Quarterly technical progress report of the Information Engineering Laboratory.

Mode of access: Internet.

Quarterly Technical Progress Report of the Information Engineering Laboratory for the period November 1977-January 1978

"February 1978"

Quarterly Technical Progress Report of the Information Engineering Laboratory for the period May-July 1977

"September 1977"

Record of achievements and plans of the Information Engineering Laboratory in the Department of Computer Science of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1955-1973

Mode of access: Internet.

Quarterly Technical Progress Report of the Information Engineering Laboratory for the period August-October 1977

"November 1977"

Modern installation for testing of large assemblies under static and fatigue loading. Description of installation at Fritz Engineering laboratory, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania,

"Not for publication."

The testing of materials of construction ; a text-book for the engineering laboratory and a collection of the results of experiment,

References: p. 11.

Providing solutions for a better tomorrow : a progress report on U.S. EPA's drinking water treatment technology demonstrations in Ecuador, Mexico and China /

Shipping list no.: 99-0007-P

Looking across Botanical Gardens to Engineering Laboratory, ca. 1905

[posed in shot put position, in studio]

Risk reduction: Recontexualizing health as a physical education curriculum

While there is sufficient evidence to suggest that physical activity is inversely related to lifestyle diseases, researchers are far from being certain that this evidence extends to children. Nevertheless, the school physical education curriculum has been targeted as an institutional agency that could have a significant impact on health during childhood and later during adulthood if individuals could be habituated to assume a physically active lifestyle. The purpose of this article is to examine the recontextualization of biomedical knowledge into an ideology of healthism in which health is conceived as a controllable certainty and used as a pedagogical construction to transform school physical education. Using a Foucauldian perspective, we explore how the atomized biomedical model of chemical and physical relationships is constructed, reproduced, and perpetuated to service and empower the discourse and the practices of researchers and scholars. In this process the sociological or cultural aspects of public health are marginalized or ignored. As a result of this examination, alternative approaches are proposed that engage the limitations of the biomedical model and openly consider the insights that are available from the social sciences regarding what participation in physical activity means to individuals.

Disaster risk reduction infrastructure requirements for South-Western Bangladesh:perspectives of local communities

Purpose: Development of effective disaster risk reduction (DRR) strategies for communities at risk of being affected by natural disasters is considered essential, especially in the wake of devastating disaster events reported worldwide. As part of a wider research study investigating community perspectives on existing and potential strategies for enhancing resilience to natural disasters, community perspectives on infrastructure and structural protection requirements were investigated. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach: Patuakhali region in South-Western Bangladesh is a region significantly at risk of multiple natural hazards. In order to engage local communities and obtain their perspectives, focus group discussions were held with local community leaders and policy makers of at-risk communities in Patuakhali region, South-Western Bangladesh. Findings: Infrastructure and structural protection requirements highlighted included multi-purpose cyclone shelters, permanent embankments and improved transport infrastructure. Much of the discussions of focus group interviews were focused on cyclone shelters and embankments, suggesting their critical importance in reducing disaster risk and also dependence of coastal communities on those two measures. Originality/value: The research design adopted sought to answer the research questions raised and also to inform local policy makers on community perspectives. Local policy makers involved in DRR initiatives in the region were informed of community perspectives and requirements, thus contributing to community engagement in implementing DRR activities.