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Journal articles on the topic "Strong face"

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Ahmed, Mohammed Ali, and J. Baskar Babujee. "On face antimagic labeling of strong face plane graphs." Applied Mathematical Sciences 11 (2017): 77–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.12988/ams.2017.610262.

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GOSWAMI, HIT KISHORE, MITESH PATEL, and KRISHNA K. NAG. "Ophioglossum chaloneri: A new species of Ophioglossum (Ophioglossaceae: Pteridophyta) from India." Phytotaxa 468, no. 1 (October 23, 2020): 101–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.468.1.6.

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In the present study, we describe Ophioglossum chaloneri as a new species from the Hurdulu forest area, near Ranchi (Jharkhand, India), on the basis of morphological, palynological, cytological, and molecular analyses. The new species can be distinguished from all other congeners of genus Ophioglossum in having their unusually small linear rhizome with a long stalk of trophophore, a sporophore arising from a distance from the base of the trophophore hence not always adnate or appearing inserted at the base. Triradiate, round spores show small tubercles towards the proximal pyramidal area and irregular smooth elevated exine striations on both the proximal and distal faces. The ventral face of the trophophore is unusually thin all around margin thereby showing thin whitish margin from the lower side, a situation that may be due to lack of chloroplast all around the margin at the lower face of the trophophore. This feature is not observed in any other species of the genus. Molecular study based on three chloroplast DNA sequences (cpDNA) rbcL, trnL-F, and psbA-trnH also supports O. chaloneri as a distinct species.
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Binoy, Simoni. "Strong in the Face of Adversity." Journal of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy 31, no. 2 (March 27, 2017): 165–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15360288.2017.1298690.

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McKone, E., and R. Palermo. "A strong role for nature in face recognition." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107, no. 11 (March 8, 2010): 4795–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1000567107.

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Huntsberger, Terry, John Rose, and Shashidhar Ramaka. "Fuzzy-Face." Journal of Biological Systems 06, no. 03 (September 1998): 281–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218339098000194.

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The human face is one of the most important patterns our visual system receives. It establishes a person's identity and also plays a significant role in everyday communication. Humans can recognize familiar faces under varying lighting conditions, different scales, and even after the face has changed due to aging, hair style, glasses, or facial hair. Our ease at recognizing faces is a strong motivation for the investigation of computational models of face processing. This paper presents a newly developed face processing system called Fuzzy-Face that combines wavelet pre-processing of input with a fuzzy self-organizing feature map algorithm. The wavelet-derived face space is partitioned into fuzzy sets which are characterized by face exemplars and membership values to those exemplars. This system learns faces using relatively few training epochs, has total recall for faces it has been shown, generalizes to face images that are acquired under different lighting conditions, and has rudimentary gender discrimination capabilities. We also include the results of some experimental studies.
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Ahmed, Mohammed Ali, and J. Baskar Babujee. "Bimagic Labeling for Certain Families of Strong Face Graphs." Asian Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities 6, no. 9 (2016): 2042. http://dx.doi.org/10.5958/2249-7315.2016.00925.4.

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Maffie, James. "Epistemology in the face of strong sociology of knowledge." History of the Human Sciences 12, no. 4 (November 1999): 21–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09526959922120450.

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Ali Ahmed, Mohammed, and J. Baskar Babujee. "Encryption through labeled graphs using strong face bimagic labeling." International Mathematical Forum 12 (2017): 151–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.12988/imf.2017.612167.

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Omer, Yael, Roni Sapir, Yarin Hatuka, and Galit Yovel. "What Is a Face? Critical Features for Face Detection." Perception 48, no. 5 (April 2, 2019): 437–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0301006619838734.

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Faces convey very rich information that is critical for intact social interaction. To extract this information efficiently, faces should be easily detected from a complex visual scene. Here, we asked which features are critical for face detection. To answer this question, we presented non-face objects that generate a strong percept of a face (i.e., Pareidolia). One group of participants rated the faceness of this set of inanimate images. A second group rated the presence of a set of 12 local and global facial features. Regression analysis revealed that only the eyes or mouth significantly contributed to faceness scores. We further showed that removing eyes or mouth, but not teeth or ears, significantly reduced faceness scores. These findings show that face detection depends on specific facial features, the eyes and the mouth. This minimal information leads to over-generalization that generates false face percepts but assures that real faces are not missed.
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V, Akila, Sriharshini K, Sravani P, Sravanthi D, Rishita Gopi, and Sheela T. "Intelligent Car Anti-Theft Face Recognition System." International Journal of Online and Biomedical Engineering (iJOE) 17, no. 01 (January 19, 2021): 120. http://dx.doi.org/10.3991/ijoe.v17i01.18583.

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<p><strong>Abstract - </strong><strong>Security and safety of the car is the major problem of vehicle users in the present situation. The growth in Biometric Technologies has provided a way to solve the safety and security problems. Here, we use Open CV Face Detection Subsystem (FDS) which works using Global Positioning System (GPS) and Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) module along with Arduino. This model provides a cheaper cost security system for four or more-wheeled vehicles. This project describes the foremost module for Open CV Face Detection Subsystem (FDS) which takes photos of driver using Open CV algorithm and compare it in database provided with photos of different drivers. The other modules are being useful to send all the authorized information about vehicle to the owner. The whole system works based on Arduino module. This system we can keep track of our vehicle in a very cheaper cost and more accurate. </strong><strong>Using this system the identification of the thief will be easy and tracking the location of the car will be faster and cheaper than </strong><strong>earlier method.</strong></p><p> </p>
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Strong face"

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Fleming, Alfred Andrew. "Older Men Working it Out A strong face of ageing and disability." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/852.

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This hermeneutical study interprets and describes the phenomena of ageing and living with disability. The lived experiences of 14 older men and the horizon of this researcher developed an understanding of what it is like for men to grow old and, for some, to live with the effects of a major disability. The study is grounded in the philosophical hermeneutics of Gadamer and framed in the context of embodiment, masculinity, and narrative. I conducted multiple in-depth interviews with older men aged from 67 to 83 years of age. Seven of the participants had experienced a stroke and I was able to explore the phenomenon of disability with them. Through thematic and narrative analyses of the textual data interpretations were developed that identified common meanings and understandings of the phenomena of ageing and disability. These themes and narratives reveal that the men's understandings are at odds with conventional negative views of ageing and disability. These older men are 'alive and kicking', they voice counternarratives to the dominant construction of ageing as decline and weakness, and have succeeded in remaking the lifeworld after stroke. Overall I have come to understand an overarching meaning of older men 'working it out' as illustrative of a strong face of ageing and disability. Older men seek out opportunities to participate actively in community life and, despite the challenges of ageing and disability, lead significant and meaningful lives. These findings challenge and extend our limited understandings of men's experiences of ageing and living with disability. This interpretation offers gendered directions for policy development, clinical practice, and future research.
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Fleming, Alfred Andrew. "Older Men Working it Out A strong face of ageing and disability." University of Sydney. Behavioural and Community Health Sciences, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/852.

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This hermeneutical study interprets and describes the phenomena of ageing and living with disability. The lived experiences of 14 older men and the horizon of this researcher developed an understanding of what it is like for men to grow old and, for some, to live with the effects of a major disability. The study is grounded in the philosophical hermeneutics of Gadamer and framed in the context of embodiment, masculinity, and narrative. I conducted multiple in-depth interviews with older men aged from 67 to 83 years of age. Seven of the participants had experienced a stroke and I was able to explore the phenomenon of disability with them. Through thematic and narrative analyses of the textual data interpretations were developed that identified common meanings and understandings of the phenomena of ageing and disability. These themes and narratives reveal that the men�s understandings are at odds with conventional negative views of ageing and disability. These older men are �alive and kicking�, they voice counternarratives to the dominant construction of ageing as decline and weakness, and have succeeded in remaking the lifeworld after stroke. Overall I have come to understand an overarching meaning of older men �working it out� as illustrative of a strong face of ageing and disability. Older men seek out opportunities to participate actively in community life and, despite the challenges of ageing and disability, lead significant and meaningful lives. These findings challenge and extend our limited understandings of men�s experiences of ageing and living with disability. This interpretation offers gendered directions for policy development, clinical practice, and future research.
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Winston-Prosper, Ozella. "Building Trust and Strong Family-community Ties in the Face of Poverty and Homelessness." Thesis, Sage Graduate School, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10791299.

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In 2014 the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) adopted the Framework for Great Schools to act as a gauge for measuring and monitoring school improvement. The amalgamation of this framework entails six components- two of which are the foci of this study: trust and strong family-community ties as it relates to the engagement of families. Educational research (Mapp & Kuttner, 2013) has revealed the direct correlation of school improvement and student achievement with purposeful-intentional parent engagement. Therefore, this qualitative- comparative study explored school leaders’ capacity to address issues of impoverished and homeless families, their ability to foster trust and strong family-community ties with families and their protocol for progress monitoring and refinement. Participants in this study include six principals, four parents, four Students in Temporary Housing Liaisons (STHL) and two Community-based Organization representatives. All of these principals are affiliated with Title 1 elementary schools in NYC and Long Island which have a temporary housing population of 10% or greater. Data was collected using interview questions designed by the researcher, 3.4 indicator of NYC’s 2015-2016 Quality Review Rubric and NYC’s 2015-2016 Learning Environment (LE) survey.

This study focused on identifying leadership ability and embedded school cultures to answer three research questions: 1. How are school leaders addressing issues of poverty and homelessness faced by families of their student population? 2. What structures or partnerships have schools established to address the needs of this population of families? 3. How is or to what extent is the school building trust in creating strong family-community ties?

The findings of this study revealed that issues of poverty and homelessness hamper the building of trust and strong family- community ties. The contributing factors that are barriers to building trust and strong family-community ties are poor student attendance and parent involvement, immigration status, language/culture, negative experiences with schools, lack of communication and the disregard of parents as stakeholders. The barriers school leaders encountered vary from school to school thus their approaches to addressing the needs of families differed. Schools were most effective in meeting the needs of students and their families when they worked collaboratively with CBO partnerships and other agencies. This collaborative effort provided additional resources both human and financial to support addressing the needs of homeless and impoverished families. Lastly, protocols and methods used at the school level did not specifically measure trust and community-ties but success of activities or events that were geared toward families.

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Chen, Weiping. "Face Recognition using Stringface." Thesis, Griffith University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365220.

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Automatically recognizing human faces has attracted a lot of attention in the academic, commercial, and industrial communities during the last few decades due to its law intrusiveness and less cooperativeness. Face recognition technology has a variety of potential applications in information security, law enforcement, surveillance, smart cards, and access control. Despite significant advances in face recognition technology, it has yet to be put to wide use in industrial or commercial communities, mainly because of high error rates in real scenarios. Existing face recognition systems have achieved promising recognition accuracy under controlled condition. However, these systems are highly sensitive to environmental factors due to changing appearance of human face, such as variations in expression, illumination, pose, partial occlusion, and time gap between training and testing data capture. A practical face recognition system should be more robust against these varying conditions. Especially in some applications such as access control to sensitive areas, monitoring border crossing, and identifying criminals or terrorists, the system should be capable of identifying individuals who use disguise accessories to hide one’s identity to remain elusive from low enforcement. Furthermore, many reported face recognition techniques rely heavily on the size and representative of training set, and most of them will suffer serious performance drop or even fail to work if only one training sample per person is available to the system. Hence, face recognition from one sample per person is an important but challenging problem both in theory and for real-world applications. Fewer samples per person mean less laborious effort for collecting them, lower costs for storing and processing them.
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Alex, Ann Theja. "Local Alignment of Gradient Features for Face Photo and Face Sketch Recognition." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1353372694.

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Bakker, P., A. Schmittner, J. T. M. Lenaerts, A. Abe-Ouchi, D. Bi, den Broeke M. R. van, W. L. Chan, et al. "Fate of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: Strong decline under continued warming and Greenland melting." AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/622754.

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The most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment report concludes that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) could weaken substantially but is very unlikely to collapse in the 21st century. However, the assessment largely neglected Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) mass loss, lacked a comprehensive uncertainty analysis, and was limited to the 21st century. Here in a community effort, improved estimates of GrIS mass loss are included in multicentennial projections using eight state-of-the-science climate models, and an AMOC emulator is used to provide a probabilistic uncertainty assessment. We find that GrIS melting affects AMOC projections, even though it is of secondary importance. By years 2090-2100, the AMOC weakens by 18% [-3%, -34%; 90% probability] in an intermediate greenhouse-gas mitigation scenario and by 37% [-15%, -65%] under continued high emissions. Afterward, it stabilizes in the former but continues to decline in the latter to -74% [+4%, -100%] by 2290-2300, with a 44% likelihood of an AMOC collapse. This result suggests that an AMOC collapse can be avoided by CO2 mitigation.
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Pond, Julia Rose. "Divine Destiny or Free Choice: Nietzsche's Strong Wills in the Harry Potter Series." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2008. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/35.

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This paper considers the influences of fate and free will in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. Current scholarship on the topic generally agrees that Rowling champions free will by allowing her characters learning opportunities through their choices. By using Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy on fate and free will and by more closely examining the Harry Potter texts, this paper demonstrates fate’s stronger presence in Rowling’s fictional world. Certain strong-willed characters rise above their peers’ fated states by embracing their personal fates and exercising their wills to create themselves within fated destinies. The paper also explores the possibility of an authority directing fate.
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Bazri, Mohammad Mahdi. "Kinetics and fate of natural organic matter under different water matrices using strong basic ion exchange resins." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/57229.

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This research has investigated the factors influencing the kinetics and efficacy of natural organic matter (NOM) removal during the anionic ion exchange process (IEX). A holistic approach was undertaken to evaluate various IEX resins in terms of their NOM removal kinetics and regeneration efficiency under batch and consecutive multiple loading cycles. Initial screenings indicated the strongly basic resin as a better candidate for NOM removal, and hence it was employed for subsequent experiments. Different treatment parameters (resin dose, contact time, NOM source) were tested and detailed kinetic evaluations were conducted to determine the affinity and removal rate of NOM as well as nitrate, and sulfate that are generally present in natural waters. Results obtained showed a substantial removal of NOM (up to 80 %) and nitrate (up to 80 %), and a superior removal for sulfate (up to 98 %). Charge density and molecular weight were found to play a major role in the removal process. Different mathematical and physical models were employed to predict the experimental data and the rate-limiting step was found to be pore diffusion which was affected by the resin dose/solute concentrations ratio. Moreover, the impact of IEX resins on NOM fractions and subsequent water quality parameters was investigated in this study. Humic (-like) substances were mainly targeted by IEX, and more hydrophilic and/or non-ionic fractions were slightly removed. Application of IEX reduced the formation potential of carbonaceous and nitrogenous disinfection by-products by 13-20 % and 3-50 %, respectively. Also, the practice of IEX treatment reduced the assimilable organic carbon levels by 30-40 %. Additionally, a positive effect of IEX, as a pretreatment to UV/H₂O₂, at reducing the ⦁OH scavenging characteristics of the water was observed. Electrical energy per order for removing a probe compound (i.e., pCBA) showed 20-40 % reduction indicating the improvement in the efficacy of UV/H₂O₂ treatment. Findings of this study display the robustness of IEX process for drinking water applications and lay down a quantitative approach for evaluating the kinetics of this process under various treatment conditions.
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Magnin, Loïck. "Two-player interaction in quantum computing : cryptographic primitives & query complexity." Thesis, Paris 11, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA112275/document.

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Cette thèse étudie deux aspects d'interaction entre deux joueurs dans le modèle du calcul et de la communication quantique.Premièrement, elle étudie deux primitives cryptographiques quantiques, des briques de base pour construire des protocoles cryptographiques complexes entre deux joueurs, comme par exemple un protocole d'identification. La première primitive est la ``mise en gage quantique". Cette primitive ne peut pas être réalisée de manière inconditionnellement sûre, mais il possible d'avoir une sécurité lorsque les deux parties sont soumis à certaines contraintes additionnelles. Nous étudions cette primitive dans le cas où les deux joueurs sont limités à l'utilisation d'états et d'opération gaussiennes, un sous-ensemble de la physique quantique central en optique, donc parfaitement adapté pour la communication via fibres optiques. Nous montrons que cette restriction ne permet malheureusement pas la réalisation de la mise en gage sûre. Pour parvenir à ce résultat, nous introduisons la notion de purification intrinsèque, qui permet de contourner l'utilisation du théorème de Uhlman, en particulier dans le cas gaussien. Nous examinons ensuite une primitive cryptographique plus faible, le ``tirage faible à pile ou face'', dans le modèle standard du calcul quantique. Carlos Mochon a donné une preuve d'existence d'un tel protocole avec un biais arbitrairement petit. Nous donnons une interprétation claire de sa preuve, ce qui nous permet de la simplifier et de la raccourcir grandement.La seconde partie de cette thèse concerne l'étude de méthodes pour prouver des bornes inférieures dans le modèle de la complexité en requête. Il s'agit d'un modèle de complexité central en calcul quantique dans lequel de nombreux résultats majeurs ont été obtenus. Dans ce modèle, un algorithme ne peut accéder à l'entrée uniquement en effectuant des requêtes sur chacun des bits de l'entrée. Nous considérons une extension de ce modèle dans lequel un algorithme ne calcule pas une fonction, mais doit générer un état quantique. Cette généralisation nous permet de comparer les différentes méthodes pour prouver des bornes inférieures dans ce modèle. Nous montrons d'abord que la méthode par adversaire ``multiplicative" est plus forte que la méthode ``additive". Nous montrons ensuite une réduction de la méthode polynomiale à la méthode multiplicative, ce qui permet de conclure à la supériorité de la méthode par adversaire multiplicative sur toutes les autres méthodes. Les méthodes par adversaires sont en revanche souvent difficiles à utiliser car elles nécessite le calcul de normes de matrices de très grandes tailles. Nous montrons comment l'étude des symétries d'un problème simplifie grandement ces calculs. Enfin, nous appliquons ces formules pour prouver la borne inférieure optimale du problème INDEX-ERASURE un problème de génération d'état quantique lié au célèbre problème GRAPH-ISOMORPHISM
This dissertation studies two different aspects of two-player interaction in the model of quantum communication and quantum computation.First, we study two cryptographic primitives, that are used as basic blocks to construct sophisticated cryptographic protocols between two players, e.g. identification protocols. The first primitive is ``quantum bit commitment''. This primitive cannot be done in an unconditionally secure way. However, security can be obtained by restraining the power of the two players. We study this primitive when the two players can only create quantum Gaussian states and perform Gaussian operations. These operations are a subset of what is allowed by quantum physics, and plays a central role in quantum optics. Hence, it is an accurate model of communication through optical fibers. We show that unfortunately this restriction does not allow secure bit commitment. The proof of this result is based on the notion of ``intrinsic purification'' that we introduce to circumvent the use of Uhlman's theorem when the quantum states are Gaussian. We then examine a weaker primitive, ``quantum weak coin flipping'', in the standard model of quantum computation. Mochon has showed that there exists such a protocol with arbitrarily small bias. We give a clear and meaningful interpretation of his proof. That allows us to present a drastically shorter and simplified proof.The second part of the dissertation deals with different methods of proving lower bounds on the quantum query complexity. This is a very important model in quantum complexity in which numerous results have been proved. In this model, an algorithm has restricted access to the input: it can only query individual bits. We consider a generalization of the standard model, where an algorithm does not compute a classical function, but generates a quantum state. This generalization allows us to compare the strength of the different methods used to prove lower bounds in this model. We first prove that the ``multiplicative adversary method'' is stronger than the ``additive adversary method''. We then show a reduction from the ``polynomial method'' to the multiplicative adversary method. Hence, we prove that the multiplicative adversary method is the strongest one. Adversary methods are usually difficult to use since they involve the computation of norms of matrices with very large size. We show how studying the symmetries of a problem can largely simplify these computations. Last, using these principles we prove the tight lower bound of the INDEX-ERASURE problem. This a quantum state generation problem that has links with the famous GRAPH-ISOMORPHISM problem
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Hallgrímsson, Bóas. "Turn and face the strange: : the role of communication, encouragement and feedback during technological changes in an educational setting." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Medier och kommunikation, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-359367.

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In 2008 a new educational initiative termed “School without segregation” was implemented in Iceland. Its goal was to ensure that all children would be provided with education suited to individual variations in social and educational needs. Coinciding with this policy initiative a new technology strategy was implemented in the municipality of Kópavogur, Iceland´s second largest city, with the aim to equip children to deal with the fundamental technological changes in modern society and integrate technology in their education. As an integral part of this strategy all students in Kópavogur, from the fifth to the tenth grade were given iPads in 2015. The affected population was approximately 4.700 students and over 450 teachers. A significant body of research has examined how students fare when technology is integrated into their education. However, this thesis aims to examine how the implementation of this tablet-centric initiative affected the working environment of the municipality´s teachers, a subject that has been researched to a much lesser extent. With the aid of personal interviews communication between stakeholders of the initiative, strategies to motivate and encourage teachers in dealing with the change in their working environment and support afforded during the process was examined. Special focus was placed on the extent of involvement and participation of teachers during the implementation and the question of whether teachers´ opinions had an impact throughout the process. The thesis analysis is based on 18 semi-formal interviews with teachers from all of the city´s nine schools. Additionally, the team in charge of leading the implementation was interviewed to further broaden the scope. In brief, the thesis highlights that contention surrounded various aspects of the implementation. Many of the teachers felt overwhelmed and hesitant and described feeling that their concerns went unnoticed. Today, however, three years down the road, the iPads seem to have become an integral part of the everyday working environment of teachers and students alike and none of the teachers want to go back to teaching without iPads.
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Books on the topic "Strong face"

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Forgotten faces. Long Preston: Magna, 2006.

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ill, Bancroft Tom, and Corley Rob ill, eds. Strange places, new faces. Nashville, Tenn: Tommy Nelson, 2005.

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Strange face: Adventures with a lost Nick Drake recording. United Kingdom]: Empreinte Cordiale, 2013.

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Goslee, David. Tennyson's characters: Strange faces, other minds. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1989.

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Wei, Wei, and C. Neal Stewart Jr., eds. Gene flow: monitoring, modeling and mitigation. Wallingford: CABI, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781789247480.0000.

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Abstract Over two decades later, gene flow research as it pertains to genetically engineered crops is still going strong, even in the face of the absence of ecological disasters in the nearly 30 years of widescale biotech crop commercialization. Nonetheless, ecological timeframes are within the study scope of the sort of research performed to date covered in this book. These studies have greatly informed regulations that govern biotech crops. The chapters in this book capture various aspects of scientific disciplines that span from organismal studies, to population and community ecology, to molecular biology.
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Forging fame: The strange career of Scharmel Iris. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2008.

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This strange and powerful language: Eleven crucial decisions a Basque writer is obliged to face. Reno: Center for Basque Studies University of Nevada, 2016.

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McFakename, Phony. Florida Strong! (Please Don't Eat My Face! Three). Independently Published, 2018.

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Charts, M. U. A. Lashes Long and Coffee Strong - 75 Blank Face Charts for Makeup Artists: Make up Face Charts / Cosmetics Sketch Pad. Independently Published, 2020.

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Austen, Linda. 6 UNSUAL THINGS MENTALLY STRONG PEOPLE DO : EMOTIONALLY INTELLIGENT, SELF-CONFIDENT, EMBRACE CHANGE and FACE YOUR FEAR StorytellerUK2021: A Quick Guide to Become Mentally Strong and Face Your Fear. Independently Published, 2021.

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Williams, Lisa Barnwell. "A Person of Influence, A Sculptor of the Universe: How Women are Changing the Face of Philanthropy." In Building Strong Nonprofits, 15–34. Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118386811.ch2.

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Schoisswohl, Ulrich, Ulrike Wunderle, Luboš Studený, Lieke Michiels van Kessenich, and Pia Weinlinger. "Joining Forces – Staying Unique: Adapting RRI to Different Research and Innovation Funding Agency Contexts." In Putting Responsible Research and Innovation into Practice, 101–19. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14710-4_6.

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AbstractEuropean and national research and innovation (R & I) policies are increasingly oriented towards the task to tackle the unprecedented challenges reflected especially in the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the Agenda 2030 that societies face today. Following the need to produce adequate and viable solutions with a strong societal impact and aware of the fact that this impact will strongly affect and depend on the lifestyles, values and attitudes of citizens, there has been a rising attention for the need to better root science, research and innovation in society.
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Theron, Linda C., and Michael Ungar. "Adolescent Resilience in the Face of Relentless Adversity: The Role of Strong, Black Women." In Handbook of Quality of Life in African Societies, 97–111. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15367-0_5.

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Fuchs, Nike, and Gesche Krause. "Interdisciplinary Collaboration." In Integrating Data Science and Earth Science, 121–29. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99546-1_7.

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AbstractThe Digital Earth Project aims at a strong interdisciplinary collaboration of the various Earth science disciplines and data science, to foster digitalization and the application of data science methods. As this is a highly complex interdisciplinary endeavour that involves eight research centres and many scientists, a success evaluation was deployed after the first half of the project. A social science-oriented evaluation was conducted, in which a World Cafe and a survey were used to evaluate the success of the collaboration and opportunities for improvement. Results indicate a strong need among participating scientists to more clearly understand and advocate for the overarching goals, have more face-to-face interaction, optimize the use of existing research infrastructure, and develop a sound perspective for knowledge transfer and long-term continuation of the developed approaches. It was deduced that individuals shape the process and that digitization is more than just a technical matter, but depends heavily on individuals and the process of implementation.
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Delisle, Deborah S., and James R. Delisle. "Science Fact and Fiction." In Creating Strong Kids Through Writing, 103–7. New York: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003233893-18.

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"Strong Hybrid Identities in the Face of Equally Strong Stereotypes." In Social Mobility and Neighbourhood Choice, 53–74. Routledge, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315609522-11.

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Matthews, Michael D. "Tough Hearts: Building Resilient Soldiers." In Head Strong, 99–122. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190870478.003.0006.

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Soldiers must be prepared to face a variety of challenges and adversity, ranging from long separations from family to killing and dealing with the injury and death of their fellow soldiers. The negative impact of war on psychological well-being is well documented. Shell shock, combat fatigue, and more recently, posttraumatic stress disorder are well-known pathologies that result from combat exposure. Thus, training soldiers to be more resilient prior to combat is necessary to preserve and protect their psychological health and also to sustain combat power. This chapter explores psychological responses to combat, ranging from pathology to posttraumatic growth. New approaches to training resilience skills in soldiers are discussed, including the Army’s Comprehensive Soldier Fitness program, and how simulation technologies may soon be employed to better train resilience skills in soldiers.
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Abzug, Robert H. "Freedom in the Face of Fate." In Psyche and Soul in America, 211–23. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199754373.003.0019.

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This chapter explores May’s leading role as the American leader of the existential psychology movement and the irony that as he gained in notice and attended a series of international conference, he came to realize that Existentialism had much in the way of American roots, especially in the work of William James. He was critical of his European colleagues for their narrower conception of existential thought. Meanwhile, with Existence published and an existential movement under way, May turned to his longstanding interest in creativity and in that regard participated in various panels and article collections on the topic. He also edited, with a long introduction, Symbolism in Religion and Literature. But, in attempting at least two novels in various versions, he found that writing about literature wasn’t quite the same as creating it. Meanwhile, he developed various strong friendships at Yale, especially William Sloane Coffin.
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Mutz, Diana C. "Real-World Contexts." In In-Your-Face Politics. Princeton University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691165110.003.0005.

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This chapter looks at the characteristics of the experimental treatments that are used to manipulate incivility, as well as the kinds of people used in the experiments. Because of the high degree of control over the political content of the broadcasts, the participants involved in the conflicts, and the way in which the cameras covered the dispute, it is possible to draw strong causal inferences about the impact that incivility and camera perspective have on viewers' experiences of political conflict. Although the professional production quality meant that none of the subjects voiced suspicions about the programs themselves, it is still plausible that other, unidentified differences between the real world and this exchange may have altered the outcomes.
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MacDonald, Scott. "Yance Ford on Strong Island." In The Sublimity of Document, 295–306. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190052126.003.0013.

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After Yance Ford’s brother William was murdered in 1992, when Yance Ford was a college student, she imagined making a film about his death. Finally, in 2017, having worked for many years with television’s POV, seeing independent documentaries into the public arena (and having transitioned to male), Ford completed Strong Island, a feature-length, personal documentary that investigates William’s death within a context of the former and subsequent lives of his parents and siblings. As a crime story, Strong Island is both suspenseful and beautiful to look at. And it is personally performative for Ford. The unusually intimate close-ups of his face, his dramatization of William’s falling to his death in front of the gas station where he was murdered, and his conversations with family and friends dramatize the way in which this family tragedy and cultural injustice continues to inform the lives of those who knew William.
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Conference papers on the topic "Strong face"

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Grossmann, Siegfried, Detlef Lohse, Marko Robnik, and Valery Romanovski. "Thermal convection in small Prandtl number liquids: strong but ineffective." In LET’S FACE CHAOS THROUGH NONLINEAR DYNAMICS: Proceedings of “Let’s Face Chaos Through Nonlinear Dynamics” 7th International Summer School and Conference. AIP, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3046273.

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Wei Pan and YiJia Huang. "A new algorithm of face detection under strong light condition." In 2010 2nd International Conference on Advanced Computer Control. IEEE, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icacc.2010.5486808.

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Moraes, Sergio Garrido, Vivian Iara Strehlau, and Reynaldo Dannecker Cunha. "DOES COUNTRY OF ORIGIN MATTER IN FACE OF STRONG GLOBAL BRANDS?" In Bridging Asia and the World: Globalization of Marketing & Management Theory and Practice. Global Alliance of Marketing & Management Associations, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.15444/gmc2014.02.04.03.

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Sgroi, Amanda, Kevin W. Bowyer, Patrick Flynn, and P. Jonathon Phillips. "SNoW: Understanding the causes of strong, neutral, and weak face impostor pairs." In 2013 IEEE 6th International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS). IEEE, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/btas.2013.6712697.

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David R. Bohnhoff and Milind Gadani. "Effect of Mechanically-Attached Face Plates on Strong Axis Bending of Posts." In 2002 Chicago, IL July 28-31, 2002. St. Joseph, MI: American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.13031/2013.10465.

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Sun, Guangmin, Qing Zhang, and Junjie Zhang. "Multi-pose Face Detection under Strong Light Condition for Android Driver Fatigue detection System." In 2015 4th National Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering. Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/nceece-15.2016.266.

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Green, Itzhak. "Mechanical Face Seal Dynamics Subjected to Machine Vibration and Noise." In ASME 2022 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2022-91006.

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Abstract Mechanical face seals are wide-spread in many applications, such as centrifugal compressors, submersible pumps, drill-bits for oil and water, hydrocarbon processing equipment, and turbomachinery. Often vibration and noise are unavoidable because of changing environments which can be persistent and forceful. In critical applications when seals fail, they may have significant or even catastrophic consequences. To ensure the safety of such machinery and its associated mechanical components, the vibration and noise must be diagnosed and kept within certain limits. This work focuses on the dynamics of a flexibly mounted stator mechanical face seal that is subjected to combinations of axial broad-band noisy vibrations of the shaft and the housing. The current analysis builds upon the dynamic models that have been developed over the last four decades. In all that body of work, the positions of the housing and the shaft have been considered fixed. The current work relaxes that condition, augmenting the equations of motion to incorporate the said noisy vibrations. While the exact root-causes and sources of machinery vibration are very difficult to ascertain, the current analysis uses some general common causes of noisy seal operation, and provides markers to be observed for diagnosis. While the forcing noises are assumed to originate along the main axis of the seal, because of the strong coupling between the axial and angular modes, the seal is affected (even strongly) in all modes (axial and angular). A numerical simulation ensues, and the results are subject to spectral analyses. Results show that under some design conditions, the seal is largely insensitive to machine vibrations. However, under other design parameters, the seal response exhibits a rich spectral content that stems from various transient phenomena that include (among others) half frequency whirl, synchronous steady-state response, and the natural (eigen) response. Under aggravated noisy conditions the investigated seal exhibits large oscillations and leakage, along with face contact and rubbing. Prolonged rubbing causes faces to wear and leads ultimately to seal failure.
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SooAn, Choi, and Kim YoungSoon. "A STUDY ON STUDENT AGENCY OF COLLEGE STUDENTS WHO PARTICIPATED IN NON-FACE-TO-FACE CLASSES." In International Conference on Education and New Developments. inScience Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.36315/2022v1end079.

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"The purpose of this study is to look at the student as agency who leads the class, and to examine the experience of mutual communication as agency. For this purpose, 4 students who took the social education and major compulsory classes at University A in South Korea were selected as research participants. In order to increase the coherence of the research purpose, in addition to the interview data, the class impressions and midterm and final test assignments written by the students were supplemented. The research results according to this study are as follows. First, the non-face-to-face discussion class allowed students to experience both fear and unfamiliarity from the non-face-to-face environment at the same time. In particular, the non-face-to-face environment made people hesitate about how to communicate. Second, group discussion improved communication between theory and reality by analyzing textbooks based on class theory and sharing the analysis results among students. Third, field trip facilitated the connection between online and offline, allowing them to look back on their own world of life and build confidence as a future teacher. The following are the suggestions accordingly. First, it should promote interaction with students and teachers. Second, the class should provide various connections outside the class. Third, strong motivation for class is required. This study does not suggest a universal law of student agency in that it only targeted students from the College of Education of A University in Korea. However, it is meaningful in that by exploring the process of developing student agency, it gave hints on what direction to take in the future."
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Zhu, Mingrui, Nannan Wang, Xinbo Gao, Jie Li, and Zhifeng Li. "Face Photo-Sketch Synthesis via Knowledge Transfer." In Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-19}. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2019/147.

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Despite deep neural networks have demonstrated strong power in face photo-sketch synthesis task, their performance, however, are still limited by the lack of training data (photo-sketch pairs). Knowledge Transfer (KT), which aims at training a smaller and fast student network with the information learned from a larger and accurate teacher network, has attracted much attention recently due to its superior performance in the acceleration and compression of deep neural networks. This work has brought us great inspiration that we can train a relatively small student network on very few training data by transferring knowledge from a larger teacher model trained on enough training data for other tasks. Therefore, we propose a novel knowledge transfer framework to synthesize face photos from face sketches or synthesize face sketches from face photos. Particularly, we utilize two teacher networks trained on large amount of data in related task to learn the knowledge of face photos and face sketches separately and transfer them to two student networks simultaneously. In addition, the two student networks, one for photo ? sketch task and the other for sketch ? photo task, can transfer their knowledge mutually. With the proposed method, we can train our model which has superior performance using a small set of photo-sketch pairs. We validate the effectiveness of our method across several datasets. Quantitative and qualitative evaluations illustrate that our model outperforms other state-of-the-art methods in generating face sketches (or photos) with high visual quality and recognition ability.
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Han, Tian, Jiawen Wu, and Ying Nian Wu. "Replicating Active Appearance Model by Generator Network." In Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-18}. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2018/305.

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A recent Cell paper [Chang and Tsao, 2017] reports an interesting discovery. For the face stimuli generated by a pre-trained active appearance model (AAM), the responses of neurons in the areas of the primate brain that are responsible for face recognition exhibit strong linear relationship with the shape variables and appearance variables of the AAM that generates the face stimuli. In this paper, we show that this behavior can be replicated by a deep generative model called the generator network, which assumes that the observed signals are generated by latent random variables via a top-down convolutional neural network. Specifically, we learn the generator network from the face images generated by a pre-trained AAM model using variational auto-encoder, and we show that the inferred latent variables of the learned generator network have strong linear relationship with the shape and appearance variables of the AAM model that generates the face images. Unlike the AAM model that has an explicit shape model where the shape variables generate the control points or landmarks, the generator network has no such shape model and shape variables. Yet the generator network can learn the shape knowledge in the sense that some of the latent variables of the learned generator network capture the shape variations in the face images generated by AAM.
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Reports on the topic "Strong face"

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Boodhna, Anoushka, Anais Mangin, and Tamara Beradze. How Can We Bring About Meaningful Change for Women by Investing Differently in Small Enterprises? Oxfam, July 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.21201/2022.9059.

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Oxfam-supported enterprises have generated high impact and demonstrated strong business performance. Now, the shift to make women’s economic empowerment a more central focus and the opportunity to generate more meaningful impact has put us on track to transition towards a new enterprise investment model. In the future, more attention will be paid to the structural injustices that women face, to change enterprise practices and generate evidence to influence institutional change so that women can exercise their agency and claim their rights. Increasing the number of women in paid jobs can only be meaningful when unpaid care and domestic work and gender-based violence are recognized and action is taken to address them.
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Alviarez, Vanessa, Javier Cravino, and Natalia Ramondo. Firm-Embedded Productivity and Cross-Country Income Differences. Inter-American Development Bank, February 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003029.

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We measure the contribution of firm-embedded productivity to cross-country income differences. By firm-embedded productivity we refer to the components of productivity that differ across firms and that can be transferred internationally, such as blueprints, management practices, and intangible capital. Our approach relies on micro-level data on the cross-border operations of multinational enterprises (MNEs). We compare the market shares of the exact same MNE in different countries and document that they are about four times larger in developing than in high-income coun-tries. This finding indicates that MNEs face less competition in less-developed coun-tries, suggesting that firm-embedded productivity in those countries is scarce. We propose and implement a new measure of firm-embedded productivity based on this observation. We find a strong positive correlation between our measure and output per worker across countries. In our sample, differences in firm-embedded productivity account for roughly a third of the cross-country variance in output per worker.
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Keane, Claire, Karina Doorley, and Dora Tuda. COVID-19 and the Irish welfare system. ESRI, June 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.26504/bp202201.

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COVID-19 had, and continues to have, a strong negative effect on incomes in Ireland due to widespread job losses as the measures put in place to slow the spread of the disease resulted in severe economic restrictions. Despite the existence of unemployment supports, additional income supports were introduced to protect incomes. As public health restrictions lift and the economy recovers, we face the withdrawal of such supports. We examine these supports and the role they played in supporting incomes. By profiling those who benefitted most from the new schemes, we highlight the groups most at risk of significant income losses as they wind down. We consider what gaps in the social welfare system necessitated the introduction of such schemes in the first place, along with potential future policy changes to ensure that the social welfare system can provide adequate income protection and financial incentives to work as we emerge from the COVID-19 crisis.
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Mahat, Marian, and Vivienne Awad. The 2022 Sophia Program. University of Melbourne, February 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.46580/124373.

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The Sophia Program is a one year professional learning program established by Sydney Catholic Schools in collaboration with the University of Melbourne. The professional learning program is unique, in that it not only involves the acquisition of knowledge and theory of school learning environments but also action-oriented evidence-based research within a professional learning community where groups of educators work collaboratively at the school- and system-level to improve student outcomes. Thirty five participants from six Sydney Catholic Schools participated in the 2022 program. This report provides a summary of aggregated findings around teacher efficacy, teacher mind frames, student learning and student engagement, perceptions of students on the prototype learning environments and furniture, as well as overall evaluation of the program by participants in the inaugural cohort. Lessons learnt from the Sophia Program have found seven important characteristics of effective professional learning. In summary, effective professional learning is one that is: ● contextualised, i.e. aligned with school goals, priorities and values, and addresses the learning needs of staff and students. ● includes the engagement of a strong leader with a committed group of educators. ● is longer in duration, reinforced over a longer period of time. ● includes establishing a prototype that enables educators and students to test and evaluate both design and pedagogy. ● includes multiple forms of active learning. ● includes forms of action research that enable evidence-based improvements. ● can be delivered virtually and face-to-face. In essence, the world-first Sophia program illustrates what a high-quality professional learning could look like—one that is ongoing, connected to both content knowledge and teacher practice, incorporates active learning and research-based practices, and encourages networking, collaboration, mentoring and time for practice, feedback, and reflection. The report concludes with directions for future practice that provides important school- and system-level implications.
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Munoz, Laura, Giulia Mascagni, Wilson Prichard, and Fabrizio Santoro. Should Governments Tax Digital Financial Services? A Research Agenda to Understand Sector-Specific Taxes on DFS. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), February 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/ictd.2022.002.

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Digital financial services (DFS) have rapidly expanded across Africa and other low-income countries. At the same time, low-income countries face strong pressures to increase domestic resource mobilisation, and major challenges in taxing the digital economy. A growing number are therefore advancing or considering new taxes on DFS. These have generated much debate and there are significant disagreements over the rationale for the taxes and their likely impacts. This paper examines three key questions that could help governments and other stakeholders to better understand the rationale for, and impacts of, different decisions around taxing DFS – and to arrive at policies that best meet competing needs. First, what is the rationale for imposing specific taxes on money transfers or mobile money in particular? Second, and most importantly, what is the likely impact of DFS taxes? Third, how do the policy processes through which taxes on DFS and money transfers are introduced function in practice? The paper looks at the core principles of good taxation and presents the existing debate around whether taxes on DFS observe them. It explains why understanding the landscape of financial services is essential to designing suitable tax policies and lays out a framework for developing the necessary analysis of the impacts of taxes on DFS. It also highlights the importance of better understanding the processes that give rise to these taxes.
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Sturzenegger, Germán, Cecilia Vidal, and Sebastián Martínez. The Last Mile Challenge of Sewage Services in Latin America and the Caribbean. Edited by Anastasiya Yarygina. Inter-American Development Bank, November 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0002878.

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Access to piped sewage in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) cities has been on the rise in recent decades. Yet achieving high rates of end-user connection between dwellings and sewage pipelines remains a challenge for water and sanitation utilities. Governments throughout the region are investing millions in increasing access to sewage services but are failing in the last mile. When households do not connect to the sewage system, the full health and social benefits of sanitation investments fail to accrue, and utilities can face lost revenue and higher operating costs. Barriers to connect are diverse, including low willingness to pay for connection costs and/or the associated tariffs, liquidity and credit constrains to cover the cost of upgrades or repairs, information gaps on the benefits of connecting, behavioral obstacles, and collective action failures. In contexts of weak regulation and strong social pressure, utilities typically lack the ability to enforce connection through fines and legal action. This paper explores the scope of the connectivity problem, identifies potential connection barriers, and discusses policy solutions. A research agenda is proposed in support of evidence-based interventions that have the potential to achieve higher effective sanitation coverage more rapidly and cost-effectively in LAC. This research agenda must focus on: i) quantifying the scope of the problem; ii) understanding the barriers that trigger it; and iii) identifying the most cost-effective policy and market-based solutions.
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Hwu, Jih-Ru, and Dave Winkler. FACS in the 21st century. AsiaChem Magazine, November 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.51167/acm00002.

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FACS is ideally positioned to be a powerful, inclusive, an outward-facing federation of chemical and allied societies in the Asia Pacific region. The Federation promotes networking and collaboration within the region and strong engagement in the broader international chemical community. Over the past three years, FACS has been refocused to capture these opportunities by the restructuring of three critical aspects of the FACS operations.
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Carrasquilla-Barrera, Alberto, Arturo José Galindo-Andrade, Gerardo Hernández-Correa, Ana Fernanda Maiguashca-Olano, Carolina Soto, Roberto Steiner-Sampedro, and Juan José Echavarría-Soto. Report of the Board of Directors to the Congress of Colombia - July 2020. Banco de la República de Colombia, February 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.32468/inf-jun-dir-con-rep-eng.07-2020.

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In Colombia, as well as in the rest of the world, the Covid-19 pandemic has seriously damaged the health and well-being of the people. In order to limit the damage, local and national authorities have had to order large sectors of the population to be confined at their homes for long periods of time. An inevitable consequence of isolation has been the collapse of economic activity, expenditure, and employment, a phenomenon that has hit many countries of the world affected by the disease. It is an unprecedented crisis in modern times, not so much for its intensity (which is undoubtedly immense), but because its origin is not economic. That is what makes it so unpredictable and difficult to manage. Naturally, its economic consequences are enormous. Governments and central banks from all over the world are struggling to mitigate them, but the final solution is not in the hands of the economic authorities. Only science can provide a way out. In the meantime, the economic indicators in Colombia and in the rest of the world cause concern. The output falls, the massive loss of jobs, and the closure of businesses of all sizes have become daily news. Added to this, there is the deterioration in global financial conditions and the increase in the risk indicators. Financial volatility has increased and stock indexes have fallen. In the face of the lower global demand, export prices of raw materials have fallen, affecting the terms of trade for producing countries. Workers’ remittances have declined due to the increase of unemployment in developed countries. This crisis has also generated a strong reduction of global trade of goods and services, and effects on the global value chains. Central banks around the world have reacted decisively and quickly with strong liquidity injections and significant cuts to their interest rates. By mid-July, such determined response had succeeded to revert much of the initial deterioration in global financial conditions. The stock exchanges stopped their fall, and showed significant recovery in several countries. Risk premia, which at the beginning of the crisis took an unusual leap, recorded substantial corrections. Something similar happened with the volatility indexes of global financial markets, which exhibited significant improvement. Flexibilization of confinement measures in some economies, broad global liquidity, and fiscal policy measures have also contributed to improve global external financial conditions, albeit with indicators that still do not return to their pre-Covid levels.
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Idris, Iffat. Areas and Population Groups in Pakistan Most Exposed to Combined Effects of Climate Change, Food Insecurity and COVID-19. Institute of Development Studies, March 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/k4d.2021.058.

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There are strong interlinkages between the effects of climate change and natural disasters in Pakistan, food insecurity, and exposure to COVID-19. Areas/groups at risk of one will often be at risk of the others as well, demonstrating the complexities and multifaceted nature of vulnerability, risk, and exposure. In areas exposed to natural disasters, for example, there are likely to be higher levels of food insecurity. Key geographic areas at risk of the combined effects of climate change natural disasters and food insecurity in Pakistan are Balochistan, Sindh, southern Punjab, and parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). With the exception of Balochistan due to its very low population density, these are all also regions at high risk of COVID-19. Key population groups, especially at risk, are the poor and landless, and women. The poor, in particular, lack the capacity to adapt or recover from climate change impacts and natural disasters, face difficulties in accessing adequate food, and often live/work in conditions that promote transmission of COVID-19. This rapid review looks at areas and population groups in Pakistan most exposed to the combined effects of climate change and natural disasters, food insecurity and malnutrition, and COVID-19. The review draws on a mixture of academic and grey literature, including reports by development organisations. While considerable information was found about the diverse effects of climate change and natural disasters on different parts of the country (including down to district level), data on food insecurity was largely only at the provincial level. There are also significant gaps in the evidence base on specific population groups, notably religious minorities.
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Gordon, Dalia, Ke Dong, and Michael Gurevitz. Unexpected Specificity of a Sea Anemone Small Toxin for Insect Na-channels and its Synergic Effects with Various Insecticidal Ligands: A New Model to Mimic. United States Department of Agriculture, November 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.32747/2010.7697114.bard.

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Motivated by the high risks to the environment and human health imposed by the current overuse of chemical insecticides we offer an alternative approach for the design of highly active insect-selective compounds that will be based on the ability of natural toxins to differentiate between insect and mammalian targets. We wish to unravel the interacting surfaces of insect selective toxins with their receptor sites on voltage-gated sodium channels. In this proposal we put forward two recent observations that may expedite the development of a new generation of insect killers that mimic the highly selective insecticidal toxins: (i) A small (27aa) highly insecticidal sea anemone toxin, Av3, whose toxicity to mammals is negligible; (ii) The prominent positive cooperativity between distinct channel ligands, such as the strong enhancement of pyrethroids effects by anti-insect selective scorpion depressant toxins. We possess a repertoire of insecticidal toxins and sodium channel subtypes all available in recombinant form for mutagenesis followed by analysis of various pharmacological, electrophysiological, and structural methods. Our recent success to express Av3 provides for the first time a selective toxin for receptor site-3 on insect sodium channels. In parallel, our recent success to determine the structures and bioactive surfaces of insecticidal site-3 and site-4 toxins establishes a suitable system for elucidation of toxin-receptor interacting faces. This is corroborated by our recent identification of channel residues involved with these two receptor sites. Our specific aims in this proposal are to (i) Determine the bioactive surface of Av3 toward insect Na-channels; (ii) Identify channel residues involved in binding or activity of the insecticidal toxins Av3 and LqhaIT, which differ substantially in their potency on mammals; (iii) Illuminate channel residues involved in recognition by the anti-insect depressant toxins; (iv) Determine the face of interaction of both site-3 (Av3) and site-4 (LqhIT2) toxins with insect sodium channels using thermodynamic mutant cycle analysis; and, (v) Examine whether Av3, LqhIT2, pyrethroids, and indoxacarb (belongs to a new generation of insecticides), enhance allosterically the action of one another on the fruit fly and cockroach paraNa-channels and on their kdr and super-kdr mutants. This research establishes the grounds for rational design of novel anti-insect peptidomimetics with minimal impact on human health, and offers a new approach in insect pest control, whereby a combination of allosterically interacting compounds increases insecticidal action and reduces risks of resistance buildup.
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