Bahraini Women Engineers

2018 ◽

pp. 178-208

Author(s):

Adel Ismail Al-Alawi ◽

Shurooq Husamaddin ◽

Fatema Khaled Mejeran ◽

Fatema Kadhem Madan

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Study ◽

Current Situation ◽

Women Engineers ◽

Public And Private ◽

The Public ◽

The Status

The purpose of this chapter is to investigate the current situation of women engineers in the Kingdom of Bahrain in the public and private sectors, discussing some factors that affect women's access to leading positions, and looking for ways to increase the status of Bahraini women leading in this sector, which will consequently contribute to reinforcing their role in this extremely important sector. The research is approached through a quantitative and qualitative study conducted in the public and private engineering field. Two forms of questionnaires, printed and electronic, were distributed among 120 women engineers; responses were received from 57 of them. In general, the results show that although engineering women are very successful in their career and are effectively contributing to the engineering sector in the Kingdom of Bahrain, many issues need to be addressed in order to support them in reaching higher leading positions.

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Women Practicing Anthropology: Perspectives Across the Discipline

Practicing Anthropology ◽

10.17730/praa.6.1.n24636687632p22k ◽

1983 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 4-7

Author(s):

Carole Browner

Keyword(s):

Annual Meeting ◽

Career Advancement ◽

Academic Career ◽

American Anthropological Association ◽

Special Issue ◽

Public And Private ◽

The Public ◽

The Status ◽

Status Of Women

The articles in this special issue of Practicing Anthropology grew out of a symposium on "Women Anthropologists in the Public and Private Sectors: Opportunities for Non-Academic Career Advancement" sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women (COSWA) at the 1981 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. As organizers of the panel, Donald Lindburg and I sought participants from each subfield of anthropology working in both the public and private sectors. In the first regard we were successful, with presentations by social, linguistic and physical anthropologists and two archeologists. In the second regard we were less successful, with four of the five panelists—Sibley, Wynn, Wildesen, and Brockman—employed by private concerns.

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Public policies of connectivity in Latin America in the context of COVID-19

Journal of Digital Media & Policy ◽

10.1386/jdmp_00051_1 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 117-136

Author(s):

Bernadette Califano ◽

Martín Becerra

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Latin American ◽

Public Policies ◽

Regional Level ◽

Legal Regulations ◽

Public And Private ◽

The Public ◽

The Status ◽

Telecommunications Policies ◽

Latin American Countries

This article analyses the digital policies introduced in different Latin American countries during the first three months after the outbreak of COVID-19 reached the region (March–June 2020). This analysis has a three-fold objective: (a) to give an overview of the status of connectivity in five big Latin American countries – Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico; (b) to study comparatively the actions and regulations implemented on connectivity matters by the governments of each country to face the pandemic; and (c) to provide insights in relation with telecommunications policies in the context of pandemic emergence at a regional level. To that end, this study will consider legal regulations and specific public policies in this field, official documents from the public and private sectors, and statistics on ICT access and usage in the region.

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Challenges of medicines management in the public and private sector under Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme – A qualitative study

Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice ◽

10.1186/s40545-016-0055-9 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Paul G. Ashigbie ◽

Devine Azameti ◽

Veronika J. Wirtz

Keyword(s):

Health Insurance ◽

Qualitative Study ◽

Private Sector ◽

National Health Insurance ◽

National Health Insurance Scheme ◽

Medicines Management ◽

Insurance Scheme ◽

Public And Private ◽

The Public ◽

Public And Private Sector

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Perceived Reasonableness of Employment Testing Accommodations for Persons with Disabilities

Public Personnel Management ◽

10.1177/009102600903800305 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 38 (3) ◽

pp. 71-91 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Bridget A. Styers ◽

Kenneth S. Shultz

Keyword(s):

Testing Accommodations ◽

Future Research ◽

Complex Nature ◽

Public And Private ◽

Persons With Disabilities ◽

The Public ◽

Attitudinal Barriers ◽

Employment Testing ◽

Legal Sanctions ◽

The Status

Laws such as the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), as well as subsequent legal sanctions, appear to have had limited success in substantially increasing the number of persons with disabilities within the employment context. Therefore, it is critical that a better understanding be developed of both the physical and attitudinal barriers persons with disabilities face with regard to gaining such employment. The present study was conducted to examine how the origin of an applicant's disability, the status of the job being applied for, and the level of test accommodation to be provided influenced perceptions of what was a reasonable pre-employment testing accommodation. Human resources testing professionals from both the public and private sectors rated how reasonable they perceived a variety of testing accommodations to be. The results reveal that origin of disability, job status, and level of accommodation all affected how reasonable a given testing accommodation was perceived to be and that there was significant interaction effects for all three factors. The results of this study also support Stone and Colella's model of the complex nature of workers' reactions to individuals with disabilities in organizations. The implications of the study, as well as needs for future research, are also discussed.

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The Degree of Applying Accountability Principles in Public & Private Universities in Jordan: A Comparative Study BetweenYarmouk University and Jerash University

European Scientific Journal ESJ ◽

10.19044/esj.2017.v13n4p253 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 253

Author(s):

Ahmed Malkawi ◽

Kamil Al-Otoum

Keyword(s):

Data Collection ◽

Public Universities ◽

Private Universities ◽

Faculty Members ◽

Public And Private ◽

The Public ◽

Academic Fields ◽

The Status ◽

Yarmouk University ◽

The University

The study aimed to identify the status of applying the principles of accountability in the public and private universities in Jordan. This was done by comparing between Yarmouk University and Jerash University from the perspective of the employees. The study sample consisted of 250 faculty members and one administrator at Yarmouk University and Jerash University. The questionnaire was used as a tool for data collection. The study reached several conclusions, most notably of which include the presence of statistically significant differences in the reality of applying the accountability principles at universities in general, and in the administrative, and academic fields. This, however, is dependent on the variable of the university in favor of Jerash University. The study concluded on a number of recommendations most important of which is the necessity of activating the accountability mechanisms and tools in three areas: administrative, and academic areas of public universities in a higher degree. It also includes a commitment with unified criteria of accountability to ensure the maintenance of an acceptable level of justice and transparency.

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The Mandwa Project: An Experiment in Community Participation

International Journal of Health Services ◽

10.2190/vnay-uk5l-kcw1-ql56 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

pp. 153-164 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Noshir H. Antia

Keyword(s):

Political Factors ◽

Public And Private ◽

The Public ◽

Adequate Knowledge ◽

Self Help ◽

The People ◽

Vested Interests ◽

Health And Illness ◽

The Status

The project at Mandwa was designed to study the problems of health in rural India and the delivery of health care by the existing public and private health systems. The results demonstrate the important role of socioeconomic and political factors not only in vital areas such as nutrition, water supply, sanitation, and housing, but also in the delivery of health services. The private sector showed a predominantly curative and monetary orientation, while the public sector demonstrated a lack of accountability to the people it was designed to serve. Under these conditions, an attempt was made to test the possibility of training local women in self-help with a minimal supportive service. The results reveal that adequate knowledge and technology exist for most of the prevalent problems of health and illness in developing countries, and that semiliterate villagers have the capacity to use these effectively if they are provided in a simple manner. This experiment also demonstrates the opposition from local vested interests to any change of the status quo, even in the relatively noncontroversial field of health.

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THE MORALISATION OF PREDICTIVITY IN THE AGE OF DATA-DRIVEN SURVEILLANCE

AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research ◽

10.5210/spir.v2020i0.11235 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Sun-ha Hong

Keyword(s):

Emerging Technologies ◽

Human Subjects ◽

Rapid Expansion ◽

Data Driven ◽

Surveillance Systems ◽

Public And Private ◽

The Public ◽

The Status ◽

The Many ◽

Machine Readable

This paper argues that emerging technologies of datafication are intensifying a moralisation of predictivity. On one hand, this describes the growing pressure to quantify and predict every kind of social problem. Reluctance to adopt emerging technologies of surveillance is construed as abdication of a moral responsibility via negligence to inevitable progress. On the other hand, it describes the corresponding demand that human subjects learn to live in more predictable and machine-readable ways, adapting to the flaws and ambiguities of imperfect technosystems. This argument echoes that of Joseph Weizenbaum (1976), a pioneer of early AI research and the inventor of the ELIZA chatbot: that well in advance of machines fully made in our image, it is the human subjects that are asked to render themselves more compatible and legible to those machines. Drawing from a book-length research project into the public presentation of surveillance technologies, I show how messy data, arbitrary classifications, and other uncertainties become fabricated into the status of reliable predictions. Specifically, the bulk of the presentation will examine the rapid expansion of counter-terrorist surveillance systems in 2010’s America. All in all, the moralisation of predictivity helps suture the many imperfections of data-driven surveillance, and provide justificatory cover for their breakneck expansion across the boundaries of public and private. They perpetuate the normative expectation that what can be predicted must be, and what needs to be predicted surely can be. In the process, spaces for human discretion, informal norms, and sensitivity to human circumstance are being squeezed out.

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How Laos is moving forward with REDD+ schemes

International Journal of Rural Law and Policy ◽

10.5130/ijrlp.i1.2013.3355 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 1-4 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Sithong Thongmanivong ◽

Khamla Phanvilay ◽

Thoumthone Vongvisouk

Keyword(s):

Forest Cover ◽

Carbon Accounting ◽

Benefit Sharing ◽

Internal Factors ◽

Public And Private ◽

The Public ◽

The Past ◽

The Status ◽

Conservation Projects ◽

Reporting And Verification

The forest cover in Laos has decreased over the past three decades for variety of reasons. The current Laos Government has committed itself to restoring the forest cover to 70 per cent by 2020. As a result, many conservation projects and programs have been planned and implemented in different parts of the country. REDD+ was introduced in late 2007; however, progress of implementation of REDD+ has been slow. This paper examines and updates the status of REDD+ implementation in Laos, using information from literature and interviews with relevant individuals. The paper reveals that progress of REDD+ is slow not only due to external factors but also on internal factors. Currently, there are various international organisations and NGOs, from both the public and private sectors, attempting to pilot REDD+ projects. Laos faces many challenges in implementing REDD+, including institutional arrangements; appropriate methods for carbon accounting, reporting and verification; benefit sharing; and engaging local communities.

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