scholarly journals READ THE LABEL, A PESTICIDE SAFETY VIDEO TAPE

HortScience ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 578f-578
Author(s):  
B. Rosie Lerner
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Breakdown Product ◽  
Well Water ◽  
Video Tape ◽  
Proper Selection ◽  
Production Methods ◽  
Home Gardening ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Pesticide Safety ◽  
Home Lawns

The general public is in need of education regarding the responsible use of pesticides in home gardens. A 1990 California survey indicated that many individuals never read product labels and do not follow safety precautions when applying pesticides. A 1991 EPA study found that the most frequently detected pesticide in well water was a breakdown product of DCPA, a commonly used herbicide on home lawns. A 1988-89 National Gardening Survey found that 39% of US households purchased pesticide products. Excerpts of a video tape titled “Read the Label”, which specifically targets the home gardening audience, will be presented. Because the subject of pesticide safety may be of little intrinsic interest to gardeners, actors were hired to lend a bit of light humor. Highlights feature Gordon Guardian, the Gardening Angel, who comes to Earth to guide Beth Homeowner through the proper selection, use. hazards, storage, and disposal of pesticides. Production methods, funding and budgeting of the video will also be discussed.

scholarly journals Allies in Transparency? Parliamentary, Judicial and Administrative Interplays in the EU’s International Negotiations

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 75-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vigjilenca Abazi ◽  
Johan Adriaensen
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
International Negotiations ◽  
Joint Analysis ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Public Oversight ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Eu

International negotiations are an essential part of the European Union’s (EU) external affairs. A key aspect to negotiations is access to and sharing of information among the EU institutions involved as well as to the general public. Oversight of negotiations requires insight into the topics of negotiation, the positions taken and the strategies employed. Concurrently, however, some space for confidentiality is necessary for conducting the negotiations and defending EU interests without fully revealing the limit negotiating positions of the EU to the negotiating partner. Hence, attaining a balance between the necessities of oversight and confidentiality in negotiations is the subject of a dynamic debate between the EU institutions. This paper provides a joint analysis on EU oversight institutions’ position on transparency in international negotiations. We set out to answer whether parliamentary, judicial and administrative branches of oversight are allies in pursuing the objectives of transparency but also examine when their positions diverge.

Concluding Remarks

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cigdem Issever ◽  
Ken Peach
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Cultural Background ◽  
Individual Scientist ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Communication Of Science ◽  
The Individual

‘Giving a talk’, to colleagues, to peers or to the general public, is an important part of our professional duties as scientists. Whatever the context, we have a duty to make sure that the science is communicated clearly, and that the audience is able to understand the science at an appropriate level. Communication of science and about science is becoming more important, for many reasons. Science is becoming more expensive—the simple (that is, cheap) experiments have been done. Science, and the technology that results from it, has brought great benefits to society, but science has also given society cause for concern. Science should be dispassionate, the results independent of cultural background and beliefs of the individual scientist; but science can also be controversial, especially when it challenges generally accepted beliefs or attitudes. We believe that there are no absolute rules governing what makes a good slide, or how to assemble a series of good slides into a good talk. Even if there were such a recipe, how a talk is received depends upon many other things—the subject, the speaker, the venue, the size (and the mood) of the audience. There is never enough time to discuss all the details, and so we always have to make choices about what to include and what to omit. How we make these choices depends upon many things— what might be highly appropriate in one context could be completely inappropriate in another. Nevertheless, we can think of a few principles that should help you, which have underpinned the approach taken in this book. • Understand the scope of your talk—where do you start, what is the key point, how will you conclude, what is the message? • Understand your hosts—why did they invite you to give the talk or, if you invited yourself, why did they agree? • Understand your audience—why have they come to hear you, what do they know already, what do they expect to learn and what do they need to learn? • Be professional—understand and be master of the technology of the presentation.

Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine under Nazi Rule

2006 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 160-163
Author(s):  
Valdis O. Lumans
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
General Public ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Nazi Occupation ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Research Level ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Historical Issues

Reading Karel C. Berkhoff's Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine under Nazi Rule reaps reward but also some disappointment. For the general public unfamiliar with the historical issues and intricacies of the Nazi occupation of the Soviet Union, this book contains far more reward as a montage of vivid depictions of everyday life under German domination in the occupied East. But conversely, for those with a more advanced, research-level familiarity with the subject, the results are reversed.

Kijken Naar (Eigen) Begeleidersgedrag een Verslag van de Workshop 'de Taaldocent' als Begeleider Van Lerende Volwassenen ik Groepsverband

1982 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 58-71
Author(s):  
Adriaan Bakker ◽  
Louis van Kessel ◽  
Luuk Staallekker
Keyword(s):  
Small Group ◽  
Plenary Session ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Video Tape ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Teaching Behaviour ◽  
Small Group Discussions ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Adult Classes

This article is the report of a workshop on the subject 'Looking at tutor-behaviour as a teacher of adults'. The workshop consisted of looking at a video-tape with scenes fro» adult classes, small-group discussions and a plenary session on 'differences and correspondences between the teacher styles shown and my own. One of the conclusions drawn by the authors is that teachers are very eager to look at and learn from teaching behaviour of colleages and that this may be the necessary condition for changing their own behaviour.

scholarly journals Sublimity & the Image: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Exploration

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-110
Author(s):  
Erika Goble
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Visual Object ◽  
Fundamental Change ◽  
Hermeneutic Phenomenological ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
Art And Literature ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Phenomenological Exploration

For over 2000 years, the sublime has been a source of fascination for philosophers, artists, and even the general public at times. We have written hundreds of treatises on the subject, put forth innumerable definitions and explanations, and even tried to reproduce it in art and literature. But, despite our efforts, our understanding of the sublime remains elusive. In this paper, the sublime is explored as a potential human experience that can be evoked by an image. Drawing upon concrete experiences, the phenomenon of sublimity suggests a compelling, embodied response to the visual object that can evoke a fundamental change of being.

Construction plant and equipment management research: thematic review

2009 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 186-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Edwards ◽  
Gary D. Holt
Keyword(s):  
Health And Safety ◽  
Research Direction ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Equipment Management ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Production Methods ◽  
Construction Plant ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Thematic Review

PurposeA literature review is presented in the subject of construction plant and equipment management (CPeM) to: delineate the subject; consider its development over recent years; and identify principal themes within it. The paper aims to close the gap in knowledge, by using these objectives as a mechanism to observe how research themes relate to primary CPeM functions, and to suggest future research direction.Design/methodology/approachA thematic review of CPeM academic literature (in the main, refereed journal papers published in English‐speaking countries over the last decade) is undertaken; the nature of identified themes is discussed, for instance, regarding why they might have evolved as they have; and based on the foregone, themes for future research in the field are proffered.FindingsCPeM is found well established within the broader subject of construction management. Eight principal themes are identified, namely plant maintenance; downtime and productivity; optimisation; robotics and automation; health and safety; operators and competence; machine control; and “miscellaneous”.Research limitations/implicationsIt is proffered that based on informational/technological advancements coupled with growing environmental/financial pressures, future CPeM research will strive to facilitate even greater plant reliability and safer modes of working. It is suggested that “optimum production methods” and “minimal resource consumption” will become inherent theme goals.Originality/valueThis is the first time that CPeM research has been consolidated and reviewed for publication in this manner.

Practices of Satisfaction, 1215–1700

2004 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 106-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Bossy
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
General Public ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Oxford English Dictionary ◽  
Short History ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Professional Fields

The title, and subject, of this piece is ‘satisfaction’, though its main locus in time is the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. I chose the subject because it fitted in with our president’s preoccupations, and because it interested me; it turns out, to my surprise, to jog our elbow about some contemporary matters, as I guess he wished.We had better start with the word, where there are two distinctions to be considered. The obvious one is between making up for, paying for, making amends, making reparation; and contentment, gratified desire, giving satisfaction, what you can’t get none of. I shall say that the first is the strong meaning, the second the weak one. The first is always other-directed, and entails an offence previously committed; the second is principally self-directed. ‘To content’ is a classical meaning of satisfacere, but it means to content someone else: to do something (facere), as against receiving something. A short history of the word in Latin and English records that the strong meaning emerged into late Latin as a description of church penance, and so passed into English in the fourteenth century. Its heyday was from then until the eighteenth. It referred to ecclesiastical penance (interrupted by the Reformation), the theology of the Redemption (encouraged by the Reformation), and in general public usage to the meeting of any kind of obligation, payment, atonement or compensation. From the eighteenth century it passed from public use, superseded by the weak meaning except in technical or professional fields. One professional usage, to which The Oxford English Dictionary gives a good deal of attention, is ‘to satisfy the examiners’: they think it is a case of ‘content’; may it be a case of ‘avert wrath’?

scholarly journals Roman London

1911 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 141-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Haverfield
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
General Public ◽  
Classical System ◽  
Roman Archaeology ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject

Roman London illustrates in more than one way the worst features of English archaeological study. There has been no want of interest in the subject. In England, indeed, Roman archaeology has throughout received a fuller share of general public interest than in any other country. Thanks to our classical system, nearly everyone has read a little Caesar and, it may be, some Tacitus, and though he has forgotten nine-tenths of it, he generally deems himself fitted to enquire into the history of the Roman empire. People who in every other country would give no heed to archaeology at all are in England extremely interested, and it has always been thought right and proper that they should be interested. Unfortunately, it has also been thought needless to do more than to be interested.

scholarly journals INVESTIGATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF STERILIZATION POLICY IN CONTROLLING MONEY SUPPLY AND CAPITAL INFLOWS IN NIGERIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (32) ◽  
Author(s):  
Miloš Grujić ◽  
Mile Šikman
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Emerging Markets ◽  
Money Laundering ◽  
21St Century ◽  
General Public ◽  
Capital Inflows ◽  
Financial Flows ◽  
Business Operations ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Made In

Money laundering, in its almost 90-year-long history, has attracted the attention of the scientific, professional, but also the general public. Throughout the entire period, the manifestations of this criminal phenomenon, its typology, etiological factors, etc., have changed, but the essence has remained the same: the transformation of illegally acquired money into legal financial flows. Emerging markets are particularly burdened, which is the subject of this paper: identifying, monitoring and proving the process of money laundering with the aim to reduce it in developing countries. In addition, what can be observed in these markets is that money laundering operations are mainly related to those activities where most of the payments are made in cash. Their specificity, that is, the basic motive for execution, is not just a profit, but the aspiration to introduce “dirty” money into legal flows. The aim of this paper is to use the method of description to explain and describe scientifically the money laundering process and to combat this phenomenon with a focus on the characteristics of the money laundering process. In addition, the paper describes the models and weaknesses of this process, while at the same time it respects the standards and specifics of business operations in emerging markets. The result of the paper is that it provides an overview of money laundering in the 21st century in small and open economies, including proposals to prevent and combat this negative phenomenon.

scholarly journals CATEGORIES OF SUPPLY CHAIN PERFORMANCE INDICATORS: AN OVERVIEW OF APPROACHES

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorota LEOŃCZUK
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Balanced Scorecard ◽  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Proper Selection ◽  
The Balanced Scorecard ◽  
Scor Model ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Network Form ◽  
Selection Of

The increasing complexity of supply chains, whose structure is changing from a linear to network form creates the need to track a growing amount of information allowing the evaluation of the functioning of the entire supply chain. Developing a system for measuring the performance of the supply chain requires the proper selection of indicators. Performance measurement should be done in a particular context, the analysed dimensions of indicators resulting from the purpose and focus of the survey should be determined. The article reviews Polish and foreign literature in terms of the proposed framework and methods for measuring the performance of the supply chain and the indicated categories (dimensions) of indicators. The authors approach the subject of evaluation of the performance of the supply chain in very different ways. Indicators are divided according to the level of the decision-making process: strategic, tactical, and operational. They are also divided into cost and non-cost or financial and non-financial ones. There are also approaches using the already well established methods and models. An example of this is the selection of perspectives according to the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) and the SCOR model.

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