Children are the future of a country, and they should be at the center of the national development strategy and policies. However, these are also objects of vulnerability and abuse. Therefore, child protection and child-abuse prevention are the responsibilities of each country. In this article, the authors have mentioned and analyzed the following main issues: (i) The facts and the problem of child abuse in Vietnam; (ii) Causes of child abuse in Vietnam; (iii) Recommendations to improve laws and policies and the effectiveness of implementation of child abuse prevention and abatement in Vietnam.
Throughout this internship, I, Abhi Pasupula, have worked with my internship mentor, Barry Federici, in order to help him start up a new service. This service is targeted specifically towards veterans and their paths in their lives after they retire from the military. The service is split up into two categories, those being Jobs and Veteran Benefits. Jobs entailed creating and implement a job board into our website for retired veterans to search for. Veteran benefits showcase a list of benefits that veterans are eligible for, divided up by Federal Benefits, State Benefits, Local Benefits, and a page for all available benefits. For the Job Board page on the website, we got into contact with a job board service known as Hiring Opps and spent many days working through the features and seeing which features would serve us the best for the website. In addition, we set up a Sandbox so that we could physically see the service in action. The benefits required more menial work, such as compiling the list of total benefits and categorizing them into states with links that lead to the state Veteran Benefits commission for more information. Once organized, the benefits were organized into 4 sections, each section having its own page on the website. Both of these websites were connected back to the original website, which served as a homepage for all the services. The homepage also had services to meet with my mentor, Mr. Federici. Working on both of these websites and services really opened my eyes to the professional world of Software Development, where there was so much more apart from just programming. Similar to this internship, the real world will require me to be able to voice my thoughts as well as put them down on paper and be able to explain them well to others, something that I believe this internship set me up for very well. ; https://digitalcommons.imsa.edu/intern_reports_2021/1004/thumbnail.jpg
This paper traces the origins of Black Theology in South Africa to the nineteenth century when black revolt in missionary-controlled churches gave rise to the formation of the so-called 'African independent churches'. Not the more recent expression of this ecclesial phenomenon but its early Ethiopian offspring whose leaders actively participated in a struggle intended to secure the emancipation of all Blacks in South Africa. This struggle for political liberation was intrinsically related to the historical quest for an indigenous expression of the Christian faith on African soil. Against this background it is now possible to explore the remarkable parallels that exist between the modern Black Theology/Black Consciousness enterprise and its more dated predecessor.
Lowering the number of injuries and deaths due to traffic accidents represents a priority in both developed and developing countries. While most national governments implemented policies oriented at discouraging risky behaviors in the population of existing drivers, little emphasis has been posed on how individuals select into the pool of drivers. This analysis focuses precisely on the selection mechanism behind the decision to start driving – that is, to earn a driving permit – and, specifically, on the role of economic downturns and policy interventions targeting new drivers. We study the case of Italy during the years 2011-2013, a period characterized by a deep decline in employment opportunities and household spending. Furthermore, in 2011 a reform deeply modified the written driving test and imposed a power-ban on new drivers, who are no longer allowed to drive high- and middle-power cars during the first year of their license. We find a substantial decrease in the number of licenses issued, whose number dropped by 20% between 2011 and 2014. This drop is more pronounced in areas with a higher population, with limited heterogeneity arising when looking at the regions which were hit the most by the crisis. Our findings have important policy implication, as they shed light on the mechanisms through which young people – who represent the group of road users exhibiting the highest mortality rate – select into the pool of drivers.
The ancient walls of Santa Croce in the town of Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy), date back to the Middle Age and have had, until the nineteenth century, several interventions with superpositions and modifications. Beyond the historical and archaeological interest, the study of the structure of the ancient walls became necessary in view of building an underground car parking just at the base of the walls itself. With this purpose, in addition to classical archaeological surveys a geophysical non-destructive survey with seismic techniques has been carried out, namely two refraction tomographies aimed at characterizing the rocks at the base of the walls, and four up-hole tomographies across the walls itself. These geophysical surveys provide a good geotechnical information on the foundation condition, the problematic feasibility of the underground parking and, along with the archaeological procedures, on the heterogeneous structure of the walls.
Lo sviluppo di una indagine multidisciplinare finalizzata alla conoscenza dei complessi monumentali storici in ambito urbano assume un ruolo di primaria importanza per la tutela del patrimonio architettonico e paesaggistico. Con tale obiettivo l'integrazione tra metodologie di rilevamento e metodi geofisici si è dimostrata un utile supporto alla ricostruzione delle vicende costruttive del bastione di Santa Croce a Cagliari, sito pluristratificato interessato a partire dal Cinquecento da numerose sovrapposizioni e ricostruzioni. L'impiego combinato di tecniche diagnostiche non distruttive di tipo geofisico particolarmente utili nei casi in cui non sia possibile l'effettuazione di indagine invasive di notevole impatto come scavi e sondaggi, ha difatti permesso di approfondire la conoscenza del sistema costruttivo e funzionale dell'opera militare. Gli esiti dell'indagine hanno consentito di definire le caratteristiche stilistico costruttive dell'opera cinquecentesca, rivelare l'utilizzo di soluzioni differenti da quanto sinora riscontrato nelle piazzeforti spagnole dell'epoca, circoscrivere l'area interessata dalla ricostruzione documentata nelle fonti storiche, utili tasselli conoscitivi anche in vista di nuovi interventi progettuali che prevedono, tra l'altro, la realizzazione di un parcheggio interrato alla base dello stesso bastione. ; Developing a protocol for the multidisciplinary investigation of historical monumental complexes in urban environments covers a paramount role in protecting the architectural and landscape heritage. To this purpose, integrating the investigation methodologies typical of architecture with the geophysical ones has proved useful in assessing the conditions of the places and of the works, so as to identify and represent their modifications. Comparing data from different disciplinary contributions (historical, archaeological and geophysical ones) has specifically allowed the organisation and assessment of an investigating protocol aiming to the representation, protection and valorisation of the bastion layout; in particular, it has contributed to define its stylistic architectural features, and improve knowledge of the military work operation and of its current layout, even in view of any further planning intervention in an area where, furthermore, the realisation of a parking lot buried at the basis of the 16th century bastion is being considered.
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This contribution shows some results of a multidisciplinary survey, which includes the integration of architectural surveying methods and geophysical methods. The operative procedure is applied in the portion of the ancient walls between the bastion of Santa Croce and the fourteenth-century Elephant Tower, in the city of Cagliari, Italy. The sector under study consists of 1) the wall curtain of Santa Chiara designed in 1575 by the engineer Giorgio Paleari and 2) the de Cardona wall curtain, a work commissioned by the Viceroy in the 30s of the same century. The archival documents offer precise indications on the extent of the collapses and the reconstructions/expansions that took place in that period, so facilitating a recognition of the events that took place. The work of the sixteenth century -brought to completion by the same Giorgio Paleari in the years 1576-1578- advances the line of defense with respect to the border of medieval matrix by means of a robust embankment, and incorporates two of the fifteenth-century towers described in the drawings of the military technicians of the time. In the eighteenth century the front was completed by the construction of a lowered embankment near the southern side of the bastion of Santa Croce and the curtain of Santa Chiara, and more recently it has been improved by means of several restorations and consolidations that changed the profile of the parapet –in the origin it was inclined - and the static balance of the constructive system, also through the use of reinforced concrete piles. The application of the survey methods and techniques used in this study provides interesting information about the current structure of the bastion system and the presence of vaulted passages functional to the military work. A new study campaign mainly based on seismic geophysical techniques is proposed.