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Managing disasters and public health emergencies poses a complex challenge, particularly in maintaining the crucial elements of surge capacity, often referred to as the 4S: staff, stuff, space, and system. While discussions surrounding the management of these emergencies typically emphasize their impact on emergency healthcare services, resources, and capabilities, it is essential to recognize the inherent limitations of these resources. Therefore, integrating nonmedical resources such as community staff, supplies, and spaces into the response chain is equally important. Among community facilities, hotels are particularly intriguing due to their organizational and structural capabilities to serve as alternative care sites for lightly injured or non-injured emergency victims. This narrative review explored the potential use of hotels as alternative care sites and the legal implications associated with such utilization. The results confirmed a high potential for using hotels as alternate care sites. However, data concerning its practical and legal implications are insufficient. This paper suggests further research to investigate the criteria for utilizing hotels in this capacity, including admission guidelines for disaster victims and relevant ethical and legal considerations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper argues that there is need for current efforts to reintegrate youth militants in the Niger Delta of Nigeria into normal community life to be anchored on a thorough understanding of the peculiar agency of youth and the socio-cultural challenges of post-conflict reintegration. Such efforts should also take cognisance of the complex nature of the problem. The paper contends that while the on-going amnesty programme in the region has achieved partial success, it was founded on a parochial philosophy, which creates a booming economic environment for the managers. Therefore, it recommends that the initiative should be anchored on both a thorough understanding of the youth as social agency and the deleterious impact of the conflict on ideal socio-cultural norms of expectations and roles among different generations of the population in the region. In effect, a proper sociological framing and nuancing of the programme would appear imperative for sustainable peace in the region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bougaard, an emerging South African creative practitioner, examines games from her “Coloured” childhood community in Eden Park, Johannesburg, and how these games may offer a window into a reframed Kullid identity. She considers the rhymes used in these games and the role of language—specifically Afrikaaps—in identity formation, and explores through papermaking and art installations the social contexts and meanings embedded in these games. In this article, the authors analyse Bougaard’s use of sculpture, papermaking and printmaking techniques both to mediate and to subvert conventionalised tropes and stereotypes of “Coloured” communities as well as to empower a sense of her familial and community-based identity through an emergent Kullidness. The authors focus on selected paper works and on three mixed media installations (2021–2022). The authors complicate any reading of these works as uncritically affirmative of a declamatory and essentialist identity position by proposing Bougaard’s visual strategies as premised upon mediation, ambivalence, indexicality, and refuting iconicity. The authors identify Bougaard as deploying elements of strategic essentialism in her desire for community visibility and visual sovereignty, and the authors therefore critique the benefits and the limitations of this approach, concluding that Bougaard’s choice of mediating strategies avoids a simplistic narrative of community life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As Chinese cities undergo a transition from incremental development to retrofit development and urban governance tends to be more refined, the renovation mode of old residential communities is also under the transformation from large-scale bulldozer demolition and reconstruction to small-scale refined renovation and regeneration. However, the practice of micro community renovation has encountered a number of challenges throughout the implementation process, including conflicts between multiple stakeholders in the initial stage of planning, unconcordance between different implementation bodies in the intermediate stage of construction, and the lack of guarantee mechanisms in the later stage of maintenance. Based on the concept of life cycle, this paper divides the practical process of micro community renovation into seven steps, i.e., establishing communal platforms, identifying community features, cultivating communal organizations, designing community activities, formulating planning schemes, conducting participatory constructions, and establishing long-lasting mechanisms. It takes the Gejiaying Community in Wuhan as a case to verify the above analysis, in the hope of providing a reference for the current practice of urban regeneration and community renovation in China. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is based on research that examined civil and community life in 34 settlements of Szigetköz in 2021 and 2022. A total of 337 NGOs and countless informal groups operate in the region. The examination is based on questionnaire research (43 fillings), interviews (25 pieces), observations (9 times) and document analysis, and one of the results is four case studies about four settlements (Dunasziget, Kimle, Mecsér and Győrladamér). The goal of this paper is to summarize the knowledge related to social sustainability and analyze its operation in these settlements. The principal finding of the research is that the four settlements coped with the challenges posed by their geographical location, economic situation and infrastructural capabilities in four ways. These roads show creative solutions using local resources, which are the key to the social sustainability of settlements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Although the suburbs of numerous cities worldwide are shrinking, research on how to address suburban decline remains scarce. This paper explores participatory mapping in shrinking suburbs as a tool to articulate knowledge co-creation between local officials and communities to inform planning decisions. The paper argues that participatory planning helps to identify sweet spots, everyday life community spaces upon which to anchor regeneration strategies. Using as a case study Minamiashigara, a shrinking suburb of Tokyo, the paper discusses how sweet spots can be integrated into existing municipal strategies to alleviate the consequences of shrinkage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This qualitative investigation examines fish conservation practices in the community water resources of three northeastern Thai provinces. Data was gathered from documentary review and field study, through observation, interviews, and focus group discussions. The findings revealed that fish resources are decreasing in Northeastern Thai communities. This is due to a combination of factors, including unsystematic conservation methods and negative human impact. In acknowledging the ecocontextual nature of Thai Buddhism, this investigation argues a case for the adoption of Buddhist principles toward environmentalism as a means for more sustainable and successful fish conservation. The paper outlines eight key religious principles compatible with conservation approaches and recommends their inclusion in government policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper analyzes the information collection data of coordination sensors and designs a corresponding evaluation method to conduct an in-depth assessment of the configuration of community emergency resources. Based on the principles of assessment index system construction and the actual research, an assessment index system of community emergency resource allocation level is established. In this paper, the G1 method was selected to determine the weights of the evaluation indexes, and the gray clustering method was applied to construct the whitening weight function, determine the gray level to which each index belongs and the affiliation degree of each gray class, and establish a comprehensive evaluation model of the community emergency resource allocation level. In response to the problem that the increase of state variables leads to a decrease in real-time map building, a dynamic local window size mechanism is proposed, which can reduce the time consumption and save computational resources under the condition of ensuring the accuracy of positioning and map building. Therefore, it is urgent to design an efficient self-interference cancellation mechanism to resist the influence of self-interference on the signal-to-noise ratio of the first-hop link. For example, the IMU pre integration theory is combined with the wheel range method to solve the problem of frequency synchronization; An initialization algorithm is proposed to recover the scale information of the camera and optimize the external parameters; Design a graphic optimization framework integrating IMU, wheel range finder and camera. The monitoring terminal sends the data information of coordination transportation to the monitoring platform in real-time, and the monitoring platform is responsible for storing and displaying the data information, thus realizing the real-time monitoring of the coordination transportation process. Finally, the functions of the monitoring terminal and the display system of the monitoring platform experiment, respectively, and the test results verify the effectiveness and integrity of the system data communication, which proves the correctness of the terminal design of the integrated coordination monitoring system based on multidimensional information and has practical engineering value. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social scientists, geographers, criminologists, and health scientists are often tasked with finding data to best capture the impact of "community context" on individual outcomes, including residential services, physical resources, and social institutions. One outlet for such data in Canada is Digital Map Technologies Inc. (DMTI) Spatial, which offers a national repository of over one million businesses and recreational points of interest. The database is generated through CanMap Streetfiles, which includes geocodes of each point's precise location. These data are available to researchers from their university data library and Esri Canada, but primarily available to private sector and government markets. That said, the goal of the current paper is to encourage researchers to access this rich yet under‐utilized data source. Each service, business, or resource in the DMTI Spatial database is assigned to a respective category using Standard Industrial Classification codes and North American Industrial Classification System codes. It is not clear, however, which is the more reliable coding criteria. We provide an overview of our review of DMTI Spatial data and take‐away suggestions for using this valuable resource for future research on meso‐level residential markers. Key messages: The goal of this paper is to outline existing data source(s) and measures from DMTI Spatial that might help capture meso‐level residential institutions.We recommend "best practices" for using DMTI Spatial data in researchers' own work to capture neighbourhood resources/amenities, or the social infrastructure of the community using either Standard Industrial Classification codes or North American Industrial Classification System codes.We conclude that Standard Industrial Classification codes in DMTI Spatial enhanced points of interest data are more complete—and more accurate—than North American Industrial Classification System codes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The widespread availability of high spatial and temporal resolution public transit data is improving the measurement and analysis of public transit-based accessibility to crucial community resources such as jobs and health care. A common approach is leveraging transit route and schedule data published by transit agencies. However, this often results in accessibility overestimations due to endemic delays due to traffic and incidents in bus systems. Retrospective real-time accessibility measures calculated using real-time bus location data attempt to reduce overestimation by capturing the actual performance of the transit system. These measures also overestimate accessibility since they assume that riders had perfect information on systems operations as they occurred. In this paper, we introduce realizable real-time accessibility based on space–time prisms as a more conservative and realistic measure. We, moreover, define accessibility unreliability to measure overestimation of schedule-based and retrospective accessibility measures. Using high-resolution General Transit Feed Specification real-time data, we conduct a case study in the Central Ohio Transit Authority bus system in Columbus, Ohio, USA. Our results prove that realizable accessibility is the most conservative of the three accessibility measures. We also explore the spatial and temporal patterns in the unreliability of both traditional measures. These patterns are consistent with prior findings of the spatial and temporal patterns of bus delays and risk of missing transfers. Realizable accessibility is a more practical, conservative, and robust measure to guide transit planning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The interview is an excerpt from a dialogue that took place in two video calls between the author and co-author and visual artist Arissana Pataxó as part of the "A South-North Dialogue on Afro-Indigenous Art" project led by the interviewer. The interview is organized through an open dialogue that covers the artist's ways of producing, linked to community life and her daily life as a community educator. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This conceptual paper explores theoretical linkages between community well-being and key dimensions of public spaces (i.e., physical characteristics, technical experts, and communities). It draws on environmental justice literature and the Tripartite Framework to contextualize the concept of access to public spaces. The nexus between the key dimensions of public spaces and community well-being are explored by drawing on the Network Theory of Wellbeing. The main contribution of this paper is its merging of the aforementioned seminal work (i.e., Tripartite Framework and Network Theory of Wellbeing), two important bodies of scholarship that have yet to intersect but which offer a formidable platform to advance knowledge on how technical (e.g. planners), social (i.e. communities) and physical (e.g. built spaces like parks) dimensions of public space production can contribute to communal benefits derived from a public resource and community well-being. The applicability of the conceptual synthesis is illustrated through the discussion of specific examples in Maryvale. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the last twenty years increasing attention has been paid to the ways in which diasporic communities can shape global development processes, thorough a variety of intersecting scales and spatialities. This promotion of diasporic‐centred development has occurred in parallel to a narrowing of civic space and it is these juxtaposing narratives that this paper interrogates. This paper firstly considers diasporic‐centred development before moving on to think about how the contemporary narrowing of civic space may be (re)shaping diasporic civic life and participation in global development processes. The paper concludes that the spaces for diasporic civic participation in development are vulnerable to being squeezed in multiple intersecting ways, including through the racialised marginalisation of diasporic communities in everyday life, restrictions on diasporic associational life, the delegitimising of diasporic organisations in the (formal) development sphere and the extra‐territorial narrowing of diasporic civic space by state (and non‐state) actors. It is imperative that we explore the intersections in the diasporic‐civic space‐development nexus, with further research needed to understand how diasporic communities are responding to these changes, how diasporic civic spaces are reconfiguring and reconstituting themselves in this context, and what this means for global development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we introduce a new large-scale change detection dataset called LIM-CD, designed for training and evaluating change detection algorithms on high resolution remote sensing images. The dataset currently consists of 9,259 images with labels covering six construction land use change types (i.e., residential land, industrial land, commercial land, public facilities, transportation land, and special land). The image annotations contain not only newly added regions of construction land as change annotations but also auxiliary information about construction land present in pre-change image (image T1), which serves as secondary annotations. These annotations offer crucial information for incremental monitoring applications. The remote sensing images are carefully selected to cover a broad range of imaging variations, including different image sources, years, backgrounds, and terrain. Additionally, we have provided comprehensive metadata labels, which can serve as additional features to aid model training and optimization. To establish a baseline for future algorithm development, we applied seven widely used and state-of-the-art change detection algorithms to the LIM-CD dataset. We are confident that our dataset can serve as a valuable resource for the research community, enabling the development of more accurate and robust change detection models. More information about the project can be found at https://github.com/xiaoxiangAQ/LIM-CD-dataset. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For a long time the world has campaigned against child labour, both with local and global efforts. These initiatives however tend to ignore contextual forces such as, specific socio-cultural contexts and societal interpretation of child labour. Scholarship on this subject uncovers several circumstances, reasons, consequences, processes, and challenges of child labour among different communities in Africa. Extant literature also reveals information regarding the complexities of sociocultural dimension in examining child labour practices. Building on the already existing evidence, this paper uncovers sociocultural complexity in explaining child labour practices among semi nomadic pastoral Wataturu communities in Igunga. The paper exploits various information collected through library and archival research, participant observation, and oral interviews to demonstrate how sociocultural set up of Wataturu challenges the mainstream approach to the claimed child labour practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper critically explores how women anti-mining activists conceptualize development, in the context of living with and resisting large-scale resource extraction in Cajamarca, Peru. I contend that participatory photography provides an opportunity to contest hegemonic development narratives and the notions of 'lack', 'poverty' and 'progress' that are bound up with such narratives, enabling participants to simultaneously evoke both hoped-for alternative futures and nostalgic renditions of a threatened present. Moving beyond an explicit and immediate focus on the socially and environmentally destructive nature of large-scale mining, I explore how the women instead document productive Andean livelihoods and everyday ways of life, capturing the ways in which hoped-for futures are enacted in the present. The women activists articulate their resistance through photography, identifying and celebrating practices of hope in their everyday lives and communities and providing an emotive counter-narrative to extractive-led neoliberal development discourses. The paper reveals that participatory photography approaches generate critical insight into the emotion-suffused ways in which development is understood by grassroots activists in contexts of extractivism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this paper, we propose a multi-agent-based architecture for a Unity3D simulation of dynamic agrirobot-fleet-coordination methods. The architecture is based on a Robot Operating System (ROS) and Agrobots-SIM package that extends the existing package Patrolling SIM made for multi-robot patrolling. The Agrobots-SIM package accommodates dynamic multi-robot task allocation and vehicle routing considering limited robot battery autonomy. Moreover, it accommodates the dynamic assignment of implements to robots for the execution of heterogeneous tasks. The system coordinates task assignment and vehicle routing in real time and responds to unforeseen contingencies during simulation considering dynamic updates of the data related to the environment, tasks, implements, and robots. Except for the ROS and Agrobots-SIM package, other crucial components of the architecture include SPADE3 middleware for developing and executing multi-agent decision making and the FIVE framework that allows us to seamlessly define the environment and incorporate the Agrobots-SIM algorithms to be validated into SPADE agents inhabiting such an environment. We compare the proposed simulation architecture with the conventional approach to 3D multi-robot simulation in Gazebo. The functioning of the simulation architecture is demonstrated in several use-case experiments. Even though resource consumption and community support are still an open challenge in Unity3D, the proposed Agri-RO5 architecture gives better results in terms of simulation realism and scalability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper adds and divides the concepts related to life and health community and life safety, and integrates the common parts of both with the curriculum of physical education in colleges and universities. Through the study of life and health community, the position of human health in the society is analyzed, and the correlation between both physical education and health is analyzed, so that the main factors affecting human health can be derived. The relevance of the life safety concept to physical health is analyzed, and the integration of the life safety concept and physical health is mainly studied. The teaching effects of the integration of the two were explored in conjunction with the concept. The results showed that the physical education curriculum incorporating the life safety concept as one of the teaching objectives is conducive to improving teaching effectiveness. The effectiveness of physical education teaching after the integration was 75%, and 70% of the teaching forms were diversified. 99.1% of the students thought the life safety education course was important, and 96.5% of the students thought the content they learned about life safety education was helpful. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

China prioritizes ecological civilization construction and embraces the concept of "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets." Great achievements have been made in ecological protection and restoration through implementing a series of policies and projects. This paper reviews the history of ecological restoration in China and the current development of the "integrated protection and restoration project of mountains, rivers, forests, farmlands, lakes, grasslands, and deserts (IPRP)." Furthermore, the characteristics of IPRP were systematically elaborated from the perspectives of the ecological civilization thought, the policy management, and the key scientific issues. Also, the current achievements were summarized in the fields of national ecological space management, biodiversity conservation, and ecological protection and restoration. Existing challenges in management policy, scientific issues, and engineering practices were highlighted. Future perspectives include ecological space control, nature-based Solutions, biodiversity big data platform, modern techniques, and value realization mechanisms of ecological products. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The spiritual tradition of the Turkish population in RN Macedonia is rich and still nurtures some segments of Sufism from the Ottoman period such as the Bektashi dervish order. In the period before the arrival of the Ottomans (around the 13th century), numerous Sufis were active in these territories, which in some way represented a transition point for the conquest and settlement of the Turks. Numerous Bektashi tekkes were built during the Ottoman period, several of which are still active today. Depending on the ethnic composition of the followers, the linguistic dominance of these Sufi structures also changes. The only Bektashi tekke whose members are Turks is the tekke ‘Dikmen Baba’ located in the village Kanatlarci near Prilep. This tekke is one of the few in the Bektashi orders that, despite several divisions in the spiritual leadership, has operated without interruption since its founding in the 16th century. Such divisions did not affect the essence of the spiritual beliefs nor the ritual forms of this dervish order which remain almost identical to those practised at the very beginning. The main focus of this paper will be the musical tradition of the ritual, and for the following reasons: 1. music, as the main activity of the Bektashi rituals, is the essential vehicle for spreading and reinforcing beliefs and wisdom for everyday community life, 2. its importance as a fundamental tool in the expression of mystical theosophy, and 3. variations in the repertoire as a result of drawing upon and integrating sacred music from local populations. For this purpose, field research, interviews, and the analysis of audio materials from the sacred rites of the Bektashi tekke Dikmen Baba in the village of Kanatlarci have been carried out. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The increasing severity and frequency of disasters across the USA is revealing a landscape that is not entirely prepared to cope with these exposures. Resilience as a socio-ecological concept has become progressively more important as a means of assessing and mitigating these losses. Technological advances and planning have improved many outcomes, but all populations have not experienced the benefits. In this paper, we focus on the shortcomings of current resilience measures in capturing neighborhood disparities. Much like vulnerability and sustainability, local disparities will have a deleterious impact on the community as a whole. We use the Baseline Resilience Indicators for Communities (BRIC) framework and downscale the index using neighborhood-level Census data (tracts) and variations in household access to community resources. These added variables represent the variation of resilience indicators across a community and capture cross-scale relationships that exist between county and Census tract characteristics. We apply scaled variables in the Pensacola Bay Watershed to demonstrate cross-scaled interactions in the Florida panhandle. Potential modifications and applications of the concepts are also discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is based on a larger research project, which investigates the effectiveness of a culturally appropriate model, namely ūloa, when working with Tongan people. Ūloa is a communal method of fishing in Tonga, which includes all members of the community. A previous paper described the three phases of ūloa: presenting the concept to health providers and community groups; phase two amended the model based on phase one. This paper reports on phase three and findings related to the increased awareness of ūloa model within the mental health services and to raise awareness of how to work with Pacific people and adjust the health service to suit the needs of this population to test its effectiveness. Using reflexive thematic analysis, results highlighted a number of patterns both across the groups, described as napanapangamālie (harmony, balance), ngāue fakataha (working together/oneness), and toutai (fisher). These findings continue to support that the conventional biomedical approach employed in the mental health services overlooks elements of Tongan constructions of mental illness and the intersections between Tongan and biopsychosocial themes. Care that is based only on the 'medicine' rather than bringing the spiritual aspect into care planning (fake leaves) will not serve the needs of the Tongan community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Paliyar tribes have a traditional identity with certain territories of community living especially in the Palani hills, Kodaikanal hills, and Sirumalai hills of Tamil Nadu, located on the Western Ghats continuing from the Anamalai hills of Kerala. The tribal economy is labelled as primitive economy. Most of the tribes depend on agriculture, by collecting fruits, cultivating vegetables and honey for their existence. This paper is contemporary ethnographic research to understand the health, social, economic, and level of education attained by the Paliyar tribes who live in Sirumalai hills in India. This paper also highlights the various ceremonies and rituals celebrated by them on several occasions of their day-to-day life like birth ceremonies, naming functions, marriage, life, and death. The paper relies on the explored authentic facts stated through quantitative and qualitative methods to understand the various dimensions of life and livelihood of the Paliyar tribes in association with their inseparable life in the forest and the influencing determinants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores how connectivity to place has brought life to contemporary environmental struggles in what is now known as New York State. Layers of memory, colonization, and stewardship are embedded within a community's relationship with their environment. By focusing on two case studies, the authors will illustrate how this relationship shaped successful place‐based resistance. Throughout our work, we offer the alternative methodology of ecocentric storytelling and artistic representation to elevate the voice of both ecosystems and all their inhabitants. Both case studies are centered on environmental/social movements that foreground the inherent personhood of the natural world. The first will focus on the Ashokan Reservoir, in the Catskill Mountains, on land guarded by the Lenape. It is a location that has suffered multiple waves of colonization and successfully resisted a large damming operation. The second case study will be centered on the Upper St. Lawrence River/Kaniatarowanénhne Watershed, Haudenosaunee Territory, where rural communities are uniting to grant Rights to the Rivers that bring life to their communities. Both cases exemplify the story of communities that defended their livelihoods and environments by uniting with their most reliable allies, the Water, and all their more‐than‐human guardians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Coastal Louisiana is experiencing climate-related impacts at rates substantially higher than other areas worldwide. Unique coastal communities face imminent impacts requiring adaptation and possible relocation. As such, Louisiana's strategies for ecosystem-scale flood management and ecological restoration are relevant globally. In this paper, we trace the idea of managed retreat as a nonstructural adaptation mechanism through the analysis of Louisiana's Coastal Master Plan and LA SAFE documents, and interviews with residents and planning professionals. Although Louisiana's plans and policies increasingly recognise increasing risk, and relocation as a necessary adaptation strategy, planning goals for relocation have weakened over time. Our analysis found two reasons for this. First, professionals and residents view risk and relocation differently. Low- and moderate-income residents had varied claims and constraints that influenced the adoption of relocation programmes and highlighted the need for community-driven initiatives. Second, no social infrastructure was implemented with the technical capacity or financial resources to work with communities to develop and implement relocation initiatives. As climate impacts increase, policies facilitating managed retreat will also need to expand. This work provides insights into the evolution of large-scale relocation planning, and a better understanding of the challenges facing states and communities as these efforts are expanded. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: The broader determinants of health including a wide range of community assets are extremely important in relation to public health outcomes. Multiple health conditions, multimorbidity, is a growing problem in many populations worldwide. Methods: This paper quantified the effect of community assets on major health conditions for the population of England over six years, at a fine spatial scale using a data analytic approach. Community assets, which included indices of the health system, green space, pollution, poverty, urban environment, safety, and sport and leisure facilities, were quantified in relation to major health conditions. The health conditions examined included high blood pressure, obesity, dementia, diabetes, mental health, cardiovascular conditions, musculoskeletal conditions, respiratory conditions, kidney and liver disease, and cancer. Cluster analysis and dendrograms were calculated for the community assets and major health conditions. For each health condition, a statistical model with all community assets was fitted, and model selection was performed. The number of significant community assets for each health condition was recorded. The unique variance, explained by each significant community asset per health condition, was quantified using hierarchical variance partitioning within an analysis of variance model. Results: The resulting data indicate major health conditions are often clustered, as are community assets. The results suggest that diversity and richness of community assets are key to major health condition outcomes. Primary care service waiting times and distance to public parks were significant predictors of all health conditions examined. Primary care waiting times explained the vast majority of the variances across health conditions, with the exception of obesity, which was better explained by absolute poverty. Conclusions: The implications of the combined findings of the health condition clusters and explanatory power of community assets are discussed. The vast majority of determinants of health could be accounted for by healthcare system performance and distance to public green space, with important covariate socioeconomic factors. Emphases on community approaches, significant relationships, and asset strengths and deficits are needed alongside targeted interventions. Whilst the performance of the public health system remains of key importance, community assets and local infrastructure remain paramount to the broader determinants of health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The varied and episodic nature of volcanic eruptions requires numerous and diverse observations for study and successful forecasting. Volcanological databases are important resources for the community because they enable investigation of questions that are not answerable by single datasets. Large-scale or synoptic studies are increasingly accessible through the use of machine learning applied to those often complex databases. In this paper, we describe the existing volcanological database landscape, the complexity of linking between various resources, the challenges of data standardization, and the challenges associated with long-term growth and sustainability of databases. Many challenges to database interoperability can be addressed through use of global unique identifiers and standardized data formats when populating databases and when publishing scientific studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines contemporary Pagan narratives about fairies, revealing themes of re-enchantment, environmental grief, and environmental justice. In these narratives, fairies are often portrayed as nature spirits and protectors of the environment who warn humans of impending disaster and suggest techniques for re-enchanting the physical environment through practices that create reciprocal relationships between humans and nature, change consciousness, and allow humans to experience an interconnected, ensouled universe. These narratives can be interpreted as belonging to a category of folk environmentalism in which expressive cultural forms provide resources for communities coping with environmental grief. They also reflect emergent vernacular ontologies which reflect contemporary Pagan efforts to re-enchant the world and shift perceptions from a naturalistic frame to one that is more animistic, in which otherthan- human beings are thought to have consciousness and interiority. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

According to my conception, we can distinguish the four main spheres of modern human life: the spheres of private life, community life, social life, and coercive life. The modern state (or national) society is a heterogeneous society in which the main life spheres mentioned have been developed, and in which the sphere of social life is of fundamental importance. In this paper, the focus of inquiry is that the sphere of social life is also complex, from the point of view that it is differentiated into social sub-spheres. First, I point out the main conceptions regarding the differentiation of society into subsystems, fields, or spheres, especially Bourdieu's field theory, and then I define the concept of social sub-sphere. After that, I distinguish the sphere of everyday social life on the one hand, and the sphere of political life on the other; and within the former sphere (or partly in the area of other life spheres) I make a distinction between further sub-spheres: the relatively pure social sub-sphere, the semi-social sub-sphere, and the mixed life sphere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Both historically and in common human practices, attitudes, and beliefs, a sense of human exceptionality in comparison with other animals undergirds normative anthropocentrism, i.e. prioritization of human interests. The question I wish to address in this article is whether we can use a particular element of the cognitive apparatus or toolkit that supposedly makes us special, namely our sense of wonder, to decenter us. Several authors have argued that when we view other beings or the natural world with wonder, we are inclined to care for and wish to protect them. But here I am interested in what happens when we turn our sense of wonder onto ourselves as the peculiar animal, the strange evolutionary experiment that we are. Not, as has historically been done, in an admiring way, but in an evaluatively more neutral way, characterized by puzzlement, an attunement to mystery, and a sense of unlikeliness and contingency. In particular, how might our thinking about ourselves change when we think from a wonder that revolves around our embodiment, around that which roots us most firmly in the world, in “nature,” and reminds us most clearly of our membership of a community of earthly life? Wondering at and about ourselves as an animal species may remind us of our material embeddedness in the world, but what could its ethical import be? More specifically, the paper explores whether there is an escape from the ethical quandaries of human exceptionality, which relate to the impossibility of doing with or without that exceptionality. I argue that there is not, but that in wonder we can hold together incompatible possibilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Menyimah Kuala (Feeding the Confluence) is one of the ceremonies still performed by the Kedayan community in Kampung Kuala Nyalau, Bintulu, Sarawak to express their gratitude to God and the supernatural powers for the sustenance enjoyed, to avoid any disasters and unto-ward incidents to the local community, and as a closing to the Makan Tahun (Annual Feast) ritu-al. Based on this study, there are no findings from previous researchers about the performance of the Menyimah Kuala ritual. In fact, according to the villagers, the ritual is only performed by the Kedayan community living in Nyalau, Bintulu. The focus of this paper is to uncover the ritual's process and to analyse symbols found in the ritual using the Theory of Symbols of Pu-rity (2020). This study uses the qualitative method (ethnography) which includes Field Study, Participant Observation, Interview, and Library Review. Based on the study, it was found that the ritual performed to attain well-being from either God or supernatural powers are based on the concept of purity which coincides with the Theory of Symbols of Purity (2020) introduced by Mohamad Maulana. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is no well-articulated and easily identifiable place in the philosophical canon for Aurél Kolnai, despite the fact that he has been championed by such luminaries of contemporary philosophy, who have written detailed essays on his thought, as Pierre Manent, Bernard Williams, David Wiggins, Dan Mahoney, John Haldane or Axel Honneth. When this paper examines his position on “the political”, what we are really looking at is his view of the relationship between politics and ethics, and between politics and philosophy. This paper will focus on two texts by Kolnai. One is a relatively early German-language work entitled What is Politics about? This work was originally published in 1933, which, if you look at the political context, makes this debate with Carl Schmitt quite fascinating. The English title of the other paper is The Moral Theme in Political Division, originally published in 1960, three decades after the previous paper. In the analysis of these works, the contrast between the Machiavellian-Carl Schmitt-like conception of politics and a broader Aristotelian-communal approach will be in focus. While the first paradigm relies on the conflictual nature of politics and takes political emergencies crucial, the second one emphasises the cohesive forces, coordination and cooperation of the community in the everyday life of politics. The purpose of the paper is to demonstrate that the author’s position offers an alternative to the typical Schmittlike position, without becoming naively moralistic. In this interpretation, Kolnai’s phenomenological philosophy plays a major role, determining his understanding of the concept of “the political”. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Surrounded by four of the five Great Lakes, Michigan is characterized by water. Historically, much of the state's industry was situated along the water, often preventing public access to waterfronts and negatively impacting the quality of water resources. Economic shifts, paired with a growing interest in revitalizing waterfronts, have led many Michigan communities to invest in water-based restoration projects. This paper investigates the experiences and perceptions of key stakeholders in four waterfront towns where water restoration projects have been implemented as communities shift toward recreation and tourism-based economies. Twenty interviews were conducted with key stakeholders to explore the factors that lead to successful implementation of water restoration and in turn, how these projects impact community vibrancy. Results suggest that community vibrancy related to water restoration can be characterized by a series of reinforcing feedback loops between local leadership, access to water resources, socio-economic and environmental opportunities, and relationships with water. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bhupen Hazarika was inspired to compose songs by his strong passion for culture and his sense of duty towards the country and the nation. Bhupen Hazarika's personality was a combination of many talents. This combination is also reflected in his songs and takes on a permanent form. Bhupen Hazarika was able to unite the entire nation with the help of the song and he became the hero of all. Depending on the subject, his songs can be divided into different sections. The songs reflecting the cultural aspect are one of these topics. In our discussion paper, an attempt has been made to shed light on the image of cultural harmony reflected in the songs of Bhupen Hazarika. An analytical approach has been adopted to prepare the discussion paper. Apart from accepting Bhupen Hazarika's songs as the main source, various sources have been used as secondary sources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Immigrant Latinx transgender people often migrate to the United States because of a desire for increased safety and more opportunities. However, after migrating to the United States, immigrant Latinx transgender people often struggle to access basic needs, including health care, jobs, and stable finances. These struggles are exacerbated for undocumented immigrant Latinx transgender people. There is a gap in the literature regarding needed resources for immigrant Latinx transgender community members living in the United States. Aims: Utilizing a critical intersectionality framework, the aim of the present study was to investigate the resource needs of immigrant Latinx transgender community members living in the United States. Methods: A community sample of 18 immigrant Latinx transgender people living in a large metropolitan city in Florida participated in individual semi-structured interviews to explore their community resource needs. Results: Thematic analysis revealed five themes related to resources that participants needed including: 1) Transgender healthcare/resources, 2) Public education, 3) Financial aid resources, 4) Homelessness resources, and 5) Addictions care. Two resource need-related themes were identified that pertain specifically to undocumented immigrant Latinx transgender people, including: 1) Documentation papers for access, and 2) Legal aid. Conclusions: Findings suggest that immigrant Latinx transgender community members in this study provided guidance about broad resources needed to enhance their wellness and safety, and promote liberation of community members. Participants' resource needs suggest the importance of policy and structural level changes from institutions with power that consider and enhance the wellness of immigrant Latinx transgender people. Findings also suggest the need for more tailored interventions and case work to better support immigrant Latinx transgender people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Eugippius' Life of Severinus is a text in which society is described through the dichotomy between Romans and barbarians. In this paper, I examine how exactly Eugippius imagines this polarity and to what rhetorical and persuasive ends he employs it. In particular, I focus on his complex portrayal of the barbarians which reveals his views on what place they might occupy in the Roman and Christian vision of history and politics. By examining the social and political ideas in the Life of Severinus we can trace how the hagiographer perceived the disintegrating societies of the West in the fifth and sixth centuries and what attitudes he advocated that could help de-escalate violence and overcome divisions. Finally, I discuss the extent to which Eugippius' representation of the relationship between Romans and barbarians corresponded to the interests and anxieties of his Italian audience living under Ostrogothic rule. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Economies and livelihoods in the Caribbean strongly depend on the terrestrial and marine natural resource base. There are critical gaps in quantitative data and the contextual and compositional factors affecting perceptions of changes in ecosystems and natural resources. This paper used interview data from 441 households in Belize, Dominican Republic, and Suriname to explore the contextual and compositional determinants of perceptions of change in the quality of the terrestrial, coastal/marine environment and natural resources as a composite variable. The outcome variable comprised changes in fishing effort, marine and coastal environment, forest cover, agricultural land area, and soil fertility, and relationships with predictor variables were explored using univariate, bivariate, and three multivariate models. At the univariate level, most respondents in Belize and Suriname reported perceiving a significant increase in fishing effort (i.e. days and fuel spent at sea) and a decrease in forest cover, quality of the coastal/marine environment, area of agricultural land, and fertility and productivity of soils. Sex, marital status, household size, and years of experience were not significantly associated with the terrestrial variables and fishing effort. Sex was only significantly associated with the quality of the marine environment. At the multivariate level, the elderly, high school education, and household incomes were associated with a lower perception of the outcome variable. It is concluded that policy and interventions should strongly consider ethnicity and community, and improve education and household incomes to enhance perceptions of changes in the quality of the terrestrial and coastal/marine environment in the studied countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Healthy community communication has a positive significance for improving public health literacy. Based on the social ecology theory, this paper also combines the extended health management model to develop a framework of evaluation scales for community resource development and utilization. The framework includes eight dimensions: formulating supporting policies, creating a supportive environment, promoting community prevention and treatment, reforming management mechanisms, reconstructing service protocols, securing resource needs, building professional teams, and promoting community health. The model of community management and the dissemination of residents' health elements were constructed from the ecosystem theory consisting of a microsystem and a macro system. The integration of community management and resident health elements showed that the VIF values of the respective variables in the model were less than 5, and there was no significant multi collinearity. And the Hosmer Leme shows goodness-of-fit tests are all greater than 0.05, and the model fits the data well. It indicates that the integration of community management and resident health elements plays an important role in improving the health of residents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates television weather forecasters' role in leading discussions about climate change. It focuses on Miami, a city that has become a symbol of climate change's effects in local, national and international imaginations. Most studies of climate change communication focus on the transmission of information from one group to another, such as from scientists to the lay public, but they do not capture the ways that climate knowledge can become part of everyday community life. This paper uses the case of TV weather reporters, or weathercasters, in Miami to investigate their roles as both participants in and instigators of 'community ritual'. I combine James Carey's concepts of communication as transmission and ritual with Candis Callison's description of climate change vernaculars to show that ritual and community-building are just as important in facilitating the acceptance of talking about climate change as the broadcasting of scientific concepts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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• 193 full-scale tests of tracked vehicles in a progressive slip condition reported. • Parabolic trends were found between DBP versus slip and torque versus slip. • Trends between STMN versus DBP, traction, and torque were influenced by slip. • A modest parabolic trend between sinkage and CP/CI ratio was discovered. In 2013, an extensive effort began to create a consolidated off-road vehicle mobility database named DROVE (Database Records for Off-road Vehicle Environments). DROVE consists of over 8,500 experimental test records measured over several decades for wheeled and tracked vehicles over various terrains. This paper introduces the third release of DROVE, which adds results from 193 tests primarily consisting of data for tracked vehicles on fine-grained soils in a progressive slip condition. Performance parameters considered in DROVE 3.0 include drawbar pull, torque, sinkage, and traction. These parameters were compared to mobility numerics, such as soil-track mobility number, contact pressure to cone index ratio, and mean maximum pressure. These parameters were used to develop mobility trends in this paper. DROVE is intended to be a resource for the mobility community applicable to many situations, including evaluating and advancing numerical simulations, improving closed-form algorithms, and understanding vehicular trends that can be used for development or purchase specifications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to examine the Covid-19 phenomenon and its multidimensional impacts on the form of disruption of social life and efforts to overcome it. At the end of 2019, the city of Wuhan had a new pneumonia outbreak and spread to 190 countries. The outbreak was named Corona Virus Disease 2019 (Covid-19). The Covid-19 pandemic has spread throughout the world and has claimed millions of victims, which until now have not been found a vaccine to treat it. The development of Covid-19 has had a multidimensional impact causing a decline in health, welfare, economic growth, anomies and disruption in various lives. Various strategies and policies have been taken by governments around the world in the form of the use of personal protective equipment (PPE), social distancing, and reducing crowds involving large crowds, new normal and various life revolutions so that people are able to sustain their lives and reduce the new Covid-19 cluster. Until now, the efforts taken by various countries including in the medical field, namely finding a new vaccine, but it have not been successful to be found. So the Covid-19 pandemic has caused a revolution and disruption in various aspects of the social-cultural, health and economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]