How Good is the 1881 Census Transcription The Results of an Evaluation for Hertfordshire

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Capitalism Revisited: The Interplay of Motivation, Inspiration and Risk

Business leaders who have effectively communicated their values by undertaking substantial philanthropic endeavors made fiscally possible through their own business successes, labors and investments, appear to all share a common thread. Influential social, environmental, work and religious backgrounds are studied and “epiphanal” experiences explored

The rise and decline of philanthropy in early modern Colchester: the unacceptable face of mercantilism

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International Law And Anti-Personnel Land Mines

Human Rights Watch was one of the six non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that initiated the International Campaign to Ban Land Mines in 1992. The Campaign calls for a comprehensive international ban on the production, stockpiling, trade and use of antipersonnel land mines. It also calls for increased international resources for mine clearance and victim assistance programs

Developing a Web Application to Identify Industrial Specialization in Southern California

Economic and community planning professionals consistently look for ways to measure the strengths and opportunities of their locale. In an effort to restrain from participating in bubble and burst economic cycles, these professionals have turned toward models of economic sustainability. Industry cluster identification has become a popular starting point to develop policies aimed at these long term objectives. The presence of clusters indicates an opportunity to support industries considered to be specialized for a region, through workforce development and building collaborative ventures among public and private enterprises. However, the presence of clusters have traditionally been identified by analyzing data in tabular and spreadsheet form. These methods ignores a fundamental aspect and benefit of using clusters as the basis for development; location. Storing this data in a Geographic Information System (GIS) and presenting the information in a more digestible manner would allow planners to visualize the presence of clusters. This report documents the development of a GIS based web application that gives economic developers the opportunity to identify industry clusters in a new way

Uncovering the intersection between race and gender of the experiences of female engineers.

Masters Degree. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban.The purpose of the current study is to examine the complexities that female engineers experience in a male dominated industry. These complexities are compounded further when the element of race is intertwined with their gender. A review of the current literature notes the influence that gendered constructions have on society and therefore, perpetuates into the choices that men and women have based on their gender, especially in terms of appropriate career choices. The research focuses on social constructionism and intersectionality as a theoretical framework. As the study aims to understand the experiences of the female engineers and how their race intersects with their gender, a qualitative analysis was conducted, as it was the most appropriate for the study. Hence, semi-structured interviews were conducted with nine employed female engineers from various companies and engineering sectors. The semi-structured interviews took place from May 2017 to June 2017. A thematic analysis was conducted on the interviews, which formed three focal themes, viz. Negotiating Multiple Identities; The Two Extremes and Proving Yourself. The nature of the identities in which the participants narrate can be seen as an act of intersection of the various identities, which the participants acknowledged in their narratives. The various identities are viewed as manifestations that form from the social interactions in which the participants immerse themselves in. In addition, the women would note ‘subtle issues’ that would arise in the engineering workplace, which differentiated the women from the men, however, would not acknowledge the severity of the inequality that perpetuated from the differentiation. However, many of the women would acknowledge the positive experiences they have had as a female engineer and were therefore treated as an engineer and not a female engineer

Unifying Distributed Processing and Open Hypertext through a Heterogeneous Communication Model

A successful distributed open hypermedia system can be characterised by a scaleable architecture which is inherently distributed. While the architects of distributed hypermedia systems have addressed the issues of providing and retrieving distributed resources, they have often neglected to design systems with the inherent capability to exploit the distributed processing of this information. The research presented in this paper describes the construction and use of an open hypermedia system concerned equally with both of these facets

An Open Framework for Integrating Widely Distributed Hypermedia Resources

The success of the WWW has served as an illustration of how hypermedia functionality can enhance access to large amounts of distributed information. However, the WWW and many other distributed hypermedia systems offer very simple forms of hypermedia functionality which are not easily applied to existing applications and data formats, and cannot easily incorporate alternative functions which would aid hypermedia navigation to and from existing documents that have not been developed with hypermedia access in mind. This paper describes the extension to a distributed environment of the open hypermedia functionality of the Microcosm system, which is designed to support the provision of hypermedia access to a wide range of source material and application, and to offer straightforward extension of the system to incorporate new forms of information access

Cottage industry, migration, and marriage in nineteenth-century England

The original article can be found at: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com Copyright Economic History Society. DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2007.00413.xPeer reviewe