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Uncertain legacies : resilience and institutional child abuse : a literature review
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Emphasizing Common Childhood Anxieties in Childrenâs Fantasy: An Analysis of the Illustrations in Matilda and Charlotteâs Web
In childrenâs literature, illustrations are just as important to story as a bookâs text; illustrations contribute to the overall tone of the story and to the way readers interpret its events
Material and the Arts Research Facilities Booklet
A booklet to demonstrate the MATAR equipment which is now available for use at London College of Communication and Camberwell College of Arts.
The booklet was created for, and launched at, The MATAR Open Day in May 2010, and is now used to advertise the facilities available
Reading between the lines : is news media in Fiji supporting or challenging gender stereotypes? : a frame analysis of local news media coverage of violence against women during the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence campaign of 2017
Violence against women is recognised as a global public health issue and an obstacle to
development, as ending it is inextricably linked with achieving gender equality. The public relies on
and believes in the capacity of news media to present them with a âtrueâ picture of reality and the
news media are therefore treated as valuable allies in changing the norms, beliefs and attitudes that
perpetuate violence against women. In the production and consumption of news, however,
journalists employ frames to condense complex events into interesting and appealing news reports,
in turn influencing how audiences view particular events, activities and issues, especially when it
comes to attributing blame and responsibility. This study employs a frame analysis to identify
whether, and to what extent, episodic or thematic framing is used in news articles on violence
against women published in the Fiji Sun and Fiji Times during and around the 16 Days of Activism
against Gender-based Violence campaign of 2017. It showed that episodic framing was
overwhelmingly used in the sample, thereby divorcing the violence from its social roots and
encouraging audiences to blame the individuals involved, both for the violence itself and for
remedying it. This directly contradicts the campaignâs central principles positioning violence against
women as a social and development issue that requires every member of society to play a part in
ending it. The results, therefore, suggest that changes are needed in how organisations engage with
the news media to ensure that coverage of violence against women improves in both quantity and
quality
Uncertain Legacies: Resilience and Institutional Child Abuse, A Literature Review
No abstract available
The intensity dependent spread model and color constancy
Odetics is investigating the use of the intensity dependent spread (IDS) model for determining color constancy. Object segmentation is performed effortlessly by the human visual systems, but creating computer vision that takes an image as input and performs object identification on the basis of color has some difficulties. The unknown aspects of the light illuminating a scene in space or anywhere can seriously interfere with the use of color for object identification. The color of an image depends not only on the physical characteristics of the object, but also on the wavelength composition of the incident illumination. IDS processing provides the extraction of edges and of reflectance changes across edges, independent of variations in scene illumination. IDS depends solely on the ratio of the reflectances on the two sides of the edge. Researchers are in the process of using IDS to recover the reflectance image
Introduction: Women, ecology, and economics: new models and theories
The Call for Papers mentioned such possible topics as "The parallels between women's work, environmental services and natural resource use with regard to valuation, status as 'externalities,' sustainability, complementarity with financial capital, incorporation in national accounts, etc.; the role of women in creating the conditions for sustainable economies and sustainable trade; women's health as an environmental and economic issue; the economic implications of women's position as environmental stewards, especially in the South; and the impact of globalization on women, from an ecological economics perspective." The journal's editors suggested an additional topic of interest which we listed as women and population policy.This research was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canad
Canadian Indigenous female leadership and political agency in climate change
The Canadian federal election of 2015 was a watershed moment for womenâs political agency, indigenous activism and climate justice in Canada. Since 1990, skyrocketing fossil fuel extraction, especially in the Alberta tar sands, had generated escalating environmental crises on First Nations territories. Extreme weather events due to climate change were impacting communities across the country, with particular implications for womenâs caring and other unpaid work. Ten years of attacks on womenâs organizations and priorities by the conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper had angered female voters. In response, indigenous and settler womenâs organizing on climate and environmental justice, fossil fuel extraction and voting rights was an important factor in Harperâs October 2015 defeat. Justin Trudeau, elected on promises to address climate change, indigenous rights and gender equity, now faces the challenge of delivering on both distributive and procedural climate justice. This story of extraction, climate change, weather, unequal impacts, gender and political agency in a fossil fuel-producing country in the Global North has implications for gender and climate justice globally. Canada contains within its borders many examples of environmental racism stemming from fossil fuel extraction and climate change, paralleling global injustices. The politics of addressing these inequities is key to a successfully managed energy transition away from fossil fuels. In the Canadian case at least, womenâs leadership â especially indigenous womenâs leadership â is emerging as crucial.This research was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada IDRC and SSHRC File Agreement No. 2017-0082 and SSHRC File #: 895-2013-1010 Project period: 01-April-14 to 31-Mar-2
Participation and Watershed Management: Experiences from Brazil
Public participation is emphasized in many new institutional approaches to resource management, especially watershed governance. The implementation of participatory management frameworks, and capacity-building for civil society participants, deserve close attention. This paper reports on an ongoing project in Sao Paulo State, Brazil, which is designed to strengthen the ability of local and NGO representatives to participate in democratic water management structures.This research was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canad
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