Mainstreaming Gender Into Project Cycle Management in the Fisheries Sector

This manual has been prepared to facilitate gender analysis and project planning in fisheries development projects. It is intended to be a toolkit to help project managers and implementing counterparts (such as extensionists, government and non-government field workers, and private- and public-sector development consultants, community organizers and leaders of local groups), to facilitate the integration of gender issues into the project cycle

Design of a 5G Multimedia Broadcast Application Function Supporting Adaptive Error Recovery

The demand for mobile multimedia streaming services has been steadily growing in recent years. Mobile multimedia broadcasting addresses the shortage of radio resources but introduces a network error recovery problem. Retransmitting multimedia segments that are not correctly broadcast can cause service disruptions and increased service latency, affecting the quality of experience perceived by end users. With the advent of networking paradigms based on virtualization technologies, mobile networks have been enabled with more flexibility and agility to deploy innovative services that improve the utilization of available network resources. This paper discusses how mobile multimedia broadcast services can be designed to prevent service degradation by using the computing capabilities provided by multiaccess edge computing (MEC) platforms in the context of a 5G network architecture. An experimental platform has been developed to evaluate the feasibility of a MEC application to provide adaptive error recovery for multimedia broadcast services. The results of the experiments carried out show that the proposal provides a flexible mechanism that can be deployed at the network edge to lower the impact of transmission errors on latency and service disruptions.Comment: 14 pages, 10 figure

Tobacco's smoke in the workplaces, webpages in the ISPESL's website

The authors present the section, part of the ISPESL's website, dedicated to tobacco smoke at work. In this subdivision many topics regarding problems caused by tobacco smoke in the workplaces are gathered and discussed so that different personnel responsible for health and prevention at work can find a technical answer to take part to the improvement of the psychophysical welfare of both smokers and non smokers.The general information section has collected the relative Italian and international laws regarding smoking in the workplace along with representative court cases, and some publications and essays which have been presented on this topic. Inside the section dedicated to the employers and companies, the authors have posted useful importation on smoking in the workplace which includes some tools that can turn to be interesting to those who are supposed to be involved with prevention, the updated addresses of the national public antismoking centers, experiences and activities against tobacco smoke of national and international companies, events regarding smoke at work, informative sheets and leaflets for smokers, link to other site that argue about this topic. Moreover, there is a section dedicated to a forum where Internet user can share their experiences and thoughts on workplaces free from tobacco smoke

Tobacco's smoke in the workplaces, webpages in the ISPESL's website

The authors present the section, part of the ISPESL's website, dedicated to tobacco smoke at work. In this subdivision many topics regarding problems caused by tobacco smoke in the workplaces are gathered and discussed so that different personnel responsible for health and prevention at work can find a technical answer to take part to the improvement of the psychophysical welfare of both smokers and non smokers.The general information section has collected the relative Italian and international laws regarding smoking in the workplace along with representative court cases, and some publications and essays which have been presented on this topic. Inside the section dedicated to the employers and companies, the authors have posted useful importation on smoking in the workplace which includes some tools that can turn to be interesting to those who are supposed to be involved with prevention, the updated addresses of the national public antismoking centers, experiences and activities against tobacco smoke of national and international companies, events regarding smoke at work, informative sheets and leaflets for smokers, link to other site that argue about this topic. Moreover, there is a section dedicated to a forum where Internet user can share their experiences and thoughts on workplaces free from tobacco smoke

Corporate social responsibility and safety and health at work

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) was defined by the European Commission as a concept whereby companies integrate social and environmental concerns in their business operations and in their interaction with their stakeholders on a voluntary basis. To be socially responsible means going beyond fulfilling the legal expectations, by also investing ‘more’ into human capital, the environment and the relations with stakeholders. A distinction is often made between three aspects of the social dimension of corporate social responsibility: 1. Internal aspects: human resource management, health and safety at work (OSH), business ethics, adaptation to change, and organisational learning ; 2. External local: local corporate citizenship; 3. External worldwide: human rights, global environmental concerns, safety and health in supply companies, corporate citizenship worldwide. This report explores the interactions between CSR and safety and health at work both at company and policy level. Eleven company cases from six EU countries (Germany, UK, The Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Finland) are presented as inspiring examples

Elastic networks thematic network results II: edge computing and wireless support

This paper overviews the approach of the Elastic Networks research network to address the challenges posed by the convergence of networking and computing in the edge for a number of scenarios. Each section of the paper covers one topic addressed by the network. Firstly, we address reliability in Fog-to-Cloud computing (F2C). Then, an architecture for a residential SDN gateway featuring NFV is presented. In addition, switching based on SDN for data centres is studied for which a high-speed flexible packet matching in hardware is proposed. Resiliency in SDN controller location is also addressed. Finally, a technique for delay analysis in a single node C-RAN scenario is described

Elastic networks thematic network results II: edge computing and wireless support

This paper overviews the approach of the Elastic Networks research network to address the challenges posed by the convergence of networking and computing in the edge for a number of scenarios. Each section of the paper covers one topic addressed by the network. Firstly, we address reliability in Fog-to-Cloud computing (F2C). Then, an architecture for a residential SDN gateway featuring NFV is presented. In addition, switching based on SDN for data centres is studied for which a high-speed flexible packet matching in hardware is proposed. Resiliency in SDN controller location is also addressed. Finally, a technique for delay analysis in a single node C-RAN scenario is described.Postprint (author's final draft