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Heritage and Resilience: Issues and Opportunities for Reducing Disaster Risks [PDF]

, 2013
This paper examines the unique role of cultural heritage in disaster risk reduction. Itintroduces various approaches to protect heritage from irreplaceable loss and considers ways to draw upon heritage as an asset in building the resilience of ...
Albrito, Paola, Boccardi, Giovanni, Dolcemascolo, Glenn, Douglas, Diane, Jigyasu, Rohit, Kim, Yongkyun, King, Joseph, Marrion, Christopher, Murthy, Manas, O'Brien, Geoff, Osihn, Mariana   +10 more
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Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi, Casianus Gemoh, Denise Chapman, Edmund Hypolite, Simon Angok, Melanie Baak, Joel Windle   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Doba of Ethiopia In the 15th and 16th Centuries

Cogent Arts & Humanities
This review article is a historical narrative of the Doba people, who inhabited the Northeast Amhara region and Southern Tigray in what is now referred to as Raya, Ethiopia.
Mesfin Tadesse Belay, Mengiste Zewdu Tessema, Wubie Tadege Yenehun   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Empire, War and Nation: Heritage Management Perspectives from Canada and Malta [PDF]

, 2006
This article offers recent insights on contested heritage from Canada and Malta. These contrasting geographical extremes span a range of heritage dissonances but share a common historical identity as successor states to the British Empire, entailing ...
Tunbridge, John
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How Do I Answer This? A Queer Critique of Australian Census Forms and the Reification of Cisheteronormative Families

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents a critical examination of Australia's 2021 household, individual and interviewer census forms. Using a form‐led analysis, this research scrutinises the underlying cisheteronormative logic that implicitly shapes the Census process, from data collection to distribution of findings.
Xavier Mills, Sal Clark
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the significant problems confronting secondary schools history education: a baseline study

Discover Education
The purpose of this baseline study is to determine the significant problems confronting history education in secondary school. The researchers employed qualitative research methods and case study design.
Fekede Sileshi Fufa, Abera Husen Tulu, Ketebo Abdiyo Ensene   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Curate and storyspace: an ontology and web-based environment for describing curatorial narratives [PDF]

, 2012
Existing metadata schemes and content management systems used by museums focus on describing the heritage objects that the museum holds in its collection.
E. Hyvönen, M.Y. Lim, S. Corlosquet, T. Collins, W.R. Hage van, Y. Wang, Y. Wang   +6 more
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Realising Aboriginal Community Controlled Approaches to Child Reunification

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Reunification rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out‐of‐home care (OOHC) in Australia are critically low, even though reunification is the preferred permanency outcome for children following removal, and despite a range of mechanisms and strategies ostensibly to support effective reunification. To better understand the
B. J. Newton, Paul Gray, Kathleen Falster, Ilan Katz, Kyllie Cripps   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Crisis' Heritage Management - New Business Opportunities Out of the Financial Collapse

, 2016
This paper intends to present the opportunities emerging for the national economy, out of the financial crisis. In particular the management of those, which arise from the commercial real estate owned property sector, defined by the author as crisis ...
Daskalov, Hristian
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Harnessing Machine Learning and Deep Learning Approaches for Laser‐Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Data Analysis: A Comprehensive Review

Analysis &Sensing, EarlyView.
Laser‐induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS), an atomic emission technique, is widely applied in fields like geology and biology. This rapid elemental analysis method leverages computational tools to boost precision and speed up data processing. This review explores machine learning and deep learning methods for analyzing LIBS spectral data, tackling ...
Pegah Dehbozorgi, Ludovic Duponchel, Vincent Motto‐Ros, Thomas Bocklitz   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source