Small-State crisis management: the lcelandic way

Journal ArticleThe editors would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to a number of people and institutions, which have made this volume on Icelandic crisis management possible. We would like to first of all thank all of the case writers for their pioneering research and for their Icelandic stubbornness and acceptance that everything in life has its own pace as the editing phase of this book took longer than any of us had anticipated. Their patience and hard work is really what has made this book as good as it is. We would also like to thank the Icelandic government officials who opened doors for our case Author's and shared their experiences and expertise. In connection to this, we would like to express our particular gratitude to Gunnar Snorri Gunnarsson, the Permanent Secretary of State, who wrote the foreword to the book, and to Solveig Thorvaldsdottir, who during her time as the director of AVRIK (the National Civil Defense organization) served as a valuable asset and source of support for us

Searching for new physics through gravitational waves

I would first like to express my sincere appreciation and gratitude to my dissertation advisor, Professor Kuver Sinha, whose advice and expertise has led me on a successful path to completing my studies. Thank you for being an amazing mentor and having faith in me while I learned to become a better researcher. I would not be where I am today without your guidance. I would like thank my two collaborators and friends, Huaike Guo and Graham White, who I worked closely with on many projects. I am thankful for having the opportunity to work side by side with you and learning everything I could from you. I appreciate your trust and support during our endeavors. I would also like to thank Professor Howard Baer, Professor John Stupak, Professor Bruno Uchoa, and Professor Christian Remling for being great committee members and providing helpful feedback. I would also like to thank my collaborators Chen Sun, Joshua Swaim, Alexandre Alves, Tathagata Ghosh, Lauren Pearce, and Alex Kusenko for being apart of my journey and providing me with the opportunity to learn from each one of you

Cutting the Ribbon? The Current Health of UK based HIV/AIDS Organisations and the Effects of Austerity (2016)

With austerity seemingly becoming more intense, changes to the voluntary/third sector increasingly pressured, and an uncertain and changing future for HIV organisations, it is time to stop, take a snapshot of the sector and to use it to reflect upon the future. This research is designed to inform HIV/AIDS organisations, community groups and charities to look at the sector around them and to encourage further partnership working to ensure that, whilst advances in HIV continue to happen, the support for those living with the virus is still there. Austerity has crippled the HIV third/voluntary sector and this looks likely to get worse as local authorities continue to withdraw or dramatically reduce funding. This research document can be used to support your funding bids, advocacy points, press releases, policy decisions and organisational plans. I hope that it makes a positive contribution to your work and helps your organisation, whether it is a national charity or small community group, to reflect and consider the changing nature of the sector and the campaigns in which you are involved. A clear issue raised by organisations who have taken part in this research is that working in silos will not safeguard the future of the sector and we should be aiming to support one another in a time of austerity, funding cuts and changes. I would like to take the time to thank the assistance of VONNE (Voluntary Organisations Network North East) who kindly gave me permission to use their model of survey questions from their ‘Surviving or Thriving’ report and to structure my own survey around this. I would also like to thank all of the respondents from HIV/AIDS organisations across the United Kingdom who completed this survey and who contributed case studies and recommendations for this research project. Your time and effort was appreciated and vital for this project to take place

Ernst Denert Award for Software Engineering 2020

This open access book provides an overview of the dissertations of the eleven nominees for the Ernst Denert Award for Software Engineering in 2020. The prize, kindly sponsored by the Gerlind & Ernst Denert Stiftung, is awarded for excellent work within the discipline of Software Engineering, which includes methods, tools and procedures for better and efficient development of high quality software. An essential requirement for the nominated work is its applicability and usability in industrial practice. The book contains eleven papers that describe the works by Jonathan Brachthäuser (EPFL Lausanne) entitled What You See Is What You Get: Practical Effect Handlers in Capability-Passing Style, Mojdeh Golagha’s (Fortiss, Munich) thesis How to Effectively Reduce Failure Analysis Time?, Nikolay Harutyunyan’s (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) work on Open Source Software Governance, Dominic Henze’s (TU Munich) research about Dynamically Scalable Fog Architectures, Anne Hess’s (Fraunhofer IESE, Kaiserslautern) work on Crossing Disciplinary Borders to Improve Requirements Communication, Istvan Koren’s (RWTH Aachen U) thesis DevOpsUse: A Community-Oriented Methodology for Societal Software Engineering, Yannic Noller’s (NU Singapore) work on Hybrid Differential Software Testing, Dominic Steinhofel’s (TU Darmstadt) thesis entitled Ever Change a Running System: Structured Software Reengineering Using Automatically Proven-Correct Transformation Rules, Peter Wägemann’s (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) work Static Worst-Case Analyses and Their Validation Techniques for Safety-Critical Systems, Michael von Wenckstern’s (RWTH Aachen U) research on Improving the Model-Based Systems Engineering Process, and Franz Zieris’s (FU Berlin) thesis on Understanding How Pair Programming Actually Works in Industry: Mechanisms, Patterns, and Dynamics – which actually won the award. The chapters describe key findings of the respective works, show their relevance and applicability to practice and industrial software engineering projects, and provide additional information and findings that have only been discovered afterwards, e.g. when applying the results in industry. This way, the book is not only interesting to other researchers, but also to industrial software professionals who would like to learn about the application of state-of-the-art methods in their daily work

Ernst Denert Award for Software Engineering 2020

This open access book provides an overview of the dissertations of the eleven nominees for the Ernst Denert Award for Software Engineering in 2020. The prize, kindly sponsored by the Gerlind & Ernst Denert Stiftung, is awarded for excellent work within the discipline of Software Engineering, which includes methods, tools and procedures for better and efficient development of high quality software. An essential requirement for the nominated work is its applicability and usability in industrial practice. The book contains eleven papers that describe the works by Jonathan Brachthäuser (EPFL Lausanne) entitled What You See Is What You Get: Practical Effect Handlers in Capability-Passing Style, Mojdeh Golagha’s (Fortiss, Munich) thesis How to Effectively Reduce Failure Analysis Time?, Nikolay Harutyunyan’s (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) work on Open Source Software Governance, Dominic Henze’s (TU Munich) research about Dynamically Scalable Fog Architectures, Anne Hess’s (Fraunhofer IESE, Kaiserslautern) work on Crossing Disciplinary Borders to Improve Requirements Communication, Istvan Koren’s (RWTH Aachen U) thesis DevOpsUse: A Community-Oriented Methodology for Societal Software Engineering, Yannic Noller’s (NU Singapore) work on Hybrid Differential Software Testing, Dominic Steinhofel’s (TU Darmstadt) thesis entitled Ever Change a Running System: Structured Software Reengineering Using Automatically Proven-Correct Transformation Rules, Peter Wägemann’s (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) work Static Worst-Case Analyses and Their Validation Techniques for Safety-Critical Systems, Michael von Wenckstern’s (RWTH Aachen U) research on Improving the Model-Based Systems Engineering Process, and Franz Zieris’s (FU Berlin) thesis on Understanding How Pair Programming Actually Works in Industry: Mechanisms, Patterns, and Dynamics – which actually won the award. The chapters describe key findings of the respective works, show their relevance and applicability to practice and industrial software engineering projects, and provide additional information and findings that have only been discovered afterwards, e.g. when applying the results in industry. This way, the book is not only interesting to other researchers, but also to industrial software professionals who would like to learn about the application of state-of-the-art methods in their daily work

August 2012

When Your Website Powers Your Business Why would you invest your hard-earned dollars to hire anyone less than a pro when designing your online business? After spending months developing your product, do yourself a favor and hire the right web developer—it will be well worth the investment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Need Work? Tech Companies Are Hiring Companies are hiring and will be hiring those students who have the educational capability of business with a STEM background (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). We do not have to go overseas to find this talent says Matthew Brosious, co-founder of FreightCenter.com. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Are You Leading From a Place of Fear? All actions in business decisions have consequences—so does a lack of action. Author of “Leadership Isn’t for Cowards,” Mike Staver advises: Don’t let fear cloud your decision-making. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Ask, Don’t Tell: Nine Ways Power Questions Help Us Build Better Business Relationships The days of getting in, making money, and moving on to the next guy are over. When times are tough and the future is uncertain, people want to put down roots and partner with people they truly like and trust. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Money Lessons From the Facebook Founder Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg made news recently when he refinanced the $5.95 million mortgage on his Palo Alto home with a 30-year adjustable-rate loan starting at 1.05 percent. Learn why he did not pay it off with cash. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Website and Business. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Job Skills for the Future. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 The Lists: Inland Empire’s Largest Employers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Top Tenant Improvement Contractors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Largest Credit Unions in the Inland Empire. . . . . . . . . . . 17 Messenger/Courier Services Serving the Inland Empire. . 29 Investments and Finance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Leadership in Business. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Business Communication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Real Estate Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Computer Column. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Restaurant Review. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Manager’s Bookshelf. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 New Business Lists: County of San Bernardino. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 County of Riverside. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Inland Empire People and Events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Executive Time Out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Teacher Leader Administrators: Part 3 Of A Symposium On Teachers As Leaders

In this latest continuation of our multipart symposium on teacher leadership, we examine what happens when self-defined teacher leaders become school administrators. Do teacher leaders who become administrators maintain a teacher identity? Can they remain committed to their vision of teacher leadership when they take on the normative requirements and responsibilities of school administration? Through a conversation with three teachers leaders, we explore the rewards and trials of teaching, the choice to become teacher leaders and then administrators, and the unique challenges that face administrators who deeply value the professional, political, and collaborative work of teachers

Female Juvenile Justice Report, June 1997

Female Juvenile Justice Report from the Iowa Commission on the Status of Wome