“…Included in the coverage: Loss of relevance: the role of societal pressure. Influences on the construct of meaning. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Tracking Implementation -- Narrowing Disparities via the New Economic Model (NEM): Is Malaysia Set to Excel Beyond its MDGs Targets -- The Scaling-up Process and Health MDGs in the Philippines -- Healthcare Governance and Climate Change Adaptation: A Pharmaceutical Industry -- Reaching the 7th Millennium Development Goals (MDG) on Environmental Sustainability: The South Asian Response -- Interrogating the PPP Model in Health Care Insurance -- Rashtriya Swasthya Beema Yojna (RSBY): Panacea for the poor -- Local Innovations in Service Delivery: Gender- Responsive Budgeting in Davao City, Philippines -- Women Empowerment Through LLP in Southern Philippines -- Revisiting the Role of Universities in Achieving MDGs -- Community- University Partnerships for Improved Governance -- Determinants of Managerial Innovation in the State University Administration in Sri Lanka -- Regulatory Mapping in Local Governance and The Economic Governance Index in Sri Lanka -- Benefits and Challenges of E-Governance for Service Delivery in Nepal -- E-Leadership for E-Government in Indonesia -- Impact of NGCSOs in Developing Capability of the Low-Income People in South Australia -- From Reinvention to Communitization: The Himalayan Indian State of Nagaland Shows the Way -- Reaching out to the People: The Role of Leikai-Club in the State of Manipur (India) in Achieving the MDGs -- EPILOGUE : Thinking About Reaching Out: Analytical Approaches To Develop Feasible Projects…”

“…Ce qui unifie ces articles malgré la diversité de leurs approches et méthodologies (philosophie, littérature, sciences naturelles, géographie, entre autres), c'est une volonté constante de repenser le nationalisme culturel et son rôle dans la construction de la modernité japonaise, ainsi qu'un questionnement sérieux des paradigmes mêmes de l'histoire des idées…”

“…These contributions provide a detailed picture of the changing landscape of security, including the role of diverse and decentralised agencies, and new security interdependencies within and between states. …”

“…Should democracies exempt members of some minorities from certain legitimate or widely accepted rules, such as Canada's allowing Sikh members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to wear turbans instead of Stetsons? …”

“…Pradeep Chhibber and Ken Kollman rely on historical data spanning back to the eighteenth century from Canada, Great Britain, India, and the United States to revise our understanding of why a country's party system consists of national or regional parties. …”

“…Through interviews with both national-level and smaller, local FBOs, the authors sought to understand better the current and potential roles for FBOs in veteran reintegration. Interviewees suggested that veterans may look to FBOs for support because they offer privacy and confidentiality, two features that may be especially critical when a potential stigma is involved. …”

“…The authors examine the risk implications of FVA and HCA in the various situations in which each is used; assess the role that these accounting approaches have played historically in financial crises, including the 2008 financial crisis, the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s, and the less developed country debt crisis of the 1970s; and explore insights about systemic risk that can be gleaned from better understanding the accounting approaches. …”

“…This monograph examines the long-term adjustments that large urban LEAs have made to accommodate the focus on CT and HS, as well as the advantages and challenges associated with it. The study relies primarily on in-depth case studies of five large urban LEAs, as well as a review of federal HS grant programs and a quantitative analysis of the potential costs associated with shifting law enforcement personnel from traditional policing to focus on HS and CT functions. …”

“…Fifty years after the Centre was founded in 1966, SDSC celebrated its continued research, publications, teaching and government advisory role with a two-day conference entitled ‘New Directions in Strategic Thinking 2.0’. …”

“…This function of the nucleolus appears to indicate that the nucleolus plays a constitutive and essential role in fundamental cellular activities by producing ribosomes. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…How global environmental democracy died -- The American Native and the European invader the Nexus -- Facets and consequences of environmental slavery -- It's the ecology, stupid -- The biogeochemical cycles in the era of anthropogenic climate change -- A review of the biogeochemical cycling of the elements of life -- Addressing the biogeochemical cycles with transformative anthropocentrism -- Applying practical solutions; reconnecting earth and sky -- Feeding the future : farming in a post-carbon economy -- Transitioning to low-carbon farming : an assessment of the process -- The kinetic role of biochar in climate change mitigation -- Biochar in the age of renewable energy policy -- How alleviating energy-poverty will also improve the climate -- Envisioning a transformative age…”

“…Recommendations for the Office of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation to consider when evaluating the inflation and discounting policies that impact the long-term affordability of DoD programs include (1) revisiting O & M costs annually with a 5-year moving-average inflation, to reflect changing repair and other costs; (2) highlighting the role of supply chain surcharges in parts costs in cost estimates used to inform program financial analysis; (3) expanding analysis of investments to ensure consideration of least-cost outcomes…”

“…Communication between a pathogen and its host relies on a wide and dynamic array of molecular interactions. …”

“…It provokes a re-invention of the languages of the living realm to open up alternative spaces for exploration, including contributor Rolf Hughes' "angelology" of language, which explores the transformative invocations of prose poetry, and Simone Ferracina's graphical notations that help shape our concepts of metabolism, upcycling, and designing with fluids. …”

“…Iron Will lays bare the role of extractivist policies and efforts to resist these policies through a deep ethnographic exploration of globally important iron ore mining in Brazil and India. …”

“…Les produits biologiques liés à l'alimentation, aux libations, aux fumigations, aux soins et à la beauté du corps jouent un rôle considérable dans la vie des peuples de la Méditerranée antique et ont aussi leur place dans les différentes étapes des rituels funéraires, de la préparation du corps jusqu'à la visite à la tombe. …”

“…À l’heure où la religion est accusée d’inspirer tous les radicalismes, d’être un ferment de discorde entre les nations et les communautés, cet ouvrage s’interroge sur le rôle de la religion au service de la diplomatie et de l’entente entre les États. …”

“…Avec l’expansion de l’imperium Romanum et l’essor des mobilités qui l’accompagne, le rôle des aubergistes, bien que déconsidéré, s’avère toujours plus crucial pour garantir la fluidité des déplacements des hommes et des marchandises au quotidien. …”

“…La part importante de l’étude paléoenvironnementale a permis de préciser le cadre chronostratigraphique des occupations humaines, elles-mêmes étudiées sous l’aspect technologique (24 000 pièces), de l’approvisionnement en matière première puis de l’organisation spatiale Une étude de la faune et d’une des plus anciennes sépultures à incinération viennent compléter l’étude typologique de l’industrie lithique et permettent de conclure sur le rôle de carrefour de la Franche-Comté quant aux appartenances culturelles de ces campements de chasseurs du Mésolithique. …”