Impact and Concerns Related to Electronic Records Management and Storage

Electronic document or records management systems have been around for several decades. New technologies have evolved in recent years that provide new and expanded opportunities for organizations to use this electronically stored information in new ways. These storage technologies have also increased the number of real and potential problems, both short and long term, for technology managers. The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief outline of some research in process being done by the authors in the area of electronic document management and to invoke suggestions from other researchers

Prevalência da dependência ao tabaco na população urbana e ribeirinha em Coari(AM), 2010.

Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Curso de Medicina. Departamento de Saúde Pública

The Fair Housing Act After Inclusive Communities: Why One-Time Land-Use Decisions Can Still Establish a Disparate Impact

The Fair Housing Act (FHA) is a civil rights statute that prohibits housing discrimination against several protected classes. One theory of liability under the FHA is disparate impact, in which a plaintiff alleges that the defendant’s policy or practice, although facially neutral, nevertheless has discriminatory effects because it disproportionately negatively affects a protected class. In its 2015 opinion, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project, Inc., the Supreme Court affirmed that the FHA includes disparate impact liability but also potentially limited its applicability—the Court distinguished between a defendant’s policy and a one-time decision by a defendant, hinting that the latter might not be able to substantiate a disparate impact claim. This Comment argues that such a distinction is unfounded. One-time land-use decisions should not be categorically excluded from disparate impact liability under the FHA for three reasons. First, one-time employment decisions may serve as the basis for disparate impact liability under two analogous civil rights statutes— Title VII and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act—indicating that the same is true for one-time land-use decisions under the FHA. Second, the distinction between a policy and a one-time decision is untenable and provides little guidance for courts. Third, seminal appellate court cases which first established disparate impact liability under the FHA involved one-time land-use decisions, indicating that such decisions constitute the heartland of disparate impact theory. The Comment concludes by providing further clarity about which particular one-time land-use decisions should enable litigants to establish successful disparate impact claims. It argues that claims based on zoning decisions and closures of residential buildings should be per se permitted, but that other claims may be less successful or altogether excluded. Ultimately, absent the inclusion of one-time land-use decisions as a basis for disparate impact liability, the FHA will lose much of its power as a tool to combat residential discrimination, segregation, and inequality in the land-use context

From teacher to learner: Using digital technology to enhance authenticity and engagement in poster presentations in the classroom and online

Over the past few decades, we have witnessed a rapid shift from traditional classrooms to digital learning environments. This shift has allowed for the creation of a more dynamic and interactive educational landscape. Students are now afforded learning opportunities that most of us could have only dreamed of with information and digital solutions at their fingertips. However, along with this increase in educational learning opportunities comes a distinct need for educators to continuously adapt and evolve their teaching and educational content to meet the needs of their digitally savvy student cohort. This can be a challenge as academics are often hesitant to engage with and learn new technologies and frequently lack the time to invest in developing digitally relevant material and assessments to meet the needs of the changing student cohort. In 2022, Federation University joined collaborative forces with Adobe and launched a program for academic teaching staff titled ‘Adobe Innovation Champions Pilot program’. The aim of this program was to engage staff in innovative digital technologies to improve pedagogical outcomes in their classrooms. The program facilitated staff to bring to the table novel ideas and to learn how to use the Adobe suite of products to develop innovative solutions to teaching deficits in their classrooms. This presentation provides an insight into the author’s engagement and experience with this program and the development of an interactive online poster presentation format from idea to delivery. It outlines how quickly digital technology can transform educational delivery and how these can be adapted and changed to meet educator and student needs. The result was an interactive online poster gallery created through Adobe XD, a software platform focused on website building.  However, with some academic creativity and lateral thinking, the Adobe XD platform was engaged with in a manner different to its intended purpose.  This saw students interact with scientific conference posters comprehensively before a presentation session, whilst also enabling the platform to be used as the poster presentation itself, resulting in seamless content delivery

'A new discovery of an old intrigue' : a re-evaluation of daniel defoe's library catalogue, with a case study of its iberian content

This thesis presents a comprehensive re-examination of Daniel Defoe's library catalogue, a problematic resource which has been consistently neglected and maligned throughout the history of Defoe studies. Surveying both the catalogue's broad critical history and its treatment in specialist scholarship, it locates two major problems in the current body of knowledge. Firstly, Defoe scholarship's concentration on dividing the inventory between Defoe and Phillips Farewell (whose libraries were combined in the sale) ignores the full extent of its attribution problems, since many of the listed items were added to the sale by bookseller Olive Payne. Secondly, the field lacks a complete biographical and business profile of Payne, which is necessary for both the location of salted items and for tracing his connections to the Defoes. Solutions to both problems are offered here, as Payne's contribution to the Defoe/Farewell inventory is revealed through his previous sales and his habitual business practices, which are detailed in the first full-length biographical study of this obscure bookseller. New guidelines and recommendations for catalogue usage are formulated on the basis of these findings. The thesis highlights the catalogue's potential in the exploration of neglected sources and contexts for Defoe's work. Credible usage is demonstrated through a two-part study of Defoe's diverse Spanish contexts and their relation to the fictional modes represented in the catalogue. Close reading of his use of picaresque fiction, Italianate amatory novellas and moral allegory reveals both the direct influence of specific sources and a complex manifestation of genre conventions that supports further investigation of the nexus of Spanish literary texts behind Defoe's writing

Making the Case: Foundation Leaders on the Importance of Multiyear General Operating Support

This companion piece to New Attitudes, Old Practices: The Provision of Multiyear General Operating Support features profiles of five of the 43 foundations that participated in interviews with CEP for that research: the California Wellness Foundation, the Claneil Foundation, Foundation for a Just Society, the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation, and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.These five foundations — which represent a range of geographies, size, and foundation type — all provide more multiyear general operating support (GOS) than typical, have significantly increased the proportion of grantees receiving multiyear GOS over time, or both, as identified using data from the more than 300 foundations that have used CEP's Grantee Perception Report (GPR).In these five profiles, foundation leaders share, in their own words, why they provide multiyear GOS, how considerations of equity fit into their decision-making about which grantees receive this support, any advice they would share with their peer foundations, and more. CEP's goal is for these profiles to provide examples for foundations that are thinking about starting to provide or increasing their provision of multiyear GOS

Environmentally persistent free radicals (EPFRs) in PM₂.₅ : their contribution to hydroxyl radical formation and atmospheric transformation

Previous research demonstrated environmentally persistent free radicals (EPFRs) will form on particulate surfaces under combustion conditions (temperature range of 150-400 °C) from reactions of organic precursors with redox-active transition metals. With an understanding of how these EPFRs form, it is necessary to determine how they behave in a natural environment after emission. To better understand this, the nature of EPFRs in ambient PM2.5 under simulated atmospheric conditions was investigated. Ambient PM2.5 samples were collected at a roadside ambient monitoring site near heavy interstate traffic and major industrial activity. The EPFR concentration and general radical structure were determined with EPR spectroscopy. Studies of EPFR decay in ambient air demonstrated four decay patterns to emerge from analysis: a fast followed by a slow decay (47% of samples), a slow decay (24% of samples), no decay (18% of samples), and a fast decay followed by no decay (11% of samples) with half-lives for the decays lasting from several days to several months. All decays were suggested to result from reaction with oxygen and strengthened from an overall shift in the EPR g-factor. This shift implied an increased presence of oxygen centered radicals. The negative health impacts of PM2.5 were studied by the generation of hydroxyl radicals. These studies revealed dissolved oxygen coupled with the presence of PM2.5 necessary to generate significant levels of hydroxyl radicals without the addition of H2O2. Exposure of PM2.5 to ozone and NO revealed no effect on the organic radical (EPFR) signal, while NO2 exhibited a 5-8 time increase. When these exposed EPFRs were evaluated by hydroxyl radical generation, the NO and ozone exposed samples maintained the same levels as the unexposed sample, while NO2 exposed samples displayed a decreased ability due to the formation of acid. When PM2.5 was exposed to simulated solar exposure, the EPFR concentration was observed to increase substantially in all samples. Decay from irradiation followed a 2 decay pattern with the shorter, solar decay demonstrating a half-life of 8 hours and the longer decay 9 days. Irradiation also increased the amount of hydroxyl radicals generated from PM2.5

Funder Support During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Based on a nationally representative survey of nonprofit leaders in May 2020, Funder Support During the COVID-19 Pandemic sheds light on which organizations face the toughest challenges, what is most needed from funders, and what differences in experience are emerging based on characteristics such as organization type and gender of nonprofit leaders.The data in this report also reveals what nonprofits have found to be most helpful from institutional foundations and individual donors, respectively, as well as what they need most from both groups in the current moment.Findings are based on survey responses from 172 participants in CEP's Grantee Voice Panel, a national sample of CEOs from nonprofit, grant-seeking organizations that receive at least one grant from foundations giving $5 million or more annually

Development of surface coatings for high-strength low alloy steel filler wires and their effect on the weld metal microstructure and properties

The lightweight construction of steel structures is often limited by the mechanical properties of the weld metal. The strength values of modern base materials are not achieved in the weld metal. There is a considerable need to develop welding consumables that allow the processing of modern fine-grained structural steels without limiting their potential. The Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) coating of welding wire electrodes can increase the strength of the weld metal of a Mn4Ni2CrMo welding wire electrode by up to 30%. By using different coating elements, the Hall–Petch relationship can be exploited and such an increase in strength can be achieved. Especially by applying titanium, vanadium, and yttrium coatings, the strength of the weld metal can be increased. Due to a multilayer structure of the coating, the weld metal and the process can be influenced independently of each other. The effects of mono-element coatings and multi-component coatings on the weld metal and the process are discussed. PVD coatings allow welding wire electrodes to be individually adapted to the requirements

Evaluation of the pH of solid residues generated in the cellulose industry adequate to the sludge hygienization for use in agriculture

This paper looks into the possibility of using solid residues generated in the cellulose production process to hygienize sewage sludge for fertilization. During the cellulose fabrication process, dregs, grits and vegetable biomass ashes are generated. Seven experiments were conducted in the Hydraulic Research Institute´s laboratory at UFRGS, in order to determine the pH values of the three residues in analysis-ashes, dregs, grits and the combinations of sludge/ash, sludge/grits and sludge/dregs- at the beginning (IT) and at the end (after two hours-FT). The preparation of the dregs, grits and ash solutions consisted of the weighing of 20 g of each residue and its dissolution in 80 ml of water, thus obtaining the solutions of grits, dregs and ashes. The pH values of the samples were analyzed using bench pH-meter. The ashes, grits, the mixture sludge/ash and sludge/grits displayed an accentuated basic character due to their pH values which were ≥12. The dregs and the mixture sludge/dregs presented a less accentuated basic character than the ashes and the grits, with a pH equal to 9. The results show that the ashes and the grits can be used in the hygienization of sewage sludge