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Gaber, Ivor, and Edrinnie Lora-Kayambazinthu. "Whose media, whose agenda? Monitoring the Malawi 2014 tripartite elections." Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies 35, no. 3 (September 2, 2014): 106–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02560054.2014.964937.
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Van Zyl, John. "Monitoring the media." Communicare: Journal for Communication Studies in Africa 13, no. 2 (November 7, 2022): 23–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.36615/jcsa.v13i2.1994.
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The Media Monitoring Project (MMP) was the leading organisation monitoring the total output of news in radio, television and print before and during South Africa's first democratic elections in April 1994. The main objective of the MMP was to monitor the vertical top-down distribution of information from powerful media institutions to citizens many of whom were first-time voters, the majority illiterate, unfamiliar with the concept of human rights and not accustomed to the language of democracy.After the elections the MMP has had to change its role from vertical to horizontal monitoring and to observe the equal distribution of Information TO all citizens, and FROM all citizens, and ensure that channels of access are available to all citizens. As Hamelink states: "Conventional human rights thinking focuses the vertical state-citizen on relation. This ignores the possibility that concentration of power in the hands of Individuals can be as threatening as state power Whenever citizens pursue different economic interests, individual human rights will be under serious threat. Citizens also need to be protected from each other"
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Weza, Sizani. "Zimbabwe's media under scrutiny: The work of the media monitoring project Zimbabwe." Round Table 91, no. 366 (September 2002): 545–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0035853022000012577.
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Veeck, Ann, and Beth Hoger. "Tools for Monitoring Social Media: A Marketing Research Project." Marketing Education Review 24, no. 1 (April 2014): 37–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.2753/mer1052-8008240106.
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Williams, Elin H., Nicholas M. Thompson, Gareth McCray, Maria M. Crespo-Llado, Supriya Bhavnani, Diksha Gajria, Debarati Mukherjee, et al. "Scalable Transdiagnostic Early Assessment of Mental Health (STREAM): a study protocol." BMJ Open 14, no. 6 (June 2024): e088263. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-088263.
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IntroductionEarly childhood development forms the foundations for functioning later in life. Thus, accurate monitoring of developmental trajectories is critical. However, such monitoring often relies on time-intensive assessments which necessitate administration by skilled professionals. This difficulty is exacerbated in low-resource settings where such professionals are predominantly concentrated in urban and often private clinics, making them inaccessible to many. This geographic and economic inaccessibility contributes to a significant ‘detection gap’ where many children who might benefit from support remain undetected. The Scalable Transdiagnostic Early Assessment of Mental Health (STREAM) project aims to bridge this gap by developing an open-source, scalable, tablet-based platform administered by non-specialist workers to assess motor, social and cognitive developmental status. The goal is to deploy STREAM through public health initiatives, maximising opportunities for effective early interventions.Methods and analysisThe STREAM project will enrol and assess 4000 children aged 0–6 years from Malawi (n=2000) and India (n=2000). It integrates three established developmental assessment tools measuring motor, social and cognitive functioning using gamified tasks, observation checklists, parent-report and audio-video recordings. Domain scores for motor, social and cognitive functioning will be developed and assessed for their validity and reliability. These domain scores will then be used to construct age-adjusted developmental reference curves.Ethics and disseminationEthical approval has been obtained from local review boards at each site (India: Sangath Institutional Review Board; All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) Ethics Committee; Indian Council of Medical Research—Health Ministry Screening Committee; Malawi: College of Medicine Research and Ethics Committee; Malawi Ministry of Health—Blantyre District Health Office). The study adheres to Good Clinical Practice standards and the ethical guidelines of the 6th (2008) Declaration of Helsinki. Findings from STREAM will be disseminated to participating families, healthcare professionals, policymakers, educators and researchers, at local, national and international levels through meetings, academic journals and conferences.
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Talama, George C., Mairead Shaw, Jordan Maloya, Tafwirapo Chihana, Lawrence Nazimera, Emily B. Wroe, and Chiyembekezo Kachimanga. "Improving uptake of cervical cancer screening services for women living with HIV and attending chronic care services in rural Malawi." BMJ Open Quality 9, no. 3 (September 2020): e000892. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjoq-2019-000892.
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Malawi has the second highest age-standardised incidence rate and the highest mortality rate of cervical cancer in the world. Though the prevalence of HIV is currently 11.7% for Malawian women of reproductive age, cervical cancer screening rates remain low. To address this issue, we integrated cervical cancer screening into a dual HIV and non-communicable disease clinic at a rural district hospital in Neno, Malawi. The project was implemented between January 2017 and March 2018 using the Plan-Do-Study-Act model of quality improvement (QI). At baseline (January to December 2016), only 13 women living with HIV were screened for cervical cancer. One year after implementation of the QI project, 73% (n=547) of women aged 25 to 49 years living with HIV enrolled in HIV care were screened for cervical cancer, with 85.3% of these receiving the screening test for the first time. The number of women living with HIV accessing cervical cancer services increased almost 10 times (from four per month to 39 per month, p<0.001). Key enablers in our QI process included: strong mentorship, regular provision of cervical cancer health talks throughout the hospital, nationally accredited cervical cancer prevention training for all providers, consistent community engagement, continuous monitoring and evaluation, and direct provision of resources to strengthen gaps in the public system. This practical experience integrating cervical cancer screening into routine HIV care may provide valuable lessons for scale-up in rural Malawi.
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Phiri, Austine, and Gladys Mwale. "Establishment of Malawi Institute of Procurement and Supply Library and Learning Resources Center: Challenges and Opportunities." SAGE Open 12, no. 3 (July 2022): 215824402211194. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/21582440221119482.
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The objectives of the project of establishing the library and learning resources center at Malawi Institute of Procurement and Supply (MIPS) were to draft recommendations on the kind of infrastructure in terms of hardware, software, and networking required to establish the library systems; Koha and DSpace, to develop user training manual for e-library systems, to develop a user manual for a recommendation for additional training resources for the library, to install e-library systems, link the elibrary systems to Members Management Information System (MMIS), to create catalog records for information resources and to conduct training on the functionality of the e-library system. The study was a descriptive account of the processes of establishing a library and learning resources center in an organization. Monitoring and reporting of the project activities were done which led to the development of reports, library manuals, and deliverables for the project. The scope of the work involved the establishment of the library currently operational. The period for the entire project was 6 months. Some of the major achievements for the project were the installation of Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) system for the resource center, installation of e-library systems, purchase of new textbooks and subscription to electronic journals, training of MIPS management and users on the functionalities of e-library systems, and recruitment of a qualified Librarian to manage the resource center.
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Rodríguez Martínez, Beatriz. "“¿Quién hace las noticias?”: 25 años del Global Media Monitoring Project." HUMAN REVIEW. International Humanities Review / Revista Internacional de Humanidades 11, Monográfico (December 26, 2022): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.37467/revhuman.v11.4321.
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El GMMP o Global Media Monitoring Project es el mayor estudio sobre la presencia de las mujeres en los medios de comunicación en el mundo. En 6 ediciones, a lo largo de los últimos 25 años ha analizado longitudinalmente cómo se representa a las mujeres en los medios de comunicación de todo el mundo. En estos 25 años el cambio sufrido en los tres elementos que inciden en el estudio -los medios de comunicación, la situación de las mujeres y la propia tarea de monitorización- ha sido relevante y multifactorial. ¿Se nota esta evolución en los resultados obtenidos en los sucesivos análisis de contenido?
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Slavíčková, Tess, and Peter Zvagulis. "Monitoring anti-minority rhetoric in the Czech print media." Journal of Language and Politics 13, no. 1 (April 28, 2014): 152–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jlp.13.1.07sla.
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This paper describes selected outcomes of media monitoring for anti-minority hate speech in the Czech Republic. In keeping with the agenda of critical discourse analysis, we aim to integrate historical, linguistic and cultural specificities with their linguistic manifestations in news articles about minorities, and here we present findings from a long-term study devoted to tracking xenophobia against two of the main minority groups. The AntiMetrics project, of which the work described here is one part, is designed to detect signs of anti-minority rhetoric in a society, with a view to taking steps to prevent such indicators from developing into more embedded prejudice and ultimately inter-group violence. The paper aims to provide a snapshot of what is a broad, long-term interdisciplinary project. Using a critical discourse toolkit, we analyse a sample news story about the Roma community, and identify a number of discursive and linguistic features that indicate the entrenchment of “new racism” in media at some levels. The toolkit also seeks to go beyond lexical signs to identify more implicit rhetorical devices, such as framing and (de-) contextualization of news events, and to quantify lack of balance in the selection of witnesses and other primary definers. Our ongoing content survey indicates the embedding of linguistic patterns that raise concern about leakage of far right discourse via media into everyday communication.
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Kinshella, Mai-Lei Woo, Sangwani Salimu, Brandina Chiwaya, Felix Chikoti, Lusungu Chirambo, Ephrida Mwaungulu, Mwai Banda, et al. "“So sometimes, it looks like it’s a neglected ward”: Health worker perspectives on implementing kangaroo mother care in southern Malawi." PLOS ONE 15, no. 12 (December 17, 2020): e0243770. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0243770.
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Introduction Kangaroo mother care (KMC) involves continuous skin-to-skin contact of baby on mother’s chest to provide warmth, frequent breastfeeding, recognizing danger signs of illness, and early discharge. Though KMC is safe, effective and recommended by the World Health Organization, implementation remains limited in practice. The objective of this study is to understand barriers and facilitators to KMC practice at tertiary and secondary health facilities in southern Malawi from the perspective of health workers. Methods This study is part of the “Integrating a neonatal healthcare package for Malawi” project in the Innovating for Maternal and Child Health in Africa initiative. In-depth interviews were conducted between May-Aug 2019 with a purposively drawn sample of service providers and supervisors working in newborn health at a large tertiary hospital and three district-level hospitals in southern Malawi. Data were analyzed using a thematic approach using NVivo 12 software (QSR International, Melbourne, Australia). Findings A total of 27 nurses, clinical officers, paediatricians and district health management officials were interviewed. Staff attitudes, inadequate resources and reliance on families emerged as key themes. Health workers from Malawi described KMC practice positively as a low-cost, low-technology solution appropriate for resource-constrained health settings. However, staff perceptions that KMC babies were clinically stable was associated with lower prioritization in care and poor monitoring practices. Neglect of the KMC ward by medical staff, inadequate staffing and reliance on caregivers for supplies were associated with women self-discharging early. Conclusion Though routine uptake of KMC was policy for stable low birthweight and preterm infants in the four hospitals, there were gaps in monitoring and maintenance of practice. While conceptualized as a low-cost intervention, sustainable implementation requires investments in technologies, staffing and hospital provisioning of basic supplies such as food, bedding, and KMC wraps. Strengthening hospital capacities to support KMC is needed as part of a continuum of care for premature infants.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Media Monitoring Project (Malawi)"
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Cowton, Laurence Robert. "Monitoring sub-surface storage of carbon dioxide." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/270308.
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Since 1996, super-critical CO$_2$ has been injected at a rate of $\sim$0.85~Mt~yr$^{-1}$ into a pristine, saline aquifer at the Sleipner carbon capture and storage project. A suite of time-lapse, three-dimensional seismic reflection surveys have been acquired over the injection site. This suite includes a pre-injection survey acquired in 1994 and seven post-injection surveys acquired between 1999 and 2010. Nine consistently bright reflections within the reservoir, mapped on all post-injection surveys, are interpreted to be thin layers of CO$_2$ trapped beneath mudstone horizons. The areal extents of these CO$_2$ layers are observed to either increase or remain constant with time. However, volume flux of CO$_2$ into these layers has proven difficult to measure accurately. In addition, the complex planform of the shallowest layer, Layer 9, has proven challenging to explain using reservoir simulations. In this dissertation, the spatial distribution of CO$_2$ in Layer~9 is measured in three dimensions using a combination of seismic reflection amplitudes and changes in two-way travel time between time-lapse seismic reflection surveys. The CO$_2$ volume in this layer is shown to be growing at an increasing rate through time. To investigate CO$_2$ flow within Layer~9, a numerical gravity current model that accounts for topographic gradients is developed. This vertically-integrated model is computationally efficient, allowing it to be inverted to find reservoir properties that minimise differences between measured and modelled CO$_2$ distributions. The best-fitting reservoir permeability agrees with measured values from nearby wells. Rapid northward migration of CO$_2$ in Layer~9 is explained by a high permeability channel, inferred from spectral decomposition of the seismic reflection surveys. This numerical model is found to be capable of forecasting CO$_2$ flow by comparing models calibrated on early seismic reflection surveys to observed CO$_2$ distributions from later surveys. Numerical and analytical models are then used to assess the effect of the proximity of an impermeable base on the flow of a buoyant fluid, motivated by the variable thickness of the uppermost reservoir. Spatial gradients in the confinement of the reservoir are found to direct the flow of CO$_2$ when the current is of comparable thickness to the reservoir. Finally, CO$_2$ volume in the second shallowest layer, Layer~8, is measured using structural analysis and numerical modelling. CO$_2$ in Layer~8 is estimated to have reached the spill point of its structural trap by 2010. CO$_2$ flux into the upper two layers is now $\sim$40\% of total CO$_2$ flux injected at the base of the reservoir, and is increasing with time. This estimate is supported by observations of decreasing areal growth rate of the lower layers. The uppermost layers are therefore expected to contribute significantly to the total reservoir storage capacity in the future. CO$_2$ flow within Layer~9 beyond 2010 is forecast to be predominantly directed towards a topographic dome located $\sim$3~km north of the injection point. This dissertation shows that advances in determining the spatial distribution and flow of CO$_2$ in the sub-surface can be made by a combination of careful seismic interpretation and numerical flow modelling.
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Andreasson, Tobias Martin English Media & Performing Arts Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences UNSW. "Human rights obligations and Australian newspapers: a media monitoring project, using peace journalism to evaluate Australian newspaper coverage of the 2004 HREOC report regarding children in detention centres." Publisher:University of New South Wales. English, Media, & Performing Arts, 2008. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/41211.
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This research thesis investigates news journalists?? role in the promotion and protection of peace and human rights. I explore how news journalists do not just have the ability, through the discursive selections they make, to be a catalyst for peace and non-violent solutions, it is their obligation under international human rights. My study links arguments about universal ethics for media based on international human rights with the practical and analytical approach of ??peace journalism??. The main argument rests on the idea that objectivity or impartiality in news journalism does not equal ethical neutrality since there is always a discursive selection made by the news journalists. In order to monitor whether news journalists discursive selections comply with the international human rights obligations, I have explored how the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission (HREOC) report A Last Resort? were covered in three Australian newspapers when it was published in 2004. The HREOC report was a testament of human rights abuses by the Australian Federal Governments towards children in Australian detention centres. I establish that health professionals were a significant group for both HREOC??s main findings and recommendations and a key group for the contextualisation of the human rights violations explored and exposed in the HREOC report. Informed by conflict analysis and peace studies theories I argue HREOC establish how the detention policy equals ??structural violence?? that caused ??direct violence??, which was justified and normalised because ??cultural violence??. I use discourse analysis to explore the discursive selections in the newspapers, and establish that the report received limited coverage and health professionals were omitted in the news while the political conflict was reported. This trivialised the report and health professionals?? role, which led to the naturalisation and normalisation of the violence. I finally reinforce these finding by exploring alternatives to the coverage using a peace journalism framework, which further clarifies the subjective nature of the discursive selection.
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Johansson, Lotta, and Maria Svenningsson. "Evigt offer eller alltid gärningsman? : Framställning av invandraren i den nätbaserade dagspressen." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, SV, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-10472.
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The purpose of this study is to examine how immigrants are portrayed in the Swedish daily newspapers online reporting. The essay investigates in what context immigrants, as individuals, are made visible and how they and their origins are reproduced. The study focuses on the roles victim and aggressor, and is also investigating potential differences between morning and evening newspapers. Present theories are discursive discrimination, critical discourse analysis, cultural racism, stereotypes and structural discrimination. Adopted methods are qualitative and quantitative content analysis, based on the Global Media Monitoring Project-tool. The results show that immigrants are not individually stereotyped or depicted negatively, but that their immigrant origins often have a central part of the story, that they are mentioned mainly in connection with negative news and that negatively charged words occur frequently.
Books on the topic "Media Monitoring Project (Malawi)"
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Paul, Akomenji, and Media Monitoring Project (Malawi), eds. Road to democracy: Role of the media in the 2000 Malawi local government elections : final report. Lilongwe: Media Council of Malawi, 2000.
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MediaWatch, ed. Global media monitoring project: Women's participation in the news. Toronto, Ont: MediaWatch, 1995.
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Spears, George. Who makes the news: Global Media Monitoring Project 2000. [London]: World Association for Christian Communication, 2000.
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Development, Malawi Ministry of Economic Planning and. Programme document: Joint programme support for strengthening the national monitoring and evaluation systems in Malawi. Lilongwe: Ministry of Economic Planning and Development, 2012.
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Economic Planning and Development Malawi. Ministry of Finance. State of M&E in Malawi: A report to put monitoring and evaluation in the driving seat of Malawi's development agenda. Lilongwe: Ministry of Finance, Economic Planning and Development, Monitoring and Evaluation Division, 2014.
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Project, Global Media Monitoring, ed. Who makes the news?: Mirror on the Southern African findings of the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) 2005. Johannesburg: GMMP, 2006.
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Chiluwe, Julliet A. Sumaili. Sustainable management of indigenous forests: Report on monitoring and evaluation for the SMIF (Malawi) Project for the SADC-FSCTU, February-August 2001. Limbe, Malawi: Wildlife and Environmental Society of Malawi, 2002.
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Chirwa, Christopher H. Zambia: A survey by the Africa Govervance Monitoring and Advocacy Project (AfriMAP), Open Society Initiative Southern Africa (OSISA), Open Society Institute Media Program (OSIMP). Johannesburg, South Africa: Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, 2010.
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Adoun, Wilfrid Hervé. Benin: A survey by the Africa Governance Monitoring and Advocacy Project (AfriMAP), Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), Open Society Media Program (OSMP). Edited by Awoudo François K. author, Tabuwe Eileen Manka editor, Bussiek Hendrik editor, AfriMAP, Open Society Initiative for West Africa, and Open Society Media Program. Dakar, Senegal: Open Society Foundations, 2013.
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Parapar, Javier, Fabio Crestani, and David E. Losada. Early Detection of Mental Health Disorders by Social Media Monitoring: The First Five Years of the ERisk Project. Springer International Publishing AG, 2022.
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Connor, Melanie, Arelene Julia B. Malabayabas, Phoebe Ricarte, Matty Demont, Pham Thi Minh Hieu, Rica Joy Flor, Donald B. Villanueva, Valerian O. Pede, Annalyn H. de Guia, and Martin Gummert. "Incentive Mechanisms, Monitoring and Evaluation, and Communication of the CORIGAP Project." In Closing Rice Yield Gaps in Asia, 205–59. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37947-5_7.
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AbstractIn this chapter, we propose a framework of market-based incentive mechanisms for the adoption and scaling of sustainable production standards throughout rice value chains and review evidence of two mechanisms that have been piloted in Vietnam: “internalizing” and “embodying.” The evidence suggests that sustainable production standards can be successfully “internalized” in rice value chains through policies (public governance) that provide an enabling environment for vertical coordination and private governance of standards (e.g., through contract farming). However, the major challenge policymakers and value chain actors face for this mechanism to succeed is to reconcile differences in contract preferences between contracting parties and solve trust and coordination issues (e.g., contract breach and side-selling). Market evidence suggests that sustainable production standards can be successfully “embodied” in rice products through certification and labeling. Vietnamese consumers were found to put significant price premiums on sustainable production certification and even more so if supplemental information is provided on certification and traceability. Both examples highlight the role policymakers can play in the adoption and scaling of sustainable production standards throughout rice value chains by creating an enabling environment for vertical coordination and private sector investment in certification and information campaigns. We conclude by discussing how policymakers can overcome the challenges for these mechanisms to succeed and identifying areas for future research. Furthermore, we provide a detailed description of the monitoring and evaluation process of CORIGAP activities. We explain the development from paper-based to computer-assisted survey tools, the evaluation of changes that farmers perceive and provide a case study on impact evaluation using econometric analysis. It becomes clear that a multidimensional project like CORIGAP needs a variety of means to assess the changes on different levels. We found that farmers in all CORIGAP countries perceive positive changes. Their yields and profits have increased, and the project has exceeded its target reach in all countries. This was also due to other funding schemes that supported CORIGAP technologies and practices, such as the rollout of 1M5R in Vietnam and the 3CT in China. The project used a variety of dissemination strategies to communicate the outputs and outcomes to a plethora of different stakeholders. Among the most successful were social media campaigns, including informative videos about CORIGAP technologies and practices. The chapter closes with some anecdotal evidence of how, especially postharvest technologies, influenced policies in the CORIGAP countries. We provide lessons learned from the project to be taken care of in future projects that aim to introduce sustainable agricultural practices and technologies to improve natural resource management.
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Gkikas, Dimitris C., Marios C. Gkikas, and John A. Theodorou. "A Comprehensive Marketing and Diffusion Strategy Protocol for Marine Life Protection, Restoration and Conservation; the Case of Endangered Pinna Nobilis." In Strategic Innovative Marketing and Tourism, 641–49. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51038-0_69.
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AbstractThis paper presents a comprehensive marketing and diffusion strategy protocol aimed at protecting, restoring, and conserving marine life populations, with a specific focus on the case of the noble pen shell (fan mussel) Pinna nobilis (P. nobilis). The P. nobilis is a critically endangered species of bivalve mollusk found in the Mediterranean Sea, playing a crucial role in maintaining ecological balance and serving as an indicator of environmental health. The protocol consists of various components designed to maximize impact of the Pinna-SOS project referred to “Innovative Actions for The Monitoring-Recovering—Enhancement of The Natural Recruitment of The Endangered Species (Fan mussel) Pinna nobilis”, that was funded by the Operational Program for Fisheries & Maritime 2014–2020 grant number (MIS) 5,052,394. First, target audience identification involves identifying key stakeholders, including policymakers, local communities, marine conservation organizations, and the public. Messaging and positioning strategies focus on crafting compelling narratives that highlight the ecological importance of the P. nobilis, emphasizing the urgency and benefits of conservation efforts. Communication channels encompass a diverse range of platforms, such as social media, websites, educational campaigns, and interactive events. The protocol recommends leveraging digital tools and technologies to reach wider audiences and facilitate information dissemination. Impact assessment includes monitoring the recovery and growth of P. nobilis populations, tracking changes in conservation attitudes and behaviors, and evaluating the long-term ecological health of the marine environment. Overall, the proposed marketing and diffusion strategy protocol offers a structured approach to raise awareness, engage stakeholders, and drive action towards protecting and conserving the endangered P. nobilis and other marine life populations.
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Evans, Michael A. "Promoting Mediated Collaborative Inquiry in Primary and Secondary Science Settings." In Handbook of Research on New Media Literacy at the K-12 Level, 128–43. IGI Global, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-120-9.ch009.
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Mediated collaborative inquiry within communities of practice is proposed as a critical educational goal for the 21st century. Mediated collaborative inquiry promotes the process of participation in search of understanding via mobile, wireless devices and social software. Communities of practice provide sociotechnical scaffolding to define and legitimate inquiry. In this chapter we present a collaborative, collective perspective of learning and practice to demonstrate how we design to support communities of practice for scientific inquiry. The first project, the Mobile Malawi Project, was an exploratory proof-of-concept attempt to facilitate learning and communication among geographically and socially distributed participants in Malawi, Africa using mobile smart phones and social software. The second project, Kids for Change, is a rigorous design-based research project building from the former that encourages middle school students in after school settings to use 3D digital modeling software (Google SketchUp) in socially relevant and civically engaging activities. Both endeavors are designed to provide primary and secondary students opportunities to learn and apply important scientific processes andmathematical ideas to real world situations while interacting with key constituents, including teachers, parents, teacher educators, and community experts. The authors conclude by noting cautions toward an approach of promoting collaboration and community with ICTs. Traditional institutions, pedagogies, and ways of knowing might preclude or hamper smooth transitions to a participatory, network-based educational system built on a Web 2.0 infrastructure and services.
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Kakalou, Christine, Stella Dimitsaki, Vlasios K. Dimitriadis, and Pantelis Natsiavas. "Exploiting Social Media for Active Pharmacovigilance: The PVClinical Social Media Workspace." In MEDINFO 2021: One World, One Health – Global Partnership for Digital Innovation. IOS Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/shti220176.
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The value of social media data for Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR) monitoring is actively investigated. While social media provide a vast amount of data, these data are hard to analyse due to their unstructured nature and lack of credibility. Despite these challenges, social media have been identified as a potentially useful data source, potentially able to “strengthen” the evidence for new ADRs. To this end, PVClinical project aims to build a platform facilitating the investigation of multiple heterogeneous data sources, including social media, to support pharmacovigilance (PV) processes, both in the clinical environment and beyond. In this study, we present the PVClinical Twitter workspace, also highlighting the rationale behind the main design choices, while also discussing the respective challenges.
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López, Roberto Moreno, and Fabienne Baider. "Creating an Online Network, Monitoring Team and Apps to Counter Hate Speech, and Hate Crime Tactics in Europe." In Advances in Media, Entertainment, and the Arts, 14–31. IGI Global, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-8427-2.ch002.
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In this chapter, the authors present a European initiative for the creation of an online network, monitoring team, and apps to counter hate crime tactics. The project, funded by the Directorate-General of Justice of the European Commission, aims for the promotion of cooperation on reporting and monitoring online hate speech within European countries with a synergy between strong NGOs and universities. The project was based in four axes of correlative actions, that went from the research to the design and implementation of trainings with stakeholders (enforcement bodies and youngsters), the creation of multiplatform tools (web and app), and specific efforts on dissemination and raising awareness with the most vulnerable communities and the general public. The results showed an improvement of the state of art on the situation in the participant countries, as well as real changes in the area of combating hate crime and on-line hate speech in some countries belonging to the consortium.
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Boersma, Kees, Dominique Diks, Julie Ferguson, and Jeroen Wolbers. "From Reactive to Proactive Use of Social Media in Emergency Response." In Strategic Integration of Social Media into Project Management Practice, 236–52. IGI Global, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9867-3.ch014.
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This chapter examines the introduction and implementation of the pilot project Twitcident in an emergency response room setting. Twitcident is a web-based system for filtering, searching and analyzing data on real-world incidents or crises. Social media data is seen as important for emergency response operations: it can be used as an ‘early warning monitoring system' to detect social unrest, and for improving common operational pictures (COPs). This chapter shows that the expectations on the functioning of the tool were not fully met: first it was hard for the response room professionals to make sense of the data and second, the management did not develop a proper project planning. The recommendations are twofold. On the one hand, the professionals who work with Twitcident must invest in developing new information management routines. On the other hand, the response room management needs to create a much more inclusive project learning strategy.
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Boersma, Kees, Dominique Diks, Julie Ferguson, and Jeroen Wolbers. "From Reactive to Proactive Use of Social Media in Emergency Response." In Emergency and Disaster Management, 602–18. IGI Global, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-6195-8.ch027.
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This chapter examines the introduction and implementation of the pilot project Twitcident in an emergency response room setting. Twitcident is a web-based system for filtering, searching and analyzing data on real-world incidents or crises. Social media data is seen as important for emergency response operations: it can be used as an ‘early warning monitoring system' to detect social unrest, and for improving common operational pictures (COPs). This chapter shows that the expectations on the functioning of the tool were not fully met: first it was hard for the response room professionals to make sense of the data and second, the management did not develop a proper project planning. The recommendations are twofold. On the one hand, the professionals who work with Twitcident must invest in developing new information management routines. On the other hand, the response room management needs to create a much more inclusive project learning strategy.
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Singh Bedi, Harpreet, Raghav Gupta, Manoj Sindhwani, and Kamal Kumar Sharma. "Hydroponics Monitoring System Based on IoT and Blockchain." In Cross-Industry Blockchain Technology: Opportunities and Challenges in Industry 4.0, 74–86. BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBLISHERS, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/9789815051452122010006.
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Since blockchain is the central technology of bitcoin, block chain has gained a lot of attention in recent years. Its applications are expanding in a variety of fields, including Internet of Things (IoT) defense, banking, industries, and medical centre. Furthermore, IoT has grown in popularity because of its widespread usage in smart homes and urban developments around the world. This paper presents the design of an automated system for a greenhouse focusing mainly on Hydroponics. Along with the design, the purpose of this study is monitoring, control, and visualization of the data. This project addresses some of the issues in traditional farming. Issues like incapability of agriculture due to small and fragmented land holdings, risk in using manures and pesticides, and lack of mechanization. The segments of this project include the main module (referred to as AGMS), the cloud, and the end user. The data visualization is done through a website that will acquire it from a Wi-Fi module through APIs. The study also includes social media alerts to platforms like Twitter and mail.
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Lemos, André. "Locative Media and Surveillance at the Boundaries of Informational Territories." In ICTs for Mobile and Ubiquitous Urban Infrastructures, 129–49. IGI Global, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-051-8.ch008.
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This chapter aims to understand new forms of surveillance raised with location-based technologies (LBT) and location-based services (LBS). LBS and LBT are used under the label “locative media”. Locative media are media where digital information is bounded to a specific context, and are used for locating, controlling, monitoring and tracking people, places and objects. Here the authors investigate how ubiquitous and pervasive technologies are creating informational territories and digital bubbles or virtual walls that can protect privacy and anonymity of a “sujet insecure”, or “insecure individual”. To illustrate their goal, the authors will see some systems that use locative media to controling, monitoring and tracking people and objects and some art project showing souveillances or critical actions vis à vis the “control society”. They will show informational territories involving surveillance cameras, Bluetooth networks and RFID tags.
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Sirago, Vito. "Stadium Design in Digital Age." In Advances in Media, Entertainment, and the Arts, 432–63. IGI Global, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3993-3.ch020.
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The chapter is divided in two sections: the first section provides a general overview of the parametric design and analysis of a bowl while the second shows key study. The chapter explores the genetic sequence of the DNA of the bowl and how it can be identified and ordered in order to build a global definition of its form. The author underlines some formal characteristics that may produce particular emotional aspects and how to control even those. Even the “arena” effect, the feeling of belonging, and at the same time the segmentation of audience categories can be parameterized. The parametric approach has been used to respond to similar needs for performance monitoring of existing stadia. The second section of the chapter describes a key study: the parametric approach used by Arup for the restructuring interventions to the bowl of the Camp Nou Stadium during the competition organized by the Catalan club. The project proposal has been designed together with the architecture studio of Ricardo Bofill.
Conference papers on the topic "Media Monitoring Project (Malawi)"
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Simões, Rita Basílio, Inês Amaral, and Sílvio Santos. "GENDER AND JOURNALISM EDUCATION: UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS RESPONSES TO THE GLOBAL MEDIA MONITORING PROJECT." In 15th International Technology, Education and Development Conference. IATED, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/inted.2021.1224.
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M. Marohomsalic, Azreen. "Metro Manila Trac SMS-Based Flood Monitoring System." In International Conference on Digital Transformation and Applications (ICDXA 2020). Tunku Abdul Rahman University College, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.56453/icdxa.2020.1019.
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This study involves the development of a Flood Monitoring System (FMS) accessible via SMS. Specifically, this study was conducted in 2016, focusing on Metro Manila traffic and flood-prone roads in the metropolis. The initial findings may be useful to urban planners and can be integrated by the government to future development plans to mitigate flood-related incidents. In Metro Manila, heavy rains lead to road flooding causing traffic congestion, road closures, even traffic accidents (AER, 2015). Flooding has become a common cause of costly damages to vehicles (Jimeno, K, 2014). To avoid traffic mishaps, motorists may access flood-related information through social media or road navigation apps which provide crowdsourced updates on heavy traffics, inaccessible roads and floods status (CNN Philippines 2016). However, such is not entirely reliable, requires data subscriptions and limited to smartphone users. In the Philippines, once dubbed as the ‘texting capital of the world’, some 1.4 billion SMS are sent everyday (DICT 2015). Hence, an SMS-based flood monitoring system providing real-time standardized road accessibility status information of flood-prone roads in Metro Manila is an interesting proposition. This design includes product development of the Flood Monitoring Device (FMD) prototype and IT project management plan crafted for potential implementation. Keywords: Flood-related Risks, Flood Monitoring System, IT Project Management Plan, Metro Manila Traffic
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Boehm, Christoph, Robert Brehm, Janek Meyer, Lars Duggen, and Kai Graf. "A Measurement System for Performance Monitoring on Small Sailing Dinghies." In SNAME 21st Chesapeake Sailing Yacht Symposium. SNAME, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.5957/csys-2013-011.
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This paper describes a new performance monitoring system for dinghies and small sailing boats, developed in a collaborative project of the Yacht Research Unit Kiel (YRUK) and the Mads Clausen Institute (MCI) of the University of Southern Denmark. The system under development features a complete set of nautical instruments (wind, boat speed and heading, position) as well as dynamic sensors measuring the motion of the dinghy with additional audio and video streams for crew observations. Most sensors are integrated in a small lightweight housing also containing a main processing unit to be mounted on a dinghy. Some external miniaturized sensors (wind and water anemometers) are connected wirelessly. Data and media streams are recorded. Further a telemetry system allows online data transmission to a remote client operated on a coach boat. Analysis software allows the coach to visualize and analyze the performance of the dinghy. Both, the hardware system and the analysis software are presented here including first results from a field trial.
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Marc, Baque. "Diyab Gas Export Pilot Project Early Leakage Detection." In ADIPEC. SPE, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/211178-ms.
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Abstract One of prerequisite of any detection system is to get the requirement the risk analysis that estimates mainly the safety and environmental impacts of a loss of containment. From this prerequisite it is possible to consider a strategy for an early detection of a loss of containment, and to choose a method or a technology. Methods of detection belong to two main families: External based Leak Detection System which used local leak sensors to generate a leak alarm. The main External based Leak Detection Systems are acoustic emission detectors, pressure detectors, fiber optic cable, vapor and / or liquid sensing cables;Internal based Leak Detection Systems which used normal field sensors (e.g. pressure transmitters, flowmeters) for leak detection and leak localization. The main internal Leak Detection Systems are:○balancing systems (line balance, volume balance, compensated mass balance etc.);○Real Time Transient Model;○pressure/ flow monitoring;○statistical analysis… The main External based Leak Detection Systems was studied internally through different evaluation and development programs and for some of them in operation. The main findings were the followings: The acoustic based detection is sensitive to external noises as well as some pipeline fluid (multi-phase, critical flow, transit phase) and pipeline elements (e.g. elbows, valves). This technology requires the management of high quantity of data, a significant tuning period, and many sensors connected to the pipeline. Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) using the fiber optic cable media is currently used internally to detect real time intrusion.The pressure emission detectors may be insensitive and require accurate pressure measurement. This technology is difficultly practical on short lines, gas or multi-phase pipelines with transient phases.The vapor / liquid sensing cable technology needs to be physically close to the pipe to become wet in case of leakage. These sensitive cables should be replaced or cleaned after a leak. This technology is ne suitable easily for long distance application. Their retrievable capability with the implementation of pulling chamber every few hundred meters needs to be carefully considered. In addition, this technology is highly sensitive. This implies that false alarms may occurred in case of former contamination (presence of hydrocarbon). This technology is also sensitive to the soil disruption, fluid properties and is affected by the ageing (sensitive polymer alteration). However, this technology is suitable for short distance and for some leaks detection when there is no temperature variation between the fluid and the soil.The Fiber optic solution was highly considered for a leak detection through several evaluation programs and, in particular two PIT (Projet d’Innovation Technologique) Projects. These two PIT projects were performed between 2015 and 2019 and presented to the following ADIPEC sessions○(Baque, 2017) 2017 Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference SPE-188669-MS Early Gas Detection○(Baque, 2020) 2020 Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference SPE-203293-MS Fiber Optic Liquid Leakage Detection Note: Some of the paragraph parts of this manuscript are extracted from these two SPE documents referred (Baque, 2017) and (Baque, 2020). Other evaluation and development programs not presented previously are also presented in this manuscript.
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Le-Naour, Frederic, Antoine Marret, Kenny MacLeod, Romain Vivet, and Ida Margaretha Aglen. "Electrical & Optical Double Barrier Qualification and Implementation on FENJA Electrically Trace Heated Pipe-in-Pipe Project." In Offshore Technology Conference. OTC, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4043/31214-ms.
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Abstract This paper provides an overview of the work completed to design, qualify, manufacture and integrate electrical and optical double barrier penetrators with the Electrically Trace Heated Pipe-in-Pipe (ETH-PiP) as part of the Neptune Energy Fenja Development Project. Typical subsea penetrator systems in the oil and gas industry, such as pumps, compressors and X-trees are designed to be retrievable, to enable periodic refurbishment as well as providing the option for replacement, if required. However, the ETH-PiP architecture makes retrieval of system components complicated and uneconomical. Both the electrical and optical dual barrier penetrator system designs have to comply with a set of ETH-PiP specific criteria, such as to be maintenance free over a 25 years service life, prevent water ingress to the pipeline, provide pressure containment for operational media (in an unlikely scenario where the inner pipe bursts) and guarantee minimum footprint to allow an optimum integration onto the Pipeline End Termination (PLET) structure. In addition, the electrical system has to comply with a medium voltage rating (i.e. 5.0/8.7kV) to ensure a wide range of possible ETH-PiP architectures. The optical system has to maintain insertion loss below 0.5dB and a back reflection below -45dB to comply with the stringent requirements of distributed temperature monitoring sensor system over long distances. The qualification program of the electrical dual barrier penetrator system was performed in accordance with IEC 60502-4 and SEPS-SP-1001. A tailor made sequence had to be developed for the optical system, based on guidance from SEAFOM-TSD-01, considering that the system partly falls outside the associated standard application. The electrical dual barrier penetrator system qualification sequence was developed in two phases; firstly, the electrical transition contacts in the feedthrough chamber were qualified in accordance with IEC 60502-4 and secondly, four electrical double barrier penetrator prototypes were manufactured to allow the completion of the qualification sequence defined as per SEPS-SP-1001. The optical dual barrier penetrator system qualification employed the manufacturing of three prototypes to execute the pre-defined qualification sequence. Following the individual qualification of the electrical and optical dual barrier penetrator systems, subsequent welding and full-scale assembly trials were performed to ensure that the maximum allowable temperatures within the penetrators would not be exceeded during welding to the PLET, and to proof test the assembly procedure. Electrical verification testing was also undertaken during these trials to verify that the integrity of the penetrators had been maintained during the assembly and that the PLET arrangement did not give rise to any electrical stresses that could result in excessive deterioration of the penetrators. Integration of the four electrical and two optical dual barrier penetrator systems to the project PLET was completed in Q1 2020, with the actual subsea installation of the first ETH-PiP section including the PLET in Q3 2020.
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den Baars, P. Scott, John P. Kaszuba, Ted Cota, Jonathan Myers, Patrick Longmire, Betty A. Strietelmeier, and Tammy P. Taylor. "Design and Construction of Multi-Layered Permeable Reactive Barrier for Removing Radionuclides, Nitrate, and Perchlorate at Los Alamos National Laboratory." In ASME 2003 9th International Conference on Radioactive Waste Management and Environmental Remediation. ASMEDC, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icem2003-5002.
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Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and Shaw Environmental, Inc. (Shaw) designed and constructed a multilayered permeable reactive barrier (PRB) to remove contaminants from shallow alluvial groundwater within Mortandad Canyon at LANL. This project was developed as a pilot project for LANL to conduct research and development and proof of concept and as such does not meet all identified target contaminant concentrations, but provides LANL data for future applications of the technology. Shaw worked jointly with LANL scientists in selecting the site, conducting a geotechnical and hydrogeologic investigation with contaminant characterization for waste disposal, preparing a design basis report, conducting geochemical and groundwater flow modeling, and preparing both conceptual and final detailed engineered designs. Geochemical modeling of the PRB multibarrier processes was conducted to predict influent and effluent contaminant concentrations and evaluate the potential for mineral precipitation and reduction of effective porosity in the barrier. A numerical model of groundwater flow was constructed to simulate hydrogeologic conditions in Mortandad Canyon and then used to simulate flow with the PRB in place. The Mortandad Canyon PRB is designed to remove radionuclides (americium-241, plutonium-238 and 239/240, and strontium-90), nitrate, and perchlorate from alluvial groundwater. The PRB consists of a funnel and gate constructed of sealable sheet piling driven through the alluvium and into the underlying volcanic tuff. The gate is designed as a braced cofferdam. The gate contains four sequential media cells consisting of lava rock gravel, mineral apatite (a calcium phosphate), biobarrier, and limestone gravel. The lava rock gravel will sorb colloids (sorbed with americium, plutonium, and strontium) from the alluvial groundwater. The apatite will remove soluble metals and radionuclides through sorption processes. The biobarrier serves as a host microorganisms that biodegrade nitrates and perchlorate. The limestone gravel functions to buffer the biobarrier effluent. In addition, there will also be sorption of soluble plutonium, americium, and metals within the biobarrier and limestone layer. A series of sampling ports and monitoring wells were installed within the reactive media cells. The purpose of the funnel is to direct shallow alluvial groundwater through the gate. This project was a joint effort between LANL and Shaw. The initial feasibility studies and bench scale treatability were conducted at LANL. The LANL laboratory data was used as the basis for design criteria. The hydrogeologic and geochemical modeling, engineering design, and construction were performed by Shaw with LANL guidance and input.
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Susanto, Tedy, Muhammad Dedy Nurmansyah, and James Thomas Ladd. "Harnessing Leak Detection System in Offshore Pipeline Operation." In Offshore Technology Conference. OTC, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4043/32374-ms.
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Abstract Delivery of crude oil from Single Point Mooring (SPM) through subsea pipeline to Onshore Receiving Facility (ORF) play critical role for refinery processing and operation. The pipeline laid in seabed, connecting oil tanker to storage facility on onshore side. Leak Detection System (LDS) is required to monitor any oil leakage from the pipeline. If leak happens and no LDS in place, mitigation action will be late, cause much oil or gas will be released to the environment, dangerous for ocean habitat, harmful for human and asset safety i.e. explosion and fire, then it can impact on company reputation that own or operate the pipeline. Tankers transport crude oil via subsea pipeline to oil refinery storage tank including activities such as loading, unloading, and flushing line. Pipeline LDS project scope of works comprise hardware, software, and service. The integration amongst these parts will determine project completion success criteria. Supervisory Control and Data Acquistion (SCADA) system located in Central Control Room (CCR) is used to monitoring all pipeline operation over long distance. The connected data start from smart field devices, collected by Remote Telemetry Unit (RTU), transmit by telecommunication media, and finally reach the CCR. All operation setting can be adjustable according to different kind of oil product LDS software is an advanced high fidelity software application for the pipeline industry which meets the American Petroleum Institute Recommended Practice (API RP) 1130 Computational Pipeline Monitoring (CPM) system. When the SCADA and LDS system were installed, the project will continue into commissioning and critical tuning phase where actual values and Standard Operation Procedure (SOP) is established or revised. SPM's power availability from solar panel and telecommunication bandwidth should be monitoring all the time. Parallel with that, there is the possible threshold setting should be estimated as per API 1149 that impact on leak detection performance from several factors i.e. accuracy of pressure, flow, and temperature transmitter, slack line condition, and properties of products. The crude oil coming with different API from different oil producer. The system will continuously calculate imbalances using data gathered from field devices. Dynamic threshold adjustment to mitigate transient alarm and avoid false alarms, which these are temporary changes and are removed after time averaging period end. By have all these information via SCADA and Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) system, it will reduce boat trip to the SPM, which means reduce CO2 emission and operating cost. LDS system will monitor the pipeline leakage and provide good mitigation plan by located the leak with Global Positioning System (GPS), delivering crude oil using offshore pipeline will be safer to human safety and environment.
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Gurunyan, Tatyana. "Creating a Positive Image of an Entrepreneur in the EAEU Countries in the Digital Economy." In International Conference on Eurasian Economies. Eurasian Economists Association, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36880/c13.02579.
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In the EAEU countries, unfortunately, entrepreneurship has not yet become a driver of economic development. Informal institutions can be considered a significant barrier to the development of entrepreneurship. The formation of a positive image of an entrepreneur is a necessary condition for the development of entrepreneurial activity and the strengthening of trust between business, society and government. Objective: to determine the direction of forming a positive image of an entrepreneur in the EAEU countries for the development of the entrepreneurial layer of society. Research methods: An abstract-logical approach is used based on a system analysis of the formation of a positive image of an entrepreneur. The analysis is based on the data of the international project Global Monitoring of Entrepreneurship, and the results of research work in the SIU-branch of the RANEPA. The correlation between the attitude to the image of the entrepreneur and entrepreneurial activity is proved. In higher education institutions, it is necessary to develop entrepreneurial education. At the same time, digital educational technologies should be widely applied, soft skills should be formed. The media have significant potential for impact on society, constitute the main PR tool. Material on promoting entrepreneurship should be presented in new online media forms: forums, blogs, online conferences, Internet messengers integrated into the mobile phone interface. The formation of a stable positive image of an entrepreneur among all sectors of the population will strengthen trust between society and businesses, business and the state to realize the entrepreneurial potential of the EAEU countries.
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Haffener, Jackson, Kyle Haustveit, and Trevor Ingle. "Did We Break New Rock? Utilizing Diagnostics to Differentiate New Fracture Creation vs Old Fracture Reactivation: A Meramec and Wolfcamp Study." In SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference and Exhibition. SPE, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/209123-ms.
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Abstract Microseismic and cross-well strain are both high-end diagnostic tools that provide insight into hydraulic fracture geometry and stimulation effectiveness. However, both datasets have limitations: for example, microseismic can over or underestimate the true fracture geometry, while cross-well strain is restricted to describing a portion of the fracture geometry it is situated to measure. Furthermore, both datasets can show not only the creation of new hydraulic fractures but also the reactivation of previously created hydraulic fractures. The focus of this study is two projects in which both cross-well strain and microseismic were integrated to characterize the geometry of new hydraulic fractures and understand the interaction with pre-existing fractures during well stimulation. The first project is a multi-well development in the Meramec formation of the Anadarko Basin. The second project is the Hydraulic Fracturing Test Site 2 (HFTS2) in the Wolfcamp formation of the Delaware Basin. Both projects collected low-frequency DAS using permanent fibers in offset wells and were monitored with borehole microseismic arrays during stimulations. Organizing the data relative to distance from the active stage and time since stage start, i.e., spatiotemporally, was a key step in understanding what the diagnostics measured during stimulation. Both projects tell a similar story, where wells have extensive interactions with previously created fractures originating from both parent wells and recently completed child wells. This interaction manifests as a quicker arrival and muted strain response in cross-well strain and a more rapid and linear move-out of the triggering front over time in the microseismic. We interpret these signatures to be showing re-dilation of pre-existing fractures. Also visible in the diagnostics are arrivals with slower growth, generating microseismicity with a parabolic move-out of the triggering front over time, and typical strain response with heart-shaped tensional front leading the arrival. This signature is interpreted to be new hydraulic fracture creation and growth. Once this reactivation mechanism is understood for a basin, it can also be noted and described using lower-cost techniques, such as sealed-wellbore pressure monitoring (SWPM). The main motivation for most microseismic and cross-well strain studies is understanding hydraulic fracture geometry; however, interactions with failed media and analysis of either datatype in isolation can cause misinterpretations far from reality. Understanding the range of possible mechanisms measured by these advanced diagnostics is key not just in accurately characterizing fracture geometry but also in understanding the impact of failed media on hydraulic fracture growth. Once understood, these observations can also be used as a baseline to measure success or failure of mitigation trials.
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Olteanu, Adriana, Marian Lacatusu, Anca daniela Ionita, and Florin Lacatusu. "PLATFORM FOR INFORMAL EDUCATION AND SOCIAL NETWORKING TO INCREASE AWARENESS REGARDING NUCLEAR VULNERABILITIES." In eLSE 2018. Carol I National Defence University Publishing House, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.12753/2066-026x-18-116.
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For the last ten years, social networking sites have experienced an extraordinary adoption rate, becoming for many people a way to spend their free time. This trend grew out of their desire to be informed and connected to each other, and it developed into the use of social media for transmitting news and for communicating in case of critical events. This background leads to the idea that social networking may be exploited with respect to various vulnerabilities that currently preoccupy people around the globe. The platform presented in this paper concerns the nuclear vulnerabilities, which are of increasing interest due to our geolocation and to the international context. As it is a proof of concept, the implementation does not use consecrated socializing social network services, but it leans on an open source engine that is integrated in a multiple-node architecture. Consequently, when information reaches a node, it is subsequently sent to the entire network. The domain specific content was created based on documentation elaborated by specialists in nuclear physics and engineering, within a national research project for monitoring vulnerabilities induced in environment, infrastructure, and population, by nuclear facilities. Thus, authenticated users can gain knowledge and discuss on this topic of great importance. Beyond simple posts and comments, the platform also has the role to provide informal education and awareness regarding new and historical events, as well as recommended procedures for prevention and emergency response. So far, the work focused on the technical aspects, and the functionality is accessible through a web portal and an Android application. Future work will investigate the potential impact of the educational and collaborative components to various audiences.
Reports on the topic "Media Monitoring Project (Malawi)"
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Lefevre, Bruno, and Philippe Bouquillion. Communications, media and internet concentration in France, 2019-2021. Global Media and Internet Concentration Project, Carleton University, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.22215/gmicp/2024.2.
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This report focuses on approximately thirty French markets, contributing to local debates and research as part of the Global Media and Internet Concentration Project (GMICP). It explores the dynamics of diversified economic players in cultural industries (press, audiovisual, books, music), emphasizing the coexistence of 'traditional' and 'new' entrants. The study provides sector-based and global analyses, revealing a dual dynamic of diversification and concentration in the production, distribution, and broadcasting of cultural and information content. Audiovisual content broadcasting, both free and pay, demonstrates national dominance but faces challenges from foreign groups. Financialization and concentration affect media and cultural goods industries, posing risks to diversity of opinion. The dominance of North American groups in digital services, particularly in advertising, is noted, impacting traditional media revenues. Telecom operators lead the French market, with regulators monitoring concentration dynamics for potential negative impacts on diversity.
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de Jesus, Ana, and Sara Melander. From Vision to Practice – Insights from Nordic-Baltic 5G applications across sectors. Nordregio, March 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.6027/r2024:111403-2503.
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This report builds on the findings of the Nordic-Baltic 5G Monitoring Tool (N-B 5G MT) project ‘Analytical Report’, which focused on mapping 5G activities in the Nordic-Baltic region and analysing their roll-out status. In this follow-up report, we delve deeper into actual 5G applications across different verticals (i.e. sectors), including healthcare, transportation/mobility, industry and media/broadcasting. The report identifies challenges in each sector, such as funding constraints in healthcare, technical hurdles in transportation, market immaturity in industry, and infrastructure investment needs in media, highlighting the complex landscape of 5G deployment. Key cross-cutting challenges include uncertain business cases due to lack of clear benefits and empirical validation, financial barriers from high deployment costs and insufficient early-stage funding, technical and infrastructural limitations, especially in rural areas, regulatory constraints including spectrum allocation and data privacy, security and privacy concerns necessitating a comprehensive approach for compliance, acceptability and usability issues that require simplifying 5G for broader adoption, and collaboration challenges highlighting the need for forums, dialogue sessions, and partnerships to facilitate idea exchange and project advancements. Overall, the report emphasizes the need for a systemic approach to addressing these challenges. This includes clarifying the business value of 5G; fostering ecosystems for collaboration; and ensuring that policy and regulatory frameworks support the innovative, equitable deployment of 5G technology. Overcoming these hurdles will require concerted efforts from all stakeholders, including governments, industry and the wider community. Only then will the transformative potential of 5G for society be fully realized.
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Philippines: Mobilize policy champion teams to foster utilization of management tools. Population Council, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.31899/rh2003.1010.
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In September 2000, the Population Council launched a nine-month project to test the effectiveness of teams of “policy champions” to increase the utilization of operations research (OR) findings in reproductive health (RH) policy and programs in the Philippines. The team members, chosen from government, nongovernment, academic, and media institutions, received three days of orientation to become policy champions. The strategy was built upon evidence that local decision-makers in decentralized health systems often have little knowledge of RH, and rarely use research findings in their decision-making. The effort focused on using a research-tested community-based monitoring and information system to help providers identify and respond to unmet need for family planning. As noted in this brief, the approach of involving teams of mobilized policy champions proved effective at influencing program managers to use a research-tested information system for identifying clients with unmet need for family planning. This approach was adopted by regional and national organizations, which plan to expand use of the management tool.