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BK15-16
No full textThis book has a page (5538) of three illustrated fables: The Lark and Her Young, The Fox and the Wolf, and The Donkey's Wish. The Fox and the Wolf is told differently; its illustration is done by Harry Neilson. On 5826, AD and DM are told without illustration.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Holland Thompson and Arthur Me
Musical Instruction
No full textJeff Shellhammer (left), band director at Ross High School, was one of 20 music teachers taking part in a band conductors workshop at Bowling Green State University. Giving Shellhammer pointers was Dr. James Neilson (center). David Wolbert (far right) also received direction from Dr. Neilson
PROCESSES OF LAND APPROPRIATION FOR LARGE-SCALE OIL PALM DEVELOPMENT IN WEST KALIMANTAN, INDONESIA/ Processos de aquisição de terra para a produção de óleo de palma em Kapuas Hulu, Indonésia/ Proses pembebasan lahan untuk perkebunan kelapa sawit di Kapuas Hulu, Kalimantan Barat
No full textThis study examines the processes of negotiation through which agribusiness investors are gaining access to large areas of land for oil palm plantations within the Kapuas Hulu district of West Kalimantan in Indonesia. Kapuas Hulu is at the forefront of current oil palm expansion in Indonesia, making this a revealing case-study of current practices at Indonesia’s oil palm frontier. In their book, Powers of Exclusion, Hall, Hirsh and Li. (2011) describe the complex interplay of processes that are assembled to effectively exclude some actors from accessing land while privileging others. In Indonesia, these powers are applied to explain how investors access plantation land for a fraction of its market value. This study presents the complexities of institutional interplays among different actors that negotiate land dispossession across three village environments, each at different stages of engagement with the palm oil industry. In Kapuas Hulu, agribusiness corporations often gain land access with the support of customary elites, causing tensions within many Dayak Iban communities. Yet, informal modes of organisation, centred on the traditional longhouse social structures, also collide with the powers of exclusion, to produce sites of resistance. Como citar este artigo:HASUDUNGAN, Albert; NEILSON, Jeff. Processes of land appropriation for large-scale oil palm development in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Revista NERA, v. 23, n. 51, p. 366-389, jan.-abr., 202
Current awareness on a shoe string: RSS at the HQC
No full textChristine Neilson ([email protected]) served as the Librarian for the Health
Quality Council from September 2004 to December 2006. She is currently the Outreach
Services Librarian for the Saskatchewan Health Information Resources Partnership
(SHIRP), Health Sciences Library, 107 Wiggins Road, Saskatoon SK, S7N 5E5. The
author would like to thank Maureen Bingham, the Health Quality Council's former
Director of Linkage and Exchange, for offering her insight and supporting the HQC
current awareness projectThere is no shortage of articles describing the nature of blogs and RSS feeds and their
potential use in libraries. However, articles describing the implementation and evaluation
of RSS for library current awareness services and the lessons learned along the way are
harder to find. This case study relates the experience of implementing an RSS feed-based
current awareness service in a small special library in Canada, and the preliminary uptake
and feedback of the staff it serves
Evaluating the procurement documents of Dutch water boards portfolio: A step towards more reliable public clients
No full textAlthough a considerable amount of literature has addressed the public procurement in the construction industry, still little is known about procurement in small and repetitive activities. In practice, however, public clients are often involved in repetitive tasks such as maintenance activities. Dutch water boards, regional governmental bodies responsible for providing water management services, are the focus of this study. For this research, three main procurement documents of the water boards were performed using content analysis. The aim is to evaluate these documents and to identify the typology of the repetitive activities and the procurement volume of these tasks from a portfolio perspective of the public client. Most of the contractors/suppliers involved in these activities are local Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs). The findings of the study indicate that insights into the typologies of these repetitive works and their expected volume over time delivers crucial value for the public procurer. Given the amount of repetitive works procured by public clients, creating such an insight to both clients as well as contractors can ultimately increase efficiency and improve investment opportunities.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Design & Construction Managemen
Rethinking our approach to postpartum haemorrhage and uterotonics
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Rethinking our approach to postpartum haemorrhage and uterotonics
BMJ 2015; 351 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h3251 (Published 08 July 2015)
Cite this as: BMJ 2015;351:h3251
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Andrew D Weeks, professor of international maternal health1, James P Neilson, professor of obstetrics and gynaecology1
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Correspondence to: AD Weeks [email protected]
Accepted 30 March 2015
Andrew Weeks and James Neilson suggest that we have inappropriately generalised evidence on the use of uterotonics from uncomplicated births to all births. They call for stronger focus on women with complex births to reduce deaths from postpartum haemorrhage
Postpartum haemorrhage (defined as a bleed >500 mL) is estimated to affect 1-15% of vaginal births, depending on the definition used, the method of assessing blood loss, the setting, and the population studied. Risk factors include Asian ethnicity, obesity, previous postpartum haemorrhage, multiple pregnancy, anaemia, large baby, age over 40, induction of labour, prolonged labour, placental abruption, and caesarean delivery.1
Although global mortality from postpartum haemorrhage is falling, its incidence is increasing in high resource settings, the reasons for which are unclear.2 3 4 Many of those who survive have severe anaemia, renal failure, or psychological trauma, and the offspring may have difficulties in breast feeding and bonding.
Current best practice globally is for all pregnant women to receive a uterotonic drug at the time of childbirth to prevent postpartum haemorrhage. This recommendation has been in place since the 1980s when randomised trials showed that routine prophylaxis with oxytocin based uterotonic drugs reduced the rate of postpartum haemorrhage.5 The assumption that this would translate into fewer maternal deaths—based on the understanding that atony was the most common cause of haemorrhage related deaths—led to the promotion of active management of the third stage of labour, which comprises a prophylactic uterotonic drug, early cord clamping, and controlled cord traction.
Here we discuss the problems with generalising data from spontaneous vaginal (“normal”) births to complex births, and call for a change in global strategy on postpartum haemorrhage
JoLynn Runolfson Selected as Contributing Author in Fraud Book
No full textJoLynn Runolfson, SOA Lecturer at the Uintah Basin site, has been selected as a contributing author in a soon-to-be published book in the “Fraud Casebook” series authored by Dr. Joseph T. Wells, founder and Chairman of the Board of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. The book will be focused on financial statement fraud and is expected to be published in late June. JoLynn’s fraud case was chosen as one of only 47 cases out of 100 that were submitted for consideration. Her contribution is a write up for a case she managed while employed by Neilson Elggren LLP about loan losses on securitized asset pools.https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/huntsman_news/1001/thumbnail.jp
Biblioteca para Niños
No full textThe first surprise in this book is that its front cover shows an Approbación Ecclesiástica! A second surprise is the lovely array of illustrations: several engaging full-color full-page illustrations, some black-and-white illustrations, and delightful smaller designs. As I opened the book to study it more carefully, I thought There are no fables here! It is true that fairy-tale stories seem to dominate, but there are many fables retold here. They include The Eagle, the Cat, and the Javelin; UP; The Wolf and the Sheep; The Fox and the Goat (with three good illustrations); The Fox and the Lion; BC; The Stag and the Oxen; The Ass and the Wolf; The Wolf and the Stork; The Eagle and the Crow (a drama in three acts with three good illustrations); DLS (again with three good illustrations); The Fox and the Cat (also with three); and The Rabbits and the Frogs. The closing T of C is the inside back-cover.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Language note: SpanishTexto de S.H. Hame
Embedded geographies and quality construction in Sulawesi coffee commodity chains
No full textChanging global conditions of agri-food production, trade and consumption are resulting in industry re-regulation and new forms of supply chain governance. This thesis explores emerging governance structures within a set of coffee commodity chains, which are dominated by various quality considerations. The research scrutinises relationships between the geographies of production and global commodity chain structures. To this end, a detailed investigation of production geographies is performed in one particular producing region, South Sulawesi in Indonesia. The diverse ways in which these regional geographies are inserted within, and transformed by, global supply chains in the coffee sector provide vital insights into emerging characteristics of the global economy. Prices paid for tropical commodities such as coffee, are currently at historic lows due primarily to chronic global oversupply. Quality-related product differentiation is a common policy recommendation to producers of tropical commodities to escape these depressed prices. In the Sulawesi coffee commodity chains moreover, quality is widely perceived and presented to consumers as a function of geographical associations with the site of agricultural production. However, a key insight of this thesis is to add a cautionary note to an argument for product differentiation as an unqualified economic development option for commodity producers. In the case of Sulawesi coffee, powerful corporate actors have been able to appropriate the value of geographically-informed quality differentiation. A central concern of this analysis is to document and interrogate the complex and contested (social) constructions of quality within the supply chains that link together disparate worlds of production and consumption. Traceability emerges as a critical mode of supply chain coordination to enable the authentication of quality constructions. Furthermore, traceability prioritises the accurate and efficient transmission of information and knowledge in the maintenance of trade relationships between supply chain actors. Traceability imperatives require innovative forms of supply chain coordination, and this thesis examines the emergence of new industry structures as a result of these changing conditions. Furthermore, the implementation of traceability systems with control over quality construction and management has important consequences for the allocation of economic benefits amongst supply chain actors
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