Needs Assessment of Reintegrated Families in Georgia

Georgia's child welfare reform has made incredible strides over the past eight years focusing largely on ending harmful child institutionalization. The child welfare reform process that started in 2005 is being successfully implemented by the Government of Georgia (GoG) with support from the international community and local NGOs. Today, the progress is evident: the number of children residing in large scale Child Care Institutions (CCI) fell from 4000 in 2005 to 147 in 2013; there are only five CCIs remaining in the country, down from 25 in 2011, and 45 in 2005; more than 1000 children have been reintegrated with their biological families, more than 1000 – placed in foster care and over 300 in family type Small Group Homes. In addition, a new gatekeeping policy is being rolled out across the country to ensure that children are only entering the care system when there are no other options

Preventive Jet Forcing and the Alazani Valley Hail Suppression Problem

The problem of hail suppression in the Alazani Valley is again addressed in the framework of the Preventive Jet Forcing concept, this time with the aim of assessing the effectiveness of the meteotron in the thermal forcing of the primary convective cloud on Mount Tsivi. An assessment has been made of the natural solar thermal forcing compared to the heat output range of existing turbojet engines. The preliminary conclusion was made about the possibility of controlling the formation of convective clouds on Mount Tsivi using decommissioned turbojet engine of region-range airliner

Rapid Intensification of Hurricane Ian During Landfall in Southwest Florida (2022)

Rapid intensification (RI) of tropical hurricane (TH) Ian during landfall is examined within the framework of equilibrium translation model (ETM). The development of RI in the rarest conditions of constant TH sizes and translation speed, as well as the availability of relatively accurate hurricane heat potential (HHP) maps, significantly increases the accuracy of the determination of the alignment number (An). The results strengthen the conclusion previously made about ETM and An as the model and similarity number basically characterizing TH development