California Desert Communities: Community Science in the Salton Sea
This is a collection of community science in the Salton Sea in California Desert Communities.
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xiaoxSmart Guardrail is considered as a good concept design, because it can be solve the emergency problem for traffic accident in some situation. This design is applied a common materials and method to solve problem. It is a small change and might make a big influenced. But the design could be used or not is depend on the cost would be proportional to the value or not.
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a_chenThe development of the system was funded by their partners (e.g. Making All Voices Count with $55M). the general publics can donate via Facebook or create a fundraiser for Ushahidi via Facebook.
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xiaoxAdem Onalan design the Live Box, and this design won the 2013 reddot design award.
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a_chenAfter finished the program, the students will be award with diploma that is recognized by Haiti government and most of the international rehabilitation organizations. And Handicap International is working with Ministry for Health and Population to let this program gaining more recognitions.
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xiaoxThe policy is received by the public through Newspaper, Press, TV and audio. 9/11 terrorist attack is a huge impact that necessary to put into policy.
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a_chenMost of the news agencies have provided the similar information that constructed by the university and BBC. It is a great design that focused on the issue that most designer might ignore.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/07/150722081121.htm
http://www.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/news/show/lang/en/id/1909/dir_id/0
http://www.popsci.com/best-of-whats-new-2015/engineering
http://www.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/news/show/lang/en/id/1785/dir_id/0
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xiaoxOnline Political Article: http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2014-07-18-benhabib-en.html . This article is talk about the “Container City” which are Kilis camp housing 14,000 refugees from Syria. The human right and the rights of the rightless, and how the complexities within war and disaster.
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a_chenThe final edited version has published via Annual Reviews of Public Health.
“The Annual Review of Public Health, in publication since 1980, covers significant developments in the field of Public Health, including key developments in epidemiology and biostatistics, environmental and occupational health, issues related to social environment and behavior, health services, and public health practice.” [http://www.annualreviews.org/journal/publhealth]
The journal can help the health professionals by exploring not only contents in the sub-sections of Public Health but further more explore other detailed topics with other journal sections such as Medicine, Nutrition etc.
“The mission of Annual Reviews is to provide systematic, periodic examinations of scholarly advances in a number of fields of science through critical authoritative reviews. The comprehensive critical review not only summarizes a topic but also roots out errors of fact or concept and provokes discussion that will lead to new research activity. The critical review is an essential part of the scientific method.” [http://www.annualreviews.org/page/about/our-mission-and-our-founder]
A series of visualizations of the concept of "fast disasters."