scholarly journals A FRAMEWORK FOR ENHANCING AND GUARDING THE RELEVANCE AND QUALITY OF SCIENCE: THE CASE OF THE CGIAR

2003 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. H. KASSAM ◽  
H. M. GREGERSEN ◽  
E. FERERES ◽  
E. Q. JAVIER ◽  
R. R. HARWOOD ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Strategy Development ◽  
Reform Process ◽  
Primary Role ◽  
Dynamic Feedback ◽  
Efficient Manner ◽  
Consultation Process ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Right

As part of the reform process of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), its Technical Advisory Committee is being transformed into a Science Council. An interim Science Council has been operating since January 2002. The primary role of the Council will be to enhance and guard the relevance and quality of science in the CGIAR System. Relevance is viewed as researching the ‘right things’ to address the System's goals, and deals with the relevance of identified research priorities and strategies and the nature of the planning and consultation process. Ex-ante analyses of need and potential impact to formulate the priorities and strategies are important elements in defining relevance. Quality is viewed as researching the ‘right things well’ and deals with the efficient use of state-of-the-art knowledge, research methods and protocols. The paper outlines the interim Council's suggestions for an operational framework of the Science Council. It serves as a starting point for the development of specific criteria, procedures and guidelines for carrying out the envisioned responsibilities. The Science Council must act in a strategic advisory role, basing its advice on: (i) planning and strategy development in the context of CGIAR goals; (ii) internal self-assessments by CGIAR Centres and Programmes and independent external monitoring and evaluation; and (iii) impact assessments. The paper discusses these three complementary functions. Each depends on the other in a dynamic feedback process that is essential if the CGIAR is to remain at the frontiers of science and development, maintain its science relevance and quality, and contribute in the most effective and efficient manner to the mission and goal of the Group.

scholarly journals Pravo na palijativnu skrb za djecu u Republici Hrvatskoj

2020 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-91
Author(s):  
Marina Milić Babić ◽  
Marina Hranj
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Right To Health ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Right To Health Care ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Right

Palliative care for children means active, complete care on physical, psychological, social and spiritual levels, and it includes collaboration and active work with the family. Palliative care for children lasts during the period of illness and continues after the death of the child in the form of expert assistance to the family in their grief. Such care follows the principles of individual, holistic, transdisciplinary and biopsychosocial-spiritual approaches that come together in promoting the quality of life of a child and his or her family. Numerous legal sources are the starting point for defining palliative care for children as a fundamental human right to health care, as well as for defining basic actions within this fundamental right. The right to palliative care includes rights from different systems, and collaboration and linking of different disciplines are needed in order to meet the needs of the child and his family. The aim of this paper is to present crucial knowledge in the field of palliative care for children and to examine how this right is implemented and legally regulated in the Republic of Croatia.

Problems and strategy of educational development in Morocco

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 430-439
Author(s):  
El Houssine Mabrouk
Keyword(s):  
Strategy Development ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Emergency Plan ◽  
University System ◽  
Structural Problems ◽  
Education Strategy ◽  
The Right ◽  
Keywords Education ◽  
System Today

The quality of education is one of the major challenges facing many countries in the world, and Morocco is strongly concerned. Health and education in the Kingdom remain the sectors that suffer the most, and where there are many dysfunctions. Since Independence, the Moroccan education system has been subject to several reforms, involving a considerable amount of work and money spent without finding the right formula. From Arabisation to the emergency plan 2009–2012, passing through a large number of successive proposals, wiping failure after failure in the absence of a rigorous plan. As a result, the entire school and university system today suffers from structural problems. Keywords: Education, strategy, development.

scholarly journals Innovation on the example of logistics

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 1121-1133
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Puszko
Keyword(s):  
Customer Service ◽  
Optimum Level ◽  
Primary Role ◽  
Turbulent Environments ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Actual Effectiveness ◽  
Basic Characteristics ◽  
The Right ◽  
Efficiency Orientation

Businesses operating in turbulent environments must look for ways that will allow them to survive, grow, succeed and increase efficiency. The need to be effective, flexible and innovative is imperative for the functioning and development of modern enterprises. Efficiency is characterized by a wide range of content, as it relates to effects, goals, expenditures and costs in terms of structure and dynamics. Efficiency is an ambiguous and differently interpreted notion of economy, business, process, finance, motivation or logistics. Logistics is an efficiency orientation based on the comprehensive analysis and shaping of the optimum level and structure of outlays and their transformation into costs, where the primary role is to strive for the right level and quality of service and customer service. Considering the effectiveness issue it should be noted that it has not only a real but also a potential dimension. It is therefore important in the systemic sense of the effectiveness of logistics to study not only actual effectiveness but also potential effectiveness. In terms of the subject matter studied, the following basic characteristics of the system are important: stability, adaptability and innovation. Therefore, the article describes the theoretical bases of effectiveness and the place and importance of innovative in efficiency, with particular emphasis on logistics.

scholarly journals INDICADORES QUALITATIVOS DO AMBIENTE EDÁFICO E SERVIÇOS ECOSSISTÊMICOS EM DIFERENTES SISTEMAS DE OCUPAÇÃO DA TERRA

Nativa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 519-527
Author(s):  
João Henrique Constantino Sales Silva ◽  
Alex da Silva Barbosa ◽  
Moisés Bittar de Araújo ◽  
Daniel da Silva Gomes ◽  
Alexandre Amadeu Cerqueira de Miranda ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Agroforestry System ◽  
Environmental Indicators ◽  
Native Forest ◽  
Land Occupation ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Starting Point

O conceito de sustentabilidade tem levado a pesquisa agropecuária a uma crescente busca de modelos alternativos e sustentáveis para a agricultura, sendo as formas de uso e manejo do solo o ponto de partida determinante para a compreensão da dinâmica do ambiente edáfico e serviços ambientais dos agroecossistemas. Sendo assim, este trabalho teve como objetivo avaliar a qualidade do ambiente edáfico e serviços ecossitêmicos em diferentes sistemas de ocupação da terra, através de indicadores ambientais qualitativos. Foram selecionados indicadores sustentáveis de diagnóstico participativo para avaliar quatro sistemas de ocupação da terra: pastagem, mandala agrícola, sistema agroflorestal (SAF) e mata nativa. O conjunto de dados dos indicadores do solo foi analisado por meio de uma Análise dos Componentes Principais (ACP). O sistema agroflorestal apresenta semelhanças na qualidade do ambiente edáfico e serviços ecossistêmicos quando comparado à área de mata nativa. Recomenda-se que práticas de manejo de conservação do solo sejam adotadas nos sistemas com maior intervenção antrópica, a exemplo da pastagem e mandala agrícola. Palavras-chave: indicadores ambientais; qualidade do solo; manejo; agroecossistemas.   Qualitative indicators of the edaphic environment and ecosystem services in different land occupation systems   ABSTRACT: The concept of sustainability has led agricultural research to a growing search for alternative and sustainable models for agriculture, with the forms of land use and management being the determining starting point for understanding the dynamics of the edaphic environment and environmental services of agroecosystems. Therefore, this work aimed to evaluate the quality of the edaphic environment and ecosystem services in different land occupation systems, through qualitative environmental indicators. Sustainable indicators of participatory diagnosis were selected to assess four land occupation systems: pasture, agricultural mandala, agroforestry system and native forest. The data set of the soil indicators was analyzed using a Principal Component Analysis (PCA). The agroforestry system has similarities in the quality of the edaphic environment and ecosystem services when compared to the native forest area. It is recommended that soil conservation management practices be adopted in systems with greater anthropic intervention, such as pasture and agricultural mandala. Keywords: environmental indicators; soil quality; management; agroecosystems.

scholarly journals Persons with Disabilities Facing the Mirage of the Right to Education: A Systematic Review of the Literature

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yonatan Díaz Santa María ◽  
Jesús Molina Saorín
Keyword(s):  
Functional Performance ◽  
History Of Education ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
International Convention ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Right ◽  
Educational Path

This article collects the educational path derived from the significant changes that have taken place throughout the recent history of education in Spain and, specifically, in relation to people with disabilities. As a starting point, an analysis is carried out of the transformations that have occurred in the discourse on the education of people with lower functional performance, until a historical approach is reached by virtue of which the different stages and binding educational regulations are revealed (with national and international character), highlighting‒exclusively–those that have a direct impact on the quality of life of people in a situation of disabilities. As can be imagined, the history of education in Spain has evolved as policies have changed their purposes around the diversity of students and their universality in the classroom. In this sense, the need to make visible this new paradigm of human rights derived from the International Convention on the Rights of Persons in a situation of Disabilities (UN, 2006) and, in contrast, the continuity of a national corpus juris that reveals the ineffectiveness of the State and other institutions to extinguish situations of discrimination on the grounds of low functional performance.

scholarly journals QUALITY ASSURANCE IN OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
MARJAN BILBAN
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Occupational Medicine ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Well Being ◽  
World Health ◽  
Efficient Manner ◽  
Quality Healthcare ◽  
Assurance System ◽  
The Right

Abstract:According to World Health Organization's definition, quality healthcare is one meeting agreed-upon criteria, using all current knowledge and available funds to meet expectations regarding improving the well-being of a patient and reducing health risks they are exposed to. Quality healthcare uses effective healthcare procedures, treats the right people and does so in an efficient manner, of course considering the circumstances. Due to specifics that arise in the field, occupational medicine is one of the fields where appropriate implementation of a quality assurance system could greatly improve the quality of work. Medical errors should be accepted as everyday companions of our work and as a source of valuable experience, which will help us ensure greater safety for our patients as well as ourselves. Discovery and elimination of deviations should thus become primarily a means of quality improvement as we try to establish our priorities. Key words:quality,occupational medicine, supervision

scholarly journals The improvement possibilities in the study of the logistics of the military operations

Vojno delo ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 56-78
Author(s):  
Marko Andrejić ◽  
Marjan Mirčevski
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
Functional Capabilities ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Legal Obligations ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Times ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Military

The imperative posed by modern logistics systems is aimed at achieving the ability to recognize the request of the users of the logistics service, to shorten the response time and the provision of the service, to rationalize the use of resources and to achieve the highest efficiency. In order to ensure adequate logistics of the Army in the conduct of operations, it is necessary, among other things, to have sufficient human resources, and it is necessary to create personnel through the process of education and upbringing, studying the right contents and the right way. Army operations are large-scale project-type jobs that are complex in terms of organization and technology of execution, are inimitable, employ considerable resources that are limited in principle, require good coordination (coordinated action), homogeneous handling, and skillful management of resources of all kinds. In order to ensure the high quality of Army operations, it is very important to have a balanced view of Army operations between general management interested in the aggregate quality of operations quality and logistics professionals engaged in special and individual specialties within the "aggregate" quality function. It is necessary that the supported system and the logistical system achieve dialectical unity and act more synergistically. The needs of the practice, the demands of the times, and contemporary trends require that more work be done to modernize the way Army operations are studied and the logistics of operations, as the development of higher education science, organization and technology, and the use of forces and resources (resources) require it. The study of the logistics of the Army's operations (and the operations of the Army as a whole) should be done on the principles and logic of a systemic and situational approach, realizing the triune unity of matter, information, and measures. This provides the necessary comprehensive knowledge (as opposed to factual and fragmentary) and avoids the kaleidoscopic picture of reality. General theoretical knowledge in the field of planning and management, project management, quality, and teamwork is an adequate basis for improving the study and operational work on the logistics of operations. The synthesis of available domestic and foreign, civilian and military, theoretical and empirical knowledge of operations logistics and military operations creates a solid starting point for advancing thinking about the logistics of military operations and arouses greater interest in the military and the University of Defense, for this area very important for the country's defense. Changes in access to operations logistics will also trigger changes in access to operations of the military as a whole. By improving the study of the logistics of the operations of the Army, it contributes, among other benefits, to the enhancement of the personnel's personal capacity, the ability of commands and staffs, and the enhancement of the Army's overall operational and functional capabilities and its ability to fulfill constitutional and legal obligations.

scholarly journals PERLINDUNGAN HAK DAN PEMENUHAN AKSES ATAS KESEHATAN BAGI TENAGA KERJA INDONESIA DI LUAR NEGERI

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Aktieva Tri Tjitrawati
Keyword(s):  
Health Insurance ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Health Coverage ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Right ◽  
Universal Health

AbstractMillions of Indonesian migrant workers living in other countries, most of them are illegal workers and are not covered by health insurance. They are very susceptible to disease because of poor quality of life and does not have access to health care. Sovereignty of the  recipient State confine Indonesia  to provide health protection for them,, as it has been provided by all the citizens in Indonesia through the mechanism of National Health Insurance (JKN). Protection of the right to health as part of human rights in this study is used as a starting point the imposition of obligations of the state, both sending and receiving, to cooperate in  improving the health of migrant workers. Cooperation can be done through the establishment of international agreements on the implementation of Universal Health Coverag, both in the sending and receiving States.IntisariJutaan buruh migran Indonesia tinggal di luar negeri, sebagian besar dari mereka adalah ilegal dan tidak tercakup oleh asuransi kesehatan. Mereka sangat rentan terhadap penyakit akibat buruknya kualitas hidup dan tidak dimilikinya akses terhadap sarana kesehatan.  Kedaulatan negara penerima menghalangi tangan negara pengirim untuk memberikan perlindungan kesehatan, sebagaimana yang telah diterima oleh semua warga di Indonesia melalui mekanisme Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional (JKN). Perlindungan hak atas kesehatan sebagai bagian dari hak asasi manusia dalam penelitian ini digunakan sebagai titik awal pengenaan kewajiban negara, baik negara pengirim maupun negara penerima, untuk bekerja sama dalam meningkatkan derajat kesehatan pekerja migran. Kerjasama dapat dilakukan melalui pembentukan perjanjian internasional mengenai penerapan Universal Health Coverage yang berlaku, baik di negara pengirim maupun negara penerima.

ANALYSIS OF REGULATIONS REGARDING THE SETTLEMENT OF ISSUES ON THE REMOVAL AND RECOVERY OF PLANTATIONS IN THE RIGHT-OF-WAY OF PUBLIC ROADS

2020 ◽  
pp. 55-60
Author(s):  
Nataliia Kharytonova ◽  
Olha Mykolaienko ◽  
Tetyana Lozova
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Safety ◽  
Climatic Factors ◽  
Visual Orientation ◽  
Right Of Way ◽  
Adverse Weather ◽  
Overhead Power Lines ◽  
The Right ◽  
Neck Diameter ◽  
Proper Operation

Greening of roads contributes to the protection of roads and their elements from influence of adverse weather and climatic factors; it includes the measures for improvement and landscaping of roads, ensures the protection of roadside areas from transport pollution, provides visual orientation of drivers. The solution of these issues will ensure creation and maintenance of safe and comfortable conditions for travelers. Green plantings in the right-of-way road area include woody, bushy, flower and grass vegetation of natural and artificial origin. For proper operation of public roads and satisfaction of other needs of the industry, there may be the need in removing the greenery. The reason for the removal of greenery in the right-of-way road area may be due to the following factors: construction of the architectural object, widening of the motor road, repair works in the security zone of overhead power lines, water supply, drainage, heating, telecommunications facilities, cutting of hazardous, dry and fautal trees, as well as self-grown and brushwood trees with a root neck diameter not exceeding 5 cm, elimination of the consequences of natural disasters and emergencies. The removal of plantations in the right-of-way area is executed in order to ensure traffic safety conditions and to improve the quality of plantations composition and their protective properties. Nowadays, in Ukraine there is no clear procedure for issuing permits for removing of such plantations. In order to resolve this issue, there is a need in determining the list of regulations in the area of forest resources of Ukraine and, if needed, the list of regulatory acts that have to be improved; to prepare a draft of the regulatory legal act that would establish the procedure of plantations cutting, the methodology of their condition determination, recovery costs determination, the features of cutting. Keywords: plantations, cutting, right-of-way, woodcutting permit, order.

EFFECTIVENESS OF DOSING APPLICATION OF BENATAL GROUP HERBICIDES IN SUGAR BEET SOWING

1970 ◽  
pp. 49-51
Author(s):  
V. Z. Venevtsev ◽  
М. N. Zakharova ◽  
L. V. Rozhkova
Keyword(s):  
Sugar Beet ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Humus Content ◽  
Crop Protection ◽  
Experimental Plot ◽  
Agricultural Research Institute ◽  
Row Crops ◽  
Sugar Beet Variety ◽  
Sowing Machine

Ryazan region annually receives stable yields of sugar beet roots 40 t/ha. Further growth of yields depends on balanced nutrition of plants cultivated hybrids, from the quality of the soil and of the phytosanitary State of sowing culture. Weed vegetation in wider spaced row crops of sugar beet in the initial periods of vegetation is high competition culture. The article presents the results of three studies on the effectiveness of the herbicide betanalnoj group, used to reduce contamination of sowing culture annual dicotyledonous weeds and increase the harvest of sugar beet roots. Studies conducted on experimental fields ISSA-branch FGBNU FNAC WIM (former AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE in Ryazan). Soil: dark grey forest tjazhelosuglinistaja, humus content 4.0%, potassium and phosphorus-high pH is 5.8. Area of cultivated plots 50 m2, repetition, four sugar beet variety-Ocean. The predecessor-winter wheat. Under the autumn ploughing had made NPK120 under presowing cultivation-N60, SEV conducted seeder sowing machine. For crop protection herbicides were tested annually of sugar beet Betanal progress, UF-1.0 l/HA, Forte di Belvedere-1.0 l/HA, Betanal Max Pro-1.5 l/HA, Bajrang engineering works Super-1.5 l/HA, once applied to weeds. The harvest of sugar beet roots, take into account the square 10 m2 in 4-times repeated with each experimental plot by weighing machinery, processed data by ANOVA. The research found that studied herbicides efficiently at 87-92%, reduced infestation annual dicotyledonous weeds and increase the harvest of sugar beet roots to 29.9-44.1%

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