scholarly journals Public Awareness and Advocacy Committee: Taking, Making . . . Advocating: Take-and-Makes to Build Awareness

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Jackie Cassidy
Keyword(s):  
Public Awareness ◽  
The Past

While your library may have done take-and-make programming in the past, the term has gained expanded meaning during the pandemic. Now many libraries have adopted take-and-makes as a staple of pandemic programming, bringing joy and creativity to families and librarians.

scholarly journals Bioplastics – An Eco-friendly Alternative to Petrochemical Plastics

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Selvamurugan Muthusamy ◽  
Sivakumar Pramasivam
Keyword(s):  
Public Awareness ◽  
Plastic Pollution ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Global Estimate ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
Term Change ◽  
Past Half ◽  
Emission Of Greenhouse Gases

Plastics have varied application and have become an essential part of our daily lives. The use of the plastics has increased twenty-fold in the past half-century and is expected to double again in the next 20 years. As a global estimate, around 330 million tonnes of the plastics are produced per annum. The production, use and disposal of the plastics emerged as a persistent and potential environmental nuisance. The improper disposal of the plastics ends up in our environment, resulting in the deaths of millions of animals annually and also the reduction in fertility status of the soil. The bioplastics products are manufactured to be biodegradable with similar functionality to that of conventional plastics, which has the potential to reduce the dependence on petrochemicals based plastics and related environmental problems. The expansion and development of the bioplastics and their products would lead to the increase in the sustainability of environment and reduction in the emission of greenhouse gases. The bioplastics innovation would be a key to the long-term solution for the plastic pollution. However, a widespread public awareness is also essential in effecting longer-term change against plastic pollution.

Management of early breast cancer

1992 ◽  
Vol 30 (14) ◽  
pp. 53-56
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Screening Programme ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Develop Breast Cancer ◽  
Early Disease ◽  
The Past ◽  
Disease Prognosis ◽  
One Year

One in 12 women in Britain will develop breast cancer and in any one year 15000 women will die of the disease. Prognosis for patients with advanced breast cancer has altered little during the past 30 years, but for those diagnosed early outlook has improved. Greater public awareness coupled with a national screening programme has led more women to present at an early stage1 and gives them a greater opportunity to take advantage of improved management. In this, the first of two articles on breast cancer, we discuss developments in the management of early disease. A later article will examine the follow-up of patients with breast cancer.

Death at the End of the 20th Century: Individual Processes and Developmental Tasks in Old Age

2002 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 315-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Röcke ◽  
Katie E. Cherry
Keyword(s):  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Developmental Tasks ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
The Past ◽  
And Coping ◽  
The Impact

In this article, we address the topic of death from historic and contemporary perspectives. In the first section, we describe the changes in life expectancy, personal experience, and public awareness of death that have occurred over the past century. In the next section, we examine the impact these changes have had on the mastery of the two developmental tasks in adulthood, acceptance of one's own mortality and coping with the death of a spouse. We describe select findings from the literature on attitudes, fear or acceptance of death, and grief processes. Implications for research, practice, and social change are considered.

The relational making of people and place: the case of the Teignmouth World War II homefront

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 725-752 ◽  
Author(s):  
GAVIN J. ANDREWS
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Older People ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
World War ◽  
Social Gerontology ◽  
The Past ◽  
Military Networks

ABSTRACTBuilding on the pioneering research of a small number of gerontologists, this paper explores the rarely trodden common ground between the academic domains of social gerontology and modern history. Through empirical research it illustrates the complex networking that exists through space and time in the relational making of people and places. Indeed, the study focuses specifically on the lived reality and ongoing significance of life on the small-town British coastal homefront during World War II. Seventeen interviews with older residents of Teignmouth, Devon, United Kingdom, investigate two points in their lives: the ‘then’ (their historical experiences during this period) and the ‘then and now’ (how they continue to reverberate). In particular, their stories illustrate the relationalities that make each of these points. The first involves residents’ unique interactions during the war with structures and technologies (such as rules, bombs and barriers) and other people (such as soldiers and outsiders) which themselves were connected to wider historical, social, political and military networks. The second involves residents’ perceptions of their own and their town's wartime histories, how this gels or conflicts with public awareness, and how this history connects to their current lives. The paper closes with some thoughts on bringing together the past, present and older people in the same scholarship.

Reliability-Based Design and Assessment Standards for Onshore Natural Gas Transmission Pipelines

2009 ◽  
Vol 131 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joe Zhou ◽  
Brian Rothwell ◽  
Maher Nessim ◽  
Wenxing Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Technology Development ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Canadian Standard Association ◽  
Operating Environment ◽  
The Past ◽  
Reliability Based Design ◽  
Natural Gas Transmission ◽  
American Society ◽  
Pipeline Safety ◽  
Standard Development

Onshore pipelines have traditionally been designed with a deterministic stress-based methodology. The changing operating environment has, however, imposed many challenges to the pipeline industry, including heightened public awareness of risk, more challenging natural hazards, and increased economic competitiveness. To meet the societal expectation of pipeline safety and enhance the competitiveness of the pipeline industry, significant efforts have been spent for the development of reliability-based design and assessment (RBDA) methodology. This paper will briefly review the technology development in the RBDA area and the focus will be on the progresses in the past years in standard development within the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the Canadian Standard Association (CSA) organizations.

scholarly journals Wie oft brannte der Walliser Wald im 20. Jahrhundert? | Forest fire occurrences in Canton Valais in the 20th century

2004 ◽  
Vol 155 (10) ◽  
pp. 437-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Urs Gimmi ◽  
Matthias Bürgi ◽  
Thomas Wohlgemuth
Keyword(s):  
Forest Fire ◽  
Forest Fires ◽  
Temporal Variability ◽  
Extreme Event ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Swiss Canton ◽  
Historical Database ◽  
Forest Use

In August 2003, a disastrous fire destroyed some 300 ha of forest near Leuk in the Swiss Canton of Valais. This extreme event heightened, for a time at least, public awareness of forest fires and triggered various research activities. Forest fires play an important part in the forest dynamics of the Valais. In this article we present a historical database, which contains data on outbreaks of fire over the past 100 years. The temporal variability of forest fires is analysed and possible relations to climate change and changes in forest use discussed. Three of the largest fires are presented as case studies (Ochsenboden in July 1921, Aletschwald/Riederhorn in May 1944 and Pfynwald in July 1962). Although wide areas of forest have been burnt in past fires, no outbreak in the last 100 years reached the extent of the forest fire of Leuk in 2003.

Behind Different Walls

2015 ◽  
pp. 553-566
Author(s):  
Mary L. Cohen ◽  
Stuart Paul Duncan
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Learning Communities ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Music Teachers ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Transformative Justice ◽  
Choral Singing ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social

Over the past few years, restorative justice and transformative justice have taken on greater research importance in the scholarly community. These two forms of social justice offer ways of dealing with harms that result from conflict. The claim of this chapter is that these two types of justice can be used to structure and shape pedagogy in music education. Research suggests that choral singing within a prison context and the particular pedagogies employed therein can be shaped positively through restorative and transformative justice. Prison choir performances humanize prisoners and bring greater public awareness to their lives. If one accepts the premise that the use of restorative and transformative justice in musical teaching and learning enacts forms of healing, then their application has great potential to create encouraging learning environments and provide tools for music teachers to support the social needs of their learning communities.

scholarly journals Environmental Economics: Challenge to Teaching

1972 ◽  
Vol 1 (01) ◽  
pp. 211-216
Author(s):  
D. M. Tobey
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Environmental Economics ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Conservation Movement ◽  
The Past ◽  
Economic Information ◽  
Look Ahead ◽  
To Come ◽  
Public Policy Decisions

Environmental quality, through what some have described as a new Conservation Movement, has captured public awareness in the past three to four years. Public policy decisions affecting the environment are receiving increased attention, and economic information is a crucial input to such policy. We, both as citizens and as professionals, must look ahead and prepare to grapple with environmental problems for years to come.

Emigration and the Irish abroad: recent writings

2001 ◽  
Vol 32 (127) ◽  
pp. 433-442
Author(s):  
John A. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Public Awareness ◽  
The United States ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Global System ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Changing Patterns ◽  
Plural Society

There has been a remarkable revival of interest in the Irish abroad within the past ten years. In part this is attributable to the new confidence experienced by the Irish at home with the economic success of the ‘tiger economy’ and the decline of ‘migration by necessity’. Equally the Irish abroad, especially in the United States, have risen to the top of the immigrant pile and have achieved prosperity and assurance of their position in their adopted homelands. This itself has led to a reduction in some of the inhibitions that have held back serious attention to the history of the immigrants and to a recognition of their place in the sun. Public awareness has been further stimulated by changing patterns of immigration and by the development of new attitudes towards immigrants in the host societies, now including Ireland itself. Such changes have created a need to give meaning to the term ‘plural society’ and to challenge the racism that has characteristically followed in the wake of increased numbers of immigrants.These seven books are representative of a large number that have begun to address the topic in the last few years from an historical point of view. For the most part they relate to the Irish in Britain but use the focus on the immigrants to open up issues about the history of Ireland and Britain and the role of each in an emerging global system. For example, one of them is a comparative account of the Irish in Liverpool and Philadelphia which allows consideration of some of the broader questions regarding the treatment of the Irish immigrant in the literature both by historians and other interested scholars.

scholarly journals Epidemiology and diagnosis of inflammatory bowel diseases

2021 ◽  
Vol 64 (9) ◽  
pp. 579-587
Author(s):  
Kang-Moon Lee
Keyword(s):  
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Intestinal Tuberculosis ◽  
Diagnostic Delay ◽  
Perianal Fistula ◽  
Diagnostic Tools ◽  
Male Predominance ◽  
The Past ◽  
Bowel Diseases ◽  
Inflammatory Bowel

Background: Over the past three decades, inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) have been rapidly increasing in the African, South American, and Asian countries, including Korea. However, in Korea, the public awareness of IBD remains low, and diagnostic delay is not uncommon due to the physicians' lack of clinical experience. It is essential to understand the trends and regional differences in the epidemiology of IBD for proper diagnosis and treatment.Current Concepts: Although lower than those of the West, the prevalence and incidence of IBD in Korea rank among the highest in Asia and are steadily increasing. In the past 10 years, the prevalence of IBD has almost doubled, while its incidence has decreased gradually. As compared to Western IBD patients, Korean patients have higher proportion of proctitis in ulcerative colitis, male predominance, more ileocolonic involvement, and higher incidence of perianal fistula in Crohn disease. There is no single gold standard for the diagnosis of IBD. Thus, diagnosis can be made by clinical evaluation, including a detailed history taking, physical examination, and a combination of endoscopic, radiologic, laboratory, and histologic findings.Discussion and Conclusion: Population-based studies have revealed the current trends and characteristics of the epidemiology of IBD in Korea. Continued education and development of diagnostic tools will help clinicians to diagnose IBD accurately and differentiate it from other diseases such as intestinal tuberculosis.

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