Social Protection in Ghana

Social, Protection, Ghana

Good Perspectives for Social Protection in Angola

Good Perspectives,Social Protection, Angola

Study Tour Africa-Brazil on Social - Promotion and Protection

Study Tour, Africa-Brazil, Social, Promotion and Protection

Social Policies in a Period of Crisis

Social Policies, Period of Crisis

New H1 results on isolated leptons and missing pt at HERA

The search for events containing isolated leptons (electrons or muons) and missing transverse momentum produced in $e^{\pm}p$ collisions is performed with the H1 detector at HERA in the period 1994--2005. The analysed data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 279 pb$^{-1}$, which includes 53 pb$^{-1}$ of $e^{+}p$ data and 107 pb$^{-1}$ of $e^{-}p$ data from the new HERA~II phase. A total of 40 events are observed in the data, compared to a Standard Model (SM) prediction of 34.3 $\pm$ 4.8. At large hadronic transverse momentum $P_{T}^{X} >$ 25 GeV, a total of 17 events are observed compared to 9.0 $\pm$ 1.5 predicted by the SM. In this region, 15 events are observed in the $e^{+}p$ data compared to a SM prediction of 4.6 $\pm$ 0.8, whereas in the $e^{-}p$ data 2 events are observed compared to a SM prediction of 4.4 $\pm$ 0.7.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure; To appear in the proceedings of 14th International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS 2006), Tsukuba, Japan, 20-24 Apr 200

Designing and implementing a communications strategy: lessons learnt from HIV and Sexual and Reproductive Health Research Programme Consortia.

In recent years there has been increasing recognition of the importance of strategic research communication. Health research organisations need to be able to communicate their research effectively to increase the probability that the findings influence policy and practice, and benefit those in greatest need. Many research funders are making communications a requirement of research funding. This paper reflects on the experience in developing and implementing communications strategies of several Research Programme Consortia funded by the Department for International Development.Different research topics will require different communications approaches in order to be effective. This is reflected in the diversity of strategies employed by different research programmes. Strategic research communications designed to influence policy and practice require different skills and expertise from those required for carrying out research and writing it up for publication in academic journals. Therefore researchers involved in communicating research should be supported in this work. One of the ways in which research programme consortia have sought to do this is through convening workshops to develop the communications skills of researchers from partner organisations. These have proven invaluable. Another way of providing ongoing support to those involved in communicating research is through a Communications Community of Practice. Where this has been used it has proven a good way to support researchers both with ideas and resources, but also a strong sense of belonging to a community that shares a common concern with communication. Developing strong partnerships with research users, other research organisations, knowledge intermediaries and other stakeholders is vital for effective communication.Embracing the challenges and opportunities presented by communicating research to influence policy practice is vital if research is to have maximum possible impact, and demonstrate its worth at a time when funding for health and development activities is at risk. Sharing lessons learnt in this process between research programmes is important to support this work

Multi-Lepton and Isolated Lepton Events at HERA

Measurements of the production of events containing isolated high energy leptons (electrons and muons) produced in ep collisions have been performed with the H1 and ZEUS detectors at HERA, using data collected in the period 1994-2007. Topologies with more than one charged lepton or with a charged lepton in coincidence with missing transverse momentum are analysed. The H1 and ZEUS data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of about 0.5 fb^-1 per experiment, are combined in a common phase space. The observed event yields are compared to the predictions from the Standard Model. In general a good agreement is found, where the expectation is dominated by photon-photon collisions for the multi-lepton topologies and by single W production in the case of events with an isolated electron or muon and missing transverse momentum. Events with large transverse momentum are observed. Total and differential cross sections of these processes are measured.Comment: Proceedings of the talk given at The 2009 Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP 2009), 16-22 July 2009, Krakow, Poland. 4 pages, 3 figures; one style file, one log