The ABA Model Statutory Close Corporation Act: A New Opportunity for Made In Montana Corporations

The ABA Model Statutory Close Corporation Act: A New Opportunity for Made In Montana Corporation

Sports Reforms and Coaches’ Spoiled Identities:An Analysis of Structural Stigma

This article explores how sports coaches’ identity and social relations are shaped within the context of new policy initiatives in sport. It focuses particularly on South Korea’s ongoing sports reforms wherein sports coaches feel stigmatized and disgraced. Informed by classic and contemporary sociological understandings of stigma and relying both on documents and narratives from 29 individuals, our qualitative analysis reveals that Korean coaches’ stigma is discrediting, prior-known, and power-laden. By viewing stigmatization as a social process constructed both “symbolically” and “structurally,” this article extends Goffman’s analysis to argue that coaches’ stigmatization is rooted in the social, institutional, and political power around sports reforms that forge stigmatizing attitudes and beliefs across society by offering ready-made scripts for both the stigmatized and the “normals.

The ABA Model Statutory Close Corporation Act: A New Opportunity for Made In Montana Corporations

The ABA Model Statutory Close Corporation Act: A New Opportunity for Made In Montana Corporation

Prenatal vitamin intake during pregnancy and offspring obesity

Background/Objectives: In animal studies, exposure to multi-vitamins may be associated with obesity in the offspring; however, data in humans is sparse. We therefore examined the association between prenatal vitamin intake during pregnancy and offspring obesity. Subjects/Methods: We investigated the association between prenatal vitamin intake and obesity among 29 160 mother-daughter dyads in the Nurses’ Health Study II. Mothers of participants provided information on prenatal vitamin use during pregnancy with the nurse daughter. Information on body fatness at ages 5 and 10, body mass index (BMI) at age 18, weight in 1989 and 2009, waist circumference, and height was obtained from the daughter. Polytomous logistic regression was used to predict BMI in early adulthood and adulthood, and body fatness in childhood. Linear regression was used to predict waist circumference in adulthood. Results: In utero exposure to prenatal vitamins was not associated with body fatness, either in childhood or adulthood. Women whose mothers took prenatal vitamins during pregnancy had a covariate-adjusted odds ratio of being obese in adulthood of 0.99 (95% CI 0.92–1.05, P-value=0.68) compared to women whose mothers did not take prenatal vitamins. Women whose mothers took prenatal vitamins during pregnancy had a covariate-adjusted odds ratio of having the largest body shape at age 5 of 1.02 (95% CI 0.90–1.15, P-value=0.78). In additional analyses, in utero exposure to prenatal vitamins was also unrelated to adult abdominal adiposity. Conclusions: Exposure to prenatal vitamins was not associated with body fatness either in childhood or in adulthood

Plataforma Carpe dIEN: uma proposta política para o repositório institucional

Apresenta um trabalho em desenvolvimento, fruto da atividade de Iniciação Científica no Instituto de Engenharia Nuclear da Comissão Nacional de Energia Nuclear, localizado no Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, que tem por objetivo identificar os pontos importantes que devem conter em uma Proposta Política para o Repositório Institucional Carpe dIEN. Aponta a dificuldade das Instituições brasileiras na adoção de estratégias de acesso aberto por intermédio de Políticas de Repositórios. Utiliza um referencial teórico sobre Repositórios Digitais (Sayão, Tomaél, Weitzel entre outros). Descreve os procedimentos metodológicos como uma pesquisa exploratória no levantamento de repositórios institucionais ou temáticos de referência para comparar itens genéricos das políticas com a prática na plataforma Para tal, tem como critério o R3 Data.org, uma fonte de reconhecimento global, apoiada nos Princípios FAIR. Indica como resultado parcial que os repositórios brasileiros recuperados possuem minimamente atribuições de confiabilidade, dentre elas Políticas e Licença de uso. Denota dificuldades esperadas como a recuperação de políticas específicas para repositórios institucionais, a seleção de políticas de área comum ao Repositório Carpe dIEN, outrossim possíveis problemas terminológicos na descrição de itens. Verifica a necessidade de uma política de implantação de repositórios que aborde temas em torno da importância de se planejar os repositórios com base nos estudos sobre a cultura institucional. Conclui que a reunião de indicadores de qualidade para a aplicação do Repositório Carpe dIEN está no estabelecimento de uma política de implementação que apresente diretrizes aprofundadas para uma cuidadosa gestão de dados e informações técnico-científicas.Ibero-American Science and Technology Education Consortiu

Plataforma Carpe dIEN: uma proposta política para o repositório institucional

Apresenta um trabalho em desenvolvimento, fruto da atividade de Iniciação Científica no Instituto de Engenharia Nuclear da Comissão Nacional de Energia Nuclear, localizado no Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, que tem por objetivo identificar os pontos importantes que devem conter em uma Proposta Política para o Repositório Institucional Carpe dIEN. Aponta a dificuldade das Instituições brasileiras na adoção de estratégias de acesso aberto por intermédio de Políticas de Repositórios. Utiliza um referencial teórico sobre Repositórios Digitais (Sayão, Tomaél, Weitzel entre outros). Descreve os procedimentos metodológicos como uma pesquisa exploratória no levantamento de repositórios institucionais ou temáticos de referência para comparar itens genéricos das políticas com a prática na plataforma Para tal, tem como critério o R3 Data.org, uma fonte de reconhecimento global, apoiada nos Princípios FAIR. Indica como resultado parcial que os repositórios brasileiros recuperados possuem minimamente atribuições de confiabilidade, dentre elas Políticas e Licença de uso. Denota dificuldades esperadas como a recuperação de políticas específicas para repositórios institucionais, a seleção de políticas de área comum ao Repositório Carpe dIEN, outrossim possíveis problemas terminológicos na descrição de itens. Verifica a necessidade de uma política de implantação de repositórios que aborde temas em torno da importância de se planejar os repositórios com base nos estudos sobre a cultura institucional. Conclui que a reunião de indicadores de qualidade para a aplicação do Repositório Carpe dIEN está no estabelecimento de uma política de implementação que apresente diretrizes aprofundadas para uma cuidadosa gestão de dados e informações técnico-científicas.Ibero-American Science and Technology Education Consortiu

The changing nature of life cycle assessment

AbstractLCA has evolved from its origins in energy analysis in the 1960s and 70s into a wide ranging tool used to determine impacts of products or systems over several environmental and resource issues. The approach has become more prevalent in research, industry and policy. Its use continues to expand as it seeks to encompass impacts as diverse as resource accounting and social well being. Carbon policy for bioenergy has driven many of these changes.Enabling assessment of complex issues over a life cycle basis is beneficial, but the process is sometimes difficult. LCA's use in framing is increasingly complex and more uncertain, and in some cases, irreconcilable. The charged environment surrounding biofuels and bioenergy exacerbates all of these. Reaching its full potential to help guide difficult policy discussions and emerging research involves successfully managing LCA's transition from attributional to consequential and from retrospective to prospective.This paper examines LCA's on-going evolution and its use within bioenergy deployment. The management of methodological growth in the context of the unique challenges associated with bioenergy and biofuels is explored. Changes seen in bioenergy LCA will bleed into other LCA arenas, especially where it is important that a sustainable solution is chosen

Potential of Demand Side Management to Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions Associated with the Operation of Heat Pumps

This work considers the potential reduction in the carbon dioxide emissions associated with the operation of Air Source Heat Pump which could be achieved by using demand side management. In order to achieve significant reductions in carbon dioxide emissions, it is widely envisioned that electrification of the heating sector will need to be combined with decarbonisation of the electrical supply. By influencing the times at when electric heat pumps operate such that they coincide more with electricity generation which has a low marginal carbon emissions factor, it has been suggested that these emissions could be reduced further. In order to investigate this possibility, models of the UK electrical grid based on scenarios for 2020 to 2050 have been combined with a dynamic model of an air source heat pump unit and thermal models of a population of dwellings. The performance and carbon dioxide emissions associated with the heat pumps are compared both with and without demand side management interventions intended to give preference to operation when the marginal emissions factor of the electricity being generated is low. It is found that these interventions are unlikely to be effective at achieving further reductions in emissions. A reduction of around 3% was observed in scenarios based around 2035 but in other scenarios the reduction was insignificant. In the scenarios with high wind generation (2050), the DSM scheme considered here tends to improve thermal comfort (with minimal increases in emissions) rather than achieving a decrease in emissions. The reasons for this are discussed and further recommendations are made