... healthier children and families, and lower Medicaid costs for taxpayers We must find better ways to support and scale-up successful social innovations Imagine the social benefits and reduced taxpayer ... barriers to social innovation, and encourage investment in cost-saving preventive services 1 Center for American Progress | Social Impact Bonds How a social impact bond works Under the social impact ... | Social Impact Bonds The social impact bond model Social impact bonds, by combining performance-based payments and market discipline, have the potential to address all six obstacles to social...
... Implementation Guide and Action Plan The Social, Employment, and Human Rights Policy of Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold (FCX) and PT Freeport Indonesia (PTFI) sets out the standards for corporate and employee ... localized and unique cultures These cultures risk serious challenges, and in some cases, harm when confronted with new people, new technologies, new modes of production and employment, new community ... are intended to codify Freeport’s Social, Employment, and Human Rights Policy by enumerating practices and operational standards in Papua in the areas of socialand economic development of the...
... re-imagine and reconstitute themselves as women, 10 Women’s Social Activism in the New Ukraine mothers, workers, and citizens in a postsocialist, postcolonial state To begin to understand the postsocialist ... Hope, and she also established a new NGO that combines her interests in education and publishing Ivana acknowledges that her NGO work helped her develop the social networks and organizational and ... Introduction more about social welfare reform I found that the concept of “differentiation”— separating groups and individuals according to new criteria, standards, and calculations of need and entitlement—now...
... sexuality, social movements, and politics My friends and colleagues at Smith and elsewhere have shaped my analysis through countless conversations about this project and the conceptual and political ... the “Therapeutic Turn”: Self-Help and Internalized Oppression 40 Social Services, Social Control, andSocial Change: The State and Public Policy in the 1970s and 1980s 70 Going Mainstream: Self-Help ... successful social movement depends on our definition of success and our view of the value of something less than complete social transformation Introduction 11 Social Movements, Social Construction, and...
... philosophy of social criticism This anecdote raises three sets of questions about social critics andsocial criticism in everyday life: how social critics social criticism? what social critics do? and ... streets if legal institutions andsocialprotest are to be informed and inclusive practices However, Third World feminist social criticism does not guarantee that social decision making will be ... exploitation to silence some within a society and to impede social criticism andsocial change The social critic must criticize the values, practices, and norms of a society This may require being...
... interactions between genes and the social environment Understanding their implications and the new biology they describe are key goals for the behavioural sciences and for psychiatry Devising ... in this new landscape, and interrogating them with statistical precision, are, perhaps, our biggest challenges REFERENCES Andreasson, S., Allebeck, P., Engstrom, A et al (1987) Cannabis and schizophrenia ... dopamine, noradrenalin and serotonin, have been linked with antisocial behaviour in human beings (Brunner et al., 1993) and aggressive behaviour in mice (Cases et al., 1995) Caspi and colleagues (2002)...
... Psychosis and Human Nature London: Penguin Bentall, R P and Kinderman, P (1999) Self-regulation, effect and psychosis: the role of social cognition in paranoia and mania In Handbook of Cognition and ... depersonalisation and derealisation, 227 Cognition, emotion and the social world while in mania heightened perception affects the perceived intensity of colours and sounds and the beauty of music ... theoretical and clinical implications Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 112 (5), 330–50 Rechtman, R (2004) The rebirth of PTSD: the rise of a new paradigm in psychiatry Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric...
... Network) Network architectures and service conditions are different from IP networks, and it may be a new paradigm NPW: New Paradigm Network Next Generation Network andNew Generation Network Variety ... ISDN, but no B-ISDN ・Cellular phone:1G, 2G, 3G, and 4G ? ・Internet :・・・ IPv4, IPv6, and ? Generation and Paradigm Paradigm ・ The fundamental concept and structure in the system are completely changed ... Needed at Campus Level GLIF GENI Generation and Paradigm Generation ・Fundamental concept and structure of the systems, are maintained, and functions and performances are improved ・Mainframe computer:1G、2G、3G、4G、but...
... in-service and pre-service training for providers II Rights, Policies and Services i) Rights While the two major topics – “human rightsand advocacy” and “SRH services and programmes and policies” ... Issues Raised .5 II Rights, Policies, and Services i Rights .6 • Human Rights Documents and Advocacy • Stigma and Discrimination andRights Violations ii Policies ... Discrimination andRights Violations Stigmatizing and discriminatory attitudes toward HIV-positive women (and men) lie at the root of many human rights concerns and violations, and result in poor...
... prosperous of the 10 new member states in terms of economic andsocial development (Le Plan, 2004) Although Poland is considered to be far from prosperous in terms of economic andsocial development, ... Estonia 19 21 Hungary 36 Lithuania 18 17 Malta 15.6 Poland 34.2 Age Year Sources Disabled dependency 60 and over 1992 WHO 65 and over 80 and over 60 and over 2000 National statistic services Activity ... – Other? Mobility, hearing, sight/vision, mental and internal organs 2001 National statistic services 65 and over 80 and over 60 and over 60 and over 2001 National statistic services 1995 WHO...
... land rights, gender inequality, HIV and AIDS, and intimate partner violence Gender inequality, HIV and AIDS, violence and land Women and girls are increasingly bearing the burden of the HIV and ... including the meaning and importance of property and land ownership and access, and women’s experiences with HIV and AIDS and domestic violence in relation to property and land The primary data ... urbanisation, and increasing value of land, changing livelihood patterns, and HIV and AIDS (Cotula 2007) As a result, exploring the socialand economic implications of changes in women’s rights to land...
... close, equitable, supportive, and enduring social relationships and show strong and stable preferences for close kin and for unrelated females who are close in age and rank These findings confirm ... stronger social bonds than the average female dyad in the group, and low values of the sociality index represent dyads that had weaker social bonds Some analyses focus on the stability of social ... difference, and rank distance For maternal kinship, we used the average degree of relatedness for kin categories (mothers and daughters, r=0.5, maternal sisters: r=0.25, grandmother and granddaughters,...
... and plant health, the environment and animal welfare and keep their land in good agricultural and environmental condition Where farmers fail to meet these standards, the direct payments they ... for Financial Programming and Budget Why new rules? In 2007 the European Union is launching a new set of programmes: up to € 975 billion over a seven-year period These new funds will be easier ... co-operation, human rights, democracy programmes, and, in particular, humanitarian aid (€ 400 million) Other important allocations are in the social (€ 70 million), educational (€50 million), and environmental...
... established products, such as IPOs andtraditional lending, and in newer and faster growing areas, such as derivatives and securitization Nevertheless, America’s current size and stature as a financial ... Cty and State of New York Leadershp n ths large, hgh-growth sector translates nto substantal economc actvty, drect and ndrect job creaton, and tax revenues for the US, New York, and ... retail and corporate banking, securities, and insurance – in understanding the sector’s importance to the US andNew York economies, it focuses primarily on US competitiveness in the securities and...
... designing and launching social media products and services Foreword In early winter 2006, a decision was made at VTT that social media business opportunities should be studied and identified YouTube and ... material and many of the most popular services such as Technorati and del.icio.us27 Newswine: World news ranked by users Users decide on the significance of news The service contains news written ... business models are traditional: selling a TV programme and newspapers; selling advertising space on TV, in newspapers and on the radio; collecting revenue from SMS messages and by selling a pay-tv...
... to talk about and understanding family life 21 The New Project Design and Management Workshop Training Manual 22 Peace Corps Session Plans Session Plans 23 The New Project Design and Management ... knew about you, it could feel overwhelming that you had so many (and only) needs and problems!” 35 The New Project Design and Management Workshop Training Manual STEP III Summary Discussion and ... PDM training session plans and handouts are necessarily generic and need to be adapted to suit local post and participant needs The manual offers several optional and alternative activities,...
... serpent: new technologies and the protection and promotion of traditional cultural expressions Mira Burri-Nenova 10 New information and communication technologies, traditional cultural expressions and ... PROPERTY AND HUMAN RIGHTS The Disneyland of cultural rights to intellectual property: anthropological and philosophical perspectives Elizabeth Burns Coleman Human rights, cultural property and intellectual ... Exploitation of Authors Rightsand Neighbouring Rightsand advisor to various branches of the Swiss Government on matters related to international trade and culture He is author of Handel und Kultur...