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Negotiating Learning and Identity in Higher Education
Authors: Bangeni Bongi , Kapp Rochelle 
Published: October 2017

While access to higher education has increased globally, student retention has become a major challenge. This book analyses various aspects of the learning pathways of black students from a range of disciplinary backgrounds at a relatively elite, English-medium, historically white South African university. The students are part of a generation of young black people who have grown up in the new South Africa and are gaining access to higher education in unprecedented numbers. Based on two longitudinal case studies, Negotiating Learning and Identity in Higher Education makes a contribution to the debates about how to facilitate access and graduation of working-class students. The longitudinal perspective enabled the students participating in the research to reflect on their transition to university and the stumbling blocks they encountered in their senior years. The contributors show that the school-to-university transition is not linear or universal. Students had to negotiate multiple transitions at various times and both resist and absorb institutional, disciplinary and home discourses.
The book describes and analyses the students' ambivalence as they straddle often conflicting discourses within their disciplines; within the institution; between home and the institution; and as they occupy multiple subject positions that are related to the boundaries of place and time. Each chapter also describes the ways in which the institution supports and/or hinders students' progress, explores the implications of its findings for models of support and addresses the issue of what constitutes meaningful access to institutional and disciplinary discourses
Bare Architecture: A Schizoanalysis
Authors: Smith Chris L. 
Published: October 2017

Bare Architecture: a schizoanalysis, is a poststructural exploration of the interface between architecture and the body. Chris L. Smith skilfully introduces and explains numerous concepts drawn from poststructural philosophy to explore the manner by which the architecture/body relation may be rethought in the 21st century. Multiple well-known figures in the discourses of poststructuralism are invoked: Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Roland Barthes, Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, Jorges Luis Borges and Michel Serres. These figures bring into view the philosophical frame in which the body is formulated.
Alongside the philosophy, the architecture that Smith comes to refer to as ‘bare architecture’ is explored. Smith considers architecture as a complex construction and the book draws upon literature, art and music, to provide a critique of the limits, extents and opportunities for architecture itself. The book considers key works from the architects Douglas Darden, Georges Pingusson, Lacatan and Vassal, Carlo Scarpa, Peter Zumthor, Marco Casagrande and Sami Rintala and Raumlabor. Such works are engaged for their capacities to foster a rethinking of the relation between architecture and the body.
Exploring spatial–temporal dynamics of fire regime features in mainland Spain
Authors: Jiménez-Ruano Adrián , Rodrigues Mimbrero Marcos , de la Riva Fernández Juan 
Published: October 2017

Abstract. This paper explores spatial–temporal dynamics in fire regime features, such as fire frequency, burnt area, large fires and natural- and human-caused fires, as an essential part of fire regime characterization. Changes in fire features are analysed at different spatial – regional and provincial/NUTS3 – levels, together with summer and winter temporal scales, using historical fire data from Spain for the period 1974–2013. Temporal shifts in fire features are investigated by means of change point detection procedures – Pettitt test, AMOC (at most one change), PELT (pruned exact linear time) and BinSeg (binary segmentation) – at a regional level to identify changes in the time series of the features. A trend analysis was conducted using the Mann–Kendall and Sen's slope tests at both the regional and NUTS3 level. Finally, we applied a principal component analysis (PCA) and varimax rotation to trend outputs – mainly Sen's slope values – to summarize overall temporal behaviour and to explore potential links in the evolution of fire features. Our results suggest that most fire features show remarkable shifts between the late 1980s and the first half of the 1990s. Mann–Kendall outputs revealed negative trends in the Mediterranean region. Results from Sen's slope suggest high spatial and intra-annual variability across the study area. Fire activity related to human sources seems to be experiencing an overall decrease in the northwestern provinces, particularly pronounced during summer. Similarly, the Hinterland and the Mediterranean coast are gradually becoming less fire affected. Finally, PCA enabled trends to be synthesized into four main components: winter fire frequency (PC1), summer burnt area (PC2), large fires (PC3) and natural fires (PC4).
Liquidaties nieuwe stijl
Authors: van Gestel B. , Verhoeven M.A. 
Published: October 2017

Contract killings in a new style.The coarsening and professionalization in contract killings in the Netherlands.
While contract killings by organized crime groups are by no means new to the Netherlands (with around twenty to thirty cases a year over the last few decades), there is reason to believe that the nature of the killings has changed. The key question of this article is which recent developments can be identified in relation to the phenomenon of contract killings. The availability of new groups of hitmen and new means has led to a number of changes in modus operandi for contract killings within organized crime. On the one hand, there is a process of professionalization when it comes to methods of observation and counterstrategies, which involves the use of the latest technological tools. The digitization of resources and traces plays a significant part in this. On the other hand, the perpetrators are resorting to much coarser methods for the actual killings. This may be attributed to the abundance of heavy firearms available in the Netherlands and to new inexperienced homegrown hitmen, who are willing to kill in exchange for payment.
‘Hitman, at your service’: een crime-scriptanalyse van liquidaties in Nederland
Authors: de Korte L.R. 
Published: October 2017

‘Hitman, at your service’: a crime script analysis of contract killings in the Netherlands
Contract killings in the Netherlands have been a common phenomenon for the last two decades. In those two decades, the killings have become more violent and they are often executed in public spaces. Despite their big societal impact, scientific research into the contract killings is not available. This article aims to broaden the empirical basis of contract killings by studying the killings through crime script analysis. The focus of the article is on the objects and facilitators necessary for the preparations of the killings. First, the analysis of six police files showed that stolen vehicles, machine guns, and technical equipment like encrypted phones and tracking equipment are very often used in the preparation of a contract killing. Second, spy shops facilitated the contract killings by ensuring safe communication for the hitmen and by using tracking equipment the specific location of the victim is easily available. Finally, the analysis shows that hitmen were hired to execute the killings.
Spreken is lood
Authors: Leistra G. 
Published: October 2017

Speech is lead. Is the government able to protect threatened witnesses?
This article focuses on witness protection programs for (former) criminals who witness against suspects in criminal procedures. It goes without saying that these witnesses run the risk of becoming the target of a contract killing. The author describes the conditions of admission to a witness protection program, as well as the various existing types of protection. Witnesses themselves are often not very enthusiastic about the program. Since they themselves have a criminal past, they look at the police as their enemy and often prefer to receive a lump sum and arrange their safety themselves, as becomes clear from several examples provided by the author.
Adding access to a video magnifier to standard vision rehabilitation: initial results on reading performance and well-being from a prospective, randomized study
Authors: Jackson Mary Lou , Schoessow Kimberly A. , Selivanova Alexandra , Wallis Jennifer 
Published: October 2017

PurposeBoth optical and electronic magnification are available to patients with low vision. Electronic video magnifiers are more expensive than optical magnifiers, but they offer additional benefits, including variable magnification and contrast. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of access to a video magnifier (VM) added to standard comprehensive vision rehabilitation (VR).
MethodsIn this prospective study, 37 subjects with central field loss were randomized to receive standard VR (VR group, 18 subjects) or standard VR plus VM (VM group, 19 subjects). Subjects read the International Reading Speed Texts (IReST), a bank check, and a phone number at enrollment, at 1 month, and after occupational therapy (OT) as indicated to address patient goals. The Impact of Vision Impairment (IVI) questionnaire, a version of the Activity Inventory (AI), and the Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS) were administered at enrollment, 1 month, after OT, 1 month later, and 1 year after enrollment. Assessments at enrollment and 1 month later were evaluated.
ResultsAt 1 month, the VM group displayed significant improvement in reading continuous print as measured by the IReST (P = 0.01) but did not differ on IVI, AI, or DASS. From enrollment to 1 month all subjects improved in their ability to spot read (phone number and check; P < 0.01 for both). The VM group improved in their ability to find and read a number in a phone book more than the VR group at 1 month after initial consultation (P = 0.02). All reported better well-being (P = 0.02).
ConclusionsAll subjects reported better well-being on the IVI. The VM group read faster and was better at two spot reading tasks but did not differ from the VR group in other outcome measures.
Le conte de Cendrillon : de la Chine à l’Acadie sur les ailes de la tradition
Authors: Labelle Ronald 
Published: October 2017

Le titre de l’article reflète le fait que le conte bien connu de Cendrillon a connu un long parcours à partir de ses origines asiatiques jusqu’au Canada français. C’est le conte qui a connu le plus grand nombre d’études comparatives depuis la première parue en 1879. Cendrillon représente le conte type 510A de la typologie Aarne-Thompson- Uther (Atu) et partage plusieurs éléments avec d’autres contes apparentés, dont Atu 480, Les Fées, ou Les Fées reconnaissantes. En tout, 35 versions du conte ont été recueillies en Acadie, soit le tiers du total répertorié dans la francophonie. Enfin, la « Cendrillouse » acadienne ressemble peu au personnage familier des contes de Perrault. On trouve même dans nos versions des détails scatologiques qui rappellent les fabliaux du Moyen-Âge.
La chasse au chevreuil chez les frères Normand dans les Cantons de l’Est
Authors: Normand Germaine 
Published: October 2017

Ce texte a été produit dans le cadre d’un séminaire de maîtrise en sociologie à la fin des années 1970. À la suite d’enquêtes orales auprès de ses quatre frères, l’auteure s’est d’abord attardée à étudier cette chasse, à en décrire sa structure, son organisation et son déroulement. Par la suite, cette chasse a été analysée sous les angles de la fête, de la cérémonie et du jeu. Cette recherche lui a permis de préciser son projet de mémoire de maîtrise et de circonscrire son nouveau terrain de prédilection : la nouvelle vie sur les terres acquises et cultivées par les cinq familles immigrées de Charlevoix à la fin des années 1910 sous l’impulsion de son père François, organisateur de cette migration dans les Cantons de l’Est.
Chronique du Centre de conservation du Québec
Authors: Champagne Nicole , Belleau Claude , Brulotte Mireille , O’Malley Michael 
Published: October 2017

Pour cette deuxième collaboration à Rabaska, le Centre de conservation du Québec (Ccq), nous offre trois textes préparés par une restauratrice et deux restaurateurs afin de faire connaître des projets de restauration « coup de coeur » regroupés sous le thème du patrimoine religieux. Claude Belleau, de l’atelier des sculptures, traite de la restauration d’une sculpture provenant d’un corbillard pour enfants ; Mireille Brulotte décrit la restauration d’un fauteuil garni faisant partie du trésor classé de l’église de Notre-Dame-de-Lorette ; enfin, Michael O’Malley, restaurateur de peintures, présente plusieurs projets de restauration de peintures qui ont permis d’en assurer la pérennité.
Le folklore et les femmes
Authors: Lacourcière Luc , Pichette Jean-Pierre 
Published: October 2017

En 1957, l’Association des médecins de langue française du Canada tenant son xxviie congrès à Québec, avait convié le titulaire de la chaire de folklore de l’Université Laval à livrer une conférence, non pas aux médecins, mais à leurs épouses au cours d’un déjeuner-causerie le 24 septembre. Pour la circonstance, Luc Lacourcière avait choisi un sujet qui ferait le pont entre sa spécialité et son auditoire : le folklore et les femmes. L’exposé se divisait en trois points. À la suite d’un préambule spécifiant avec humour le mandat qu’on lui avait donné, le conférencier s’intéressait d’abord aux femmes folkloristes, celles qui avaient laissé leur marque dans la cueillette ou dans l’étude des traditions populaires ; ensuite, il présentait quelques informatrices notables, les centenaires, les sages-femmes, les conteuses, qui avaient transmis aux chercheurs une partie de leur répertoire ; puis, en finale, il analysait brièvement le rôle que jouent les femmes dans les fictions populaires, contes réalistes, merveilleux ou facétieux.
Factors influencing psychoactive substance use among adolescents in public secondary schools in Uganda
Authors: Rukundo Aloysius , Kibanja Grace , Steffens Karl 
Published: October 2017

Rukundo, A., Kibanja, G., & Steffens, K. (2017). Factors influencing psychoactive substance use among adolescents in public secondary schools in Uganda. The International Journal Of Alcohol And Drug Research, 6(1), 69-76. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.7895/ijadr.v6i1.237Introduction: Studies exploring psychoactive substance use (PASU) among adolescents report a variety of both intrapersonal and interpersonal negatively and positively reinforcing factors. While existing studies have looked at factors affecting PASU among adolescents in general, little has been done to explore such factors in schools.Objective: This paper examines the factors that influence PASU among adolescents in Ugandan public schools.Methods: The study generated data from 12 focus group discussions (FGDs), based on a qualitative, cross-sectional exploratory design using purposive sampling. We used a focus group guide based on the question “What factors influence use ofResults: All focus groups noted peer pressure as the strongest factor influencing use of substances in schools, with relief from domestic stress being identified as the second strongest factor. The FGDs tackled other factors related to PASU in public schools in Uganda, though not to as big of an extent.Conclusion: Present study results generally seem to suggest that PASU among adolescents in public schools is a result of the interaction between adolescents, the substances in question, and the environment in which those adolescents live.
Interpreting Observations of Large‐Scale Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances by Ionospheric Sounders
Authors: Pederick L. H. , Cervera M. A. , Harris T. J. 
Published: October 2017

AbstractFrom July to October 2015, the Australian Defence Science and Technology Group conducted an experiment during which a vertical incidence sounder (VIS) was set up at Alice Springs Airport. During September 2015 this VIS observed the passage of many large‐scale traveling ionospheric disturbances (TIDs). By plotting the measured virtual heights across multiple frequencies as a function of time, the passage of the TID can be clearly displayed. Using this plotting method, we show that all the TIDs observed during the campaign by the VIS at Alice Springs show an apparent downward phase progression of the crests and troughs. The passage of the TID can be more clearly interpreted by plotting the true height of iso‐ionic contours across multiple plasma frequencies; the true heights can be obtained by inverting each ionogram to obtain an electron density profile. These plots can be used to measure the vertical phase speed of a TID and also reveal a time lag between events seen in true height compared to virtual height. To the best of our knowledge, this style of analysis has not previously been applied to other swept‐frequency sounder observations. We develop a simple model to investigate the effect of the passage of a large‐scale TID on a VIS. The model confirms that for a TID with a downward vertical phase progression, the crests and troughs will appear earlier in virtual height than in true height and will have a smaller apparent speed in true height than in virtual height.
Tidal Variability Related to Sea Level Variability in the Pacific Ocean
Authors: Devlin Adam T. , Jay David A. , Zaron Edward D. , Talke Stefan A. , Pan Jiayi , Lin Hui 
Published: September 2017

AbstractOcean tides are changing worldwide for reasons unrelated to astronomical forcing. Changes in tidal properties coupled with altered mean sea level (MSL) may yield higher peak water levels and increased occurrence of short‐term exceedance events, such as storm surge and nuisance flooding. Here we investigate the hypothesis that changes in relative sea level are correlated with alterations in tidal amplitudes. Our approach focuses on the correlation between short‐term (monthly to interannual) fluctuations in sea level with changes in tidal properties of major ocean tides (M2, and K1; S2 and O1) at 152 gauges. Results suggest that sea level variability is correlated to interannual tidal variability at most (92%) of tide gauges in the Pacific, with statistically significant rates between ±10 and ±500 mm per meter sea level rise observed. These tidal anomalies, while influenced by basin‐scale climate processes and sea level changes, appear to be locally forced (in part) and not coherent over amphidromic or basin‐wide scales. Overall, the Western Pacific shows a greater concentration of tide/sea level correlations at interannual time scales than the Eastern Pacific; 44% and 46% of gauges are significant in K1 and O1 in the west compared to 29% and 30% in the east, and 63% and 53% of gauges in the west are significant in M2 and S2 versus 47% and 32% in the east. Seasonal variation in tidal properties is less apparent in the empirical record, with statistically significant seasonal variations observed at only 35% of all gauges, with the largest concentrations in Southeast Asia.
Automatic Cloud‐Type Classification Based On the Combined Use of a Sky Camera and a Ceilometer
Authors: Huertas‐Tato J. , Rodríguez‐Benítez F. J. , Arbizu‐Barrena C. , Aler‐Mur R. , Galvan‐Leon I. , Pozo‐Vázquez D. 
Published: October 2017

AbstractA methodology, aimed to be fully operational, for automatic cloud classification based on the synergetic use of a sky camera and a ceilometer is presented. The random forest machine learning algorithm was used to train the classifier with 19 input features: 12 extracted from the sky camera images and 7 from the ceilometer. The method was developed and tested based on a set of 717 images collected at the radiometric stations of the Univ. of Jaén (Spain). Up to nine different types of clouds (plus clear sky) were considered (clear sky, cumulus, stratocumulus, nimbostratus, altocumulus, altostratus, stratus, cirrocumulus, cirrostratus, and cirrus) plus an additional category multicloud, aiming to account for the frequent cases in which the sky is covered by several cloud types. A total of eight experiments was conducted by (1) excluding/including the ceilometer information, (2) including/excluding the multicloud category, and (3) using six or nine different cloud types, aside from the clear‐sky and multicloud category. The method provided accuracies ranging from 45% to 78%, being highly dependent on the use of the ceilometer information. This information showed to be particularly relevant for accurately classifying “cumuliform” clouds and to account for the multicloud category. In this regard, the camera information alone was found to be not suitable to deal with this category. Finally, while the use of the ceilometer provided an overall superior performance, some limitations were found, mainly related to the classification of clouds with similar cloud base height and geometric thickness.
The Record Los Angeles Heat Event of September 2010: 1. Synoptic‐Scale‐Meso‐β‐Scale Analyses of Interactive Planetary Wave Breaking, Terrain‐ and Coastal‐Induced Circulations
Authors: Kaplan Michael L. , Tilley Jeffrey S. , Hatchett Benjamin J. , Smith Craig M. , Walston Joshua M. , Shourd Kacie N. , Lewis John M. 
Published: October 2017

AbstractOn 27 September 2010 the Los Angeles Civic Center reached its all‐time record maximum temperature of 45°C before 1330 local daylight time with several other regional stations observing all‐time record breaking heat early in that afternoon. This record event is associated with a general circulation pattern predisposed to hemispheric wave breaking. Three days before the event, wave breaking organizes complex terrain‐ and coastal‐induced processes that lead to isentropic surface folding into the Los Angeles Basin. The first wave break occurs over the western two thirds of North America leading to trough elongation across the southwestern U.S. Collocated with this trough is an isentropic potential vorticity filament that is the locus of a thermally indirect circulation central to warming and associated thickness increases and ridging westward across the Great Basin. In response to this circulation, two subsynoptic wave breaks are triggered along the Pacific coast. The isentropic potential vorticity filament is coupled to the breaking waves and the interaction produces a subsynoptic low‐pressure center and a deep vortex aloft over the southeastern California desert. This coupling leads to advection of an elevated mixed layer over Point Conception the night before the record‐breaking heat that creates a coastally trapped low‐pressure area southwest of Los Angeles. The two low‐pressure centers create a low‐level pressure gradient and east‐southeasterly jet directed offshore over the Los Angeles Basin by sunrise on 27 September. This allows the advection of low‐level warm air from the inland terrain toward the coastally trapped disturbance and descending circulation resulting in record heating.