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Journal articles on the topic "Public Instruction Amendment Act"
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Fishbaugh, Mary Susan E., Linda Christensen, Harvey Rude, and Susan Bailey-Anderson. "Regional Comprehensive System of Personnel Development Council Activity in Big Sky Country." Rural Special Education Quarterly 17, no. 1 (March 1998): 33–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/875687059801700106.
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The Montana Office of Public Instruction, Special Education Division, initiated its state Comprehensive System of Personnel Development (CSPD) Council 15 years ago in compliance with Public Law 94–142, The Education of All Handicapped Children Act. The state council has remained active and has become stronger from its beginning to the present time. Because of the large geography of the state and diversity of needs across the state, however, the state council was somewhat limited and fragmented in meeting personnel development needs. Consequently, the state council implemented a CSPD regionalization concept based on the five existing Developmental Disabilities Planning and Advisory Council (DDPAC) and Montana Council of Administrators of Special Education (MCASE) regions. The purpose of this article is to report on strategies and activities of regional CSPD actions in Montana. The regional model holds promise for replication as a framework of personnel development in other large rural states. This information is represented within the context of the recently enacted amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act through the provisions of Public Law 105–17.
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Chromicka, Dorota. "ZNACZENIE NOWELIZACJI USTAWY O INFORMATYZACJI DLA POSTĘPOWANIA PRZED SĄDAMI ADMINISTRACYJNYMI." Zeszyty Prawnicze 9, no. 2 (June 25, 2017): 213. http://dx.doi.org/10.21697/zp.2009.9.2.11.
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The Importance of the Projected Amendment of the Polish Act on Informatization to the Act on Administrative Court ProceedingsSummaryMost of the regulations of the polish Act on Informatization of public tasks performed by public organizations passed on 17 February 2005 came into force on 21 July 2005. After almost 4 years some institutions proved to be unsuccessful or did not work as intended. Also fast development of new technologies required amendment of the Act.On 17th June 2009 Governmental project on amendment of the Act on Informatization of pubic tasks performed by public organizations, Administrative Proceedings Code, Tax Ordinance Act and some other acts was sent to Sejm Marshall.Administrative Proceedings Code unlike the Act on Administrative Court Proceedings accepts electronic documents that are electronically signed. Pursuant to Art. 5 section 2 polish Act on Electronic Signature and Art. 78 § 2 Civil Code, qualified electronic signature equals to autograph signature. This confuses parties who have problems with understanding why their pleadings signed with qualified electronic signatures are not accepted by the administrative court. Act on Informatization does not apply on administrative courts now but the project on Amendment of the Act on Informatization passed on 8 January 2010 would oblige them to accept electronic documents in litigation. The Article presents how exactly administrative courts justify not accepting electronic documents now and how it would change when the Amendment of the Act should come into force. Apart from characterizing Supreme Administrative Court’s rulings, this article concentrates on the influence of the Amendment of the Act on Informatization over the Act on Administrative Court Proceedings.
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Haczkowska, Monika. "Mediation in proceedings involving the public finance sector entities (in the light of Art. 54a of the Public Finance Act)." Opolskie Studia Administracyjno-Prawne 17, no. 4 (January 27, 2020): 35–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.25167/osap.1884.
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The amendment to the Public Finance Act (adding Article 54a) and to the Act on the responsibility for a breach of public finance discipline of 2017, introduced the possibility of concluding a settlement regarding the disputed civil law liabilities by entities of the public finance sector. Execution of a lawful settlement will not constitute a violation of public finance discipline. Until the amendment came into force, the pursuit of claims by the public finance sector entities was possible only in court. Currently it is also possible in mediation proceedings.
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Srivastava, Praveen Ranjan, and Prajwal Eachempati. "Gauging Opinions About the Citizenship Amendment Act and NRC." Journal of Global Information Management 29, no. 5 (September 2021): 176–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jgim.20210901.oa10.
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Today, the advent of social media has provided a platform for expressing opinions regarding legislation and public schemes. One such burning legislation introduced in India is the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and its impact on the National Citizenship Register (NRC) and, subsequently, on the National Population Register (NPR). This study examines and determines the opinions expressed on social media regarding the act through a Twitter analysis approach that extracts nearly 18,000 tweets during 10 days of introducing the scheme. The analysis revealed that the opinion was neutral but tended to a more negative reaction. Consequently, recommendations on improving public perception about the scheme by suitable for interpreting the Act to the public are provided in the paper.
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Ughulu, Eghoikhunu Stella, and Eunice Ijeaku Nwokike. "Trade Union amendment act 2005 and the entrenchment of industrial democracy in the Nigeria Public Service: An x-ray of the political undercurrent." Global Journal of Social Sciences 19 (October 30, 2020): 75–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/gjss.v19i1.8.
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The Federal Government of Nigeria in 2005 amended some sections of the Trade Union Act referred to as “The Principal Act” 1996 to form the new Trade Union (Amendment) Act 2005. The main objective of the new Act was the entrenchment of democracy in Nigeria public service by giving workers the freedom to choose which union to belong and opportunity to form more central union organizations, thereby encouraging industrial democracy. It is on this note that this study examined the political underlying motive in enacting the new Act in relation to industrial democracy in Nigeria Public Service, the weaknesses and strength of the Act were examined. The study relied on the secondary method of data collection. The study concluded that the enactment of the Trade Union (Amendment) Act 2005 was politically motivated to give the government the much-needed space to implement certain policies and decisions that are comfortable for the government. The study then recommended that the governmentshould embark on nation-wide consultation with stakeholders to develop valid amendments in Trade Union Acts for the betterment of all and not for the exploitation of the masses.
Keywords: Trade Union Amendment Act, industrial democracy and Public service.
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Bhattacharyya, Rituparna. "Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013: Will it ensure women’s safety in public spaces?" Space and Culture, India 1, no. 1 (May 1, 2013): 13. http://dx.doi.org/10.20896/saci.v1i1.11.
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The horrific gang-rape and the subsequent murder of Nirbyaya (fearless) in December 2012, impelled the Government of India to pass the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013. The key aim of this article is to review this Act in the light of women’s safety in public spaces.
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Smyth, Daniel J. "The Original Public Meaning of Amendment in the Origination Clause Versus the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act." British Journal of American Legal Studies 6, no. 2 (December 29, 2017): 301–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/bjals-2017-0015.
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Abstract Robert Natelson recently published his article, The Founders’ Origination Clause and Implications for the Affordable Care Act, in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy. This article argued the original understanding of the scope of the Senate’s power to amend the House of Representatives’ bills for raising revenue in the Origination Clause permits complete substitutes that are new bills for raising revenue, such as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). The original understanding of a constitutional word or provision is what the ratifiers of the Constitution thought was the meaning of the word or provision. When the Senate originated PPACA as an amendment to the House’s Service Members Home Ownership Tax Act of 2009, the Senate replaced the entire House bill, except for the bill’s number, with PPACA. I consider the original public meaning—not the original understanding—of a constitutional word or provision, unless unrecoverable, to be the controlling meaning of that word or provision. The original public meaning is the meaning that a “reasonable speaker of English” during the founding era would have ascribed to the word or provision. My article argues the original public meaning of amendment is clear and disallows complete substitutes. For instance, founding-era dictionaries indicate an amendment was a change or alteration to something that transformed the thing from bad to better. This definition suggests an amendment must not be a complete substitute because an amendment must preserve at least a part of the thing being amended so that there is something to transform from bad to better. My article further argues the preponderance of evidence suggests the original understanding of the scope of an amendment actually disallows complete substitutes. For example, much evidence from the Philadelphia Convention, Confederation Congress, state legislatures, and state conventions suggests the dominant view among the founders was that an amendment to the Articles of Confederation, the legal compact between 13 states enacted in 1781, could not be a complete substitute. My conclusion argues PPACA or any other such complete substitute violates the original public meaning of the scope of an amendment.
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Martin, Christopher. "Law and Order in Public Housing: the Residential Tenancies Amendment (Public Housing) Act 2004 (NSW)." Current Issues in Criminal Justice 16, no. 2 (November 2004): 226–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10345329.2004.12036318.
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Bush, Darren. "The Death of the Tunney Act at the Hands of an Activist D.C. Circuit." Antitrust Bulletin 63, no. 1 (February 12, 2018): 113–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0003603x18756146.
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The Tunney Act and its 2004 Amendment have sought to eliminate judicial rubber-stamping of antitrust consent decrees. Congress sought to assure meaningful judicial review of consent decrees to assure they were in the public interest. The caselaw in the D.C. Circuit undermines the purpose, intent, and plain meaning of the Tunney Act by arguing that such review would present separation of powers issues, an argument at best disingenuous in light of other settlements readily rejected within the Circuit. The Article commences with a review of the legislative history of the original Tunney Act. The article next examines the D.C. Circuit cases against that the drafters of the Amendment to the Tunney Act are rebelling. This legislative history is highlighted and extended in the legislative history of the 2004 TunneyAct Amendment. The article next describes how D.C. district courts uniformly ignore and dismiss the Congressional intent behind the 2004 Amendment under the auspices of prosecutorial discretion. Finally, the Article tackles the (false) problem of separation of powers the D.C. Circuit case law presents and proposes a solution to this deadlock that is true to the original intent of the Tunney Act.
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Nodżak, Agata. "ABOUT A BLACK SWANS, E-ADMINISTRATION AND EUROPEAN FUNDS – REALIZATION OF PUBLIC TASKS IN THE PERIOD OF THE EPIDEMIC EMERGENCY." Roczniki Administracji i Prawa 3, no. XX (September 30, 2020): 255–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0014.4274.
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The article contains an analysis of selected provisions of the Act on enforcement proceedings in administration after the amendment in 2019. Administrative enforcement proceedings and administrative enforcement that is an integral part thereof are a type of procedures that should follow certain general principles. These principles were formulated by the legislator, as well as legal solutions that were to be an expression of their implementation. According to the author, the amendment to the Act on enforcement proceedings in administration of 2019 has significantly changed the course of enforcement proceedings, resulting in a new model for shaping this administrative procedure.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Public Instruction Amendment Act"
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Alkaster, Henrico Mario. "Changing the traditional role of the Auditor general: Is the Public Audit Amendment Act constitutional?" University of Western Cape, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7584.
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Magister Legum - LLMThe majority of South Africa’s 257 municipalities are in a dire state as evidenced by the recent reports of the Auditor-General (AG). 1 The Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs revealed that only 7 percent of the country’s 257 municipalities are classified as wellfunctioning insofar as they are capable of carrying out their tasks adequately.2 From the remaining municipalities, the Minister pointed out that 87 municipalities (31 percent) are ‘frankly dysfunctional’ meaning that service delivery in these municipalities is poor or at times non-existent because of poor governance, inadequate financial management, and poor accountability mechanisms.
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Maguire, John C. McCluskey-Titus Phyllis Baker Paul J. "Public institutions in higher education policies on the crime awareness and Campus Security Act of 1990 and the Federal Education and Right to Privacy Act (Buckley Amendment)." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p3064518.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2002.Title from title page screen, viewed February 23, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Phyllis McCluskey-Titus, Paul Baker (co-chairs), James Palmer, W. Garry Johnson. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 142-150) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Banks, Catherine, and n/a. "Lost in Translation: A History of Moral Rights in Australian Law." Griffith University. Griffith Law School, 2005. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20061006.114720.
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This thesis is a history of moral rights in Australian law. It traces the historical discourse about moral rights in Australian law and demonstrates how that discourse has shaped the meaning moral rights have come to assume in their current form under the current regime contained in the Copyright Amendment (Moral Rijghts) Act 2000. This history examines the reception and later production of a moral rights discourse in Australian law, and reveals that the historical discourse about Australian moral rights was dominated by the three themes; foreignness, international obligation and economic impact. I contend these three themes fundamentally shaped moral rights as they now appear in the moral rights regime. As the history unfolds, it will become clear that the moral rights regime was organised around a specific repertoire of arguments and imaginings, and it is this discourse that informs this thesis. My argument is pursued in three stages. Section One of the thesis provides the historical detail of the moral rights trajectory in Australian jurisprudence, and reveals, within that history, the emergence of three dominant themes, which are pursued in subsequent detail. In addition to the history, this section also provides detailed discussion of the legislative provisions in order to illustrate moral rights as a product of the history, and it highlights some of the shortcomings of the regime and provides some background for the case study in Section Two. Section Two of the thesis interrogates the structure of the moral rights regime by applying the Act's provisions to the case study of indigenous creators, thus providing a contemporary example of how these rights may work in practice, as the result of the historical discourse. Thus this section sets the scene for final part of the thesis, which delves further into the historical discourse. Section Part Three follows the themes of the moral rights debate as they emerged historically. Reconceptualizing the moral rights discourse in this way helps to explain why the debates about moral rights took a particular course and produced the outcomes it did. The starting point for these discussions is a detailed examination of the themes of foreignness, international obligation and economic impact, and follows these themes as they evolved chronologically. In particular, the discussion reveals that the debates about moral rights effectively fall into two eras. The first era (1928-1988) centred around the question of whether Australia should introduce moral rights and the debates about the appropriateness of the reception. At the commencement of the second era (1988-2000) the question shifted to what form moral rights should take. This then provides a backdrop with which to understand why specific discussions about moral rights were sidelined during the years of debates leading up to the legislation; in particular, the subject and the object; which form the fulcrum of a moral rights action. This is an essential part of the history because it explains why the subject and the object came to be imagined and constructed in such a narrow and limited way and clarifies why the moral rights provisions appear manifestly ineffective, particularly for indigenous creators and their communities. This thesis contributes to legal history in three important ways. First, it provides a detailed account of a discourse about moral rights in Australian law, and in doing so challenges the long held assumptions about their reception and production. Second, it highlights the importance of history to legal discourse. Just as regulatory regimes, institutions, and rules are integral to the law, so too are the informal practices, discourses and contexts on which they were based. Third, it reminds the reader that history is a signpost, and this history of moral rights demonstrates that the way this law was derived, imagined and constructed has significance for the social, cultural and legal context in which that process takes place.
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Barbier, Lance. "The impact of the Tobacco Products Control Amendment Act, 1999 (Act no. 12 of 1999) on the performance of librarians employed by the City of Cape Town :Tygerberg Administration." Thesis, Peninsula Technikon, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/1671.
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Thesis (MTech (Public Management))--Peninsula Technikon, 2004The World Health Organisation (WHO) presented evidence illustrating that tobacco smoking kills three million people yearly. These statistics are increasing, and unless current trends are reversed by the decade 2020-2030, tobacco will kill 10 million people a year, with 70% of deaths occurring in developing countries (WHO, 1998:1). The WHO then issued a mandate to 191 countries, which included South Africa, requesting them to write, advocate, pass and enforce laws on tobacco control taking into account work and public places, as people tend to spend much time there (WHO,20031-2). According to the literature review, since the promulgation of the Tobacco Act. 1999 (12 of 1999) public officials have been leaving the office much more regularly to congregate with other smokers for a smoke break. This is because legislation stipulates that they may not smoke in the office. It has also been found that the public service delivery process is slow, not only as a result of the phenomenon of smokerism, but also due to staff shortages. Hence, the main purpose of this study was to explore the impact of the Tobacco Act. 1999 (Act No.12 of 1999) on the performance of librarians employed by the City of Cape Town's Library and Information Services: Tygerberg Administration, by focusing on answering two assumptions stating that service delivery is slow and inefficient because of smoke breaks; and that the performance of staff is poor as a result of regular smoke breaks. The research population for this study consisted of 23 out of the 26 librarians-in charge employed in the City of Cape Town's Library and Information Services: Tygerberg Administration, who is the entire target population. The respondents were interviewed using a self-administered questionnaire. The data collected was analysed using software called StatPac for Windows. The results derived indicated that the librarians-in-charge (82.6%) are satisfied with the service delivery offered by their employees. This is regardless of the regular smoke breaks employees take and the grievances of non-smoking employees with regard to the regular smoke breaks taken. However, the Iibrarians-in-charge (91.3%) added that there was room for improvement in terms of dealing with the staff shortages and not the regular smoke breaks. Therefore, based on the findings, the assumptions that relate to this study are discovered to be invalid and untrue. Thus, the Tobacco Act. 1999 (12 of 1999) does not impact on the performance of librarians employed by the City of Cape Town's Library Services, Tygerberg Administration. The following recommendations were formulated: Management should consider taking on volunteers to address the staff shortage situation. Management should motivate employees with any kind of special rewards, remuneration and credentials for work well done. The Director of Social Development and Community Services of the City of Cape Town, Tygerberg Administration, should review the salary structure of librarians and consider increasing it. Both the librarians-in-charge and employees should be educated about the Tobacco Act, 1999 (12 of 1999). This education should also consist of the importance smoking restrictions have in terms of promoting a healthy environment, smoking cessation and job satisfaction. The librarians-in-charge should understand the negative ramifications the lack of rewards, credentials and salary have on job satisfaction. Team-building exercises should be done on a regular basis to strengthen the relationship between employees.
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Dvořáková, Jitka. "Veřejné zakázky v oblasti ICT." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-85169.
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The thesis is focused on analysis of complicated situation in public tenders in ICT field. The content is divided into two main parts. The first part provides an overview of historical development in terms of legal definition of basic laws in public tenders. Historical excursion includes a chapter dealing with the proposed amendment to public tenders act. There are shown the main points that would have a significant impact and would change the process of future commissioning of public tenders. The second part is practically oriented, beginning with computerization of public tenders and dealing further with a practical side of public tenders. There are also defined administrative offenses of commissioners as well as those of suppliers in this part of the thesis. The main focus of the work is an analysis of the most serious cases of public tenders commissioning in ICT field and definition of the biggest faults that occur. There are also provided suggestions as to how to deal with the situation in this part of the thesis.
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Navrátilová, Pavla. "Nejnovější trendy ve vývoji právní úpravy veřejných zakázek." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-163925.
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This thesis deals with public procurement law in the Czech Republic. It captures the latest trends in public procurement law, together with the amendment to the Public Procurement Act, which entered into force on 1 April 2012. The opening chapter introduces the concepts that are closely related to the issue of public procurement and corruption. There are explained key institutional control mechanisms in the Czech Republic and criminal liability of corruption. The analytical part of this thesis describes the changes, which the amendment brought into the Public Procurement Law. These changes are mainly assessed in terms of impact on the suppression of corruption. This thesis presents and analyzes the arguments of proponents and opponents of the amendment. The analysis is accompanied by a brief look at the development of legislation on public procurement in the European Union in general and in two selected countries of the European Union. The conclusion contains a summary assessment of the issue along with an outlook for a possible further developments in the legal regulation of public procurement. Based on the analysis, the thesis leads to the conclusion that the amendment of public contracts, despite some shortcomings, is leading to a more transparent procurement environment.
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Surty, Fatima. "The political / administrative interface: the relationship between the executive mayor and municipal manager." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2010. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_4188_1334910053.
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Local government is arguably the most significant sphere of government to lay citizens, as it is the point of contact of citizens with their government. Local government enables a direct link between the general public and the basic services that they are entitled to by means of their constitutional and legislatively entrenched rights. It is the only sphere of government that allows and encourages face-to-face engagement between citizens and their governors, providing the necessary platform for interaction, contact and communication. It is imperative therefore that this tier of government operate optimally and competently, as it represents a reflection of the operation of government wholly. Research unfortunately illustrates that public perceptions of local government are negative, with levels of trust in local government being substantially lower than those in provincial and national governments. The responsibility for failure to perform would lie squarely on the shoulders of those individuals leading any institution. The leading incumbents driving a municipality are the political and administrative heads, i.e. executive mayor and municipal manager.
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Lestrade, Éric. "Les principes directeurs du procès dans la jurisprudence du Conseil Constitutionnel." Thesis, Bordeaux 4, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013BOR40033/document.
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Malgré le peu de fondements écrits consacrés à la justice dans le texte de la Constitution du 4 octobre 1958, le Conseil constitutionnel, en réalisant un travail d’actualisation à partir de la Déclaration des droits de l’homme et du citoyen, a permis l’émergence d’un droit constitutionnel processuel, construit autour de principes directeurs. Ceux-ci peuvent être répartis dans trois catégories : deux principales, selon que l’acteur du procès prioritairement concerné soit le juge ou les parties et une troisième, complémentaire, celle des garanties procédurales, permettant de favoriser les qualités essentielles du juge et de contrôler le respect des droits des parties. Une gradation des exigences du Conseil constitutionnel est discrètement perceptible entre les deux premières catégories de principes, plus facilement identifiable entre celles-ci et la dernière famille. Cette échelle décroissante de « densité » des principes directeurs du procès témoigne d’une véritable politique jurisprudentielle en matière de droit constitutionnel processuel, qui met l’accent sur l’accès au juge, doté des qualités indispensables à l’accomplissement de sa mission juridictionnelle. Toutefois, aussi satisfaisante que soit l’action du juge constitutionnel français à l’égard du droit du procès, celle-ci nécessiterait aujourd’hui le relais du constituant, afin de moderniser le statut constitutionnel de la justiceIn spite of a relatively low number of written dispositions dedicated to justice inside of the body of the Constitution of October 1958 4th, the constitutional Council, while updating this text through the Declaration of Human Rights, contributed to the development of a procedural constitutional law, which is structured around guiding principles. Those principles can be classified within three different categories : two major categories depend on the trial actor that is primarily concerned, either the judge or the parties; a third and additional category pertaining to procedural protections, fosters the essential qualities of the judge and secure the protection of the parties’ rights. A gradation of the requirements of the constitutional Council is discreetly perceptible between the first two categories of principles, and more easily identifiable between those first two categories and the last one. This decreasing scale of “density” yoked to the trial guiding principles highlights a genuine judicial policy when it comes to procedural constitutional law, emphasizing access to the judge, whom is given essential qualities in order to achieve its judicial duty. However, the action of the French constitutional judge, as satisfactory as it is towards the rights of the trial, would easily support the intervention of the constituent power in order to update Justice’s constitutional status
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Guo, Jheng, and 郭錚. "A Study on the Amendment of Act on Property-Declaration by Public Servants in Taiwan." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/96050435387455042427.
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碩士國立臺灣海洋大學
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Corruption is by far the biggest obstacle to a country’s political stability, social progress, and economic prosperity. People who corrupt not only obtain illegal profits by abusing the power and rights authorized by the public, they damage the public interest and destroy the people’s trust in government. In order to enhance a country’s competitiveness, stabilize economic development, and promote the public welfare, restoring integrity and capacity to government is the most important priority. “Sunlight is the best preservative.” In order to ensure the righteous behavior of personnel in public office, end money politics, and promote the robust development of democratic politics, beginning in 1993 Taiwan has established a series of “sunlight acts.” Among them, “Act on Property Declaration by Public Servants,” is an important part of the sunlight acts. On June 15, 1993, the Legislative Yuan passed the 17 clauses of Act on Property Declaration by Public Servants in response to the public’s yearning for clean politics, and this act was implemented on September 1. It has been 17 years, and the act has undergone 4 instances of modification. However, at the current point there are many calls for it to be modified again. There are important issues such as whether the act can be modified and improved upon after years of practical operation, and whether the act truly meets its objective of “correcting political customs and assuring incorruptible action of public servants, are worthy of in-depth research and exploration. This study engages in a composite analysis of the legal and practical aspects of the Taiwan Act on Property Declaration by Public Servants, applying academic discourse and practical views to explore the act’s pros and cons. This study further summarizes the experiences of other countries in implementing laws on property declaration in order to consider improvements to the Taiwan Act on Property Declaration by Public Servants, and to provide suggestions for improvements. It is hoped that this can be used as a reference for further systematic reform and resolution of controversial issues, and help to modify the Act on Property Declaration by Public Servants and create a clean political system.
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Chen, Wei-Chu, and 陳薇竹. "The impact of urban renewal Act amendment have on public participation in urban renewal mechanism." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/95788552264604781802.
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The Constitutional interpretation for Urban renewal Act was revealed by Justice of the Constitutional Court after joint case submissions of Wenlin Garden Residences in Taipei and Da-Chin Xin-Yi-Fu-Tun in New Taipei City. J.Y. Interpretation No.709 pointed out the agency’s approval for urban renewal business summaries and urban renewal business plans should duly comply with the administrative procedures as required by the Constitutional law. Hence, Urban renewal Act Article 10, Article 19 are considered unconstitutional. The urban renewal Act confronts the biggest extent amendment ever since its implementation. This study compare among versions of urban renewal Acts from Executive Yuan to Legislators’, outline and summarize background intentions behind different versions, then use In-depth interview method to further the possibility and problems in practical operations, including 1.does not establish an appropriate organization to review urban renewal business summaries; 2.fails to require the competent authority to hold hearings in public; 3. fails to ensure that interested parties be kept informed of all relevant information or have the opportunity to present their opinions in a timely manner; the required proportion of agreement needed for an urban renewal business summary application is too low and also inconsistent with the due process in administrative procedures required by the Constitution. Indeed, to enhance urban renewal business summaries and plans proportion of agreement needed guarantees the public participation profit, but it should have suitable proportion, or that will cause majority rules may have cause and effect reversed. This study argues that urban renewal should take public interests into account, to increase urban renewal area designated from the government, and give it a suitable position to strengthen Authority of Government. To expect Taiwan’s urban renewal will toward an ideal direction.
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(India), Manipur. Manipur public libraries act: Rules and amendment. Imphal: Manipur Library Association, 2010.
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Leone, Sierra. The Public Budgeting and Accounting Act, 1992: The Public Budgeting and Accounting Act (Amendment Decree 1996). Freetown?], Sierra Leone: Government Printing Department, 1996.
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Malaysia. Contracts Act 1950 (Act 136), Contracts (amendment) Act 1976 (A 329): & Government Contracts Act 1949 (Act 120) : as at 1st December 2001. Petaling Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan: International Law Book Services, 2001.
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Malaysia. Contracts Act 1950 (Act 136), Contracts (amendment) Act 1976 (A 329): & Government Contracts Act 1949 (Act 120) : as at 15th April 2004. Petaling Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan: International Law Book Services, 2004.
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Malaysia. Contracts Act 1950 (Act 136): & Contracts (amendment) Act 1976 (A 329) : law stated is as at 30 July 2009. Batu Caves, Selangor Darul Ehsan: Penerbitan Akta (M), 2009.
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United States. Bureau of Land Management. Las Cruces District Office. Southern Rio Grande plan amendment: Navajo and Hopi Indian relocation amendment act-exchange (NM 58259) : final. Las Cruces, N.M: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Las Cruces District Office, 1985.
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Assembly, Canada Legislature Legislative. Bill: An act for the further promotion of public instruction in Upper Canada. [Québec]: S. Derbishire & G. Desbarats, 2003.
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Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Fifth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation. Draft Scotland Act 1998 (Cross-Border Public Authorities)(Adaptation of functions, etc.)(Amendment) order 2002: Tuesday 16 July 2002. London: Stationery Office, 2002.
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Canada. Bill: An act respecting railway postal subsidies and amalgamation of railway companies, and otherwise in amendment of the Railway Act. Ottawa: Hunter, Rose, 2001.
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Aiyar, Krishna Jagadisa. Iyer's law on Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 (Act no. 70 of 1971): With the Contempt of Courts (Amendment) Act, 2006 (6 of 2006) and law on contempt of parliament, state assemblies & public servants. 4th ed. Delhi: Delhi Law House, 2007.
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"Sexual Offences Act 1985 75–76 Public Order Act 1986 76–83 Criminal Justice Act 1987 83–86 Firearms (Amendment) Act 1988." In Criminal Law Statutes 2011-2012, 102. Routledge, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203722763-39.
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Ahdar, Rex. "Granting Immunity: Authorisation and “Public Benefit”." In The Evolution of Competition Law in New Zealand, 231–63. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198855606.003.0008.
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This chapter analyses the authorisation mechanism—a demanding cost-benefit test for those applicants who seek advance approval of their potentially contravening conduct. The “public benefits” and detriments the Commission can assess under this test are very broad. The potentially relevant matters go well beyond economic efficiencies to intangible and unquantified gains or harms. A thorny issue has been the distributional question. Does the Act have an implicit bias in favour of consumers when it comes to weighing benefits and detriments? Must benefits be passed on to consumers? The Chicagoan thinking came to dominate and the Commission pronounced it was “neutral” regarding wealth transfers from consumers to producers. The 2001 Amendment, which altered the purpose of the Act to clarify that competition operated for the long-term benefit of New Zealand consumers, did not initially alter the Chicagoan stance. Over time, however, the purely neutral stance towards wealth transfers has been eroded. The Court of Appeal decided that private gains, redounding solely to the companies alone, were not sufficient. “Modified total welfare” arrived as a new term in the New Zealand antitrust lexicon. The chapter also analyses the non-neutral stance where the benefits go to foreign owners of local companies.
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Bedi, Sonu. "Online Dating Sites as Public Accommodations." In Free Speech in the Digital Age, 189–206. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190883591.003.0012.
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The internet is often thought of as the quintessential forum for the exercise of First Amendment rights. This characterization seems all the more apt for commercial online dating websites where individuals express and act upon their preferences for romantic partners. This chapter qualifies this view, arguing that parts of the internet are also social institutions that are within the scope of justice. In particular, the chapter argues that online commercial dating websites are public accommodations, providing their customers an important and widely needed service: the ability to find romantic partners. As public accommodations, it is clear that these sites should not unjustly discriminate in providing their services. Drawing on recent case law, this chapter goes further, arguing that these sites should also not facilitate racial discrimination. Even though racial preferences for romantic partners implicate rights to speech and association, it is unjust for commercial online dating websites to enable and thereby explicitly endorse these preferences.
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Zick, Timothy. "Sedition." In The First Amendment in the Trump Era, 27–48. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190073992.003.0002.
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This chapter examines the concept of “sedition” and efforts to suppress dissent and disloyalty. President Adams used the Sedition Act of 1798 to prosecute and jail his critics and political opponents. That episode ultimately revealed the “central meaning of the First Amendment”—that Americans must be free to criticize their public officials, even if that criticism is often caustic and unpleasant. Federal and state officials have not proposed reviving the crime of seditious libel. However, several critics of the Trump administration have come under fire and suffered tangible consequences for openly criticizing the president and the Trump administration. As in prior eras, recent efforts to punish sedition and disloyalty pose serious threats to democratic self-government and political discourse.
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Baron, Kevin M. "Nixon and the resurgence of executive privilege." In Presidential Privilege and the Freedom of Information Act, 140–78. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474442442.003.0006.
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With the passage and implementation of FOIA under Johnson, the CLDC moves into the next iteration by examining the implementation, oversight, and amendment phase. This was driven in large part by Nixon's actions after coming into office. While Nixon talked about transparency, he took steps to expand White House control over information, not just following the precedent of Eisenhower, but in expanding the scope of executive privilege. Nixon asserted that executive privilege covered all White House conversations with any staff, appointees, and employees, expanding beyond the national security concerns in the public interest of his predecessors. Nixon's actions to expand executive power left Congress in the position of again grappling with ways to respond, including eventually amending FOIA to strengthen the law as an oversight measure. The first FOIA amendments began under Nixon but would not be finalized until President Ford was in office.
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Palfrey, Colin. "The origins of health promotion." In The Future for Health Promotion, 25–54. Policy Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447341239.003.0002.
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This chapter examines the origins of health promotion in the UK. It begins with a discussion of diseases in Britain before and during the nineteenth century that made public health a major concern of governments, followed by an analysis of the role of William Farr in establishing a system that recorded the cause of death, along with three important pieces of legislation: Poor Law Amendment Act 1834, Public Health Act 1848, and Public Health Act 1875. The chapter then considers disease monitoring and surveillance before describing Charles Booth's work on poverty in the late nineteenth century, Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree's poverty surveys, and the consequences of the Boer Wars for public health. Finally, it explores key legislation in the twentieth century prior to the establishment of the NHS, the emergence of a new public health, and the impact of health promotion on the social determinants of health.
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"Aquatic Stewardship Education in Theory and Practice." In Aquatic Stewardship Education in Theory and Practice, edited by Annette L. Glick. American Fisheries Society, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.47886/9781888569902.ch9.
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<i>Abstract.</i>— In 1950, Congressman John Dingell (Michigan) and Senator Edwin Johnson cosponsored a piece of legislation that changed the face of fisheries conservation. The Federal Aid in Sport Fish Restoration Act (Public Law 81-681), also known as the Dingell- Johnson Act, allowed excise taxes collected on rods, reels, creels, and artificial baits to be placed into a special account for apportionment to the states. In 1984, the Sport Fish Restoration Act was further strengthened by additional legislation that increased available funds and formed the new Aquatic Resources trust fund. The Wallop-Breaux Amendment, in addition to increasing funds for conservation programs and boating access, allowed states to use up to 10% of the states’ annual apportionment on Aquatic Resources Education. Since 1984, states, nongovernmental organizations and industry have developed numerous programs that engage and educate the public on sound conservation issues that protect and enhance the environment for the next generation. This chapter provides an overview of successful, research-based conservation education programs that augment the overall effort to sustain the fisheries of the United States.
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Erickson, G. Scott. "Government as a Partner in Knowledge Management." In Building a Competitive Public Sector with Knowledge Management Strategy, 90–103. IGI Global, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4434-2.ch003.
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This chapter assesses the reliability and predictability of government departments as partners in corporate knowledge management systems. The specific topic is knowledge availability under the US Freedom of Information Act, but the general implications apply to governments at all levels around the world that hold business information, data, or knowledge assets. By comparing processes related to US freedom of information requests across departments and across time, separated by a dramatic change in presidential administrations and attitudes toward governmental openness, this study examines the relative reliability of agency processes. In particular, reports on the handling of confidential business information provide us with specific insights on this topic as do reports on records with personal privacy concerns. In the end, there appears to be little predictability in the process, even with clear instruction from the highest levels. The topic needs more in-depth study, but businesses, at least in the US, should share data, information, and knowledge with the government deliberatively.
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Grasso, Christopher. "Captain Kelso Goes to Congress." In Teacher, Preacher, Soldier, Spy, 257–82. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197547328.003.0013.
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The Thirty-Ninth Congress was one of the most eventful in U.S. history. Despite obstruction from President Andrew Johnson, it passed the Civil Rights Bill of 1866, the First Reconstruction Act of 1867, and the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Kelso voted with the Radical Republican majority, outlining his position in a House speech, and he also proposed his own constitutional amendments. The first session was marred, though, by the challenge to his seat by his opponent Boyd, who disputed the results of the election. Kelso’s political reputation back in his district, too, was damaged by his intemperate public letter denouncing Boyd and announcing early for the next election.
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Erickson, G. Scott. "Sharing Knowledge With the Government." In Handbook of Research on Implementing Knowledge Management Strategy in the Public Sector, 143–58. IGI Global, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9639-4.ch007.
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This chapter assesses the reliability and predictability of government departments as partners of private knowledge management systems. The specific topic is knowledge availability under the US Freedom of Information Act, but the general implications apply to governments at all levels around the world that hold business data, information, or knowledge assets. By comparing processes related to US freedom of information requests across departments and across time, separated by two dramatic changes in presidential administrations and attitudes toward governmental openness, this study examines the relative reliability of agency processes. In particular, reports on the handling of confidential business information provide us with specific insights on this topic as do reports on releases of records with personal privacy concerns. In the end, there appears to be little predictability in the process, even with clear instruction from the highest levels.
Conference papers on the topic "Public Instruction Amendment Act"
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Lin, Huan, Tai-Wei Lan, Min-Tsang Chang, and Wuu-Kune Cheng. "An Overview of the Draft of ‘Nuclear Materials and Radioactive Waste Management Act’." In ASME 2013 15th International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icem2013-96250.
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The “Nuclear Materials and Radioactive Waste Management Act” (NMRWMA) in Taiwan has been in use since 2002. To promote further administrative efficiency and improve regulatory capacity, an amendment of the act has been initiated by the Atomic Energy Council (AEC). It is now being reviewed by outside experts and related communities so as to include the best understanding of risk management factors. For the future decommissioning challenges of nuclear facilities, the act is also being amended to comply with the regulatory requirements of the decommissioning mandates. Currently the Taiwan government is conducting government reorganization, and AEC will be reformed but will remain as an independent regulatory body. AEC will then be capable of improving the regulatory capacity for facilitating licensing and inspection, ensuring operational safety, environmental protection and public involvement, and giving a more flexible administrative discretion, such as expending the margin of penalty. The amendment is also required to provide a formal legal basis for the Nuclear Backend Fund, and to mandate the waste producers to take responsibility for any final debt repayment. In addition, this amendment promotes measures to prevent accidents or emergencies concerning radioactive materials and facilities and procedures to reduce the impact and effect of any unexpected events. Furthermore, this amendment intends to implement the concept of information transparency and public participation so as to meet the public needs. Finally, radioactive waste final disposal tasks have to be completed by waste producers under the supervision of the AEC.
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Flander, Benjamin. "Varde: geneza in pregled novel Zakona o varstvu javnega reda in miru in Zakona o nadzoru državne meje." In Varnost v ruralnih in urbanih okoljih: konferenčni zbornik. Univerzitetna založba Univerze v Mariboru, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18690/978-961-286-404-0.8.
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The article presents the genesis and content of the amendments to the Protection of Public Order Act and the State Border Control Act, which were proposed by the opposition and adopted by the National Assembly at the end of September 2020 to limit the operation of the vigilant guards. The amendments prohibited and sanctioned the carrying or display of imitations of weapons and weapons-like objects to create the appearance that a person is performing the duties of officials or military personnel. They also prohibited and sanctioned the wearing of uniforms or clothing similar to the uniforms of officials or military personnel if a person, by his or her conduct or presence in a particular public or private place, creates the appearance of performing the duties of officials or military personnel. Time will tell how the police will implement the amendment and what the adopted amendments mean in practice.
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Arslan, Çetin, and Didar Özdemir. "Insider Trading Crime in Turkish Criminal Law." In International Conference on Eurasian Economies. Eurasian Economists Association, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.36880/c10.02113.
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Insider trading act is penalised ultima ratio with the aim of fighting against manmade market actions which outrage the principle of public disclosure and the element of trust in order to establish equality and good faith in capital markets. Insider trading is first disposed as a crime among the other capital market crimes (art.47/1-A-1) in the Capital Market Code no.2499 dated 28.07.1981 with the Amendment to the law no.3794 dated 29.04.1992 and at the present time it is rearranged as a self-contained crime type in article 106 of the Capital Market Code no.6362 dated 06.12.2012. In this study, the crime of insider trading is examined –in particular through the controversial points- as a comparative analysis between abrogated and current dispositions in Turkish Law.
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Freeman, Robert A. "Challenge-Based Instruction and Its Application in a Course in Mechanisms and Related Courses." In ASME 2010 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2010-28501.
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This paper discusses challenge based instruction (CBI) and associated materials developed for courses in Dynamics, Mechanisms, and Biomechanics. This effort is related to a College Cost Reduction and Access Act (CCRAA) grant from the Department of Education, and focuses primarily on the development of adaptive expertise. In science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields the conventional approach is to teach for efficiency first and innovation only in the latter years of their curriculum. This focus on efficiency first can actually stifle attempts at innovation in later courses. One response to this issue is to change the way we teach. CBI, a form of inquiry based learning, can be simply thought of as teaching backwards. In this approach, a challenge is presented first, and the supporting theory (required to solve the challenge) second. Our implementation of CBI is built around the How People Learn (HPL) framework for effective learning environments and is realized and anchored by the STAR Legacy Cycle, as developed and fostered by the VaNTH (Vanderbilt-Northwestern-Texas-Harvard/MIT) NSF ERC for Bioengineering Educational Technologies. This cycle provides students the opportunity to immediately engage in creative activity in the “generate ideas” phase where they are asked what they think is important to know and do in solving the challenge. They are then led through a natural process of inquiry culminating in their “going public” with a solution to the challenge. Ideally, this approach develops both efficiency and innovation in parallel and results a student who is an “adaptive expert”. That is, one who can adapt their knowledge to new and novel situations outside of the context in which the knowledge was obtained.
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Sugawara, Shin-etsu, Tomoaki Inamura, and Haruki Madarame. "The Local Governments’ Management of the Sensitive Information." In 18th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone18-29186.
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After the September 11th terrorist attacks, the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material was revised, and many countries have enhanced their regulatory regimes about the management of sensitive information, especially in the physical protection system. Japan also amended the Nuclear Reactor Regulation Law in 2005 in step with this global movement. The major areas of this revision which are associated with sensitive information are as follows: formulation of the Design Basis Threat (DBT), introduction of inspection system of physical protection and obligation of confidentiality of the secret of physical protection. Through this amendment, the responsibilities of the national government and the utilities have been clarified. However, there is no prescription which ordains the role and responsibility of the local governments. In fact, the local governments receive various information from the utilities through the “Safety Agreements” which are concluded between the local governments and the utilities, and the Public Safety Commissions of prefectures are involved in the transportation of nuclear materials. Moreover, the Act on Special Measures concerning Nuclear Emergency Preparedness provides the engagement and the responsibility of the local governments in case of nuclear disaster. In addition, the Civil Protection Law also provides the formulation of local governments’ plans for a response to national emergencies including nuclear disaster which is caused by terrorist attacks. As described above, the local governments are in a position where they can or have to touch the sensitive information in a variety of ways. Originally, the local government employees have obligation of confidentiality by the Local Public Service Act. Thus, about the sensitive information, they have duty to keep secret. However, we are hard to say that there are complete systems to check this obligation, so we can point out that its effectiveness is doubtful. Especially, the sensitive information which is related to nuclear materials is vital for security of the nation as a whole. Under such awareness, we’re studying the change of the local governments’ way of the management of sensitive information accompanied by the strengthening of Japanese nuclear regulation, and the actual condition of it. Now, we interview some local governments’ departments in charge where nuclear facilities are located. In this paper, we discuss the actual condition and the problems around the local governments’ management of the sensitive information.
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Gernand, Jeremy M. "Educating Engineering Students on Probabilistic Risk: Effects on the Perception of Ethics, Professional Responsibility, and Personal Agency." In ASME 2015 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2015-53055.
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To better understand how improved understanding of uncertainty and probability concepts in an engineering systems context would affect undergraduate engineering students’ perceptions of professional responsibility and ethics as well as personal agency (one’s ability to affect the outcome of events), an assessment of these principles was conducted during a related course. A course entitled Engineering Risk Analysis was offered and conducted with a mix of undergraduate Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Petroleum Engineering, Environmental Systems Engineering, and Architectural Engineering students. This course presented and trained students in the use of system analysis techniques from the disciplines of Reliability Engineering, Policy Analysis, and Economics for understanding how uncertain circumstances interact with technological systems to produce failures and disasters. As engineering systems become increasingly complex and command greater quantities of energy, the risk of failures even when very rare, become much more severe. While there have been previous initiatives to increase engineering students’ understanding of statistics, probability, and risk, usually in response to previous disasters, this preliminary study is the first to begin to examine how this kind of knowledge affects engineering student’s perceptions of ethics, responsibility, and their concept of how their own individual decisions affect the potential for the failure of complex systems and the consequences of such failures. Students completed 5 regular survey-based assessments to judge their qualitative and quantitative skills, personal perceptions of the causes of engineering failures, and the professional and ethical responsibilities of engineers. Analysis of the response variance and a linear regression model demonstrated some significant effects after controlling for education, age, and professional work experience. Results indicate that questions related to probabilistic understanding of risk demonstrated the most significant change during the course. Indicators of agreement with strong professional ethics and greater professional responsibility as well as personal agency did not significantly change during the course. More importantly, while personal choices on risk did not appear to reflect one’s view of how engineers actually do or should treat questions of risk professionally, the amount of previous technical work experience showed a small positive association with increased agreement on statements of ethical responsibility towards workers and the public. These findings suggest that future research is needed to assess the types of instruction and personal experience that can best encourage the combination of strong ethical responsibility and personal agency that could empower engineering students to act when they have the opportunity to reduce risk to workers, the public, or the environment.
Reports on the topic "Public Instruction Amendment Act"
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Ayala, David, Ashley Graves, Colton Lauer, Henrik Strand, Chad Taylor, Kyle Weldon, and Ryan Wood. Flooding Events Post Hurricane Harvey: Potential Liability for Dam and Reservoir Operators and Recommendations Moving Forward. Edited by Gabriel Eckstein. Texas A&M University School of Law Program in Natural Resources Systems, September 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.37419/eenrs.floodingpostharvey.
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When Hurricane Harvey hit the Texas coast as a category 4 hurricane on August 25, 2017, it resulted in $125 billion in damage, rivaling only Hurricane Katrina in the amount of damage caused. It also resulted in the deaths of 88 people and destroyed or damaged 135,000 homes. Much of that devastation was the result of flooding. The storm dumped over 27 trillion gallons of rain over Texas in a matter of days. Some parts of Houston received over 50 inches of rainfall. The potential liability that dam and reservoir operators may face for decisions they make during storm and flooding events has now become a major concern for Texas citizens and its elected officials. Law suits have now been instituted against the federal government for its operation of two flood control reservoirs, as well as against the San Jacinto River Authority for its operation of a water supply reservoir. Moreover, the issues and concerns have been placed on the agenda of a number of committees preparing for the 2019 Texas legislative session. This report reviews current dam and reservoir operations in Texas and examines the potential liability that such operators may face for actions and decisions taken in response to storm and flooding events. In Section III, the report reviews dam gate operations and differentiates between water supply reservoirs and flood control reservoirs. It also considers pre-release options and explains why such actions are disfavored and not recommended. In Section IV, the report evaluates liabilities and defenses applicable to dam and reservoir operators. It explains how governmental immunity can limit the exposure of state and federally-run facilities to claims seeking monetary damages. It also discusses how such entities could be subject to claims of inverse condemnation, which generally are not subject to governmental immunity, under Texas law as well as under the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. In addition, the Section discusses negligence and nuisance claims and concludes that plaintiffs asserting either or both of these claims will have difficulty presenting successful arguments for flooding-related damage and harm against operators who act reasonably in the face of storm-related precipitation. Finally, Section V offers recommendations that dam and reservoir operators might pursue in order to engage and educate the public and thereby reduce the potential for disputes and litigation. Specifically, the report highlights the need for expanded community outreach efforts to engage with municipalities, private land owners, and the business community in flood-prone neighborhoods both below and above a dam. It also recommends implementation of proactive flood notification procedures as a way of reaching and alerting as many people as possible of potential and imminent flooding events. Finally, the report proposes implementation of a dispute prevention and minimization mechanism and offers recommendations for the design and execution of such a program.
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Public–Private Partnership Monitor: Pakistan. Asian Development Bank, July 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.22617/sgp210251-2.
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The Government of Pakistan strongly supports public–private partnership (PPP) initiatives. From 1990 to 2019, Pakistan witnessed 108 financially closed PPP projects, with a total investment of approximately $28.4 billion. About 88% of these projects are in the energy sector, attracting more than $24.7billion, followed by investments in the port sector. In early 2021, Parliament approved the amendments to the 2017 PPP Law, enacting the Public Private Partnership Authority (Amendment) Act 2021. This further strengthens the enabling legal and regulatory framework for developing and implementing PPPs, thereby promoting private sector investment in public infrastructure and related services.