Implications of the Evolving Global Structure for the UN System: A View from the South

1999 ◽  
pp. 166-201
Author(s):  
Jonas Zoninsein
Keyword(s):  
Global Structure ◽  
The South ◽  
System A

scholarly journals Wind-induced variability in larval retention in a coral reef system: A biophysical modelling study in the South-West Lagoon of New Caledonia

2014 ◽  
Vol 122 ◽  
pp. 105-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marion Cuif ◽  
David Michael Kaplan ◽  
Jérôme Lefèvre ◽  
Vincent Martin Faure ◽  
Matthieu Caillaud ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Coral Reef ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
The South ◽  
Larval Retention ◽  
Reef System ◽  
System A ◽  
South West ◽  
Coral Reef System ◽  
Modelling Study ◽  
Biophysical Modelling

scholarly journals Law in and Legitimacy South Africa

1995 ◽  
Vol 20 (02) ◽  
pp. 407-479
Author(s):  
Stephen Ellmann
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Legal System ◽  
New South ◽  
The South ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
System A

This mticle examines whether anti-apartheid lawyering might have legitimized the South Afncan legal system by asking what black South Ahcans actually thought of that system. Perhaps surprisingly, blrcks, and in particular African, appear to have accorded the legal system a measure of legitimacy despite the oppression they often suffered at its hands. Three paradigms of African opinion are offered to help us understand the complex African response to the legal system: the conservatives, forbearing, mutely concerned with such issues as order and security, and perhaps disposed to be deferential to institutions of white authority; the speakers, fueled by faith in the truth or power of their speech, and welcoming the opportunity to be heard that courts could povide; and the activists, adamantly detennined to bnng down apartheid, and judgrng institutions and people by their conhibution to that goal. For men and women thinking in these ways, anti-apartheid lawyering probably did contribute to legitimizing the legal system and that system's ideals. But this partial legitimation of the legal system is, in the end, no came for regret; instead, it may have helped the new South Africa begin building a nation governed by law.

Analysis of suicide attempts and completions at the South Texas Veterans Health Care System: a retrospective review

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 189-196
Author(s):  
Rosana Oliveira ◽  
Troy A. Moore ◽  
Cynthia A. Gutierrez
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Suicide Attempt ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Emergency Department Visits ◽  
South Texas ◽  
Veterans Health ◽  
The South ◽  
System A ◽  
Completed Suicide ◽  
Care System

Abstract Background Suicide continues to be a growing public health issue, and suicidal behaviors have been identified as a critical problem in the military population, with the number of soldiers dying by suicide exceeding those killed in action. Objective This study aimed to characterize the population with attempted or completed suicides at the South Texas Veterans Health Care System and to analyze differences between those 2 populations. Other outcomes included adherence to psychiatric medications 6 months before suicide attempt or completion and psychiatric hospitalizations, psychiatric emergency department visits, and “no-show” appointments to mental health providers. Methods Data were collected from the Suicide Prevention and Application Network for patients from South Texas Veterans Health Care System who had attempted or completed suicide between September 1, 2011, and September 30, 2013. Those data were supplemented with data from the computerized patient-record system. A retrospective chart review was conducted to collect further information. Results Of 120 events included in the analysis, there were 97 attempts (81%) and 23 completions (19%). Men were significantly more likely to complete a suicide than women were (P = .025). Those that attempted suicide were more likely to have previous attempts compared with those who completed suicide (mean of 1.01 versus 0.17 respectively, P = .0035). The most frequent method for attempt was toxic ingestion (accounting for 61.9% of attempts), while the most frequent method of completing suicide was by using a firearm (87.0%); there was a statistically significant difference found between methods used for suicide attempt versus completion (P < .0001). Significantly more attempts than completions involved alcohol (21 versus 0 respectively; P = .013). Those on divalproex were less likely to complete suicide (16 attempts, 0 completions; P = .040). There were no differences between groups for the secondary outcomes studied. Conclusions Characteristics associated with completion of suicide in this analysis include male gender and using a firearm, while having previous attempts, being on divalproex, or using alcohol are associated with being more likely to attempt rather than complete suicide. More information is needed on how to appropriately identify high-risk veterans, and suicide safety plans should be developed for these patients to minimize their risk.

scholarly journals Quantifying and modelling the contribution of streams that recharge the Querença-Silves aquifer in the south of Portugal

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 3217-3227 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Salvador ◽  
J. P. Monteiro ◽  
R. Hugman ◽  
T. Y. Stigter ◽  
E. Reis
Keyword(s):  
Water Availability ◽  
Surface Runoff ◽  
Flow Model ◽  
Public Water Supply ◽  
Groundwater Flow Model ◽  
The South ◽  
Aquifer System ◽  
The North ◽  
System A ◽  
Water Courses

Abstract. The water balance of the mesocenozoic aquifers of the Algarve, in the south of Portugal has traditionally been estimated considering only direct ("autogenic") recharge from rainfall occurring in the area of the aquifers. Little importance has been attributed to so-called allogenic recharge, originating from streambed infiltration from runoff generated outside the aquifers, particularly in the Palaeozoic rocks to the north where runoff is high. The Querença-Silves (QS) aquifer is the most important aquifer of the region both for irrigation and public water supply. Several important and sensitive surface/groundwater ecotones and associated groundwater dependent ecosystems exist at the springs of the natural discharge areas of the aquifer system. A numerical flow model has been in constant development over the last few years and currently is able to reproduce the aquifer's responses to estimated direct recharge and abstraction for the years 2001–2010. However, recharge calculations for the model do not take into account allogenic recharge infiltration along influent reaches of streams. The quantification of allogenic recharge may further improve the assessment of water availability and exploitation risks. In this paper an attempt is made to quantify the average annual contribution of allogenic recharge to the QS aquifer, based on monitoring data of the principal water courses that cross the aquifer system. Significant uncertainties related to surface runoff generated within the aquifer area, as well as areal recharge were identified and the consequences for the optimization of spatial distribution of transmissivity in the groundwater flow model are also addressed.

Management of rhizoctonia bare patch in the South Australian mallee using a modified direct drilling system, deep-banded urea, and sowing time in relation to the break in the season

2000 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 57 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Kelly ◽  
A. J. Dubé
Keyword(s):  
Farming Systems ◽  
Conventional Farming ◽  
The South ◽  
Sowing Time ◽  
Bare Patch ◽  
System A ◽  
Tillage System ◽  
Direct Drilling ◽  
Chemical Fallow ◽  
Better Than

Tillage experiments in the South Australian mallee, over 8 years (1990–97), have demonstrated that cultivation directly below the seed at sowing controls rhizoctonia bare patch as effectively as 1 or 2 cultivations prior to sowing. When combined with a short chemical fallow and the use of press-wheels, this modified direct drilling technique can yield as well as, or better than, conventional farming systems. The combination of modified direct drilling and deep-banded urea increases the control of the disease in the first 2 weeks after the break in the season. In the first 2 weeks after the break, deep banding urea at sowing is more likely to increase yield, than modified direct drilling with urea broadcast at tillering, when both treatments are compared with standard direct drilling. In a reduced tillage system, a cultivation 6–11 days after the break in the season may be more effective in reducing bare patch than a cultivation at other times after the break.

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