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Challenges To The Governance Of Water Security In The Uae, Shaikha Saif Mohamed Alghafli

Theses

In the recent past, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has seen tremendous economic growth, which has put pressure on its existing natural resources. Hence, the government of the UAE is working extensively on developing a strategic framework for sustainable water management. This study is aimed at analyzing the challenges to the governance of water security in the UAE. Evidence was collected from nine semi-structured interviews with senior officials and academics from different government agencies in the UAE. Quantitative data was collected on water consumption in the UAE in various sectors from a range of authorities (FCSA, DSC, MOENR, ADWEA, DEWA, …

Product Variety, Across-Market Demand Heterogeneity, And The Value Of Online Retail, Thomas W. Quan, Kevin R. Williams

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

Online retail gives consumers access to an astonishing variety of products. However, the additional value created by this variety depends on the extent to which local retailers already satisfy local demand. To quantify the gains and account for local demand, we use detailed data from an online retailer and propose methodology to address a common issue in such data-sparsity of local sales due to sampling and a significant number of local zeros. Our estimates indicate products face substantial demand heterogeneity across markets; as a result, we find gains from online variety that are 45% lower than previous studies.

Gis As A New Powerful Tool: An Interview With Dr. Meimei Lin, Tarl Lancaster

Armstrong Undergraduate Journal of History

About the author

Tarl Lancaster is a senior at Armstrong working toward his History major. His research interests are Colonial and Revolutionary America and Medieval Commerce. Mr. Lancaster will pursue a master degree in Education following the completion of his B.A. degree in December 2017.

Plymouth — A World Harbour Through The Ages, Antony M. Knights, Louise B. Firth, Richard C. Thompson, Anna L.E. Yunnie, Keith Hiscock, Stephen J. Hawkins

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Plymouth Sound and adjacent estuaries, UK has been used as a working harbour throughout the ages and has a place in maritime history as the port from where the Pilgrim Fathers left for North America in 1620 on the Mayflower and Charles Darwin departed from on the HMS Beagle on his trip to Galapagos in 1831. Today, it remains a working harbour, home to the largest naval base in Western Europe, the host of numerous cruise ships and recreational boats, yet its complex of estuaries (Tamar, Plym, Lynher) and creeks is nationally and internationally recognised as of conservation importance due …

Exposure To Tritiated Water At An Elevated Temperature: Genotoxic And Transcriptomic Effects In Marine Mussels (M. Galloprovincialis)., Lorna J. Dallas, Tim P. Bean, Andrew Turner, Brett P. Lyons, Awadhesh N. Jha

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Temperature is an abiotic factor of particular concern for assessing the potential impacts of radionuclides on marine species. This is particularly true for tritium, which is discharged as tritiated water (HTO) in the process of cooling nuclear institutions. Additionally, with sea surface temperatures forecast to rise 0.5 - 3.5 C in the next 30-100 years, determining the interaction of elevated temperature with radiological exposure has never been more relevant. We assessed the tissue-specific accumulation, transcriptional expression of key genes, and genotoxicity of tritiated water to marine mussels at either 15 or 25 C, over a 7 day time course with …

Holocene Sea-Ice Conditions And Circulation At The Chukchi-Alaskan Margin, Arctic Ocean, Inferred From Biomarker Proxies, Leonid Polyak, Simon T. Belt, Patricia Cabedo-Sanz, Masanobu Yamamoto, Yu Hyeon Park

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

Hydrothermal Contributions To Global Biogeochemical Cycles: Insights From The Macquarie Island Ophiolite, Rosalind M. Coggon, Damon A.H. Teagle, Michelle Harris, Garry J. Davidson, Jeffrey C. Alt, Timothy S. Brewer

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

Closing Crack Earthquakes Within The Krafla Caldera, North Iceland, Zoë K. Mildon, David J. Pugh, Jon Tarasewicz, Robert S. White, Bryndís Brandsdóttir

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

Memovolc Report On Classification And Dynamics Of Volcanic Explosive Eruptions, C Bonadonna, Et Al

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Classifications of volcanic eruptions were first introduced in the early twentieth century mostly based on qualitative observations of eruptive activity, and over time, they have gradually been developed to incorporate more quantitative descriptions of the eruptive products from both deposits and observations of active volcanoes. Progress in physical volcanology, and increased capability in monitoring, measuring and modelling of explosive eruptions, has highlighted shortcomings in the way we classify eruptions and triggered a debate around the need for eruption classification and the advantages and disadvantages of existing classification schemes. Here, we (i) review and assess existing classification schemes, focussing on subaerial …

Usac - 33+ Years Of Learning In The Basque Country

BOGA: Basque Studies Consortium Journal

For 33 years, USAC has provided university students with quality, affordable study abroad programs and contributed to the internationalization of universities in the United States and abroad. Students from any university are welcome to participate; and those from more than 800 universities around the world have done so. We salute this program which offers students a unique learning opportunity in the Basque Country, where more than 400 students study each year; 9,000 total since 1983.

Phoenix, 2016-10-31, Student Life

Phoenix

The Phoenix is a student newspaper published at Governors State University since August 2002. The newspaper features student reporting, opinions, news, and photos.

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 041, Number 10, October 31, 2016, Grand Valley State University

2016-2017, Volume 41

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Admissions Report - Detailed Data - October 2016, Office Of Institutional Research & Effectiveness, Wright State University

Admissions Reports

Detailed report of applicants to Wright State including data on county of residency, intended major, and ethnicity for Fall Semester 2017.

Sustainable Livelihood And Sustainable Development: The Experience Of Collective Farming By Kudumbashree In Keralam, India, Rajeev Kumaramkandath, Bindu P. Verghese

Indonesian Journal of International Law

One of the most alarming impacts of development experienced by Third world economies in the contemporary era of globalization is the fast depletion of agricultural land. This is especially so in countries in the Third world where the rapidly increasing population and unplanned growth of economies have decreased the size of croplands to highly threatened levels. There has also been a significant shift in the meaning of land in several of these locations to being an object that can be sold and bought like any other commodity. Looking at it from a wider perspective one can vividly see that all …

International Copyright Treaties And Its Implementation Under Indonesian Copyright Act; Is It A Better Access To Knowledge?, Nurul Barizah

Indonesian Journal of International Law

The Indonesian Government has enacted a new Copyright Act in 2014 on the basis that Copyright protection plays a strategic role for economic development and people’s prosperity. This new Act provides a higher standard of protection and ensures more legal certainty to copyrights holders. It is not only expands the scope of protection, duration, but also provides better economic rights to the right holder. This Article analyses Indonesia’s obligation under international treaties and whether Indonesia takes full advantages of all the flexibilities available under those treaties to enhance access to knowledge particularly for educational materials. It also analyses substantial provisions …

A Tale Of Narrative Annexation; Stories From Kisar Island (Southwest Maluku, Indonesia), Aone Van Engelenhoven, Nazarudin Nazarudin

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

This paper discusses strategies of appropriation of narrative heritage in literate and narrative histories on the island of Kisar. It shows that notwithstanding their sometimes literate characteristics, storytelling in competitive contexts still follows strategies that are typical for oral performances. This paper questions in how far literate and narrative historiographies can and ought to be separated from each other in Southwest Maluku.

India’S Quest For Energy Security And Its West Asia Policy, Shashi Sahay, Vipra Swami Arya

Himalayan Policy Research Conference

India’s rapid economic growth is highly dependent on stable access to energy supplies. With increasing growth in the consumption of fossil fuels, India’s dependence on imports of oil and hydrocarbons in general would increase substantially in the future which is 37.5 percent of our total imports already, making India search for energy security. Foreign policy therefore has a critical role in ensuring energy security for India. Energy security has, as a result, become a vital factor in Indian foreign policy. However, despite India’s ongoing initiatives to secure its increasing energy requirements from all over globe through its policy of diversification, …

Training Actors In The Ateneo Theater Arts Program: Negotiating Western Practices Within Cultural Parameters, Ricardo G. Abad, Melissa-Vera M. Maramara

Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia

Anglo-American or Western acting practices, largely influenced by the works of Russian theater theorist Konstantin Stanislavsky, lie at the core of acting courses in the Philippines and many countries of the world. In Western societies, these practices are taught in a cultural context where individualism, personal achievement, egalitarianism, and democratic principles are valued. These cultural orientations facilitate the expression of an actor’s inner life. In contrast, the cultural orientations in the Philippine context are a deference to authority, a sense of shame, and an inclination to emotionalism. How, then, does the Ateneo Theater Arts Program, based in a Philippine university, …

Images Of God In Toba Batak Storytelling, Johann Angerler

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

This paper examines the ways in which God the Creator, the High God, is described in Toba Batak folk-tales. The sources for this investigation are stories recorded in pre-colonial (around 1850), colonial and post-colonial times (up to 2014). In different stories the High God can appear under various names, forms and gender, and resides in various places never inhabited by humans. Unlike a Deus otiosus, the Toba Batak High God is not "inactive" after creation, but continues to be involved in the life of mankind through local or supra-local manifestations. Although he rules the realm of death, he is nevertheless …

Analysis Of Managerial Decision-Making Within Florida’S Total Maximum Daily Load Program, Justin Barthle

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Water quality has evolved legislatively from protection of navigation routes and quantity of sources to more emphasis on impairments on water quality for surface and groundwater sources. Nonpoint or diffuse sources of impairments represents a major challenge for management due to the complexity of its sources and difficulty in tracking.

The most cited sections on public policy analysis focuses on the overall process agencies employ to understand the results the program yields. Often overlooked are finer details and mechanisms, such as decision-making and priority setting, which have a great impact on the overall process. To investigate these factors, we need …

Pengembangan Modul Geografi Pariwisata Berbasis Paket Wisata Pulau Lombok Sebagai Upaya Memupuk Rasa Cinta Tanah Air Pada Mahasiswa, Andrinata Andrinata, Sumarmi Sumarmi, I Komang Astina

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

The purpose of the study is to produce the tourism geography module based on the Lombok tourism packages that is prepared in accordance with the module design of C Michael and Stephen J. Page. This study is designed with Dick & Carey model and simplified into six steps. The quality of product is known through the lecturer’s feedback and students during the field test. The trial subjects are the students of Geography Education STKIP Hamzanwadi Selong in the sixth semester in year 2013 who have taken the course. Based on the results of validation and field trials, the numbers of …

Humanization Through Action Research As Methodology, Jeffrey D. Radloff, Cole Joslyn, Brenda Capobianco

The Qualitative Report

The purpose of this action research study was to critically examine the use of action research as a mechanism to enhance graduate students’ development as emerging qualitative researchers. Although action research has been recognized as an effective means of transforming teaching practices, studies examining its use among graduate students learning to become qualitative researchers are lacking. Participants profiled in this study include two graduate students and one teacher educator. The context of the study was a graduate level course on action research where all three participants identified starting points, employed distinct action strategies, engaged in sustained, critical reflection, and developed …

Program Ppg Untuk Membangun Kompetensi Guru Geografi (Studi Kasus Di Universitas Negeri Malang), Mega Prani Ningsih, Achmad Fatchan, Singgih Susilo

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

The purpose of rhe research to explain PPG SM3T Program designs for building the grogrphy teacher competences, the graduates of SM3T’s Program. The design implementation of PPG SM3T includes curriculum development process till the evaluation of geography teacher competences. Competence referred to are competence pedagogical, competence personality, social competence, and professional competency. The research is a case study researchs in Malang State University. Technique the data collection was done through in-depth interviews and documentation. Data analysis use the interactive model Miles and Huberman. This research result indicates that an implementation program PPG includes several stage are: (1) the developmental syllabus …

Potensi Kearifan Lokal Suku Using Sebagai Sumber Belajar Geografi Sma Di Kabupaten Banyuwangi, M. Rizqon Al Musafiri, Sugeng Utaya, I Komang Astina

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

Education is a means to get learners who have a positive character. Local wisdom is a product of the past cultural that should continuously hold onto life. Using ethnic in the village of Kemiren Banyuwangi has a value system that is inherited through several sub-sections such as architecture and art. Using ethnic has way of life associated with the pattern of settlement and agricultural patterns. The values that appear in the local wisdom of ethnic Using is religious, environmental care, mutual cooperation, solidarity, equality, creativity, and responsibility. Those values are matched with KI and KD in class X, XI, and …

The Camino De Santiago De Compostela (Spain) And The Via Francigena (Italy): A Comparison Between Two Important Historic Pilgrimage Routes In Europe, Guido Lucarno

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

The Italian section of the Via Francigena, a Medieval pilgrimage route to Rome, has not yet been commercialised to its full potential when compared to the Camino de Santiago in Spain. There are many reasons for this under development. First, there is an absence of a specialised organisation focused on utilising the resources available; a difficulty that could be overcome by the forming a tourism body with the specific charter for developing these resources and attracting tourism. Second, the weight of the cultural heritage of Rome in the contest for religious tourism takes away from the valorisation of other pilgrimage …

Ignatius Of Loyola’S Traces In Manresa. A New Incentive For Religious Tourism?, Joan Carles Llurdés, Francesc Romagosa

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

The city of Manresa, located in the heart of Catalonia, has spent years trying to make profitable its cultural and urban heritage as a strategy for a better tourism positioning among other mid-sized cities that are competing for attracting tourists in an increasingly competitive global context. However, for various reasons the city has not been able to earn a place in Catalonia’s tourism scene, and it still remains in a preliminary tourism development stage. In this sense, the latest initiative taken by the city council has to do with its religious heritage, through the project ‘Manresa 2022’, which consists of …

Leading Without Permission, Robin Hummel

Occasional Paper Series

Author Robin Hummel makes an emphatic, persuasive plea for teachers to seize the reins of instructional leadership and take responsibility - even in the face of recalcitrant administrators and increasingly prescriptive curricula - for their own professional learning and growth. She makes the case for action research as a particularly potent professional development tool, and shows how it serves to liberate teachers from inertia and dependency.

Walking A Hall Of Mirrors, Kami Patrizio

Occasional Paper Series

Mentoring requires careful structuring, thorough preparation, and continual monitoring along with a willingness to look inward to confront the elusive issues of identity, empathy, morality, and emotion.

Lynch Gets Ohio Epa Grant For Rain Gardens Stormwater Management, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

Plate Boundary Observatory And Related Networks: Gps Data Analysis Methods And Geodetic Products, Thomas A. Herring, Timothy I. Melbourne, Mark H. Murray, Michael A. Floyd, Walter M. Szeliga, Robert W. King, David A. Phillips, Christine M. Puskas, Marcelo Santillan, Lei Wang

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of the Sciences

The Geodesy Advancing Geosciences and EarthScope (GAGE) Facility Global Positioning System (GPS) Data Analysis Centers produce position time series, velocities, and other parameters for approximately 2000 continuously operating GPS receivers spanning a quadrant of Earth’s surface encompassing the high Arctic, North America, and Caribbean. The purpose of this review is to document the methodology for generating station positions and their evolution over time and to describe the requisite trade-offs involved with combination of results. GAGE GPS analysis involves formal merging within a Kalman filter of two independent, loosely constrained solutions: one is based on precise point positioning produced with the …