The poor condition of the U.S. infrastructure

2008 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 70-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Charles
Keyword(s):  
Poor Condition ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The U.S

The United States Congress and Africanist Scholars

1991 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-13
Author(s):  
David S. Wiley
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
African Studies ◽  
United States Congress ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
The U.S

Linking scholars to the Congress is difficult primarily because of the weakness of Congressional interest in Africa, but also due to the low levels of interest among academics in both Congress and its Africa foreign policy and the poor resources of African studies in the U.S. to build a foundation of knowledge useful to the Congress.

On improving the training of aircraft engineers

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 865-885
Author(s):  
Leonid B. SOBOLEV
Keyword(s):  
Aviation Industry ◽  
Information Protection ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Space Industry ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Military Aviation ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Performance Results ◽  
The Military ◽  
The U.S

Subject. The article continues the discussion about the method of training aircraft engineers to work in the military and civil segments of aviation and rocket-and-space industry. Objectives. The purpose is to improve the training of Russian engineers to work in the competitive market environment, on the basis of the analysis of experience in training the aviation engineers in leading foreign technical universities. Methods. The study rests on the comparative analysis of implementation of major projects in the military and civil segments of aviation in the U.S. and Russia, as well as programs for training aircraft engineers in both countries. Results. The analysis shows that the duration of modern large military aviation projects in both countries is the same (the comparison of cost is impossible, due to information protection in Russia), while in the civil segment of the aviation industry, Russia's lagging behind is significant both in terms of the duration of projects and performance results. One of the reasons is in the poor training of aircraft engineers to work in the competitive environment. Conclusions. It is crucial to reform Russian aviation universities in terms of conformity to global trends in multidisciplinarity and differentiation of financing and research base.

U.S. Guns Kill U.S. Nuns

2020 ◽  
pp. 101-130
Author(s):  
Theresa Keeley
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Central America ◽  
Central American ◽  
White House ◽  
Protest Movement ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Church ◽  
The U.S

This chapter examines the murders of the churchwomen and how Reagan officials' critiques, which revealed that intra-Catholic conflict had become an integral part of United States–Central America policy with Reagan's ascension to the White House. It looks at remarks that bolster the Salvadoran junta's reputation or diminish the murders' impact on the protest movement against U.S. policy. It also discusses that the murdered churchwomen symbolized the church's championing of the poor and a U.S. foreign policy that was morally corrupt and politically unsound for training and arming their killers. The chapter cites that two murdered Maryknollers were members of a Catholic order and represented a dangerous trajectory for U.S. foreign policy and the church. It elaborates how the U.S. government aligned with conservative U.S. and Central American Catholics and amplified their perspective.

scholarly journals Giant saccular aneurysm of the innominate artery

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Robaldo ◽  
Dimitri Apostolou ◽  
Enrico Peano ◽  
Claudio Novali
Keyword(s):  
Rare Case ◽  
Innominate Artery ◽  
Covered Stent ◽  
Treatment Choice ◽  
Saccular Aneurysm ◽  
Term Outcome ◽  
Early Term ◽  
Poor Condition ◽  
The Poor

Abstract We report a rare case of a saccular aneurysm of innominate artery without any apparent causative history. Although the treatment choice remains debatable, due to the poor condition of the patient, the lesion was excluded by using a balloon-expandable covered stent with a satisfactory early-term outcome.

scholarly journals President Obama, poverty, and the scope and limits of social policy change

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Waddan
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Medicaid Program ◽  
President Obama ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Poverty Measures ◽  
The Us ◽  
The U.S

AbstractThere has been a growing discussion in recent years about rising inequality in the U.S. Yet, this discourse, in focusing on the fortunes of the top 1%, distracted attention from the design of policy initiatives aimed at improving socio-economic conditions for the poor. This paper examines the development of anti-poverty politics and policy in the US during the Obama era. It analyses how effective the strategies and programmes adopted were and asks how they fit with models of policy change. The paper illustrates that the Obama administration did adopt an array of anti-poverty measures in the stimulus bill, but these built on existing programmes rather than create new ones and much of the effort was stymied by institutional obstacles. The expansion of the Medicaid program, which was part of the ACA, was also muted by institutional opposition, but it was a more path breaking reform than is often appreciated.

Assessing Intelligence Performance

2010 ◽  
pp. 86-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Gentry
Keyword(s):  
General Theory ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Theory Of Intelligence ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Intelligence Services ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Intelligence Agencies ◽  
Performance Rate ◽  
The U.S

Literatures on intelligence predominantly focus on intelligence failures, often explicitly claiming that the failures reflect the poor performance of the intelligence agencies as a whole. Despite negative claims on the performance of these agencies, politicians, citizens, and scholars often have little to discuss on intelligence performance. They seldom ask what the intelligence services do in aggregate; what their performance rate is; how the infrequent yet prominent failures compare to ongoing performance that is invisible to the outsiders because it is at least adequate; and how ignorance of the performance of the different types of intelligence activities affects the overall assessment of the intelligence services. This little discussion on some of the important aspects of intelligence performance resulted in the absence of general theory of intelligence performance. To judge better intelligence performance, understanding the functions and the nature of work of the intelligence services is a must. This article hence uses existing theory and available data to determine the theory of the whole performance of intelligence agencies. It also provides a scorecard of the recent performance of the U.S. intelligence and suggests avenues for future research.

Presidents Preferred Sons

1995 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Betzig ◽  
Samantha Weber
Keyword(s):  
Good Condition ◽  
Executive Branch ◽  
Vice Presidents ◽  
Poor Condition ◽  
Fathers And Sons ◽  
The U.S

Trivers and Willard (1973) argued that, in polygynous species, parents “in good condition” should bias investment toward sons, while parents “in poor condition” should bias investment toward daughters. Biographical evidence on men in the U.S. executive branch—including presidents, vice presidents, and cabinet secretaries—suggests they produced more sons than daughters in the first cohort (Presidents Washington through Garfield), but roughly equal numbers of sons and daughters in the second cohort (Presidents Arthur through Reagan). The same pattern holds for presidents' fathers and sons. Presidents' wills reflect the pattern again: men in the first cohort (Washington through Garfield) favored their sons, overall, slightly more than their daughters; for men in the second cohort (Arthur through Reagan), that bias disappears.

The Fallacy Of Philanthropy

2002 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Gomberg
Keyword(s):  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Peter Singer ◽  
Absolute Poverty ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Peter Unger ◽  
The U.S

Should we stop spending money on things we do not really need and send the money instead to groups that aid victims of absolute poverty? Garrett Cullity and Peter Unger have given renewed vigor to the well known argument by Peter Singer that we should do this. Like Singer, Cullity and Unger compare our duties to the poor to our duties when we encounter a victim of calamity, such as a child in danger of drowning. (Unger argues that our duties to the poor are even more pressing.) Singer and Unger tell us what to do and why we must do it; most starkly, Unger gives us the names, addresses, and toll-free phone numbers of four organizations to which we can donate, and the book cover tells us that the author's royalties are going equally to Oxfam America and the U.S. Committee for UNICEF. Unger dissolves the divide between theory and practice.

scholarly journals Evaluating The Use of Paralegal Approach in Policy Advocacy

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Ramaditya Rahardian ◽  
Rina Herlina Haryanti ◽  
Nadya Audina S Kurnia
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Government Regulation ◽  
Adverse Impact ◽  
Theoretical Interpretation ◽  
Policy Advocacy ◽  
Poor Condition ◽  
The Poor

The purpose of this paper is to explore the approach adopted by workers’ organizations in Surakarta city to use paralegal services in an effort to change the formula used in calculating minimum wage in government regulation No.  78 / 2015.  Data were collected using interview and documentation techniques.  Data obtained in the field were analyzed using qualitative methods, that by understanding meaning of the phenomenon and making theoretical interpretation.  Results of the research showed that advocacy to reject the formula used in calculating the minimum wage based on government regulation No.78/2015 using several ways that included influencing policy implementation, managing   public opinion and creating space for a movement that opposes the policy. The study shows that workers who were strongly opposed to government regulation No.78/2015, used various policy advocacy channels to press their case, that included  attempt to influence the implementation of the regulation, influence public opinion of the adverse impact of the regulation on worker wellbeing, and portraying the poor condition of workers’ welfare that requires government through actions that support higher wages  rather than efforts that reduce their future incomes. 

scholarly journals WHILE WE WAIT - NUCLEAR WASTE FACILITY RISØ

Detritus ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Ravnborg
Keyword(s):  
Radioactive Waste ◽  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Poor Condition ◽  
Unique Structure ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Societal Context ◽  
Waste Facility

​This project addresses issues associated with the disposal of Danish nuclear waste generated during the operations and decommissioning of the Risø Research Centre. The issue is highly relevant in view of the alarm created by current storage of the waste at Risø. Due to the poor condition of the concrete canisters containing the radioactive waste, a decision as to how best to manage the waste is a priority matter. The most appropriate solution would be represented by use of a depot: a building complex developed to house and encase the radioactive waste for several future generations. The depot would represent a unique structure, the distinctive and mysterious function of which would undoubtedly generate a great deal of debate. The project is a concrete idea of how disposal can be incorporated into an extended societal context. Storage of radioactive substances is a global problem frequently associated with strong feelings. By addressing the issue from an architectural point of view, hopefully a humane dimension can be conveyed to a highly inhumane subject, and potentially result in the erection of a monument that gives something back to its surroundings rather than acting as an unpleasant burden.

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