Review of \u3cem\u3eInternational Social Work Research: Issues and Prospects.\u3c/em\u3e Tony Tripodi and Miriam Potoky-Tripodi. Reviewed by Teresa Morris.

Book review of Tony Tripodi and Miriam Potocky-Tripodi, International Social Work Research: Issues and Prospects. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. $55.00 hardcover,$ 24.95 papercover

How kindergarten English language learners come to know written language

This project explored some of the methods and strategies used by teachers to teach writing in the classroom. The writing development of ten kindergarten English language learners was analyzed. These students interacted in a meaningful manner with their teacher, through use of interactive dialogue journals, over the course of the school year

Near-Infrared Variability Study of the Central 2.3 arcmin x 2.3 arcmin of the Galactic Centre I. Catalog of Variable Sources

We used four-year baseline HST/WFC3 IR observations of the Galactic Centre in the F153M band (1.53 micron) to identify variable stars in the central ~2.3'x2.3' field. We classified 3845 long-term (periods from months to years) and 76 short-term (periods of a few days or less) variables among a total sample of 33070 stars. For 36 of the latter ones, we also derived their periods (<3 days). Our catalog not only confirms bright long period variables and massive eclipsing binaries identified in previous works, but also contains many newly recognized dim variable stars. For example, we found \delta Scuti and RR Lyrae stars towards the Galactic Centre for the first time, as well as one BL Her star (period < 1.3 d). We cross-correlated our catalog with previous spectroscopic studies and found that 319 variables have well-defined stellar types, such as Wolf-Rayet, OB main sequence, supergiants and asymptotic giant branch stars. We used colours and magnitudes to infer the probable variable types for those stars without accurately measured periods or spectroscopic information. We conclude that the majority of unclassified variables could potentially be eclipsing/ellipsoidal binaries and Type II Cepheids. Our source catalog will be valuable for future studies aimed at constraining the distance, star formation history and massive binary fraction of the Milky Way nuclear star cluster.Comment: has been accepted to be published in MNRAS, 64 pages, 26 figures. The complete lists of table 3, 4, 8 and 9 will be published onlin

Diseño de un sistema de seguridad electrónica con monitoreo centralizado para protección de una instalación minera

La Seguridad Electrónica es una alternativa eficiente para la reducción de pérdidas de bienes en el ámbito empresarial. Actualmente, la Seguridad Electrónica ha ido potenciando su utilidad, convirtiéndose en uno de los elementos básicos de Vigilancia. En las instalaciones industriales, la Seguridad Electrónica consiste de un sistema integrado compuesto de subsistemas de circuito cerrado de televisión, control de alarmas, control de acceso y protección contra incendios, los cuales, además de producir un efecto disuasivo, ayudan a los administradores a vigilar de manera local y/o desde una central de monitoreo el acceso de personas no autorizadas a zonas restringidas. La presente tesis tiene como objetivo el diseño de un sistema de seguridad electrónica para protección de una instalación minera, el cual contará con un centro de control integrado para la administración, control y monitoreo de circuito cerrado de televisión y alarmas. En la presente tesis se describen los conceptos básicos de los sistemas de seguridad electrónica. El desarrollo del sistema de seguridad propuesto incluye tres fases. En la primera fase, se realiza el diseño y arquitectura del sistema. En la segunda fase se presenta la planificación y gestión del proyecto. Finalmente en la tercera etapa se realiza un análisis comparativo que permite comprobar la eficiencia (en empresas a fin de constatar el costo-beneficio a corto plazo) del Sistema de Seguridad Electrónica propuesto frente a personal de Vigilancia.Tesi

Performing Ethnic Harmony: The Japanese Government's Plans for a New Ainu Law

On 14 May 2018 the Japanese government’s Council for Ainu Policy Promotion accepted a report sketching the core features of a much-awaited new Ainu law which the Abe government hopes to put in place by 2020.1 The law is the outcome of a long process of debate, protest and legislative change that has taken place as global approaches to indigenous rights have been transformed. In 2007, Japan was among the 144 countries whose vote secured the adoption of the 2007 UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: a declaration which (amongst other things) confirms the rights of indigenous peoples to the land they traditionally occupied and the resources they traditionally used, and to restitution for past dispossession.2 As a response to this declaration, in 2008 both houses of the Japanese parliament voted unanimously (if rather belatedly) to recognize the Ainu people as an indigenous people, and the government embarked on a ten-year process of deliberation about the future of Ainu policy. The main fruit of those deliberations is the impending new law. But how far will this law go in fulfilling Japan’s commitment to the UN Declaration? Will it, in fact, be a step forward on the path of indigenous people from colonial dispossession towards equality, dignity and ‘the right to development in accordance with their own needs and interests’? Will it take account of the vigorous debates that are occurring within the Ainu community about key aspects of indigenous rights, including the voices of those whose demands are at odds with the aspirations of the Japanese government?3 To answer those questions, it is necessary to look a little more closely at the way in which the pursuit of indigenous rights has played out in Japan over the past three decades or so

The 'comfort women' issue, freedom of speech, and academic integrity: A study aid

In December 2020, an article by J. Mark Ramseyer of Harvard University about the so-called 'comfort women' issue was published in the International Review of Law and Economics. This article caused widespread controversy amongst scholars, many of whom responded with serious criticisms of its content. On the other hand, some commentators argued that Ramseyer's critics were seeking to suppress his right to express controversial opinions. In the past few years, there has been widespread international debate both about the protection of free speech and about problems of assessing the quality of knowledge and distinguishing well-founded information from 'fake news'. Against that background, this study aid aims to encourage debate about ways to maintain research integrity while protecting free speech, and uses the example of the Ramseyer article to provide illustrative material. This is the first in a series of responses on the “comfort women” issue prompted by the Ramseyer article