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ANTIĆ, DEJAN D., and IVAN M. BECIĆ. "MARKET LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK OF VRANJE: 1926‒1947." ISTRAŽIVANJA, Јournal of Historical Researches, no. 30 (December 25, 2019): 217–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.19090/i.2019.30.217-233.
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The banking system of the Kingdom of Serbia, and later of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, was principally characterized by numerous small, local money bureaus. These bureaus were founded with the purpose of providing the necessary capital and profit to their shareholders, as well as offering the ground for the capital placement in times of economic depression. The Market Loan and Savings Bank of Vranje was established in the time of a great financial crisis and is thus an example of the money bureau of the aforementioned nature. Moreover, it is the evidence of how the Great Depression affected the private banking system in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. This paper is based on archival materials and relevant reference materials from both national and international sources.
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Epifanov, A. "From the experience of operational and service activities of the Political Bureau under the Heads of District militia departments in 1920–1921 (based on the materials of the Lower Volga and Don regions)." Proceedings of the Komi Science Centre of the Ural Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, no. 5 (October 2, 2023): 138–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.19110/1994-5655-2023-5-138-144.
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The paper reveals the organizational and legal foundations of the activities of Political Bureaus under the Heads of the District militia departments in 1920–1921 from the historical and legal positions. On the basis of archival material introduced into scientific circulation for the first time, relating to the limits of the Lower Volga and Don regions, the author analyzes the basic principles and content of the operational and service activities of the Political Bureau, shows their results in relation to the territory of individual districts.
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Khoirudin, Rifki, and Retno Kumalasari. "Pengaruh Sektor Pariwisata Terhadap Pertmbuhan Ekonomi Di Provinsi Bali Periode 2017-2021." Journal of Economic, Bussines and Accounting (COSTING) 7, no. 1 (July 20, 2023): 205–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.31539/costing.v7i1.6475.
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Being one of the developing countries in Southeast Asia, Indonesia has an economy that is still unstable among countries. The government is trying to make new innovations in industry, agriculture, fisheries and tourism to increase economic development. The province of Bali is one of the provinces with the lowest economic growth in 2020. This can occur due to the presence of Covid-19 which is located almost all over the world. The research aims to determine the influence of the tourism sector on economic growth in the Province of Bali for the 2017-2021 period. The data used in this study is secondary data obtained from the official website of the Central Bureau of Statistics. The data includes panel data which is a combination of time series data and cross section data. Fixed Effect is a suitable model. In this study, the variables used in this study were hotels, restaurants, travel service bureaus and tourist visits. The results show that the hotel variables, travel service bureaus and tourist visits have a significant positive effect and the restaurant variables have a negative and insignificant effect on economic growth in the Province of Bali for the 2017-2021 period.
Keywords: Economic Growth, Hotels, Restaurants, Travel Service Agencies, Tourist Visits, Province of Bali
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Chrysilla, Clarissa, and Reinard Yudhaprawira. "The Existence of Notary Cooperation with Online Service Bureaus in the Making of Deeds of Establishment of Limited Liability Companies." Lex Prospicit 1, no. 2 (November 29, 2023): 120. http://dx.doi.org/10.19166/lp.v1i2.7597.
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<p>Notaries are authorized to mold all actions, agreements, and determinations desired by the parties who come to them to confirm them and pour into an authentic deed, aiming for the deed to have complete evidential power and validity. Therefore, notaries are obliged to fulfill all the provisions of their positions and other regulations and are responsible for the deeds they have prepared. In practice, especially since Covid-19 there are still notaries who cooperate with online service bureaus. The type of study is empirical juridical, which in other words is a type of sociological legal research, also known as field research, which examines the applicable legal provisions and what happens in reality in the community. From the research results obtained from decision No.36/PID.SUS/TPK/2014/PN.JKT.PST in conjunction with Cassation Court Decision No. 980 K/Pid.Sus/2015, that a notary does not check documents (the ID Card) in the creation of a company, and they aren’t to meet directly before the Notary, but with a service bureau. In this case, it is related to the validity of the company establishment deed that has been made by a notary in collaboration with an online service bureau, where the appearer does not appear before the notary because the one who appears before the notary is the service bureau. One of the main advantages of notary cooperation with online service bureaus is of course that it is not bound by working time. That the cooperation between the notaries does not have a written work bond but only in the form of verbal, however, such actions still violate the UUJN and the Notary Code of Ethics, and there have been lacunae in the law to regulate cooperation between notary and online service bureau. In the case that the author raises, notary cooperation with service bureaus is prone to criminal acts (corruption or fraud), therefore the company's deed of establishment becomes null and void. Second, the responsibility of the Notary Professional Organization, towards the Notary who cooperates with the online service bureau, which violates the provisions of the UUJN and the Code of Ethics, then based on Article 4 number 4 of the Notary Code of Ethics, it is said that the act of cooperating with an online service bureau is categorized as a violation of the notary code of ethics, which is accompanied by sanctions in the form of: Reprimand; Warning; Temporary dismissal from Association membership; Honorable dismissal from Association membership; and Dishonorable dismissal from Association membership. The INI's responsibility as a notary professional organization is as a form of providing duties and authority in providing guidance, supervision and protection to notaries.</p>
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Nagel-Frazel, Maeve. "The Queen of the Violin." Current Musicology, no. 109/110 (September 6, 2023): 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.52214/cm.v109i.8994.
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The commercialized nineteenth century lyceum circuit provided the vehicle for Camilla Urso (1840-1902) to become America's first celebrity female violinist. Vizualizing six seasons between 1873-83 where Urso toured under lyceum bureau management in digital maps of my own creation, I argue industrialized transportation networks combined with the commercialized advertising and publicity of the lyceum circuit created a popular concert model that expanded Urso's audience and raised her concert fees. Urso's time on the lyceum circuit laid the foundation for her transnational career. Urso was never solely a lyceum musician, though exploring the role of lyceums and their bureaus in her career plays a key role in determining how she rose to fame and became America's most celebrated female violinist. Futhermore, Urso's lyceum career argues for classical music as a rural and commercial phenomenon of American popular culture in the nineteenth century.
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Maslyhan, Olena, Erika Todierishko, Sviatoslav Zhukov, and Mariya Kashka. "Routing for tourist and excursion bureaus based at parametric network models." Economic Annals-ХХI 191, no. 7-8(1) (August 10, 2021): 100–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.21003/ea.v191-08.
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This study is devoted to applying parametric network models for the process of defining a guided tour route within route networks on the example of Denmark. This is caused by difficulty in determining variations when organizing guided tours. Under the actual digitization conditions, tourist and excursion bureaus are being restructured from static organizations administering various excursions into dynamic ones. They are actually getting adjusted to the customers’ needs and demands, taking into account the actual possibilities for covering a certain topic by the tour party within a route. The main problem encountered by tourist and excursion bureaus is the following. Although the nomenclature of presented guided tours is established by the economic entity independently, those are not always carried out according to a clearly defined itinerary and on the same conditions for all participants. When providing such services, customers’ demands and service peculiarities are not known in advance. The purpose of the present study is to provide a substantive basis for routing in tourist and excursion bureaus, based on parametric network models and taking into account the peculiarities of dynamically adaptable tables containing the best routes. To achieve the research goal, network planning methods were used, such as analytical, tabular, cloud computing in the AnyLogic Cloud environment. As a result of the study, a substantive basis of routing of the tourist route was presented for tourist and excursion bureaus, through their parametric network models. The study was implemented at the sample of the Denmark Tour -Your Guide Office, a company founded within cooperation with Russian, Ukrainian, and Denmark partners and providing travel services within the Denmark tourist market. The Office includes about 20 affiliates in Denmark, where route networks have already been adapted to designing tours in practice and parameterization of such networks is well underway, in particular by shifting the focus from the route distance rate to minimization of transfers between attraction sites. However, to provide a substantive basis for the routing in a tourist office, parameters of the routing networks should be determined not only based on the list of actions (activities) to be carried out, but also on their minimum and maximum possible duration. A lack of due attention to the servicing time for the tour groups will lead to breaking tour schedules. Thus, in 2020, as a result of the inefficient parameterization at Denmark Tour - Your Guide, about 5-6 tours around Aalborg and its vicinity were cancelled monthly. Denmark Tour- Your Guide incurs monthly profit losses at 15% in 4-6 tours around Aarhus and its surroundings, Jursland peninsula, rated at a fixed cost, as the result of payment of a fixed cost for the selected excursions. A similar situation, with breaking tour schedules and monthly losses incurred, is common with tourist and excursion bureaus in various countries around the world, including Ukraine. According to the results of the study, it is marked that the routing of tourist itineraries designed by tourist agencies, based on parametric network models turns their static time reserves and operational metrics into dynamic values depending on the duration of the tour activities. This not only ensures following schedules properly in all tours but also minimizes monthly profit loss, at an estimated EUR 2,250 for the Aalborg and its surroundings routes. Meanwhile, there may be situations where it is not possible to change the total tour cost. For example, in the company Denmark Tour - Your Guide, when working with intermediate parties, this price is fixed. To prevent incurring monthly losses within 15% of the profits for 4-6 tours of Aarhus and its surroundings, Jursland peninsula, Aalborg and Surroundings, it is necessary to make some quite specific adjustments in some activities at the sites. These should take into account the time reserve values on the longest route. A special tour activity complex is to be completed, with a maximum difference in early and late schedule times, standard and urgent pricing for the site operations). A procedure is compiled for minimizing losses in routes (over 8K euro annually), providing for completion of the activity complex within the schedule with a minimum additional charge to the operating metric (the route price), since it is not reimbursed by the tourists. It is important that the results presented should identify the path adjustments of each route simultaneously, taking into account the actual time reserve (available based on the tour group location and the previouisly completed schedule items on the tour). Prospects for practical implementation of the presented substantiation basis for the itinerary routing to be used in tourist and excursion bureaus, based on parametric network models, are in establishing facilities for creating dynamic graphic images of the whole tour procedure, in the form of a directed graph of the route network.
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Balleisen, Edward J. "American Better Business Bureaus, the Truth-in-Advertising Movement, and the Complexities of Legitimizing Business Self-Regulation over the Long Term." Politics and Governance 5, no. 1 (March 15, 2017): 42–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/pag.v5i1.790.
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This essay considers the question of how strategies of legitimatizing private regulatory governance evolve over the long term. It focuses on the century-long history of the American Better Business Bureau (BBB) network, a linked set of business-funded non-governmental organizations devoted to promoting truthful marketing. The BBBs took on important roles in standard-setting, monitoring, public education, and enforcement, despite never enjoying explicit delegation of authority from Congress or state legislatures. This effort depended on building legitimacy with three separate groups with very different perspectives and interests—the business community, a fractured American state, and the American public, in their roles as consumers and investors. The BBBs initially managed to build a strong reputation with each constituency during its founding period, from 1912 to 1933. The Bureaus then in many ways adapted successfully to the emergence of a more assertive regulatory state from the New Deal through the mid 1970s. Eventually, however, the resurgence of conservative politics in the United States exposed the challenges of satisfying such divergent stakeholders, and led the BBBs to focus resolutely on shoring up its support from the business establishment. That choice, over time, undercut the Bureaus standing with other stakeholders, and especially the wider public. This history illustrates: the salience of generational amnesia within private regulatory institutions; the profound impact that the shifting nature of public faith in government can have on the strategies and reputation of private regulatory bodies; and the extent to which private regulators face long-term trade-offs among strategies to sustain legitimacy with different audiences. It also suggests a rich set of research questions for longer-term histories of other private regulatory institutions, in the United States, other societies, and at the international level.
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Najmi, Hafiz Saqib Mehmood, Farrukh Bashir, and Saman Maqsood. "Is Fiscal Policy Effective in Generating Higher Real Output? A Case of Pakistan." Pakistan Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 1, no. 2 (December 31, 2013): 47–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.52131/pjhss.2013.0102.0004.
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Keeping in view the objective that is to observe the usefulness of fiscal policy on real GDP of Pakistan, the study collects time series data from 1976 to 2012 through reliable sources of statistical bureaus of Pakistan. Using Johansen Cointegration test, the long run results demonstrate investment and government expenditure as raising factor for real GDP of Pakistan while GDP Deflator and government revenue as de-motivating factor for real GDP of Pakistan in the long run.
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Kotaki, Akira, and Fumio Takeda. "Study on the National Disaster Management Administration System Against Huge Disasters – A Discussion Based on the Initial and Emergency Responses to the Great East Japan Earthquake –." Journal of Disaster Research 14, no. 5 (August 1, 2019): 843–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.20965/jdr.2019.p0843.
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Based on Japan’s experience of establishing and operating the Extreme Disaster Management Headquarters following the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, the authors conclude that it is necessary to deepen the discussion on the following issues and identify a proper direction to be pursued for establishing a disaster management administration system capable of responding appropriately to huge disasters in the future: 1) Expansion and strengthening of the Disaster Management Bureau of the Cabinet Office; 2) Establishment of the Ministry of Disaster Management or Disaster Management Agency [(a) Its relation to the Cabinet Secretariat and Cabinet Office, (b) Jurisdiction (matters related to overall coordination and duties)]; 3) Organizational design that will contribute towards establishing an effective disaster management administration system [(a) Mandatory and full-time appointment of Minister of Disaster Management, (b) Staffing system of designated posts and higher-ranking senior officials, (c) Establishment of Regional Disaster Management Bureaus, (d) Staff size, (e) Desirable approaches to human resources management (accumulation and deepening of experience in disaster response, clarifying working conditions etc.)]; etc.
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Utomo, Gayuh Budi, Rully Damayanti, and Dyan Agustin. "KOMUNIKASI BARU BIRO ARSITEK DI MASA PANDEMI DALAM PANDANGAN POSTKOLONIALISME HOMI K BHABHA." ATRIUM: Jurnal Arsitektur 6, no. 2 (November 11, 2020): 161–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.21460/atrium.v6i2.124.
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Title: New Communication of The Architecture Firms in Pandemic Era; Following the Homi K Bhabha Post Colonial View A new order called the new normal is a central issue at this time. The period before the pandemic which became a standard value and became a reference suddenly was not compatible with the arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak. This is happening in Indonesia and around the world. Everyone is in a pandemic situation for a certain period time and there is no certainty that it will end. This of course also affects how to communicate in all aspects including the architectural bureau. New ways of communicating are carried out at architectural bureaus related to social distancing and physical distancing which are considered as effective prevention methods from the COVID-19 pandemic. The types of communication that have changed are communication with clients, communication with the team and communication with interns. There are significant differences in how to communicate from offline activities to online activities where we can still be connected both ways but not in the same place. This situation is a momentum to free the bonds of limitations that have occurred in terms of communication. We want to interpret this in the postcolonialism approach of Homi K Bhabha which is very relevant to the views of hybridity, ambivalence and the third space as a way of communicating new normal discourses.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Time bureaus"
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Berkane, Yassamina. "Time organization for urban mobility congestion : an interdisciplinary approach for Bureaux des Temps." Electronic Thesis or Diss., université Paris-Saclay, 2023. http://www.theses.fr/2023UPASG071.
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Soutenue par la croissance démographique au sein des zones urbaines, l'augmentation de la mobilité quotidienne est un défi majeur pour la gestion des villes et de leurs infrastructures routières, dans une optique de croissance économique et de développement durable. Dans cette thèse, le concept de gestion du temps est intégré dans une nouvelle approche pour réduire la congestion de la mobilité urbaine. Les méthodes traditionnelles se concentrent principalement sur les aspects spatiaux, négligeant ainsi la dimension temporelle. Dans l'approche proposée, nous nous intéressons à la prise en compte de concepts des Sciences Humaines et Sociales (SHS), en particulier les concepts sociologiques, avec les Sciences et Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication (STIC) pour proposer une solution d'aide à la décision pour les Bureaux des Temps, qui vise à modifier les temporalités afin de réduire la congestion urbaine. Cette approche intègre trois phases : identifier les profils de mobilité, analyser la congestion du trafic et prendre des décisions temporelles. Les profils de mobilité sont prédits à l'aide de techniques d'apprentissage en prenant en compte des critères sociologiques. L'analyse de la congestion du trafic exploite des données de l'application Waze. Enfin, l'utilisation des modèles de séries temporelles nous permet de prédire les degrés de congestion afin de proposer des temps de départ optimisés pour éviter la congestion urbaine. La solution proposée a le potentiel d'intégrer un ensemble de données hétérogènes dans la gestion de la congestion pour des villes urbaines harmonieusesPopulation growth and urbanization are major challenges for the management of cities and their resources. Urban mobility is one of these challenges because of its impact on quality of life, economic productivity, and environmental sustainability. In this thesis, the concept of time management is integrated into a new approach to reduce urban mobility congestion. Traditional methods primarily focus on spatial aspects, thus neglecting the temporal dimension. We concentrate on integrating concepts from the Social and Human Sciences (SHS), particularly sociological concepts, into Sciences and Technologies of Information and Communication (STIC) to propose a decision-support solution for the time bureaus, which aims to modify temporalities to reduce urban congestion.The proposed approach consists of three phases: identifying mobility profiles, analyzing traffic congestion, and making temporal decisions. Mobility profiles are predicted using learning techniques that take into account sociological criteria. Traffic congestion analysis investigates Waze data. Finally, the use of time series models allows us to predict congestion levels to propose optimized departure times to avoid urban congestion. The proposed solution has the potential to integrate a set of heterogeneous data in congestion management for harmonious urban cities
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Chapman, Heather J. "Factors Affecting Reading Outcomes Across Time in Bureau of Indian Education Reading First Schools." DigitalCommons@USU, 2010. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/712.
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Regardless of age, background, or socioeconomic status, children must learn to read in order to be successful in school and in their future careers. Reading is an essential skill necessary to be successful in all other academic content areas. Despite the importance of this skill, American Indian children consistently score below the national average on tests of reading ability and reading comprehension. During recent years, many schools in the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) system requested funding through the Reading First initiative. Schools used the funding and support provided by the BIE Reading First grant to attempt system-wide change at the school level in order to refocus efforts on increasing reading achievement. The current study investigated the impact of the Reading First Initiative on American Indian students in kindergarten through third grade.
Results suggest that the models and methods employed using funding from the Reading First grant had a positive impact on certain aspects of reading achievement in students. Instructional Leadership Changes had a negative impact on student achievement while certain reading programs were found to have a more positive impact on some students than others. Furthermore, regardless of beginning of year reading level, all students showed increased gain in end-of-year outcome scores over time. Same grade cohort groups of students in kindergarten, second, and third grades demonstrated increased average scores over time as schools continued to implement Reading First models. Finally, while the gap between students with intensive needs and their peers was not erased, it also did not widen. Based on research indicating gain for these students is often below that of their peers, this is an important finding. Thus, it appears that the impact of Reading First in relation to teaching younger students the basic building blocks needed to read with fluency in the later grades was positive in the current sample.
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Clouet, Hadrien. "Aux guichets du temps partiel : transactions temporelles dans le service public d'emploi allemand et français." Thesis, Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018IEPP0022/document.
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Depuis les années 1970, le salariat à temps partiel s’étend sur les marchés de l’emploi allemand et français. Le rôle joué par l’intermédiation publique dans ce phénomène constitue l’objet de cette thèse. Nous l’étudions de manière comparative par l’immersion ethnographique dans quatre agences, par une analyse quantitative portant sur 2000 offres stockées et par une enquête socio-historique sur les dispositifs d’indemnisation. Grâce à ce matériau, nous mettons au jour les transactions temporelles auxquelles sont exposés les chômeurs durant leur traitement institutionnel. Au sein des agences d’intermédiation, les heures recherchées par les chômeurs jouent le triple rôle d’outil de gestion, d’outil d’intermédiation et d’outil d’arbitrage marchand. Elles sont mobilisées, manipulées et négociées durant les entretiens en face-à-face auxquels sont convoqués les chômeurs. Au terme des interactions, de nombreux profils de recherche sont révisés, en abaissant le nombre d’heures d’emploi souhaitées. Ce rationnement du temps d’emploi est organisé autour de trois modes de régulation, inégalement présents sur les différents terrains : une régulation par l’indemnisation-chômage, une régulation par les pratiques professionnelles des conseillers et une régulation par les progiciels informatiques d’appariement. Le temps d’emploi souhaité par les chômeurs apparaît ainsi comme un objet d’action publique. À partir de nos résultats empiriques, nous montrons que les logiques sociales de la rencontre bureaucratique établissent un lien étroit entre les ressources mobilisables dans l’interaction et les positions envisageables sur le marché de l’emploi. De plus, cette thèse présente les guichets d’intermédiation comme un niveau de régulation de l’emploi à part entièreSince the 1970s, part-time employment has grown in the German and French labour markets. The relation between public intermediation and part-time employment is the subject of this thesis. Our comparative analysis is based on ethnographic immersion in four agencies, a quantitative analysis of 2000 job offers stored in the agencies files and a socio-historical inquiry concerning the unemployment benefit systems. With these data, we expose the temporal transactions experienced by the unemployed during their institutional treatment. Within the agencies, the working hours sought by the unemployed represent a tool with three functions: managing the registered users, matching employers and jobseekers, and arbitrating the relation between capital and labour. These hours are mobilized, manipulated and negotiated during the compulsory interviews between caseworkers and unemployed. Thus, many research profiles are modified, in the sens of lowering the desired amount of employment hours. This rationing of hours is organized around three modes of regulation, always perceptible but inequally significant in the various agencies: benefits-oriented regulation, professional regulation and computerized regulation. The working hours the unemployed look for appear as an object of public action. Based on our empirical results, we show how the configuration of bureaucratic encounters establish a close relation between the social resources mobilized during the interaction and the position on the labour market. In addition, this thesis present the employment agencies as an autonomous level of employment regulation
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Berrios-Ayala, Mark. "Brave New World Reloaded: Advocating for Basic Constitutional Search Protections to Apply to Cell Phones from Eavesdropping and Tracking by Government and Corporate Entities." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1547.
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Imagine a world where someone’s personal information is constantly compromised, where federal government entities AKA Big Brother always knows what anyone is Googling, who an individual is texting, and their emoticons on Twitter. Government entities have been doing this for years; they never cared if they were breaking the law or their moral compass of
human dignity. Every day the Federal government blatantly siphons data with programs from the original ECHELON to the new series like PRISM and Xkeyscore so they can keep their tabs on issues that are none of their business; namely, the personal lives of millions. Our allies are taking note; some are learning our bad habits, from Government Communications Headquarters’ (GCHQ) mass shadowing sharing plan to America’s Russian inspiration, SORM. Some countries are following the United States’ poster child pose of a Brave New World like order of global events. Others like Germany are showing their resolve in their disdain for the rise of tyranny. Soon, these new found surveillance troubles will test the resolve of the American Constitution and its nation’s strong love and tradition of liberty. Courts are currently at work to resolve how current concepts of liberty and privacy apply to the current conditions facing the privacy of society. It remains to be determined how liberty will be affected as well; liberty for the United States of America, for the European Union, the Russian Federation and for the people of the World in regards to the extent of privacy in today’s blurred privacy expectations.B.S.
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Books on the topic "Time bureaus"
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Goldstein, Arnold S. Guaranteed credit: A time-tested program guaranteed to provide clear, step-by-step information on how to repair, restore and rebuild your credit. Deerfield Beach, FL: Garrett Publishing, Inc., 1996.
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Belker, Loren B. The first-time manager. 4th ed. New York: AMACOM, 1997.
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Belker, Loren B. The first-time manager. 5th ed. New York, N.Y: AMACOM, 2005.
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Belker, Loren B. The first-time manager. 3rd ed. New York: AMACOM, 1993.
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Belker, Loren B. The First-Time Manager. New York: AMACOM Books, 2002.
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S, Topchik Gary, ed. The first-time manager. 5th ed. New York, N.Y: AMACOM, 2005.
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Brown, Anthony D. Construction lost-time injuries: The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation data base, 1985-1989. [Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Dept. of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Office of Construction and Engineering, 1993.
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Brown, Anthony D. Construction lost-time injuries: The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation data base, 1985-1989. [Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Dept. of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Office of Construction and Engineering, 1993.
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Brown, Anthony D. Construction lost-time injuries: The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation data base, 1985-1989. [Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Dept. of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Office of Construction and Engineering, 1993.
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Brown, Anthony D. Construction lost-time injuries: The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation data base, 1985-1989. [Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Dept. of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Office of Construction and Engineering, 1993.
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Shiming, Zhang. "Institutional Constraints and Innovations: The Adjudicative Bureaus (Fashenju) in Late Qing China." In Law, Resources and Time-Space Constructing, 103–28. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8055-7_4.
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Weik, Martin H. "time bureau." In Computer Science and Communications Dictionary, 1785. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-0613-6_19607.
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Weik, Martin H. "International Time Bureau." In Computer Science and Communications Dictionary, 826. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-0613-6_9460.
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Hofstetter, Rita, and Bernard Schneuwly. "The “Family of Nations” and Its Racial, Cultural and Colonial Discriminations." In The International Bureau of Education (1925-1968), 351–65. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41308-7_22.
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AbstractAt first, the issue of educational justice was focused on relations between individuals, but due to the pressure of the decolonisation movements it was extended to relations between peoples: the IBE and its conferences were presented as a “family of nations” whose interdependence presupposed that there was a place for all of them. The chapter shows how the IBE tried to accommodate the new aspirations of peoples and also claimed to offer a platform to all of them, in a world marked by cultural, social and ethnic prejudice. A world where, moreover, the great powers presented themselves as emblems of civilisation and its principles of justice, while at the same time appropriating the planet as a field for their confrontations, endangering populations which had long become invisible and were reduced to silence.
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Holmberg, Linn. "Stranded Encyclopedias in Eighteenth-Century Sweden: Exploring the Rise of Alphabetical Encyclopedism." In Stranded Encyclopedias, 1700–2000, 99–135. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64300-3_4.
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AbstractFor a long time, histories of the rise of the modern encyclopedia were mainly histories of publications: chronologies of large-scale, alphabetically organized reference works, successfully completed in one country after another, from the late 1600s onwards. Since none of the Scandinavian countries managed to publish general encyclopedias in the eighteenth century, researchers assumed that encyclopedic practice “reached” the northern periphery at a later date. However, the geographical expansion of a literary practice and the history of its most successful, printed outcomes do not necessarily share the same milestones. In this chapter, Linn Holmberg explores a number of stranded encyclopedias in eighteenth-century Sweden, detected partly through the periodical press, partly through archival research. The first part examines glimpses of encyclopedic projects seen through the journal Lärda tidningar (1745–1773). The second part reconstructs the encyclopedic efforts of two officials of the Swedish Bureau of Mines, who worked on an encyclopedia of mining and metallurgy for almost forty years (c. 1743–1787). By examining the motivations and circumstances underpinning the initiation, abandonment, and transformations of these projects, the study aspires to produce new insights into the early formation of alphabetical encyclopedic practice in eighteenth-century Sweden.
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McCulloch, Jock, and Pavla Miller. "Dissenting voices: 1902–1956." In Mining Gold and Manufacturing Ignorance, 297–320. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8327-6_11.
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AbstractThere were a number of medical experts who contested the Chamber’s claims about mine safety. The dissent began after 1910 and stretched well into the apartheid era. The dissenters included Drs John Mitchell, Eustace Cluver and Peter Allan, all at one time senior members of the South African Department of Public Health. There was also Dr A.H. Watt, the medical officer with Rand Insurance; Dr Basil Dormer, the Union’s Chief Tuberculosis Officer; Anthony Mavrogordato of the SAIMR; and Dr Gerrit Schepers, who served as a specialist with the Silicosis Bureau from 1944 until 1954. The dissenters pointed out that dust exposures in the mines and conditions in the compounds were unsafe; that infectious disease, most notably tuberculosis, was being spread from the mines to labour-sending areas; that the conduct of mine medicals was inadequate and was failing to pick up compensable disease; and that mine wages were so low that many families were malnourished. The lone dissenter to voice all of those concerns was Dr Neil Macvicar, who for almost forty years served as a medical missionary in the Eastern Cape. Macvicar, who worked initially in tuberculosis prevention programmes in Scotland, had first-hand knowledge of mine recruiting in Nyasaland. Macvicar’s views about prevention were conventional. He believed that tuberculosis could only be combatted by social change: governments must guarantee food security and promote the education of patients and their families on how to manage the disease.
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Celuch, Krzysztof. "Managing the Selling and Marketing of the Destination." In The Business and Management of Convention and Visitor Bureaus. Goodfellow Publishers, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.23912/9781911396796-4377.
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Managing a destination as an event venue and conducting marketing activities building its position in this area constitutes the main part of the realisation of a convention bureau mission. Concentrating on the meetings industry requires, above all, direct sales – these are activities based on relations and real time contact. It would seem that the specificity of the meetings industry requires operations only in the B2B sector, but in fact convention bureaus usually undertake activities addressed at consumers, event participants, as the target recipients. Thus, a success-oriented convention bureau must master marketing both by means of traditional mass consumer marketing as well as by direct sales. To perform these activities well requires good planning. The reason for the existence of convention bureaus is the sale of destinations (states, regions, towns or cities). The art of being a modern leader is managing image-building activities (or brand-building activities) as well as sales activities. Consequently, managing destination marketing starts with creating an annual plan to guide the marketing. It is the first step in the annual cycle of the marketing and sales tasks of convention bureaus.
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Ritchie, Donald A. "The News Bureaus and the New Deal." In Reporting from Washington, 7–27. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195178616.003.0002.
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Abstract By the time that Franklin D. Roosevelt entered the White House in 1933, three hundred news bureaus operated in Washington. The most influential of these represented the half dozen papers that the president read in bed every morning, principally the New York Times, New York Herald Tribune, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, Washington Post, and Washington Times-Herald. Roosevelt tended to skim over their critical editorial pages, the bulk of the nation’s press having editorially opposed his election. He paid closer attention to the news stories, feeling confident that he could sway public opinion more through the reporters than through their editors and publishers. The buoyant president was “a smooth propagandist;’ Detroit News correspondent Blair Moody observed. “Every reporter in Washington knows that, and Mr. Roosevelt knows they all know it. He is trying to ‘sell’ the New Deal to the public, and makes no bones about it.” Roosevelt instituted twice-weekly press conferences where he all but seduced the reporters who packed into the Oval Office. Roosevelt’s approach to the economic crisis he had inherited bolstered his support within the Washington press corps, with most reporters favoring his bold initiatives for reform and recovery. Despite this partiality, Roosevelt had an uneasy and sometimes stormy relationship with Washington’s most influential news bureaus. No matter how artfully he flattered and rewarded their correspondents, he could not control the news they reported.
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Leshy, John D. "A System of Wildlife Refuges Begins to Emerge." In Our Common Ground, 421–27. Yale University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300235784.003.0048.
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This chapter examines the beginnings of what would eventually become a genuine national system of wildlife refuges. J. Clark Salyer II, a Missourian who had been a professor of biology, was its primary architect in its formative years. In the first two years, four dozen new refuges, which covered about 1.5 million acres of land, were established. By the time Salyer retired, in 1961, nearly 29 million acres were in national wildlife refuges. Not to be outdone, FDR established more than 150 areas on public lands in thirty-six states specifically to protect wildlife. He had one other important impact on public land wildlife policy. In 1939, using the reorganization authority that Congress had renewed a few months earlier, he transferred the Bureau of Biological Survey and the Bureau of Fisheries from the Departments of Agriculture and Commerce, respectively, to the Department of the Interior. A year later, the two bureaus were combined to form the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). The FWS has administered the national wildlife refuges ever since.
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Celuch, Krzysztof. "Managing the Financial, Governance and Legal Considerations." In The Business and Management of Convention and Visitor Bureaus. Goodfellow Publishers, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.23912/9781911396796-4362.
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A mission statement should be an expression of the values which a given organisation considers to be crucial in its operations and it should also indicate what needs to be done to realise the strategic vision in a predetermined period of time. A strategic vision represents the managers’ concepts and beliefs related to the long-term direction of the organisation, it is focused on the objectives which are expected to be achieved and determines the organisation’s scope of operation or the place where it plans to be in the future. The strategic mission reflects the organisation’s aspirations, whereas the mission statement informs how the organisation intends to realise them. As it determines the future for the organisation, the vision includes postulates in accordance with which the organisation meets the needs of its clients. Then, the mission identifies the clients, their needs and the manner in which the organisation will cater for them.
Conference papers on the topic "Time bureaus"
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Liu, Gang, Li Zheng, and Yuan-Yun Sun. "The design of cooperative planning processes in railway bureaus based on roles, activities and time sequences." In EM2010). IEEE, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icieem.2010.5645947.
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Jones, Terrence, Hunston Hunter, Garfield Morgan, and Ryan White. "Development of a Time & Frequency Lab at the Bureau of Standards Jamaica." In 55th Annual Precise Time and Time Interval Systems and Applications Meeting. Institute of Navigation, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.33012/2024.19583.
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Li, Jiarui, Ran Ji, Cheng'ao Li, Xiaoying Yang, Jiayi Li, Yiran Li, Xihan Xiong, Yutong Fang, Shusheng Ding, and Tianxiang Cui. "Prediction of Flight Arrival Delay Time Using U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics." In 2023 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI). IEEE, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ssci52147.2023.10371912.
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Câmara, Marcos Corrêa, and Júlio C. Ramalho Cyrino. "Structural Reliability Applications in Design and Maintenance Planning of Ships Subjected to Fatigue and Corrosion." In ASME 2012 31st International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2012-83843.
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This paper presents structural reliability applications in design and maintenance planning for ships hull structures. For the assessment of structural strength, the model developed consists in an ultimate limit-state of hull-girder considering degradation by corrosion based in a statistical investigation of time-variant hull girder strength made by ABS (American Bureau of Shipping) on 2007. The time dependent reliability index obtained with the minimum elastic section modulus required by the rules of the classification society American Bureau of shipping (ABS), of two ship designs are compared against the results obtained from the target reliability index based design. The target reliability index assessment for corroded hulls is also showed. The monte-carlo simulation reliability method is used to calculate the time-dependent reliability of the primary hull structure. Two approaches of fatigue and corrosion-enhanced fatigue time dependent reliability are developed. A long term stress range applied to a detail is fitted to a weibull distribution based in a known design life. A utilization factor is introduced in order to consider the fraction of time at sea. A risk-based inspection planning is discussed for commercial and naval vessels Both S-N curve and fracture mechanics based reliability methods are used and the results are compared. An example of reliability updating after a inspection result is showed.
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Upadhyay, Sanat, and Manos Papadakis. "Real-time enhancement of visual clarity in turbid waters for commercial divers and ROVs." In SNAME 29th Offshore Symposium. SNAME, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5957/tos-2024-008.
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Optimal visual clarity underwater is paramount for both commercial divers and remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) engaged in critical offshore inspections. Water turbidity in ports, rivers, and other inland waters commonly obstructs underwater inspections and navigation, often leading to an increase in inspection costs or even rendering an inspection impossible. Artificially improving underwater visibility makes remote camera inspections realizable at conditions and locations previously thought to be impossible. To this end, we present a novel and unique solution to this problem in the form of our real-time video clarifier software. Under the supervision of the American Bureau of Shipping, we conducted experiments to test the software’s efficacy. Our experiment, conducted in 13.5 NTU water turbidity at the port of Galveston, evaluated Lolaark Vision Inc.'s groundbreaking video clarifier technology. Using a standard HD SDI camera connected to high-intensity light sources, the trial demonstrated an overall increase of 37% in the horizontal visibility radius. It was found that structures that were previously visible only 9 inches away from the camera, became visible after the application of the Clarifier even at 21 inches of distance between the camera and the object of interest thus yielding a video clarification factor of 2.33. Furthermore, by utilizing the Underwater Image Quality Measure (UIQM), we observed a notable 160% improvement in the UIQM score on average. This score is an objective metric of the visual information content of an image or a frame of a video clip. The video Clarifier works in real-time at maximum 1080p resolution and 30 frames per second. These findings underscore the transformative potential of Lolaark Vision's video Clarifier in significantly enhancing the efficiency and safety of underwater inspections performed by divers or by ROVs. Our successful experiments enabled the American Bureau of Shipping to award Lolaark Vision Inc. a New Technology Qualification at the “Technology Qualified” maturity level (approximately equivalent to a Level 4 TRL of API RP 17N/Q), further validating the Clarifier’s efficacy and relevance in offshore and inshore operations.
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Cao, Huai, Xinyue Gong, and Kaixuan He. "Multi-Scenario Design of D Enterprise's Agent Driving Products Based on QFD." In 13th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2022). AHFE International, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1001740.
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The advent of the new consumer era has led to rapid changes in order fulfillment scenarios and consumer needs. Merchants have also begun to expand multi-scenario and flexible real-time delivery services to meet different scenarios and consumer needs in a cost-effective manner. The rise of the "lazy economy" of the Z generation has also made instant delivery the "sweet pastry" in the Internet industry. In the past ten years, the agent driving market has flourished under the impetus of Chinese Internet companies, and with the changes in user needs, it has also extended to travel agent driving, business agent driving and other agent driving scenarios. However, with the normalization of the epidemic and the continuous changes in user needs, the agent driving industry is also facing considerable challenges. The specific problems are as follows: (1) In recent years, contemporary young people have changed their night lifestyles, the culture of workplace wine bureaus have become indifferent, and national control under the epidemic has caused KTV, bars and other entertainment venues to shut down one after another. The decline in the total market for drinking and drinking has forced the agency driving industry, which is dominated by the business of drunk driving, to find a second growth curve. (2) The driving products of various platforms are gradually becoming the same to a certain extent, and it is difficult to experience product differentiation. (3) With the substantial growth of the luxury car and new energy car market, the consumption level of head users of car-on-demand services has risen, and the existing car service market is showing a disconnection of the service link, which is in urgent need of digital transformation. Head users also put forward multi-scenario service requirements for on-demand driving. Therefore, broadening the service scenarios of the agent driving business, reversing the minds of users about driving on behalf of the drunk, and meeting the needs of users on behalf of the scene is the current research focus of scholars. Enterprise D is a global outstanding mobile travel platform, and its agent driving business is a branch of its business. The company’s current agent driving business is gradually being squeezed by a crowd of competing products due to its high service quality and high cost. The user's mind on the brand is still stuck in drunk driving, which makes it difficult to achieve breakthrough growth in GMV . This research takes D enterprise’s agent driving products as the research object, and conducts product expansion planning and research on its agent driving business through QFD theoretical methods. First of all, conduct scenario analysis and hierarchical decomposition of D enterprise’s customer needs. According to the principle of user demand analysis method KANO , analyze the current consumption needs and characteristics of D enterprise’s customers and potential customers, and determine the importance of user needs. Spend. Secondly, it analyzes the rising luxury car market and the new energy car market in the current automotive market, and uses QFD theory to transform user needs into a product development direction that can be used as a proxy driving platform to achieve GMV growth. It also analyzes the competitiveness of D enterprise, obtains the usability weight of the product expansion direction, and determines the key direction of D enterprise driving business scenario expansion. Finally, the product function upgrade and interactive interface optimization of the existing functions of the D enterprise’s agent driving platform will provide direction planning for the D enterprise’s agent driving business to achieve the second growth curve, reverse the user’s single mind on agent driving products, and enhance corporate competition ability.
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Garbatov, Y., C. Guedes Soares, and G. Wang. "Non-Linear Time Dependent Corrosion Wastage of Deck Plates of Ballast and Cargo Tanks of Tankers." In ASME 2005 24th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering. ASMEDC, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2005-67579.
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The corrosion wastage of deck plates of ballast and cargo tanks is analyzed based on a non-linear corrosion model. This model is able to describe an initial period without corrosion due to the presence of a corrosion protection system, a transition period with a nonlinear increase of wastage up to a steady state of long-term corrosion wastage. This model is applied to corrosion wastage data of deck plates collected by the American Bureau of Shipping. The objective of this work is to fit this corrosion wastage model to the service measured data, determining the values of the model parameters that represent the best fit to the data so as to describe how corrosion wastage varies in time as a result of generalized corrosion.
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Tanaka, Shigeru, Kotaro Takano, Yasuhiro Sogawa, Ken Nakamura, Tadashi Inoue, Masaharu Mori, and Mikito Otonari. "Adaptability of Next Generation Hull-Platform “Noah-FPSO Hull”." In ASME 2018 37th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2018-77453.
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In general, petroleum reservoirs vary with geographical locations and their environmental conditions, and there are no crude and gas exactly alike in respective locations. This means that it is very difficult to apply a specific standard design, which is usually preferred by many shipyards, to any FPSO hull. These facts often lead to serious trouble for FPSO hull construction in terms of cost and delivery time. In order to solve those challenging issues, Mitsui E&S Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. developed a next generation FPSO platform, “noah-FPSO Hull” (noah : New Offshore Adapted Hull), and obtained Approval in Principle for the noah-FPSO Hull from two world leading classification societies, Bureau Veritas and American Bureau of Shipping. Unique modular design and multi-yard construction concept of the noah-FPSO Hull were overviewed and discussed in our 1st report [1]. This paper is the 2nd report of the noah-FPSO Hull and focuses on discussing specific modular design for structural design and equipment arrangement. Hull motion in adverse weather condition is also discussed.
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Tanaka, Shigeru, and Kotaro Takano. "Next Generation Hull-Platform “Noah-FPSO Hull” Based on Modular Design and Construction Concept." In ASME 2017 36th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2017-61784.
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It is often said that every offshore oil field has its own environmental condition and oil property according to its geographical location. This means that it is very difficult to apply a specific standard design to any FPSO hull, which is usually preferred by many shipyards. This fact often leads to serious trouble for FPSO hull construction in terms of cost and delivery time. In order to cope with this problem, Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. (MES) developed a next generation offshore platform for FPSO, “Mitsui noah-FPSO Hull” (noah : New Offshore Adapted Hull), which consists of unique modular design and construction concept and simple hull form. Structural design is also modularized, i.e. common cross section and frame space, will facilitate to standardized topside module design. In fact, it can be constructed even in multi-shipyards as a consistent cross-platform. MES has obtained Approval In Principle (AIP) for the noah-FPSO Hull design and concept from American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) and Bureau Veritas (BV). In this paper, MES introduces these modular concept of the noah-FPSO Hull and its developed technical issues.
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Prisac, Lidia. "Advertising in interwar Chișinău right element of the everyday life." In Latinitate, Romanitate, Românitate. Conferinţa ştiinţifică internaţională, Ediția a 7-a. Moldova State University, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.59295/lrr2023.26.
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A reflection in the mirror of the everyday life and daily needs of the inhabitants of interwar Chișinău were the advertisements placed in the press of the time. Thanks to them we can know the preferences and needs, trends, tastes and values of the townspeople. In general, the interwar period marked the shaping of poster trends, supported by the artists of the time. Although there were advertising graphics workshops in Chișinău as well, it was still felt that the locomotive of the artistic, architectural and commercial register that directly influenced the rhetoric of advertisements came from Bucharest. The one who understood that “advertising is the soul of commerce” and opened in Chișinău the First Theatrical, Commercial, Industrial Advertising and Display Bureau was Ș. Shapocinic. Registered in 1908 and located on Sinadino Street, the office received “all kinds of advertisements as well as announcements for all Romanian (and) Russian newspapers”.
Reports on the topic "Time bureaus"
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Suro, Roberto. How Latino Immigration Is Transforming America. Inter-American Development Bank, May 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0007929.
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Zeballos, Eliana, and Wilson Sinclair. Estimating the state-level food expenditure series. Washington, D.C.: USDA Economic Research Service, April 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.32747/2023.8023696.ers.
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The USDA, Economic Research Service's (ERS) Food Expenditure Series (FES) is a comprehensive measure of the total value of food acquired in the United States over time. FES provides users with data to evaluate changes in food spending and its composition; however, FES is limited to the national level. This report presents the methodology and data used to generate food expenditure estimates at the State level. The State-level FES follows a similar methodology used in the national level but with a different underlying dataset and benchmarked to the national-level estimates. The national-level estimates are based primarily on food sales reported in the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census' Economic Census, which is published every 5 years, and uses three annual surveys to interpolate between years and extrapolate lagged data forward. The State-level FES estimates are based primarily on sales reported in the National Establishment Time Series Database. The database provides time-series data at the establishment level across all sectors, including grocery stores and food service outlets. The State-level FES can be used by government agencies, academics, the public, and other stakeholders to understand differences in consumer food acquisitions and spending behavior at a more granular level.
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Ogenyi, Moses. Looking back on Nigeria’s COVID-19 School Closures: Effects of Parental Investments on Learning Outcomes and Avoidance of Hysteresis in Education. Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE), March 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.35489/bsg-rise-ri_2022/040.
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In this Insight Note, we explore how COVID-19 and related school closures impacted Nigerian schools, parents, and students. National data collected by the National Bureau of Statistics in 2020 through a monthly phone survey show that children had extremely limited contact with the education system during this time, and that families preferred low-cost alternatives such as in-home tutoring and increased parental involvement in education to e-learning tools. Additional data collected by the RISE Nigeria Team in a survey of 73 low-cost private schools in Abuja suggest that some schools did maintain contact with students during mandated school closures, that students experienced absolute learning losses equivalent to about 5-6 months of school missed in other contexts (Cooper et al, 1996), despite participation in alternative learning activities, and that the pandemic led to severe financial hardships for schools and teachers.
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George and Hart. PR-015-06603-R02 Tests of Instruments for Measuring Hydrocarbon Dew Points in Natural Gas Streams Phase 2. Chantilly, Virginia: Pipeline Research Council International, Inc. (PRCI), September 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.55274/r0010969.
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Research has assessed the accuracy of two commercially-available hydrocarbon dew point (HCDP) analyzers, an Ametek� Model 241 CE II and a Michell Condumax II. During a previous phase of this project, both automated analyzers, along with a Bureau of Mines chilled mirror device serving as a reference, were tested on gravimetrically-prepared gas blends chosen to simulate a transmission-quality gas and a production gas. The measurement repeatability of both units was found to be better than the manual chilled mirror. Trends in the analyzer and manual chilled mirror measurements suggested that differences in performance between the automated units were related to their measurement techniques and default set points. During the second phase of the project, the Ametek and Michell automated analyzers were tested again on the transmission-quality test gas used in Phase 1, but with specific levels of contamination added to gain knowledge of their performance under adverse conditions. In one round of tests, water vapor was added to simulate a transmission gas with water vapor levels above common tariff specifications. In the second round of tests, the test gas contained both methanol and water vapor, simulating a stream to which methanol has been added to prevent hydrates. Contaminants were added to the test gas stream in amounts such that, depending upon the pressure of the test stream, the contaminant dew point would be reached first, the HCDP would be reached first, or the two phases would condense simultaneously. Multiple HCDP measurements were made with the analyzers to determine their ability to accurately measure HCDPs under these adverse conditions. Analyzer results were again compared to HCDP measurements taken with the Bureau of Mines chilled mirror device and a digital video camera. Results were adjusted for small changes in the heavy hydrocarbon content of the test gases over time, using predictions from an equation of state and gas chromatographic analyses of the test gases.
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Klinger, Bailey, Asim Khwaja, and Joseph LaMonte. Improving Credit Risk Analysis with Psychometrics in Peru. Inter-American Development Bank, October 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0009139.
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Access to finance remains a challenge for some micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in Peru, particularly informal enterprises with no borrowing history in the formal financial system. Lenders lack the tools to reach these borrowers with sufficient scale and control over risk due in part to the shortcomings of current screening technologies. For this paper, the authors carried out a pilot test of an innovative psychometric tool aimed at evaluating credit risk for business owners seeking a loan from Financiera Confianza, the fourth largest Empresa Financiera in Peru. Applicant responses were compared to self-reported sales, subsequent loan repayment performance, and credit bureau data to determine if psychometric-based credit scoring models could reduce the constraints on MSME finance. The authors created a scorecard based on that information using data from other countries and evaluated its effectiveness on this sample. It achieved a Gini coefficient of between 20 and 40 percent. Those MSMEs rejected by a psychometrically enhanced application scorecard with this Gini coefficient have a probability of defaulting that is up to four times greater than those accepted by the scorecard. Along with other policies to reduce information asymmetry in MSME lending, such a tool could help relieve constraints on MSME finance in Peru.
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Svynarenko, Radion, Theresa L. Profant, and Lisa C. Lindley. Effectiveness of concurrent care to improve pediatric and family outcomes at the end of life: An analytic codebook. Pediatric End-of-Life (PedEOL) Care Research Group, College of Nursing, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.7290/m5fbbq.
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Implementation of the section 2302 of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) enabled children enrolled in Medicaid/Children's Health Insurance Program with a prognosis of 6 months to live to use hospice care while continuing treatment for their terminal illness. Although concurrent hospice care became available more than a decade ago, little is known about the socio-demographic and health characteristics of children who received concurrent care; health care services they received while enrolled in concurrent care, their continuity, management, intensity, fragmentation; and the costs of care. The purpose of this study was to answer these questions using national data from the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which covered the first three years of ACA – from January 1, 2011, to December 31, 2013.The database included records of 18,152 children younger than the age of 20, who were enrolled in Medicaid hospice care in the sampling time frame. Children in the database also had a total number of 42,764 hospice episodes. Observations were excluded if the date of birth or death was missing or participants were older than 21 years. To create this database CMS data were merged with three other complementary databases: the National Death Index (NDI) that provided information on death certificates of children; the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey that provided information on characteristics of communities where children resided; CMS Hospice Provider of Services files and CMS Hospice Utilization and Payment files were used for data on hospice providers, and with a database of rural areas created by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). In total, 130 variables were created, measuring demographics and health characteristics of children, characteristics of health providers, community characteristics, clinical characteristics, costs of care, and other variables.
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Kwon, Heeseo Rain, Heeyoun You, and Sang Keon Lee. Korea's Pursuit for Sustainable Cities through New Town Development: Implications for LAC: Knowledge Sharing Forum on Development Experiences: Comparative Experiences of Korea and Latin America and th. Inter-American Development Bank, June 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0006999.
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Under rapid urbanization that took place from around 1960 to 1990, the Republic of Korea has been facing various urban problems such as the expansion of urban slum, traffic congestion and environmental pollution. Among the various responses to these challenges, New Town development can be regarded as one of the most successful and effective strategies, which hasover 50 years of development history in five phases. Korea's New Towns were developed with three main purposes according to the periodic needs: industry support, housing supply, and nationwide balanced development. Phase I New Towns (1962-81) responded to the country's need for industry promotion. Phase II (1967-86), Phase III (1989-95) and Phase IV (2001-present) New Towns were built in response to the severe lack of housing emerged due to over-concentration in the capital and later its metropolitan area, by providing large-scale housing inside Seoul, in the outer ring of Seoul, and in the Capital Area respectively over time. Finally, the most recent Phase V New Towns (2005-present) provided response to the issue of equitable and balanced development across the country. These development yielded outcomes such as housing market stabilization, improvement of housing condition, securement of public and green spaces, economic effect on related industries, and expansion of urban infrastructure. The paper suggests three success factors of Korea's New Town development. First is feasible planning and concrete implementation strategies that enabled the implementing organizations to overcome conflicts and carry on with the project until completion. The second factor is institutional driving force and legal support which involved establishing a dedicated bureau, defining clear organizational structure and stakeholder roles, and providing timely Acts to support the land acquisition and construction. The third success factor is reasonable land acquisition methodologies which evolved over time from Land Readjustment to Publically Management Development. This paper also presents Sustainable New own Design Criteria as an important implication for the LAC to consider, which includes social, economic and environmental sustainability that pursue outcomes such as social inclusion, self-sufficiency, connectivity, green space and smart resource management. Exchanging these experience of Korea and promoting mutual cooperation would be highly valuable for the cities in LAC to minimize the trial and error and maximize the success factors experienced by Korea as an attempt to relieve the challenges of rapid urbanization they are faced with at present. In this regard, it is anticipated that Korea can actively share its accumulated New Town experience and knowledge and act as one of the promising development partners of the countries in LAC.
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Hostetler, Steven, Cathy Whitlock, Bryan Shuman, David Liefert, Charles Wolf Drimal, and Scott Bischke. Greater Yellowstone climate assessment: past, present, and future climate change in greater Yellowstone watersheds. Montana State University, June 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.15788/gyca2021.
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The Greater Yellowstone Area (GYA) is one of the last remaining large and nearly intact temperate ecosystems on Earth (Reese 1984; NPSa undated). GYA was originally defined in the 1970s as the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, which encompassed the minimum range of the grizzly bear (Schullery 1992). The boundary was enlarged through time and now includes about 22 million acres (8.9 million ha) in northwestern Wyoming, south central Montana, and eastern Idaho. Two national parks, five national forests, three wildlife refuges, 20 counties, and state and private lands lie within the GYA boundary. GYA also includes the Wind River Indian Reservation, but the region is the historical home to several Tribal Nations. Federal lands managed by the US Forest Service, the National Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and the US Fish and Wildlife Service amount to about 64% (15.5 million acres [6.27 million ha] or 24,200 square miles [62,700 km2]) of the land within the GYA. The federal lands and their associated wildlife, geologic wonders, and recreational opportunities are considered the GYA’s most valuable economic asset. GYA, and especially the national parks, have long been a place for important scientific discoveries, an inspiration for creativity, and an important national and international stage for fundamental discussions about the interactions of humans and nature (e.g., Keiter and Boyce 1991; Pritchard 1999; Schullery 2004; Quammen 2016). Yellowstone National Park, established in 1872 as the world’s first national park, is the heart of the GYA. Grand Teton National Park, created in 1929 and expanded to its present size in 1950, is located south of Yellowstone National Park1 and is dominated by the rugged Teton Range rising from the valley of Jackson Hole. The Gallatin-Custer, Shoshone, Bridger-Teton, Caribou-Targhee, and Beaverhead-Deerlodge national forests encircle the two national parks and include the highest mountain ranges in the region. The National Elk Refuge, Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, and Grays Lake National Wildlife Refuge also lie within GYA.
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Sajjanhar, Anuradha, and Denzil Mohammed. Immigrant Essential Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic. The Immigrant Learning Center Inc., December 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.54843/dpe8f2.
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The COVID-19 pandemic affected everyone in the United States, and essential workers across industries like health care, agriculture, retail, transportation and food supply were key to our survival. Immigrants, overrepresented in essential industries but largely invisible in the public eye, were critical to our ability to weather the pandemic and recover from it. But who are they? How did they do the riskiest of jobs in the riskiest of times? And how were both U.S.-born and foreign-born residents affected? This report explores the crucial contributions of immigrant essential workers, their impact on the lives of those around them, and how they were affected by the pandemic, public sentiment and policies. It further explores the contradiction of immigrants being essential to all of our well-being yet denied benefits, protections and rights given to most others. The pandemic revealed the significant value of immigrant essential workers to the health of all Americans. This report places renewed emphasis on their importance to national well-being. The report first provides a demographic picture of foreign-born workers in key industries during the pandemic using U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) data. Part I then gives a detailed narrative of immigrants’ experiences and contributions to the country’s perseverance during the pandemic based on interviews with immigrant essential workers in California, Minnesota and Texas, as well as with policy experts and community organizers from across the country. Interviewees include: ■ A food packing worker from Mexico who saw posters thanking doctors and grocery workers but not those like her working in the fields. ■ A retail worker from Argentina who refused the vaccine due to mistrust of the government. ■ A worker in a check cashing store from Eritrea who felt a “responsibility to be able to take care of people” lining up to pay their bills. Part II examines how federal and state policies, as well as increased public recognition of the value of essential workers, failed to address the needs and concerns of immigrants and their families. Both foreign-born and U.S.-born people felt the consequences. Policies kept foreign-trained health care workers out of hospitals when intensive care units were full. They created food and household supply shortages resulting in empty grocery shelves. They denied workplace protections to those doing the riskiest jobs during a crisis. While legislation and programs made some COVID-19 relief money available, much of it failed to reach the immigrant essential workers most in need. Part II also offers several examples of local and state initiatives that stepped in to remedy this. By looking more deeply at the crucial role of immigrant essential workers and the policies that affect them, this report offers insight into how the nation can better respond to the next public health crisis.
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Empresas Públicas de Medellín: Going Beyond the Basics and Banking the Unbanked. Inter-American Development Bank, January 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0006002.
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Financiación Social (Social Financing or FS), an EPM program, provides accessible credit to those at the base of the pyramid. The program leverages EPM's business platform to assess credit risk by using clients' utilities payment records. After clients are extended a credit line, EPM bills them through their monthly utility bill. With an EPM credit card, customers purchase energy efficient appliances and building materials for home improvements from allied vendors. EPM reports credit performances to credit bureaus, building a credit history for its clients. In 2012, FS will increase credit access to individuals and begin to offer one- time loans to micro and small businesses (a program named MYPES).