A. Čepienė. Kaimo bendruomenės narių socialinio dalyvavimo modeliavimas. Socialinio darbo magistro studijų programos baigiamasis darbas. Darbo vadovas prof. dr. E. Acienė, Klaipėdos universitetas: Klaipėda, 2011. – 66 p. Darbe atlikta teorinių šaltinių analizė. Pirmoje tyrimo dalyje pristatomas kiekybinis tyrimas, siekiant išsiaiškinti šiandieninio kaimo bendruomenės žmonių gyvenimą, jų veiklos galimybes, kuriant geresnį, aktyvesnį gyvenimą. Antroje tyrimo dalyje pristatomas kokybinis tyrimas, pasirenkant pusiau struktūruoto interviu metodą, siekiant patikslinti kaimo bendruomenių evoliucijos (raidos) įtaką, aplinkos poveikį kaimo bendruomenės veikloms, kaimo bendruomenių tikslus, veiklos struktūrą bei kaimo bendruomenių veiklų aktyvinimą. Iškelta tyrimo hipotezė – nūdienos kaimo bendruomenės narių socialinis dalyvavimas bendruomenės veikloje nėra aktyvus, neturi aiškių dimensijų tiek turinio, tiek veiklų prasme. Tyrimo objektas. Kaimo bendruomenės narių socialinio dalyvavimo modeliavimas. Tyrimo tikslas – suformuoti kaimo bendruomenės socialinio dalyvavimo modelį paremtą aktyviu bendruomenės narių dalyvavimu socialinėse veiklose ir profesionalia socialinio darbuotojo pagalba. Tyrimo uždaviniai: Atskleisti socialinį dalyvavimą aktyvioje ir atviroje kaimo bendruomenėje akcentuojant socialinio dalyvavimo fenomeną. Išanalizuoti kaimo bendruomenės socialinį dalyvavimą sprendžiant problemas, įvertinant bendruomenės socialinio dalyvavimo raišką socialinio darbo aspektu... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / A. Čepienė. Simulation of Social Participation of Village Community Members. The final paper of social work master‘s degree supervised by Prof. Dr. E. Acienė, Klaipėda University: Klaipėda, 2011–66 p. The analysis of the theoretical sources is carried out in the work. In the first part of the study a quantative research aiming to find out today‘s rural community peoples‘ life, their work opportunities to create a better and more active life is presented. In the second part of the study a qualitative research having used a semi-structured interview method in order to clarify the influence of rural communities evolution, the impact of environment on activities in rural communities, the objectives and structure of activities of rural communities and activating of rural communities work is presented. The hypothesis of the research is that today‘s rural community members‘ social participation is not active, with no clear content and work dimensions. The object of the research is rural community members’ simulation of social participation. The goal of the research is to establish a rural community-based model of social participation based on active community participation in social activities and a professional social worker‘s assistance. The following are the tasks of the research: To reveal social participation within an active rural community emphasizing the phenomenon of social participation. To analyze the social participation of rural communities in solving problems... [to full text]

Elektros inžinerijos bakalauro baigiamojo darbo tema yra aktuali, nes elektros tinklai sumontuoti prieš 30–40 metų jau yra pasenę ir nebeatitinka šiuolaikinių poreikių. Vis daugiau elektros vartotojų keičia dujines virykles į elektrines, įsigija naujų elektros prietaisų, elektros suvartojimas auga, todėl būtina atnaujinti elektros tinklus, siekiant užtikrinti patikimą kokybiškos elektros energijos tiekimą. Šiuo projektu Skomantų kaime numatoma esamos oro linijos L-300 iš transformatorinės KT-V-305 rekonstravimas, ją pakeičiant apskaičiuoto skerspjūvio 0,4 kV elektros kabelių linijomis su reikiamu skaičiumi 0,4 kV skirstomųjų spintų (SS), įvadinių apskaitų skirstomųjų spintų (ĮASS) ir įvadinių apskaitų spintų (ĮAS). Numatoma trumpinti esamą oro liniją L-100 iš transformatorinės KT-V-305, pastatant dvi stulpines transformatorines su 25 kVA ir 40 kVA galios transformatoriais. Planuojamas oro linijos L-100 iš transformatorinės KT-V-305 ruožų nuo atramos Nr. 100/9 iki atramos Nr. 100/25 ir nuo atramos Nr. 101/18 iki atramos Nr. 101/25 demontavimas. / His Bachelors’ degree electrical engineering thesis is relevant, because the electricity network built 30-40 years ago in Skomantai village is already old and no longer meets todays’ needs. More and more electricity consumers change gas stoves into electrical stoves, purchase new electrical devices. The usage of electricity is increasing. That’s why the renewal of electrical network is needed in order to maintain reliable supply of high quality electric power. The plan of this project in Skomantai village is the reconstruction of existing transmission line L-300 from the transformer KT-V-305 reconstructing it by changing with calculated cross-section 0,4 kV electricity cables’ lines with needed number 0,4 kV 0,4kV distribution boards (SS), electrical distribution and metering equipment boards (ĮASS) and lead-in metering boards (ĮAS). Shortening of the existing transmission lines L-100 from transformer KT-V-305 and building two pole transformers with 25 kVA and 40 kVA power transformers. Dismantling of transmission line L-100 from transformer KT-V-305 parts from pole No. 100/9 up to pole No. 100/25, and from pole No. 101/18 up to No. 101/25.

For the nearly 70% of India’s population of 1.2 billion who reside in rural villages, agriculture is often the primary source of income, as well as of food, fodder and fuel. Rural agricultural systems are recognized as complex mixed-cropping-livestock systems, whereby primary and secondary products from one component of the system are used in another. For instance, primary products such as grain and milk from livestock can be used for human consumption, while secondary products such as crop residues can be used as fodder or fuel, while manure finds use as fertilizer. Variations in cropping pattern and intensity will determine the production potential of food, fodder and fuel within a region. As limiting factors, land area and yield must also be considered in agricultural planning activities. The present research aims to develop a rational method for crop selection within a particular agro-ecoregion. An optimization model is constructed to optimize for selected parameters that are set to maintain defined basic minimum standards for human nutritional and livestock fodder demands. An agricultural survey was carried out in 2007 for three villages in Karnataka State, India. All three villages were located within the dryland agro-ecozone, where crop yields are relatively low. The survey was stratified according to household landholding area ranging from marginal (0-1 ha) to large (>4 ha). Information was solicited on the demographic indicators of the population, the cropping cycle and cropping varieties used within the regions, and certain livestock parameters were gathered. Various demands, such as human food energy and protein requirements as well as fodder, and constraints, such as land area, were modeled to determine the potential for food, fodder and fuel production under optimal cropping pattern. The linear programming software, What’sBest, Version 9.0 from LINDO systems, was used to solve the optimization model. Results indicate that the current export-driven cropping pattern produces inadequate food to satisfy human nutritional demands at the village level, particularly among marginal and small households, who produce in the range of only 10 and 50 % of required food energy and protein, respectively, on a household basis. The current cropping pattern is also inadequate to satisfy village-wide livestock fodder demand, especially in villages heavily centered on cash crops,wherein only 30-40 % of fodder demand can be accounted for. On an individual household level, it is determined that a minimum 0.8 ha of land area is required to satisfy both food and fodder demands, placing strain on marginal households, who own less then 1 ha of land. The optimization model also demonstrates that it is possible to produce adequate food and fodder for both human and livestock consumption within the land area available in all the villages, if between 30-60% of land area is cultivated with food-based crops used for village wide consumption. This would require diversion of between 50 and 90 % of current land area under oilseeds and commercial crops to cereal based crops. In villages that cultivate sufficient proportion of cereal and pulse based food crops, as little as 4 % diversion of crops towards cereals may be necessary. Results also indicate that double cropping systems can generate crop residues sufficient to provide fuel for generation of 2.6-11.3 kWh/hh/day of electricity, adequate for cooking and lighting; this could be done at the same time as providing enough primary product to satisfy food and fodder needs. / Thesis (Master, Environmental Studies) -- Queen's University, 2008-06-24 16:12:50.1

While the Shakers are associated in North American with simplicity and communalism, an examination of Shaker history reveals a dynamic and complex society. Shaker life was structured by a powerful metanarrative: the Shakers were the ‘Chosen People of God,’ who lived in ‘His Promised Land.’ This narrative, which is profoundly geographical due to its intertwining of people with place, was not static in its interpretation. Nevertheless, it served as the basis for the discourses concerning the most appropriate means to live in the World, but not be of it. Few geographers have examined religiosity and spirituality systematically. This research highlights the interaction between religiosity, identity, place, and narrative as an essential element of the human condition. Religiosity is expressed through narratives and rituals and buttresses a sense of identity and belonging in place. Particular expressions of the Shaker covenantal narrative were shaped by the places in which the Shakers existed. This work examines the Shaker experience at New Lebanon Shaker Village (New York) focusing on the antebellum period. It examines the context in which the Shakers existed, the shifts in the interpretations of the Shaker covenantal narratives, and the means by which the Shaker leadership disseminated their ideas. / Thesis (Ph.D, Geography) -- Queen's University, 2009-05-21 09:32:07.477

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Unincorporated areas within a regional planning context are often of an essential ‘in-between’ nature — facing unique community-specific and site-specific challenges. These challenges include: identifying appropriate growth management strategies, examining how growth containment is best effected, and determining how this is best integrated in the unincorporated rural area context — especially where these areas are adjacent to rapidly growing incorporated urban-region centres. There are also considerations around how concepts, such as Complete Communities and Agricultural Urbanism, can be applied to such contexts — and how such concepts may facilitate a tighter, and more seamless, relationship between the typically polar opposite interventions under the banners of regional planning and community design. This practicum examines how the concepts of Complete Communities and Agricultural Urbanism are and/or could be applied to unincorporated rural areas as part of an approach to a combination of planning and design — as placemaking. The Regional District of Nanaimo’s Rural Village Centre (RDN RVC) strategy provides the main case study context, along with several other ostensibly comparable BC regional district settings as potentially informative precedents. It was discovered that there are increasing linkages between regional planning and community design that may be further advanced via a placemaking perspective. Of special note are the opportunities associated with adaptations of the concepts of Complete Communities and Agricultural Urbanism in the unincorporated rural context; referencing these concepts can enhance the linkages between the ‘unincorporated rural settings’ and their ‘incorporated’ municipal neighbours. The research has helped to identify where there may be room for improvement around RDN RVC strategies, and how they may be better applied in the future.

A case study of Vancouver’s West End neighbourhood examines the cultural, structural, economic and political impacts of a glbtt (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and two-spirited) community and a gay urban village on its city. This work also queries the role of municipal government in the regulation and maintenance of the social composition and identity of a neighbourhood. Finally, the future of gay urban villages is discussed as their role in promoting solidarity and safety transitions toward a commercial and nodal one. This research involved three local key informant interviews and nine community residents who participated as photographers in a community visual analysis. Results unveiled a neighbourhood intrinsically well suited to serving a transient gay male community with an increasing dispersion of the identifying demographic. For the foreseeable future the significance of the Davie Village in the socio-sexual landscape of Vancouver appears secure through the nodal nature of gay retail, bars and services, reinforced by business interests. As an urban typology supporting a comparatively young glbtt culture, the gay urban village plays a unique role in the city, providing spaces of experimentation and invention — a stage for new systems of cultural (ex)change to emerge.

Older people have a greater array of choices for retirement living than any other generation before them. Deciding on where to live is a major dilemma for them. What are the factors that contribute to this making this life-changing decision? How do older people cope with the transition to new accommodation? This research considers the experience of older people who have made the shift to a retirement complex. It also contemplates their attitudes and perceptions and those of older people who may, at some point in their lives, have this decision taken from them and find they are directed into care. The focus of the research was to hear and record the ‘voice’ of a purposeful sample of older people by exploring their experience of shifting into one of four levels at retirement complexes; villa, serviced apartment, resthome or hospital. The research also delved into the attitudes towards a potential shift of those who remain in their family home. Thirty-five participants, ranging in age from 66 to 95-years were located into three groups according to their living situation. They were interviewed using an unstructured interview process and information from these interviews was catergorised into sixteen themes. The data were sifted through, in order to discover similarities and differences between participants and groups. Findings were then compared with available literature to offer further endorsement or to proffer an alternative perspective to the existing information. These findings also indicate areas where further research could be carried out to gain a more holistic oversight in order to reduce the stress for older people moving from their family home.

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A case study of Vancouver’s West End neighbourhood examines the cultural, structural, economic and political impacts of a glbtt (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and two-spirited) community and a gay urban village on its city. This work also queries the role of municipal government in the regulation and maintenance of the social composition and identity of a neighbourhood. Finally, the future of gay urban villages is discussed as their role in promoting solidarity and safety transitions toward a commercial and nodal one. This research involved three local key informant interviews and nine community residents who participated as photographers in a community visual analysis. Results unveiled a neighbourhood intrinsically well suited to serving a transient gay male community with an increasing dispersion of the identifying demographic. For the foreseeable future the significance of the Davie Village in the socio-sexual landscape of Vancouver appears secure through the nodal nature of gay retail, bars and services, reinforced by business interests. As an urban typology supporting a comparatively young glbtt culture, the gay urban village plays a unique role in the city, providing spaces of experimentation and invention — a stage for new systems of cultural (ex)change to emerge.