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SDWG Report on Arctic Energy
Get PDFThis report is not intended as a comprehensive assessment of
Arctic energy resources, nor of the impacts of Arctic energy development on the natural and human environments in the circumpolar region. Rather, it is intended as an overview report on the Arctic Council’s cooperation in the field of Arctic energy so as to allow Arctic Council Ministers to take stock of past activities and to make some strategic decisions about future cooperative activities.
In this sense, the report is an overview of the broad subject of cooperation on Arctic energy issues
Feasibility and challenges of independent research on drugs: the Italian medicines agency (AIFA) experience
No full textKey points * National Health Service (NHS) is becoming increasingly aware of the need to support independent research to answer some important questions for patient care in areas of scant commercial interest. * This article reports the main features and strategies of the independent research programme on drugs launched by the Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA) in 2005. * In the three bids launched between 2005 and 2007, a total of 151 studies have been approved for funding for a total of about 78 million Euro. * In this article we describe the Italian legislative framework under which the programme was launched, the types of research funded and discuss how the supported studies could contribute, in an international framework, to the knowledge needed on drug efficacy, effectiveness and safety
The National Italian Guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of children with pediatric ataxias
Get PDFBackground: Ataxia is a rare neurological condition causing a deficit in the coordination of motor activities, preventing the fluidity of movements. Children with ataxia may show several different ataxic signs, along with difficulties in walking autonomously and ataxic gait often associated with trunk instability. Ataxic signs can be either acute or chronic, and in either case, the diagnosis can be extremely complex. Symptoms and their etiology are often widely heterogeneous, even within the same condition. Methods: The guideline was developed based on the methodology defined by the Methodological Handbook of the Italian National Guideline System (SNLG) and was reported following the AGREE-II checklist. The SNLG methodology required the adoption of the GRADE approach for the whole development process. To facilitate the implementation of the contents and recommendations from the guideline, two care pathways were developed based on the NICE and the European Pathway Association (EPA) models. Results: The guideline included 28 clinical questions, 4 on the identification and management of acute ataxias, and 24 on the diagnosis and management of chronic ataxias. The document included 44 recommendations, 37 clinical recommendations, and 7 recommendations for research. Conclusion: The working group, despite the lack and methodological limitations of the evidence, deemed as essential to provide indications and recommendations, in particular in some clinically relevant areas. The care pathway was produced as a tool to facilitate the implementation of the contents and recommendations. The interactive version of the pathway is available on the SNLG website along with a leaflet dedicated to families and caregivers
America's Next Manufacturing Workforce: Promising Practices in Education and Skills Building
Get PDFThe promising practices presented in this report demonstrate some of the most encouraging approaches for education and skill building of America’s new manufacturing workforce. These practices have been selected by a panel of experts from business, government, and education who serve on the MForesight Education and Workforce Development Working Group (EWD). This report summarizes a sampling of replicable and scalable promising practices being pursued to ensure that America builds an educated, skilled, and ready workforce. MForesight has not endorsed any particular product or method in presenting these promising practices, and is pleased to invite learning institutions, professional organizations, and manufacturers to submit descriptions of additional programs and initiatives serving similar purposes. In this way, MForesight hopes to build a community of practitioners and learners to help build an educated, skilled, and ready advanced manufacturing workforce. Concurrently, the EWD will continue its work to translate the key characteristics of these promising practices into policy and investment guidelines for government, industry, and educational enterprises that will support efforts to bring such practices to scale.National Science Foundation, Grant No. 1552534https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/145154/1/WorkforceReport_Final.pd
Sustainable Development Working Group [en]
No full textThe Sustainable Development Working Group is a working group of the Arctic Council focusing on health issues and the well-being of people living in the Arctic, management of natural, including living, resources, infrastructure development, education and cultural heritage, sustainable economic activities, and children and youth.e
A Working Paper for the G-20 Development Working Group, Pillar Nine
No full textThe objective of this paper is to
recommend, at the request of the Argentina, Australia,
Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia,
Italy, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia,
South Africa, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United
States - along with the European Union (EU) (G-20), how
knowledge sharing (KS), through North-South, South-South,
and triangular cooperation, can be scaled up in support of
growth and development processes. The working group
collaborates closely with the steering committee for pillar
nine, which, besides the working group members, also
includes Korea and Mexico as co-facilitators for pillar
nine, France as this year’s G-20 Chair, and Colombia and
Indonesia as co-chairs of the task team on South-South
cooperation. The paper is organized into four sections:
section one presents a description of how KS is increasingly
viewed as a complementary third leg to financial and
technical cooperation in the changing global development
landscape; section two presents a set of emerging,
evidence-based lessons for KS as a development tool; section
three recommendations from the G-20 to scale up KS; and
section four presents next steps on the short and medium term
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Prevention and control of emerging infectious disease in the Arctic : report from the International Circumpolar Surveillance (ICS) Sustainable Development Working Group Meeting, October 30\uad31, 2007, Vadso, Norway
No full textThe purpose of this project is to establish an integrated International Circumpolar Surveillance (ICS) system for infectious diseases by establishing a network of hospital and public health laboratories throughout the Arctic The network would allow collection and sharing of uniform laboratory and epidemiologic data between Arctic countries that will describe the prevalence of infectious diseases of concern to Arctic residents and assist in the formulation of prevention and control strategiesPublication date from document propertiesevent_arctic-council-ics_10-07pd
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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