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Good, Michael F., Scott A. Ritchie, Darryl McGinn, and Richard C. Russell. "Brian Herbert Kay 1944–2017." Historical Records of Australian Science 29, no. 1 (2018): 36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/hr17022.
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Brian Kaywas a renowned entomologist and arbovirologistwhoworked in academia and with local and international governments to make major and lasting improvements in public health. Particular highlights were the first ever elimination of a saltmarsh mosquito in the world and elimination of dengue from many hamlets and villages in Vietnam. He is also remembered for the development of the careers of many young researchers in Australia and overseas. When thinking of Brian Kay, three things come to mind immediately. First, Brian was a great character–a man of fun and passion and always good to be around. He had a great cheeky smile. Second, Brian was deeply committed to the careers and well-being of those around him–exemplified no better than how he acted so caringly for the Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR) staff when he served for several years as Chairman of the QIMR Staff Association; and third, Brian was an outstanding entomologist, biologist, scientist. Here, we give a little history of his background and attempt to distil a few of Brian's many scientific achievements and paint a picture of a man who was greatly admired and loved by those who worked alongside him in various parts of the world, but predominantly in Australia and the Asia Pacific Region.
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Easen, Sarah. "Building Reputations: The Careers of Mary Field, Margaret Thomson and Kay Mander." Journal of British Cinema and Television 18, no. 4 (October 2021): 498–517. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2021.0592.
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Film historians have generally concentrated their research of British non-fiction film-making on the male directors and producers of the British documentary movement. This has resulted in the marginalisation of those operating in other non-fiction genres, in particular the many women documentarists who worked on educational, instructional, travel, commercial, government and industrial films from the 1930s to the 1970s. This article examines the histories of three women documentary film-makers to assess why women are frequently missing from the established accounts of the genre and argue for their inclusion. It provides an overview of women in British documentary histories, followed by case studies of three women who worked in the sector: Mary Field, Margaret Thomson and Kay Mander. It investigates their collegial networks and considers the impact of gender discrimination on their careers in order to understand why they have received so little recognition in histories of the British documentary film movement.
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Price, Michael, Charles Harvey, Mairi Maclean, and David Campbell. "From Cadbury to Kay: discourse, intertextuality and the evolution of UK corporate governance." Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 31, no. 5 (June 18, 2018): 1542–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/aaaj-01-2015-1955.
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to answer two main research questions. First, the authors ask the degree to which the UK corporate governance code has changed in response to both systemic perturbations and the subsequent enquiries established to recommend solutions to perceived shortcomings. Second, the authors ask how the solutions proposed in these landmark governance texts might be explained.Design/methodology/approachThe authors take a critical discourse approach to develop and apply a discourse model of corporate governance reform. The authors draw together data on popular, corporate-political and technocratic discourses on corporate governance in the UK and analyse these data using content analysis and the historical discourse approach.FindingsThe UK corporate governance code has changed little despite periodic crises and the enquiries set up to investigate and make recommendation. Institutional stasis, the authors find, is the product of discourse capture and control by elite corporate actors aided by political allies who inhabit the same elite habitus. Review group members draw intertextually on prior technocratic discourse to create new canonical texts that bear the hallmarks of their predecessors. Light touch regulation by corporate insiders thus remains the UK approach.Originality/valueThis is one of the first applications of critical discourse analysis in the accounting literature and the first to have conducted a discursive analysis of corporate governance reports in the UK. The authors present an original model of discourse transitions to explain how systemic challenges are dissipated.
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Edwards, Rob. "Colonialism and the Role of the Local Show: A Case Study of the Gympie District Show, 1877–1940." Queensland Review 16, no. 2 (July 2009): 29–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1321816600005092.
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Agricultural shows are important events in rural and regional Australia. For over a century, they have often been the main annual festival on any given town's calendar. This importance makes the lack of scholarly attention to rural and regional shows puzzling. Recently, Australian exhibitions and agricultural shows have come in for some very welcome scholarly attention, although very little has been written about rural and regional events. Scholars such as Kate Darian-Smith and Sara Wills, Joanne Scott and Ross Laurie, Judith McKay, and Kay Anderson have all written on exhibitions and shows – although, of this group, only Darian-Smith and Wills have written on rural shows, the rest focusing more on inter-colonial and metropolitan Australian shows. Even Richard Waterhouse's groundbreaking study of rural Australian cultural history, The Vision Splendid, provides little detail on agricultural shows and their role in rural cultural life, although the show's importance is recognised.
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Pitchford, Nicola J., and Kathy T. Mullen. "Is the Acquisition of Basic-Colour Terms in Young Children Constrained?" Perception 31, no. 11 (November 2002): 1349–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/p3405.
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We investigated whether the learning of colour terms in childhood is constrained by a developmental order of acquisition as predicted by Berlin and Kay [1969 Basic Color Terms (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press)]. Forty-three children, aged between 2 and 5 years and grouped according to language ability, were given two tasks testing colour conceptualisation. Colour comprehension was assessed in a spoken-word-to-colour-matching task in which a target colour was presented in conjunction with two distractor colours. Colour naming was measured in an explicit naming task in which colours were presented individually for oral naming. Results showed that children's knowledge of basic-colour terms varied across tasks and language age, providing little support for a systematic developmental order. In addition, we found only limited support for an advantage for the conceptualisation of primary (red, green, blue, yellow, black, white) compared to non-primary colour terms across tasks and language age. Instead, our data suggest that children acquire reliable knowledge of nine basic colours within a 3-month period (35.6 to 39.5 months) after which there is a considerable lag of up to 9 months before accurate knowledge of the final two colours (brown and grey) is acquired. We propose that children acquire colour term knowledge in two distinct time frames that reflect the establishment of, first, the exterior (yellow, blue, black, green, white, pink, orange, red, and purple) and, second, the interior structure (brown and grey) of conceptual colour space. These results fail to provide significant support for the order predicted by Berlin and Kay, and suggest, instead, that the development of colour term knowledge is largely unconstrained.
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Mourão, Lucia Figueiredo, Patrícia Maria de Carvalho Aguiar, Fernando Antônio Patriani Ferraz, Mara Suzana Behlau, and Henrique Ballalai Ferraz. "Acoustic voice assessment in Parkinson's disease patients submitted to posteroventral pallidotomy." Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria 63, no. 1 (March 2005): 20–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0004-282x2005000100004.
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Long-term complications in levodopa treated Parkinson's disease (PD) patients caused a resurgence of interest in pallidotomy as an option of treatment. However, postoperative complications such as speech disorders can occur. PURPOSE: The aim of this study is to evaluate the acoustic voice in PD patients, before and after posteroventral pallidotomy. METHOD: Twelve patients with PD were submitted to neurological and voice assessments during the off and on phases, in the pre-operative, 1st and 3rd post-operative months. The patients were evaluated with the UPDRS and the vocal acoustic parameters - f0, NHR, jitter, PPQ, Shimmer, APQ (using the software MultiSpeech - Kay Elemetrics - 3700). RESULTS: The off phase UPDRS scores revealed a tendency to improvement at the 1st month and the off phase worsened. The shimmer and APQ improved. CONCLUSION: This study shows that pallidotomy has little improvement on functional use of communication of PD patients.
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Peterson, Richard A. "Why 1955? Explaining the advent of rock music." Popular Music 9, no. 1 (January 1990): 97–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261143000003767.
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At the time, 1929, 1939, 1945 and 1968 all seemed important turning points in the track of our civilisation. By contrast, as anyone alive at the time will attest, 1955 seemed like an unexceptional year in the United States at least. Right in the middle of the ‘middle-of-the-road’ years of the Eisenhower presidency, 1955 hardly seemed like the year for a major aesthetic revolution. Yet it was in the brief span between 1954 and 1956 that the rock aesthetic displaced the jazz-based aesthetic in American popular music. Frank Sinatra, Tommy Dorsey, Patty Page, Perry Como, Nat King Cole, Tony Bennett, Kay Starr, Les Paul, Eddie Fisher, Jo Stafford, Frankie Lane, Johnnie Ray and Doris Day gave way on the popular music charts to Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, The Platters, Bill Haley, Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Carl Perkins and the growing legion of rockers.
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Lupton, Ben, and Atif Sarwar. "Blame at Work." Business and Professional Ethics Journal 40, no. 2 (2021): 157–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/bpej2021323109.
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Existing work in the field of business ethics has explored how concepts in philosophy and other disciplines can be applied to blame at work, and considers blame’s potential impact on organisations and their employees. However, there is little empirical evidence of organisational blaming practices and their effects. This article presents an analysis of interviews with twenty-seven employees from a range of occupations, exploring their experience of blame, its rationale and impact. A diversity of blaming practices and perspectives is revealed, and in making sense of these the authors draw on recent theoretical developments—Skarlicki, Kay, Aquino, and Fushtey’s (2017) concept of ‘swift-blame,’ and Fricker’s (2016) notion of ‘communicative blame.’ The study also reveals a tension between a desire to avoid ‘blaming’ on the one hand, and a need for ‘accountability,’ on the other, and the authors explore the implications of the findings for organisations in seeking to ‘manage’ blame.
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Sachs, G., B. Winklbaur, R. Jagsch, N. Frommann, I. Kryspin-Exner, and W. Wölwer. "A targeted remediation approach: The training of affect recognition (TAR)." European Psychiatry 26, S2 (March 2011): 2158. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0924-9338(11)73861-5.
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IntroductionAn increasing number of studies is focusing on general deficits in patients with schizophrenia in identifying, differentiating and recalling facial emotions which significantly impairs the patient's psychosocial functioning and quality of life.ObjectivesThese impairments seem not to be affected by conventional treatment. According to preliminary results antipsychotics alone show only little effects on social cognition.AimsThe present study investigated the efficacy of a computer based training focussing on facial affect recognition (Training of Affect recognition TAR, Wölwer et al. 2005) for the remediation of social cognitive dysfunctions.MethodsEffects on social cognition were tested with the Vienna Emotion Recognition Task (VERT-K, Pawelak 2004). Neurocognitive performance was assessed by the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST Heaton et al. 1993). Additional assessments were tests of alertness, vigilance and working memory (TAP Zimmermann and Fimm 2002), positive and negative symptoms (PANSS Kay et al. 1987), Beck Depression Scale (BDI Beck 1964) and Quality of Life (WHOQOL-Bref WHOQOL Group 1998).ResultsIn comparison to the TAU group, the TAR group achieved significant improvements in affect recognition in general as well as in recognizing sad faces (p < 0.01) (Fig.2). In addition, we found significant improvements for the TAR group in regard to vigilance and Quality of Life (p < 0.05).ConclusionsTreatment with new antipsychotics alone leads only to limited effects on social cognition and functioning. A specific combined treatment of new antipsychotics and TAR leads to improved cognition and emotional performance with additional positive effects on functional outcome.
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Jasper, David. "Kay Carmichael, It Takes a Lifetime to Become Yourself. Edited by David Donnison." Literature and Theology 34, no. 2 (October 20, 2018): 245–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/litthe/fry022.
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Wheeler, Belinda. "EXPANSIVE MODERNISM: FEMALE EDITORS, LITTLE MAGAZINES, AND NEW BOOK HISTORIES." OpenSIUC, 2011. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/411.
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The resurgence of modern periodical studies has expanded our understanding of “littleqrdquo; magazines and the editors behind them, but many studies continue to be restricted to the 1920s, examine male editors, and focus on well–established literary journals, rather than the subversive magazines that expanded the reign of modernism in the years from 1910 to 1950. These studies, though fascinating, privilege a select few and leave many lost to the archive. The new theory of book history and those who evaluate the book as a material object that is designed to circulate among a range of publics provide powerful and useful frameworks for recognizing the significance of what had previously been considered mere data. This study focuses on several neglected female little magazine editors who, despite various obstacles, powerfully intervened in the modernism debates throughout the 1910s through to the late 1940s by shaping successful publications to invite public appreciation of values they espoused. Unlike canonical modernist figures such as Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot who championed an elite style of modernism that was usually inaccessible to most, Lola Ridge, Gwendolyn Bennett, Caresse Crosby, and Kay Boyle encouraged diversity and fostered heterogeneity by selecting and juxtaposing material by new writers and artists who moved easily around and over the borders separating high art and mass culture, who recovered marginalized voices from history, and who appealed for social justice. Further, their traditional and non–traditional roles while they served as editors show that in many cases being an editor meant more than just choosing works and arranging them. One chapter is devoted to Lola Ridge, the American literary editor of Broom (1922-1923). Ridge was a cosmopolitan modernist who welcomed a broad audience to Broom and invited readers to champion styles of writing and artwork that contained strong social commentary with American subjects, instead of copying European models that many argued were created for art's sake. Another chapter focuses on African American poet, graphic artist and literary columnist, Gwendolyn Bennett, who held several editorial roles at Opportunity, Fire!!, and Black Opals, from the mid–1920s until the early 1930s. A heterodox modernist, Bennett skillfully discussed and placed artistic work by members of the New Negro movement next to the work by their forefathers, subsequently fostering congeniality between the two conflicting literary groups and promoting a united front during the development of the Harlem Renaissance. She also promoted co–operation between black and white artists and writers with her universally themed poetry, graphic art, and literary column. Chapter four centers on Black Sun Press book publisher, novelist, and poet, Caresse Crosby, owner and editor of Portfolio (1945-1948), who challenged artistic reception on both sides of the Atlantic by bringing glamorous modernism to her unbound journal of eclectic work. Crosby promoted co–operation between artists and writers from conflicting World War II countries through the placement and types of materials she published on the pages of her magazine. The epilogue calls for scholars to expand their view of the modernist project and recover the often “hidden” work by overlooked female little magazine editors. Like Ridge, Bennett, and Crosby before her, Kay Boyle (This Quarter 1927-1929), who can be linked to each editor (directly or indirectly), relied on her trusted network of friends as she edited This Quarter. Her editorial support for young and experienced artists who used innovative styles and her commitment to social justice parallels her colleagues' dedication to the modernist project. These women's labor, the significant literary time periods they worked in, the different genres, critical content, and styles of modernism they championed, and the social formations their journals produced expanded the base of modernism and reinvigorated American art and literature between the Wars, leaving a legacy for future artists and writers.
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Wheeler, Belinda. "At the center of American modernism Lola Ridge's politics, poetics, and publishing /." Connect to resource online, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/1683.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2008.Title from screen (viewed on June 2, 2009). Department of English, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): Karen Kovacik, Jane E. Schultz, Thomas F. Marvin. Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 57-61).
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Keddie, Amanda, and edu au jillj@deakin edu au mikewood@deakin edu au wildol@deakin edu au kimg@deakin. "Little boys: the potency of peer culture in shaping masculinities." Deakin University. School of Education / School of Social & Cultural Studies, 2001. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20041216.100720.
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This study explores the peer group understandings of five male friends between the ages of six and eight years and seeks to examine the ways in which the groups social dynamics interact to define, regulate and maintain dominant and collective understandings of masculinities. Within a self-selected affinity context, and drawing on their lived and imagined experiences, the boys enact and interpret their social worlds.
Adopting the principles of ethnography within a framework of feminist poststructuralism and drawing on theories of groupness and gender(ed) embodiment, the boys understandings of masculinities are captured and interpreted. The key analytic foci are directed towards examining the role of power in the social production of collective schoolboy knowledges, and understanding the processes through which boys subjectify and are subjectified, through social but also bodily discourses. The boys constructions of peer group masculinities are (re)presented through a narrative methodology which foregrounds my interpretation of the groups personal and social relevances and seeks to be inductive in ways that bring to life the boys stories.
The study illuminates the potency of peer culture in shaping and regulating the boys dominant understandings of masculinity. Within this culture strong essentialist and hierarchical values are imported to support a range of gender(ed) and sexual dualisms. Here patriarchal adult culture is regularly mimicked and distorted. Underpinned by constructions of femininity as the negative other, dominant masculinities are embodied, cultivated and championed through physical dominance, physical risk, aggression and violence.
Through feminist poststructural analysis which enables a theorising of the boys subjectivities as fluid, tenuous and often characterised by contradiction and resistance, there exists a potential for interrupting and re-working particular masculinities. Within this framework, more affirmative but equally legitimate understandings and embodiments can be explored. The study presents a warrant for working with early childhood affinity groups to disrupt and contest the dominance and hierarchy of peer culture in an effort to counter-act broader gendered and heterosexist global, state and institutional structures. Framing these assertions is an understanding of the peer context as not only self-limiting and productive of hierarchies, but enabling and generative of affirmative subjectivities.
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Alkauskas, Giedrius. "Kai kurie skaičių teorijos uždaviniai." Doctoral thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2009. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2009~D_20091008_155740-47446.
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Daktaro disertacijoje sprendžiami trys uždaviniai. Pirmasis nagrinėja Minkovskio “klaustuko” funkcijos Stieltjes’o transformacijos (tai yra, šios funkcijos momentų generuojančios funkcijos, taip vadinamosios diadinės periodo funkcijos), analizines savybes ir jos išraišką uždara ar beveik uždara forma. Pagrindinis rezultatas teigia, kad diadinę periodo funkciją galima išreikšti racionaliųjų funkcijų su racionaliaisiais koeficientais konverguojančia eilute. Įrodyme naudojama kompleksinės dinamikos, analizinės grandininių trupmenų teorijos, kelių kompleksinių kintamųjų funkcijų teorijos technika. Antrasis uždavinys nagrinėja funkcines lygtis, susietas su norminėmis ir kitomis kelių kintamųjų formomis. Yra parodoma, kad šios funkcinės lygtys kartais turi kitų, netrivialiųjų sprendinių. Galiausiai, yra pateikiamas naujas mažosios Fermat teoremos įrodymas.Doctoral thesis is devoted to investigation of three problems. The first one deals with the analytic properties and representation in closed or almost closed form of the Stieltjes tranform of the Minkowski question mark function (that is, the generating function of moments, the so called dyadic period function). The main result claims that the dyadic period function can be represented as a convergent series of rational functions with rational coefficients. In the proof the techniques from complex dynamics, analytic theory of continued fractions, the theory of several complex variables are being used. The second problem is dealing with functional equations associated with norm and other forms. It is shown that these functional equations sometimes have other solutions apart from the trivial ones. Finally, we present a new proof of Fermat’s little theorem.
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Robinson, Richard Cyril. "KAAY's Beaker Street 1966-1977: Late Nights Of Underground Radio Programming, From Little Rock To The Western Hemisphere, On The Airwaves Of The Nighttime Voice Of Arkansa." OpenSIUC, 2009. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/294.
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During the 1960s in the United States, AM radio stations began broadcasting an underground format. The purpose of this study is to examine the Beaker Street program on Little Rock's KAAY AM-1090. This show presented non-mainstream programming. Disc jockeys supported alternative points of view, while playing underground music. The 50,000-watt directional AM radio signal at night aired KAAY across the Western Hemisphere. The host, engineer Dale Seidenschwarz, was named Clyde Clifford. Research utilized interviews with Seidenschwarz and KAAY employees. Sources included newspapers, magazine, documents, audio recordings and artifacts. Findings reveal a popular, undocumented radio program. This study tells the significant story of a radio program that people remember and listen to today, now on an FM station.
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Mukherjee, Abhijit. "Identification of natural attenuation of trichloroethene and technetium-99 along Little Bayou Creek, McCracken County, Kentucky." Lexington, Ky. : [University of Kentucky Libraries], 2003. http://lib.uky.edu/ETD/ukygeol2003t00080/abmthesis.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Kentucky, 2003.Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains x, 163 p. : ill. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-161).
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Eklund, Josefin, and Linda Helgesson. "Ingen kan göra allt, men alla kan göra lite. Grön Flagg-ett miljöarbetssätt." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Lärarutbildningen (LUT), 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-30089.
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Syftet med vårt arbete är att ta del av hur en skola kan arbeta kring projektet Grön Flagg samt om projektet är ett bra arbetssätt eller bara en fin statussymbol. Då miljöundervisningen ofta är bristande inom skolan, valde vi att undersöka en arbetsmetod där miljöperspektivet får större utrymme i verksamheten. Det står skrivet i Lpo 94 (Läroplan för det obligatoriska skolväsendet, förskoleklassen och fritidshemmet) att eleverna får genom ett miljöperspektiv möjligheter att både ansvara för den miljö de själva direkt kan påverka och att skaffa sig ett personligt förhållningssätt till övergripande och globala miljöfrågor. Projektet Grön Flagg startade 1996 och idag finns det över 1600 skolor runt om i landet som arbetar med projektet Grön Flagg. Då en stadsdel i Malmö har målsättningen att alla skolor skall arbeta med någon form av miljöarbete, stod det mellan projekt Grön Flagg och skolverkets ”Skola för hållbar utveckling”. Skolorna i stadsdelen tilldelades Grön Flagg då detta projekt ansågs vara ett lättare alternativ. Vi intervjuade lärare och fick ta del av deras syn på Grön Flagg samt deras arbetssätt kring projektet. När vi granskade svaren fick vi ett negativt intryck, därav lade vi fokus på varför lärarna hade denna negativa inställning till projektet. En anledning var bland annat att skolan inte själva valt att arbeta med projektet Grön Flagg, utan det beslutet kom uppifrån vilket strider mot Grön Flaggs policy.Nyckelord: miljöundervisning, Grön Flagg, demokrati, ledarskap, styrdokument
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Brinson, Woodruff Abbie R. "Lady Gaga, Social Media, and Performing an Identity." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1345235126.
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Bodhall, Emma, and Sara Johansson. "Men kan damen vara lite tyst : Att födas eller göras till flicka." Thesis, Högskolan Väst, Institutionen för individ och samhälle, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-5326.
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Syftet med denna undersökning är att fördjupa kunskapen om hur flickor bemöts i samspel med läraren. Bakgrunden till att vi valde att undersöka just detta är att det är ett intressant och aktuellt ämne i samhället idag med tanke på hendebatten som pågår. Vi är intresserade av att se hur det ser ut i en förskoleklass. Hur ska flickor vara enligt läraren, hur går det att se i förhållningssättet, accepteras flickorna som de är eller tillrättavisas de, eftersom de inte uppfyller de förväntningar som finns. Vi har valt att undersöka lärarens förhållningssätt gentemot flickorna, eftersom vi anser att det inte finns så mycket forskning om flickor i detta sammanhang och vi vill bidra till detta. Vi har lagt vårt fokus på att undersöka hur läraren förhåller sig till flickorna. Finns det underliggande normer i lärarens förhållningssätt, vilka förväntningar har läraren på flickorna, vad bryter mot normerna för hur flickor bör bete sig enligt läraren är exempel på frågor, som vi har fokuserat på. Vi har genomfört fyra videoobservationer i samlingstillfällen i en förskoleklass. Vi har valt att titta på lärarens förhållningssätt gentemot flickorna ur två olika synvinklar när vi analyserar videoobservationerna. De två analyssätt vi använt är dels teorin att människor föds till att vara flickor eller pojkar och att det finns en biologisk aspekt i könet. Detta kallas utvecklingspsykologi. Det andra analyssättet vi använt oss av innebär att barnen konstrueras till att vara flickor eller pojkar, vilket benämns socialkonstruktionism. Vi intresserar oss för att se hur lärarens samspel med flickorna kan se ut om vi analyserar det ur dessa synvinklar. Resultatet av vår studie visar att det finns vissa normer för hur flickor bör bete sig. De olika analyssätten vi använt för att titta på våra videoobservationer, "vi görs till flickor" och "vi föds till flickor" visar båda att det finns en tanke om att flickorna ska vara lugna, vänta på sin tur och inte prata rakt ut eller avbryta läraren. Det finns även i dessa olika synsätt att se på världen en tanke att flickor och pojkar är olika. Vi har enbart valt att analysera flickorna men det finns också en aspekt som inte går att bortse ifrån angående pojkarna, eftersom det förekommer pojkar i samlingen också. När vi analyserar genom synsättet att kön är konstruerat synliggörs, att läraren för in flickorna på den bana hen anser som det rätta sättet att vara som flicka. När är vi undersökte samma observationer på det sätt att det är en biologisk aspekt att flickorna föds till flickor så synliggörs lärarens förhållningssätt att det finns ett rätt och fel sätt för flickor att bete sig. Flickorna ska i detta synsätt vara som de blir födda till att vara. Om en flicka, som det händer i en av observationerna, avbryter läraren rättar denne till detta och menar, att det inte är rätt sätt för en flicka att bete sig. De olika synsätten "vi görs till flickor" och "vi föds till flickor" visar båda ett resultat som tyder på att normerna för hur flickor ska bete sig är starkt förankrade i hur samhället ser ut och hur det har sett ut genom historien. Flickorna ska inte bryta mot det feminina och om de försöker sig på att komma in på det maskulina tillrättavisas de.
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Molin, Mattias. "Kan man lite på ryska siffror? : en kritisk granskning av RAS ich IFRS." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-151393.
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This report describes the process of translating Russian financial information in accordance with Russian Accounting Standards to IFRS, International Financial Reporting Standards. The author describes the two regulatory frameworks and reveals a number of risk factors in the process. These risk factors may affect the reliability of figures from Russian companies. The conclusion states some recommendations on how these risk factors can be managed.
Books on the topic "Little Kay"
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Vestal, Stanley. Dodge City: Queen of cowtowns : "the wickedest little city in America," 1872-1886. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998.
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Coleman, J. Winston. Little journeys in the blue grass. Lexington, Ky: Phoenix Hotel, 1987.
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Radina, Dosseva, and Dosseva Assia, eds. Sŭrneto i Zhelŭdko: Kak dve momcheta stanakha nerazdelni prii︠a︡teli = Little Fawn and little Acorn : how two boys became inseparable friends. Sofii︠a︡: Bŭlgarski pisatel, 2010.
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Dahlberg, Sophia Little Bear. Little Black Bear: Mah-to-che-ga, the Little Bear, Shon-ka, the Dog, brother of Mah-to-che-ga Osage : Ma to che ga, Chief Little Bear, 1808-1867, Wa sop py shin kah, Little Black Bear, grandson of Chief Little Bear, their lives and times. [S.l.]: S.L. Dahlberg, 1995.
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Miller, Bonita. Little Clifty United Methodist Church: Its history through its people. Bloomington, Indiana]: Xlibris Corporation, 2011.
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Foster, Shirley, and Judy Simons. "Louisa May Alcott: Little Women." In What Katy Read, 85–106. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23933-7_4.
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Henry, M. Seiden. "Saying a lot with a little: the poetry of Kay Ryan." In The Motive For Metaphor, 103–5. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429482496-26.
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Psillos, Stathis. "One cannot be just a little bit realist." In Philosophy of Science: The Key Thinkers. Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350108233.0016.
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McMahon, Daithi. "With a Little Help from My Friends." In Media Controversy, 76–90. IGI Global, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9869-5.ch004.
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Ireland has faced significant economic hardship since 2008, with the Irish radio industry suffering as advertising revenues evaporated. The difficult economic circumstances have forced radio station management to devise new and cost effective ways of generating much-needed income. The answer has come in the form of Facebook, the leading Social Network Site (SNS) in Ireland. Using Ireland as a case study, this chapter looks at how radio station management are utilising the social network strategically in a bid to enhance their audiences and revenues. Radio station management consider Facebook to be an invaluable promotional tool which is very easily integrated into radio programming and gives radio a digital online presence, reaching far greater audiences than possible through broadcasting. Some radio stations are showing ambition and are realising the marketing potential that Facebook and other SNSs hold. However, key changes in practice, technology and human resources are required to maximise the profit-making possibilities offered by Facebook.
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Raychaudhuri, Anindya. "“This eight-year-old, he’s too little”." In Narrating South Asian Partition, 59–80. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190249748.003.0004.
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This chapter focuses on the construction of childhood in stories of partition. A surprisingly large proportion of the cultural production of partition takes the form of the coming-of-age narrative, so that partition is presented through the child’s gaze. Here, the child’s view is often used to reinforce particular adult political positions through which the child can be socialized into accepting these positions as desirable and natural. As a result the body of narrative becomes a contested space for adult and childhood control. This dynamic is mirrored in the oral history testimony, which is also contested between the child who experienced the event, and the adult who remembers it. Children’s insistence on their ability to understand the situation, the ability to mourn losses on their own terms, and the reinforcing of particular childhood losses as equally important to the apparently more important adult losses becomes a key aspect through which childhood narrators are able to exert control over their experiences and memories.
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McMahon, Daithi. "With a Little Help from My Friends." In Analyzing the Strategic Role of Social Networking in Firm Growth and Productivity, 157–71. IGI Global, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0559-4.ch009.
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Ireland has faced significant economic hardship since 2008, with the Irish radio industry suffering as advertising revenues evaporated. The difficult economic circumstances have forced radio station management to devise new and cost effective ways of generating much-needed income. The answer has come in the form of Facebook, the leading Social Network Site (SNS) in Ireland. Using Ireland as a case study, this chapter looks at how radio station management are utilising the social network strategically in a bid to enhance their audiences and revenues. Radio station management consider Facebook to be an invaluable promotional tool which is very easily integrated into radio programming and gives radio a digital online presence, reaching far greater audiences than possible through broadcasting. Some radio stations are showing ambition and are realising the marketing potential that Facebook and other SNSs hold. However, key changes in practice, technology and human resources are required to maximise the profit-making possibilities offered by Facebook.
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White, Mo. "‘It’s all just a little bit of History repeating’." In Practices of Projection, 122–35. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190934118.003.0008.
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The chapter looks at the use of slide-tape by artists during the 1970s and 1980s in the UK. Slide-tape was a series of projected 35 mm photographic slides with a synchronized audio soundtrack. As a form, it is significant in the UK for being used by a number of key and emerging artists for a brief period before being abandoned. This moment itself has been largely forgotten, and the chapter considers this and the importance of slide-tape as a critical tool used in artists’ projected works. Slide-tape was a time-based media form, with the technology—the slide projector—itself having a distinct presence in the live performance of the work. Amongst the artists who used the form were Black Audio Film Collective and Tina Keane and others who took part in the key exhibition About Time: Video, Performance and Installation by 21 Women Artists, which took place at the ICA, London, in 1980. In the chapter the author accounts for the emergence of this work and suggests that slide-tape allowed for artists’ experimental work where the simultaneous projection of images and sound was transformed to establish a new form. As the form has been taken up and used recently by contemporary artists, the impact of this overlooked history to what is described as legacy media is discussed and located.
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Sheaf, Lucy. "“Confessio philosophi”." In Leibniz's Key Philosophical Writings, 16–35. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198844983.003.0002.
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The “Confessio philosophi” is an early dialogue in which Leibniz engages with what he takes to be the central task of theodicy: to uphold the justice of God. It evinces his commitment to the claim that ours is the best possible world, and offers an account of how such a world could include damnation. Various answers to the question why God is justified in permitting sin are suggested in the dialogue. These are addressed in this chapter, which also highlights a threat to God’s justice raised by the doctrine of eternal damnation which is given surprisingly little attention. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the place of the “Confessio philosophi” in Leibniz’s lifelong theodicy project.
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Karlin, Daniel. "‘The patient, passionate little cahier’: French in Henry James’s Notebooks." In Modernism and Non-Translation, 19–33. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198821441.003.0002.
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This chapter is based specifically on the surviving notebooks in which Henry James recorded ideas for stories, and gave vent to his feelings about his art. There are six of these notebooks, covering the years 1878 to 1911. Pages of the notebooks on which French does not occur are the exception. This chapter asks how we might ‘read’ the use of French in this specific textual environment. It answers that question by comparing the notebooks with examples of James’s use of French in published fiction and in letters. In the notebooks, there is no addressee, or rather the writer is his own recipient. The chapter looks especially at passages where James reflects on his own practice as a writer; it identifies a cluster of key French words, all of them associated by James with the work of imagination and the craft of fiction.
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Zook, Ze, and Ben Salmon. "Social Media, Interfacing Brands in Relation to the Social Media Ecosystem." In Key Challenges and Opportunities in Web Entrepreneurship, 132–70. IGI Global, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2466-3.ch006.
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Much of the existing research in social media has been directed at examining the consequences of the interactive nature of the evolving medium and communication issues, with little to say about the impact of this medium on brands. Drawing on Fiske's relational model, this current chapter examines the interface between social media and brands, particularly on the breadth and the dimensions of the level of engagement. Social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter, are revolutionising the way companies market their products. New means of interaction and dialogue are used in part because of the inherent structure and features of these social media platforms. The chapter concludes by discussing the implications of the analysis for understanding of new terminology in the evolving marketing environment.
Conference papers on the topic "Little Kay"
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Fada Li, Xiaobin Lu, Yang Wang, Li Tian, and Wansu Bao. "Cryptanalysis of Little Dragon Two multivariate public key cryptosystem." In 2010 International Conference on Computer Application and System Modeling (ICCASM 2010). IEEE, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/iccasm.2010.5623032.
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Jeong, Yoon-Su, Yoon-Cheol Hwang, Gi-Su Kim, and Sang-Ho Lee. "Key Pre-distribution Scheme for Little Storage Space and Strong Security Strength in Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Network." In 2007 International Conference on Convergence Information Technology (ICCIT 2007). IEEE, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/iccit.2007.55.
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Jeong, Yoon-Su, Yoon-Cheol Hwang, Gi-Su Kim, and Sang-Ho Lee. "Key Pre-distribution Scheme for Little Storage Space and Strong Security Strength in Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Network." In 2007 International Conference on Convergence Information Technology (ICCIT 2007). IEEE, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/iccit.2007.4420477.
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Smith, Christopher W., Jennifer S. Fehrenbacher, and Susan T. Goldstein. "INCORPORATION OF HEAVY METALS IN EXPERIMENTALLY GROWN FORAMINIFERA FROM SAPELO ISLAND, GEORGIA AND LITTLE DUCK KEY, FLORIDA, USA." In GSA Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, USA - 2019. Geological Society of America, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/abs/2019am-331649.
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Webster, Rustin, and Alex Clark. "Turn-Key Solutions: Virtual Reality." In ASME 2015 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2015-46174.
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A little over two decades ago the opportunity to purchase a turn-key virtual reality (VR) solution was scarce. High priced head-mounted displays (HMD) and projection based technologies dominated the first VR revolution, which experienced a peak of growth and excitement in the late 1990s before fading. However, many of the early adaptors, innovators, developers, and researchers would argue that the evolution of VR did not fade. They may say that VR was a medium that was just ahead its time and was waiting for individual pieces to mature and for society to demand and push the boundaries of technology. The question facing society today is, has the time finally come when a consumer can truly purchase a turn-key VR system, which does not cost hundreds of thousands of dollars or even thousands of dollars but under a thousand dollars?
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Xia, Dunzhu, Bailing Zhou, and Shourong Wang. "Several Key Technologies to Improve Silicon Microgyro Performance." In 2007 First International Conference on Integration and Commercialization of Micro and Nanosystems. ASMEDC, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/mnc2007-21543.
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Silicon micromechanical gyroscope is an extraordinarily important micro inertial sensor, which has characteristics of little size, low cost and batch integrated production with huge market. But it now belongs to low or middle level precision angular rate sensor, so it is becoming a key problem to update this sensitivity to high level. This paper presents several key technologies to improve silicon microgyro performance from the view of micro-electro-mechanical working principle and minor signal detection of microgyro. The simulation and circuit design are well done, which results testify that these improved technologies have certain academic and practical value to update present low or middle level precision angular rate sensor.
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Dong, Liang, Hou-lin Liu, Ming-gao Tan, Yong Wang, and Kai Wang. "The Effects of Different Computational Domain and Several Key Issues on CFD Simulated Results for Centrifugal Pumps." In ASME-JSME-KSME 2011 Joint Fluids Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ajk2011-24003.
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The computational domain is one of the major factors inducing CFD uncertainty. The effects of different computational domains and several key issues on CFD simulation results for centrifugal pumps are studied, such as the effects of modeling methods and boundary conditions on the whole computational domain numerical simulation. The study results indicate that the prediction accuracy of the whole computational domain is higher than that of the non-whole computational domain. The velocity distribution obtained by the whole computational domain in the gap between the impeller and volute is significantly layered, while the distribution obtained by the non-whole computational domain is triangular. The relative velocity distribution in the impeller and the turbulent kinetic energy in the volute for the two computational domains are obviously different, too. The number of the interfaces has little impact on the prediction accuracy. The rotational attribute of the chamber wall has a little effect on velocity and turbulent kinetic energy distribution, but the rotational attribute of the chamber wall can significantly improve the prediction accuracy of efficiency.
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Meur-Férec, C., H. Flanquart, A. P. Hellequin, and B. Rulleau. "Risk perception, a key component of systemic vulnerability of the coastal zones to erosion-submersion. A Case study on the French Mediterranean coast." In Littoral 2010 – Adapting to Global Change at the Coast: Leadership, Innovation, and Investment. Les Ulis, France: EDP Sciences, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/litt/201110003.
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Steward, A. J., D. J. Kelly, and D. R. Wagner. "Calcium Signaling is a Key Regulator of Mesenchymal Stem Cell Response to Hydrostatic Pressure." In ASME 2013 Summer Bioengineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/sbc2013-14347.
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Fluid pressurization is the dominant load-bearing mechanism of the in vivo joint environment, supporting up to 90% of compressive loads in cartilage[1]. In accordance with its prominence in cartilaginous tissues, hydrostatic pressure (HP) significantly enhances the chondrogenic differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) [2,3]. However, surprisingly little is known about the mechanisms by which cells sense HP and translate it into a biochemical signal. This is partly due to the fact that HP generates a state of stress with little deformation, as hydrated tissues and cells are nearly incompressible. Because of this, it has been assumed that HP mechanotransduction differs from that of other mechanical loads which deform the cells [4]. Recently, we demonstrated that integrin binding to the pericellular matrix (PCM) regulates the cytoskeletal organization of MSCs, and this in turn determines their response to HP [5]. Another proposed mechanism of HP mechanotransduction is fluctuations in intracellular ion concentrations, which are altered by the application of HP [6–8]. In particular, calcium signaling has been implicated as a key regulator of cellular response in other mechanical loading modalities, yet no studies have examined the role of calcium in the response of MSCs to HP. Therefore the objective of this study was to examine the cellular proliferation and chondrogenic matrix accumulation of MSCs in response to HP in the presence of pharmacological inhibitors of calcium ion mobility in order to elucidate the role of calcium signaling in the mechanotransduction of HP.
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Smith, Christopher W., and Susan T. Goldstein. "EFFECT OF SELECTED HEAVY METAL ELEMENTS ON SHALLOW-WATER BENTHIC FORAMINIFERAL ASSEMBLAGES FROM SAPELO ISLAND, GEORGIA AND LITTLE DUCK KEY, FLORIDA: AN INVESTIGATION USING THE PROPAGULE METHOD." In GSA Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington, USA - 2017. Geological Society of America, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/abs/2017am-305996.
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McCall, Jamie, and Jason Sabatelle. Alternative Non-Economic Measures of CDFI Lending Impact: An Exploratory Analysis. Carolina Small Business Development Fund, July 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.46712/alternative.impact.
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CDFI impacts are overwhelmingly viewed through an economic lens. Little consideration is given to other types of metrics. Yet we believe a positive economic impact is a necessary but not sufficient condition to being an effective development institution. We assess the relationship between a CDFI's lending activities and aggregate social capital levels. Social capital – the entrepreneurial networks which occur when small businesses flourish – are a key non-economic outcome of CDIF financing and technical assistance interventions.
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Hickling, Sophie. Tackling Slippage. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), September 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/slh.2020.004.
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This issue of Frontiers of CLTS explores current thinking and practice on the topic of tackling slippage of open defecation free (ODF) status. It looks at how slippage is defined and identified, and at different patterns of slippage that are seen after ODF is declared. Although a considerable amount has been written on how to establish strong Community-Led Total sanitation (CLTS) programmes that prevent slippage from happening, this issue looks at how to reverse slippage that has already taken place. Note however, that at a certain level, strategies used to reverse slippage and those used in advance to set a programme up for success to prevent slippage occurring overlap. From the literature, there is little documented evidence on how slippage can be reversed; evidence and guidance tend to focus on prevention. This review begins to address this gap. Implementers are encouraged to use the proposed patterns of slippage framework and slippage factors section to understand the type and extent of slippage experienced, then use the examples in the section on tackling slippage to identify potential slippage responses. In addition to a review of current literature,1 in depth interviews were carried out with key informants at global, regional and country level. Key informants were selected purposively to identify experiences and innovations in tackling slippage from across the sector.
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Bolton, Laura. WASH in Schools for Student Return During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), February 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/k4d.2021.024.
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The literature on WASH and school re-opening during the COVID-19 pandemic is dominated by guidelines with little in the way of recent evidence or lessons learned. Analysis of data from school re-openings at the end of 2020 suggests that with mitigation measures in place community infection rates should not be affected by children returning to school. Although children carry a lower risk of infection, they do have large numbers of contact in the school environment, so hygiene and distancing measures are important. The key guidelines for WASH in schools during the COVID-19 pandemic include: children and all school staff must be educated with regards to hand hygiene; hand hygiene stations must be provided at entrances and exits; hand washing must be frequent and requires sufficient water and soap; school buses should have hand hygiene measures in place; and the school environment must be disinfected daily. Environmental, or nudge-based, cues are recommended to support behaviour change in children based on pre-COVID-19 evidence. Examples include colourful footprints leading to a handwashing facility, images of eyes above handwashing facilities, embedding toys in soap, and putting pictures of germs on surfaces.
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Dy, Sydney M., Julie M. Waldfogel, Danetta H. Sloan, Valerie Cotter, Susan Hannum, JaAlah-Ai Heughan, Linda Chyr, et al. Integrating Palliative Care in Ambulatory Care of Noncancer Serious Chronic Illness: A Systematic Review. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), February 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.23970/ahrqepccer237.
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Objectives. To evaluate availability, effectiveness, and implementation of interventions for integrating palliative care into ambulatory care for U.S.-based adults with serious life-threatening chronic illness or conditions other than cancer and their caregivers We evaluated interventions addressing identification of patients, patient and caregiver education, shared decision-making tools, clinician education, and models of care. Data sources. We searched key U.S. national websites (March 2020) and PubMed®, CINAHL®, and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (through May 2020). We also engaged Key Informants. Review methods. We completed a mixed-methods review; we sought, synthesized, and integrated Web resources; quantitative, qualitative and mixed-methods studies; and input from patient/caregiver and clinician/stakeholder Key Informants. Two reviewers screened websites and search results, abstracted data, assessed risk of bias or study quality, and graded strength of evidence (SOE) for key outcomes: health-related quality of life, patient overall symptom burden, patient depressive symptom scores, patient and caregiver satisfaction, and advance directive documentation. We performed meta-analyses when appropriate. Results. We included 46 Web resources, 20 quantitative effectiveness studies, and 16 qualitative implementation studies across primary care and specialty populations. Various prediction models, tools, and triggers to identify patients are available, but none were evaluated for effectiveness or implementation. Numerous patient and caregiver education tools are available, but none were evaluated for effectiveness or implementation. All of the shared decision-making tools addressed advance care planning; these tools may increase patient satisfaction and advance directive documentation compared with usual care (SOE: low). Patients and caregivers prefer advance care planning discussions grounded in patient and caregiver experiences with individualized timing. Although numerous education and training resources for nonpalliative care clinicians are available, we were unable to draw conclusions about implementation, and none have been evaluated for effectiveness. The models evaluated for integrating palliative care were not more effective than usual care for improving health-related quality of life or patient depressive symptom scores (SOE: moderate) and may have little to no effect on increasing patient satisfaction or decreasing overall symptom burden (SOE: low), but models for integrating palliative care were effective for increasing advance directive documentation (SOE: moderate). Multimodal interventions may have little to no effect on increasing advance directive documentation (SOE: low) and other graded outcomes were not assessed. For utilization, models for integrating palliative care were not found to be more effective than usual care for decreasing hospitalizations; we were unable to draw conclusions about most other aspects of utilization or cost and resource use. We were unable to draw conclusions about caregiver satisfaction or specific characteristics of models for integrating palliative care. Patient preferences for appropriate timing of palliative care varied; costs, additional visits, and travel were seen as barriers to implementation. Conclusions. For integrating palliative care into ambulatory care for serious illness and conditions other than cancer, advance care planning shared decision-making tools and palliative care models were the most widely evaluated interventions and may be effective for improving only a few outcomes. More research is needed, particularly on identification of patients for these interventions; education for patients, caregivers, and clinicians; shared decision-making tools beyond advance care planning and advance directive completion; and specific components, characteristics, and implementation factors in models for integrating palliative care into ambulatory care.
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Hellström, Lisa, and Linda Beckman. "Det är lite mer så här mainstream att ha psykisk ohälsa" : Samtal om ungas behov och livsfärdigheter. Malmö universitet, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.24834/isbn.9789178771691.
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Denna rapport ingår i forskningsprojektet Att skapa goda livsfärdigheter bland unga. Den första delrapporten var en nationell och internationell kartläggning över initiativ och insatser för att främja psykisk hälsa bland unga. Bland insatser som verkar mer lovande – och till synes har goda möjligheter att göra skillnad för ungas psykiska hälsa - framträder insatser vars syfte är att höja kunskapen om psykisk hälsa bland unga och vuxna. Ökad kunskap om psykisk hälsa har visat sig vara ett viktigt verktyg för att utveckla färdigheter i hur man tolkar och förstår sina egna känslor och sin kropp och när man behöver kontakta vården. Dessutom är dessa insat-ser ofta samhällsekonomiskt kostnadseffektiva, eftersom de ger unga bättre livsfärdigheter och på sikt leder till minskat vårdsökande och bättre förutsättningar att klara skolan och i förlängningen arbetslivet. Sådana satsningar går även i linje med Barnkonventionen 24§ om alla barns rätt till bästa möjliga hälsa, som sedan 2020 är lag i Sverige. Rekommendat-ioner från den första delrapporten innefattar att rusta unga med färdigheter för att möta livets svårigheter och höja kunskapen om psykisk ohälsa. Det handlar också om att bistå vuxna med kunskap om psykisk hälsa och verk-tyg som främjar hälsa för att kunna stödja unga. Insatser för att främja unga personers hälsa bör följas upp under en längre tid.I denna rapport presenteras röster från unga och yrkesverksamma vuxna i ungas närhet om ungas livssituation kopplat till livsfärdigheter, psykisk hälsa och behov av stöd. Genom att lyssna in unga kan vi bättre hitta framgångsfaktorer för att främja ungas psykiska hälsa och välbefinnande.
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van den Boogaard, Vanessa, Wilson Prichard, Rachel Beach, and Fariya Mohiuddin. Strengthening Tax-Accountability Links: Fiscal Transparency and Taxpayer Engagement in Ghana and Sierra Leone. Institute of Development Studies, November 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/ictd.2020.002.
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There is increasingly strong evidence that taxation can contribute to expanded government responsiveness and accountability. However, such positive connections are not guaranteed. Rather, they are shaped by the political and economic context and specific policies adopted by governments and civil society actors. Without an environment that enables tax bargaining, there is a risk that taxation will amount to little more than forceful extraction. We consider how such enabling environments may be fostered through two mixed methods case studies of tax transparency and taxpayer engagement in Sierra Leone and Ghana. We highlight two key sets of findings. First, tax transparency is only meaningful if it is accessible and easily understood by taxpayers and relates to their everyday experiences and priorities. In particular, we find that taxpayers do not just want basic information about tax obligations or aggregate revenue collected, but information about how much revenue should have been collected and how revenues were spent. At the same time, taxpayers do not want information to be shared with them through a one-way form of communication, but rather want to have spaces for dialogue and interaction with tax and government officials, including through public meetings and radio call-in programmes. Second, strategies to encourage taxpayer engagement are more likely to be effective where forums for engagement are perceived by taxpayers to be safe, secure, and sincere means through which to engage with government officials. This has been most successful where governments have visibly demonstrated responsiveness to citizen concerns, even on a small scale, while partnering with civil society to foster trust, dialogue and expanded knowledge. These findings have significant implications for how governments design taxpayer education and engagement programmes and how civil society actors and development partners can support more equitable and accountable tax systems. Our findings provide concrete lessons for how governments can ensure that information shared with taxpayers is meaningful and accessible. Moreover, we show that civil society actors can play important roles as translators of tax information, enablers of public forums and dialogues around tax issues, and trainers of taxpayers, supporting greater tax literacy and sustained citizen engagement.
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Hunter, Fraser, and Martin Carruthers. Iron Age Scotland. Society for Antiquaries of Scotland, September 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.9750/scarf.09.2012.193.
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The main recommendations of the panel report can be summarised under five key headings: Building blocks: The ultimate aim should be to build rich, detailed and testable narratives situated within a European context, and addressing phenomena from the longue durée to the short-term over international to local scales. Chronological control is essential to this and effective dating strategies are required to enable generation-level analysis. The ‘serendipity factor’ of archaeological work must be enhanced by recognising and getting the most out of information-rich sites as they appear. o There is a pressing need to revisit the archives of excavated sites to extract more information from existing resources, notably through dating programmes targeted at regional sequences – the Western Isles Atlantic roundhouse sequence is an obvious target. o Many areas still lack anything beyond the baldest of settlement sequences, with little understanding of the relations between key site types. There is a need to get at least basic sequences from many more areas, either from sustained regional programmes or targeted sampling exercises. o Much of the methodologically innovative work and new insights have come from long-running research excavations. Such large-scale research projects are an important element in developing new approaches to the Iron Age. Daily life and practice: There remains great potential to improve the understanding of people’s lives in the Iron Age through fresh approaches to, and integration of, existing and newly-excavated data. o House use. Rigorous analysis and innovative approaches, including experimental archaeology, should be employed to get the most out of the understanding of daily life through the strengths of the Scottish record, such as deposits within buildings, organic preservation and waterlogging. o Material culture. Artefact studies have the potential to be far more integral to understandings of Iron Age societies, both from the rich assemblages of the Atlantic area and less-rich lowland finds. Key areas of concern are basic studies of material groups (including the function of everyday items such as stone and bone tools, and the nature of craft processes – iron, copper alloy, bone/antler and shale offer particularly good evidence). Other key topics are: the role of ‘art’ and other forms of decoration and comparative approaches to assemblages to obtain synthetic views of the uses of material culture. o Field to feast. Subsistence practices are a core area of research essential to understanding past society, but different strands of evidence need to be more fully integrated, with a ‘field to feast’ approach, from production to consumption. The working of agricultural systems is poorly understood, from agricultural processes to cooking practices and cuisine: integrated work between different specialisms would assist greatly. There is a need for conceptual as well as practical perspectives – e.g. how were wild resources conceived? o Ritual practice. There has been valuable work in identifying depositional practices, such as deposition of animals or querns, which are thought to relate to house-based ritual practices, but there is great potential for further pattern-spotting, synthesis and interpretation. Iron Age Scotland: ScARF Panel Report v Landscapes and regions: Concepts of ‘region’ or ‘province’, and how they changed over time, need to be critically explored, because they are contentious, poorly defined and highly variable. What did Iron Age people see as their geographical horizons, and how did this change? Attempts to understand the Iron Age landscape require improved, integrated survey methodologies, as existing approaches are inevitably partial. Aspects of the landscape’s physical form and cover should be investigated more fully, in terms of vegetation (known only in outline over most of the country) and sea level change in key areas such as the firths of Moray and Forth. Landscapes beyond settlement merit further work, e.g. the use of the landscape for deposition of objects or people, and what this tells us of contemporary perceptions and beliefs. Concepts of inherited landscapes (how Iron Age communities saw and used this longlived land) and socal resilience to issues such as climate change should be explored more fully. Reconstructing Iron Age societies. The changing structure of society over space and time in this period remains poorly understood. Researchers should interrogate the data for better and more explicitly-expressed understandings of social structures and relations between people. The wider context: Researchers need to engage with the big questions of change on a European level (and beyond). Relationships with neighbouring areas (e.g. England, Ireland) and analogies from other areas (e.g. Scandinavia and the Low Countries) can help inform Scottish studies. Key big topics are: o The nature and effect of the introduction of iron. o The social processes lying behind evidence for movement and contact. o Parallels and differences in social processes and developments. o The changing nature of houses and households over this period, including the role of ‘substantial houses’, from crannogs to brochs, the development and role of complex architecture, and the shift away from roundhouses. o The chronology, nature and meaning of hillforts and other enclosed settlements. o Relationships with the Roman world
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Michalak, Julia, Josh Lawler, John Gross, and Caitlin Littlefield. A strategic analysis of climate vulnerability of national park resources and values. National Park Service, September 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36967/nrr-2287214.
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The U.S. national parks have experienced significant climate-change impacts and rapid, on-going changes are expected to continue. Despite the significant climate-change vulnerabilities facing parks, relatively few parks have conducted comprehensive climate-change vulnerability assessments, defined as assessments that synthesize vulnerability information from a wide range of sources, identify key climate-change impacts, and prioritize vulnerable park resources (Michalak et al. In review). In recognition that funding and planning capacity is limited, this project was initiated to identify geographies, parks, and issues that are high priorities for conducting climate-change vulnerability assessments (CCVA) and strategies to efficiently address the need for CCVAs across all U.S. National Park Service (NPS) park units (hereafter “parks”) and all resources. To help identify priority geographies and issues, we quantitatively assessed the relative magnitude of vulnerability factors potentially affecting park resources and values. We identified multiple vulnerability factors (e.g., temperature change, wildfire potential, number of at-risk species, etc.) and sought existing datasets that could be developed into indicators of these factors. To be included in the study, datasets had to be spatially explicit or already summarized for individual parks and provide consistent data for at least all parks within the contiguous U.S. (CONUS). The need for consistent data across such a large geographic extent limited the number of datasets that could be included, excluded some important drivers of climate-change vulnerability, and prevented adequate evaluation of some geographies. The lack of adequately-scaled data for many key vulnerability factors, such as freshwater flooding risks and increased storm activity, highlights the need for both data development and more detailed vulnerability assessments at local to regional scales where data for these factors may be available. In addition, most of the available data at this scale were related to climate-change exposures, with relatively little data available for factors associated with climate-change sensitivity or adaptive capacity. In particular, we lacked consistent data on the distribution or abundance of cultural resources or accessible data on infrastructure across all parks. We identified resource types, geographies, and critical vulnerability factors that lacked data for NPS’ consideration in addressing data gaps. Forty-seven indicators met our criteria, and these were combined into 21 climate-change vulnerability factors. Twenty-seven indicators representing 12 vulnerability factors addressed climate-change exposure (i.e., projected changes in climate conditions and impacts). A smaller number of indictors measured sensitivity (12 indicators representing 5 vulnerability factors). The sensitivity indicators often measured park or landscape characteristics which may make resources more or less responsive to climate changes (e.g., current air quality) as opposed to directly representing the sensitivity of specific resources within the park (e.g., a particular rare species or type of historical structure). Finally, 6 indicators representing 4 vulnerability factors measured external adaptive capacity for living resources (i.e., characteristics of the park and/or surrounding landscape which may facilitate or impede species adaptation to climate changes). We identified indicators relevant to three resource groups: terrestrial living, aquatic living (including living cultural resources such as culturally significant landscapes, plant, or animal species) and non-living resources (including infrastructure and non-living cultural resources such as historic buildings or archeological sites). We created separate indicator lists for each of these resource groups and analyzed them separately. To identify priority geographies within CONUS,...
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Sexual coercion: Young men's experiences as victims and perpetrators. Population Council, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.31899/pgy22.1008.
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Available evidence suggests that a considerable number of young people experience nonconsensual sex across the world, however research has mainly concentrated on the experiences of young girls and their perspectives of perpetrators of violence. Little is known about coercion among young males as victims or perpetrators. Case studies presented at an international consultative meeting in September 2003 in New Delhi, India, challenged the common assumption that only women are victims of violence, and shed light on the experiences of young males as victims of sexual coercion. These case studies also discussed the perspectives of young males as perpetrators of violence against young women. The evidence comes from small-scale studies from Goa, India; Ibadan, Nigeria; Leon, Nicaragua; Mexico City, Mexico; Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and selected settings in Peru and South Africa. The findings therefore are instructive but not representative. Common themes drawn from these diverse studies and key issues are discussed in this brief.
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African Open Science Platform Part 1: Landscape Study. Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/assaf.2019/0047.
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This report maps the African landscape of Open Science – with a focus on Open Data as a sub-set of Open Science. Data to inform the landscape study were collected through a variety of methods, including surveys, desk research, engagement with a community of practice, networking with stakeholders, participation in conferences, case study presentations, and workshops hosted. Although the majority of African countries (35 of 54) demonstrates commitment to science through its investment in research and development (R&D), academies of science, ministries of science and technology, policies, recognition of research, and participation in the Science Granting Councils Initiative (SGCI), the following countries demonstrate the highest commitment and political willingness to invest in science: Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda. In addition to existing policies in Science, Technology and Innovation (STI), the following countries have made progress towards Open Data policies: Botswana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, South Africa and Uganda. Only two African countries (Kenya and South Africa) at this stage contribute 0.8% of its GDP (Gross Domestic Product) to R&D (Research and Development), which is the closest to the AU’s (African Union’s) suggested 1%. Countries such as Lesotho and Madagascar ranked as 0%, while the R&D expenditure for 24 African countries is unknown. In addition to this, science globally has become fully dependent on stable ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) infrastructure, which includes connectivity/bandwidth, high performance computing facilities and data services. This is especially applicable since countries globally are finding themselves in the midst of the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR), which is not only “about” data, but which “is” data. According to an article1 by Alan Marcus (2015) (Senior Director, Head of Information Technology and Telecommunications Industries, World Economic Forum), “At its core, data represents a post-industrial opportunity. Its uses have unprecedented complexity, velocity and global reach. As digital communications become ubiquitous, data will rule in a world where nearly everyone and everything is connected in real time. That will require a highly reliable, secure and available infrastructure at its core, and innovation at the edge.” Every industry is affected as part of this revolution – also science. An important component of the digital transformation is “trust” – people must be able to trust that governments and all other industries (including the science sector), adequately handle and protect their data. This requires accountability on a global level, and digital industries must embrace the change and go for a higher standard of protection. “This will reassure consumers and citizens, benefitting the whole digital economy”, says Marcus. A stable and secure information and communication technologies (ICT) infrastructure – currently provided by the National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) – is key to advance collaboration in science. The AfricaConnect2 project (AfricaConnect (2012–2014) and AfricaConnect2 (2016–2018)) through establishing connectivity between National Research and Education Networks (NRENs), is planning to roll out AfricaConnect3 by the end of 2019. The concern however is that selected African governments (with the exception of a few countries such as South Africa, Mozambique, Ethiopia and others) have low awareness of the impact the Internet has today on all societal levels, how much ICT (and the 4th Industrial Revolution) have affected research, and the added value an NREN can bring to higher education and research in addressing the respective needs, which is far more complex than simply providing connectivity. Apart from more commitment and investment in R&D, African governments – to become and remain part of the 4th Industrial Revolution – have no option other than to acknowledge and commit to the role NRENs play in advancing science towards addressing the SDG (Sustainable Development Goals). For successful collaboration and direction, it is fundamental that policies within one country are aligned with one another. Alignment on continental level is crucial for the future Pan-African African Open Science Platform to be successful. Both the HIPSSA ((Harmonization of ICT Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa)3 project and WATRA (the West Africa Telecommunications Regulators Assembly)4, have made progress towards the regulation of the telecom sector, and in particular of bottlenecks which curb the development of competition among ISPs. A study under HIPSSA identified potential bottlenecks in access at an affordable price to the international capacity of submarine cables and suggested means and tools used by regulators to remedy them. Work on the recommended measures and making them operational continues in collaboration with WATRA. In addition to sufficient bandwidth and connectivity, high-performance computing facilities and services in support of data sharing are also required. The South African National Integrated Cyberinfrastructure System5 (NICIS) has made great progress in planning and setting up a cyberinfrastructure ecosystem in support of collaborative science and data sharing. The regional Southern African Development Community6 (SADC) Cyber-infrastructure Framework provides a valuable roadmap towards high-speed Internet, developing human capacity and skills in ICT technologies, high- performance computing and more. The following countries have been identified as having high-performance computing facilities, some as a result of the Square Kilometre Array7 (SKA) partnership: Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Mauritius, Namibia, South Africa, Tunisia, and Zambia. More and more NRENs – especially the Level 6 NRENs 8 (Algeria, Egypt, Kenya, South Africa, and recently Zambia) – are exploring offering additional services; also in support of data sharing and transfer. The following NRENs already allow for running data-intensive applications and sharing of high-end computing assets, bio-modelling and computation on high-performance/ supercomputers: KENET (Kenya), TENET (South Africa), RENU (Uganda), ZAMREN (Zambia), EUN (Egypt) and ARN (Algeria). Fifteen higher education training institutions from eight African countries (Botswana, Benin, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, and Tanzania) have been identified as offering formal courses on data science. In addition to formal degrees, a number of international short courses have been developed and free international online courses are also available as an option to build capacity and integrate as part of curricula. The small number of higher education or research intensive institutions offering data science is however insufficient, and there is a desperate need for more training in data science. The CODATA-RDA Schools of Research Data Science aim at addressing the continental need for foundational data skills across all disciplines, along with training conducted by The Carpentries 9 programme (specifically Data Carpentry 10 ). Thus far, CODATA-RDA schools in collaboration with AOSP, integrating content from Data Carpentry, were presented in Rwanda (in 2018), and during17-29 June 2019, in Ethiopia. Awareness regarding Open Science (including Open Data) is evident through the 12 Open Science-related Open Access/Open Data/Open Science declarations and agreements endorsed or signed by African governments; 200 Open Access journals from Africa registered on the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ); 174 Open Access institutional research repositories registered on openDOAR (Directory of Open Access Repositories); 33 Open Access/Open Science policies registered on ROARMAP (Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies); 24 data repositories registered with the Registry of Data Repositories (re3data.org) (although the pilot project identified 66 research data repositories); and one data repository assigned the CoreTrustSeal. Although this is a start, far more needs to be done to align African data curation and research practices with global standards. Funding to conduct research remains a challenge. African researchers mostly fund their own research, and there are little incentives for them to make their research and accompanying data sets openly accessible. Funding and peer recognition, along with an enabling research environment conducive for research, are regarded as major incentives. The landscape report concludes with a number of concerns towards sharing research data openly, as well as challenges in terms of Open Data policy, ICT infrastructure supportive of data sharing, capacity building, lack of skills, and the need for incentives. Although great progress has been made in terms of Open Science and Open Data practices, more awareness needs to be created and further advocacy efforts are required for buy-in from African governments. A federated African Open Science Platform (AOSP) will not only encourage more collaboration among researchers in addressing the SDGs, but it will also benefit the many stakeholders identified as part of the pilot phase. The time is now, for governments in Africa, to acknowledge the important role of science in general, but specifically Open Science and Open Data, through developing and aligning the relevant policies, investing in an ICT infrastructure conducive for data sharing through committing funding to making NRENs financially sustainable, incentivising open research practices by scientists, and creating opportunities for more scientists and stakeholders across all disciplines to be trained in data management.