Assessment of the Effectiveness of the Greek Implementation. VRU-TOO Deliverable 14

The work of VRU-TOO is targeted specifically at the application of ATT for reducing risk and improving comfort (e.g. minimisation of delay) for Vulnerable Road Users, namely pedestrians. To achieve this, the project operates at three levels. At the European level practical pilot implementations in three countries (U.K., Portugal and Greece) are linked with behavioural studies of the micro-level interaction of pedestrians and vehicles and the development of computer simulation models. At the National level, the appropriate Highway Authorities are consulted, according to their functions, for the pilot implementations and informed of the results. Finally, at the local level, the pilot project work is fitted into specfic local (municipality) policy contexts in all three pilot project sites. The present report focuses on the Elefsina pilot application in Greece and the relevant National and Local policy contexts are the following. At the National level, the ultimate responsibility for road safety and signal installations rests with the Ministry of Environment and Public Works. The Ministry is responsible for the adoption of standards and solutions for problems and also for a large number of actual installations, since local authorities lack the size and expertise to undertake such work on their own One of the project's aims is to provide information to the Ministry as to the suitability of the methods developed for aiding pedestrian movement, ultimately leading to a specification for its wider use. The Ministry is expecting to use the final results of the present study for possible modifications of its present standards for pedestrian controlled traffic signals. At the local level (Elefsina) the municipality has, in the past, pursued environmental improvements through pedestrianisation schemes in the city centre. At the same time it has developed a special traffic management policy, to solve a particularly serious problem of through traffic. A summary of the policy is contained in Appendix A and more details in a previous deliverable (Tillis, 1992). In the particular case of Elefsina pedestrian induced delay to through vehicular traffic, may form a key element in this policy ensuring at the same time, an incentive to divert to the existing bypass and enhancing pedestrian movement. The effectiveness of pedestrian detection techniques tested in the pilot, will provide valuable information on the future implementation of the policy. Thus, the Elefsina Pilot Project operates at the same time on three levels: It provides a basis, in combination with the other two pilot project sites, for comparing the effects of pedestrian detection on pedestrian safety and comfort at a European level. It provides information to the National authorities (Ministry of Environment and Public Works) for their standards setting, scheme design and implementation tasks. It fits into a comprehensive plan at the local level for effecting environmental improvements and enhancing pedestrian amenity and comfort at the same time. In addition, an investigation into the capabilities of pedestrian detectors to function as data collection devices, was performed. The data 'quality gap' betweenvehicular and pedestrian tr&c may be closed with the utilisation of microwave pedestrian detectors, providing a more solid foundation for the planning for total person movement through networks (vehicle occupants, public transport passengers, pedestrians). This the second deliverable issued for Elefsina and comprises of the main section which contains a description of the work undertaken, the results and a number of appendices serving as background material in support of the statements in the main text

LANGUAGE AS VERNACULAR CULTURAL PERFORMANCE IN BLACK COMMUNITIES IN CUBA AND THE USA

This work examines the use of language as a method of fomenting a black cultural performance in literature of the Americas. Specifically, this article presents as a main focus the linguistic modalities of African descendants in Cuba and the Unites States and the formation of a black identity in literature through linguistic variance

An Indian Attack of 1856 on the Home of Willoughby Tillis

This narrative was dictated to the assistant editor of the QUARTERLY by James Dallas Tillis in October, 1929. Perhaps none now living, other than Mr. Tillis, have seen a hostile Seminole Indian

When and where I enter : a phenomenological study of Black women at a selective predominantly White institution

Black females are the majority of Black students enrolled at both PWIs and HBCUs. HBCUs award a significant number of degrees to Black students despite the fact that they only educate 11% of all undergraduates enrolled today (Gasman, 2012). Why aren’t we seeing the same completion rates of Black women at PWIs that we see at HBCUs? Studies show that African American women attending PWIs experience greater social and emotional distress than their counterparts attending HBCUs (Fleming, 1984; Watt, 1997). These factors and others tend to depress success for African American women. Furthermore, Black women face challenges just as Black men do when it comes to participation in, graduation from, and overall success in educational institutions compared to their White counterparts (Bush, Chambers & Walpole, 2010). The purpose of this study is to gain an in-depth account of the college-going experience of Black women at a selective predominantly White institution and understand their pathways to graduation. In particular, the hope is that this investigation will provide more insight into the phenomena that contributes to these women’s ability and/or inability to secure degrees. By learning their effective survival tips and success strategies, hearing how they cope, and documenting the skills they have acquired to help them move in the direction of attaining their goal of a college degree, the hope is that this information will have implications for practice in places where attrition is an issue for Black women and in policy making. To understand the phenomena, a qualitative research design is in order and more specifically, a phenomenological approach. This approach will allow for exploring and analyzing these women’s lived experiences at this institution (Creswell, 1998). This study will investigate using the frameworks of both “Black Feminist Theory” and “Intersectionality.” Black Feminist Theory will allow for the opportunity to place Black women’s voices at the center of research in an effort to make visible Black women’s unique experiences and acts of resistance (Robinson, Esquibel, & Rich, 2013) and intersectionality will equip me with the tools to understand and explain the Black woman’s multidimensional experience.Educational Administratio

Bibliotherapy: A Promising Innovation for Junior High School Counseling

The value of bibliotherapy based upon results of previous studies made leaves experts at odds because the studies do not probe into its uniqueness to counselors as an aid to helping students. The specifics pertinent to this investigation are as follows: 1. To identify materials which the Junior high school counselor can use wisely and judiciously with his counselees toward maximum personality growth and development. 2. To delineate the inherent problems in bibliotherapy. 3. To provide the bibliotherapeutic procedural guide. Everyone concerned with the educational process recognizes certain basic interrelated needs which must be met if adolescents are to learn to cope effectively with life\u27s vicissitudes. This knowledge forms the basis for guidance in our schools, and counselors are confronted with the task of assisting young people in meeting and solving their problems. Thus, this study will prove a significant instrument for counselors who seek to promote wholesome personality adjustments in their counselees. The major limitations of this study are an analysis of the applicability of bibliotherapy to junior high school counseling

The Impact of African-Centered Psychotherapy on Depressive Symptoms and Africentric Worldview in African Americans

Depression is a prominent issue in the African American community. However, there are significant gaps in the literature on the delivery and outcomes of culturally relevant mental health psychotherapy to African Americans. Cultural variables, such as worldview, have been noted to impact an individual\u27s overall psychosocial functioning and have significant implications for mental health service delivery. The purpose of this study was to use archival data to analyze the impact of African-centered therapeutic services on depressive symptoms and on Africentric worldview among African Americans. Archival data on 38 African American adults, recorded from 2012-2015, were obtained from a community mental health agency in the Midwest. Each of the adults received therapy via an African-centered treatment modality. The study was grounded in the cognitive theory of depression and optimal theory. The dependent treatment outcome variables were (a) depressive symptomology, as measured with the depression subscale of the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised and (b) Africentric worldview as measured by the Belief Systems Analysis Scale. The dependent variables were measured twice: once in the beginning and once at the end of a year\u27s treatment. A dependent, paired t tests indicated a significant reduction in depressive symptoms but no significant increase in adherence to Africentric worldview. This study has implications for positive social change by: providing increased insight on the need for culturally relevant services to African Americans, which can subsequently lead to culturally relevant social change in the delivery of mental health services to diverse populations

Broken Chains of South Carolina

6th Chalmers Street, Charleston, SC is important because it is where the Antebellum slave trade was once located. It was the last known slave facility that bought and sold people in South Carolina. In the Slave Voyage Database shows that the Carolinas in North America with a total of 151,481 disembarked, making the Carolinas having the most disembarked from Africa. Many people only picture men when they think of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. While men did play a big part in the slave voyages, women were also very prominent during this time. The majority of ships that took sail had an abundance of women on them. Not only did most ships have many women aboard, there are many that had generously more women than there were men. One ship called the Saint Jose Diligente was entirely made up of women with 0% males. A big of the slaves that were transported were bought by Britain and Portugal. Britain And Portugal were going head to head trying to move into the new world or anywhere in the western hemisphere. Britain was the country to be second to Portugal being of the world.. Britain transported about 3.1 Million Slaves and Portugal transported about 5.8 Million. There were many ships that carried 50% or more children in a single voyage, and the amount of adults on the ship would be less than the amount of children. There were two ships that carried completely children one of which is unnamed, and the Amélia(4674) that arrived in the Caribbean. Besides these two ships there were other voyages that had 50% or more children, meaning that there were at times more children than adults, perhaps slavers found it easier to maintain children than adultshttps://csuepress.columbusstate.edu/historyfrombelow/1009/thumbnail.jp

"Many and strange experiences of shadow and sunshine": Ideological violence, subjectivity, and the impossibility of redemption in Frederick Douglass' lifelong resistance to white supremacy, an American paradox rewritten by himself

This dissertation sets out to recover Frederick Douglass as a militant by radically redefining the terms of his militancy. Beginning with the recognition that Douglass' militancy emerges from his violent experiences with enslavement - not his exposure to other militants, i.e. John Brown - this dissertation identifies strategies of signifying and indirection in Douglass' rhetorical performance throughout his public career as speaker, journalist, author, editor, and activist that register not only his lifelong resistance to white supremacy but also his salient critique of Christianity, liberal individualism, plantation paternalism, and the patriarchal conventions of the remarkably oppressive society that they legitimate. Often maligned by readers for espousing the core values of the dominant ideologies of his day, Douglass does nothing of the sort; rather, his critique of these pernicious ideological pillars of nineteenth-century American life resonates throughout his life's work. Through close readings focused primarily on Douglass' autobiographical texts, this dissertation recognizes the centrality of violence and violent self-assertion to Douglass' rhetorical purpose; however, because violence is the language of patriarchy and white supremacy, Douglass' ensnares his former captors in a narrative of condemnation and redemption that is, itself, the ultimate form of retribution, an exercise of pen and voice that is well to keep in mind as we consider questions of Douglass' militancy in the synthesis of our own strategies of resistance

Shadows Present, Fore-shadowing Deeper Shadows to Come: Prophecy, Power, and Progress in Herman Melvilles Benito Cereno

Herman Melville's "Benito Cereno" subverts nineteenth-century racist ideology by attributing a capacity for agency and intellect to Babo and the slaves that the prevalent white-supremacist doctrine denies them. In the narrative, Captain Delano fails to recognize that the slaves have taken over the San Dominick because his fundamentally racist world-view leads him to assume that slaves are incapable of overthrowing their masters. However, Delano's willful ignorance, born out of greed and ambition, serves as justification for entering into a subtle and complex power struggle with Babo and Cereno for control of the San Dominick. Considered through a Kantian lens, Delano's rise to power demonstrates a dialectic pattern in the narrative, establishing "Benito Cereno" as a brief chapter in the never-ending progression of history, allowing the reader a moment to consider where society has been, where it is, and where it might be headed.English Departmen