An Administrator's View of Indonesian Foreign Policy

Page range: 71-7

Musicians who use Cochlear Implants Proposal

The purpose of this scoping review was to provide information about the current research related to audiological practices regarding the population of musicians who use cochlear implants technology. This scoping review included studies that investigated post implantation therapy/activities designed to assist users who were also musicians. A scoping review identifies trends and gaps in available evidence. This information can be used to inform on practices currently being used in the audiologic field and identify areas for further research. A scoping review was conducted in April 2021 to identify English-language peer-reviewed journal articles published from 2010 to March 2021. Thematic analysis was used to identify trends among the literature. Six articles were identified that met the inclusion criteria. Four themes related to type of intervention were identified to explore improvements in music skill outcomes in cochlear implant users who were musicians, including: processor, music perception, post implant therapy, and questionnaire. Gaps in the literature were identified regarding the population of cochlear implant users who are musicians. More research in this area is imperative to assist in identifying effective interventions as well as to assist in device choice for the musicians that use or are looking at using cochlear implant technology as well as continuing their lives in the music world post implantation

Urban Climate Adaptation and Resisting the Urge to Panic

Through actions and words, the incoming Trump administration has adopted a hostile attitude toward climate change and other environmental issues, leading to a state of dread and panic among the nation’s climate researchers. Indeed, the U.S. federal government has served a pivotal role in providing climate data and funding, as well as coordinating climate-related efforts on a grand scale. Losing this network of support represents a critical challenge in the years to come. Instead of paralysis, however, urban and regional planners need to respond to this challenge by promoting three fundamental societal shifts. First, planners should work to move beyond climate change mitigation strategies focused on the reduction of emissions, and integrate climate change adaptation strategies focused on helping the world to live with ongoing climate changes. Secondly, planners need to narrow their geographic focus from the national to the regional level, the scale at which the primary impacts of climate change occur and climate adaptation takes place. Finally, planners must take action to help individuals and communities shift from a feeling of powerlessness to empowerment, as climate change adaptation represents an opportunity to demonstrate to people that their actions matter.https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/136586/1/Bunnell_UrbanClimateAdaptationAndResistingTheUrgeToPanic.pd

American "Low Posture" Policy toward Indonesia in the Months Leading up to the 1965 "Coup"

Page range: 29-6

The colonial present

cultural geographies 2006 13: 305-312 reviews in brief The colonial present. By Derek Gregory. Malden, MA: Blackwell. 2004. 367 pp. £16.99 paper. ISBN 1577180909. The colonial present extends and deepens our understanding of contemporary geopolitics in ways that speak to the key concerns of this journal. For Derek Gregory as for Edward Said, to whom the book is dedicated, and whose intellectual legacy runs through its pages - issues of culture and of geography are central to understanding how colonial 'pasts' bleed into contemporary Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine. Drawing upon Said, Gregory details colonialism as a cultural process: 'Culture involves the production, circulation, and legitimation of meanings through representations, practices, and performances that enter fully into the constitution of the world' (p. 8). Since none of us is 'outside' or 'above' culture, we are all in one way or another bound up in ongoing processes of colonization, 'the performance of the colonial present' (p. 10). For me, much of the power of the book is derived from this recognition. While the empirical detail of the The colonial present draws our critical attention to the interconnected geopolitics and geo-economics of violence in Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine, the book also compels us to look critically at ourselves, the ways in which we 'continue to think and to act in ways that are dyed in the colors of colonial power' (p. xv). Gregory shows how geography is implicated in (our) cultural judgements and evaluations that underlie the ongoing exercise of colonial power. Intertwined constructions of difference and distance continue to 'licence the unleashing of exemplary violence' (p. 16) against 'other' people and places. Importantly, Gregory insists that 'imaginative geographies' are 'performances of space' (p. 19). It is in part for this reason that The colonialpresent, unlike many other postcolonial studies, provides a welcome extension of Said's (imaginative) geographies to analysis of 'real' spaces. The main body of the book is a series of chapters which detail the lived, human geographies of Afghanistan, Palestine and Iraq as well as the geopolitical entanglement of these spaces. My chief concern with this important book is the way in which it can be read as mapping this complexity into a (singular) colonial present. While Said's imaginative geographies have been extended brilliantly to analysis of Euro-American colonial power in the Middle East, there are other colonialisms which are perhaps not so clearly centred in Washington, DC. Nonetheless, 7he colonial present is an exemplary performance of critical cultural geographies that can - indeed, surely must - be extended to diverse colonial presents. National Univeersity of Singapore TIM BUNNELL I- 2006 Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd 10. 1 191/1474474006eu348x

Playful behaviour in relation to family group activity in polecats (Mustelidae)

Five family groups of polecat/ferrets and one group of albino ferrets have been studied over a period of 5 years. Consistent individual differences were found to exist regarding the number of play attacks and play initiations delivered and performance in agility tests. The animals which showed the highest tendency to initiate play also showed the highest tendency to perpetuate it, attacked at a higher rate and spent more time out of the nest, both during peak activity periods and following their completion. The more playful animals also showed a tendency to play together more, choice of partners being dependent on relative availability and playfulness of other animals. The results of this study suggest that in polecat/ferrets play functions mainly as a mechanism for helping develop and maintain social bonds between juveniles. Size (weight) was found to be a factor related to certain behavioural attributes which were closely correlated/ranked with each other, namely, play, exploration and agility. The heavier animals were found to play more, be more active and also more agile

Peer Quizzing: Are Two Heads Really Better Than One?

Instructors are often plagued with a difficult opened ended question; what measures can be implemented during class that will maximize students’ academic benefit? During this research project, the impact of frequent peer quizzing in introductory college level physics courses on subsequent learning assessments, such as midterms and percent gain, are examined. A peer quiz is initially administered to a student individually and graded but not returned to the students until they are given the opportunity to revisit the same quiz question with a partner. Two physics instructors’ student data is included in the data set, which is comprised of Introductory Calculus Based Mechanics (“PHY 241”) and Introductory Calculus Based Electricity and Magnetism (“PHY 242”) classes that either have peer, individual or no quizzes. The results of this project show that peer learning quiz classes yield a higher correlation between various assessments than individual quiz classes. This suggests that peer quizzes are more effecting in teaching college level introductory physics courses than individual quizzes. These results hold true when top ranking pretest scorers are removed from the data sets, thus indicating that peer quizzes are beneficial to both students that do and do not have prior understanding of the course material.https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/u_poster_2018/1032/thumbnail.jp

Letter to William James regarding AALL scholarship, May 28, 1981

A letter from Chester Bunnell to William James notifying James that Bunnell was awarded an AALL scholarship and declining the Lucile Elliott Scholarship