Romania and the Jews in the BBC Monitoring Service Reports, 1938–1948

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 545-564 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Stone
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Intelligence ◽  
The World ◽  
Jewish Emigration ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Changing Attitudes ◽  
Monitoring Service

Using the little-known BBC Monitoring Service (BBCM) archives, this article shows how Romanian governments in the period 1938–1948 chose to represent themselves via the medium of radio to the rest of the world. After introducing the BBCM and discussing the problems of using such Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) material, the article shows how four key aspects of Romanian history were presented by the Romanian authorities at this time: the wartime expropriation of Jews prior to their planned deportation; Romania’s changing of sides in the war as of 23 August 1944; the return of Jewish deportees after the war; and the communist governments’ changing attitudes towards Palestine/Israel and Jewish emigration. The article suggests that these sources are highly revealing but that they need to be used with considerable caution when trying to understand the tumultuous events of wartime Romanian history.

scholarly journals Worldwide version-controlled database of glacier thickness observations

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ethan Welty ◽  
Michael Zemp ◽  
Francisco Navarro ◽  
Matthias Huss ◽  
Johannes J. Fürst ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Thickness Measurement ◽  
Glacier Area ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
Glacier Ice ◽  
Monitoring Service ◽  
Thickness Measurements ◽  
Temporal Coverage

Abstract. Although worldwide inventories of glacier area have been coordinated internationally for several decades, a similar effort for glacier ice thicknesses was only initiated in 2013. Here, we present the third version of the Glacier Thickness Database (GlaThiDa v3), which includes 3 854 279 thickness measurements distributed over more than 3000 glaciers worldwide. Overall, 14 % of global glacier area is now within 1 km of a thickness measurement – a significant improvement over GlaThiDa v2, which covered only 6 % of global glacier area, and only 1100 glaciers. In this paper, we summarize the sources and compilation of glacier thickness data and the spatial and temporal coverage of the resulting database. In addition, we detail our use of open-source metadata formats and software tools to describe the data, validate the data against this description, and track changes to the data following modern data management best-practices. Archived versions GlaThiDa are available from the World Glacier Monitoring Service (https://doi.org/10.5904/wgms-glathida-2019-03; GlaThiDa Consortium (2019)) and the development version (v3.1.0-rc1, from which this manuscript draft is generated) is available on GitLab (https://gitlab.com/wgms/glathida/-/tree/v3.1.0-rc1).

Liquid uncertainty, chaos and complexity: The gig economy and the open source movement

Thesis Eleven ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 156 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-66
Author(s):  
Antony Bryant
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Source Model ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Paid Employment ◽  
Gig Economy ◽  
Live Music ◽  
The World ◽  
Current Context ◽  
Key Aspects

The gig economy has become a hot topic. The term itself derives from the world of entertainment, particularly live music, where performers striving for recognition hope to get a few ‘gigs’ – i.e. short-term and sporadic opportunities for paid employment, with the understanding that such engagements are limited and without any future obligation on either party – employer or employee. This seemingly gives both parties significant autonomy, albeit not in equal measure. Indeed, the terms ‘employer’ and ‘employee’, with respective connotations of extended and enduring responsibility, and mutual (if unequal) obligation, are hotly disputed. Are they self-employed contractors or employees of the company? In what follows, I show how key aspects of Zygmunt Bauman’s work prepare us for an understanding and appreciation of the gig economy, and other more extensive ramifications; particularly those exemplified in the success of the Open Source model, and its potential – or not – to provide the basis for new institutional forms appropriate and acceptable for our current context.

scholarly journals Alignment of biomedical data repositories with open, FAIR, citable and trust-worthy principles

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona Murphy ◽  
Michael Bar-Sinai ◽  
Maryann E. Martone
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
Information Network ◽  
Biomedical Data ◽  
Data Repositories ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Biomedical Community

AbstractIncreasing attention is being paid to the operation of biomedical data repositories in light of efforts to improve how scientific data is handled and made available for the long term. Simultaneously, groups around the world have been coming together to formalize principles that govern different aspects of open science and data sharing.The most well known are the FAIR data principles. These are joined by principles and practices that govern openness, citation, credit and good stewardship (trustworthiness). Together, these define a framework for data repositories to support Open, FAIR, Citable and Trustworthy (OFCT) data. Here we developed an instrument using the open source PolicyModels toolkit that attempts to operationalize key aspects of OFCT principles and applied the instrument to eight biomedical community repositories listed by the NIDDK Information Network (dkNET.org). The evaluation was performed through inspection of documentation and interaction with the sites. Overall, there was little explicit acknowledgement of any of the OFCT principles, although the majority of repositories provided at least some support for their tenets.

scholarly journals Private Investigation and Open Source INTelligence (OSINT)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco José Cesteros García
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Open Source Intelligence ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

Social Networks has changed the way of developing an investigation as far as people use to explain, graph, show and give details about their life. It is so because people need to communicate and need to share feelings and passionate life. Based on these facts, private investigation uses the information in public databases to make an approach to people, their facts and their details that they publically expose to the rest of the world. So, this chapter explains how to use the OSINT (Open Source INTelligence) methodology for legally become part of the steps on a private investigation. The information is growing up and people expose their images, comment and reference to other ones so it facilities the investigation of getting results. Actually OSINT is the first step that private investigation must consider and this chapter covers and explains why and how to do this.

KEY ASPECTS OF TRANSFORMATION OF THE STATE AUTHORITIES IN THE WORLD AND TO THE MODERN SOVERUM UKRAINE: A JOINT AND PERSONALITY

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (11) ◽  
pp. 164-174
Author(s):  
Оlena Fedorіvna Caracasidi
Keyword(s):  
Separation Of Powers ◽  
Human Life ◽  
State Power ◽  
The State ◽  
Public Power ◽  
The People ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
The World ◽  
Distribution Of Power ◽  
Key Aspects

The article deals with the fundamental, inherent in most of the countries of the world transformation of state power, its formation, functioning and division between the main branches as a result of the decentralization of such power, its subsidiarity. Attention is drawn to the specifics of state power, its func- tional features in the conditions of sovereignty of the states, their interconnec- tion. It is emphasized that the nature of the state power is connected with the nature of the political system of the state, with the form of government and many other aspects of a fundamental nature.It is analyzed that in the middle of national states the questions of legitima- cy, sovereignty of transparency of state power, its formation are acutely raised. Concerning the practical functioning of state power, a deeper study now needs a problem of separation of powers and the distribution of power. The use of this principle, which ensures the real subsidiarity of the authorities, the formation of more effective, responsible democratic relations between state power and civil society, is the first priority of the transformation of state power in the conditions of modern transformations of countries and societies. It is substantiated that the research of these problems will open up much wider opportunities for the provi- sion of state power not as a center authority, but also as a leading political structure but as a power of the people and the community. In the context of global democratization processes, such processes are crucial for a more humanistic and civilized arrangement of human life. It is noted that local self-government, as a specific form of public power, is also characterized by an expressive feature of a special subject of power (territorial community) as a set of large numbers of people; joint communal property; tax system, etc.

Experimental Measurement of Turbulent Diffusion, Initial Dilution and T90

1986 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 131-140
Author(s):  
Edmundo Garcia Agudo ◽  
Jose Leomax dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Measurement ◽  
Tracer Technique ◽  
Initial Dilution ◽  
Coastal Cities ◽  
Actual Solution ◽  
The World ◽  
Visual Aid ◽  
Proper Design ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Bacterial Concentrations

The final disposal of sewage using submarine outfalls has become an actual solution for coastal cities all over the world. In order to get the best results it is necessary to carry out specific studies for the proper design of the outfall. Dilution and decrease in bacterial concentrations are two key aspects for the design. Radioisotope tracers have been used extensively in studies performed in some Brazilian waterbodies where outfall systems exist or are to be installed. As far as dilution measurement is concerned, both point and continuous radiotracer injections can provide useful results. The T90 measurements can be better accomplished using a combined tracer technique for sampling the sewage field, using the radiotracer for dilution measurement and rhodamine B as a visual aid. Typical results of dilution measurement using both techniques mentioned, as well as a summary of T 90 results obtained for the Santos, Fortaleza and Maceió outfalls are presented.

MackDroid - An Android based Application to monitor devices

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Maaz Sirkhot ◽  
Ekta Sirwani ◽  
Aishwarya Kourani ◽  
Akshit Batheja ◽  
Kajal Jethanand Jewani
Keyword(s):  
Operating System ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Mobile Users ◽  
Android Application ◽  
Web Page ◽  
Technological World ◽  
Monitoring Service ◽  
User Friendly

In this technological world, smartphones can be considered as one of the most far-reaching inventions. It plays a vital role in connecting people socially. The number of mobile users using an Android based smartphone has increased rapidly since last few years resulting in organizations, cyber cell departments, government authorities feeling the need to monitor the activities on certain targeted devices in order to maintain proper functionality of their respective jobs. Also with the advent of smartphones, Android became one of the most popular and widely used Operating System. Its highlighting features are that it is user friendly, smartly designed, flexible, highly customizable and supports latest technologies like IoT. One of the features that makes it exclusive is that it is based on Linux and is Open Source for all the developers. This is the reason why our project Mackdroid is an Android based application that collects data from the remote device, stores it and displays on a PHP based web page. It is primarily a monitoring service that analyzes the contents and distributes it in various categories like Call Logs, Chats, Key logs, etc. Our project aims at developing an Android application that can be used to track, monitor, store and grab data from the device and store it on a server which can be accessed by the handler of the application.

Remaking Retirement

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rates ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
Older Persons ◽  
The United States ◽  
Older Population ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cost Of Education ◽  
The World ◽  
Low Interest Rates ◽  
Key Aspects

Around the world, people nearing and entering retirement are holding ever-greater levels of debt than in the past. This is not a benign situation, as many pre-retirees and retirees are stressed about their indebtedness. Moreover, this growth in debt among the older population may render retirees vulnerable to financial shocks, medical care bills, and changes in interest rates. Contributors to this volume explore key aspects of the rise in debt across older cohorts, drill down into the types of debt and reasons for debt incurred by the older population, and review policies to remedy some of the financial problems facing older persons, in the United States and elsewhere. The authors explore which groups are most affected by debt, and they also identify the factors causing this important increase in leverage at older ages. It is clear that the economic and market environments are influential when it comes to saving and debt. Access to easy borrowing, low interest rates, and the rising cost of education have had important impacts on how much people borrow, and how much debt they carry at older ages. In this environment, the capacity to manage debt is ever more important as older workers lack the opportunity to recover for mistakes.

scholarly journals Using Open Source, Open Data, and Civic Technology to Address the COVID-19 Pandemic and Infodemic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shinji Kobayashi ◽  
Luis Falcón ◽  
Hamish Fraser ◽  
Jørn Braa ◽  
Pamod Amarakoon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Medical Informatics ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Collective Intelligence ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Theme Issue ◽  
Health Organizations ◽  
The World ◽  
Civic Technology

Objectives: The emerging COVID-19 pandemic has caused one of the world’s worst health disasters compounded by social confusion with misinformation, the so-called “Infodemic”. In this paper, we discuss how open technology approaches - including data sharing, visualization, and tooling - can address the COVID-19 pandemic and infodemic. Methods: In response to the call for participation in the 2020 International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) Yearbook theme issue on Medical Informatics and the Pandemic, the IMIA Open Source Working Group surveyed recent works related to the use of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) for this pandemic. Results: FLOSS health care projects including GNU Health, OpenMRS, DHIS2, and others, have responded from the early phase of this pandemic. Data related to COVID-19 have been published from health organizations all over the world. Civic Technology, and the collaborative work of FLOSS and open data groups were considered to support collective intelligence on approaches to managing the pandemic. Conclusion: FLOSS and open data have been effectively used to contribute to managing the COVID-19 pandemic, and open approaches to collaboration can improve trust in data.

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