Guide to fisheries policy research in Cambodia : the institutional and legal context

Fishery policy, Fishery management, Legal aspects, Cambodia,

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Uncle Benny's PaintingsBenny Cohn was born in 1896 into a Jewish/Christian family. He always wanted to be a painter and his family supported him. He graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1917. He won a golden medal and a travel stipend in 1919. In 1920, Benny settled down in Paris, well known as a skilled painter – especially for his portraits and landscapes. He became a member of Salon d’ Automne in 1921. Benny spent the summers painting in Denmark, and most of his life he continued to exhibit at Charlottenborg in Copenhagen. The family was separated during the Second World War. Benny, his father and sister went to the USA in 1939; his brother Gerson and his children went to Sweden as refugees. Benny’s mother and another sister stayed in Denmark, where his mother died in 1944. In 1949, Benny decided to finally immigrate to the USA. In the USA, he settled down in Rhode Island and began painting colourful, abstract geometric paintings based on music. A dream he had had for a long time. In the USA, Benny used Benjamin Collin as his artist name. This was not so popular with his Jewish family! After his death in 1980, the family of Benny’s American sister inherited his American paintings; and his brother’s family inherited the Danish part. The paintings have been stored away and moved around for many, many years, but in 2014, Benny’s American niece Vikky Stenstream created an exhibition of his abstract paintings in Florida. At the same time, Benny’s Danish niece Eva Sverdrup-Jensen and grandniece Ditte Cohn started to register and renovate the huge Danish collection Benny had left with his brother when he emigrated for the USA. We hope to bring Uncle Benny’s fantastic collection of paintings to live, so that many people can enjoy and appreciate them

Fish demand and supply projections

It has been predicted that the global demand for fish for human consumption will increase by more than 50% over the next 15 years. The FAO has projected that the increase in supply will originate primarily from marine fisheries, aquaculture and to a lesser extent from inland fisheries, but with a commensurate price increase. However, there are constraints to increased production in both marine and inland fisheries, such as overfishing, overexploitation limited potential increase and environmental degradation due to industrialization. The author sees aquaculture as having the greatest potential for future expansion. Aquaculture practices vary depending on culture, environment, society amd sources of fish. Inputs are generally low-cost, ecologically efficient and the majority of aquaculture ventures are small-scale and family operated. In the future, advances in technology, genetic improvement of cultured species, improvement in nutrition, disease management, reproduction control and environmental management are expected along with opportunities for complimentary activities with agriculture, industrial and wastewater linkages. The main constraints to aquaculture are from reduced access to suitable land and good quality water due to pollution and habitat degradation. Aquaculture itself carries minimal potential for aquatic pollution. State participation in fisheries production has not proven to be the best way to promote the fisheries sector. The role of governments is increasingly seen as creating an environment for economic sectors to make an optimum contribution, through support in areas such as infrastructure, research, training and extension and a legal framework. The author feels that a holistic approach integrating the natural and social sciences is called for when fisheries policy is being examined

Training auscultatory skills: computer simulated heart sounds or additional bedside training? A randomized trial on third-year medical students

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The present study compares the value of additional use of computer simulated heart sounds, to conventional bedside auscultation training, on the cardiac auscultation skills of 3^rdyear medical students at Oslo University Medical School.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>In addition to their usual curriculum courses, groups of seven students each were randomized to receive four hours of additional auscultation training either employing a computer simulator system or adding on more conventional bedside training. Cardiac auscultation skills were afterwards tested using live patients. Each student gave a written description of the auscultation findings in four selected patients, and was rewarded from 0-10 points for each patient. Differences between the two study groups were evaluated using student's t-test.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>At the auscultation test no significant difference in mean score was found between the students who had used additional computer based sound simulation compared to additional bedside training.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>Students at an early stage of their cardiology training demonstrated equal performance of cardiac auscultation whether they had received an additional short auscultation course based on computer simulated training, or had had additional bedside training.</p

Nordic 0 – 24 collaboration on improved services to vulnerable children and young people. First interim report

The Nordic countries are known for their extensive welfare states producing high levels of welfare for their residents across the life course. Still, there are rising concerns related to the situation of vulnerable children and their fam-ilies, not least of which are the early school leavers and young people not in education, employment or training (NEET). In 2017, as a response to these challenges, the Nordic Council of Ministers initiated the Nordic 0–24 project. The overall agenda of the project is to prevent the social exclusion of vulner-able children and young people, and to prevent school dropout and future marginalisation in the labour market. The project’s aim is to improve services in the Nordic countries that are directed at vulnerable children and young people between the ages of 0 and 24 years by means of improving cross-sec-toral collaboration. The project’s starting point is that improved cross-sec-toral collaboration at the state, regional and municipal levels is necessary to provide more coherent, higher quality services. The project comprises cases from all the Nordic countries (Denmark, Fin-land, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) and the autonomous islands (Greenland and Aaland)—the Faroe Islands participate in the Nordic 0–24 project, but without a specific national case. The cases serve as national examples of cross-sectoral collaboration in the delivery of services to the 0–24 age group. The Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training is in charge of the project management, and the project period will continue through 2020. Fafo Institute of Labour and Social Research has, in collaboration with VID Specialized University, been assigned the task of carrying out a process eval-uation of the Nordic 0–24 project. In this first interim report from the process evaluation, we provide an overview of the evaluation’s design. Furthermore, we present a model developed to examine how the national cases may serve as sources for identifying factors that contribute to improved collaboration and more coherent service delivery for vulnerable children and young people. As a background for future analyses, the national policy context of the in-volved cases and relevant national welfare systems and services are also de-scribed.publishedVersio