scholarly journals Triangular Cooperation: Enabling Policy Spaces

2020 ◽  
pp. 583-603
Author(s):  
Geovana Zoccal
Keyword(s):  
Development Projects ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
Policy Negotiation ◽  
Project Level

AbstractIn the past decade, a number of studies, reports, and data have been produced on triangular cooperation (TrC). The focus of these publications is mainly on (i) the project level and/or (ii) political relations between stakeholders. I argue that, beyond being an effective modality for the implementation of development projects, TrC is an enabler of policy negotiation spaces. Through TrC, the clashes of traditional principles and practices with a new narrative of Southern providers are loosened, enabling spaces that do not directly confront contested political positions jeopardising the dialogue. The chapter identifies that TrC serves as a bridge for coordination between stakeholders. Findings suggest that it has been used for sharing costs and solutions as well as for the development of joint guidelines and processes.

Overseas Development Administration. A Guide to Social Analysis for Projects in Developing Countries. London: HMSO. 1995. viii+248 pages. Hardbound. £18.95.

1996 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-190
Author(s):  
Mir Annice Mahmood
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Social Analysis ◽  
Economic Perspective ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Overseas Development

This book, hereinafter referred to as the Guide, has been developed for those social analysts (e.g., anthropologists, sociologists, and human geographers) who have had little or no practical experience in applying their knowledge as development practitioners. In the past, development projects would be analysed from a narrow financial and economic perspective. But with the evolution of thinking on development, this narrow financial and economic aspect has now been broadened to include the impact on society as the very meaning of development has now come to symbolise social change. Thus, development is not restricted only to plans and figures; the human environment in its entirety is now considered for analysis while designing and implementing development projects.

scholarly journals Tackling resistance: emerging antimalarials and new parasite targets in the era of elimination

F1000Research ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 1170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily S. Mathews ◽  
Audrey R. Odom John
Keyword(s):  
Drug Resistance ◽  
Malaria Elimination ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Therapeutic Targets ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Multi Drug Resistance ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Combination Therapies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Antimalarial Compounds

Malaria remains a significant contributor to global human mortality, and roughly half the world’s population is at risk for infection with Plasmodium spp. parasites. Aggressive control measures have reduced the global prevalence of malaria significantly over the past decade. However, resistance to available antimalarials continues to spread, including resistance to the widely used artemisinin-based combination therapies. Novel antimalarial compounds and therapeutic targets are greatly needed. This review will briefly discuss several promising current antimalarial development projects, including artefenomel, ferroquine, cipargamin, SJ733, KAF156, MMV048, and tafenoquine. In addition, we describe recent large-scale genetic and resistance screens that have been instrumental in target discovery. Finally, we highlight new antimalarial targets, which include essential transporters and proteases. These emerging antimalarial compounds and therapeutic targets have the potential to overcome multi-drug resistance in ongoing efforts toward malaria elimination.

In search of lost time: Memory politics in Estonia, 1991-2011

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 651-674 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek Tamm
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Memory Politics ◽  
General Characterization ◽  
Internal Memory ◽  
The Past ◽  
National Memory ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
Lost Time ◽  
Political Unions

This article analyzes memory politics during the first 20 years (1991-2011) of the newly independent Estonia. Memory politics is understood as a politics endeavoring to shape the society's collective memory and establish notions of what is and is not to be remembered of the past, employing to this end both legislative means and practical measures. The paper presents one possible scheme for analyzing Estonian memory politics and limits its treatment in two important ways. Firstly, the focus is on national memory politics, that is the decisions of the parliament, government, and president oriented toward shaping collective memory. And second, only internal memory politics is discussed; that is, bi- or multilateral memory-political relations with other states or political unions are not examined separately. The analysis is built on four interrelated dimensions of memory politics, which have played the most important roles in Estonia: the legal, institutional, commemorative, and monumental dimensions. Also, a general characterization and temporal articulation of memory politics in newly independent Estonia is proposed.

Economic Individualism and the Community Spirit: Divergent Orientation Patterns of Javanese Villagers in Rice Production and the Ritual Sphere

1989 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Schweizer
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Green Revolution ◽  
Rice Production ◽  
Rice Cultivation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
Increasing Trend ◽  
Economic Individualism ◽  
Village Communities

In recent years there has been much evidence of an increasing trend towards the individualization of economic and social relations in Javanese village communities. The Green Revolution has been depicted as the main cause of the acceleration of this process in the present. Observations abound on labour-saving devices in rice cultivation, on the monetarization of wages and agrarian inputs, and on the commercial sale of yields (Aass 1986; Hart 1986; Hüsken 1984; Maurer 1984, 1986; Schweizer 1987, forthcoming). The roots of these monetary and commercial developments in the Javanese village economy reach far back into the past (Breman 1983; Carey 1986; Elson 1984; Knight 1982; Svensson 1983). But in the present these changes gain pace. There is evidence, too, that in the field of political relations the diffuse patron-client ties between village officials and the inhabitants in some places yield to a more rationalized, selfish style of leadership (Keeler 1985).

Carbon Black—Latex Masterbatches

1961 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 1485-1500 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. J. J. Janssen ◽  
K. V. Weinstock
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Black ◽  
Steady Increase ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Potential Value ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future

Abstract The steady increase in production of black latex masterbatches over the past three years makes it appear probable that the process has become firmly established the “second time aroud”, and its potential value in various development projects promises even greater importance in the future. The following list of advantages and disadvantages of the process has been compiled from many of the articles to which we have already referred. In addition, statements by Drogin, Forrester, LaPorte, Malone, and Samuels are used.

PROJECT-LEVEL INFLUENCES ON THE MANAGEMENT AND ORGANISATION OF PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT IN ENGINEERING

2001 ◽  
Vol 05 (04) ◽  
pp. 517-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
NEIL ALDERMAN ◽  
ALFRED THWAITES ◽  
DAVID MAFFIN
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Engineering Industry ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Engineering Product ◽  
Traditional Process ◽  
Project Structure ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Project Level

Many current models of the product development process pay insufficient attention to the impact of project-level influences. This paper looks at the case of the engineering industry in which product development is seen to proceed in two very distinct ways: the traditional process in which development takes place "off-line", and the contract process in which development takes place as part of a contract to manufacture a product for a specific customer. Drawing on two recent studies of engineering product development projects, the paper looks at how project-level influences lead to differences in project organisation and management in terms of the particular project structure adopted and in the involvement of different disciplines, internal and external to the company. This has implications for the way in which companies should interpret generic prescriptions regarding product development.

scholarly journals Leveraging multifaceted proximity measures among developers in predicting future collaborations to improve the social capital of software projects

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (11) ◽  
pp. 1240-1271
Author(s):  
Amit Kumar ◽  
Sonali Agarwal
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Tracking System ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Collaboration Network ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Proximity Measures ◽  
Project Level

Social capital is an asset earned by people through their social connections. One of the motivations among developers to contribute to open source development and maintenance tasks is to earn social capital. Recent studies suggest that the social capital of the project has an impact on the sustained participation of the developers in open source software (OSS). One way to improve the social capital of the project is to help the developers in connecting with their peers. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is no prior research which attempts to predict future collaborations among developers and establish the significance of these collaborations on improving the social capital at the project level. To address this research gap, in this paper, we model the past collaborations among developers on version control system (VCS) and issue tracking system (ITS) as homogeneous and heterogeneous developer social network (DSN). Along with the novel path count based features, defined on proposed heterogeneous DSN, multifaceted proximity features are used to generate a feature set for machine learning classifiers. Our experiments performed on 5 popular open source projects (Spark, Kafka, Flink, WildFly, Hibernate) indicate that the proposed approach can predict the future collaborations among developers on both the platforms i.e. VCS as well as ITS with a significant accuracy (AUROC up to 0.85 and 0.9 for VCS and ITS respectively). A generic metric- recall of gain in social capital is proposed to investigate the efficacy of these predicted collaborations in improving the social capital of the project. We also concretised this metric on various measures of social capital and found that collaborations predicted by our approach have significant potential to improve the social capital at project level (e.g. Recall of gain in cohesion index up to 0.98 and Recall of gain in average godfather index up to 0.99 for VCS). We also showed that structure of collaboration network has an impact on the accuracy and usefulness of predicted collaborations. Since the past research suggests that many newcomers abandon the open source project due to social barriers which they face after joining the project, our research outcomes can be used to build the recommendation systems which might help to retain such developers by improving their social ties based on similar skills/interests.

scholarly journals A Decade of Successful Collaborations in Nutritional Compound Process Research and Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 75 (11) ◽  
pp. 957-966
Author(s):  
Werner Bonrath ◽  
Roman Goy ◽  
Ulla Létinois ◽  
Marc-André Müller ◽  
Thomas Netscher ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Chemical Processes ◽  
Process Research ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Chemical Transformations ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Catalytic Systems ◽  
The Past ◽  
Compound Process ◽  
Synthetic Routes

Collaborations between academia and industry are vital for modern industrial research and development projects, combining the best of both worlds to develop sustainable chemical processes. Herein we summarize a number of successful cooperations between DSM Nutritional Products and Swiss academic institutions that have been carried out over approximately the past decade. A wide variety of reactions and processes have been investigated with experts located in Switzerland. New synthetic routes, chemical transformations and reactor concepts have been developed to produce industrially relevant compounds. Additionally the scope of known catalytic systems has been probed and new catalysts showing improved selectivity have been designed, synthesized and tested. We describe how the research was supported by DSM, the parallel in-house investigations and also how the projects were continued and further developed.

scholarly journals KOMUNIKASI KEBERAGAMAN TENTANG MAKNA UCAPAN SALAM OM SWASTIASTU ANTAR UMAT BERAGAMA

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Zikri Fachrul Nurhadi ◽  
Achmad Wildan Kurniawan ◽  
Abdul Rofi ◽  
Iis Zilfah Adnan
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Unpleasant Experience

This research is motivated by the phenomenon of the pros and cons of greeting Om Swastiastu among officials. The purpose of this study is to find and explain more deeply about the motives, experiences and meaning of Om Swastiastu's greetings for communication between religions. The research method used in this research is the phenomenology method. While the data collection techniques used are non-participant observation, in-depth interviews, literature study and documentation. The subjects of this study were government officials or apparatuses who said Om Swastiastu greeting, amounting to 7 people and taking informants using purposive sampling. The results showed that the future motives (in order motive) greetings from Om Swastiastu were self existence and tolerance and motives from the past (because motive) greetings from Om Swastiastu were due to internal encouragement, the spirit of nationality, a sense of nationalism and the principle of neutrality. While the experience of saying Om swastiastu greetings is divided into pleasant experiences (positive), that is feeling valued, getting new political relations, good treatment, sympathy and growing solidarity between people while the unpleasant experience (negative) is mandating unfavorable treatment, derision in the form of harsh words, criticism and stay away from and considered to have no stance. While the meaning of Om swastiastu's greetings is to pray for salvation in the Hindu version, a word of thanksgiving and a greeting.

scholarly journals Ontwikkeling – die illusie van die twintigste eeu?

2004 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
B.J. Van der Walt
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
South African ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Success Story ◽  
The Past ◽  
Christian Perspective ◽  
Critical Insight ◽  
Scientific Results

Development – the illusion of the twentieth century? Extensive research during especially the last decade has indicated inter alia that development has not been the success story so often portrayed; that the concept itself is not as clear as it was supposed to be and that the current kind of development is not necessarily the only way to advance human well-being. The question has even been asked whether development was not the great(est) illusion of the past fifty years. Christians and the various South African denominations which, because of the poverty in society, are getting involved in all kinds of development projects, should take cognisance of these scientific results about development. To prevent ultimate disappointment the aim of this article is not to reject the alleviation of poverty through development. An overview of the massive amount of available material intends to contribute towards more critical insight. By way of a brief historical overview this article first traces the origin and ideal of development. Without ignoring the successful projects, it then draws attention to the general failure of development. This is followed by a more detailed investigation into the possible reasons for its failure. In conclusion the alternative of a Christian perspective on development is considered.

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