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âHoovering up the Moneyâ? : Delivering government-funded capacity-building programmes to voluntary and community organisations
The 'ChangeUp' and FutureBuilders initiatives have provided substantial funding to support and facilitate 'capacity building' in voluntary and community organisations and so enable them to contribute to the achievement of public and social policy goals. This paper builds on findings from a study of an early 'capacity-building' programme delivered between 1998 and 2005. We explore the challenges of implementing such initiatives for voluntary sector intermediary bodies involved in delivering them and for the voluntary and community organisations intended as the main beneficiaries. We conclude with a discussion about the implications for policy implementationPeer reviewedFinal Accepted Versio
Entwicklung von Methoden zur GIS-gestĂŒtzten Visualisierung von Waldentwicklungsszenarien
Die Arbeit stellt ein Beispielkonzeptes zur grafischen Darstellung von WaldbestĂ€nden und -landschaften sowie deren Dynamik vor. Das Konzept ViWa (Virtueller Wald) beinhaltet eine auf Arc/Info gestĂŒtzte relationale Datenbank, den Waldwachstumssimulator SILVA, das Morphologiesimulator und Visualisierungssystem beinhaltende Programm AMAP sowie Hilfsprogramme fĂŒr Datentransfer und -anpassung. Auf der Basis des GIS Arc/Info wird eine Datenbank geschaffen, welche flĂ€chenbezogene Forsteinrichtungsdaten, einzelbaumbezogene Parameter sowie ein Digitales GelĂ€ndemodell integriert. SILVA erfĂŒllt in ViWa zwei Funktionen
Positive impacts of a STEM-centered university service-learning course
Service-learning courses have become increasingly popular at universities over the past decade. Fostering Our Communityâs Understanding of Science, known as Project FOCUS, has been a service-learning course at the University of Georgia for the past 13 years. Undergraduate students collaborate with teachers in the community to teach hands-on science lessons to elementary and middle school students. The course has enrolled over 1000 undergraduates, who have taught science to an estimated 25,000 local students. Students enrolled in this course experience increased interest in community involvement and teaching science. This poster is an informative glance at Project FOCUS as recommendations for K-12 administrators and university professors interested in designing a successful STEM outreach program. Fact sheet about course will be provided to those interested in pursuing the creation of a similar course
An Evaluation of Food Insecurity & Health Behavior among Rural Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Participants
Introduction. Access to healthy foods is a major barrier for individuals achieving a healthy diet. The literature reveals several investigations into causes of food insecurity, but few focus on Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs that attempt to address food insecurity and related health behaviors of participants.https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/comphp_gallery/1199/thumbnail.jp
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Flower, Fruit, and Petiole Color of American Beautyberry (Callicarpa americana L.) Are Controlled by a Single Gene with Three Alleles
American beautyberry (Callicarpa americana) is a deciduous shrub native to the southeast U. S. and is grown primarily for its metallic-purple fruit that develop in the fall. There are also pink- and white-fruiting and variegated forms but these traits are rare in nature and there is no information available regarding their inheritance. Also, there is confusion regarding self-compatibility and the presence of apomixis in Callicarpa L. Crosses were performed to investigate the genetics of fruit color, self-compatibility, and apomixis in american beautyberry. Test crosses between C. americana (CA) and C. americana âLacteaâ (CAL) suggested that white fruit is recessive to purple. White fruit appears to be controlled by a single recessive gene for which we propose the name white fruit and the gene symbol wft. Although there were only a limited number of progeny grown, crosses between CA and âWelchâs Pinkâ suggest that purple is dominant to pink. Test crosses between CAL and âWelchâs Pinkâ are needed to draw conclusions; however, we propose that purple, pink, and white fruit are controlled by an allelic series for which we suggest the gene symbols Wft > wft [superscript p] > wft. Segregation ratios suggested that all progeny in the study developed through sexual hybridization. All genotypes used in the current study were self-compatible.This is an author's peer-reviewed final manuscript, as accepted by the publisher. The published article is copyrighted by the American Society for Horticultural Science and can be found at: http://hortsci.ashspublications.org/.Keywords: Apomixis, Pleiotropy, Mendelian inheritance, Self-compatibl
Acute Stress Attenuates Cognitive Flexibility in Males Only: An fNIRS Examination
Cognitive processes that afford us the ability to control thoughts and achieve goal-directed behavior are known as executive functions. Empirical evidence in the past few years has demonstrated that executive functions can be influenced by acute stress. The impact of acute stress on cognitive flexibility, a key aspect of executive functions, has received little attention in the literature. We present the results of two experiments conducted to examine the effect of acute stress on cognitive flexibility. Acute stress was induced using the cold pressor task. Cognitive flexibility was assessed using the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST). Across both experiments acute stress had an attenuating effect on task switching on the WCST. Our findings also indicate that this effect was moderated by the participantâs gender. In Study 1, we observed that following stress exposure male participants in the stress condition made more perseverative errors than participants in the control group. In Study 2, we examined the bilateral hemodynamics in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) during acute stress induction using functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). Our analysis indicated that functional oxyHb signals fluctuated with greater amplitude than systemic components for participants in the stress group relative to those in the control group. In addition, oxyHb levels post stress induction were correlated with performance on the WCST for the male participants in the stress group only. Concordant with previous reports, our findings indicate that acute stress impacts cognitive flexibility in males and females differentially. Our work also demonstrates the feasibility of using fNIRS as a practical and objective technique for the examination of hemodynamics in the PFC during acute stress
Working out abjection in the Panapompom bĂȘche-de-mer fishery: Race, economic change and the future in Papua New Guinea
This is the accepted version of the following article: Rollason, W. (2010), Working out abjection in the
Panapompom bĂȘche-de-mer fishery: Race, economic change and the future in Papua New Guinea. The Australian
Journal of Anthropology, 21: 149â170. doi: 10.1111/j.1757-6547.2010.00076.x, which has been published in final
form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1757-6547.2010.00076.x/abstract.This is a paper about how men from Panapompom, an island in Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea (PNG), understand how they relate to white people and imagine the future. Until recently, men from Panapompom understood themselves to be engaged in a project of âdevelopmentâ, in which they would become more and more similar to white people. This was a desirable future. However, changes in the way Panapompom men work for money have resulted in a very different imagination of the futureâone in which Panapompom people are not getting whiter, but blacker, and hence more and more excluded from the lives to which they aspire. Men now dive for bĂȘche-de-mer, work which they regard as being particularly hard and dangerous. Diving has profound effects on the skin, blackening and hardening it, leading Panapompom men to liken themselves to the machines that create the wealth that white people use. These âmechanisingâ effects that diving has on the black body lead men to see white people as the sole beneficiaries of the bĂȘche-de-mer industry, and black people as mere tools or extensions. For bĂȘche-de-mer divers, value and desired forms of life are lodged in Australia, Europe or America, while they find themselves excluded from this future by their growing blackness.ESR
A Not So Perfect Peace: A History Of Conflict On Ifaluk
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Unconventional crystal structure of the high-pressure superconductor LaNiO
The discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in LaNiO at
pressures above 14 GPa has spurred extensive research efforts. Yet, fundamental
aspects of the superconducting phase, including the possibility of a
filamentary character, are currently subjects of controversial debates.
Conversely, a crystal structure with NiO octahedral bilayers stacked along
the -axis direction was consistently posited in initial studies on
LaNiO. Here we reassess this structure in optical floating
zone-grown LaNiO single crystals that show signs of filamentary
superconductivity. Employing scanning transmission electron microscopy and
single-crystal x-ray diffraction under high pressures, we observe multiple
crystallographic phases in these crystals, with the majority phase exhibiting
alternating monolayers and trilayers of NiO octahedra, signifying a
profound deviation from the previously suggested bilayer structure. Using
density functional theory, we disentangle the individual contributions of the
monolayer and trilayer structural units to the electronic band structure of
LaNiO, providing a firm basis for advanced theoretical modeling and
future evaluations of the potential of the monolayer-trilayer structure for
hosting superconductivity
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