scholarly journals Las bibliotecas públicas españolas ante los fondos europeos de recuperación y el Plan nacional de competencias digitales

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
José-Antonio Gómez-Hernández ◽  
Miguel-Ángel Vera-Baceta
Keyword(s):  
Health Economic ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Professional Organizations ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
National Plan ◽  
The Government ◽  
Scale Challenges ◽  
Competencias Digitales

The strategies and possibilities for Spanish public libraries to proactively participate in the National plan for digital competences, approved by the Government of Spain in January 2021 are described and analyzed. The Plan is connected with the agenda España Digital 2025, as well as with the Recovery, transformation and resilience plan “España Puede”. This document, approved at the end of 2020 by the Government of Spain, defines the axes in which the European funds approved through the Next Generation EU Program should be used in response to the serious health, economic and social crisis caused by Covid-19, and represents an unprecedented opportunity to rebuild our society and make the digitization of Spain possible. In this context, an opportunity is identified for libraries to be perceived as a powerful and essential partner for the achievement of the different goals that are proposed, among which we can find basic digital literacy. For all those reasons, it is essential to have the encouragement and support of professional organizations, and that the library systems and their management and coordination bodies of the different public administrations concerned get involved and lead projects in order not to miss this opportunity of posing large-scale challenges. Resumen Se describen y valoran las estrategias y posibilidades para que las bibliotecas públicas españolas participen de forma activa en el Plan nacional de competencias digitales, aprobado por el Gobierno de España en enero de 2021. Para ello se enmarca en la agenda España Digital 2025, así como en el propio Plan de recuperación, transformación y resiliencia “España Puede”. Este último documento, aprobado a finales de 2020 por el Gobierno de España, marca los ejes en que se deberán emplear los fondos europeos aprobados a través del Programa Next Generation EU como respuesta a la grave crisis sanitaria, económica y social causada por la Covid-19, y supone una oportunidad sin precedentes para reconstruir nuestra sociedad y hacer posible una España digital. Se identifica en este contexto una posibilidad para que las bibliotecas sean percibidas como un aliado potente e imprescindible para el logro de las distintas metas que se proponen, entre las que podemos encontrar objetivos comunes como la capacitación en competencias digitales transversales básicas. Para ello, es fundamental el impulso y respaldo de las organizaciones profesionales y que los sistemas bibliotecarios y sus órganos de dirección y coordinación, de las distintas administraciones públicas, se impliquen y lideren proyectos, con el fin de no dejar pasar esta oportunidad de plantear retos a gran escala.

scholarly journals Lithuanian school libraries today: Problems and perspectives

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irena Kryzanauskiene
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
School Librarians ◽  
Promotion Program ◽  
Ict Use ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Government

The situation of Lithuanian school libraries and the status of librarians are ambiguous, because libraries are financed by Ministry of Education and Science, but legal acts, except the laws, are organized by Ministry of Culture. School libraries are very important among other libraries in Lithuania according to the latest statistic data of Lithuania. In 2000 the school libraries computerization started and in 2004 they were instilled with a simplified version of the Lithuanian Integrated Library Information System (LILIS) – so called Information System of School Libraries (ISSL).The questioning of school librarians was done in 2006-2007 years. Analysis of questionnaires showed that there are some problems in activity of school libraries. The Standard of Digital Literacy of School Librarians (SDLSL) has contradictory estimations. It contains extremely high requirements for school librarians in the sphere of ICT use. Lithuania school librarians do not have a professional association. Members of IASL in Lithuania are only separate school librarians. The methodical help to school libraries should be given by the Municipality public libraries but the help is given not very often. In some towns more active and experienced librarians organize methodical groups, give seminars for those, who are less experienced.School librarians take part in different state actions. Year 2008 is announced to be Reading year in Lithuania. Reading year is stage of Reading Promotion Program confirmed by the Government.

scholarly journals Lithuanian school libraries today

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irena Kryzanauskiene
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
School Librarians ◽  
Promotion Program ◽  
Ict Use ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Government

The situation of Lithuanian school libraries and the status of librarians are ambiguous, because libraries are financed by Ministry of Education and Science, but legal acts, except the laws, are organized by Ministry of Culture. School libraries are very important among other libraries in Lithuania according to the latest statistic data of Lithuania. In 2000 the school libraries computerization started and in 2004 they were instilled with a simplified version of the Lithuanian Integrated Library Information System (LILIS) – so called Information System of School Libraries (ISSL).The questioning of school librarians was done in 2006-2007 years. Analysis of questionnaires showed that there are some problems in activity of school libraries. The Standard of Digital Literacy of School Librarians (SDLSL) has contradictory estimations. It contains extremely high requirements for school librarians in the sphere of ICT use. Lithuania school librarians do not have a professional association. Members of IASL in Lithuania are only separate school librarians. The methodical help to school libraries should be given by the Municipality public libraries but the help is given not very often. In some towns more active and experienced librarians organize methodical groups, give seminars for those, who are less experienced.School librarians take part in different state actions. Year 2008 is announced to be Reading year in Lithuania. Reading year is stage of Reading Promotion Program confirmed by the Government.

Land Use Change and Commodity Frontiers

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel M. Cáceres ◽  
Esteban Tapella ◽  
Diego A. Cabrol ◽  
Lucrecia Estigarribia
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Dry Forest ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Fast Pace ◽  
Forest Use ◽  
The Government ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Management Recommendations

Argentina is experiencing an expansion of soya and maize cultivation that is pushing the agricultural frontier over areas formerly occupied by native Chaco forest. Subsistance farmers use this dry forest to raise goats and cattle and to obtain a broad range of goods and services. Thus, two very different and non-compatible land uses are in dispute. On the one hand subsistance farmers fostering an extensive and diversified forest use, on the other hand, large-scale producers who need to clear out the forest to sow annual crops in order to appropriate soil fertility. First, the paper looks at how these social actors perceive Chaco forest, what their interests are, and what kind of values they attach to it. Second, we analyze the social-environmental conflicts that arise among actors in order to appropriate forest’s benefits. Special attention is paid to the role played by the government in relation to: (a) how does it respond to the demands of the different sectors; and (b) how it deals with the management recommendations produced by scientists carrying out social and ecological research. To put these ideas at test we focus on a case study located in Western Córdoba (Argentina), where industrial agriculture is expanding at a fast pace, and where social actors’ interests are generating a series of disputes and conflicts. Drawing upon field work, the paper shows how power alliances between economic and political powers, use the institutional framework of the State in their own benefit, disregarding wider environmental and social costs. 

Knowledge and awareness about MERS-CoV among the dental students in Chennai

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (SPL1) ◽  
pp. 847-851
Author(s):  
Nithyanandham Masilamani ◽  
Dhanraj Ganapathy
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Dental Students ◽  
Professional Organizations ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Mode Of Transmission

Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) induced by new ß coronavirus MERS-(CoV) had first been described in Saudi Arabia in September 2012. MERS-CoV communication inside the population is often identified with clustered households and cramped communal spaces. The purpose of the study is to assess the knowledge and awareness of MERS-CoV among dental students in India. This was a questionnaire-based cross-sectional survey of 100 dental college students in Chennai. The self-designed questionnaires contained ten questions focused on the knowledge and awareness of MERS-CoV amongst dental college students. Questionnaires were circulated through an online website survey planet. After the responses were received from 100 participants, data were collected and analyzed, .87% are aware of MERS-CoV through media 13% from professional channels. 84%are aware of the clinical manifestation of MERS-CoV. 81%Are aware of the mode of transmission of MERS-CoV. 76%are aware of the preventive measures against MERS -CoV.68%. Are aware of the incubation period of MERS-CoV. 74%aware of PCR as a diagnostic test for MERS-CoV. This study concluded that dental students had strong awareness and knowledge of MERS. Also, there are a few differences in information and behaviours that require change. Large-scale health educational programs on MERS also should be facilitated by professional organizations to expand their reach and to strengthen knowledge to have a positive impact on their behaviour.

Financial and Economic Support of Innovation Processes in the Russian Fuel and Energy Complex

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 77-85
Author(s):  
L. D. Kapranova ◽  
T. V. Pogodina
Keyword(s):  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Innovative Development ◽  
Oil Reserves ◽  
Energy Complex ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
Substantial Investment ◽  
The Government

The subject of the research is the current state of the fuel and energy complex (FEC) that ensures generation of a significant part of the budget and the innovative development of the economy.The purpose of the research was to establish priority directions for the development of the FEC sectors based on a comprehensive analysis of their innovative and investment activities. The dynamics of investment in the fuel and energy sector are considered. It is noted that large-scale modernization of the fuel and energy complex requires substantial investment and support from the government. The results of the government programs of corporate innovative development are analyzed. The results of the research identified innovative development priorities in the power, oil, gas and coal sectors of the fuel and energy complex. The most promising areas of innovative development in the oil and gas sector are the technologies of enhanced oil recovery; the development of hard-to-recover oil reserves; the production of liquefied natural gas and its transportation. In the power sector, the prospective areas are activities aimed at improving the performance reliability of the national energy systems and the introduction of digital technologies. Based on the research findings, it is concluded that the innovation activities in the fuel and energy complex primarily include the development of new technologies, modernization of the FEC technical base; adoption of state-of-the-art methods of coal mining and oil recovery; creating favorable economic conditions for industrial extraction of hard-to-recover reserves; transition to carbon-free fuel sources and energy carriers that can reduce energy consumption and cost as well as reducing the negative FEC impact on the environment.

TO THE PROBLEMS OF COMBATING CORRUPTION IN MODERN RUSSIA AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN THE FIELD OF ANTI-CORRUPTION

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Dranishnikova
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
The State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
Moral Point ◽  
Material Goods ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Government

In the article, the author reflects the existing problems of the fight against corruption in the Russian Federation. He focuses on the opacity of the work of state bodies, leading to an increase in bribery and corruption. The topic we have chosen is socially exciting in our days, since its significance is growing on a large scale at all levels of the investigated aspect of our modern life. Democratic institutions are being jeopardized, the difference in the position of social strata of society in society’s access to material goods is growing, and the state of society is suffering from the moral point of view, citizens are losing confidence in the government, and in the top officials of the state.

BUDGET POLICY IN 2020–2022: REALITIES AND FORECASTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 93-107
Author(s):  
L. I. PRONINA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Public Authority ◽  
National Plan ◽  
Economic Support ◽  
Budget Policy ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Government ◽  
Local Levels

The article discusses the realities of budget policy in 2020-2022. The article analyzes the anti-crisis programs of the government of the Russian Federation in connection with the 2020 pandemic and measures of social and economic support for the population and business at the Federal, regional and local levels of public authority. The structure and main content of the national plan for restoring employment and the economy in conjunction with the implementation of national projects are proposed.

Next-Generation Sequencing: An Emerging Tool for Drug Designing

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (31) ◽  
pp. 3350-3357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pooja Tripathi ◽  
Jyotsna Singh ◽  
Jonathan A. Lal ◽  
Vijay Tripathi
Keyword(s):  
Next Generation Sequencing ◽  
High Throughput ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Massively Parallel Sequencing ◽  
Genomic Research ◽  
Biological Research ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Human Welfare ◽  
Drug Designing ◽  
Generation Sequencing

Background: With the outbreak of high throughput next-generation sequencing (NGS), the biological research of drug discovery has been directed towards the oncology and infectious disease therapeutic areas, with extensive use in biopharmaceutical development and vaccine production. Method: In this review, an effort was made to address the basic background of NGS technologies, potential applications of NGS in drug designing. Our purpose is also to provide a brief introduction of various Nextgeneration sequencing techniques. Discussions: The high-throughput methods execute Large-scale Unbiased Sequencing (LUS) which comprises of Massively Parallel Sequencing (MPS) or NGS technologies. The Next geneinvolved necessarily executes Largescale Unbiased Sequencing (LUS) which comprises of MPS or NGS technologies. These are related terms that describe a DNA sequencing technology which has revolutionized genomic research. Using NGS, an entire human genome can be sequenced within a single day. Conclusion: Analysis of NGS data unravels important clues in the quest for the treatment of various lifethreatening diseases and other related scientific problems related to human welfare.

Meta-Governance

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morten Egeberg ◽  
Jarle Trondal
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Reform Process ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Reform Processes ◽  
The Government ◽  
Central Government Agencies ◽  
Instrumental Control

Chapter 8 draws attention to meta-governance and how the governing of reforms is affected by how reform processes are organized. The chapter asks how reformers can ensure support for large-scale reforms that are likely to attract profound resistance. The focal point of the chapter is a study of geographical decentralization of central government agencies. The chapter argues that successful meta-governance can be provided for by careful organization of the reform process. The empirical case studied is a large-scale relocation of government agencies in Norway during the early 2000s. In carrying out this reform, the government succeeded against the odds. Most importantly, research has revealed huge constraints on the instrumental control of large-scale reforms in general and of geographical relocation of organizations in particular. Yet, this chapter shows that large-scale reforms can be successfully achieved through careful crafting of the reform organization.

scholarly journals Dynamic Planning of Bicycle Stations in Dockless Public Bicycle-sharing System Using Gated Graph Neural Network

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Jianguo Chen ◽  
Kenli Li ◽  
Keqin Li ◽  
Philip S. Yu ◽  
Zeng Zeng
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Sequence Data ◽  
Location Prediction ◽  
City Management ◽  
Dynamic Planning ◽  
Graph Sequence ◽  
Graph Modeling ◽  
The Government ◽  
Location Clustering ◽  
Station Location

Benefiting from convenient cycling and flexible parking locations, the Dockless Public Bicycle-sharing (DL-PBS) network becomes increasingly popular in many countries. However, redundant and low-utility stations waste public urban space and maintenance costs of DL-PBS vendors. In this article, we propose a Bicycle Station Dynamic Planning (BSDP) system to dynamically provide the optimal bicycle station layout for the DL-PBS network. The BSDP system contains four modules: bicycle drop-off location clustering, bicycle-station graph modeling, bicycle-station location prediction, and bicycle-station layout recommendation. In the bicycle drop-off location clustering module, candidate bicycle stations are clustered from each spatio-temporal subset of the large-scale cycling trajectory records. In the bicycle-station graph modeling module, a weighted digraph model is built based on the clustering results and inferior stations with low station revenue and utility are filtered. Then, graph models across time periods are combined to create a graph sequence model. In the bicycle-station location prediction module, the GGNN model is used to train the graph sequence data and dynamically predict bicycle stations in the next period. In the bicycle-station layout recommendation module, the predicted bicycle stations are fine-tuned according to the government urban management plan, which ensures that the recommended station layout is conducive to city management, vendor revenue, and user convenience. Experiments on actual DL-PBS networks verify the effectiveness, accuracy, and feasibility of the proposed BSDP system.

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