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The Impact of the P.I.C.K. a Partner Relationship Educational Program on Single Army Soldiers
Educating singles on how to develop healthy, romantic relationships can be beneficial to their subsequent dating and marital satisfaction, and for Army soldiers, their satisfaction with military life. A new relationship program, the P.I.C.K. program, was delivered to single Army soldiers, and at the conclusion of the program participants demonstrated an increase in their understanding of the crucial areas to explore and discuss in a premarital relationship, gained a better understanding of how to pace their relationship, and exhibited more realistic attitudes and beliefs about marriage and mate selection
Monitoring and Evaluating Social Learning: A Framework for Cross-Initiative Application
The Climate Change and Social Learning Initiative is a cross-organisation group working to build a body of evidence on how social learning methodologies and approaches contribute towards development targets. Together with a select number of participating initiatives from a variety of organisations, we are working towards establishing a common monitoring and evaluation (M&E) framework for new projects and programmes using a social learning-oriented approach. The aim is to more systematically collect evidence, analyse results and share learning on when and how research initiatives and beneficiaries may benefit from a social learning-oriented approach in the context of climate change adaptation and food security. This working paper presents an M&E framework consisting of a theory of change and 30 primary indicators across four key areas: iterative learning, capacity development, engagement, and challenging institutions. This framework will be accompanied by a forthcoming implementation guide for participating initiatives, as well as a strategy for peer assist, data collection and analysis by the CCSL Initiative
Solving âwickedâ problems: can social learning catalyse adaptive responses to climate change?
Social learning approaches can catalyse knowledge
co-creation and action, so have the potential to help
solve complex âwickedâ problems such as climate
change and food insecurity. This working paper
synthesises evidence from five diverse initiatives
employing social learning approaches in response
to such problems using the Climate Change
and Social Learning initiativeâs monitoring and
evaluation framework. It finds initial evidence that
key factors in social learning approaches can lead
to clear learning outcomes with resulting positive
changes in values and practice. Links to longer-term
development outcomes are also evident in several
completed initiatives
Spontaneous otoacoustic emissions are generated by active oscillators clustered in frequency plateaus
The mechanisms underlying multiple lobes in SOAE suppression tuning curves in a transmission line model of the cochlea
Dirac versus Reduced Quantization of the Poincar\'{e} Symmetry in Scalar Electrodynamics
The generators of the Poincar\'{e} symmetry of scalar electrodynamics are
quantized in the functional Schr\"{o}dinger representation. We show that the
factor ordering which corresponds to (minimal) Dirac quantization preserves the
Poincar\'{e} algebra, but (minimal) reduced quantization does not. In the
latter, there is a van Hove anomaly in the boost-boost commutator, which we
evaluate explicitly to lowest order in a heat kernel expansion using zeta
function regularization. We illuminate the crucial role played by the gauge
orbit volume element in the analysis. Our results demonstrate that preservation
of extra symmetries at the quantum level is sometimes a useful criterion to
select between inequivalent, but nevertheless self-consistent, quantization
schemes.Comment: 24 page
The usability of climate information in sub-national planning in India, Kenya and Uganda: the role of social learning and intermediary organisations
Research on using climate information has often focused on the interaction between users and producers and the technical fit of information for real decision-making. However, due to resource and capacity constraints within both user and producer communities, this approach will not always be feasible or indeed necessary depending on the decisions at hand. These contexts have been relatively under-explored by scholars, and this paper provides an original empirical contribution using three case studies of sub-national governments in India, Kenya and Uganda. In the paper, we analyse how social learning supports changing the usability of climate information and the role of intermediary organisations in these processes. Firstly, the paper shows that intermediaries often choose to build the commitment to project aims rather than using climate information as an entry point to working on climate change, and this allows them to instigate challenging learning processes. Secondly, there are barriers to iterative processes and critical reflection with government stakeholders but these processes can gain traction when built into institutional practices such as formal M&E processes. Lastly, social learning can broaden the framing of climate change from a single sector issue to a multi-sectoral one. We conclude by arguing that bringing together scholarship on social learning with that on the usability of climate information can deepen understanding of the dynamic context in which the information becomes usable. The evidence from the case studies shows that learning processes can alter this context across scales
CARIAA RiU learning guide
Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA) defines âResearch-into-Useâ (RiU) as the uptake of research which contributes to a change in policy or practice. Cyclical refection and action are crucial to ensuring that CARIAA research is relevant and used. This pocket guide includes âcue cardsâ intended to guide four kinds of reflection moments that should feed into each other: event, quarterly, six-monthly, and annual. RiU learning offers an evidence-base from which emerging stories of change can be sourced, as participants and researchers are prompted to reflect upon the successes or challenges of their engagements
CCAFS Web and Statistics Report for 2017
This document reports on the statistics related to the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) website and data platforms from January to December 2017. The report includes statistics on the main CCAFS website âincluding publication downloads âand on data and tools platforms managed by CCAFS. Generally the statistics show that traffic and use of the CCAFS website and material was positive (both in terms of the number of hits and the proportion of those that were from ânew visitorsâ) and that social media plays a role in referring users to the CCAFS site and materials. Most hits originated from a handful of the same countries. The US, Colombia, India, Kenya, and the UK appeared frequently on the top 5 country list.If you have any comments or questions or would like to request other statistics to be featured in future reports, please contact David Abreu ([email protected])
Model Calculations for the Two-Fragment Electro-Disintegration of He
Differential cross sections for the electro-disintegration process are calculated, using a model in which
the final state interaction is included by means of a nucleon-nucleus (3+1)
potential constructed via Marchenko inversion. The required bound-state wave
functions are calculated within the integrodifferential equation approach
(IDEA). In our model the important condition that the initial bound state and
the final scattering state are orthogonal is fulfilled. The sensitivity of the
cross section to the input interaction in certain kinematical regions
is investigated. The approach adopted could be useful in reactions involving
few cluster systems where effective interactions are not well known and exact
methods are presently unavailable. Although, our Plane-Wave Impulse
Approximation results exhibit, similarly to other calculations, a dip in the
five-fold differential cross-section around a missing momentum of , it is argued that this is an artifact of the omission of re-scattering
four-nucleon processes.Comment: 16 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication by Phys.Rev.
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