Impacts of Korean NGO on the Philippine rural development : a case study of sorok uni foundation

Delos Reyes, Rhean Ramos 한국외국어대학교 국제지역대학원 2012 국내석사

Impacts of Korean NGO on the Philippine Rural Development: A Case Study of Sorok Uni Foundation February 2012 Rhean Ramos Delos Reyes, B.A., University of the Philippines - Diliman M.A., Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Directed by: Professor Ekra Miezan The main objective of this research study was to investigate the plausible impacts of South Korean NGO (hereinafter referred to as ?DKorean NGO\) on the Philippine rural community, with emphasis on Sorok Uni Foundation. Three research questions were then formulated to frame the study, such as: How is the Korean NGO helping the Philippine rural community in development areas such as health and sanitation, basic education, and livelihood? What are the setbacks and challenges faced by the Korean NGO in implementing their programs in the Philippines? Does the Korean NGO apply Participatory Development Theory in carrying out their programs in the Philippine rural communities? Participatory Development was operationally defined as ?Da process through which stakeholders can influence and share control over development initiatives, and over the decisions and resources that affect themselves.\ A survey was employed to collect the data through a questionnaire, which was sampled to Filipino respondents (and program participants of Sorok Uni Foundation, Inc. or V SUFI) to measure their perception, feelings, or attitude toward the impacts of the Korean NGO in their community. Overall findings show that Income after participating the SUFI program is the strongest indicator among all the demographic variables, and against all the dependent variables. This signifies that respondents with low income who have previously participated SUFI program tend to agree on the indices of program participation, perception, implementation, evaluation and participatory development, as opposed to those with high income who have previously participated SUFI program. Explicitly, the findings from this investigation project reveal that SUFI provides beneficial socio-economic impacts to the participants of the program. The association between perception of, and participation in, the SUFI program is an indication that the Korean NGO is effectively implementing its poverty alleviation programs to the rural community in the Philippines.

The gravity of revolution: The legacy of anticolonial discourse in postcolonial Haitian writing, 1804-1934

Reyes, Michael Castro Cornell University 2014 해외박사(DDOD)

This dissertation examines the lasting consequences of the anticolonial, antislavery discourses of the Haitian Revolution on the way in which postcolonial Haitians understood the narrative structure of their national history from Independence (1804) to the end of the American Occupation of Haiti (1934). In this study Haitian intuitions of historical time are apprehended through an analysis of nineteenth and early twentieth century Haitian literary and historical works. These texts are scrutinized with respect to (a) formal narrative features such as truncation, ellipsis, elision, prolepsis and analepsis which reveal an implicit understanding of the disposition of the metahistorical categories of "past," "present," and "future" and (b) the analysis of the explicit reflections on history provided by narrators or authors. This dissertation argues, primarily, that the event of the "Haitian Revolution" (1791-1804) was fundamental to Haitian understandings of the emplotment of the whole of Haitian history. Chronologically "past" and "future" events were transformed so that they would be legible as analogical "recurrences" of the revolutionary past; when such manipulations proved difficult, the recent past was sometimes elided altogether. This was possible, in part, because Haitian postcolonialism was imagined as immanently precarious and thus remained dependent on revolutionary discourses of anticolonialism and radical antislavery. Also important was the analeptic, explicitly anticolonial fantasy of historical erasure in "restoring" the Amerindian name of "Haiti" to what had been the French colony of "Saint-Domingue." The national history thus came to be underwritten by an impossible anachronistic return to the time of the fifteenth century Amerindians at the moment of Independence. This dissertation alleges that Haitian historical time depended upon, and remained largely bound by, this significant anticolonial contradiction. Drawing upon this metahistorical analysis, I ultimately argue both that Haitians' experiences of time in this period are not compatible with "modernity" as it is understood by conceptual historiography, and that the accepted accounts of the historical development of nationalism cannot explain the rise of this sentiment in Haiti.

Evaluation of Pollutant Dynamics and Performance of Constructed Wetlands Treating Runoff from Agricultural and Livestock Landuse Types

Reyes, Nash Jett DG The Graduate School of Kongju National University 2019 국내석사

Discharge and runoff from agricultural and livestock areas generally contribute significant amounts of pollutants in natural water bodies. Constructed wetlands (CW) are nature-based technologies utilized for agricultural runoff and wastewater treatment. Two CWs treating influent from agricultural (ACW) and livestock (LCW) areas were utilized to determine the factors that can potentially affect the performance of wetland systems. For all the tested water quality parameters, the influent to LCW contains three to 17 times greater pollutant concentrations as compared with ACW’s due to the highly concentrated wastewater from livestock farms. On dry-day periods, the pollutant removal efficiency of ACW was reduced by 43% to 153% due to algal bloom and increased hydraulic retention time (HRT) of the system. Rainfall events promote adequate water circulation within ACW, thereby improving the pollutant removal performance of the facility on wet days. Constant flushing of water out of the system prevents excessive HRT, and thus inhibits phytoplankton growth. Unlike ACW, LCW functioned efficiently for both wet and dry monitoring periods due to the continuity of flow throughout the year. Load duration curve (LDC) and total maximum daily load (TMDL) analyses revealed that influent pollutant concentrations in ACW and LCW were eight to 60 times, respectively, greater than the water quality standard limits for freshwater bodies in South Korea. Water quality standards were still exceeded by the effluents from both CWs, however, significant decrease in pollutant loads (0.01 kg/d to 4364kg/d) were observed after treatment. Reduction in pollutant constituents can be attributed to the efficient sediment trapping of the CW systems. The sediments collected from the CWs contain a wide range of pollutants (i.e. nutrients, organics, and trace heavy metals), but were found to be below the standard limits for South Korean fresh water sediments. In terms of growth rate and nutrient uptake, Typha was the most suitable macrophyte for ACW as exhibited by its efficient shoot growth. For LCW, Miscanthus was found to be the most effective plant type due to its adaptability to toxic and heavily polluted environment. Ultimately study was beneficial in establishing the factors, design and maintenance considerations, and governing pollutant removal mechanisms in CW systems treating runoff from agricultural and livestock land use types.

Invasion potential and colonization dynamics of Fusarium proliferatum

Reyes Gaige, Andres Jose Kansas State University ProQuest Dissertations & T 2016 해외박사(DDOD)

The trade of food, plant, and animal products has increased the worldwide movement and establishment of exotic pathogens with dramatic negative impacts on plant systems. Fusarium proliferatum is a broad host-range pathogen and among the most common maize pathogens globally. It is often seed-borne and symptomless in maize, making it a high risk for introduction in maize and other grains. Considering the global distribution of maize and the wide host range and production of mycotoxins by F. proliferatum, a better understanding of its life history is needed. To provide markers for tracking F. proliferatum in laboratory experiments, strains of F. proliferatum were transformed to express a green fluorescent protein (GFP). Active dispersal (at least 1.5cm at 25°C and -50mb soil matric potential) and colonization of organic matter in nonsterile field soil was demonstrated in soil microcosms. Fusarium verticillioides is commonly isolated from maize seed also colonized by F. proliferatum. A red fluorescent (mRFP) F. verticillioides transformant was developed to study competition with F. proliferatum. For quantification in host tissues, a TaqMan multiplex qPCR protocol was developed using primer and probe sets targeting fragments of the green and red fluorescence genes to detect F. proliferatum and F. verticillioides, respectively. Prior colonization of maize tissues by F. verticillioides (p=0.6749) and other seed-borne microorganisms (p=0.1910) did not affect subsequent colonization by F. proliferatum. Genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) was used to identify genetic markers in F. proliferatum. Primer sets based GBS markers were designed to allow detection of specific isolates in field experiments. F. proliferatum populations were characterized from maize seed prior to planting and again after harvest. End-point PCR identified F. proliferatum isolates containing the GBS marker. AFLP-fingerprinting indicated that 23 of the 817 F. proliferatum isolates contained the molecular marker and were genetically related to the original isolate. Based on the subclade and percentage similarity in UPGMA phylogenetic trees, and the population grouping observed in STRUCTURE and Principal Coordinate Analysis, these isolates could have a single origin and be clonal. Understanding the life cycle of F. proliferatum is critical for learning more about the risk of introducing seed-borne exotic isolates into new environments.

Art at the limits of modernization: The artistic production of Beatriz Gonzalez during the National Front in Colombia

Reyes, Ana Maria The University of Chicago 2011 해외박사(DDOD)

This dissertation studies the paintings and assemblages made by Colombian artist Beatriz Gonzalez during the 1960s and early 1970s, the institutional framework within which they were exhibited, and the strong reactions her works elicited in the critical press. I relate the polemical character of Gonzalez's works to the social tensions created by an accelerated process of modernization within a deeply traditional Catholic society. I claim that her works exploited conventions of good and bad taste and exposed the process by which institutions constructed official culture as masculine and erudite to the exclusion of the feminine and the popular. While Gonzalez's works, no doubt, share affinities with international Pop Art in their preoccupation with consumer culture and the mass media, the specificity of her subject matter forces us to consider local elite attitudes towards women and "el pueblo" or the lower classes. The dissertation is structured around five key exhibitions of Gonzalez's work from 1964 to 1971 that mark important moments in her aesthetic development and her consolidation as a leading artist in the Colombian art world. Her career was unfolding as the cultural sphere was also enduring a process of modernization where the primacy of the National Salon was displaced by the International Biennial format. I locate the artist's emphasis on local, private, and popular referents in this context. By interrogating proper versus improper forms of viewing and inserting her paintings into spatially coded furniture "frames," I argue Gonzalez challenged constructive frameworks through which culture was legitimated. Her works engaged issues of class and gender discrimination latent in Latin America's rigid social order and served as nagging reminders of the deeply traditional Catholic Colombian society in which modernization was unfolding.

Migracion y Derechos Humanos: Un encuentro multidisciplinario en la narrativa mexicana contemporanea

Reyes Zaga, Hector Alberto University of Minnesota 2009 해외박사(DDOD)

This dissertation pursues a new strategy for the study of contemporary Mexican narrative---particularly that which is produced on the border with the United States---using human rights as an analytical framework. By examining Mexican narrative through a human rights hermeneutics, I argue that we can better situate the intricate negotiations among legal, cultural, and political discourses of subjectivity they set in motion. This negotiation is particularly fraught in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and the drastic shift in public and legal stances on immigration that followed them. The dissertation's introduction outlines human rights theory and positions this study of resistance literature at the nexus between postcolonial, legal, and human rights theory. Chapter One examines the notion that immigrants are vulnerable subjects of human rights as recognized by intergovernmental organizations such as the International Labor Organization, the United Nations, and the Organization of American States. It then further reviews this condition as portrayed through international laws and treaties designed by the above entities to protect these subjects. Chapter Two demonstrates that immigration policies established by state and federal authorities in the United States breach international treaties and have caused the "criminalization" of Mexican immigrants. Here, I analyze ethnographic and statistical data from the perspective of cultural anthropology with the purpose of finding an explanation of the relationship between human rights violations of Mexican immigrants and the increment of border enforcement in the United States. Chapter three sets up the analytical categories derived from the framework created in the first two chapters and establishes a dialogue between human rights and Mexican narratives depicting immigrants. The following chapters then apply these categories to the study of an array of literary works created by Mexican authors such as Luis Humberto Crosthwaite, Hugo Salcedo, J. Humberto Robles Arenas, Victor Hugo Rascon Banda, and Rosario Sanmiguel. In particular, I look to examine the ways in which these works represent the effects of human rights violations of Mexican immigrants and thereby enter into salient debates within the field of human rights, mainly the debate regarding national sovereignty versus individual rights.

Nucleophilic additions to a para-benzyne derived from an enediyne: Exploring the non-radical reactivity of a diradical

Reyes-Rodriguez, Gabriel J University of California, San Diego 2013 해외박사(DDOD)

A new reaction of para-benzyne diradicals with anionic nucleophiles is different from their usual homolytic atom abstraction. Our studies show cyclodeca-1,5-diyn-3-ene undergoing rate-limiting cycloaromatization to a para-benzyne, which rapidly adds nucleophiles to produce an aryl anion, which is then quenched by solvent or water to form 1-(Nu)tetrahydronaphthalenes. Our results represent the first example of anionic nucleophiles, other than halides, reacting towards a para-aryne. Our reactivity scale reflects the ease of Nu- desolvation, with the smaller, more highly solvated ions being slower in their reaction towards the para-benzyne diradical. Experimental results are in good agreement with computational data, and these suggest Nu- additions to para-benzyne to be governed by solvation other than basic strength or nucleophilic character. Deuterium can be incorporated from aryl anion reacting with such weak acids as water, DMSO or CH3CN. The question addressed here is the relative reactivity of these two solvents and water, which can be measured by competition experiments with a mixture of labeled and non-labeled solvent. The relative reactivities kH2O/kSolvent- d, kD2O/kSolvent, and kSolvent/ kSolvent-d were measured, and these values were combined to evaluate other relative reactivities including some which could not be measured directly, because there is no way to determine the source of the H or D in product. The low selectivity for CH3CN over DMSO, despite a difference in acidities of nearly 104-fold, is evidence for high basicity of the aryl anion. Moreover, the observation that the same relative reactivities are obtained with Bu4NI as with LiI is evidence that the aryl anion reacts more rapidly than the Li+ can reach the para carbon to form an aryllithium. To our knowledge, this is the first example of a metal-free aryl carbanion in solution. Finally, this new para-benzyne reactivity could represent an alternative mechanism, besides homolytic atom abstraction, for detoxifying enediyne antibiotics.

Public Administration Revealed: A Trinitarian Approach

Reyes, Maria Antonieta Auburn University ProQuest Dissertations & Theses 2012 해외박사(DDOD)

This is an attempt to offer a window into the good that government can do through new possibilities beyond the practical and economical. Public administration theory has been moving away from its original narrow, scientistic, technocratic orientation, but has yet to develop a solid grounding for a more humanistic, participatory model. This situation can be understood better by placing it within the context of contemporary political theory, which addresses the crisis of modernity, making us aware of our inability to make moral and political sense of our human capacities because of the limited materialistic ontology and positivistic epistemology that developed in the modern age. Recent debates within political theory point toward developments within theology as providing possible alternatives to the modern worldview, and this dissertation will examine and apply the systematic theology of Colin E. Gunton to this end. Gunton revises classical Christian theology, specifically with regard to the Trinity, to develop a model of harmonious particularity, which can be used to work out a new, broader, epistemology and ontology. This richer epistemology and ontology can be used to develop a more humanistic, participatory model of public administration, independently of the specific theological aspects of Gunton’s thought. More specifically, this model can break down the sharp distinction between politics and administration that has characterized public administration theory to allow a harmonious particularity of theory and practice.

A Qualitative Case Study of the Design and Implementation of a Talent Marketplace Program in a Financial Institution

Reyes, Keron ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Trident University 2022 해외박사(DDOD)

The purpose of this qualitative single-case study research was to examine how the design of the Talent Marketplace program within a financial institution could be used to proactively address training, skill enhancement, and internal mobility of existing employees while simultaneously benefiting the organization through retention, succession planning, and addressing competency gaps. As a new program within this organization, it was not known how the design and implementation of the Talent Marketplace program could improve the training, skills, and internal mobility of existing employees. Therefore, two research questions were created to explore this topic in detail. The first research question asked what strategies were used by the development team to create a new Talent Marketplace program with this organization. The second research question asked how the newly implemented Talent Marketplace could be used to improve the training, skills, and internal mobility of existing employees. To answer these questions, the researcher used three primary data collection instruments, 23 participant responses were incorporated into the findings, and the findings were analyzed using Braun and Clarke’s Six-step Thematic Analysis. The findings for research question one revealed a connection to Theme #1-Organizational Focus Theme, Theme #2-Employee Focus Theme, Theme #3-Strategy Focus Theme, and Theme #4-Project Focus Theme. These four themes tied together to provide a step-by-step guide to creating a generalized Talent Marketplace program and illuminated the strategy used by the development team to systematically identify the needs of the organization and the needs of the employee. The findings for research question two revealed a strong connection to Theme #4-Project Focus Theme and Theme #5-Reward Focus Theme. These two themes identify what is needed to successfully address the training, skills, and internal mobility of existing employees. The Talent Marketplace, through a progressive learning experience, encourages employees to develop academic skills and on-the-job training that could result in internal mobility, monetary, and non-monetary rewards. Recommendations include the addition of a quality review team to ensure short-term opportunity postings and the actual job requirements are aligned. The quality team should also evaluate the program to ensure equitable inclusion of all interested volunteers and that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) initiatives are incorporated.

Extended family support as a protective factor among college students: An exploratory multi-ethnic study

Reyes, Elizabeth A Northwestern University 2002 해외박사(DDOD)

This cross-cultural study examined (1) cross-ethnic similarities (etics) and differences (emics) in extended family support patterns among students during the stressful transition to college and, (2) the function of extended family support among Latinos as a source of protection and resiliency. Longitudinal survey data were collected from respondents during their first and third years at a large, public university. The multi-ethnic sample of Latinos, African Americans, Asian Americans, and European Americans included 266 female and 180 male undergraduates. Based on existing literature, a measure of extended family support focused on perceived support from specific members within three family subsystems: nuclear family, blood kin, and parakin. Perceived support from each extended family member was measured along three dimensions: perceived closeness, perceived reliability, and perceived frequency of contact. Cross-ethnic findings not only support research showing high levels of extended family support among Latinos and African Americans, but also suggest that extended family support may be more prevalent among Asian Americans and European Americans than previously acknowledged. Africans Americans perceived lower support from their fathers relative to all ethnic groups, but also perceived the greatest support from blood kin. Similar to African Americans, Latinos also perceived greater support from blood kin than European Americans and Asian Americans. European Americans appeared to perceive greater support from their grandparents than from other non-nuclear family members. Compared to females, males perceived greater closeness to other male extended family members. Significant interaction effects suggest that Asian American males perceived greater extended family support than females across all support dimensions explored. While there were no clear SES differences within the ethnic groups, subethnic differences did emerge in generational status among Latinos. Extended family support among Latinos increased from first to third generation, but acculturation findings revealed no differences across the Latino-identified, bi-cultural, and Anglo-identified. Among Latinos, family support was sometimes negatively associated with psychosocial functioning. However, some evidence was found for a modified buffering model where the adverse relationship between role strain and psychosocial functioning is reduced at high levels of extended family support. Findings are discussed within a cross-cultural framework with implications for theory, research, and practice.