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Journal articles on the topic "Great Council of Maine"
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Ginsburg, Tom. "From Contract to Status: A Comment on Nico Krisch’s The Decay of Consent." AJIL Unbound 108 (2014): 8–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s2398772300001768.
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In the mid-nineteenth century, the great anthropologist Henry Sumner Maine observed that legal systems tended to move over time from “status to contract” by which he meant that rights and duties were increasingly determined by consent rather than social or demographic factors. Maine’s thesis might have been applied to international law during the long era of high positivism, in which consent became the dominant principle after the Peace of Westphalia. Formal equality of states meant that formal treaties—”contract”—were the main mode of interaction. Even in the post-World War II era, consent played a major role, in part because the Security Council—the chief vehicle for legal exercise of “status”—was anemic. International organizations served as vehicles for the development of multilateral treaties of increasing scope and depth. Status and power were hidden rather than acknowledged elements of the system.
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Snyderman, Lucia, Alexis Mychajliw, and Arthur Spiess. "A Holocene Seabird Extinction in Maine: The Great Auk." Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 60, no. 2 (February 16, 2023): 119. http://dx.doi.org/10.58782/flmnh.awfg4811.
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Seabirds are the most threatened of any living group of birds, continuing a larger pattern of elevated Holocene bird extinctions on islands and coastlines. The Great Auk (Charadriiformes: Pinguinus impennis) was found on both coasts of the Atlantic during the Holocene until its last sighting on Iceland in 1844. Far more is known about the population structure and genetic diversity of NE Atlantic populations, and the latest surviving populations were documented from the British Isles in 1834. While sightings from Canada suggest Great Auks disappeared by 1800, no systematic evaluation of extinction timing has been conducted for this coast. Determining extinction timing of the Great Auk in Maine allows a comparison to be made to populations in other areas of the Atlantic Ocean, and raises the question: was the Maine population’s fate different due to regional, cultural, or other factors? There is a single eye-witness record in the late 17th century at “Black Point”, now Scarborough, Maine. To address this gap, we compiled a radiocarbon dataset on associated material from Maine archaeological shell middens. These 91 dates from 13 sites situate the Great Auk in Maine from about 180 to 4,555 years before present. The majority of these dates are from charcoal samples, but also include shells, ceramics, and bone, and cultural contexts span the Middle and Late Ceramic Periods. To account for differences in stratigraphic control and sampling material, we assigned quality scores, and used these scores to run a sensitivity analysis in extinction timing with the GRIWM model. Disentangling the spatiotemporal dynamics of the Great Auk extinction in Maine is useful in determining how to conserve current species in decline and modern insular seabirds in Maine, such as the puffin. Future study will include new radiocarbon dating of bones as well as isotopic and morphometric analysis to unfold more chapters of the Maine Great Auk’s narrative.
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Gauthier, Robert. "Some Sphagna from Great Wass Island, Maine." Evansia 3, no. 2 (1986): 17–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/p.345915.
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Smith, David C., and Harold W. Borns. "Louis Agassiz, the Great Deluge, and Early Maine Geology." Northeastern Naturalist 7, no. 2 (2000): 157. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3858648.
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Smith, David C., and Harold W. Borns. "LOUIS AGASSIZ, THE GREAT DELUGE, AND EARLY MAINE GEOLOGY." Northeastern Naturalist 7, no. 2 (June 2000): 157–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1656/1092-6194(2000)007[0157:latgda]2.0.co;2.
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Wilhelm, Jeffrey D. "Poetry Doing Hard and Healthy Work: A Poetpourri of Ideas from the Maine Writing Project." Voices from the Middle 10, no. 2 (December 1, 2002): 15–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/vm20022448.
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Every summer for four to five weeks, a corner of Corbett Hall at the University of Maine is more alive than an ant colony on a sugar buzz as teachers share their lives, teaching expertise, writing, struggles, laughter, and—I have to admit—lots of great food. Though some participants drive in for each day’s work, many of us come from across Maine and live together in a dormitory.
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Gibbs, James P., Susan Woodward, Malcolm L. Hunter, and Alan E. Hutchinson. "Determinants of Great Blue Heron Colony Distribution in Coastal Maine." Auk 104, no. 1 (January 1987): 38–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4087230.
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BRANKOVIĆ, BOŠKO M. "CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN GLIGORIJE JEFTANOVIĆ AND THE GREAT ADMINISTRATIVE AND EDUCATIONAL COUNCIL IN 1919." ISTRAŽIVANJA, Јournal of Historical Researches, no. 30 (December 25, 2019): 187–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.19090/i.2019.30.187-196.
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The paper follows the correspondence between Gligorije Jeftanović and the Great Administrative and Educational Council in the year 1919. The first part of the text presents the correspondence where the Great Administrative and Educational Council requests an opinion from Jeftanović about the secession of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Bosnia and Herzegovina from the Constantinople Patriarchate and merging with the Serbian Patriarchate. The second part of the text presents the correspondence that concerned Jeftanović’s membership in the Great Administrative and Educational Council and his pre-war position as the Deputy Chairman of the Great Administrative and Educational Council, from which he was removed by the occupation Austro-Hungarian authorities during the First World War and, as he claimed in the correspondence, with the assistance of people from the Great Administrative and Educational Council.
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Baer, A. S., Philip Houghton, Greg Bankoff, Vicente L. Rafael, Harold Brookfield, Donald Denoon, Cynthia Chou, et al. "Book Reviews." Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia 156, no. 1 (2000): 107–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134379-90003858.
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Hofer, Rebecca, Brenda Wolford, Brent Walker, Julia Fantacone, Kerri Vasold, Patricia Dushuttle, and Lori Kaley. "Process to Develop a Shared Measurement System for Maine State Nutrition Action Council (SNAC)." Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior 55, no. 7 (July 2023): 87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jneb.2023.05.188.
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Bryant, Marlene L. "Council housing sales in Great Britain : marginalization or cooptation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71369.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1985.MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH
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Wadley, Karen I. "The king and his council." [Boise, Idaho] : Boise State University, 2009. http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/td/14/.
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Chien, Jui-Jung. "Aesthetics, cultural policies and the Arts Council of Great Britain." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.394439.
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Vaughan, Jacqueline D. "Secretaries, statesmen and spies : the clerks of the Tudor Privy Council, c. 1540-c.1603 /." Thesis, St Andrews, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/440.
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Scogin, Katie Elizabeth. "Britain and the Supreme Economic Council 1919." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1987. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332330/.
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This dissertation attempts to determine what Britain expected from participation in the Supreme Economic Council (SEC) of the 1919 Paris Peace Conference and to what extent its expectations were realized. An investigation of available sources reveals that access to European markets and raw materials and a balance of power to prevent French, German, or Russian hegemony in Europe were British foreign policy goals that SEC delegates sought to advance.
Primary sources for this study include unpublished British Foreign Office and Cabinet records, published British, United States, and German government documents, unpublished personal papers of people directing SEC efforts, such as David Lloyd George, Austen Chamberlain, Cecil Harmsworth, Harry Osborne Mance, and John Maynard Keynes, and published memoirs and accounts of persons who were directly or indirectly involved with the SEC. Secondary accounts include biographies and histories or studies of the Peace Conference and of countries affected by its work.
Primarily concerned with the first half of 1919, this dissertation focuses on British participation in Inter-allied war-time economic efforts, in post-war Rhineland control, in the creation of the SEC, and in the SEC endeavors of revictualling Germany, providing food and medical relief for eastern Europe, and reconstructing European communications. It concludes with Britain's role in the attempt to convert the SEC into an International Economic Council in the last half of 1919 and with the transfer of SEC duties to the Reparations Commission and to the League of Nations.
Through participation in the SEC, Britain led in negotiating the Brussels Agreement and in establishing the Rhineland Commission and the German Economic Commission, reversing French attempts to control the Rhenish economy, preventing French hegemony in Europe, and gaining access to German markets for British goods. Although it failed to achieve its goals of strong eastern European states and access to markets and raw materials there, Britain led in restoration of communications and participated in the relief effort which saved the new states from anarchy in 1919.
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Koch, Insa Lee. "Personalising the state : law, social welfare and politics on an English council estate." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:4335c11c-c0a5-44dc-bd15-5bbbfe2fee6c.
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This dissertation offers a study of everyday relations between residents and the state on a post-industrial council estate in England. Drawing upon historical and ethnographic data, it analyses how, often under conditions of sustained exclusion, residents rely upon the state in their daily struggles for security and survival. My central ethnographic finding is that residents personalise the state alongside informal networks of support and care into a local sociality of reciprocity. This finding can be broken into three interconnected points. First, I argue that the reciprocal contract between citizens and the state emerged in the post-war years when the residents on the newly built estates negotiated their dependence upon the state by integrating it into their on-going social relations. A climate of relative material affluence, selective housing policies, and a paternalistic regime of housing management all created conditions which were conducive for this temporary union between residents and the state. Second, however, I argue that with the decline of industry and shifts towards neoliberal policies, residents increasingly struggle to hold the state accountable to its reciprocal obligations towards local people. This becomes manifest today both in the material neglect of council estates as well as in state officials' reluctance to become implicated in social relations with and between residents. Third, I argue that this failure on the part of the state to attend to residents' demands often has onerous effects on people's lives. It not only exacerbates residents' exposure to insecurity and threat, but is also experienced as a moral affront which generates larger narratives of abandonment and betrayal. Theoretically, this dissertation critically discusses and challenges contrasting portrayals of the state, and of state-citizen relations, in two bodies of literature. On the one hand, in much of the sociological and anthropological literature on working class communities, authors have adopted a community-centred approach which has depicted working class communities as self-contained entities against which the state emerges as a distant or hostile entity. I argue that such a portrayal is premised upon a romanticised view of working class communities which neglects the intimate presence of the state in everyday life. On the other hand, the theoretical literature on the British state has adopted a state-centred perspective which has seen the state as a renewed source of order and authority in disintegrating communities today. My suggestion is that this portrayal rests upon a pathologising view of social decline which fails to account for the persistence of informal social relations and the challenges that these pose to the state's authority from below. Finally, moving beyond the community-centred and state-centred perspectives, I argue for the need to adopt a middle ground which combines an understanding of the nature and workings of informal relations with an acknowledgement of the ubiquity of the state. Such an approach allows us to recognise that, far from being a hostile entity or, alternatively, an uncontested source of order, the state occupies shifting positions within an overarching sociality of reciprocity and its associated demands for alliances and divisions. I refer to such an approach as the personalisation of the state.
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Thomas, Phillip Verran. "Vagrancy in Elizabethan England and the response of the Privy Council, with particular reference to five towns /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1994. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARM/09armt461.pdf.
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Gottwald, Carl H. "The Anglo-American Council on Productivity: 1948-1952 British Productivity and the Marshall Plan." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1999. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279256/.
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The United Kingdom's postwar economic recovery and the usefulness of Marshall Plan aid depended heavily on a rapid increase in exports by the country's manufacturing industries. American aid administrators, however, shocked to discover the British industry's inability to respond to the country's urgent need, insisted on aggressive action to improve productivity. In partial response, a joint venture, called the Anglo-American Council on Productivity (AACP), arranged for sixty-six teams involving nearly one thousand people to visit U.S. factories and bring back productivity improvement ideas. Analyses of team recommendations, and a brief review of the country's industrial history, offer compelling insights into the problems of relative industrial decline. This dissertation attempts to assess the reasons for British industry's inability to respond to the country's economic emergency or to maintain its competitive position faced with the challenge of newer industrializing countries.
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Upchurch, Anna Rosser. "Maynard Keynes, Vincent Massey, and the intellectual origins of the Arts Council of Great Britain." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.502615.
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Kronwall, Mary Elizabeth. "Great Britain, the Council of Foreign Ministers, and the Origins of the Cold War, 1947." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1988. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc501072/.
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Scholars assert that the Cold War began at one of several different points. Material recently available at the National Archives yields a view different from those already presented. From these records, and material from the Foreign Relations Series, Parliamentary Debates, and United States Government documents, a new picture emerges. This study focuses on the British occupation of Germany and on the Council of Foreign Ministers' Moscow Conference of 1947. The failure of this conference preceded the adoption of the Marshall Plan and a stronger Western policy toward the Soviet Union. Thus, the Moscow Conference emphasized the disintegrating relations between East and West which resulted in the Cold War.
Books on the topic "Great Council of Maine"
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E, Sowden Robin, and British Council, eds. Deep-sea microbiology: UK-Japan scientific collaboration and the role of the British Council. [Japan?]: The Council, 1996.
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Pattangall, William R. Great Maine men. Brewer, Me: Cay-Bel Pub., 1985.
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Dutram, Paul W. Maine groundwater management strategy. Augusta, Me: Ground Water Standing Committee, 1989.
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Susan, Whitehouse, and Maine Children's Cancer Program, eds. Maine-ly fun!: Great things to do with kids in Maine. [Camden, ME]: Down East Books, 2003.
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Nature Conservancy Council (Great Britain). Nature conservancy council report. Peterborough: Nature Conservancy Council, 1985.
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Audit Commission for Local Authorities in England and Wales., ed. The Competitive council. London: HMSO, 1988.
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Service, Arts Council of England Library and Enquiry. Arts Council of England/Arts Council of Great Britain: Bibliography. 3rd ed. London: Arts Council of England, 1997.
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Council, Education Transfer. Education Transfer Council: Account. London: Stationery Office, 1999.
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Arts Council of Great Britain. Library. The Arts Council of Great Britain. London: Arts Council, 1992.
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Christopher, Glass, ed. Historic Maine homes: 300 years of great houses. [Camden, Me.]: Down East Books, 2009.
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Upchurch, Anna Rosser. "The Arts Council of Great Britain: Keynes’s Legacy." In The Origins of the Arts Council Movement, 103–30. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-46163-6_5.
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Lundqvist, Lennart J. "Great Britain: Council House Sales and their Effects." In Housing Policy and Equality, 84–133. London: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003368809-3.
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Borns, Harold W., and Kirk Allen Maasch. "Late-Glacial Cold-Water Marine Shells of Maine and Adjacent Regions." In Foot Steps of the Ancient Great Glacier of North America, 199–202. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13200-6_29.
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Clapsis, Emmanuel. "The Great and Holy Council and the Orthodox Churches in the Public Sphere." In Global Eastern Orthodoxy, 77–99. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28687-3_5.
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Chaziza, Mordechai. "Sino-Gulf Cooperation Council Partnership in a New Era of Great Power Competition." In China’s Engagement with the Islamic Nations, 139–58. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31042-3_8.
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Verscuren, An. "Closing Time: The ‘Fortunes’ of the Great Council at the Turn of the Century." In Studies in the History of Law and Justice, 281–337. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09638-4_5.
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Frangos, Marina, and Othon Anastasakis. "The World Council of Hellenes Abroad (SAE): From Great Expectations to Disillusionment and Crisis Irrelevance." In Diaspora Engagement in Times of Severe Economic Crisis, 181–96. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97443-5_8.
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Cardozo, Nelson, and Paola Ferrari. "Policy analysis by national government advisory councils: knowledge production and its role in policy design and implementation." In Policy Analysis in Argentina, edited by Nelson Cardozo and Pablo Bulcourf, 199–214. Policy Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447364900.003.0013.
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This chapter seeks to analyze the knowledge production by the councils and other similar instances at the national level. Traditionally, the process of formulating public policy has been highly focused on executive bodies with strong decisionist patterns from the presidency and the governing party. For this reason, the production of public policies in the legislative bodies in our country rests with the committees of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies. Thus, there was no stable body of congressional advisors to produce documents, reports, and publications on public policy. The agencies we will take are: the National Council for Quality in Education; the Federal Health Council; the National Council for the Coordination of Social Policies; the Federal Investment Council; and, finally, the Secretariat of Social Security – which has a great academic production on the subject. To this end, we will review the reports, books, working papers, journals, and conferences that these agencies have produced. We will focus on social policies, which are the main policy area of our national government. Finally, from this study we will make a brief state of the art of the production on the country’s four major sectoral policies: social welfare, health, education, and infrastructure.
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Elliott, Mark. "The Making of a Radical Individualist in Ohio’s Western Reserve." In Color-Blind Justice, 43–72. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195181395.003.0003.
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Abstract When Frederick Douglass died in February of 1895, the people of Boston called for a memorial service to honor him. Proud of its abolitionist heritage, Boston’s city council chose to hold a ceremony for the great black abolitionist at Faneuil Hall, once the favored site for rallies in the heyday of the movement. Members of Douglass’s family and former abolitionist colleagues spoke at the cere-mony, but the task of delivering the main eulogy was given to Albion W. Tourgée. His two-hour address, delivered on December 20, 1895, was later published at the city’s expense.
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"The Great-Pond Ordinance." In The Power Policy of Maine, 1–24. University of California Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/jj.8306115.4.
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McCready-Shea, S., F. E. Taylor, and J. Batt. "Experiences of Dealing With Environmental Statements for Nuclear Reactor Decommissioning Projects Under the EIA Directive." In ASME 2003 9th International Conference on Radioactive Waste Management and Environmental Remediation. ASMEDC, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icem2003-4713.
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European Council Directive 85/337/EEC, as amended by Council Directive 97/11/EC, sets out a framework for the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment. It is known as the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Directive. The Directive is implemented in Great Britain (GB) for the dismantling or decommissioning of nuclear power stations and other nuclear reactor by the Nuclear Reactors (Environmental Impact Assessment for Decommissioning) Regulations 1999 (EIADR99). The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is the competent authority for EIADR99 in GB, and has carried out public consultations on environmental statements that accompanied applications for consent to carry out decommissioning projects at two nuclear power stations in GB. HSE understands that these applications for consent are some of the first under the revised EIA Directive. HSE has developed a strategy for managing applications for consents under EIADR99. This strategy covers two main areas. The first area is public involvement, including identifying a large number of organisations in addition to the consultation bodies identified in the Regulations, providing information through the internet, and making responses to the consultation process publicly available. The second area is interfaces with legislation and Government policy, including town and country planning legislation, related health, safety and environment legislation, and decommissioning timetables. Experiences of implementing the strategy to deal with the environmental statements are described.
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Asses, Mohamed tahar. "TOWARDS QUALITY BUSINESS ENGLISH IN ALGERIA." In eLSE 2014. Editura Universitatii Nationale de Aparare "Carol I", 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.12753/2066-026x-14-231.
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This workshop highlights the challenges and processes involved in developing Business English teaching competences in a primarily francophone environment. Participants will learn how to fine-tune blended training for trainees with little prior teaching experience. Reference will be made to a British Council--Algerian Chamber of Commerce and Industry project which culminated in setting up quality language centres in Algeria. The purpose of this workshop is to share the "good practices" of the recent Algerian experience in setting up four quality business English language centres that adhere to international norms and standards. The focus will be on the three blended teacher and trainer training phases of the project that were managed by the Algerian chamber of commerce and Industry with the help of British Council Algeria, experienced LCCI (London Chamber of Commerce and Industry) trainers and the Algerian Quality Association for Language Services (AQuALS). Whether experienced or inexperienced business English teachers, teacher trainers or academic managers; participants will find the hands-on approaches and field-tested instruments of great use in contexts with similar challenges. The talk starts with an examination of the context of business English language learning and teaching and factors that slowed down progress towards quality education in the country. Then, it describes the above project that was launched to meet the need for quality and standards. Next, it delineates the thematic and key professional skills that were covered, the adopted approaches and the challenges in the teacher/trainer training and development stages of the project. As one of the main project facilitators, the presenter will share the learned lessons with the participants and explores the mechanisms, instruments, strategies and peer support systems that were used to ensure quality. Last but not least, the participants' questions and comments during the last ten minutes will enable the presenter to shed more light on areas of their interest.
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Al-Muslim, Husain Mohammed, and Abul Fazal M. Arif. "Integrity Assessment of Multiple Dents in Oil and Gas Pipelines Using Probabilistic Design Analysis." In ASME 2010 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2010-37803.
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Mechanical damage in transportation pipelines is a threat to its structural integrity. Failure in oil and gas pipelines is catastrophic as it leads to personal fatalities, injuries, property damage, loss of production and environmental pollution. Therefore, this issue is of extreme importance to Pipeline Operators, Government and Regulatory Agencies, and local Communities. As mechanical damage can occur during the course of pipeline life due to many reasons, appropriate tools and procedures for assessment of severity are necessary. There are many parameters that affect the severity of the mechanical damage related to the pipe geometry and material properties, the defect geometry and boundary conditions, and the pipe state of strain and stress. Moreover, multiple damaged areas may exist and interact like in the case of a hit by a multiple-tooth excavator. The main objective of this paper is to determine the distance and orientation where interaction of multiple dents is significant. The strain and stress fields are evaluated for static pressure loading and the stress range and fatigue life are evaluated for cyclic pressure loading. Accordingly, guidelines are developed for the integrity assessment of multiple dents in oil and gas pipelines. The input parameters of the problem including the pipe material, pipe geometry, dent dimensions, and distance and orientation between two dents have a great variability. Therefore, probabilistic design approach is applied to determine the sensitivity and correlation between the output and input parameters. The base case deterministic FEA model has been validated with full-instrumented full-scale tests conducted by Pipeline Research Council International as part of their active program to fully characterize mechanical damage.
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Bohmann, Leonard J. "The michigan Great Lakes Wind Council: Recommendations for developing offshore wind in the Great Lakes." In 2011 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting. IEEE, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/pes.2011.6039926.
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Huo, Chao, Nestor Gonzalez Diez, and Arvind Gangoli Rao. "Numerical Investigations on the Conceptual Design of a Ducted Contra-Rotating Fan." In ASME Turbo Expo 2014: Turbine Technical Conference and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/gt2014-26292.
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The Advisory Council for Aeronautics Research in Europe (ACARE) has set an ambitious array of objectives to be accomplished by 2050. It is often claimed that complying with those targets will not require evolution but, rather, revolution. If the growth in aviation has to be sustained in the future then we must come up with radical aircraft and engine configurations which can meet the demands of future aviation. The contra-rotating fan is one such system which can play an important role in the future engine configurations, such as the hybrid engine configuration that is being investigated in the EU cofounded AHEAD project. In order to design a CRF system, a 1-D code has been developed based on the inverse Blade Element Method (BEM) to design a contra rotating fan. The CRF design obtained from this methodology is then analyzed with a full 3D RANS simulation. The numerical analysis revealed that the performance of the first rotor satisfies with the given design requirements in terms of both pressure ratio and isentropic efficiency, thus proving the efficacy of using the 1-D code for designing the CRF. However, the performance of the rear rotor does not reach the design demands. It was observed that there is a strong flow separation around the root and a strong normal shock in the blade passage near the tip. It was found that there is a great difference between the blade metal inlet angles and the relative flow inlet angles near the root of the rear rotor. One of the main reasons for this is the calculation of the axial velocity depending on the vortex design and the resolution of the radial equilibrium. Based on the CFD simulations, the design code could be further modified to improve the design of CRF.
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Adesanya, A. S., and D. O. Adewumi. "Business Information Utilization for Sustainable Entrepreneurial Knowledge among SMEs in Lagos Metropolis." In 27th iSTEAMS-ACity-IEEE International Conference. Society for Multidisciplinary and Advanced Research Techniques - Creative Research Publishers, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.22624/aims/isteams-2021/v27p9.
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Information had been seen as essential element in all aspect of human and business life, without information no meaningful development can be achieved. Despite this, little or no emphasizes had been put on this great asset. The gap in information has been identify as one of the major barriers to the development of SMEs in Nigeria. This study focus on the various sources of business information, reasons for using business information, the rate of usage among SMEs, and the extent at which business information has helped in developing SMEs entrepreneurial knowledge in Lagos Metropolis. The study focused on three main construct which are Customers’ Information, Multi-media Devices and Government agencies as sources of information for SMEs in Lagos Metropolis. The study used descriptive statistics, questionnaire was used as the major research instruments to obtain data from three hundred respondents drawn from twenty local council development areas of Lagos state. Data collected were presented in frequency tables and percentages while chi-square were used for the analysis. Findings of this study revealed that most SMEs in Lagos State depend on customers’ information and multi-media means as their source of business information, it was also deduced that majority of surveyed SMEs have reported positive performance by utilizing business Information at their disposal in their businesses. Based on these findings, the paper recommends among others that government should provide funds to the SMEs operators to acquire new technology to expand their business. SMEs should be adequately educated and informed about the importance of business information, the use of multi-media devices like, photographs, pictures, craft displays, audio-visual materials, film shows and media houses using local languages should be encouraged at public meetings and empowerment program to give business information to SMEs operators and increases their operational efficiency. Keywords: Information, Utilization, Entrepreneurial Knowledge, SMEs, LCDA.
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Cooper, Natalia, Anca Galasiu, and Farid Bahiraei. "Evaluating sustainable and green building designs using human factor approaches." In 14th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2023). AHFE International, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1003087.
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In response to government requirements for zero carbon emissions for existing and new buildings, a number of organizations committed to explore the most efficient ways to build new buildings or renovate their aging infrastructure, and to implement the necessary measures and technologies supporting net zero standards and sustainable building designs. In many cases, this means deep energy retrofits within buildings, including upgrades to the exterior and the interior building design features. By using modelling techniques and following standard specifications, a building’s performance can be optimized through a number of energy efficient measures and implementation of sustainable, net zero technologies. However, research has shown that in many cases the modelled performance is not often easily achievable in real life settings. This can be specifically relevant to cases where the comfort requirements are surpassed by an increased focus on energy efficiency measures. Methodology: This paper outlines a case study where the National Research Council Canada (NRC) has committed to complete a pre- and post-renovation evaluation of the Ontario Association of Architects (OAA) headquarter building, which was retrofitted to achieve net zero emissions. The main methodologies used during the data collection included occupant surveys, physical environment measurements and energy monitoring across the various stages of the project. Findings: This paper outlines the methodology used during the pre- and post-renovation data collection. The post-renovation data collection is currently in progress, therefore, only data from the pre-renovation phase is currently discussed. The results identified many opportunities for improvement through renovation, including a variety of occupant satisfaction and comfort dimensions related to the physical indoor environmental conditions.Conclusion: By using human factor methodologies and user-centric approaches, we can improve our understanding of the human factor impacts caused by sustainable and green building design practices. Successfully completed projects present great examples of how buildings, old or new, could meet modern-day needs, such as net zero standards and carbon neutrality, whilst at the same time providing efficient workplaces that support occupant wellbeing and productivity.
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Dhami, Neil, Buereddy Varuni, Rahuldeb Sarkar, Abhishar Sinha, Rajesh Ghosh, Soumya Jana, and Swati Joshi. "Automated Volumetric Quantification of Cardiac Chambers and Cross Sectional Measurement of Great Arteries in Cardiac CT." In 2022 IEEE 19th India Council International Conference (INDICON). IEEE, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/indicon56171.2022.10039892.
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Fribourg, Charles. "Equipment of a Sister Ship of Aircraft Carrier “Charles De Gaulle” With 2 HTR Nuclear Reactor Instead of the Actual Two PWR: Preliminary Study — Main Results." In ASME Turbo Expo 2002: Power for Land, Sea, and Air. ASMEDC, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/gt2002-30144.
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An explorative and preliminary study has been done by a small crew of students of the Ecole des Applications Militaires de l’Energie Atomique (Cherbourg FRANCE) under the directives and councils of TECHNICATOME and the CEA (Commissariat a` l’Energie Atomique). Main results: • The HTR reactor types are interesting for equipping military great ship like an air craft carrier, the general design as result of a preliminary study shows that mass and size of the propulsion system can be more favourable than with PWR reactors.
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Naumow, Aleksander. "SAINTS METHODIUS AND CYRIL IN THE HYMNOGRAPHY OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH OF THE CZECH LANDS AND SLOVAKIA." In THE PATH OF CYRIL AND METHODIUS – SPATIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORICAL DIMENSIONS. Cyrillo-Methodian Research Centre – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.59076/2815-3855.2023.33.05.
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Orthodoxy in the Czech and Moravian territories in the New Age was initially present thanks to the Russian embassy and Russian visitors to the various Czech resorts, but it was also associated with the intensification of the Cyril and Methodius cult in Western and Eastern Europe (1848, 1863, 1869, 1880-1881, 1885), the development of Slavic philology and the pro-Russian Slavophile sentiments among the intelligentsia. In Slovakia, the situation was different - the Eastern rite was spread in the Uniate structures, with the nascent pursuit of Orthodoxy, especially among the Carpathian Ruthenians. The leading idea of the emergence of Orthodox philological sentiments and movements was the Cyril and Methodius idea and its traces in Moravia, Bohemia, Slovakia and Transcarpathian Ruthenia. The very founding of the Orthodox Church in the country is the work of the Serbian Patriarch Dimitrije (Pavlović). At the head of this Church stands Fr. Matěj Pavlík (1879-1942), ordained by the Serbian Patriarch in 1921. Bishop Gorazd II is preparing an epoch-making liturgical collection: Lidový sborník modliteb a bohoslužebných zpĕvů Pravoslavné Církve (1934, 2nd ed. 1951), including all possible futures of the Cyril and Methodius tradition. He chose July 5 for the main celebration of Cyril and Methodius, which continues on July 6 with the liturgical memory of St. John Hus, also a national holiday of the Republic. The solemn service mentions the Holy Brothers, their disciples and ideological followers several times. A great event reviving the Cyril and Methodius theme in a new geopolitical situation in the 90s of the last century is related to the proclamation of Prince Rostislav of Moravia as a saint with the date of remembrance October 28. The Episcopal Council decided on this in December 1992, and the celebrations took place in October 1994. The liturgical texts dedicated to him in many places speak of the Holy Brothers. Since 2015, the cult of St. Lyudmila, giving it the features of a nationwide cult. The events obscured the liturgical cult practised for centuries in the Orthodox Church, but it is also trying to join this program.
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Peterson, Trevor, Steve Pelletier, and Matt Giovanni. Long-term Bat Monitoring on Islands, Offshore Structures, and Coastal Sites in the Gulf of Maine, mid-Atlantic, and Great Lakes—Final Report. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), January 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1238337.
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Dachs, Bernhard, and Matthias Weber. National recovery packages, innovation, and transformation. Project for the Austrian Council for Research and Technology Development. Rat für Forschung und Technologieentwicklung, January 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.22163/fteval.2022.604.
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The COVID-19 pandemic hit Europe hard, and measures to contain the spread of the COVID-19 have resulted in a deep recession in 2020. To fight this recession, national governments have mobilised considerable funds to support the economy and prepare for a rebound in the following years. In addition to national efforts, the European Commission has initiated NextGenerationEU, a 750 bn EUR package to support Europe’s recovery, and the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) as its biggest component. The aim of this package is to make Europe’s economies more resilient to future challenges while supporting them in the green and digital transitions. Immediate support for the economy is important to stabilize employment and prevent vicious cycles that appeared during the Great Depression of the 1930s. However, these measures may also hamper change for good when they only aim at restoring the status quo before the crisis. Times of crisis are always times of transformation and innovation – this may also be true for the COVID-19 crisis of 2020 and 2021.The crisis may provide a good environment to push for transformative innovation. The rapid development of vaccines against COVID-19 is a strong sign for the adaptability of national innovation systems to new challenges, and the sense of urgency for change is high. However, one may also ask if national funding and the EU recovery packages are agile enough to support new ideas, new firms and new business models, as potential triggers of transformation. Against this background, the project will analyse Austria’s response to the economic effects of the crisis from an innovation and transformation perspective. In particular, the project will look at the recovery packages from the perspective of the ‘protect-prepare-transform’ framework proposed by the EU Expert group on the Societal and Economic Impact of Research and Innovation (ESIR, 2020): the need to protect the overall wellbeing of individuals during the crisis, the need to prepare for future pandemics and crises and the need to transform the European economy and society towards more resilience against future crises. The analysis will include national funds as well as Austria’s Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP), i.e. its proposal to the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) of the European Commission. This multi-level nature of the recovery measures is further complicated by regional initiatives to mobilise further resources such as EU Structural Funds to fight the COVID-19 crisis.
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Dudoit, Alain. European common data spaces: a structuring initiative that is both necessary and adaptable to Canada. CIRANO, November 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.54932/skhp9567.
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Faced with the acceleration of the digital economy, the governance and effective sharing of data have become fundamental issues for public policy at all levels of jurisdictions and in all areas of human activity. This paper reviews the initiatives and challenges associated with data governance, with a particular focus on the European Common Data Spaces (ECDS) and their direct relevance to the Canadian context. It explores the inherent complexity of data governance, which must reconcile sector-specificities with more horizontal governance principles. In doing so, it highlights the importance of strategic and coordinated action to maximize the social and economic benefits of data. The Burgundy Report, published by CIRANO in July 2023, calls for the creation of a common data space in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Strategic Trade Corridor by 2030. This proposal builds in particular on three separate policy reports published in 2022 by the National Supply Chain Task Force, the Council of Ministers Responsible for Transportation and Highway Safety (COMT) and the House of Commons Standing Committee on Transportation, Infrastructure and Communities. The findings and recommendations of these reports raise fundamental questions that are central to the critical issues of governance, organizational culture, execution capacity, public and private stakeholder engagement, and data underutilization within the Canadian government machinery strained by years of delay and exacerbated by recent disruptions related to anticipated climate disasters. The creation of a common data space is envisaged as a structuring investment in Canada's essential infrastructure for intermodal transport and the supply chain. This working paper on European Common Data Spaces (ECDS) extends the synthesis and recommendations published last July 2023 by providing an operational analysis of the transformative initiative currently underway within the European Union (EU). This major policy development stems from the 2020 European Data Strategy and seeks to establish twelve common data spaces in strategic sectors, including mobility and transport. The document is divided into three main parts. The first part provides an overview of data-related public policies in Canada and the EU between 2018 and 2023. The second part focuses on the implications and lessons learned from the impact assessment supporting the adoption of data governance legislation by the European institutions. This directive establishes a regulatory framework for the creation of common data spaces in the EU. The third section discusses the current deployment of ECDSs, highlighting key milestones and ongoing processes. The paper highlights notable similarities between the EU and Canada in the identification of data issues and the formulation of public policy objectives. It also highlights differences in optimizing data sharing between jurisdictions and stakeholders. A fundamental difference between these two strategic partners is the absence of an effective and sustained pooling of resources within the Canadian intergovernmental machinery in pursuit of common objectives in the face of major shared challenges such as data accessibility and sharing. This situation is in stark contrast to the EU's groundbreaking deployment of the ECDS in pursuit of identical objectives of positioning itself as a world leader in the data economy. This lack of consideration, let alone joint action, by Canada's intergovernmental machinery to implement a common data strategy in Canada is damaging. To be effective, the Canadian response must be agile, results-oriented, and interoperable across jurisdictions. The rigorous management, responsible use, and organized sharing of data within and between jurisdictions are crucial to addressing the complex challenges and major risks facing Canada. Neither the federal nor provincial governments are currently well positioned to treat data as a shared strategic asset. The resolution of regulatory, legal, and technical obstacles to data exchange between jurisdictions and organizations cannot be achieved without the creation of a common data space. This can only be achieved by combining the necessary tools and infrastructures, and by addressing issues of trust, for example by means of common rules drawn up for this purpose. “The barriers that prevent the establishment of robust health data sharing systems are not technical, but rather fundamentally political and cultural.”
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van der Lijn, Jaïr. Fit For Purpose: Effective Peace Operation Partnerships in an Era of Non-Traditional Security Challenges. Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, February 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.55163/zusn4861.
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These challenges are often of great relevance to the work of peace operations, but such missions may not be the right tool for addressing them. The challenges and their redress are by definition multidimensional and cross-cutting, and often cross-border in character. They therefore require close coordination and cooperation between the United Nations and different partners in the field. At the same time, the multidimensional peace operations landscape is become increasingly diffuse. The New Agenda for Peace, Security Council Resolution 2719 of 21 December 2023 on the financing of African Union-led peace support operations and the upcoming Summit of the Future (22–23 September 2024) seem to hint at a continuation of this trend. Based on dialogue meetings, interviews and a literature and document review, the study examines the work of multilateral peace operations on non-traditional security challenges, the advantages and disadvantages of their involvement and how operations collaborate, cooperate and coordinate with the various other actors involved.
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Langner. L51646 Collapse of Offshore Pipelines Seminar Proceedings. Chantilly, Virginia: Pipeline Research Council International, Inc. (PRCI), February 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.55274/r0010214.
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The feasibility of laying offshore pipelines in deep waters, to 3000 feet and beyond, has been established by theoretical studies by a number of different individuals and organizations over the past several years. These various theoretical studies are now being tested and refined as pipelines and production facilities are being installed in ever-deeper waters. A pipeline failure in these great depths would be intolerable, among other reasons because of the great difficulty and exorbitant expense of performing a deepwater repair. A thorough understanding of the buckling and collapse behavior of pipe is, therefore, becoming ever more critical as these oil and gas production facilities get progressively deeper. Recognizing a need for further research into the collapse behavior of pipe, Pipeline Research Council International, Inc. undertook in 1984 a three-phase program to develop a deeper understanding of basic pipe collapse phenomena. Phase I of this program (1984-1985) focused on the effects of imperfections on pipe collapse. This work was done in the laboratory of Professor Stelios Kyriakides at The University of Texas at Austin, and involved the testing of numerous small-scale steel and aluminum tubes. The Phase II program (1986-1987), also performed at The University of Texas, considered the effects of construction loads. The final Phase III program (1988-1989) was intended as a full-scale verification of the small-scale tests conducted in the previous two phases. This program was conducted at Stress Engineering Services in Houston under the direction of Dr. Joe Fowler, and consisted of Pure Collapse Tests of 16-inch Pipe (16 samples). Pressure vs. Tension Tests of 6 5/8-inch Pipe (18 samples), and Pressure vs. Bending Tests of 6 5/8-inch Pipe (18 samples).
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Kaawa-Mafigiri, David, Megan Schmidt-Sane, and Tabitha Hrynick. Key Considerations for RCCE in the 2022 Ebola Outbreak Response in Greater Kampala, Uganda. Institute of Development Studies, November 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/sshap.2022.037.
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On 20 September 2022, an outbreak of the Sudan strain of Ebola Virus Disease – SVD – was announced as the first laboratory-confirmed patient was identified in a village in Mubende District in central Uganda. Uganda’s Ministry of Health (MoH) activated the National Task Force and developed and deployed a National Response Plan, which includes the activation of District Task Forces. The target areas include the epicentre (Mubende and Kassanda districts) and surrounding areas, as well as Masaka, Jinja and Kampala cities. This is of great concern, as Kampala is the capital city with a high population and linkages to neighbouring districts and international locations (via Entebbe Airport). It is also a serious matter given that there has been no outbreak of Ebola before in the city. This brief details how Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) activities and approaches can be adapted to reach people living in Greater Kampala to increase adoption of preventive behaviours and practices, early recognition of symptoms, care seeking and case reporting. The intended audiences include the National Task Force and District Task Forces in Kampala, Mukono, and Wakiso Districts, and other city-level RCCE practitioners and responders. The insights in this brief were collected from emergent on-the-ground observations from the current outbreak by embedded researchers, consultations with stakeholders, and a rapid review of relevant published and grey literature. This brief, requested by UNICEF Uganda, draws from the authors’ experience conducting social science research on Ebola preparedness and response in Uganda. It was written by David Kaawa-Mafigiri (Makerere University), Megan Schmidt-Sane (Institute of Development Studies (IDS)), and Tabitha Hrynick (IDS), with contributions from the MoH, UNICEF, the Center for Health, Human Rights and Development (CEHURD), the Uganda Harm Reduction Network (UHRN), Population Council and CLEAR Global/Translators without Borders. It includes some material from a SSHAP brief developed by Anthrologica and the London School of Economics. It was reviewed by the Uganda MoH, University of Waterloo, Anthrologica, IDS and the RCCE Collective Service. This brief is the responsibility of SSHAP.
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Gattenhof, Sandra, Donna Hancox, Sasha Mackay, Kathryn Kelly, Te Oti Rakena, and Gabriela Baron. Valuing the Arts in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Queensland University of Technology, December 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/rep.eprints.227800.
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The arts do not exist in vacuum and cannot be valued in abstract ways; their value is how they make people feel, what they can empower people to do and how they interact with place to create legacy. This research presents insights across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand about the value of arts and culture that may be factored into whole of government decision making to enable creative, vibrant, liveable and inclusive communities and nations. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed a great deal about our societies, our collective wellbeing, and how urgent the choices we make now are for our futures. There has been a great deal of discussion – formally and informally – about the value of the arts in our lives at this time. Rightly, it has been pointed out that during this profound disruption entertainment has been a lifeline for many, and this argument serves to re-enforce what the public (and governments) already know about audience behaviours and the economic value of the arts and entertainment sectors. Wesley Enoch stated in The Saturday Paper, “[m]etrics for success are already skewing from qualitative to quantitative. In coming years, this will continue unabated, with impact measured by numbers of eyeballs engaged in transitory exposure or mass distraction rather than deep connection, community development and risk” (2020, 7). This disconnect between the impact of arts and culture on individuals and communities, and what is measured, will continue without leadership from the sector that involves more diverse voices and perspectives. In undertaking this research for Australia Council for the Arts and Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture & Heritage, New Zealand, the agreed aims of this research are expressed as: 1. Significantly advance the understanding and approaches to design, development and implementation of assessment frameworks to gauge the value and impact of arts engagement with a focus on redefining evaluative practices to determine wellbeing, public value and social inclusion resulting from arts engagement in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. 2. Develop comprehensive, contemporary, rigorous new language frameworks to account for a multiplicity of understandings related to the value and impact of arts and culture across diverse communities. 3. Conduct sector analysis around understandings of markers of impact and value of arts engagement to identify success factors for broad government, policy, professional practitioner and community engagement. This research develops innovative conceptual understandings that can be used to assess the value and impact of arts and cultural engagement. The discussion shows how interaction with arts and culture creates, supports and extends factors such as public value, wellbeing, and social inclusion. The intersection of previously published research, and interviews with key informants including artists, peak arts organisations, gallery or museum staff, community cultural development organisations, funders and researchers, illuminates the differing perceptions about public value. The report proffers opportunities to develop a new discourse about what the arts contribute, how the contribution can be described, and what opportunities exist to assist the arts sector to communicate outcomes of arts engagement in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.
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Schipper, Youdi, Isaac Mbiti, and Mauricio Romero. Designing and Testing a Scalable Teacher Incentive Programme in Tanzania. Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE), September 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.35489/bsg-rise-ri_2022/044.
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School participation in Tanzania has increased dramatically over the past two decades: primary school enrolment increased from 4.9 million in 2001 to 10.9 million in 2020. While 81 percent of primary-school-age children are currently enrolled, over the last ten years, the primary completion rate has dropped and remains below 70 percent since 2015 (data from UNESCO Institute for Statistics).1 Despite improvements in enrolment, indicators of foundational learning remain low. According to the 2020 report of the Standard Two National Assessment (STNA), conducted by the National Examinations Council of Tanzania (NECTA), in 2019 five percent of Grade 2 students pass the benchmark for reading proficiency (“Can correctly read exactly 50 words of the passage in one minute and with 80 percent or higher comprehension”). The report finds that 17 percent of students pass the benchmark (80 percent correct) of the addition and subtraction sub-tasks. These outcomes are not the result of students’ lack of academic aspiration: according to the RISE Tanzania baseline survey, 73 percent of Grade 2 and 3 students say they would like to complete secondary school or university. In a recent report, the Global Education Evidence Advisory Panel (World Bank, 2020) asked what programmes and policies are the most cost-effective instruments for addressing the learning crisis and improving learning for all children. The report creates three categories: the “great buys” category includes programmes that provide very low-cost but salient information on the benefits, costs, and quality of education. The “good buys” category includes programmes that provide structured pedagogy, instruction targeted by learning level, merit-based scholarships and pre-school interventions. Finally, the category “promising but low-evidence” includes teacher accountability and incentive reforms. KiuFunza, a teacher performance pay programme in Tanzania, fits this last category. KiuFunza (shorthand for Kiu ya Kujifunza or Thirst to Learn) provides test-score linked cash incentives to teachers in Grades 1, 2, and 3 to increase foundational literacy and numeracy outcomes for students. The programme is managed by Twaweza East Africa, a Civil Society Organization, and was set up to provide evidence on the impact of teacher incentives in a series of experimental evaluations. This note discusses the rationale for teacher incentives in Tanzania, the design elements of KiuFunza and preliminary results for the most recent phase of KiuFunza (this phase was implemented in 2019-2021 and the impact evaluation is part of the RISE Tanzania research agenda).
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Szałańska, Justyna, Justyna Gać, Ewa Jastrzębska, Paweł Kubicki, Paulina Legutko-Kobus, Marta Pachocka, Joanna Zuzanna Popławska, and Dominik Wach. Country report: Poland. Welcoming spaces in relation to social wellbeing, economic viability and political stability in shrinking regions. Welcoming Spaces Consortium, December 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.33119/welcoming_spaces_2022.
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This report aims to present findings of the research conducted in Poland within the Work Package 1 of the Welcoming Spaces project, namely “Welcoming spaces” in relation to economic viability, social wellbeing and political stability in shrinking regions. The main aim of the mentioned research was to examine how welcoming initiatives are organised and implemented in the selected shrinking localities in Poland. In particular, the creation of welcoming initiatives concerning social wellbeing, economic viability and political stability was assessed. To accomplish this objective, five localities were selected purposefully, namely Łomża (city with powiat status) and Zambrów (urban commune) in Podlaskie Voivodeship and Łuków (town), Wohyń (rural commune) and Zalesie (rural commune) in Lubelskie Voivodeship. Within these localities, 23 welcoming initiatives were identified, out of which 12 were chosen for in-depth research. The field research was conducted in all five localities between March and December 2021. During this period, the SGH Warsaw School of Economics team conducted 43 interviews with institutional stakeholders (representatives of local governments, schools, non-governmental organisations – NGOs, religious organisations and private companies) and individuals (both migrant newcomers and native residents). In addition, local government representatives were surveyed to compare their policies, measures and stances toward migrant inhabitants and local development. The research was also complemented with the literature review, policy documents analysis, and local media outlets discourse analysis. Until February 2022 and the outbreak of war in Ukraine, welcoming spaces in Poland were scarce and spatially limited to the big cities like Warsaw, Cracow, Wrocław, Gdańsk, Lublin or Białystok, governed by liberal mayors and city councils open to accept migrants and treat them as a valuable human asset of the city community. However, in smaller cities, towns and rural areas, especially in shrinking regions, welcoming spaces have been highly conditioned by welcoming initiatives carried out mainly by civil society organisations (CSOs). It is very likely that the war in Ukraine will completely change the situation we write about in this country report. However, this crisis and its consequences were not the subjects of our desk research and fieldwork in Poland, which ended in December 2021. As of late July 2022, the number of border crossings from Ukraine to Poland is almost 5 million and the number of forced migrants registered for temporary protection or similar national protection scheme concern 1.3 million people (UNHCR 2022). However, the number of those who have decided to stay in Poland is estimated at around 1.5 million (Duszczyk and Kaczmarczyk 2022). Such a large influx of forced migrants from Ukraine within five months already affects the demographic situation in the country and access to public services, mainly in large and medium-size cities1 . Depending on the development of events in Ukraine and the number of migrants who will decide to stay in Poland in the following months, the functioning of the domestic labour market, education, health service, and social assistance may significantly change. The following months may also bring new changes in the law relating to foreigners, aimed at their easier integration in the country. Access to housing in cities is already a considerable challenge, which may result in measures to encourage foreigners to settle in smaller towns and rural areas. Given these dynamic changes in the migration situation of the country, as well as in the area of admission and integration activities, Poland seems to be slowly becoming one great welcoming space. It is worth mentioning that the main institutional actors in this area have been NGOs and local governments since the beginning of the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine. An important supporting and coordinating role has also been played by international organisations such as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), which launched its inter-agency Regional Refugee Response Plan (RRRP) in early spring to address the most urgent needs of the population of forced migrants and their host countries in this part of Europe (UNHCR 2022a; UNHCR 2022b; UNHCR 2022c). Based on the number of newly emerged welcoming initiatives and the pace of this emergence, they will soon become an everyday reality for every municipality in Poland. Therefore, it is difficult to find more up-todate circumstances for the “Welcoming Spaces” project objective, which is “to rethink ways forward in creating inclusive space in such a way that it will contribute firstly to the successful integration of migrants in demographically and economically shrinking areas and simultaneously to the revitalization of these places”. Furthermore, the initiatives we selected as case studies for our research should be widely promoted and treated as a model of migrants’ inclusion into the new communities. On the other hand, we need to emphasize here that the empirical material was collected between March and December 2021, before the outbreak of war in Ukraine. As such, it does not reflect the new reality in Poland
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Dudoit, Alain. The urgency of the first link: Canada’s supply chain at breaking point, a national security issue. CIRANO, July 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.54932/cxwf7311.
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The creation of an intelligent supply chain is now an urgent national security priority that cannot be achieved without the joint mobilization of various stakeholders in Canada. It is not, however, an end in itself: the achievement of a single, competitive, sustainable, and consumer-focused domestic market should be the ultimate outcome of the national taskforce needed to collaboratively implement the recommendations of three complementary public policy reports published in 2022 on the state of the supply chain in Canada. The supply chain challenge is vast, and it will only become more complex over time. Governments in Canada must act together now, in conjunction with collaborative efforts with our allies and partners, notably the United States and the European Union, to ensure supply chain resilience in the face of accelerating current and anticipated upheavals, geopolitical conflicts and natural disasters. Québec's geostrategic position is a major asset, and gives it a critical role and responsibility in implementing not only the Final Report of the National Supply Chain Task Force ("ACT"), but also of the recommendations contained in the report published by the Council of Ministers Responsible for Transportation and Highway Safety (COMT) and those contained in the report of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities published in Ottawa in November 2022, "Improving the Efficiency and Resilience of Canada's Supply Chains". The mobilizing approach towards a common data space for Canada's supply chain is inspired by Advantage St. Lawrence's forward-looking Smart Economic Corridor vision and builds on and integrates experience gained from various initiatives and programs implemented in Canada, the U.S. and Europe, as appropriate. Its initial implementation in the St. Lawrence - Great Lakes trade corridor will facilitate the subsequent access and sharing of data from across the Canadian supply chain in a reliable and secure manner. The accelerated joint development of a common data space is a game-changer not only in terms of solving critical supply chain challenges, but also in terms of the impetus it will generate in the pursuit of fundamental Canadian priorities, including the energy transition. This Bourgogne report offers a four-part synthesis: - An overview of a background characterized by numerous consultations, strategy announcements, measures, and mixed results. - A cross-analysis of the recommendations of three important and complementary public policy reports at federal level, as well as the Quebec strategy, “l'Avantage Saint-Laurent”. - An analysis of the fundamental issues of mobilization capacity, execution, and under-utilization of data. - Some operational solutions for moving into « Action, Collaboration and Transformation » (ACT) mode.