Curitiba, Brazil has become an international model for sustainable development and social regeneration. Its success has been despite a diminutive budget and rather has depended on creative, multi-dimensional solutions that solve multiple problems simultaneously. This paper analyzes Curitiba’s urban parks and public transportation policies in relation to a holistic definition of sustainable deve...

The quest for greater efficiency, fairness and responsiveness to the expectation of the people that system serve have brought about three generations of health system reforms in the twentieth century. The first generation saw the founding of national health care systems and extension to middle income nations of social insurance systems in the 1940s and 1950s. By the late 1960s the rising costs ...

In this paper a study is described on the prosodic voice wave characteristics of different rhetorical styles. Analysed were pitch, intensity and duration features of segments annotated ethos, pathos and/or logos in the 2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address of Barack Obama (USA). It was discovered that ethos shows a lower mean pitch and a slower speech rate, possibly to confer more...

The growing interoperability between policing and child protection in Canada and the United Kingdom suggests that we are in the midst of a governmental shift from community governance to public safety governance. Indeed, discourses emphasizing local expertise in policing and child protection have largely muted because of criticisms over the lack of interagency interconnectedness. Both countries...

INTRODUCTION We present the initial experience of a novel surgical chair for laparoscopic pelvic surgery, the ETHOS™ (Bridge City Surgical, Portland, OR). MATERIALS AND METHODS The ETHOS chair has an adjustable saddle height that ranges from 0.89 to 1.22 m high, an overall width of 0.89 m, and a depth of 0.97 m. The open straddle is 0.53 m and fits most OR tables. We performed 7 pelvic laparo...

The proposed research compares the structure and verbal means implemented in three texts: President V. Zelensky's address to British Parliament, English American news texts, which represent content of speech mass reader. aim article is establish mediated influencing audience, used by journalists during process mediatization public speech. applied linguorhetorical approach allowed us investigate...

I s nanoscience the “first full embodiment of post-academic science”? Have many of the traditional core values of publicly funded university science been eroded to the point where they are now “part of a scientific mythology”? And is it “morally bankrupt” to draw a distinction between ‘pure’ and ‘applied’ science? These claims, which were all made in a recent commentary in Nature Nanotechnology...

School ethos refers to the school leadership's purposive efforts to shape and direct the attitudes, values and behaviors needed in order to promote an active learning environment and to prevent the emergence of undesirable behaviors by creating shared meaning and common goals for the school. The aim of this study was to examine how teacher rated aspects of school ethos are linked with manifesta...

Name pattern name Intent what the instructor wants to teach, or avoid, or ... Idea how this pattern can achieve the Intent Motivation describes why the instructor wants to achieve the Intent with this pattern Note: Think of the above three sections in the following way: “I want to (the Intent), using (the Idea), because (the Motivation).” Indications circumstances in which this pattern is most ...