bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Spiders in the Net: Universities as Facilitators of Community-based Learning
Authors: Fischer Gerhard , Rohde Markus , Wulf Volker
Published: December 2020

This paper explores the importance of universities in the knowledge society beyond their traditional role in research and education. It argues that, especially in the fields of applied sciences and engineering, they have the potential to exploit local knowledge and provide opportunities for students to become lifelong learners. First, they need to reinvent their conception of education by taking industrial practise and social networks into account.
Social Reproduction and its Applicability for Community Informatics
Authors: Kvasny Lynette
Published: December 2020

Digital divide rhetoric is generally utopian, touting innovative models for collaboration, economic activity, learning, and civic engagement. However, as information and communication technologies (ICT) become more widely available, we cannot naively assume that historically underserved communities are reaping these benefits. Social reproduction theory provides a basis fo understanding how ICT may in fact serve to reproduce, rather than alleviate, inequality.
The Impacts of Community Telecenters in Rural Colombia
Authors: Amariles Fabiola , Paz Olga P. , Russell Nathan , Johnson Nancy
Published: December 2020

Abstract This paper evaluates the impacts of two community telecenters on their host organizations and on the rural areas they serve. Awareness and use of telecenters by rural households were low, as was users ability to articulate information needs. Significant institutional impacts occurred in the NGOs that hosted the telecenters. The results suggest that sustainable expansion of ICTs in rural areas of developing countries may best be achieved by working through local organizations willing to incorporate the technologies into their work, while striving with the communities they serve to build local capacity to use information and ICTs. Resumen Se evalúa el impacto de dos telecentros comunitarios en las organizaciones anfitrionas y en las áreas rurales aledañas. El uso de los telecentros por los campesinos es bajo, así como su habilidad para articular las necesidades de información. Los impactos institucionales observados sugieren que la mejor manera de lograr la expansión sostenible de las TICs en las áreas rurales de los países en desarrollo podría ser por medio de organizaciones locales que incorporen las tecnologías ellas mismas y las usen con sus comunidades, construyendo capacidad local para el uso de la información y de las TICs.
Using a Sustainable Livelihoods Approach to Assessing the Impact of ICTs in Development
Authors: Parkinson Sarah , Ramirez Ricardo
Published: December 2020

This paper describes the sustainable livelihoods framework as a useful tool in assessing the contribution of ICTs to development projects. Assessing the role of ICTs in development can be difficult because they are so multifaceted, and because the effect of ICT use is often indirect. This paper argues that applying the sustainable livelihood frameworks in assessment can help to broaden their scope in a manageable way and prove more analytically rigorous than other available methods. The example of an impact assessment of a Colombian telecentre is used to demonstrate how such an approach can be applied.
Towards Systems Design for Supporting Enabling Communities
Authors: Bieber Michael , McFall Barbara S. , Rice Ronald E. , Gurstein Michael
Published: December 2020

Communities and community support systems should be designed to enable participants to work effectively towards conducting both collective and individual activities and achieving their goals. Such communities are called Enabling Communities. Our focus is the systems that support community members in doing whichever tasks or activities they need or want to. These systems include processes, technology, information and people. This paper provides a framework for Supporting Enabling Communities (SEComm) in two major components: (1) Participant Support Systems (PaSS) and (2) Community Participation Levels (CPaL). Three case studies apply this framework to an emerging virtual community and a community of practice.
Using System Dynamics to Construct Design Theory for Community Information Systems
Authors: De Moor Aldo
Published: December 2020

Virtual communities are complex and evolving socio-technical systems. The design of community information systems requires much theoretical research to solve design problems. A design theory is a prescriptive theory which helps optimize design methods. Community IS design theory is still very young and fragmented, however. In the design theory development process, a mix of theory components is used to solve novel problems or existing problems more effectively and efficiently. We present a meta-model of IS development which focuses on the role of theory in IS design. We show how simulation via system dynamics could play an important role in a more systematic development of design theory for community information systems.
Keeping Promises: Municipal communities struggle to fulfill promises to narrow the digital divide with Municipal Community Wireless Networks
Authors: Tapia Andrea H , Ortiz Julio Angel
Published: December 2020

Some public elites assert that the digital divide is a serious social problem and that governments must intervene by affording wireless solutions to improve this social ill.  Few studies, however, examine the relationship between the claims-making activities around such interventions, specifically in reference to closing the digital divide, and the perceptions of the actual impact of those initiatives on this divide.  We bring together two data sets.  The first dataset is from a previous study examining the public rhetoric surrounding these initiatives vis-à-vis the digital divide.  The latter is part of a much larger study on the network’s impact on the divide.  We conclude that these networks are necessary but insufficient in bridging the gap.
The i-REACH Project in Cambodia
Authors: Dara Kim , Dimanche Long , Ó Siochrú Seán
Published: December 2020

The i-REACH project in Cambodia is an ambitious three year initiative building two pilot e-communities in rural Cambodia.  Begun on May 2006, funded by IDRC of Canada, and managed by the Ministry of Commerce Cambodia, the goal is to deploy a range of ICTs, including telephony, internet, videoconferencing, radio and video, to bring social and economic benefits to villagers, eventually leading to the creation of community-owned ICT enterprises. Although already somewhat behind schedule, a solid team is in place in each pilot, the communities are mobilising around the initiative, and a range of services are on the point of launch.
Metropolitan Wi-Fi Research Network at the Los Angeles State Historic Park
Authors: Samanta Vidyut , Knowles Chase Laurelle Alexandria , Burke Jeff , Wagmister Fabian , Estrin Deborah
Published: December 2020

UCLA is deploying a metropolitan-scale Wi-Fi mesh network near Downtown Los Angeles. It supports research in community-based urban participatory sensing, which focuses on how people can use their everyday mobile phones as sensors for data gathering on personal, community, and urban scales.  Moreover, we will use it to explore Cultural Civic Computing, a service-oriented urban computing model in which neighborhoods power the processes of imagining, specifying, and designing technology infrastructure for public places. This work provides infrastructure with which to explore the potential that a large scale Wi-Fi deployment offers multicultural communities in investigating and reclaiming their own environments, and creating healthy and livable cities.  It also enables public exploration of creativity and cultural identity, as well as the diverse histories of our cities and neighborhoods.
Visualisation Techniques For Facilitating Stakeholder Decision Making In Urban Planning
Authors: Rixon Andrew J , Burn Stewart
Published: December 2020

Public participatory geographical information systems (PPGIS) are becoming widely recognised as powerful tools for informed participatory decision-making processes within urban planning projects. This paper discusses a technique recently used within a case study for providing visualisations of traffic flows and how to incorporate local community perceptions of their neighbourhoods into a PPGIS software tool. In particular, the paper demonstrates a new methodology for visualisation of qualitative social data, facilitating dialogue and discussion amongst stakeholders and planning professionals in an urban context. The paper concludes with a discussion on techniques for developing software and presenting visualisations in an understandable and usable manner catering for a diversity of participants.
What Seniors Value About Online Community
Authors: Burmeister Oliver Kisalay
Published: December 2020

Seniors are involved in online communities around the world. Human-computer interaction researchers have investigated how understanding the values of users can improve technology design, but until now few such investigations have involved systems for seniors. Similarly, although various aspects of networked communities have been researched, few studies have explored ones involving seniors. This interpretivist/constructivist study reveals what a particular community run by and expressly for seniors, value about their community. Of the six key social values identified, their single most important value was ‘belonging to a community of peers’. These values have implications for the design of online communities involving seniors.
"I communicate with my children in the game": Mediated Intergenerational Family Relationships through a Social Networking Game
Authors: Chen Yunan , Wen Jing , Xie Bo
Published: December 2020

How might social networking game playing affect intergenerational family relationships? Motivated by this important research question, we examined game-based communication patterns among family members. We investigated QQ Farm, one of the most popular online games available on a Chinese social networking site. Participatory observations and semi-structured interviews were conducted with sixteen pairs of Chinese parents and their adult children. Our analysis shows that game-based communication does not replace face-to-face or phone-based communication. Rather, it adds a new layer to the existing family communication patterns, which enriches the other forms of family communication and provides a new means for intergenerational family members to stay in touch. Game playing provides a light-weighted and relaxed environment for intergenerational family members to stay connected. It serves as an “I’m safe and well” message board for family members to stay connected without imposing an undue burden for anyone. Moreover, game playing implicitly conveys caring messages to family members. It becomes a new communicative topic to promote the mutual shaping of online and offline intergenerational family communication.
Life-Based Design Against Loneliness Among Older People
Authors: Leikas Jaana , Saariluoma Pertti , Rousi Rebekah Ann , Kuisma Erkki , Vilpponen Hannu
Published: December 2020

Developing successful service concepts has to rely on the efficient exploitation of knowledge about everyday life. This design thinking is called life-based design (LBD) and it is based on examining different aspects of forms of life as a starting point for technology design. Here, we consider LBD in the context of reducing the feeling of loneliness. Via the implementation of focus groups, we studied how different age groups experienced loneliness, and examined whether generational formation could give insight into analysing different life situations and forms of life in the context of social relationships. Exploring forms of life is a focal tool of LBD, stressing the importance of understanding the cultural, social and psychological facts and values that would explain people’s actions in a particular life situation. Finally, we suggest an integrated service system to decrease the feeling of loneliness.
Too Old For Technology? How The Elderly Of Lisbon Use And Perceive ICT
Authors: Neves Bárbara Barbosa , Amaro Fausto
Published: December 2020

The elderly have traditionally been an excluded group in the deployment of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Even though their use of ICT is increasing, there is still a significant age-based digital divide. To empower elderly people’s usage of ICT we need to look at their patterns of usage and perceptions. To understand how Portugal’s elderly (65 and above) use and perceive mobile phones, computers and the Internet, we surveyed a random stratified sample of 500 individuals over 64 years of age, living in Lisbon. Of those surveyed, 72% owned a mobile phone, 13% used computers, and 10% used the Internet. The quantitative data was followed-up by ten qualitative (semi-structured) interviews. The implications of the results are discussed herein.   Keywords: Elderly, Aging, ICT, Ageism, Digital Divide, Mobile phones, Computers, Internet, Portugal, “faux users”
Older and Online: Enhancing social connections in Australian rural places
Authors: Feist Helen R , Parker Kelly , Hugo Graeme
Published: December 2020

Community connectedness and social networks have established links to positive ageing, health and well-being. However, in much of rural Australia time and distance still exercise constraints on interactions outside of the immediate local environment; particularly for older people who may have additional challenges connecting with others because of restricted rural transport options, lack of knowledge and access to new technologies, and physical health limitations. The ‘Linking Rural Older People to Community through Technology’ project is a multi-phase project with people aged 55 years and over living in rural South Australia. This field report presents some short vignettes from the project pilot study of participants’ experiences using different aspects of new technologies to overcome the disadvantages of distance and mobility to enhance their social connections.
Community Radio Provides Elderly a Platform to Have Their Voices Heard in rural Macha, Zambia
Authors: Van Stam Gertjan , Mweetwa Fred
Published: December 2020

Preservation of (African) Intangible Cultural Heritage is an important part of healthy and sustainable progress of rural communities in Africa. Experience at Vision Community Radio Macha indicates that radio provides a platform for dissemination of cultural knowledge and wisdom in a community that operates mainly in primary orality.  The most popular program at Radio Macha is one for which elderly people have organized themselves to facilitate a discussion program on culture. The program provides a beacon for identity in a community in flux in a fast changing world.
Two Worlds of Open Government Data: Getting the Lowdown on Public Toilets in Chennai and Other Matters
Authors: Gurstein Michael
Published: December 2020

Editorial for the Special Issue on CI and Open Government Data
The Rhetoric of Transparency and its Reality: Transparent Territories, Opaque Power and Empowerment
Authors: Raman Bhuvaneswari
Published: December 2020

This paper examines the purported links between transparency, citizens’ participation and empowerment through a focus on the governance of spatial information in Indian cities. It suggests that the data transparency paradigm need to be critically examined as the effects of data visibility and mobility differ according to the nature of information disclosed and conflicts surrounding it. Both information and technology that supports it visibility are embedded in power relations. Three themes are eloborated in the paper namely, the continued difficulty with retreiving information on land and territory;  the complexities involved in capturing and representing accurately the dynamics of territory use and ownership claims and the emerging governmentality relating to spatial governance that renders power opaque.
Data Template For District Economic Planning
Authors: Rath Sharadini
Published: December 2020

Defining ‘open data’ to mean insights from accessible data becoming available to elected decision makers within governance as structured inputs, this paper sets out the status in India in a study done in 2008-10 in the case of Madhubani district in the state of Bihar for district economic planning. The paper demonstrates that a large amount of accessible data can generate highly structured inputs, such as village level digital maps and comparative analysis to set out sectoral, temporal and geographical dimensions of the changes in the local economy. It also identifies disconnects within institutional and political functioning of governance that impedes such opening of data to structured decision making in local governance.
Guidelines for Designing Deliberative Digital Habitats: Learning from e-Participation for Open Data Initiatives
Authors: De Cindio Fiorella
Published: December 2020

This paper discusses issues in designing deliberative digital habitats. It identifies three dimensions that define them: the gemeinschaft dimension, the gesellschaft dimension, and the technology dimension, the latter with four different spaces. While not a how-to manual, this conceptual framework, rooted in both existing literature and field experimentation, should prove helpful to digital democracy designers, either for public institutions or grassroots movements. As a contribution to the growing body of scholarship on online deliberation, it organizes critical issues so that they will not be overlooked. Examples from field cases illustrate such issues.
Apps For Amsterdam
Authors: Demeyer Tom
Published: December 2020

Recently an app contest was organized, much in the vain of the "Apps for Democracy" initiative in Washington DC, called "Apps For Amsterdam". This was a partnership between the City of Amsterdam, Waag Society (Media Lab), and Hack de Overheid (a coders' open data community initiative). In this field note we will explore the process, the enthusiasm, the difficulties and results of this initiative.
Some Observations on the Practice of “Open Data” As Opposed to Its Promise
Authors: Cole Roland J.
Published: December 2020

This note is a contribution to the continuing debates and analyses about what can and should be done to make public data “open.” In this note, I share some observations about current practices surrounding public data. In general, these observations lead to the insight that “absolutely open” public data is and will continue to be rare. Instead, various types of data are apt to be more or less open, and the reasons for the degree of openness may vary from one situation to another, that is  type of data, by country, by type of institution, etc.
Exploring several dimensions of local, global and glocal using the generic conceptual framework Hodges's model
Authors: Jones Peter
Published: December 2020

This paper introduces Hodges’s model a conceptual framework as a means to explore the concept glocal and the more familiar terms local and global. Actual and speculative definitions of glocal are offered. Discussion will also deliberate on the compound meanings of these terms. The model's four knowledge (care) domains facilitate discussion of the physical, social, political and individual dimensions of local, global and glocal. The paper draws upon health, anthropology, history, science, informatics and geopolitics – especially the themes of globalization, literacy, information technology and communication (voice). The purpose is exploratory with additional resort to philosophical reflection.
An Analysis of Public Internet Access Points (PIAPs)
Authors: Arifoglu Ali , Afacan Gülgün , Er Erkan
Published: December 2020

The purpose of this paper is to analyze Public Internet Access Points (PIAPs) established by 17 different initiatives. Analysis focuses on variety of PIAP related issues mainly under operational, management and financing headings. The factors affecting sustainability of PIAPs, problems causing PIAPs to not to operate effectively are also dealt with this paper. The principle value of this paper lies in creating the understanding of trends to establish PIAPs and provide guides for their operation in an effective way. This has been accomplished by performing a comprehensive analysis and obtaining general conclusions based on analysis of 17 different PIAP cases.
Improving community health equity: the potential role for mHealth in Papua New Guinea
Authors: Loring Belinda Jane , Friel Sharon , Matheson Don , Kitau Russell , Ake Isaac , Kitur Urarang , Rosewell Alexander , Randall Heather , Posanai Enoch
Published: December 2020

Papua New Guinea (PNG) faces formidable health equity challenges.  Technology and information is a key part of an effective health system and a determinant of community health equity. Innovative uses of mHealth technologies are proliferating in PNG and can facilitate improvements in the flow of data and information in the PNG health system.  However in isolation these are unlikely to lead to positive change in health equity.  This paper considers the implications of mHealth interventions within the broader PNG health system, and discusses the importance of evaluation to ensure mHealth contributes to improved community health outcomes and health equity.
Decreasing Health Disparities through Technology: Building a Community Health Website
Authors: Davis Olga Idriss , Bean Kristen , McBride Dominica
Published: December 2020

The mission of participatory health communication is to collaborate with communities to provide new information about health knowledge, access to care, and the health needs specific to a community. We present the development of the Community Health Website for communities affected by health disparities in the Southwest United States. The internet is used to effectively engage populations that have been traditionally thought of as unreachable through community-based and culturally-centered research approaches. Specifically, we offer suggestions in working to solve public health problems of underserved communities in the Southwest through web-based health education, interactive kiosks, outreach and participation.
The Emergence and Development of a Regional Living Lab: The Case of San Luis, Argentina
Authors: Finquelievich Susana
Published: December 2020

The article describes the results of a field research on the characteristics and reaches of the Digital San Luis Program (San Luis Digital, SLD) promoted by the provincial government and in which the municipalities have been actively involved. The paper focuses on the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in the social innovation processes promoted by the Provincial Government through agreements with other social actors. Through the analysis of the SLD paradigm, the paper develops the hypothesis that the Province is an actual living lab. The research methodology was mainly meta research, i.e. the integration of models, theories, data and information from various local and international sources, validated with input from field surveys made ad-hoc in San Luis province by the Provincial Directorate of Statistics and Censuses. The scope and impacts were studied in 10 municipalities of the province through 108 interviews with leaders, participants and beneficiaries of San Luis Digital: responsible for programs, employers, providers, mayors, directors of schools, teachers, members of community organizations, teachers college, students, users of cyber AUI, centres of Digital inclusion, etc., and institutions or partners or recipients of San Luis Digital programmes. After analyzing the characteristics of San Luis Digital paradigm, the article describes its achievements.
Collaborative Knowledge Creation in Development Networks: Lessons Learned from a Transnational Programme
Authors: Nascimbeni Fabio
Published: December 2020

The paper is presenting some considerations on how knowledge is collaboratively created and documented in social networks within International Development Cooperation (IDC) settings, and on the importance of collaborative knowledge production and exploitation within these networks. We argue that knowledge exchange and creation is one of the main added values of networking activities of IDC in the network society, and we advocate for networking to be considered a fundamental component of IDC interventions. A specific case study is presented, showing the impact of collaborative knowledge building on a Europe-Latin America cooperation programme of the European Commission.
Qualitative Research without money: Experiences with a home-grown Qualitative Content Analysis tool
Authors: Bytheway Andy
Published: December 2020

Experience with young research students in South Africa, most of whom have few or no resources and are not supported by research infrastructure by their universities, shows that they have great difficulty in learning the techniques of qualitative research.  Beginning as a simple idea, the development of an ad-hoc package intended to assist with the coding and categorisation of qualitative data led to a useful suite of facilities that contributed to at least four projects, one of which had the texts of 52 interviews to work with.  It proved possible to import, structure and organise the research data in a way that then permitted useful export of charts, tables and text into papers and theses.  With appropriate skills, researchers also found it possible to apply their own SQL queries to data that was now well structured and fully normalised (in terms of database design).  Comparison with two commercial packages shows that many of the proclaimed features of the commercial packages were replicated, and in at least one instance they seem to have been exceeded.
An Internet for the Common Good: Engagement, Empowerment, and Justice for All: A Community Informatics Declaration
Authors: . The-Community-Informatics-Community .
Published: December 2020

Effective use of the Internet will benefit everyone. Currently the benefits of the Internet are distributed unequally: some people gain power, wealth and influence from using the Internet while others struggle for basic access. In our vision, people in their communities and everywhere - including the poor and marginalized in developing and developed countries, women and youth, indigenous peoples, older persons, those with disabilities -- will use the Internet to develop and exercise their civic intelligence and work together to address collective challenges.
Participatory development of ICT entrepreneurship in an informal settlement in South Africa
Authors: Steyn Jacques , Rampa Mmamakanye , Marais Mario
Published: December 2020

A unique Participatory Entrepreneurship Development (PED) project was implemented in an informal settlement (Zandspruit) in South Africa. The purpose of the project was to stimulate, among local members of the community, the establishment of innovative, needs-based ICT-related businesses. Training was offered in participatory methods, the process of business development (including needs assessment, business idea generation, business modelling, feasibility analysis, and business plan writing), and sensitization to possible ICT solutions as inspiration for innovation. Participants were expected to propose ICT business solutions for the community, by the community. Results were mixed, with perhaps the most important insight that lack of in-depth ICT knowledge might be the crucial inhibiting factor for community-driven pro-poor ICT-related entrepreneurship.
Increasing Public Participation in Local Government by Means of Mobile Phones: What do South African Youth Think?
Authors: Van Belle Jean-Paul , Cupido Kevin
Published: December 2020

Apathy towards political participation is of concern for many countries throughout the world, and for many people political participation means no more than voting in an election. The South African Constitution makes several provisions for public participation but E-government solutions are not suited to the South African context, where fixed-line internet penetration is dramatically lower than that of mobile phones. Mobile phones cut across socio-economic barriers and have changed the way we communicate. They have been used to mobilise people in different parts of the world, more notably those who were passive politically, into action.  This research set out to investigate whether using mobile phones to increase participation in local government would be acceptable or not. A mixed-method research was conducted in Cape Town, South Africa, amongst youths between the ages of 18 and 35 who had no access to fixed-line internet from either home or work. Constructs from a modified UTAUT model and Social Capital Theory were used to determine the individual intention to use government mobile service if they were made available. It was found that there is not only great interest in using mobile phones to interact with government mobile services, but also to interact with other members of the community. The ability to report on corruption and service delivery problems was particularly welcome.
The Effect of Well Completion Fluid Loss on Productivity Evaluation in Tight Sand Gas Reservoir: A Case Study from East China Sea Gas Well
Authors: Kechao Gao  , Suogui Shang  , Xuan Wu  , Liang Tao  , Yutang Jin
Published: December 2020

Fluid loss is inevitable in the well drilling and completion, which may cause series of formation damage such as clay swelling, solid plugging and water blocking. In tight sand gas reservoir, water blocking has become the major damage factor for economical developing. In deliverability test, water blocking will bring an inaccurate productivity test result to affect the following development strategy. With the development of East China Sea gas field, well drilling is focusing on the deeper tight sand formation. The tiny pore throat and high capillary pressure can bring out serious water blocking damage during well drilling and completion. The damaged zone can mislead the resource assessment and productivity evaluation. In this paper, an exploration well X in East China Sea gas field is selected as the research target to investigate the water blocking mechanism and physical process during well drilling and completion process. This study compares the productivity performance of X well with fluid loss and no fluid loss models through numerical modeling approach based on the actual data. Sensitive studies are also performed in the simulation. Results show that the excessive fluid invasion pressure and lower matrix permeability will result in serious water blocking damage to mislead the resource assessment and productivity evaluation even in underbalanced well drilling. Interestingly, extending shut-in time can make the gas production rate quickly reach the peak value in the early production stage, while it can decrease the cumulative gas production in whole production process. This study can provide an avenue to initiate quantitative analysis on resource assessment, and gas productivity evaluation strategy after water invasion during the well drilling and completion in tight sand gas reservoir of East China Sea.
About the Upper Border of the Кyiv Grivnas Usage
Authors: Kozubovskyi Heorhii
Published: December 2020

The problem of the usage of silver payment ingots (Kyiv grivnas) after the Mongol invasion is analyzed in the article. Such silver ingots are dated by the ХІІ — first half of the ХІІІ c., until the invasion of 1239—1240 by majority of authors. However, historical and numismatic facts testify to the important role, which the grivnas of the «Kyiv type» played in the second half of the ХІІІ c. The grivnas of the «Kyiv type» are occasionally among the finds of the beginning of the ХІV c. The weight of most ingots was about 160 g (are kept in the well-known standards — 163,7 g). However, a part of them has the weight of 170—216 g. It was connected with a great extent of rise in price of bread and grain in the middle – second part of the XIII c. The analysis of certain part of grivnas of the «Kyiv type» indicate, that the content of silver in them was very different. Absolute majority of grivnas has high percentage of silver — 900—950/1000. However, the certain part of them has high content of copper and other metals (400 °, 600 °, 750 °, 800 °, 870 °) and also there are present copper grivnas of the «Kyiv type». Part of researchers considers copper grivnas as old or modern false ingots. Several copper grivnas show the presence of silver (4,14 %. 9,80 %). For the grivnas of the «Kyiv type» manufacturing there was used well-quality silver as well alloys with concentrations of copper and other metals. These several grivnas of the «Kyiv type» could be made from billon Byzantine and oriental coins of the XIII c. Copper Byzantine coins of the ХІІ—ХІV c. are fixed in the Eastern Europe among the objects found in hoards and occasionally. A wide distribution of the Byzantine copper coins in Rus gives a testimony to the fact that they intensively were used in the local commerce. Discoveries of copper oriental coins of the middle of the XIII c. have been fixed in Kyiv. Reduction of the silver ingots usage was connected with global catastrophe associated with the invasion of the hordes of Batu Khan and Mongol tribute. However, these facts didn’t cause the complete disappearance of grivnas in the middle of the ХІІІ c. The grivnas of the «Kyiv type» appeared to be the main currency and in the second half of the ХІІІ c. (Mongol tribute, ransoms and etc.) on the certain territory of Eastern Europe.
Distribution of the Donetsk Type Beakers Among the Ingul Catacomb Culture Burials
Authors: Ivanov Mykyta
Published: December 2020

The prominent pottery type of the Catacomb cultures of the northern Pontic steppe in 2500—2300 BC are the beakers of the Donetsk type. Donetsk beakers can be described as globular vessels with straight neck and articulated foot. Beaker’s body is often decorated with impressions of braid that form circles or a garland. Though the majority of Donetsk beakers originate from the burials of Donetsk Catacomb culture of the Seversky Donets basin, several beakers were found to the west from the Donetsk culture area. Currently, 14 Donetsk beakers coming from the Inhul Catacomb culture are known. Mapping of the Donetsk beakers found in the burials of the Inhul Catacomb culture indicates the distribution of the Eastern vessels among all local groups of the Inhul culture such as Molochansk, the North-Crimea, the Oril-Samara, the Southern and Northern Inhul and Kryvyi Rih territorial areas. As an exception can be named the Dniester-Southern Bug group. The latter is often described in historiography as an inclusion from outer influences during the second half of the 3rd millennia and the study of beakers is supported by such a conclusion. Mapping also reveals the concentration of Donetsk beakers near Kryvyi Rih copper ore basin, which had been exploited since the second half of the 4th millennia BC. It may be assumed that the appearance of Donetsk beakers represents the migration of Donetsk culture’s metallurgists who were searching for the new sources of raw materials. The distribution of the Donetsk Catacomb culture burials, as well as Donetsk beakers, allows reconstructing two routs of migration of the Donetsk people. Some of them could have come from the South, the North-Eastern Azov region. Others could have come from the North, the territory of the Left-bank Ukraine Forest-Steppe. Distribution areas of the Donetsk and Inhul cultures collide on the line Poltava-Lozova which is attested by the materials of Storozhove, Ternivka and Petrivka burial mound. Thus, numerous examples of Donetsk beakers found inside the burials of the Inhul Catacomb culture indicate a long-running migration of the Donetsk people from the Sevesky Donets basin to the Ukrainian Right-bank steppe during the period from 2500 to 2300 BC.
Letters of the Archaeologist V. Ye. Kozlovska to the Regional Researcher S. L. Drozdov (According to the Archive of the National Museum of History of Ukraine)
Authors: Popelnytska Olena
Published: December 2020

In the archives of The National Museum of History of Ukraine in the fund No. 4 (K. V. Bolsunovskyi) there are personal documents of the famous local historian and museum figure Stepan Leontiiovych Drozdov, among them — five letters of the famous archaeologist Valeria Yevhenivna Kozlovska. This correspondence is a fragment of V. Ye. Kozlovska’s archive, part of which is now outside Ukraine, or is scattered across the personal archives of Ukrainian scientists who were a part of V. Ye. Kozlovska’s circle of contacts and have not yet been introduced into scientific circulation. Therefore, each new revealed letter of V. Ye. Kozlovska has a significant scientific value as a source for the biography of this outstanding personality and scientist. The earliest of V. Ye. Kozlovska’s letters to S. L. Drozdov is dated by June 14, 1916; there was mentioned the evacuation of the Kyiv Art, Industrial and Scientific Museum collections during the First World War. The next four letters concerned the activities of the expedition of the All-Ukrainian Archaeological Committee in 1929 in Bilotserkivshchyna. In addition to V. Ye. Kozlovska — the head of the expedition, it included F. M. Ivanov and J. F. Maslun — employees of the Bilotserkivskyi District Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, V. A. Mazur — an employee of the T. Shevchenko All-Ukrainian Historical Museum, a draftsman (whose surname is not mentioned in the letters) and a certain Mykola Mykhailovych was also mentioned in the letters — obviously M. M. Tkachenko — an employee of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and the husband of V. Ye. Kozlovska. In a letter dated by May 14, 1929, V. Ye. Kozlovska appealed to S. L. Drozdov with a proposal to conduct joint excavations of the All-Ukrainian Archaeological Committee and the Bila Tserkva Museum. In a letter dated by September 22, 1929, V. Ye. Kozlovska informed S. L. Drozdov that she would be able to arrive to Didivshchyna village not earlier than in September 28. The place of writing the letter dated by October 3, 1929 is the corner of Zalissia in Didivshchyna village. The letter mentions the arrival of S. L. Drozdov for excavations, finds of an iron knife and two male burials, packing archaeological finds in boxes. V. Ye. Kozlovska also asked S. L. Drozdov to find in Bila Tserkva a technique for drawing excavation plans. In the letter dated by October 18, 1929 there was informed about the packing of a cut-out of the hearth of the stove from the investigated dwelling and about V. Ye. Kozlovska’s intention to come to Bila Tserkva in November 1 for ready-made drawings of the excavations.
Acceso a servicios de salud en un establecimiento penitenciario y carcelario masculino de Antioquia (Colombia), 2012
Authors: Nieto Lopez Emmanuel Salvador , Hernández-Pacheco Jeniffer , Mejía-Ortega Luz M.
Published: December 2020

Objetivo Identificar los factores que condicionan el acceso a los servicios de salud de las personas privadas de la libertad en el establecimiento penitenciario y carcelario La Paz del municipio de Itagüí, en Antioquia (Colombia), en el 2012.Materiales y Métodos Estudio descriptivo transversal soportado en encuestas a una muestra de 126 privados de la libertad de dicha institución. Se aplicaron técnicas de estadística descriptiva e inferencial: medias, proporciones y pruebas de significancia estadística.Resultados La mayoría califica adecuada o muy adecuada la continuidad, oportunidad e integralidad de la atención. Todos valoran como bueno o muy bueno el trato recibido. A cerca de un tercio le fueron negados o entregados parcialmente los medicamentos recetados. El 35,7% perdió citas médicas por problemas administrativos y la mayoría manifiesta no tener información suficiente sobre sus derechos en salud. El 66,7% declara que su salud empeoró o permaneció igual luego de haber sido atendido.Conclusiones Una alta proporción logra acceder a los servicios y califica positivamente la atención médica, pero persisten barreras de acceso a medicamentos, problemas de información sobre derechos y valoraciones negativas sobre el impacto de la atención médica recibida.
New and noteworthy Hypnales (Bryophyta) records from the Nuluhon Trusmadi Forest Reserve in Borneo
Authors: Mustapeng Andi Maryani A. , Suleiman Monica
Published: December 2020

Four Hypnales mosses from three pleurocarpous families are recorded in Borneo for the first time. They are Neonoguchia auriculata (Copp. ex Thér.) S.H. Lin (Meteoriaceae), Oxyrrhynchium bergmaniae (E.B. Bartram) Huttunen & Ignatov (Brachytheciaceae), Thamnobryum latifolium (Bosch & Sande Lac.) Nieuwl. (Neckeraceae), and Trachycladiella sparsa (Mitt.) M. Menzel (Meteoriaceae). The specimens were collected from Nuluhon Trusmadi Forest Reserve in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. Descriptions and illustrations of the four species as well as notes on their distribution and distinguishing characteristics are provided.
The concept sketch as a space
Authors: Day Dennis
Published: December 2020

In this paper I explore some of the ways a concept sketch can be used in the professional practice of industrial design. The paper shows generally how an inscribed object is situated and utilized in collaborative activity, by focusing particularly on the space over the sketch as a site for participation in a concept development meeting. This participation is both bodily and verbally manifested and I attempt to show how using the sketch and not using the sketch are distinctly organized. A main finding is that the sketch – a ubiquitous artifact in design – is much more than the iconic representations inscribed upon it. For example, the ‘sketch space’ in the air over the sketch is a site that can arbitrate a fundamental organizational resource, namely turn taking. Another type of organization concerns the sorts of verbal actions carried out with and without the sketch, or the space over it. Actions concerning the organization of design were carried out without the sketch, while actions concerned with the concrete particulars of the design project at hand were carried out with the sketch. Its uses in the meeting allow for the artful demonstration of the professional competences of industrial designers.
Doing notes
Authors: Hazel Spencer
Published: December 2020

This study explores the use of inscribed objects developed during theatre rehearsals and used as a resource in the structuring of one particular diagnostic activity in the theatre, known to practitioners as ‘doing notes’. This activity denotes diagnostic discussions in theatre rehearsals where members gather to reflect on their staging, and come to an agreement on future courses of action. Observing how directors use annotated play-scripts and notepads as tools for coordinating the performers’ engagement in the analysis and discussions of the staged action, the study asks what role these inscribed objects have as resources for coordinating the interaction during these activities. The study uses a longitudinal data set of video-recorded theatre rehearsals, here concerning two theatre companies as they prepare to stage naturalistic dramas, both working from play-scripts. The analysis explores how members of the ensemble use the artefacts to identify the particular staged sequence and action that is being topicalized and adopt the relevant participation framework for attending to the feedback item; how the artefacts are used in occasioning transitions between different items of feedback; and how the director also uses the objects as a means to mitigate for the socially sensitive act of critiquing colleagues’ performance in a public arena. The findings demonstrate how members orient to such locally produced inscribed objects as relevant resources for the carrying out of diagnostic activities at the heart of the collaborative theatre project.
Inscribed objects as resources for achieving progressivity in lesson planning talk
Authors: Greer Tim , Leyland Chris
Published: December 2020

As a means of furthering their talk, co-present participants will on occasions orient to environmentally available text, such as that in a book or on a computer screen. This sort of action commonly relies on a combination of both embodied and spoken interactional practices to enable elements of the written language to become part of the ensuing talk. Such actions as pointing to part of a page or gazing at an illustration and then naming it can help establish a joint focus of attention, particularly in talk in which the textual object plays a role in future activities the participants are discussing. This study uses conversation analysis to suggest that textual objects therefore become an affordance for turn progressivity, since they contain language components that can serve as both potential prompts and turn-incorporable elements. The data are taken from Japanese/English bilingual interaction video-recorded between elementary and junior high educators who are preparing to team-teach English classes in Japan. We examine this phenomenon in two distinct sequential contexts: (1) devising a plan and (2) sharing a plan. The study provides insight into the ways inscribed objects can be used to facilitate interaction within the professional practice of team-teacher planning.
Sticking to the rules
Authors: Landgrebe Jeanette , Marstrand Rainar Rye
Published: December 2020

In this paper, we take an ethnomethodological perspective to analysing members’ competence in a professional practice. We propose an approach which systematises different levels of analysis to identify the underlying management rules, principles and procedures that are significant for the way members in a Lean department meeting organise their in situ activity. Authentic video footage, on-site observations and ethnographic material form the basis of our research focus. Our analysis suggests that the mere presence of an inscribed post-it within an activity does not automatically render it into an object which facilitates discussions, organises activities or records outcomes, but that it is embedded within the members’ taken-for-granted knowledge and routine ways of doing. As such, it is the larger organisational context and the activity at hand which determine the role of the post-it in the moment-to-moment interaction. In conclusion, we suggest going beyond the conventional understanding of context and participation framework in analysing work practices, as an approach to broadening our understanding of what constitutes context from members’ own perspectives in a professional workplace practice.
Stability and hybridity in refugee legal advice meetings
Authors: Reynolds Judith
Published: December 2020

This article offers new insights into the discursive structuring of legal advice communication. Drawing on interactional data from eight legal advice meetings between one immigration lawyer and several different clients concerning the reunification of refugee families, the article employs communicative activity type (CAT) as a meso-level analytical approach to reveal the dynamically structured discursive organisation of these meetings. I show that whilst the stable discursive structure of the legal advice meeting evident in these data broadly confirms existing pedagogic models of legal advice communication, three different kinds of hybridity are also evident, revealing flexible use of the discursive structure in everyday practice. I also show that this stable but flexible discursive structure functions as a resource to support intercultural communication in this immigration advice context. This finding contrasts with analyses of intercultural communication in institutional gatekeeping interactions, which have argued that discursive structure functions as a barrier. The present study demonstrates the importance in discourse analysis of considering the purpose of an intercultural interaction when interpreting the meanings and functions of hybridity in discursive structure. The CAT analysis enhances our understanding of existing legal advice communication research, and functions as a heuristic for viewing legal advice as a form of institutionally grounded intercultural communication.