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    Combatting electoral traces: the Dutch tempest discussion and beyond

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    In the Dutch e-voting debate, the crucial issue leading to the abandonment of all electronic voting machines was compromising radiation, or tempest. Other countries, however, do not seem to be bothered by this risk. In this paper, we use actor-network theory to analyse the socio-technical origins of the Dutch tempest issue in e-voting, and its consequences for e-voting beyond the Netherlands. We introduce the term electoral traces to denote any physical, digital or social evidence of a voter's choices in an election. From this perspective, we provide guidelines for risk analysis as well as an overview of countermeasures

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    The Liability of a Physician for the Acts of His Partner; Municipal Taxation by Appointive Boards or Commissioners; The Right of a Married Woman to Recover for Personal Injuries; What is Corporate Action?

    Farm poultry management : for 4-H poultry projects I and II

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    Accompanied by: Leader's guide : 4-H poultry project (to be used with Circular 75), March, 1945.Cover title.Includes "4-H Record" at end.I. Young stock production -- II. Flock management

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    The International Law Association and Its Last Meeting; The Extent to Which the Action of Medical Boards may be Controlled By Mandamus; The Effect Upon An Illegal marriage of Cohabitiation After the Removal of the Impediment

    Conceptualising connections: energy demand, infrastructures and social practices

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    Problems of climate change present new challenges for social theory. In this paper we focus on the task of understanding and analysing car dependence, using this as a case through which to introduce and explore what we take to be central but underdeveloped questions about how infrastructures and complexes of social practice connect across space and time. In taking this approach we work with the proposition that forms of energy consumption, including those associated with automobility, are usefully understood as outcomes of interconnected patterns of social practices, including working, shopping, visiting friends and family, going to school and so forth. We also acknowledge that social practices are partly constituted by, and always embedded in material arrangements. Linking these two features together we suggest that forms of car-dependence emerge through the intersection of infrastructural arrangements that are integral to the conduct of many practices at once. We consequently explore the significance of professional – and not only ‘ordinary’ – practices, especially those of planners and designers who are involved in reconfiguring infrastructures of different scales, and in the practice dynamics that follow

    Разработка технологии изготовления детали «Ось»

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    Цель работы – Согласно приведенным чертежам и годовой программой выпускай, разработать технологии изготовления деталей "ось привода". В работе дается обоснование выполнения ВКР и опытно-конструкторских работ, анализируется чертеж детали и ее технологичность, определяется вид изготовления, принцип выбора заготовки в соответствии с ее материалом и серийным выпуском. описано производство, составлен чертеж заготовки, маршрут обработки детали с представлением рабочих эскизов и описанием переходов для каждой операции, рассчитаны припуски на обработку и технологические размеры, рассчитывался режимы резания для каждого технологического перехода и требуемая мощность оборудования, задавалась модель станка и рассчитывалось время выполнения каждой операции.Purpose of work - release and develop manufacturing technology based on drawings and annual plans. The paper provides a justification for the implementation of research and development work and experimental design work, analyzes the drawing of the part and its manufacturability, determines the type of manufacture, the principle of selecting the workpiece in accordance with its material and serial production. a drawing of the workpiece was drawn up, the processing route of the part with the presentation of working sketches and a description of the transitions for each operation, the cutting conditions were calculated for each technological transition and the required power of the equipment, the model of the machine was set and the time of each operation was calculated

    Poultry management : for 4-H poultry projects

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    November, 1952."University of Missouri College of Agriculture and the United States Department of Agriculture Cooperating"--Page 47.Title from caption

    Quantifying an aquifer nitrate budget and future nitrate discharge using field data from streambeds and well nests

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    Novel groundwater sampling (age, flux, and nitrate) carried out beneath a streambed and in wells was used to estimate (1) the current rate of change of nitrate storage, dSNO3 /dt, in a contaminated unconfined aquifer, and (2) future [NO3–]FWM (the flow-weighted mean nitrate concentration in groundwater discharge) and fNO3 (the nitrate flux from aquifer to stream). Estimates of dSNO3 /dt suggested that at the time of sampling (2013) the nitrate storage in the aquifer was decreasing at an annual rate (mean = –9 mmol/m2yr) equal to about one-tenth the rate of nitrate input by recharge. This is consistent with data showing a slow decrease in the [NO3–] of groundwater recharge in recent years. Regarding future [NO3–]FWM and fNO3 , predictions based on well data show an immediate decrease that becomes more rapid after ~5 years before leveling out in the early 2040s. Predictions based on streambed data generally show an increase in future [NO3–]FWM and fNO3 until the late 2020s, followed by a decrease before leveling out in the 2040s. Differences show the potential value of using information directly from the groundwater—surface water interface to quantify the future impact of groundwater nitrate on surface water quality. The choice of denitrification kinetics was similarly important; compared to zero-order kinetics, a first-order rate law levels out estimates of future [NO3–]FWM and fNO3 (lower peak, higher minimum) as legacy nitrate is flushed from the aquifer. Major fundamental questions about nonpoint-source aquifer contamination can be answered without a complex numerical model or long-term monitoring program

    The golden circle: A way of arguing and acting about technology in the London ambulance service

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    This paper analyses the way in which the London Ambulance Service recovered from the events of October 1992, when it implemented a computer-aided despatch system (LASCAD) that remained in service for less than two weeks. It examines the enactment of a programme of long-term organizational change, focusing on the implementation of an alternative computer system in 1996. The analysis in this paper is informed by actor-network theory, both by an early statement of this approach developed by Callon in the sociology of translation, and also by concepts and ideas from Latour’s more recent restatement of his own position. The paper examines how alternative interests emerged and were stabilized over time, in a way of arguing and acting among key players in the change programme, christened the Golden Circle. The story traces four years in the history of the London Ambulance Service, from the aftermath of October 1992 through the birth of the Golden Circle to the achievement of National Health Service (NHS) trust status. LASCAD was the beginning of the story, this is the middle, an end lies in the future, when the remaining elements of the change programme are enacted beyond the Golden Circle

    Nurturing the young shoots of talent: Using action research for exploration and theory building

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    This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 19(4), 433-450, 2011, copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/1350293X.2011.623515.This paper reports the outcomes of a set of action research projects carried out by teacher researchers in 14 local education authorities in England, working collaboratively with university tutors, over a period of three years. The common aim of all the projects was to explore practical ways of nurturing the gifts and talents of children aged four–seven years. The project was funded by the Department of Education and Skills in England as part of the government's gifted and talented programme. The project teachers felt that their understanding of issues relating to nurturing the gifts and talents of younger children was enhanced through their engagement in the project. It was possible to map the findings of the projects to the English government's National Quality Standards for gifted and talented education which include: (1) identification; (2) effective provision in the classroom; (3) enabling curriculum entitlement and choice; (4) assessment for learning; (5) engaging with community, families and beyond. The findings are also analysed within the framework of good practice in educating children in the first years of schooling. Participating practitioners felt that action research offered them a suitable methodology to explore the complexity of the topic of giftedness through cycles of planning, action and reflection and personal theory building
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