Play a Leading Role of Party Construction and Promote the Development of Innovative Towns and Villages--A case Study of Yanqi Town, Huairou District, Beijing

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Leading Role

Improving public housing policies that target low-income households: The value of adding proximity to discretion

2021 ◽  
pp. 239965442110411
Author(s):  
Lauro Gonzalez ◽  
Fernanda Lima-Silva ◽  
Marlei Pozzebon
Keyword(s):  
Public Housing ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Housing Policies ◽  
Collective Case Study ◽  
Street Level ◽  
Leading Role

Research on street-level bureaucrats has examined the various ways in which these professionals have implemented public policies in areas such as healthcare, education, and security, often emphasizing the role played by discretion in the implementation process. Despite its importance, the concept of street-level bureaucracy has scarcely been approached by housing studies. This study focuses on the role of street-level workers in the delivery of public housing to the lower-income population. We affirm the value of complementing street-level discretion with the concept of proximity, a premise borrowed from the microfinance literature, to increase the understanding of the interactions and relationships established between street-level workers and policy recipients during the implementation process. Such complementarity may contribute to a more accurate understanding of the housing policy implementation dynamics on the street-level and the possible adjustments to meet local needs. To explore this issue, we used a theoretical lens inspired by Goffman’s frame analysis that points to the importance of relational mechanisms that characterize the interactions between street-level workers and beneficiaries. These lenses were applied to a collective case study of Minha Casa Minha Vida-Entidades, a Brazilian subprogram in which street-level workers linked to social housing movements assume a leading role in the planning and execution of interventions. The results indicate that the combination of proximity and discretion has a positive influence on the implementation of housing policies. Our analysis shows the existence of nonprofit-oriented arrangements that may present different features and nuances at the implementation (micro) level and contribute to the (macro) debate on housing policies.

scholarly journals Revisiting the Organic Template Model through the Microstructural Study of Shell Development in Pinctada margaritifera, the Polynesian Pearl Oyster

Minerals ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Pierre Cuif ◽  
Yannicke Dauphin ◽  
Gilles Luquet ◽  
Kadda Medjoubi ◽  
Andrea Somogyi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pearl Oyster ◽  
Nacreous Layer ◽  
Prismatic Layer ◽  
Pinctada Margaritifera ◽  
Microstructural Study ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Gathering Data

A top-down approach to the mineralized structures and developmental steps that can be separated in the shells of Pinctada margaritifera was carried out. Detailed characterizations show that each of the two major layers usually taken into account (the outer prismatic layer and the inner nacreous layer) is actually the result of a complex process during which the microstructural patterns were progressively established. From its early growing stages in the deeper part of the periostracal grove up to the formation of the most inner nacreous layers, this species provides a demonstrative case study illustrating the leading role of specifically secreted organic structures as determinants of the crystallographic properties of the shell-building units. Gathering data established at various observational scales ranging from morphology to the nanometer level, this study allows for a reexamination of the recent and current biomineralization models.

scholarly journals Between gentrification and reurbanisation: The participatory dimension of bottom-up regeneration in Gdańsk, Poland

Geografie ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 120 (2) ◽  
pp. 210-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maja Grabkowska
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Inner City ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Transformation Processes ◽  
Careful Investigation

Urban regeneration has become a key issue in the development of contemporary cities. The paper discusses bottom-up regeneration practices performed by inhabitants of a decaying inner-city neighbourhood under post-socialist conditions, which differ notably from the widely researched Western European context. Results of a qualitative study in Wrzeszcz Dolny, Gdańsk, have indicated the leading role of newcomers to the area in animating bottom-up regeneration efforts, which in turn translate into an activation and integration of the local community. Thus, it is argued that an in-migration into the inner city, usually interpreted as gentrification, does not necessarily generate losses for the indigenous inhabitants but can also bring a desired social change and significantly contribute to the building of inclusive civil society. The presented case study therefore signals the need for a careful investigation and precise labelling of the post-socialist inner-city transformation processes, as well as demonstrates how increasing participation might be employed as the potential antidote to ills associated with gentrification.

PROMOTING THE PRACTICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN PROFESSIONS FOR THE ETHICS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AS A CASE STUDY

2020 ◽  
pp. 48-70
Author(s):  
بله أحمد بلال أحمد
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Study ◽  
Environmental Design ◽  
Global Network ◽  
Professional Experience ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
Use Of The Internet

This study aimed at introducing the use of the Internet in providing information services in libraries and information centers, as well as clarifying the leading role of the Internet in terms of the purposes of its use and ways to benefit from it through a theoretical study on the description and analysis of the use of the Internet in this and identify the positive aspects in order to promote and develop. I have relied on the documentary and descriptive approach as well as observation through the researcher's professional experience. The results showed that the use of the global network will save a lot of time, effort and costs by investing its potential to perform many direct and indirect services and recommended the need to provide the necessary requirements of equipment and software activities and functions performed by libraries and information centers.

Community Development and Faith-Based Organizations

2015 ◽  
pp. 172-207
Author(s):  
Stephanie Wrightman
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Timor Leste ◽  
State Actors

This chapter is a reflection of analyses, experiences and research on the opportunities and challenges of working with faith-based organisations (FBO's) in the context of global health. The purpose of this chapter is to demonstrate the important role that FBO's have with state and non-state actors in the development of communities in complex contexts. The role of FBO's in development are demonstrated in reference to the Author's work experience with FBO's, which form case studies in East Africa, and Timor Leste. Further analyses through literature build on these experiences to demonstrate the leading role FBO's can have with state and non-state actors, and the effects on public health. In the case study of Timor Leste, suggestions are proposed to overcome challenges and build on the opportunities of state and non-state actors incorporating the Catholic Church into health programs.

scholarly journals How Readers Shape the Content of an Encyclopedia: A Case Study Comparing the German Meyers Konversationslexikon (1885-1890) with Wikipedia (2002-2013)

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 569-591 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrike Spree
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
The Other ◽  
Factual Information ◽  
Letters To The Editor ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
The One ◽  
Comparative Content ◽  
Philosophical Questions

How knowledge is negotiated between the makers of encyclopedias and their audiences remains an ongoing question in research on encyclopedias. A comparative content analysis of the published answers of letters to the editor of the German Meyers Konversationslexikon (Korrespondenzblatt) from 1885 and the discussion pages of the article potato of the German Wikipedia (2013) reveals continuities as well as changes in the communication between encyclopedia producers and their audiences. The main reasons why readers and editors communicate are the need for updated factual information, an exchange on editorial principles and the intellectual exchange of ideas on ideological and philosophical questions in relation to the encyclopedic content. Editors and readers attach a lot of importance to the process of verifying information through bibliographical references. Whereas, for the editors of Meyers Konversationslexikon the leading role of experts remains undisputed, Wikipedians work in a contradictory situation. They are on the one hand exposing knowledge production to a permanent process of negotiation, thereby challenging the role of experts, on the other hand relying strongly on bibliographical authorities. Whilst the reasons for the communication between readers and editors of Meyers Konversationslexikon and among Wikipedia contributors coincide, the understanding of the roles of readers and editors differ. The editors of the Korrespondenzblatt keep up a lecturing attitude. As opposed to this, administrators in Wikipedia want to encourage participation and strive to develop expertise among the participating contributors. Albeit power relations between administrators, regular authors, occasional authors and readers continue to exist they are comparatively flat and transient. Regardless of these differences, the comparison between Meyers Konversationslexikon and Wikipedia indicates that the sine qua non for activating an upwards spiral of quality improvement is that readers accept, learn and cultivate common rules – including how to deal with dissent – and identify with the product at least so far as that they report mistakes.

Community Development and Faith-Based Organizations

2016 ◽  
pp. 848-883
Author(s):  
Stephanie Wrightman
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Timor Leste ◽  
State Actors

This chapter is a reflection of analyses, experiences and research on the opportunities and challenges of working with faith-based organisations (FBO's) in the context of global health. The purpose of this chapter is to demonstrate the important role that FBO's have with state and non-state actors in the development of communities in complex contexts. The role of FBO's in development are demonstrated in reference to the Author's work experience with FBO's, which form case studies in East Africa, and Timor Leste. Further analyses through literature build on these experiences to demonstrate the leading role FBO's can have with state and non-state actors, and the effects on public health. In the case study of Timor Leste, suggestions are proposed to overcome challenges and build on the opportunities of state and non-state actors incorporating the Catholic Church into health programs.

scholarly journals ¿Debe el planeamiento territorial hacer algo en materia de Integración Transfronteriza?

2018 ◽  
pp. 151
Author(s):  
Carolina Marchant Miranda
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
National Level ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Territorial Planning ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
National Programs ◽  
Regional Processes

El presente trabajo tiene por objeto indagar sobre los procesos de integración transfronterizos y el rol que en ellos juega la planificación territorial. Se observó que los esfuerzos integracionistas, ya sea, en procesos macro regionales o, en programas micro nacionales, no alcanzan la eficiencia ni eficacia deseada y la planificación urbanística, no juega un rol protagonista en ellos. Haciendo uso de una metodología cualitativa, el estudio fue circunscrito a Chile, comenzando por una contextualización histórica y actual de las fronteras del país, una revisión del tratamiento normativo y de las políticas de integración transfronteriza en las que participa el Estado, a nivel regional (UNASUR) y a nivel nacional, mediante los Comités de Integración Fronteriza. Posteriormente, se efectúa un análisis comparativo con procesos internacionales de integración transnacional, para luego, hacer una evaluación DAFO de los mismos, extrayéndose un listado de buenas y malas prácticas. Finalmente, se analiza un caso de estudio, que comprende la zona norte de Chile y Argentina, el cual permite corroborar la hipótesis y observar sobre la infrautilización del planeamiento territorial en materia de integración transfronteriza. Se concluye con una propuesta, en la que esta disciplina adquiere un rol más preponderante en los procesos de integración existentes.AbstractThe present paper has the objective to inquire about the processes of cross - border integration and the role of territorial planning has in them. It was observed that the integrationist efforts, either in macro regional processes or in micro-national programs, do not reach the desired efficiency and effectiveness and urban planning, does not play a leading role in them. Using a qualitative methodology, the study was circumscribed to Chile, starting with a historical and current contextualization of the country's borders, a review of the normative treatment and integration policies in which the State participates, at the regional level (UNASUR) and at the national level, through the Border Integration Committees. Subsequently, a comparative analysis is carried out with international processes of transnational integration, then, to make a SWOT evaluation of the same, extracting a list of positives and negatives practices. Finally, a case study, which includes the northern Chilean and Argentinean areas, is analyzed, which allows the corroboration of the hypothesis and concluding with the underutilization of territorial planning in the area of cross - border integration. It concludes with a proposal, in which this discipline acquires a more preponderant role in the existing integration processes.

Catherine II’s Anglophilia and Lord Cathcart’s “Extraordinary Embassy” in St. Petersburg, 1768–1772

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 224-244
Author(s):  
Elena Borisovna Smilianskaia
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
The West ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Peculiar Character ◽  
British Culture

Looking at eighteenth-century relations between Russia and the West through the prism of diplomatic culture and rituals, this article concentrates on a “happy period” in Anglo-Russian contacts in 1768–1772, when Sir Charles Cathcart was dispatched to St. Petersburg to negotiate a treaty between the British and Russian Empires. The article argues that close relations between Great Britain and Russia at that time influenced ceremonial practices, individual contacts, and the transfer of the British culture to the Russian court. Study of the Cathcart’s archive points to the peculiar character of his mission – to the leading role that he, as British ambassador, played among diplomats in Russia; to the role of his wife, who became the first ambassadrice officially presented to Catherine ii; to their residence, which they transformed into an exemplar of “British taste” in St. Petersburg. The Cathcart case study opens up new perspectives on the diplomats in the Age of the Enlightenment.

scholarly journals SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES (SNA): an applied research method to investigate the role of the Canadian Ministry of Health in combating COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. a7en
Author(s):  
Rita de Cássia Romeiro Paulino
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Collective Actions ◽  
Ministry Of Health ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
The Individual

In this study we present a proposal for digital methods using Social Network Analysis (ARS) techniques as a product that materializes in ways to investigate data from social networks. Through such methods, we research the potential of these techniques to investigate the topology of networks and the individual and collective actions of their actors. As an example, we adopted as a case study the Twitter profile of the Ministry of Health of Canada to examine actors and communication strategies in combating the pandemic. These actors played a leading role in distributing information against Covid-19. As a contribution, we identified that, through the methods adopted, it was possible to perceive a triangulation in the communication of government agents with their public, in addition to identifying communication strategies in combating the pandemic. 

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