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Decentralisation of Natural Resource Management: Some Themes and Unresolved Issues
No full textTulisan ini membahas sejumlah aspek yang terkait dengan proses desentralisasi pengelolaan sumber daya alam. Fokusnya pada sejumlah tema dan isu yang menjadi karakteristik proses tersebut yang sering mengarah pada berbagai bentuk pengelolaan bersama (co-management). Tema-tema dan isu-isu tersebut ditarik dari pengalaman di sejumlah negara, khususnya dari Filipina di mana desentralisasi telah dimulai lebih dari 10 tahun sebelum diterapkan di Indonesia. Sejumlah tema dan isu yang menjadi fokus adalah perbedaan dalam perspektif waktu, hubungan antara sifat sumber daya ekologi dan batas-batas sosial, konsep komuniti dan pengelolaan, proses melemahnya tanggung jawab negara dalam kaitannya dengan kepentingan lokal, peran pihak ke tiga dalam pengelolaan bersama, sifat kontrak dalam pengelolaan sumber daya, sejumlah aspek yang terkait dengan penduduk lokal, dan gagasan tentang keberhasilan dan kegagalan dalam pengelolaan bersama. Dengan mengedepankan isu-isu ini kami berharap dapat memberikan suatu perspektif antropologis terhadap proses yang amat menarik dari desentralisasi pengelolaan sumber daya alam. Kata kunci: desentralisasi; co-management; pengelolaan sumber daya alam. 
Colonial engagements in the global Mediterranean Iron Age
Get PDFThe application of globalization theory to colonial contexts in recent years has emphasized articulations of the colonized and the colonizers. For the Mediterranean Iron Age, focus has been upon expressions of local (colonized) identities, and of regional variabilities of the overseas Greeks and Phoenicians; any attention to the engagements that the Greeks and Phoenicians had with one another during this time has been solely contrapositive in the framing of arguments. The present study examines the background to this circumstance before addressing specifically the engagement between these global cultures on a Mediterranean-wide scale during the period of their overseas foundations. Regarded from the perspective of a globalization framework, the common sets of practices and shared bodies of knowledge reveal a deep complexity of intercultural contact during the Iron Age, reminding us that cultures should never be considered in isolation.The application of globalization theory to colonial contexts in recent years has emphasized articulations of the colonized and the colonizers. For the Mediterranean Iron Age, focus has been upon expressions of local (colonized) identities, and of regional variabilities of the overseas Greeks and Phoenicians; any attention to the engagements that the Greeks and Phoenicians had with one another during this time has been solely contrapositive in the framing of arguments. The present study examines the background to this circumstance before addressing specifically the engagement between these global cultures on a Mediterranean-wide scale during the period of their overseas foundations. Regarded from the perspective of a globalization framework, the common sets of practices and shared bodies of knowledge reveal a deep complexity of intercultural contact during the Iron Age, reminding us that cultures should never be considered in isolation
Zechariah 9-14 as the substructure of 1 Peter’s eschatological program
No full textThe principal aim of this study is to discern what has shaped the author of 1 Peter to regard Christian suffering as a necessary (1.6) and to-be-expected (4.12) component of faithful allegiance to Jesus Christ. Most research regarding suffering in 1 Peter has limited the scope of inquiry to two particular aspects—its cause and nature, and the strategies that the author of 1 Peter employs in order to enable his addressees to respond in faithfulness. There remains, however, the need for a comprehensive explanation for the source that has generated 1 Peter’s theology of Christian suffering. If Jesus truly is the Christ, God’s chosen redemptive agent who has come to restore God’s people, then how can it be that Christian suffering is a necessary part of discipleship after his coming, death and resurrection? What led the author of 1 Peter to such a startling conclusion, which seems to runs against the grain of the eschatological hopes and expectations of Jewish restoration ideology?
This thesis analyzes the appropriation of shepherd and fiery trials imagery,
and argues that the author of 1 Peter is dependent upon Zechariah 9-14 for his
theology of Christian suffering. Said in another way, the eschatological program of
Zechariah 9-14, read through the lens of the Gospel, functions as the substructure
for 1 Peter’s eschatology and thus its theology of Christian suffering.
In support of this hypothesis, this study highlights the fact that Zechariah 9-
14 was available and appropriated in early Christianity, in particular in the Passion
Narrative tradition; that the shepherd imagery of 1 Pet 2.25 is best understood
within the milieu of the Passion Narrative tradition, and that it alludes to the
eschatological program of Zechariah 9-14; that the fiery trials imagery found in 1
Peter 1.6-7 and 1 Pet 4.12 is distinct from that which we find in Greco-Roman and OT
wisdom sources, and that it shares exclusive parallels with some unique features of
the eschatological program of Zechariah 9-14; that Zechariah 9-14 offers a more
satisfying explanation for the modification of Isa 11.2 in 1 Pet 4.14, the transition
from 4.12-19 to 5.1-4, why Peter has oriented his letter with the term διασπορά,
and why he has described his addresses as οἶκος τοῦ θεοῦ; and finally that 1 Peter
contains an implicit foundational narrative that shares distinct parallels with the
eschatological program of Zechariah 9-14.
We can conclude that 1 Peter offers a unique vista into the way in which at
least one early Christian witness came to understand and to communicate the fact
that Christian suffering was a necessary feature of faithful allegiance to Jesus Christ
Small European states in world markets revisited: the questioning of compensation policies in the light of the Swiss case
Get PDFFifteen years ago, Katzenstein convincingly emphasized the specific features of small European states to cope with their external environment: international liberalization, domestic compensation and flexible adjustment to fluctuations of international markets through democratic corporatist institutions. Thus, small countries should be expected to be less vulnerable to the current trend of economic globalization, as they have previously been exposed to international competition, at least in product markets. Like other small European countries, Switzerland also developed some kind of compensation policies, which were quite different from the policies of other small European states, and favored mainly economic sectors producing for domestic markets. In the 1990´s, the liberalization of domestic markets, in response to increasing external pressures, was one of the most important issues in Swiss politics. External pressures, and the changing political preferences of the export-oriented sectors, also triggered important changes in other social and economic policy domains. While much attention has been paid to the recent changes in Scandinavian countries, especially Sweden, the Swiss liberal-conservative model also faced important changes in the recent period. In the paper, I highlight in which ways the processes of globalization and europeanization affect social and economic policies, which can be considered compensation policies. I analyse three main fields (labor market regulations, social policies and domestic regulations favouring domestic economic sectors) where changes occurred in the recent period. -- Vor fünfzehn Jahren hat Katzenstein die spezifischen Anpassungsmerkmale kleiner europäischer Staaten an ihre internationale Umgebung überzeugend gezeigt: internationale Liberalisierung, innere Kompensation und flexible Anpassung an internationale Märkte durch korporatistische Institutionen. Dank ihrer frühen Integration in die Weltmärkte müßten kleine Staaten im jetzigen Globalisierungsprozess weniger verwundbar sein. Wie andere kleine europäische Staaten hat auch die Schweiz einige Kompensationspolitiken entwickelt. Diese unterschieden sich aber sehr von den Politiken anderer europäischer Staaten und konzentrierten sich haupsächlich auf den Schutz des Binnenmarkts. Während der 90er Jahre war die Liberalisierung des Binnenmarkts als Antwort auf steigenden internationalen Druck eines der wichtigsten Themen der schweizerischen Politik. Äusserer Druck und die Änderung der politischen Präferenzen der exportorientierten Sektoren haben auch wichtige Reformen in anderen Bereichen der Sozial- und Wirtschaftspolitik ausgelöst. Während viel über Reformen in den skandinavischen Länder, besonders in Schweden, geschrieben wurde, hat auch das schweizerische liberal-konservative Modell viele Reformen erlebt. In dem Papier wird gezeigt, wie sich die Globalisierungs- und Europäisierungsprozesse auf die Sozial- und Wirtschaftspolitik, die man als Kompensationspolitiken bezeichnen kann, auswirken. Drei Bereiche, wo Reformen stattgefunden haben, wurden analysiert: Arbeitsmarktregulierungen, Sozialpolitik und protektionistische Regulierungen des Binnenmarkts.
A study of intermittency in Hadronic Z Decays
No full textA study on the modifications of the relation between author and lector due to the translation from text to hypertex
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Word Order, Focus, and Clause Linking in Greek Tragic Poetry
Get PDFThe thesis comprises an investigation of three aspects of sentence structure in Classical Greek (henceforth CG) dramatic poetry: order of the main sentence elements (subject, verb, and object) within the clause, the emphatic position at the start of the clause, and the structure of inter-clausal linking. It is argued that these three features, usually considered separately, are interdependent, and that intra-clausal word order is directly related to the structure of compound and complex sentences. The discussion undertakes a systematic survey of subject, verb, and object order in a corpus of texts, proposes an explanation for the observed order, and develops a model which explains how prominence within the clause is exploited in clause linking to produce the complement structures observed in Homeric and tragic complementation
A Delphi-method-based consensus guideline for definition of treatment-resistant depression for clinical trials
Get PDFCriteria for treatment-resistant depression (TRD) and partially responsive depression (PRD) as subtypes of major depressive disorder (MDD) are not unequivocally defined. In the present document we used a Delphi-method-based consensus approach to define TRD and PRD and to serve as operational criteria for future clinical studies, especially if conducted for regulatory purposes. We reviewed the literature and brought together a group of international experts (including clinicians, academics, researchers, employees of pharmaceutical companies, regulatory bodies representatives, and one person with lived experience) to evaluate the state-of-the-art and main controversies regarding the current classification. We then provided recommendations on how to design clinical trials, and on how to guide research in unmet needs and knowledge gaps. This report will feed into one of the main objectives of the EUropean Patient-cEntric clinicAl tRial pLatforms, Innovative Medicines Initiative (EU-PEARL, IMI) MDD project, to design a protocol for platform trials of new medications for TRD/PRD. © 2021, The Author(s).EU/EFPIA/Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 Joint Undertaking
Data integration for decision making in wheat breeding
Get PDFPlant breeding is a production process requiring the creation of germplasm through taking existing successful cultivars and crossing them with new parental lines with agronomic and quality attributes of interest. After crossing, F2 generations generally display all possible combinations between the parental lines. The process from this step is to identify elite crossbred lines and backcross these several times to the parental lines in order to generate new elite lines that are predominately equivalent to the cultivar but with specific novel and desirable attributes present.
Plant breeding continually requires judgements to identify elite plant germplasm containing traits that maximise plant performance. These judgements are often made using incomplete information resulting from the greater complexity in modern plant breeding decision making. Judgements can be improved through the utilisation of new technologies and a stronger scientific basis. This thesis uses decision and information management processes to contribute to:
• Pioneering the application of unbalanced datasets to wheat breeding. The methodologies were derived from tree and animal breeding experience and successfully applied to data sets from a wheat breeding program.
• Providing the first integration of molecular data into a decision-matrix framework.
• Building on the molecular integration in output-2 by establishing a more sophisticated integration of complex NIR spectral data with molecular data.
• Providing inputs into decision matrices for breeding using the outputs discussed above.
This thesis establishes the methodology to make use of new technologies to use unbalanced datasets with decision matrix methodology to make better decisions. This thesis has utilised multivariate methodologies more broadly to include complex data such as NIR fingerprint to differentiate flour samples between controls and breeding germplasm. These differences appear to be related to genetic factors as demonstrated after variability relating to the environment had been removed. This thesis first reviews the literature and then addresses this breeding processes through the use of decision and information management processes, and makes significant contributions in using these methodologies
