Listening to Voices of the Future: an invitation to contribute to a special issue of Policy Quarterly on cohortbased or generation-based policies

We would like to invite people to explore ways that public policies can be designed to facilitate the process of change. Our focus is specifically and deliberately on generational change – how society can best enable change when younger and older generations have very different views on what is important, what is possible and what is desirable. We want to explore how successive generations can shape the future so that it better reflects their issues and concerns. These changes do not concern just age, but can cover a broad canvas of themes related to issues such as gender or ethnicity, or the environment

Listening to Voices of the Future: contributions from people born after 1985

The six articles that follow are contributions from eight people born after 1985. They represent a response to the invitation we published in the August 2019 issue of Policy Quarterly (Coleman and Karacaoglu, 2019). We hope that what follows is a valuable contribution to various intergenerational conversations that are taking place in New Zealand and around the world

A Quantitative Flavour of Robust Reachability

Many software analysis techniques attempt to determine whether bugs are reachable, but for security purpose this is only part of the story as it does not indicate whether the bugs found could be easily triggered by an attacker. The recently introduced notion of robust reachability aims at filling this gap by distinguishing the input controlled by the attacker from those that are not. Yet, this qualitative notion may be too strong in practice, leaving apart bugs which are mostly but not fully replicable. We aim here at proposing a quantitative version of robust reachability, more flexible and still amenable to automation. We propose quantitative robustness, a metric expressing how easily an attacker can trigger a bug while taking into account that he can only influence part of the program input, together with a dedicated quantitative symbolic execution technique (QRSE). Interestingly, QRSE relies on a variant of model counting (namely, functional E-MAJSAT) unseen so far in formal verification, but which has been studied in AI domains such as Bayesian network, knowledge representation and probabilistic planning. Yet, the existing solving methods from these fields turn out to be unsatisfactory for formal verification purpose, leading us to propose a novel parametric method. These results have been implemented and evaluated over two security-relevant case studies, allowing to demonstrate the feasibility and relevance of our ideas

Plano de Negócio: Delicatessen da Lú

TCC (graduação) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Sócio Econômico, Curso de Administração.Este trabalho visa apresenta um plano de negócio para abertura de uma empresa no ramo de comércio de doces (bolos e docinhos de festa). Neste apresentaremos uma pesquisa de mercado para levantar questões pertinentes sobre a abertura deste negócio. A metodologia aplicada foi através de uma pesquisa descritiva com fontes bibliográficas, documental e levantamento de dados através de questionário estruturado. Neste, podemos observar que, a viabilidade econômica de se abrir um estabelecimento de doces pode ser promissor devido aos baixos custos de investimentos e grande potencial de mercado.This work aims to present a business plan for the opening of a company in the trade of sweets (cakes and candies). In this we will present a market research to raise pertinent questions about the opening of this business. The applied methodology was through a descriptive research with bibliographical sources, documentary and data collection through structured questionnaire. In this, we can observe that the economic feasibility of opening a candy establishment can be promising due to the low investment costs and great market potential

Mast cells modulate the inflammatory process in endotoxin-induced uveitis

Purpose: To investigate the role of mast cells and annexin-A1 (Anxa1) in endotoxin-induced uveitis (EIU). Methods: EIU was induced by injection of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) into the paws of rats, which were then sacrificed after 24 and 48 h. To assess EIU in the absence of mast cells, groups of animals were pretreated with compound 48/80 (c48/80) and sacrificed after 24 h after no treatment or EIU induction. The eyes were used for histological studies and the aqueous humor (AqH) pool was used for the analysis of transmigrated cells and Anxa1 levels. In inflammatory cells, Anxa1 expression was monitored by immunohistochemistry. Results: After 24 h, rats with EIU exhibited degranulated mast cells, associated with elevated numbers of infiltrating leukocytes and the high expression of Anxa1 in the AqH and the neutrophils. After 48 h of EIU, the mast cells were intact, indicating granule re-synthesis, and there was a reduction of neutrophil transmigration and an increase in the number of mononuclear phagocytic cells in ocular tissues. Anxa1 expression was decreased in neutrophils but increased in mononuclear phagocytic cells. In the animals pretreated with c48/80 and subjected to EIU, mast cells responded to this secretagogue by degranulating and few transmigrated neutrophils were observed. Conclustions: We report that mast cells are a potential source of pharmacological mediators that are strongly linked to the pathophysiology of EIU, and the endogenous protein Anxa1 is a mediator in the homeostasis of the inflammatory process with anti-migratory effects on leukocytes, which supports further studies of this protein as an innovative therapy for uveitis. © 2011 Molecular Vision

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From Complexity to Collaboration: Creating the New Zealand we want for ourselves, and enabling future generations to do the same for themselves

The purpose of this paper is to change how we approach public policy and implementation for complex problems such as child poverty. The ultimate objective of public policy is to improve people’s lives and wellbeing, now and into the future. Traditional environmental, social and economic policies are clearly failing to generate the changes needed to address the persistent and increasing disadvantage facing many people and the communities they live in. This is unacceptable in a country as rich in human and natural resources as Aotearoa New Zealand. We propose a principles-based policy framework for complex social problems such child poverty. This approach will do more than embellish existing policy. It will help ensure that the intent of policy is realised, through a shared and explicit understanding and a commitment to achieving significant improvements. The government needs to rethink its various roles and consider how it enables local communities to be more transformative for children, their families, whānau and communities. We arrive at this conclusion through an analysis of how complex problems and uncertainty are best managed, and through considering some promising practices which suggest some common underpinning values and practices we can follow. In essence, we propose that the design and implementation process for public policy should be reconfigured to rest on a new set of principles, built on values of trust between government and other agents of change, and of valuing distributed community knowledge, resources and local solutions. This paper derives the following set of six principles from our understanding of the complexity of issues like child poverty, and from our consideration of previous attempts to work effectively in complex policy domains. The Government’s proposed legislation to set targets for ‘significant and sustained’ child poverty reduction, and the elevated focus of government agencies on effective interventions and on learning from locally-generated change, make the time ripe for advancing our thinking on these issues