Out of control : Emergent cultural landscapes and political change in urban Vietnam

This paper plots the recent changes in the uses of public space in Hanoi, Vietnam. It is argued that the economic and social changes in contemporary Vietnam have paved the way for a dramatic transformation in the ways in which streets, pavements and markets are experienced and imagined by the populace. The efflorescence of individual mobility, street-trading and public crowding around certain popular events has led to the emergence of a distinct public sphere, one which is not immune from state control and censure but which is a flagrant rebuttal of the state's appeal. The immediate struggles over space herald a new discursive arena for the contest over Vietnamese national imagery as represented in cultural heritage and public space, memorials and state-controlled events which the public are rapidly deserting. The paper concludes by suggesting that the everyday cultural practices that have created a bustling streetlife in urban Vietnam will inevitably provide the vitality and spectacle for the destabilisation of state control in a struggle for meanings in public space.

Control y cultura en la empresa : un cuaderno de viaje sobre la crítica del control cultural en las organizaciones

486 p. : gráf.

Adaptação Cultural e Linguística do Trunk Control Test: avaliação das propriedades psicométricas

Introdução: O controlo postural do tronco é um fator preditivo de autonomia, sendo fundamental a existência de instrumentos válidos e fiáveis a fim da sua avaliação na população portuguesa. Objetivo: Traduzir e adaptar o Trunk Control Test (TCT) para a população portuguesa em indivíduos após AVE e avaliar as suas propriedades psicométricas. Métodos: O TCT foi sujeito aos processos de tradução e retroversão para a população portuguesa por dois tradutores bilingues e realizadas duas reuniões com painel de peritos na área. Avaliou-se a validade, a fiabilidade, a sensibilidade, a especificidade e o poder de resposta em 19 indivíduos com AVE. Para avaliar a validade de critério os indivíduos foram adicionalmente submetidos à Escala de Equilíbrio de Berg (EEB), à Avaliação Motora de Rivermead (AMR) e à Escala de Comprometimento do Tronco (ECT). A fiabilidade inter-observadores foi garantida por uma segunda amostra de 25 fisioterapeutas, através da avaliação do desempenho de um participante no TCT. Os dados foram analisados no programa SPSS 22.0. Resultados: O TCT apresentou baixa consistência interna ( =0,523) e fiabilidade inter-observadores substancial (k=0,662). Obteve-se forte correlação do TCT com a ECT (r=0,885) e AMR (r=0,864), e correlação moderada com a EEB (r=0,700). A validade de construção aponta para uma moderada correlação entre itens (KMO=0,755; Bartlett=0,001). Não foi possível obter os valores de sensibilidade, especificidade e poder de resposta do TCT. Conclusão: O estudo demonstrou que o TCT é um instrumento válido e fiável na avaliação da população portuguesa após AVE.

Els catecismes populars de Mallorca : d'instrument pastoral a mitjà de control cultural de l'estat. 'Los catecismos populares de Mallorca : de instrumento pastoral a medio de control cultural estatal'.

Comunicación presentada al Tercer Encontre de Ciències Humanes i Socials dels Paisos Catalans, desarrollado en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de las Islas Baleares, entre diciembre de 1978 y enero de 1979

Para leer al Pato Donald desde la diferencia: comunicación, desarrollo y control cultural

Ayllón Valverde, Alex. Para leer al Pato Donald desde la diferencia: comunicación, desarrollo y control cultural. Quito: Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Sede Ecuador; Corporación Editora Nacional; Ediciones Abya Yala, 2002. 82 p. Serie Magíster, No. 19.

La Comunicación para el Desarrollo desde la perspectiva del control cultural o cómo leer al Pato Donald desde la diferencia: criterios para una reorientación teórica

El presente trabajo quiere reflexionar sobre algunas interrogantes alrededor de la relación establecida entre la Comunicación y el Desarrollo, determinar sus orientaciones, reconocer sus aproximaciones y, sobretodo, profundizar en sus contradicciones. Este documento no trata de resolver absolutamente nada, su carácter es especulativo, como cualquier esfuerzo teórico que se precie. Intenta aproximarse más al espíritu de un ensayo que al de un trabajo metodológicamente riguroso. Asf es como al acercarnos al análisis del Desarrollo y la Comunicación como productos culturales, ha sido irremediable y necesario que este texto se sirva de algunos discurs,)s dentro de las esferas de la modernidad, la postrnodemidad y la ppstcolonialidad para alcanzar mínimamente los fines que nos habíamos propuesto en la tesis proyectada. Quien busque encontrar aquf un cuadro reivindicativo o descriptivo de la Comunicación para el Desarrollo, no encontrará sino cruces que se diseminan en varios sentidos; sentidos que, de alguna manera, visibilizan los esfuerzos de reconfiguración de las Ciencias Sociales en el Continente en tomo a las nuevas sensibilidades emergentes de la crisis de los antiguos· sistemas omnicomprensivos de la realidad. Existe la Comunicación para el Desarrollo como un aparato teórico estable, o es que esta disciplina del ámbito comunicacional se ha visto reducida a simples prácticas neutras de planificación; es pertinente hablar de Comunicación para el Desarrollo en la actual encrucijada cultural; el Desarrollo y la Comunicación son dos dimensiones complementarias, o es que existe una instrumentalización intencionada y alevosa por parte de ambos campos en su progresión histórica; cuál es el estado de estas dos vertientes en la actualidad y cuáles los desaffos que plantean para el futuro dentro del orden simbólico latinoamericano en ciernes. Estas son algunas de las preguntas que mueven la redacción de la presente tesis, hemos creído que colaborar en la construcción de diferentes aparatos de dudas, de diferentes aparatos de 1 desfondamiento de nuestra realidad, es parte fundamental del proyecto de las Ciencias Sociales en la Amélica Latina para el próximo milenio. Este esfuer1.o es, además de un inevitable y balsámico palimpsesto, un homenaje a vados de los intelectuales que han abierto este camino. A nuestro clitelio, la invención de la comunicación a partir de la configuración social occidental y de sus categorías de análisis y comprensión, son la misma y una ,;Sola cosa. De esta manera, la Comunicación para el Desarrollo nos ha servido de excusa y de punto de despegue, para ahondar en esta certeza y reflexionar sobre el futuro de la Comunicación en Amélica Latina como proyecto cultural, y de la pertinencia en la aplicación de las diferentes categorías del Desarrollo. Prutimos de la certeza de que los medios de comunicación no son el centro de la disputa, nadie se está peleando su posesión, no son los aparatos los que liberan, oprimen u/o seducen al hombre, a sus culturas, ni los que van a desarrollar pueblos automáticamente, así lo demostró Octavio Paz en su libro, Claude Levi Strauss o el nuevo festín de Esopo, es allí donde corrige a Mac Luhan, afirmando que no fue la imprenta la que liberó a la sociedad del dominio de la letra impresa, sino que ésta se dio a partir de la combinación entre hombres y máquinas, es decir a partir de lo mecanismos de interacción que conforman la cultura. La batalla se plantea en términos culturales y políticos, hacia adentro y hacia afuera, es la batalla por la apropiación de un nuevo, de un nuestro horizonte simbólico latinoamericano.

Cultural techniques for improvement in biocontrol potential of fungal antagonists for biological control of Armillaria root rot of strawberry plants under glasshouse conditions

Several in vitro and in vivo experiments were conducted to develop an effective technique for culturing potential fungal antagonists (isolates of Trichoderma harzianum, Dactylium dendroides, Chaetomium olivaceum and one unidentified fungus) selected for activity against Armillaria mellea. The antagonists were inoculated onto (1) live spawn of the oyster mu shroom (Pleurotus ostreatus), (2) extra-moistened or sucrose-enriched mushroom composts containing living or autoclaved mycelia of P. ostreatus or Agaricus bisporus (button mushroom), (3) pasteurized compost with or without A. bisporus mycelium, wheat bran, wheat germ and (4) spent mushroom composts with living mycelia of A. bisporus, P. ostreatus or Lentinus edodes (the Shiitake mushroom). In one experiment, a representative antagonist (isolate Th2 of T. harzianum) was grown together with the A. bisporus mycelium, while in another one, the antagonist was first grown on wheat germ or wheat bran and then on mushroom compost with living mycelium of A. bisporus. Some of the carrier substrates were then added to the roots of potted strawberry plants in the glasshouse to evaluate their effectiveness against the disease. The antagonists failed to grow on the spawn of P. ostreatus even after reinoculations and prolonged incubation. Providing extra moisture or sucrose enrichment also did not improve the growth of Th2 on mushroom composts in the presence of living mycelia of A. bisporus or P. ostreatus. The antagonist, however, grew rapidly and extensively on mushroom compost with autoclaved mycelia, and also on wheat germ and wheat bran. Colonization of the substrates by the antagonist was positively correlated with its effectiveness in the glasshouse studies. Whereas only 33.3% of the inoculated control plants survived in one experiment monitored for 560 days, 100% survival was achieved when Th2 was applied on wheat germ or wheat bran. Growth of the antagonist alone on pasteurized or sterilized compost (without A. bisporus mycelia) and simultaneous growth of the antagonist and mushroom on pasteurized compost did not improve survival over the inoculated controls, but growth over mushroom compost with the living mycelium resulted in 50% survival rate. C. olivaceum isolate Co was the most effective, resulting in overall survival rate of 83.3% compared with only 8.3% for the inoculated and 100% for the uninoculated (healthy) controls. This antagonist gave the highest survival rate of 100% on spent mushroom compost with L. edodes. T harzianum isolate Th23, with 75% survival rate, was the most effective on spent mushroom compost with P. ostreatus, while D. dendroides isolate SP resulted in equal survival rates of 50% on all the three mushroom composts.

Control of field bindweed by cultural and chemical methods /

Caption title.

Respecting local, cultural contexts for assessment practice in an era of globalization

Dissatisfaction, internationally, with existing educational practices and outcomes since the early 1990s has led to increased educational reform. At the same time, there has also been a worldwide shift in control of education away from teachers toward the state for the purposes of restructuring economies. More bureaucratic forms of curriculum and assessment have resulted, with a return to the use of more techno-rational discourse in assessment and evaluation for purposes of efficiency, accountability, impact, and performance management. There has also been an increase in the use of economic and productivity models to study educational outcomes. These models fail to account for the range of outcomes achieved and fail to identify the factors responsible for such diversity in performance.

The epistemology that maintains white race privilege, power and control of Indigenous Studies and Indigenous peoples' participation in universities

This paper represents my attempt to turn the gaze and demonstrate how Indigenous Studies is controlled in some Australian universities in ways that witness Indigenous peoples being further marginalised, denigrated and exploited. I have endeavoured to do this through sharing an experience as a case study. I have opted to write about it as a way of exposing the problematic nature of racism, systemic marginalisation, white race privilege and radicalised subjectivity played out within an Australian higher education institution and because I am dissatisfied with the on-going status quo. In bringing forth analysis to this case study, I reveal the relationships between oppression, white race privilege and institutional privilege and the epistemology that maintains them. In moving from the position of being silent on this experience to speaking about it, I am able to move from the position of object to subject and to gain a form of liberated voice (hooks 1989:9). Furthermore, I am hopeful that it will encourage others to examine their own practices within universities and to challenge the domination that continues to subjugate Indigenous peoples.

Modernity and the 'failure' of crime control

Rather than understanding the recurrent failure of various attempts at crime control as unfortunate and undesirable aberrations, all too familiar glitches an otherwise uninterrupted teleological march to a better society, such failures are instead positioned as part of the fabric of late modernity itself. That is, society changes not according to a predetermined logic along neatly defined and clearly reasoned tracks, rather it hurtles from crisis to crisis, from failure to failure, and it is the regulation of that failure which produces new initiatives and new forms of governance. Utilising the example of the modern prison, this chapter contends that too great an emphasis upon this institution’s ‘failure’ results not only in a neglect of the many other functions that it serves in the regulation of difference, but also, and more generally, it results in an underestimation of the importance of failure in providing new impetus for social transformation.

Hard Lessons : Reflections on Governance and Crime Control in Late Modernity

The essays in this book catalogue a wide and varied range of instances where 'things go wrong' in the practice of criminal justice. The contributions document instances where laws, policies and practices have produced unintended consequences of the most deleterious kind, drawing attention to 'boot camps', detention centres and specific penal policies such as 'short, sharp shock' and 'three strikes and you're out'. Also examined are policing practices such as 'zero tolerance', 'saturation policing' and punitive laws in the area of drug use, sex offences, and prostitution. It will be demonstrated that in each of these cases, the objectives of government resulted in the creation of new and unforeseen problems requiring further reform to the justice system.