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Boyd, John H. "Leadership in community oriented policing." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1123.
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Revelant, Andrea <1978>. "Tax policy in taisho Japan: a study on the devolution question." Doctoral thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/593.
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Dini, Manuela-Ionelia. "Temporal-oriented policy-driven network management." Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=33392.
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Systems management represents the set of activities necessary to ensure that information systems function according to user requirements and objectives. Chapter 1 summarizes the management challenges in today's networks and distributed systems. Policy-driven network management is the new management paradigm. Its implementation needs a new information and decision model, appropriate protocols and new hosting and access mechanisms. IETF policy framework and architecture create the support for the deployment of this new paradigm.Consideration of temporal aspects to allow run-time policy conflict detection and error-handling has not yet been developed. After assessing the existing policy-oriented achievements in terms of tools and IETF drafts, and after presenting existing temporal mechanisms, we concluded that only policy definition temporal issues are partially referred to. We considered complementary temporal issues focusing on "policy execution" and coping with the notions of time zones, policy dependency across multiple time zones and actions translation among many time zones. Finally, we showed how our input can be used for extending the current IETF Policy CIM proposal.
We intend to have an IETF draft on these issues. Specifically, our proposal can be added as a new building block to any existing policy-enabled management tool. We identified important directions in handling policy conflicts at run-time.
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Unter, Kevin A. "The New Orleans Police Department: Melding Police and Policy to Dramatically Reduce Crime in the City of New Orleans." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2007. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/599.
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In 1996, the New Orleans Police Department implemented the COMSTAT management and accountability style of policing. Within three years of that implementation, murder was cut by over fifty percent and violent crime fell by nearly the same amount; overall crime was cut by over one-third compared to just three years ago. This dissertation seeks to explore the reasons crime declined so rapidly in New Orleans post-COMSTAT implementation, compared to crime in the rest of the country. Drawing on political and criminological theories of policing as well as sociological theories, variables unique to each set of theories were identified and tested alone and against competing explanations. Utilizing higher-ordered time series methodology, two analyses were conducted. The first utilized interrupted time-series analysis to identify the nature of COMSTAT's impact on New Orleans' crime trends, measured as changes in the current quarter compared to the same quarter of the preceding year. The results show that while COMSTAT had a significant impact on the crime trends, the effects were short-lived. The second analysis utilized traditional time series methodology to examine the impacts of the individual variables on the overall crime trends. The results show that while policing variables and sociological variables have little effect on the overall crime trends both individually and when tested together, the findings indicate policing variables play a larger role than sociological variables when included together. As another independent test of the effects of crime, public opinion data obtained via the University of New Orleans' Survey Research Center from 1986-2004 show that the public was very positive towards the NOPD's efforts in dramatically reducing crime and fear of crime in New Orleans during this period. The overall results for policy makers then indicates that reductions in crime resonate positively with city residents and future policy decisions should be made with that goal in mind.
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Gheorghe, Gabriela. "Security Policy Enforcement in Service-Oriented Middleware." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trento, 2011. https://hdl.handle.net/11572/368918.
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Policy enforcement, or making sure that software behaves in line with a set of rules, is a problem of interest for developers and users alike. In a single machine environment, the reference monitor has been a well-researched model for enforcing policies. However, applying the same reference model in distributed applications is complicated by the presence of multiple users and concerns, and by the dynamism of the system and policies.
This thesis deals with building, assessing and configuring a tool for distributed policy enforcement that acts at application runtime. In a service-oriented architecture setting, the thesis proposes a set of adaptive middleware controls able to enact policies across applications. A core contribution of this thesis is the first message-level enforcing mechanism for access and usage control policies across services. In line with the idea that no security mechanism can be perfect from the beginning, the thesis also proposes a method to assess and amend how correctly a security mechanism acts across a distributed system. Another contribution is the first method to configure an authorisation system to satisfy conflicting security and performance requirements. This approach is based on the observation that policy violations can be caused by inappropriately fitting the enforcing mechanisms onto a target system. Putting these three contributions together gives a set of middleware tools to enforce cross-service policies in a dynamic environment. These tools make the user in control over continuous and improvable security policy enforcement.
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Gheorghe, Gabriela. "Security Policy Enforcement in Service-Oriented Middleware." Doctoral thesis, University of Trento, 2011. http://eprints-phd.biblio.unitn.it/673/1/PhD-Thesis-Gabriela.pdf.
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Policy enforcement, or making sure that software behaves in line with a set of rules, is a problem of interest for developers and users alike. In a single machine environment, the reference monitor has been a well-researched model for enforcing policies. However, applying the same reference model in distributed applications is complicated by the presence of multiple users and concerns, and by the dynamism of the system and policies.
This thesis deals with building, assessing and configuring a tool for distributed policy enforcement that acts at application runtime. In a service-oriented architecture setting, the thesis proposes a set of adaptive middleware controls able to enact policies across applications. A core contribution of this thesis is the first message-level enforcing mechanism for access and usage control policies across services. In line with the idea that no security mechanism can be perfect from the beginning, the thesis also proposes a method to assess and amend how correctly a security mechanism acts across a distributed system. Another contribution is the first method to configure an authorisation system to satisfy conflicting security and performance requirements. This approach is based on the observation that policy violations can be caused by inappropriately fitting the enforcing mechanisms onto a target system. Putting these three contributions together gives a set of middleware tools to enforce cross-service policies in a dynamic environment. These tools make the user in control over continuous and improvable security policy enforcement.
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Skogsrud, Halvard Computer Science & Engineering Faculty of Engineering UNSW. "Trust negotiation policy management for service-oriented applications." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. Computer Science and Engineering, 2006. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/25723.
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Service-oriented architectures (SOA), and in particular Web services, have quickly become a popular technology to connect applications both within and across enterprise boundaries. However, as services are increasingly used to implement critical functionality, security has become an important concern impeding the widespread adoption of SOA. Trust negotiation is an approach to access control that may be applied in scenarios where service requesters are often unknown in advance, such as for services available via the public Internet. Rather than relying on requesters' identities, trust negotiation makes access decisions based on the level of trust established between the requester and the provider in a negotiation, during which the parties exchange credentials, which are signed assertions that describe some attributes of the owner. However, managing the evolution of trust negotiation policies is a difficult problem that has not been sufficiently addressed to date. Access control policies have a lifecycle, and they are revised based on applicable business policies. Additionally, because a trust relationship established in a trust negotiation may be long lasting, their evolution must also be managed. Simply allowing a negotiation to continue according to an old policy may be undesirable, especially if new important constraints have been added. In this thesis, we introduce a model-driven trust negotiation framework for service-oriented applications. The framework employs a model for trust negotiation, based on state machines, that allows automated generation of the control structures necessary to enforce trust negotiation policies from the visual model of the policy. Our policy model also supports lifecycle management. We provide sets of operations to modify policies and to manage ongoing negotiations, and operators for identifying and managing impacts of changes to trust negotiation policies on ongoing trust negotiations. The framework presented in the thesis has been implemented in the Trust-Serv prototype, which leverages industry specifications such as WS-Security and WS-Trust to offer a container-centric mechanism for deploying trust negotiation that is transparent to the services being protected.
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Song, Dong Ho. "An accurate prefetching policy for object oriented systems." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/2054.
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In the latest high-performance computers, there is a growing requirement for accurate prefetching(AP) methodologies for advanced object management schemes in virtual memory and migration systems. The major issue for achieving this goal is that of finding a simple way of accurately predicting the objects that will be referenced in the near future and to group them so as to allow them to be fetched same time. The basic notion of AP involves building a relationship for logically grouping related objects and prefetching them, rather than using their physical grouping and it relies on demand fetching such as is done in existing restructuring or grouping schemes. By this, AP tries to overcome some of the shortcomings posed by physical grouping methods. Prefetching also makes use of the properties of object oriented languages to build inter and intra object relationships as a means of logical grouping. This thesis describes how this relationship can be established at compile time and how it can be used for accurate object prefetching in virtual memory systems. In addition, AP performs control flow and data dependency analysis to reinforce the relationships and to find the dependencies of a program. The user program is decomposed into prefetching blocks which contain all the information needed for block prefetching such as long branches and function calls at major branch points. The proposed prefetching scheme is implemented by extending a C++ compiler and evaluated on a virtual memory simulator. The results show a significant reduction both in the number of page fault and memory pollution. In particular, AP can suppress many page faults that occur during transition phases which are unmanageable by other ways of fetching. AP can be applied to a local and distributed virtual memory system so as to reduce the fault rate by fetching groups of objects at the same time and consequently lessening operating system overheads.
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Becknell, Kenneth L. "Police culture, management and public image: Problems in implementing community oriented policing." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1124.
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Meyer, Roland. "VP-fronting in Czech and Polish : a case study in corpus-oriented grammar research." Universität Potsdam, 2005. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2006/866/.
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Fronting of an infinite VP across a finite main verb-akin to German
"VP-topicalization"-can be found also in Czech and Polish. The paper discusses evidence from large corpora for this process and some of its properties, both syntactic and information-structural.
Based on this case, criteria for more user-friedly searching and retrieval of corpus data in syntactic research are being developed.
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Debroux, Tatsuro. "Japan's foreign policy under the Abe Administration: a role theory analysis of Japan's foreign policy initiatives between 2006-2007 and 2012-2016." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/587195.
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The thesis shows the result of the research on foreign policy during the first and second
Abe administration. It focuses on the relations with the US, China, India, Australia, the
Philippines, the New Komei Party and the Japan Conference. Role theory, centered on its
key concept of national role conceptions (NRC) is used as a theoretical framework. Using
Japanese and foreign political leaders’ statements, NRC analysis gives the opportunity to
grasp the degree of consistency between those of Japan and those of the targeted countries
and domestic political groups. Then, the results are interpreted to assess the possible
changes in foreign policy originating from role inconsistency and conflicts. Four Japan’s
key NRCs of reliable security partner, country putting emphasis on multilateralism, non
military pacifist country and world/regional leader, are utilized as grid of analysis. This
thesis argues that Prime Minister Abe’s attempts to reinforce the assertiveness of Japan’s
foreign policy have yielded limited results. Still, this outcome has not significantly altered
his initial strategies: the later decisions and actions of his government seek to build a more
assertive foreign policy. He has proceeded with them by adjusting NRCs and
accommodating role expectations.Esta tesis es el resultado de la investigación realizada sobre la política exterior de las dos administraciones de Abe en el Japón, en especial, frente a las relaciones con Estados Unidos, China, India, Australia, Filipinas, el Nuevo Partido Komei y la Conferencia japonesa. La teoría de roles, y en especial, su concepto de las concepciones del rol nacional (NRC) -entendido como las expectativas intersubjetivas compartidas frente a los viii roles apropiados del Estado en el mundo- es utilizada como marco teórico. A partir de las declaraciones de los políticos japoneses y extranjeros, el análisis de las NRC permite apreciar el grado de consistencia entre las expectativas del Japón y terceros países y los grupos políticos a nivel interno. Estos resultados son interpretados con el fin de identificar posibles cambios en la política exterior causados por la inconsistencia de los roles o por los conflictos existentes. El análisis se realiza tomando como referencia cuatro NCR claves en el Japón: la conveniencia de tener un aliado en seguridad confiable, la preferencia por el multilateralismo, una concepción pacifica no militarista del país y la pretensión de ser un líder regional o mundial. Esta tesis concluye que los esfuerzos del primer ministro Abe para reforzar la asertividad de la política exterior japonesa han tenido resultados limitados. Pese a ello, no se ha cambiado la estrategia. Las acciones y las decisiones posteriores adoptadas por su gobierno dejan en evidencia su intención de construir una política exterior más asertiva, no obstante, ha procedido a ajustar los NCR y las expectativas de los roles.
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Touseau, Lionel. "Politique de liaison aux services intermittents dirigée par les accords de niveau de service." Grenoble, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010GRENM022.
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L'informatique s'est récemment développée autour de deux axes : l'informatique ambiante d'une part avec la multiplication des objets communicants, et l'internet des services d'autre part suite à l'essor parallèle des centres de traitement de données et d'Internet. Dans ces domaines, la disponibilité fluctuante des ressources, qui entraîne une intermittence des services fournis, représente désormais une préoccupation majeure dans la conception d'applications. La programmation orientée composants appliquée aux architectures orientées service simplifie la gestion des liaisons de service via des politiques. Néanmoins les politiques de liaison existantes suivent soit une approche statique interdisant alors toute reconfiguration d'architecture en cours d'exécution, soit une approche dynamique ne garantissant pas une stabilité minimale de l'architecture dans le cas de services intermittents. Cette thèse propose un compromis entre stabilité architecturale et dynamisme en plaçant l'interruption de service au centre des préoccupations du concepteur. La politique de liaison résultante offre ainsi une tolérance aux interruptions de service jusqu'à une certaine limite au-delà de laquelle l'architecture est reconfigurée dynamiquement. Afin de situer cette limite, notre proposition se base sur l'utilisation d'accords de niveau de service, une forme enrichie des contrats de service permettant, entre autres, l'expression de contraintes sur la disponibilité des services. L'approche a été expérimentée sur la plate-forme à services OSGi en étendant les mécanismes de gestion des liaisons du modèle à composants iPOJO, puis validée dans le contexte de l'informatique ambiante ainsi que sur le serveur d'applications JOnASLately, the evolution of information technologies has been following two trends. On the one hand the proliferation of communicating devices contributes to the creation of an ambient intelligence. On the other hand, the booming of Internet associated with the rapid growth of data centres capabilities results in the emergence of an internet of services. In both domains, application design is challenged by the dynamic availability of computing resources and data. The combination of component-based software engineering and service-oriented computing techniques allows service bindings to be driven by policies. However, for the time being, policies either follow a dynamic approach which does not suit the needs of architectural stability when dealing with intermittent services, or a static approach which does not allow dynamic reconfiguration. The work presented in this thesis proposes a trade-off between the two approaches by considering service disruptions as a major concern. The proposed binding policy relies on service level agreements to be disruption-tolerant, since service-level agreements allow expressing and enforcing obligations regarding availability and quantified disruptions. This approach has been implemented on the OSGi service platform and iPOJO, a service-oriented component model for OSGi. IPOJO service dependency management has been extended in order to support our policy. The latter was validated both in the context of ambient intelligence, and on open-source and OSGi-based JOnAS application server
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Silber-Coats, Noah Robert. "Private Hydropower and the Politics of Nature in Mexico's Sierra Madre Oriental." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/595608.
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This thesis concerns a boom in hydropower development in the central Mexican state of Veracruz. There has been a recent resurgence in hydropower globally, re-framed as clean energy and financed by private investors. Along with this, there has been a surge of interest in small hydropower, which is presented as more sustainable than large dams. Focusing on one river basin, the Bobos-Nautla where numerous small/private hydropower projects are currently being contested, I seek to understand how the trajectory of this process is shaped by (re)configurations of actors and institutions at multiple scales, and how this leads to particular places being constructed as sites of development. My theoretical approach draws on environmental governance, political ecology and Science, Technology and Society (STS), to build a framework for answering these questions. In order to contextualize the conflicts that are at the center of this research, I first consider the historical background of dam conflicts, both internationally and with a focus on Mexico. In the latter part, I trace the history of the electric industry in Mexico, its connections with water governance and the way that authority over rivers has been redefined through this process. Turning to the Bobos-Nautla river basin, I begin by following the history of hydropower development in these rivers, showing the numerous parallels between conflicts in the early 20th century and the current moment. I then follow the politics of environmental regulation surrounding the currently contested projects, arguing that defining what counts as protecting nature is a key terrain of struggle. In the final chapter, I look at the contested impacts of development on river flows and springs that supply water to rural communities, contrasting a narrative of untapped abundance espoused by project proponents with a narrative of scarcity and depletion advanced by opponents. Ultimately, I argue that these projects are planned in a way that systematically ignores their potential impacts and sidelines the communities most directly affected by them. But I end on a hopeful note, arguing that the shift to small/private hydropower provides opportunities for a different approach, even if currently the one being followed favors an extractive model of development.
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Dixon, Zachary Parke. "Material Expertise: Applying Object-oriented Rhetoric in Marine Policy." Scholar Commons, 2016. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6224.
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This dissertation applies object-oriented rhetorics and posthuman philosophies to environmental policy deliberation in order to help bridge gaps between policy makers, scientists, and citizens. For environmental policy scholars the non-credentialed expertise of local, or indigenous stakeholders is valued as possessing technical, objective merit that can improve the development and implementation of environmental policies. However, the utilization of stakeholder expertise in environmental policy faces serious challenges in terms of finding common grounds for communication within complex techno-social systems, of overcoming deep cultural differences and perceptions, and grave ethical issues of access and power. This dissertation develops two case studies of marine fisheries policy debates using theories of material ontology to detail the process of how the expertise of ordinary citizens develops within the context of environmental policy and how that expertise might be better utilized.
By employing object-oriented rhetorical theories to trace material agency through the Snook and Gamefish’s (SGF) stakeholder integration programs in Florida’s Spotted Seatrout and Common Snook fishery debates, this dissertation argues that a material ontology of expertise offers a means of assessing the quality of lay-publics’ non-credentialed expertise. This dissertation suggests that an enriched since of what material objects are capable of rhetorically helps us develop tangible, actionable tools for environmental policy studies. By understanding expertise in terms of the accretion of material experiences, policy makers and scholars might more easily evaluate and utilize the expertise of environmental policy stakeholders
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Aboelata, Maged. "Object-oriented modeling framework for water resources policy analysis." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0010/MQ32042.pdf.
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Thorne, Colin Stanley. "Implementation of community policing within the Brisbane Metropolitan North Police Region : issues and problems." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2003. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/15945/1/Colin_Thorne_Thesis.pdf.
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Abstract The role of policing within western democratic countries has become increasingly clouded. This nebulous role of policing has been impacted upon by such issues as, the diversity and complexity of social change, the advances achieved within the technology field and the increasing amount of legislation that has been passed in an endeavour to accommodate such changes. Over the decades these developments have required policing organisations to shift their focus from the original crime prevention in conjunction with community collaboration to one which is predominantly incident driven and enforcement focused. Through the adoption of various strategies utilising technology, beginning with the motor vehicle, the police organisation has also progressively widened the gap between itself and the community being policed. With the widening of this gap such traits as trust, familiarity, co-operation and information exchange between the two parties has declined. This appears to have a domino effect on the fear of crime and social disorder within the community, thus impacting on the quality of life of community members. Within recent decades some of the traditional policing practices - including random preventive patrol, rapid response and the need for additional police because of increasing crime - have been questioned and researched. The findings of these research projects have not supported the effectiveness of such policing strategies. The role of policing, thus comes into question and a return to the historical role of policing espoused when Sir Robert Peel established the London Metropolitan Police and drafted the Principles of Policing, which was issued to each newly appointed constable, is being revisited. This has been promoted in the form of the 'community policing' concept. This community policing concept is stated as consisting of three core components - personalised policing through a police officer being stationed within a set geographic area; police-community partnership and problem-solving. However, in order to establish and maintain a viable partnership, both parties must participate and be aware of what the partnership entails. Similarly, with problem-solving both the community and police must identify and prioritise the local community problems. Both of these core components are bonded together through the appointment of a police officer within the community providing personalised policing. This shift in policing focus would necessitate changes both within the police organisation and the community itself. It must be remembered that the reactive, incident driven model of policing has been in existence for several decades and changing such a model will require some time. Thus, the effective implementation of community policing requires an agreement as to what community policing means and then a marketing and training program so that at the outset both parties are on an equal footing. As for the problem solving component of community policing, the parties to the partnership need to accommodate the differing foci of the opposite party. From the policing perspective, this requires accepting input from the community rather than maintaining a controlling demeanour. The police therefore, need to adopt an approach espoused by Wilson and Kelling (1982) in their article titled, 'Broken Windows: The Police and Neighbourhood Safety' which has been discussed in several literary works dealing with the community policing concept [Edwards 2001; Kenney (ed) 1989; Trojanowicz & Bucqueroux 1994]. The community also needs to be involved and this can be achieved initially, by maintaining support and enthusiasm for the community policing activities initiated. The success of implementing community policing relies on the adoption of the core components. The two community policing components, police-community partnership and problem-solving are impacted on by the third core component of personalised policing within a particular area. The personalised policing component is the need to have stable and reasonably enduring police personnel deployed to respective community locales. By adding this factor to the community policing components there is provided a degree of continuity and thus both parties develop a degree of familiarity which can lead to trust and confidence. The implementation of community policing to this extent needs to be holistically addressed through the police organisational dimensions, namely the philosophical, the strategic and the programmatic. Through these dimensions a comprehensive development of the community policing concept can be undertaken.
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Thorne, Colin Stanley. "Implementation of Community Policing within the Brisbane Metropolitan North Police Region: Issues and Problems." Queensland University of Technology, 2003. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/15945/.
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Abstract The role of policing within western democratic countries has become increasingly clouded. This nebulous role of policing has been impacted upon by such issues as, the diversity and complexity of social change, the advances achieved within the technology field and the increasing amount of legislation that has been passed in an endeavour to accommodate such changes. Over the decades these developments have required policing organisations to shift their focus from the original crime prevention in conjunction with community collaboration to one which is predominantly incident driven and enforcement focused. Through the adoption of various strategies utilising technology, beginning with the motor vehicle, the police organisation has also progressively widened the gap between itself and the community being policed. With the widening of this gap such traits as trust, familiarity, co-operation and information exchange between the two parties has declined. This appears to have a domino effect on the fear of crime and social disorder within the community, thus impacting on the quality of life of community members. Within recent decades some of the traditional policing practices - including random preventive patrol, rapid response and the need for additional police because of increasing crime - have been questioned and researched. The findings of these research projects have not supported the effectiveness of such policing strategies. The role of policing, thus comes into question and a return to the historical role of policing espoused when Sir Robert Peel established the London Metropolitan Police and drafted the Principles of Policing, which was issued to each newly appointed constable, is being revisited. This has been promoted in the form of the 'community policing' concept. This community policing concept is stated as consisting of three core components - personalised policing through a police officer being stationed within a set geographic area; police-community partnership and problem-solving. However, in order to establish and maintain a viable partnership, both parties must participate and be aware of what the partnership entails. Similarly, with problem-solving both the community and police must identify and prioritise the local community problems. Both of these core components are bonded together through the appointment of a police officer within the community providing personalised policing. This shift in policing focus would necessitate changes both within the police organisation and the community itself. It must be remembered that the reactive, incident driven model of policing has been in existence for several decades and changing such a model will require some time. Thus, the effective implementation of community policing requires an agreement as to what community policing means and then a marketing and training program so that at the outset both parties are on an equal footing. As for the problem solving component of community policing, the parties to the partnership need to accommodate the differing foci of the opposite party. From the policing perspective, this requires accepting input from the community rather than maintaining a controlling demeanour. The police therefore, need to adopt an approach espoused by Wilson and Kelling (1982) in their article titled, 'Broken Windows: The Police and Neighbourhood Safety' which has been discussed in several literary works dealing with the community policing concept [Edwards 2001; Kenney (ed) 1989; Trojanowicz & Bucqueroux 1994]. The community also needs to be involved and this can be achieved initially, by maintaining support and enthusiasm for the community policing activities initiated. The success of implementing community policing relies on the adoption of the core components. The two community policing components, police-community partnership and problem-solving are impacted on by the third core component of personalised policing within a particular area. The personalised policing component is the need to have stable and reasonably enduring police personnel deployed to respective community locales. By adding this factor to the community policing components there is provided a degree of continuity and thus both parties develop a degree of familiarity which can lead to trust and confidence. The implementation of community policing to this extent needs to be holistically addressed through the police organisational dimensions, namely the philosophical, the strategic and the programmatic. Through these dimensions a comprehensive development of the community policing concept can be undertaken.
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Dean, Jonathan Daniel. "Environmental impacts of trade-oriented development policies /." View online, 2009. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211131559250.pdf.
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Azzoni, Margherita <1995>. "From the one to the two-child policy: the policy-making process of China’s family planning reform." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/16712.
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Since the Open Letter of 1980, identified as the starting point of China’s strict population control, the so-called “one-child policy” was characterized by variations and exceptions and, over the years, went through a long and gradual process of change. The four administrations from Deng Xiaoping till Xi Jinping carried on family planning with different approaches but in the spirit of continuity, without ever questioning its status of basic-state policy. In 2015, after 35 years of one-childization, a reform that allowed every couple to have two children was approved, marking a major change in the State’s ideology towards population.
The policy-making process that led to this decision has been punctuated by a lengthy debate among scholars and birth planning officials on the feasibility of a national openness to two children. Given the increased pluralization of the arena of debate, the process was analyzed using the theoretical framework of Fragmented Authoritarianism. I first described the bureaucratic structure of family planning apparatus, thereafter, defined the political entrepreneurs that shaped the process of change and, finally, compared the issue framing they used to make their thesis prevail in relation with the official narrative. The universal two-child policy was certainly influenced by the demographers’ work and the current situation of very low fertility, despite policy relaxation, confirmed the correctness of their thesis.
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Erradi, Abdelkarim Computer Science & Engineering Faculty of Engineering UNSW. "Policy-driven framework for manageable and adaptive service-oriented processes." Publisher:University of New South Wales. Computer Science & Engineering, 2008. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/41252.
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Dynamic selection and composition of autonomous and loosely-coupled Web services is increasingly used to automate business processes. The typical long-running characteristic of business processes imposes new management challenges such as dynamic adaptation of running process instances. However, current process orchestration engines provide limited flexibility to dynamically adapt to changing runtime conditions (e.g., presence of faults). Additionally, current process specification languages exhibit some limitations regarding modularity of crosscutting management concerns. In particular, monitoring and adaptation logic is often scattered across several process definitions and intertwined with the business logic. This leads to monolithic and complex processes that are hard to understand, reuse, maintain, and evolve. To address these limitations, we developed a policy-based change management framework, named Manageable and Adaptable Service Compositions (MASC), to declaratively express crosscutting monitoring and process adaptation concerns in a separate and modular way. MASC policies use a set of simple, but flexible and relatively powerful, constructs to declaratively specify policies that govern: (1) discovery and selection of services to be used, (2) monitoring to detect the need for adaptation, (3) reconfiguration and adaptation of the process to handle special cases (e.g., context-dependant behaviour) and recover from typical faults in service-based processes. The identified constructs are executed by a lightweight service-oriented management middleware named MASC middleware. The adaptation is transparent because it preserves the original functional behaviour of the business process and does not tangle the adaptation logic with that of the business process. Additionally, policies do not have to be necessarily defined when designing the process; they can also be introduced later during deployment or at runtime. We implemented a MASC proof-of-concept prototype and evaluated it on Stock Trading case study scenarios. We conducted extensive studies to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed techniques and illustrate the benefits of our approach in providing adaptive composite services using the policy-based approach. Our performance and scalability studies indicate that MASC middleware is scalable and the introduced overhead are acceptable.
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Sjöblom, Magnus. "Hur styr medborgarlöftet polisen?" Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Kriminologi, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-27938.
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Rapporten syftar till att undersöka hur medborgarlöften styr polisens lokala verksamhet. Datainsamlingen genomfördes med semistrukturerade intervjuer med kommunpoliser. I intervjuerna framkommer det att medborgarlöftena tas fram via en process som grundar sig i både statistiska data och medborgardialoger. Medborgarlöftenas huvudsakliga fokus ligger på tre punkter, ’Trygghet’, ’Brottsförebyggande’ och ’Ökad kontakt med lokalsamhället’. Utifrån dessa tre fokuspunkter styr medborgarlöftena polisens verksamhet genom att producera ett strategiskt och långsiktigt mål för den lokala polisverksamhetens brottsförebyggande och trygghetsskapande arbete.
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Danciu, Vitalian. "Application of policy-based techniques to process-oriented IT Service Management." Diss., lmu, 2007. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-78161.
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Hernández-Rodríguez, Víctor Manuel. "Why not Mexico? Policy Recommendations for a Globally-Oriented Economic Strategy." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1968.
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Mexico, one of the world’s largest economies and an increasingly relevant actor in international affairs, is at a crucial point in defining its future policy course. Given the uncertainty surrounding the global economy, as well as the political situation in Mexico, it is important to have a clear vision for policy going forward. This thesis offers a foundation for a national economic strategy with a long-term vision, upon which future administrations can build as appropriate to maximize on the country’s economic potential. The task is undertaken through a three-part approach. First, a thorough and analytical overview of the country’s economic history provides context and lessons from which to learn. Second, key economic issues to be addressed are identified through an evaluation of the current context and economic outlook. Finally, an evaluation of successful policy implementation, domestically and abroad, provides a basis that can be adapted to address the issues identified as they affect Mexico. The result is a series of six policy recommendations along two axes aimed at tackling the aforementioned key issues. These recommendations are by no means exhaustive, nor are they meant to be. The expectation is that they may serve to align national policy to global economic trends, underlying a plausible strategy to realize Mexico’s productive potential.
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Styan, David. "France & Iraq : oil, arms, and French policy making in the Middle East /." Londres : I. B. Tauris, 2006. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41080804v.
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Logar, Nathaniel James m. d. "Federally funded science for user benefit: Policy mechanisms for mission-oriented research." Connect to online resource, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3315765.
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Pensabene, Francesca <1994>. "The Chinese concept of time: implications for the foreign policy-making." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/14551.
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Every community and group of people share a set of attitudes, values and beliefs that take the name of culture and that make them think, behave and communicate in a certain way. Culture certainly has an enormous impact on people’s everyday life, but it plays an important role also in policy-making. One of the numerous cultural aspects that can influence one nation leaders’ policy- making is the concept of time, so how people perceive time and how they relate with it. This thesis analyses the Chinese concept of time and its implication on Chinese foreign policy-making. The starting point is the Chinese term used to translate the English word time, that is shi 时; in the Chinese literature, it has always had the sense of timeliness, of doing things at the appropriate time. Taking also into account their distinctive holistic approach, Chinese people always look to the big picture first and only then they analyse the particular situation. This is valid also for time analysis: first of all, they analyse the tendency, the mega-trend of the times and only then they make decisions. But, according to the Chinese harmony principle, their actions must go with the mega-trend, must be in accordance with it. The second and the third chapters of this thesis illustrate how China has implemented this kind of times analysis method for developing its policies and, especially, foreign policies strategies during the twentieth century and up to nowadays. Traced some examples from the Chinese and non-Chinese history, they explain how important is the times assessment’s correctness in order to develop the right strategies and plans.
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Hamilton, John R. Herman Robert D. "Problem-oriented policing does it affect police officers' job motivation and perception of job characteristics? /." Diss., UMK access, 2004.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Henry W. Bloch School of Business and Public Administration and School of Education. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2004."A dissertation in public affairs and administration and education." Advisor: Robert D. Herman. Typescript. Vita. Title from "catalog record" of the print edition Description based on contents viewed Feb. 24, 2006. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 125-131). Online version of the print edition.
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Pautet, Arnaud. "La criminalité rurale en Provence orientale : l'affaire des "bandits fantômes" de Pégomas (1906-1914)." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016AIXM3043.
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Entre 1906 et 1914, un petit village de l’arrière-pays de Grasse, Pégomas, fut submergé par une vague de violence. Des bandits de grand chemin semèrent la terreur, mettant le feu à des granges, lapidant des maisons, tirant sur les habitants, profanant des cimetières. Les événements survenaient la nuit, et la traque des malfaiteurs était malaisée : les possibilités de fuite dans les collines boisées, l’organisation du village en hameaux épars, compliquaient la tâche des enquêteurs. Ces bandits insaisissables furent bientôt appelés « fantômes » par la presse. Les moyens dépêchés sur place étaient considérables : en 1912, on dénombre un serviteur de l’ordre pour quinze villageois. Chacun y allait de son interprétation : les uns y lisaient la résurgence du conflit entre le parti clérical et des libres penseurs. Les autres imaginaient une révolte contre les potentats locaux. En réalité, les tensions révélées par cette affaire prennent leur source dès 1894, alors que Pégomas opte pour une spécialisation horticole. Après 1906, la médiatisation de ces faits-divers sur le plan local et sur le plan national inquiète les pouvoirs publics ; ils craignent pour l’image renvoyée aux riches hivernants étrangers, et rejettent la faute sur les migrants piémontais. Ces brigands défient le pouvoir comme l’avait fait le célèbre « Calabrais ». Ces fantômes écornent le mythe rassembleur du paysan laborieux et des campagnes pacifiées par la République. Cette affaire constitue ainsi un observatoire de choix pour penser les mutations du moment : laïcisation et décloisonnement des sociétés rurales, modernisation des institutions chargées de la régulation sociale et du maintien de l’ordreBetween 1906 and 1914, a wave of violence swept over Pégomas, a small village in Provence. Higywaymen sewed terror, setting barns on fire, stoning houses, shooting on the village dwellers, and desecrating churches. These occurrences took place at night, which made the hunting down of the bandits difficult. The investigators’ task was further complicated by the woody hills, where the bandits could retreat, and by the fact that the village consisted of a series of scattered hamlets. The newspapers soon nicknamed those elusive bandits “the ghosts.” The authorities spared no expense: by 1912, one law enforcement officer for fifteen village dwellers had been sent to the place. Interpretations were rife: some viewed the events as a sign that the struggle between the clerical party and the free-thinkers had resurfaced. Others saw in them a rebellion against the local authorities. The true origin, however, is to be found in the horticultural specialization system implemented in Pégomas. As of 1906, the authorities began fretting over the publicity generated by the intensive media coverage of the events. They worried over the image it gave to rich foreign winter holiday-makers and blamed the events on the Piedmontese migrants. The bandits were defying the authorities as the famed “Calabrian” already had. Beyond that, these so-called ghosts challenge the unifier myth of the Republic having brought peace to the countryside. The events thus constitute an ideal vantage point from which to analyse a time of change: the secularization and opening up of rural communities, the modernization of the institutions in charge of social regulation and of the maintenance of law and order
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Saint-Mezard, Isabelle. "La Look East policy indienne ou La politique régionaliste de l'Inde à l'égard de l'Asie orientale." Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001IEPP0014.
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Lancée en 1991 par le Premier Ministre P. V. N. Rao, la Look East policy vise à arrimer l'Inde à l'Asie orientale tant sur le plan économique que politique et stratégique. Cette politique de " Regard vers l'Est " participe des réajustements engagés par l'Etat indien en matière de relations extérieures, dans le contexte de l'après-guerre froide. Les préoccupations économiques sont prédominantes dans l'ouverture indienne sur " l'Asie du miracle ", car le pays espère avant tout bénéficier des surplus de capitaux et du dynamisme commercial de la région est-asiatique. La Look East policy apparaît donc comme le prolongement en politique extérieure du processus de libéralisation de l'économie nationale engagé depuis 1991. L'Inde cherche à coopérer avec les pays d'Asie orientale avec d'autant plus d'engouement qu'elle les considère comme culturellement proches. La civilisation indienne a autrefois rayonné sur ces terres avoisinantes, notamment en Asie du Sud-Est et New Delhi s'efforce désormais de définir une identité asiatique valorisant l'héritage indien. En vertu de ses affinités culturelles avec les nations asiatiques, l'Inde se considère comme un partenaire naturel de toutes leurs constructions régionales. Le pays entend en effet devenir membre des différentes institutions qui structurent la région, car elles concrétisent une définition de l'Asie à laquelle il aimerait être intégré. En matière stratégique enfin, l'Inde a entrepris de se présenter comme un pôle stabilisateur sur une scène asiatique dominée par la montée en puissance de la Chine. Les Etats de l'ASEAN l'ont ainsi admise en 1996 à l'ASEAN Regional Forum, la seule institution intergouvernementale en Asie à discuter des questions de sécurité. La nucléarisation de l'Inde après les essais de mai 1998 a accru de facto son poids dans les équations stratégiques asiatiques. Mais si New Delhi a justifié sa décision au nom de la stabilité en Asie, sa politique nucléaire procède surtout d'une volonté de s'imposer comme une puissance mondiale.
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Kayuni, Steven William Stewista. "A policy oriented approach to witness protective measures at the international criminal court." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2017. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/68456/.
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Jeanrenaud, Sally. "Can the leopard change its spots? Exploring people-oriented conservation in WWF." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.267729.
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Mayes, Lauren R. "Law Enforcement in the Age of Social Media: The Organizational Image Construction of Police on Twitter and Facebook." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2017. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/464546.
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Law enforcement agencies across the United States are under pressure to renew their commitment to strengthening community relationships while continuing to promote public safety and reduce crime. This renewed commitment has been catapulted by a series of events that have served to tarnish the image and reputation of law enforcement. In response, there has been a reinvigorated national discussion of how to enhance the image of police as an organization that has positive community relationships. The International Association of Chiefs of Police (2015) and The President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing (2015) focus on the importance of building police-community relationships in the “Post-Ferguson” era of policing. Toward this end, the Task Force sees enormous potential of social media to bolster the police’s image and reputation. Research on police uses of social media, however, is very limited. This dissertation therefore explores the image-making efforts of twelve police organizations across the United States. By integrating organizational image construction from communication theory with the study of policing, this research examines the organizational identities and intended images that agencies are trying to project based on perspectives from interviews with those responsible for agency communications. It then compares these identities and intended images to the content produced on Twitter and Facebook over a twelve-month period using content analysis. This research found that across the diverse agencies examined here, there is a clear and consistent commitment to enhancing the community-oriented image of police. Respondents emphasized the value of humanizing police work and lending transparency to their actions and decisions as organizations. Content on agency websites equally revealed this commitment to positive community relationships. However, the content analysis of media feeds told a more nuanced story. Although each of the agencies examined disseminate community-oriented messaging, the traditional police mission of investigating crimes and solving criminal cases remains strong. Overall, social media content reveals efforts by police to delicately balance their crime-fighting and community-oriented identities. This balance varies by agency size, jurisdiction, and platform suggesting that the pressures governing image-making activities must be further examined in local context. This research seeks to demonstrate the value of applying an organizational image construction approach to police-community relations in our age of social media. This cross-disciplinary approach provides a framework for policy-makers and practitioners to assess whether their social media content aligns with their intended organizational identities and maximizes the ability to maintain a positive reputation.
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Al-Ajlan, Ajlan Suliman. "Service oriented computing for dynamic virtual learning environments." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/2416.
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Using the Internet for teaching and learning has become a trend in modern higher education, facilitated through the exploitation of advanced computing technologies. Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) applications support online learning over the Internet, and VLEs have thus emerged as e-learning domains that are essential prerequisites in cutting edge design and implementation technologies in education. Service Oriented Computing (SOC), as a novel software development and implementation approach, has become an active area of research and development. Web services, as an example of SOC, support the integration of software applications in an incremental way, using existing platforms and languages that utilize and adopt existing legacy systems. Thus, VLEs should be particularly well suited to Web services through the SOC approach. VLE services is a field subjected to continuous development but VLEs as Web services are still not generally accessible for academic institutions, although they have been adopted by some scientific projects. The next generation of VLEs should address the limitations of the current online systems by providing a richer context for online learning, one that is sensitive to the specific domain requirements of e-learning. Web Services Matching and Selection (WSMS), as a part of the functional requirements of Web services, has received less attention from SOC researchers. It involves discovering a set of semantically equivalent services by filtering a set of available services based on service metadata, and instantaneously selecting the best possible service. WSMS is the discovery of a service by a user, where correspondence is established between the objectives of the consumer and the capabilities of the service. It thereby aims to match and select the optimal service that best meets the requestor's needs. The main aim of this doctoral work is to explore novel architectural designs for VLEs, based on the SOC paradigm and its related techniques. In addition, this investigation aims to extend the core ideas behind VLE tools, which are gradually becoming dominant within academic institutes. Another aim is to devise a policy- based technique to enforce security requirements for VLEs and to build a test-bed for VLE security based on Modular Moodle. The fundamental contribution of this thesis that it demonstrates that VLEs can be considered as services, which can be published, discovered and composed as perceived in the SOC paradigm. An additional contribution to the knowledge is that it has built a new extension to the structure of Web services: the Web Services Matching and Selection (WSMS) system. Another contribution to the knowledge is that traditional security requirements have been modified to cater for the highly mobile and changeable environment of VLEs; this has been achieved through policy- based techniques. These contributions to the body of knowledge have been published in learned journals and at conferences.
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Stinga, Laura <1995>. "ANALISI DELL’OPINIONE PUBBLICA TAIWANESE: TRA NUOVA VIA DELLA SETA E NEW SOUTHBOUND POLICY." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/17723.
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L'influenza profonda del commercio marittimo sulla ricchezza e la forza dei Paesi era stata prevista chiaramente da Alfred Thayer Mahan nelle sue teorie del potere marittimo, secondo cui le potenze marittime avrebbero prevalso su quelle continentali. Non a caso il presidente Xi Jinping ha fatto dell’esigenza di sviluppare l’economia marittima cinese una priorità della sua agenda politica sin dall’inizio del suo mandato. L’implementazione della “Via della seta marittima del XXI secolo” nel 2013 si inquadra quindi nella volontà da parte della Cina di salvaguardare i propri diritti e interessi marittimi e ribadire il proprio status di potenza mondiale agli occhi del mondo. In questo progetto geopolitico, i Paesi del Sud-est asiatico rivestono particolare importanza e l’isola di Formosa è una delle regioni che la Cina vorrebbe includere nell’iniziativa. Taiwan tuttavia è a sua volta motivata a riaffermare il suo ruolo di potenza economica nel continente asiatico al di fuori delle sfere d’influenza cinesi. Per raggiungere questo scopo la presidentessa Tsai Ing-wen ha lanciato l’iniziativa della New Southbound Policy, un progetto indipendente rispetto alla BRI che punta a un consolidamento dei rapporti con i Paesi dell’ASEAN. Questa tesi si propone di far luce sull’opinione pubblica taiwanese riguardo al progetto cinese e di capire se questo sia visto più come una minaccia di interferenza negli interessi della Repubblica di Cina che come un’opportunità, e se la controparte taiwanese possa costituire una valida alternativa a esso. La tesi si avvale di un metodo di tipo qualitativo: dopo aver somministrato un questionario a 100 studenti della città di Hsinchu, i risultati ottenuti fanno emergere una generale diffidenza nei confronti del progetto cinese e un maggior sostegno rispetto alla collaborazione con altri Paesi come l’India e il Giappone. Questo potrebbe portare, in un prossimo futuro, alla creazione di nuove alleanze e a un nuovo equilibrio di poteri nel continente asiatico.
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Ahmad, Sara, Alexander Berg, and Anabell Knutsson. "Upplevd trygghet och polisiär närvaro." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för juridik, psykologi och socialt arbete, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-88995.
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The aim of this paper was to explore associations between previous victimization, police legitimacy and feelings of safety, and to also explore how different patrolling strategies were perceived in terms of general feelings of safety and police legitimacy. A questionnaire was created to measure these variables. The tests used were correlations and independent samples t-tests. The participants were 175 individuals living in Sweden, 67 were men and 108 were women, and the average age was 28. The correlation analysis showed that there was no significant relation between police legitimacy and feelings of safety regardless of previous victimization or not. One t-test showed no significant difference in patrolling strategies in terms of feelings of safety. However, a second t-test showed a significant difference in patrolling strategies in the general perception of police legitimacy. Participants with greater confidence in the police, perceived foot patrolling as more vital for their feelings of safety. The theory, Community oriented policing (COP), was used to further analyze results obtained within this study. Through this study, it was concluded that foot patrolling could promote cooperation between the police and the public. This might improve citizens' understanding of police legitimacy, which in turn can increase the overall levels of feelings of safety among the public.Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka samband mellan tidigare viktimisering, tilltro till polisen och upplevd trygghet, samt skillnader i vilken patrulleringsstrategi som uppfattades som mest trygg vad gäller den generella upplevda tryggheten respektive den generella tilltron till polisen. En webbenkät som mätte dessa variabler skapades och analyserades sedan med hjälp av korrelationsanalyser och oberoende t-test. Antalet deltagare var 175 personer bosatta i Sverige där 67 var män och 108 var kvinnor och deras medelålder var 28. Korrelationsanalyserna visade inget signifikant samband mellan tilltro till polisen och upplevd trygghet även när tidigare viktimisering användes som kontrollvariabel. Det oberoende t-testet visade ingen signifikant skillnad i vilken patrulleringstrategi som deltagarna uppfattade som mest trygg vad gäller den generella upplevda tryggheten. Däremot visade ytterligare ett oberoende t-test att det fanns en signifikant skillnad i vilken patrulleringsstrategi deltagarna uppfattade som mest trygg vad gäller den generella tilltron till polisen, där personer med högre tilltro till polisen uppfattade fotpatrullering som mest tryggt. Teorin om Community oriented policing (COP) användes för att analysera resultaten. Sammanfattningsvis stödjer denna studies resultat uppfattningen om att fotpatrullering kan främja samarbetet mellan invånare och polis. Ökat samarbete mellan parterna kan tänkas leda till ökad tilltro till polisen, som i sin tur kan resultera i ökad upplevd trygghet bland befolkningen.
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Bui, Duy Tung. "Relation entre les marchés financiers et la politique budgétaire dans les économies émergentes asiatiques." Thesis, Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018UBFCG006.
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La politique budgétaire procyclique a suscité de nombreuses inquiétudes dans les économies émergentes en raison de ses conséquences négatives sur l’activité économique (ralentissement de la croissance, chômage). Ce travail prolonge ces débats à travers une nouvelle perspective puisque nous examinons les relations bidirectionnelles entre la politique budgétaire et les marchés boursiers sur un panel de 22 économies émergentes de la région Asie-Pacifique au cours de la période 1990 à 2015. Nous estimons tout d’abord une variété de modèles VAR en panel. Les résultats empiriques montrent que les politiques budgétaires dans ces pays ont tendance à être procycliques pour répondre aux rendements des marchés boursiers. Le comportement procyclique se retrouve à la fois dans les dépenses et les recettes publiques. D’autre part, une tentative de consolidation budgétaire dans ces pays a un effet positif sur les cours des actions. Cette étude examine également l’effet non linéaire de la politique budgétaire (mesurée par la dette publique domestique) sur le niveau de développement financier dans la région Asie-Pacifique. Les gouvernements des pays émergents se caractérisent par un degré institutionnel financier moins développé ainsi qu’une forte présence puisqu’ils intervienne sur le marché de la dette domestique. Cette étude montre enfin qu’un meilleur degré des institutions financières aide à discipliner les gouvernements. Les résultats suggèrent un effet négatif de la dette publique sur le développement financier, mais seulement pour un faible niveau de liberté et d’intégration financière. Une liberté et une intégration financière plus élevée réduiraient l’effet d’éviction de la dette publique domestiquePro-cyclical fiscal policy has raised concern in many emerging economies due to its adverse consequences to the economic activities (GDP slowdown, unemployment). This thesis takes a different approach to the issue, which aims to examine the bidirectional relationships between fiscal policy and stock market activities in a panel of 22 emerging Asia-Pacific economies over the period 1990-2015. We estimate a variety of Panel Vector Autoregressive models. The empirical results show that fiscal policies in these countries tend to a pro-cyclical path in responding to stock market movements. The pro-cyclical behavior is found with both government expenditure and government revenue. On the other hand, a fiscal consolidation attempt has a rewarding effect on stock prices. This study also investigates the nonlinear effect of fiscal policy (measured by the total domestic public sector debt) on the level of financial development in the Asia-Pacific region. Government of countries emerging are caracterized by a less developed degee of financial institutions and are very present by intervening in the domestic debt market. This study shows that a better degree of financial institution helps to discipline governments. The results suggest a negative effect of domestic public sector debt on financial development, but only at low level of financial freedom and integration. Higher financial freedom and financial integration would reduce the crowding-out effect of domestic public debt
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Dong, Li, and 董立. "The housing supply system in urban China: a market-oriented approach." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3124161X.
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Shin, Hyun Joon. "Data-oriented study of the international transmission of monetary policy shocks : the case of Korea /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9999314.
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Volkov, Denis Vladimirovich. "Oriental studies and foreign policy : Russian/Soviet 'Iranology' and Russo-Iranian relations in late Imperial Russia and the early USSR." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2015. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/oriental-studies-and-foreign-policy-russiansoviet-iranology-and-russoiranian-relations-in-late-imperial-russia-and-the-early-ussr(8e28977b-999b-419c-8721-b20f22e9b76a).html.
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Russia and Iran have been subject to mutual influence since the reign of Shah Abbas I (1588-1629). For most of the time this relationship was not one of equals: since the early nineteenth century and lasting at least until 1946, Russia and then the USSR, in strong competition with Britain, had been gradually, and for the most part steadily, increasing its political, cultural and economic influence within Iran up to very high levels. Nevertheless, the history of Russian/Soviet-Iranian relations still remains understudied, particularly in English-language scholarship. One of the main reasons for this gap must be sought in the hampered access of Western researchers to Russian archives during the Soviet time, which made them draw on Russian-language literature, traditionally pre-occupied with the history of social movements, and with the mechanical retelling of political and economic processes. Thus the cultural and political ties of the two countries on institutional and individual levels (especially during the period surrounding 1917), the influence of Russia, and then of the USSR, on Iran and vice versa, in political, economic and cultural spheres through the activities of individuals, as well as the methods and tools used by the “Big Northern neighbour” during the execution of its foreign policy towards Iran did not receive proper attention, and thus lack detailed analysis. This research addresses the lack of detailed analysis of the power/knowledge nexus in relation to Russia’s Persian/Iranian Studies – the largest and most influential sub-domain within Russia’s Oriental Studies during the late Imperial and the early Soviet periods. The specific focus of this study is the involvement of Russian ‘civilian’ (academic) and ‘practical’ (military officers, diplomats, and missionaries) Persian Studies scholarship in Russian foreign policy towards Persia/Iran from the end of the nineteenth century up to 1941 – a period witnessing some of the most crucial events in the history of both countries. It is during this period that Persia/Iran was the pivot of Russia’s Eastern foreign policy but at the same time almost every significant development inside Russia as well as in her Western policies also had an immediate impact on this country – the state of affairs that ultimately culminated in the second Soviet invasion of Iran in 1941. My thesis is based on extensive research in eleven important political, military and academic archives of Russia and Georgia, which allowed me to consult a significant amount of hitherto unpublished, often still unprocessed and only recently declassified, primary sources. While engaging with notions such as Orientalism, my analysis aims at transcending Edward Said’s concept of a mere complicity of knowledge with imperial power. My theoretical approach builds on Michel Foucault’s conceptualisation of the interplay of power/knowledge relations, his notion of discourse, and his writings on the role of the intellectual. While demonstrating the full applicability of the Foucauldian model to the Russian case through the study of the power/knowledge nexus in late Imperial and early Soviet Russia’s Persian Studies, or Iranology, I focus on the activities of scholars and experts within their own professional domains and analyse what motivated them and how their own views, beliefs and intentions correlated with their work, how their activities were influenced by the hegemonic discourses within Russian society. I analyse the interaction of these intellectuals with state structures and their participation in the process of shaping and conducting foreign policy towards Iran, both as part of the Russian scholarly community as a whole and as individuals on the personal level. For the first time my work explores at such level of detail the specific institutional practices of Russia’s Oriental Studies, including the organisation of scholarly intelligence networks, the taking advantage of state power for the promotion of institutional interests, the profound engagement with Russia’s domestic and foreign policy discourses of the time, etc. In addition, the thesis presents a detailed assessment of the organisation of Iranology as a leading sub-domain within the broader scholarly field of Oriental Studies in the period from the end of the nineteenth century to 1941 and analyses the principles and mechanisms of its involvement in Russia’s foreign policy towards Persia/Iran.
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Andersson, Anna. "Management information systems in process-oriented healthcare organisations." Licentiate thesis, Linköping : Univ, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-5689.
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Bani, Baker Muna. "La femme orientale dans la littérature du XVIIIe siècle : Images et représentations." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018MON30053.
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À la suite d’importants travaux portant sur la place de la figure féminine dans lalittérature du XVIIIe siècle, notre regard s’est porté sur la figure de la femme del’Orient, de culture musulmane particulièrement. De nombreux écrivains font de cettefigure une construction littéraire qui met l’accent sur nombreuses idées qui préoccupentle siècle des Lumières. Dans cette étude, certains genres de la littérature française del’époque se croisent comme le roman, le conte, l’histoire, la tragédie et une oeuvrelittéraire de la littérature anglaise traduite en français qui est le fruit d’un voyage d’uneauteure anglaise en Turquie. L’intérêt de notre recherche consiste à étudier le rôle, laprésence et les caractéristiques de la femme orientale dans quelques oeuvres de Voltaire,de Diderot, de François, Baron de Tott, de Lady Montagu et principalement deMontesquieu, en particulier les Lettres persanes. La femme orientale, objet d’étude pourles écrivains, représente cet étranger intriguant qui permet d’élaborer un discours àdifférents niveaux : social, moral, religieux, politique, esthétique et littéraire. Elle estpour les lecteurs cet Autre qui crée chez eux de l’attirance et du rejet, de la curiosité etune forme de condamnation. La femme est représentée à travers un ensemble deprincipes qui permettent d'une part d'aborder la féminité (l'amour, la séduction, lemariage) mais aussi de la placer dans un dispositif argumentatif qui concerne desvaleurs universelles : la liberté, l'égalité des êtres, dans un contexte religieux, social etpolitique. La présence de la femme orientale dans la création littéraire libère le regardsur l’autre ainsi que sur soi. Son image est une invention occidentale qui ne vise pas às’imposer comme une réalité historique et culturelle, mais qui est considérée comme lavariante d’un même stéréotype mise au service du projet esthétique, intellectuel,philosophique des auteurs des Lumières soucieux de transmettre une connaissancesavante sur l’OrientThe image of the oriental woman has for a long time its echo and its distinct place in the French literature. For this reason, we chose this sujet. In our researche,we intend to find answers to numerous questions: How did constitute the image of the woman in the works of the writers? How was it reflected in their spirit? What arouses its image? How the writers represent her(it)? What parameters (do typological, sociological, psychological, ethnic, religious) allow to represent at best the oriental woman? How do we make of the East, place of diverse fantasies, the object of a metaphoric or allegorical discussion of another sociocultural reality, the western world? Why the literary myth of the Oriental is favored in the literary creation of the writers of the Enlightenment? In sum, we suggest studying the treatment of the stereotype of the oriental woman in the literature and his evolution during the XVIIIth century. Is the oriental woman condemned to be only the symbol of the sensualism, and the sensual delight, the inhabitant of a harem where the power of the man subjects her constantly? Such a stereotype reduces the woman to be only a body object of desire. But the literature of the XVIIIth century seems to give an other place to the oriental woman, as we were able to see him in our memory of Master's degree. Thus this reflection deserves to be completed in a more thorough study, during a doctoral thesis
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Ho, Yam Leung, and 何蔭良. "Target oriented curriculum: An analysis of the making of education policy in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31965519.
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Parra, Fernando Mesa. "Public policy rules for export oriented economies with imperfect competition and exchange rate uncertainty." Thesis, University of Essex, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.396036.
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Doebbler, Curtis Francis. "The individual in the process of international human rights law : a value oriented policy." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.300543.
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This thesis evaluatesth e individual's role in the protection of internationalh uman rights. It argues that by conceptualizing international human rights law as a process that includes individuals as full participants we, as world society, can develop more effective strategies for achieving respect for human dignity. The study examines how current theories and policies of international human rights law attempt to achieve the policy goals of a modem world society, especially the goals related to human dignity. It does this by reviewing practices relevant to the achievement of human dignity. Part I is devoted to defining the problem, method and concepts that form the foundation of this study. In the introduction the problem is defined and in the two subsequent chapters process and participation are described. In the second part four chapters are devoted to examining past trends in specific areas of international human rights law. Both claims and authoritative decisions are described. The four chapters examine past trends in the areas of. (1) theories about the status of the individual under international law; (2) the individual's procedural capacity under international human rights law; (3) the ability of individuals to influence the creation and implementation of international human rights law by the exercise of individual human rights; and (4) individual responsibility for ensuring respect for international human rights law. The thesis of the study comest o sevene ssentialc onclusions. First, becauseh uman rights reflect individuals' values, the individual must be actively involved in their prescription, interpretation, application and evaluation. Second, historically there is adequate evidence to suggestt hat individuals have played a leading role in each of thesep rocessesa t different times during the development of international law. Third, a project to determine the optimal participatory role of the individual must consider at least the four areas of past trends dealt with in this study, to wit, theory, procedural capacity, rights and responsibilities. Fourth, the theory of international law should take into account the individual as a full participant in all processes related to the achievement of human values, especially international human rights law. Fifth, this theory should be reflected by enhancing the procedural capacity of the individual in internationalf orums. Sixth, this should be accompaniedb y the recognition of individual rights to act contrary to the laws and policies that are contrary to the achievement of values of human dignity. And seventh, the duty to respect others' human rights, both by not interfering with others' freedoms and by taking positive steps to ensure others! enjoyment of human rights, is an essentialf eatureo f a society wherein humanr ights are respecteda nd ensured. In essencet,h ese conclusions indicate that international human rights law, both in theory and in practice must reassert the priority of the individual that it has tended to neglect since the arrival of the nationstate on the world stage.
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Ho, Yam Leung. "Target oriented curriculum : an analysis of the making of education policy in Hong Kong /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B1971063X.
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Moran, Daniel, Richard Wood, Edgar Hertwich, Kim Mattson, Joao F. D. Rodriguez, Karin Schanes, and John Barrett. "Quantifying the potential for consumer-oriented policy to reduce European and foreign carbon emissions." Taylor & Francis Group, 2018. http://epub.wu.ac.at/6742/1/14693062.2018.pdf.
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The EU Carbon-CAP project assembled a comprehensive portfolio of consumer initiatives in order to assess the potential total impact of consumer options on national carbon footprints. Existing evaluations of behavioural change have focused primarily on direct energy reductions, typically in households and buildings. However, changes in consumer demand have deeper impacts via their upstream supply chains. The consumer behaviour options considered in the portfolio focus on green household initiatives. Combining existing micro-level studies with a multiregional input-output economic model, we estimated the potential efficacy and uptake of each behaviour across the European Union (EU). The results suggest that adopting these consumer options could reduce carbon footprints by approximately 25%. While 75% of this is delivered as reductions in emissions within Europe, one-quarter of the effect is delivered as a reduced imported carbon footprint, due to changes in the composition of imports.
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Lundergan, Ryan W. "Parking regulation strategies and policies to support transit-oriented development." Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2009. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/365/.
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Bernazzani, Daniel. "The Effect of Disinfectants, Cleaning, and Drying Practices on Oriental Rugs Flooded with Contaminated River Water: Public Health and Policy Implications." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1339427719.
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Phelps-Hillen, Johanna. "Institutional Review Boards and Writing Studies Research: A Justice-Oriented Study." Scholar Commons, 2017. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6742.
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In this multi-method dissertation project I conduct policy analysis and utilize results from a discipline-wide survey (n=258) to examine the intersection of Writing Studies researchers’ disciplinary affiliation, research context, and personal disposition in relation to the local implementation of federal policy regarding human subjects research. I elaborate on the context of this project, discussing the September 2015 release of the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to revise and update the Common Rule, 45.CFR Part 46, and the Conference on College Composition and Communication’s formal comment in response to the proposed rule’s provisions. I discuss the process of designing and implementing the survey used to establish a disciplinary representation of Writing Studies researchers’ perceptions of, and experiences with, IRBs. The results of this survey (Chapter 4) indicate how Writing Studies researchers presently interface with the process of local policy implementation. In Chapter 5, data from the survey are set against the Final Rule (released January 19, 2017) to provide a new taxonomy for Writing Studies researchers regarding how to interface with IRBs. Finally, the major theoretical contribution is articulated in Chapter Six: a call for human subjects researchers in Writing Studies to consider IRBs as justice-oriented, rather than positivist, in design and purpose. I argue increasingly reciprocal relationships between IRBs and Writing Studies researchers will help ensure Writing Studies research is not overly influenced by IRB review, nor that Writing Studies researchers are unwilling or unable to interface with IRBs to build more ethical and robust research agendas.
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Shenoy, Dinesh (Dinesh Arkal). "Measuring effectiveness and value of email advertisements in relationship-oriented email messages." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/42931.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design and Management Program; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, Technology and Policy Program, 2008.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
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This thesis explores the value of email advertisements in relationship-based communication by measuring click-through rates. Advertisements were embedded within standard electronic mail messages in a template. The results are discussed in aggregate to better understand this medium and value in an advertising context, but the analysis also breaks down how six factors affect click behavior by recipients. The factors include the impact of a privacy statement, type of organizational recipients, click timing, recent advertisements, advertisement frequency, and advertisement relevance. The results are also analyzed using a chi-squared statistical test to determine whether the individual factor is significant in this analysis. This paper also discusses the privacy implications of advertising in a social-medium with comparisons to social ads using Facebook's Beacon as a benchmark. A discussion of how these results apply in an email environment where anti-SPAM infrastructure is a large part of the overall system is evaluated as well. Results show that internal recipients are an effective target market for relationship messaging and that emails often generate clicks days or weeks after the original message was delivered. The research is very relevant to email and targeted advertising, but also applies in a broader context to social advertising where there is a existing relationship between a sender and recipient.
by Dinesh Shenoy.
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