{"title":"Teaching, Practicing, and Performing Deliberative Democracy in the Classroom","authors":"Hayley J. Cole","doi":"10.16997/jdd.175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16997/jdd.175","url":null,"abstract":"Inspired by the Citizens Initiative Review Process in Oregon, Healthy Democracy, and the Living Voters Guide, this paper proposes that undergraduate educators should teach, practice, and perform deliberative democracy in the classroom. This paper will identify deliberation as a tool for resolving difficulties in current democratic practices and propose a specific classroom activity to teach deliberative skills. The sample undergraduate activity involves student research, local political leaders coming to speak and answer questions, and in-class deliberations. Using survey data collected from the students/participants, it was found that the activity had positive learning outcomes for students. Students reported feeling more knowledgeable and informed about the democratic process the ballot measure on which students deliberated (Missouri’s Proposition E from the 2012 election). Results also suggest that this activity allowed for students to learn about and gain confidence in argumentation, advocacy, deliberation, and democracy.","PeriodicalId":23601,"journal":{"name":"VOLUME-8 ISSUE-10, AUGUST 2019, REGULAR ISSUE","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87716958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Deliberative Democracy and the Problem of Power","authors":"Alison Kadlec, W. Friedman","doi":"10.16997/jdd.49","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16997/jdd.49","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23601,"journal":{"name":"VOLUME-8 ISSUE-10, AUGUST 2019, REGULAR ISSUE","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81981313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Discourse Quality in Deliberative Citizen Forums – A Comparison of Four Deliberative Mini-publics","authors":"Staffan Himmelroos","doi":"10.16997/JDD.269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16997/JDD.269","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, there has been a rapid growth in studies reporting findings from a variety of deliberative citizen forums. Such studies help to develop our understanding of deliberative democracy by exploring changes in opinion and knowledge as well as - more recently - the quality of the deliberative process itself. However, most deliberative forums are organized on an ad hoc basis, making it hard to judge how generalizable the findings from such forums actually are. This article attempts to address this problem by comparing the findings on the quality of deliberation from four different citizen forums. Based on the findings citizen deliberation is generally very respectful, while argumentation is less refined than among elected representatives. The cases included in this study also suggest that women and those with lower education have less influence in the deliberative process.","PeriodicalId":23601,"journal":{"name":"VOLUME-8 ISSUE-10, AUGUST 2019, REGULAR ISSUE","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82018798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review of “Participação e Deliberação. Teoria Democrática e Experiências Institucionais no Brasil Contemporâneo.” - Portuguese Version","authors":"Filipe Montargil","doi":"10.16997/jdd.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16997/jdd.33","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23601,"journal":{"name":"VOLUME-8 ISSUE-10, AUGUST 2019, REGULAR ISSUE","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87571001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Negotiated Rulemaking for U.S. Higher Education Regulatory Policy: A Process of Deliberative Democracy?","authors":"Rebecca S. Natow","doi":"10.16997/JDD.320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16997/JDD.320","url":null,"abstract":"The rulemaking process through which higher education regulatory policy is created in the U.S. Department of Education has received critical attention in recent years. One concern is that this important policymaking process takes place in an agency of unelected officials, sometimes with the help of select interest groups. How, then, does this process maintain its democratic legitimacy? An important aspect of the process – known as negotiated rulemaking – may help to promote democratic legitimacy through open deliberations and broad stakeholder participation. Through the lens of deliberative democratic theory, this article draws on dozens of interviews and documentary data regarding a number of higher education regulations to analyze the ways in which negotiated rulemaking for U.S. higher education regulatory policy reflects (and does not reflect) aspects of deliberative democracy.","PeriodicalId":23601,"journal":{"name":"VOLUME-8 ISSUE-10, AUGUST 2019, REGULAR ISSUE","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85747238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Carvalho, M. Vianna, D. S. P. Nassif, L. G. Costa, M. V. Folegatti, F. Marin
{"title":"Effect of soil straw cover on evaporation, transpiration, and evapotranspiration in sugarcane cultivation","authors":"K. Carvalho, M. Vianna, D. S. P. Nassif, L. G. Costa, M. V. Folegatti, F. Marin","doi":"10.21475/ajcs.19.13.08.p1814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21475/ajcs.19.13.08.p1814","url":null,"abstract":"Residual straw affects the physical, chemical, and biological attributes of soil and can influence plant transpiration and the evaporation of water from the soil. Therefore, in this study, we evaluated the effect of straw on evaporation and transpiration of sugarcane. The experiment was conducted in a 2.5 ha area irrigated via a central pivot. The experiment consisted of two treatments, namely, with and without straw removal of soil. Evaporation was determined by means of equations and transpiration with sap flow sensors using the heat balance method. Evapotranspiration of the crop was measured using the Bowen ratio method and compared with the sum of the collected soil evaporation and transpiration data. On the basis of relationship analysis between the evapotranspiration of the crop measured using the Bowen ratio method and the sum of the sap flow combined with estimates of the evaporation of soil water, we obtained coefficient of determination values of 0.65 and 0.69, and angular coefficients of 1.01 and 0.96 for treatments with and without straw, respectively. We accordingly found that the use of straw on the soil reduces the evaporation of soil water and increases the transpiration and evapotranspiration of the crop.","PeriodicalId":23601,"journal":{"name":"VOLUME-8 ISSUE-10, AUGUST 2019, REGULAR ISSUE","volume":"7 6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82644126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assurance of Efficiency and Environmental Improvement in a Cement Plant by using Hypothesis (Special Reference to Cement Industry in Satna District, M.P)","authors":"","doi":"10.35940/ijitee.j8868.0881019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35940/ijitee.j8868.0881019","url":null,"abstract":"Cement industries are continuously growing from the past few decades and are constantly trying to improve the efficiency and trying to reduce bad emissions. Major technological enhancements in systems, processes and equipment design of cement plants are helping to enhance the productivity as well as reducing the emissions. From the literature review, it was found that efforts in enhancing efficiency help in reducing harmful emissions and thus reduce the awful impact on the environment. More the investments in energy-efficient technologies more would be a contribution to protecting the environment. This paper tries to analyze the technological improvements in the cement industry, cost-saving methods without affecting productivity and its impact on the environment. We analyzed energy-saving methods statistically by framing hypothesis. Hypothesis testing was done by one way ANOVA (Analysis of Variance) method and results found that there is a significant impact of energy-saving on cost, efficiency, and environment. Our conclusion suggests that the industry should constantly work towards improvements and invest in energy-saving methods by which they would help in making the environment better. This will leads to the direct and indirect positive effect on health and workforce and it will also lead to the productivity of industry and progress of the country.","PeriodicalId":23601,"journal":{"name":"VOLUME-8 ISSUE-10, AUGUST 2019, REGULAR ISSUE","volume":"78 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90503941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Upscaling of foam forming technology for pilot scale","authors":"J. Lehmonen, T. Rantanen, K. Kinnunen-Raudaskoski","doi":"10.32964/tj18.8.461","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32964/tj18.8.461","url":null,"abstract":"The need for production cost savings and changes in the global paper and board industry during recent years have been constants. Changes in the global paper and board industry during past years have increased the need for more cost-efficient processes and production technologies. It is known that in paper and board production, foam typically leads to problems in the process rather than improvements in production efficiency. Foam forming technology, where foam is used as a carrier phase and a flowing medium, exploits the properties of dispersive foam.\u0000In this study, the possibility of applying foam forming technology to paper applications was investigated using a pilot scale paper forming environment modified for foam forming from conventional water forming. According to the results, the shape of jet-to-wire ratios was the same in both forming methods, but in the case of foam forming,\u0000the achieved scale of jet-to-wire ratio and MD/CD-ratio were wider and not behaving sensitively to shear changes in the forming section as a water forming process would. This kind of behavior would be beneficial when upscaling foam technology to the production scale. The dryness results after the forming section indicated the improvement in dewatering, especially when foam density was at the lowest level (i.e., air content was at the highest level). In addition, the dryness results after the pressing section indicated a faster increase in the dryness level as a function of foam density, with all density levels compared to the corresponding water formed sheets. According to the study, the bonding level of water- and foam-laid structures were at the same level when the highest wet pressing value was applied. The results of the study show that the strength loss often associated with foam forming can be compensated\u0000for successfully through wet pressing.","PeriodicalId":23601,"journal":{"name":"VOLUME-8 ISSUE-10, AUGUST 2019, REGULAR ISSUE","volume":"31 4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80652658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Antti I. Koponen, H. Eloranta, A. Jäsberg, M. Honkanen, H. Kiiskinen
{"title":"Real-time monitoring of bubble size distribution in a foam forming process","authors":"Antti I. Koponen, H. Eloranta, A. Jäsberg, M. Honkanen, H. Kiiskinen","doi":"10.32964/tj18.8.487","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32964/tj18.8.487","url":null,"abstract":"Foam forming is an intricate option to lessen fiber flocculation and to get better energy and water efficiency when making fiber-based products. Developed during the 1970s, this approach has recently received renewed attention, mainly because it also offers possibilities to widen the fiber-based product portfolios with novel and more valuable products. In addition to air content, bubble size is the most important property of foam. Foam quality control is essential for building real-world foam forming processes. In this work, we show how bubble size can be monitored with direct optical imaging in real time in real process conditions, and how such analysis helps adjust foam quality and discover process faults in foam forming.","PeriodicalId":23601,"journal":{"name":"VOLUME-8 ISSUE-10, AUGUST 2019, REGULAR ISSUE","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89122361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}