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[Correspondence Between Rufus Walters and Barbara Jordan - May 5-8, 1973]
No full textCorrespondence between Rufus Walters and Barbara Jordan where Walters requests that Jordan support a bill that would amend the Railroad Retirement Act and Interstate Commerce Act. Jordan confirms her support of the bill
Women Leaders Affinity Group: Dr. Charlene Walters
No full textDate: March 25, 2021
Guest: Dr. Charlene Walters, entrepreneurship coach, business and branding mentor and author
The Women Leaders Affinity Group, hosted by Dr. Amanda Main and Dr. Ellen Ramsey from the College of Business and Management, presented a Zoom event with Dr. Charlene Walters, who spoke about the realities of being an entrepreneur and the keys to success. Walters is an entrepreneurship coach, business and branding mentor and author of Launch Your Inner Entrepreneur.https://spiral.lynn.edu/bus_women-leaders/1001/thumbnail.jp
The positive impacts offered by Healthcare Cloud and 3D Bioinformatics
No full textCloud Computing Business Framework (CCBF) is a framework for designing and implementation of Could Computing solutions. This paper focuses on how CCBF can help to address portability in Cloud Computing implementations in the Health domain, and NHS Bioinformatics in particular. These benefits of CCBF are illustrated using several case studies such as tumour modelling, brain imaging, insulin molecules and simulations for medical training. All projects and case studies show how adopting CCBF has assisted in the design and implementation of a Health Platform as a Service (HPaS), which has helped these projects collaborate and improve the quality of their research
Mrs. Annie Jordan
No full textCollection of studio portraits of entertainers, actors and actresses who performed on the American stage in the mid-1800s.
Actress
b. Annie Walters before 1840
d. after 1870
Caption on mount: Gurney & Son, Photo, N.Y.
Handwritten on mount: Mrs. Geo. Jordan
Handwritten on verso of image: Mrs. Geo. Jordan, 1864
Stamped on verso of image: J. Gurney & Son, Photographic Artists, 707 Broadway, N.Y.
PH Coll 75.33
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Crime is in the air - air pollution and regulation in the UK
No full textThis latest briefing by Professor Reece Walters in the What is crime? series, draws attention to an area of harm that is often absent from criminological debate. He highlights the human costs of air pollution and failed attempts to adequately regulate and control such harm. Arguing for a cross disciplinary ‘eco-crime’ narrative, the author calls for greater understanding of the far-reaching consequences of air pollution which could set in train changes which may lead to a ‘more robust and meaningful system of justice’. Describing current arrangements in place to control and regulate air pollution, Walters draws attention to the lack of neutrality in current arrangements and the bias ‘towards the economic imperatives of free trade over and above the centrality of environmental protection’. While attention is often given to direct and individualised instances of ‘crime’, the serious consequences of air pollution are frequently neglected. The negative effects of pollution on health and well-being are often borne by people already experiencing a range of other disadvantages. In a global and national context, it is often the poor who are affected most. Ultimately, political and economic imperatives have historically helped to shape legal and regulatory regimes. Whether this is an inherent flaw in current systems or something that can be overcome in favour of dealing with more wide-ranging harms is an area that requires further discussion and debate
An evaluation of geographical information systems for surface water studies in the Badia region of Jordan
No full textThree applications of Geographical Information Systems for surface water studies in the Badia region of Jordan are presented, hi the first application, a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) of the study area was generated from the available contour maps. The channel drainage network was enforced into the created DEM to ensure accurate emplacement of the extracted drainage network. The channel drainage network was extracted from the DEM at a threshold value of 250 pixels. At this threshold, the drainage density of the extracted channel network is equivalent to the wadis network on the topographic maps In the second application, a hydrologically-oriented GIS database was developed. The database aimed to provide detailed description of the watershed characteristics and the hydrological processes relevant to surface water studies. A menu-driven application was built on the database to extract and analyse the database information at the sub- watershed level. The third application involved building a spatial model for generating surface runoff hydrographs from the rainfall data. The model applies GIS data structure and the raster processing techniques to simulate the rainfall-excess generation and flow routing processes. The distributed structure of the model allows for representing the hydrological processes and modelling the watershed response at the level of details that fits the resolution of the available data
The song that reached my heart [music] /
No full textCover title.; Presumed to have been published for Walters & Reid, Furniture warehousement, 104, 106, 108 Bourke St., Melbourne.; Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-an9786343
The impact of donor and recipient government policies and practices on the effectiveness of foreign aid to a middle income developing country: case studies from Jordan
No full textThis research investigates the foreign aid policies and practices of donor countries and
of Jordan, a middle-income aid recipient country, through an examination of case
studies of recent aid provision to Jordan. It examines the bearing of these policies on
the effectiveness and efficiency of aid projects. The research concentrated on four
case studies carefully chosen by the criteria of different donor nations and policies;
and the different nature of the projects that cover the four main areas of development
needs for Jordan. The case studies consisted of analysis of documentation and
outcomes, and significant interviews with the selected participants.
The case studies were chosen to explore the different mission statements, policies and
practices and included the GTZ- funded Petra Stone Preservation Project, the USAIDfunded
ICT Initiative, the DFID-funded Capacity Building in the Management of
Jordan’s Education Services Project, and the JICA-funded Improvement of Water
Supply System to Greater Amman Project.
The study examines the effectiveness of aid in poor policy environments. It shows
that the role of donors in ensuring the effectiveness of the aid they present goes
beyond selecting recipients based on their policies and governance. Indeed, foreign
aid is not donor-neutral and its effectiveness is not only dependent on the quality of
governance and institutions of the recipients. The research demonstrates that a donor’s
national interests and the influence of stakeholders determine the course and benefits
of aid, and that judgements of success or failure vary between the standpoints of the
donor and the recipient.
The study investigates the impact of a number of variables on the effectiveness of
foreign aid. Those variables include aid project design and delivery mechanisms, and
institutional capacity and cultural constraints of aid recipients. The research focuses
on relationships between donors and recipients and the differences in interests and
objectives. It also looks at the impact of conditionality and tied aid on the sustainable
benefits of the aid intervention.
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Although existing literature does address some of these considerations, there is very
little direct evidence which links development theory with detailed practical examples.
Where such examples are available, they are invariably weighted heavily by evidence
which originates with, and is interpreted through, donor perceptions. This study
provides a balanced analysis of four initiatives taking account of both donor and
recipient expectations, experiences and assessments
Cloud Storage and Bioinformatics in a private cloud deployment: Lessons for Data Intensive research
No full textThis paper describes service portability for a private cloud deployment, including a detailed case study about Cloud Storage and bioinformatics services developed as part of the Cloud Computing Adoption Framework (CCAF). Our Cloud Storage design and deployment is based on Storage Area Network (SAN) technologies, details of which include functionalities, technical implementation, architecture and user support. Experiments for data services (backup automation, data recovery and data migration) are performed and results confirm backup automation is completed swiftly and is reliable for data-intensive research. The data recovery result confirms that execution time is in proportion to quantity of recovered data, but the failure rate increases in an exponential manner. The data migration result confirms execution time is in proportion to disk volume of migrated data, but again the failure rate increases in an exponential manner. In addition, benefits of CCAF are illustrated using several bioinformatics examples such as tumour modelling, brain imaging, insulin molecules and simulations for medical training. Our Cloud Storage solution described here offers cost reduction, time-saving and user friendliness
Working 'in the opposite direction': Joseph Beuys in the field
No full textThis paper will argue that revisiting the ideas and practice of the twentieth-century German artist Joseph Beuys is germane to contemporary discussions of place and human ecology in anthropology. Through an exploration of work undertaken by the artist and a discussion of the influence of Goethe on his practice, it will explore the way in which Beuys' approach to art was informed by a set of methodologies which saw the inner life of the human being and the outer world with which she or he engages as profoundly linked in both physical and psychic terms. Beuys' work points, the author will suggest, to the potential for a myth of fieldwork and a communication of its results that places the anthropologist within a constantly changing world of matter that she or he shapes and transforms and is, in turn, transformed by
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