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The reconstruction of the child protection system in the post-communist period so as to meet professional standards while responding to the needs of children is an enormous task. In order to understand the features of the current stage of the development of the Romanian child protection system and to evaluate its trends towards change, Roth-Szamoskozi analysed data from scientific literature and collected statistics to document the evolution of the child-protection structure. Empirical data collection using qualitative methods (content analysis of documents and interviews with staff) were designed to reflect the degree to which child welfare laws correspond to internationally accepted regulations and to analyse the attitudes of those working in the field at different decision-making levels. An experiment with a group of 12 students showed that there have been basic changes in the legal framework of Romanian child welfare. Students could see that the required principles exist in the new Romanian child protection law, but also identified areas which are still inadequately represented. 61 staff members working in child welfare agencies (both state and non-governmental) were also interviewed, using a systematic, circular interview. Using the criteria of competence and the existence of specific social goals, professionalism in solving social problems and respect for social-work values, the 30 non-governmental organisations were divided into three categories. The first (7 organisations) are active in the area, know the law and are fairly professional, the second (5) are motivated in their work with specific problems, but with no great competence. The 18 organisations in the third group have no competence in the social field and in issues concerning children and do only charitable work. The state agencies are still dominated by routine, but there were many staff members who were developing reform and strategic roles and were actively directing the system towards change. Many staff members in both governmental and non-governmental organisations were directing the system towards a stress on intervention in the interests of the child in the context of its family. Roth-Szamoskozi found that staff members felt the need of a more accurate evaluation system which would enable them to show their results more clearly.

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Steel tubular cast-in-place pilings are used throughout the country for many different project types. These piles are a closed-end pipe with varying wall thicknesses and outer diameters, that are driven to depth and then the core is filled with concrete. These piles are typically used for smaller bridges, or secondary structures. Mostly the piling is designed based on a resistance based method which is a function of the soil properties of which the pile is driven through, however there is a structural capacity of these members that is considered to be the upper bound on the loading of the member. This structural capacity is given by the AASHTO LRFD (2010), with two methods. These two methods are based on a composite or non-composite section. Many state agencies and corporations use the non-composite equation because it is requires much less computation and is known to be conservative. However with the trends of the time, more and more structural elements are being investigated to determine ways to better understand the mechanics of the members, which could lead to more efficient and safer designs. In this project, a set of these piling are investigated. The way the cross section reacts to several different loading conditions, along with a more detailed observation of the material properties is considered as part of this research. The evaluation consisted of testing stub sections of pile with varying sizes (10-¾”, 12-¾”), wall thicknesses (0.375”, 0.5”), and testing methods (whole compression, composite compression, push through, core sampling). These stub sections were chosen as they would represent a similar bracing length to many different soils. In addition, a finite element model was developed using ANSYS to predict the strains from the testing of the pile cross sections. This model was able to simulate the strains from most of the loading conditions and sizes that were tested. The bond between the steel shell and the concrete core, along with the concrete strength through the depth of the cross section were some of the material properties of these sections that were investigated.

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Riparian zones are dynamic, transitional ecosystems between aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems with well defined vegetation and soil characteristics. Development of an all-encompassing definition for riparian ecotones, because of their high variability, is challenging. However, there are two primary factors that all riparian ecotones are dependent on: the watercourse and its associated floodplain. Previous approaches to riparian boundary delineation have utilized fixed width buffers, but this methodology has proven to be inadequate as it only takes the watercourse into consideration and ignores critical geomorphology, associated vegetation and soil characteristics. Our approach offers advantages over other previously used methods by utilizing: the geospatial modeling capabilities of ArcMap GIS; a better sampling technique along the water course that can distinguish the 50-year flood plain, which is the optimal hydrologic descriptor of riparian ecotones; the Soil Survey Database (SSURGO) and National Wetland Inventory (NWI) databases to distinguish contiguous areas beyond the 50-year plain; and land use/cover characteristics associated with the delineated riparian zones. The model utilizes spatial data readily available from Federal and State agencies and geospatial clearinghouses. An accuracy assessment was performed to assess the impact of varying the 50-year flood height, changing the DEM spatial resolution (1, 3, 5 and 10m), and positional inaccuracies with the National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) streams layer on the boundary placement of the delineated variable width riparian ecotones area. The result of this study is a robust and automated GIS based model attached to ESRI ArcMap software to delineate and classify variable-width riparian ecotones.

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The dramatic period of progressive change in Montana that is documented "In the Crucible of Change" series really exploded with the election of Governors Forrest Anderson and Tom Judge. Anderson's single term saw the dispatching of the sales tax as an issue for a long period, the reorganization of the executive branch of state government and the revision of Montana's Constitution. As a former legislator, county attorney, Supreme Court justice, and Attorney General, Anderson brought unmatched experience to the governorship when elected. Tom Judge, although much younger (elected MT’s youngest governor at age 38 immediately following Anderson), also brought serious experience to the governorship: six years as a MT State Representative, two years as a MT State Senator, four years is Lieutenant Governor and significant business experience. The campaign and election of John F. Kennedy in 1960 spurred other young Americans to service, including Tom Judge. First elected in 1960, he rose rapidly through MT’s political-governmental hierarchy until he took over the governorship in time to implement many of the changes started in Governor Anderson’s term. But as a strong progressive leader in his own right, Governor Judge sponsored and implemented significant advancements of his own for Montana. Those accomplishments, however, are the subject of other films in this series. This film deals with Tom Judge’s early years – his rise to the governorship from when he returned home after college at Notre Dame and newspaper experience in Kentucky to his actual election in November 1972. That story is discussed in this episode by three major players in the effort, all directly involved in Tom Judge’s early years and path to the governorship: Sidney Armstrong, Larry Pettit and Kent Kleinkopf. Their recollections of the early Tom Judge and the period of his advancement to the governorship provide an insider’s perspective of the growth of this significant leader of the important period of progressive change documented “In the Crucible of Change.” Sidney Armstrong, President of Sidney Armstrong Consulting, serves on the board and as the Executive Director of the Greater Montana Foundation. Formerly Executive Director of the Montana Community Foundation (MCF), she has served on national committees and participated in national foundation initiatives. While at MCF, she worked extensively with MT Governors Racicot and Martz on the state charitable endowment tax credit and other endowed philanthropy issues. A member of MT Governor Thomas L. Judge’s staff in the 1970s, she was also part of Governor Brian Schweitzer’s 2004 Transition Team, continuing to serve as a volunteer advisor during his term. In the 1980s, Sidney also worked for the MT State AFL-CIO and the MT Democratic Party as well as working two sessions with the MT Senate as Assistant Secretary of the Senate and aide to the President. A Helena native, and great granddaughter of pioneer Montanans, Sidney has served on numerous nonprofit boards, and is currently a board member for the Montana History Foundation. Recently she served on the board of the Holter Museum of Art and was a Governor’s appointee to the Humanities Montana board. She is a graduate of the International School of Geneva, Switzerland and the University of Montana. Armstrong's Irish maternal immigrant great-grandparents, Thomas and Maria Cahill Cooney, came to Virginia City, MT in a covered wagon in 1865, looking for gold. Eventually, they settled on the banks of the Missouri River outside Helena as ranchers. She also has roots in Butte, MT, where her journalist father's family, both of whom were newspaper people, lived. Her father, Richard K. O’Malley, is also the author of a well-known book about Butte, Mile High, Mile Deep, recently re-published by Russell Chatham. She is the mother of four and the grandmother of eight. Dr. Lawrence K. Pettit (Larry Pettit) (b. 5/2/1937) has had a dual career in politics and higher education. In addition to being Montana’s first Commissioner of Higher Education (the subject of another film in this series); Pettit, of Lewistown, served as legislative assistant to U.S. Senators James E. Murray and Lee Metcalf, campaign manager, head of transition team and assistant to Montana Governor Thomas L. Judge; taught political science at The Pennsylvania State University (main campus), was chair of political science at Montana State University, Deputy Commissioner for Academic Programs at the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Chancellor of the University System of South Texas (since merged with Texas A&M University), President of Southern Illinois University, and President of Indiana University of Pennsylvania from where he retired in 2003. He has served as chair of the Commission on Leadership for the American Council on Education, president of the National Association of (University) System Heads, and on many national and state boards and commissions in higher education. Pettit is author of “If You Live by the Sword: Politics in the Making and Unmaking of a University President.” More about Pettit is found at http://www.lawrencekpettit.com… Kent Kleinkopf of Missoula is co-founder of a firm with a national scope of business that specializes in litigation consultation, expert vocational testimony, and employee assistance programs. His partner (and wife of 45 years) Kathy, is an expert witness in the 27 year old business. Kent received a BA in History/Education from the University of Idaho and an MA in Economics from the University of Utah. The Kleinkopfs moved to Helena, MT in 1971 where he was Assistant to the Commissioner of State Lands (later Governor) Ted Schwinden. In early 1972 Kent volunteered full time in Lt. Governor Tom Judge’s campaign for Governor, driving the Lt. Governor extensively throughout Montana. After Judge was elected governor, Kent briefly joined the staff of Governor Forrest Anderson, then in 1973 transitioned to Judge’s Governor’s Office staff, where he became Montana’s first “Citizens’ Advocate.” In that capacity he fielded requests for assistance from citizens with concerns and information regarding State Agencies. While on the Governor’s staff, Kent continued as a travel aide with the governor both in Montana and nationally. In 1977 Kent was appointed Director of the MT Department of Business Regulation. That role included responsibility as Superintendent of Banking and Chairman of the State Banking Board, where Kent presided over the chartering of many banks, savings and loans, and credit unions. In 1981 the Kleinkopfs moved to Missoula and went into the business they run today. Kent was appointed by Governor Brian Schweitzer to the Board of the Montana Historical Society in 2006, was reappointed and continues to serve. Kathy and Kent have a daughter and son-in-law in Missoula.

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This article analyzes the interaction between theories of radicalization and state responses to militancy in India. Focusing on the interpretation of the increased frequency of terrorist attacks in Indian metropolises in the last decade, the article examines the narratives surrounding those classified as terrorists in the context of rising Muslim militancy in the country. Different state agencies operate with different theories about the links between processes of radicalization and terrorist violence. The scenarios of radicalization underlying legislative efforts to prevent terrorism, the construction of motives by the police, and the interpretation of violence by the judiciary all rely on assumptions about radicalization and violence. Such narratives are used to explain terrorism both to security agencies and to the public; they inform the categories and scenarios of prevention. Prevention relies on detection of future deeds, planning, intentions, and even potential intentions. "Detection" of potential intentions relies on assumptions about specific dispositions. Identification of such dispositions in turn relies on the context-specific theories of the causes of militancy. These determine what "characteristics" of individuals or groups indicate potential threats and form the basis for their categorization as "potentially dangerous." The article explores the cultural contexts of theories of radicalization, focusing on how they are framed by societal understandings of the causes of deviance and the relation between the individual and society emerging in contemporary India. It examines the shift in the perception of threat and the categories of "dangerous others" from a focus on role to a focus on ascriptive identity.

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En este trabajo nos ocuparemos de los debates, entre los ingenieros hidráulicos y entre los políticos, que dieron lugar a diferentes proyectos de solución entre 1890 y 1910, cuando se fueron consolidando las agencias estatales que tendrían intervención en el problema de las inundaciones. Nuestro objetivo es estudiar los recorridos intelectuales y burocráticos que permitieron delinear los proyectos de solución a los problemas hídricos, las investigaciones llevadas a cabo para su concreción y la relación entre la toma de decisiones y los cambios en la política y la economía bonaerense. De esta manera, realizaremos una descripción de las agencias estatales encargadas de la gestión de los recursos hídricos en la provincia de Buenos Aires y esbozaremos una caracterización de los funcionarios actuantes y su relación con el nivel político de la burocracia provincial

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En esta ponencia estudiamos la conformación del Departamento de Ingenieros, sus múltiples atribuciones y los cambios que se fueron sucediendo entre su creación en 1875 y su supresión en 1913, un período fundamental para la provincia porque se trata de la época de las últimas entregas de tierra pública (más de 4 millones de hectáreas) y de los infructuosos intentos por controlar las inundaciones en la zona productiva ya ocupada. Nos interesa determinar la relación entre la toma de decisiones, la gestión técnica y económica, los cambios en la política y la economía bonaerense. Estudiamos las relaciones entre las distintas especialidades de la ingeniería y la agrimensura que llevaron a la conformación del Departamento de Ingenieros con muchas más atribuciones, entre las que se encuentran las que tenía el Departamento Topográfico. La creciente especialización de los saberes, evidentemente, estaba impactando no solamente en la disciplina, sino que se expresaba en la especificidad de las agencias estatales, que se iban complejizando para poder abarcar el cúmulo de intereses del estado y de la sociedad civil en torno al territorio

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El artículo se centra en la reflexión analítica de los participantes de un programa de desarrollo emprendedor en la Región Rural Periurbana centrada en el municipio de La Plata. El programa partió de una acción de extensión de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Olmos Emprende), cuyo desarrollo derivó en la articulación con programas más abarcativos de orden nacional y provincial. El primer objetivo es describir las condiciones específicas en las que se desarrolla la empresarialidad en América Latina y contextualizar la experiencia presentada. Posteriormente se hace una consideración del contexto territorial local que habría facilitado la participación en el programa teniendo en cuenta dos ámbitos regionales: por un lado la Región Rural Periurbana en general y por el otro lado, una serie de dimensiones locales que, además de factores tecno-económicos y marcos regulatorios estatales, incluyera circunstancias sociales y culturales. La pregunta que atraviesa el texto, focaliza la ubicación de la empresarialidad en el territorio, enfocado en sus posibilidades de desarrollo local. Observamos entonces las situaciones de interfase entre diversos actores territoriales, entre grupos de ciudadanos, diversas agencias estatales y la participación asimismo diversa de los agentes privados

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En los últimos años, la producción académica en ciencias sociales en la Argentina ha desplegado nuevas perspectivas teóricas y metodológicas, destacando dimensiones sociales escasamente atendidas por los trabajos preexistentes que analizaron la historia del Estado. Particularmente, cobraron vigor aproximaciones preocupadas por comprender las historicidades específicas de los proyectos institucionales de las agencias estatales (en plural), evitando considerar al Estado (en singular) únicamente como una categoría sociológica con pretensiones de totalidad social homogénea. En este trabajo argumentamos que estos novedosos análisis constituyen una renovación que permiten configurar un mapa del Estado en el que se identifica una diversidad de instituciones, actores, lógicas y prácticas sociales. Se trata de un buen punto de partida para el estudio de la génesis y el desarrollo de los procesos de diferenciación y especialización de las agencias estatales y sus cuerpos de funcionarios. Se ilustra el análisis mediante la trayectoria institucional del Departamento Nacional del Trabajo entre los años 1907 y 1930

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Nos proponemos analizar el rol desempeñado por las agencias estatales en el proceso de modernización de la agricultura cañera en Tucumán. Centraremos nuestra atención en la labor desarrollada por el Departamento Nacional de Agricultura (posteriormente convertido en Ministerio) y en el accionar de las oficinas públicas provinciales en la creación de instituciones educativas y experimentales como base para el desarrollo agroindustrial. Como complemento, estudiaremos la interacción entre el Estado y el sector privado (tanto cañeros, industriales, como personal científico involucrado en la actividad) frente a las reformas propuestas para incorporar la agricultura 'científica' en el espacio rural tucumano.

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Hacia fines del siglo XIX, el Estado argentino logró consolidarse a través de diversas acciones. En Tierra del Fuego el Estado tuvo una presencia más tardía y laxa. La instalación de autoridades y agencias estatales fue una de las formas de avance de la Nación sobre la región, lo cual abrió nuevos espacios a ser ocupados principalmente por migrantes internos. Sin embargo, cabe preguntarse si fueron los únicos que lograron insertarse en este ámbito. A partir del trabajo de fuentes provenientes de instituciones estatales procuraremos indagar sobre las posibilidades que tuvieron algunos sujetos indígenas para insertarse en la sociedad blanca como trabajadores del sector público a inicios del XX

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En este artículo abordaremos cómo se relacionan las experiencias formativas vinculadas al trabajo rural, las identificaciones y los conflictos ambientales en San Ignacio, Misiones (Argentina). Nos interesa problematizar cómo los aprendizajes ligados a las tareas rurales se vinculan con las auto-adscripciones de los sujetos, teniendo como referencia las categorías de actores sociales agrarios regionales y las denominaciones que provienen de agendas estatales de intervención. Estos procesos acontecen en un contexto de creciente concentración de propiedades que se destinan a la explotación forestal, donde observamos, en algunos casos, cierta ambientalización de los históricos conflictos territoriales. Utilizando materiales provenientes de un trabajo de campo etnográfico que iniciamos en 2008, presentaremos a dos familias de pobladores rurales. En ambos casos es posible ver cómo el acceso a la tierra es decisivo para las experiencias formativas en las actividades de reproducción social, y que se liga con identificaciones como "gente de la colonia" y una incipiente referencia a la "agricultura familiar" a partir de las intervenciones del Estado. Estas dos familias permiten mostrar cómo las experiencias e identificaciones se expresan en el contexto de la participación de los sujetos en conflictos sociales, que asumen en un caso la forma histórica de reclamos fundiarios mientras que, en el otro, es posible ver que el ambiente tiene protagonismo incipiente.

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En la Argentina, el año 2002 marca el inicio de una serie de transformaciones productivas con fuerte impacto sobre las dinámicas territoriales, a partir de la llegada de inversiones extranjeras directas. Una importante porción de dichas inversiones se orienta a desarrollar actividades de baja jerarquización, en donde la competitividad se obtiene vía la reducción de los costos laborales y el otorgamiento de ventajas impositivas y subsidios hacia las empresas. La significativa expansión de la actividad de los call centers tercerizadores -que, en los últimos años, se localizan masiva y vertiginosamente en las principales ciudades del interior de nuestro país- es la evidencia empírica de este fenómeno. Analizar sus características, junto con una detallada descripción de las interacciones de los organismos estatales y los sectores políticos, sociales y económicos involucrados en la instalación de los call centers, no solo permite observar las transformaciones territoriales -en tanto se insertan nuevas actividades productivas y de empleo- sino que visibiliza mecanismos de cooperación y/o conflicto mediante los cuales los actores nacionales y foráneos posibilitan y modelan la inserción de lo global en lo local, materializando así novedosas lógicas de organización territorial, que representamos bajo el concepto "nuevas territorialidades". A lo largo de todo el trabajo, intentamos que nuestra mirada de estos procesos pueda dar cuenta de las (a)simetrías de poder entre los agentes económicos y actores estatales y extraestatales, en el marco de espacios locales periféricos en una época de globalización

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En este artículo abordaremos cómo se relacionan las experiencias formativas vinculadas al trabajo rural, las identificaciones y los conflictos ambientales en San Ignacio, Misiones (Argentina). Nos interesa problematizar cómo los aprendizajes ligados a las tareas rurales se vinculan con las auto-adscripciones de los sujetos, teniendo como referencia las categorías de actores sociales agrarios regionales y las denominaciones que provienen de agendas estatales de intervención. Estos procesos acontecen en un contexto de creciente concentración de propiedades que se destinan a la explotación forestal, donde observamos, en algunos casos, cierta ambientalización de los históricos conflictos territoriales. Utilizando materiales provenientes de un trabajo de campo etnográfico que iniciamos en 2008, presentaremos a dos familias de pobladores rurales. En ambos casos es posible ver cómo el acceso a la tierra es decisivo para las experiencias formativas en las actividades de reproducción social, y que se liga con identificaciones como "gente de la colonia" y una incipiente referencia a la "agricultura familiar" a partir de las intervenciones del Estado. Estas dos familias permiten mostrar cómo las experiencias e identificaciones se expresan en el contexto de la participación de los sujetos en conflictos sociales, que asumen en un caso la forma histórica de reclamos fundiarios mientras que, en el otro, es posible ver que el ambiente tiene protagonismo incipiente.

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El artículo se centra en la reflexión analítica de los participantes de un programa de desarrollo emprendedor en la Región Rural Periurbana centrada en el municipio de La Plata. El programa partió de una acción de extensión de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Olmos Emprende), cuyo desarrollo derivó en la articulación con programas más abarcativos de orden nacional y provincial. El primer objetivo es describir las condiciones específicas en las que se desarrolla la empresarialidad en América Latina y contextualizar la experiencia presentada. Posteriormente se hace una consideración del contexto territorial local que habría facilitado la participación en el programa teniendo en cuenta dos ámbitos regionales: por un lado la Región Rural Periurbana en general y por el otro lado, una serie de dimensiones locales que, además de factores tecno-económicos y marcos regulatorios estatales, incluyera circunstancias sociales y culturales. La pregunta que atraviesa el texto, focaliza la ubicación de la empresarialidad en el territorio, enfocado en sus posibilidades de desarrollo local. Observamos entonces las situaciones de interfase entre diversos actores territoriales, entre grupos de ciudadanos, diversas agencias estatales y la participación asimismo diversa de los agentes privados