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A Triumph of Hope over Experience: an Assessment of the Recent Evaluation of the EEC Food Aid Programme
SUMMARY SUMMARY This latest evaluation of EEC food aid is critical of its workings. One of the main objectives, supporting balance of payments, is only a very modest success. Operation Flood excepted, dairy products, which account for two?thirds of the programme, are highly questionable as a form of aid. Project food aid must be approached with great caution: sales of the food are preferable. This review notes, however, that it is more important to begin asking the right questions about what causes poverty than to concentrate on food aid which (apart from emergencies and refugees) is not a solution. RESUME RESUME âLe trĂomphe de l'espoir sur l'expĂ©rienceâ: apprĂ©ciation de l'Ă©valuation rĂ©cente du programme d'aide alimentaire de la CEE Cette toute derniĂšre Ă©valuation de l'aide alimentaire de la CEE critique les principes de cette?derniĂšre. L'un des principaux objectifs, soutien de la balance des paiements, n'est seulement qu'un modeste succĂšs. A l'exception de l'opĂ©ration âFloodâ, les produits laitiers, qui reprĂ©sentent les deux?tiers du programme, constituent une forme d'aide hautement contestable. Les projets d'aide alimentaire doivent ĂȘtre abordĂ©s avec beaucoup de prudence: les ventes de produits alimentaires sont prĂ©fĂ©rables. Ce document toutefois fait remarquer qu'il est plus important de commencer par poser des questions judicieuses relatives aux causes de la pauvretĂ© plutĂŽt que de se concentrer sur une aide alimentaire qui (Ă l'exception des cas d'urgence et des refugiĂ©s) ne constitue pas une solution
Why Keep Me Waiting So Long?
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Slaying the Three-Headed Dragon: Spirit Healing from Memetic Infection
Violence has a tremendous impact on the social fabric of the Black community at large and on society as a whole. This paper provides an overview of a brief group intervention based on Afrocentric methodology and the seminal work of Dr. Nobles (1986c) on âpath-of-life developmentâ. Three of Dr. Noblesâ four stages (decomposition, germination and transformation) establish a framework for the intervention presented in this paper as well as an organizing theme for addressing what Dr. Nobles (2015) refers to as âmemetic infectionâ.The paper further proposes an African-centred organization of mixed media, as a component of the intervention, to address the lingering psychological effects of chattel slavery, including those that have corrupted and distorted Black identity and African consciousness, owing to âmemetic infectionâ and its outgrowth, the âThree-Headed Dragonâ. Addressing the âThree-Headed Dragonâ â depression, frustration tolerance, anger, cognitive/ emotive factors highly correlated with violent behaviour â has not been central to the efforts of the United States to reduce violence among young men of African descent (Jackson 2015). Finally, Dr. Noblesâ concept of âKinzungu Zonguâ (tornadoes of the mind), and his identification of toxic âsensoria information structuresâ, along with Akbarâs (1986b) assertion that the spiritual psyche of Black youth has been killed by a deliberate falsification of their historical reality, help establish a template for understanding and conceptualizing treatment of âspirit illnessâ in diaspora as well as continental Africans
Public Sector Responses to Climate Change: Evaluating the Role of Scottish Local Government in Implementing the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009
Effective climate change actions demand collaborative action from public bodies at all levels, placing local governance at the forefront of delivery. Scottish legislation imposes some of the most demanding legally-binding requirements for reducing greenhouse gas emissions currently to be found anywhere in the world. The new climate change obligations on Scottish local government are reviewed in the context of current Scottish emissions and UK energy policies. Analysis indicates that the pattern of carbon consumption rather than its production must be targeted, and that local government is well-placed to deliver many of the policies to this end. Case studies of Fife and Highland Councils show how Scottish local authorities (SLAs) are planning to discharge their climate change mitigation and adaptation responsibilities. Energy efficiency is driving the mitigation of carbon consumption, while new techniques for measuring carbon footprints are being used to adapt the development process to a low carbon mode. SLAs must pursue low-cost local climate change solutions not just to enhance the resilience of Scottish communities but also to demonstrate the feasibility of such approaches for local governance systems elsewhere in the face of growing financial constraints. Recent changes in Scottish waste management practices indicate the potential in this respect
The Lorentz Force and the Radiation Pressure of Light
In order to make plausible the idea that light exerts a pressure on matter,
some introductory physics texts consider the force exerted by an
electromagnetic wave on an electron. The argument as presented is both
mathematically incorrect and has several serious conceptual difficulties
without obvious resolution at the classical, yet alone introductory, level. We
discuss these difficulties and propose an alternate demonstration.Comment: More or less as in AJ
"Quantum Interference with Slits" Revisited
Marcella [arXiv:quant-ph/0703126] has presented a straightforward technique
employing the Dirac formalism to calculate single- and double-slit interference
patterns. He claims that no reference is made to classical optics or scattering
theory and that his method therefore provides a purely quantum mechanical
description of these experiments. He also presents his calculation as if no
approximations are employed. We show that he implicitly makes the same
approximations found in classical treatments of interference and that no new
physics has been introduced. At the same time, some of the quantum mechanical
arguments Marcella gives are, at best, misleading.Comment: 11 pages, 3 figure
Waiting At The Old Church Door
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Low-noise 0.8-0.96- and 0.96-1.12-THz superconductor-insulator-superconductor mixers for the Herschel Space Observatory
Heterodyne mixers incorporating Nb SIS junctions and NbTiN-SiO/sub 2/-Al microstrip tuning circuits offer the lowest reported receiver noise temperatures to date in the 0.8-0.96- and 0.96-1.12-THz frequency bands. In particular, improvements in the quality of the NbTiN ground plane of the SIS devices' on-chip microstrip tuning circuits have yielded significant improvements in the sensitivity of the 0.96-1.12-THz mixers relative to previously presented results. Additionally, an optimized RF design incorporating a reduced-height waveguide and suspended stripline RF choke filter offers significantly larger operating bandwidths than were obtained with mixers that incorporated full-height waveguides near 1 THz. Finally, the impact of junction current density and quality on the performance of the 0.8-0.96-THz mixers is discussed and compared with measured mixer sensitivities, as are the relative sensitivities of the 0.8-0.96- and 0.96-1.12-THz mixers
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