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Hughes, Jeff. "Doing Diaries: David Martin, the Royal Society and scientific London, 1947–1950." Notes and Records: the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science 66, no. 3 (July 18, 2012): 273–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2012.0037.
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David Christie Martin (1914–76) was the Assistant Secretary (1947–62) and Executive Secretary (1962–76) of the Royal Society. During his long tenure he oversaw the modernization and expansion of the Society's administration, finances, publications and premises, and worked closely with the Officers, Council and the Society's many subcommittees. He was closely involved with the national and international aspects of the Society's work, and with the Fellows, visitors and external relations at all levels. The key link between the Royal Society and Whitehall, he developed strong informal contacts with civil servants in the Treasury, other government departments and the research councils, which greatly facilitated the Society's work. He was a significant point of continuity in the administration and governance of the Society over this long period, yet it is remarkable that we know little of Martin's work. Drawing on Martin's diary for 1947–49, recently unearthed at the Royal Society Library, this paper gives an account of his activities in the Royal Society and in postwar scientific London in this period. In so doing it sheds new light on British science at the beginning of the Cold War, and on the key role of the ‘invisible administrator’ in modern science.
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Vastine, J. Robert. "Services Negotiations in the Doha Round: Promise and Reality." Global Economy Journal 5, no. 4 (December 7, 2005): 1850059. http://dx.doi.org/10.2202/1524-5861.1146.
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The paper analyzes the state of play in the negotiations and the challenges facing meaningful services trade liberalization in the Doha Round. In tracing the treatment of services in the WTO, the reasons are examined for the success of the 1997 financial and telecommunications services negotiations and how those negotiations marked the entry of services companies and associations as advocates for services liberalization in the WTO. High expectations for substantial reductions in barriers to services trade emerged from the 1997 negotiations, but thus far remain unfulfilled. In the Doha Round the quality of offers has been poor and little progress has been made primarily because many WTO Members cannot perceive the economic benefits of trade liberalization. It is argued that this Round’s success is contingent upon the ability of the developed countries to respond to the legitimate concerns of the developing countries. However, too much attention has been given to trying to find a formula for services liberalization and not enough on hard bilateral bargaining. After analyzing various proposals put forth to jumpstart the talks, the paper suggests grouping key WTO Members and identifying “incentives that will motivate those groups.” The countries of greatest interest to the United States can be divided into three groups. Offers in agriculture, temporary entry, and emergency safeguards would appeal to each of these and provide a basis for progress. It is concluded that “a Doha Round that does not contain substantial benefits for services is a Round that will have failed” and will not have industry support if it is to be implemented by the US Congress. J. Robert Vastine is the President of US Coalition of Service Industries (CSI) in Washington, DC. Prior to joining the CSI, he served as President of the Congressional Economic Leadership Institute, a bi-partisan, non-profit foundation that helps educate Congress on issues affecting US economic competitiveness. His extensive Capitol Hill experience includes posts as Staff Director of the Senate Republican Conference, Minority Staff Director of the Senate Committee on Government Affairs; Legislative Director for Senator John H. Chafee of Rhode Island; and Legislative Assistant for Congressman Thomas B. Curtis of Missouri. His Executive Branch experience includes service as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Trade and Raw Materials Policy and Vice President of the Oversight Board of the Resolution Trust Corporation, which was chaired by Secretaries of the Treasury Brady and Bentsen, and he has had extensive private-sector experience. Vastine is Chairman of the official Industry Trade Advisory Committee for International Trade in Services (ITAC 10), which advises the US Trade Representative. He was a fellow of the Institute of Politics of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and has written a number of articles on US trade policy. Vastine is a graduate of Haverford College and the Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies.
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(Leich), Marian Nash. "Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law." American Journal of International Law 89, no. 3 (July 1995): 589–600. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2204178.
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On March 29,1995, the following officials of the executive branch of the U.S. Government appeared before the Human Rights Committee at the United Nations to discuss U.S. implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (which had entered into force for the United States on September 8, 1992): John Shattuck, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, and Conrad K. Harper, the Department’s Legal Adviser; Assistant Attorneys General Deval L. Patrick, Civil Rights Division, and Jo Ann Harris, Criminal Division; and Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs Ada Deer. The same officials, together with other members of the U.S. delegation, appeared again on March 31, 1995, to reply to questions raised by the Committee.
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Devlin, Anna, and Frank Barry. "Protection Versus Free Trade in the Free State Era: The Finance Attitude." Irish Economic and Social History 46, no. 1 (June 18, 2019): 3–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0332489319853703.
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Belief in the benefits of industrial protection had long been a cornerstone of nationalist ideology. Cumann na nGaedheal followed a policy of selective protection while Fianna Fáil was ideologically committed not just to import-substituting industrialisation but to as high a degree of self-sufficiency as possible. The Departments of Finance and Industry and Commerce differed sharply on the costs and benefits of trade restrictions. This article explores the perspective of the Department of Finance and in particular that of J. J. McElligott, Assistant Secretary from 1923 and Secretary of the Department from 1927 to 1953. It demonstrates the strong continuity between his position and that of T. K. Whitaker, who became Secretary in 1956 and whose 1958 report on Economic Development is widely credited with providing the intellectual foundation for the trade liberalisation process of the following decades.
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Bhagwati, Jagdish. "From Seattle to Hong Kong: Are We Getting Anywhere?" Global Economy Journal 5, no. 4 (December 7, 2005): 1850063. http://dx.doi.org/10.2202/1524-5861.1150.
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With agricultural trade negotiations deadlocked, the Doha round of trade talks may appear dead in the water. But every round of trade talks in recent memory has oscillated between near breakthroughs and near breakdowns. Trade negotiations can be like a ride on a roller coaster but, while the roller coaster returns to where it started, multilateral trade negotiations have generally gone on to close successfully. Will this happen with the Doha round? Surprisingly, the answer is yes. Prospects for concluding the round in Hong Kong next month, at the World Trade Organization Ministerial meeting, are indeed bleak; but not the prospects for finishing later. While the initial attempt to launch the WTO's first round of multilateral trade negotiations in Seattle in November 1999 collapsed, the round was finally launched in Doha, Qatar, two years later, with reaffirmation of the twin virtues of democracy and openness to the world economy. While there was a lot of dissent in September 2003 at the next WTO meeting in Cancun, which also collapsed because of the lack of consensus especially on agricultural liberalization, there were nonetheless some important accomplishments in the tabling of most of the “Singapore issues” and an agreement to relax the TRIPS Agreement to permit developing country access to low-cost pharmaceuticals. Cancun was also a turning point insofar as the major developing countries coalesced in the Group of 20 to provide greater balance in the WTO membership and the design of the negotiating agenda. While it appears that agricultural liberalization is still a significant stumbling block facing the Hong Kong Ministerial, it is likely that the EU can be squeezed if there are reciprocal offers in manufactures and services that are forthcoming especially from some of the major developing countries that can be induced to liberalize in their own interests. It will also be helpful if a program of adjustment assistance can be devised in the form of “aid for trade” especially for low-income countries. The outlines of a deal to close the Doha Round are therefore clear. With forceful leadership on the part of Pascal Lamy to rescue the Doha Round in Hong Kong and to convince the WTO member states to follow with an extraordinary meeting within six months, it should be possible to take the penultimate steps to bring the Doha Round to a final conclusion by the end of 2006 and to obtain its approval by early 2007 before the U.S. fast-track negotiating authority expires. Jagdish Bhagwati is Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations and University Professor, Economics and Law at Columbia University. He was Economic Policy Adviser to the Director General of GATT and of the WTO-appointed expert group that recently reported on The Future of the WTO. He is currently a member of the Eminent Persons Panel on Enhancing UNCTAD’s Impact and of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan’s Advisory Group on the NEPAD process in Africa. His latest books are Free Trade Today (Princeton, 2002) and In Defense of Globalization (Oxford, 2004).
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Brady, Chris. "In the company of policy makers: Sir Donald Logan, assistant private secretary to the secretary of state for foreign affairs." Contemporary British History 13, no. 2 (June 1999): 146–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13619469908581534.
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Anon. "Opening statement by H.E. Ambassador Daniel Antonio, Assistant Secretary-General of the Organization of African Unity." Refugee Survey Quarterly 18, no. 1 (April 1, 1999): 34–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/rsq/18.1.34.
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Ntwaagae, Charles. "Commentary: An African Perspective Services Negotiations." Global Economy Journal 5, no. 4 (December 7, 2005): 1850062. http://dx.doi.org/10.2202/1524-5861.1149.
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A commentary on J. Robert Vastine's article "Services Negotiations in the Doha Round: Promise and Reality." Charles T. Ntwaagae is Ambassador-Permanent Representative to the UN and WTO in Geneva. He has served in the Botswana Public Service over the past 28 years, during which he held several senior policy level positions. These include Executive Director of the National Environment Secretariat, Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Local Government, Housing and Environment, and Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. As Ambassador-Permanent Representative, he has served in various capacities, including Chairman of the Africa Group, Co-ordinator of ACP Ambassadors in the WTO and Chairman of Commonwealth Developing countries in the WTO. As of January 2006, he will be serving as Permanent Secretary of Botswana's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
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PAŞNICU, Daniela. "Book review: Francesco Pastore, The Youth Experience Gap. Explaining National Differences in the School-to-work Transition." Annals of "Spiru Haret". Economic Series 14, no. 4 (April 13, 2016): 73. http://dx.doi.org/10.26458/1447.
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Francesco Pastore is qualified as full professor of Economic Policy. Currently, he is Assistant Professor of Economics at Seconda Universita di Napoli. He is also secretary of the Italian Association of Labor Economics (AIEL) and a member of the executive board of the Italian Association of Comparative Economic Studies (AISSEC). His main research interests are in labor and education economics. He is also interested in development and transition economics. He has contributed extensively in several such fields as regional unemployment differentials, school-to-work transitions, labor market dynamics, gender discrimination, human capital investment, public employment services and passive as well as active labor market policy, labor market consequences of international trade and nonprofit organization.
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Schlegel, LaVonn. "An interview with Walter P. Bastian: Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Western Hemisphere, U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration." Business Horizons 54, no. 4 (July 2011): 293–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2011.02.002.
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Lee, Mordecai. "Public affairs enters the US President's subcabinet: creating the first assistant secretary for public affairs (1944 -1953) and subsequent developments." Journal of Public Affairs 8, no. 3 (August 2008): 185–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pa.293.
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Lampton, David M. "America's China Policy in the Age of the Finance Minister: Clinton Ends Linkage." China Quarterly 139 (September 1994): 597–621. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s030574100004306x.
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It turned out that MFN was useful as a tool only to bludgeon George Bush. Democratic Staff Member in the House of RepresentativesPresident Clinton's determination to put economic policy at the heart of our foreign policy is evident in the areas where we have succeeded…. Secretary of State Warren ChristopherIn Asia – excluding Japan – they will spend a trillion dollars in infrastructure of all types in the next decade. That's a Century Freeway every week…. I'm from Texas. I'm used to big. But it is difficult to comprehend how big that market is and how those economies are transforming. Secretary of Treasury Lloyd Bentsen speaking in California[President Clinton has] enmeshed himself in a web of his own spinning… If a politician always sets such deadlines, then he will only have his own hands and feet bound. Chinese Foreign Minister Qian QichenThe United States maintains a triple standard. For their own human rights problems they shut their eyes. For some other countries’ human rights questions they open one eye and shut the other. And for China, they open both eyes and stare. Chinese Finance Minister Liu ZhongliIn the end, economic interests won the day. It wasn't really even close…. This is the age of the Finance Minister. Thomas L. Friedman, journalist
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Langford, Malcolm, Daniel Behn, and Runar Hilleren Lie. "The Revolving Door in International Investment Arbitration." Journal of International Economic Law 20, no. 2 (May 31, 2017): 301–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jiel/jgx018.
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Abstract It is often claimed that international investment arbitration is marked by a revolving door: individuals act sequentially and even simultaneously as arbitrator, legal counsel, expert witness, or tribunal secretary. If this claim is correct, it has implications for our understanding of which individuals possess power and influence within this community; and ethical debates over conflicts of interests and transparency concerning ‘double hatting’—when individuals simultaneously perform different roles across cases. In this article, we offer the first comprehensive empirical analysis of the individuals that make up the entire investment arbitration community. Drawing on our database of 1039 investment arbitration cases (including ICSID annulments) and the relationships between the 3910 known individuals that form this community, we offer the first use of social network analysis to describe the full investment arbitration community and address key sociological and normative questions in the literature. Our results partly contradict recent empirical scholarship as we identify a different configuration of central ‘power brokers’. Moreover, the normative concerns with double hatting are partly substantiated. A select but significant group of individuals score highly and continually on our double hatting index.
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Post, Douglass E., Owen J. Eslinger, Scott M. Sundt, and Megan Holland. "CREATE/ERS: Department of Defense acquisition reform through resilient engineering and virtual prototyping in a digital environment." Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation: Applications, Methodology, Technology 16, no. 4 (December 18, 2017): 357–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1548512917745606.
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The USA faces a multitude of threats to its national security and international interests in an era of exponential technology growth and unprecedented access by anyone with a smartphone. Traditionally, the acquisition of US defense systems has relied on sequential methods of conceptual design and development. While successful in the past, these methods are time consuming and in danger of creating vulnerability gaps that could limit or constrain US response options. The challenge is clear. Either the US Department of Defense (DoD) evolves the way it plans, develops, buys, and manufactures new weapons systems, or it cedes the high ground to a rapidly changing global environment. Adapting and expanding advances in high performance computing (HPC), developing and employing complex physics-based software tools for high fidelity modeling and simulation, and implementing a vision that combines these elements with other processes are critical enablers the DoD is pursuing. This paper describes the synergy of three major DoD efforts designed to address needs in the areas of acquisition program development and execution: the DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) (the DoD HPCMP began as an Office of the Secretary of Defense program in 1992; in October 2011, leadership transferred to the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology; the US Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center manages the program, https://www.hpc.mil/index.php ) Computational Research and Engineering Acquisition Tools and Environments program; the Engineered Resilient Systems program; and the DoD Digital Engineering vision.
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Kennedy, Michael. "Prologue to peacekeeping: Ireland and the Saar, 1934–5." Irish Historical Studies 30, no. 119 (May 1997): 420–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021121400013237.
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A list from September 1939 of files destroyed by the Department of External Affairs in the invasion scares of 1939–40 contains an intriguing reference to the possibility of dispatching Irish military forces to the Saarland on the Franco-German border in the winter of 1934–5. There they would serve as part of an international peacekeeping force while a plebiscite on the status of the territory was carried out under League of Nations auspices in January 1935. The context of this article is the events surrounding the creation of the peacekeeping force in December 1934.That the Irish Free State should be mentioned as a possible contributor to the international force for the Saar is an illustration of the emerging mediatory role the state was to adopt after its three-year term on the League Council concluded in September 1933. With an Irish diplomat, Sean Lester, seconded to League service as High Commissioner in Danzig from 1934, and with Irish-born Edward Phelan, Assistant Director of the International Labour Organisation, being mentioned as a possible contender for the League post of Deputy Secretary-General in 1933, and with Eamon de Valera rising in importance as an international statesman and League supporter, Ireland’s involvement in the Saar was both an illustration and a result of the state’s prominent position in the League in the early to mid-1930s.
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Ezenwa-Ohaeto, Ngozi, and Ifeyinwa Success Asuzu. "Women and leadership in modern African literature: A focus on Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of Savannah." OGIRISI: a New Journal of African Studies 15, no. 1 (October 15, 2020): 20–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/og.v15i1.2s.
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The discourse on women is one which cannot be over- emphasized. The United Nations in its Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women in 1980, made expansion of opportunities for women as a key demand. The declaration contends among others, greater the participation of women in decision making. Hence, the present study examines women and leadership in modern African literature to account for their (women) involvement and the impact of their participation cum non participation, focusing on Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of Savannah. The aim is to ascertain women leadership and its impact in the wider society, with reference to Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of Savannah. The study adopts Feminism (Post structural perspective) as its theoretical consideration. Finding from the study shows that women are not adequately represented in leadership positions. However, in cases where they lead, they functioned optimally for the betterment of their society. Beatrice, for instance, a Senior Assistant Secretary in the Ministry of Finance, is a noble female leader who by her role and conduct stood out. She affected those around her positively and was a source of inspiration to Ikem, a male character, in the novel.
Keywords: Leadership, Gender, Participation, Adequately, Women, Inspiration.
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Bombelles, Thomas. "Commentary: A Merck Perspective on the Doha Round." Global Economy Journal 5, no. 4 (December 7, 2005): 1850073. http://dx.doi.org/10.2202/1524-5861.1160.
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Commentary on the Doha Development Round from a representative of Merck. Thomas Bombelles is Director, International Government Relations, for Merck & Co., Inc. His responsibilities include definition and advocacy on important international business and policy issues for the company focusing on government agencies and other institutions in Washington, DC. Prior to joining Merck, Bombelles was the Assistant Vice President International at the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), the professional association representing the American research-based pharmaceutical industry globally. He has also worked as a private sector consultant, as a trade analyst in the Department of Commerce, and in the US Congress. He received an M.A. degree from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, and a B.A. degree from the honors program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
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Rasmussen, Anders Fogh. "Priorities as Secretary General of NATO." Society and Economy 31, no. 2 (September 29, 2009): 169–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/socec.31.2009.2.1.
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Kohno, Masaru, and Atsuko Suga. "Executive Turnovers in 2000." Japanese Journal of Political Science 1, no. 2 (November 2000): 329–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1468109900002073.
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On April 5 2000, the Diet elected Yoshiro Mori as Japan's 55th prime minister. His predecessor, Keizo Obuchi, had suffered a stroke and became unable to carry out his official responsibility. Mori, who was the former Secretary General of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), inherited the three party coalition between the LDP, the new Komei Party and the Conservative Party, and reappointed all of Obuchi's cabinet members. Yohei Kono was reposted as the Minister of Foreign Affairs; Hideo Usui as Justice; Kiichi Miyazawa as Finance; Hirofumi Nakasone as Education, Science and Technology; Yuya Niwa as Health and Welfare; Tokuichiro Tanazawa as Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries; Takeshi Fukaya as International Trade and Industry; Toshihiro Nikai as Transport; Eita Yashiro as Posts and Telecommunications; Takamori Makino as Labor; Masaaki Nakayama as Construction; Kosuke Hori as Home Affairs, Mikio Aoki as Chief Cabinet Secretary; Kunihiro Tsuzuki as Management and Coordination; Tsutomu Kawara as Defense; Taichi Sakaiya as Economic Planning; Kayoko Shimizu as environment; and Sadakazu Tanigaki as Financial Reconstruction.
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Janow, M. "The work of the international competition policy advisory committee to the attorney general and the assistant attorney general for antitrust." Journal of International Economic Law 2, no. 3 (September 1, 1999): 441–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jiel/2.3.441.
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Qiu, Jane. "World Meteorological Organization: scaling the peaks for social benefits." National Science Review 5, no. 6 (October 24, 2018): 947–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwy115.
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Abstract Climate change is tightening its grip on high mountains. Yet, unlike their island counterparts, the ordeals facing mountain communities are under-studied and under-appreciated. But that's about to change. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is looking to enable better understanding of the physical processes in mountainous regions, especially their glaciers and ice fields at high elevations, by bringing together meteorological and research communities around the world. This will help identify the key stressors in the mountain environment and facilitate disaster reduction, as well as support decision making and sustainable development. In a forum chaired by David Grimes, WMO’s President, and Tandong Yao, former Director of the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and co-chair of the Third Pole Environment, a panel of international scientists with diverse backgrounds discussed which priority areas WMO should focus on, how the organization can improve data sharing, how to address climate risks and water scarcity, and how the work can benefit the societal needs of mountain communities. Joan Cuxart Researcher and lecturer on meteorology at the University of the Balearic Islands, Spain Michael Ek Meteorologist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, USA Suhaib Bin Farhan Climate scientist at the Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission, Pakistan Anil Kulkarni Glaciologist at the Indian Institute of Science, India Soroosh Sorooshian Hydrologist at the University of California Irvine, USA Wenjian Zhang Assistant Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva, Switzerland; former Deputy Administrator of the China Meteorological Administration, China David Grimes (Chair) President of the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva, Switzerland; assistant deputy minister of Environment Canada, Canada Tandong Yao (Chair) Co-chair of the Third Pole Environment; former Director of the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
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Pang, A. H. T., L. C. W. Lam, and H. F. K. Chiu. "Developing psychogeriatric services in Hong Kong." Psychiatric Bulletin 19, no. 8 (August 1995): 506–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.19.8.506.
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Hong Kong is an international trade and finance centre situated on the southern coast of China, offering a unique blend of Western culture and Chinese tradition. With a largely private primary health care system, psychiatric services here have been predominately hospital centred. Following the 1992 Government Review of Rehabilitation Program Plan (Secretary of Health and Welfare, Hong Kong, 1992) development of community-based services has become the major local issue. Psychogeriatrics is the first sub-speciality to have achieved major progress in this area. Such a development illustrates how local psychiatrists faced the challenge of applying Western models to suit an Oriental population with a different socio-cultural value system.
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Collins, Christopher. "Performing the Rural in Contemporary Irish Theatre." New Theatre Quarterly 35, no. 04 (October 8, 2019): 341–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x19000381.
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In this article Christopher Collins considers how the rural is represented in contemporary Irish theatre through a performance analysis of WillFredd Theatre’s award-winning production of FARM, staged in an industrial Dublin warehouse. Adopting a relational perspective, the article explores how the rural in contemporary Irish culture is a valuable commodity that is produced for urban consumption, and examines how the representation of the rural in FARM offered a critique of economies of capital that obscure the inherent labour of producing the rural. It also highlights how the performance explored the workings of the Irish cultural economy that produces rural nostalgia as an affective practice at the expense of some of the lived realities of rural life that extend beyond labour to loneliness, depression, and gendered essentialism. Consequently, Collins questions what, if anything, has changed from the representation and reception of the rural as nostalgic utopia, and the role nostalgia plays in articulating regional and national identities. Christopher Collins is an Assistant Professor of Drama at the University of Nottingham. He has published widely on modern and contemporary Irish theatre, including two monographs on the plays and performances of J. M. Synge. In 2016 he was appointed as Secretary General (Communications) for the International Federation for Theatre Research.
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Zhivov, Alexander M., William B. Rose, Raymond E. Patenaude, and W. Jon Williams. "Requirements for Building Thermal Conditions under Emergency Operations in Cold Climates." E3S Web of Conferences 246 (2021): 08003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202124608003.
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This paper provides recommendations on thermal and moisture parameters in different types of buildings under emergency operation in cold/arctic climates. We consider three scenarios under normal operating conditions: occupied, temporarily unoccupied, and long-term unoccupied. These thermal parameters are necessary to: (1) perform required work safely and efficiently, (2) support building processes, and (3) support long-term integrity of the building under emergency conditions (i.e., interruption of fuel, steam, hot water, and electrical service that interrupts building space conditioning). Under emergency conditions, requirements of thermal parameters for different categories of buildings may change. Mission critical areas can be conditioned to levels that support the agility of personnel who perform critical operations, but not to optimal comfort levels. Critical process requirements are given priority. This paper was developed for military applications, based on research performed under the International Energy Agency’s Energy in Buildings and Communities Program, Annex 73; under the Department of Defense Environmental Security Technology Certification Program project EW18-D1-5281, “Technologies Integration to Achieve Resilient, Low-Energy Military Installations,” and under the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army project “Thermal Energy Systems Resiliency for Army Installations located in cold climates.” Results are applicable to similar public and private sector buildings.
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Office, Editorial. "Lean, Clean and Green: A new model of multilateral development bank for building infrastructure in Asia and beyond—An interview with AIIB President Jin Liqun." Journal of Infrastructure, Policy and Development 2, no. 1 (March 2, 2018): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.24294/jipd.v2i1.548.
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Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’s president Mr. Jin Liqun shares with JIPD Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Gu Qingyang, his passion for infrastructure finance, as he reflects upon his goal of steering an environmentally friend and corruption-free AIIB toward building social-impacting infrastructure across Asia.From governmental departments to international financial institutes, Mr. Jin Liqun has undertaken almost every essential role in finance. With his vast experience across the private and public sectors, particularly in multilateral development banks, Mr. Jin Liqun currently serves as Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)’s first President since its founding in 2016, following a stint as Secretary-General of the Multilateral Interim Secretariat created to establish the bank. Beginning from his two decades of governmental experience at the Chinese Ministry of Finance, rising from the rank of Deputy Director General to Vice Minister, Mr. Jin was then called to serve as Vice President, and then Ranking Vice President, of the Asian Development Bank, and later as Alternate Executive Director for China at the World Bank and at the Global Environment Facility. Mr. Jin had also served as Chairman of China International Capital Corporation Ltd., China’s first joint-venture investment bank, in addition to serving as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the sovereign wealth fund China Investment Corporation and as Chairman of the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds.
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Posner, Michael. "Business & human rights: a commentary from the inside." Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 29, no. 4 (May 16, 2016): 705–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/aaaj-03-2016-2454.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to first, provide an overview of the genesis of the business and human rights agenda; second, to identify key areas of focus in the emerging business and human rights agenda; and, finally, to argue for an approach to engaging business in the human rights agenda that is both challenging and practically orientated. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws on the author’s ethnographic experiences both as a human rights advocate with Human Rights First (1978-2009) and as Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor at the US State Department (2009-2013). Findings – The paper links the business and human rights agenda to the growth in size and power of corporations. It identifies six key areas of focus in this emerging agenda, specifically, supply chains and labor rights, the extractive industries especially relating to security, information technology and issues of freedom of expression, agriculture and issues of child and forced labor, and investment and socially responsible investors. The paper contends that business schools have a crucial role to play in engaging businesses in a challenging and practical way to provide them with workable solutions to these challenges. Research limitations/implications – The paper contends that we have come to the end of the beginning of the discussion of business and human rights and are now in the phase of defining what the rules are in this twenty-first century global economy. The paper provides important considerations for taking this phase forward. Originality/value – This paper provides original insights into the emergence of the business and human rights agenda. It identifies key areas of focus along with a valuable approach to making progress in these areas.
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Batool, Syeda Hina, Ahsan Ullah, and Waqar Ahmad Awan. "International Conference on Information Management & Libraries (ICIML): An Overview." Pakistan Journal of Information Management and Libraries 16 (December 1, 2015): 49–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.47657/201516751.
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The centennial celebrations under the theme “Looking Back, Moving Forward” took place under the leadership of the Chair, Professor Dr. Kanwal Ameen throughout the year 2015. A number of events were planned in this regard. However, the highlight of the centenary celebrations was the International Conference on Information Management and Libraries (ICIML), held from November 10-13th, 2015.Professor Kanwal Ameen, served as the Conference Chair, Professor (Honorary) Mumtaz Ali Anwar, as the Honorary Chair and Dr. Muhammad Rafiq, Associate Professor, as the Secretary of the Conference. To organize this mega event, six committees were formulated, i.e. Program Advisory; Organizing; Promotion; Sponsorship; Finance and Registration convened by Dr. Nosheen Fatima, Dr. Shafiq-ur-Rehman, Syeda Hina Batool, Haseeb Ahmed Piracha, Alia Arshad and Amara Malik respectively. In addition to these committees, a number of volunteers did a lot of work for making this event successful.More than 500 participants from Asia, Middle East, Africa, Europe and USA attended the conference. Eighty authors contributed 57 presentations including 3 key note speeches, 13 invited papers, 15 full papers, 9 short papers, 7 best practices and 10 short presentations (PechaKuchas) during four days of conference. The contributors presented their papers on education, information seeking, information literacy, management, ICT, Big data, Scientometrics, Makerspaces in libraries, E-books, digital libraries, disaster management, library services and other areas. Each session included questions-answer by the audience after the papers’ presentations, and concluding remarks by the Chairs. At the end of session, presenters, secretaries and chairs were presented souvenirs by the Conference Chair. The conference was exemplary in time management from the very beginning to the last event and applauded for this aspect by all.
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Johnson, Alan. "Introduction Hal Draper: A Biographical Sketch." Historical Materialism 4, no. 1 (1999): 181–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156920699100414364.
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AbstractHal Draper was born in Brooklyn in 1914, to East European Jewish immigrant parents. In 1932 he became active in the Student League for Industrial Democracy and the Socialist Party youth section, the Young People's Socialist League (YPSL). A leader of the Student Strikes Against War, he became an associate editor of Socialist Appeal in 1934. In 1937, the socialist youth, led by Draper and Ernest Erber, voted to support the Fourth International after Trotsky's followers entered the Socialist Party (SP). Draper opposed the subsequent split in the SP, which Trotsky and James P. Cannon deliberately provoked, but left with the Trotskyists and became the national secretary of the Socialist Workers’ Party's youth group, a member of its first National Executive, and the secretary of the party's National Education Department. Irving Howe, a YPSL comrade, later recalled his admiration. Draper was, ‘genuinely learned in Marxism, with a mind that marched from one theorem to another as if God were clearing his way’, a youth leader who ‘would speak for us with a razored lucidity’ in debate with the Stalinists. Draper was part of the minority when the SWP split in 1940 over two issues, the ‘Russian question’ and the ‘bureaucratic conservatism’ of James P. Cannon's internal party regime. Draper became a founder member of the Workers’ Party (WP) , led by Max Shachtman, which developed an analysis of the Soviet Union as neither a ‘workers’ state’ nor state capitalist but a new form of exploiting class society, bureaucratic collectivism. The WP refused to ‘defend the Soviet Union’ and developed a distinctive democratic revolutionary Marxism, summed up by the slogan, ‘Neither Washington nor Moscow but the Third Camp of Independent Socialism!’. And, in reaction to Cannon's monolithic conception of the party, the WP developed a highly democratic internal political culture marked by ‘an atmosphere of genuine tolerance’ unceasing internal debate carried in the public press, and untrammelled rights for minorities.
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Alsawas, Mouaz, Zhen Wang, M. Hassan Murad, and Mohammed Yousufuddin. "Gender disparities among hospitalised patients with acute myocardial infarction, acute decompensated heart failure or pneumonia: retrospective cohort study." BMJ Open 9, no. 1 (January 2019): e022782. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022782.
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ObjectiveTo assess gender disparity in outcomes among hospitalised patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) or pneumonia.DesignA retrospective cohort study.SettingA tertiary referral centre in Midwest, USA.ParticipantsWe evaluated 12 265 adult patients hospitalised with ADHF, 15 777 with AMI and 12 929 with pneumonia, from 1 January 1995 through 31 August 2015. Patients were selected using International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification codes.Primary and secondary outcome measuresPrevalence of comorbidities, 30-day mortality and 30-day readmission. Comorbidities were chosen from the 20 chronic conditions, specified by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health. Logistic regression analysis was conducted adjusting for multiple confounders.ResultsPrevalence of comorbidities was significantly different between men and women in all three conditions. After adjusting for age, length of stay, multicomorbidities and residence, there was no significant difference in 30-day mortality between men and women in AMI or ADHF, but men with pneumonia had slightly higher 30-day mortality with an OR of 1.19 (95% CI 1.06 to 1.34). There was no significant difference in 30-day readmission between men and women with AMI or pneumonia, but women with ADHF were slightly more likely to be readmitted within 30 days with OR 0.90 (95% CI 0.82 to 0.99).ConclusionGender differences in the distribution of comorbidities exist in patients hospitalised with AMI, ADHF and pneumonia. However, there is minimal clinically meaningful impact of these differences on outcomes. Efforts to address gender difference may need to be diverted towards targeting overall population health, reducing race/ethnicity disparity and improving access to care.
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Bariun, Fawzia. "The International Seminar on Malik Bennabi." American Journal of Islam and Society 8, no. 3 (December 1, 1991): 463–567. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v8i3.2609.
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This conference was the first international seminar in the Muslim worldto focus on the thought of Malik Bennabi (1905-1973), an Algerian thinkerknown to English readers for his book The Quranic Phenomenon. It wasorganized by the University of Malaya, the Institute of Policy Research, andseveral other academic institutions. The seminar's patron was Datuk SeriAnwar Ibrahim, the Malaysian minister of finance, a political activist andintellectual who has a great interest in Malik Bennabi's thought. The seminar'sobjectives were to generate a greater interest in Bennabi's ideas amongMalaysian intellectuals and to highlight his impact on contemporary Muslimsociety.The keynote and official address was given by Anwar Ibrahim. In hisspeech, he emphasized that while Muslims are faced with economic, political,and technological challenges, the most important challenge is the intellectualone, as this penetrates the deepest and has the strongest impact. Ideas whichexamine this challenge and investigate the static temperaments of our thinkingprocess are urgently needed. Within this framework, 'time has vindicatedBennabi's avowal that ideas are the catalysts behind the growth of civilization,"for civilization is not an accumulation, as Bennabi maintains, but rather aconstruction and an architecture. In his concise speech, Anwar Ibrahimpresented and elaborated on some of Bennabi's insights found in his Islamin History and Sociology, translated from the French Vocation de l'lslam byAsma Rashid of Pakistan. The second printing of his book, containing a forwardby Anwar Ibrahim and published by Berita, was released during the seminaralong with its translation into Bahasa Malayu, the Malaysian national language.The afternoon session consisted of a special address by Abdullah Na if,the secretary general of Rabitah. Nasif, who had met Bennabi in Cairo verybriefly and became acquainted with his ideas later on, stated that these ideasas just as relevant to the condition of Muslims today as they were decadesago. He then highlighted some of Bennabi's speculations by addressingquestions such a : Have we identified our dilemma? Are we making use ofthe trends interacting within the ummah such as those of the last twenty yearsof the Islamic awakening (sahwah)? Are we making plans for the future?Have we become capable of conducting research and moving from individual ...
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INOGUCHI, TAKASHI. "Executive Turnovers September 2003–September 2004." Japanese Journal of Political Science 5, no. 2 (November 2004): 331–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1468109904001562.
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Executive turnovers during September 2003 and September 2004 were moderate, as was the case the preceding year. The reason for this is that Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has made it a rule to limit change of cabinet members (Inoguchi, 2004). The Liberal Democratic Party's Presidential election took place in September 2003, giving approval to Koizumi to continue without rival candidates. Koizumi reshuffled his cabinet on September 22, with key cabinet ministers kept intact. They included Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda, Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi, Welfare and Labor Minister Chikara Sakaguchi, Economics, Finance and Monetary Affairs Minister Heizo Takenaka. Besides a portfolio to each of the two coalition partners, Koizumi saw to it: (1) that the execution of his structural reform would be spearheaded by a non-compromising reformist academic, Takenaka; (2) that faction-based appointments be reduced to a minimum by appointing those who are not tainted by old-fashioned factional affiliations and ties, i.e., three non-parliamentary members and four female ministers.
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Tayauova, Gulzhanat. "EDITORIAL." New Trends and Issues Proceedings on Humanities and Social Sciences 6, no. 8 (December 31, 2019): I. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/prosoc.v6i8.4568.
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It is with great honor that we edit the proceedings of “7th Global Conference on Business, Economics, Management and Tourism (BEMTUR-2019)”, Lara – Antalya, Turkey, Turkey, 18-20 October 2019.
As the guest editors of this issue, we are glad to have received a variety of articles focusing on Accounting, International Finance, Advertising Management, Labor Economics, Business & Economics, Labor Relations & Human Resource Management, Business Ethics, Law and Economics, Business Intelligence, Management Information Systems, Business Information Systems, Management Science, Business Law, Market Structure and Pricing, Business Performance Management, Marketing Research and Strategy, Business Statistics, Marketing Theory and Applications, Change Management Operations Research, Communications Management, Organizational Behavior & Theory, Comparative Economic Systems, Organizational Communication, Consumer Behavior, Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles, Corporate Finance and Governance, Product Management, Corporate Governance, Production and Organizations, Cost Management, Production/Operations Management, Decision Sciences, Public Administration and Small Business Entrepreneurship, Development Planning and Policy, Public Choice, Economic Development, Public Economics and Finance, Economic Methodology, Public Relations, Economic Policy, Public Responsibility and Ethics, E-Business, Regulatory Economics, E- Marketing, Resource Management, Economic Systems, Strategic Management, Entrepreneurship, Strategic Management Policy, Finance & Investment, Stress Management, Financial Economics, Supply Change Management, Global Business, Systems Management, Global Marketing, Systems Thinking, Growth; Aggregate Productivity, Taxes (related areas of taxes), Household Behavior and Family Economics, Technological Change; Research and Development, Human Resource, Technology & Innovation, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Time Management, Information Systems, Total Quality Management, Information Technology Management, Travel/Transportation/Tourism, International Business, Welfare Economics, International Economics etc. Furthermore, the conference is getting more international each year, which is an indicator that it is getting worldwide known and recognized. Scholars from all over the world contributed to the conference. Special thanks are to all the reviewers, the members of the international editorial board, the publisher, and those involved in technical processes. We would like to thank all who contributed to in every process to make this issue actualized. A total of 29 full papers or abstracts were submitted for this conference and each paper has been peer reviewed by the reviewers specialized in the related field. At the end of the review process, a total of 5 high quality research papers were selected and accepted for publication.
I hope that you will enjoy reading the papers.
Best Regards
Guest Editors
Prof. Dr. Gulzhanat Tayauova, Almaty Management University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Editorial Assistant
Zeynep Genc, PhD. Istanbul Aydin University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Andreev, Alexander Alexeevich, and Anton Petrovich Ostroushko. "Mikhail Izrailevich PERELMAN - Russian and Soviet surgeon, academician of the USSR Academy of medical Sciences — RAMN (to the 95th of birthday)." Journal of Experimental and Clinical Surgery 12, no. 4 (October 28, 2019): 292. http://dx.doi.org/10.18499/2070-478x-2019-12-4-292-292.
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Mikhail israelevich was born on December 20, 1924 in Minsk. He lived in the cities of Borisov, Gomel and Vitebsk. With the beginning of the war he went to the Caucasus, where in 1941 he entered the North Ossetian medical Institute (Vladikavkaz), moving to study in Novosibirsk, Yaroslavl. From 1944 to 1951 he worked as an assistant of the departments of normal anatomy, topographic anatomy and operative surgery, hospital surgery of Yaroslavl medical Institute, doctor of the regional station of sanitary aviation. In the summer of 1947 he worked in the hospitals of Kologriv, Rybinsk. From 1954 to 1955-assistant of the Department of operative surgery and topographic anatomy of the 1st Moscow medical Institute, and then associate Professor at the course of surgery of pulmonary tuberculosis at the Department of tuberculosis of the Central Institute of advanced medical. From 1958 to 1962-head of the Department of surgery of the small circle of blood circulation in the research Institute of experimental biology and medicine of the Siberian branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk), from 1963 thoracic surgery research Institute of clinical and experimental surgery of the USSR Ministry of health (now rsch RAMS), which led for 18 years. In 1964 he was awarded the title of Professor and this year he is a consultant of the 4th Main Directorate of the Ministry of health of the USSR. Since 1966-Chairman of the problem Commission "Thoracic surgery" Of the scientific Council on surgery of RAMS. From 1969 to 1991-General Secretary of the all-Union society of surgeons. Since 1971-member Of the international society of surgeons. In 1980 he was elected a corresponding member, and in 1986 academician of the Academy of medical Sciences of the USSR. In 1981, he moved to the position of head of the Department, and then Director of the Institute of Phthisiopulmonology of the Moscow medical Academy. I. M. Sechenov, became a consultant Of the Russian scientific center of surgery RAMS. M. I. Perelman author of 24 monographs and books, 32 chapters in domestic and foreign manuals and books, 35 articles in encyclopedias, 250 articles in the Central domestic and foreign journals, author or consultant of 9 scientific and educational films, was the supervisor of 68 candidate and scientific consultant in the preparation of 25 doctoral dissertations. Mikhail was the editor-in-chief of the journal "problems of tuberculosis and lung diseases", Deputy editor-in-chief of the "medical referral journal", a member of the editorial Board of the multi-volume edition of "International Trendsin" General Thoracic Surgery", magazines of" world of Surgery"," Pulmonology "and"world of Surgery". In 2013, Mikhail Perelman died and was buried at Novodevichy cemetery.
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"DOCUMENTATION: Statement by the Secretary-General of ASEAN Welcoming the Kingdom of Cambodia as the Tenth Member State of ASEAN, ASEAN Secretariat, 30 April 1999." Southeast Asian Economies 16, no. 2 (1999): 243–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1355/ae16-2h.
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Karatas, Abdullah. "High Quality Liquid Sukūk: Relevance, Practice, and Empirical Research in the Context of Rising Global Interest Rates." Applied Economics and Finance 4, no. 2 (February 6, 2017): 141. http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/aef.v4i2.2046.
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Liquidity management has always been a major issue in Islamic banking. In the early years of the industry, a major problem was a general tendency toward excess liquidity. In the future, the main issue in the context of depressed oil prices, a rising global interest-rate environment, and a tightened regulatory landscape under Basel III is likely to be a relative scarcity of high quality liquid assets (HQLA), or high quality liquid sukūk (Note 1). The incoming U.S. Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin has already indicated that the Trump administration’s plans could rapidly turbocharge the U.S. economy, thereby altering the prevailing low-interest rate dynamic at the U.S. Federal Reserve (“U.S. Fed”), leading many to anticipate higher interest rates (Wigglesworth & Moore, 2016).Among the available liquidity management instruments in Islamic banking, only sukūk of a particular type meet the requirements of HQLA (in principle) as defined by the Basel Committee and adapted for Islamic finance by the IFSB (Islamic Financial Services Board). Candidates for HQLA are only international sukūk, i.e. sukūk that are issued in an international currency, listed, and traded not only locally but also internationally. Sovereigns and international institutions such as the IDB have issued almost all sukūk of this caliber. In this paper, we will make empirically informed qualitative projections on the outlook for HQL (high quality liquid) sukūk in the context of a rising global interest-rate environment.
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Bektas, Prof Dr Cetin. "EDITORIAL." New Trends and Issues Proceedings on Humanities and Social Sciences 6, no. 3 (September 18, 2019): I. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/prosoc.v6i3.4578.
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It is with great honor that we edit the proceedings of “8th World Conference on Business, Economics and Management (BEM-2019)”, Grand Park Lara Hotel Convention Center, Antalya, Turkey, 26-28 April 2019. This privileged scientific event has contributed to the field of ELT for the eight year.
As the guest editors of this issue, we are glad to have received a variety of articles focusing on Accounting, International Finance, Advertising Management, Labor Economics, Business & Economics, Labor Relations & Human Resource Management, Business Ethics, Law and Economics, Business Intelligence, Management Information Systems, Business Information Systems, Management Science, Business Law, Market Structure and Pricing, Business Performance Management, Marketing Research and Strategy, Business Statistics, Marketing Theory and Applications, Change Managementi Operations Research, Communications Management, Organizational Behavior & Theory, Comparative Economic Systems, Organizational Communication, Consumer Behavior, Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles, Corporate Finance and Governance, Product Management, Corporate Governance, Production and Organizations, Cost Management, Production/Operations Management, Decision Sciences, Public Administration and Small Business Entrepreneurship, Development Planning and Policy, Public Choice, Economic Development, Public Economics and Finance, Economic Methodology, Public Relations, Economic Policy, Public Responsibility and Ethics, E-Bussiness, Regulatory Economics, E- Marketing, Resource Management, Economic Systems, Strategic Management, Entrepreneurship, Strategic Management Policy, Finance & Investment, Stress Management, Financial Economics, Supply Change Management, Global Business, Systems Management, Global Marketing, Systems Thinking, Growth; Aggregate Productivity, Taxes (related areas of taxes), Household Behavior and Family Economics, Technological Change; Research and Development, Human Resource, Technology & Innovation, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Time Management, Information Systems, Total Quality Management, Information Technology Management, Travel/Transportation/Tourism, International Business, Welfare Economics, International Economics etc. Furthermore, the conference is getting more international each year, which is an indicator that it is getting worldwide known and recognized. Scholars from all over the world contributed to the conference. Special thanks are to all the reviewers, the members of the international editorial board, the publisher, and those involved in technical processes. We would like to thank all who contributed to in every process to make this issue actualized. A total of 45 full papers or abstracts were submitted for this conference and each paper has been peer reviewed by the reviewers specialized in the related field. At the end of the review process, a total of 12 high quality research papers were selected and accepted for publication.
I hope that you will enjoy reading the papers.
Best Regards
Guest Editors
Prof. Dr. Cetin Bektas, Gaziosmanpasa University, Turkey
Editorial Assistant
Zeynep Genc, Phd. Istanbul Aydin University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Kenen, Peter B. "Organizing Debt Relief: The Need for a New Institution." Journal of Economic Perspectives 4, no. 1 (February 1, 1990): 7–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/jep.4.1.7.
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In March 1989, the new U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Nicholas Brady, endorsed a change in strategy for dealing with developing country debt, calling for a three-year waiver of clauses in existing loan agreements that stand in the way of debt reduction “to accelerate sharply the pace of debt reduction and pass the benefits directly to the debtor nations,” and called on the IMF and World Bank to use some of their policy-based lending to aid the debt-reducing process. Events moved rapidly thereafter. Is there anything left to argue about? Unhappily, yes. Advocates of debt relief, like myself, maintain that the Brady plan will not go far enough. It relies too heavily on debtors and creditors to strike mutually beneficial bargains; it does not provide enough resources to generate the deep debt reductions that debtors need to solve their problems; and it does not shift risk forthrightly enough from private lenders to official creditors. I would correct the defects of the Brady plan by creating a new international institution to manage and finance the debt-reducing process or assign the task to an existing institution but give it enough resources to get the job done.
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Ljerka, Luić, and Miroslav Bojović. "Effect of ICT on the Social Dimension of Short-Term and Long-Term Alignment of the Participants in the Construction of a Knowledge Society." Advanced Materials Research 601 (December 2012): 508–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.601.508.
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Information and communication technologies are also facilitating a rapid globalization of economic activity. In an increasingly global economy, where knowledge about how to excel competitively and information about who excels are both more readily available, the effective creation, use and dissemination of knowledge is increasingly the key to success, and thus to sustainable economic and social development that benefits us all. Innovation, which fuels new job creation and economic growth, is quickly becoming the key factor in global competitiveness. In order to realize the goals stated, a modelling method was used by setting causal models derived by applying the PATH analysis, as viewed from the aspect of the social dimension of short-term and long-term alignment, which were obtained by conducting research on a sample composed of 45 institutions from the higher education system of the Republic of Croatia and their managers in permanent (finance director, secretary) and elective positions (chancellor, vice-chancellor, dean, vice-dean). Research results abstract the conclusion which expresses a novel premise that strategic planning of the integrated business and information system significantly depends on long-term management alignment, directly influenced by common knowledge on domain and financing. The propounded premise represents a possible impulse for further in-depth research that should be undertaken longitudinally in this author’s view, using as large sample of international character as possible.
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Andreev, Alexander Alexeevich, and Anton Petrovich Ostroushko. "Alexander Mikhailovich AMINEV – surgeon, Professor, Honored worker of science of the RSFSR (to the 115th of birthday)." Journal of Experimental and Clinical Surgery 12, no. 4 (October 28, 2019): 293. http://dx.doi.org/10.18499/2070-478x-2019-12-4-293-293.
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Alexander Aminev was born in 1904 in the village of Pokrovsky, Artyomovsky District, Sverdlovsk Region. From 1914 to 1919, he studied at the men's gymnasium, after the second grade school. Irbitsk. In 1921, Alexander Mikhailovich entered the medical faculty of the Ural University. In 1926, he became an intern at the Proedeutic Surgery Clinic, and then Assistant of the Department of General Surgery of the Medical Faculty of Perm University. In 1935 he was awarded the academic title of candidate of medical sciences. From 1936-1937 years A.M. Aminev worked as a director of the propedeutic surgical clinic, from 1936-1938. - Secretary of the editorial staff of the Works, from 1937 - assistant professor, from 1937 to October 1938. From 1937 he began to study and develop an endoscopic method - peritoneoscopy, for the first time in the USSR Endoscopic liver biopsy, liver wound tamponade and epiploon, removal of a foreign body from the abdominal cavity and dissection of adhesions. In 1938, A.M. Astrakhan was appointed director and at the same time head of the department of faculty surgery at the Astrakhan Medical Institute. In 1940, he received the degree of Doctor of Medical Sciences and the title of professor. Since the beginning of World War II, Professor A.M. Aminev was appointed part-time free surgery of the hospital department of the Astrakhan regional health department. In September 1942, he was called up to the front by an army surgeon of the 28th Combined Arms, and then the 5th Panzer Army, and went from Stalingrad to Berlin.In 1945, A.M. Aminev moved to Kuibyshev, where he became head of the department of hospital surgery, headed for almost 40 years. In 1948 he wrote the first in the country monograph on peritoneoscopy on laparoscopy. He became the author of 14 monographs and 265 scientific papers on coloproctology. In 1964 he was awarded the honorary title of Honored Scientist of the RSFSR. In 1969 "Lectures on proctology" were published, they were marked with the Prize for them. N.I. Pirogov, Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR. In the aggregate, A.M. Aminev is the author of 37 monographs and 518 scientific papers. Among his students are 112 candidates and 35 doctors of medical sciences.Alexander Mikhailovich is a member of the Board of Directors of Surgery, a member of the Board of the All-Union and All-Russian Scientific Society, a chairman of the Kuybyshev Regional Scientific Society of Surgery, an honorary member of the international community, and also a co-editor of the journal Gastroenterology, Colon and Rectum Surgery (USA), honorary member 11 scientific surgical societies of the country. He was beaten by a deputy of the regional, city and district Soviets of Workers' Deputies. A.M. Aminev was awarded the Order of Lenin (twice), the October Revolution, the Red Star, World War 1 and 2 degrees, eight medals. Alexander Mikhailovich died on February 11, 1984 and was buried in Kuibyshev, since 1991 - Samara.After the death of the scientist, his name was given. In 2007, in Samara, on Galaktionovskaya Street, where A.M. Aminev, a plaque was opened in his honor.
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T. A., Krishna, and Suresha B. "Do geopolitical tensions instigate mindless following in stock markets? An empirical enquiry into the indices of CNX Nifty HFT." Investment Management and Financial Innovations 18, no. 2 (June 24, 2021): 335–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/imfi.18(2).2021.27.
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Geopolitical tensions between nations play a crucial role in triggering volatility and affecting the investors’ behavior in stock markets. This empirical work attempts to detect the traces of herding and bubble embedded in the Indian stock indices of CNX Nifty 50 and CNX Nifty 100 (both in High-Frequency Trading domains) during the latest events of geopolitical tensions escalated between India-China and India-Pakistan. An event window approach is employed to capture the impact of these events on herding behavior and information uncertainty in the considered stock indices. Multifractal Detrended Fluctuation Analysis (MFDFA) is applied to compute the Hurst value in all the trading days of the event window. The results of both indices exhibit conclusive evidence of herding and bubble formation during the overall period of geopolitical tensions between India-China and India-Pakistan. However, the degree of herding in the stock indices intensifies to a profound pattern when the tensions between India and China escalated into deadly violent clashes, and also during the heightened tensions between India and Pakistan that eventually ended up in airstrikes across the boundaries. The overall level of information uncertainty depicted by entropy is within control. The volatility in these stock indices has been confirmed to follow a unidirectional pattern. AcknowledgementsThe authors express their sincere thanks of gratitude to Dr. Bikramaditya Ghosh (Professor, Department of Finance and Analytics, RV Institute of Management, Bangalore, India) for his instrumental role in encouraging and motivating them to accomplish this research task. The authors also extend their sincere thanks to Dr. Manu K.S. (Assistant Professor, School of business and management, CHRIST (Deemed to be university), Bangalore, India) for his continued support throughout this empirical investigation.
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Ali, Muhammad Yousuf, Salaman Bin Naeem, and Rubina Bhatti. "Artificial intelligence tools and perspectives of university librarians: An overview." Business Information Review 37, no. 3 (September 2020): 116–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0266382120952016.
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The main purpose of this paper is to assess and examine the possible application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools in Pakistani academic libraries, particularly those areas of library technical and library user services where AI could be applied in the near future. A secondary purpose is to bring the library perspective on AI to the forefront of the scholarly world. This is a self-exploratory study, in which a qualitative approach interview has been conducted with 10 chief librarians/library heads (5 public + 5 private sectors) from universities regarding their views on the adoption of artificial intelligence tools in Pakistani academic libraries. Results are tabulated in a descriptive format. Librarians are aware of AI technologies. Services based on Natural Language Processing (NLP) are used in libraries, e.g. Google Assistant, Voice Searching, and Google Translate. Pattern recognition methods, such as text data mining, are also used to retrieve library material and conduct online searching. Big data is accessed via services such as cloud computing, OneDrive, and Google Drive. There is a very low level of awareness of robotics and chatbots. This study provides librarians with suggestions as to how AI tools could be used in libraries which either have yet to adopt AI technologies or wish to implement more advanced tools. Pakistani library schools could collaborate with computer science departments to establish AI Labs in the respective library and information science (LIS) departments/libraries. AI challenges funding and technological skills are the key problem to implement with AI in the University Libraries.
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Amjad, Rashid. "Investing in People (The Presidential Address)." Pakistan Development Review 48, no. 4I (December 1, 2009): 331–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.30541/v48i4ipp.331-335.
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Syed Naveed Qamar, Federal Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources, Dr Ishfaq Ahmad, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Professor Syed Nawab Haider Naqvi, Former President, PSDE, Dr Sarfraz Khan Qureshi, Former President, PSDE, Dr G. M. Arif, Secretary, PSDE, Past Presidents and Distinguished Members of the Society. Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen It is my pleasure to welcome you all to the 25th Annual General Meeting and Conference of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists. We are extremely grateful to Syed Naveed Qamar, Federal Minister, Petroleum and Natural Resources, for having spared his precious time to join us at the inaugural session. It was during your tenure as Finance Minister that important and difficult economic decisions were taken to restore macroeconomic stability resulting from the unprecedented increases in international commodity prices, the global financial meltdown and neglect and inaction of past policy-makers. That the economy today has achieved macro stability in many of the key indicators is to a large measure the result of these decisions. I am also extremely grateful to our Patron Dr Ishfaq Ahmad, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, for his active interest and support to the work of our Society. A warm welcome to our members and guests who have come from different parts of the country and abroad. It is especially satisfying to see our future economists from all over the country join us at the Conference. Let me join Dr Arif in welcoming Dr Mohsin Khan who will be delivering the Quaid-i-Azam Lecture, Professor Hirashima who will be delivering the Allama Iqbal Lecture, Professor John Casterline, the Mahbubul Haq Lecture and Professor Robin Burgess, the Gustav Ranis Lecture (which we started last year).
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Day, Alison, and Louise Goswami. "Driving change with evidence and knowledge: Transforming knowledge services for the NHS across England." Business Information Review 37, no. 1 (March 2020): 10–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0266382120909240.
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Health Education England (HEE) through its publication of Knowledge for Healthcare (HEE (2014) Knowledge for Healthcare: a development framework for NHS Library and Knowledge Services in England 2015–2020. https://www.hee.nhs.uk/sites/default/files/documents/Knowledge_for_healthcare_a_development_framework_2014.pdf sets out an ambitious vision to transform NHS Library and Knowledge Services at a time of great change for the health service. Five years on this article outlines the key strand of work undertaken to mobilise evidence and organisational knowledge at scale across the health service in England. Using evidence and knowledge is crucial to drive and sustain change and the role of librarians and knowledge specialists is business critical to underpin this service transformation in healthcare. Driver diagrams were used to plan the work to encourage NHS organisations to apply and use evidence, build know-how, continue to learn and drive innovation. Engagement with senior stakeholders was a critical enabler and the impact of the #AMillionDecisions advocacy campaign to highlight the multiple benefits of working with librarians and knowledge specialists is considered. The development of practical tools has supported delivery. These have included a maturity model self-assessment tool to identify opportunities to use evidence and knowledge by senior leaders and updating of the NHS Knowledge Mobilisation Framework e-learning and postcards to enable healthcare staff to use simple knowledge management techniques to share their knowledge and learning. This work was dependent upon developing the skills of existing health librarians and various approaches are described. The article concludes with a reflection on the recommendations from the Topol Review (Topol E (2019) The Topol Review. Preparing the healthcare workforce to deliver the digital future. An independent report on behalf of the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. https://topol.hee.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/HEE-Topol-Review-2019.pdf (accessed 31 January 2020)) to expand the knowledge specialist workforce and outlines future developments planned for the next 5 years and beyond.
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Andreev, Alexander Alekceevich, and Anton Petrovich Ostroushko. "Vladimir Dmitrievich FEDOROV, doctor of medical Sciences, Professor, academician, Director of the Institute of surgery them. A.V. Vishnevsky (to 85-th anniversary from birthday)." Vestnik of Experimental and Clinical Surgery 11, no. 1 (April 8, 2018): 81. http://dx.doi.org/10.18499/2070-478x-2018-11-1-81.
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Vladimir Dmitrievich Fedorov was born on 21 March 1933 in Moscow. After finishing school he entered in the 2nd Moscow medical Institute named after N. And. Pirogov (1950-1956), where he performed the duties of Secretary of the Bureau of the Komsomol of the course and the member of the Komsomol Committee of the Institute; engaged in experimental work on the defibrillation of the heart. Studied in residency (1956-1958), graduate school (1958-1960), worked as a teaching assistant (1960-1966) and then associate Professor (1966-1971) chair of hospital surgery of the 2nd Moscow state medical Institute. In 1963 he defended his Ph. D. in 1971 doctoral dissertation. In 1972, Vladimir Dmitrievich Fedorov was appointed Director of research laboratory surgery clinic of the Ministry of health of the RSFSR. In 1976, on the initiative of V. D. Fedorov was the first in the USSR Department of Coloproctology of the Central doctors improvement Institute, which he headed for 13 years. In 1982 he was elected a corresponding member, and in 1986, academician of the Academy of medical Sciences (AMS) of the USSR. Since 1988, Vladimir Fyodorov, Director of the Institute of surgery named after AV Vishnevsky Academy of medical Sciences of the USSR. In 1990, V. D. Fedorov elected to the chair of surgery, faculty of postgraduate professional education of Moscow medical Academy named after I. M. Sechenov. Since 1974 he worked as a Deputy chief surgeon of the Medical center of President's Affairs Administration of the Russian Federation.
D. Fedorov is the author of over 500 scientific works, including 13 copyright certificates and patents, and 20 monographs. Under his leadership, and counseling are protected by 32 doctoral and 47 master's theses.
V. D. Fedorov was an honorary member of the Russian Association of endoscopic surgery and the Association hepatobiliary surgery, Moscow surgical society, surgical scientific societies of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and the Saratov region, Chairman of the surgical section and member of the Presidium of scientific medical Council of Ministry of health of the Russian Federation, a member of the Interdepartmental health Council, Deputy chief editor of the journal "Surgery", member of the editorial Board of the journal "Surgical Laparoscopy and Endoscopy" and one of the oldest journals "British Journal of Surgery". For two years he headed the Association of surgeons named after N. And. Pirogov (1992-1994). More than 10 years he was a member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of medical Sciences and performed the duties of Chairman of the Board of Directors of the institutes of the Russian Academy of medical Sciences. Vladimir Dmitrievich, a foreign member of the Belarusian Academy of medical Sciences (2000) and the Academy of Sciences of Moldova (2003), honorary Professor of the Petrovsky national research center of the Russian Academy of medical Sciences and the Bashkir medical College. Academician V. D. Fedorov is the main national representative in the International society of surgeons (1990) national representative in the International society of University surgeons Coloproctology. Mr Kuznetsov – laureate of the State prize of the USSR (1985) and the RSFSR (1991), RF Government prize (2002), Honored scientist of Russia (1997), awarded the order of red banner of Labor (1976, 1978), Lenin (1983), "For merits before Fatherland" III degree, Friendship of peoples (1993).
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Hu, Xiuying, and Guanjun Wang. "The Study on Development and Countermeasures of Qingdao Sailing in Under the Background of “The 2018 SCO Summit”." Asian Social Science 14, no. 12 (November 29, 2018): 236. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ass.v14n12p236.
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The SCO summit of Qingdao was an important diplomatic activity for China, and it was a global event.
General secretary Jinping Xi has given important instructions on the success of the SCO summit in Qingdao. He has hoped to sum up the useful experience of “having a good meeting and invigorating a city” carefully.
The historical experience has also proved once again that an important international conference brings great impetus and promotion effect to a city. Therefore, as the “SCO summit city”, Qingdao is also the “Olympic sailing capital” and “ocean city”.
With the continuous development of China’s marine sports, sailing has gradually entered the horizon of people. However, China started late in sailing, and competitive sailing has only achieved relatively good results in recent years. It is developing competitive sailing boats. At the same time, the development of recreational sailing is also to be strengthened. The development of recreational sailing is in line with people’s demands for exploration of the sea, recreation, and healthy life, so that the popularity of sailing has become a national sport that has strengthened both the north and the south of China. The interaction between the parties has also strengthened economic and cultural exchanges and cooperation between home and abroad. (Qing, 2018)
This article has analyzed the status quo of the development of leisure sailing in Qingdao. Its purpose was to analyze the problems of leisure sailing in the process of developing idle resources and lack of reserve forces, and proposed the corresponding solutions and suggestions. For example: rational using of resources to deal with seasonal changes; using of media channels to promote leisure Sailing; developing of reserve forces; sailing events for the masses; organizing community activities. At the same time, it has drawn same lessons from the development experience of foreign leisure sailing and selects suitable methods to cater for the development of leisure sailing in Qingdao.
This article has used the literature, expert interviews and questionnaires to explore the current status of the development of leisure sailing in order to promote the coordinated development of leisure sailing in Qingdao in the future with social, economic and cultural development.
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Koul, Saroj, and Hima Gupta. "Leveraging the balanced scorecard – a tool for SME advancement." Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies 11, no. 2 (May 17, 2021): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/eemcs-08-2020-0282.
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Learning outcomes Illustrate the typical organizational responsibility of a small, medium industry dealing with precision manufacturing products. Introduce a balanced scorecard (BSC) as a concept about the case in the context. Introduce the parameters specific to small and medium enterprise (SME) that could be considered to be part of the key performance indicators. Understand the advantages and disadvantages of using a BSC in SMEs in emerging economies. Case overview/ synopsis Gopika Rani, the recently hired Executive Assistant along with Sanjana M, the Business Development Manager of SEP India Private Ltd. (SEPI), a small medium enterprise, were finalizing a proposal for the forthcoming “India Small Business Excellence Awards 2020.” The proposal was to be considered by the Board of Directors scheduled to meet next week for approvals. Sanjana apprises Gopika on CRISIL’s policy advisory role and its annual awards scheme for SMEs in India. She also details recent modifications announced by the Government of India that had impacted SEPI and was pertinent for filling the application. Gopika understood that SEPI was well-known for the precision and durability of its component, and was poised for growth. The business catered to global suppliers (Tier-1 companies) of the Indian automotive industry that accounted for over 75% and the balance contributed to exports. SEPI’s unique products such as Starter Motor Ignition or the Fuel Vending pump (Automotive) or the non-automotive products such as arrowheads and bowstrings (sports) or the heart-valves (medical) have all the quality certifications. For new product development, customer feedback played a crucial role at all stages of development from prototype to pilot tests. SEPI’s mission “be our customers’ preferred supplier and business partner” drove their personnel and organizational objectives. Also, SEPI could get multiple benefits and be in a strong market position because of this award recognition. Gopika was, however, unclear about SEPI’s business strategies and use of appropriate performance measurement tools. Gopika desired to address the Board of Directors next week on her idea of applying a BSC as a useful “strategic planning and management tool.” The BSC methodology can be used to monitor the performance of SME firms against strategic goals. It can be successfully implemented in smaller organizations because of their simpler set-ups and tendency to arrive at a consensus quickly. However, implementation of BSC within the Indian micro, small and medium enterprises has been scant. Several studies found that the lack of ownership, resistance to change, a scarcity of training and coordination between the departments and lack of funds were among the challenges. The firms also had to make numerous changes to their strategies as business environments evolved. Gopika was convinced that the tool could blend in all the “four perspectives – customer, financial, internal business and learning and growth” and grow. The tool could demonstrate meeting all the prerequisites, “needs to have an exemplary vision, demonstrate outstanding business acumen, use best practices and create a legacy for the others to follow,” that were prerequisites for receipt of this award. Her next project would be to seek approval for the implementation of BSC, a beneficial and apt tool for SEPI. Do you agree with Gopika Rani that BSC is a suitable tool for SEPI? If yes, why? If no, why? Complexity academic level This case study titled leveraging the BSC – a tool for SME advancement is intended for use in the graduate management program (MBA) in subject electives, namely, entrepreneurship, strategy formulation, human resource management or production management. Supplementary materials Teaching Notes are available for educators only. Subject code CSS 3: Entrepreneurship. Supplementary materials Teaching Notes are available for educators only.
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Šimonović, Ivan. "Why ‘Never Again’ and R2P Did Not Work in Myanmar." Global Responsibility to Protect, March 30, 2021, 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1875-984x-13020010.
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Abstract This intervention discusses the reasons why the international community failed to prevent atrocity crimes against the Rohingyas in Myanmar. It draws on the author’s personal experience as UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights from 2010 to 2016 and Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Responsibility to Protect from 2016 to 2018. It lays out five major ingredients of the failure to prevent atrocities in Myanmar and identifies three key lessons that must be learned to avoid continued failures into the future.
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"Mission as Seen from Geneva: A Conversation with Eugene L. Stockwell." International Bulletin of Missionary Research 11, no. 3 (July 1987): 112–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/239693938701100303.
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Eugene L. Stockwell is Director of the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism of the World Council of Churches. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, where his father was studying theology, and was raised from the age of three in Argentina, where his father served as president of Union Theological Seminary in Buenos Aires. As a young man Stockwell studied and practiced law before deciding to enter Union Theological Seminary (New York) and the ministry. He and his wife worked as United Methodist missionaries for ten years in Uruguay, from 1952 to 1962. This was followed by two years as Latin American Secretary of the Methodist Board of Missions and then eight years as Assistant General Secretary for Program Administration. In 1972 Stockwell became Associate General Secretary for Overseas Ministries of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. He took up his present responsibilities in Geneva in 1984. While visiting at the Overseas Ministries Study Center recently, Stockwell shared some of his thoughts on developments and directions in world mission with Editor Gerald H. Anderson and Research Assistant Robert T. Coote of the International Bulletin.
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"Editors of the Review: New editor-in-chief of the International Review." International Review of the Red Cross 26, no. 253 (August 1986): 222–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020860400023056.
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Mr. Jacques Meurant, who succeeds Mr. Michel Testuz as editor of the International Review of the Red Cross, was born in Lille, France, in 1932. After studying in Lille and Paris, Mr. Meurant became a teacher in 1957 and taught English at the Henry IV High School and the Jules Ferry High School in Paris.Following a period with the French Red Cross, Mr. Meurant went to the League of Red Cross Societies in January 1962 as Special Assistant attached to the Secretary General's office.
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"Interview with Maurits R. Jochems." International Review of the Red Cross 89, no. 866 (June 2007): 239–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s181638310700118x.
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AbstractAmbassador Maurits R. Jochems is currently Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Operations in the International Secretariat of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). His functions include responsibility for the Alliance's work in the field of civil emergency planning. As a Dutch Foreign Service career diplomat, he has been seconded to NATO since August 2005. Before taking up his current position he was Director of International Security Policy in the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, dealing with operations, NATO and EU security policy issues, UN disarmament and arms control, OSCE matters and arms export policy. He has also served at Dutch embassies in Kingston, Bonn, Beirut, Brussels (NATO) and Rome.