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Journal articles on the topic "Regulatory competence"
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Okinaga, Toshinori, Guoqing Niu, Zhoujie Xie, Fengxia Qi, and Justin Merritt. "The hdrRM Operon of Streptococcus mutans Encodes a Novel Regulatory System for Coordinated Competence Development and Bacteriocin Production." Journal of Bacteriology 192, no. 7 (January 29, 2010): 1844–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jb.01667-09.
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ABSTRACT The Streptococcus mutans hdrRM operon encodes a novel two-gene regulatory system induced by high cell density. Previous studies identified hdrM as the only known negative regulator of competence development in S. mutans. In the present study, we demonstrated that the HdrRM system bypasses the prototypical competence gene regulators ComC and ComDE in the transcriptional regulation of the competence-specific sigma factor comX and the late competence genes. Similarly, the HdrRM system can abrogate the requirement for ComE to produce the bacteriocin mutacin IV. To further probe the regulatory mechanism of hdrRM, we created an hdrR overexpression strain and showed that it could reproduce each of the hdrM competence and mutacin phenotypes, indicating that HdrM acts as a negative regulator of HdrR activity. Using a mutacin IV-luciferase reporter, we also demonstrated that the hdrRM system utilizes the same promoter elements recognized by ComE and thus appears to comprise a novel regulatory pathway parallel to ComCDE.
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Moghabghab, Rola, Audrey Tong, Amy Hallaran, and Janet Anderson. "The Difference Between Competency and Competence: A Regulatory Perspective." Journal of Nursing Regulation 9, no. 2 (July 2018): 54–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s2155-8256(18)30118-2.
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Garanina, Zh G. "The Role of Self-Regulation in the Development of Psychological Competence in Students of Psychology." Bulletin of Kemerovo State University 22, no. 2 (July 8, 2020): 418–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.21603/2078-8975-2020-22-2-418-425.
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The research featured relationship between self-regulation and psychological competence of future specialists. The study involved an analysis of theoretical approaches to this problem in domestic and foreign psychology. Psychological competence presupposes developed psychological knowledge and communicative abilities and skills, as well as a stable system of self-regulation that allows for effective management of one's behavior during professional interaction. The author established the features of psychological and communicative competences in students, as well as such regulatory qualities as self-regulation, self-control, and self-efficacy. The research revealed statistically significant relationships between the level of development of psychological and communicative competences and the characteristics of regulatory qualities. A cluster analysis showed three groups of students with different levels of communicative competence and regulatory qualities. The regulatory and communicative components of psychological competence appeared closely interrelated. Self-regulation, self-control, self-efficacy, and communicative skills of future psychologists were the instrumental basis for the development of psychological competence. A well-developed self-regulation helped students understand and control their behavioral reactions. It enabled them to carry out conscious and focused interaction with people in problematic professional situations, as well as contributed to the development of psychological competence during vocational training.
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Tasic, Slavisa. "THE ILLUSION OF REGULATORY COMPETENCE." Critical Review 21, no. 4 (January 2009): 423–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08913810903441369.
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Reinaldo Tanihatu, Arthur, Sutrisno T., Nurkholis, and Wuryan Andayani. "The role of regulatory pressure and competence in the application of accrual-based accounting through organizational culture." Problems and Perspectives in Management 17, no. 1 (February 28, 2019): 130–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/ppm.17(1).2019.12.
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The study aimed to examine the effect of regulatory pressure and competence on the application of accrual-based accounting through organizational culture. This research was conducted at the Central Maluku and South Maluku Regency regional work unit, Maluku Province. The sampling technique utilized in this study was proportionate stratified random sampling. There were 102 respondents from 17 SKPD, and 6 respondents were from each SKPD. Research result exhibited that regulatory pressure, competence, and organizational culture significantly influence the application of accrual-based accounting. The organizational culture successfully mediates the influence of regulatory pressure and competency on the application of accrual-based accounting. This research model differs from previous research, namely on the development of research models by incorporating organizational culture as a media variable. Previous studies only explained the model partially the relationship of regulatory pressure, competency, organizational culture to the application of accrual-based accounting, while in this study the variables were explained in a new model unit.
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Schunk, Dale H., and Barry J. Zimmerman. "Social origins of self-regulatory competence." Educational Psychologist 32, no. 4 (September 1997): 195–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15326985ep3204_1.
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SAFAROVA, EVGENIA V. "THEPROBLEM OF DEVELOPING PRESCHOOLER’S KEY COMPETENCES IN THE PROCESS OF JOINT PICTORIAL ACTIVITY WITH PEERS." Cherepovets State University Bulletin 5, no. 98 (2020): 202–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.23859/1994-0637-2020-5-98-16.
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The article considers the problem of developing key competences in a preschooler in the process of joint pictorial activity with peers. The author carried out a review of the principles in the regulatory documents and highlighted the specificity of the preschooler’s productive activities. In the context of the problem, the concepts of “competence” and “competency” are analyzed; the results of the ascertaining stage of the experiment are indicated. The author identifies key competences acquired by a child of preschool age in the process of interaction with peers under the conditions of joint pictorial activity.
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HENSERUK, HALYNA, and MARTYNIUK SERHII. "METHODICAL COMPONENT OF THE SYSTEM OF DEVELOPMENT OF DIGITAL COMPETENCE OF FUTURE TEACHERS OF THE HUMANITARIAN PROFILE." Scientific Issues of Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University. Series: pedagogy 1, no. 1 (July 7, 2021): 123–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.25128/2415-3605.21.1.15.
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The development of digital competence of new generation teachers is a priority of a modern higher education institution. It is important in this context to develop a methodological component of the system of digital competence development of future teachers of humanities, which will determine the goals, content, methods, forms and means of digital competence development. Therefore, the aim of the article is to substantiate the methodological component of the model of development of digital competence of future teachers of humanities. The study analyzes the international framework of digital competence for citizens, in particular the framework of digital competence DigCompEdu, UNESCO standards “UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for Teachers. Version 3”, which reflects the latest technological and pedagogical advances in the use of ICT in education. It is important to describe the digital competence of the pedagogical worker, which includes the requirements to a humanities teacher and a set of skills to acquire, as well as the levels of digital competence of a pedagogical worker. A new Digital Education Action Plan (2021–2027) has been substantiated, outlining the European Commission's vision for high-quality, inclusive and accessible digital education in Europe. In the context of the study the analysis of the Concept of development of digital competencies adopted in Ukraine in 2020, the ways and means of solving the problems outlined in the document and the expected results are very important. The action plan for the implementation of the Concept of development of digital competencies includes regulatory, scientific and methodological, information support, deadlines and performance indicators. The described methodical component of the system of digital competence development of future teachers of humanities is developed in accordance with the European framework of digital competences, the concept of digital competence development and the description of digital competence of a pedagogical worker. This system is focused on application in the system of higher education. The methodological component of the system of development of digital competence of future teachers of humanities, which is carried out in the digital educational environment of Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University, has been also substantiated.
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Voshcolup, Anna. "Socio-Psychological Factors of the Formation of Conflict Competence of a Specialist in the Work Community." Education and Pedagogical Sciences, no. 1 (176) (2021): 32–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.12958/2227-2747-2021-1(176)-32-43.
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The article based on the analysis of scientific works on nature of conflicts proves that conflict can be considered from three different perspectives: as a psychological phenomenon under the influence of the human factor on the basis of disagreement; as an organizational and activity phenomenon based on the imbalance between a person and their environment; as a socio-philosophical phenomenon associated with the perception of conflict as a social anomaly. The chronology of scientific doctrines about the essence and nature of conflict, the reasons for its occurrence and ways to avoid and prevent it have been outlined. It has been determined that conflicts in the work community are one of the types of social conflicts, the nature of which is associated with the use of labour (with labour relations) and the relationship of professionals in the work community (cooperation, collective problem solving, the pair «manager-subordinate», unfair distribution of duties, rights, responsibilities, etc.). The essential significance of conflict competence has been characterized, and the importance of forming this competence of specialists in the work community has been emphasized. Conflict competence has been structured into competencies and components of a lower level. The componential and structural analysis of such a phenomenon of conflict competence with the aim of minimizing conflicts in the work community has allowed identifying the following components: motivational (emotional and volitional, and constructive competences); cognitive (normative, personal and creative competences); managerial (design, reflective, regulatory, situational and preventive competencies); social (behavioural and ethical competences).
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Striuk, Andrii M., Serhiy O. Semerikov, and Ihor V. Tarasov. "КОМПЕТЕНТНІСТЬ БАКАЛАВРА ІНФОРМАТИКИ З ПРОГРАМУВАННЯ." Information Technologies and Learning Tools 46, no. 2 (April 17, 2015): 91. http://dx.doi.org/10.33407/itlt.v46i2.1225.
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Based on the analysis of approaches to the definition of professional competencies of IT students the competence in programming of bachelor of informatics is proposed. Due to the standard of training in 040302 “Informatics” and Computing Curricula 2001 it was defined the content and structure of the competence in programming of bachelor of informatics. The system of content modules providing its formation was designed. The contribution of regulatory competencies of bachelor of informatics in the formation of competence in programming is defined. The directions of formation of competence in programming in the cloudy-oriented learning environment are proposed.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Regulatory competence"
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Kohl, Uta, and n/a. "An analytical framework on regulatory competence over online activity." University of Canberra. Law, 2002. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20050509.105817.
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This thesis examines the application of traditional jurisdictional doctrines to
online activity. It analyses not only to what extent, and why, the Internet
challenges existing principles allocating regulatory competence, but the
factors which shape, and must shape, the regulatory responses to these
challenges, in an attempt to create an analytical framework within which the
search for viable solutions can begin.
The overarching argument made in this thesis is that the keys to viable future
Internet regulation are deeply embedded in past and present regulation and
that we cannot simply look for the most efficient legal solutions, regardless of
how they fit within existing laws. This would be inconsistent with the law's
basic function to answer the need for certainty and predictability. Building
upon this fundamental premise, it is further argued, and shown, that an
understanding of the public law - private law dichotomy within the existing
jurisdictional framework, as well as its deeply entrenched status, is essential
for appreciating the severity of the jurisdictional problems caused by the
Internet and actual and likely regulatory responses to them. It is argued that
this explains why both sets of rules have consistently accommodated
transnational online activity differently, giving rise to different problems -
problems which ultimately touch upon fundamental legal notions, such as
formal justice, the rule of law or obedience to law which cannot but set further
outer parameters of the search for solutions to the jurisdictional problems
triggered by the Internet.
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Antonova, Elena S. "The regulatory network controlling natural competence for DNA uptake in Vibrio cholerae." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/47626.
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The bacterial pathogen Vibrio cholerae is responsible for ongoing cholera outbreaks in Haiti and elsewhere. Association of V. cholerae with the human host is responsible for fatal disease, but the bacteria also reside as natural inhabitants of aquatic environments, commonly attaching as biofilms to chitinous surfaces of copepods and crabs. Prior studies in V. cholerae demonstrated that competence for genetic transformation, a mechanism of horizontal gene transfer (HGT), requires the TfoX regulator protein that is triggered by chitin, and the HapR transcription factor that is made in response to quorum sensing (QS) signals produced by V. cholerae and Vibrios. To define regulatory components connecting extracellular signals to natural competence, I first demonstrated that QS molecules produced by Vibrios within multi-species chitinous biofilms are required for DNA uptake by V. cholerae, confirming the critical role of QS signals in HGT. Second, I identified by transposon-mutagenesis a new positive regulator of competence, CytR (cytidine repressor), only studied prior in E. coli as a regulator of nucleoside scavenging. Specific mutations in V. cholerae CytR impaired expression of competence genes and halted DNA uptake; and the addition of exogenous cytidine had similar affects as predicted in E. coli. V. cholerae and other competent Vibrios encode TfoX, HapR, and CytR, although none of these regulators directly controls genes coding for the DNA uptake apparatus. Thus, these results have uncovered a regulatory network, likely used by many Vibrios, that contains additional factors linking several extracellular chemical molecules (cytidine, chitin, and QS signals) to DNA uptake. My study has begun to define a molecular mechanism by which both environment and genetics contribute to genome evolution for this important marine pathogen.
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Miras, Mathieu. "Identification of a new regulatory pathway for the K-State in bacillus subtilis." Thesis, Toulouse 3, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017TOU30082/document.
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Bacillus subtilis, une bactérie Gram-positive présente dans le sol, peut lorsque les nutriments sont en concentrations limitantes, sporuler, former des biofilms ou devenir compétente. La compétence est, chez B. subtilis, caractérisée par un arrêt de la division cellulaire, une tolérance aux antibiotiques et l'expression de plus d'une centaine de gènes. L'expression de la compétence, aussi désignée sous le nom de " K-state ", est dépendante de la synthèse du facteur de transcription ComK et se fait de façon stochastique résultant en la formation de deux sous-populations bactériennes, non-compétentes et compétentes. L'émergence, à partir de cellules génétiquement identiques, de deux sous-populations distinctes est une stratégie de survie très répandue chez les procaryotes, connue sous le nom de " bet-hedging ". Bien que les mécanismes de régulation du développement de la compétence ont, chez B. subtilis, largement été étudiés au cours des dernières années, la raison pour laquelle les souches non-domestiques sont très peu transformables (1-2% de la population) comparé aux souches domestiques (~15%) reste méconnue. Nous démontrons ici que c'est essentiellement dû à une mutation de transition dans le promoteur du gène degQ. Cette mutation diminue la synthèse de DegQ, protéine impliquée dans la régulation de la formation de biofilms, de la synthèse d'exoprotéases et de la transformation génétique. DegQ est une protéine impliquée dans le transfert d'un groupe phosphoryl entre la kinase DegS et son substrat DegU. Une faible quantité de DegQ diminue la concentration en DegU~P ce qui a pour conséquence la désinhibition de l'opéron srfA entrainant une accumulation de ComK et l'expression de la compétence. C'est ainsi que, dans les souches domestiques de B. subtilis, un plus grand nombre de bactéries atteignent le niveau nécessaire en ComK pour activer une boucle d'auto-activation transcriptionnelle de comK. Nous démontrons aussi que l'activation transcriptionnelle de srfA est, dans les souches non-domestiques, transitoire alors que la population bactérienne entre en phase stationnaire de croissance. Ces données indiquent que le développement de la compétence est moins fréquent et plus transitoire dans les souches non-domestiques de B. subtilis. De plus, cette limitation du K-state dans les souches non-domestiques est plus importante que précédemment " pensé " probablement dû à la domestication de B. subtilis au cours de ces 50 dernières années. Ce travail reflète non seulement, l'importance de l'utilisation de souches non-domestiques dans la caractérisation des voies de régulation de la compétence chez B. subtilis, mais aussi la portée du choix de modèle biologique dans l'étude de phénomènes biologiques complexesBacillus subtilis, a Gram-positive soil bacterium, can enter into several developmental pathways such as sporulation, biofilm formation and competence development for DNA transformation when it becomes limited for essential nutrients. During competence, cells do not divide, are tolerant to antibiotics and competent cells express more than a 100 genes. The competent state has been named the K-state after its master regulator ComK. In B. subtilis, the entry into the K-state is stochastically determined by the activation of the transcription factor ComK and occurs, in the domesticated strains of B. subtilis, in approximately 15% of the population. The emergence from genetically identical cells of two distinct subpopulations (competent cells and non-competent cells) is known to be a classic survival strategy for bacteria, known as bet-hedging. Regulation of entry into the K-state has been intensively studied and is well understood; however, the reasons why undomesticated isolates of B. subtilis are poorly transformable compared to the domesticated strains remained unexplained. We show here that fewer cells enter the K-state, suggesting that some regulatory pathway limiting its expression has been lost in the domesticated backgrounds. We demonstrate that this is largely due to an inactivating point mutation in the degQ promoter region resulting in a decrease of the amount of DegQ. DegQ is known to stimulate phosphate transfer from the DegS autokinase to its cognate response regulator DegU. A low level of DegQ thus decreases the concentration of the phosphorylated form of DegU, leading to the de-repression of the srfA operon, which increases the amount of ComS leading to the stabilization of ComK. Thus, in domesticated strains of B. subtilis, more cells reach the concentration threshold of ComK needed to activate the positive auto-regulatory loop of ComK acting on its own promoter. We also show that the activation of srfA transcription in undomesticated strains is transient, as it is turned off when cells enter the stationary phase. Taken together, these data indicate that the K-state and transformability are less frequent and more transient in the undomesticated strains of B. subtilis. Consideration of the regulatory mechanisms and the fitness advantages and costs of the K-state must from now on take these features into consideration. These results underscore that our understanding of real-life biology requires the use of wild isolates
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Jales, Andr?a Maria Pedrosa Silva. "A Compet?ncia normativa das ag?ncias reguladoras e seus limites principiol?gicos no direito brasileiro." Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2013. http://repositorio.ufrn.br:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/13970.
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Previous issue date: 2013-08-26The transition of the liberal state to welfare state, globalization and the crisis of funding from the government spending on the multiple roles demanded an overhaul of the means of intervention in the economic domain and structure organizational of the Public Administration by enhancing the performance of regulatory functions. Therefore appear in Brazilian law independent regulatory agencies with legal administrative particular that gives autonomy increased, with fixed terms and stability of its leaders, police and competencies, normative and administrative judges. In this scenario, given the autonomy granted by the laws of the creation of regulatory agencies, the legislative competence becomes the most contentious issue, as not infrequently is innovation in the legal system. The main foundations of innovative extension producible by regulatory agencies, which diverges doctrine, are the constitutional attribution of own competence of the Public Administration and the discretionary power. Thus, it is necessary to delimit the constitutional and legal foundations of special legislative powers of these autarchies in our legal system, seeking ways to limit and control the production rules of those entities, for the purpose of position them before the powers constitutionally constituted. We note that with the constitutionalisation of administrative law regulatory agencies found limits to its performance in the normative constitutional principles, especially through the principles of efficiency, morality and proportionality, which has enabled a more effective control of their normative acts
A passagem do estado liberal para o estado social, a globaliza??o e a crise de financiamento do Estado, diante das m?ltiplas fun??es, exigiram uma reformula??o dos meios de interven??o sobre o dom?nio econ?mico e da estrutura organizat?ria da Administra??o P?blica atrav?s do aprimoramento do exerc?cio das fun??es regulat?rias. Assim, no Direito brasileiro surgiram as ag?ncias reguladoras independentes, com regime jur?dico administrativo especial, que lhes confere autonomia refor?ada: mandatos fixos e estabilidade para seus dirigentes, compet?ncia fiscalizat?ria, normativa e administrativo-julgadora. Nesse panorama, diante da autonomia, que conferida pelas leis de cria??o das ag?ncias reguladoras, a compet?ncia normativa passa a ser o tema mais pol?mico, visto que, n?o raramente, inova-se no ordenamento jur?dico atrav?s dela. Os principais fundamentos da extens?o inovadora produz?vel pelas ag?ncias reguladoras, dos quais diverge a doutrina, s?o: da atribui??o constitucional de compet?ncia pr?pria da Administra??o P?blica e o do poder discricion?rio. Destarte, faz-se necess?rio delimitar as bases constitucionais e legais da compet?ncia normativa dessas autarquias especiais no nosso sistema legal a fim de se procurar formas de limitar e de controlar a produ??o normativa de tais entes com o intuito de posiciona-los diante dos poderes constitucionalmente constitu?dos. Constatamos que a constitucionaliza??o do direito administrativo imp?e limites ? atua??o normativa das ag?ncias reguladora por meio dos princ?pios constitucionais, especialmente, do princ?pio da efici?ncia, da moralidade e da proporcionalidade; o que resulta num controle mais efetivo de seus atos normativos
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Weyder, Mathias. "Evolution et modélisation de processus biologiques : application à la régulation de la compétence naturelle pour la transformation génétique bactérienne chez les streptocoques." Thesis, Toulouse 3, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017TOU30021/document.
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Afin de faire face à différents types de stress et s'adapter à de nouveaux environnements, les bactéries ont développé de nombreux mécanismes génétiquement régulés. La compétence pour la transformation naturelle est un processus qui favorise le transfert horizontal de gènes. Si les espèces phylogénétiquement éloignées partagent des mécanismes conservés d'intégration et de remaniement de l'ADN, les circuits de régulation de la compétence ne sont toutefois pas universels mais adaptés au mode de vie de chaque espèce. Chez les bactéries Gram-positives, les cascades de régulation de Streptococcus pneumoniae et Bacillus subtilis sont les mieux documentées. Si de nombreux modèles mathématiques ont été établis pour étudier différents aspects de la régulation des compétences chez B. subtilis, un seul modèle à échelle de population a été développé pour S. pneumoniae, il y a plus de dix ans, sur la base d'hypothèses contestées par de nouvelles données expérimentales. Nous avons développé, chez S. pneumoniae, un modèle fondé sur la connaissance de la régulation de la compétence qui intègre les éléments biologiques essentiels connus à ce jour. La cohérence structurelle de la topologie du réseau est confirmée par le formalisme des réseaux de Petri. Le réseau est ensuite transformé en un ensemble d'équations différentielles ordinaires pour étudier son comportement dynamique. La cinétique des protéines a été estimée en utilisant des données de luminescence et l'estimation des paramètres a été contrainte à partir des connaissances disponibles. Après avoir testé des modèles alternatifs, nous avons proposé l'existence d'un produit de gène tardif supplémentaire pouvant inhiber l'action de ComW, l'activateur du facteur sx. Nous apportons également un nouvel éclairage sur cette cascade de régulation en prédisant la cinétique de composantes du système qui pourraient être impliquées dans des comportements spécifiques. Ce modèle consolide les connaissances expérimentales acquises sur la régulation de la compétence chez S. pneumoniae. De plus, il peut être appliqué aux autres espèces de streptocoques appartenant aux groupes mitis et anginosus puisqu'ils partagent le même circuit régulateur. À l'échelle populationnelle, la transition vers l'état de compétence se produit d'abord dans une sous-population de cellules et se propage ensuite dans toute la population par contact physique cellule à cellule. En permettant la simulation du comportement d'une cellule individuelle, le modèle pourra servir de module dans la conception d'un modèle d'une population bactérienne composée de cellules hétérogènesBacteria have evolved many types of genetically induced mechanisms to face different types of stresses and to adapt to new environments. Competence for natural transformation is one such process that promotes horizontal gene transfer. If phylogenetically distant species share conserved uptake and processing apparatus, competence regulatory circuits are not universal but adapted to every species' lifestyle. In Gram-positive bacteria, Streptococcus pneumoniae and Bacillus subtilis regulatory cascades are the best documented. If many mathematical models have been established to study different aspects of competence regulation in B. subtilis, only one population-scaled model has been developed for S. pneumoniae, a decade ago, based on hypotheses that are challenged by new experimental data. We develop, in S. pneumoniae, a knowledge-based model of the competence regulation at cell level that integrates the enriched biological knowledge acquired to date. The structural consistency of the network topology is confirmed using Petri net formalism. The network is further turned into a set of ordinary differential equations to study its dynamics behavior. Protein kinetics are estimated using time-series luminescence data and other parameter estimations are constrained according to available knowledge. We point out some gap in competence shut-off knowledge, and, after testing alternative models, we predict the requirement of a yet unknown late com gene product inhibiting the action of ComW, the ?x factor activator. We also bring new insights into this regulatory cascade by predicting the system components that might be involved in specific experimental behavior. Our model consolidates the experimental knowledge acquired on competence regulation in S. pneumoniae. Moreover, it can be applied to the other streptococci species belonging to the mitis and anginosus groups since they shared the same regulatory circuit. In the population, the competence shift happens first in a subpopulation of cells and spreads into the whole population through cell to cell contact. Allowing simulation of individual cell behavior, our model will provide a brick for the design of a population-scale model composed of heterogeneous cells
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Maynard, Craig Lueland. "IL-10-competent regulatory T cells development, phenotype and function /." Thesis, Birmingham, Ala. : University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2007. https://www.mhsl.uab.edu/dt/2009r/maynard.pdf.
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Diez, Canseco Núñez Luis José. "Función regulatoria, promoción de la competencia y legislación antimonopólica." THĒMIS-Revista de Derecho, 2015. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/110079.
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En este artículo, el autor realiza una exhaustiva descripción y análisis de un tema que, tanto a nivel nacional como internacional -y especialmente en nuestra región- cobra cada día más importancia y complejidad: la legislación sobre libre competencia y defensa de la competencia desleal. Dicha área es analizada por el autor de manera comparativa,teniendo en cuenta que los objetivos principales son el correcto desenvolvimiento de la denominada "economía de libre mercado", y la protección a los consumidores,para luego proponer diversas reformas con el fin de afrontar una serie de problemas que, en su opinión distan aún hoy de ser solucionados.
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Smith-Steinhart, Christine M. "TGF[beta] as a regulator of phagocytic competency in polarized mammary epithelial cells /." Connect to full text via ProQuest. Limited to UCD Anschutz Medical Campus, 2007.
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Thesis (Ph.D. in Immunology) -- University of Colorado Denver, 2007.Typescript. Non-Latin script record Includes bibliographical references (181-196). Free to UCD affiliates. Online version available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations;
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Riskwait, Mirza. "L'interventionnisme financier local." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCD015.
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L’intervention économique financière locale est un phénomène relativement récent. Elle apparaît, notamment, à la suite des deux guerres mondiales mais également en raison des différentes crises économiques successives que connaît la France au cours du XXème siècle. L’Etat va progressivement déléguer aux collectivités territoriales un nombre croissant de compétences. L’objectif étant de pallier la carence de l’initiative privée, tout en soutenant celle-ci. Les compétences des collectivités territoriales, ainsi que les moyens humains et financiers, se développent par l’intermédiaire des transferts de compétences effectués de l’Etat vers les collectivités territoriales. Le contenu des budgets locaux s’accroît, quant à lui, de manière concomitante et permet, ainsi, d’agir sur le secteur économique local. De nombreux acteurs interviennent et il existe différents types d’interventions économiques possibles au niveau local. Par conséquent, un encadrement s’avère nécessaire tant au niveau législatif que réglementaire. La jurisprudence administrative et financière participe de la régulation des interventions économiques locales. Parallèlement, la législation administrative et financière encadre celle-ci. Cette thèse aura pour objectif de démontrer que l’interventionnisme économique local n’est pas seulement réalisé par l’intermédiaire d’instruments juridiques mais essentiellement par le truchement d’instruments financiers, dont le rôle sera déterminé. Ce travail de recherche consistera à identifier puis analyser ces instruments au niveau local. li s’agira également de s’interroger sur les modalités de mise en oeuvre, de contrôle et de sanction de ceux-ci et, surtout, de mesurer leur efficience sur la scène économique localeThis thesis is about local public financial interventionism, in a context where it is decried. It proposes to study the different characteristics that define local public financial interventionism. The financial competence held by the local authorities to intervene in favor of the private enterprises, granted by the legislator, allows the exercise of a local public financial and fiscal regulatory power while taking into account the rights and freedoms of private enterprises. Local public financial interventionism takes place through conventional legal techniques, such as unilateral administrative act and contract, which go beyond the dichotomy of public and private law, and financial techniques, such as local public expenditure and local tax revenue, and the loss of revenue derived from local taxes, thus offering a multiplicity of legal and financial instruments. The analysis of the effectiveness of local public financial interventionism makes it possible to define the various forms of local public financial intervention and to assess the mechanisms put in place to evaluate, control and sanction it
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Tovar, Mena Teresa V. "La competencia entre redes. Hacia un cambio del paradigma regulatorio en telecomunicaciones." Revista de Derecho Administrativo, 2008. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/52203.
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En el presente artículo, la autora analiza la aplicación al sector telecomunicaciones de los conceptos tradicionales de las infraestructuras en red. Asimismo, cuestiona cómo se presenta la competencia en el nuevo sector de las telecomunicaciones, esto es, si se trata de una competencia en servicios sobre una red única o, más bien, de una competencia entre redes. Finalmente, la autora presenta una reflexión sobre el tipo de regulación que debería implementarse si se quiere incentivar la inversión en infraestructura de telecomunicaciones que nos lleve a ser una verdadera sociedad de la información.
Books on the topic "Regulatory competence"
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Kohl, Uta. Jurisdiction and the Internet: A study of regulatory competence over online activity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
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Moran, Terence. Legal competence in environmental health. London: E & FN Spon, 1997.
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Avoiding medical malpractice: A physician's guide to the law. New York: Springer, 2008.
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Choctaw, William T. Avoiding medical malpractice: A physician's guide to the law. New York: Springer, 2008.
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Gómez-Ibáñez, José A. Competencia y marco regulatorio: Lecciones internacionales. [Caracas]: Ediciones IESA, 1995.
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Los reglamentos de las administraciones independientes: Sector financiero, reguladores y Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia, autoridades de protección. Cizur Menor (Navarra): Civitas, 2013.
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Akkermans, Bram, J. C. Hage, Jan Smits, and Nicole Kornet. Who does what?: On the allocation of regulatory competences in European private law. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Intersentia, 2015.
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Blanck, Pinkas Flint. Tratado de defensa de la libre competencia: Estudio exegético del D.L. 701 : legislación, doctrina y jurisprudencia regulatoria de la libre competencia. Cercado de Lima, Perú: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Fondo Editorial, 2002.
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Cerisola, Andres M. Las telecomunicaciones en un mundo de competencia: Teoría regulatoria para un mercado competitivo de telecomunicaciones. Buenos Aires: EUDEBA, 2000.
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Voronina, Larisa. Financial accounting: theory and practice. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1171982.
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The textbook is based on the normative acts of the system of regulatory regulation of accounting currently in force in the Russian Federation in accordance with the latest amendments to the Tax Code of the Russian Federation and the Labor Code of the Russian Federation.
The basics of the organization of accounting and the principles of its differentiation into financial and managerial accounting are considered. The methodology of accounting for the assets, liabilities and capital of the organization is described, the main aspects of taxation are presented. Numerous practical examples, questions for self-examination and interviews, tests and workshops are given for all chapters.
The content of the textbook and the professional competencies formed based on the results of its study meet the requirements of the federal state educational standards of higher education of the latest generation, the Main Professional Educational Program of Higher Education (OPOP HE) "Accounting, analysis and audit" in the direction of training 38.03.01 "Economics" and the working program of the discipline "Accounting financial Accounting" (MFUA).
For students of economic universities and faculties, students of the system of advanced training and retraining, for practitioners of accounting services, audit companies and administrative and managerial personnel.
Book chapters on the topic "Regulatory competence"
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Falender, Carol A., and Edward P. Shafranske. "Ensuring legal, ethical, and regulatory competence." In Supervision essentials for the practice of competency-based supervision., 85–100. Washington: American Psychological Association, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/15962-006.
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Hadden, Susan G. "Regulatory Negotiation as Citizen Participation: A Critique." In Fairness and Competence in Citizen Participation, 239–52. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0131-8_13.
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Fiorino, Daniel. "Regulatory Negotiation as a Form of Public Participation." In Fairness and Competence in Citizen Participation, 223–37. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0131-8_12.
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Golz, Julia Carolin, and Kerstin Stingl. "Natural Competence and Horizontal Gene Transfer in Campylobacter." In Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, 265–92. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65481-8_10.
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AbstractThermophilic Campylobacter, in particular Campylobacter jejuni, C. coli and C. lari are the main relevant Campylobacter species for human infections. Due to their high capacity of genetic exchange by horizontal gene transfer (HGT), rapid adaptation to changing environmental and host conditions contribute to successful spreading and persistence of these foodborne pathogens. However, extensive HGT can exert dangerous side effects for the bacterium, such as the incorporation of gene fragments leading to disturbed gene functions. Here we discuss mechanisms of HGT, notably natural transformation, conjugation and bacteriophage transduction and limiting regulatory strategies of gene transfer. In particular, we summarize the current knowledge on how the DNA macromolecule is exchanged between single cells. Mechanisms to stimulate and to limit HGT obviously coevolved and maintained an optimal balance. Chromosomal rearrangements and incorporation of harmful mutations are risk factors for survival and can result in drastic loss of fitness. In Campylobacter, the restricted recognition and preferential uptake of free DNA from relatives are mediated by a short methylated DNA pattern and not by a classical DNA uptake sequence as found in other bacteria. A class two CRISPR-Cas system is present but also other DNases and restriction–modification systems appear to be important for Campylobacter genome integrity. Several lytic and integrated bacteriophages have been identified, which contribute to genome diversity. Furthermore, we focus on the impact of gene transfer on the spread of antibiotic resistance genes (resistome) and persistence factors. We discuss remaining open questions in the HGT field, supposed to be answered in the future by current technologies like whole-genome sequencing and single-cell approaches.
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Thystrup, Amalie Giødesen, and Güneş Ünüvar. "A Waiver for Europe? CETA’s Trade in Services, and Investment Protection Provisions and Their Legal-Political Implications on Regulatory Competence." In International Economic Law, 41–59. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44645-5_3.
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Kenny, Lizbeth M. "Professional and Regulatory Collaborations to Ensure Competency." In Radiological Safety and Quality, 251–62. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7256-4_14.
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Romanova, I. A., N. I. Laas, and E. V. Gurova. "Regulatory Nature of Moral Standards in the Organization." In Digital Economy and the New Labor Market: Jobs, Competences and Innovative HR Technologies, 614–24. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60926-9_78.
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Reichel, Jane. "Allocation of Regulatory Responsibilities: Who Will Balance Individual Rights, the Public Interest and Biobank Research Under the GDPR?" In GDPR and Biobanking, 421–34. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49388-2_23.
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AbstractIn this chapter, an analysis is undertaken of the division of legislative power in the space created by the GDPR, regarding the balancing of individual rights, the public interest and biobank research. The legislative competences of the EU, international obligations within bioethics, and the regulatory space left for Member States are all examined. The conclusion of the chapter is that in spite of the aim of the GDPR to further legal harmonisation, it is more likely that unity will be brought about through administrative cooperation and soft law tools.
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Siri, Michele. "Insurance-Based Investment Products: Regulatory Responses and Policy Issues." In AIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation, 113–35. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52738-9_5.
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AbstractThe chapter aims to analyse the recent reform of the EU regulatory framework as regards insurance-based investment products (IBIPs). The current regime provided for IBIPs offers stronger protection to all customers, regardless of the channel of distribution. In line with the EU plan to provide consistent cross-sectorial investor protection across all Member States, many IDD provisions are based on the corresponding MiFID II rules, even though some differences remain and should be further elaborated in connection with the inconsistencies, overlaps and gaps in the investor protection as far as the distribution of the IBIPs is concerned. Furthermore, several Member States have exercised the discretions recognised by the IDD as regards IBIPs mainly to gold plate investor protection measures. However, such an uncoordinated approach undermines the internal market’s objectives. Therefore, the chapter advises EIOPA to use its powers to coordinate Member States’ measures and ensure transparency about National Competent Authorities’ measures in this respect.
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Engin, Atilla, and Ayse Basak Engin. "Indoleamine 2,3-Dioxygenase-Competent Regulatory Dendritic Cells and Their Role in Alloimmune Regulation and Transplant Immune Tolerance." In Tryptophan Metabolism: Implications for Biological Processes, Health and Disease, 335–60. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15630-9_14.
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Unger, Michelle, and Phil Hopkins. "Competency Standards for the Pipeline Industry." In 2018 12th International Pipeline Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2018-78477.
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Pipeline standards and regulations explicitly require personnel to be both competent and qualified to work on pipelines, but they neither define competent or qualified, nor provide methods or processes to demonstrate competence and qualifications. This paper defines competence and qualification and introduces and describes “competency standards.” These standards are used to assess the competence of an individual and are an integral part of the process to qualify individuals as being competent. Individuals are proven to be qualified in a competency if they are successfully assessed against these standards. The paper recommends the contents of a competency standard: the standard should clearly state its purpose and outcomes, and detail the knowledge, training, mentoring, and experience requirements, as well as an assessment method. Examples of these standards are presented, showing how competency standards provide a common definition of a competence and showing how competencies can be assessed against these standards. A case study of an assessment of an individual is also detailed. The choice between a prescriptive and a performance-based competency standard is discussed, and it is shown that the choice is affected by the level of the competence, the complexity of the competence, the homogeneity of the industry, and the government regulator’s resources and capabilities to police the standard. The paper explains that qualifications must be “portable”: as individuals move jobs, the qualifications they obtain need to be recognized by all companies. Portability is achieved by having the qualification “certified”. This certification is conducted by an independent body, which certifies that the processes followed (including any assessments) meet the requirements of the competency standard, and that the assessment and the award of the qualification have been audited and verified. Hence, a qualification is a two-step process: award and certification.
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Unger, Michelle, and Phil Hopkins. "Training and Education: The Great Competence Divide..." In 2016 11th International Pipeline Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2016-64500.
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All industries need ‘competent’ staff, and pipeline standards and regulations expect all staff in the pipeline industry to be competent. This is emphasized by a North American pipeline regulator stating in its report on a failure: ...the management of training and competency is particularly critical for an organization [operating pipelines]’. Competence is a mix of skills, knowledge, and experience, and is obtained from training, mentoring, and experience. Consequently, industry knows how to develop competencies, but how can companies prove their staff are competent? Staff can attend the many training courses on offer, but how can the industry know these courses are the required quality, and that staff have acquired and absorbed the necessary skills/training? This evidence and demonstration are major problems in the pipeline industry, and need urgent solutions. Fortunately, the industry can learn from academia, who have been providing demonstrable skills for centuries. Most current industry training courses are presented by good trainers, using good materials, through good training providers. Unfortunately, most of these courses/trainers/organisers are not accredited by any reputable organisation, the materials are not quality assured, the necessary competence levels are neither specified nor defined, and there is no assessment to demonstrate understanding. This learning process may be good and delivered in good faith, but it is disorganised, unregulated, with no control or benchmarking, and no assessment. This leads to a lack of credibility. Academia has a well-established, but relatively simple system to ensure its learning process is credible. It has: courses that are assessed to a specified learning level, with clear objectives, outcomes, and qualification requirements; materials that are independently quality assured; lecturers that are qualified to teach; and, an assessment, qualification, and certification process that demonstrates the student has acquired all the stated skills. This leads to credibility. This paper assesses current training in the pipeline industry, and highlights the good points and bad points, and the deficiencies in the learning process, that prevent demonstrable competencies. It then describes how academia has a rigorous learning process that allows this demonstration. The paper ends with a ‘way forward’ for the pipeline industry, in its goal of demonstrating competency in its workforce.
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Laing, Ian Stewart. "Ensuring Global Offshore Workforce Safety and Competence by Integrating National Regulatory Frameworks with International Industry Standards." In International Petroleum Technology Conference. International Petroleum Technology Conference, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.2523/iptc-14397-abstract.
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Laing, Ian Stewart. "Ensuring Global Offshore Workforce Safety and Competence by Integrating National Regulatory Frameworks with International Industry Standards." In International Petroleum Technology Conference. International Petroleum Technology Conference, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.2523/14397-abstract.
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Harvey, Chris. "Achieving and Demonstrating Pipeline Engineering Capability: The Role of Competency Standards, and Their Use for Qualifications and Registration." In 2018 12th International Pipeline Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2018-78321.
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There is increasing pressure on the pipeline industry to be able to demonstrate that its asset management and engineering capability management are at a satisfactory level. This is needed to give policymakers, regulators and industry stakeholders confidence in the safety and environmental sustainability of petroleum pipelines. Regulators, in particular, are seeking assurance from pipeline owner/operators that they have capable pipeline engineers designing, constructing, operating and maintaining petroleum pipelines. At present, there are no generally accepted approaches to recognising and developing pipeline engineering capability. The paper will discuss three levels of capability recognition as: (1) registration – as pipeline engineers (not just in mechanical, civil or chemical engineers (overall standing level)) – (2) qualification (sub-discipline/job level) and (3) competency (task level). The most granular and useful of these is competency. This is because it is at the level that is most immediate: the task at hand. Competency, the combination of knowledge and experience that leads to expertise, is increasingly seen as the best practice basis for learning, particularly for professionals. Significantly, once competencies have been defined in competency standards, they can become the building blocks used to define the requirements for both registration and qualification. The Australian Pipelines and Gas Association (APGA) has developed a comprehensive competency system for both onshore and offshore sectors. There are 226 onshore competency standards and 57 offshore competency standards describing, in a succinct format, what is required to be competent. The succinct format of the competency standards avoids the pitfalls of many other systems of competency description, providing enough information to be clear about what is required without unnecessary complexity. In addition to the detailed competency standards, the competency system has tools, resources and a progressive rating scale that make competency standards accessible and easily used. The competency system is characterised by such flexibility that, to date, APGA has identified 15 applications, all of which will add value to engineers and the companies that employ them. The paper will explain, in detail, APGA’s Pipeline Engineer Competency System, how it works and how it can provide the building blocks for a wide range of tasks that support the training, development and recognition of pipeline engineers’ capabilities, including defining the requirements for registration and qualification. The paper will provide case studies, based on the APGA Competency System, showing how it can be used to create requirements for qualifications and registration and to design in-house training and development plans.
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Khatri, Puja, and Khushboo Raina. "Towards Learning for Employment: A Study of Effect of Different Variables on Employment Readiness of Students Enrolled in Professional Programmes Delhi-NCR, India." In HEAd'16 - International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/head16.2016.2613.
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Abstract Indian Higher Education system has got 70 million students enrolled in different technical and professional courses, which is highest in world. Being the fastest growing economy, India has got global attention also. Despite such strong foundation, the nation lacks a skilled workforce. The expectations of the industry don’t match with what they receive as a workforce. There has been a continuous effort in instilling technical, communication, spiritual, leadership skills along with building a high quotient of ethics and professionalism in the students. The problem lies somewhere else, which needs quick attention. The present study attempts to analyze the effect of independent variables assessment of self competence, open to change, networking, professional growth, emotional growth, spiritual growth, realistic expectations, interpersonal skills, conceptual skills, technical skills, leadership skills, attitude towards planet, ethical disposition, flexibility to work and orientation towards money on the dependent variable Employment readiness through Regression analysis. The findings suggest that students need to assess their self competence, develop an achievement orientation attitude and work on technical skills in order to become Employment ready. There are very few studies addressing this issue in Indian context and researchers could find no published empirical work analyzing the effect of all these variables on Employment readiness. This would serve as a strong base for researchers in similar field. This study is beneficial for academicians, policy-makers and academic regulatory bodies. Keywords: Employment readiness, Indian higher education, Generation y employment readiness, Employability of gen y.
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Green, Lorne. "The Industry Commitment to Global Transport Safety Standards." In ASME 2006 Pressure Vessels and Piping/ICPVT-11 Conference. ASMEDC, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/pvp2006-icpvt-11-93140.
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Standards and regulations have no intrinsic practical effect without taking into account those who are the object of them; standards and regulations do not become operationally effective until they are implemented by the entities which are subject to them. Accordingly, there is a necessary synergy between the regulator and the regulated — the regulators whose task it is to make and enforce the rules for safe, efficient and reliable transport, and those whose job it is to transport within the rules. The bottom line of transport safety regulation is safety, but safety is not a factor exclusively of the working of regulatory provisions. Stability, clarity and consistency in the international regulatory regime also are important to safety. The experience of the nuclear transport industry operating within the regulations has been positive. The issues which have arisen have related principally to differences in interpretation of the regulations by modal organisations and competent authorities coupled with different time schedules for implementation. Such differences take on added importance in the context of an accelerated two-year review cycle. It is the operators who have the experience of dealing with the international regulatory regime across jurisdictions. The periodic review of the international transport safety regime is important, but it may be that such review could be more fully informed by a sharing of experiences. Does a periodic review have of necessity to require proposals for change, or rather, shouldn’t such proposals flow from a review first, and then be advanced if deemed appropriate on the basis of the review? It is important to show confidence in a regulatory regime that has proven its effectiveness over several decades. All stakeholders to the regime benefit from stability. This paper will examine industry’s experience of operating within the two-year regulatory review process and present some suggestions for consideration. If industry is to be persuasive in urging greater regulatory harmonisation worldwide, it must work to develop consolidated industry positions on practical issues which it then can carry to the other stakeholders for consideration. This paper will cite specific examples of industry, within WNTI, working to develop such consolidated views.
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Okhrimenko, E. I., and E. G. Radygina. "Regulatory Approach to Formation of Graduates Professional Competences." In International Scientific Conference “Digitalization of Education: History, Trends and Prospects” (DETP 2020). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200509.124.
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Nijhawan, Sunil. "Regulatory Actions That Hinder Development of Effective Risk Reduction Measures by the Nuclear Industry for Enhanced Severe Accident Prevention and Mitigation Measures After Fukushima." In 2016 24th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone24-60700.
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The official report of The Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission concluded that “The TEPCO Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant accident was the result of collusion between the government, the regulators and TEPCO, and the lack of governance by said parties. They effectively betrayed the nation’s right to be safe from nuclear accidents. Therefore, we conclude that the accident was clearly ‘manmade.’ We believe that the root causes were the organizational and regulatory systems that supported faulty rationales for decisions and actions, rather than issues relating to the competency of any specific individual.” This wakeup call for the nuclear power utilities should require a public review of their relationship with of regulators. However, severe accident related risk reduction is a relatively uncharted territory and given the apparent lack of in-house technical expertise, the regulators are heavily relying on the qualitative and ‘hand waving’ arguments being presented by the utilities inherently disinterested in further investments they are not required to make under original license conditions. As a result, it has accelerated further deterioration of the safety culture and emboldened many within the regulatory staff to undertake or support otherwise questionable decisions in support of the utilities that prefer status quo. Case in point is the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) which mostly accepts any and all requests by the nuclear power industry. After Fukushima, the CNSC took a year to publish a set of ‘Action Items’ for the Canadian Nuclear industry to prepare plans over 3 years and then accepted most if not all submissions that in many cases barely addressed the already watered down recommendations. In some cases the solutions proposed by the industry were economically expedient but technically flawed; and some could even be considered dangerous. CNSC also published a study on consequences of a severe accident with a source term that was limited to the desirable safety goal (100 TBq of Cs-137), which coincidently years later matched the utility ‘calculations’, but orders of magnitude smaller than predicted by independent evaluations. As a result, some well publicized conclusions on the benign nature of consequences of a CANDU severe accident were made and the local and provincial agencies that actually are supposed to prepare off-site emergency measures were left with an incorrect picture of what havoc a severe accident can cause otherwise. CNSC then published a much publicized video highlighting the available operator actions to terminate the accident early and later a report outlining the accident progression for a severe accident without operator action with conclusions that were immediately technically suspect from a variety of aspects. The aim was to claim that a severe core damage accident has no unfavorable off-site consequences. The regulator effectively, in this case, comes across as a promoter for the industry it is legislated to regulate. The paper outlines examples of actions being taken by the regulators that hinder development of effective risk reduction measures by the industry which otherwise would be forced to undertake them if the regulators had not stepped on the plate to bat for them. They vary from letters to editors to silence any safety concerns raised by the public, muzzling of its own staff, trying to silence external specialists who question their wisdom on to blatant disregard for any intervention by public they are required to entertain by law but are accustomed to factually ignore or belittle. The paper also outlines a number of examples of actions that an independent regulator would undertake to reduce the risk and enhance the safety culture. The nuclear regulatory regimes work well generally but in cases where it does not, the results can be disastrous as evident from the events in Japan and as is building up in Canada. The paper also summarizes the disparities between the number of Regulatory Actions instituted by the CNSC against small companies that use nuclear substances for industrial applications and almost none actions against the nuclear power plant utilities it regularly grants a pass in spite of the larger risk their operations pose to public.
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Maletič, Damjan, Viktor Lovrenčič, Nenad Gubenjak, Yury Tsimberg, Nuno Marques de Almeida, Ana Lovrenčič, and Matjaž Maletič. "Linear Asset Management: a Case Study of Overhead Transmission Lines." In Values, Competencies and Changes in Organizations. University of Maribor Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18690/978-961-286-442-2.40.
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Linear assets are defined as assets whose length plays a critical role in their maintenance Linear asset owners strive to optimize the value and performance of each asset throughout its lifecycle while meeting all of safety, reliability, quality, performance, and regulatory compliance requirements... A case study is used to present the implementation of linear asset management practices for overhead transmission lines (OHTL). More specifically, the purpose of this paper is to propose an Asset Health Index (AHI) for OHTL using a condition-based method and discuss some other monitoring methods (e.g., robot LineVue with non-destructive in-situ inspection technology for conductors and an integral online approach to ensure tower and conductor integrity - OTLM device and strain gauges). In addition, various issues, and challenges for managing linear assets are also discussed.