II Jornadas Anuales de la Sociedad Española de Medicina Legal y Forense: Barcelona 8-9 de abril de 1988: libro de actas

El volum recull 42 de les comunicacions presentades al llarg de les Jornades. Les comunicions provenen de 12 àmbits geogràfics diferents dins de l'estat espanyol i la temàtica que tracten és molt variada. Respon per tant a la voluntat de difondre el més ampli ventall possible d'enfocaments dintre de la Medicina Legal.

Open licensing's impact on higher education resources colombian and catalan approaches

A new initiative has sprung on the path created by the Open Access (OA) movement: Open Education (OE). The initiative's aim is to open up all educational resources at all learning levels. In order to achieve this goal, several international institutions, like UNESCO and the OECD, have published reports, surveys and documents to help educational institutions in this endeavor. This global initiative needs a legal framework; as a result, efforts thus far have usually resorted to Open Licensing (OL), especially Creative Commons (CC) licensing. In fact, as a response to this new movement, Creative Commons launched a new program, ccLearn , which recognizes open licensing's impact on education and directly supports the idea of open educational resources (OER). However, there still remain a good amount of open questions: What is happening locally with OL in higher education? How are educational institutions receiving the initiative? How is it that the OL initiative relates to educational resources? Are there local examples of open educational resources (OER)? How do these local instances incorporate CC into their educational frameworks?. To this effect, this analysis aims to focus on the legal approach and specifically on the way the educational sector is using open licenses outside the English speaking world. It will do so by looking at the current situation in two specific scenarios, the Colombian and the Catalan experiences with open educational projects at the higher education level.

Combined report on the institutions under the control of the Iowa Department of Human Services for the five years ended June 30, 2012

Combined report on the institutions under the control of the Iowa Department of Human Services for the five years ended June 30, 2012

Combined report on the institutions under the control of the Iowa Department of Corrections for the five years ended June 30, 2012

Combined report on the institutions under the control of the Iowa Department of Corrections for the five years ended June 30, 2012

Title IIIB Legal Assistance Activity Report for SFY 2013, December 30, 2013

This report is prepared from data submitted by the Title IIIB providers and Area Agencies on Aging.

The co-evolution of social institutions, demography, and large-scale human cooperation.

Human cooperation is typically coordinated by institutions, which determine the outcome structure of the social interactions individuals engage in. Explaining the Neolithic transition from small- to large-scale societies involves understanding how these institutions co-evolve with demography. We study this using a demographically explicit model of institution formation in a patch-structured population. Each patch supports both social and asocial niches. Social individuals create an institution, at a cost to themselves, by negotiating how much of the costly public good provided by cooperators is invested into sanctioning defectors. The remainder of their public good is invested in technology that increases carrying capacity, such as irrigation systems. We show that social individuals can invade a population of asocials, and form institutions that support high levels of cooperation. We then demonstrate conditions where the co-evolution of cooperation, institutions, and demographic carrying capacity creates a transition from small- to large-scale social groups.

Iowa Legal Assistance Program Best Practices, 2009

Legal problems faced by older Iowans are often more critical than those problems faced by any other segment of our population. Older Iowans in poverty are less likely to seek the assistance of an attorney. Often, it is either because they do not have cash resources to pay for services or they do not realize that they have a “legal problem.” The Older Americans Act of 1965 (hereafter, OAA) as amended, which primarily funds the Legal Assistance Program, requires that states have the capacity to improve the quality and quantity of legal programs for older individuals. These Legal Assistance Program Best Practices are meant to provide guidance to providers in the area of priority casework, coordination and collaboration to ensure cohesiveness and uniformity throughout the state’s legal assistance programs. Additionally, Congress mandates that states improve the quality of their Title III-B legal programs. One proven way to ensure a quality program is to have in place best practices to define expectations for not only the legal assistance program provider, but for the state unit on aging (the Iowa Department on Aging) and the area agencies on aging as well. These legal assistance program best practices may be amended from time to time to reflect the change in the legal needs of older Iowans as well as the mandates under the OAA, Iowa Department on Aging (hereafter, department) policy and other governing state and federal laws and regulations.

Combined report on the institutions under the control of the Iowa Department of Human Services for the five years ended June 30, 2013

Combined report on the institutions under the control of the Iowa Department of Human Services for the five years ended June 30, 2013

Combined report on the institutions under the control of the Iowa Department of Corrections for the five years ended June 30, 2013

Combined report on the institutions under the control of the Iowa Department of Corrections for the five years ended June 30, 2013