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Rameshbabu, Lakshmanasamy, and Ganachari Girish. "Role of PagerDuty in High-Performing IT organizations." Journal of Scientific and Engineering Research 9, no. 3 (2022): 281–85. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14050022.
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PagerDuty works at the crossing point of numerous areas such as occurrence administration, AIOps (Manufactured Insights for IT Operations), and computerized operations administration. It enables operations groups to oversee each organize of occurrence lifecycle administration, from location and reaction to determination and post-incident survey. The stage empowers consistent collaboration over divisions, counting improvement, IT, security, and commerce operations. It is coordinated with over 600 instruments to guarantee smooth workflows, consequently, raises episodes based on seriousness, and gives real-time alarms to guarantee quick and focused reactions. With cloud-native framework and microservices structures getting to be more predominant, PagerDuty has become a basic device for organizations pointing for deftness and continuous administrations.
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Canady, Valerie A. "Field leaders call on Biden administration to move forward on BH agenda." Mental Health Weekly 31, no. 6 (2021): 1–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mhw.32671.
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Hosch, Braden J. "Time on Test, Student Motivation, and Performance on the Collegiate Learning Assessment:." Journal of Assessment and Institutional Effectiveness 2, no. 1 (2012): 55–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/jasseinsteffe.2.1.55.
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Abstract This article examines how the amount of time students spend on a low-stakes test, motivation, and local test administration procedures represent problematic intervening variables in the measurement of student learning. Results from successive administrations of the Collegiate Learning Assessment at a public comprehensive university reveal wide year-to-year variations in student performance that may be related to effort rather than cognitive ability. Findings call into question the efficacy of low-stakes testing to measure educational achievement or institutional effectiveness for accountability purposes.
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Hayes-Rodgers, Angela, and Altrivice D. Revis. "Off-shift Administration operations improvement collaborative." Journal of Clinical Oncology 30, no. 34_suppl (2012): 144. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jco.2012.30.34_suppl.144.
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144 Background: Off-Shift Administration (OSA) supports the senior leadership by overseeing clinical operations for both inpatient and outpatient areas at MD Anderson. Our team is responsible for resolving and/or managing issues that could impede patient care, particularly when unsuccessful at the departmental level. This project focuses on streamlining inpatient discharge activities. Data reports from December 2010 to February 2011 revealed that OSA received 1,923 assistance requests institution-wide of which 13% were case management related. A taskforce familiar with patient care and case management processes ultimately resolved to decrease the number of calls made to Off-Shift Administration requesting case management services by 50% by June 2011. Methods: The pilot period began March 1, 2011 and ended May 31, 2011. The earliest intervention was to re-route after hours case management requests directly to the case manager on-call. In the new process, the RN paged the case manager on-call directly who would then escalate calls to OSA as deemed necessary for internal support. A staff education plan complemented the intervention. The education plan entailed in-services with nursing staff, discharge planning teams and nurse leaders for each unit. Education by way of posters was delivered on select units. Piloted areas were also surveyed to assess their knowledge of case management processes and wait time experiences. Results: Outcomes were favorable. OSA experienced an 80% reduction in call volume from the piloted areas. Survey results showed educational efforts yielded a positive practice change and increased awareness of case management protocol. Survey results also revealed a 20-minute reduction in wait time for case management assistance. Certainly, of greatest benefit were the reduced wait times and more expedient patient care and customer service for staff. Conclusions: The project was successful and knowledge gained was be used to implement permanently and within all patient care settings. This project also serves as a useful paradigm of Clinical Operations’ improved ability to distinguish operational trends requiring attention, thereby increasing operational efficiency and customer satisfaction.
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Alexandrova, Assia, Borislav Iordanov, Syed Abbas, Phani Upadrasta, Michael Sarasti, and Thomas Hilpold. "Systems Administration in Ontology-Based Applications." International Journal of Public Administration in the Digital Age 3, no. 2 (2016): 37–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijpada.2016040103.
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A Citizen Relationship Management (OpenCiRM) system was built on a semantic web platform using model-driven development principles, to provide a government call center with operational agility and improved technical integration options. Business domain experts from municipal agencies administered the system by directly manipulating its ontology model. This paper highlights the new ontology engineering tasks and user roles that may emerge in organizations implementing the OpenCiRM system.
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H. Blitz, Mark, Jason Salisbury, and Carolyn Kelley. "The role of cognitive validity testing in the development of CALL, the comprehensive assessment of leadership for learning." Journal of Educational Administration 52, no. 3 (2014): 358–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jea-01-2013-0008.
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Purpose – The Comprehensive Assessment of Leadership for Learning (CALL) is an online task-based assessment of distributed instructional leadership. In developing CALL, researchers faced the challenge of structuring survey items that would measure leadership practice rather than individual traits. Critical in this work was developing items that accurately reflected current leadership practice. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to pilot the CALL instrument and conducted cognitive validity testing on the instrument. Design/methodology/approach – CALL researchers piloted the survey in six schools in Wisconsin in order to test and refine the survey instrument. Researchers conducted cognitive walk-through interviews with five participants from each school: principals, associate principals, teachers, department chairs, guidance counselors, and activities directors. The interviews focussed on specific items in order to observe the users’ thought processes and rationale in choosing a response for each item. The researchers focussed on relevancy, clarity, and accuracy of survey items in collecting and analyzing the resulting data. Findings – Three specific survey items were identified that exemplify these challenges and opportunities such as: accessible language, extended leadership, socially desirable responding, 360-degree perspectives, applying appropriate terminology, and identifying appropriate practices. These findings provided insight into survey development work and implications of distributed leadership. The authors discuss the challenges of creating a task-based leadership assessment. Originality/value – Developing a formative assessment of school leadership is valuable in supporting school leaders’ work. The process of utilizing a qualitative approach to develop a quantitative instrument has proven critical in measuring task-based distributed leadership.
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Murphy, Jennifer. "Marketing the Library in an On-line University to Help Achieve Information Literacy." Education Libraries 36, no. 2 (2017): 17. http://dx.doi.org/10.26443/el.v36i2.329.
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An entrepreneurial librarian takes the embedded librarian concept one step further at a completely on-line university and markets the virtual library to students, faculty and administration rather than wait for customers to come to the library. York and Vance (2009) make the observation that “one obstacle to marketing an embedded librarian service is that there is no consensus on what to call this practice” (p. 206). This librarian agreed and as her goal was to “win favor and confidence by imperceptible degrees” (Merriam-Webster, 2013) she chose to call it insinuation of the library.
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Hosomi, Sanae, Tetsuhisa Kitamura, Tomotaka Sobue, et al. "Association between Timing of Epinephrine Administration and Outcomes of Traumatic Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest following Traffic Collisions." Journal of Clinical Medicine 11, no. 12 (2022): 3564. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm11123564.
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The effects of epinephrine administration timing on patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) following traffic collisions are unknown. We analyzed the 2013–2019 All-Japan Utstein Registry data of 2024 such patients aged ≥18 years who were resuscitated by emergency medical service (EMS) personnel or bystanders and then transported to medical institutions. Time from 119 call to epinephrine administration was classified into quartiles: Q1 (6–21 min), Q2 (22–26 min), Q3 (27–34 min), and Q4 (35–60 min). Multivariable logistic regression analysis was used to assess the effects of epinephrine administration timing on one-month survival after OHCA. Overall, the one-month survival rates were 3.2% (15/466) in Q1, 1.1% (5/472) in Q2, 1.9% (11/577) in Q3, and 0.2% (1/509) in Q4. Additionally, the one-month survival rate decreased significantly in the Q4 group (adjusted odds ratio, 0.07; 95% confidence interval, 0.01–0.57) compared with the Q1 group, and the probability of one-month survival decreased as the time from the EMS call to epinephrine administration increased (p-value for trend = 0.009). Only four patients (0.9% [4/466]) with the earliest epinephrine administration showed a good neurological outcome.
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MM, Chandra, and Sujatha Vijaykumar. "Evaluating staff knowledge on pediatric parenteral drug administration: A call for enhanced training programs." International Journal of Research in Paediatric Nursing 6, no. 2 (2024): 148–50. https://doi.org/10.33545/26641291.2024.v6.i2b.184.
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Stream, Christopher. "Call for Papers: Special Issue on the Visual Aspects of Public Administration and Policymaking." Visual Communication Quarterly 27, no. 2 (2020): 109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15551393.2020.1783183.
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Merrill, G. Lawrence. On-call fire departments: The township board's responsibilities. Michigan Townships Association, 1990.
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Justrell, Börje. What is this thing we call archival science?: A report on an international survey. National Archives of Sweden, 1999.
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United States. General Accounting Office, ed. Tax administration: Monitoring the accuracy and administration of IRS' 1989 test call survey : report to the chairman, Subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer, and Monetary Affairs, Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives. The Office, 1990.
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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Regulation, Business Opportunities, and Technology. Waste and inequity: A call for improved management of Medicare's private insurance contractors : hearing before the Subcommittee on Regulation, Business Opportunities, and Technology of the Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, second session, Washington, DC, December 19, 1994. U.S. G.P.O., 1995.
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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Regulation, Business Opportunities, and Technology. Waste and inequity: A call for improved management of Medicare's private insurance contractors : hearing before the Subcommittee on Regulation, Business Opportunities, and Technology of the Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, second session, Washington, DC, December 19, 1994. U.S. G.P.O., 1995.
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United States. Office of Postsecondary Education., ed. [SFAP Customer Support Branch Inquiry Service]: [your direct help line for questions and information on administering the Title IV student financial assistance programs at your institution : call 1-800-4ED-SFAP (1-800-433-7327)]. U.S. Dept. of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education, 1996.
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Office, General Accounting. Supplemental security income: Growth and changes in recipient population call for reexamining program : report to the Chairman, Committee on Finance, U.S. Senate, and the Chairman, Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives. The Office, 1995.
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Office, General Accounting. Telecommunications: FCC should include call quality in its annual report on competition in mobile phone services : report to the Honorable Anthony D. Weiner, House of Representatives. GAO, 2003.
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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Do-Not-Call Registry fee collection extension: Report of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on S. 781. U.S. G.P.O., 2007.
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Brown, Marvin T. "Civilian Empowerment: A Theological Inquiry." In Library of Public Policy and Public Administration. Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77363-2_9.
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AbstractA theological inquiry into civilian empowerment approaches “god” or “gods” as sources of power. Since our conception of god depends on what we can say—our language—the gods of empowerment belong to our various social worlds. We could understand the flow of power here as one where God empowers the church and then shares it with society, or where God empowers people in society and the church gives witness to it. The protestant theologians Paul Lehmann and Edward Hobbs take the second view. Lehmann’s approach opens us to a community-creating power that other language communities besides the Christian church could articulate and celebrate. Hobbs explains how the Christian trinity exposes our limitations, hubris, and the call to care for others. These theologies reveal our human capacity to create caring communities with the power to call for change.
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Walravens, Nils, Pieter Ballon, Mathias Van Compernolle, and Koen Borghys. "Data Ownership and Open Data: The Potential for Data-Driven Policy Making." In The Data Shake. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63693-7_2.
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AbstractAs part of the rhetoric surrounding the Smart City concept, cities are increasingly facing challenges related to data (management, governance, processing, storage, publishing etc.). The growing power acquired by the data market and the great relevance assigned to data ownership rather than to data-exploitation knowhow is affecting the development of a data culture and is slowing down the embedding of data-related expertise inside public administrations. Concurrently, policies call for more open data to foster service innovation and government transparency. What are the consequences of these phenomena when imagining the potential for policy making consequent to the growing data quantity and availability? Which strategic challenges and decisions do public authorities face in this regard? What are valuable approaches to arm public administrations in this “war on data”? The Smart Flanders program was initiated by the Flemish Government (Belgium) in 2017 to research and support cities with defining and implementing a common open data policy. As part of the program, a “maturity check” was performed, evaluating the cities on several quantitative and qualitative parameters. This exercise laid to bare some challenges in the field of open data and led to a checklist that cities can employ to begin tackling them, as well as a set of model clauses to be used in the procurement of new technologies.
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Migliore, Alessandra, Chiara Tagliaro, Davide Schaumann, and Ying Hua. "University Hubs: Hybrid Spaces Between Campus, Work, and Social Spaces." In Evolution of New Working Spaces. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50868-4_5.
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AbstractIn recent years work and learning have radically changed to support community-focused, inter-professional, and interdisciplinary engagements. In response, companies and public administrations have been developing networked and dispersed workspaces to grant people access to a variety of places tailored to their needs. Likewise, university campuses have been evolving in the same direction. Aiming to expand into different geographical contexts, universities have been activating off-campus facilities that enact their mission of sustainable development, university-industry connection, and social inclusion. However, the phenomenon is still poorly understood even though evidence exists that it is an expanding trend. This study analyses this emergent phenomenon we call University Hubs by distinguishing it from other similar dynamics and discussing it in the context of the hybridization of spaces for study and work. Through a preliminary case study analysis, the paper reflects on University Hubs as an opportunity for the development of future university models. These spaces can pursue knowledge creation and sharing with diverse communities outside the campus boundaries, but they entail the risk of simply enhancing university visibility in different places without pursuing a true engagement with local communities.
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Whalen, Christian. "Article 19: The Right to Protection from All Forms of Violence." In Monitoring State Compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84647-3_30.
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AbstractArticle 19 defines violence broadly to include all forms of harm, encompassing physical, mental and sexual violence as well as non-intentional forms of harm, such as neglect. As such, Article 19 articulates full respect for the human dignity and physical and personal integrity of children as rights-bearing individuals. This requires a paradigm shift of caregiving and protection away from the perception of children primarily as victims. Article 19 sets out a comprehensive prohibition on all forms of violence towards children and enjoins State Parties to take all form all measures available to enforce this right. This article summarizes the four main attributes of Article 19 as follows: (1) All violence towards children is prohibited, frequency or severity of harm need not be demonstrated and violence is defined broadly to encompass all forms of violence towards children, personal, social and institutional, including physical and emotional harm as well as neglect, maltreatment, sexual abuse, and abandonment; (2) the right protects children from harm from their parents and legal guardians as well as when they are in the care of proxy caregivers, including school officials, hospital staff, daycares, sports programs, as well as custodial settings and alternative care arrangements; (3) States are required to give effect to this right through all appropriate measures: legislative, administrative, social and educational; and finally the call for comprehensive measures to eradicate violence against children is reinforced by the final attribute (4) this attribute insists that the range of interventions required to give effect to Article 19 rights includes measures to ensure effective identification, reporting, investigation, and treatment of all forms of harm to children.
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"Afterword: A Call to Action on COVID-19 Response in Assisted Living/Residential Care Communities." In Assisted Living Administration and Management. Springer Publishing Company, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/9780826161994.ap01.
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Alexandrova, Assia, Borislav Iordanov, Syed Abbas, Phani Upadrasta, Michael Sarasti, and Thomas Hilpold. "Systems Administration in Ontology-Based Applications." In Information Retrieval and Management. IGI Global, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5191-1.ch064.
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A Citizen Relationship Management (OpenCiRM) system was built on a semantic web platform using model-driven development principles, to provide a government call center with operational agility and improved technical integration options. Business domain experts from municipal agencies administered the system by directly manipulating its ontology model. This paper highlights the new ontology engineering tasks and user roles that may emerge in organizations implementing the OpenCiRM system.
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Dunlap, Shekema S., and D'Andrea N. Wright. "Answering the Call of Revolutionary Love Through Literature." In Advances in Educational Marketing, Administration, and Leadership. IGI Global, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-9184-3.ch001.
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Toni Morrison's Beloved challenges Western sensibilities about love, kinship, sacrifice, and spirituality. A Black teacher's dissertation study about revolutionary love (RL) for her Advanced Placement Literature students inspired this chapter. In it, the authors discuss two Black women teachers' kinship relationship and love for literature as revolutionary. Their collaborative autoethnographic account explores the influence of RL on mitigating the impact of intersectional oppression on our lived experiences. Moreover, the chapter illuminates the endarkened feminist underpinnings of their personal and spiritual connections: first, within a high school English classroom and now as colleagues and co-researchers. The chapter provides teaching strategies to guide spirit-led teachers in embodying RL for their students. It concludes with a call-and-response benediction for spirit-led teachers and their students.
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Peter, Sester. "8 Public Procurement and Concessions." In Business and Investment in Brazil. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780192848123.003.0008.
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The Brazilian public administration is an important customer of private companies. Together, the Federal Union, the Brazilian states, and the municipalities are by far the largest counterparty for the construction and facility management sector. Furthermore, the current government is promoting privatization, thereby creating opportunities for foreign investors, especially in the energy and aviation sector (airport privatization). Therefore, this chapter is very important for investors. It will focus on public procurement and contracts between private parties and units of the public administration. This specific area of the law, termed administrative law is not yet codified. Instead, it consists of a rather fragmented bundle of laws with an overlapping scope of application. However, two pillars stand out: the Public Procurement Act and the General Concession Act. Under the CFRB the acquisition of almost all goods and services needed by the public administration requires a public call for tender. Therefore, the recently revamped Public Procurement Act will be discussed extensively. The second key focus of this chapter is administrative contract law and its new provisions on risk allocation.
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Vučinić, Dejan. "DEVELOPMENT OF JUDICIAL CONTROL OF THE ADMINISTRATION WITH REFERENCE TO THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA." In USKLAĐIVANjE pravnog sistema Srbije sa standardima Evropske unije. [Knj. 12]. University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Law, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.46793/upssxii.295v.
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Judicial control of the administration is a form of legal control by which the final assessment of the legality of the performance of administrative activity is entrusted to a special independent and autonomous state body. Historically, administrative control (especially judicial control) arises at a certain stage of the development of society and the state, at the moment when society's awareness of human and civil rights begins to shape social relations and the organization of government in modern European states. In this sense, on the soil of Europe, the French Revolution represents a turning point towards legal institutionalization and the establishment of what today we call modern administration and its different attitude towards individuals. The performance of administrative activities is subject to legal norms, and coercion as the basic method of administration is being re-examined, partly because of the development of human and political rights of citizens, partly because of the expansion of its tasks and tasks, i.e. changed roles of administration in society (public services). By subjecting the administration to legal regulation, the prerequisites for controlling the administration based on legal standards (regulations) are realized, and the establishment of a special state body (council, court, tribunal, commission, etc.) is becoming a trend that appears in an increasing number of countries. In the 19th century, Serbia was one of the first states in Europe to establish the State Council - a body with various responsibilities and the forerunner of the domestic administrative judiciary. The exercise of judicial control of the administration (administrative dispute) is a topic that causes significant attention of domestic legal thought, especially today in the context of the announced new reform of the administrative judiciary - administrative dispute and the introduction of two-tier system. The announced change, however, is not the only attempt to reform the administrative judiciary, but it was also done by adopting new administrative procedural regulations and establishing the Administrative Court as a court of special jurisdiction that examines the legality of administrative acts in a special procedure. A little more than ten years of operation of this court was enough to point out certain weaknesses of the current organization of judicial control of the administration, and to start a discussion about new changes related to the reorganization of the judiciary and the procedure before it (administrative court procedure). The subject of this work is the development of judicial control of administration at the level of Europe, but also in R. Serbia, i.e. its development, current organization and the need for reform of the administrative judiciary.
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Lilleker, Darren G., and Karolina Koc-Michalska. "Online Election Campaigning." In Public Affairs and Administration. IGI Global, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8358-7.ch067.
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Studies of online campaigning tend to focus on the supply side: the way political parties communicate and campaign using the Internet. This chapter explores the online presences of the main candidates and their parties who stood in the 2012 French presidential election. The research focuses not only on the supply side but also explores demand, utilising data from the Mediapolis survey to ascertain what citizens search for online and in particular what citizens seeking help with their voter decisions seek online. The data shows that citizens are provided with a rich online experience during election campaigns. Information is presented in engaging ways and candidates attempt to mobilise their supporters and offer various opportunities to interact with the campaign and other Website visitors. Interaction is augmented in particular by the use of social networking sites. Citizens, however, appear to mostly go online to find detailed information on the policies and programmes of the candidates. There appears little call for engaging communication, interactive opportunities, or details on the personal lives or personalities of the candidates. The data may, therefore, suggest that information may need to be packaged for accessibility and presented in a way that allows voters to make up their own minds, rather than following the norms of corporate sales campaign Websites.
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Suraji, Suraji, Muhamad Ali Embi, and Muhamad Ali Embi. "THE REGIONAL EXPANSION POLICIES AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION OF BUREAUCRATIC ADMINISTRATION IN INDONESIA’S EXPANSION REGIONS." In Call for Paper ICOGISS 2019 - International Conference on Governance Innovation and Social Sciences. Universitas Muhammadiyah Jember, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.32528/pi.v0i0.2522.
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Hartono, Rina Susanti. "THE VILLAGE GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION IMPLEMENTATION IN SUPPORTING VILLAGE COMMUNITY AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICE IN BEKASI DISTRICT." In Call for Paper ICOGISS 2019 - International Conference on Governance Innovation and Social Sciences. Universitas Muhammadiyah Jember, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.32528/pi.v0i0.2503.
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Biktimirov, Marat R. "Knowledge economy and digital bureaucracy. What do experts discuss?" In Twenty Fourth International Conference "Information technologies, computer systems and publications for libraries". Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.33186/978-5-85638-231-9-2020-14-18.
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The problems discussed at the sessions of the Expert Board for Knowledge Economy Management and the Expert Board for Debureaucratization in Education and Science of the State Duma Committee for Education and Science are reviewed. New challenges of swollen digital bureaucracy, distance work modes and need for verified expertize call for shaping appropriate national policy, are discussed. The focus is made on efficiency of administration in education and science at the stage of digital transformation.
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Marshall, Robert G., and Catherine Proctor. "Importance of Effective Contract Management: GasPacifico Pipeline Project — A Case Study." In 2000 3rd International Pipeline Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2000-113.
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The GasPacífico Project involved the construction of 543 kilometres of NPS 20 and NPS 24 high pressure gas pipeline to connect the natural gas reserves in the Province of Neuquen, Argentina to the industrial and domestic demand in and near the city of Concepción, Chile. The pipeline crossed the Pampas of Argentina, the imposing Andes mountain range, the Coastal mountain range and the highly populated agricultural terrain of the Central Valley (740 individual landowners in total) leading to the west coast of Chile. TransCanada International Ltd. was responsible for the overall project management of the GasPacifico Project which included design, construction and contract administration. In March 1998, the Project Team began the procedure to pre-qualify bidders, to prepare contract documents and to call for bids in preparation for the selection of construction contractors for the project. Contracts were awarded on July 30, 1998. The proper selection of the Contractors was considered of paramount importance in the project because of the high degree of difficulty of the project, the budget constraints, and the very limited time available for construction. The details of the process established for the selection of the Contractors for the GasPacífico Project as presented in this paper include: • the criteria for the pre-qualification of the bidders; • the technical evaluation format; • the commercial evaluation format; • sensitivity studies for unit rate items and extra work; • the application of the technical/commercial evaluations to the final selection.
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Lewis, Kevin M., Randall L. Jackson, and David W. Carter. "Qualification and Acceptance Testing of a High-Speed Passenger Locomotive Using Instrumented Wheelsets." In ASME 2003 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2003-55123.
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New Jersey Transit’s (NJT) ALP-46 locomotives have been successfully introduced into revenue service. On April 7, 2003, NJT received Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) approval to operate at 100 mph on Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor. Bombardier Transportation (Holding) USA, Inc. supplied these all-electric locomotives after proving the safety and performance of their product by passing an aggressive test specification prescribed by the FRA. The FRA specifications call for strict dynamic performance and compliance with wheel/rail interaction forces. Transportation Technology Center, Inc. (TTCI), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Association of American Railroads (AAR), designed and constructed two instrumented wheelsets (IWS) for use on NJT’s ALP-46 Locomotive Project. This Cardan drive locomotive required an innovative wheelset design because the right and left wheel plate shapes were not the same. To complete this unique system, TTCI incorporated a new amplifier system that digitized all the signals and transmits them via a single fiber optic cable to the data collection and analysis computer. This system eliminated the need for traditional slip rings normally used to transmit signals from rotating equipment. The vehicle qualification tests were conducted on Bombardier’s ALP-4601 locomotive in Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor (NEC) from Newark, New Jersey, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The maximum speed achieved was 110 mph and the maximum cant deficiency (CD) was 6 inches. The FRA criteria for the vehicle qualification test were pre-programmed into TTCI’s real-time data analysis system to produce exception reports every 3 minutes during the actual testing. All data and any exception reports are referenced to a milepost via Global Positioning System (GPS) signals that are incorporated as part of the data collection.
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Farrag, Khalid, and Marta Guerrero Merino. "An Assessment of Utilities Locating Practices and Excavation Damage." In 2022 14th International Pipeline Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2022-81580.
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Abstract Excavation damage to underground utilities is caused by three main root causes, namely: One-call notifications were not made or not sufficient, unsuccessful locating practices, and excavation practices not sufficient. This paper investigates the root-causes of excavation damage and the effect of various site characteristics and locating practices on the success of locating belowground utilities. Excavation damage incidents were reviewed from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) pipeline incident reports and Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) records of natural gas distribution (GD), gas transmission (GT), and hazardous liquid (HL) lines from 1970 to 2019. These records were stored in an SQL database and a web-based data management program was developed for displaying the distributions and relationships between the root causes and incidents’ parameters. The incidents’ data analysis was performed using a Bayesian Network (BN) approach for the evaluation of the probabilities of locating failures under variable parameters. BN provides the flexibility of updating the probabilities when performing risk and sensitivity analysis under various conditions. The means by which BN is processed enables performing the sensitivity analysis quantitatively as well as ranking the significance of the risk factors. The paper presents the relationships and causality of the parameters affecting the performance of Electromagnetic (EM) and Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) Locators. A parametrical study was performed to evaluate the effect of site conditions (such as soil type and moisture), pipe attributes (material, size, and depth), and locating practices (such as equipment type and frequency) on the probability of a successful locating. The results demonstrate the significance of the pipe diameter to depth ratio and device frequency on the probability of detection.
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Theophilus, Tubi O., Olugbenga Falode, and Adenike A. O. Ogunshe. "2010 Gulf of Mexico Macondo Oil Spill Disaster: HACCP Lessons for Nigeria's Gulf of Guinea." In SPE Nigeria Annual International Conference and Exhibition. SPE, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/212035-ms.
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Abstract Dealing with potentially vast and serious environmental incidents has remained a challenge for the Oil and Gas Industry, thus, the aftermath of April 20, 2010, Macondo disaster, deserves a holistic overview of events responsible for, or associated with, the disaster. The study adopted and adapted the HACCP analysis and drew lessons by not only identifying and tracing the immediate and remote causes of the spill but also making appropriate recommendations on prevention and remediation measures to be adopted at similar operating points in the Gulf of Guinea area, like Shell's Bonga FPSO facility and Chevron's Agbami. Using detailed extrapolation as a basis for the establishment of material conditionalities and similarities existing between the Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf of Guinea, the study was conducted with the aid of an extensive and exhaustive review of literature, technical reports, and other de-classified materials to determine, amongst other things, the how, why and lessons learned. The results show that there are still technological, legal, and administrative lapses in our jurisdiction, causing shortcomings in the applicable administration of rules, regulations, and enforcement procedures in the Oil and Gas sector, which has been and is still being exploited negatively by industry players. Hazard Analyses Critical Control Points addressed particularly include, causes of explosions, nature of fire, loss of well control, blowout, vessel sinking, casualties, modes of evacuation, vessel safety systems, oil spillage, environmental damages, systems deficiencies, maintenance of electrical equipment, gas alarms and automatic/emergency shutdown systems, the inadequacy of crew blast protection equipment barrier, inadequate intractable command, and control hands-off, lack of requisite training for personnel on emergency preparedness, to shut down engines and disconnect, risk-based decisions, abilities to prevent or limit the magnitude of the disaster. The study concluded that an immediate review of some identified outdated rules and operational guidelines of the DPR be undertaken, namely: procedure guide for the construction and maintenance of fixed offshore platforms; procedure guide for construction & maintenance of surface production facilities; flexible pipes, SCR, and mooring chain systems. requirements for the maintenance and inspection of flexible pipes, SCR, and mooring chain systems; operation & maintenance of pipelines. guidelines etc. Adding more pre-installed blowout preventer (BoP) systems per rig/drill line, as well as call for a review of proposed PIB, EGASPIN 2018, and a further strengthening of NOSDRA.
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Kurapka, Vidmantas Egidijus, Henryk Malewsky, Snieguole Matuliene, and Rolandas Kriksciunas. "TRENDS IN FORENSIC DIDACTICS IN LITHUANIA: DIALOGUE VECTOR." In 9th SWS International Scientific Conferences on SOCIAL SCIENCES - ISCSS 2022. SGEM WORLD SCIENCE, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.35603/sws.iscss.2022/s02.024.
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The need for innovative changes in the fight against crime and the necessity to revise the established paradigms of forensic science was bound to reflect in forensic didactics. The academics� expectations of practice not only call for a new approach to the content and forms of legal education but also for a dialogue with students, who are increasingly shifting from passive consumers of knowledge to active participants in the study process to eventually become the future initiators and implementers of innovation. Although the authors of the present article have been working with forensic didactics for decades, they are constantly looking for new forms and methods of didactics to apply the achievements of forensic didactics in the practical activities of law enforcement institutions as effectively as possible. One of the examples is the new study programme Law and Forensic Science, available at Mykolas Romeris University as of 2020. This bachelor�s study programme was designed upon holding a discussion with the Lithuanian Ministry of Education, Science and Sports and taking into account the National Courts Administration�s request to step up the teaching of forensic science and forensic examination at Lithuanian universities; furthermore, as the study process has been launched, a student opinion survey is now carried out on a regular basis. The questionnaires, as well as this publication, aim to not only analyse and evaluate students� reasoning behind choosing this programme, their attitude towards the study process, and their expectations regarding their future profession, but also to promptly improve the online study process. Surveys are carried out upon enrolment and after each year of study, or even after each semester, to find solutions and accordingly adjust some elements and processes of the curriculum. The present article introduces the key results of three questionnaires. The surveys indicated a further increase in the level of relevance of forensic classes, a pragmatic understanding of the role of forensic knowledge and skills in future employment, the relationship between theoretical and practical classes, and the directions of professional competence development.
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Sors Raurell, Daniel, Laura González Llamazares, Sergio Tabasco Vargas, and Lucille Baudet. "SGAC global satellite tracking initiative." In Symposium on Space Educational Activities (SSAE). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/conference-9788419184405.139.
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The Global Satellite Tracking Initiative aims to support international students and young professionals to set up ground stations to download real-time data and images from satellites orbiting above their regions. The objective is to empower and build capabilities among space enthusiasts around the world and to promote the space sector through hands-on activities and real space technologies related to satellite communications. The Space Generation Advisory Council, together with SatNOGS as an integral part of the Libre Space Foundation, have been supporting the initiative to enhance the development of a global open source network of satellite ground stations. The initiative will be providing all the resources, hardware, and know-how that is needed to set up ground stations. A competition was launched by the end of 2021 to select teams of space enthusiasts and supply them with a kit and step-by-step instructions on how to build their own ground stations. By setting up ground stations in backyards, local universities, or maker clubs, teams are not only self-learning about telecommunications and satellite technologies, but they are creating a meaningful impact in their local communities by bringing the broad society closer to science, technology, engineering, mathematics and, in particular, space. The initiative also intends to support space missions while engaging local communities from different regions around the world in the space sector through appealing imagery and tools. After closing the Call for Applications in this pilot initiative, 10 winning teams were selected upon receiving almost 200 applications from more than 60 countries. The selected winners are based in the following emerging space faring nations: Benin, Bolivia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Nepal, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe. They are being supplied with a basic Ground Station Kit and instructions on how to receive live images and data from different space missions, starting with the following frequency bands: - 137 megahertz: To receive images from National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration satellites. - 144-146 megahertz: To receive images and data from the International Space Station. - 440 megahertz: To receive data from numerous scientific and educational small satellites. Those teams that manage to set up the basic ground station kits and conduct some outreach and educational activities will receive a more advanced system. This paper captures the process to be followed by the selected teams, from the unboxing of the hardware to the reception and processing of data from operational space missions.
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Muhawia, Munuarti, and Diana Laila Ramatillah. "Differences in Pre-Post Hemodialysis Hemoglobin Levels on Erythropoietin Alpha and Beta Administration: A Systematic Review." In THE INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR AND CALL FOR PAPER (ISCP) UTA ’45 JAKARTA. SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0012585200003821.
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Mohamed, Seid Yimam, Fissha Asmare, and Mick Moore. Does Competition from the Informal Sector Reduce Tax Compliance in the Formal Sector? Evidence from Ethiopia. Institute of Development Studies, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/ictd.2024.037.
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The existence of ‘informal sector’ enterprises that visibly do not pay formal or direct taxes is widely believed to reduce the willingness of formal, tax-registered enterprises to pay their own taxes. This is thought to be most widespread in lower-income countries, where informal sector enterprises are more common. It would be surprising if there were no truth in this claim. We know from the literature that one factor affecting tax compliance is to what extent taxpayers perceive that others like them are paying their fair share of taxes. If some informal enterprises are understood not to be paying taxes, similar tax-registered enterprises will surely be more likely to try to evade some of their tax burdens. We call this the adverse evasion spillover hypothesis (AESH). If this is valid, it makes sense for tax administrations to make more efforts to register and tax informal firms, even if the possibility of collecting more revenue from these firms is limited. Successfully bringing them into the tax net should have positive tax compliance effects on tax-registered formal firms. Previous research provides indirect support for AESH. However, it is challenging to test the hypothesis directly, partly due to a lack of reliable, independent data to measure tax compliance levels objectively. We would be unable to judge whether complaints from formal sector firms about unfair competition from tax-avoiding informal firms were authentic or simply excuses to evade tax themselves. Summary of ICTD Working Paper 165.
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Mozumder, Mohammad Golam Nabi. Mobile Lives: The Quotidian Use Of Mobile Phone. Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2024. https://doi.org/10.57138/ezzy1360.
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Technologies that we habitually use in everyday life play a crucial role in making what we come to be or (en) act in social life (Doron, 2012). Marginalised groups of people appropriate technologies to combat the prevalent modes of domination (Eglash, 2004). This study focuses on a less studied issue, i.e., the quotidian use of mobile phones, particularly among the under-privileged segments of the populace in Bangladesh. This qualitative study investigates what makes mobile technology a popular tool in (re)constituting the users as social subjects. Do the users redefine the device itself, i.e., a mobile phone? In-depth interviews of mobile users were conducted from all of the eight administrative divisions of the country, with particular focus on young users of 15-35 years of age. More than half of the respondents were female. The interviews were recorded, transcribed, and translated into English. We collected supplementary evidence, such as browsing history, activity log, social media posts, messages, images, and audio-video records. In addition, we conducted a tone analysis of selected portions of a few interviews. The study finds that the little digital machine known as the mobile phone is not merely a device that they find themselves in awe with; “the little phone” often appears to be vital, the lack of which makes mobile users immobile, hapless, and “lifeless.” Four major types of use of mobile phones are the following: regular use, cultivating attachment, addictive use, and professional use. Users make 11 types of phone calls; they plan, initiate, execute, admonish, punish, and even imagine and outdo what we used to know as phone-calling. The un(der)educated young users of mobile phones invented their own language, which we call “vernography.” Extensive users frequently become addicted to the device; only in rare cases, users might overcome that seductive habit. Access to mobile phones does not always lift them to a higher status; female users from the disadvantaged sections strategise to bypass the seemingly invincible patriarchal barriers to access mobile phones. In theorising the findings of this study, we argue that society is technology made invisible, which is an extension of Latour’s (1990) famous observation: “Technology is society made durable.” The device that comes to life with the social actuation of human bodies is critical to materialising the vitality of social beings. Digital devices facilitate building “mesh connections”; these connections are vital for underprivileged youth. Mobile is life! Mobile phones engender invisible yet unavoidable connections.
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Lazonick, William. Investing in Innovation: A Policy Framework for Attaining Sustainable Prosperity in the United States. Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper Series, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.36687/inetwp182.
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“Sustainable prosperity” denotes an economy that generates stable and equitable growth for a large and growing middle class. From the 1940s into the 1970s, the United States appeared to be on a trajectory of sustainable prosperity, especially for white-male members of the U.S. labor force. Since the 1980s, however, an increasing proportion of the U.S labor force has experienced unstable employment and inequitable income, while growing numbers of the business firms upon which they rely for employment have generated anemic productivity growth. Stable and equitable growth requires innovative enterprise. The essence of innovative enterprise is investment in productive capabilities that can generate higher-quality, lower-cost goods and services than those previously available. The innovative enterprise tends to be a business firm—a unit of strategic control that, by selling products, must make profits over time to survive. In a modern society, however, business firms are not alone in making investments in the productive capabilities required to generate innovative goods and services. Household units and government agencies also make investments in productive capabilities upon which business firms rely for their own investment activities. When they work in a harmonious fashion, these three types of organizations—household units, government agencies, and business firms—constitute “the investment triad.” The Biden administration’s Build Back Better agenda to restore sustainable prosperity in the United States focuses on investment in productive capabilities by two of the three types of organizations in the triad: government agencies, implementing the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, and household units, implementing the yet-to-be-passed American Families Act. Absent, however, is a policy agenda to encourage and enable investment in innovation by business firms. This gaping lacuna is particularly problematic because many of the largest industrial corporations in the United States place a far higher priority on distributing the contents of the corporate treasury to shareholders in the form of cash dividends and stock buybacks for the sake of higher stock yields than on investing in the productive capabilities of their workforces for the sake of innovation. Based on analyzes of the “financialization” of major U.S. business corporations, I argue that, unless Build Back Better includes an effective policy agenda to encourage and enable corporate investment in innovation, the Biden administration’s program for attaining stable and equitable growth will fail. Drawing on the experience of the U.S. economy over the past seven decades, I summarize how the United States moved toward stable and equitable growth from the late 1940s through the 1970s under a “retain-and-reinvest” resource-allocation regime at major U.S. business firms. Companies retained a substantial portion of their profits to reinvest in productive capabilities, including those of career employees. In contrast, since the early 1980s, under a “downsize-and-distribute” corporate resource-allocation regime, unstable employment, inequitable income, and sagging productivity have characterized the U.S. economy. In transition from retain-and-reinvest to downsize-and-distribute, many of the largest, most powerful corporations have adopted a “dominate-and-distribute” resource-allocation regime: Based on the innovative capabilities that they have previously developed, these companies dominate market segments of their industries but prioritize shareholders in corporate resource allocation. The practice of open-market share repurchases—aka stock buybacks—at major U.S. business corporations has been central to the dominate-and-distribute and downsize-and-distribute regimes. Since the mid-1980s, stock buybacks have become the prime mode for the legalized looting of the business corporation. I call this looting process “predatory value extraction” and contend that it is the fundamental cause of the increasing concentration of income among the richest household units and the erosion of middle-class employment opportunities for most other Americans. I conclude the paper by outlining a policy framework that could stop the looting of the business corporation and put in place social institutions that support sustainable prosperity. The agenda includes a ban on stock buybacks done as open-market repurchases, radical changes in incentives for senior corporate executives, representation of workers and taxpayers as directors on corporate boards, reform of the tax system to reward innovation and penalize financialization, and, guided by the investment-triad framework, government programs to support “collective and cumulative careers” of members of the U.S. labor force. Sustained investment in human capabilities by the investment triad, including business firms, would make it possible for an ever-increasing portion of the U.S. labor force to engage in the productive careers that underpin upward socioeconomic mobility, which would be manifested by a growing, robust, and hopeful American middle class.
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Lewis, Dustin, Radhika Kapoor, and Naz Modirzadeh. Advancing Humanitarian Commitments in Connection with Countering Terrorism: Exploring a Foundational Reframing concerning the Security Council. Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.54813/uzav2714.
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The imperative to provide humanitarian and medical services on an urgent basis in armed conflicts is anchored in moral tenets, shared values, and international rules. States spend tens of billions of dollars each year to help implement humanitarian programs in conflicts across the world. Yet, in practice, counterterrorism objectives increasingly prevail over humanitarian concerns, often resulting in devastating effects for civilian populations in need of aid and protection in war. Not least, confusion and misapprehensions about the power and authority of States relative to the United Nations Security Council to set policy preferences and configure legal obligations contribute significantly to this trajectory. In this guide for States, we present a framework to reconfigure relations between these core commitments by assessing the counterterrorism architecture through the lens of impartial humanitarianism. We aim in particular to provide an evidence base and analytical frame for States to better grasp key legal and policy issues related to upholding respect for principled humanitarian action in connection with carrying out the Security Council’s counterterrorism decisions. We do so because the lack of knowledge regarding interpretation and implementation of counterterrorism resolutions matters for the coherence, integrity, and comprehensiveness of humanitarian policymaking and protection of the humanitarian imperative. In addition to analyzing foundational concerns and evaluating discernible behaviors and attitudes, we identify avenues that States may take to help achieve pro-humanitarian objectives. We also endeavor to help disseminate indications of, and catalyze, States’ legally relevant positions and practices on these issues. In section 1, we introduce the guide’s impetus, objectives, target audience, and structure. We also describe the methods that we relied on and articulate definitions for key terms. In section 2, we introduce key legal actors, sources of law, and the notion of international legal responsibility, as well as the relations between international and national law. Notably, Security Council resolutions require incorporation into national law in order to become effective and enforceable by internal administrative and judicial authorities. In section 3, we explain international legal rules relevant to advancing the humanitarian imperative and upholding respect for principled humanitarian action, and we sketch the corresponding roles of humanitarian policies, programs, and donor practices. International humanitarian law (IHL) seeks to ensure — for people who are not, or are no longer, actively participating in hostilities and whose needs are unmet — certain essential supplies, as well as medical care and attention for the wounded and sick. States have also developed and implemented a range of humanitarian policy frameworks to administer principled humanitarian action effectively. Further, States may rely on a number of channels to hold other international actors to account for safeguarding the humanitarian imperative. In section 4, we set out key theoretical and doctrinal elements related to accepting and carrying out the Security Council’s decisions. Decisions of the Security Council may contain (binding) obligations, (non-binding) recommendations, or a combination of the two. UN members are obliged to carry out the Council’s decisions. Member States retain considerable interpretive latitude to implement counterterrorism resolutions. With respect to advancing the humanitarian imperative, we argue that IHL should represent a legal floor for interpreting the Security Council’s decisions and recommendations. In section 5, we describe relevant conduct of the Security Council and States. Under the Resolution 1267 (1999), Resolution 1989 (2011), and Resolution 2253 (2015) line of resolutions, the Security Council has established targeted sanctions as counterterrorism measures. Under the Resolution 1373 (2001) line of resolutions, the Security Council has adopted quasi-“legislative” requirements for how States must counter terrorism in their national systems. Implementation of these sets of resolutions may adversely affect principled humanitarian action in several ways. Meanwhile, for its part, the Security Council has sought to restrict the margin of appreciation of States to determine how to implement these decisions. Yet international law does not demand that these resolutions be interpreted and implemented at the national level by elevating security rationales over policy preferences for principled humanitarian action. Indeed, not least where other fields of international law, such as IHL, may be implicated, States retain significant discretion to interpret and implement these counterterrorism decisions in a manner that advances the humanitarian imperative. States have espoused a range of views on the intersections between safeguarding principled humanitarian action and countering terrorism. Some voice robust support for such action in relation to counterterrorism contexts. A handful call for a “balancing” of the concerns. And some frame respect for the humanitarian imperative in terms of not contradicting counterterrorism objectives. In terms of measures, we identify five categories of potentially relevant national counterterrorism approaches: measures to prevent and suppress support to the people and entities involved in terrorist acts; actions to implement targeted sanctions; measures to prevent and suppress the financing of terrorism; measures to prohibit or restrict terrorism-related travel; and measures that criminalize or impede medical care. Further, through a number of “control dials” that we detect, States calibrate the functional relations between respect for principled humanitarian action and countering terrorism. The bulk of the identified counterterrorism measures and related “control dials” suggests that, to date, States have by and large not prioritized advancing respect for the humanitarian imperative at the national level. Finally, in section 6, we conclude by enumerating core questions that a State may answer to help formulate and instantiate its values, policy commitments, and legal positions to secure respect for principled humanitarian action in relation to counterterrorism contexts.
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The Competitive Advantage of Nations: A Successful Experience, Realigning the Strategy to Transform the Economic and Social Development of the Basque Country. Universidad de Deusto, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.18543/xiqr3861.
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Why do the new economy and welfare societies recommend a new station on the long journey towards competitiveness initiated within the framework of “The Competitive Advantage of Nations”, published as long as 25 years ago? A little more than twenty-five years ago, the Basque Country decided to equip itself with its own development strategy, undertaking to meet the challenge of designing its own future. The Basque Country aspired to give itself the maximum degree of self-government as a nation without a State, following its release from a long dictatorship which had plunged it into autarchy and isolation from the Western democracies around it, limiting its ability and responsibility to shape its own destiny and to offer its Society the highest standards of welfare, facing one of the greatest economic, political and social crises of its history and suffering from the ravages of terrorism within an economy castigated by soaring unemployment above 25%, a drop in its GDP, the fall, like dominoes, of its key industrial sectors, locked into the monoculture of the steel and metal working industry, outside the Europe which was being constructed by the then Economic Community of the Six, marginalized as a peripheral area from the future axis and development of the so-called “blue banana” of the London-Milan backbone and with an incipient and inexperienced administration, full of youth and enthusiasm, and a business world undergoing conversion, learning to live with a trade union phenomenon that the former dictatorship had bypassed. Faced with this complex and exciting challenge, those of us who had the privilege of addressing the aforementioned proposal, interpreting (by means of our analyses, as well as the wish to make our desires and dreams come true) the main keys to explain the state of the world economy, the main trends of change and their foreseeable impact on the Basque economy (“What the world economy taught us”), began the task of defining what we call “A strategy for the modernization and internationalization of our economy and our Country” trying to give some meaning to the role expected of the new players (States, city-regions, provinces, etc.), a role in which our small Country, with features of a City-Region, a sub-national entity, an invertebrate area on the two sides of the Pyrenees, could assume the figure of co-protagonist and provide society with a prosperous future. We also needed the framework and tools desirable for tackling the success strategy. We identified the gap between the needs that would be generated by the new paradigms and the tools offered by the existing political-economic framework (contents, skills, potential developments), accompanied by our own Country-strategy, with special emphasis on the initiatives, factors and critical vectors our society would demand and its aspirations for well-being and development. Within this context, the Basque Government approached Michael E. Porter, his ideas and concepts of the moment, and we began a collaborative process (which lasts until this day), constructing much more than our “Competitive Advantage of the Basque Country” in a thrilling and unfinished “Journey towards Competitiveness and Prosperity”. The Basque Country enjoys the privilege of having been the first nation to apply, in a strategic and comprehensive manner, the concepts which, a few years later, came to light in the prestigious publication we celebrate today, titled “The Competitive Advantage of Nations”, which has inspired the design of numerous policies and strategies throughout the world, which has brought about a proliferation of followers, which has trained instructors and which has generated a large number of new researchers and academics, new policy makers, new instruments for competitiveness and extraordinary levels of prosperity throughout the world. Since then, we have shared our own particular project which, alive and changing, responds to the new economic and social challenges and conflicts by constructing and applying a Country strategy with distinctive achievements and results beyond our economic environment. It lies within the conceptual framework inspired by the complementary tripod of Michael E. Porter's conceptual movement in his Competitive Advantage (Competitiveness, Shared Value Initiative and Social Progress) and our contributions learned from day to day in keeping with our vocation, identity, will and commitment. It is a never-ending process based on a model and a way of understanding the former pledge to give ourselves a single strategy designed by and for people.