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A wave-resolving modeling study of rip current variability, rip hazard, and swimmer escape strategies on an embayed beach [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2023 Drownings due to rip currents are a major threat to beach safety. In this study a high-resolution Boussinesq model with a modified wave-resolving Lagrangian tracking module has been applied to a 2 km long embayed beach, Dadonghai of Sanya, Hainan Island,
Y. Yuan +10 more
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Recapturing the status of indigenous knowledge and its relation to Western science
Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning, 2019 Western science has become epistemically and politically correct over the last two or three centuries (in the West, and then elsewhere). Its practical correctness has been underpinned by claims about utility, about technological and other goodies derived
Arie Rip
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The Republic of Science in the 1990s [PDF]
, 1994 Research councils began as channels for state patronage of science (a widespread phenomenon after World War II) and were captured by the scientists: peer review of proposals, panels, board membership.
Rip, Arie
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Jurnal Ilmu-Ilmu Peternakan, 2018 This study aims to determine the effect of urea supplementation on substrate to the change percentage content of crude fibre component of sawdust as the yield of bioconversion by Pleurotus ostreatus with 40 days incubation period.
Rip Krishaditersanto
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The future of research universities
Prometheus, 2011 The paper considers the future of the research university and finds that it is unlikely to continue adherence to a business model in which strategy is determined and directed from the top.
Arie Rip
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Educação Estético-Ambiental: ações transformadoras na prática docente por meio da linguagem teatral
RELACult, 2018 Neste artigo estaremos apresentando os resultados emergidos a partir de uma palestra seguida de uma oficina Estético-Ambiental que aconteceu na cidade de São José do Norte com professores da rede pública de educação básica.
Pauline Apolinário Czarneski Rezende +3 more
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Should Social Amplification of Risk Be Counteracted? [PDF]
, 1988 The importance of the conceptual statement, by Roger Kasperson et al., on social amplification of risk lies, firstly, in the identification of a phenome-non as one worth studying, instead of being irritated and frustrated ibout it and concerned only to ...
Rip, Arie
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“Things Can Be Done Here That Cannot So Easily Be Done Elsewhere”: Jane Calvert Talks with Arie Rip
Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 2018 In this interview, Arie Rip talks to Jane Calvert about his life in STS and the history and future of the field. He begins in the late 1960s, when he started teaching a course in “chemistry and society.” He then gives a first-hand account of the ...
Jane Calvert, Arie Rip
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Surveying rip current survivors: preliminary insights into the experiences of being caught in rip currents [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2012 This paper begins a process of addressing a significant gap in knowledge about people's responses to being caught in rip currents. While rip currents are the primary hazard facing recreational ocean swimmers in Australia, debate exists about the best ...
D. Drozdzewski +8 more
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Fennia: International Journal of Geography, 2019 Resilience was set to rest on 30 June 2016 in Trondheim, Norway. After a two-year quest for meaning, the concept now lies with its neoliberal supporters. Resilience and I first crossed paths at the beginning of my PhD journey in Geography.
Silje Aurora Andresen
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