Capacity building in the use of geospatial tools for natural resource management in Tajikistan: Inception report BNWPP project

The Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) has been contracted by the World Bank Group to conduct a program on capacity development in use of geospatial tools for natural resource management in Tajikistan. The program aimed to help improving natural resource management by fostering the use of geospatial tools among governmental and non-governmental institutions in Tajikistan. For this purpose a database including a Geographic Information System (GIS) has been prepared, which combines spatial data on various sectors for case study analysis related to the Community Agriculture and Watershed Management Project (CAWMP). The inception report is based on the findings resulting from the Swiss Consultant Trust Fund (CTF) financed project, specifically on the experiences from the awareness creation and training workshop conducted in Dushanbe in November 2007 and the analysis of historical land degradation trends carried out for the four CAWMP watersheds. Furthermore, also recommendations from the inception mission of CDE to Tajikistan (5-20 August 2007) and the inception report for the Swiss CTF support were considered. The inception report for the BNWPP project (The Bank-Netherlands Water Partnership Program) discusses the following project relevant issues: (1) Preliminary list of additional data layers, types of data analysis, and audiences to be covered by BNWPP grant (2) Assessing skills and equipment already available within Tajikistan, and implications for training program and specific equipment procurement plans (3) Updated detailed schedule and plans for all activities to be financed by BNWPP grant, and (4) Proposed list of contents for the final report and web-based presentations.

A Case Study on Using the Via Christi Breastfeeding Assessment Tool in a Clinical Setting

Aims- The goal of this study is to obtain a subjective point of view of the use, benefits, and shortcomings of the Via Christi breastfeeding Assessment Tool in a clinical setting. Methods- This case study is based on a single yet detailed interview with a lactation consultant who has utilized the Via Christi Breastfeeding Tool in a clinical setting. Findings- Advantages of the Via Christi Breastfeeding Assessment Tool include that the tool is practical and concrete, encompassing both a subjective dimension and the basic elements of breastfeeding. Shortcomings of the tool include its non-specificity in focus on the feeding technique only and excluding other factors involved with the birth and mother- baby couplet. Conclusion- The Via Christi Breastfeeding Tool serves as a good initial screening of breastfeeding, which in result leads to the recommendation of further and more extensive study of a specific mother-baby couplet breastfeeding measures if needed.

Na 1 Nachlass Max Horkheimer, 688 - "Fortune Polls on Antisemitism" (p. IX 153.1-18)

"Fortune Polls on Antisemitism" (1947) (veröffentlicht unter dem Titel "Fortune Survey Analyzed by AJC Consultant to Appraise Results", in: News Letter, American Jewish Committee, Dezember 1947, S. 4):; 1. Max Horkheimer: Über Fortune Polls, a) Typoskript, 3 Blatt, b) Typoskript, 3 Blatt, c) Typoskript mit eigenhändigen Korrekturen, 3 Blatt, d) Typoskript, 3 Blatt; 2. Max Horkheimer: Über Fortune Polls und die Gefahren eines neuen Antisemitismus (Vortragsskript?), Typoskript und Manuskript, 4 Blatt; 3. Theodor W. Adorno (?): "Some Results of Adult Project". Typoskript mit eigenhändigen Korrekturen, 2 Blatt; 4. "Education Counteracts Prejudice" Auszug aus "Antisemitism among American Labor". Typoskript, 1 Blatt; 5. "Discord versus Harmony", Excerpt from: The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, March 1946, Typoskript, 1 Blatt; 6. Theodor W. Adorno: "Memorandum, Subject: Poll Controversy", 24.4.1948; 7. Leo Löwenthal: "Memorandum on Fortune Poll" und "Supplementary Memorandum on Fortune Poll", 8.10.1947. Typoskripte mit eigenhändigen Ergänzungen, 4 Blatt; 8. "Massing's Comment" (8.10.1947). Typoskript, 2 Blatt; 9. "Excerpts from Fortune Magazine 'The Fortune Survey': Racial and Religious Intolerance". Typoskript, 3 Blatt, a) "Summary of 'Fortune Survey' on Antisemitism in U.S. (Fortune, April, 1939)", Typoskript, 2 Blatt; 10. Leo Löwenthal: 1 Brief mit Unterschrift an Max Horkheimer, New York, 4.10.1947, 1 Blatt; 11. Exzerpt der Umfrage-Materialien der Opinion Research Corporation, Typoskripte, 61 Blatt; 12. Zahlenmaterial zu den Umfragen, 16 Blatt; Office of War Information, Bureau of Intelligence: Berichte über Antisemitismus: 13. "Attitudes toward Jews in the United States", 27.10.1942, a) als Typoskript vervielfältigt, 22 Blatt, b) Typoskript, 35 Blatt; 14. "Political Anti-Semitism: A Study of Indoctrination" (27.10.1942), a) als Typoskript vervielfältigt, 18 Blatt, b) Typoskript, 26 Blatt; 15. "Anti-Semitism - a Symptom of Disaffection" (8.10.1942), a) als Typoskript vervielfältigt, 8 Blatt, b) Typoskript, 12 Blatt; 16. Samuel H. Flowerman und Marie Jahoda: "Polls on Anti-Semitism. How much do they tell us?", Sonderdruck, 4 Blatt; 17. Fragebogen, Drucksachen, 4 Blatt; 18. Zeitungausschnitte aus: The Fortune Survey, 9 Blatt;

Assessing the impact of leadership on nurse job satisfaction and the desire for unionization in health care settings

This dissertation focuses on the leadership styles of managers, the impact these leadership styles have on the job satisfaction of staff nurses, and the proclivity of nurses to consider unionization. The aims of the dissertation include conducting a literature review on topics of leadership style, job satisfaction, and unionization; identifying and elucidating pertinent constructs with respect to shared interrelationships and how they could be measured; and developing a means of assessing if and to what extent transformational and transactional leadership styles affect nurse proclivity to unionize.^ The instrumentation selected includes the Multifactor Leadership Survey, Job Satisfaction Survey, and a newly created Union Preference Survey. Each survey instrument was evaluated as to its appropriateness to administer at a non-consultant level within a health care facility. Options other than self-administering the survey instruments include online access for participants, which provides confidentiality and encourages more responses. ^ The next part of the dissertation is a plan for health care facilities to use the survey tool by administering it themselves. The plan provides a general description of the survey tool, administering the instrument, rating the instrument, and leadership development. Integration of the three surveys is presented in a non-statistical format by coordinating the results of the three survey instrument responses. Recommendations are presented on how to improve leadership development warranted for improvement.^ The conclusions reached are that nurses’ preference for unions is influenced by the leadership style of direct report managers, as rated by staff nurses, and the nurses’ job satisfaction, which is in turn in part dependent on their managers’ leadership style. Thus, changes in leadership style can have a profound impact on nurse job satisfaction and on nurses’ preference for unionization.^

Realización de Mapa Estratégico de Ruido de las Carreteras de la Red del Estado (A-3 - zona Campus Sur de la U.P.M.)

En cumplimiento de la Directiva 2002/49/CE en lo referente a carreteras, se han llevado a cabo en España, en el año 2007, los mapas estratégicos de ruido (MER) de los grandes ejes viarios de más de 6 millones de vehículos / año (datos 2006). En esta categoría se encuentra la carretera A-3 a su paso por el Campus Sur de la U.P.M. De acuerdo con el pliego de prescripciones técnicas, estos MER se dividen en fase A o de estudio básico y fase B o de estudio de detalle. En el proyecto denominado “Realización de Mapa Estratégico de Ruido de las carreteras de la Red del Estado (A-3 - Zona Campus sur de la U.P.M.)” se muestran los resultados de información pública de fase A del Mapa Estratégico de Ruido (MER) para la carretera A-3 en la Comunidad de Madrid. Teniendo en cuenta dichos resultados y la no elección del Campus Sur en la fase B (detalle) de dicho MER; en el presente proyecto se realiza el Mapa Estratégico de fase B del Campus Sur de la U.P.M. para el gran ejes viarios (A-3), de cumplimiento de la Directiva 2002/49/CE y siguiendo las indicaciones del pliego de prescripciones técnicas para esta primera fase de entregas de 2007 y utilizando para ello Sistemas de Información Geográfica (SIG). Se justifica, según los resultados obtenidos, si hubiera sido necesaria su inclusión en esta fase de estudio. Una vez establecidas las diferencias entre Mapa Estratégico de Ruido (MER) y Mapa de Ruido (MR), se analizan los diversos criterios técnicos que debe tomar un consultor acústico durante la realización de un MER y cómo estos pueden afectar al resultado final siendo todos ellos válidos pero creando una falta de homogeneidad entre los diferentes MER según el autor del estudio. Se describen las diferentes acciones que se están tomando tras la entrega de 2007 para intentar solucionar este problema de cara a las nuevas entregas. ABSTRACT: The environmental Noise Directive 2002/49/EC has clear requirements to Member States in terms of Strategic Noise Maps according to roads. So, have been carried out in Spain, in 2007, Strategic Noise Maps of the major roads which have more than six million vehicle passages a year (2006 data) where the A-3 road near “Campus Sur U.P.M.” is included. In accord with the statement of technical requirements, these Strategic Noise Maps are divided into A phase (Basic study) and B phase (detailed study). The present project by the name of "Implementation of Strategic Noise Map of Spanish Roads (A-3 – Campus Sur U.P.M. area)" shows the results of Strategic Noise Map for the A-3 in the Community of Madrid (A phase, public information – EGRA project Spanish Ministry of Transport). According to de study results and the not election of “Campus Sur” to B phase (detail), in this project has been made the B phase of Strategic Map in compliance with Directive 2002/49/EC, following the technical requirements specifications for the first phase of deliveries (2007) and using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to carry on them. Is justified, in accordance with the results, if it was necessary to include “Campus Sur” in this B phase of study. Once established the differences between Strategic Noise Map and Noise Map, the present project examines the technical criteria that must take an acoustic consultant for the realization of a Strategic Map and how these criteria could affect the quality of the final results being all of them valid but it generate a lack of homogeneity between the different Strategic Noise Map by the author of the study. There wasn’t so much experience in Spain in the methodology proposed by the European Noise Directive. The actions that are being taken after delivery of 2007 to try to solve this problem and get harmonized the results among the whole network for the new deliveries each five years are shown at the present project.

Integración en la plataforma 4mobile de mecanismos de atención en redes sociales

El presente texto se ha desarrollado como Proyecto Fin de Grado en la Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería y Sistemas de Telecomunicación de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid en colaboración con la Consultora Tecnológica everis. El mismo tiene como objetivo realizar un estudio de los requisitos necesarios para poder desplegar un servicio que permita ofrecer a las Operadoras Móviles Virtuales (OMV) soporte técnico a sus clientes a través de las redes sociales. Este módulo establecerá una nueva vía de comunicación entre el consumidor y el cliente de la OMV con la propia OMV, el cual se caracterizará por una alta accesibilidad y una gran rapidez en el servicio permitiendo de este modo, una mayor satisfacción del cliente con su operador móvil y por tanto de una nueva vía para conseguir la fidelización del mismo y la captación de nuevos clientes. Para ello, este proyecto se lleva a cabo sobre el sistema de información 4mobile el cual es comercializado por la mencionada Consultora Tecnológica. Este sistema consiste en una plataforma web la cual permite cubrir todos los procesos de negocio comunes que un OMV necesita gestionar. Es por ello, que el mencionado estudio se centra en la evaluación de los aspectos necesarios para la integración de un módulo de estas características dentro de la plataforma de 4mobile. Este módulo, estará basado en una herramienta software que permitirá gestionar el ciclo de vida completo del comentario realizado por el cliente a través de una red social, desde que es publicado por el cliente, hasta que se haya respondido al mismo y su solución sea considerada como satisfactoria por el cliente. Por ello, y de cara a definir correctamente esta herramienta, será necesario un detallado análisis el cual recoja diversos aspectos y que a lo largo del texto, será denominado como Plan de Marketing de Medios Sociales (PMMS). Estos aspectos versarán tanto de las necesidades tecnológicas para su mencionada integración, como de la serie de características funcionales que una solución basada en servicio técnico a través de las redes sociales deberá poseer con el objetivo de ofrecer un servicio técnico de calidad. Finalmente, estas funcionalidades y necesidades tecnológicas se expondrán en forma de propuesta a everis para su integración en la plataforma 4mobile junto con un análisis de diseño a alto nivel software de la solución a desarrollar. ABSTRACT. This text has been developed as Final Degree Project in the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería y Sistemas de Telecomunicación de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in collaboration with the Technology Consultant everis, aims to conduct a study of how to provide technical support through social networks and the evaluation of the integration of a social support module within the system platform 4mobile, which cover all business processes that need to manage a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO), which is marketed by above-mentioned consultant . This module will establish a new communication channel between the consumer and the client with the OMV and itself, which is characterized by high accessibility and great fast service. Thus will allow a higher customer satisfaction with him service and thus a new way to get the same loyalty and attract new customers To this end, this project is performed on the information system 4mobile which is marketed by the consulting part thereof everis. This system is a platform to cover all business processes that need to manage an MVNO. Therefore, the mentioned study focuses on the evaluation of the elements necessary for integrating module these features within the platform 4mobile. This module will be based on a software tool for managing the entire lifecycle of the comment made by the customer via social networking, from the moment it is published, until it has been respond and their solution is considered satisfactory for the customer. So, in order to properly define this tool, a detailed analysis which will be necessary to collect various aspects and throughout the text, it will be referred to as Plan of Social Media Marketing (PMMS). These aspects will be address both: the technological needs for the mentioned integration, and the number of functional characteristics-based service through social networking solution, as this must in order to provide a quality service Finally, these goals and requirements will be discussed as everis offer for integration into the platform 4mobile analysis along with a high level of software design to develop the solution.

1.1 Sidney Redmond, NAACP Attorney, Saint Louis, Missouri 1930s

Lenoir, a member of the St. Louis branch of the NAACP, contacted Sidney Redmond, the branch’s legal consultant, about possible legal action. Redmond passed the information on to the national headquarters and their head of legal services, Charles Hamilton Houston.

Intraoperative changes in platelet function in relation to moderate haemorrhage

Crown Copyright © 2015. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Funding The study was funded by TENOVUS Scotland (G12/14). Jan Jansen is in receipt of salary support through the NHS Research Scotland (NRS) fellowship scheme. Acknowledgements The authors are extremely grateful for the expert assistance and contributions of Dr Neil Scott (Medical Statistician, University of Aberdeen), Win Culley (Research Nurse, Woodend Hospital), Dr Karen Cranfield (Consultant Anaesthetist), and Ms Sharon Wood, (Research Technician, Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health) for fibrinogen measurement.

Copy Number Variations in DISC1 and DISC1-Interacting Partners in Major Mental Illness

Acknowledgements We would like to thank all of the patients, relatives and control individuals who participated in the study. We are indebted to the late Prof. Walter Muir, Chair of Developmental Psychiatry and Honorary Consultant in Learning Disability Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, who initiated these studies and whose work was dedicated to the welfare of the patients who generously participated. We are also grateful to Mrs. Pat Malloy for her assistance with DNA collection and MAQ assays screening of the Scottish samples. The Scottish sample collection was supported by a grant from the Chief Scientist Office (CSO), part of the Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorates. This research was funded by grants from the CSO to B.S.P. (grant CZB/4/610), The Academy of Medical Sciences/Wellcome Trust to M.J. (grant R41455) and The RS Macdonald Charitable Trust (grant D21419 together with J.H.), the Swedish Research Council (grants 2003-5158 and 2006-4472), the Medical Faculty, Umeå University, and the County Councils of Västerbotten and Norrbotten, Sweden, as well as by grants from the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders (FWO-F), the Industrial Research Fund (IWT) and the Special Research Fund of the University of Antwerp, Belgium. M.J. is funded by a Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Fellowship for MB PhD graduates (R42811). We acknowledge the contribution of the personnel of the VIB Genetic Service Facility (http://www.vibgeneticservicefacility.be/) for the genetic analysis of the Swedish samples. Research nurses Gunnel Johansson, Lotta Kronberg, Tage Johansson and Lisbeth Bertilsson are thankfully acknowledged for their help and expertise. The Betula Study was funded by the Swedish Research Council (grants 345-2003-3883 and 315-2004-6977). We also acknowledge the contribution by the staff in the Betula project

Knowledge spirals, situational leadership and informal learning applied on b-learning methodology

The methodology “b-learning” is a new teaching scenario and it requires the creation, adaptation and application of new learning tools searching the assimilation of new collaborative competences. In this context, it is well known the knowledge spirals, the situational leadership and the informal learning. The knowledge spirals is a basic concept of the knowledge procedure and they are based on that the knowledge increases when a cycle of 4 phases is repeated successively.1) The knowledge is created (for instance, to have an idea); 2) The knowledge is decoded into a format to be easily transmitted; 3) The knowledge is modified to be easily comprehensive and it is used; 4) New knowledge is created. This new knowledge improves the previous one (step 1). Each cycle shows a step of a spiral staircase: by going up the staircase, more knowledge is created. On the other hand, the situational leadership is based on that each person has a maturity degree to develop a specific task and this maturity increases with the experience. Therefore, the teacher (leader) has to adapt the teaching style to the student (subordinate) requirements and in this way, the professional and personal development of the student will increase quickly by improving the results and satisfaction. This educational strategy, finally combined with the informal learning, and in particular the zone of proximal development, and using a learning content management system own in our University, gets a successful and well-evaluated learning activity in Master subjects focused on the collaborative activity of preparation and oral exhibition of short and specific topics affine to these subjects. Therefore, the teacher has a relevant and consultant role of the selected topic and his function is to guide and supervise the work, incorporating many times the previous works done in other courses, as a research tutor or more experienced student. Then, in this work, we show the academic results, grade of interactivity developed in these collaborative tasks, statistics and the satisfaction grade shown by our post-graduate students.

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One leaf containing a handwritten Latin text beginning, "Omnis homines, P.C. qui de rebus dubiis consultant..." The verso is marked "No. 2."

Retrospective study on structural neuroimaging in first-episode psychosis

Background. No consensus between guidelines exists regarding neuroimaging in firstepisode psychosis. The purpose of this study is to assess anomalies found in structural neuroimaging exams (brain computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)) in the initial medical work-up of patients presenting first-episode psychosis. Methods. The study subjects were 32 patients aged 18–48 years (mean age: 29.6 years), consecutively admitted with first-episode psychosis diagnosis. Socio-demographic and clinical data and neuroimaging exams (CT and MRI) were retrospectively studied. Diagnostic assessments were made using the Operational Criteria Checklist +. Neuroimaging images (CT and MRI) and respective reports were analysed by an experienced consultant psychiatrist. Results. None of the patients had abnormalities in neuroimaging exams responsible for psychotic symptoms. Thirty-seven percent of patients had incidental brain findings not causally related to the psychosis (brain atrophy, arachnoid cyst, asymmetric lateral ventricles, dilated lateral ventricles, plagiocephaly and falx cerebri calcification). No further medical referral was needed for any of these patients. No significant differences regarding gender, age, diagnosis, duration of untreated psychosis, in-stay and cannabis use were found between patients who had neuroimaging abnormalities versus those without. Discussion. This study suggests that structural neuroimaging exams reveal scarce abnormalities in young patients with first-episode psychosis. Structural neuroimaging is especially useful in first-episode psychosis patients with neurological symptoms, atypical clinical picture and old age.

Tendências e moda: estilo e gosto na hipermodernidade

O relatório seguidamente apresentado baseia-se nas funções e tarefas desenvolvidas no estágio enquanto Trends Research Consultant, no Trends Research Center, Centro de Estudos de Tendências da AYR Consulting. Tentou-se com este trabalho, estabelecer uma relação entre as áreas de Moda e de Tendências com o Design e a Cultura Visual, ou seja, relacionar o tema do estágio com o tema do mestrado. As ciências sociais que estão na base deste relatório são instáveis, e existe, por vezes, pouca concordância entre os autores analisados, pelo que o trabalho aqui proposto pretende ser uma tentativa de clarificar alguns conceitos destas temáticas, bem como, compreender a importância da metodologia de Coolhunting para a criação de inovação nas empresas. Pretende-se, por fim, refletir sobre a relevância dos estudos efetuados dentro das temáticas abordadas e sobre a importância da experiência profissional de um estágio integrado no percurso académico.

The child care worker.

"Contract 105-75-1122"--T.p. verso.

Techniques in job development and placement for ex-addicts : a success story /

"This report was written by Eric Lax, a consultant to Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation ... under the following grants or contracts : Employment and Training Administration, Department of Labor, Grant no. 33-36-75-01, contract nos. 30-36-75-01 and 30-34-75-02; The Ford Foundation, Grant no. 740-0537A."--P. 2 of cover.