Interdisciplinary Crafting of the Conservation Agenda

The Response to and Impact of the Ebola Epidemic: Towards an Agenda for Interdisciplinary Research

Background The 2013-2016 Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic in West Africa was the largest in history and resulted in a huge public health burden and significant social and economic impact in those countries most affected. Its size, duration and geographical spread presents important opportunities for research than might help national and global health and social care systems to better prepare ...

Crafting a national agenda for nursing education research.

A conservation agenda for the Pantanal's biodiversity.

The Pantanal's biodiversity constitutes a valuable natural resource, in economic, cultural, recreational, aesthetic, scientific and educational terms. The vegetation plus the seasonal productivity support a diverse and abundant fauna. Many endangered species occur in the region, and waterfowl are exceptionally abundant during the dry season. Losses of biodiversity and its associated natural hab...

Crafting, Crafting, Crafting - Extreme Programming in Classroom?

Extreme Programming (XP) shows several interesting approaches which are very attractive for education. It is centered around early and incremental creation of working software. In the following, the chances XP offers for class are shown – especially for use in a class project, but also for practical phases in all lessons where programming is useful. Finally several common problems which can occ...

The Space of Architecture and a New Conservation Agenda

The paper discusses conservation theories and practices, taken as its central argument the disjunction between architectural and conservation theories with regards to the concept of space. It argues that space is a central concept of modern architecture and should be observed as an object of interest for conservation and restoration. Morphological properties of space and methodological procedur...