scholarly journals MOBILIZATION OF POLITICAL-RELATIONAL CAPACITIES BY STATE GOVERNMENTS: an analysis of the formulation of the state plan for solid waste in Tocantins

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. a16en
Author(s):  
Lia de Azevedo Almeida ◽  
Lucas Braga da Silva ◽  
Luana Ferreira da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Solid Waste ◽  
Structure And Function ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Integrated Waste Management ◽  
Waste Policy ◽  
And Function ◽  
State Plan ◽  
Relational Capacities

The National Solid Waste Policy provides for the elaboration of national, state, micro-regional, intermunicipal and municipal plans for integrated waste management (Brasil, 2010). Therefore, the objective was to analyze the political-relational capacities mobilized by the network formed by the actors/ participants in the Technical Workshop for the elaboration of the State Plan for Solid Waste of Tocantins (PERS/TO), which took place in October 2015 in Palmas. Reports were collected from the Secretariat of Environment and Water Resources (Semarh) and a questionnaire was applied to the participants of the technical workshop, which sought to identify the interests of the various actors and investigate the structure and function of the network. The data were analyzed with the support of the Visone 2.7 software.

The Political-Geographic Bases of the Austrian Nationality Problem

1967 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
George W. Hoffman
Keyword(s):  
Political Geography ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Habsburg Empire ◽  
Habsburg Monarchy ◽  
Geographic Structure ◽  
External Forces ◽  
And Function ◽  
Different Characteristics

The breakup of the Habsburg monarchy was perhaps the most exceptional change made in the political geography of the European world of our times. It would be too much to say that the shot fired at Sarajevo destroyed the Austro-Hungarian empire. But it is hardly an exaggeration to suggest that the young assassin was a living embodiment of the principle of nationalism in the South Slavic lands and that the shot which he fired was a deliberate blow at the political-geographic structure of the Habsburg monarchy. Those competent to discuss the question are almost unanimous in their verdict: the dissolution of the empire was brought on by a combination of external forces and an internal disintegration. The internal disintegration actually impelled the state to expose itself to the external forces. The works of scholars from many countries and disciplines2who have carefullyanalyzed the structure and function of the Habsburg empire have been scrutinized with the view of studying the regions which formed this empire, their different characteristics and associations, and their connections with each other and to the state in order to ascertain to what extent the area of the empire constituted a state in the modern sense and to note any weaknesses in its morphology and physiology that helped to account for its collapse. The contribution of political geography to this critical evaluation of nationalism as a disintegrating force of the Habsburg empire lies in an analysis of the major problems of the internal situation of that empire.

scholarly journals RESULTS FROM A 2019 SURVEY OF STATE AGENTS ON ASSISTED LIVING REGULATIONS AND TRENDS

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S545-S545
Author(s):  
Brian P Kaskie ◽  
Portia Cornell ◽  
Paula Carder ◽  
Kali Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Assisted Living ◽  
State Level ◽  
Structure And Function ◽  
The State ◽  
State Agencies ◽  
Regulatory Standards ◽  
State Agents ◽  
And Function ◽  
Question Survey

Abstract AL is regulated at the state level. Yet, little is known about the structure and function of state agencies that license and monitor AL. We fielded a 21-question survey among state agents with responsibility for AL in all 50 states. While licensure definitions of AL vary, state efforts appear uniform in regard to administrative alignment with departments of health as well as roles with facility licensing, renewal, and monitoring. However, we observed variability in the approaches used to monitor AL. While 80% of agents reported being able to issue fines for failures to meet regulatory standards, only 40% of states collected information concerning individual resident status. Only 20% issue separate licenses for providing care to persons with dementia, whereas 30% of state agents affirmed that non-licensed AL facilities were operating within their state. We consider how these varied regulatory approaches may shape facility operations and impact resident outcomes.

Gender, Hisba and The Enforcement of Morality in Northern Nigeria

Africa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 78 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatima L. Adamu
Keyword(s):  
Structure And Function ◽  
Political Context ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Northern Nigeria ◽  
Individual Rights ◽  
Moral Framework ◽  
Religious Establishment ◽  
And Function

Vigilantism is a term often used to describe any form of policing and ordering that is non-state, and under analysis ‘vigilantism’ has often emerged as negative, associated with violence and violation of individual rights. However, a closer examination of the origin, practice, function and structure of some of the groups often referred to as vigilantes in Nigeria has revealed that not all of them fit into our understanding of vigilantes as gangs of youths that mete out violence and jungle justice to their victims. Some of these vigilantes have their roots in the community and are a preferred form of policing in Nigeria. Many such groups exist across the shari‘a states of northern Nigeria, drawing their legitimacy from different and sometimes competing sources: the Yan'banga from the Hausa traditional and communal establishment, the hisba from the religious establishment and the Yan'achaba from the political establishment. What can we say about the operation, structure and function of these various `vigilantes'? How is the politicking and struggle between religio-political and Hausa traditionalist elites shaping and reforming these three forms? What impact does this struggle have on women and the vulnerable? This article has two aims. One is to question the over-generalization associated with vigilantism in Nigeria by analysing one form of vigilantism – hisba – within the context of informal policing in Zamfara and Kano states. The other is to situate the issue of vigilantes within the northern Nigerian political context rather than within a simple moral framework that casts vigilantes as violent criminals.

scholarly journals OS PLANOS ESTADUAIS DE EDUCAÇÃO: uma análise acerca da meta referente ao financiamento da educação

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fábio Araujo De Souza
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Gross Domestic Product ◽  
Present Article ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Domestic Product ◽  
State Governments ◽  
State Plan

O presente artigo tem como principal objetivo analisar as metas referentes ao financiamento da educação nos Planos Estaduais de Educação (PEEs) e de que maneira estas poderão trazer novos recursos para que as demais possam ser cumpridas. Concluiu-se que os governos estaduais poderiam contribuir para o aumento de recursos na educação pública através de seus PEEs e, com isso, colaborar para o país alcançar a meta 20 do Plano Nacional de Educação; porém, a maioria construiu um plano com meta e estratégias que dificilmente trarão aumento significativo de recursos para a educação pública do país.Palavras-chave: Plano Estadual de Educação; Produto Interno Bruto; Financiamento da educação.The present article has as main objective to analyze the goals relating to the financing of education in the State Plans of Education, and in what way they might bring new resources to the other goals of the Plans can be fulfilled. It was concluded that the state governments could contribute to the increase of resources in public education through their PEEs and it could collaborate for the country to achieve the goal of 20 PNE, however most built a Plan with a goal and strategies that hardly bring a significant increase of resources for public education in the country.Key-words: The State plan of Education; Gross Domestic Product; the Financing of education.

scholarly journals From Function to Competence: Engaging with the New Politics of Family

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 109-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Val Gillies
Keyword(s):  
Full Range ◽  
Structure And Function ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Personal Lives ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
New Politics ◽  
New Public ◽  
And Function ◽  
Public Politics

This paper argues for a critical reclaiming of family and highlights the risks associated with decentring such a powerful and pervasive concept. Influential critiques of family as an organising category are considered in the context of a contemporary trend towards reorienting it within broader studies foregrounding personal and intimate realms of human connectedness. It is suggested that while concepts of personal lives and intimacy have much to offer they can not capture the full range and nature of relations raised through the lens of family. In particular the political consequences of subsuming family within wider approaches are set out through reference to a new public politics of family in which emphasis is placed less on structure and function, and more on knowledge and competence. Through an exploration of the key changes characterising this shift a case is made for retaining family (alongside intimacy and personal life) as a flexible, enduring and necessary sociological framework.

scholarly journals Public Universities in Post-Socialist States Could Become ‘Un-Academic’ after 2020 Pandemic

Šolsko polje ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol XXXI (3-4) ◽  
pp. 139-165
Author(s):  
Andraž Teršek
Keyword(s):  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Social Role ◽  
The State ◽  
State Universities ◽  
The Political ◽  
Public Role ◽  
Legitimate Concern ◽  
And Function ◽  
Role And Function

Firm and verifiable signs give reason for legitimate concern and criticism of the path taken by public universities in European post-socialist states in the last two decades. Not fulfilling their social role and function, as guardians of knowledge, thought, critical reflection and open-mindedness, is a cause for serious concern. Universities have bowed to the aggressive logic of the market. Instead of resisting the purely bureaucratic and brutal administrative conditions and criteria imposed by the state, universities have completely and uncritically subjected themselves to the dictates of authorities and committees controlled by the state. Academics have become passive and apathetic slaves of robotised technocratic dehumanisation. These phenomena have led universities to considerably fail to take care of the education of critically thinking citizens, of moral personalities and courageous civil intellectuals equipped with authentic and high-quality knowledge, and with self-respect, combined with an appropriate ethical self-understanding of their systemic and social role. Academics have lost awareness of their most important public role in the maintenance and progress of genuine democracy and the political system’s legitimacy. It seems that these universities have become almost non-academic. And they could finally become ‘un-academic’ due to the 2020 pandemic.

scholarly journals Evolution of integrated solid waste management systems in brazilian cities under the national solid waste policy

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Gabriel De Pinna Mendez ◽  
Claudio Fernando Mahler
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Condition Index ◽  
Environmental Indicators ◽  
The State ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Integrated Solid Waste Management ◽  
Waste Policy

This article analyzes the evolution of integrated solid waste management systems in small and medium cities of the state of Rio de Janeiro. For this purpose, we applied the Modified Solid Waste Management Condition Index (ICGRm), calculated by a spreadsheet with 40 environmental indicators. A field study was carried out to evaluate ten cities in the state of Rio de Janeiro, among twenty already investigated in a survey carried out in the years 2007-2008. The cities were classified as adequate or inadequate according to the ICGRm scores (range from zero to ten points). The comparative evaluation revealed that four cities presented positive evolution, but only slight, while six cities presented worse scores. In the specific case of Brazil, it shows that public managers have not yet given proper priority to solid waste management, although six years have passed since the establishment of the National Solid Waste Policy through Law 12,305/2010. Ten of the cities evaluated reached the level of management considered adequate by the applied method, either in the evaluation in 2007-2008 or 2016, and some showed slight improvement.

scholarly journals Impact of Photoreceptor Loss on Retinal Circuitry

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-128
Author(s):  
Joo Yeun Lee ◽  
Rachel A. Care ◽  
Luca Della Santina ◽  
Felice A. Dunn
Keyword(s):  
Predictive Model ◽  
Structure And Function ◽  
The State ◽  
Visual World ◽  
Light Levels ◽  
Retinal Circuitry ◽  
Health And Disease ◽  
Vision Restoration ◽  
And Function

Our sense of sight relies on photoreceptors, which transduce photons into the nervous system's electrochemical interpretation of the visual world. These precious photoreceptors can be disrupted by disease, injury, and aging. Once photoreceptors start to die, but before blindness occurs, the remaining retinal circuitry can withstand, mask, or exacerbate the photoreceptor deficit and potentially be receptive to newfound therapies for vision restoration. To maximize the retina's receptivity to therapy, one must understand the conditions that influence the state of the remaining retina. In this review, we provide an overview of the retina's structure and function in health and disease. We analyze a collection of observations on photoreceptor disruption and generate a predictive model to identify parameters that influence the retina's response. Finally, we speculate on whether the retina, with its remarkable capacity to function over light levels spanning nine orders of magnitude, uses these same adaptational mechanisms to withstand and perhaps mask photoreceptor loss.

scholarly journals Recontagem: sobre a novela familiar freudiana ou o mito individual lacaniano

2011 ◽  
Vol 47 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 195-202
Author(s):  
Renata Mazaferro
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Structure And Function ◽  
The State ◽  
Story Telling ◽  
And Function

The article examines the preliminary ideas that will be part of my Master’s dissertation. The aim of this dissertation is the study of the structure and function of childhood stories in the child’s trajectory from the state of infans to that of subject-speaker. We have identified the children’s story-telling act as a privileged place to board our question. The main focus of this article is on the theme of the myth and authors on Language Acquisition, Anthropology and Psychoanalysis are discussed.

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