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McCabe, O. Lee, Charlene Perry, Melissa Azur, Henry G. Taylor, Howard Gwon, Adrian Mosley, Natalie Semon, and Jonathan M. Links. "Guided Preparedness Planning with Lay Communities: Enhancing Capacity of Rural Emergency Response Through a Systems-Based Partnership." Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 28, no. 1 (November 22, 2012): 8–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049023x12001483.

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AbstractIntroductionCommunity disaster preparedness plans, particularly those with content that would mitigate the effects of psychological trauma on vulnerable rural populations, are often nonexistent or underdeveloped. The purpose of the study was to develop and evaluate a model of disaster mental health preparedness planning involving a partnership among three, key stakeholders in the public health system.MethodsA one-group, post-test, quasi-experimental design was used to assess outcomes as a function of an intervention designated Guided Preparedness Planning (GPP). The setting was the eastern-, northern-, and mid-shore region of the state of Maryland. Partner participants were four local health departments (LHDs), 100 faith-based organizations (FBOs), and one academic health center (AHC)—the latter, collaborating entities of the Johns Hopkins University and the Johns Hopkins Health System. Individual participants were 178 community residents recruited from counties of the above-referenced geographic area. Effectiveness of GPP was based on post-intervention assessments of trainee knowledge, skills, and attitudes supportive of community disaster mental health planning. Inferences about the practicability (feasibility) of the model were drawn from pre-defined criteria for partner readiness, willingness, and ability to participate in the project. Additional aims of the study were to determine if LHD leaders would be willing and able to generate post-project strategies to perpetuate project-initiated government/faith planning alliances (sustainability), and to develop portable methods and materials to enhance model application and impact in other health jurisdictions (scalability).ResultsThe majority (95%) of the 178 lay citizens receiving the GPP intervention and submitting complete evaluations reported that planning-supportive objectives had been achieved. Moreover, all criteria for inferring model feasibility, sustainability, and scalability were met.ConclusionsWithin the span of a six-month period, LHDs, FBOs, and AHCs can work effectively to plan, implement, and evaluate what appears to be an effective, practical, and durable model of capacity building for public mental health emergency planning.McCabeOL, PerryC, AzurM, TaylorHG, GwonH, MosleyA, SemonN, LinksJM. Guided preparedness planning with lay communities: enhancing capacity of rural emergency response through a systems-based partnership. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2012;28(1):1-8.
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McCabe, PhD, O. Lee, Felicity Marum, MHA, Natalie Semon, MSEd, Adrian Mosley, MSW, LCSW-C, Howard Gwon, MS, Charlene Perry, RN, BSN, Suzanne Straub Moore, MEd, and Jonathan M. Links, PhD. "Participatory public health systems research: Value of community involvement in a study series in mental health emergency preparedness." American Journal of Disaster Medicine 7, no. 4 (September 1, 2012): 303–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.5055/ajdm.2012.0103.

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Background: Concerns have arisen over recent years about the absence of empirically derived evidence on which to base policy and practice in the public health system, in general, and to meet the challenge of public health emergency preparedness, in particular. Related issues include the challenge of disaster-caused, behavioral health surge, and the frequent exclusion of populations from studies that the research is meant to aid.Objective: To characterize the contributions of nonacademic collaborators to a series of projects validating a set of interventions to enhance capacity and competency of public mental health preparedness planning and response.Methods: Setting(s): Urban, suburban, and rural communities of the state of Maryland and rural communities of the state of Iowa. Participants: Study partners and participants (both of this project and the studies examined) were representatives of academic health centers (AHCs), local health departments (LHDs), and faith-based organizations (FBOs) and their communities. Procedures: A multiple-project, case study analysis was conducted, that is, four research projects implemented by the authors from 2005 through 2011 to determine the types and impact of contributions made by nonacademic collaborators to those projects. The analysis involved reviewing research records, conceptualizing contributions (and providing examples) for government, faith, and (nonacademic) institutional collaborators.Results: Ten areas were identified where partners made valuable contributions to the study series; these “value-areas” were as follows: 1) leadership and management of the projects; 2) formulation and refinement of research topics, aims, etc; 3) recruitment and retention of participants; 4) design and enhancement of interventions; 5) delivery of interventions; 6) collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; 7) dissemination of findings; 8) ensuring sustainability of faith/government preparedness planning relationships; 9) optimizing scalability and portability of the model; and 10) facilitating translational impact of study findings.Conclusions: Systems-based partnerships among academic, faith, and government entities offer an especially promising infrastructure for conducting participatory public health systems research in domestic emergency preparedness and response.
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Klaiman, Tamar, and Jennifer K. Ibrahim. "State Health Department Structure and Pandemic Planning." Journal of Public Health Management and Practice 16, no. 2 (March 2010): e1-e7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/phh.0b013e3181b83475.

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Musser, Wesley N. "Extension Programs in Crop Insurance: A Maryland Case Study." Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 37, no. 1 (April 2008): 22–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1068280500002112.

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Many states have crop insurance extension programs. This activity has been stimulated with the availability of funds to support extension from the Risk Management Agency (RMA) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Several new RMA programs were established under the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000. The Targeted States Program is quite important for the Northeast. This program serves states that were traditionally underserved by crop insurance. It is available in all 12 northeastern states, plus Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming. The Targeted States Program funds one program in each state. A total of $4.5 million in funding is available each year. Amounts for state programs range from $157,000 in Rhode Island to $754,000 in Pennsylvania, which is a considerable amount of funding.
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Ren, Ai, Bruce Golden, Frank Alt, Edward Wasil, Margret Bjarnadottir, Jon Hirshon, and Laura Pimentel. "Impact of Global Budget Revenue Policy on Emergency Department Efficiency in the State of Maryland." Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 20, no. 6 (October 14, 2019): 885–992. http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2019.8.43201.

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Noddin, Christine A. "Barometer of CCSS State Planning Activities." Teaching Children Mathematics 19, no. 6 (February 2013): 341–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.5951/teacchilmath.19.6.0341.

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This department publishes brief news articles, announcements and guest editorials on current mathematics education issues that stimulate the interest of TCM readers and cause them to think about an issue or consider a specific viewpoint about some aspect of mathematics education.
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Stryckman, Benoit, Diane Kuhn, Daniel Gingold, Kyle Fischer, J. David Gatz, Stephen Schenkel, and Brian Browne. "Balancing Efficiency and Access: Discouraging Emergency Department Boarding in a Global Budget System." Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 22, no. 5 (September 2, 2021): 1196–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2021.5.51889.

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Reducing cost without sacrificing quality of patient care is an important yet challenging goal for healthcare professionals and policymakers alike. This challenge is at the forefront in the United States, where per capita healthcare costs are much higher than in similar countries around the world. The state of Maryland is unique in the hospital financing landscape due to its “capitation” payment system (also known as “global budget”), in which revenue for hospital-based services is set at the beginning of the year. Although Maryland’s system has yielded many benefits, including reduced Medicare spending, it also has had unintentional adverse consequences. These consequences, such as increased emergency department boarding and ambulance diversion, constrain Maryland hospitals’ ability to fulfill their role as emergency care providers and act as a safety net for vulnerable patient populations. In this article, we suggest policy remedies to mitigate the unintended consequences of Maryland’s model that should also prove instructive for a variety of emerging alternative payment mechanisms.
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Newkirk, Anthony Bolton. "The Rise of the Fusion-Intelligence Complex: A critique of political surveillance after 9/11." Surveillance & Society 8, no. 1 (July 22, 2010): 43–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.24908/ss.v8i1.3473.

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This paper argues that 'fusion centers' are byproducts of the privatization of state surveillance and assaults on civil liberties, at least in the United States, the nation on which the research is based, with special focus on the recent case of the Maryland State Police spying scandal. In fusion centers, members of local, state, and federal police and intelligence units, as well as private-sector organizations, share information with each other by means of computerized technology and store it in databases. While the official purpose is to protect public safety, the practice of 'data-mining' and unclear lines of authority lead to fusion centers being unaccountable to the public and, hence, a threat to the democratic process. These conditions are encapsulated in the case of official espionage in the state of Maryland at least between 2004 and 2006. Drawing on official documents, the history of 'homeland security' since World War II and the characteristics of fusion centers, the Department of Homeland Security, and events in Maryland are surveyed. Working within the contexts of social history, surveillance theory, and political economy, this paper is grounded in the work of Beck, Churchill and Wall, Donner, Fuchs, Graham, Lyon, McCulloch and Pickering, and Monahan.
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Shen, Qing, and Feng Zhang. "Land-Use Changes in a Pro-Smart-Growth State: Maryland, USA." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 39, no. 6 (June 2007): 1457–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a3886.

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Bruns, Brandon R., Ronald Tesoriero, Mayur Narayan, Elena N. Klyushnenkova, Herbert Chen, Thomas M. Scalea, and Jose J. Diaz. "Emergency General Surgery: Defining Burden of Disease in the State of Maryland." American Surgeon 81, no. 8 (August 2015): 829–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000313481508100825.

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Acute care surgery services continue expanding to provide emergency general surgery (EGS) care. The aim of this study is to define the characteristics of the EGS population in Maryland. Retrospective review of the Health Services Cost Review Commission database from 2009 to 2013 was performed. American Association for the Surgery of Trauma-defined EGS ICD-9 codes were used to define the EGS population. Data collected included patient demographics, admission origin [emergency department (ED) versus non-ED], length of stay (LOS), mortality, and disposition. There were 3,157,646 encounters. In all, 817,942 (26%) were EGS encounters, with 76 per cent admitted via an ED. The median age of ED patients that died was 74 years versus 61 years for those that lived ( P < 0.001). Twenty one per cent of ED admitted patients had a LOS > 7 days. Of 78,065 non-ED admitted patients, the median age of those that died was 68 years versus 59 years for those that lived ( P < 0.001). Twenty eight per cent of non-ED admits had LOS > 7 days. In both ED and non-ED patients, there was a bimodal distribution of death, with most patients dying at LOS ≤ 2 or LOS > 7 days. In this study, EGS diagnoses are present in 26 per cent of inpatient encounters in Maryland. The EGS population is elderly with prolonged LOS and a bimodal distribution of death.
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Blass, Jeffrey B. "Optimization of best management practices for watershed planning in the state of Maryland." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/7776.

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Thesis (M.S.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2007.
Thesis research directed by: Dept. of Civil Engineering. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Smith, Aaron. "The History of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at Utah State University." DigitalCommons@USU, 2014. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/3876.

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This study presents an examination of the history of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning. The study uses both qualitative and quantitative methods to produce a holistic view of the events that influenced change with the Department and it is presented through a social constructionist lens. The qualitative methods were primarily driven by oral history interviews with former faculty, as well as analysis by the author of historical documents. The quantitative analysis involved the use of an alumni survey to measure changes in demographics, values, predispositions, and perceptions regarding the LAEP Department amongst the student body, and how those changes influenced the Department. The historical findings are presented as a narrative from the origins of the Department in the late 1930s to 2014, covering the first seventy-five years of the program. The narrative is broadly organized into chronological sections (1939-1964, 1964-1972, 1972-1983, 1983-2001, 2001-2014), and broken up further by specific themes that run throughout the narrative (leadership, faculty, program development, facilities, technology, and student body). This thesis found that throughout the first seventy-five years of the Department’s history, change has been brought-about by numerous internal and external forces, and the people involved in the creation and development of the LAEP Department were influenced by a broad range of social and professional trends. Notably, the creation of a core faculty in the 60s and 70s set the agenda for changes that occurred within the LAEP Department for the next forty years, and that their strengths and weaknesses were manifest in the Department's development.
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Nawi, Thalia. "The Shifting Role of State Education Agencies: Lessons Learned From Strategic Planning With the Delaware Department of Education." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:16645025.

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Through this capstone, I explore the unique dynamics I encountered in the Delaware Department of Education during the department’s final year as a federal Race to the Top grant recipient. This document describes my intended work for the department, culminating in a two-year strategic plan. The goal of my theory of action was to ensure that the resources of the department were aligned to a focused set of priorities, reflecting a balance of accountability and support. Through the following sections I explore the rationale for my work, results achieved, and attempt an explanation of the results themselves. I close with implications for my own leadership, the site itself, and the sector as a whole. In the Review of Knowledge for Action, I explore the role of State Education Agencies (SEA) as both a support body and a monitoring and accountability agency, and develop a personal theory of action that guided my work within the department. The role of the SEA in the sector is a complex one where opportunity and tension exist simultaneously in the pursuit of creating conditions for improved academic outcomes for students. As I discuss, both the literature and the day-to-day operations of the department demonstrate challenges in this work. The Results and Analysis components of the capstone explain in greater detail the goals and outcomes of my strategic project, and expand on the complexities of the Delaware Department of Education leadership team. Through the use of the Note for Analyzing Workgroups (Harvard Business School, 1998) I explore both structures and embedded culture within the state and the department, and discuss how these impacted the strategic plan. In the Implications component I illuminate both tensions and opportunities for the department in light of the local and national turbulence around the balance of accountability and support. This capstone aims provide insights into the complex role of State Education Agencies as they seek to both fulfill their core function and take on an increasingly dynamic role influencing and impacting academic outcomes for students in their state.
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Gasant, Mogamad Waheeb. "Teacher responses to rationalisation in the Western Cape Education Department : implications for administration planning and policy." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17525.

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Apart from its current application in the process of transformation of South Africa's education system, interestingly, the term rationalisation is absent from the international literature. The high level of impact that the economics of education has in the provision of education presupposes that, in the "Global Village", world trends and access to international financial markets to fund transformation in education will inform the national policy making process. In South Africa macro education policy is set by the National ministry. In this regard teacher I learner ratios and funding to the provinces have been set at the highest level of government. In terms of this, it is understandable that national imperatives will influence and in many cases determine provincial policy making and the implementation thereof. This study examines educator responses to the way in which the rationalisation of teacher numbers is being applied in the Western Cape Education Department (WCED). The investigation takes into cognisance the particular historical, political and social background of the Western Cape Province. In doing so this study recognises the influence that these factors have had on the way teachers view the rationalisation policies and, more importantly, their implementation. In the apartheid era education was organised, according to "race", into four different departments. Thus the Department of Education (DET) controlled "Black" education, the Cape Education Department (CED) controlled "White" education, the House of Representatives (HOR) controlled "Coloured" education and the House of Delegates (HOD) was responsible for "Indian" education. Since the number of HOD teachers in the WCED only constitutes 0,47% of the total [WCED, November 1995], they were not taken into consideration for this study. While there is a convergence of opinion by educators of the three ex departments on many issues regarding rationalisation there is also a noticeable divergence underpinned by historical difference in funding and human and physical resourcing. Conclusions drawn point to the fact that there is a general acceptance of the policy of the rationalisation of teacher numbers in the Western Cape. Yet, while this policy might promote equality of numbers, its merit as a means to assuage the demand for the equitable redressing of the injustices of the apartheid era remains questionable.
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Smith, Denise A. "The evolution of multimodal transportation planning: key factors in shaping the approaches of state DOTs." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/47702.

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As a result of the changing needs of society since the early 20th century, approaches to transportation planning have been continually shifting from highway-focused to multimodal, an approach which takes multiple modes of transportation into consideration. This evolution has been reflected in federal transportation legislation and continues to have many implications for transportation agencies, especially state departments of transportation (DOTs). The objective of this thesis is to analyze what state DOTs have done in order to adapt to the shift. More specifically, the project focuses on the organizational and funding structures of state DOTs. First, an organizational structure analysis of all 50 state DOTs was carried out. This analysis looked at how state DOTs incorporate multiple modes of transportation into their organizational structure. Secondly, the results of a statewide multimodal planning survey, to which 35 states responded, were analyzed. The survey gauged to what extent the representative from a given state DOT thought that their agency was conducting multimodal transportation planning. It also analyzed state DOT modal responsibilities, funding options, and characteristics that influence multimodal transportation planning. Lastly, case studies were carried out for six state transportation agencies: Florida DOT, North Carolina DOT, Oregon DOT, Virginia's Transportation Secretariat, Maryland DOT, and Massachusetts DOT. These case studies focused on organizational structure, funding, and multimodal efforts. Findings from the three different aspects of this thesis support the notion that highway is still the dominant mode in statewide transportation planning in most state DOTs. However, this research also supports the idea that this situation is changing, though more rapidly in some states than in others. Though it is not evident that one type of organizational structure is better than another, states have used the reorganization of these structures as a method for adapting to multimodal transportation planning. Overall, state DOTs tend to incorporate multiple modes of transportation into their organizational structure through multimodal divisions, separate modal divisions, or a combination of both. In addition to the organizational structures, some states have also restructured their funding mechanisms in order to make funds more flexible across all modes of transportation so that they may be able to better accommodate multimodal transportation planning. Those state DOTs with transportation trust funds and separate modal programs have generally shown more initiative in embracing a more multimodal approach to transportation planning. Besides organizational and funding structures, leadership, organizational culture, and institutional issues have been recognized as factors that influence the extent of multimodal planning.
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Wang, Xue Li. "Reform of large-or-medium-scale state enterprises : key of transition from central planning to socialist market economy." Thesis, University of Macau, 1996. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b1636266.

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Gallert, Barbara. "California State Government attempts managing for results: A critical assessment of recent developments." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1999. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1794.

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Creeley, Hannah Highton. "Creating an asset management model for Massachusetts state-aided public housing : a study of policies and practices to inform the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/49689.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2009.
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Local housing authorities in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts currently manage over 50,000 state-aided public housing units on a consolidated, authority-wide level-a style of property management that does not allow for the detailed monitoring or assessment of each property within a local housing authority's portfolio. The private real estate sector and federal public housing authorities with more than 500 federal public housing units manage properties according to an asset management model in which the funding, budgeting, accounting, and management systems are conducted on a property-specific level. Recently adopted for federal public housing authorities, asset management is recognized as an effective tool for generating increased efficiency and accountability as well as improved financial and physical performance for individual properties. Some academics and professionals argue that public housing is fundamentally different from the private sector and should not adopt a private sector business practice. The differences cited include unique resident populations (one is high-need, low-income and the other is independent and financially stable) and the objectives of each sector (one is considered a public service and the other is profit-driven). This thesis investigates the models and mechanisms of two asset management models used in the public housing sector in order to best inform the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development on how to move towards an asset management model for state-aided public housing.
(cont.) First, strategic asset management employed by the social rented sectors of Europe and Australia is driven by four primary characteristics: market-oriented, systematic, comprehensive, and proactive. Second, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's asset management model for federal public housing authorities is technical and process-oriented with a focus on five core reform areas: property-based funding, budgeting, accounting, management, and performance assessment. Each case is informative in creating an asset management model for Massachusetts state-aided public housing that will increase efficiency and accountability, place a focus on property performance, and end the stigma and isolation of public housing.
by Hannah Highton Creeley.
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Rakepa, Thethiwe Thelma. "The implementation of employee assistance programme of the Department of Education : a case study of Motheo district in the Free State Province." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/19932.

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Thesis (MPA)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The primary aim of the Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) is to make a positive contribution towards maximum employee productivity and effectiveness in the workplace. Various organisations implemented EAP, but the achievement of aims and objectives need to be investigated in order to ascertain whether the service is successful. In order to achieve the latter, the present study was therefore designed with the primary aim of evaluating the effectiveness of the EAP services in the Free State Department of Education, Motheo District. In order for the DoE to comply with legislation they need to ensure that there is adequate provision of human and capital resources. Employees should be knowledgeable on the content of policy guidelines and procedures to promote utilisation. Accessibility of the programme will depend on the restructuring of EAP section from a sub section to a Directorate. Appropriate structure can make the EAP section effective. Staffing, competency, integration and early identification can be dealt with if the DoE can employ personnel with appropriate skills. Confidentiality and the Model through which EAP service is rendered is a challenge in the DoE as it influences utilisation of EAP services.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die primêre doel van die Werknemersondersteuningsprogram (WOP) is om 'n positiewe bydrae tot maksimale werknemer-produktiwiteit en -effektiwiteit in die werkplek te lewer. Verskeie organisasies het die WOP geïmplementeer, maar ten einde vas te stel of die diens suksesvol was, moet die bereiking van doelstellings en doelwitte ondersoek word. Ten einde laasgenoemde te vermag, is die huidige studie dus ontwerp met die primêre doel om die effektiwiteit van die WOP-dienste in die Vrystaatse Onderwysdepartment, Motheo-distrik te evalueer. Die Onderwysdepartement moet, wetgewing nakom deur te verseker dat voldoende menslike en kapitaalhulpbronne beskikbaar gestel word. Ten einde verbruik te bevorder behoort werknemers goed ingelig te wees met betrekking tot die inhoud van beleidsriglyne en -prosedure. Toegankilikheid tot die program sal van die herstrukturering van die WOP afdeling van 'n onderafdeling tot 'n Direktoraat afhang. Toepaslike strukture kan die WOP-afdeling effektief maak. Personeeltoewysing, bevoegdheid, integrasie en vroeë identifisering kan hanteer word indien die Onderwysdepartement personeel aanstel wat oor die toepaslike vaardighede beskik. Vertroulikheid en die Model waarvolgens die WOP-diens bedryf word, bied 'n uitdaging in die Onderwysdepartement aangesien dit die verbruik van WOP-dienste beïnvloed.
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Adams, John Ray. "Aligning brain-based middle school reform with the California State Standards." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1878.

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Maryland. Dept. of State Planning. Regulations review. Baltimore, Md: Maryland Department of State Planning, 1987.

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Jensen, Kenneth A. Study of long range electrical demand planning in Maryland: Final report to the Power Plant Research Program, Department of Natural Resources, State of Maryland. [Annapolis, Md.]: The Program, 1987.

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Institute, Urban. A process for periodic reviews of alternative ways to deliver state services: Final report to the State of Maryland, Department of Budget & Fiscal Planning, Division of Management Analysis & Audits. [Annapolis, Md.?]: The Division, 1987.

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Institute, Urban. A process for periodic reviews of alternative ways to deliver state services: Demonstration project, findings and observations : final report to the State of Maryland, Department of Budget & Fiscal Planning, Division of Management Analysis & Audits. [Annapolis, Md.?]: The Division, 1987.

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Maryland. General Assembly. Dept. of Legislative Services. Office of Legislative Audits. Audit report: State Department of Education. Baltimore, Md: Office of Legislative Audits, 2006.

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United States. Agricultural Research Service. Integrated sustainable vegetable production systems: Overview and planning at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture : Tuesday, February 25, 1997, 8:30 a.m., auditorium, Building 003, BARC-W, Beltsville, Maryland. Beltsville, Md: The Service, 1997.

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Maryland. Dept. of Public Safety and Correctional Services. Department master facilities plan: Submitted to Department of State Planning. [Annapolis? Md.]: Dept. of Public Safety and Correctional Services, 1986.

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Maryland. Dept. of Juvenile Services. Response to the Department of Budget and Fiscal Planning management audit report. [Baltimore, Md.]: The Deptartment, 1990.

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Education, Maryland State Dept of. Maryland plan for libraries FY 1992-1996. [Baltimore, Md.] (200 W. Baltimore St., Baltimore 21201): The Department, 1990.

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Maryland. General Assembly. Dept. of Legislative Services. Office of Legislative Audits. Audit report: Department of Natural Resources. Baltimore, Md: Office of Legislative Audits, 2008.

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Pisman, Ann, and Stijn Vanacker. "Diagnosis of the State of the Territory in Flanders. Reporting About New Maps and Indicators Differentiating Between Urban and Rural Areas Within Flanders." In Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions, 209–21. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57764-3_14.

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AbstractWithin the several European analyses of spatial patterns, Belgium and Flanders take a specific position. The average ‘settlement area percentage’ (i.e., all land used beyond agriculture, semi-natural areas, forestry, and water bodies) for Europe is 4%, but 32% of the Flemish area is occupied with artificial land. Belgium has the highest score for urban-sprawl indicators, and within the European context, almost the entire area is considered urban. The aim of the research presented in this paper is to expand on the theme of indicators for spatial patterns by analyzing the Flemish area with detailed data across various scales. The results are collected in a report, the ‘Ruimterapport’— ‘RURA’, published in 2018. RURA is a bundling and compilation of research results from very diverse sources, amongst others studies from the Department of Environment and Spatial Development of Flanders and of Espon studies. This article presents the most important results from RURA and further positions them in international comparative literature. New maps and indicators are developed for the urban/peri-urban/rural dimensions of the human settlement area, urban sprawl, and settlement patterns by differentiating amongst others between urban centers, ribbon development, and scattered buildings. The paper gives a quantitative, methodological, and empirical contribution to the field of urban and regional development processes and contributes to conceptualizations of space. The case of Flanders, with its specific sprawl pattern, illustrates the difficulties spatial planning policy makers currently are facing, dealing with the complexity of space and society.
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Collins, John M., Elizabeth Ann Severns, and Thomas P. Glakas. "Department of State." In U.S. Defense Planning, 35–38. Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429269684-5.

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"The State Department and Postwar Planning for Okinawa, 1942-1946." In The Origins of the Bilateral Okinawa Problem, 41–82. Routledge, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203815014-3.

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Day, Patrice, and Rina Ghose. "E-Planning through the Wisconsin Land Information Program." In Geographic Information Systems, 1525–40. IGI Global, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2038-4.ch092.

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Through the lenses of Critical GIS and political economy, this paper examines the history of the Wisconsin Land Information Program (WLIP), which was created in 1989 and provides an early US example of the adoption of GIS at the local government level. Using a mixed methods approach and a case study design, the authors focus on the cooperation and conflicts among various actors and networks, at and between scales, during times of plentiful and lean resources. Catalyzed by the 1978 Larsen Report, the WLIP was unique in its inclusiveness of everyone involved in land records management. University academics brought together all the stakeholders to create a thematic and territorial network with political power and a unique funding mechanism. As land use planning and state budget deficits became prominent, the program became a target, leading to conflict and power struggles, particularly with the state Department of Administration (DOA). What began as an egalitarian, grass-roots, socially just, forward-thinking program has shape-shifted, and while the WLIP is still a viable and functioning program, its egalitarian goals have been subverted by economics.
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White, Gary W. "The Library as a Center for Innovation." In Advances in Library and Information Science, 68–86. IGI Global, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0326-2.ch004.

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The University Libraries have formed a strategic alliance with the Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland to develop library services and spaces to support student innovation and entrepreneurship. In Fall 2014, the Library opened a new state of the art “makerspace” that was developed via joint planning fundraising. In addition, the Libraries and the Academy are exploring further development and expansion of existing spaces in the library to support innovation, creativity, design-thinking, and entrepreneurship. This chapter situates this case study in the current literature of how academic libraries support innovation and entrepreneurship. Furthermore, it discusses how libraries can initiate and develop similar relationships on campus to assist in the creation of similar programs and services. This includes a discussion of best practices about joint fundraising. Finally, it discusses how “makerspace” services and spaces can be used to facilitate student learning as well as innovation and entrepreneurial activities.
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Ng, Celeste See-pui. "Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Maintenance Metrics for Management." In Information Resources Management, 538–44. IGI Global, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-965-1.ch303.

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A typical packaged software lifecycle, from the client-organization perspective, is packaged software selection followed by implementation, installation, training, and maintenance (that includes upgrades). Traditional software maintenance has been acknowledged by many researchers as the longest and most costly phase in the software lifecycle. This fact is no exception in the ERP packaged software maintenance context (Moore, 2005; Whiting, 2006). According to Ng, Gable, & Chan (2002, pg. 100) ERP maintenance is defined as “post-implementation activities related to the packaged application software undertaken by the client-organization from the time the system goes live (i.e., successfully implemented and transported to the production environment), until it is retired from an organization’s production system, to keep the system running; adapt to a changed environment in order to operate well; provide helps to the system users in using the system; realize benefits from the system (best business processes, enhanced system integration, cost reduction); and keep the system a supported-version and meet the vendor’s requirements for standard code. These activities include: implementing internal change-requests (initiated by an ERP-using organization’s system users and IT-staff); responding or handling usersupport requests (initiated by an ERP-using organization’s system users); upgrading to new versions/releases (introduced by the vendor); and performing patches (support provided by the vendor).” In order to achieve the abovementioned maintenance objectives of keeping the ERP system running, adapting the system to a new operating environment, and ensuring the system up to the vendor’s requirement for standard code; and realizing benefits such as competitive advantages from the system, the IT department staff has to collect some metrics or relevant data on patches and modifications done to the ERP system so that they can know or can tell the status and the performance of their maintenance activities. The authors in Fenton (1991), Fenton & Pfleeger (1997), and Florac (1992), agree that software maintenance data are useful for planning, assessment, tracking, and predictions on software maintenance. Although, there is a lot of literature on ERP, we find almost no literature on ERP maintenance metrics. Thus, this text is meant to provide some fundamental metrics on ERP patches and modifications which could be useful for ERP maintenance management in order to answer questions on the state of their ERP system, their patch implementation costs, and the ongoing maintenance costs for their previous modification or custom development.
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Leipnik, Mark R., and Donald P. Albert. "Interjurisdictional Law Enforcement Data Sharing Issues." In Geographic Information Systems and Crime Analysis, 25–44. IGI Global, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-453-8.ch002.

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This chapter discusses the use of geographic information systems (GIS) to create and disseminate geospatial data among multiple law enforcement agencies in the same metropolitan area, county, region, state and nation. Cooperation between different agencies of government, such as between a municipal police department and a comprehensive-planning, information technology or public works department, with GIS expertise will be discussed. The benefits derived from sharing human and technical resources, from using a common set of geospatial data and a common crime records database schema, and from the centralization of activities, such as geocoding, will be emphasized. Issues impeding interjurisdictional use of GIS, such as technical issues of interoperability, confidentiality concerns and cost-sharing problems, are presented. Multiple examples drawn from the United States and several other countries illustrate the universality of interjurisdictional issues and the value of using GIS to facilitate data sharing and cooperation among multiple law enforcement and government agencies.
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Ding, Amy Wenxuan. "A Hospital Emergency Support System for Real Time Surveillance Modeling and Effective Response." In Social Computing in Homeland Security, 134–55. IGI Global, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-228-2.ch009.

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Before 2001, public health departments, including hospitals, rarely played a role in disaster planning, though they functioned in critical roles for victim treatment and recovery. Their roles in disaster response usually initiated after a disaster event had occurred. But the potential for chemical or biological terrorism has pushed them to become frontline responders, as well as critical and central players in most state and local emergency planning teams. According to U.S. General Accounting Office [GAO] (2003), increasing expectations demand that public health agencies at all levels in the United States develop their capacities to respond to incidents of terrorism and other disasters (Bashir et al., 2003). For healthcare facilities, hospital emergency response plans rely on their emergency departments’ response. That is, the emergency department must determine the magnitude of the event and initiate the appropriate institutional response, including decisions to declare an institutional disaster or institutional lock-down and determinations of whether victim decontamination is needed. From this point of view, the extent of the response depends on the capability of each emergency department. At present, however, even without a terrorism incident, emergency departments are crowded, and patients might wait up to a full day to receive treatment (Brownstein, 2007; U.S. National Center for Injury Prevention and Control [NCIPC], 2007). According to a Harvard Medical School survey, the number of ER visits rose from 93.4 million in 1994 to 110.2 million in 2004. A patient has a one in four chance of waiting for more than 50 minutes because of overcrowding in the emergency department, and wait times appear likely to keep increasing (Reuters, 2008). This widespread problem logically will negatively influence their ability to respond to high-consequence chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) attacks or natural disasters. Should a huge influx of patients arrive due to an unexpected disaster event, the current crowding situation of most emergency departments implies that real emergencies may be lost in the shuffle without an organized response (Conte, 2005 Morse, 2002).
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Barnes, Dayna L. "Elbow Patches and Orientalists." In Architects of Occupation. Cornell University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501703089.003.0003.

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This chapter discusses postwar planning on Japan, which was dominated by the State Department. Key figures in that process disagreed about the causes of Japanese militarism and the potential of peaceful cooperation. Asia specialists and the senior officials who approved policy drew different conclusions based on their own experiences with Asia, a sense of connection to either Japan or China, and the information they had access to. Eventually, policy planner's recommendations evolved during the war and finally formed the document entitled United States Initial Post-Surrender Policy for Japan (SWNCC150/4), which became official policy in September 1945. This document, authorized by President Harry Truman, offered a broad vision for the treatment of Japan, which occupiers could use to frame responses to problems as they emerged.
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Olcott, Jocelyn. "Choosing Battles in the Cold War." In International Women's Year. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195327687.003.0003.

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This chapter discusses how two camps emerged among NGO leaders planning IWY activities. A small group of New York–based women focused its efforts on political equality and educational and economic opportunities for women, reflecting its US orientation. A larger, more diverse group centered in Geneva concentrated more on human rights, social justice issues such as racial discrimination and apartheid, and global disparities of wealth. These debates occurred against a backdrop of UN debates over economic sovereignty and the conflicts between Israel and its neighbors. As the United States increasingly served as a punching bag at the UN, the State Department began to see women’s rights as an arena where it might curry favor; it substantially increased the resources dedicated to IWY and supported calls for a UN-sponsored IWY conference to overshadow the planned NGO conference in East Berlin.
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Conference papers on the topic "Maryland. Department of State Planning"

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Johnson, Zoë P. "Sea Level Rise Response Planning in the State of Maryland: Lessons Learned." In Solutions to Coastal Disasters Conference 2005. Reston, VA: American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/40774(176)66.

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Turner, Colleen Reitz, James A. Frazier, and Robert G. Kaiser. "How Will State Transportation Agencies Handle the Issue of Climate Change: A Case Study from the State of Maryland." In Transportation, Land Use, Planning, and Air Quality 2009. Reston, VA: American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/41059(347)8.

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Keller, Kevin. "State Rail Plans: The Integration of Freight and Passenger Rail Planning." In 2011 Joint Rail Conference. ASMEDC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/jrc2011-56023.

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The Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2008 (PRIIA) was created to reauthorize the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, better known as Amtrak, and strengthen the US passenger rail network by tasking Amtrak, the U.S. Department of Transportation (US DOT), Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), States, and other stakeholders in improving service, operations, and facilities. PRIIA also tasks States with establishing or designating a State rail transportation authority that will develop Statewide rail plans to set policy involving freight and passenger rail transportation within their boundaries, establish priorities and implementation strategies to enhance rail service in the public interest, and serve as the basis for Federal and State rail investments within the State. In order to comply with PRIIA, State rail plans are required to address a broad spectrum of issues, including an inventory of the existing rail transportation system, rail services and facilities within the State. They must also include an explanation of the State’s passenger rail service objectives, an analysis of rail’s transportation, economic, and environmental impacts in the State, and a long-range investment program for current and future freight and passenger infrastructure in the State. The plans are to be coordinated with other State transportation planning programs and clarify long-term service and investment needs and requirements. This paper and presentation will illustrate the steps required in preparing a State rail plan and the benefits of having a properly developed plan.
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Dayapule, Durga Harish, Aswin Raghavan, Prasad Tadepalli, and Alan Fern. "Emergency Response Optimization using Online Hybrid Planning." In Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-18}. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2018/656.

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This paper poses the planning problem faced by the dispatcher responding to urban emergencies as a Hybrid (Discrete and Continuous) State and Action Markov Decision Process (HSA-MDP). We evaluate the performance of three online planning algorithms based on hindsight optimization for HSA- MDPs on real-world emergency data in the city of Corvallis, USA. The approach takes into account and respects the policy constraints imposed by the emergency department. We show that our algorithms outperform a heuristic policy commonly used by dispatchers by significantly reducing the average response time as well as lowering the fraction of unanswered calls. Our results give new insights into the problem such as withholding of resources for future emergencies in some situations.
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Buzzetto-More, Nicole, and Ayodele Alade. "The Pentagonal E-Portfolio Model for Selecting Adopting Building and Implementing an E-Portfolio." In InSITE 2008: Informing Science + IT Education Conference. Informing Science Institute, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/3240.

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Electronic portfolios are a student-centered outcomes-based assessment regime involving learners in the gathering, selection, and organization of artifacts synthesized into a compilation purposed to demonstrate knowledge, skills, and/or achievements supported by reflections that articulate the relevance, credibility, and meaning of the artifacts being presented. Electronic portfolios have been found to be a valid way to document student progress, encourage student involvement in assessment, showcase student work samples, promote students professionally, and provide a method of student learning outcomes and curriculum evaluation. However, electronic portfolio adoption represents a sizable commitment that is influenced by a number of variables and that requires foresight as well as a thoughtful strategy. This paper presents a model for selecting, designing, and implementing an electronic portfolio project and illustrates its application through the presentation of a detailed case study of a successfully implemented and ongoing electronic portfolio project used as a comprehensive assessment measure to determine degree mastery in the Department of Business, Management, and Accounting at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. The model introduced in this paper is known as the Pentagonal E-Portfolio Model, named such for its five levels: 1) Level 1 - Identification of Needs; 2) Level 2 - Determination, Assessment, & Budgeting; 3) Level 3 - System Selection and Strategic Planning; 4) Level 4 - Development; and 5) Level 5 - Implementation and Continuation.
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Craig, Phillip A., and David Godfrey. "Reductions in Acquisition Costs for State of the Art Fabrication of CFCC Turbine Engine Combustor Liners." In ASME 1999 International Gas Turbine and Aeroengine Congress and Exhibition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/99-gt-352.

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Through work in two U.S. Department of Energy cooperative programs with industry, the confidence level for utilization of ceramic composite SiC/SiC combustor liners has risen from a prototype curiosity to serious planning and addressing of hurdles for commercialization. One of the most significant hurdles for true commercialization is affordability of the ceramic composite combustor liners. To study the manufacturing costs for CFCC liners, a study was conducted to identify cost items and relationships. This report describes the effort, identifies the high impact areas of manufacturing costs, and recommends potential approaches to reducing the manufacturing costs.
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Turaga, Vasanta Sobha. "Fading urban memories: status of conservation of historic Samsthan/Zamindari Palaces in Small and medium town master plans in Telangana, India." In Post-Oil City Planning for Urban Green Deals Virtual Congress. ISOCARP, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47472/wzuc7012.

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‘Public memores’ are an imporant aspect in preserving a place’s culture and heritage. Actions of the government and society many times define/redefine identities of places, impacting collective memory of people in perceiving places. Conscious efforts are required to make and keep public memories alive. Insensitive and uninformed Urban Planning can lead to erasing history and heritage not just physically but from public memories as well. This Paper discusses the issues of Fading Urban Memories by taking case studies of two historic towns in the South Indian State of Telangana. Most of the Small & Medium Towns in Telangana, India, developed over the last two centuries from their historic core areas of the Capitals of erstwhile Samsthans/Zamindaris, land revenue admistration units/sub-regional authorities under the British and the Princely States’ Rulesin India till Independence in 1947. These Samsthans/Zamindars/ Jagirdars were ‘Chieftains’ of their own territories and ruled from ‘Palaces’ located in their Capital city/town. The palaces and historic areas of old Samsthan/Zamindari settlements represent local histories whose significance, memory, heritage needs to be preserved for posterity. Gadwa and Wanaparthy were two such towns, which developed mid-17 Century onwards becoming present day Municipalities of different Grades. The Department of Town and Country Planning, Govt. Of Telangana, prepares Master Plans for development of Municipalities. The surviving Fort/Palaces is marked by their present land use in the development plans, unrecognized for thier heritage status, thus posing threat to heritage being erased from collective Urban memory. The case studies presented in this paper are from the ongoing doctoral research work being done by the author at School of Planning and Architecture, Jawaharlal Nehru Architecture and Fine Arts University, Hyderabad, on the topic of ‘Planning for Conservation of Samshtan/Zamindari Palaces of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh’.
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Neis, Hajo. "The Building Process: A New Direction in Architectural Education." In 1995 ACSA International Conference. ACSA Press, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.intl.1995.52.

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The Building Process was formally established as an Area of Emphasis by the Department of Architecture at Berkeley in 1988 with Christopher Alexander as the head. This step was taken in recognition of changing demands in architectural education and practice and the need to investigate design, planning and construction as one integrated process. Hajo Neis joined this new area in 1990 as a faculty, and describes the development, achievements and current state of this new direction in architectural education and its connection to architectural research and practice.
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Taam, Damon M. K., and Chuck Conklin. "Supplemental Pit Fire Control Deluge System: Spokane Regional Waste to Energy Facility." In 17th Annual North American Waste-to-Energy Conference. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/nawtec17-2338.

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After sixteen years of operation, it became apparent that the pit fire protection system installed during construction of the Spokane Regional Waste to Energy (WTE) Facility (1989–1991) was inadequate. A risk analysis was performed by Creighton Engineering Inc., a fire protection consulting firm, hired by the Spokane Regional Solid Waste System (Regional System) and Wheelabrator Spokane Inc. With input from Spokane County Fire District 10 and the City of Spokane Fire Department, a replacement supplemental fire protection system was designed and ultimately installed. This paper will describe the problems with the once state of the art fire system and the planning, design and installation of the new system.
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Nazzaro, Robin, William Swick, Nancy Kintner-Meyer, Thomas Perry, Carole Blackwell, Christopher Hatscher, and Avani Locke. "U.S. Department of Energy’s High-Level Waste Program: Opportunities and Challenges in Achieving Risk and Cost Reductions." In ASME 2003 9th International Conference on Radioactive Waste Management and Environmental Remediation. ASMEDC, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icem2003-4627.

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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) oversees one of the largest cleanup programs in history—the treatment and disposal of 356,260 cubic meters of highly radioactive nuclear waste created as a result of the nation’s nuclear weapons program. This waste is currently stored at DOE sites in the states of Washington, Idaho, and South Carolina. In 2002, DOE began an accelerated cleanup initiative to reduce the estimated $105-billion cost and 70-year time frame required for the program. The U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO), an agency of the U.S. Congress, evaluated DOE’s high-level waste program to determine the status of the accelerated cleanup initiative, the legal and technical challenges DOE faces in implementing it, and any further opportunities to improve program management. GAO found that DOE’s initiative for reducing the cost and time required for cleaning up high-level waste is evolving. DOE’s main strategy continues to include concentrating much of the radioactivity into a smaller volume for disposal in a geologic repository. Under the accelerated initiative, DOE sites are evaluating other approaches, such as disposing of more of the waste on site or at other designated locations. DOE’s current savings estimate for these approaches is $29 billion, but the estimate is not based on a complete assessment of costs and benefits and has other computational limitations. For example, the savings estimate does not adequately reflect the timing of when savings will be realized, which distorts the actual amount of savings DOE may realize. DOE faces significant legal and technical challenges to realize these savings. A key legal challenge involves DOE’s authority to decide that some waste with relatively low concentrations of radioactivity can be disposed of on site. A recent court ruling against DOE is a major threat to DOE’s ability to meet its accelerated schedules. A key technical challenge is DOE’s approach for separating waste into high-level and low-activity portions. At the Hanford Site in Washington State, DOE is planning to implement such a method that will not be fully tested until the separations facility is constructed. This approach increases the risk and cost of schedule delays compared to fully testing an integrated pilot-scale facility. However, DOE believes the risks are manageable and that a pilot facility would unnecessarily delay waste treatment and disposal. DOE has opportunities to improve management of the high-level waste program. When it began the initiative to reduce costs and accelerate the high-level waste cleanup schedule, DOE acknowledged it had systematic problems with the way the program was managed. Although DOE has taken steps to improve program management, GAO has continuing concerns about management weaknesses in several areas. These include making key decisions without a sufficiently rigorous supporting analysis, incorporating technology before it is sufficiently tested, and pursuing a “fast-track” approach of simultaneous design and construction of complex nuclear facilities. DOE’s management actions have not fully addressed these weaknesses.
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Reports on the topic "Maryland. Department of State Planning"

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Reynolds, Jeffrey C. Department of State Strategic Planning Workshop. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, April 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada423882.

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Brown, William E. Why Leadership Matters: Joint Task Force Planning with the Department of State. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, December 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada606040.

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Report to the Department of Energy on the DOE/EPSCoR planning activities for the state of South Dakota. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), December 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/10108958.

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