scholarly journals OAK-TREE: One-of-a-Kind Traffic Research and Education Experiment

1997 ◽  
Vol 1603 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Sun ◽  
Wilfred Recker ◽  
Stephen Ritchie ◽  
Brian Gallagher ◽  
Eric Shen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Control ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Control Center ◽  
Oak Tree ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
The University ◽  
And Control ◽  
The City

The creation and progress of OAK-TREE (One-of-a-Kind Traffic Research and Education Experiment) are chronicled. OAK-TREE is a traffic educational laboratory experiment that was developed and conducted at the University of California at Irvine (UCI) during the spring quarter of 1996. This project involved a cooperative effort between the academic community and public-sector transportation operating agencies in developing a comprehensive field and laboratory educational experience for undergraduate students in transportation engineering. The agencies involved in this effort were the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California at Irvine, the Advanced Traffic Surveillance and Control Center of the city of Los Angeles, the Transportation Management Center of the city of Anaheim, and the Irvine Traffic Research and Control Center of the city of Irvine. These agencies were instrumental in creating an innovative laboratory experience for academic training in the use of state-of-the-practice resources and methods for traffic engineering. The results were the development of a state-of-the-art traffic-control educational laboratory at UCI and the genesis of a unique traffic-control course that fulfilled the requirements of both fundamental academic education and rigorous professional training.

Salsa Crossings: Dancing Latinidad in Los Angeles

2014 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-110
Author(s):  
Celeste Fraser Delgado
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
The Other ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Graduate Studies ◽  
Social Dance ◽  
Saturday Night ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

It appears to be a ritual among salsa dance scholars to open by sharing a personal salsa experience. I will follow their lead: My introduction to Los Angeles–style salsa came on a Saturday night in the spring of 1999, when I had the pleasure of taking a tour of the city's salsa scene with dance scholar Juliet McMains. Already an established professional ballroom dancer, McMains was just beginning her graduate studies at the University of California–Riverside where I was visiting faculty, having recently co-edited a collection on Latin/o American social dance. Lucky for me, McMains was among the many brilliant students who enrolled in my class on race and dance. The night of our tour, she invited a handsome friend and fellow ballroom dancer to partner first one of us, then the other, throughout the night. He drove us around the city as we stopped at a cramped restaurant-turned-nightclub in a strip mall, at a glamorous ballroom in Beverly Hills, then ended the night downtown at a massive disco in a former movie palace, the Mayan nightclub.

Excavations at Nineveh: The Halzi Gate

Iraq ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 295-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Pickworth
Keyword(s):  
Political Instability ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Adult Males ◽  
The South ◽  
Curtain Wall ◽  
The University ◽  
Small Finds ◽  
The City ◽  
Attention To Detail

AbstractThe University of California Expedition to Nineveh excavated at the Halzi Gate in 1989 and 1990. The gate proved to be one of Nineveh's larger defensive gates and a scene of chaos and destruction. Tower 4 to the south of the gate was of irregular masonry, having been hastily rebuilt. The juxtaposition of a rough tower directly beside the fine ashlar masonry of the rest of the curtain wall of the gate appears to reflect a political instability that prevailed during the declining years of Assyrian rule. The late reconstruction of Tower 4 contrasts with the earlier attention to detail seen in building work of Sennacherib's reign (704–681 BC), when smoothly dressed orthostats lined the lower walls of the gate's large inner court and sophisticated waterproof membranes of bitumen-soaked reeds protected the mud-brick superstructures. Buried beneath the pavement in the corners of the court were apotropaic foundation figurines. Within the only partially excavated outer entrance passage at least twelve individuals died, perhaps while defending the city or trying to escape from it, as a stallion and a rider lay at the eastern limit of the gate passage. Within the reduced width of the gate passage were eight adult males, four adolescents and four children including one infant. Weaponry was found throughout the area and the scattered bodies lay where they had fallen. The associated small finds, which had not been looted, included silver jewelry, bronze personal items, stamp seals and a composite necklace.

Ceremony in Context: The Edinburgh University Tercentenary, 1884

2008 ◽  
Vol 87 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROBERT ANDERSON
Keyword(s):  
Professional Training ◽  
Research University ◽  
City Council ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Public ◽  
Student Community ◽  
Public Character ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
The Ideal

Edinburgh introduced Britain to the university centenary, an established form of celebration in continental Europe. The ceremonies in 1884 can be seen in the framework of the late nineteenth-century ‘invention of tradition’. Such events usually asserted the links of the university with national and local communities and with the state. The Edinburgh celebrations marked the opening of a new medical school, after a public appeal which itself strengthened relations with graduates and wealthy donors. The city council, local professional bodies, and the student community all played a prominent part in the events of 1884, which were a significant episode in the development of student representation. Analysis of the speeches given on the occasion suggests that the university sought to promote the image of a great medical and scientific university, with the emphasis on teaching and professional training rather than research, for the ideal of the ‘Humboldtian’ research university was still a novelty in Britain. Tercentenary rhetoric also expressed such themes as international academic cooperation , embodied in the presence of leading scientists and scholars, the harmony of religion and science, and a liberal protestant view of the rise of freedom of thought. The tercentenary coincided with impending legislation on Scottish universities, which encouraged assertions of the public character of these institutions, and of the nation's distinct cultural identity. One striking aspect, however, was the absence of women from the formal proceedings, and failure to acknowledge the then current issue of women's admission to higher education.

scholarly journals The META-Oak Project: Using Photovoice to Investigate Youth Perspectives on Tobacco Companies’ Marketing of E-Cigarettes Toward Adolescents in Oakland

SAGE Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 215824401985742
Author(s):  
Alison Chopel ◽  
R. Eugene Lee ◽  
Elizabeth Ortiz-Matute ◽  
Namiyé Peoples ◽  
Kim Homer Vagadori ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The Public ◽  
Critical Gap ◽  
Control Research ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
The University ◽  
Public Health Institute

The California Adolescent Health Collaborative, a project of the Public Health Institute, in partnership with the University of California, San Francisco’s Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education jointly led a community-based participatory research (CBPR) study engaging youth coresearchers to fill the critical gap in knowledge about youth’s perceptions of electronic cigarette products and how they are marketed toward young people in Oakland. Youth coresearchers who were trained as journalists partnered with the adult investigators to explore the e-cigarette topic from their perspective, embedded in the context of their own experiences and those of others in their communities. The goal of this exploratory CBPR study was to improve understanding of how and why youth (ages: 14-24 years) in Oakland are adopting (or resisting) e-cigarettes, how youth respond to increasing availability of e-cigarettes in their communities, and how they perceive communications about e-cigarettes (e.g., advertising) and in turn communicate about the products to each other.

scholarly journals El Catálogo de la mujer de Florida Universitària, una herramienta para fomentar la igualdad.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicenta Verdugo Martí ◽  
Patricia Moraga Barrero
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Management Style ◽  
The Creation ◽  
La Florida ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Training Programmes ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

This paper describes the creation of Florida Universitaria CRAI’s Catálogo de la mujer. Florida is an educational cooperative set up in the region of Valencia in the 1970s, a time when many projects were launched in an attempt to change and modernize approaches to teaching. Since its inception, the values that have underpinned its work have been a management style based on democratic practices, secularism, the promotion of the Valencian language and coeducation, and the application of the Mondragón business model. These values have also shaped the creation of the bibliographical archives belonging to the CRAI-Bibilioteca and the rest of the cooperative’s libraries. Since the first professional training programmes in 1977-1978, the cooperative has adapted the courses on offer to the needs of its public (and also in line with its budget). Florida Universitària came into being in the early 1990s, as an associated centre attached to the Valencia’s two main universities (the University of Valencia and the Polytechnic University). Finally, the language centre was founded in 1994. La Florida is based in Catarroja, a town in the Horta Sud of Valencia, where secondary school studies, language teaching and university courses are taught at three different sites. These centres were created at different stages of the cooperative’s history, building on the original secondary school and expanding to cover the teaching needs of a group of villages located some way away from the city, and responding to the rising demands of the area’s industrial sector.

scholarly journals Advice Not Taken

2021 ◽  
pp. 219-233
Author(s):  
Linda F. Bisson ◽  
Mary Lou de Leon Siantz ◽  
Laura Grindstaff
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Organizational Factors ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Cultural Transformation ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
External Factors ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
The University

AbstractAdvice on how to build a more-inclusive academic community is emerging; however, this chapter suggests that such advice warrants “a grain of salt” depending on two circumstances: (1) the organizational culture needing to be “fixed,” and (2) the existence of extra-organizational factors that may shape how transformation can proceed. First, the existing organizational culture affects the processes needed to achieve a more-inclusive community, and defines what “more inclusive” will look like. Programs shown to be effective at one institution might not be effective at another. External factors may also affect local culture. For example, a long-standing ban on affirmative action programs and quota systems at the University of California meant that, even though other institutions found them to be effective, replicating those programs was not an option. The second concern derives from the nature of change needed. Barriers to inclusion are deeply rooted in historical traditions, ideologies, and social practices outside of any single organization, and often these barriers are applied unconsciously. This means genuine cultural transformation will occur only if the organizational community as a whole is committed to that change.

scholarly journals Student assessments of the higher education (on the example of the monitoring survey of the MPEI graduates)

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-238
Author(s):  
M. L. Ivleva ◽  
S. N. Kurilov ◽  
Baldo Dagtcmaa
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Student Participation ◽  
Practical Training ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
The University ◽  
And Control

The authors make an attempt of solving the task of providing the students with a possibility to assess the quality of the organization and content of the higher education. The authors consider the Russian and Western practices of engaging students in such assessing activities as one of their main actors. The article identifies the most common forms of student participation in ensuring the quality of education, some of its problem areas and unused resources. Thus, the basic form of student participation in evaluation and control activities in the university is to fill out various questionnaires in order to express their assessments and opinions about the courses taken during the training period. The authors considered some relevant practices of foreign and Russian universities, in particular, the experience of the RUDN University, North-Eastern Federal University, Institute of Quality Student Commissioners of the Kemerovo branch of the RSTEU, and the Center for Applied Sociological Research of the MPEI. The article presents the results of the sociological study of opinions and assessments of the MPEI graduates in technical and social-humanitarian areas, which was conducted in 2017-2019 on the issues of basic and professional training. The monitoring study revealed a number of factors that affect the quality of practical training at the university, which allowed the authors to identify the key problems of marketing educational services by the contemporary university and to show the need to study the issues of self-realization of graduates, their demand in the labor market, and to search for new criteria for assessing the quality of higher education. The authors believe that we need a new ideology of quality management in the higher education, and propose some conditions and measures that would ensure the high quality of the higher education in Russia.

scholarly journals Ancient Egyptian Healers

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Fatma Eltaieb
Keyword(s):  
Professional Training ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Medical Professional ◽  
Ancient Egypt ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
Human Bites ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Medical Treatises ◽  
The University

Medicine in ancient Egypt was trying to restrain all malefic beings from the action and to preserve the well-being of the individual. Thus the initial statement that magic and science were one and only, a sole concept. Papyrus Edwin Smith mentioned diseases and surgery cases, 62 in total, fourteen with known treatments, and 48 without mentioning any treatment, maybe chronical diseases difficult to treat or even unknown diseases. At the same time as Papyrus Edwin Smith was bought in 1872 by Egyptologist George Ebers who gave it his name. It contains 877 medical treatises covering physical, mental and spiritual diseases. Papyrus Hearst Housed at the Bancroft Library, the University of California has eighteen pages, concentrating on the urinary tract treatments, blood, hair and snake and scorpion bites. Written in hieratic, its prescriptions go from a tooth that has fallen out to medicine to treat the lung and even human bites. Pigs and hippopotamus bites also. The nurse in Ancient Egypt could be female or male and was a highly respected medical professional although, as with midwives, there is no evidence of a school or professional training.  

scholarly journals The paradox of caught-in-the-act surveillance scenes: dilemmas of police video surveillance in Rio de Janeiro

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno de Vasconcelos Cardoso
Keyword(s):  
Video Surveillance ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Control Center ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Military ◽  
The City ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Janeiro State

This paper reports some of the issues raised by field research conducted in the official video surveillance system in public spaces that is operated by the Military Police on behalf of the Rio de Janeiro State Department of Public Security. The research was conducted at the Command and Control Center (CCC), where the images from all the cameras in the police battalions are brought together and at the police batallion at Copacabana (19thBPM), the first area at the city where surveillance cameras were installed. This system is treated as a sociotechnical network, formed by the interaction of individuals and technological elements, further increasing the importance of an observation from two different levels of this network. Special attention is drawed on what I called “the paradox of the caught in-the-act surveillance scenes”, dilemma emerged around the conflict between the work of surveillance and the aesthetics of surveillance, and also on a main videosurveillance problem: (human and/or technical) overdetermination.

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