Teacher development in action, Author: Magdalena Kubanyiova, Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, ISBN: 9780230232587 Pages: 220

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Effects of disaster prevention broadcasting for tsunami on human behavior on initial refuge

This study focuses on broadcast communication in consideration of the refuge direction, pays its attention to direction selection in refuge early stages, and confirms experimentally influences, which broadcast has on refuge. Contents of broadcast consisted of “information without specific directions of refuge direction” and “information with specific directions of refuge direction”. Based on results of the experiments, following things became clear. Residents have an appropriate tendency to take refuge, when broadcasting contents included “information in considering of clue in decision on refuge direction”. Properly refuge was greatly related to easy to walk, safety in street environment, and good view from crease bend point. When sign guidance and route guidance interlock, it is easy to take refuge. From the above knowledge, this study clarified that “information in considering of clue in decision on refuge direction” is taken disaster prevention broadcasting into consideration on initial refuge.Eje 1: Dilemas del desarrollo socio-territorial y la planificación urbano-regional frente a los retos de la sustentabilidad.Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanism

Effects of disaster prevention broadcasting for tsunami on human behavior on initial refuge

This study focuses on broadcast communication in consideration of the refuge direction, pays its attention to direction selection in refuge early stages, and confirms experimentally influences, which broadcast has on refuge. Contents of broadcast consisted of “information without specific directions of refuge direction” and “information with specific directions of refuge direction”. Based on results of the experiments, following things became clear. Residents have an appropriate tendency to take refuge, when broadcasting contents included “information in considering of clue in decision on refuge direction”. Properly refuge was greatly related to easy to walk, safety in street environment, and good view from crease bend point. When sign guidance and route guidance interlock, it is easy to take refuge. From the above knowledge, this study clarified that “information in considering of clue in decision on refuge direction” is taken disaster prevention broadcasting into consideration on initial refuge.Eje 1: Dilemas del desarrollo socio-territorial y la planificación urbano-regional frente a los retos de la sustentabilidad.Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanism

Patenting in the Pharmaceutical Industry

The chapter investigates the returns to R&D expenditures on patenting in the pharmaceutical industry, using a panel data of 32 countries. Due to the unique situation in the industry that come from the patent being the new drug and additional clinical trials which must be conducted for safety and efficacy, the pharmaceutical industry is analyzed alone. The results indicated that for pharmaceutical patent applications with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the European Patent Office (EPO) and the triadic family consisting of USPTO, EPO and the Japan Patent Office (JPO), pharmaceutical R&D expenditures had no impact coming from European countries. However, for the six non-European countries in the dataset (Australia, South Korea, Mexico, Romania, Singapore and Taiwan), the R&D always had statistically significant effects on all three patent applications in the industry. The results were more pronounced when the United States and Japan were also included. While China, Brazil and India were excluded due to missing pharmaceutical R&D data, it is hypothesized that the effect of these countries would have made the results stronger

Civic Engagement in Local Arts Agencies

Local arts agencies (LAAs), which support, promote, and develop the arts at a local level, can meet a community’s needs for engaging its citizens by using the arts in creative and strategic ways. In this capstone project, I explore how LAAs’ programs perceive and define civic engagement in order to understand how they seek to create civic competencies, and engage communities in crucial activities of local public life. Further, I analyzed current trends, practices, and program outcomes of LAAs that promote or integrate the arts in other civic activities to develop a resource for community leaders wanting to create a more cohesive, integrated, and sustainable community. My goal is to provide a framework to explore and understand how LAA programs have succeeded in attaining civic engagement objectives. In order to do this, I examined different roles LAAs can assume in civic engagement programs, as makers, enablers, and funders. I explore how changing governance structures affect the development of programs that promote various opportunities for education, dialogue, and participation. Through a purposive sampling technique, I assessed how 16 LAAs are working to accomplish their civic engagement program goals. Analyzing 13 interviews with practitioners and secondary data about the organizations, I found that the most common perception of civic engagement was the creation of social capital through community participation. This has been achieved by a change in funding priorities to focus on individual projects and by capacity building to enable greater participation by more diverse social groups. Further, many LAAs face the challenge of continued and sustainable funding, so public agencies are playing a major role as funders, while private organizations tend to focus on programmatic development. Understanding the unique contexts for civic engagement program development is important to help enable LAAs and community leaders to initiate their own programs. Whether communities face urban and demographic challenges or are developing a city’s identity, civic engagement leads to the provision of a public benefit in multi-faceted ways. Local policymakers should support strategic civic engagement initiatives and look to LAAs as creative partners, since the goals of government and the goals of LAAs are increasingly becoming complementary. Thus, the perception of civic engagement needs to be diversified from simply participating in traditional civic activities, to include the capacity for dialogue, which is essential to sustain a vibrant community and to increase the impact of these activities on local governance and community life