Achieving the MDGs – A Note

The material and symbolic importance of these targets make it vital to assess the analytical coherence of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) “project”. In this spirit, this paper highlights complexities and difficulties of the MDG approach. Specifically, it outlines a framework for analysing the MDGs and subsequently discusses measuring progress; achieving and valuing multi-dimensional outcomes; sustainability; devising policies during structural transformation; and implementing policies in a decentralised policy system. These discussions draw attention to limitations of current methods of analysing the MDGs. Indeed, the history of today’s rich countries shows that development is a drawn out, uneven and contradictory process full of reversals and discontinuity. The MDGs, with their ambitious, linear, broad, and essentially ahistorical set of socio-economic goals belie this complexity; contemporary developed countries measured yesterday with today’s MDG yardstick might well have been branded “failures”.Millennium Development Goals(MDGs), development policy, Tinbergen’s rule, structural transformation

A survey of the articulation of consonant sounds by the students of the Lincoln School, Tulare, California

The schools of California are becoming increasingly aware of their responsibility in the assimilation of minority groups into participation in the full life of the community. Varied studies are underway to determine effective methods of meeting the needs of these groups of differing cultural, racial, language, and economic backgrounds. One of these areas of need is that that of speech, with which this study is concerned

Managing the discovery life cycle of a finite resource: a case study of U.S. natural gas.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Alfred P. Sloan School of Management. Thesis. 1972. M.S .MICROFICHE COPY ALSO AVAILABLE IN DEWEY LIBRARY.Bibliography: leaves 123-125.M.S

An investigation of conservative moving-mesh methods for conservation laws

In this thesis we consider a class of conservation based moving mesh methods applied to hyperbolic conservation laws. We mainly concentrate on the one dimensional case with the examples of the linear advection equation, inviscid Burgers’ equation and the Buckley-Leverett equation. The moving mesh methods are generated using the conservation of mass as a method for determining the mesh velocity at the computational nodes. We use the notion of the reference space as a mathematical tool to analyse the moving mesh methods allowing us to show the accuracy, stability conditions and convergence. In addition we use the reference space as a technique for constructing new moving mesh methods which share the accuracy and stability properties of the fixed mesh scheme they are derived from. At the end of the thesis we use the knowledge gained from the scalar conservation laws to construct moving mesh methods for the isothermal equations

Identifying, Developing and Grading ‘Soft Skills’ in Higher Education: A Technological Approach

Identifying, developing and grading soft skills, i.e., transversal cross-curricular competencies, in higher education requires the recognition of key qualities, the capacity to discriminate between these qualities and a mechanism to validly and reliability grade soft skill acquisition. This research proposes a technological infrastructure that acknowledges the importance of self-assessment, peer observation and teacher evaluation when adjudicating on subjective and often personal data. The proposal has the capacity to balance, weight and triangulate the objective and subjective evidence of soft skill acquisition ensuring the validity and reliability of the resultant accreditation. Accreditation of soft skills was in the form of digital badges. Using the proposed technological approach, the identification, development and grading of soft skills can be reviewed, tracked and managed over time to demonstrate competencies with respect to both the context and situation. The technological approach empowers stakeholders as critical partners within the assessment process and supports the ecological validity of their judgements based on the evidence submitted for accreditation. Reliability is strengthened by the triangulation of these judgements. Though more significantly, the technological approach facilitates the capacity to weight stakeholders’ decisions relative to the context and situation

Achieving the MDGs – A Note

The material and symbolic importance of these targets make it vital to assess the analytical coherence of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) “project”. In this spirit, this paper highlights complexities and difficulties of the MDG approach. Specifically, it outlines a framework for analysing the MDGs and subsequently discusses measuring progress; achieving and valuing multi-dimensional outcomes; sustainability; devising policies during structural transformation; and implementing policies in a decentralised policy system. These discussions draw attention to limitations of current methods of analysing the MDGs. Indeed, the history of today’s rich countries shows that development is a drawn out, uneven and contradictory process full of reversals and discontinuity. The MDGs, with their ambitious, linear, broad, and essentially ahistorical set of socio-economic goals belie this complexity; contemporary developed countries measured yesterday with today’s MDG yardstick might well have been branded “failures”

GFM Product User Manual

This Product User Manual (PUM) is the reference document for all end-users and stakeholders of the new Global Food Monitoring (GFM) product of the Copernicus Emergency Management Service (CEMS). The PUM provides all of the basic information to enable the proper and effective use of the GFM product and associated data output layers. This manual includes a description of the functions and capabilities of the GFM product, its applications and alternative modes of operation, and step-by-step guidance on the procedures for accessing and using the GFM product

Publicity/Promotional Photographs (1940-1950's)

Photograph of Stan Kenton addressing an audience. He is standing at the head of the room, in front of screens and potted plants. In the foreground, an audience is seated in rows, watching Kenton