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Luján Atienza, Ángel Luis. "Algunas consideraciones sobre la métrica de la poesía infantil española contemporánea." Rhythmica. Revista Española de Métrica Comparada, no. 14 (January 1, 2016): 23. http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/rhythmica.18454.
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La poesía infantil no ha sido muy estudiada en su nivel métrico. Este trabajo propone un primer acercamiento a la caracterización métrica y rítmica de la poesía escrita para niños en España en las últimas décadas. A partir del estudio de ciertos rasgos con respecto al uso de la rima, la medida de versos y los agrupamientos estróficos se llega a la conclusión de que este tipo de poesía presenta más complejidades de las esperadas a nivel métrico y explota en mucha mayor medida que la poesía adulta los procedimientos rítmicos y sonoros. Se pretende así sentar las bases para futuros estudios sistemáticos de la métrica de la poesía infantil.Children’s poetry has not been studied in the metrical level. This paper proposes a first approach to the characterization of metrics and rhythm of poetry written for children in Spain in the last decades. From the study of certain features regarding the use of rhyme, the measures of verses and the strophic groupings we come to the conclusion that this type of poetry shows more complexities than expected in the metrical level and takes advantage of rhythmic and sound procedures in much greater extent than adult poetry. The aim is to lay the foundation for future systematic studies of the metrics of children’s poetry.
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Arnsperger, Christian, and Yanis Varoufakis. "What is neoclassical economics? The three axioms responsible for its theoretical oeuvre, practical irrelevance and, thus, discursive power." Panoeconomicus 53, no. 1 (2006): 5–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/pan0601005a.
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This paper offers a precise definition of neoclassical economics based on three axioms which lie at the latter's foundations. This definition is all inclusive in that it applies as much to the neoclassical economic models of the late 19th century as it does to today's more flexible and 'inclusive' models. The paper argues that these axioms, simultaneously, (a) provide the foundation for neoclassicism?s discursive success within the social sciences and (b) are the deep cause of its theoretical failure. Moreover, (a) and (b) reinforce one another as neoclassicism's discursive power (which is largely due to the hidden nature of its three foundational axioms) makes it even less likely that it will conduct an open, pluralist debate on its theoretical foundations (i.e. the three axioms which underpin it).
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Elson, Peter R., Jean-Marc Fontan, Sylvain Lefèvre, and James Stauch. "Foundations in Canada: A Comparative Perspective." American Behavioral Scientist 62, no. 13 (May 20, 2018): 1777–802. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002764218775803.
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From a Canadian perspective, this article provides a comparative historical and contemporary overview of foundations in Canada, in relation to the United States and Germany. For the purposes of this analysis, the study was limited to public or private foundations in Canada, as defined by the Income Tax Act. As the Canadian foundation milieu straddles the welfare partnership model that characterizes German civil society and the Anglo-Saxon model of the United States, Canadian foundations as a whole have much in common with the foundation sector in both countries. Similarities include the number of foundations per capita, a similar range in size and influence, a comparable diversity of foundation types, and an explosion in the number of foundations in recent decades (although the United States has a much longer history of large foundations making high-impact interventions). This analysis also highlights some key differences among larger foundations in the three jurisdictions: German foundations are generally more apt to have a change-orientation and are more vigorous in their disbursement of income and assets. U.S. foundations are more likely to play a welfare-replacement role in lieu of inaction by the state. Canadian foundations play a complementary role, particularly in the areas of education and research, health, and social services. At the same time, there is a segment of Canadian foundations that are fostering innovation, social and policy change, and are embarking on meaningful partnerships and acts of reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples in Canada.
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L., J. F. "HOW THE CLINTON HEALTH PROPOSAL WAS CONCEIVED AND PROPAGATED." Pediatrics 94, no. 3 (September 1, 1994): 384. http://dx.doi.org/10.1542/peds.94.3.384.
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... The working groups contained more than 1000 participants, not 511, as claimed by the Task Force. Nearly half of the members were private citizens. Large numbers worked for managed-care interests, most notably the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Both foundations have supported managed-care reform in several states. In addition, six members the White House passed off as Congressional staffers turned out to be Robert Wood Johnson fellows assigned to the staffs of four Democratic Senators; all were on the foundation's payroll. Dozens of other private interests were represented in the working groups—Aetna, Prudential, Kaiser-Permanente, health czar Ira Magaziner's former consulting company Telesis, to name a few. Conspicuously absent were physicians in private practice. The Task Force spent at least $4 million and possibly as much as $16 million on expenses, salaries, and consulting fees. In the charter it filed with the GSA in March 1993, the Task Force said expenses would total $100 000.
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Wijkström, Filip, and Stefan Einarsson. "Comparing Swedish Foundations: A Carefully Negotiated Space of Existence." American Behavioral Scientist 62, no. 13 (May 20, 2018): 1889–918. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002764218773439.
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Foundations and philanthropy currently play a very limited role in the Swedish welfare. The same is true in fields like Culture and Recreation or International Activities. Only in the case of funding of research do Swedish foundations exhibit a role possible to define in terms of substitution rather than weak complementarity in relation to government. Despite marginal positions for philanthropy, Sweden displays a wealthy as well as growing foundation population, which seems like a paradox, at least in comparison to the situation in Germany and the United States where foundations traditionally play a more visible and pronounced role in society. A striking difference between the Swedish foundations and their U.S. or German counterparts is their weak bonds to religious communities or causes. Instead, we can identify in our new data set a growing segment of the Swedish foundation world that is affiliated with other parts of civil society. The same is true for the category of independent foundations, which points toward the U.S. model. We find in the article some limited support for a “philanthropic turn” in Sweden, but overall the foundation world is still deeply embedded in the social contract and strong Social-Democratic regime of the 20th century. In comparison to neighboring Scandinavian or Nordic countries, both similarities and differences are identified where, for example, the Norwegian case display a much larger segment of operating foundations, closely affiliated with government, while in Denmark, on the other hand, the corporate-owning foundation seems to be a much more important form than in Sweden.
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Alvarado, José Tomás. "FUNDACIÓN Y CAUSALIDAD." Kriterion: Revista de Filosofia 63, no. 151 (January 2022): 7–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0100-512x2021n15101jta.
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RESUMEN Trabajos recientes han propuesto un tratamiento de la fundación “a la imagen de la causalidad”. Hay importantes analogías entre la fundación y la causalidad: ambas parecen ser relaciones de ‘construcción’, ambas parecen ser órdenes estrictos y ambas parecen ser representables por modelos de ecuaciones estructurales (cf. Schaffer, 2016; Wilson, 2018). Pero también parece que hay importantes diferencias, porque la causalidad es usualmente considerada como una relación externa, mientras que la fundación es interna; hay casos de causalidad probabilística, pero no hay nada como una fundación probabilística; la fundación se considera una relación ‘bien fundada’, pero no la causalidad; la fundación implica superveniencia ontológica, pero no la causalidad. Se argumenta aquí que la mayoría de estas supuestas diferencias están motivadas por una concepción humeana de la causalidad en la que no hay conexiones necesarias entre causa y efecto. Una perspectiva no humeana de la causalidad, sin embargo, hace que la unificación de la fundación y la causalidad sea mucho más razonable que cualquier tratamiento separado.
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Lushnikov, V. V. "THE WORD ABOUT THE FOUNDATION (OR THE FOUNDATION AS AN ANALOGUE OF THE SUPPORTS OF THE CREATIONS OF NATURE)." Construction and Geotechnics 10, no. 2 (December 15, 2019): 14–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.15593/2224-9826/2019.2.02.
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The foundations that serve together with the soils of the foundations of buildings and structures are directly or indirectly borrowed by Man from what was created in Nature - supports of her living and non-living creations: the feet of Man or animals, the roots of plants. Different types of foundations have their counterparts in nature. It is interesting to see how and why these or other forms of Supports appeared, their sizes, how they change, adapt to changes in the environment during the existence of the creation of Nature. And how a Man can use the finds of Nature in his activities in the design of foundations and even buildings and structures. Examples are a pillar foundation that can be cut from a person’s foot; slab foundation - paws of waterfowl; Pile foundation essentially has much in common with the legs of hoofed animals. The heat-insulated foundation can be compared with the paws of a polar bear, whose feet are “lined” with fur. Particular attention is paid to the root system of the tree, which can be considered an ideal foundation. The ability of various trees to adapt to the terrain on which it grows is an example of a possible approach to designing rational types of foundations. The principle of inclusion in the work under the loads of the soil surrounding the root system is implemented in the Tree. At the same time, the roots “reinforce” the surrounding soil, create from it a single system, which perceives the loads acting on the tree. Such an approach is implemented, for example, when constructing foundations or hardening soils using the geotechnogenic system.
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Arab, O. A., A. J. M. S. Lim, S. Y. Sim, and N. A. A. Guntor. "Numerical Modelling Observations of Settlement for Pad Footings Supported on Soft Clay Soil." IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 1200, no. 1 (November 1, 2021): 012032. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1757-899x/1200/1/012032.
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Abstract Settlement calculation is an important part in the design of shallow foundations resting on soft soils. The size of the foundation, the depth of the footings, and the rise in ground water level are thought to influence settlement and have been the subject of much research for many years. Thus, this study compared several pad footing sizes using numerical techniques as the basis. The first objective of this study was to analyse soil and pad footing settlement, and to determine the optimal size of footing that withstands excessive settlement due to variation in the water table and the depth of the foundation. Three footing embedment depths of 1.5, 2, and 3m with three water table positions, at the GL (0m), 1.5, and 3m with an applied foundation concentrated load of 440 kN using five footing models of 1.5mx1.5m, 2mx1.5m, 2 m x 2 m, 2.5x1.5m, and 2.5x1.5m pad footing with a uniform thickness of 0.5m were considered. In this study, a 3D Plaxis simulation is used for predicting the settlement of shallow foundations on soft clay soils. Settlement results were discovered at various water table positions and foundation depths. The study found that the 2.5x2m footing was deemed the best among the simulated foundations, and the 3m foundation embedment was considered the best at shallow depths due to less excessive settlement than the other tested foundations. The settlement had a significant impact on the size of the foundation and the depth of the footing. The depth of the water table has a small impact on the settlement. Parametric analysis is also being used to gain a better understanding of the behaviour of the elastic settlement of various shallow foundations. It is found that the footing area increases, settlement decreases and vice versa.
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Moskovets, Mariya, and Nikolay Kanev. "Assessment of Rail Vibration Transmission from the Ground to the Foundation of a Building." MATEC Web of Conferences 320 (2020): 00005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/202032000005.
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This paper presents the problem of rail transport vibration transmission from the ground to building foundations. Field measurement results of vibration parameters on the ground near buildings and their foundations have been covered in this study. It has been shown that vibrations at the foundation of a building are much smaller than vibrations on the ground. The most intense vibrations on the foundation slab occur in the vertical direction. Comparison with other experimental data on vibration transfer from the ground to buildings structures has been made. The data obtained can be utilized in designing vibration protection measures and to analytically predict vibration effects in buildings. This analysis can be performed after measuring the vibration of rail transport on the ground surface.
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Sun, Shien, Haihua Luo, Basher Hassan Al-Kbodi, Qiang Shen, and Houlei Zhang. "Heat Transfer and Entropy Generation Evaluation on Molten Salt Tank Foundation with Internal Water Cooling." E3S Web of Conferences 194 (2020): 01032. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202019401032.
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Molten salt tanks are used to store and release thermal energy. Large heat leakage through the molten salt tank foundation to the ground and high temperature of the foundation are detrimental to long-term operation safety. Here we evaluate the heat transfer and entropy generation characteristics of molten salt tank foundations with internal water cooling. Both laminar and turbulent flows reduce the heat leakage efficiently, while the power consumption for the laminar flow is negligible. The effects of the geometrical parameters are presented. Internal fins in the cooling channels decrease the heat leakage significantly. The total entropy generation rate with foundation cooling is higher than that without foundation cooling. The entropy generation rate in the solid domain is much larger than that in the fluid domain and the flow friction irreversibility is tiny. Larger insulation layer thickness decreases the heat leakage and the total entropy generation rate simultaneously. The local entropy generation rate map helps us identify where the most irreversibility is produced. The largest local entropy generation rate for the design with foundation cooling occurs near the solid-fluid interfaces and is much higher than that without foundation cooling.
Books on the topic "Mucha Foundation"
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Foundation, Mucha, Nihon Terebi, and Takamatsu-shi Bijutsukan, eds. Myusha Zaidan hizō Myusha ten: Puraha kara Pari e, kareinaru āru nūvō no tanjō = Alphonse Mucha : treasures from the Mucha Foundation. Tōkyō: Nihon Terebi Hōsōmō, 2004.
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1951-, Hoole John, Sato Tomoko, and Barbican Art Gallery, eds. Alphonse Mucha. London: Lund Humphries in association with Barbican Art Gallery, 1993.
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Mucha, Alphonse Marie. Alphonse Mucha: À l'occasion de la création du Musée Mucha, Prague. Paris: Gründ, 2000.
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Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.), ed. A Heritage roundtable: Interstate banking, how much, how fast? : March 23, 1985, the Louis Lehrman Auditorium, the Heritage Foundation. Washington, D.C. (214 Massachusetts Ave., N.E., Washington 20002): Heritage Foundation, 1985.
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Daly, Cahal B. Living with difference: how much consensus?: Address; seminar under auspices of Harriet Brierley Mears Foundation in Fontbonne Academy, Milton Mass. February 1993. Belfast: [Diocese of Down and Connor], 1993.
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Cavell, Richard. Remediating McLuhan. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789089649508.
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While current scholarly interest has assured Marshall McLuhan's (1911-80) foundational status as a media theorist, much room still exists for further exploration of his writings, which have taken on additional layers of significance in our contemporary digital moment. Holding that media were extensions of the human, McLuhan also posited that the human was a product of technology. Ranging across fields as diverse as art history, biotechnology, and beyond, this collection of essays considers McLuhan's ground-breaking approach within a number of new contexts and explores the distinguishing features of his media theory.
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Zhukova, Galina. Mathematical methods for management decisions. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1084987.
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The purpose of this manual is to help students to master basic concepts and research methods used in the theory of optimal control. The foundations of mathematical modeling. Systematic mathematical methods for managerial decision-making in linear, nonlinear and dynamic problems of optimal socio-economic processes.
Each section contains numerous examples of the application of these methods to solve applied problems. Much attention is paid to comparison of the proposed methods, a proper choice of study design problems, case studies and analysis of complex situations that arise in the study of these topics theory of decision-making, methods of optimal control.
It is recommended that teachers, students and graduate students studying advanced mathematics.
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Ksenofontov, Boris. Biological wastewater treatment. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1013710.
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The training manual sets out the theoretical and practical foundations of biological wastewater treatment in both natural and artificial conditions. For in-depth study of the fundamentals of biological wastewater treatment is quite detailed sections on the basics of Microbiology. Much attention is paid to choosing the best technologies of biological wastewater treatment with effective methods of nutrient removal. In the expanded version of the methods of biological purification of wastewater using membrane bioreactors. Are extensively explored domestic and foreign experience of biological treatment of municipal and industrial wastewater.
Meets the requirements of Federal state educational standards of higher education of the last generation.
Intended for students of bachelor, master, PhD students, teachers and professionals interested in the methods of sewage purification, and it is recommended to study for the enlarged group of specialties and areas 20.00.00 "Technosphere safety and environmental engineering".
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Shulman, Michael. Homotopy Type Theory: A Synthetic Approach to Higher Equalities. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198748991.003.0003.
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Homotopy type theory and univalent foundations (HoTT/UF) is a new foundation of mathematics, based not on set theory but on “infinity-groupoids”, which consist of collections of objects, ways in which two objects can be equal, ways in which those ways-to-be-equal can be equal, ad infinitum. Though apparently complicated, such structures are increasingly important in mathematics. Philosophically, they are an inevitable result of the notion that whenever we form a collection of things, we must simultaneously consider when two of those things are the same. The “synthetic” nature of HoTT/UF enables a much simpler description of infinity groupoids than is available in set theory, thereby aligning with modern mathematics while placing “equality” back in the foundations of logic. This chapter will introduce the basic ideas of HoTT/UF for a philosophical audience, including Voevodsky’s univalence axiom and higher inductive types.
Book chapters on the topic "Mucha Foundation"
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Humphrey, J. H. "Regulation of In Vivo Immune Responses: Few Principles and Much Ignorance." In Novartis Foundation Symposia, 6–24. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470513286.ch2.
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Avgeridou, Soi, and Dirk Sindhu. "As Little As possible and As Much As Necessary: Supplementary Equipment and “ECMO suitcase” for Retrieval Service." In ECMO Retrieval Program Foundation, 151–63. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20260-5_12.
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Bondar, James V. "How Much Improvement can a Shrinkage Estimator Give?" In Advances in the Statistical Sciences: Foundations of Statistical Inference, 93–103. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1987. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4788-7_9.
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Toivakainen, Niklas. "So Much Fuss About Nothing: The Moral Dynamics of the Mind-Body Problem." In Moral Foundations of Philosophy of Mind, 267–308. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18492-6_10.
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Haschemi Yekani, Elahe. "Foundations: Defoe and Equiano." In Familial Feeling, 69–121. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58641-6_2.
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AbstractThis chapter discusses Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Olaudah Equiano’s The Interesting Narrative as foundational texts of emergent enlightenment thinking about the subject in relation to modernity and slavery. The aesthetics of their entangled foundational tonality is characterised by self-reflexive descriptions of psychological interiority, a retrospective temporal framework, religious conversion, and a belief in the emerging modern market economy. While both self-made men develop an emotive claim to Britishness, the representation of familial feelings remains stifled. In contrast to insular adventurer Robinson Crusoe, former slave Olaudah Equiano’s life story is much more strongly reliant on bonds to establish commonality. Moreover, their constructions of masculinity are spatially distinct. While Equiano’s “oceanic” identity is mostly formed in movement on the sea, Crusoe’s “insular” version seems to fend off any form of Otherness. For Equiano claiming familiarity is instrumental in the process of being recognised as a citizen, for Crusoe, the flight from familial obligations is part of the narrative appeal of his adventure. Thus, this chapter argues that while Black writing is often dismissed as imitative, it is in fact the marginalised perspective of the ex-slave that can be considered foundational of a more realistic description of intersubjectivity in English writing.
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Pérez Gort, Maikel Lázaro, Martina Olliaro, and Agostino Cortesi. "A Quantile-Based Watermarking Approach for Distortion Minimization." In Foundations and Practice of Security, 162–76. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08147-7_11.
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AbstractDistortion-based watermarking techniques embed the watermark by performing tolerable changes in the digital assets being protected. For relational data, mark insertion can be performed over the different data types of the database relations’ attributes. An important goal for distortion-based approaches is to minimize as much as possible the changes that the watermark embedding provokes into data, preserving their usability, watermark robustness, and capacity. This paper proposes a quantile-based watermarking technique for numerical cover type focused on preserving the distribution of attributes used as mark carriers. The experiments performed to validate our proposal show a significant distortion reduction compared to traditional approaches while maintaining watermark capacity levels. Also, positive achievements regarding robustness are visible, evidencing our technique’s resilience against subset attacks.
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Long, William J. "Radical Interdependence: Buddhist Philosophical Foundations for Social Theory." In A Buddhist Approach to International Relations, 19–33. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68042-8_2.
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AbstractThis Chapter asserts that a Buddhist perspective provides a systematic and genuine alternative to Western models of IR not so much because it arose in Asia, but because it is founded on distinctive first-order philosophical principles or substructures that differ from those that dominate in the West. The chapter explains this fundamentally different worldview through the concept of “radical interdependence”—the basic Buddhist “truth” about the nature of our existence that departs from most Western understandings of reality and interdependence. Buddhism offers a different starting point for thinking about the world we live in, one it characterizes as deeply interdependent. Moreover, Buddhism maintains that the failure to appreciate the full extent of interdependence limits our human potential and is the ultimate source of all conflicts, up to and including interstate war, whereas an understanding the truth of radical interdependence is the key to imagining a different vision for politics and IR.
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Bielejewski, Aaron. "Introduction." In Holding down the Fort, 1–3. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-39773-9_1.
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AbstractPolicing is one of those defining concepts of modernity about which much has written—to the point where it is difficult to imagine that there is much left to be said—that is, at the same time, decisively modern. The modern conceptualization of police referring to a fixed and commonly identifiable role, occupation and organization, rather than simply a practice performed by the state through its various arms and agents, is not yet 200 years old. Egon Bittner wrote that, “the most remarkable fact about the timing of the foundation of the modern police is that it is sequentially the last of the basic building blocks in the structure of modern executive government.”
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Stucki, Saskia. "Naturalistic Conceptions of Human and Animal Rights: From Human Exceptionalism to Transspecies Universalism." In SpringerBriefs in Law, 17–48. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19201-2_2.
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AbstractThis chapter investigates whether the extension of human rights to animals can be placed on a sound conceptual footing. Can (nonhuman) animals have human rights? The starting point of this inquiry is the ‘traditional’ or ‘orthodox’ understanding of human rights, which is the naturalistic conception. This much can be said already: considering the contested nature and philosophical foundations of human rights, there cannot be a simple, let alone single, answer to the animal question.
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Dwight, Macdonald, and X. Sutton Francis. "How Much and Who." In The Ford Foundation, 3–18. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203791776-2.
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Bengtsson, Ingemar. "How much complementarity?" In FOUNDATIONS OF PROBABILITY AND PHYSICS - 6. AIP, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3688947.
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Bransby, M. F., D. J. White, and Y. Xie. "Strategies for Quantifying the Installation Reliability of Skirted Subsea Foundations." In ASME 2015 34th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2015-42340.
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An increasing number of well-related and pipeline-related subsea structures (e.g. PLETs, ILTs, buckle initiators, etc.) are being placed on the seabed. Many of these structures are founded on unskirted and skirted mudmat foundations as a cost-effective, low risk solution. Much attention has been placed in the literature on the geotechnical capacity of subsea mudmat foundations, but less attention on how these types of foundations are installed. In some soil conditions this can be a critical aspect of design: the requirement to add skirts to ensure sufficient foundation capacity comes with the penalty of increasing the necessary foundation weight to ensure that these skirts can be reliably installed. The addition of weight to a foundation increases its installation and fabrication cost and so requires careful treatment in design. As an example of this design optimization process, attention is given to dealing with uncertainty associated with variable soil conditions. It is shown how probabilistic geotechnical analysis can give a clearer perspective of cost and risk and how carefully targeted site investigation can also be used in this context.
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Lee, Daman, K. T. Hung, Samuel Lee, and Victor Li. "A Critical Review of the Current Practice of Design and Construction of Offshore Foundations in Hong Kong." In The HKIE Geotechnical Division 42nd Annual Seminar. AIJR Publisher, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.21467/proceedings.133.4.
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Large diameter driven tubular piles have recently been used as the foundation system for the Hong Kong Offshore LNG Terminal located in the southern waters of Hong Kong SAR, to the east of the Soko Islands. At present, there are limited guidelines in local codes or guides for the design of offshore foundations in Hong Kong. It is observed that the current practice of regulatory control in Hong Kong will often cause great difficulties in planning and construction of foundation works. Moreover, it is of paramount importance to have experience in offshore pile installation, which is severely lacking in local industry, in order to produce safe and efficient foundation designs to handle the much more hostile site conditions. Some suggestions for revising the current practice are suggested to bring it more in line with accepted international practices for offshore foundations.
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Sedlacek, Germán, Alina Miehe, Ana Libreros, and Yousef Heider. "Geotechnical Stability of Gravity Base Foundations for Offshore Wind Turbines on Granular Soils." In ASME 2012 31st International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2012-83085.
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Offshore wind energy farms have gained much attention during the last years in Germany and all over the world. In the construction of offshore wind turbines, piled foundations have been mostly used so far. However, gravity base foundations represent a good alternative as they minimize the typical high risks of the offshore works, such as weather-dependent installation, operational safety, construction sequence and performance. The whole wind energy turbine is assembled onshore and promptly transported to the planned location. In the design of the gravity foundation under cyclic loading conditions, it is essential to avoid inadmissibly large reductions of the subsoil bearing capacity due to the excess pore-water pressure (loss of stability) and tilting of the foundation caused by the accumulation of settlements (loss of serviceability). This paper provides a description of the soil-mechanical behaviour of gravity base foundations and gives an account of the current available rules and standards for dimensioning foundations of this type. In this regard, a procedure for the geotechnical design of a gravity base foundation is laid out, where this work points out that the existing standards for designing gravity base foundations need to be further developed. Moreover, a brief summary of the results at a full-scale model test, according to the present state of testing and knowledge, are given.
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Byrne, B. W., and G. T. Houlsby. "Investigating Novel Foundations for Offshore Windpower Generation." In ASME 2002 21st International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering. ASMEDC, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2002-28423.
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In recent years there has been a worldwide increase in the pressure to develop sources of renewable energy. The UK government is committed to ensuring that ten percent of UK energy consumption will be supplied by renewables by the year 2010. Central to this commitment is the need to develop wind farms particularly in the offshore environment. Moving offshore will allow very large wind turbines capable of supplying 2 MW (first generation) to 5 MW (second generation) of power to be installed in large farms consisting of up to fifty or more turbines. In contrast to typical oil and gas structures the foundation may account for up to forty percent of the projected installed cost. The weight of each structure is very low, so the applied vertical load on the foundation will be small compared to the moment load derived from the wind and waves. Further, it will be necessary to have a single design that can be mass-produced over each site rather than have each foundation individually engineered. In combination these points lead to a very interesting engineering problem where the design of the foundation becomes crucial to the economics of the project. One solution is to use conventional piling. However, at some sites it may prove more economical to use shallow foundations, and, in particular suction installed skirted foundations [1]. It will be necessary to develop an adequate design framework for these no vel foundations under the relevant combinations of load so that the optimum structural configuration can be achieved. At Oxford University a program of research on skirted foundations has been underway for the last five years, and much progress has been made on the understanding of this type of foundation under combined loading. This progress has been in both experimental and theoretical areas. This paper explores various structural options that might be used for the wind turbine application. These different options lead to different loading conditions on the foundations. Experiments investigating these different loading conditions are explored. A theoretical approach that describes the experimental results in a way that can be implemented in typical structural analyses programs is outlined. Finally details of a major research program into developing the necessary design guidelines for foundations for offshore wind turbines is described.
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Malhotra, Sanjeev. "Design and Construction Considerations for Offshore Wind Turbine Foundations." In ASME 2007 26th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering. ASMEDC, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2007-29761.
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With the growing energy needs of the world and the sustainable nature of wind energy this sector is a highly innovative growth industry. The past years have seen the industry develop and test not only more efficient, but also much larger wind turbines than those that are in current use. The next generation of wind turbines that are on the drawing boards are gigantic in size. These huge dimensions of the proposed wind turbines will put large demands on the foundations. As an increasing number of wind farms are being planned offshore in water depths of over 40 m, the combination of water depth and the increased windmill tower heights and rotor blade diameters create loads that make foundation design very complex. Moreover, offshore foundations are exposed to additional loads such as ocean currents, storm wave loading, ice loads and potential ship impact loads. All of these factors pose significant challenges in the design and construction of wind turbine foundations. This paper presents the various issues facing the designer in designing and constructing wind turbine tower foundations. Current practices are summarized to assist developers in foundation type selection and design.
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Bubel, Julian, Christina Rudolph, and Ju¨rgen Grabe. "Stability of Temporary Submarine Slopes." In ASME 2011 30th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. ASMEDC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2011-50157.
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Shallow foundation structures for offshore wind turbines offer ecological benefits compared to pile foundations as less noise is emitted at sea floor level during construction process. On the other hand, shallow offshore foundations can rarely be placed on top of the sea floor. Weak soils usually need to be excavated to place the foundation structure on more stable ground and thus, anthropogenic submarine slopes result. Steep but stable slopes meet both economic and ecologic aims as they minimise material movement and sediment disturbance. After Terzaghi [1] the angle β between slope and the horizontal of the ground surface of coarse-grained soil is at most equal to the critical state friction angle φc. However, it can be observed that natural submarine slopes of sandy soils are always much more shallow. Particularly fine-grained, cohesionless or almost cohesionless soils failed in the past, although the slope angle was much smaller than the critical state friction angle φc. Artificial (temporary) slopes do not appear and behave as natural submarine slopes, since the latter are already shaped by perpetual loads of waves, tide and mass movements. Physical simulations of different scales are used to analyse the stability of artificial submarine slopes with sandy soil of the North Sea. The study focuses on gravitational forces and impacts from the excavation processes. The simulations and theoretical considerations result in suggested slope angles for future shallow offshore foundations of wind farms in the North Sea.
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Bubel, Julian, and Jürgen Grabe. "Stability of Submarine Foundation Pits Under Wave Loads." In ASME 2012 31st International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2012-83027.
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Shallow foundation structures offer ecological benefits compared to pile foundations as less noise is emitted at sea floor level during construction process. On the other hand, shallow offshore foundations can rarely be placed on top of the sea floor. Weak soils usually need to be excavated to place the foundation structure on more stable ground and thus, anthropogenic submarine pits result. Steep but stable slopes of the pit meet both economic and ecologic aims as they minimise material movement and sediment disturbance. According to Terzaghi [1] the angle β between slope and the horizontal of the ground surface of cohesionless soil is at most equal to the critical state friction angle φc. However, it can be observed that natural submarine slopes of sandy soils are always much more shallow. Artificial (temporary) slopes do not appear and behave as natural submarine slopes, since the latter are already shaped by perpetual loads of waves, tide and mass movements. Physical simulations of different scales were presented at the OMAE 2011 [2] to analyse the stability of artificial submarine slopes of sandy soil in the North Sea. The laboratory tests focused on gravitational forces and impacts from the excavation processes. This paper presents additional numerical simulations of wave-induced bottom pressure on the suggested submarine foundation pits. Furthermore, in-situ tests will be performed in 2012 and 2013. Both dredging process and resulted foundation pits will be considerably surveyed.
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Allen-Zhu, Zeyuan, Yuanzhi Li, Rafael Oliveira, and Avi Wigderson. "Much Faster Algorithms for Matrix Scaling." In 2017 IEEE 58th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS). IEEE, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/focs.2017.87.
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Sathyanarayanan, Sridhar, and Seshu M. R. Adluri. "Modified Fatigue Stress at Shell-to-Bottom Joint of Steel Tanks on Ring Walls." In ASME 2012 Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/pvp2012-78100.
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Shell-to-bottom joint of hydrocarbon storage tanks is a critical failure location which needs careful evaluation especially in the case of elevated temperature tanks. The fill/draw down cycle of the stored liquid causes low cycle fatigue near this joint and hence a fatigue evaluation is recommended. The peak alternating stress at this location, used to enter the fatigue curves is currently determined using a pseudo elastic stress that represents strain range due to inelastic deformations. For this, API 650 employs beam on elastic foundation theory. This theory is being used for tanks resting fully on earthen foundation as well as those on concrete ring wall. This paper studies the validity of using this theory for tanks with concrete ring wall foundation which are much more rigid compared to earthen foundations. Some of the difficulties in the current practice are highlighted. Alternatives to using the current model are derived to determine the stresses in such tanks. The results are validated using finite element analysis.
Reports on the topic "Mucha Foundation"
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Spindelman, Deborah. Investing in Foundational Skills First: A Case from South Korea. Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE), January 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.35489/bsg-rise-ri_2023/052.
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In the aftermath of Japanese occupation and the Korean war, South Korea built a schooling system that today is consistently ranked among the top five countries worldwide for reading and mathematics, and in the top ten for science in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) (OECD, 2014). Its consistent high ranking against wealthier countries, as well as the role of education in transforming Korea’s economy while retaining a relatively low (4.3 percent) level of spending as a portion of GDP (World Bank, 2022), has cemented its reputation among low- and middle-income countries as a model to emulate. As a result, South Korea has transformed itself in a few decades from one of the world’s poorest countries at independence, to the world’s fifteenth largest economy (Ministry of Education, 2015) with much of this attributed to an educational system which first prioritised a consistent, quality foundation of reading and basic maths for students regardless of gender, wealth, or region.
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David, Uttal, Katherine James, Steven McGee, and Phillip Boda. Laying the Foundation for a Spatial Reasoning Researcher-Practitioner Partnership with CPS, SILC, and The Learning Partnership. Northwestern University, September 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.51420/report.2020.1.
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The goal of this project was to explore how explicit instruction in spatial reasoning in primary grades can contribute to reductions in variation in STEM outcomes for low-income, minority students in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS). Our project focused on the persistent gender, racial and ethnic, and socioeconomic inequalities in STEM educational and career achievement and attainment. Our approach to addressing this problem was guided by research evidence that much of the variation in STEM outcomes for these groups can be explained by spatial reasoning abilities. Importantly, spatial reasoning skills can be improved through practice, but are rarely explicitly taught in the classroom. The spatial reasoning needs and opportunities identified by this work are relevant to CPS in that they focus on the prevalent science, math, and computer science curricula currently used in CPS K-2 instruction. As such, our findings provide specific, actionable guidance for the development of curricular supports that infuse explicit spatial reasoning instruction.
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Williams, Teshanee, Jamie McCall, Maureen Berner, and Anita Brown-Graham. Strategic Capacity Building in Community Development Organizations Post COVID-19: A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Describing Social Capital. Carolina Small Business Development Fund, November 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.46712/social-capital-covid19-recovery/.
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Much like the 2008 financial crisis, the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic will likely shape historically underserved communities for decades to come. Now, more than perhaps ever before, community development organizations (CDOs) will be central actors and foundational institutions for sustainable economic growth. Our data suggest social capital is important for CDO capacity across multiple dimensions. Given the central role CDOs will likely play in rebuilding local economies in the wake of the pandemic, we highlight how these organizations can use social capital to maintain and build political, resource, network, and organizational capacity.
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Pritchett, Lant, and Marla Spivack. Understanding Learning Trajectories Is Key to Helping Adolescent Girls. Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE), September 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.35489/bsg-rise-ri_2021/032.
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There is a growing consensus among national governments and development partners about the importance of girls’ education. This is reflected in the UK government’s commitment to quality education for every girl for 12 years, and in targets for increasing girls’ schooling and learning adopted by the Group of 7 (G-7) countries at their meeting in mid-2021 (G7, 2021). The emergence of this consensus comes at a critical time. Education systems in low- and middle-income countries are facing a learning crisis, with many systems failing to equip children with the foundational skills they need to reach their full potential. Within this movement for girls’ education, much attention is focused on the unique challenges adolescent girls face, and on programmes to help girls stay in school. But designing interventions without sufficient understanding of the drivers of adolescent girls’ challenges will leave policy makers frustrated and girls unaided. To help adolescents reach their full potential, we must first understand what is undermining their progress in the first place. Understanding learning trajectories (how much children learn over time) is key to helping both today’s and tomorrow’s adolescent girls. This insight note briefly explains what learning trajectories are and then offers six analytical insights about learning trajectories that can inform education systems reforms to ensure that every girl meets her full potential.
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Araya, Mesele, Pauline Rose, Ricardo Sabates, Dawit Tibebu Tiruneh, and Tassew Woldehanna. Learning Losses during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Ethiopia: Comparing Student Achievement in Early Primary Grades before School Closures, and After They Reopened. Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE), November 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.35489/bsg-rise-ri_2022/049.
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The outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the education sector in unprecedented ways. As with many other countries around the world, the Ethiopian government closed schools following the first identified case in the capital city, Addis Ababa, on the 16th of March 2020. Across the country, these closures resulted in more than 26 million learners staying at home for almost eight months (UNESCO, 2021). In addition to this hiatus in their education, pupils were promoted automatically to the next grade with only 45 days of catch-up classes (Ministry of Education, 2020). In other words, those attending a specific school grade in March 2020 were then promoted to the next grade when school resumed in October 2020. For a significant proportion of Ethiopian pupils, learning during school closures was extremely limited despite the government’s efforts to create educational programmes via national television and radio stations (Kim et al., 2021a; Yorke et al., 2020). School closures, combined with barriers to accessing remote educational resources, meant potential learning losses for a significant number of pupils. Several studies have already indicated that COVID-19 resulted in learning losses, especially among the poorest and most disadvantaged groups. A study in Indonesia found that pupils lost 11 points on the PISA3 reading scale due to the four-month school closure from March to July 2020 (Yarrow, Masood & Afkar, 2020). It was also estimated that Grade 4 pupils in South Africa experienced losses equivalent to more than 60 percent of an academic year (Ardington, Wills & Kotze, 2021), while pupils in the UK lost a third of their expected learning during pandemic-related school closures (Major, Eyles & Machin, 2021). It is anticipated that school closures in Ethiopia could similarly result in learning losses and challenges for pupils to catch up with their learning, particularly for those from disadvantaged backgrounds. Our related emerging findings in Ethiopia have indicated that school closures exacerbated pre-existing inequalities in education, where progress was much lower for rural students compared to those in urban areas who were tracked from Grade 4 to Grade 6 (Kim et al., 2021b; Bayley et al., 2021). Building on this work in Ethiopia, this Insight Note provides a new perspective on numeracy achievements of Grade 1 and Grade 4 pupils by comparing learning at the start of each academic year and the gains over the course of the year across two academic years: 2018-19 and 2020-21. During the 2018-19 academic year, the Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE) Ethiopia programme collected data on students’ numeracy achievement from 168 schools. After schools reopened in October 2020, and with additional support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, data on students’ numeracy achievements were collected for two new cohorts of pupils in Grades 1 and 4 in the same schools using the same instruments. This has enabled us to compare learning patterns between two cohorts in the same grades and schools before and during the pandemic. More specifically, in this Insight Note, we aim to: -Compare foundational numeracy levels of pupils entering Grade 1 in the 2020-21 academic year relative to those in 2018-19. -Compare progress in foundational numeracy for Grade 1 pupils over the course of the 2020-21 academic year relative to that seen during the 2018-19 academic year. -Compare numeracy levels of pupils entering Grade 4 in the 2020-21 academic year relative to those entering the same grade in 2018-19. -Compare progress in numeracy for Grade 4 pupils over the course of the 2020-21 academic year relative to the progress seen during the 2018-19 academic year. -Estimate the magnitude of learning loss attributable to the pandemic by calculating the difference in numeracy levels and progress between the two cohorts.
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Fairhurst, Vanessa, Chieh-Chih Estelle Cheng, Xiaoli Chen, and Cameron Neylon. Better Together: Open new possibilities with Open Infrastructure (APAC time zones). Chair Hideaki Takeda. Crossref, June 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.13003/xdvu4372.
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Crossref, DataCite, and ORCID work together to provide foundational open infrastructure that is integral to the global research ecosystem. We offer unique, persistent identifiers (PIDs) — Crossref and DataCite DOIs for research outputs and ORCID iDs for people — alongside collecting comprehensive, open metadata that is non-proprietary, accessible, interoperable, and available across borders, disciplines, and time. As sustainable community-driven scholarly infrastructure providers ORCID, Crossref and Datacite, guarantee data provenance and machine-readability. Persistent identifiers combined with open, standardized, and machine-readable metadata enable reliable and robust connections to be made between research outputs, organizations, individuals, and much more, as well as being beneficial to others who build services and tools on top of the open infrastructure we provide making content more discoverable. In this webinar we discuss: - Who we are - What we mean by Open Scholarly Infrastructure - How our organizations work together for the benefit of the scholarly community - How the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI) help to build trust and accountability as well as ensure we are around for the long term. This is the first of the joint webinar series co-organized by Crossref, DataCite, and ORCID for the Open Science community in the APAC region. The webinar is presented in English and lasts 90 minutes including time for Q&A. This webinar took place on 27 June 2022 at 7am UTC/ 9am CEST / 5pm AEST.
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Filmer, Deon, Vatsal Nahata, and Shwetlena Sabarwal. Preparation, Practice, and Beliefs: A Machine Learning Approach to Understanding Teacher Effectiveness. Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE), December 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.35489/bsg-rise-wp_2021/084.
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This paper uses machine learning methods to identify key predictors of teacher effectiveness, proxied by student learning gains linked to a teacher over an academic year. Conditional inference forests and the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator are applied to matched student-teacher data for Math and Kiswahili from Grades 2 and 3 in 392 schools across Tanzania. These two machine learning methods produce consistent results and outperform standard ordinary least squares in out-of-sample prediction by 14-24 percent. As in previous research, commonly used teacher covariates like teacher gender, education, experience, and so forth are not good predictors of teacher effectiveness. Instead, teacher practice (what teachers do, measured through classroom observations and student surveys) and teacher beliefs (measured through teacher surveys) emerge as much more important. Overall, teacher covariates are stronger predictors of teacher effectiveness in Math than in Kiswahili. Teacher beliefs that they can help disadvantaged and struggling students learn (for Math) and they have good relationships within schools (for Kiswahili), teacher practice of providing written feedback and reviewing key concepts at the end of class (for Math), and spending extra time with struggling students (for Kiswahili) are highly predictive of teacher effectiveness, as is teacher preparation on how to teach foundational topics (for both Math and Kiswahili). These results demonstrate the need to pay more systematic attention to teacher preparation, practice, and beliefs in teacher research and policy.
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Giving by Foundations in the National Capital Region: How Much Stays Local? New York, NY United States: Foundation Center, March 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.15868/socialsector.13544.
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African Open Science Platform Part 1: Landscape Study. Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/assaf.2019/0047.
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This report maps the African landscape of Open Science – with a focus on Open Data as a sub-set of Open Science. Data to inform the landscape study were collected through a variety of methods, including surveys, desk research, engagement with a community of practice, networking with stakeholders, participation in conferences, case study presentations, and workshops hosted. Although the majority of African countries (35 of 54) demonstrates commitment to science through its investment in research and development (R&D), academies of science, ministries of science and technology, policies, recognition of research, and participation in the Science Granting Councils Initiative (SGCI), the following countries demonstrate the highest commitment and political willingness to invest in science: Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda. In addition to existing policies in Science, Technology and Innovation (STI), the following countries have made progress towards Open Data policies: Botswana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, South Africa and Uganda. Only two African countries (Kenya and South Africa) at this stage contribute 0.8% of its GDP (Gross Domestic Product) to R&D (Research and Development), which is the closest to the AU’s (African Union’s) suggested 1%. Countries such as Lesotho and Madagascar ranked as 0%, while the R&D expenditure for 24 African countries is unknown. In addition to this, science globally has become fully dependent on stable ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) infrastructure, which includes connectivity/bandwidth, high performance computing facilities and data services. This is especially applicable since countries globally are finding themselves in the midst of the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR), which is not only “about” data, but which “is” data. According to an article1 by Alan Marcus (2015) (Senior Director, Head of Information Technology and Telecommunications Industries, World Economic Forum), “At its core, data represents a post-industrial opportunity. Its uses have unprecedented complexity, velocity and global reach. As digital communications become ubiquitous, data will rule in a world where nearly everyone and everything is connected in real time. That will require a highly reliable, secure and available infrastructure at its core, and innovation at the edge.” Every industry is affected as part of this revolution – also science. An important component of the digital transformation is “trust” – people must be able to trust that governments and all other industries (including the science sector), adequately handle and protect their data. This requires accountability on a global level, and digital industries must embrace the change and go for a higher standard of protection. “This will reassure consumers and citizens, benefitting the whole digital economy”, says Marcus. A stable and secure information and communication technologies (ICT) infrastructure – currently provided by the National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) – is key to advance collaboration in science. The AfricaConnect2 project (AfricaConnect (2012–2014) and AfricaConnect2 (2016–2018)) through establishing connectivity between National Research and Education Networks (NRENs), is planning to roll out AfricaConnect3 by the end of 2019. The concern however is that selected African governments (with the exception of a few countries such as South Africa, Mozambique, Ethiopia and others) have low awareness of the impact the Internet has today on all societal levels, how much ICT (and the 4th Industrial Revolution) have affected research, and the added value an NREN can bring to higher education and research in addressing the respective needs, which is far more complex than simply providing connectivity. Apart from more commitment and investment in R&D, African governments – to become and remain part of the 4th Industrial Revolution – have no option other than to acknowledge and commit to the role NRENs play in advancing science towards addressing the SDG (Sustainable Development Goals). For successful collaboration and direction, it is fundamental that policies within one country are aligned with one another. Alignment on continental level is crucial for the future Pan-African African Open Science Platform to be successful. Both the HIPSSA ((Harmonization of ICT Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa)3 project and WATRA (the West Africa Telecommunications Regulators Assembly)4, have made progress towards the regulation of the telecom sector, and in particular of bottlenecks which curb the development of competition among ISPs. A study under HIPSSA identified potential bottlenecks in access at an affordable price to the international capacity of submarine cables and suggested means and tools used by regulators to remedy them. Work on the recommended measures and making them operational continues in collaboration with WATRA. In addition to sufficient bandwidth and connectivity, high-performance computing facilities and services in support of data sharing are also required. The South African National Integrated Cyberinfrastructure System5 (NICIS) has made great progress in planning and setting up a cyberinfrastructure ecosystem in support of collaborative science and data sharing. The regional Southern African Development Community6 (SADC) Cyber-infrastructure Framework provides a valuable roadmap towards high-speed Internet, developing human capacity and skills in ICT technologies, high- performance computing and more. The following countries have been identified as having high-performance computing facilities, some as a result of the Square Kilometre Array7 (SKA) partnership: Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Mauritius, Namibia, South Africa, Tunisia, and Zambia. More and more NRENs – especially the Level 6 NRENs 8 (Algeria, Egypt, Kenya, South Africa, and recently Zambia) – are exploring offering additional services; also in support of data sharing and transfer. The following NRENs already allow for running data-intensive applications and sharing of high-end computing assets, bio-modelling and computation on high-performance/ supercomputers: KENET (Kenya), TENET (South Africa), RENU (Uganda), ZAMREN (Zambia), EUN (Egypt) and ARN (Algeria). Fifteen higher education training institutions from eight African countries (Botswana, Benin, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, and Tanzania) have been identified as offering formal courses on data science. In addition to formal degrees, a number of international short courses have been developed and free international online courses are also available as an option to build capacity and integrate as part of curricula. The small number of higher education or research intensive institutions offering data science is however insufficient, and there is a desperate need for more training in data science. The CODATA-RDA Schools of Research Data Science aim at addressing the continental need for foundational data skills across all disciplines, along with training conducted by The Carpentries 9 programme (specifically Data Carpentry 10 ). Thus far, CODATA-RDA schools in collaboration with AOSP, integrating content from Data Carpentry, were presented in Rwanda (in 2018), and during17-29 June 2019, in Ethiopia. Awareness regarding Open Science (including Open Data) is evident through the 12 Open Science-related Open Access/Open Data/Open Science declarations and agreements endorsed or signed by African governments; 200 Open Access journals from Africa registered on the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ); 174 Open Access institutional research repositories registered on openDOAR (Directory of Open Access Repositories); 33 Open Access/Open Science policies registered on ROARMAP (Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies); 24 data repositories registered with the Registry of Data Repositories (re3data.org) (although the pilot project identified 66 research data repositories); and one data repository assigned the CoreTrustSeal. Although this is a start, far more needs to be done to align African data curation and research practices with global standards. Funding to conduct research remains a challenge. African researchers mostly fund their own research, and there are little incentives for them to make their research and accompanying data sets openly accessible. Funding and peer recognition, along with an enabling research environment conducive for research, are regarded as major incentives. The landscape report concludes with a number of concerns towards sharing research data openly, as well as challenges in terms of Open Data policy, ICT infrastructure supportive of data sharing, capacity building, lack of skills, and the need for incentives. Although great progress has been made in terms of Open Science and Open Data practices, more awareness needs to be created and further advocacy efforts are required for buy-in from African governments. A federated African Open Science Platform (AOSP) will not only encourage more collaboration among researchers in addressing the SDGs, but it will also benefit the many stakeholders identified as part of the pilot phase. The time is now, for governments in Africa, to acknowledge the important role of science in general, but specifically Open Science and Open Data, through developing and aligning the relevant policies, investing in an ICT infrastructure conducive for data sharing through committing funding to making NRENs financially sustainable, incentivising open research practices by scientists, and creating opportunities for more scientists and stakeholders across all disciplines to be trained in data management.