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Waring, Justin, and Asam Latif. "Of Shepherds, Sheep and Sheepdogs? Governing the Adherent Self through Complementary and Competing ‘Pastorates’." Sociology 52, no. 5 (February 20, 2017): 1069–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038038517690680.
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Foucault’s concept of ‘pastoral power’ describes an important technique for constituting obedient subjects. Derived from his analysis of the Christian pastorate, he saw pastoral power as a prelude to contemporary technologies of governing ‘beyond the State’, where ‘experts’ shepherd self-governing subjects. However, the specific practices of modern pastorate have been little developed. This article examines the relational practices of pastoral power associated with the government of medicine use within the English healthcare system. The study shows how multiple pastors align their complementary and variegated practices to conduct behaviours, but also how pastors compete for legitimacy, and face resistance through the mobilisation of alternative discourses and the strategic exploitation of pastoral competition. The article offers a dynamic view of the modern pastorate within the contemporary assemblages of power.
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Nanetti, Sara. "Gli operatori di pastorale alla prova del digitale prima e durante la pandemia." Media Education 13, no. 2 (November 16, 2022): 79–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/me-13379.
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The contribution analyses the role of pastoral workers within Italian parishes in relation to the use of community technologies. Specifically, the following will be presented: on the one hand, the profiles of the workers involved in pastoral care before the pandemic, through the data of an online survey that involved 3,350 operators; on the other, the contributions made by the operators during the pandemic for the continuation of pastoral activities, through the analysis of two cases of good digital practices. Finally, the analysis of the strategies adopted by pastoral workers in the use of digital technologies, both before and during the pandemic event, makes it possible to detect the important relationship between relational skills and digital skills in the promotion of pastoral activities.
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Gates, George N. "Where is the Pastoral Counselor in the Hospice Movement?" Journal of Pastoral Care 41, no. 1 (March 1987): 32–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002234098704100105.
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Offers a brief historical summary of the hospice movement in America, noting particularly the inclusion of the term “pastoral counselor” in the law's language. Discusses the utilization and contribution of pastoral counselors based on a survey of 153 hospice programs. Concludes that pastoral counselors need to demonstrate their competencies and contributions, that the American Association of Pastoral Counselors ought to assume a greater role in fostering and nurturing pastoral counselors for participation in hospice activities, and that pastoral counselors should teach sister disciplines therapeutic technologies which are a part of the religious community. Warns that opportunities to become a part of the hospice movement may be relinquished if pastoral counselors do not accept the invitation and responsibility to join in the hospice movement.
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Huang, Zhipeng, Yan Zhang, Yi Huang, Gang Xu, and Shengping Shang. "Sales Scale, Non-Pastoral Employment and Herders’ Technology Adoption: Evidence from Pastoral China." Land 11, no. 7 (July 3, 2022): 1011. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land11071011.
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The adoption of livestock husbandry technologies has been an important factor affecting the welfare of herders and the efficiency of grazing-based livestock production and grassland protection in China’s pastoral areas. The small-scale herder is the main body of grassland-based grazing husbandry, and so technology adoption is particularly important, though it is currently scarce. To identify the factors influencing technology adoption behavior by Chinese herders, especially its effect on the scale of livestock sales and non-pastoral employment (NPE), we conducted a survey in the Gansu and Qinghai provinces of China with a sample of 296 herder households. The results show that the scale of livestock sale promotes the adoption of technology, while non-pastoral employment has a generally negative effect. In detail, the substitution effect of NPE is positive, but the wealth effect is negative. In addition, NPE and its wealth effect have moderating effects that can enhance the effect of the sales scale on the adoption of herders’ technology. After distinguishing the technologies into profit-seeking technology and pro-environmental technology, we found that NPE and its substitution effect have a significant influence on pro-environmental technology, while the wealth effect has a significant impact on both profit-seeking and pro-environmental technology. Environmental awareness and altruism also have significant positive impacts on pro-environmental technology. These findings are relevant to policy implications dealing with technology adoption in pastoral areas.
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Cooper, Rosalind. "Pastoral Power and Algorithmic Governmentality." Theory, Culture & Society 37, no. 1 (July 31, 2019): 29–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263276419860576.
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This paper contributes to inquiries into the genealogy of governmentality and the nature of secularization by arguing that pastoralism continues to operate in the algorithmic register. Drawing on Agamben’s notion of signature, I elucidate a pair of historically distant yet archaeologically proximate affinities: the first between the pastorate and algorithmic control, and the second between the absconded God of late medieval nominalism and the authority of algorithms in the cybernetic age. I support my hypothesis by attending to the signaturial kinships between, on the one hand, temporality and authority in our contemporary conjuncture, and, on the other, obedience and submission in Christian thought from late antiquity and the late Middle Ages. I thereby illustrate the hidden genealogical continuities between theological-pastoral technologies of power and technocratic-algorithmic modalities of governance. I conclude by suggesting that medieval counter-conducts may be redeployed in our present circumstances for emancipatory ends.
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Ahmed Mohammed, Abdulla. "ADOPTION OF SMALL RUMINANTS’ FATTENING PACKAGE IN AGRO-PASTORAL AREAS, DUGDA DAWA DISTRICT, SOUTHERN OROMIA, ETHIOPIA." International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH 3, no. 9 (September 30, 2015): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v3.i9.2015.2940.
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Many studies were conducted to identify determinants of adoption of crop base technologies and practices and improved seeds, and while few studies concerned on evaluation of extension services in terms of the clients’ need and interest or adoption of livestock technologies in agro-pastoral and pastoral context. In fact, livestock extension services in general in developing countries are less prioritized and thus livestock based technology services are rarely extended. Common livestock technologies which are promoted to livestock raisers are focused on feed, veterinary services, and improved management practices through the extension services of agricultural/pastoral offices and livestock development units. The case hereunder, is about agro-pastoralists extension services evaluative perception and small ruminant fattening package adoption. Hence, this study investigates agro-pastoralists’ perception on the extension services, small ruminant fattening package and intensity of adoption of small ruminants’ fattening package. The study is undertaken in DugdaDawaWoreda, Oromia Region, Ethiopia. The Woreda has agro-pastoral and pastoral production system. The data were collected from 151 randomly selected pastoralists and agro-pastoralists using structured interview schedule. Secondary data were collected from different sources to supplement the data obtained from the survey. In addition to quantitative data qualitative data also gathered. Prior to formal survey an informal survey was also undertaken by using group discussion and interview with key informants. Descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentage mean, standard deviation, Chi-square tests and t-test were employed. The Tobit model was also employed to determine factors influencing intensity of small ruminant fattening package adoption. This study identifies agro-pastoralists and pastoralists are poorly addressed and their need and interests are not considered in any extension programmes. The Tobit model output showed that, agro-pastoralists intensity of adoption of small ruminant fattening package is influenced by: perception on the availability of improved breed, perception on resources based conflicts, current management practices, total livestock holding of HHs and credit use and availability for veterinary purposes. Future extension activities and agencies, promoting fattening package in agro-pastoral and pastoral areas, should focus on targeting agro-pastoralists with low perception on the availability of better breed, information and demonstration on the improved management practices, revision of credit supply criteria, making awareness and demonstration of the significant importance of small ruminants in the agro-pastoral and pastoral income and livelihoods contribution is important.
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Giritli Nygren, Katarina, and Katarina L. Gidlund. "The Pastoral Power of Technology. Rethinking Alienation in Digital Culture." tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 10, no. 2 (May 25, 2012): 509–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v10i2.388.
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The purpose of this paper is to bring Foucault’s elaboration on ‘the pastoral modalities of power’ into play in order to rethink alienation in digital culture. Pastoral power is not displacing other conceptions of power, but provides another level of analysis involved in the forging of reasonable responsible subjects willing and able to sustain other conceptions of power. We will draw particularly on the early writings of Marx and the more recent poststructuralist developments concerning hegemony and superstructure in relation to technology. Technology as such is analysed in terms of repercussions of ‘design of the machine’ in industrial technological contexts and ‘design of digital culture’ in digital technological contexts. Pastoral power not only directs our focus to the making of technologies, but also to the making of individuals capable of taking on the responsibilities of technologies. This means that it is necessary to take on the notion of effective power of ideologies and their material reality.
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Rustamani, Kashif. "AN ETHNOGRAPHIC EXPLANATION OF THE CHANGING LIVELIHOOD OF AGRO-PASTORAL COMMUNITIES IN SINDH, PAKISTAN." Pakistan Journal of Social Research 03, no. 01 (March 31, 2021): 57–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.52567/pjsr.v3i01.187.
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The question of the agro-pastoral economy is un-scrutinized within the academic discourse of Pakistan. These communities rely on herding and subsistence agriculture, the former playing a significant role in the socio-economic aspects of life. The late twentieth century marked an era of revolutionized technologies that touched the ground of developing countries, the best-known example is the green revolution. Before the green revolution, most parts of southern Sindh relied on rainwater to cultivate food crops with rudimentary technologies. The modes of production were comprised of livestock and pastoralism. The market-based economic intervention was only gaining roots. Presently, in the region specifically, rains per year have become scarcer, underground water resources such as tube wells are also disappearing. The paper questions that how the climate changes in the locale of study have resulted in a change in economic activities and the social lives of agro-pastoral communities. The present study is an attempt to document, and inform about the social change, to reach a wider level of audience and scientific community. This research is based on empirical evidence. The techniques are more similar to those used in anthropology or ethnology. Data collection and fieldwork are conducted in Southern Sindh known as Wahi Pandhi, which is located in the Dadu district of Sindh. The main economic activity of the area is agriculture and pastoralism. The geography and mode of livelihood in the region are found to be unique in terms of economic, socio-political, and cultural aspects. It not only gives us a vantage point to understand the livelihood of the agro-pastorals, but also puts us in a position to form a better policy for these communities. The present study will provide basic policy recommendations to help these communities which are marginalized by their way of subsistence and location in the country. Keywords: Agro-pastoral communities, ethnography, livelihoods, Sindh, Pakistan
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Bayer, Wolfgang, and Ann Waters-Bayer. "Adapting Tropical Pasture Research to the Production System: from Australian Ranching to African Pastoralism." Experimental Agriculture 25, no. 3 (July 1989): 277–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0014479700014812.
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SUMMARYThe questions and design of pasture research in tropical Australia and the resulting technologies address problems encountered in the prevailing extensive beef-production systems. In African pastoral systems, forage resource use is more intensive and complex, and production aims are manifold. An example of applied research in central Nigeria illustrates the usefulness of certain components of Australian pasture technology but the need to adapt them, particularly with respect to pasture utilization and management, within trials deliberately designed to address the differing problems in the local pastoral system.
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Napon, Katian, Augustine Ayantunde, and Et Dapola Evariste Constant Da. "Intensification de la production agropastorale et genre dans le domaine soudano-sahelien au Burkina Faso." International Journal of Biological and Chemical Sciences 14, no. 3 (June 19, 2020): 800–815. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ijbcs.v14i3.13.
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La faible pluviométrie et la pauvreté des sols du Séno et du Yatenga au Burkina Faso influencent négativement les rendements agricoles et la production animale. Pour améliorer la productivité et favoriser une meilleure sécurité alimentaire, il est nécessaire d’intensifier le système de culture à travers l’adoption de techniques culturales adéquates. L’objectif de cette étude est d’analyser la pratique des techniques d’intensification durable de la production agropastorale selon le genre. A cet effet, une enquête a été conduite auprès de 632 individus. Un modèle logistique binaire a été utilisé avec SPSS 20 pour vérifier si les caractéristiques sociodémographiques des enquêtés prédisaient de façon significative la pratique d’une technique d’intensification. Une valeur de P < 0,05 a été jugée statistiquement significative. Les résultats révèlent une différence en fonction du genre dans la pratique des techniques d’intensification de la production et montrent que ces différences sont liées au niveau d’éducation, à l’activité primaire, à la taille du ménage, au groupe ethnique, au groupe de genre et à l’âge des enquêtés. Les déterminants de l’adoption des technologies d’intensification de la production agropastorale devraient être pris en compte dans la politique agricole du pays pour une meilleure diffusion de ces technologies auprès des paysans.Mots clés : Technologies améliorées, systèmes mixtes, groupe de genre, Séno, Yatenga.
English Title: Intensification of agro-pastoral production and gender in the Sudano-Sahelian domain in Burkina FasoLow rainfall and poor soils in the Seno and Yatenga regions of Burkina Faso have a negative impact on agricultural yields and livestock production. To improve productivity and promote better food security, it is necessary to intensify the farming systems through the adoption of appropriate of intensification practices. The objective of this study is to analyze the effect of gender on intensification practices in agro-pastoral systems. A survey was conducted involving 632 individuals from different gender groups. A binary logistic model was used with SPSS 20 to assess whether the socio-demographic characteristics of the respondents had significant effect on intensification practices. A value of P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. The results revealed gender differences in intensification practices and showed that these differences are related to education level, primary activity, household size, ethnic group, gender group and age of the respondents. The determinants of the agro-pastoral production intensification technologies should be taken into account in the country's agricultural policy for a better dissemination of these technologies to farmers.Keywords: Improved technologies, mixed systems, gender group, Seno, Yatenga.
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Galaty, John. "Boundary-Making and Pastoral Conflict along the Kenyan–Ethiopian Borderlands." African Studies Review 59, no. 1 (April 2016): 97–122. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/asr.2016.1.
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Abstract:Boundaries are technologies of power and knowledge that shape spatial and social realities and our understandings of them. This article examines the effects of boundary-making between Kenya and Ethiopia, and investigates the effects of borders on states of peace and conflict among Turkana, Samburu, Borana, Gabra, and Dassanetch of northern Kenya. If borders divide people, people benefit nonetheless from the environmental, social, and political entropy that borders generate by using the energy of spatial differences to advance their own individual and collective life projects.
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Mohamed, Mohamoud, Yoseph Legesse, and Kawnin Abdimahad. "Handling, Processing and Composition of Cow Milk Under Two Traditional Farming Systems in Kebribeyah District of Fafan Zone, Somali Regional State, Ethiopia." American Journal of Aquaculture and Animal Science 2, no. 1 (January 18, 2023): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.54536/ajaas.v2i1.1024.
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The aim of this study was to assess handling, processing & chemical composition of cow milk in Kebribeyah district. The study had a survey and laboratory works. For the survey study, two production systems namely pastoral and agro-pastoral were considered. From each production system, two kebeles were selected purposively based on accessibility and potential of cow milk production. One hundred twenty households were randomly selected from purposively selected kebeles. For the laboratory part, forty samples of cow milk were analysed for chemical composition. The overall average lactation length and daily milk off-take of cow in this study were 256 days and 2.06 litres, respectively. None of the respondents washed the udder of the cow and only 6.7% of the pastoralists and 20% agro-pastoralists wash their hands before milking. Milk handling equipment were mainly plastic materials. Acacia ethaica, B. minimifolia, Blanites galabra and Solanum carense were the most commonly used smoking plant species in the area. The majority of the respondents (85.8%) produced traditional butter (Subag) and few households (10%) produced sour milk (Ciir), while very few (4.2%) households produced traditional cheese (Burcad). However, milk processing in the area is limited to wet season; when there is abundance of fodder. The average values of total solids, fat, protein, lactose and ash were 13.19%, 4.67%, 3.45%, 5.18% and 0.72%, respectively. However, significance differences (P<0.05) were found between pastoral and ago-pastoral production systems in terms of total solids, fat, and protein. The chemical properties of milk samples obtained from pastoral and agro-pastoral areas were within the acceptable standard levels settled by different scholars. In general, milk producers should also be supported with strong extension service by way of introducing improved dairy technologies, improved milk handling and processing equipments. Furthermore, there is a need for further investigations on composition with various farming systems.
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Caradus, J. R., D. R. Woodfield, and A. V. Stewart. "Overview and vision for white clover." NZGA: Research and Practice Series 6 (January 1, 1996): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.33584/rps.6.1995.3368.
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White clover (Trifolium repens L.) is the key to the international competitive advantage of New Zealand's pastoral industries, which are reliant on a cheap, high quality feed source. White clover benefits pastoral agriculture through its ability to fix nitrogen, its high nutritive value, its seasonal complementarity with grasses, and its ability to improve animal feed intake and utilisation rates. The annual financial contribution of white clover through fixed nitrogen, forage yield, seed production and honey production is estimated as $3.095 billion. The impact of white clover has resulted from understanding how it grows, and then developing appropriate management systems, fertiliser strategies, and improved cultivars. While the future of white clover as the legume base of our pasture is secure there are challenges and opportunities ahead. These include the increasing use of mineral nitrogen, competitiveness with high endophyte ryegrasses, filling gaps in our knowledge base, responding to industry signals, the advent of transgenic technologies, the removal of anti-quality characters particularly those associated with the incidence of bloat, and assuring that nitrogen fixation rates, in grazed pastures, increase as the yield potential of white clover is itself increased. Keywords: economic value, nitrogen fixation, nutritive quality, pastoral agriculture, white clover
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Rondonotti, Marco, Eleonora Mazzotti, Alessandra Carenzio, Elisa Farinacci, and Pier Cesare Rivoltella. "Aperto per ferie: third spaces meet pastoral contexts." Research on Education and Media 12, no. 2 (December 1, 2020): 29–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/rem-2020-0016.
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Abstract Media education is a cultural framework that can be applied in different contexts: schools, families, informal educational environments, along with pastoral work. With Pope Francis’ championing, there is an increasing need to bridge pastoral care and the media, which can become new important forms of proximity and open opportunities to connect and assume responsibility towards others. Our aim is to understand how parishes can think of themselves as third spaces. The paper tackles this question through the exploration of the initiative Aperto per ferie. The initiative was created to enable professionals to experience the summer camp activities despite the Covid-19 pandemic, finding new ways of aggregation in pastoral youth clubs and taking advantage of digital community meetings. It developed a digital space to promote a unifying experience. With digital technologies, the boundaries of the community are redrawn. The correspondence with the territory (of the parish and the diocese) is no longer pre-determined. A community with porous edges is making its way and is more open and permeable to contributions coming from outside, and perhaps more accessible, even by those who do not frequent parish environments.
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Michael, Yohannes Gebre. "Vulnerability and Local Innovation in Adaptation to Climate Change among the Pastoralists: Harshin District, Somali Region, Ethiopia." Environmental Management and Sustainable Development 6, no. 2 (May 13, 2017): 65. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/emsd.v6i2.11211.
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The case study was made with the overall aim of understanding of pastoralist vulnerability and adaptation to climate changes. As a methodology five kebeles have been purposely selected representing pastoral and agro-pastoral farming systems in Harshin district of Somali Region in Ethiopia. The survey was conducted through semi-structured checklists with individual households and groups accounting a total of 124 people.The major findings of the study indicated that the environmental and socio-economic dynamics are skewed to negative trends where the livelihood of the pastoral community is under a big threat. Moreover, the combinations of factors including access to resources and social institutions, livelihood practices, inappropriate technologies and policies have attributed to trigger the vulnerability to climate change among the pastoralists in general and agro-pastoralists in particular. In adapting to the impact of climate change, pastoralists and agro-pastoralists are using wide range of group and individual local innovations, some farming practices and establishment of multi-functional grassroots institutions. Finally creating enabling policy environment for local experimentation and innovations in the framework of pastoralism and sustainability have been suggested as a point of departure in developing resilience to climate change and other pressures.
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Theokritoff, Elizabeth. "For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church, Section VIII: Science, Technology and the Natural World. A Response." Studies in Christian Ethics 35, no. 2 (February 1, 2022): 281–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09539468221076718.
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Section VIII of Toward a Social Ethos covers the areas of healing and medicine, new technologies including the internet, faith and science, human sciences and pastoral care, the natural world and ecological crisis. This article comments on the text in the light of wider Orthodox thinking on these areas (where it exists) and earlier statements on use of the world and environment from the Churches of Constantinople, Antioch and Moscow.
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Ash, Andrew, and Mark Stafford Smith. "Pastoralism in tropical rangelands: seizing the opportunity to change." Rangeland Journal 25, no. 2 (2003): 113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/rj03010.
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The pastoral industry in northern Australia has been relatively stable over the past 100 years and has persisted despite a variable climate, uncertain markets and variable prices. However, change is occurring at a rapid pace and to stay economically viable and environmentally sustainable in the future the pastoral industry must deal proactively with the continuous cost-price squeeze and growing environmental awareness in society at large We contend that controlling these factors involves targeted intensification of effort to minimise costs, maximise opportunities to improve productivity, and demonstrated environmental standards to increase product value, building on the most effective use of new communications technologies, a better integration with the values of other inhabitants of the region, and processes from continuous learning. Pastoralists will also need to be ever vigilant about external drivers of change, over which they have no control, and be prepared to adapt early to cope with these external influences.
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Dedieu, Benoît, and Jean-Yves Pailleux. "The paths to last in pastoral sheep farming in the Cevennes in France." Revue d’élevage et de médecine vétérinaire des pays tropicaux 68, no. 2-3 (March 25, 2016): 87. http://dx.doi.org/10.19182/remvt.20593.
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Quels sont les chemins pour durer dans un contexte d’incertitude sur les conditions du futur ? Les logiques d’action sur le long terme sur lesquelles les éleveurs s’appuient pour développer ou adapter leur ferme dans leur contexte propre ont été décrites. Ces logiques renvoient à des choix relatifs au dimensionnement de l’activité agricole, à la spécialisation, aux choix techniques et commerciaux, au rapport à l’endettement et à l’incorporation de technologies. Les données provenaient d’élevages ovins des Cévennes, région pastorale méditerranéenne du sud de la France, à partir de relevés de trajectoires d’évolution des familles, des activités agricoles et de la conduite du troupeau ovin sur 30 ans (1982–2012). Si l’élevage ovin n’a pas vraiment changé dans ses dimensions techniques pendant cette période, trois logiques d’action sur le long terme ont été distinguées : une logique clanique qui donne l’opportunité d’une installation des enfants dans la ferme ou à proximité d’elle ; une logique centrée sur l’activité ovine avec un agrandissement du troupeau ; et une logique multiphase avec l’exploration successive de deux ou trois formules de conduite du troupeau ou de combinaison d’activités du ménage. Les logiques d’action identifiées ont été semblables à celles décrites dans d’autres études, si ce n’est qu’elles n’ont pas mis en avant de logique fondée sur l’accroissement de la productivité du troupeau avec incorporation de technologies, option trop éloignée du type de pastoralisme pratiqué dans les Cévennes.
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Bentley, D., R. S. Hegarty, and A. R. Alford. "Managing livestock enterprises in Australia's extensive rangelands for greenhouse gas and environment outcomes: a pastoral company perspective." Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 48, no. 2 (2008): 60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ea07210.
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Extensive grazing of beef cattle is the principal use of the northern Australia land area. While north Australian beef production has traditionally utilised a low-input, low-output system of land management, recent innovations have increased the efficiency with which beef is produced. Investment to raise efficiency of cattle production by improving herd genetics, property infrastructure, the seasonal feed-base and its utilisation, as well as promoting feedlot finishing can all be expected to reduce the number of unproductive animals and reduce age-at-slaughter. Consequently, these innovations can all be expected to contribute to a reduction in the emissions intensity of greenhouse gases (GHG; t GHG/t liveweight gain). The North Australian Pastoral Company (NAPCO) has adopted these technologies to enhance reproductive and growth efficiency of the herd and has coupled them with changes in other aspects of property operation, such as use of solar energy systems, establishment of introduced perennial pastures and minimum tillage, to achieve production and operational gains, which also reduce the emissions intensity of their pastoral properties. Investments to improve production efficiency have been consistent with both financial and, in principle, environmental objectives of NAPCO. While NAPCO supports the development and implementation of new mitigation strategies, the company requires greater knowledge on pastoral emission levels and clarity on the future position of agriculture in a carbon economy. This information would enable confirmation of current emission levels, modelling of mitigation options and evaluation of the efficacy of potential on-farm carbon sinks. This paper presents NAPCO’s perspective on GHG emissions in the context of its pastoral enterprise, including current and future research and mitigation objectives.
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C. Ihejirika, Walter. "“IN-LINE RELIGION”: INNOVATIVE PASTORAL APPLICATIONS OF THE NEW INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES (NICTS) BY THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN NIGERIA." POLITICS AND RELIGION JOURNAL 2, no. 2 (December 1, 2008): 79–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.54561/prj0202079i.
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In my researches in the field of media religion and culture, I have made extensive comparative analyses of the Catholic and Pentecostal churches in Nigeria and their different communication strategies. This paper highlights the appropriation of the new information and communication technologies by these two Christian denominations in Nigeria. Special attention is paid to the Catholic Church, because, unlike the Pentecostal denominations which see media technologies as an extension of the church pulpit, the Catholic Church has generally exhibited a somewhat cold attitude towards these instruments of mass communication. This attitude goes back to the advent of cinema which the Church’s hierarchy then saw as having the potential of corrupting faith and moral. The Catholic Church has remained largely a print-based Church, investing most of her communication energy in the print media and in oral catechism. But in recent years, this negative attitude of the Church has started to change. Of all the technologies of mass communication, none has been so instantly accepted and embraced by the Catholic Church as the new information and communication technologies. Using the Mater Cyberworld, (a cyber-café founded by the Ahiara Mbaise Catholic Diocese in Eastern Nigeria), as a case, this paper highlights some distinctive characteristics of the Catholic Church’s involvement in the new information and communication technologies. The analysis shows that this media appropriation is one of the means through which the Catholic Church establishes a strong presence in the Nigerian socio-political sphere.
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Agutu, Fredrick Odiwuor, James Ombiro Ondiek, Samuel Mwanzia Mbuku, and Bockline Omedo Bebe. "Willingness to pay for assisted reproductive technologies by pastoral herd owners in southern Rangelands of Kenya." International Journal of Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry 7, no. 1 (January 1, 2022): 26–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.22271/veterinary.2022.v7.i1a.401.
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Georges, Djohy, and Edja Honorat. "Agricultural technologies, territorialization from below and land-use conflicts in agro-pastoral areas of Northern Benin." Journal of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development 14, no. 4 (December 31, 2022): 210–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.5897/jaerd2022.1344.
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Simon, M., C. A. Popescu, Loredana Copăcean, and Luminiţa Cojocariu. "COMPLEX MODEL BASED ON UAV TECHNOLOGY FOR INVESTIGATING PASTORAL SPACE." Present Environment and Sustainable Development 14, no. 2 (October 14, 2020): 139–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.15551/pesd2020142011.
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Data from the specialized literature show that in the last decade there has been a rapid development in the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for obtaining spatial information from the pastoral environment. The idea of investigating grassland surfaces with the help of drones was based on the following practical considerations: the size and complexity of pastoral space and the need for data acquisition in hard-to-reach areas and in a short time. In this context, the purpose of the research is to integrate UAV technology and GIS applications into pratological research, the results obtained having both practical and methodological character. For the efficient research of the pastoral space with UAV equipment, a working model was developed, complex from a technical point of view, consisting of several stages: identifying the areas of interest, planning and setting the flight parameters, "photographing" the area, downloading and image processing, and then processing the results in the GIS environment. From each stage, geospatial products can be extracted, and the final products can be used in various ways, both in the pastoral space and in other segments of the geographical environment. Following the application of the working algorithm results the orthophotoplan and the point clouds, from which can be extracted topo-cadastral information (related to the "physical" surface of grasslands), pratological information (related to vegetation and mode of use) or useful information in territorial planning (risk phenomena, relief aspects), with high precision and spatial location. Compared with the classical research methods, the use of the working model based on geomatic technologies, has the effect of reducing the working time and the number of operators, the possibility of tracking time and space of the investigated territory, but also the formation of graphic and descriptive databases that they can be used in other subsequent projects.
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Preissler, Laura. "Accompanying parents through early childhood: The pastoral work of Mothers’ and Fathers’ Advisors." Intersections 8, no. 3 (November 2, 2022): 66–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.17356/ieejsp.v8i3.859.
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This paper explores expert guidance of parenting in Switzerland and discusses the work of the mothers’ and fathers’ advisors (MVBs), a state-funded service providing counselling to parents of preschool children. The data presented here draws upon ethnographic research which investigates parenting as a site of ‘governance’. Based on semi-structured interviews as well as participant observation with MVBs and parents, this paper examines (power) relationships between early childhood experts and parents. The findings demonstrate that the practices deemed appropriate for the surveillance and guidance of parenting today are a clear example of what Michel Foucault dubbed ‘pastoral power’ and include the gathering and archiving of information, as well as hierarchical observation. Reconnecting insecure or overly intellectual mothers with their ‘maternal instincts’, which some advisors felt were at risk of being lost, involves the facilitation of technologies of self. The paper also explores ‘resistance’ against pastoral care, which is not necessarily perceived as well-intentioned or helpful by parents, who may strive not to implement advice or completely reject ‘accompaniment’ by advisors.
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Barrett, B. A., M. J. Faville, S. N. Nichols, W. R. Simpson, G. T. Bryan, and A. J. Conner. "Breaking through the feed barrier: options for improving forage genetics." Animal Production Science 55, no. 7 (2015): 883. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/an14833.
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Pasture based on perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) and white clover (Trifolium repens L.) is the foundation for production and profit in the Australasian pastoral sectors. The improvement of these species offers direct opportunities to enhance sector performance, provided there is good alignment with industry priorities as quantified by means such as the forage value index. However, the rate of forage genetic improvement must increase to sustain industry competitiveness. New forage technologies and breeding strategies that can complement and enhance traditional approaches are required to achieve this. We highlight current and future research in plant breeding, including genomic and gene technology approaches to improve rate of genetic gain. Genomic diversity is the basis of breeding and improvement. Recent advances in the range and focus of introgression from wild Trifolium species have created additional specific options to improve production and resource-use-efficiency traits. Symbiont genetic resources, especially advances in grass fungal endophytes, make a critical contribution to forage, supporting pastoral productivity, with benefits to both pastures and animals in some dairy regions. Genomic selection, now widely used in animal breeding, offers an opportunity to lift the rate of genetic gain in forages as well. Accuracy and relevance of trait data are paramount, it is essential that genomic breeding approaches be linked with robust field evaluation strategies including advanced phenotyping technologies. This requires excellent data management and integration with decision-support systems to deliver improved effectiveness from forage breeding. Novel traits being developed through genetic modification include increased energy content and potential increased biomass in ryegrass, and expression of condensed tannins in forage legumes. These examples from the wider set of research emphasise forage adaptation, yield and energy content, while covering the spectrum from exotic germplasm and symbionts through to advanced breeding strategies and gene technologies. To ensure that these opportunities are realised on farm, continuity of industry-relevant delivery of forage-improvement research is essential, as is sustained research input from the supporting pasture and plant sciences.
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Antonelli, Valerio, Michele Bigoni, Emanuela Mattia Cafaro, and Raffaele D’Alessio. "Railway systems and the ‘Universal Good of the State’: Technologies of government in the nineteenth-century Papal State." Accounting History 25, no. 3 (August 8, 2019): 375–402. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1032373219862615.
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Informed by Foucault’s concept of governmentality, the article focuses on the nineteenth-century General Commissariat for the Railroad Industry in the Papal State. Unlike in liberal States, where government intervention in the affairs of railway companies was limited, the pressing need to reinforce the Pope’s pastoral power, strengthen the bond between the believers and the Holy See and ensure equity and the efficiency of the new infrastructure meant that the Commissariat acted as a governmental centre of calculation. Accounting technologies in the form of budgets, cost accounting systems and penetrating audits enabled the government to intervene in the operations of private railway companies. The study analyses the role of accounting and auditing practices in the pursuit of non-liberal goals in an industry which is traditionally perceived as critical to the development of a liberal economy, and when accounting was traditionally used to maintain investors’ confidence in the capitalist system.
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Ekholm, David, and Magnus Dahlstedt. "A Model of Discipline: The Rule(s) of Midnight Football and the Production of Order in Subjects and Society." Journal of Sport and Social Issues 44, no. 5 (May 26, 2020): 450–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0193723520919818.
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This article explores the rationalities of social change of a sports-based intervention, midnight football, carried out on two sites in the suburban landscape of Sweden. Based on interviews with coaches and managers and on-site observations, we examine how rationalities and technologies of social change are promoted, how technologies of social change are assumed to operate within the intervention, and how the intervention objectives are formed in relation to the technologies promoted. The analysis is guided by a Foucauldian perspective on disciplinary and pastoral power. It displays how various conceptualizations of risk underpin the intervention, and, in particular, technologies of spatial and temporal diversion. Youth are (dis)located to perceived sites of order and rule, as midnight football is portrayed as a regulated arena in opposition to outside sites of disorder. To form and visualize the rules of law, coaches, ascribed the position of role-models and law-makers, have a particularly important role to play, embodying law, rule, and conduct. In addition, disciplinary power operates through normalizing sanctions, stressing the corrective influence of coaches and readjustment of youth conduct. The technologies promoted are underpinned by goals to form a certain order of subjects, where ideals of conduct can be transferred and proliferated to the world outside, forming order and security in society. Those deemed at-risk and in need of social change, are addressed by means of discipline and control. Conclusively, the technologies promoted appear more as a symptom of existing patterns of inequalities and segregation than as a solution to the challenges confronted.
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Bocanici, Mioara, Andrei Lucian Vintila, Dana Tapaloaga, Paul Rodian Tapaloaga, and Razvan Cristian Panait. "Promoting milk processing technologies, by using traditional methods, in order to have sustainable development of pastoral practices in the mountains." Current Opinion in Biotechnology 24 (July 2013): S92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.copbio.2013.05.275.
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Lin, Huilong, Yanfei Pu, Xueni Ma, Yue Wang, Charles Nyandwi, and Jean de Dieu Nzabonakuze. "The Environmental Impacts of the Grassland Agricultural System and the Cultivated Land Agricultural System: A Comparative Analysis in Eastern Gansu." Sustainability 12, no. 24 (December 18, 2020): 10602. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su122410602.
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“Introducing grass into fields”, the major approach to modern grassland agriculture, is the crucial direction of agricultural structure adjustment in the farming-pastoral zone of Northern China. However, there have been few studies on the environmental impacts of agricultural production in this pattern. We used the life cycle assessment (LCA) method for the first time from the perspective of the entire industry chain from agricultural material production to livestock marketing, which involves the combination of planting and breeding. A comparative analysis of the environmental impact processes of beef and pork, the main products of the two existing agricultural systems in Eastern Gansu, was conducted. The findings showed that based on the production capacity of the 1 ha land system, the comprehensive environmental impact benefit of the grassland agricultural system (GAS) in the farming-pastoral zone was 21.82%, higher than that of the cultivated land agricultural system (CLAS). On Primary energy demand (PED) and environmental acidification potential (AP), the GAS needs improvement because those values were 38.66% and 22.01% higher than those of the CLAS, respectively; on global warming potential (GWP), eutrophication potential (EP), and water use (WU), the GAS performed more environment-friendlily because those values were 25.00%, 68.37%, and 11.88% lower than those of the CLAS, respectively. This indicates that a change in land use will lead to a change in environmental impacts. Therefore, PED and AP should be focused on the progress of grassland agriculture modernization by “introducing grass into fields” and new agricultural technologies.
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Fang, Ting, Xiaoming Liao, and Ming Fang. "Ecosphere Management Model of Farmer Cooperatives Based on Intelligent Data Sampling Technology." Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience 2022 (March 24, 2022): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/1549275.
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In order to improve the operation effect of farmer cooperatives, this paper combines the intelligent data sampling technology to analyze the ecological circle operation mode of farmer cooperatives. Moreover, this paper strives to promote the ecosphere business model, accelerate regional development, build agricultural pastoral complex projects and in-depth study TI-ADC modeling, error estimation, mismatch compensation, and other technologies, and carry out engineering realization. In addition, this paper uses technology to analyze intelligent data and builds a system structure based on the actual needs of the farmer cooperative ecosphere management. Finally, this paper analyzes the structure and flow of the data processing layer. The test results show that the ecosystem business model of farmer cooperatives based on intelligent data sampling technology proposed in this paper has good results.
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Serrano, João, Shakib Shahidian, José Marques da Silva, Luís Paixão, Emanuel Carreira, Alfredo Pereira, and Mário Carvalho. "Climate Changes Challenges to the Management of Mediterranean Montado Ecosystem: Perspectives for Use of Precision Agriculture Technologies." Agronomy 10, no. 2 (February 3, 2020): 218. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/agronomy10020218.
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Montado is an agro-silvo-pastoral system characterized by a high complexity as a result of the interactions between climate, soil, pasture, trees, and animals. It is in this context that management decisions must be made, for example with respect to soil fertilization, grazing, or animal supplementation. In this work, the effect of the tree canopy on the spatial and temporal variability of the soil and productivity, quality, and floristic composition of the pasture was evaluated. Precision agriculture (PA) technologies for monitoring soil and pasture were also evaluated. The study was carried out between October 2015 and June 2018 in an experimental field of 2.3 ha. The results showed: (i) The positive impact of trees and animal grazing on soil fertility; (ii) the influence of inter-annual variability of precipitation on the pattern of pasture vegetative cycle; (iii) the positive effect of trees in pasture quality; (iv) the negative effect of trees in pasture productivity; (v) the role of pasture floristic composition as an indicator of soil limitations or climatic changes; (vi) the potential of technologies associated with the concept of PA as express tools to decision making support and for the optimization of the herbaceous stratum and the dynamic management of grazing in this ecosystem in a holistic and sustainable form.
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Van Reisen, Hans. "Increasingly pastor: Innovations in the research of biblical explanations and homiletics of St. Augustine." Cuestiones Teológicas 49, no. 112 (2022): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.18566/cueteo.v49n112.a05.
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This contribution starts with a brief outline of Augustine’s life and then proceeds with the various ways by which his works have been named and set in order. Recent digital developments were key to the removal of apologetic and theological assumptions from the list of Augustine’s works: objective, alphabetical and chronological lists have become more mainstream. These digital technologies have also been put to good use to find unknown Augustinian texts hidden in old manuscripts. The same means can be deployed to check whether texts were really authored by him. This may certainly enhance our esteem of former Augustinian researchers for their achievements in this field. In particular, one may bring to the fore their retrieval of Augustine’s letters and sermons, both in times long past and in recent decades. The next part of this article continues by looking closer into the research of Augustine’s Bible exposition and homiletics. Special attention is given to the relationship between the sermons that are catalogued as sermones ad populum and related sermons from the expositions of all 150 Psalms over against those that cover the whole gospel of John. New discoveries also raise questions about the way Augustine’s many short sermons relate to his long homilies. These questions are a reason to reconsider the way Augustine’s sermons are constructed and structured. Finally, we outline how new digital techniques are of help to reinvestigate the sermons in the way he uses words and Scripture in order to show in more detail Augustine’s pastoral profile. This pastoral fine-tuning is illustrated with three examples.
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Oweis, Theib Y. "Rainwater harvesting for restoring degraded dry agro-pastoral ecosystems: a conceptual review of opportunities and constraints in a changing climate." Environmental Reviews 25, no. 2 (June 2017): 135–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/er-2016-0069.
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Water resources in dry environments are becoming scarcer, especially under the changing climate. In response, rainwater harvesting (RWH) is being reemphasized with calls to revive the practice. Ancient knowledge on RWH — mainly the collection through runoff, storage, and use of rainwater for various purposes — is still relevant, especially for dry environments. However, many old practices and technologies may not be suitable or feasible for the present and future. Little has been done to modernize and (or) develop new practices and technologies based on ancient indigenous knowledge. Modernizing old practices or developing new ones and using them in integrated rangelands restoration packages with enabling policy environment can unlock their potential in many water-scarce regions of the world. This paper reviews the state-of-the-art of micro-catchment rainwater harvesting (MIRWH) in dry environments and discusses the opportunities available and the major obstacles faced in using it to restore degraded agro-pastoral ecosystems and support their sustainability. The review highlights the knowledge behind it, the practices developed over the years, and their relevance to today and the future. The paper indicates areas of modernization that can make it more feasible for the future of the dry environments, especially their role in mitigating and adapting to climate change. Conventional and passive approaches to restoring/rehabilitating degraded dry agro-pastoral ecosystems are either too slow to show an obvious impact or not progressing satisfactorily. One main reason is that, because of land degradation, the majority of rain falling on such ecosystems and needed for revegetation is lost with little benefit being gained. Adopting a more progressive intervention to alter the processes of degradation and move towards new system equilibrium is required. MIRWH can enable a large portion of this otherwise lost rainwater to be stored in the soil, and, if used in an integrated packages including suitable plant species and sound grazing management, it may support meaningful vegetation growth and help system restoration. The Badia Benchmark project, implemented by ICARDA in Jordan and Syria, has demonstrated the potential for adoption at large scale in similar environments. This case study illustrates the potential and the constraints of this practice.
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Tsinovoi, Alexei, and Rebecca Adler-Nissen. "Inversion of the ‘Duty of Care’: Diplomacy and the Protection of Citizens Abroad, from Pastoral Care to Neoliberal Governmentality." Hague Journal of Diplomacy 13, no. 2 (March 5, 2018): 211–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1871191x-11302017.
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Summary The concept of ‘duty of care’ for citizens abroad is grounded in a political rationality where the population is seen as an object for protection by the state. In today’s globalised world, however, this rationality is challenged by increased citizen mobility, budget cuts, new information technologies and the proliferation of new security threats. In recent years the state’s duty of care has received fresh political and scholarly attention, but Diplomatic Studies have so far overlooked how the recent waves of neoliberal reforms have introduced a new political rationality into policy-making circles, where the population is not seen only as an object for protection, but also as a resource for mobilisation. Developing insights from studies of governmentality, this article argues that when this neoliberal political rationality becomes predominant in diplomatic circles, it leads to inversion of the duty of care through new citizen-based practices, steered at a distance by the state.
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Dascălu, Nicolae. "The Orthodox Religious Publications in Romania from the Classical Printing to Online Editions." Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Theologia Orthodoxa 65, no. 2 (December 30, 2020): 71–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/subbto.2020.2.05.
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"Abstract A research on the rise and decline of the Romanian Orthodox religious media in the last 30 years cannot ignore the paradigm shifts caused by the emergence of new information and communication technologies and the global Internet network. The theological and spiritual contents do not instantly adapt to technological innovations and, therefore, the printing press remains a space for reflection in religious communication, between the opportunities and risks of rapid change. The transition of religious publications from print editions to online editions is necessary. However, by virtue of spiritual discernment, it requires a balance between tradition and renewal. This balance is kept due to three elements: the respect for the heritage of the printed sacred culture, the pastoral care for the older generations and the awareness of the responsibility for the unaltered transmission of the spiritual content of faith to the generation of digital natives. Keywords: Internet, newspapers, online edition, print edition, religious media"
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Simon, Avelinus Moat. "Pengaruh Media Sosial bagi Tugas Penggembalaan Imam pada Era Revolusi Industri 4.0." Studia Philosophica et Theologica 19, no. 2 (March 11, 2020): 190–212. http://dx.doi.org/10.35312/spet.v19i2.177.
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In the age of Industrial Revolution 4.0, human life is influenced by various of sophisticated technologies. One of them is social media that increasingly develop, and take some impacts in human life. The fact is there are some priests ignore their pastoral duty and this takes the result that the church is separated. Many of priests don’t live up to their calling as good shepherds. They cannot recognize the church members who entrusted to them by a bishop. This study focus on the influence of social media for a priest’s duty. The research method used in the issue is a qualitative method by using literature approach. I found out that a priest is a shepherd for members of catholic community. A priest ordained by a bishop to continue Christ duty. Social media can become a tool and an equipment for a priest to develop the spiritual life and ministry. The attendance of a priest is the presence Christ as a good shepherd for His sheeps.
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Sand-Eriksen, Anette, and Axel Mjærum. "Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age settlements and agro-pastoral developments in the Oslo Fjord area, southeastern Norway." Danish Journal of Archaeology 12, no. 1 (January 13, 2023): 1–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/dja.v12i1.134206.
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The transition to the Late Neolithic (c. 2350 BCE) is characterised by large-scale cultural and economic changes across southern Norway, connected to the spread of a cultural package with an unprecedented homogeneity, consisting of the introduction of the two-aisled houses, farming and several new technologies. Although material components belonging to this cultural package spread fast in southern Norway, the Oslo Fjord area included, there has been a lack of (two-aisled) houses and clear evidence of the breakthrough of farming in this area.
In this article, we aim to create a proxy for better understanding the agricultural developments and the trajectories of the early farm-based settlements in the aftermath of the LN revolution. This is done through studying the settlement material from three selected case areas around the Oslo Fjord, alongside a larger body of radiocarbon-dated buildings, cereals and cultivation layers. Our results show a delay in the onset of crop farming compared to the establishment houses in the region, which also contrasts the more abrupt changes in the material culture around 2350 BCE. This demonstrate the likelihood of a more gradual and adaptive farming development in this particular area of southern Norway.
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Greer, Susan, and Patty McNicholas. "Accounting for “moral betterment”." Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 30, no. 8 (October 16, 2017): 1843–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/aaaj-05-2013-1363.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the roles of accounting within state-based agencies which interpreted the ideal of protection for the Aboriginal population as principally about the removal of children from the Aboriginal communities to institutions of training and places of forced indenture under government-negotiated labour contracts. Design/methodology/approach The study uses the original archival records of the New South Wales Aborigines Protection and Welfare Boards (1883-1950) to highlight the link between pastoral notions of moral betterment and the use of accounting technologies to organise and implement the “apprenticeship” programmes. Findings The analysis reveals that accounting practices and information were integral to the ability of the state to intervene and organise this domain of action and, together with a legal framework, to make the forced removal of Aboriginal children possible. Social implications The mentalities and practices of assimilation analysed in the paper are not unique to the era of “protection”. The study provides a history of the present that evokes the antecedents to recent welfare policy changes, which encompass a political rationality directed at the normalisation of the economic and social behaviours of both indigenous and non-indigenous welfare recipients. Originality/value The paper provides an historical example of how the state enlisted accounting and legal technologies to construct a crisis of “neglect” and to intervene to protect and assimilate the Aboriginal children.
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Evans, G. "Application of reproductive technology to the Australian livestock industries." Reproduction, Fertility and Development 3, no. 6 (1991): 627. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/rd9910627.
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Current use of reproductive technology in the Australian livestock industries is limited, though it increased in line with higher prices for beef and wool through the 1980s. The required techniques, many of which were developed in Australia, are available and the level of expertise is comparable to the best in the world. However, the extensive pastoral industries do not readily lend themselves to these procedures. Only in the dairy industry is artificial insemination used to a significant degree. On the other hand, application of the technology in the pastoral industries is confined largely to studs and breeding cooperatives which provide breeding animals for producer flocks and herds. Hence the impact of applied technology may be more widespread than first appears. Until recently, little regard was paid to application of the technology along sound breeding principles. Artificial insemination and multiple ovulation and embryo transfer (MOET) have not been used so much in planned breeding programmes aimed at local improvement of stock, but more to proliferate genes of reputedly superior stock, imported either from overseas or elsewhere in Australia. This is particularly true of MOET, where the incentive to use it is commonly a short term cash gain made from proliferating breeding stock of a particularly valuable and usually novel strain or breed. Recent technological improvements which render the use of reproductive technology cheaper and more effective will lead to its more widespread use in commercial practice. Techniques for embryo freezing and splitting have been greatly simplified and quickly put into practice. The novel livestock technologies of in vitro oocyte maturation and fertilization have already found commercial application overseas. Fecundity-enhancing products have also been adopted by the livestock industries. There is potential value for greater use of reproductive technology in the livestock industries provided it is implemented according to sound breeding principles and provided associated management practices are applied simultaneously.
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Арпентьева, Мариям. "РЕЛИГИОЗНАЯ И ПСИХОЛОГИЧЕСКАЯ ПОМОЩЬ ЗАКЛЮЧЕННЫМ В НОВЕЙШЕЕ ВРЕМЯ: ПОДХОДЫ И МОДЕЛИ." Аннали юридичної історії (The Annals of Legal History) 3, no. 3-4 (2019): 10. http://dx.doi.org/10.38129/ann.yur.ist.2019.3.3.4.10.
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Развитие комплекса научных исследований и методов, а также прикладных направлений и технологий духовно-нравственного развития личности осужденных в исправительных учреждениях в современных условиях – часть приобретающей все большее значение для общества и государства системы социального служения. Автор доказывает, что эта помощь необходима не только осуждённым и сотрудникам пенитенциарных учреждений, но и всей правоохранительной и правозащитной системе стран, всему государству, народу. Ключевые слова: пенитенциарные учреждение, духовно-нравственное воспитание, социально-психологическая помощь, пастырская помощь, светская помощь. RELIGIOUS, SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WORK IN THE CRIMINALEXECUTIVE SYSTEM IN THE LATEST TIME The development of a complex of scientific research and methods, as well as applied directions and technologies of spiritual and moral education of convicts in correctional institutions in modern conditions, is part of the system of social service that is becoming increasingly important for society and the state. This assistance is necessary not only for the convicts and employees of penitentiary institutions but for the entire law enforcement and human rights system of countries, for the entire state, for the people. Keywords: Penitentiary Institution, Spiritual and Moral Upbringing, Psychological Help, Pastoral Help, Secular Help.
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Laca, Emilio A. "Precision livestock production: tools and concepts." Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia 38, spe (July 2009): 123–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s1516-35982009001300014.
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Precision livestock production (PLP) is the augmentation of precision agriculture (PA) concepts to include all components of agroecosystems, particularly animals and plant-animal interactions. Soil, plants and soil-plant interactions are the subjects of PA or site-specific farming, where the main principle is to exploit natural spatial heterogeneity to increase efficiency and reduce environmental impacts. For the most part, PA has been studied and developed for intensive cropping systems with little attention devoted to pastoral and agropastoral systems. PLP focuses on the animal component and exploits heterogeneity in space and among individual animals towards more efficient and environmentally friendly production. Within PLP, precision grazing consists of the integration of information and communication technologies with knowledge about animal behavior and physiology to improve production of meat, milk and wool in grazing conditions. Two main goals are to minimize overgrazing of sensitive areas and to maximize the quality of the product through enhanced traceability. An integrated precision grazing system is outlined with its components: sensors of animal position, behavior and physiological status, real-time transmission of information to a decision support system, and feed-back through a series of actuators. Control of animal movement and diets is based on knowledge about species specific responses to various stimuli within the paradigms of flavor aversions and operant conditioning. Recent advances in the technologies and instrumentation available are reviewed briefly and linked to current livestock identification systems. The precision grazing vision is presented in full and the areas that need further research and development are discussed.
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Kabera, Samuel. "The Usability of ICT Technologies in Enhancing Gospel Preaching To People with Disabilities in Rwandan Churches." International Journal of Scientific Research and Management 10, no. 05 (May 9, 2022): 2257–305. http://dx.doi.org/10.18535/ijsrm/v10i5.el02.
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The Church of Christ worldwide, as well as African cultural setting, has always cared for people with disability. The central problem they faced is that they care for them by imposing their own agenda on them. In other words, they take over their lives by over-caring. Because of guilt, they want to do everything for them, as if they are not capable of functioning within that community. This way of caring leads to them over-protects these people. The process of caring over-shadows people with disability. They simply take over their lives, which results in the fact that these people become object of those who care for them. They are called names and are described by their function or through their disability. This is how they lose their name in life. The above discussion simply explains this object relational syndrome. For example, they are called abafitubumuga (handicapped). In brief, they lose who they are, when the community uses their characteristic instead of their names, and behavior becomes a way of dealing with them. The African church finally endorses the above by removing the image and likeness of God from them. For example, when they attend worship, they are viewed as people who are not normal, and in need of prayer, for healing so that they can be normal like us. This is another way of dealing with them as objects. Another obstacle in the African church is lack of ramps. The church is expecting the so-called normal people who function in a way that they want. This is a sign that people with disability are not welcomed. Finally, they are viewed as people possessed by demons and therefore in need of healing. The church, without finding out what they need, sets the agenda. The reader will now understand why the African church has neglected them.
Keywords: people; disability; church; pastoral care; African church; African communities; Accessibility; Inclusion of people with disabilities; Caring for people with disabilities; The church and people with disabilities.
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Williamson, Colin. "The Garden in the Laboratory: Arthur C. Pillsbury’s Time-Lapse Films and the American Conservation Movement." Philosophies 7, no. 5 (October 18, 2022): 118. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/philosophies7050118.
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From the 1910s through the 1930s, the American naturalist and photographer Arthur C. Pillsbury made time-lapse and microscopic films documenting what he, in common parlance, called the “miracles of plant life”. While these films are now mostly lost, they were part of Pillsbury’s prolific work as a conservationist and traveling film lecturer who used his cameras everywhere from Yosemite National Park to Samoa to promote both public understanding of plants and a desire to protect the natural world. Guiding this work was Pillsbury’s belief that the nonhuman optics of the film camera, which revealed the animacy of plants, could also incite viewers to sympathize with them. In the context of the early American conservation movement, that sympathy stemmed in complicated ways from longstanding transcendental and pastoral ideas of nature that were entangled with imperialist visions of controlling nature. With an eye to that context, I show that Pillsbury’s filmmaking was not simply about using motion picture technologies to shape attitudes toward plants and nature more broadly; it was also about using nature to think through the techno-scientific possibilities of the cinema in the early part of the twentieth century.
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Walpole S.J., Pedro. "Jesuits from Asia-Pacific in the Time of Laudato si’: Reconciliation with Creation." Journal of Jesuit Studies 3, no. 4 (September 30, 2016): 593–618. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22141332-00304004.
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Jesuit Conference Asia-Pacific established a “Reconciliation with Creation,” a comprehensive program that aims to enable greater environmental awareness and participation in caring for all forms of life. As part of this program, Jesuit pastoral ministries with the poor and beyond are integrating social and ecological objectives. Meanwhile, Jesuit schools are embarking upon a new learning curve with many new social engagements and technologies that may enact greater ecological integration and accountability. Likewise, as part of this initiative, Jesuit communities themselves are learning to audit their consumption and waste. Climatic events, as those that have devastated many different communities that this conference represents, are currently the focus of many Jesuit institutions as they seek to develop protocol beyond relief to disaster risk reduction (drr). Accordingly, in order to address this urgent challenge, sustainability science needs to adapt so that it becomes problem-focused, and a critical element in this endeavor is the capacity of Jesuit institutes to network and collaborate with others. Grounded in gratitude and engaging with hope, “Reconciliation with Creation” is essentially an invitation to act that concurrently seeks to gradually deepen the experience of the sacred.
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Foran, Barney. "Australian rangeland futures: time now for systemic responses to interconnected challenges." Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 133, no. 1 (2021): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/rs21001.
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Australia’s rangelands contain wildlands, relatively intact biodiversity, widespread Indigenous cultures, and pastoral and mining industries, all set in past and present events and mythologies. The nature of risks and threats to these rangelands is increasingly global and systemic. Future policy frameworks must acknowledge this and act accordingly. This paper collates current key information on land tenures and land uses, people and domestic livestock in Australian rangelands, and discusses five perspectives on how the rangelands are changing, in order to inform the development of integrated policy – climate and environmental change; the southern rangelands; the northern rangelands; Indigenous Australia; and governance and management. From these perspectives, more attention must be paid to ensuring a social licence to operate across a range of uses, acknowledging and supporting a younger, more Indigenous population, implementing positive aspects of technological innovation, halting capital and governance leakages, and building human capacity. A recommended set of systemic responses should therefore (i) address governance issues consistently and comprehensively, (ii) ensure that new technologies can foster the delivery of sustainable livelihoods, and (iii) focus capacity-building on a community of industries where knowledge is built for the long-term. All three of these should be undertaken with an eye to the changing demographics of the rangelands.
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Serrano, João, Shakib Shahidian, Luís Paixão, José Marques da Silva, and Francisco Moral. "Management Zones in Pastures Based on Soil Apparent Electrical Conductivity and Altitude: NDVI, Soil and Biomass Sampling Validation." Agronomy 12, no. 4 (March 23, 2022): 778. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12040778.
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The intensification of the Montado mixed ecosystem (agro–silvo–pastoral) is a current endeavor in the context of promoting the sustainability of extensive livestock production in the Mediterranean region. Increased pasture productivity and extensive animal production involves the use of technologies to monitor spatial variability and to implement differentiated management of pasture grazing, fertilization or soil amendment. An intermediate step should lead to the identification and demarcation of areas with similar characteristics (soil and/or crop development), known as homogeneous management zones (HMZ) to implement site-specific management strategies. In this study, soil apparent electrical conductivity (ECa) and altimetry surveys were carried out in six experimental pasture fields with a non-contact electromagnetic induction sensor (EM38) associated with a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver. These ECa and topographic maps were used in geostatistical analyses for designing and establishing final classification maps with three HMZ (less, intermediate and more potential). The normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), obtained from a proximal optical sensor, and soil and biomass sampling were used to validate these HMZ. From a practical perspective, these HMZ are the basis for preparation of fertilizer prescription maps and use of variable rate technology (VRT) in a Precision Agriculture project.
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Serrano, João, Shakib Shahidian, José Marques da Silva, Luís Paixão, José Calado, and Mário de Carvalho. "Integration of Soil Electrical Conductivity and Indices Obtained through Satellite Imagery for Differential Management of Pasture Fertilization." AgriEngineering 1, no. 4 (December 2, 2019): 567–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/agriengineering1040041.
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Dryland pastures in the Alentejo region, located in the south of Portugal, normally occupy soils that have low fertility but, simultaneously, important spatial variability. Rational application of fertilizers requires knowledge of spatial variability of soil characteristics and crop response, which reinforces the interest of technologies that facilitates the identification of homogeneous management zones (HMZ). In this work, a pasture field of about 25 ha, integrated in the Montado mixed ecosystem (agro-silvo-pastoral), was monitored. Surveys of apparent soil electrical conductivity (ECa) were carried out in November 2017 and October 2018 with a Veris 2000 XA contact sensor. A total of 24 sampling points (30 × 30 m) were established in tree-free zones to allow readings of normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and normalized difference water index (NDWI). Historical time series of these indices were obtained from satellite imagery (Sentinel-2) in winter and spring 2017 and 2018. Three zones with different potential productivity were defined based on the results obtained in terms of spatial variability and temporal stability of the measured parameters. These are the basis for the elaboration of differentiated prescription maps of fertilizers with variable application rate technology, taking into account the variability of soil characteristics and pasture development, contributing to the sustainability of this ecosystem.
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Bell, Amy. "Crime Scene Photography in England, 1895–1960." Journal of British Studies 57, no. 1 (January 2018): 53–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2017.182.
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AbstractThis article discusses the development of techniques and practices of murder crime scene photography through four pairs of photographs taken in England between 1904 and 1958 and examines their “forensic aesthetic”: the visual combination of objective clues and of subjective aesthetic resonances. Crime scene photographs had legal status as evidence that had to be substantiated by a witness, and their purpose, as expressed in forensic textbooks and policing articles, was to provide a direct transfer of facts to the courtroom; yet their inferential visual nature made them allusive and evocative as well. Each of four pairs of photographs discussed reflects a significant period in the historical evolution of crime scene photography as well as an observable aesthetic influence: the earliest days of police photography and pictorialism; professionalization in the 1930s, documentary photography, and film noir; postwar photographic expansion to the suburban and middle class, advertising images of the family and home; and postwar elegiac landscape photography in the 1950s and compassion shown to infanticidal mothers. Crime scene photographs also demonstrate a remarkable shift in twentieth-century forensic technologies, and they reveal a collection of ordinary domestic and pastoral scenes at the moment when an act of violence made them extraordinary.
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Foran, Barney, Mark Stafford Smith, Don Burnside, Martin Andrew, Don Blesing, Kate Forrest, and John Taylor. "Australian rangeland futures: time now for systemic responses to interconnected challenges." Rangeland Journal 41, no. 3 (2019): 271. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/rj18105.
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Australia’s rangelands contain wildlands, relatively intact biodiversity, widespread Indigenous cultures, pastoral and mining industries all set in past and present events and mythologies. The nature of risks and threats to these rangelands is increasingly global and systemic. Future policy frameworks must acknowledge this and act accordingly. We collate current key information on land tenures and land uses, people and domestic livestock in Australian rangelands, and discuss five perspectives on how the rangelands are changing that should inform the development of integrated policy: climate and environmental change, the southern rangelands, the northern rangelands, Indigenous Australia, and governance and management. From these perspectives we argue that more attention must be paid to: ensuring a social licence to operate across a range of uses, acknowledging and supporting a younger, more Indigenous population, implementing positive aspects of technological innovation, halting capital and governance leakages, and building human capacity. A recommended set of systemic responses should therefore (i) address governance issues consistently and comprehensively, (ii) ensure that new technologies can foster the delivery of sustainable livelihoods, and (iii) focus capacity building on a community of industries where knowledge is built for the long-term, and do all three of these with an eye to the changing demographics of the rangelands.
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Caradus, John R., and Linda J. Johnson. "Epichloë Fungal Endophytes—From a Biological Curiosity in Wild Grasses to an Essential Component of Resilient High Performing Ryegrass and Fescue Pastures." Journal of Fungi 6, no. 4 (November 27, 2020): 322. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jof6040322.
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The relationship between Epichloë endophytes found in a wide range of temperate grasses spans the continuum from antagonistic to mutualistic. The diversity of asexual mutualistic types can be characterised by the types of alkaloids they produce in planta. Some of these are responsible for detrimental health and welfare issues of ruminants when consumed, while others protect the host plant from insect pests and pathogens. In many temperate regions they are an essential component of high producing resilient tall fescue and ryegrass swards. This obligate mutualism between fungus and host is a seed-borne technology that has resulted in several commercial products being used with high uptake rates by end-user farmers, particularly in New Zealand and to a lesser extent Australia and USA. However, this has not happened by chance. It has been reliant on multi-disciplinary research teams undertaking excellent science to understand the taxonomic relationships of these endophytes, their life cycle, symbiosis regulation at both the cellular and molecular level, and the impact of secondary metabolites, including an understanding of their mammalian toxicity and bioactivity against insects and pathogens. Additionally, agronomic trials and seed biology studies of these microbes have all contributed to the delivery of robust and efficacious products. The supply chain from science, through seed companies and retailers to the end-user farmer needs to be well resourced providing convincing information on the efficacy and ensuring effective quality control to result in a strong uptake of these Epichloë endophyte technologies in pastoral agriculture.