Personal and organizational performance is determined by commitment and both technical and general competencies, including leadership skills. Academia, however, mainly targets technical aspects in its curricular programs. On the other hand, the inter-disciplinary and multi-sector nature of Nutrition necessitates high levels of collaboration between stakeholders. Leadership development is theref...

Vernacular heritage is undergoing rapid changes caused by the effects of changing climate, such as loss lands, biodiversity, building materials, integrity, traditional knowledge, and maladaptation. However, little known about causes deterioration in vernacular sites under climate landscape conditions from a user perspective. This paper provides insights into perceptions local people on change h...

The vernacular students will now obtain a practical training in pharmacy, hospital details, and clinical medicine and surgery, which they have never had the opportunity hitherto of receiving. We augur the-best results from the change which has now been accomplished, and believe that the " Vernacular Licentiates" who will now issue from the new vernacular medical school will be more thoroughly a...

This paper provides a mathematical analysis of the relationship between vernacular and for-malised derivations of programs; in particular, when the vernacular derivations deploy general recursion. We introduce a calculus VPD to represent vernacular derivations and a constructive theory of operations and types, EOT , to represent formal derivations. We provide an intensional semantics for VPD wi...

this paper examines differences in performances of a range of torsionally stiff and flexible single story buildings designed with the provisions of iranian standard 2800. seismic nonlinear dynamic time history behavior of eight building models subjected to seven horizontal bi-directional design spectra compatible ground motions are investigated. these models cover a wide range of very torsional...

Vernacular place names are names that are commonly in use to refer to geographical places. For purposes of effective information retrieval, the spatial extent associated with these names should reflect peoples perception of the place, even though this may differ sometimes from the administrative definition of the same place name. Due to their informal nature, vernacular place names are hard to ...

This paper focuses on the relationship between Hakka vernacular architecture and its traditional environment knowledge. Generally speaking, many scholars and mass-media consider that Hakka vernacular architectures include codes of Central Plain’s culture such as ying-yang, tianrenheyi, fengshui affluently, because the Hakka ancestors are the Han nationality from Central Plain. However, accordin...