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Read  full  paper  at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53801#.VNMmXizQrzE Author(s)   Mary Ann Tétreault Affiliation(s) Department of Political Science, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, USA . ABSTRACT College in much of the West is the formal site of higher education but what is expected from college is education more broadly conceived. The university is a place where students come to learn but it also is a collection of spaces where informal learning builds their capacities to create and perform on a larger stage than family and neighborhood. The public sphere constituted by the university is sheltered, but students are still exposed to individuals from different backgrounds and encouraged to expand their horizons to embrace concerns that lie outside the interests and competence of their families and neighborhoods. The adults and peers who surround them make demands that each student must either ...

Read  full  paper  at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53529#.VMdL8yzQrzE Author(s)   J. Luke Boutwell * , John V. Westra Affiliation(s) Department of Agricultural Economics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA . ABSTRACT Communities along the USA coast are highly vulnerable to coastal storms. Trends in population growth, climatic events and land use are likely to exacerbate future damages. Coastal management entities are faced with decisions about how to manage resources in a manner that improves environmental quality and provides the maximum benefit for coastal populations. This is particularly true along the USA coast of the Gulf of Mexico, where coastal storms are common, land loss is rapid and states are planning ambitious and costly coastal restoration projects. Many of these projects are intended to mitigate hurricane damages by using wetlands as storm buffers. The physical science literature s...

Read  full  paper  at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53199#.VLck-MnQrzE Author(s)    Marie Thomas , Makiko Obana , Tetsuro Tsujimoto Affiliation(s) Department of Civil Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan . ABSTRACT In this study, the application of the resilience concept of the flood event depending on progress of the time is analyzed as the hazard occurrence, the disaster risk, the damage risk, and the evolution of the damages. Flood disaster is defined as the occurrence of an inundation in an exposed area. The human exposure (loss of life, injury, …), structural (buildings, roads, …) and functional (economic, political, … functions of an area) economic exposure cause high risk of damage if the area in which the hazard occurs is at low resilience. Furthermore the damage will increase without adequate response against disaster. The flood disaster risk is decreased by flood control measures, re...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52480#.VJoWlcCAM4 Author(s)   Amresh Shrivastava 1 , James Boylan 2 , Yves Bureau 2 , Avinash De Sousa 3 , Nilesh Shah 3 Affiliation(s) 1 Department of Psychiatry, University of Western Ontario, Lawson Health Research Centre, London, Canada . 2 Department of Psychiatry, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada . 3 Department of Psychiatry, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College, Mumbai, India . ABSTRACT Current understanding of mental disorders is based upon “biopsychosocial model”. Research also suggests what biological changes take place in a particular disorder as well as nature of risk which arises from psychological,...