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Free Download National Research Council, Policy and Global Affairs, "SBIR Program Diversity and Assessment Challenges: Report of a Symposium"
English | 2004 | pages: 199 | ISBN: 0309091233 | PDF | 1,2 mb
In response to a Congressional mandate, the National Research Council conducted a review of the Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) at the five federal agencies with SBIR programs with budgets in excess of $100 million (DOD, NIH, NASA, DOE, and NSF). The project was designed to answer questions of program operation and effectiveness, including the quality of the research projects being conducted under the SBIR program, the commercialization of the research, and the program’s contribution to accomplishing agency missions. The first in a series to be published in response to the Congressional request, this report summarizes the presentations at a symposium convened at the beginning of the project. The report provides a comprehensive overview of the SBIR program’s operations at the five agencies responsible for 96 percent of the program’s operations.

Free Download United Nations, "Public Enterprises: Unresolved Challenges and New Opportunities"
English | 2008 | pages: 156 | ISBN: 9211231701 | PDF | 0,5 mb
This publication examines the role of Public Enterprises in todays economy, especially within the context of the realization of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and their management, more particularly, the performance monitoring issues of Public Enterprises. The report focuses on conceptual issues, theories and models associated with Public Enterprises (PE), as well as on new management approaches relevant to PE in the contemporary world. It also presents a model for a public enterprise governance index (PEGI) and explores its possibilities in assisting on-going performance monitoring systems of PEs in several developing countries.

Free Download New Challenges for Political Philosophy By Gerard Elfstrom
1997 | 211 Pages | ISBN: 0312164769 | PDF | 10 MB
The globalisation of economic activity and human life is the most potent force of the present era. This book examines the impact of this force on human political institutions and ideas. It develops the argument that globalization will erode the nation-state’s importance and transform the array of political ideas which accompany it. Sovereignty, nationalism, democracy, and political freedom will all be reshaped by globalization and must therefore be reexamined if they are to remain pertinent to human life. Many will rejoice in the decline of the nation-state for it has been a source of much human suffering in this century. However, its decline will bring important difficulties, among them a tyranny or powerlessness resulting from the lack of dominant political institutions, accentuated human alienation prompted by erosion of national ties and increased personal mobility, and a widening gulf between the world’s prosperous and impoverished.

Free Download Maternal and Child Health: Global Challenges, Programs, and Policies By Allan Rosenfield, Caroline J. Min (auth.), John Ehiri (eds.)
2009 | 582 Pages | ISBN: 0387892443 | PDF | 11 MB
Maternal and Child Health: Global Challenges, Programs, and Policies Edited by John Ehiri, PhD, MPH, MSc (Econ.)Our current era of globalization, war, and socioeconomic unrest has revealed public health as a worldwide concern and a major frontier for social justice with maternal and child health at its epicenter. Yet, there has been a relative scarcity of textbooks specifically dedicated to this crucial area. Maternal and Child Health: Global Challenges, Programs, and Policies addresses this gap by analyzing the range of socioeconomic and environmental factors, health care disparities, politics, policies, and cultural practices that impact the health and safety of mothers, as well as the well-being and optimum development of their children.Individual sections focus on unequal distribution of the world’s resources, politics and power, specific disease concerns, programs, policies and emerging concerns with a focus on what is currently being done, and what needs to be done to improve the health status of women, children, and adolescents. The book’s contributors are some of the world’s most respected experts, carefully selected to represent different global geographic regions and diverse professional disciplines related to maternal and child health from both academic and field practice perspectives.Among the topics in this authoritative volume:The impact of war, globalization, gender inequity, and harmful traditional practices (e.g., female genital mutilation).Specific health concerns, including tuberculosis, malaria, HIV, and malnutrition.Child and adolescent health issues, from abuse and neglect to children in difficult circumstances.Pregnancy-related issues: safety, abortion and post-abortion care, teen pregnancy, and more. Strategies for planning, developing, and maintaining maternal and child health systems in developing countries.The status of global initiatives, such as Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses and the Millennium Development Goals.The status of evidence-based maternal and child health in the developing world.With such a wealth of information on both practical and conceptual levels, Maternaland Child Health: Global Challenges, Programs, and Policies is as relevant to students and researchers in the field as it is to policy makers and those working for global health and development organizations. Each chapter features discussion questions and learning objectives, making this book an excellent stand-alone text for courses in global health in general and global maternal and child health in particular.

Free Download Information Systems Development: Reflections, Challenges and New Directions By Nicholas K. Taylor, Elizabeth Papadopoulou (auth.), Rob Pooley, Jennifer Coady, Christoph Schneider, Henry Linger, Chris Barry, Michael Lang (eds.)
2013 | 727 Pages | ISBN: 1461449502 | PDF | 11 MB
Information Systems Development: Reflections, Challenges and New Directions, is the collected proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Information Systems Development held in Edinburgh, Scotland, August 24 – 26, 2011. It follows in the tradition of previous conferences in the series in exploring the connections between industry, research and education. These proceedings represent ongoing reflections within the academic community on established information systems topics and emerging concepts, approaches and ideas. It is hoped that the papers herein contribute towards disseminating research and improving practice

Free Download Zygmunt Vetulani, Hans Uszkoreit, "Human Language Technology. Challenges of the Information Society"
English | 2009 | pages: 485 | ISBN: 3642042341 | PDF | 6,5 mb
Half a centuryago not manypeople had realizedthat a new epoch in the history of homo sapiens had just started. The term "Information Society Age" seems an appropriate name for this epoch. Communication was without a doubt a lever of the conquest of the human race over the rest of the animate world. There is little doubt that the human racebegan when our predecessorsstarted to communicate with each other using language.This highly abstractmeans of communicationwas probably one of the major factors contributing to the evolutionary success of the human race within the animal world. Physically weak and imperfect, humans started to dominate the rest of the world through the creation of communication-based societies where individuals communicated initially to satisfy immediate needs, and then to create, accumulate and process knowledge for future use. The crucial step in the history of humanity was the invention of writing. It is worth noting that writing is a human invention, not a phenomenon resulting from natural evolution. Humans invented writing as a technique for recording speech as well as for storing and facilitating the dissemination of knowledge across the world. Humans continue to be born illiterate, and therefore teaching and conscious supervised learning is necessary to maintain this basic social skill.

Free Download Mark Nataraj Berends, "Facing the Challenges of Whole-School Reform: New American Schools After a Decade"
English | 2002 | pages: 267 | ISBN: 0833031333 | PDF | 0,8 mb
After a decade of studies, this report draws together RAND’s research on New American Schools, highlighting the organization’s significant contribution to comprehensive school reform and noting the challenges that came with implementing whole-school designs.

Free Download Comparing Democracies 2: New Challenges in the Study of Elections and Voting By Lawrence LeDuc, Richard G. (Gene) Niemi, Pippa Norris
2002 | 270 Pages | ISBN: 0761972234 | PDF | 4 MB
The first edition of Comparing Democracies was a landmark text, providing students with a thematic introduction to the global study of elections and voting. In this major new edition the world’s leading international scholars have again produced an indispensable guide and up-to-date review of the whole field. Each of the chapters (the majority of which are completely new) provide a broad theoretical and comparative understanding of all the key topics associated with the elections including electoral and party systems, voter choice and turnout, campaign communications, and the new politics of direct democracy. This Second Edition will remain essential reading for students and lecturers of elections and voting behaviour, comparative politics, parties, and democracy.

Free Download M. Painter, J. Pierre, "Challenges to State Policy Capacity: Global Trends and Comparative Perspectives"
English | 2004 | pages: 298 | ISBN: 1403935831 | PDF | 1,0 mb
Globalization and New Public Management pose major challenges to the policy capacity of the state. Challenges to State Policy Capacity offers the most timely and comprehensive coverage of contemporary state policy capacity. Drawing on the work by international leading scholars in political science and public administration, the book is indispensable to anyone interested in policy capacity, administrative reform and the state.

Free Download Vigilant Leader – Preparing for Future Challenges
Published 9/2024
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