Locality In Question Research Articles

SPECIFICITY OF FOUNDATION OF SOLAR PANELS

Considering that the expansion of the construction of solar power plants in the world, Bosnia and Herzegovina tends to follow the global trend in the construction of solar power plants, that is, to provide as much electricity as possible from renewable sources. One of the solar power plants in the Tuzla Canton was built by the company Deling doo at the location of Bosanska poljana. The terrain represents an alluvial plain, a flat part of the relief that was created by the work and accumulation action of the Jala river. The morphological conditions of the locality in question are relatively favorable due to the plain character of the vast alluvial plain, the average altitude of about 190.00 m above sea level. The foundation of the solar panels requires a bearing capacity for uprooting from the wind, that is, the load on the ground can be variable in the vertical direction, in extreme situations the uprooting force from the wind is significantly greater than the gravitational force of the solar panels. Considering that it is a terrain where the effect of the Jala river is very pronounced, it was necessary to propose an adequate way of foundation of the solar panels in order to meet the stated conditions. The paper shows the way in which the depth of the panel foundation was determined, that is, the experimental determination of the depth of the load-bearing soil.

The Saharan Landscape: between threats and developments. Case of the City of Tozeur (South West Tunisia)

The city of Tozeur (South West Tunisia) is among the areas most affected by high anthropization and environmental problems. The forms of pollution as well as the degradation of oasis and agricultural lands, encourage us to think of the city differently. This is through the landscaping where the different characteristics of the site; urban constraints; and climatic specificities would be taken into account. To do this, the study proposes a landscape approach as a paradigm for developing the city’s green spaces, including creating a linear landscape course located in a new urban center of the city of Tozeur. The methodology adopted is based on developing a landscape assessment followed by a development proposal using design, modeling, and mapping software. According to this study, anthropogenic pollution, anarchic urbanization and environmental problems threaten the living environment of the inhabitants. The proposed linear landscaping would help the localities in question to reduce the effect of the various problems that the city faces. The results made it possible to highlight the role of such landscaping in the Saharan regions and to underline the importance of this project and the opportunities it will offer to boost Saharan tourism in the country's south and enhance the image of the Tunisian Sahara.

Utilização de plantas medicinais por idosos

The objective was to analyze the knowledge, use, and perception of the elderly about medicinal plants. A cross-sectional, observational, investigative study was conducted by means of a quali-quantitative survey. The data collection was conditioned to a structured questionnaire organized in an online form. Elderly men and women living in the city of Valparaiso de Goias, Goias, attended by the Unidades Basicas de Saude (Basic Health Units) of the locality in question answered the questions. The elderly use medicinal plants without recommendation by health teams, often they use them because of the high cost of synthetic drugs and because they grow them in their own environment. Medicinal plants were reported as important for quality of life, however, even though they are easily accessible, it is necessary that users have monitoring with health professionals, because the side effects can cause physiological problems, generating aggravation to the health of the elderly.

Adapting to post-COVID19 research in Parkinson's disease: Lessons from a multinational experience

• COVID-19 has significant impact on PD research and education activities. • Country-specific restrictions may pose challenges to PD research and require careful adaptations. • Neurological Symptoms of COVID-19 may overlap with PD.

Análise de Rede Social como estratégia para avaliação de programas de saúde para o controle da tuberculose

A tuberculose, embora curável, é a doença infecciosa que mais causa mortes no mundo. A compreensão sobre suas peculiaridades, no contexto social, é fundamental para propor estratégias de intervenção. A partir de um banco de dados privado e de uso restrito de uma Organização Não Governamental brasileira, atuante no controle da tuberculose, discute-se dois elementos de perpetuação desta doença: o espaço de manutenção da doença relacionado as inter-relações (clusters) e a migração de laços fortes entre micro áreas da localidade em questão sugerindo que atuem como pontes de disseminação entre as regiões. A utilização da Análise de Rede Social mostrou-se como ferramenta eficaz não só para a compreensão do cenário, como também, para o direcionamento das estratégias de atuação. Tais possibilidades otimizam tempo, recursos financeiros e humanos além de sugerir entendimento sobre a dinâmica da tuberculose seja qual for o lugar no mundo.

Selected Black-Coal Mine Waste Dumps in the Ostrava-Karviná Region: An Analysis of Their Potential Use

The paper aims to analyse the options for the use of selected black-coal mine waste dump bodies in the Ostrava-Karviná Region. In the Czech Republic there are approximately 70 mine waste dumps, out of which 50 are located in the Ostrava-Karviná Coal District. The issue is highly topical, particularly in the region, because the dump bodies significantly affect the landscape character of the Ostrava-Karviná Region and pose ecological risks. In such cases, their redevelopment and land reclamation are not easy either from the environmental or economic points of view. It is clear that the redevelopment of such geological environment is difficult, and it is vital to make the right decisions as for what purposes the mine waste dumps should be used. Next, it is important to take into account all the economic and environmental aspects of the locality in question.

Social networks and creation of social capital in second-home localities

Second home tourism has major economic, environmental and social impacts on the localities in question. The aim of the presented study is to find out how second home tourism influences the social environment of a municipality, and whether and how it contributes to the creation of social capital and the knowledge transfer. It ensues from the use of relational data that links appear in the localities primarily on the neighbourly basis. In some cases, the contacts are also used in the place of permanent residence. As a result, the social networks and the knowledge that appear among the participants also have an impact outside a locality in question. The connection to permanent residents of a municipality is rather weak. One can see here an obvious link primarily to major actors or permanent residents living near second-home owners. When establishing contacts, this points out the importance of geographical proximity rather than the often accentuated role of the relationship “second-home owner versus permanent resident”.

The Eagle Ford Shale Development and Local Government Fiscal Behavior

Drawing on data gathered through a survey of local officials, this study examines the impacts of the Eagle Ford Shale development on the fiscal behavior of local governments in its region. This study focused on how gas and oil production influences local governments’ revenue generation, tax structures, abilities to handle fiscal stress, and revenue stabilization strategies. The findings provide insight that suggests strong tax revenue gains for these jurisdictions. In some instances, these revenue gains have allowed these governments to buffer themselves against fiscal stress and maintain some revenue that allows them to offset specific costs associated with local oil production. However, the long‐term outlook of several of the localities in question makes them vulnerable to possible fiscal troubles. The short‐term planning of spending coupled with the long‐term expectation of oil and natural gas production may lead to many of these governments experiencing financial hardship when oil production declines.

A Telling Place: Narrative and the Construction of Locality in a Bengali Village

Religious encompasses broader gamut of beyond the philosophical terminology of the philosopher and theologian. data I present below are aspects of plain speech or ordinary language (Power; Raschke) concerning particular deity's relationship with small locality in West Bengal, India (Korom, Language, Belief, and Experience in Bengali Folk Religion).1 It presupposes Heidegger's essay Building Dwelling Thinking in which he notes that dwelling (wohnen) in particular forms type of consciousness that allows for the perception and apprehension of the geographical space in which the self lives or dwells.2 Keith Basso's work, especially his essay Wisdom Sits in Places: Notes on Western Apache Landscape, extends this basic phenomenological idea to include not only built space but also narratives about place, which lend to the human construction of space. Storied is thus built place, providing humans an anchor to achieve sense of situatedness in world of perpetual motion. In other words, through telling and hearing stories about the locality in which one lives, the growing and maturing self develops unique relationship with the locality in question over period of time. Everyone residing in the same locality acculturates into shared belief system resulting from the unique relationship described above.3In an oft-cited essay titled The Production of Locality, Appadurai problematizes both the concept of place and locality, referring to them as primarily relational and contextual rather than as scalar or spatial (204). For him, locality is based on a series of links between the sense of social immediacy, the technologies of interactivity and the relativity of contexts (204) interactive dynamics of these factors combined with agency, sociality, and reproducibility result in the construction of distinct to which individuals claim allegiance. Although Appadurai's musings focus more on the global than the local, his description of the production of locality applies analytically to my data presented here as well, since my concerns also have to do with the interactive concepts of agency, sociality, and reproducibility.4The narratives with which I am concerned here are part of everyday discourse about localized deity's intimate relationship with the village in which he dwells. Residents construct vision of place, special to their own hearts and experiences based on recounting stories about encounters with Dharmaraj, the deity in question. This local landscape is familiar terrain to all who live in the environs of the village, and they speak fondly of it to each other and to outsiders. geographer Yi-Fu Tuan's groundbreaking book, Topophilia: A Study in Environmental Perception, had earlier opened up the discussion of why human beings are so transfixed by in his discussion of topophilia, the general human inclination to be enamored of place. Topophilia can be nationalistic sentiment when politically construed within the broader bounds of the nation-state, as Benedict Anderson's book Imagined Communities suggested, but it can also have highly condensed local connotations for community relatively bound to small radius of space. I realize that it is dangerous to discuss any locality in isolation from its broader surroundings; that is, how it was discussed with me in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when I carried out the bulk of my ethnographic fieldwork for multifaceted research project on ritual performances for the deity in question.5In what follows, I thus focus on how one small community talks about their in the world through the use of the informal recounting of an etiological narrative about the arrival of Dharmaraj, local, aniconic deity of obscure origins who is worshipped annually as the gramya debata (village deity) of Goalpara. My fieldwork was conducted in the village of Goalpara (cow herder neighborhood), an all-Hindu, multicaste community located in the Birbhum District of West Bengal. …

Palaeontology research and its application as cultural tourism in Aragon (Spain)

<p>The focus of the work undertaken by the research group Aragosaurus-IUCA of the University of Zaragoza is on fossil vertebrates, including in particular dinosaurs and large vertebrates from the Pleistocene of Aragon (Spain). These fossils are very attractive for the general public, and the localities where they have been found have thus shown great interest in exploiting them for the purposes of tourism. An account is given of three distinct projects in which the group has taken part, providing scientific information to draw attention to the localities where the fossils were found: the “Last Dinosaurs of Europe” at Arén (Huesca), the “Tella Cave Bear” (Huesca), and the Satellite Centres of Dinópolis (Teruel). In each case the uniqueness of the fossils from the locality in question has been highlighted.</p>

Levels of Linguistic Accommodation across a National Border

The political border between England and Scotland has been claimed to coincide with the most tightly packed bundle of isoglosses in the English-speaking world. The borderland, therefore, may be seen as the site of discontinuities in linguistic features carrying socioindexical value as markers of “Scottishness” or “Englishness.” However, in an ongoing study of four border towns, the connection between inhabitants’ claimed national identities and their use of indexical features has been found to vary depending on whether the localities are at the border’s eastern or western ends, and on the speaker’s age. This article examines the accommodatory strategies of a female Scottish English-speaking field-worker in her interactions with younger and older male speakers from localities on either side of the border. The linguistic behavior of the field-worker is examined at the phonological, discoursal, and lexical levels, and variability in her speech is considered in light of (1) her interlocutors’ actual usage of the variables in question, (2) the interviewees’ perceived status as “older” versus “younger” and as “Scottish” versus “English,” and (3) the broader picture of the stability of usage of linguistic forms and of national identities in the localities in question.

Human Security in Southeast Asia: Viable Solution or Empty Slogan?

This article explores the concept of human security and its relevance to the discourse and management of security in Southeast Asia. It examines whether the human security concept is applicable in the management of internal conflicts in that region, such as the conflict currently taking place in southern Thailand. The article argues that human security will have limited applicability in dealing with internal conflicts in Southeast Asia because of the huge gaps between what governments and other groups within Southeast Asian societies regard as threats. Nevertheless, the concept contributes to our understanding of the complex root causes of violence and illustrates links between human insecurity and conflict. The article concludes that the future usefulness of human security in efforts to manage internal conflict in Southeast Asia will depend on whether the analysis of specific situations incorporates a thorough understanding of the unique relationships between government and other groups, as manifested in the `ASEAN Way', within the localities in question.

Language Change and Areal Linguistics: Notes on Western Piedmont

Abstract The aim of this paper is to present a small selection of linguistic facts that describe currents and contrasts in the Cisalpine Valleys, relying on some ALEPO [Atlante Linguistico ed Etnografico del Piemonte Occidentale – Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Western Piedmont] data. The area investigated is characterized by a close relationship between different languages and cultures. As it is well known, the Gallo-Italic languages of Piedmont are spoken along with local dialects of two Gallo-Romance languages, Occitan and Franco-Provençal; Italian (and, in some areas, French) obviously has to be added to this rich linguistic repertoire. Data have been collected in 42 localities: 32 pertaining to the Gallo-Romance domain (13 Franco-Provençal- and 19 Occitan-speaking); and 10 belonging to the Gallo-Italic one. The localities in question have been chosen ta take account of both social and linguistic dynamics. Socio-cultural and economic changes that deeply affected the Alpine Valleys in the last century have also had linguistic consequences, with increasing Italian and Piedmontese influence on varieties of Gallo-Romance, and of Italian on Piedmontese; nevertheless, some instances of mutual influencing between Occitan and Franco-Provençal are also documented, as well as significant reactions on the part of these varieties to dominant codes (namely Piedmontese, Italian, and French). We deal here with language change at three levels of linguistic analysis (lexical, morphological, and phonetic), showing moreover how a traditional reading of the maps may also yield results of sociolinguistic import.

“A place between places”: Language and identities in a border town

This article investigates variation in the use of glottalling and glottalization of the voiceless stops (p t k) in an urban variety of British English. Middlesbrough, the locality in question, lies on a regional border in the North of England and has been subject to repeated redrawing of local administrative boundaries and shifting orientations in terms of popular culture. Linguistic trends that converge with North Eastern varieties and diverge from those associated with Yorkshire are correlated with attitudinal information and informants' shifting sense of the identity of the area. Findings reveal socially conditioned variation in perceptions of language and community identity that have clear connections with both the changing sociogeographic status of the urban center and with the linguistic trends uncovered. Results emerging from the attitudinal data offer insight into both the indexical function of the linguistic forms of interest and the motivation for the change in progress in the voiceless stops.

Caries among 3-year-olds in greater Manchester.

To measure the prevalence of caries, including nursing caries, amongst 3-year-old children in three districts of Greater Manchester in the North West of England. A cross-sectional survey of 762 randomly selected 3-year-old children using the dmft and dmfs indices. Three definitions of nursing caries were used in order to assess the varying prevalence of the disease according to which definition was applied. Children, aged 36-48 months, attending day nurseries, play groups and nurseries attached to primary schools were examined by three trained examiners under standardised conditions in three health districts in Greater Manchester. A random selection process was used to produce a quota sample to reflect the balance of childcare provision in each district. The overall proportion of children affected by general caries was 32%. The mean dmft score was 1.4 (sd = 2.8) and the mean dmfs was 2.8 (sd = 7.3). There were significant differences across the three districts. The prevalence of nursing caries varied widely when differing definitions of types were applied; 1.6% of the children had nursing caries according to the narrow definition, 7.2% showed the wider definition type and 9.8% had nursing caries of the broadest definition. In total 19% of children had caries which affected their upper incisors. Children of Asian origin had the highest levels of nursing and overall caries. Caries is a widespread problem in some very young children in the districts involved. Caries of upper anterior teeth contributes significantly to the overall level of caries in each of the localities in question. The prevalence of nursing caries is highly dependent on the case definition used.

A survey of caries in 3-year-olds in Greater Manchester

Objective To measure the prevalence of caries, including nursing caries, amongst 3-year-old children in three districts of Greater Manchester in the North West of England. Design A cross-sectional survey of 762 randomly selected 3-year-old children using the dmft and dmfs indices. Three definitions of nursing caries were used in order to assess the varying prevalence of the disease according to which definition was applied. Subjects Children, aged 36–48 months, attending day nurseries, playgroups and nurseries attached to primary schools were examined by three trained examiners under standardised conditions in three health districts in Greater Manchester. A random selection process was used to produce a quota sample to reflect the balance of childcare provision in each district. Results The overall proportion of children affected by general caries was 32%. The mean dmft score was 1.4 (sd = 2.8) and the mean dmfs was 2.8 (sd = 7.3). There were significant differences across the three districts. The prevalence of nursing caries varied widely when differing definitions of types were applied; 1.6% of the children had nursing caries according to the narrow definition, 7.2% showed the wider definition type and 9.8% had nursing caries of the broadest definition. In total 19% of children had caries which affected their upper incisors. Children of Asian origin had the highest levels of nursing and overall caries. Conclusions Caries is a widespread problem in some very young children in the districts involved. Caries of upper anterior teeth contributes significantly to the overall level of caries in each of the localities in question. The prevalence of nursing caries is highly dependent on the case definition used.

Infragravity waves and nearshore bars in protected, storm-dominated coastal environments

Field measurements of run-up oscillations were conducted on fetch-restricted, storm-wave dominated beaches in Denmark. Experiments took place under conditions with breaker heights of 1.5–3 m and wave periods of 5–7 s. Statistically significant spectral peaks were identified in the infragravity regime. The frequencies of these peaks were compared to frequencies predicted by the edge wave cut-off model, originally proposed by Huntley (J. Geophys. Res., 81, 1976), and it was found that the waves were probably cut-off mode edge waves with the mode number corresponding to the number of nearshore bars at the locality in question. The waves were usually standing alongshore, but during an experiment in which a very high energy level prevailed, the edge waves were probably progressive. The selection of only one or two cut-off modes may be the result of an interrelationship between the topographic cut-off and offshore wave groups. The nearshore region was surveyed following storms. It was found that there was generally a good correlation between bar positions and rhythmic dimensions and the theoretical cross-shore and longshore structure of the recorded edge waves. It is concluded that infragravity waves may be important in the formation, migration and morphology of nearshore bars, with the number of bars depending on the edge-wave mode number.

A SECOND SPECIMEN OF HOLCOPSIS FENESTRATA (DIPTERA: TABANIDAE)

AbstractA second specimen of Holcopsis fenestrata Enderlein, previously known only from the type and with the locality in question, is reported from Mexico. Some diagnostic and comparative characters of the species are noted.

A List of Nematode Parasites from California Mammals

This report summarizes published and unpublished information on the occurrence and distribution of adult nematode parasites in wild mammals in California. It illustrates the sketchiness of our knowledge concerning parasitic helminths and their occurrence in economically unimportant host species, and it reflects the increasing attention directed toward the study of parasites of game animals, such as deer. With few exceptions, the common names of the hosts, as given in the host list, were obtained from Burt and Grossenheider (1952). In the parasite list, new locality records within the state, as well as first reports for the state, are indicated by an asterisk after the locality in question. In the preparation list of this manuscript, I wish to acknowledge the generous help and advice of Dr. Ellsworth C. Dougherty, Department of Physiology, University of California, Berkeley. I also wish to thank Dr. Clark P. Read, Department of Parasitology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, for supplying several of the host records listed below.

The Unity of Melville's "The Encantadas"

M V tELVILLE'S The Encantadas presents a special problem in literary unity. It has been generally accepted as fine work, and it presents a single image, a unified experience; but as a collection of ten apparently loosely related sketches it is simply not the sort of thing we are used to appraising.1 Its immediate purpose is the purpose of many travel books: to interest its audience by exhibiting the exotic and the strange; and for this end the geographical unity of the locality in question is usually considered sufficient. The Encantada,s, however, is a travel book plus, in which the Galapagos Islands have been recreated in Melville's imagination, and assimilated into his total vision of reality. The sketches are bound together by two related meanings, the one abstract and explicit, the other, which grows out of the first, concrete and indirect. First, Melville presents a thesis: The Encantadas, barren and blasted by fire, prove by their existence the Fall of Man and of the world. They look much as the world at large might, after a penal conflagration; In no world but a fallen one could such lands exist. The islands are also, however, a microcosm of complex reality, viewed by Melville with a creative skepticism akin to Keats's negative capability, which is willing to say only