Performing knowledge requirements analysis for public organisations in a Virtual Learning Environment: a social network analysis approach

This paper describes an application of Social Network Analysis methods for identification of knowledge demands in public organisations. Affiliation networks established in a postgraduate programme were analysed. The course was executed in a distance education mode and its students worked on public agencies. Relations established among course participants were mediated through a virtual learning environment using Moodle. Data available in Moodle may be extracted using knowledge discovery in databases techniques. Potential degrees of closeness existing among different organisations and among researched subjects were assessed. This suggests how organisations could cooperate for knowledge management and also how to identify their common interests. The study points out that closeness among organisations and research topics may be assessed through affiliation networks. This opens up opportunities for applying knowledge management between organisations and creating communities of practice. Concepts of knowledge management and social network analysis provide the theoretical and methodological basis.

Resolving international trade and investment disputes

Includes bibliography

Delineating the Boundaries for Religious Speech in Public Discourse in Kierkegaard and Habermas

How is it that one of the most famous Christian thinkers - Soren Kierkegaard -- and one of the most famous contemporary secular thinkers -- Jurgen Habermas - both agree: the religious has nothing to say in the public realm of social, ethical discourse.

Religion, Democracy and the Public Sphere

Throughout the development and maturation of the American democratic experience, religiously inspired conduct has contributed significantly to democratically progressive political concerns such as the abolition of slavery and campaigns for civil rights, but also the encouragement and perpetuation pf anti-democratic practices such as the institution of slavery and policies of racial segregation. It may be rarely admitted, but there is no essential conceptual affinity between conduct proper to democratic political association. It may, therefore, be useful in our own political circumstances to try to determine boundaries for conduct that expresses and satisfies compatibly both religious and democratic commitments. Perhaps most Americans do recognize – if not in their own cases, at least in reference to the beliefs and actions of others – that religiously inspired conduct is neither thereby justified morally or legally nor absolved from further critical appraisal. Certainly, the history of American legal practice shows that religious belief or inspiration does not serve as acceptable legal defense for conduct charged as criminal infraction. The U.S. Constitution contains only two references to religion: the non-establishment clause prohibits governmental institutionalization of religious beliefs or liberty rights – is limited in scope and application both by other constitutional rights of individuals and by constitutionally authorized powers of government. As the U.S.S.C. has repeatedly held, individual constitutional features must be understood in a manner that harmonizes all stated and implied constitutional features, not by unbridled abstractions of selected phrases. Under the American legal system, there is no absolute or unlimited right to free exercise of religion: not everything done publicly under religious inspiration is legally permissible; what is otherwise illegal conduct is not legalized by religious inspiration. In important respects, general features of the legal boundaries concerning religiously inspired conduct in public life are reasonably clear; nevertheless, broader issues concerning further moral or ethical constraints upon religiously inspired conduct remain unresolved and rarely addressed explicitly.

Influence of Religious Institutions in the Creation and Implementation of Public Policy: The Case of Roman Catholic Argentina and Secular Uruguay

The strong presence of religious institutions in Latin America, especially the Roman Catholic Church, and their participation in the creation and implementation of public policy within a sovereign state can be counter-productive for the social development and progress of that specific country. Argentina and Uruguay and the social controversy of social issues of abortion and same-sex marriage are used as examples to establish the accuracy of the above statement. Historical, statistical, and legislative information about both topics in both countries show that the political power that the Roman Catholic Church has in the region is more an outdated influence than a reality, and the principle of secularization appears to be the most stabilizing philosophy for modern nations.

Improvement of the American Indian Religious Freedom Act [microform] : hearing before the Select Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, second session, on S. 2250 to ensure that federal lands are managed in a manner that does not impair the exercise of traditional American Indian religion, May 18, 1988, Washington, DC.

CIS Microfiche Accession Numbers: CIS 89 S411-4

Judicial settlement of international disputes.

Includes 2d ed. of no. 1 and supplements for no. 2 and 9.

Report to the President by the Emergency Board appointed January 14, 1948 pursuant to section 10 of the Railway labor act, as amended, to investigate unadjusted disputes between the Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee Railway Company and certain of its employees represented by International Union of Amalgamated Association of Street Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employees of America, a labor organization.

Signed, Harry H. Schwartz, chairman, Russell Wolfe, Robert E. Stone.

Histoire des troubles du béarn, au sujet de la réligion : dans le XVII siècle ; avec des notes historiques & critiques, où l'on voit les principes des maux que les disputes de Religion ont causés à la France /

Mode of access: Internet.

The religious teachers of Greece : being Gifford lectures on natural religion delivered at Aberdeen /

Includes bibliographical references.

International Congress of Arts and Science.

Contents.--v. 1. Philosophy and metaphysics.--v. 2. Aesthetics and mathematics.--v. 3. History and law.--v. 4. Law and religion.--v. 5. History of language.--v. 6. Literature and art.--v. 7. Physics and chemistry.--v. 8. Astronomy and earth sciences.--v. 9. Biology.--v. 10. Anthropology and mental science.--v. 11. Medicine.--v. 12. Medicine and technology.--v. 13. Economics and social regulation.--v. 14. Jurisprudence and social science.--v. 15. Secular and religious education.

The Homiletic review; an international monthly magazine of current religious thought, sermonic literature and discussion of practical issues.

Editors: Oct. 1876-Dec. 1903, I.K. Funk (with J.M. Sherwood, Jan. 1886-Oct. 1890); N.W. Wells, Aug. 1891-July 1895; D.S. Gregory, Aug. 1895-Dec. 1903)

Sketches of the early Catholic missions of Kentucky : from their commencement in 1787, to the Jubilee of 1826-7, embracing a summary of the early history of the state, the adventures of the first Catholic emigrants, biographical notices of the early missionaries, the early history of the principal Protestant sects in Kentucky, with some account of the establishment of the episcopal see at Bardstown, of the various religious societies, and of the general state of the Catholic religion in Kentucky /

Preface dated (p. ix): Bardstown, Kentucky, Feast of Corpus Christi, 1844.

The Hague court reports ; comprising the awards, accompanied by syllabi, the agreements for arbitration, and other documents in each case submitted to the Permanent court of arbitration and to commissions of inquiry under the provisions of the conventions of 1889 and 1907, for the pacific settlement of international disputes ;

At head of title: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Division of International Law.

The early Christian conception of Christ : its significance and value in the history of religion, expanded from a lecture delivered before the International theological congress at Amsterdam, September 1903 /

Translated from the German.