingdom far from metropolitan centres and consistently labelled as culturally peripheral, its expressions therefore marginal, irrelevant, unexplored, unpublished, discounted. The project therefore works within aspects of the Creative Industries Futures strand in terms of the use of social media to develop and share a peripheral account and explores the relationship between the common voices that find themselves through Instagram and Facebook and those that attain publication in arguably more privileged modes of a kind that can find themselves on library shelves and repositories. (It has proved impossible so far to place them in the contemporary distribution systems that allow the sales of books through retail outlets, a useful insight from the research project this represents here.) ‘diary of the plague year’ uses colour images and text in an exploration of the landscapes of the early lockdown in the mining and coastal areas of the area between Falmouth and the North Coast of Cornwall. It is embedded in a kind of ‘Year Zero’ of historical events of our times. Beginning on the 22nd March 2020, this is a diary in images of Cornwall and words written as a response to an unprecedented experience, the playout of which is still unclear. The author bought an electric bike as lockdown was declared and as statutory exercise this gave a range of about 25 miles around my home in the former mining district of Cornwall. Each day I would post an image from the day’s expedition on Instagram and Facebook, along with a piece of writing about my experiences, or thoughts invoked by them and lockdown. At first these were short and simple, but they became deeper and more detailed. These are collected here as they happened, in diary form, as an unfolding of that strange time, which, although only recently past, is already the subject of wonder and even a kind of nostalgia