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Journal articles on the topic "Consensual ADR"
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Modzelewska de Raad, Małgorzata. "Consensual Dispute Resolution in the Damage Directive. Implementation in CEE Countries." Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies 10, no. 5 (2017): 49–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.7172/1689-9024.yars.2017.10.15.3.
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This paper discusses the use of consensual dispute resolution for the purpose of antitrust damage claims as introduced by the Directive. It presents these type of claims in a broader context of arbitration (or ADR), in comparison with traditional claim settling before a state court. Particular focus is on selected CEE countries and their implementation of the Directive, serving as an example of the transposition of the Directive’s rules (Article 18 and 19) into national systems in the area of consensual dispute resolution. Specific institutions intended to encourage consensual resolution included in the Directive (and transposed into national systems) are being commented on as well. Lastly, the paper briefs on the advantages of ADR in general, and concludes that even post-Directive, ADR remains attractive as a complimentary instrument to public enforcement and state judiciary enforcement
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Moisejevas, Raimundas. "The Damages Directive and Consensual Approach to Antitrust Enforcement." Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies 8, no. 12 (2015): 181–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.7172/1689-9024.yars.2015.8.12.8.
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The article focuses on the novelties introduced by the Damages Directive in the field of consensual settlements of disputes concerning private enforcement. The Damages Directive obliges Member States to ensure that the limitation period for bringing an action for damages is suspended for the duration of any consensual dispute resolution process. The Directive also establishes the main principles that govern the effect of consensual settlements on subsequent actions for damages. Since the EU framework for consensual dispute resolution of private enforcement disputes is quite new, many issues must still be solved in Member States’ practice. While analysing consensual dispute resolution in private enforcement cases, particular interest should be paid to mediation and arbitration as a form of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). Mediation is often used in competition law litigation. In a mediation process, parties are subject to fewer legal costs than in litigation and arbitration. It may thus be concluded that consensual dispute resolution is usually a faster way to receive compensation. However, voluntary arrangements and ADR in competition law still raise many problems concerning both procedural and substantial legal acts
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LI, Yedan. "From “Access to Justice” to “Barrier to Justice”? An Empirical Examination of Chinese Court-Annexed Mediation." Asian Journal of Law and Society 3, no. 2 (July 26, 2016): 377–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/als.2016.33.
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AbstractThe literature on Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) has argued for the general advantages of courts’ providing mediation services. However, courts’ involvement in mediation cannot always be justified by those advantages, unless (1) the mediation process is a consensual procedure based on party autonomy and (2) where the initiation is mandatory, the courts’ allocation of cases is justified both by the public interest and a case selection system. In this context, this article empirically tests whether the established arguments from ADR theory can be applied to justify all Chinese court-annexed mediation practices. This study provides a negative answer, owing to the fact that some Chinese court-annexed mediation practices found in the fieldwork aim mainly at clearing dockets and achieving case management for the courts’ organizational interests. Offsetting the advantages, those Chinese court-annexed mediation practices prevent disputants from gaining access to the official adjudication procedure.
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Tsuvina, Tetiana, and Tetiana Vakhonieva. "Law of Ukraine ‘On Mediation’: Main Achievements and Further Steps of Developing Mediation in Ukraine." Access to Justice in Eastern Europe 5, no. 1 (January 28, 2022): 142–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.33327/ajee-18-5.1-n000104.
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Background: Although mediation is considered one of the most popular ways of consensual dispute resolution, for many years, mediation in Ukraine had no legislative regulation. This was one of the obstacles that restrained alternative dispute resolution (ADR) development in Ukraine, even though the mediation community had been growing. Eventually, the Law of Ukraine ‘On mediation’ was adopted on 16 November 2021. Methods: The article is devoted to distinctive features of the new Ukrainian legislative mediation regulation that are decisive for the national mediation model, such as the definition and principle of mediation, its principles and scope, requirements for mediators, etc. Special attention is paid to the perspective and challenges for the mandatory mediation in terms of the provisions of Art. 124 of the Constitution of Ukraine and European standards for access to court (para. 1 Art. 6 of the ECHR). The article addresses organisational and procedural aspects of integrating mediation into judicial proceedings. Different models of integrating mediation into the Ukrainian court system piloted in Ukraine are analysed. The authors define current trends in the development of mediation in Ukraine. Results and Conclusions: The authors conclude that the adoption of the Law ‘On mediation’ contributes to the ADR movement in Ukraine but needs some further steps, such as developing a national model of court mediation, the amendment of procedural legislation introducing a special procedure that would lead to the enforcement of agreements resulting from international mediation in commercial disputes, and the adoption of special regulation for integrating mediation into other jurisdictional activities (notariat, system of legal aid).
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Priadi, Eko, and Mhd Erwin Munthe. "Keabsahan Putusan Badan Arbitrase Syariah Nasional Dalam Penyelesaian Sengketa Ekonomi Syariah Di Indonesia." IQTISHADUNA: Jurnal Ilmiah Ekonomi Kita 8, no. 1 (June 19, 2019): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.46367/iqtishaduna.v8i1.148.
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The growth of Sharia Economic accelerating in the last three decades is also affecting the increase of potential disputes on sharia economic field. For the purposes of fast, effective and efficient dispute settlement, the disputing parties tend to prefer non-litigation dispute settlement through alternative dispute resolutions (ADR), one of which is through the National Sharia Arbitration Board. The results of this study showed that the authority of the National Sharia Arbitration Board on sharia economic dispute settlement is determined by whether or not the arbitration agreement, either before a dispute arises (Pactum Compromittendo) or after the dispute arises (Acta Compromise). Thereby, the legitimacy of the authority of the National Sharia Arbitration Board on Syariah economic dispute settlement, based on the principle of Pacta Sunt Servanda and Consensual Principles contained in the Civil Code. Further, registration and execution of the National Sharia Arbitration Board verdict should be carried out by the Religious Courts, including the cancellation of the legal action on the verdict. It is based on two factors: (1) the basic legality of absolute competence of the Religious Courts in the Islamic economic dispute resolution as set out in Article 49 of Regulation No. 3/2006 on the Religious Courts; and (2) the basic relevance of the substance of Islamic law which is implemented by the National Sharia Arbitration Board.
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Kanner, Sari Luz, Dana Rosen, Yosef Zohar, and Michal Alberstein. "Managerial Judicial Conflict Resolution (JCR) of Plea Bargaining." New Criminal Law Review 22, no. 4 (2019): 494–541. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nclr.2019.22.4.494.
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This article examines the role of the criminal judge in light of the vanishing trial phenomenon and the emergent reality of many doors to process legal conflicts in both the civil and criminal domains. It focuses on judicial conflict resolution (JCR), which is any activity conducted by judges in order to promote consensual disposition of legal cases, in “Plea Bargains Facilitating Days” (moqed) in Tel-Aviv Magistrate’s Court. We conducted quantitative and qualitative analyses of data collected from observations of 717 hearings in 704 criminal cases and found that, on average, 5.55 (SD = 3.62) hearings were required for disposing of a case, and the average duration of a legal proceeding from indictment to closure was 548.55 (SD = 323.17) days. In most of the hearings the judges’ role was confined to managerial-bureaucratic decisions intended to enable the negotiation between the parties. JCR activities occurred in only 16.9 percent of the hearings, and we identified six types of JCR practices in the promotion of plea bargains: narrow and broad facilitation of negotiations between the parties, forecasting the legal outcome, negatively presenting the judicial process, using lawyer-client relations to promote agreement, and using Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) techniques. These findings are compared to previous findings on the roles of judges in civil pretrial proceedings, and the more active role of the civil judge in promoting settlements is discussed. We further discuss the possibility of expanding a therapeutic and rehabilitative approach in the framework of criminal JCR during preliminary hearing days, which become today the main door of criminal justice.
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Nuraeni, Eneng, and Ramdani Wahyu Sururi. "Mediation in Household Dispute Reconciliation: Prospects and Challenge." Khazanah Hukum 4, no. 2 (August 6, 2022): 120–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.15575/kh.v4i2.19113.
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Domestic disputes are disputes within the family environment. Family disputes are personal disputes that do not need to be exposed. The settlement of household disputes must prioritize the restoration of the situation to maintain good relations in the family order. Mediation is an effective way to resolve household disputes because mediation is a peaceful dispute resolution that accommodates common interests, ensures the confidentiality of both parties, is cooperative, consensual and a win-win solution. However, although mediation is an effective method and is a method that is guided by the Qur'an (Qur'an 4:35), in reality, mediation has not become the main choice. The method used is a descriptive analysis method with a normative juridical approach. Observations show that mediation is an ideal alternative for resolving household disputes because it prioritizes peace and restoration of good relations (reconciliation) in family ties. There are several ways to make mediation in household dispute resolution effective, including not violating the general principles of ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution), strengthening the role/function of mediators and maximizing the skills of mediators. The challenges of mediation as an alternative for resolving household disputes are; socialization of mediation institutions has not been optimal, there is still a lack of certified mediators, not yet qualified mediator skills/skills, the level of conflict is quite severe, there is no good faith, peace agreements do not have legal force, mediation in court is not based on volunteerism but based on procedural lawsuits. Thus, there needs to be a concrete effort to make mediation a reconciliation of household disputes, including from the parties, mediators and regulations on mediation.
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Cohen, Amy J. "On Being Anti-Imperial: Consensus Building, Anarchism, and ADR." Law, Culture and the Humanities 9, no. 2 (September 12, 2011): 243–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1743872111417965.
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Ploedereder, Erhard. "Building consensus for Ada 9X." Communications of the ACM 35, no. 11 (November 1992): 85–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/138844.138852.
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Johnson, J. "Diabetes and Cancer: ADA Consensus Statement." MD Conference Express 10, no. 6 (August 1, 2010): 36–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/155989771006016.
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Mohr, Alison, and n/a. "A New Policy-Making Instrument? The First Australian Consensus Conference." Griffith University. School of Humanities, 2003. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20030707.075312.
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Consensus conferences evolved as a response to the public's increasing dissatisfaction with technocratic decision-making processes that are judged to have repeatedly failed to serve its interests. The staging of the first Australian consensus conference at Old Parliament House in Canberra in March 1999 therefore presented an ideal opportunity to analyse the evolution of this new kind of policy input from its conception through to its implementation and subsequent evaluation. This thesis set out to provide an analysis of that trajectory using elements of the theoretical approach known as actor-network theory (ANT). Previous analyses of consensus conferences have generally provided only limited evaluations of single aspects of the entire process of setting up, implementing and evaluating such a conference. Furthermore, many of the early evaluations were conducted by reviewers or units which were themselves internal to the consensus conference under scrutiny. My own analysis has tried to offer broader, although inevitably less detailed, coverage, using a perspective from contemporary social theory that offers particular advantages in analysing the creation of short-term networks designed for specific purposes. By describing and analysing the role of this relatively new policy-making instrument, I have explored the different sub-networks that operate within the consensus conference process by focussing on the ways in which the conference was organised and how the relationships between the organisers and the participants helped to shape the outcomes. Thus the entire consensus conference sequence from idea to outcome can be thought of as a construction of a network to achieve at least one immediate goal. That goal was a single potential policy input, a consensus position embodied in the report of the lay panel. To realise that goal, the network needed to be recruited and stabilised and its members made to converge on that collective statement. But how is it that a range of disparate actors, including lay and expert, are mobilised to achieve that particular goal and what are the stabilisation devices which enable, or fail to enable this goal to be reached? In the context of the first Australian consensus conference, three key alignment devices emerged: texts, money and people. Yet it is clear from the evidence that some of these network stabilisation devices functioned poorly or not at all. This thesis has drawn attention to the areas in which they were weak and what importance that weakness had for the kind of policy outcome the consensus conference achieved. The role and extent of these powerful stabilisation devices in networks was therefore a vital issue for analysis. If one of the criteria to evaluate the success of a consensus conference is that it provides the stimulus to hold another, then the Australian conference must be deemed so far a failure. No further Australian consensus conference is planned. However, Australia stands to forfeit a number of advantages if no further consensus conferences or similar occasions are organised. Policy formation in contemporary democracies has had to accommodate an increasing array of new participants in order to track more effectively the diversity of potentially significant opinions on complex policy issues. This process requires new and transparent ways to educate and inform the public on policy issues and to ensure that policy makers are better informed about the needs and concerns of their community. As the evidence presented in thesis for the Australian example and its predecessors overseas suggests, consensus conferences have the potential to play a role in the contemporary policy-making context. But the realisation of that potential will vary according to their institutional contexts and the capacity of the actors to create the temporarily most stable and productive network out of the heterogeneous human and material resources to hand.
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com, tdschoep@yahoo, and Tobias Delavilla Schoep. "Isolation and Characterization of Pseudobutyrivibrio ruminis Gene Promoters." Murdoch University, 2004. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20050527.112003.
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A family of E. coli - P. ruminis shuttle-plasmids was constructed to allow the isolation
and characterization of gene promoters from the rumen bacterium P. ruminis. The
promoter rescue plasmid pBK was used to isolate a total of 4 genomic DNA fragments
that promoted transcription in P. ruminis strains 0/10. These promoters, and an
additional promoter, previously isolated from P. ruminis strain OR38 (Schoep, 1999),
were identified by their ability to initiate expression of a promoterless ermAM gene in
P. ruminis. Within 4 of the fragments, a total of 5 transcription start sites were identified
in P. ruminis using a novel, fluorescent-primer extension analysis protocol. Comparison
of promoters isolated in this and previous studies revealed a strong consensus RNA
polymerase DNA-binding motif, including the well characterized 35 and 10 elements.
Consensus sequences established for these elements were: TTgacA and AtAATAta
respectively, where bold upper-case font, regular upper-case, and lower-case fonts
represent conservation in 100%, 80%, and 70% of promoters respectively. The −10 and
−35 motifs were interspaced by 16 18 nt. Among the newly identified promoters, the
consensus for the 10 element was extended one nucleotide upstream and downstream
of the standard hexamer (boxed). These motifs were similar to those recognized by
eubacterial RNA polymerase containing the σ70-like factor. Promoters also contained
possible UP elements, and were significantly more curved than protein-coding regions.
Additional plasmid vectors were constructed, to allow the use of both the quantitative
SYBR green real time PCR and ß-glucuronidase assays, to examine 4 promoters in
depth. This showed a wide range of promoter strengths within the group. However, no
correlation was found between the composition and context of elements within P.
ruminis promoters, and promoter strength. A mutation within the 35 element of one
promoter revealed that promoter strength, and the choice of transcription start site were
both sensitive to single nucleotide
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Engel, Susan. "The World Bank and the post-Washington Consensus in Vietnam and Indonesia." Access electronically, 2007. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20080424.120902/index.html.
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Hamdani, Deny, and dehamdani@gmail com. "The Quest for Indonesian Islam: Contestation and Consensus Concerning Veiling." The Australian National University. Faculty of Asian Studies, 2008. http://thesis.anu.edu.au./public/adt-ANU20090714.023401.
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This study examines various transformations in the practice of veiling which have involved changes in its meaning for Indonesian Muslims. It concentrates on a forty-year period from the New Order to the Reform Era. In particular, it focuses on the interplay between the practice of wearing the veil and the changing social and political constellation in Indonesia, and relates these to the presence of both contestation and consensus regarding veiling among Indonesian Muslims.
After conducting one years fieldwork in some regions of Indonesia, I found significant changes in how Muslims negotiate their daily lives in connection with the idea of veiling. While a relaxed form of veiling has long been practiced by santri (devout) Muslims, veiling has assumed an absolute meaning for other Muslims, especially since the increasing Islamisation of various social classes. The practice of veiling has become pervasive among Muslims: at the same time, it is intertwined with fashion trends, commercialisation and the expression of personal and religious identity.¶
Although some Modernist Muslims continue to contest the Islamist discourse regarding veiling, there is a growing trend to make veiling mandatory in certain parts of Indonesia. Veiling became oppressive rather than liberating in the areas where it has been imposed in the public domain. The appearance of the veil also changed: from a modest and traditional practice (kerudung), it was turned into the mandatory jilbab, which covers the head, neck and chest much more strictly. The veil transformed again in some parts of Indonesia, to become a fashion item: this made it a promising product for industry and marketing, due to the growing number of Muslim consumers. At the same time, in some places it has continued to be imposed by local Islam-oriented regimes which tend to want to control public behaviour according to their interpretation. In the light of these changes, I argue that the changing social and political conditions in contemporary Indonesia have impelled Muslims to search for an Indonesian Islam: what form that indigenous version of Islam will take is still being negotiated.
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Barbaria, Khaled. "Architectures intergicielles pour la tolérance aux fautes et le consensus." Phd thesis, Télécom ParisTech, 2008. http://pastel.archives-ouvertes.fr/pastel-00004308.
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Le succès des intergiciels dans le cadre du développement de systèmes d'information ``généralistes'' comme les applications Web, encourage leur utilisation pour le développement d'autres applications plus spécifiques et plus exigentes en qualité de service , comme les applications temps réel ou même certaines applications critiques. Nous partons d'une architecture intergicielle dite schizophrène ayant des propriétés de généricité et de configuration. Cette architecture est renforcée pour supporter deux catégories de services pour la tolérance aux fautes et le consensus. La conservation des propriétés de l'architecture de base ainsi que le respect des contraintes posées par les applications critiques et sûres de fonctionnement sont les principaux objectifs de nos propositions. Les principes et les propriétés de l'architecture schizophrène sont détaillés. Ensuite, nous menons des études approfondies de la théorie de la tolérance aux fautes et du consensus ainsi que de la norme FT CORBA. Ces études nous permettent de généraliser les différents concepts et d'isoler les différentes abstractions utiles afin de proposer deux architectures pour un service de tolérance aux fautes compatible avec la norme FT CORBA et pour un service générique de consensus. Nous montrons que la conception de ces services maximise leur configurabilité. Après les propositions d'architectures, nous décrivons la réalisation effective de ces deux services. Nous nous basons sur PolyORB, un integriciel développé à l'ENST. Des scénarios de test et des mesures de performances complètent notre étude et valident nos propositions.
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Barcelos, Patricia Pitthan de Araujo. "ADC : ambiente para experimentação e avaliação de protocolos de difusão confiável." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/23101.
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Uma tendência recente em sistemas de computação é distribuir a computação entre diversos processadores físicos. Isto conduz a dois tipos de sistemas: sistemas fortemente acoplados e sistemas fracamente acoplados. Este trabalho enfoca os sistemas de computação classificados como fracamente acoplados, ou sistemas distribuídos, como são popularmente conhecidos. Um sistema distribuído, segundo [BAB 86], pode ser definido como um conjunto de processadores autônomos que não compartilham memória, não tem acesso a clocks' globais e cuja comunicação é realizada somente por troca de mensagens. As exigências intrínsecas de sistemas distribuídos compreendem a confiabilidade e a disponibilidade. Estas exigências tem levado a um crescente interesse em técnicas de tolerância a falhas, cujo objetivo é manter a consistência do sistema distribuído, mesmo na ocorrência de falhas. Uma técnica de tolerância a falhas amplamente utilizada em sistemas distribuídos é a técnica de difusão confiável. A difusão confiável é uma técnica de redundância de software, onde um processador dissemina um valor para os demais processadores em um sistema distribuído, o qual esta sujeito a falhas [BAB 85]. Por ser uma técnica básica de comunicação, diversos procedimentos de tolerância a falhas baseiam-se em difusão confiável. Este trabalho descreve a implementação de um ambiente de apoio a sistemas distribuídos intitulado Ambiente para Experimentação e Avaliação de Protocolos de Difusão Confiável (ADC). Neste ambiente são utilizados os recursos da difusão confiável para a obtenção de uma concordância entre todos os membros do sistema livres de falha. Esta concordância, conhecida como consenso, é obtida através de algoritmos de consenso, os quais visam introduzir o grau de confiabilidade exigido pelos sistemas distribuídos. O ADC (Ambiente para Experimentação e Avaliação de Protocolos de Difusão Confiável) foi desenvolvido em estações de trabalho SUN (SunOS) utilizando o sistema operacional de rede heterogêneo HetNOS [BAA 93] desenvolvido na UFRGS. O ambiente foi implementado com base em um estudo realizado sobre protocolos de difusão confiável [BAR 94]. Através da implementação do ADC e possível simular a execução de protocolos de difusão confiável aplicando modelos propostos para os mesmos. Desta execução são extraídos resultados, sobre os quais pode-se realizar uma analise. Esta análise tem sua fundamentação principalmente nos parâmetros de desempenho, confiabilidade e complexidade. Tanto a implementação do ADC como a realização da analise do modelo proposto foram realizados tendo como suporte alguns dos protocolos de difusão confiável disponíveis na literatura. O principal objetivo deste ambiente consiste na experimentação, ou seja, na verificação da relação teórico-prática dos sistemas distribuídos perante a utilização de uma técnica de redundância de software, a difusão confiável. Através deste ambiente torna-se possível a determinação de parâmetros tais como o número de mensagens de difusão trocadas entre os processos, o número de mensagens de retransmissão enviadas, o número de mensagens emitidas durante todo o processamento do modelo, etc. Estes parâmetros resultam numa analise consistente de protocolos de difusão confiável.A recent trend in computing systems is to distribute the computation between several physical processors. This leads to two different systems: closely coupled systems and loosely coupled systems. This work focuses on computing systems classified as loosely coupled or distributed systems, as they are commonly known. According to [BAB 86], a distributed system can be defined as a set of autonomous processors with no shared memory, no global clocks and whose comunication is performed only by message exchange. The inherent requirements of distributed systems include reliability and availability. These have caused an increasing interest in fault tolerance techniques, whose goal is to keep the distributed system consistent despite failures. A fault tolerance technique largely used in distributed systems is reliable broadcast. Reliable broadcast is a software redundancy technique, where a processor disseminates a value to other processors in a distributed system, in which failures can occur [BAB85]. Because it is a basic communication technique, several fault tolerance procedures are based on reliable broadcast. This work describes the implementation of a support environment for distributed systems called Reliable Broadcast Protocols Experimentation and Evaluation Environment (ADC). Reliable broadcast resources are used in this environment to obtain an agreement among all off-failure system components. This agreement, called consensus, has been obtained through consensus algorithms, which aim to introduce the reliability degree required in distributed systems. The ADC has been developed in Sun workstation (SunOS) using the heterogeneous operating system HetNOS [BAA 93] which was developed at UFRGS. The environment has been implemented based on a research about reliable broadcast protocols [BAR 94]. Through the ADC it is possible to simulate the execution of reliable broadcast protocols applying proposed models to them. From this execution results are extracted, and over them analysis can be done. This analysis has been based essentialy in parameters such as performance, reliability and complexity. Some classical reliable broadcast protocols were used as a support to ADC implementation and model analysis. The main goal of this environment consists in validating diffusion protocols in a practical distributed systems environment, facing reliable broadcast. Through this environment it can be possible the analysis of important parameters resolution such as the number of messages exchanged between process, the number of retransmission of messages sent, the number of messages sent during the whole model processing, others. These parameters result in a consistent analysis of reliable broadcast protocols.
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McMillen, Lyle, and l. mcmillen@sct gu edu au. "Isolation and Characterisation of the 5'-Nucleotidase from Escherichia coli." Griffith University. School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, 2001. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20030226.153545.
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Escherichia coli 5'-nucleotidase is a periplasmically localised enzyme capable of hydrolysing a broad range of substrates, including all 5'-ribo- and 5'-deoxyribonucleotides, uridine diphosphate sugars, and a number of synthetic substrates such as bis (r-nitrophenyl) phosphate. The enzyme has been shown to contain at least one zinc ion following purification, and to have two metal binding sites in the catalytic cleft. 5'-Nucleotidase activity is significantly stimulated by the addition of particular divalent metal ions, most notably cobalt which results in a 30-50 fold increase in activity. Significant sequence homology between the E. coli 5'-nucleotidase and members of the Ser/Thr protein phosphatase family in the catalytic site has lead to 5'-nucleotidase being included in this protein family. This thesis describes the development of a rapid purification methodology for milligram quantities of 5'-nucleotidase, and the investigation of a number of physical and biochemical properties of the enzyme with the aim of comparing these properties to those of certain catalytic site mutants. The molecular weight of the mature protein was estimated as 58219 daltons, with a specific activity for 5'-AMP, in the presence of 4 mM Co2+ and 13 mM Ca2+ at pH 6.0, of 730 mmol/min/mg. The presence of up to two zinc ions associated with the purified enzyme was observed using ICP-ES analysis, suggesting both metal ion binding sites are occupied by zinc in vivo, and some degree of displacement of zinc by cobalt could be observed. Mass spectrometry data, gathered at 60 and 70 mS orifice potential, suggested the presence of a small proportion of material with a mass 118 to 130 daltons greater than the main 5'-nucleotidase mass estimation. This study suggests that this mass difference, only evident at the lower orificepotential, is due to the presence of two zinc ions closely associated with 5'-nucleotidase. To account for the observed high level of activation of 5'-nucleotidase activity by particular divalent metal ions, this thesis describes a proposed model in which these divalent ions may displace the zinc ion at one of the metal ion binding sites. This displacement only occurs at one of the two metal ion binding sites, with the other metal binding site retaining the zinc ion already present. Studies with purified enzyme, each with a single amino acid substitution, lend support to this hypothesis and suggest the identity of the metal ion binding site at which displacement occurs. Seven key catalytic site residues (Asp-41, His-43, Asp-84, His-117, Glu-118, His-217 and His-252) were selected on the basis of sequence conservation within the Ser/Thr protein phosphatases and 5'-nucleotidases. X-ray crystallographic data published by others during this study implicated five of the selected residues (Asp-41, His-43, Asp-84, His-217 and His-252) directly in metal ion binding, including two residues from each metal ion binding site and one directly involved in both sites (Asp-84). The remaining two residues (His-117 and Glu-118) are highly conserved but were not thought to play direct roles in metal ion binding. The seven selected residues were modified by site-directed mutagenesis, and the effect of the amino acid substitutions upon the kinetic properties of 5'-nucleotidase activity was determined. Residues hypothesised to be involved in metal ion displacement, and subsequent activation of 5'-nucleotidase activity, were identified by reductions in metal ion affinity and increased levels of activation by cobalt compared to the wild type 5'-nucleotidase. This study suggests that the metal binding site, M2, that includes residues Asp-84, His-217 and His-252, is involved in metal ion displacement, while the other metal binding site, M1, is not. This, in turn, suggests the metal binding sites are functionally non-equivalent and kinetically distinct. No residues were identified in this study as playing significant roles in substrate binding, as there was no significant reduction observed in affinity for 5'-AMP observed in any of the catalytic site mutants.
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Paul, Ross G., and n/a. "Consensus, decision-making and the Anglican Church : a case study of decision-making in the Anglican Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn." University of Canberra. Administrative Studies, 1988. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20061031.150036.
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decisionmaking
in a free-associative, or non-imperative, organisation,
focusing on the Anglican Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn as a
case study. Because people choose to participate in the Anglican
Church as a religious community, it is postulated that they may
perceive its decision-making as being characterised by consensus.
Through an analysis of the organisational elements and the
participants involved in the decision-making process, their
inter-relationships are examined. By survey the biographical
nature of synod participants is specified and elites identified.
Finally, by case-decision analysis the process of decision-making
is explored, and the presence and use of consensus examined.
The study draws upon those members attending the 1988 session of
the Diocesan Synod of the Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn as the
population to be surveyed. Members of synod are also members of
the various decision-making groups in the diocese. Two recently
implemented decisions are used as case studies in order to
examine the process of decision-making in the diocese.
Results of the Synod survey are detailed at Chapter 4, and the
analysis of the case decisions is at Chapter 5. The study found
that there was an indication of an elite in the decision-making
structure and that a strong administrative agenda was promoted by
that group.
The study concludes by suggesting that there are similarities in
function between public, commercial and free-associative bodies
of comparative size in regard to elites, professionalism and the
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Brinda, Karel. "Nouvelles techniques informatiques pour la localisation et la classification de données de séquençage haut débit." Thesis, Paris Est, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PESC1027/document.
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Depuis leur émergence autour de 2006, les technologies de séquençage haut débit ont révolutionné la recherche biologique et médicale. Obtenir instantanément une grande quantité de courtes ou longues lectures de presque tout échantillon biologique permet de détecter des variantes génomiques, révéler la composition en espèces d’un métagénome, déchiffrer la biologie du cancer, décoder l'évolution d’espèces vivantes ou disparues, ou mieux comprendre les schémas de la migration humaine et l'histoire humaine en général. La vitesse à laquelle augmente le débit des technologies de séquençage dépasse la croissance des capacités de calcul et de stockage, ce qui crée de nouveaux défis informatiques dans le traitement de données de séquençage haut débit. Dans cette thèse, nous présentons de nouvelles techniques informatiques pour la localisation (mapping) de lectures dans un génome de référence et pour la classification taxonomique. Avec plus d'une centaine d’outils de localisation publiés, ce problème peut être considéré comme entièrement résolu. Cependant, une grande majorité de programmes suivent le même paradigme et trop peu d'attention a été accordée à des approches non-standards. Ici, nous introduisons la localisation dynamique dont nous montrons qu’elle améliore significativement les alignements obtenus, par comparaison avec les approches traditionnelles. La localisation dynamique est basée sur l'exploitation de l'information fournie par les alignements calculés précédemment, afin d’améliorer les alignements des lectures suivantes. Nous faisons une première étude systématique de cette approche et démontrons ses qualités à l'aide de Dynamic Mapping Simulator, une pipeline pour comparer les différents scénarios de la localisation dynamique avec la localisation statique et le “référencement itératif”. Une composante importante de la localisation dynamique est un calculateur du consensus online, c’est-à-dire un programme qui collecte des statistiques des alignements pour guider, à la volée, les mises à jour de la référence. Nous présentons OCOCO, calculateur du consensus online qui maintient des statistiques des positions génomiques individuelles à l’aide de compteurs de bits compacts. Au-delà de son application à la localisation dynamique, OCOCO peut être utilisé comme un calculateur de SNP online dans divers pipelines d'analyse, ce qui permet de prédire des SNP à partir d'un flux sans avoir à enregistrer les alignements sur disque. Classification métagénomique de lectures d’ADN est un autre problème majeur étudié dans la thèse. Etant donné des milliers de génomes de référence placés sur un arbre taxonomique, le problème consiste à affecter rapidement aux nœuds de l'arbre une énorme quantité de lectures NGS, et éventuellement estimer l'abondance relative des espèces concernées. Dans cette thèse, nous proposons des techniques améliorées pour cette tâche. Dans une série d'expériences, nous montrons que les graines espacées améliorent la précision de la classification. Nous présentons Seed-Kraken, extension sur les graines espacées du logiciel populaire Kraken. En outre, nous introduisons une nouvelle stratégie d'indexation basée sur le transformé de Burrows-Wheeler (BWT), qui donne lieu à un indice beaucoup plus compact et plus informatif par rapport à Kraken. Nous présentons une version modifiée du logiciel BWA qui améliore l’index BWT pour la localisation rapide de k-mersSince their emergence around 2006, Next-Generation Sequencing technologies have been revolutionizing biological and medical research. Obtaining instantly an extensive amount of short or long reads from almost any biological sample enables detecting genomic variants, revealing the composition of species in a metagenome, deciphering cancer biology, decoding the evolution of living or extinct species, or understanding human migration patterns and human history in general. The pace at which the throughput of sequencing technologies is increasing surpasses the growth of storage and computer capacities, which still creates new computational challenges in NGS data processing. In this thesis, we present novel computational techniques for the problems of read mapping and taxonomic classification. With more than a hundred of published mappers, read mapping might be considered fully solved. However, the vast majority of mappers follow the same paradigm and only little attention has been paid to non-standard mapping approaches. Here, we propound the so-called dynamic mapping that we show to significantly improve the resulting alignments compared to traditional mapping approaches. Dynamic mapping is based on exploiting the information from previously computed alignments, helping to improve the mapping of subsequent reads. We provide the first comprehensive overview of this method and demonstrate its qualities using Dynamic Mapping Simulator, a pipeline that compares various dynamic mapping scenarios to static mapping and iterative referencing. An important component of a dynamic mapper is an online consensus caller, i.e., a program collecting alignment statistics and guiding updates of the reference in the online fashion. We provide OCOCO, the first online consensus caller that implements a smart statistics for individual genomic positions using compact bit counters. Beyond its application to dynamic mapping, OCOCO can be employed as an online SNP caller in various analysis pipelines, enabling calling SNPs from a stream without saving the alignments on disk. Metagenomic classification of NGS reads is another major problem studied in the thesis. Having a database of thousands reference genomes placed on a taxonomic tree, the task is to rapidly assign to tree nodes a huge amount of NGS reads, and possibly estimate the relative abundance of involved species. In this thesis, we propose improved computational techniques for this task. In a series of experiments, we show that spaced seeds consistently improve the classification accuracy. We provide Seed-Kraken, a spaced seed extension of Kraken, the most popular classifier at present. Furthermore, we suggest a new indexing strategy based on a BWT-index, obtaining a much smaller and more informative index compared to Kraken. 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Hunter, Dale. "Facilitation of sustainable co-operative processes in organisations /." View thesis, 2003. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20031107.153926/index.html.
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Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Western Sydney, 2003."A thesis presented to the University of Western Sydney School of Social Ecology and Lifelong Learning in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy" "March 2003" Bibliography: 238 - 249.
Books on the topic "Consensual ADR"
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Nolan-Haley, Jacqueline M. International conflict resolution: Consensual ADR processes. St. Paul, MN: Thomson/West, 2005.
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International Conflict Resolution: Consensual Adr Processes. Not Avail, 2005.
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Abramson, Harold, Pat K. Chew, and Jacqueline Nolan-haley. International Conflict Resolution: Consensual ADR Processes (American Casebook Series). West, 2005.
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Henry G, Burnett, and Bret Louis-Alexis. Part III Practice and Procedure, 16 The Amicable Resolution of International Mining Disputes. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198757641.003.0016.
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For many executives and other participants in the mining industry, litigation or arbitration is an avenue of last resort; the resolution of disputes is a priority. This chapter focuses on the informal resolution of international or domestic disputes, often referred to as alternative dispute resolution (ADR). The various forms of ADR differ from international arbitration in that they provide for a non-binding means to assist the parties in attempting to reach an amicable consensual resolution of the dispute. While mediation and conciliation are the most widely used form of non-arbitration ADR, parties also use other forms of ADR such as expert determinations, mini-trials, and neutral evaluations. One of the incentives for parties to amicably resolve an intentional mining dispute is that it gives them the opportunity to restore or improve the original bargain. The final section of the chapter discusses the timing and procedural steps of ADR.
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Guisinger, Alexandra. Politicians, the Media, and Negative Perceptions of Trade’s National Effect. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190651824.003.0007.
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Chapter 7 explores how the framing of trade in public discourse – mass media and political campaigns –supports the disconnect between mass and elite opinion: while academic elites have stressed the benefits of free trade and political elites have supported trade liberalization, the mass public continues to express a negative assessment of trade’s economic impact on the U.S. This chapter describes past and current public beliefs about trade’s effect at the national level and characterizes two common sources of Americans’ economic knowledge – the national media and federal-level political campaigns. Analysis of decades of trade–related evening news coverage, illustrates both the correlation between bad trade indicators and trade coverage and the frequency and tone of evening news coverage. Additionally, the chapter offers qualitative analysis of the content of trade-related political campaign ads as well as two maps showing the concentration of trade-related ads in the 2000 and 2008 elections. This analysis of the content of TV news coverage of stories about international trade and political campaign ads that mention trade makes it clear that the messages communicated to the mass public differ from the academic/elite consensus.
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Watts, Richard A., and David G. I. Scott. Vasculitis—classification and diagnosis. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199642489.003.0130.
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The vasculitides are a group of conditions characterized by inflammation and necrosis of blood vessels; they are generally of unknown aetiology. The classification of vasculitides is based on the size of vessel involved and whether there is a known cause (secondary) or not (primary). This approach has stood the test of time. The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) in 1990 produced classification criteria for the major types of vasculitis and in 1994 definitions were promulgated by the Chapel Hill Consensus Conference. These did not include anti-neutrophil cytoplasm antibodies (ANCA) and the ACR scheme did not include microscopic polyangiitis. The definitions have recently been updated to include modern concepts of pathogenesis including ANCA. No validated diagnostic criteria are available for routine clinical practice. The diagnosis of vasculitis requires a high index of suspicion, especially in the systemically unwell patient with multiorgan involvement. The key to diagnosis is a detailed and systematic approach to patient assessment involving all potentially involved organs. In a patient with suspected vasculitis immediate urinalysis is mandatory as the severity of renal involvement at presentation is a major determinant of outcome. Each potentially involved organ should be comprehensively evaluated. Tissue biopsy should be obtained whenever possible, as treatment is potentially toxic using glucocorticoids combined with cytotoxic agents. Biopsy should not, however, delay initiation of treatment. Potential alternative diagnosis should be considered, especially infection and malignancy, and excluded whenever possible.
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Livermore, Michael A., and Richard L. Revesz. Reviving Rationality. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197539446.001.0001.
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Reviving Rationality: Saving Cost-Benefit Analysis for the Sake of the Environment and Our Health explains how Donald Trump destabilized the decades-long bipartisan consensus that federal agencies must base their decisions on evidence, expertise, and analysis. Administrative agencies are charged by law with protecting values like stable financial markets and clean air. Their decisions often have profound consequences, affecting everything from the safety of workplaces to access to the dream of home ownership. Under the Trump administration, agencies have been hampered in their ability to advance these missions by the conflicting ideological whims of a changing cast of political appointees and overwhelming pressure from well-connected interest groups. Inconvenient evidence has been ignored, experts have been sidelined, and analysis has been used to obscure facts rather than inform the public. The results are grim: incoherent policy, social division, defeats in court, a demoralized federal workforce, and a loss of faith in government’s ability to respond to pressing problems. This experiment in abandoning the norms of good governance has been a disaster. Reviving Rationality explains how and why our government has abandoned rationality in recent years, and why it is so important for future administrations to restore rigorous and even-handed cost-benefit analysis if we are to return to a policymaking approach that effectively tackles the most pressing problems of our era.
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Agenda 21 Earth Summit: United Nations Program of Action from Rio. United Nations, 1992.
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Barbaria, Khaled, Jerome Hugues, and Laurent Pautet. "Design and Performance of a Generic Consensus Component for Critical Distributed Applications." In Reliable Software Technologies – Ada Europe 2007, 208–20. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73230-3_16.
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Cavin, David, Yoav Sasson, and André Schiper. "Consensus with Unknown Participants or Fundamental Self-Organization." In Ad-Hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks, 135–48. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-28634-9_11.
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Jones, Kennie H., Kenneth N. Lodding, Stephan Olariu, Larry Wilson, and Chunsheng Xin. "Biology-Inspired Distributed Consensus in Massively-Deployed Sensor Networks." In Ad-Hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks, 99–112. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11561354_10.
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Carli, Raffaele, Graziana Cavone, Nicola Epicoco, Mario Di Ferdinando, Paolo Scarabaggio, and Mariagrazia Dotoli. "Consensus-Based Algorithms for Controlling Swarms of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles." In Ad-Hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks, 84–99. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61746-2_7.
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Javed, Adeel, Zhiyi Huang, Haibo Zhang, and Jeremiah D. Deng. "CAMS: Consensus-Based Anchor-Node Management Scheme for Train Localisation." In Ad-hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks, 107–20. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19662-6_8.
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Yu, F. Richard, Helen Tang, Minyi Huang, Peter Mason, and Zhiqiang Li. "Distributed Consensus-Based Cooperative Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Mobile Ad Hoc Networks." In Cognitive Radio Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, 3–35. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6172-3_1.
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Bartz-Beielstein, Thomas, Olaf Mersmann, and Sowmya Chandrasekaran. "Ranking and Result Aggregation." In Hyperparameter Tuning for Machine and Deep Learning with R, 121–61. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5170-1_5.
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AbstractThis chapter explores different methods to analyze the results of Hyperparameter Tuning (HPT) experiments. Four different scenarios and two different approaches are presented. On the one hand, rankings and especially consensus rankings are introduced to aggregate the results of many different HPT results. On the other hand, statistical significance analysis and power analysis are used for a detailed analysis of single algorithms and pairwise algorithm comparisons. This chapter discusses issues with sample size determination, power calculations, hypotheses, and wrong conclusions from hypothesis testing. On top of the established methods, we add and explain severity, a frequentist approach that extends the classical concept of p-values. Mayo’s concept of severity offers one solution to these issues, and one might achieve even better results by applying severity.
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Scioli, Anthony. "The Psychology of Hope: A Diagnostic and Prescriptive Account." In Historical and Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Hope, 137–63. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46489-9_8.
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Abstract In this chapter, I review psychology’s contributions to the study of hope. To close potential gaps in this interdisciplinary volume, I include work in psychiatry and nursing. The nearly 400-year history of psychological reflections on hope reveals extended stretches of neglect, alternating with brief flashes of interest. Shifting scientific paradigms are partly to blame. However, I suggest that the greatest challenge for investigators seeking scientific consensus on the topic may be cultural and sociopolitical. I begin with a review of the most significant writings and research on hope, dating back to the seventeenth century. I examine goal-related approaches in greater depth, due to their strong influence on the field of psychology. The latter half of this chapter is more critical and prescriptive. For a deeper commentary, I rely on Markus’s (Meas Interdisciplinary Res Perspect 6:54–77, 2008) distinction between constructs and concepts as well as Danziger’s (Naming the mind: How psychology found its language. Sage Publications, 1997) observation on how psychology found its lexicon. This middle, diagnostic section includes a review of philosophy of science criteria for evaluating theories. I transition to general prescriptions for achieving a better understanding of hope, organized around Bacon’s “four idols” of the mind, and add specific suggestions for future research. I conclude with a summary of recent work within our hope lab.
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Hodges, Christopher, Iris Benöhr, and Naomi Creutzfeld-Banda. "2. Commission Recommendation of 4 April 2001 on the principles for out-ofcourt bodies involved in the consensual resolution of consumer disputes (2001/310/EC)." In Consumer ADR in Europe, 500–507. Nomos, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783845259185_500.
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Halvorson, Charles. "Are You Tough Enough?" In Valuing Clean Air, 132–62. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197538845.003.0006.
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Elected on the premise that government was the problem, not the solution, Ronald Reagan marked a major challenge to the postwar consensus that a liberal state could and should intervene broadly to improve public welfare. But popular support for environmental protection remained sufficient to stop Reagan from pursuing his deregulatory agenda outright. Instead, at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Reagan sought to hamstring the agency’s ability to operate, disrupting its enforcement program and bleeding it of the resources it needed to fulfill expansive congressional mandates. Illustrating the investment of the agency’s former officials and career staff in EPA’s original mission, a group of current and former employees banded together to resist Reagan’s assault, eventually attracting enough attention that Reagan abandoned his deregulatory agenda as a political liability.
Conference papers on the topic "Consensual ADR"
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Petrović, Milena. "MINI SUĐENjE (MINI – TRIAL) – NOVI TALAS U REŠAVANjU MEĐUNARODNIH PRIVREDNIH SPOROVA." In XV Majsko savetovanje: Sloboda pružanja usluga i pravna sigurnost. University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Law, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.46793/xvmajsko.887p.
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The mini - trial is an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) procedure that is used by businesses to resolve legal issues without incurring the expense and delay associated with court litigation. It does not result in a formal adjudication but is a vehicle for the parties to arrive at a solution through a structured settlement process. It is used most effectively when complex issues are at stake and the parties need or wish to maintain an amicable relationship. The term ’mini - trial’ is a misnomer, as it is not a trial, mini or otherwise. Rather, it is a voluntary, private, informal, confidential and non-binding settlement technique used most frequently in international disputes between corporations from different countries and cultures. It allows the disputants to focus on the merits of the dispute instead of dealing with procedural issues which differ from one legal system to another. Mini- trial is most helpful in case involving complex factual disputes which are always more amenable to consensual resolution processes, although mixed questions of fact and law may be also be appropriate for mini-trial if there is no need for a definitive judgment on the law.
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Deng, Jiacheng, and Jun Zhao. "Add Deputy Leader-an Improved Stake-based Consensus Protocol." In 2021 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Civil Aviation Safety and Information Technology (ICCASIT). IEEE, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/iccasit53235.2021.9633641.
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Wang, Wei, Xin Chen, Luefeng Chen, and Min Wu. "Model-free optimal consensus control for multi-agent systems using kernel-based ADP method." In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC). IEEE, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/smc.2017.8122994.
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Xiaopeng, Cao, and Shi Linkai. "Research on Dynamic PBFT Consensus Algorithm." In 9th International Conference on Signal, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition (SPPR 2020). AIRCC Publishing Corporation, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5121/csit.2020.101907.
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The practical Byzantine fault-tolerant algorithm does not add nodes dynamically. It is limited in practical application. In order to add nodes dynamically, Dynamic Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance Algorithm (DPBFT) was proposed. Firstly, a new node sends request information to other nodes in the network. The nodes in the network decide their identities and requests. Then the nodes in the network reverse connect to the new node and send block information of the current network, the new node updates information. Finally, the new node participates in the next round of consensus, changes the view and selects the master node. This paper abstracts the decision of nodes into the undirected connected graph. The final consistency of the graph is used to prove that the proposed algorithm can adapt to the network dynamically. Compared with the PBFT algorithm, DPBFT has better fault tolerance and lower network bandwidth.
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Talebi, Mohammad, Mahdi Kefayati, Babak Khalaj, and Hamid Rabiee. "Adaptive Consensus Averaging for Information Fusion over Sensor Networks." In 2006 IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Sysetems. IEEE, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mobhoc.2006.278610.
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Harvey, Simon. "Performance of a Biomass Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle CHP Plant Supplying Heat to a District Heating Network." In ASME Turbo Expo 2000: Power for Land, Sea, and Air. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/2000-gt-0023.
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This paper examines a Biomass Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (BIGCC) CHP plant using atmospheric air-blown gasification with wet cold gas clean-up and flue gas drying of the biomass feed stream. The plant provides heat and power to a medium sized municipality. The paper presents simulated performance results obtained using GateCycle software, and also presents results for the associated economy and CO2 emissions of the district heating system. The computed production costs of the cogenerated electricity are uncompetitively high, given current conditions in Sweden. In order to become competitive, international consensus must be reached on the level of economic advantage to be attributed to the “green” electric power produced by such a plant. However, likely price incentives for “green” power will probably be insufficient for BIGCC-CHP plants to become economically attractive. Therefore further effort is needed to improve the technology, reduce the investment costs, and identify options for longer annual operating times than those usually adopted for CHP plants coupled to district heating plants.
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Hirt, Carsten, Manuela Meier, Kelly Yu, Frank Schüler, Siegfried Janz, Gottfried Dölken, and Charles S. Rabkin. "Abstract 1672: Population prevalence of consensus translocations in follicular and mantle cell lymphomas." In Proceedings: AACR 103rd Annual Meeting 2012‐‐ Mar 31‐Apr 4, 2012; Chicago, IL. American Association for Cancer Research, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1158/1538-7445.am2012-1672.
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Chen, Lei, and Jeff Frolik. "Active consensus over sensor networks via selective communication." In 2012 9th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON). IEEE, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/secon.2012.6275802.
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Haumann, Dominik, Maximilian Löffler, and Volker Willert. "Distributed kalman filtering for noisy consensus networks with time delays." In 2012 IEEE 9th International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS 2012). IEEE, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mass.2012.6708520.
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Chen, Yee Ming, Chu-Kai Wang, and Yu-Meng Chen. "Distributed Kalman Filter with Consensus Strategies for Internet of Things Network." In 2018 IEEE 15th International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS). IEEE, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mass.2018.00074.
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Rioux, Nathalie. Twenty-Fifth Annual Report on Federal Agency Use of Voluntary Consensus Standards and Conformity Assessment. Gaithersburg, MD: National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.6028/nist.ir.8438.
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In FY 2021, the 22 federal agencies that reported did not add or rescind any GUS in lieu of VCS, therefore there remains a total of 80 previously reported GUS in lieu of VCS still in use. This analysis does not reflect the use of standards by the Department of Defense (DoD) or the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as they report their use of GUS on a categorical basis via a different reporting mechanism. Agencies demonstrate the effectiveness of the NTTAA and Circular A-119 by their continuous review of opportunities to rescind GUS in favor of using VCS, and their involvement with the private sector through the VCS process. These activities suggest that federal agencies are cognizant of the benefits of meeting their mission needs by actively seeking to use VCS developed by the private sector. In accordance with its coordination role as defined in the NTTAA and OMB A-119, NIST continues to assist federal agencies and their stakeholders with standards and conformity assessment information, program support, guidance, and policy concerns. NIST hosts http://standards.gov, which offers ongoing practical guidance and information needed by agencies to implement the NTTAA successfully and report standards activities as required by the NTTAA and OMB Circular A-119. This report fulfills the annual reporting requirements of both the NTTAA and OMB Circular A-119.
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Marold, Juliane, Ruth Wagner, Markus Schöbel, and Dietrich Manzey. Decision-making in groups under uncertainty. Fondation pour une culture de sécurité industrielle, February 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.57071/361udm.
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The authors have studied daily decision-making processes in groups under uncertainty, with an exploratory field study in the medical domain. The work follows the tradition of naturalistic decision-making (NDM) research. It aims to understand how groups in this high reliability context conceptualize and internalize uncertainties, and how they handle them in order to achieve effective decision-making in their everyday activities. Analysis of the survey data shows that uncertainty is thought of in terms of issues and sources (as identified by previous research), but also (possibly a domain-specific observation) as a lack of personal knowledge or skill. Uncertainty is accompanied by emotions of fear and shame. It arises during the diagnostic process, the treatment process and the outcome of medical decision making. The most frequently cited sources of uncertainty are partly lacking information and inadequate understanding owing to instability of information. Descriptions of typical group decisions reveal that the individual himself is a source of uncertainty when a lack of knowledge, skills and expertise is perceived. The group can serve as a source of uncertainty if divergent opinions in the decision making group exist. Three different situations of group decisions are identified: Interdisciplinary regular meetings (e.g. tumor conferences), formal ward meetings and ad hoc consultations. In all healthcare units concerned by the study, only little use of structured decision making procedures and processes is reported. Strategies used to handle uncertainty include attempts to reduce uncertainty by collecting additional information, delaying action until more information is available or by soliciting advice from other physicians. The factors which ultimately determine group decisions are hierarchy (the opinion of more senior medical staff carries more weight than that of junior staff), patients’ interest and professional competence. Important attributes of poor group decisions are the absence of consensus and the use of hierarchy as the predominant decision criterion. On the other hand, decisions judged to be effective are marked by a sufficient information base, a positive discussion culture and consensus. The authors identify four possible obstacles to effective decision making: a steep hierarchy gradient, a poor discussion culture, a strong need for consensus, and insufficient structure and guidance of group decision making processes. A number of intervention techniques which have been shown in other industries to be effective in improving some of these obstacles are presented.
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Coulson, Saskia, Melanie Woods, Drew Hemment, and Michelle Scott. Report and Assessment of Impact and Policy Outcomes Using Community Level Indicators: H2020 Making Sense Report. University of Dundee, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.20933/100001192.
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Making Sense is a European Commission H2020 funded project which aims at supporting participatory sensing initiatives that address environmental challenges in areas such as noise and air pollution. The development of Making Sense was informed by previous research on a crowdfunded open source platform for environmental sensing, SmartCitizen.me, developed at the Fab Lab Barcelona. Insights from this research identified several deterrents for a wider uptake of participatory sensing initiatives due to social and technical matters. For example, the participants struggled with the lack of social interactions, a lack of consensus and shared purpose amongst the group, and a limited understanding of the relevance the data had in their daily lives (Balestrini et al., 2014; Balestrini et al., 2015). As such, Making Sense seeks to explore if open source hardware, open source software and and open design can be used to enhance data literacy and maker practices in participatory sensing. Further to this, Making Sense tests methodologies aimed at empowering individuals and communities through developing a greater understanding of their environments and by supporting a culture of grassroot initiatives for action and change. To do this, Making Sense identified a need to underpin sensing with community building activities and develop strategies to inform and enable those participating in data collection with appropriate tools and skills. As Fetterman, Kaftarian and Wanderman (1996) state, citizens are empowered when they understand evaluation and connect it in a way that it has relevance to their lives. Therefore, this report examines the role that these activities have in participatory sensing. Specifically, we discuss the opportunities and challenges in using the concept of Community Level Indicators (CLIs), which are measurable and objective sources of information gathered to complement sensor data. We describe how CLIs are used to develop a more indepth understanding of the environmental problem at hand, and to record, monitor and evaluate the progress of change during initiatives. We propose that CLIs provide one way to move participatory sensing beyond a primarily technological practice and towards a social and environmental practice. This is achieved through an increased focus in the participants’ interests and concerns, and with an emphasis on collective problem solving and action. We position our claims against the following four challenge areas in participatory sensing: 1) generating and communicating information and understanding (c.f. Loreto, 2017), 2) analysing and finding relevance in data (c.f. Becker et al., 2013), 3) building community around participatory sensing (c.f. Fraser et al., 2005), and 4) achieving or monitoring change and impact (c.f. Cheadle et al., 2000). We discuss how the use of CLIs can tend to these challenges. Furthermore, we report and assess six ways in which CLIs can address these challenges and thereby support participatory sensing initiatives: i. Accountability ii. Community assessment iii. Short-term evaluation iv. Long-term evaluation v. Policy change vi. Capability The report then returns to the challenge areas and reflects on the learnings and recommendations that are gleaned from three Making Sense case studies. Afterwhich, there is an exposition of approaches and tools developed by Making Sense for the purposes of advancing participatory sensing in this way. Lastly, the authors speak to some of the policy outcomes that have been realised as a result of this research.
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Office of the Special Project Facilitator’s Lessons Learned: Sri Lanka Integrated Road Investment Program. Asian Development Bank, January 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.22617/arm200271-2.
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The Office of the Special Project Facilitator (OSPF) is responsible for the problem-solving function of the Accountability Mechanism of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). It aims to actively respond to the concerns of people affected by ADB-assisted projects through fair, transparent, and consensus-based problem-solving. This publication discusses issues and resolutions relating to an integrated road investment project in Sri Lanka. It is one of OSPF’s Lessons Learned series of case studies on its complaint management experience—from project preparation, design, and processing to implementation and monitoring. The series aims to support ADB operations departments, government and private sector partners, and other stakeholders by documenting grievance redress management experiences and identifying important lessons and good practices on problem-solving that are useful for future projects.