The Soil Moisture-Atmosphere Coupling Experiment (SMACEX) was conducted in the Walnut Creek watershed near Ames, Iowa, over the period from 15 June to 11 July 2002. A main focus of SMACEX is the investigation of the interactions between the atmospheric boundary layer, surface moisture, and canopy. A vertically staring elastic lidar was used to provide a high-time-resolution continuous record of the boundary layer height at the edge between a soybean and cornfield. The height and thickness of the entrainment zone are used to estimate the surface sensible heat flux using the Batchvarova-Gryning boundary layer model. Flux estimates made over 6 days are compared to conventional eddy correlation measurements. The calculated values of the sensible heat flux were found to be well correlated (R 2 ϭ 0.79, with a slope of 0.95) when compared to eddy correlation measurements in the area. The standard error of the flux estimates was 21.4 W m Ϫ2 (31% rms difference between this method and surface measurements), which is somewhat higher than a predicted uncertainty of 16%. The major sources of error were from the estimates of the vertical potential temperature gradient and an assumption that the entrainment parameter A was equal to the ratio of the entrainment flux and the surface heat flux.
Key findings, analysis and recommendations that have emerged from a research project, ‘Using Human Language Technology to enhance academic integrity, inclusivity, knowledge exchange, student diversity and retention’ at the University of South Australia conducted in 2019 are discussed in this article. The primary purpose of the project was to address some of the challenges and opportunities afforded by increasing student and teacher diversity at a predominantly English-medium Australian university through newly enhanced human language translation technology (HLT) also known as machine translation (MT). This technology is frequently used for the translation of human language, and it falls under the umbrella of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies. From the institution’s perspective, key aims of the project were to contribute to the university’s Digital Learning Strategy priorities and core values embedded in a structural transformation of the university. These include integrity, accountability, diversity, social justice, engagement and collaboration. The researchers’ objectives focussed on multilingual pedagogies using HLT to support knowledge exchange (transknowledging), and translanguaging for all students. These disrupt inequitable hierarchies, and position bi-/multilingual students as valuable resources for monolingual staff and students.
Survivorship education and anticipatory guidance represents an unmet need for pediatric, adolescent, and young adult (AYA) cancer survivors and their caregivers when treatment ends. This pilot study evaluated the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary e cacy of a structured transition program, bridging treatment to survivorship, to reduce distress and anxiety and increase perceived preparedness for survivors and caregivers. MethodsBridge to Next Steps is a 2-visit program, within 8 weeks of treatment completion and 7 months posttreatment, which provides survivorship education, psychosocial screening, and resources. Fifty survivors and 46 caregivers participated. Participants completed pre-and post-intervention measures: Distress Thermometer and PROMIS anxiety/emotional distress (ages ≥ 8 years), and perceived preparedness survey (ages ≥ 14 years). AYA survivors and caregivers completed a post-intervention acceptability survey. ResultsMost participants (92.59%) completed both visits, and most AYA survivors (57.1%) and caregivers (76.5%) endorsed the program as helpful. Caregivers' distress and anxiety scores decreased from pre-to post-intervention (p < 0.01). Survivors' scores remained the same, which were low at baseline. Participants felt more prepared for survivorship from pre-to post-intervention (p = 0.02, p < 0.01, respectively). ConclusionsBridge to Next Steps was feasible and acceptable for most participants. AYA survivors and caregivers felt more prepared for survivorship care after participation. Caregivers reported decreased anxiety and distress from pre-to post-Bridge, whereas survivors remained at a low level for both. Implications for Cancer Survivors:Effective transition programs that better prepare and support pediatric and AYA cancer survivors and families from active treatment to survivorship care will contribute to healthy adjustment.Recognizing the need to ll the knowledge and support gaps during the transition from treatment to survivorship, this will be one of the few known studies to comprehensively evaluate a structured 2-visit transition program, Bridge to Next Steps, which was designed based upon input from survivors, caregivers, and multidisciplinary pediatric oncology providers [6] and takes an innovative processoriented approach. Speci cally, this pilot study aimed to evaluate the acceptability and preliminary e cacy of a structured program, bridging active treatment to survivorship care, to reduce distress and anxiety and increase feelings of preparedness for pediatric and AYA cancer survivors and caregivers. It was hypothesized that a structured transition intervention would be feasible and acceptable and would be associated with reduced distress and anxiety and increased feeling of preparedness for transition for pediatric and AYA cancer survivors and their caregivers. MethodsStructured 2-Visit Transition Program Intervention. Patient and caregiver feedback from a previously completed study [6] was used to inform the development of a new structured transition program to bette...
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted global mobility. ‘Lockdowns’ and travel bans have been used as control measures by international governments. Consequently, the ways that we use buildings have also been impacted by these actions. Thus, this paper explores the roles of heritage sites in a post-COVID-19 pandemic society. This research is part of the Urban Heritage and Community Resilience: Conservation, Tourism, and Pandemic project, and it employs methods such as semistructured interviews, participant observations, archival research, and focus group discussions (FGDs). This paper is based on semistructured interviews conducted with one hundred eighteen participants across ten popular heritage sites in Banda Aceh and Aceh Besar, Indonesia. The findings confirm the debated claim in postdisaster studies asserting that some of these Acehnese heritage sites, especially those imbued with religious values, have become places of resilience. Specifically, during the pandemic, these sites have facilitated community resilience by helping people feel closer to God. For practising Acehnese Muslims, prayer at home is culturally acceptable, but praying at the mosque, which is one of the essential heritages of the Acehnese, has contributed to and strengthened the sense of community resilience. Therefore, visitation and participation in heritage sites that include experiencing the sense of place and conducting religious and cultural activities is integral to community resilience.
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