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Capano, Giliberto, Andrea Pritoni, and Giulia Vicentini. "Do policy instruments matter? Governments’ choice of policy mix and higher education performance in Western Europe." Journal of Public Policy 40, no. 3 (March 5, 2019): 375–401. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0143814x19000047.
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AbstractGovernments pursue their goals by adopting various mixes of policy instruments. This article proposes a specific operationalisation of these mixes and applies it to the analysis of reforms that many Western European governments have pursued, as they have adopted a similar policy design in their higher education systems (HESs) over the last 20 years. In fact, although these policies have similar templates, performance indicators exhibit remarkable variation between countries. Thus, by applying Qualitative Comparative Analysis to a large data set containing all changes in policy instruments undertaken in the last 20 years in 12 HESs in Western Europe, this article explores the possibility that differences in performance across national HESs could be associated – ceteris paribus – with different policy mixes. This article finds not only that the common template has been applied through very different national policy mixes but also that only a few instruments are regularly linked to good teaching performance, regardless of the other components of the actual policy mix.
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Tak, Byungchul, Seorin Park, and Prabhakar Kudva. "Priolog: Mining Important Logs via Temporal Analysis and Prioritization." Sustainability 11, no. 22 (November 9, 2019): 6306. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11226306.
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Log analytics are a critical part of the operational management in today’s IT services. However, the growing software complexity and volume of logs make it increasingly challenging to mine useful insights from logs for problem diagnosis. In this paper, we propose a novel technique, Priolog, that can narrow down the volume of logs into a small set of important and most relevant logs. Priolog uses a combination of log template temporal analysis, log template frequency analysis, and word frequency analysis, which complement each other to generate an accurately ranked list of important logs. We have implemented this technique and applied to the problem diagnosis task of the popular OpenStack platform. Our evaluation indicates that Priolog can effectively find the important logs that hold direct hints to the failure cause in several scenarios. We demonstrate the concepts, design, and evaluation results using actual logs.
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Shafer, Byron E., and Regina L. Wagner. "The Trump Presidency and the Structure of Modern American Politics." Perspectives on Politics 17, no. 02 (October 29, 2018): 340–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1537592718003353.
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How much of politics is specific to its actors and how much is the reflection of an established structure is a perennial concern of political analysts, one that becomes especially intense with the candidacy and then the presidency of Donald Trump. In order to have a template for assigning the outcomes of politics to structure rather than idiosyncrasy, we begin with party balance, ideological polarization, substantive content, and a resulting process of policy-making drawn from the immediate postwar period. The analysis then jumps forward with that same template to the modern world, dropping first the Trump candidacy and then the Trump presidency into this framework. What emerges is a modern electoral world with increased prospects for what might be called off-diagonal candidacies and a policy-making process that gathers Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump together as the modern presidents.
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Lee, Graham R., Maria C. Fitzgibbon, and Paula O'Shea. "In control? IQC consensus and statutory regulation." International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance 29, no. 5 (June 13, 2016): 492–506. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijhcqa-08-2015-0097.
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Purpose – Internal quality control (IQC) represents an essential risk management tool within the total testing pathway (TTP) that contributes to the overall objective of assuring the quality of results produced in medical laboratories. Controlling analytical phase quality alone requires significant expertise and input by scientifically trained staff. This effort has escalated exponentially following the publication of the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO)15189:2012 requirements for quality and competence in medical laboratories. The reported inconsistency and diversity to IQC approaches in diagnostic laboratories is definitive evidence that international guidance in IQC programme design and implementation is long overdue. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – Herein, the authors define, describe and critically examine the essential elements four stages of an IQC programme and suggest a template to inform both design and ease of implementation. For practical application, the authors have stratified the proposed methodology into four stages: staff education and training; IQC material; IQC targets; and IQC procedure, and provide recommendations that meet ISO15189:2012 requirements. Findings – These recommendations are informed by the published literature together with the collective experience working in clinical biochemistry and diagnostic endocrinology laboratories. The authors note that the laboratory staff’s effort on IQC is a continuous process, driven by changes within each IQC stage, in response to risk analysis, maximising economic value or through professional leadership and central to IQC programme implementation and delivery. Practical implications – The authors offer a template that laboratories can use to inform the design and implementation of their IQC programme. Originality/value – The proposed IQC programme is user friendly, flexible and pragmatic with the potential to harmonise practice. The authors have provided a template to potentially harmonise IQC practice nationally. Given the central and critical role that IQC practice plays in ensuring the quality of patient results’ importance, the authors contend that the time has come for international consensus and statutory regulation regarding the minimally acceptable criteria for its implementation, monitoring and review.
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Lee, Graham R., Maria C. Fitzgibbon, and Paula O'Shea. "Laboratory services: regaining and maintaining control." International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance 29, no. 5 (June 13, 2016): 507–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijhcqa-08-2015-0098.
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Purpose – After implementing an internal quality control (IQC) programme, the purpose of this paper is to maintain the requisite analytical performance for clinical laboratory staff, thereby safeguarding patient test results for their intended medical purpose. Design/methodology/approach – The authors address how quality can be maintained and if lost, how it can be regained. The methodology is based on the experience working in clinical laboratory diagnostics and is in accord with both international accreditation requirements and laboratory best practice guidelines. Findings – Monitoring test performance usually involves both prospective and retrospective IQC data analysis. The authors present a number of different approaches together with software tools currently available and emerging, that permit performance monitoring at the level of the individual analyser, across analysers and laboratories (networks). The authors make recommendations on the appropriate response to IQC rule warnings, failures and metrics that indicate analytical control loss, that either precludes further analysis, or signifies deteriorating performance and eventual unsuitability. The authors provide guidance on systematic troubleshooting, to identify undesirable performance and consider risk assessment preventive measures and continuous quality improvement initiatives; e.g., material acceptance procedures, as tools to help regain and maintain analytical control and minimise potential for patient harm. Practical implications – The authors provide a template for use by laboratory scientific personnel that ensures the optimal monitoring of analytical test performance and response when it changes undesirably. Originality/value – The proposed template has been designed to meet the International Organisation for Standardisation for medical laboratories ISO15189:2012 requirements and therefore includes the use of External Quality Assessment and patient results data, as an adjunct to IQC data.
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Kiernan, Matthew D., and Mick Hill. "Framework analysis: a whole paradigm approach." Qualitative Research Journal 18, no. 3 (August 13, 2018): 248–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/qrj-d-17-00008.
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Purpose Students of social research methods in search of a “Haynes manual” type set of instructions are often, if not invariably, thwarted in their ambitions and are either confronted with an abstract description which remains firmly at the level of methodology or, alternatively, an uncritical mechanical template for application. The purpose of this paper is not to rectify these deficits, but rather to make the interplay between epistemological and methodological concerns and those relating to method visible to inspection. Design/methodology/approach To illustrate this interplay, the authors present one example of a piece of applied policy research which employed a process of framework analysis. Findings It is argued that rhetorical transparency in the creation of any qualitative account enhances its authenticity, and in part, this article demonstrates that it remains possible to maintain reflexive awareness of epistemological and methodological concerns whilst at the same time pursuing clear and practical methodical guidelines. Originality/value This article provides unique approach to providing researchers with a practical guide to framework analysis with theoretical reflection on the wider methodological concerns.
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Szczepanek, Connie M., Patricia Hurley, Marjorie J. Good, Andrea Denicoff, Kelly Willenberg, Casey Dawson, and Dax Kurbegov. "Feasibility of a Centralized Clinical Trials Coverage Analysis: A Joint Initiative of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the National Cancer Institute." Journal of Oncology Practice 13, no. 6 (June 2017): 395–400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jop.2016.020313.
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Purpose: Clinical trial billing compliance is a challenge that is faced by overburdened clinical trials sites. The requirements place institutions and research sites at increased potential for financial risk. To reduce their risk, sites develop a coverage analysis (CA) before opening each trial. For multisite trials, this translates into system-wide redundancies, inconsistencies, trial delays, and potential costs to sites and patients. These factors exacerbate low accrual rates to cancer clinical trials. ASCO and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) collaborated to address this problem. Methods: An ASCO Research Community Forum working group proposed the concept of providing centrally developed CAs to research sites at protocol startup. The group collaborated with NCI and billing compliance experts to hold a symposium for key stakeholders to share knowledge, build skills, provide tools to conduct centralized CAs, and strategize about the next steps. Results: Forty-eight attendees, who represented a range of stakeholders, participated in the symposium. As a result of this initiative, NCI directed the Cancer Trials Support Unit to convene a working group with NCI’s National Clinical Trials Network (NCTN) and Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP) to develop tools and processes for generating CAs for their trials. A CA template with core elements was developed and is being adapted in a pilot project across NCTN Group and NCORP Research Bases. Conclusion: Centralized CAs for multisite trials—using standardized tools and templates—are feasible. They have the potential to reduce risk for patients and sites, forecast budget needs, and help decrease trial startup times that impede patient access and accrual to clinical trials.
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Kentikelenis, Alexander, and Leonard Seabrooke. "Organising knowledge to prevent global health crises: a comparative analysis of pandemic preparedness indicators." BMJ Global Health 6, no. 8 (August 2021): e006864. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2021-006864.
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Preparing for the possibility of a global pandemic presents a transnational organisational challenge: to assemble and coordinate knowledge over institutionally diverse countries with high fidelity. The COVID-19 pandemic has laid these problems bare. This article examines the construction of the three main cross-national indicators of pandemic preparedness: a database with self-reported data by governments, external evaluations organised by the WHO and a global ranking known as the Global Health Security Index. Each of these presents a different model of collecting evidence and organising knowledge: the collation of self-reports by national authorities; the coordination of evaluation by an epistemic community authorised by an intergovernmental organisation and on the basis of a strict template; and the cobbling together of different sources into a common indicator by a transnational multi-stakeholder initiative. We posit that these models represent different ways of creating knowledge to inform policy choices, and each has different forms of potential bias. In turn, this shapes how policymakers understand what is ‘best practice’ and appropriate policy in pandemic preparedness.
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Buttigieg, Sandra C., Dorothy Gauci, and Prasanta Dey. "Continuous quality improvement in a Maltese hospital using logical framework analysis." Journal of Health Organization and Management 30, no. 7 (October 10, 2016): 1026–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jhom-11-2015-0185.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the application of logical framework analysis (LFA) for implementing continuous quality improvement (CQI) across multiple settings in a tertiary care hospital. Design/methodology/approach This study adopts a multiple case study approach. LFA is implemented within three diverse settings, namely, intensive care unit, surgical ward, and acute in-patient psychiatric ward. First, problem trees are developed in order to determine the root causes of quality issues, specific to the three settings. Second, objective trees are formed suggesting solutions to the quality issues. Third, project plan template using logical framework (LOGFRAME) is created for each setting. Findings This study shows substantial improvement in quality across the three settings. LFA proved to be effective to analyse quality issues and suggest improvement measures objectively. Research limitations/implications This paper applies LFA in specific, albeit, diverse settings in one hospital. For validation purposes, it would be ideal to analyse in other settings within the same hospital, as well as in several hospitals. It also adopts a bottom-up approach when this can be triangulated with other sources of data. Practical implications LFA enables top management to obtain an integrated view of performance. It also provides a basis for further quantitative research on quality management through the identification of key performance indicators and facilitates the development of a business case for improvement. Originality/value LFA is a novel approach for the implementation of CQI programs. Although LFA has been used extensively for project development to source funds from development banks, its application in quality improvement within healthcare projects is scant.
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Faleye, Olukayode A. "Border Securitisation and Politics of State Policy in Nigeria, 2014–2017." Insight on Africa 11, no. 1 (November 22, 2018): 78–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0975087818805887.
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This article examines the politics of public policies characterised by increased securitisation of Nigeria’s national boundary from 2014 to 2017. While the regulation appears on paper to discourage transborder crime, capital outflow and sustain a favourable balance of payment, the existing armoury of West African border literature argues otherwise. What is new in the transborder dynamics of West Africa? What informs government’s border policies in Nigeria? In answering these questions, this study provides a template for a reassessment of the gap between borderlands theory and policy in West Africa. The approach is comparative based on the critical analysis of oral interviews, government trade records, newspaper reports and the extant literature. The article provides a platform for rethinking of the nexus between governance and development in West Africa from the securitisation and neo-patrimonial perspectives. It concludes that effective border management in Nigeria is set aback by misguided and dysfunctional elitist-centred regulations that are devoid of the realities on the ground.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Policy Analysis Template"
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Wenham, Anne Maria, and res cand@acu edu au. "Gender and School: Policy directions, practice and leadership." Australian Catholic University. School of Educational Leadership, 2002. http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/digitaltheses/public/adt-acuvp28.29082005.
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Since the mid 1970s student experience of gender at school has been the focus of intense media scrutiny, academic research and policy development for schools in Australia. This study took as its focus the role of the school principal as a leader for gender equity in schools. It set out to determine the response of 35 Catholic K-6 schools to gender policy directions as contained in gender policy documents published for Australian schools between 1975 and 1997 and to use these findings to determine implications for school leadership for gender equity. The study encompassed three interlinked research phases which contributed to specific learnings about leadership for gender equity. The first research phase entailed a critical analysis of gender policy documents for Australian schools leading to the development of a Policy Analysis Template. Utilisation of the template resulted in a synthesis of gender policy implications which formed the basis for examination of school practice in a sample of K-6 Catholic schools in the next two research phases. The second research phase examined student experience of gender at school using a questionnaire and the third research phase studied teacher and principal experience of gender reform utilising questionnaires. Data analysis methods included content analysis of policy documents, statistical analysis of questionnaire responses to determine particular connections and to identify emerging trends in the data and analysis of the qualitative responses to provide validation and further insights. The research tools developed for this study provide possibilities for future work in gaining insights into policy implementation in schools. The research results confirmed the findings of the implementation literature in terms of leadership. The response of schools to gender policy directions was strongly influenced by a principal who could not only articulate a vision of gender equity but who also had a commitment to translating this vision into practice. The findings also demonstrated a clear link between a school’s commitment to its proclaimed values, formed and shaped by its Catholic ethos and its response to gender equity issues through actual practice. Thus school responses to gender policy directions were seen to be informed and influenced by their articulated vision and mission. Furthermore, results demonstrated that specific gender policy directions had been adopted by schools whereas others had resulted in little or no impact at all. It was beyond the scope of this study to investigate the factors that enabled or inhibited school response to particular gender policy directions although specific gender policy reform priorities were signalled for principal attention. The focus of this study was on the emerging connections and relationships between gender policy directions, student experience of gender at school and teacher and principal experience of gender reform. The recommendations of the study addressed the role of the principal in fostering school commitment to equity practices. The study which utilised a sample of 35 Catholic K-6 schools demonstrated the significant role of the principal in gender reform. The impact of gender policy directions on actual school practice was seen to be dependent on the vision for gender equity and commitment to implement this into practice that the school principal brings to the role of leadership for gender equity.
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Gandee, Jesse E. "Modeling direct farm marketing in West Virginia a spatial, policy, and profitability analysis /." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2003. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=2842.
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Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2003.Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains ix, 87 p. : ill. (some col.). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 84-87).
Books on the topic "Policy Analysis Template"
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Conan, Doyle Arthur. Favorite Sherlock Holmes Detective Stories. Mineola, N.Y., USA: Dover Publications, 2000.
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Conan, Doyle A. Sherlock Holmes Reader. Philadelphia, USA: Courage Books, 1994.
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Conan, Doyle Arthur. The Baker Street dozen. New York: Congdon & Weed, 1987.
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Conan, Doyle Arthur. Five Orange Pips and Other Cases. London: Penguin English Library, 2012.
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Conan, Doyle Arthur. The Baker Street dozen. New York: Congdon & Weed, 1989.
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Conan, Doyle Arthur. Favourite Sherlock Holmes Stories. London: Atlantic Books, 2009.
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Doyle, P. J. The Baker Street Dozen. New York, NY, USA: Congdon & Weed, 1989.
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Conan, Doyle Arthur. The Sherlock Holmes Mysteries. New York: Signet Classic, 1987.
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Conan, Doyle Arthur. The Sherlock Holmes Mysteries: 22 Stories. New York: Signet Classics, 2005.
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Conan, Doyle Arthur. The Sherlock Holmes Mysteries. New York, USA: Signet Classics, 2005.
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Yavçan, Başak, and Hakan Övünç Ongur. "Public policy and media in Turkey." In Policy Analysis in Turkey, 255–70. Policy Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447338956.003.0015.
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This chapter addresses the different roles played by the mass media in its relationship with policymaking within the Turkish case, including agenda-setting, framing and the panoptical reflected by public policy. Based on Pierre Bourdieu's field theory, this chapter demonstrates that media as a semi-autonomous field can reflect and refract public policy with respect to varying conditions and argues in particular that this role depends on the level of consolidation of the governmental power, the ideological positioning of the media outlet, and the issue area under discussion. Methodologically, a template is established for a media content analysis of the Turkish media and its role in policymaking. This template has been implemented by collecting data across five different Turkish newspapers between 1995-2013 as a framework for future studies and the analysis confirms the expectations.
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Garoche, Pierre-Loïc. "Template-based Analyses and Min-policy Iteration." In Formal Verification of Control System Software, 111–26. Princeton University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691181301.003.0006.
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This chapter considers other configurations aside from the direct synthesis of invariants as bound templates. A first case arises when the methods shown in the previous chapter only synthesizes the template but not the bound. A second appears when one wants to analyze a system with multiple templates. This chapter looks at bounds on each variable and considers the templates 𝑝(𝑥) = 𝑥²𝑖 for each variable 𝑥𝑖 in state characterization 𝑥 ∈ Σ. The chapter thus proposes a policy iteration algorithm, based on sum-of-squares (SOS) optimization, to refine such template bounds. In practice, the chapter uses it by combining a Lyapunov-based template obtained using one of the previous methods with additional templates encoding bounds on some variables or property specific templates.
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Geda, Alemayehu, Fredrik Huizinga, and Addis Yimer. "Exogenous Shocks and Macroeconomic Policy Analysis using Applied Macro-Econometric Models in Africa." In Economic Modeling, Analysis, and Policy for Sustainability, 74–129. IGI Global, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0094-0.ch006.
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In this study we have developed a macro-econometric model for a typical supply constrained African economy. This is aimed at developing a theoretical and empirical template for such policy tools which are increasingly demanded in Africa. We have concretized it by building a macro-econometric model for Rwanda. The Rwanda macro-econometric model has 107 equations of which 72 are endogenous. In addition, a supplementary ARIMA based model with 33 equations for exogenous variable is built to make the model useful for forecasting. The fiscal, balance of payment and money supply block of the model is fairly disaggregated to offer an adequate picture of the macro economy. An econometric estimation of the core behavioral equations of the model using equilibrium [error]-correction approach is made with the database that stretches from 1960 to 2009. The model is similar to successful macro models in the region such as that of the KIPPRA-Treasury model of Kenya. It can also easily be further extended to the support budgeting, forecasting and macroeconomic policy analysis work at the relevant ministries in Africa such as the Ministry of Finance in Rwanda. We have managed to successfully solve the model from 1999 to 2009 and forecast major macro outcomes from 2010 to 2014. We have also used it to conduct a policy simulation exercise which is very important for policy makers such as those in Rwanda. We hope this model offers a theoretical and empirical framework for building macro model across Africa which is increasingly being demanded in many countries.
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Zhao, Rui, Yuxin Huang, Yuyu Zhou, Meng Yang, and Xinyue Liu. "Public Risk Perception Towards Power Generation by Municipal Waste Incineration." In Advanced Integrated Approaches to Environmental Economics and Policy, 87–104. IGI Global, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9562-5.ch005.
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Power generation by municipal waste incineration provides a template not only for waste reduction but also for energy recovery. However, incineration plants face considerably strong protests from local communities. In such context, this study investigates the public's risk perception towards an operating incineration plant by using a word-frequency-based decision making approach to provide insight into risk mitigation while enhancing public acceptance. An operating municipal waste plant located at Chengdu, Sichuan Province was used as a case study to examine the risk perception posed by the host communities. Face-to-face interviews through a structured questionnaire were applied to data collection. A word frequency analysis was used to identify the key factors that influence public's risk perception and construct a multi-attributive decision matrix for the risk assessment. Entropy-based fuzzy decision making was implemented to discriminate the risk semi-quantitatively. To alleviate possible conflicts, policy implications were given.
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Parau, Cristina E. "The Template." In Transnational Networking and Elite Self-Empowerment, 232–79. British Academy, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197266403.003.0007.
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This chapter analyses the origin and evolution of the Network Community’s transnational Judiciary design Template, which has now become settled public policy in post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe, and beyond. Consisting of the Constitutional Court, the Judicial Council, and the Magistrates’ Training Academy, the Template is rooted in US Judiciary practice insofar as judicialization in the USA inspired contemporary paradigmatic thinking in Europe. The Template has maximally empowered the Judiciaries of CEE with the attributes of supremacy and autonomy, whilst disempowering all other political actors to make public policy in defiance of judicial preferences, even on issues that do not touch the essential judicial values of the guilt or innocence of those subject to State power. The long-term goal is the anti-majoritarian revision of public policy and society. Yet the Template enjoys little popular legitimacy, having been propagated into post-Communist CEE to practically no resistance from people and nations unsure how to govern themselves. Since then, the Network Community has shown zero tolerance of national movements to revisit the Template.
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"Template-based Analyses and Min-policy Iteration." In Formal Verification of Control System Software, 111–26. Princeton University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv80cd4v.8.
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"6. Template-based Analyses and Min-policy Iteration." In Formal Verification of Control Systems Software, 111–26. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780691189581-006.
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Lemkowska, Malwina. "ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems Assessment From the Insurers' Point of View." In Handbook of Research on Creating Sustainable Value in the Global Economy, 393–408. IGI Global, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-1196-1.ch023.
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Standardized Environmental Management Systems (EMSs) appeared in the 1990s. They are voluntary tools for managing the relation between the organization and its environment. Multiple analyses indicated the strong external context of EMS. More often than not, the importance of ISO 14001 EMS for the relation between the organization and its insurer has been indicated. The goal of this research is to answer the question how to assess the usefulness of ISO 14001 EMSs adopted by the insured or insurance seeker for the process of environmental insurance products' provision. The structure of the specific measure (checklist) is the result of the analysis. The research is conducted in four steps: (1) analysis of environmental insurance proposal forms for stand-alone products on the Polish market, (2) analysis of the general terms and conditions of the above, (3) review of ISO 14001 requirements, and finally, (4) template analysis of the interview transcript, supported by narrative approach.
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Rahimi, Alireza, Siaw-Teng Liaw, Pradeep Kumar Ray, Jane Taggart, and Hairong Yu. "Ontology for Data Quality and Chronic Disease Management." In Healthcare Informatics and Analytics, 303–31. IGI Global, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6316-9.ch016.
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Improved Data Quality (DQ) can improve the quality of decisions and lead to better policy in health organizations. Ontologies can support automated tools to assess DQ. This chapter examines ontology-based approaches to conceptualization and specification of DQ based on “fitness for purpose” within the health context. English language studies that addressed DQ, fitness for purpose, ontology-based approaches, and implementations were included. The authors screened 315 papers; excluded 36 duplicates, 182 on abstract review, and 46 on full-text review; leaving 52 papers. These were appraised with a realist “context-mechanism-impacts/outcomes” template. The authors found a lack of consensus frameworks or definitions for DQ and comprehensive ontological approaches to DQ or fitness for purpose. The majority of papers described the processes of the development of DQ tools. Some assessed the impact of implementing ontology-based specifications for DQ. There were few evaluative studies of the performance of DQ assessment tools developed; none compared ontological with non-ontological approaches.
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Chang, Ha-Joon, and Kiryl Zach. "Industrialization and Development." In Asian Transformations, 186–215. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198844938.003.0008.
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Industrial transformation of Asia arguably constitutes the most surprising and dramatic change in the global economy in the last fifty years. This chapter provides an outline of some of the most important trends of this development and analyses selected national industrial policies that promoted structural transformation in developing Asia during the period. In the first part, we describe crucial dimensions of industrialization in the region—its extent, its historical trajectory, and the resulting industrial upgrading. In the second part, we use four case studies—Republic of Korea, Malaysia, China, India—to describe some of the strategies that Asian economies used in order to induce industrial development. We argue that more successful cases did not try to implement a golden policy template but rather pragmatically adopted their policies to overcome specific bottlenecks and meet strategic objectives.
Conference papers on the topic "Policy Analysis Template"
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Gupta, Anchit, and Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan. "Improved Strong Worst-case Upper Bounds for MDP Planning." In Twenty-Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2017/248.
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The Markov Decision Problem (MDP) plays a central role in AI as an abstraction of sequential decision making. We contribute to the theoretical analysis of MDP PLANNING, which is the problem of computing an optimal policy for a given MDP. Specifically, we furnish improved STRONG WORST-CASE upper bounds on the running time of MDP planning. Strong bounds are those that depend only on the number of states n and the number of actions k in the specified MDP; they have no dependence on affiliated variables such as the discount factor and the number of bits needed to represent the MDP. Worst-case bounds apply to EVERY run of an algorithm; randomised algorithms can typically yield faster EXPECTED running times. While the special case of 2-action MDPs (that is, k = 2) has recently received some attention, bounds for general k have remained to be improved for several decades. Our contributions are to this general case. For k >= 3, the tightest strong upper bound shown to date for MDP planning belongs to a family of algorithms called Policy Iteration. This bound is only a polynomial improvement over a trivial bound of poly(n, k) k^{n} [Mansour and Singh, 1999]. In this paper, we generalise a contrasting algorithm called the Fibonacci Seesaw, and derive a bound of poly(n, k) k^{0.6834n}. The key construct we use is a template to map algorithms for the 2-action setting to the general setting. Interestingly, this idea can also be used to design Policy Iteration algorithms with a running time upper bound of poly(n, k) k^{0.7207n}. Both our results improve upon bounds that have stood for several decades.
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Petersson, Håkan, Damien Motte, and Robert Bjärnemo. "Using Templates to Support the Engineering Designer Performing Computer-Based Design Analysis." In ASME 2015 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2015-50584.
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In their quest for a more efficient and effective utilization of the resources allocated to engineering design projects, and thus to the overall product development project from which the current design task(s) originate, an increasing number of companies allow engineering designers to perform Computer-Based Design Analysis (CBDA) on their own — CBDA is here confined to quantitative analyses using finite element-based structural and thermal analyses, Computational Fluid Dynamics, and Multi-Body Systems. Since all of these tools require a certain level of expertise in order to be successfully utilized in industrial practice, the types of analyses performed by the engineering designers are confined to simple, straightforward ones. In striving for an increase of the individual engineering designer’s possibilities to actively participate in CBDA in industrial practice, an online survey has been carried out and reported in [1]. The main objective set out for this survey was to give an overview of the current situation in the global industry regarding CBDA tasks being performed by engineering designers, what positive effects they might present to the industry and how they should be implemented for best result. Resulting from this survey, one new type of support, Template-Based Design Analysis (TBDA), was singled out as very promising for future development. TBDA is a support to be used in engineering design analyses based on the utilization of the advanced features provided by high-end Computer Aided Design (CAD)/Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) software in supporting and guiding as well as monitoring the design analysis performed by the engineering designer. Since TBDA is still in its infancy, substantial development needs to be invested in it to make it the full-blown support needed in industrial practice. To be able to contribute to the development of TBDA, it is essential to acquire knowledge about how companies, both national and international, are planning to introduce and utilize TBDA in industrial practice. It is likewise of importance to acquire knowledge of the arguments against an introduction of TBDA. To that end a new online survey has been carried out, focusing on the introduction and benefits as well as the disadvantages associated with an implementation of TBDA. The survey was sent to 64 recipients, 41 of whom were selected from the previous survey [1] and 23 came from Swedish companies known to the authors to utilize CBDA on a regular basis. The limitation to Swedish companies was due to practical as well as economic reasons, as these companies were also invited to participate in interviews. The main objective set out for these interviews was to get an in-depth view on the outcome of allowing engineering designers performing CBDA/TBDA in industrial practice. An additional objective was to get an indication as to the validity of the responses obtained in the online survey by comparing the results from the interviews with the responses given by the companies to the survey. 42 of the 64 recipients, from 17 countries, completed the survey. All of the invited Swedish companies completed the survey. However, due to the risks associated with revealing proprietary information during the interviews, only 5 out of the 23 companies were willing to participate in the interviews. The introduction of TBDA in an industrial setting has resulted in many advantages, such as shorter lead times, opportunities to generate more concept candidates, and increased collaboration between the engineering designers and the design analysts, all of them contributing to more mature technical solutions. Three different automation levels of TBDA have also been identified and accounted for as well as exemplified. In the companies in which TBDA has not been implemented, some of the reasons for not doing so are high costs, company policy, and the lack of knowledge and experience on the part of the engineering designer. This paper presents the results from both the new online survey and from the interviews.
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Dudziak, Gregory, Christos Kolliatsas, Julia Schaefer, and Noah Myers. "Accelerating the Deployment of Offshore Renewable Energy Technologies (ADORET): Presentation, Findings and Recommendations." In ASME 2011 30th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. ASMEDC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2011-49193.
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The outcome of the ADORET project, commissioned by the International Energy Agency Implementing Agreement for Renewable Energy Technology Deployment (IEA-RETD), and executed by Mott MacDonald, will be presented. Globally, offshore renewable energy is a burgeoning industry which has the potential to grow rapidly in a number of countries. While tidal and wave energy is at an earlier stage of development with technology demonstrations being pursued in many locations worldwide, the offshore wind industry is already considered mature. The overall objective of the ADORET project is to assist policy makers and project developers by providing them a better understanding of the specifics of offshore renewable energy (ORE) technologies and to give them practical guidelines in how to foster their deployment. The project has an international perspective, focusing on the 11 IEA-RETD members as well as 7 additional countries. In an introductory phase, the project has delivered a brief of the current status of advancement of ORE technologies. It then highlighted the available resources, and gave an overview of policies in place and deployment to date. In a second phase, the economics and financing of ORE projects have been examined. The respective maturity levels of technologies have been discussed, as well as capital and operational costs structures. An analysis of commercial and technical risks, and of their impact on the financing costs, has been performed. Mitigation measures can reduce these to an acceptable level. The respective merits and constraints associated to the main financing options available to ORE projects will be presented. An in-depth review of technical and non-technical barriers and challenges to the deployment of ORE technologies has been performed and will be presented. Technical barriers covered included technology and design optimisation, reliability, installation and decommissioning, operation and maintenance, grid connection and integration. Non-technical barriers investigated included environmental, safety, regulatory and licensing, competing uses, skills, supply chain and infrastructures, and financial issues. Examples of country and technology specific barriers are highlighted. In the final part the project, a detailed review of policies in place to promote ORE technologies deployment and of their effectiveness has been performed. Mitigation measures to barriers previously identified are also presented. Based on this analysis, a generic model policy framework is proposed, to be used as a possible template by policy makers in interested countries. Guidelines for project design and development are presented. The full version of the ADORET report and its appendices are shortly to be made available to download at www.iea-retd.org.
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Sharma, Anil. "Intelligent Querying in Camera Networks for Efficient Target Tracking." In Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-19}. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2019/918.
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Visual analytics applications often rely on target tracking across a network of cameras for inference and prediction. A network of cameras generates immense amount of video data and processing it for tracking a target is highly computationally expensive. Related works typically use data association and visual re-identification techniques to match target templates across multiple cameras. In this thesis, I propose to formulate this scheduling problem as a Markov Decision Process (MDP) and present a reinforcement learning based solution to schedule cameras by selecting one where the target is most likely to appear next. The proposed approach can be learned directly from data and doesn't require any information of the camera network topology. NLPR MCT and DukeMTMC datasets are used to show that the proposed policy significantly reduces the number of frames to be processed for tracking and identifies the camera schedule with high accuracy as compared to the related approaches. Finally, I will be formulating an end-to-end pipeline for target tracking that will learn a policy to find the camera schedule and to track the target in the individual camera frames of the schedule.
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Matsuoka, Eitaro, Satoshi Muto, and Hirofumi Daiguji. "Fabrication of Hollow Polyelectrolyte Microcapsules From Microbubble Templates." In ASME 2009 Second International Conference on Micro/Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/mnhmt2009-18418.
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Hollow microcapsules made of biodegradable polymers have attracted considerable attention for ultrasound contrast agents and drug delivery system. In normal fabrication techniques, stable microbubbles are formed in a surfactant solution via ultrasound, then polyelectrolyte are adsorbed on the microbubble surface, resulting in hollow microcapsules. This document proposes a new method. First, a poly-allylamine hydrochloride (PAH) polyelectrolyte aqueous solution was adjusted at pH = 12.0. Carbon dioxide (CO2) was dissolved at 300 kPa (gage) in the polyelectrolyte solution. The pH of the solution decreased with increasing dissolved CO2, and the solution became turbid at pH = 9. The solution was then degassed at 1 atm, yielding microbubbles. The polyelectrolyte was then adsorbed on the microbubble surface and became the microcapsule shell. Very smooth spherical particulates were responsible of this. These particles were microbubbles and not aggregation of polyelectrolyte molecules; however, the particles did not coalesce, nor diffused into the solution, and were more stable compared to bubbles. Fluorescent analysis revealed that these particles were polyelectrolyte adsorbed to the bubble surface. This method was successfully used to fabricate hollow PAH polyelectrolyte microcapsules from microbubble templates without surfactants.