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Syihabuddin, Syihabuddin. "Bicultural, personality, and pedagogical competences in the perspective of BIPA language assistants." Bahasa dan Seni: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, Seni, dan Pengajarannya 50, no. 1 (February 22, 2022): 63. http://dx.doi.org/10.17977/um015v50i12022p63.
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Bicultural, personality, and pedagogical competences in the perspective of BIPA language assistantsIn 2019, there were 63.022 learners of Indonesian as a foreign language in Victorian schools, Australia. They were facilitated by 263 Indonesian Language for Foreign Speakers (BIPA) local teachers. Due to a shortage of BIPA local teachers, the Department of Education and Training Victoria had recruited language assistants from Indonesia. This study is aimed to describe the required skillsets of BIPA language assistants to support their duties. The data were collected through interviews, an inventory, observations, and stories of eight Indonesian language assistants with one year of experience. The findings reveal that the language assistants need to develop bicultural, personality and pedagogical competences. These competences should become the reference for developing workshop materials for future BIPA language assistants.Keywords: BIPA teachers, bicultural competences, personality competences, pedagogical competencesKompetensi bikultural, kepribadian, dan pedagogik dalam perspektif guru bantu BIPAPada tahun 2019 terdapat 63.022 siswa Victoria, Australia, yang mempelajari bahasa Indonesia sebagai bahasa asing. Mereka dibimbing oleh 263 guru BIPA. Karena jumlah guru tidak memadai, maka Department of Education and Training Victoria merekrut guru bantu (language assistant) dari Indonesia. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan berbagai kompetensi yang perlu dimiliki guru bantu untuk menunjang pelaksanaan tugasnya. Data dikumpulkan dari wawancara, inventori, observasi, dan deskripsi pengalaman dari delapan guru bantu selama satu tahun mengajar. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa guru bantu perlu mengembangkan kompetensi bikultural, kompetensi kepribadian, dan kompetensi pedagogik. Ketiga kompetensi ini sebaiknya dijadikan bahan workshop pada pembekalan guru bantu di lembaga pengirim.Kata kunci: guru BIPA, kompetensi bikultural, kompetensi kepribadian, kompetensi pedagogik
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Salemink, Oscar. "Editorial." Focaal 2008, no. 51 (June 1, 2008): v—vi. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/fcl.2008.510101.
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On Sunday, 23 February 2003, around twelve thousand foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong—largely, but not exclusively, Filipina “maids”—demonstrated in Victoria Park against government plans to levy a new charge on migrant labor contracts while lowering the minimum wage.
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QAMAR, SHEHZAD AHMAD, TAHIR IDREES, MUNAWAR JAMIL, and Humaira Sobia. "RETAINED FOREIGN BODIES." Professional Medical Journal 17, no. 02 (June 10, 2010): 218–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.29309/tpmj/2010.17.02.2348.
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Objectives: (1) To look into clinical presentations of intra-abdominal foreign bodies; (2) To document surgical procedure performed. (3) To see measures for prevention. Design: Observational case series. Setting: Bahawal Victoria Hospital Bahawalpur. Period: From 1.06.07 to 31.5.08. Patient & Methods: Eleven patients with retained having intra-abdominal foreign body were treated. Relevant history, clinical examination and necessary investigations were done. Exploratory laparotomy was done in 10 cases to remove the foreign body and in one case foreign body passed from the rectum without laparotomy. Results: Out of 11 cases, 54.54% are males and 45.45% were females. Operated in emergency 81.81% and elective 18.18%. 90.91% were operated in periphery and 9.09% in the tertiary care centre. Clinical presentations were intestinal obstruction (27.27%), intraabdominal abscess (13.18%), Discharging sinus (18.18%), mass abdomen (18.18%),entero cutaneous fistula (9.09%), peritonitis (9.09%). Exploratory laparotomy was done in 90.91%, to remove the foreign body and in 1 case passed per rectum. Conclusions: Retained foreign bodies presented as intestinal obstruction, abscess, sinus fistula mass, or peritonitis. It is avoidable iatrogenic surgical complication, mostly found in operations done in emergency and at peripheral hospitals. Exploratory laparotomy remains the mainstay of treatment to remove the intra-abdominal foreign body. Surgeon should be vigilant to avoid mishap by check on counting, tucking sponge, blackboard counting, examining abdomen, screening in suspicious case and claim for radio-opaque sponges.Referral system needs improvements for in time adequate treatment.
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Duan, Li Bing, Wang Chang Geng, Fu Li Zhang, and Xiao Long Shi. "Teaching Transition for International Education from ‘Foreign Students Class’ to ‘International Class’: The Case of Materials Physics Courses." Advanced Materials Research 590 (November 2012): 521–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.590.521.
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Internationalization of higher education has become an irreversible trend of modern world, where international course is the key link. For Chinese universities, during the transition from traditional ‘Foreign students class’ (for foreign students only) to ‘International class’, in which Chinese students and foreign students will be trained under one roof, they have to face great challenges of teaching transition, including teaching contents, methods, examinations transformations. In this paper, taking materials physics courses for example, we put forward some suggestions on teaching transformation of international education from ‘Foreign students class’ to ‘International class’, basing on the experience of one-year visiting in University of Victoria (UVic), Canada and the differences of teaching between our Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU) and UVic.
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LOKINA, RAZACK B. "Technical efficiency and the role of skipper skill in artisanal Lake Victoria fisheries." Environment and Development Economics 14, no. 4 (August 2009): 497–519. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1355770x08004968.
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ABSTRACTLake Victoria fisheries are important to Tanzanian food security, employment, and foreign exchange, but they have experienced declining performance, largely due to overfishing. This paper studies technical efficiency and skipper skill using Tanzanian fishery data for the two major species, Nile perch and dagaa. The relative level of efficiency is high in both fisheries and several observable variables linked to skipper skill significantly explain the efficiency level.
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Ladas, Nancy. "Ethical and Legal Considerations for Collection Development, Exhibition and Research at Museums Victoria." Heritage 2, no. 1 (March 13, 2019): 858–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/heritage2010057.
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With over 17 million collection items, Museums Victoria is the largest museum in Australia. Museums Victoria recognises the public benefit derived from lending and borrowing between collecting institutions and actively participates in the international loans network in order to complement and enhance the potential for learning and enjoyment for all audiences. Museums Victoria staff undertook an extensive review of policies and procedures in order to apply for approval for protection under the Australian Government’s Protection of Cultural Objects on Loan Scheme (PCOL Scheme), established to administer the Commonwealth Protection of Cultural Objects on Loan Act 2013 (PCOL Act). The PCOL Scheme provides (with some limits) legal protection—immunity from seizure—for Australian and foreign cultural items on loan from overseas lenders for temporary public exhibition in Australia. The Ministry for the Arts also released the Australian Best Practice Guide to Collecting Cultural Material in 2015. The Guide is not a mandatory code. It recommends principles and standards to apply when acquiring collection items and in part for inward and outward loans. In 2016–2017 Museums Victoria staff used the Act and its Regulation along with the Guide to substantially update and formalise previous formal and informal policies and practices, in order to demonstrate its commitment to due diligence endeavours to verify the accuracy of information before acquiring, deaccessioning, borrowing, or lending items. This paper outlines the steps we took and what we have learned since receiving approval as a registered borrower under the PCOL Scheme.
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Charchat-Fichman, Helenice, and Rosinda Martins Oliveira. "Performance of 119 Brazilian children on Stroop paradigm: Victoria version." Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria 67, no. 2b (June 2009): 445–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0004-282x2009000300014.
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BACKGROUND: The Stroop paradigm evaluates susceptibility to interference and is sensitive to dysfunction in frontal lobes. Performance in the Stroop changes along the development. Despite its usefulness in research and clinical settings, there are few studies with Brazilian samples. OBJECTIVE: This study investigates the performance and age effect on Stroop paradigm of Brazilian children. METHOD: A sample of 119 children, aged from 7 to 10 years, was submitted to the Victoria version of Stroop. RESULTS: The pattern of results observed was similar to that observed in foreign studies with adults and children. Younger children were overall slower than older ones (positive correlation between age and naming time). Also, younger children showed more susceptible to interference than older ones (negative correlation between age and number of errors for the maximal interference condition). CONCLUSION: There was an age effect explained in terms of developmental changes in information processing velocity and attention selectivity.
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Gee, Ellen M. "Ethnic Identity Among Foreign-Born Chinese Canadian Elders." Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement 18, no. 4 (1999): 415–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0714980800010023.
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RÉSUMÉEn se fondant sur les données d'un échantillonnage aléatoire de personnes âgées d'origine chinoise nées à l'étranger (n = 708), interrogées à Vancouver et à Victoria en 1995–96, cet article examine l'importance, les facteurs déterminants et les conséquences de l'identification ethnique. Parmi les répondants dont la médiane d'âge est de 75 ans et qui avait une médiane d'âge de 55 ans lorsqu'ils ont immigré, 49,3 pour cent ont déclaré qu'ils se sentent plus canadiens que chinois, 36,6 pour cent se sentent plus chinois et 14,1 pour cent se sentent autant chinois que canadiens. L'analyse de régression logistique tente de découvrir les facteurs déterminants de l'identité ethnique chinoise. Les variables indépendantes significatives incluent le Heu de résidence, l'âge, le nombre d'années depuis l'immigration, la capacité de parler anglais et le revenu personnel mensuel. Les conséquences de la conservation de l'identité ethnique chinoise sont examinées, selon l'appartenance religieuse, les comportements liés à la santé, les variables familiales et celles liées au bien-être. La conservation de l'identité chinoise a des effets seulement sur le bien-être; ce sont des effets négatifs grandement ressentis uniquement par les femmes.
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SHEIKH, M. SALEEM, TALLAT MAHMOOD, and M. AMIN SHEIKH. "FOREIGN BODY IN OESOPHAGUS." Professional Medical Journal 13, no. 02 (June 25, 2006): 274–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.29309/tpmj/2006.13.02.5027.
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Objectives. To study the attitude of parentsabout the coins given to their children, especially about their knowledge of coins that these may become F.B. inoesophagus and can cause an unexpected problem. Design: A questionnaire- based survey presented to parents ofthe children admitted in ENT ward having coin trapped in their oesophagus. Place and Duration of Study: ENTDepartment Bahawal Victoria Hospital, Bahawalpur from July 2004 to June 2005. Subjects and Methods: Parents ofthe children, who were admitted in ENT ward B.V.H, Bahawalpur, were interviewed using a questionnaire proformafocusing especially about the knowledge of parents about coins as a possibility of F Body. Ethical requirements includingthe administration of written informed consent and provision of confidentiality were ensured. SPSS computer softwarewas used for data management. Results In our study 84 out of 100 patients were less then 7 years age. Sixty two weremale and 38 were female children. Seventy four of the children were from rural areas. Most of the parents were illiterateand of poor social class. Fifty nine had history less then 1 days and 28 had 1-3 days. Eighty eight patients wereoperated with one day. Most of the parents (54%) were anxious and worried Thirty five were ashamed while 11% werenot bothered. Most of parents pointed out risk factors as easy availability of coin (78%), easy access of coin for children(56%), bad habit of children to put every object in mouth (42%) and lack of knowledge of parents about the risk of coinas foreign body in esophagus (88%). Future commitments of the parents were noted as follows:-restriction of coin forchildren (60%) education of children (32%) and 8% of parents did not bother about care of children for this.Recommended Suggestion by parents were these Govt. Should ban (92%), role of press and newspaper (62%), roleof T.V and radio.(74%), role of health workers to educate people (88%). Conclusion: In our setup, most of the parentsare illiterate and unaware of the risk that the coin can become a foreign body in esophagus in children. They can beawarded and educated via media like press, television and radio and compaign by health workers. Incidence of theseemergency cases can be reduced by these measures to negligible level.
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Potangaroa, R. "3D scanning as an architectural tool." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 1007, no. 1 (March 1, 2022): 012001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1007/1/012001.
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Abstract Laser scanners are gaining acceptance as a tool for three-dimensional modelling of existing buildings, but not much more than that. The idea that a digital model constructed from hundreds of thousands of measured laser points having ‘soulful’ applications remains foreign to Architects. This paper presents the work that has been ongoing for over 5 years at the School of Architecture at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand and the ‘soulful’ experiences we have encountered in that work.
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Lam, Newman M. K., and James MacGregor. "Influence of ethnic values on public sector performance management." Asian Education and Development Studies 7, no. 2 (April 9, 2018): 234–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/aeds-06-2017-0056.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine whether deeply rooted ethnic values persist in public administration in spite of strong foreign influence in education and administrative culture. Design/methodology/approach This paper presents the theories and concepts on ethnic values, in particular Chinese and Canadian administrative values in order to examine their differences. Victoria of Canada and Hong Kong of China, both former British colonies, have been selected as the study sites due to their similarity in British education and administrative culture. Comparable samples of human subjects were drawn from the public sectors of Hong Kong and Victoria, who were either students or graduates of a master of public administration program. A questionnaire containing questions on program evaluation and staff promotion was administered to participants. Findings The survey results show that, while organizations may have similar administrative systems and cultures, employees revert to their ethnic values for matters concerning their immediate well-being – staff promotion in this case. The findings also suggest that employees endorse good practices and reject bad ones more often than they believe their organizations do. Research limitations/implications The purpose of this study is to examine whether lengthy foreign influence can change deeply rooted ethnic culture. The research results are not aimed at and may not be relevant to explaining a current situation. Practical implications The research findings may help improve public administration, in particular regarding issues of human resources management. Social implications The research findings may provide a better understanding of social behavior in the work place. Originality/value This paper contains original data for a comparative analysis that appears to have never been done before. It provides empirical proof that deeply rooted ethnics values are very difficult to change in spite of a long history of foreign influence.
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Plata-Ramíez, José Miguel. "Moving Towards Legitimate Participation. A Venezuelan Girl Learning English in an Iowa City Elementary School." Revista Electrónica Educare 21, no. 3 (August 5, 2017): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.15359/ree.21-3.1.
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This qualitative case study seeks to understand and describe, in depth, the different learning processes in which a nine-year old, Venezuelan girl (Victoria) engaged to reaffirm her identity as a language learner and become a legitimate member of a community of practice during the first six months in an Iowa City Elementary School. Data collection included observations in class and at home, field notes, interviews, oral and written artifacts and e-mails. Analysis was made through a constant comparison of the data to reflect on the potential categorizations of the artifacts considering mainly two theoretical constructs: “legitimate peripheral participation” (Lave & Wenger, 1991) and “collaborative relations of power” (Cummins, 1996). Results suggest that students engage more actively in activities, which are designed to construct meaning through social participation. Legitimate participation in school activities helped Victoria improve her English language ability and reaffirm her identity. The speed with which she learned English at school is mainly due to the solid community of practice she had the fortune to participate in and Mrs. Brown’s mediation. The more she interacted, the better she performed; and the better she performed, the more she interacted. This research offers alternative ways to understand Victoria’s experience as a language learner, the complexity of a second language learning process, and the fundamental role teachers need to perform to mediate in the students’ learning to reaffirm their identities. This study represents an exemplary reflection of what we, as classroom teachers, SL/foreign language teachers, should do in our classrooms if we really want to offer students real opportunities to learn the language and help them reaffirm their identity as language learners.
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Abdullah, Siti Aisyah Binti, and Noraini Mohamed Hassan. "PERKEMBANGAN LATIHAN PERGURUAN DI NEGERI-NEGERI MELAYU BERSEKUTU: NORMAL CLASS, 1906-1917." SEJARAH 26, no. 2 (December 21, 2017): 13–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.22452/sejarah.vol26no2.2.
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This paper examines how the British administration of the Federated Malay States (FMS) developed Normal Class to improve teacher training in English schools from 1906 to 1917. The 1902 Education Act, which made significant provisions for secondary and technical education and led to the rapid growth of training colleges in England and Wales, had an effect on the development of teacher training for English schools in the FMS. Following the suggestion of R.J. Wilkinson, Normal Classes for the training of assistant teachers commenced in January 1905 at the Victoria Institution. Initially, students from Victoria Institution and the Methodist Boy’s School were used to test the effectiveness of Normal Class. The success of Normal Class at Victoria Institution led to the opening of more such classes in the states of Perak, Melaka and Penang. Teacher training was emphasized to not only improve the quality of education in English schools but also to attract foreign investors to advance the economy especially of urban areas. This article focuses on the implementation of Normal Classes in Selangor and Perak. It has been found that, prior to the First World War, Normal Classes in Kuala Lumpur turned out to be more successful than in Perak. Teacher training in Kuala Lumpur, the administrative centre of the FMS, was desired to increase the number of local officials capable of speaking English in government departments. There was also considerable demand among capitalists for Normal Classes in English schools.
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Chepinoga, I. S. "Introduction and studying of the species polymorphism in the almond genetic diversity preserved at Krymsk Experiment Breeding Station of VIR in the prebreeding stage." Proceedings on applied botany, genetics and breeding 183, no. 2 (June 24, 2022): 103–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.30901/2227-8834-2022-2-103-112.
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Modern trends and ways of resuming and increasing the production of domestic almond kernels based on the development of cultivars that have advantages in adaptability, productivity, and kernel quality, and are distinguished for a quick payback are discussed. The results of VIR’s expeditions that collected almond species and varieties in Southern Russia, the Transcaucasus, and Central Asia are presented. Almonds introduced from foreign research institutions are also described.Analytical selection helped to identify complex sources of resistance to abiotic factors: ‘Victoria’ (k-42684), ‘Meteor’ (k-42683), ‘Dessertny’ (k-43550), Ai-Dere No.4 (k-42676), Ai-Dere No.5 (k-42677), Kolod 6 (k-42709), Podvoyny 205 (k-42678), ‘Tuono’ (k-49598), and Ferraduel × Tuono (k-43561). Promising source material is recommended for targeted development of new competitive almond cultivars for intensive horticulture, including sources of restrained growth type, compact crown, and earliness: Ferraduel × Tuono, ‘Monterey’(k-49538), elite 1-18-2 (k-42679), elite 2-40 (k-42680), and Kalmykov’s almond seedling 1-1 (k-42711); of productivity and almond kernel quality: Ferraduel × Tuono, ‘Monterey’, ‘Victoria’, ‘Meteor’, ‘Mindalny’ (k-42682), ‘Ferragness’ (k-42696), ‘Tuono’, ‘Karmeil’ (k-49540), elite 1-18-2, and Kalmykov’s almond seedling 1-1; of high oil content in kernels: elite 13-37 (k-42681); and of valuable fatty acid composition (according to the content of unsaturated fatty acids): cv. ‘Victoria’, elites 1-18-2 and 2-40, and Kolod 5 (k-42708).
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Štefancová, Dagmar. "Unknown Organ Tablature from the Early Seventeenth Century." Musicalia 9, no. 1-2 (2017): 125–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/muscz-2017-0012.
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In the course of research on fragments from the National Museum Library, a large torso was discovered containing hitherto unknown organ tablatures from the early seventeenth century (shelf mark CZ-Pn 1 K 219). The author of the article reassemble the torso based on signatures and analyzed its content, which consists of intabulations of sacred compositions by leading Renaissance composers (e.g. Orlando di Lasso, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Jakob Handl-Gallus) as well as some lesser-known composers. On the basis of analysis, she then focused her attention on Silesia and the German-speaking milieu of northern Bohemia and Moravia, compared the tablature with similar sources from Czech and foreign collections, and placed it in the context of musical practice in the milieu of Lutheranism.
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Mitic, Violeta, Snezana Nikolic, and Vesna Stankov-Jovanovic. "The development of a new inhibition kinetic spectrophotometric method for the determination of phenylhydrazine." Journal of the Serbian Chemical Society 70, no. 7 (2005): 987–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/jsc0507987m.
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Anew sensitive kinetic method has been developed for the determination of trace amounts of phenylhydrazine in the range of 1.08x10-7 to 1.08x10-6 g/cm3. The detection limit of this method is 0.008 ?g/cm3, based on the 3Sb criterion. Themethod is based on the inhibitory effect of phenylhydrazine on the oxidation of Victoria Blue 4-R by KBrO3. The reaction was monitored spectrophotometrically at 596.3 nm. The method development includes the optimization of the reagent concentration and temperature. The kinetic parameters of the reaction are reported and a rate equation is suggested. The effects of certain foreign ions upon the reaction rate were determined for the assessment of the selectivity of the method. The new developed method was found to have fairly good selectivity, sensitivity, simplicity and rapidity.
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Suzuki, Nobuhiro, Lynn M. Geletka, and Donald L. Nuss. "Essential and Dispensable Virus-Encoded Replication Elements Revealed by Efforts To Develop Hypoviruses as Gene Expression Vectors." Journal of Virology 74, no. 16 (August 15, 2000): 7568–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jvi.74.16.7568-7577.2000.
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ABSTRACT We have investigated whether hypoviruses, viral agents responsible for virulence attenuation (hypovirulence) of the chestnut blight fungusCryphonectria parasitica, could serve as gene expression vectors. The infectious cDNA clone of the prototypic hypovirus CHV1-EP713 was modified to generate 20 different vector candidates. Although transient expression was achieved for a subset of vectors that contained the green fluorescent protein gene from Aequorea victoria, long-term expression (past day 8) was not observed for any vector construct. Analysis of viral RNAs recovered from transfected fungal colonies revealed that the foreign genes were readily deleted from the replicating virus, although small portions of foreign sequences were retained by some vectors after months of replication. However, the results of vector viability and progeny characterization provided unexpected new insights into essential and dispensable elements of hypovirus replication. The N-terminal portion (codons 1 to 24) of the 5′-proximal open reading frame (ORF), ORF A, was found to be required for virus replication, while the remaining 598 codons of this ORF were completely dispensable. Substantial alterations were tolerated in the pentanucleotide UAAUG that contains the ORF A termination codon and the overlapping putative initiation codon of the second of the two hypovirus ORFs, ORF B. Replication competence was maintained following either a frameshift mutation that caused a two-codon extension of ORF A or a modification that produced a single-ORF genomic organization. These results are discussed in terms of determinants of hypovirus replication, the potential utility of hypoviruses as gene expression vectors, and possible mechanisms by which hypoviruses recognize and delete foreign sequences.
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Christensen, L. H. "Tracking the Poster Movement: An Inquiry into British Modernism by Way of the 'British and Foreign Posters' Exhibition, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1931." Journal of Design History 28, no. 2 (May 1, 2015): 142–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epv004.
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Mitić, Violeta, Snežana Nikolić-Mandić, and Vesna Stankov-Jovanović. "Analytical application of acidic victoria blue 4R mixture with KBrO3 for the kinetic determination of traces of antimony(III) by spectrophotometry." Macedonian Journal of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering 31, no. 1 (June 15, 2012): 29. http://dx.doi.org/10.20450/mjcce.2012.54.
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The present paper describes a simple, selective and sensitive kinetic method for the determination of trace amounts of Sb(III) in the presence of Sb(V) based on its inhibition effect on the redox reaction between bromate and Victoria blue 4R (V.B. 4-R) in hydrochloric acid media. The reaction was followed spectrophotometrically by measuring the decrease in the absorbance of V.B. 4-R at 596.3 nm. Optimum operating conditions regarding reagent concentrations were established. The optimized conditions yielded a theoretical detection limit of 1.30·10‒8 g cm–3 Sb(III) based on the 3S0 criterion. The method allows the determination of Sb(III) in the range of 5·10‒8 ‒ 1.1·10‒6 g cm–3. The effects of certain foreign ions the reaction rate were determined for an assessment of the selectivity of the method. The kinetic parameters of the reaction were reported, and the rate equations were suggested. The results were validated statistically and through recovery studies. The proposed method has been successfully applied to the determination of Sb(III) in various model and real samples.
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Giloi, Eva. "Copyrighting the Kaiser: Publicity, Piracy, and the Right to Wilhelm II's Image." Central European History 45, no. 3 (September 2012): 407–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008938912000349.
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In 1900, theEncyclopedia Britannicarequested an original, previously unpublished portrait from Kaiser Wilhelm II for its forthcoming edition. The German emperor denied the request, instead advising the British publishers to find an existing photograph on the open market. A few years later, when a Berlin-based association for hunting dogs needed a cover shot for its journal, the Kaiser gladly sat for the picture. From a twenty-first-century perspective, Wilhelm's choice seems a bizarre case of misplaced priorities: the Kaiser took care to position himself among the hounds, but left his encyclopedia image in the hands of foreign publishers. Was this gaffe an example of what Wilhelm II's grandson, Louis Ferdinand, later criticized as the Kaiser's “deficient” sense of public relations, his feeling that “the imperial family stands high above the need to worry about publicity”? In England, mused the royal heir, “publicity is taken much more seriously”—after all, as early as the 1860s, Queen Victoria had courted public support by publishing her family portraits and private diaries.
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Scarisbrick, Diana. "IX. The Devonshire Parure." Archaeologia 108 (1986): 239–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261340900011772.
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On 13th May 1856 Granville George Leveson Gower, 2nd Earl Granville (1819–91), Liberal diplomat and politician, wrote to Viscount Canning announcing his appointment as representaive of Queen Victoria at the coronation of Tsar Alexander II in Moscow that summer. He added that before accepting he had consulted his wife Marie, who had ‘pronounced some sage aphorisms, but danced a hornpipe and lamented that it would be necessary to buy twenty gowns and have her diamonds reset’. Marie Granville's sense of the importance of jewellery on such an occasion was shared by her husband's uncle, William, 6th Duke of Devonshire (1790–1858), who, on behalf of George IV, had attended the coronation of Tsar Nicholas I in 1825. Having himself experienced Russian hospitality at its most magnificent he knew what was expected of the representatives of foreign royalty, and he not only gave the Granvilles money and lent them also his silver, but he commissioned a set of jewels incorporating hundreds of diamonds and eighty-eight cameos and intaglios from his ancestral collection.
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Matthews Jr., John V., Robert J. Mott, and Jean-Serge Vincent. "Preglacial and Interglacial Environments of Banks Island: Pollen and Macrofossils from Duck Hawk Bluffs and Related Sites." Géographie physique et Quaternaire 40, no. 3 (December 4, 2007): 279–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/032649ar.
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ABSTRACT Sediments ranging in age from Tertiary to Late Quaternary are exposed at Duck Hawk Bluffs near Sachs Harbour on Banks Island (NWT). Fossil pollen and macrofossils of plants and arthropods from various nonglacial sediments at Duck Hawk Bluffs and related sites on Banks and Victoria islands make it possible to infer some of the climatic/biotic changes during that time span. At the time of deposition of the Miocene-Pliocene Beaufort Formation, southern Banks Island supported a rich coniferous forest, containing several species of conifers and various hardwoods. An upper member of the Beaufort Fm. is characterized by a more depauperate coniferous forest assemblage, yet still contains plants now foreign to the entire NWT. The late Tertiary/early Quaternary Worth Point Formation was deposited when larch-dominated forest-tundra characterized southern Banks Island. Larch may have grown on the island during the following Morgan Bluffs Interglaciation (>730 ka), but in other respects the flora and fauna of that time seem to have been low Arctic in character. Similar conditions existed during the Cape Collinson Interglaciation ( = Sangamon), though by that time, coniferous trees had definitely disappeared from the island.
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Carpi, Daniela. "The trial in John Webster’s The White Devil: Italy in the reenactment of a Renaissance English drama." Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies 53, no. 2 (February 16, 2019): 363–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0014585819831646.
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English playwrights were fascinated by Italy both in a positive and a negative way: they were drawn to Italy as a symbol of culture and refinement, but also as a nest of corruption and bloody conspiracies. Italy had the function of offering a foreign background in which dramatists could safely address their hostility against the English court. This article highlights this fascination with the darker side of Italy in the revision of the trial of Vittoria Accoramboni in John Webster’s The White Devil (1612). The story of Vittoria Accoramboni was so famous that many writers appropriated it and re-wrote it centuries after the fact: Stendhal, among others, reproduced the records of the time to offer a historical narration of the events in his Chroniques Italiennes – Vittoria Accoramboni, une oeuvre du domain public (1855). In his turn Webster seized the story, changing some elements such as the setting (he replaced Gubbio with Venice, probably because this town was better known to the audience), fictionalizing the love relationship between Victoria and Duke Brachiano, emphasizing the pandering influence of her brother Flamineo and especially adding his own view of the trial and how it was conducted.
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Papajohn, Christopher J. "The U.S. Constitution and Foreign Policy: Terminating the Taiwan Treaty. By Victoria Marie Kraft. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1991. Pp. xiii, 171. Index. $45." American Journal of International Law 87, no. 1 (January 1993): 165–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2203864.
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Marunda, Edmond, and Taka Munyanyiwa. "Tourism and Hospitality Curriculum for Rural Communities Neighbouring National Parks in Zimbabwe." Australian Journal of Business and Management Research 03, no. 10 (October 1, 2013): 46–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.52283/nswrca.ajbmr.20130310a03.
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The tourism and hospitality industry in Zimbabwe today, is the third largest foreign currency earner after agricultural exports and mining products. The industry is grounded on the country’s unique cultural and natural heritage which is made up of sensitive ecosystems encompassing national parks and wildlife. The growth of tourism stimulating increasing investments in the industry may trigger adverse long term effects of developments in biodiversity and loss of wildlife. It is therefore vital that communities living next to tourist attractions be educated so that they practise eco-tourism or sustainable tourism as a matter of priority. The focus of this article is to identify a curriculum for the education of communities living in and around tourist attractions in Zimbabwe. Such a curriculum should equip the communities with the requisite understanding to preserve and protect their environment effectively applying contemporary and traditional knowledge systems. In a bid to come up with an education curriculum and training programmes incorporating tourism and hospitality education, some 145 out of a population of 300 respondents were interviewed in and around the tourist resort areas of Nyanga, Harare, Bulawayo and Victoria Falls. The article extends a realistic and practical framework for the development of a curriculum and training-programme-guideline for communities incorporating “Tourism and Hospitality” as a subject.
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Mueller, Steffen, and Eckard Wimmer. "Expression of Foreign Proteins by Poliovirus Polyprotein Fusion: Analysis of Genetic Stability Reveals Rapid Deletions and Formation of Cardioviruslike Open Reading Frames." Journal of Virology 72, no. 1 (January 1, 1998): 20–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jvi.72.1.20-31.1998.
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ABSTRACT Using a strategy developed by R. Andino, D. Silvera, S. D. Suggett, P. I. Achacoso, C. J. Miller, D. Baltimore, and M. B. Feinberg (Science 265:1448–1451, 1994), we constructed recombinant polioviruses by fusing the open reading frame (ORF) of the green fluorescent protein gene (gfp) of Aequorea victoria or the gag gene (encoding p17-p24) of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) to the N terminus of the poliovirus polyprotein. All poliovirus expression vectors constructed by us and those obtained from Andino et al. were found to be severely impaired in viral replication and genetically unstable. Upon replication, inserted sequences were rapidly deleted as early as the first growth cycle in HeLa cells. However, the vector viruses did not readily revert to the wild-type sequence but rather retained some of the insert plus the artificial 3Cpro/3CDprocleavage site, engineered between the heterologous sequence and the poliovirus polyprotein, to give rise to genotypes reminiscent of cardioviruses. These virus variants that carry a small leader polypeptide were now relatively stable, and they grew better than their progenitor strains. Reverse transcription followed by PCR and sequence analysis of the genomic RNAs reproducibly revealed a few preferred genotypes among the isolated deletion variants. The remaining truncated inserts were retained through subsequent passages. In the immediate vicinity of the deletion borders, we observed short direct sequence repeats that we propose are involved in aligning RNA strands for illegitimate (nonhomologous) RNA recombination during minus-strand synthesis. On the basis of our results, which are at variance with published data, the utility of poliovirus vectors to express proteins >10 kDa in size through fusion with the polyprotein needs to be reevaluated.
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HEYWOOD, A. E., N. ZWAR, B. L. FORSSMAN, H. SEALE, N. STEPHENS, J. MUSTO, C. LANE, et al. "The contribution of travellers visiting friends and relatives to notified infectious diseases in Australia: state-based enhanced surveillance." Epidemiology and Infection 144, no. 16 (August 30, 2016): 3554–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0950268816001734.
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SUMMARYImmigrants and their children who return to their country of origin to visit friends and relatives (VFR) are at increased risk of acquiring infectious diseases compared to other travellers. VFR travel is an important disease control issue, as one quarter of Australia's population are foreign-born and one quarter of departing Australian international travellers are visiting friends and relatives. We conducted a 1-year prospective enhanced surveillance study in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia to determine the contribution of VFR travel to notifiable diseases associated with travel, including typhoid, paratyphoid, measles, hepatitis A, hepatitis E, malaria and chikungunya. Additional data on characteristics of international travel were collected. Recent international travel was reported by 180/222 (81%) enhanced surveillance cases, including all malaria, chikungunya and paratyphoid cases. The majority of cases who acquired infections during travel were immigrant Australians (96, 53%) or their Australian-born children (43, 24%). VFR travel was reported by 117 (65%) travel-associated cases, highest for typhoid (31/32, 97%). Cases of children (aged <18 years) (86%) were more frequently VFR travellers compared to adult travellers (57%,P< 0·001). VFR travel is an important contributor to imported disease in Australia. Communicable disease control strategies targeting these travellers, such as targeted health promotion, are likely to impact importation of these travel-related infections.
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Philp, Norman E., and Rumintha Wickramasekera. "Management Characteristics, Attitudes and the Decision to Export." Journal of Management & Organization 2, no. 1 (January 1996): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1833367200006179.
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AbstractThe incessant trend towards the internationalisation of the marketplace will continue to dominate the agendas of managers of Australia's manufacturing establishments as they approach the next millennium. Empirical studies of the determinants of the firm's export marketing behaviour have been quite prolific and internationally comprehensive (Aaby and Slater 1989) and the characteristics and attitudes of the firm's main decision makers are often posed as important explanatory variables. The current study also examines the significance of managerial characteristics, commitment and attitudes towards exporting behaviour, by concentrating on a sample of firms drawn from a single industry (food and beverage processors) and with similar size and locational characteristics (small-medium firms located in regional Victoria).A logistic regression model with a binary dependent variable (ie current exporter vs non-exporter) and, initially, 19 independent variables was formulated and estimated. An optimal model utilising only six of the most significant, management-related variables was able to predict the probability of a firm being an exporter with an accuracy of over 90% . The importance of management's willingness to commit both its mind and its firm's resources to the export endeavour and its recognition of the importance of price competitiveness were significant discriminators of active export behaviour. Exporting managers were also found more likely to be tertiary educated and foreign language fluent but not necessarily any younger than their non-exporting counterparts.
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Philp, Norman E., and Rumintha Wickramasekera. "Management Characteristics, Attitudes and the Decision to Export." Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management 2, no. 1 (January 1996): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.5172/jmo.1996.2.1.1.
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AbstractThe incessant trend towards the internationalisation of the marketplace will continue to dominate the agendas of managers of Australia's manufacturing establishments as they approach the next millennium. Empirical studies of the determinants of the firm's export marketing behaviour have been quite prolific and internationally comprehensive (Aaby and Slater 1989) and the characteristics and attitudes of the firm's main decision makers are often posed as important explanatory variables. The current study also examines the significance of managerial characteristics, commitment and attitudes towards exporting behaviour, by concentrating on a sample of firms drawn from a single industry (food and beverage processors) and with similar size and locational characteristics (small-medium firms located in regional Victoria).A logistic regression model with a binary dependent variable (ie current exporter vs non-exporter) and, initially, 19 independent variables was formulated and estimated. An optimal model utilising only six of the most significant, management-related variables was able to predict the probability of a firm being an exporter with an accuracy of over 90% . The importance of management's willingness to commit both its mind and its firm's resources to the export endeavour and its recognition of the importance of price competitiveness were significant discriminators of active export behaviour. Exporting managers were also found more likely to be tertiary educated and foreign language fluent but not necessarily any younger than their non-exporting counterparts.
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Jones, Anna Maria. "CONSERVATION OF ENERGY, INDIVIDUAL AGENCY, AND GOTHIC TERROR IN RICHARD MARSH'STHE BEETLE, OR, WHAT'S SCARIER THAN AN ANCIENT, EVIL, SHAPE-SHIFTING BUG?" Victorian Literature and Culture 39, no. 1 (December 6, 2010): 65–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150310000276.
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There is a familiar critical narrativeabout the fin de siècle, into which gothic fiction fits very neatly. It is the story of the gradual decay of Victorian values, especially their faith in progress and in the empire. The self-satisfied (middle-class) builders of empire were superseded by the doubters and decadents. As Patrick Brantlinger writes, “After the mid-Victorian years the British found it increasingly difficult to think of themselves as inevitably progressive; they began worrying instead about the degeneration of their institutions, their culture, their racial ‘stock’” (230). And this late-Victorian anomie expressed itself in the move away from realism and toward romance, decadence, naturalism, and especially gothic horror. No wonder, then, that the 1880s and 1890s saw a surge of gothic fiction paranoiacally concerned with the disintegration of identity into bestiality (Stevenson'sThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1886), the loss of British identity through overpowering foreign influence (du Maurier'sTrilby, 1894), the vulnerability of the empire to monstrous and predatory sexualities (Stoker'sDracula, 1897), the death of humanity itself in the twilight of everything (Orwell'sThe Time Machine, 1895). The Victorian Gothic, thus, may be read as an index of its culture's anxieties, especially its repressed, displaced, disavowed fears and desires. But this narrative tends to overlook the Victorians’ concerns with the terrifying possibilities of progress, energy, and self-assertion. In this essay I consider two oppositions that shape critical discussions of the fin-de-siècle Gothic – horror and terror, and entropy and energy – and I argue that critics’ exploration of the Victorians’ seeming preoccupation with the horrors of entropic decline has obscured that culture's persistent anxiety about the terrors of energy. I examine mid- to late-Victorian accounts of human energy in relation to the first law of thermodynamics – the conservation of energy – in both scientific and social discourses, and then I turn to Richard Marsh's 1897 gothic novelThe Beetleas an illustration of my point: the conservation of energy might have been at least as scary as entropy to the Victorians.
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Schmitz-Le Grand, Gerald J. "Le destin n'est pas inéluctable : évaluation des effets probables du libre-échange nord-américain sur la politique étrangère du Canada." Études internationales 22, no. 1 (April 12, 2005): 81–135. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/702794ar.
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This article with minor revisions, was originally presented as a paper at the annual meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association in Victoria, B.C., May 27, 1990. Since then, Canada has been accused of simply following Washington's lead in sending troops to the Gulfand in seeking to join United States-Mexico free trade negotiations. These developments do not alter the paper's challenging conclusion : namely, that the current bilateral free-trade regime neither obliges nor justifies a subordinate Canadian foreign policy — however much the terms of the Free Trade Agreement may impinge on the international dimensions of some Canadian policies (e.g., on energy and investment), and notwithstanding the potential momentum (but uncertain prospects) of North American integration. Free trade, in fact seems to have increased, not reduced, the salience of the national question in Canada. As well, the Gulf crisis is a test more of United Nations resolve than bilateral solidarity. And on the trade front, Canada has been reminded of the extent to which it remains on its own. U.S. negotiators were angered by Canada's middle-ground position on agricultural subsidies - the issue over which GATT talks collapsed, increasing Canadian vulnerability. Moreover, Canadian participation in U.S.Mexico trade negotiations has been privately less welcome than the official public rhetoric suggests. More than ever perhaps, Canadian national interests depend on strong international diplomacy mode no less necessary, if arguably encumbered, by the evolving context of continental free trade.
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Archer, Michael, Hayley Bates, Suzanne J. Hand, Trevor Evans, Linda Broome, Bronwyn McAllan, Fritz Geiser, et al. "The Burramys Project: a conservationist's reach should exceed history's grasp, or what is the fossil record for?" Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 374, no. 1788 (November 4, 2019): 20190221. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0221.
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The fossil record provides important information about changes in species diversity, distribution, habitat and abundance through time. As we understand more about these changes, it becomes possible to envisage a wider range of options for translocations in a world where sustainability of habitats is under increasing threat. The Critically Endangered alpine/subalpine mountain pygmy-possum, Burramys parvus (Marsupialia, Burramyidae), is threatened by global heating. Using conventional strategies, there would be no viable pathway for stopping this iconic marsupial from becoming extinct. The fossil record, however, has inspired an innovative strategy for saving this species. This lineage has been represented over 25 Myr by a series of species always inhabiting lowland, wet forest palaeocommunities. These fossil deposits have been found in what is now the Tirari Desert, South Australia (24 Ma), savannah woodlands of the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Queensland (approx. 24–15 Ma) and savannah grasslands of Hamilton, Victoria (approx. 4 Ma). This palaeoecological record has led to the proposal overviewed here to construct a lowland breeding facility with the goal of monitoring the outcome of introducing this possum back into the pre-Quaternary core habitat for the lineage. If this project succeeds, similar approaches could be considered for other climate-change-threatened Australian species such as the southern corroboree frog ( Pseudophryne corroboree ) and the western swamp tortoise ( Pseudemydura umbrina ). This article is part of a discussion meeting issue ‘The past is a foreign country: how much can the fossil record actually inform conservation?’
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Rama Raj, Palaniraj, Prateepan Varatharajullu, and Paul A. Adler. "Atypical Christmas Eye Disease: A Case Report and Literature Review." Open Ophthalmology Journal 15, no. 1 (December 23, 2021): 264–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874364102115010264.
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Background: Christmas Eye Disease (CED), also known as the “Albury-Wodonga syndrome” or “Harvester's Keratitis”, is a seasonal acute corneal ulceration syndrome, which is geographically limited to Australia, specifically in the south-west region of New South Wales (NSW) and north-east region of Victoria. The mechanism of injury is unknown, but the secretions from native beetles of the genus Orthoperus have been implicated. There remains a dearth of literature on CED, particularly with atypical disease presentations. We present the first reported case of CED in the upper Blue Mountains Region, presenting atypically with mild pain and foreign body sensation. We also aim to explore the possible entomological precipitants of the disease. Case Presentation: A 77-year-old man with a 1-day history of a mildly painful red eye was found to have acute corneal ulceration. He experienced mild discomfort in his right eye while asleep and woke the following morning with persistent blur, foreign body sensation, and photophobia. He had no history of ocular trauma or chemical exposure. He reported going for daily bushwalks in the upper Blue Mountains region but did not recall any exposure to environmental or entomological precipitants. Clinical Findings and Outcomes: Slit-lamp examination revealed a substantial corneal epithelial loss in the right eye with fluorescein staining, revealing a characteristic ‘green splash’ over 90% of the cornea. Other clinical findings included marked corneal edema, moderate conjunctival injection, mild palpebral swelling, and mild papillae. No anterior uveitis was observed, and the posterior segment examination was normal. There was a considerable reduction in his right visual acuity from baseline. He was empirically treated with 1% tropicamide ocular drops, 1% chloramphenicol ointment, and lubricant ocular drops. The bacterial and viral conjunctival swabs were unremarkable. Clinical progression was self-limiting, and complete resolution of the ulcer was achieved after one month. Conclusion: CED is a clinical diagnosis, and medical practitioners should be aware of atypical features, such as the absence of debilitating pain. Additionally, our case demonstrates that the geographic distribution of CED appears to be far more extensive than previously thought, thereby raising the possibility of disease manifestation in regions not commonly associated with it. Entomological precipitants of this condition remain circumstantial and warrant further validation.
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Maslova, G. Ya, М. R. Abdryaeva, and I. I. Sharapov. "RESULTS OF EVALUATION OF COLLECTION SAMPLES OF WINTER SOFT WHEAT FOR BREEDING IN THE MIDDLE VOLGA REGION." Vestnik of Ulyanovsk state agricultural academy, no. 3(50) (September 8, 2020): 91–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.18286/1816-4501-2020-3-91-97.
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The main task of selection programs in modern conditions of constantly changing climate is to obtain varieties that are resistant to abiotic and biotic factors, combining high potential of productivity and grain quality in the genotype. At the initial stage of the selection process, the use of varietal samples of various ecological and geographical origin remains relevant in order to create the source material. The research aim is to identify genetic sources of economically valuable traits for winter wheat breeding in the Middle Volga region. From 2016 to 2019, samples of national and foreign selection were screened. During the study of the collection material, contrasting meteorological conditions were observed. The most positive conditions for the assessment of varieties for winter hardiness and productivity were formed in 2017, and less favorable – in 2019. For all the years of research on winter hardiness and productivity, local varieties were distinguished: Povolzhskaya 86, Povolzhskaya Niva, Erythrospermum 3627, Erythrospermum 3730 (Povolzhsky NIISS). In 2016, the varieties of Don breeding center – Marathon and Severo-Donskaya-were distinguished. In 2017 the varieties showed high results showed Krasnodar research Institute of agriculture (Doca, Dmitry Viza, Zimtra), Samara ARI (Svetoch), ARI of the South-East (Kalach 60), Ukraine (Tsusperich, Manzhetiya). In 2018, the best studied indicators were varieties Moskovskaya 39 (ARI CRNZ) and varieties Zimnitsa, Yunona, Kristall (Krasnodar ARI), as well as the variety Kalach 60 selection niish South-East. In unfavorable 2019, the studied varieties included Doka (Krasnodar research Institute), Pearl of the Volga region and Victoria 95 (research Institute of the South-East). These samples were included in the laboratory's cross-breeding scheme.
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Cartwright, Hugh. "Critical Safety Incidents. A videotape prepared by the Learning and Teaching Centre, University of Victoria, Canada. Videotape and 8-page guidebook. $60 (Canadian) in Canada, $65 (US) for U.S. and foreign orders." Chemical Educator 4, no. 1 (February 1999): 37–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00897990279a.
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Otieno, Fredrick Tom, John Gachohi, Peter Gikuma-Njuru, Patrick Kariuki, Harry Oyas, Samuel A. Canfield, Jason K. Blackburn, M. Kariuki Njenga, and Bernard Bett. "Modeling the spatial distribution of anthrax in southern Kenya." PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 15, no. 3 (March 29, 2021): e0009301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009301.
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Background Anthrax is an important zoonotic disease in Kenya associated with high animal and public health burden and widespread socio-economic impacts. The disease occurs in sporadic outbreaks that involve livestock, wildlife, and humans, but knowledge on factors that affect the geographic distribution of these outbreaks is limited, challenging public health intervention planning. Methods Anthrax surveillance data reported in southern Kenya from 2011 to 2017 were modeled using a boosted regression trees (BRT) framework. An ensemble of 100 BRT experiments was developed using a variable set of 18 environmental covariates and 69 unique anthrax locations. Model performance was evaluated using AUC (area under the curve) ROC (receiver operating characteristics) curves. Results Cattle density, rainfall of wettest month, soil clay content, soil pH, soil organic carbon, length of longest dry season, vegetation index, temperature seasonality, in order, were identified as key variables for predicting environmental suitability for anthrax in the region. BRTs performed well with a mean AUC of 0.8. Areas highly suitable for anthrax were predicted predominantly in the southwestern region around the shared Kenya-Tanzania border and a belt through the regions and highlands in central Kenya. These suitable regions extend westwards to cover large areas in western highlands and the western regions around Lake Victoria and bordering Uganda. The entire eastern and lower-eastern regions towards the coastal region were predicted to have lower suitability for anthrax. Conclusion These modeling efforts identified areas of anthrax suitability across southern Kenya, including high and medium agricultural potential regions and wildlife parks, important for tourism and foreign exchange. These predictions are useful for policy makers in designing targeted surveillance and/or control interventions in Kenya. We thank the staff of Directorate of Veterinary Services under the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, for collecting and providing the anthrax historical occurrence data.
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Kosny, Agnieszka, and Amy R. Allen. "Falling through the cracks? An analysis of health and safety resources for migrant workers in Australia." International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care 12, no. 2 (June 13, 2016): 99–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijmhsc-03-2015-0008.
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Purpose – Many migrants coming to Australia end up in poor quality jobs that can lead to injury or illness. The purpose of this paper is to examine work-related resources available to migrants in Australia to determine whether these contain information on employment standards (ES), occupational health and safety (OHS) and workers’ compensation (WC). Design/methodology/approach – National and state-based websites of government, unions, WC boards and community organizations were searched for relevant materials. Resources were analysed and categorized according to location, content, resource type, audience and language. Findings – We found 175 work-related resources that targeted migrants, or those working with them. The greatest numbers of resources were found in New South Wales, Victoria, and at a national level. There was a lack of comprehensive resources, with most resources containing only general work-related information. Those that had information on ES, OHS and WC generally covered only one topic in depth. Few resources were directed at temporary foreign workers. Although there are many resources to help newcomers find employment, these often do not include comprehensive information about rights at work, injury prevention and WC. Practical implications – Improving the comprehensiveness and accessibility of work-related resources could assist migrant workers in understanding ES, OHS and WC in Australia. Originality/value – This study, a first of its kind in Australia, examines work-related resources aimed at recent immigrants and whether these contain information related to health and safety, employment rights and responsibilities or what to do in the event of an injury. The analysis suggests that there is a paucity of comprehensive resources that address these topics. This is significant because recent immigrants, compared to native-born workers are more likely to work in jobs that expose them to hazards and increase their risk of injury. Resources preparing newcomers for work in Australia should include work and health-related information.
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Kravchenko, N. "A CONSTRUCT OF INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE FOR YOUNG LEARNERS." Focus on Language Education and Research 2, no. 2 (February 24, 2022): 12–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.35213/2686-7516-2021-3-3-12-30.
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The paper tackles the issue of forming a basis of intercultural competence for young learners. Considering the fact that we live in the globalized world and in the era of communication technologies this issue is becoming more and more acute. It is getting incredibly easy to explore other nations and cultures either by travelling or by using social media. This fact has greatly influenced foreign language teaching. The goals of this paper are to develop the theoretical construct of intercultural competence for young learners, to analyze the current English textbooks – both Russian and authentic ones – on the matter of knowledge, skills ,and abilities that are represented and formed in them, and to compare the theoretical and practical results of the research: What is lacking? What can be added? As a research method, a theoretical analysis of the academic literature is used. Analyzing the educational documents, the theory of socio-cultural competence developed by Doctor Victoria Safonova and M. Byram’s theory of intercultural communication, I found out that it needs to be specified for young learners. As a result, the construct of intercultural competence for young learners is developed. The construct includes a set of knowledge, skills, acquired practices, abilities and attitudes. Furthermore, this construct might be useful for creating a set of tasks for developing young learners’ intercultural competence. Second, the current English textbooks, both Russian and English ones, were analyzed according to the knowledge, skills, abilities and attitudes represented in them. Then the author of the paper compared the practical construct from the English textbooks with the theoretical one by searching for the areas where intercultural competence might be developed more fully. As one of the possibilities to teach intercultural communication to young learners the author suggests organizing cultural – exchange between Russian and English-speaking students trough project work. Such work will allow students to deepen their intercultural knowledge and practice their cultural observation by comparing different cultures.
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Flour, Isabelle. "‘On the Formation of a National Museum of Architecture: the Architectural Museum versus the South Kensington Museum." Architectural History 51 (2008): 211–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0066622x00003087.
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Architectural casts collections — the great majority of which were created in the second half of the nineteenth or the early twentieth centuries — have in recent years met with a variety of fates. While that of the Metropolitan Museum in New York has been dismantled, that of the Musée des Monuments Français in Paris has with great difficulty been rearranged to suit current tastes. Notwithstanding this limited rediscovery of architectural cast collections, they remain part of a past era in the ongoing history of architectural museums. While drawings and models have always been standard media for the representation of architecture — whether or not ever built — architectural casts seem to have become the preferred medium for architectural displays in museums during a period beginning in 1850. Indeed, until the development of photography and the democratization of foreign travel, they were the only way of collecting architectural and sculptural elements while preserving their originals in situ. Admittedly, the three-dimensional experience of full-sized architecture in the form of casts, or even of actual fragments of architecture, played a considerable part in earlier, idiosyncratic attempts to display architecture in museums, indeed as early as the late eighteenth century. Nevertheless, it was only from the mid-nineteenth century that they became the preferred medium for displaying architecture. The cult of ornament reached its climax in the years 1850–70, embodied, in the field of architecture, in the famous ‘battle of styles’ and in the doctrine of ‘progressive eclecticism’, and, in the applied arts, in attempts at reform, given a fresh impetus by the development of international exhibitions. It is not surprising, then, that the first debate about architectural cast museums should have been generated in the homeland of the Gothic Revival and of the Great Exhibition of 1851. For it was in London that this debate crystallized, specifically between the Architectural Museum founded in 1851 and the South Kensington Museum (now known as the Victoria and Albert Museum) created in 1857.
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Henry, Nancy. "GEORGE ELIOT AND THE COLONIES." Victorian Literature and Culture 29, no. 2 (September 2001): 413–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150301002091.
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Women are occasionally governors of prisons for women, overseers of the poor, and parish clerks. A woman may be ranger of a park; a woman can take part in the government of a great empire by buying East India Stock.— Barbara Bodichon, A Brief Summary in Plain Language, of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women (1854)ON OCTOBER 5, 1860, GEORGE HENRY LEWES VISITED a solicitor in London to consult about investments. He wrote in his journal: “[The Solicitor] took me to a stockbroker, who undertook to purchase 95 shares in the Great Indian Peninsular Railway for Polly. For £1825 she gets £1900 worth of stock guaranteed 5%” (qtd. in Ashton, Lewes 210). Thus Marian Evans, called Polly by her close friends, known in society as Mrs. Lewes and to her reading public as George Eliot, became a shareholder in British India. Whether or not Eliot thought of buying stock as taking part in the government of a great empire, as her friend Barbara Bodichon had written in 1854, the 5% return on her investment was a welcome supplement to the income she had been earning from her fiction since 1857. From 1860 until her death in 1880, she was one of a select but growing number of middle-class investors who took advantage of high-yield colonial stocks.1 Lewes’s journals for 1860–1878 and Eliot’s diaries for 1879–80 list dividends from stocks in Australia, South Africa, India, and Canada. These include: New South Wales, Victoria, Cape of Good Hope, Cape Town Rail, Colonial Bank, Oriental Bank, Scottish Australian, Great Indian Peninsula, Madras. The Indian and colonial stocks make up just less than half of the total holdings. Other stocks connected to colonial trade (East and West India Docks, London Docks), domestic stocks (the Consols, Regents Canal), and foreign investments (Buenos Aires, Pittsburgh and Ft. Wayne) complete the portfolio.2
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Antonovskaya, Galina, Yana Konechnaya, Natalya Vaganova, and Alexey Morozov. "ARKHANGELSK REGION." Zemletriaseniia Severnoi Evrazii [Earthquakes in Northern Eurasia], no. 22 (November 12, 2019): 247–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.35540/1818-6254.2019.22.22.
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An overview of regional seismicity registered by the Arkhangelsk seismic network is presented. In 2013 the Arkhangelsk seismic network included 9 digital seismic stations (ARH, KRR, PRG, TMC, PRO, LASH, SLV, AMD, and ZFI/ZFI2). A large number of technogenic events were recorded by the Arkhangelsk network in the north of the East European Platform (Arkhangelsk Region). Only 2 earthquakes were registered during the entire observation period: on October 22, 2005, at 17h46m with ML=2.9, and on March 28, 2013, at 07h02m with ML=3.4. The parameters of the hypocenter of the March 28, 2013 earthquake were evaluated using all currently available source data and bulletins of Russian and foreign seismic stations. The evaluation was done using the method of Generalized beamforming, in an improved form, implemented in the program NAS (New Association System). This earthquake is reprocessed using the same initial data (26 arrivals of seismic P- and S-phases from 13 seismic stations) by the NAS program. The epicentral distances ranged from 85 to 1800 km. The final parameters of the epicenter are as follows: 28.03.2013, t0=07:02:16.2, φ=63.95°N, λ=41.57°E. The epicenter is located 80 km south of Arkhangelsk in a sparsely populated area slightly west of the Severnaya Dvina River. The probable source depths lie in the interval from 2 to 33 km and the depth with the maximal value of the rating function is 19 km. A map of earthquakes in the Arctic region is provided. Earthquakes were registered by stations of the Arkhangelsk seismic network and processed together with the waveforms from other networks. The distribution of earthquakes correlates with the seismic zones of the Arctic – the Knipovich and Gakkel ridges, Spitsbergen. There are weak earthquakes on the shelf of the Barents Sea near the Frantz Josef land archipelago, as in 2012. They relate to the trench of Franz Victoria, the border of the continental slope, and the island of Bely. The coordinates of the epicenters of 290 earthquakes were determined in 2013. The representative level of the Euro-Arctic region's magnitude for 2013 according to the Arkhangelsk network was 2.9.
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Mann, Paisley. "A Paris of Their Own: Guidebooks for Anglo-American Female Travellers and the Rewriting of Mainstream Travel Culture." Journal of Victorian Culture 25, no. 4 (July 2, 2020): 553–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jvcult/vcz060.
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Abstract Both E. M. Forster’s A Room with a View (1908) and Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit (1855–1857) satirize British guidebook users, depicting them as mindless followers rather than as individual explorers of foreign landscapes. Series by John Murray and Baedeker dominated the landscape of Victorian travel, and scholars have pointed out that while mainstream guidebooks made foreign tourism more accessible for the middle class, they also presented travel as a heavily prescriptive and systematic endeavour, one that often sheltered British travellers from an encounter with foreignness. This article extends our understanding of the Victorian guidebook’s legacy by examining three Anglo-American guidebooks for women travelling to Paris – Mary Abbot’s A Woman’s Paris (1900), Elizabeth Otis Williams’ Sojourning, Shopping, and Studying in Paris (1907), and Alice M. Ivimy’s A Woman’s Guide to Paris (1909). It suggests that these fin-de-siècle women’s guidebooks emerged as a critique both of mainstream guidebooks’ prescriptive approach to foreign travel and of the narrow interests to which they catered. This article shows how, in actively resisting the genre’s emphasis on uniformity and expediency, guidebooks for women instead privileged spontaneous discovery, personal interest, and an encounter with the Parisian culture and landscape. In doing so, it seeks to reformulate our understanding of women’s travel narratives and of the cultural legacy of Victorian guidebooks.
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Vaninskaya, Anna. "On Foreign Soil: Immigrants and the Past in Victorian Britain." Journal of Victorian Culture 24, no. 2 (October 11, 2018): 241–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jvcult/vcy060.
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Booth, Alan. "Connecting Domestic and Foreign Policies in Victorian and Edwardian Britain." History: Reviews of New Books 36, no. 4 (July 2008): 129–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.3200/hist.36.4.129-134.
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Shastalo, Vira. "VICTORIAN VIRTUES IN TEACHING “LITERATURE OF GREAT BRITAIN”." Scientific Journal of Polonia University 31, no. 6 (December 20, 2018): 103–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.23856/3109.
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The article is dedicated to the problem of Victorian system of values reflected in the British literature studied at the department of foreign languages. The paper distinguishes the most relevant and typical virtues of the British society in the 19th century.
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RAHIMI JAFARI, Narges. "El impacto político de las creencias primitivas de la clase gobernante sasánida." Medievalismo, no. 31 (December 23, 2021): 373–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.6018/medievalismo.505021.
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This article uses various theories that exist about thought, especially the theories of James George Frazer in the Golden Branch as a turning point. In this way, it tries to give prominence to the certain aspects of the history of sassanid Persia, which after analyzing through these theories, they show the impact of primitive beliefs in Sassanid age. Creeds that affected in many aspects of their lives, but in this research we only show their role in the commands or decisions, victories, defeats and dreams of the Sassanids that substantially had influenced their domestic and foreign policies. Este artículo toma como punto de partida diferentes teorías sobre el pensamiento, en especial las que James George Frazer esbozó en La Rama Dorada. Por esta vía, se busca dar protagonismo a ciertos aspectos de la historia de la Persia sasánida que, al ser analizados a través de estas teorías, muestran el impacto que tuvieron las creencias primitivas. Eran unos credos que influyeron en muchos aspectos de su vida, pero en este estudio solo mostramos su papel en las órdenes o decisiones, victorias, fracasos y sueños de los sasánidas que influyeron, de manera sustancial, en su política interior y exterior.
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Karas, Hanna. "MASTER CLASS FROM ACADEMIC VOCAL AS FORM OF ACTIVATION OF EDUCATIONAL PROCESS IN ARTISTIC ESTABLISHMENTS OF HIGHER EDUCATION." Academic Notes Series Pedagogical Science 1, no. 204 (June 2022): 130–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.36550/2415-7988-2022-1-204-130-133.
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The article reveals the experience of using a master class on academic vocal as a form of activation of the educational process in urban institutions of higher education in Ukraine. Since Ukrainian scholars have not identified theoretical works on the role of master classes in the educational process in the vocal sphere, the disclosure of experience, which is the purpose of our article, should update the development of methodological and methodical principles of research. It has been established that over the last decade the form of master classes has been increasingly used by domestic vocal teachers. The experience of their holding at the Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Academy of Music, the Institute of Arts of the Borys Hrinchenko Kyiv University and the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University with the participation of leading foreign opera singers, most of whom are of Ukrainian origin, was summarized. All of them worked on master classes on a volunteer basis. In Lviv they were conducted by the professor from the Academy of Music (Norway), world-famous singer (tenor) Carlo Allemano, in Kyiv – world-famous opera singer (lyric-coloratura soprano) Victoria Lukianets from Vienna, in Ivano-Frankivsk – also world-famous opera singer (baritone) Pavlo Gunka (Great Britain), young singers, soloists of Polish opera theaters Iryna Zhytynska and Stanislav Kufliuk. In each case, the duration of master classes lasted from one to seven days, the number of participants was 4–30 people. A pre-studied program of 1–3 works (aria, solo songs, folk song) was chosen for the work. Some teachers paid more attention to technical problems in voice production, others – to the artistic image, associations, understanding of the works performed. The structure of the master classes included: 1) demonstration by a recognized singer-mentor of his skills and his understanding of the problem in a practical form; 2) involvement of the student in active activity on mastering of skill under the control of the expert; 3) publicity, ie the presence of a wide audience (teachers, students, journalists), who perceived the process of communication between the master and his wards, and who joined this process, asking questions and demanding explanations. The organizational and semantic aspects of the use of master classes in academic vocal in higher educational institutions in the field of art are in need of further consideration.
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Bruner, Jason. "The Cambridge Seven, Late Victorian Culture, and the Chinese Frontier." Social Sciences and Missions 27, no. 1 (2014): 7–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18748945-02701002.
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While some gender studies have examined dimensions of British masculinity with regard to the empire, they often have neglected the constitutive role that Christian faith played in the formation of British masculinity and the ways that British Christians constructed ideal masculine character. This essay reassesses the Cambridge Seven’s significance in the construction of a British evangelical masculinity in the late Victorian period. It argues that British evangelicals utilized the ideals the Seven collectively represented to construct a Christian masculinity in relation to the foreign frontier. This analysis suggests that both faith and the foreign mission field were integral dimensions of British evangelical masculinity. Ultimately, the Seven’s experiences in China challenged and subverted many of these ideal constructions.
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Goodlad, Lauren M. E. "Trollopian “Foreign Policy”: Rootedness and Cosmopolitanism in the Mid-Victorian Global Imaginary." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 124, no. 2 (March 2009): 437–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2009.124.2.437.
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Focusing on the prolific mid-Victorian writing of Anthony Trollope, this essay takes present-day theoretical interest in “actually existing cosmopolitanism” for its cue. Trollope's works remind us that from a Victorian perspective, the word cosmopolitan was more likely to evoke the impersonal structures of capitalism and imperialism than an ethos of tolerance, world citizenship, or multiculturalism. Trollope wrote novels eulogizing England's rootedness alongside first-person accounts of colonial travel, making him the arch exemplar of a two-party foreign policy discourse. Whereas Barsetshire novels such as The Warden are archetypes of autoethnographic fiction, Trollope's travel writings construct a transportable mode of racialized Anglo-Saxonness. Evoking the asymmetrical play between two notions of property—heirloom “rootedness” and capitalist “cosmopolitanism”—Trollope's foreign policy imaginary illuminates the difficulties of a genuinely negotiated rooted cosmopolitanism. Exploration of the nineteenth century's actually existing cosmopolitanisms offers the opportunity to historicize the transnational contexts and experiences of an era in which capitalist and imperial expansion was as dynamic as the globalizing processes of our own day.
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Jones, Aidan. "Servants of Diplomacy. A Domestic History of the Victorian Foreign Office." Diplomacy & Statecraft 33, no. 1 (January 2, 2022): 194–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2022.2041803.
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