The process to successfully adapt to climate change for farmer communities’ in Vietnam faces a multitude of challenges.  This thesis proposes that institutional barriers to implementing policy related to climate change adaptation occur in key sectors related to farmer’s livelihoods at the local level, which are important to facilitating the adaptation process for farmer communities. It analyses the current state of the climate change policy landscape, investigates water, agricultural and disaster risk management sectors in Vietnam in the literature, and examines more closely how governmental institutions at the local level facilitate these in a field study of Bo De commune. The institutional barriers to successful adaptation to climate change reported at the local level in the field study are similar to the types of barriers identified across the literature, related to communication, technology, leadership facilitated by institutions. The results confirm that institutional barriers are occurring at the local level that are impeding the implementation process of key policies; this limits the ability of the farmer community to adapt successfully to climate change.

A lot of national, ideological, religious and ethnical stereotypes found place in people’s minds after the last allotment of Europe at the end of the World War II. Cultural relationship has also become politicised thanks to cultural diplomacy. The problematic of the research is the fact of adaptation of people belonging to another nation. The object of the research is foreigners at Lithuanian schools. The theoretical part of the analysis concentrates on defining the ethnical stereotypes, stereotypisation, classifying the researches of stereotypisation and points of view towards formation of stereotypes, their functions, definition of ethnics and adaptation, conception of adaptation in theoretical constructions, social adaptation as a separate phase in socialisation, social adaptation as adjustment of an individual to circumstances, peculiarities of pupils’ adaptation. The second part deals with such questions as the possibilities for people belonging to another nation to study at Lithuanian school, communication, level of socialisation while applying for higher education, the role of nationality in the common process of communication, the level of national, religious and ethnic knowledge, understanding of national mentality in the context of Lithuanian culture. “Multilinguistic” communication every day is a specific feature and one of the most important factors of sociocultural integration. Despite the fact that most respondents are positive about the need to support the... [to full text]

Lietuvos švietimo politikoje, moksliniuose darbuose vis didesnis demesys skiriamas vaikų adaptacijos problemoms mokykloje. Pedagoginėje spaudoje daug rašoma adaptacijos klausimais. Kur kas sunkiau mokiniams adaptuotis sanatorijos mokykloje. Kadangi jie patenka į visiškai naują aplinką. Atsižvelgiant į esamą situaciją, iškyla tyrimo problema, į gydymo įstaigos mokyklą atvykę mokiniai patiria adaptacijos sunkumų. Tyrimo objektas – Kačerginės vaikų sanatorijos „Žibutė“ mokykloje besimokančių mokinių adaptacija. Tyrimo tikslas – ištirti mokinių adaptacijos procesą lydinčius sunkumus ir priežastis. Tyrimo metu gauti rezultatai padės: - Kačerginės vaikų sanatorijos „Žibutė“ mokykloje mokinių adaptacijos sunkumams pašalinti. Tyrimas parodė, kad saugus mikroklimatas gydymo įstaigos mokykloje yra būtinas. Didžioji dalis respondentų nurodė, kad adaptacijos sunkumus palengvintų mokytojų teigiamas požiūris į kiekvieną vaiką, kaip į asmenybę, šiltesni mokinių tarpusavio santykiai, didesnis ir artimesnis bendravimas su vaiku, didesnis pačios sanatorijos medikų ir mokyklos bendradarbiavimas. / In Lithuanian education policy, scientific works more and more attention is paid to problems of adaptation of children at school. There are many articles on the issues of adaptation in pedagogical press. It is much more difficult for children to adapt in the school of sanatorium. As they find themselves in absolutely new surroundings. Taking into account the current situation research problems arise, the pupils who come to the school of the medical establishment face adaptation difficulties. The object of research is the adaptation of pupils of school “Zibute” of Kacergine children sanatorium. The objective of research is to analyze the difficulties and reasons of the adaptation process. The results obtained during the research will help to eliminate adaptation difficulties for pupils of school “Zibute” of Kacergine children sanatorium. The research showed that safe microclimate in the school of the medical establishment is obligatory. The majority of respondents indicated that positive attitude of teachers to every child as a personality, warmer relationships among the pupils, more and closer communication with the child, better cooperation of the medics of the sanatorium and the school would facilitate the difficulties of adaptation.

The grounds and buildings of highly loaded historic sites are continually changing due to environmental and human interaction, ecological erosion, disposition, erasure and the various levels of human intervention. These factors dissolve both physical structures and the meaning embedded in them, to varying degrees. In loaded historic sites, such as Auschwitz-Birkenau, revitalizing the ruins to their original state trivializes the Holocaust. On the other hand, creating an architecture that does not directly engage with existing conditions shows the inability to translate history into an architectural narrative and achieve an awareness of the events that took place there. The challenge then, is to ? nd a place for architecture to operate within, and to activate the ruins of these fragile sites.

Economic research on climate and productivity effects of ocean phenomena has mostly focused on interannual cases such as the El Niño Southern Oscillation. Here Decadal climate variability (DCV) refers to ocean related climate influences of duration from seven to twenty years. The specific phenomena analyzed here are the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, the Tropical Atlantic Gradient and the West Pacific Warm Pool. Their positive and negative phases, occurring individually or in combination, are associated with variations in crop and water yields. This dissertation examines the value of DCV information to agriculture and water users in the Missouri river basin using a price endogenous agricultural and non-agricultural model that depicts cropping and water use. The model is used to evaluate the welfare gains and adaptations given various levels of DCV information. The analysis shows the value (for a 10-year average) for a perfect forecast is about 5.2 billion dollars, though 86% of this value, 4.55 billion dollars, can be obtained by a less perfect forecast based on already available data in the form of the prediction of DCV phase under transition probabilities. The results indicate that forecasting any DCV state is important because of differential responses in the acreage of major crops plus water use adjustments by residential, agricultural and industrial users.

There are three interrelated concepts of what medical students learn, which include the formal, informal, and hidden curriculum. Several researchers who have investigated notions of the hidden curriculum have demonstrated how the experiences of medical training entrenched in the hidden curriculum can have a profound impact on medical student adaptation. The most influential transitional stage in undergraduate medical education is the third-year clinical clerkship, when medical students transition from classroom learners into clinicians. The Northern Ontario School of Medicine’s (NOSM) clinical clerkship year consists of a mandatory eightmonths of living and working in rural and northern communities throughout Northern Ontario, and learning in the context of rural family practice. Informed by a social constructivist research paradigm, I explored how 12 third-year students described the challenges they had to manage and, in response, the strategies they employed to adapt to their clerkship. I elicited their experiences and perspectives to contribute to a rich understanding of how students at the NOSM describe developing processes of adaptation during the Comprehensive Community Clerkship. Data were collected between August 2011 and April 2012, including: a) pre-clerkship interviews and a demographic questionnaire, b) mobile methods in the form of ‘guided walks’ in the communities, and c) post-clerkship interviews. The quality of the data collection and analysis were enhanced through processes of methodological and interpretive rigour, representativeness and authenticity, rich description and contextual relevance, audit trail, and reflexivity. Through an inductive thematic analysis of the data, the findings provide a rich description of events experienced such as medical training in one’s hometown or a familiar community, iv transitions including adaptation to the clinical setting and to the medical profession, and the influence of the clerkship on career path, personal well-being, and empathy for patients. The findings serve to advance our understanding of how medical students describe developing processes of adaptation throughout a longitudinal integrated clerkship. Implications are considered for medical students, the NOSM, the clerkship communities, and medical schools nationally and internationally. I propose recommendations regarding the suitability of authentic methods in medical education research, and discuss the implications for rural and northern health research.

Relay terminals are often used in tandem in sensor networks to lessen nodal communication burden. In this light we investigate the problem of power allocation amongst nodes in a relay network in order to maximize the overall achievable rate using link adaptive transmission protocols. We focus on the physical layer characteristics and implementation issues of link adaptation in order to develop a bit-level simulator needed to accurately model the rate performance of such a system. Optimal power allocation values, power adaptation policies, and switching levels for several link adaptive policies over a broad class of Rician fading channels are calculated. Furthermore, the maximum achievable rate for two and three link relay networks using our bit-level simulator and optimal power allocation values for collocated channel distributions is simulated. An overall achievable rate comparison between several link adaptive protocols is also investigated. / Thesis (Master, Electrical & Computer Engineering) -- Queen's University, 2008-11-26 14:52:27.65

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