A framework of science and technology in higher education for sustainable development for Somaliland

The integration of science and technology (S&T) in higher education institutions (HEIs) is significant for economic growth and sustainable development goals (SDGs). HEIs in Somaliland have not yet stressed the need to integrate S&T in education in their planning to achieve their national SDGs. Also, the government did not put a concrete plan in place towards building S&T capacities in education which play an important factor in the economic growth. Therefore, the aim of this research is to develop an indigenous and comprehensive framework to ensure sustainable development goals in Somaliland. It is an integrated framework for SD of Somaliland that incorporates S&T, HEIs and human capital. This study used a mixed method (survey and interview) to collect the data from six HEIs in Somaliland and document reviews. Questionnaires were distributed to 350 respondents ranging from faculty deans/head of department of S&T related programs and senior lecturers, and 215 responded. Also, interviews were conducted with six top managements of the HEIs. The findings indicated that insufficient of S&T, research and development (R&D) and community engagement (CE) at institutional and program levels. It can be concluded that the S&T capacity in HEIs in Somaliland is not capable of advancing the progress for SDGs. In addition, the findings also show an ineffective and a lack of collaboration among HEIs, industries and public sectors within the national framework. The findings were used to develop the proposed (i) guidelines to incorporate capacities (S&T, R&D and CE) in HEIs into SDGs and (ii) the framework. The framework incorporates S&T in HEIs into Somaliland SDGs and other stakeholders including the business sector. The framework was validated by experts in education and development sectors. The framework is aligned to the SDG of Somaliland Vision 2030 as well as Higher Education Sector Plan. Future research, particularly in under-developed countries, should focus on specific industrial clusters as well as thematic measures of sustainability, policy implementation and HEIs leadership towards SDGs

The Norwegian welfare system and competitive bidding of human services.

BreddemasterDen norske velferdsmodellen bygger på verdier som omhandler en felles velferd, sosial utjevning, et stabilt og trygt arbeidsliv samt like muligheter for alle uavhengig av sosial eller økonomisk bakgrunn. Den norske befolkningen har høy tillit til offentlige institusjoner og ordninger, i tillegg legitimeres vårt fellesfinansierte velferdssamfunn med en samfunnsmodell hvor alle borgere er sikret grunnleggende økonomisk og sosial trygghet. Disse verdiene står sterkt i den norske befolkningen og trekkes ofte frem som avgjørende når vi sammenligner oss med andre lands velstand. Den norske velferdsmodellen har utviklet seg gjennom flere tiår og kombinasjonen av rettsikkerhet, en sterk offentlig sektor og et velfungerende demokrati har gjort det mulig å forvalte naturressursene på en måte som har bidratt til den velstanden og veksten Norge opplevde som følge av olje- og gassinntektene. Til tross for at velferdsstaten i dag har stor oppslutning i befolkningen er det ventet at denne modellen vil møte nye utfordringer i fremtiden. I takt med norsk samfunnsutvikling og økt velstand har også befolkningens forventninger og holdninger til den offentlige sektor endret seg og flere understreker behovet for en mer kostnadseffektiv offentlig sektor. Samtidig synes debatten om konkurranseutsetting av velferdstjenester å være preget av to ulike utgangspunkt, hvor den ene siden mener det er nødvendig å overføre prinsipper fra det private næringsliv til den offentlige sektor for å redusere kostnader, mens den andre siden understreker at nettopp særtrekkene ved velferdstjenestene gjør det vanskelig å sammenligne offentlige og kommersielle tilbydere. Til tross for at konkurranseutsetting av velferdstjenester er et omdiskutert tema finnes det lite vitenskapelig dokumentasjon om effekten av konkurranseutsetting av velferdstjenester.Engelsk sammendrag The Norwegian welfare model is based on values that relate to the common welfare, social equality, a stable and safe working life, and equal opportunities for everyone regardless of social or economic background. The Norwegian population have high confidence in public institutions, and also, our jointly funded welfare society is legitimized with a social model where all citizens are guaranteed basic economic and social security. These values are strong in the Norwegian population and are often cited as crucial when we compare ourselves with other countries' prosperity. The Norwegian welfare model has evolved over several decades and the combination of legal security, a strong public sector, and a well-functioning democracy has made it possible to administer natural resources in a way that has contributed to the prosperity and growth Norway experienced as a result of oil and gas revenues. Even though the welfare state today has strong support in the population, it is expected that this model will be challenged in the future. In line with the Norwegian social development and increased prosperity, the population's expectations and attitudes towards the public sector have also changed and several emphasize the need for a more cost-effective public sector. At the same time, the debate over competition for the provision of welfare services appears to be characterized by two different starting points, where one side considers it necessary to transfer principles from the private sector to the public sector to reduce costs, while the other side emphasizes that the specific features of the welfare services makes it difficult to compare public and commercial providers. Although competition postponement of welfare services is a debated topic, there is little scientific evidence on the effect of competition postponement of welfare service

R03. HIV Tat protein activates plasma kallikrein-kinin system in the doxycycline-inducible astrocyte specific HIV-1 Tat transgenic mice

Corresponding author (BioMolecular Sciences): Logan Sneed, [email protected]://egrove.olemiss.edu/pharm_annual_posters/1002/thumbnail.jp

Inter-institutional Framework towards Improvising SDGs in Somaliland: The Transformative Paradigm

The United Nations (UN) Rio+20 summit obligated nations to develop set of universal development goals as indicated in the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs). These goals were designated to enhance and further improve strategies cope with failures of the expired millennium development goals (MDGs) (United Nations, 2013). Researchers and other official reports at present indicate that SDGs are the extension or the continuation of the expired MDGs. The MDGs were mostly relief projects toward improving human life through aid based approach. The MDGs projects did not thus so far remarkably improve the target sectors but alleviated hunger and reduced extreme poverty in some countries while in countries like Somaliland, hunger, and poverty are on the increase. This doesn't mean that MDGs were totally failed projects, but to indicate that the set targets were not improved as supposed to be due to lack of context-based national strategic framework. Additional monitoring and evaluation of MDGs were haphazard since there had not been specific indicators adapted to report the progress. The SDGs signed up by the Somaliland government this year (2017) would inherit challenges hindered MDGs to produce the anticipated outcomes if they are not strategically avoided. Socioeconomic development and national sustainability are often posed as being in conflict because of tradeoffs between the growing demands of least developed counties like Somaliland as well as lower standards of living and poor capacity of the national institutions. This review paper suggests a need to adopt an indigenous integrated framework, which ensures that synergy is exploited and collaborative strategies are put in place towards achieving SDG targets. This paper proposes a comprehensive framework and key recommendations focusing on filling the gaps left in the MDGs and accelerate in achieving the new goals and targets of SDGs

Pembangunan kerangka keupayaan di peringkat komuniti ke arah kelestarian pelancongan berasaskan komuniti (community based tourisme) di Malaysia

Keupayaan komuniti merupakan elemen penting dalam memastikan kelestarian pembangunan homestay. Kegagalan program homestay dikaitkan dengan ketidakupayaan komuniti dari apek pengetahuan, kemahiran, kepimpinan dan sokongan masyarakat. Sehubungan itu, kajian berbentuk kuantitatif dengan menggunakan borang soal selidik sebagai instrument utama bagi proses pengumpulan data. Selain daripada itu, temubual separa berstruktur dijalankan ke atas pengerusi homestay dan ketua kampung bagi mengukuhkan dapatan yang berbentuk kuantitatif. Bilangan sampel kajian adalah seramai 140 orang yang membabitkan enam buah homestay dalam Koridor Ekonomi Pantai Timur. Pengumpulan data mentah dianalisis menggunakan Statistical for Social Science (SPSS) 26 for Windows manakala data temu bual dianalisis berdasarkan tema. Analisis data yang dijalankan adalah menggunakan analisis deskriptif dan ujian Anova. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan masyarakat mempunyai persepsi kefahaman yang sederhana dari aspek penjanaan ekonomi. Manakala, tahap kesediaan dari aspek pengetahuan, kemahiran, kepimpinan dan sokongan masyarakat yang secara keseluruhan berada pada tahap sederhana. Kesimpulannya, kajian ini telah menggambarkan penglibatan komuniti dalam pembangunan program homestay dipengaruhi oleh keupayaan diri ahli komuniti itu sendiri

Measurement of the cross-section and charge asymmetry of WW bosons produced in proton-proton collisions at s=8\sqrt{s}=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

This paper presents measurements of the $W^+ \rightarrow \mu^+\nu$ and $W^- \rightarrow \mu^-\nu$ cross-sections and the associated charge asymmetry as a function of the absolute pseudorapidity of the decay muon. The data were collected in proton--proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC and correspond to a total integrated luminosity of 20.2~\mbox{fb^{-1}}. The precision of the cross-section measurements varies between 0.8% to 1.5% as a function of the pseudorapidity, excluding the 1.9% uncertainty on the integrated luminosity. The charge asymmetry is measured with an uncertainty between 0.002 and 0.003. The results are compared with predictions based on next-to-next-to-leading-order calculations with various parton distribution functions and have the sensitivity to discriminate between them.Comment: 38 pages in total, author list starting page 22, 5 figures, 4 tables, submitted to EPJC. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/STDM-2017-13

Search for new phenomena in final states with an energetic jet and large missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at √ s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Results of a search for new phenomena in final states with an energetic jet and large missing transverse momentum are reported. The search uses 20.3 fb−1 of √ s = 8 TeV data collected in 2012 with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Events are required to have at least one jet with pT > 120 GeV and no leptons. Nine signal regions are considered with increasing missing transverse momentum requirements between Emiss T > 150 GeV and Emiss T > 700 GeV. Good agreement is observed between the number of events in data and Standard Model expectations. The results are translated into exclusion limits on models with either large extra spatial dimensions, pair production of weakly interacting dark matter candidates, or production of very light gravitinos in a gauge-mediated supersymmetric model. In addition, limits on the production of an invisibly decaying Higgs-like boson leading to similar topologies in the final state are presente

Search for direct stau production in events with two hadronic tau-leptons in root s=13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

A search for the direct production of the supersymmetric partners ofτ-leptons (staus) in final stateswith two hadronically decayingτ-leptons is presented. The analysis uses a dataset of pp collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity of139fb−1, recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LargeHadron Collider at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. No significant deviation from the expected StandardModel background is observed. Limits are derived in scenarios of direct production of stau pairs with eachstau decaying into the stable lightest neutralino and oneτ-lepton in simplified models where the two staumass eigenstates are degenerate. Stau masses from 120 GeV to 390 GeV are excluded at 95% confidencelevel for a massless lightest neutralino

Search for chargino-neutralino production with mass splittings near the electroweak scale in three-lepton final states in √s=13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

A search for supersymmetry through the pair production of electroweakinos with mass splittings near the electroweak scale and decaying via on-shell W and Z bosons is presented for a three-lepton final state. The analyzed proton-proton collision data taken at a center-of-mass energy of √s=13  TeV were collected between 2015 and 2018 by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139  fb−1. A search, emulating the recursive jigsaw reconstruction technique with easily reproducible laboratory-frame variables, is performed. The two excesses observed in the 2015–2016 data recursive jigsaw analysis in the low-mass three-lepton phase space are reproduced. Results with the full data set are in agreement with the Standard Model expectations. They are interpreted to set exclusion limits at the 95% confidence level on simplified models of chargino-neutralino pair production for masses up to 345 GeV

Search for High-Mass Resonances Decaying to τν in pp Collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector

A search for high-mass resonances decaying to τν using proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV produced by the Large Hadron Collider is presented. Only τ-lepton decays with hadrons in the final state are considered. The data were recorded with the ATLAS detector and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb−1. No statistically significant excess above the standard model expectation is observed; model-independent upper limits are set on the visible τν production cross section. Heavy W′ bosons with masses less than 3.7 TeV in the sequential standard model and masses less than 2.2–3.8 TeV depending on the coupling in the nonuniversal G(221) model are excluded at the 95% credibility level