ICT Governance: Towards Federalized Structure and Solution

The ICT (Information and Communication Technology) Governance means actively identifying the service needs of the Government and her customers and to focus on planning and delivering these services to meet availability, performance, and security requirements. It also aims at managing service level agreements to meet agreed-upon security, quality and cost targets. Successful operation of an ICT unit of the government would require it to be fully integrated with the complete lifecycle of Government’s processes, improving service quality and Government agility. The paper identifies appropriate international standards for ICT Governance, and ICT Management around which solutions for ICT governance should be built.ict; governance; management; service delivery

Reasons for choosing a further education: the views of 700 new entrants

This article explores some reasons for choosing a further education given by 700 new entrants to 10 Scottish further education colleges. It tries to distinguish between instrumental reasons, such as those concerned with the quest for employment and what students perceive as most intrinsically worthwhile about a further education. It also tries to identify some of the methods of communication that are most effective in attracting students to further education. It seems that leaflets and mail shots are by far the most effective methods of communication before students enter college. The local reputation of the college as a place where good social relationships are fostered including those fostered in the classroom seems more important than the resources devoted to teaching. Even though many new entrants cite instrumental reasons as being very important, detail in the curriculum seems to be much less important to them. We speculate that this is because students are prepared to trust such detail to teachers they perceive to be good. Colleges therefore have an opportunity, if not a responsibility, to take students beyond instrumentalism

From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews

Ninth Annual Lecture in Jewish-Christian Engagement… Dr. John Connelly, University of California, Berkeley.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/bennettcenter-posters/1324/thumbnail.jp

Review of \u3ci\u3e Grassland Grouse and Their Conservation\u3c/i\u3e By Paul Johnsgard

The first two chapters of Grassland Grouse deal with the extinction of the heath hen and the almost certain disappearance of the Attwater\u27s prairie chicken. They paint an accurate but thoroughly depressing picture of these losses. Paul Johnsgard clearly points out how, despite our best efforts, populations can slip into extinction. In these initial chapters, he sounds an alarm over the plight of a unique group of North American birds and their rapidly disappearing habitats. The three middle chapters, which describe the status and population trends of lesser prairie chickens, greater prairie chickens, and sharp-tailed grouse, all species indigenous to the Great Plains, provide valuable insight into changes in Great Plains landscapes and their effects on native grouse. Johnsgard thoroughly documents changes in the populations and habitats of these species and also describes the impact agricultural development within the Great Plains has had on them. His synthesis carries an easily detected undertone of warning that these grouse species could follow the fate of the heath hen. Intended or not, these chapters also imply criticism of the effectiveness of resource agencies in conserving declining species. Johnsgard provides several examples of states lacking data on their grouse populations and indicates that one state agency terminated population monitoring efforts when the hunting season on sharp-tailed grouse was closed

Which Side Are You On?: Trying to Be for Labor When It\u27s Flat on Its Back

A Review of Which Side Are You On?: Trying to Be for Labor When It\u27s Flat on Its Back by Thomas Geoghega

I’ve heard that there was an auditorium housed in Main Hall. What have been all the uses for Main Hall over the years?

Abbot Pennings discusses the history of Main Hall, archived from the SNC website

Some attitudes of organized labor upon public education in the United States.

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University This item was digitized by the Internet Archive

The toxicity of some oxygen heterocycles.

Microspectrophotometry has been used to evaluate the distribution of some selectively inducible species of microsomal cytochrome P-450 in the rat liver lobule. Centrilobular increases in cytochrome P-450 concentration evoked by pretreatment with phenobarbitone or isosafrole contrasted markedly with the periportal induction produced by 3-methylcholanthrene. Lobular and lobar variations in drug-metabolising enzyme activity were measured, and their significance is discussed. Some oxygen-containing heterocyclic compounds were evaluated for their acute toxicity in rats. Several furans and methylenedioxyphenyls produced a classical hepatotoxic response, with fatty degeneration and necrosis. Benzofuran administration resulted in a clinical and ultrastructural picture of intrahepatic cholestasis, but without demonstrable stagnation of bile flow. Renal toxicity followed pretreatment with benzofuran or safrole, and diminution of splenic erythropoiesis occurred after the injection of various furans or methylenedioxyphenyls. Benzofuran, dibenzofuran and trans-stilbene oxide were potent inducers of hepatic microsomal epoxide hydrolase activity, corresponding with an increase in a polypeptide band of 48000 MW upon SDS gel electrophoresis. These compounds also induced a band of about 52000 MW. Pretreatment with furan or benzofuran caused a loss of microsomal cytochrome P-450, the latter with a concomitant increase in haem oxygenase activity. Dibenzofuran induced haem oxygenase, but did not lower cytochrome P-450 concentrations. Many of the effects of benzofuran were potentiated by pretreatment with inducers of cytochrome P-450. Administration of trans-stilbene oxide or methylenedioxyphenyls increased hepatic cytochrome P-450 levels; the latter also increased a polypeptide band of 53000 MW on gel electrophoresis. Possible mechanisms of toxicity of some oxygen heterocycles, particularly benzofuran, are discussed in the light of the interrelationship of these endoplasmic reticulum protein changes. Tritiated benzofuran was excreted by the rat in considerable quantities in both urine and faeces. Radioactivity was detected in several tissues, and was retained in the spleen one week after pretreatment. Chromatographic analysis suggests that a major route of benzofuran metabolism may involve cleavage of the furan ring