scholarly journals Skryfkunsstudente se ervaring van hulle eie kreatiewe proses binne die konteks van die Op die spoor van kreatiewe kreature-projek: ’n narratiewe ontleding

Literator ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-176
Author(s):  
S.F. Greyling
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Practice Based Research ◽  
The Individual

Creative writing students’ experience of their own creative process within the context of the Tracking creative creatures project: a narrative analysis First-year students in Creative Writing at the North-West University took part in an interdisciplinary investigation into the creative process, which posed certain creative challenges to them. The students’ reaction to the project indicated that they experienced the assignment as challenging and enriching. This article investigates the question whether the narrative analysis of students’ personal reports on the creative process can contribute to a better understanding of the individual experience, the project, and the creative process as such. A framework for analysis was developed against the theoretical background of contextual approaches to creativity, practice-based research and the method of narrative analysis. Amabile’s componential framework of creativity served as a basis for the framework to investigate the three levels of the narrative (form, content and context). The article discusses the project, collection of data, theoretical framework and research procedures, and illustrates and discusses the application and value of narrative analysis of students’ reports with reference to identified themes and selected examples.

scholarly journals A reflection about the social and technological aspects in flood risk management – the case of the Italian Civil Protection

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. del Carmen Llasat ◽  
F. Siccardi
Keyword(s):  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Warning System ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Civil Protection ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ground Effects ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right

Abstract. The right of a person to be protected from natural hazards is a characteristic of the social and economical development of the society. This paper is a contribution to the reflection about the role of Civil Protection organizations in a modern society. The paper is based in the inaugural conference made by the authors on the 9th Plinius Conference on Mediterranean Storms. Two major issues are considered. The first one is sociological; the Civil Protection organizations and the responsible administration of the land use planning should be perceived as reliable as possible, in order to get consensus on the restrictions they pose, temporary or definitely, on the individual free use of the territory as well as in the entire warning system. The second one is technological: in order to be reliable they have to issue timely alert and warning to the population at large, but such alarms should be as "true" as possible. With this aim, the paper summarizes the historical evolution of the risk assessment, starting from the original concept of "hazard", introducing the concepts of "scenario of event" and "scenario of risk" and ending with a discussion about the uncertainties and limits of the most advanced and efficient tools to predict, to forecast and to observe the ground effects affecting people and their properties. The discussion is centred in the case of heavy rains and flood events in the North-West of Mediterranean Region.

The role of the accommodation sector in tourism routes of the Russian Federarion

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Антон Мосалев ◽  
Anton Mosalev
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Culture ◽  
Far East ◽  
Federal District ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Federal Districts ◽  
Accommodation Sector ◽  
High Standards ◽  
The Individual

The Article presents an analysis of the role of the media sector in the structure created by the placement of tourist routes in the subjects of the Russian Federation. The sample size was 6000 routes in all federal districts of Russia. The problem of poor service provided by the hotel services in Russia is one of the major problems hindering the development of domestic tourism. Value for money and sometimes do not match. Part of the situation could have saved the increasing competition with the hotels listed in the international circuit, which created its own rules of corporate culture, high standards of service, clearly defined for each category of hotel (in terms of stardom). However, this does not justify a revision of its marketing strategy of independent hoteliers. It is also important to pay attention to accommodation, similar to hotels and other accommodation facilities. They are also well represented in the tourist market. According to the author, the low level of service in accommodation facilities is determined not so much by the reluctance of management to improve it, as the structure of demand from tourists and tour operators, to create a product. Most of the routes, which include the need to accommodate tourists, implemented on average, in the area the day — two. At the same time, tourists do not stay in accommodation facilities for a long time and continue your route on. This circumstance serves as an incentive to change the quality of services. Moreover, the article stipulates that personal and other accommodations are well represented in the routes of major federal districts like Central, Ural, Siberia, Far East. Accommodation in hotels more common routes in the North- West, Volga, the Crimea and North Caucasian Federal District. Accommodation facilities, in this case, are the operators of the individual passive format services. However, this strategy cannot be used by all players of the hospitality industry in all federal districts. The specificity of the regions and their remoteness from each other, the price level in the field must be limiting conditions in which hoteliers could develop. It is therefore proposed that the need to actively offer ideas own hiking tour operators or actively interact with them, attracting all new, including the unorganized tourist flows.

scholarly journals Towards safe campus environments through environmental design: two universities as case studies

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 28-46
Author(s):  
Stephanus Coetzee ◽  
Karen Puren
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Security Measures ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
University Of Applied Sciences ◽  
Spatial Environment ◽  
The Individual

Universities are often considered to be safe sanctuaries. However, many higher education institutions have increasingly been confronted with crime and unrest. Violence and other crimes on campuses are currently an international concern. This paper reports on a study that investigated student’s perceptions of safety on two campuses namely Lahti University of Applied Sciences in Finland and the North-West University in Potchefstroom, South Africa. Theories from Environmental Psychology and Urban Planning are combined in this study in order to incorporate aspects of the individual, social setting and spatial environment. Increasing people’s safety help to optimise their experience of their environment and can in turn create an enabling context for people to flourish and improve their quality of life. The research followed a qualitative research approach. In this study, 21 participants from a Finnish university and 16 participants from a South African university were selected through purposive sampling. Data were generated through semi-structured interviews supported by visual data of the spatial environment. All data were transcribed verbatim and analysed through qualitative content analysis. The literature and findings of the research both support that the spatial and social environment influences safety. It is therefore recommended that safe campus environments require a multi-disciplinary and integrated approach to proactively develop a Comprehensive Safe Environment Plan (CSEP). From a planning perspective, students’ perceptions of campus environments’ safety may include the creation of compact dedicated campus areas, land uses, building placing and orientation, territoriality, landscaping, visibility, control over fear-inducing activities, maintenance, security measures and pedestrian orientated areas.

499 DEVELOPING A NOVEL TEACHING PROGRAMME FOR PHYSICIAN ASSOCIATE STUDENTS WITHIN ELDERLY MEDICINE

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (Supplement_2) ◽  
pp. ii14-ii18
Author(s):  
S Mottaghi-Taromsari ◽  
L Wileman
Keyword(s):  
Elderly Care ◽  
General Medicine ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
First Year ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Teaching Programme ◽  
Clinical Placements ◽  
North West ◽  
The North

Abstract Introduction The Physician Associate course has been running in the North West since 2016. As such, the format and layout of clinical placements for its students are still in their relative infancy. First year students, similar to third year medical students, begin clinical placement after an intensive lecture series at the University. Placements at Wythenshawe hospital typically involved an initial and closing meeting with their supervisor with little teaching activity organised specifically for them. We therefore set out to devise a formal teaching programme within their elderly care attachment to better address their learning needs. Methods We devised a programme for the placement involving a formal induction, orientation and then rotation through different elements of the elderly medicine faculty. The students spent 4 weeks in total in 3 different clinical areas to obtain different experiences. Formal teaching was arranged once per week with a clinician to cover topics relevant to geriatrics and general medicine. Feedback forms were used to assess the students’ views on the quality of the induction and teaching. A pre-placement questionnaire was used at the start to assess understanding of frailty and confidence with assessing falls. This was then repeated at the end of the placement to evaluate progression. Results From the initial pilot involving 3 cohorts (10 students total), 90% of the students rated the placement positively as a learning opportunity with 100% commending the organisation and structure of the programme. 100% of students rated the content and delivery as good for the organised teaching sessions. Understanding of frailty and confidence in assessing falls also saw marked improvements over the course of the placement. Conclusion We have demonstrated how a better structured teaching programme is valued by the physician associate students and will now proceed to develop and expand this model in elderly medicine and beyond.

THE SUPPRESSION OF VITRINITE REFLECTANCE IN SOME NORTH WEST SHELF WELLS: BARROW-1, JUPITER-1 AND FLAMINGO-1

1992 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 300 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.W.T. Wilkins ◽  
J.R. Wilmshurst ◽  
G. Hladky ◽  
M.V. Ellacott ◽  
C.P. Buckingham
Keyword(s):  
Organic Matter ◽  
Vitrinite Reflectance ◽  
Accurate Determination ◽  
Petroleum Exploration ◽  
Thermal Maturity ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Reflectance Data

The sediments of the North West Shelf pose several problems for the accurate determination of thermal maturity by vitrinite reflectance. There are some serious discrepancies between the results of different workers; in some wells there is a surprisingly small increase of reflectance with depth, and it is sometimes difficult to honour these data in thermal maturity modelling. There appear to be two major sources of error in the reflectance data. These are firstly, the effect known as 'suppression' of vitrinite reflectance, and secondly, the difficulty of identifying the vitrinite population in dispersed organic matter.These problems may be addressed by the fluorescence alteration technique which is closely related to vitrinite reflectance but has two special advantages. Firstly, it depends on an analysis of the fluorescence alteration response of a small representative population of organic matter in which the individual macerals need not be identified. Secondly, anomalous vitrinites with suppressed vitrinite reflectance are readily characterized, and the corrected equivalent reflectances determined.The technique has been tested on three North West Shelf petroleum exploration wells, Barrow-1, Jupiter-1 and Flamingo-1. Major discrepancies between measured and equivalent vitrinite reflectance appear to originate in part from the difficulty of identifying the vitrinite population in dispersed organic matter from marine sediments. There is also evidence of suppression of vitrinite reflectance in most samples from Barrow-1, in the Flamingo Group and Plover Formation of Flamingo-1, and in the upper part of the Mungaroo Formation of Jupiter-1.A model is proposed to facilitate the assessment of measured vitrinite reflectance data from Carnarvon or Bonaparte Basin wells. Suppression effects are likely to have influenced measured vitrinite reflectance results from wells for which the strongest data are obtained from the Lower Cretaceous fluvio-deltaic Barrow Group sediments or their equivalents.

PRODUCTION OPTIMISATION VIA MULTI-PHASE FLOW METERING

2005 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 97
Author(s):  
A.J. McArdle ◽  
A.J. McDiarmid ◽  
T.E. Asbey
Keyword(s):  
Phase Flow ◽  
Production Network ◽  
Well Test ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Flow Metering ◽  
Single Production ◽  
Multi Phase Flow ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Multi Phase

Apache has developed a number of small oil fields using unmanned minimum facilities platforms close to Varanus Island, on the North West Shelf of Western Australia. Production from each platform is commingled into a single production trunkline. Wells producing at high watercut are artificially lifted using gaslift. Production monitoring and well allocation uses multi-phase flow meters situated on each platform. The use of these meters minimises total infrastructure cost, while still allowing the direct testing of each well. Test results are used for production optimisation of the individual wells, optimisation of the integrated production network, well and field production allocation and troubleshooting. Meter performance has been satisfactory, resulting in an additional unit being deployed on the Stag field where production is affected by high gas rates, slugging and sand production.

scholarly journals Responding to the challenge of father absence and fatherlessness in the South African context: A case study involving concerned fathers from the North West Province

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fazel Freeks
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Father Absence ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
South African Context ◽  
The South ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
North West Province ◽  
African Context ◽  
Biblical Perspective

This article is about the challenge of father absence and fatherlessness in the South African context, and the involving of concerned fathers. To address this challenge, an intervention was crucial as well as the training and equipping of fathers. This intervention consists of different fathers from the North West Province who responded to the challenge of father absence and fatherlessness after workshops presented in a narrative form. The workshops were based on research on fatherhood as this is conceptualized from a Biblical perspective. The research is necessary because South Africa experiences a challenge of absent fathers and fatherlessness. This research showed that the greatest problem with regard to fatherhood is centred on a man’s failure to resolve an identity crisis in the 21st century, but men are generally afraid to admit it. This problem has consequences for families and communities. Furthermore, this article reports on the responses and feedback of fathers and the supporting of literature in the research.

scholarly journals Fortificiranje grada Cresa u 16. stoljeću

Ars Adriatica ◽  
2011 ◽  
pp. 133
Author(s):  
Laris Borić
Keyword(s):  
North West ◽  
Town Council ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Architectural Language ◽  
Stone Cutting ◽  
State Archives ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Town ◽  
Coats Of Arms

The unstable political situation in which Venice found itself at the time of the League of Cambrai, but also the more frequent incursions and attacks of the Uskoks in the later sixteenth century, were responsible for the surrounding the town of Cres, its medieval nucleus and the newly formed town areas with a wider and stronger fortification system of a regular square plan, with four round towers at the angles and one rectangular tower located in the north-east area, and four town gates. The only angle tower that still survives is the north-west land tower based on which other towers can be reconstructed.  Three of the four town gates have been preserved: the Harbour gate, on the ground floor of the Clock Tower, and two east gates: Porta Marcella and Porta Bragadina. All three are constructed in the mannerist style of the classical architectural language, with rusticated arches flanked by two Tuscan or Ionic half-columns articulated with stone rings. These half-columns carry an architrave with coats of arms, which terminates with a projecting cornice. Most reliable sources for the dating of the building phases of the Renaissance fortifications, and for the identification of the master-carvers who worked on them are the register of the decisions of the Town Council, and the Book of the Building of the Walls (Libro della fabbrica delle mura) which is in the State Archives at Rijeka and contains records of payments for the construction expenses for individual parts of  the walls. The book covers the period between 1514 and 1610, the year when the construction expenses were concluded, although the works on the finishing of the individual parts continued until 1689, the year carved in the inscription referring to the completion of the wall. The article analyses the building phases  of the individual segments, and the groups of master-carvers who worked on them. It identifies the stone-cutting family workshops Stošić, Zvonarić, Soldatić and Mladinić, but also a number of local and foreign master-carvers who appeared in the individual building phases. Among them, a special place belongs to Izidor Stošić who was mentioned between 1521 and 1559 as the Protomagister of the structure and, based on the commission of the Town Council; he is identified as the builder of the town’s Clock Tower. The mentioned town portals  clearly demonstrate the way in which the local builders, gathered around the local workshops, applied the projects embodying contemporary stylistic tendencies which were doubtlessly works of the yet unidentified Venetian architects.

REPRODUCTIVE POTENTIAL OF THE KARAKUL SHEEP SHEEP OF THE KARAKALPAK BREED TYPE DEPENDING ON THE CONDITIONS IN THE NORTHWEST OF KYZYLKUM

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 67-70
Author(s):  
Akhmet Abdirazakovich Urimbetov
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Potential ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Mating Period ◽  
North West ◽  
Breed Type ◽  
The North ◽  
Green Fodder ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Important Branch ◽  
Kyzyl Kum

The article describes the methods of increasing the breeding productivity of Karakul sheep of the Karakalpak breed type, depending on the diet and seasonality of the sheep's nutrition for the mating period in the North-West Kyzylkum desert. Karakul breeding is the most important branch of agriculture in Karakalpakstan, therefore it is very important to increase the number of livestock, and the mating of Karakul sheep is a very important point in animal breeding. The object of research was the herds of sheep of the Karakalpak breed type in the breeding farm in the North-West Kyzyl Kum. The results of the study of the reproductive potential of sheep showed that in order to increase the number of pregnant queens one and a half months before the planned measures for insemination or mating, enhanced feeding of the sheep and a sufficient amount of balanced and succulent green fodder is necessary. Sheep also need concentrated feed of at least kg per head per day. The individual characteristics of the animals were also taken into account to determine the best time for insemination. For this, constant supervision over the behavior of the tribal members of the herd was organized. Observations also showed that the hunting period in sheep lasts for 1-2 days. and is repeated after 3 weeks. The seasonality of sexual hunting is most associated with autumn and the beginning of winter. In extreme heat and severe cold, hunting is weak.

Describing mental health services: the development of a mental health census in the North-West of England

1997 ◽  
Vol 6 (S1) ◽  
pp. 71-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Huxley
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Severe Mental Illness ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Variable Number ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Mental Health Foundation

In the United Kingdom, national policy and local service provision both direct provision towards people with a severe mental illness (NHS and Community Care Act, 1990; Department of Health, 1993, 1994). An independent report by the Mental Health Foundation (1994), a leading mental health charity, recommended that the Department of Health “promulgates a practical definition of severe mental illness (SMI) in order to concentrate attention and services on those in greatest need”.In order to assess the extent to which a provider or a purchaser has focused attention upon the SMI, definitions are being developed in most services in the UK; this will facilitate the quantification of the number and proportion of SMI in contact with services. The definitional approach uses a (variable) number of criteria to determine status as a severely mentally ill person. It is essentially categorical because the individual is placed in one of two categories, SMI or not-SMI.

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