scholarly journals Long-term mechanism and key issues of trans-provincial and trans-regional power transmission

2020 ◽  
Vol 446 ◽  
pp. 042038
Author(s):  
Chenghui Tang ◽  
Fan Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Power Transmission ◽  
Regional Power ◽  
Key Issues

Populism and Liberal Democracy

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takis S. Pappas
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Comprehensive Theory ◽  
The People ◽  
Original Definition ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Great Relevance ◽  
Definition Of

Based on an original definition of modern populism as “democratic illiberalism” and many years of meticulous research, Takis Pappas marshals extraordinary empirical evidence from Argentina, Greece, Peru, Italy, Venezuela, Ecuador, Hungary, the United States, Spain, and Brazil to develop a comprehensive theory about populism. He addresses all key issues in the debate about populism and answers significant questions of great relevance for today’s liberal democracy, including: • What is modern populism and how can it be differentiated from comparable phenomena like nativism and autocracy? • Where in Latin America has populism become most successful? Where in Europe did it emerge first? Why did its rise to power in the United States come so late? • Is Trump a populist and, if so, could he be compared best with Venezuela’s Chávez, France’s Le Pens, or Turkey’s Erdoğan? • Why has populism thrived in post-authoritarian Greece but not in Spain? And why in Argentina and not in Brazil? • Can populism ever succeed without a charismatic leader? If not, what does leadership tell us about how to challenge populism? • Who are “the people” who vote for populist parties, how are these “made” into a group, and what is in their minds? • Is there a “populist blueprint” that all populists use when in power? And what are the long-term consequences of populist rule? • What does the expansion, and possibly solidification, of populism mean for the very nature and future of contemporary democracy? Populism and Liberal Democracy will change the ways the reader understands populism and imagines the prospects of liberal democracy.

Other Biological Approaches to OCD

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole C. R. McLaughlin ◽  
Benjamin D. Greenberg
Keyword(s):  
Deep Brain Stimulation ◽  
Brain Stimulation ◽  
Response To Treatment ◽  
History Of ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Term Management ◽  
Deep Brain

Interest in psychiatric neurosurgery has waxed and waned since the 1930s. This chapter reviews the history of these methods, with a focus on OCD. This review of lesion procedures and deep brain stimulation includes neuropsychological and neuroimaging research in the context of putative neurocircuitry underlying symptoms and response to treatment. The chapter highlights how an abundance of caution is needed, as well as key issues in long-term management of patients so treated.

Gaining access to the field in medical ethnography: Reflections on ethical, methodological, and structural challenges in the study of long-term care facilities

2021 ◽  
pp. 136345932098887
Author(s):  
Neta Roitenberg
Keyword(s):  
Long Term Care ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Medical Institutions ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Care Facilities ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Access To The Field ◽  
Medical Ethnography

The article extends the discussion on the challenges in gaining access to the field in medical ethnographic research, focusing on long-term care (LTC) facilities. Medical institutions have been documented to be difficult sites to access. The reference, however, is to the recruitment of patients as informants. The challenges of recruiting practitioners as informants have not been investigated at all. The article presents the key issues that emerged in the process of gaining social access at the sites of two LTC facilities as part of a study on care workers’ identities. The main obstacles encountered during the fieldwork were organizational constraints and negotiating control over the process of recruiting the lower occupational tier of care workers with gatekeepers. The article presents the coping strategies implemented to overcome the ethical and methodological obstacles: continually reassessing the consent and cooperation of participants and developing a rapport with nurse’s aides during interviews.

scholarly journals Measuring the long-term effects of informal science education experiences: challenges and potential solutions

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy L. Staus ◽  
John H. Falk ◽  
Aaron Price ◽  
Robert H. Tai ◽  
Lynn D. Dierking
Keyword(s):  
Science Learning ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Informal Science Education ◽  
Informal Science ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Science Center ◽  
Informal Science Learning ◽  
Learner Outcomes ◽  
Key Issues

AbstractDespite the fact that most science learning takes place outside of school, little is known about how engagement in informal science learning (ISL) experiences affects learners’ knowledge, skill development, interest, or identities over long periods of time. Although substantial ISL research has documented short-term outcomes such as the learning that takes place during a science center visit, research suggests that the genuine benefits of informal experiences are long-term transformations in learners as they pursue a “cascade” of experiences subsequent to the initial educational event. However, a number of major methodological challenges have limited longitudinal research projects investigating the long-term effects of ISL experiences. In this paper we identify and address four key issues surrounding the critical but challenging area of how to study and measure the long-term effects or impacts of ISL experiences: attribution, attrition, data collection, and analytic approaches. Our objective is to provide guidance to ISL researchers wishing to engage in long-term investigations of learner outcomes and to begin a dialogue about how best to address the numerous challenges involved in this work.

Long-Term Power Transmission Failures in Southeastern Brazil and the Geophysical Environment

2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 973-989 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magda A. S. Duro ◽  
Pierre Kaufmann ◽  
Fernando C. P. Bertoni ◽  
Emilio C. N. Rodrigues ◽  
José Pissolato Filho
Keyword(s):  
Power Transmission ◽  
Southeastern Brazil ◽  
Transmission Failures

Durability of potential plutonium wasteforms under repository conditions

2012 ◽  
Vol 76 (8) ◽  
pp. 2911-2918 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Deissmann ◽  
S. Neumeier ◽  
G. Modolo ◽  
D. Bosbach
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Reactivity ◽  
Final Decision ◽  
Geological Disposal ◽  
Aqueous Environments ◽  
Safety Case ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Uk ◽  
High Level ◽  
Radionuclide Release

AbstractSeparated stocks of UK civil plutonium are currently held as a zero value asset in storage, as there is no final decision about whether they should be treated as a resource for future use as nuclear fuel or as waste. Irrespective of future UK government strategies regarding plutonium, at least a portion of the UK civil plutonium inventory will be designated for geological disposal. In this context, we performed a high-level review of the performance of potential wasteforms for the disposal of separated civil plutonium. The key issues considered were the durability and chemical reactivity of the wasteforms in aqueous environments and the long-term radionuclide release under conditions relevant to geological disposal. The major findings of the review, relevant not only to the situation in the UK but to plutonium disposal in general, are summarized in this paper. The review showed that, in the event of a decision being taken to declare plutonium as a waste for disposal, more systematic studies would be required to constrain the wasteform performance under repository conditions in order to derive realistic source terms for a safety case.

The Temporal-Spatial Evolution of the Southern Corridor of West-to-East Power Transmission Project in China

2014 ◽  
Vol 521 ◽  
pp. 485-489
Author(s):  
Hong Hao Fu ◽  
Guo Tian Cai ◽  
Dai Qing Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Power Supply ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Power Transmission ◽  
Market Mechanism ◽  
Power Grids ◽  
Total Power ◽  
Spatial Process ◽  
Market Situation ◽  
Increasing Demand

This paper analyzes temporal and spatial process, and problems based on data between 1986 and 2010. Conclusions are as follows. Power supply of Guangdong relied more on distant outer-province power grids over time, not inner-province ones, close ones or independent power plants. This accelerating enlargement of power supply range could well satisfy its increasing power consumption. However, power production of western provinces couldnt simultaneously meet their own increasing demand and demand by Guangdong. Furthermore, total power transmission and electricity tariff were fixed by long-term framework agreements signed among governments, in which the transmission amount was too much while the tariff was too low, forcing the western provinces limiting their domestic demand without proper compensation. So the current enlarging trend of power supply range of Guangdong is unsustainable and its necessary to introduce power market mechanism through adjusting short-term total power transmission and power tariff according to the market situation.

Relevance and Objectives of Carrying Out Professional and Public Accreditation of Educational Programs in the Field of Human Resource Management

2021 ◽  
pp. 36-42
Author(s):  
O. Vlasova ◽  
Valeriya Konovalova ◽  
M. Fedotova
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Educational Organizations ◽  
Educational Organization ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Short And Long Term

The article is devoted to the development of the practice of applying the procedures of professional and public accreditation of educational programs in the field of human resource management. An overview of the regulatory and methodological framework for conducting accreditation examinations is presented. The key issues of interaction between the Council for Professional Qualifications, the accrediting and educational organization are identified, their content is disclosed and recommendations for educational organizations on preparing for the accreditation examination are presented. The article presents an analysis of the main advantages that educational organizations receive when conducting professional-public accreditation of educational programs and the reasons for their resistance, among which a low level of awareness of the accreditation procedure, the benefits of its implementation in the short and long term, is highlighted. A number of prospects for the development of professional-public accreditation and the use of its results have been substantiated, which can contribute to an increase in the interest of participants in the educational services market.

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