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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"government mandates"”.
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MOVEMENT WITHOUT MOTION: THE RHETORIC OF CONSERVATIVE COUNTER-CLAIMS TO GLOBAL WARMING THEORY
Many U.S. conservatives view government mandates to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases as a threat to the economy of the developed world. Conservative think tanks have adopted a common rhetoric to instill doubt about proposed mandates in the minds of elected officials, the media, and the public. …
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A statistical approach towards performance analysis of multimodal biometrics systems
Fueled by recent government mandates to deliver public functions by the use of biometrics, multimodal biometrics authentication has made rapid progress over the past a few years. Performance of multimodal biometrics systems plays a crucial role in government applications, including public security …
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COMPARING TLS AND CERTIFICATE CONFIGURATIONS OF GOVERNMENT AND NON-GOVERNMENT WEBSITES
This thesis seeks to identify the extent to which government has been successful in implementing security policy pertaining to TLS. Current accountability mechanisms mandate government organizations to formulate their internal cybersecurity policy in consultation with federal guidelines. However, …
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Compost marketing guidelines for solid municipal waste management in India
… waste into a new product. The Indian Government has accepted the value of compost and has promulgated in 2000 that it is a recognized form of agricultural fertilizer. Due to this legislation, waste recycling start-ups have sprung up but they struggled to make ends meet due to poor …
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Strategies for reducing the mutagen content of chlorinated aqueous media
In anticipation of government mandates regulating the quantity of the toxic mutagen, 3-chloro-4-(dichloromethyl)-5-hydroxy-2(5H)-furanone, which can be released into potable waters or from industrial facilities, technologies for monitoring the concentration, reducing the quantity, and inhibiting …
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Electronic Multi-agency Collaboration. A Model for Sharing Children¿s Personal Information Among Organisations.
… best practice, data protection applications, government mandates and new government agencies, rapid changes in technology, and increasing costs are but a few of the challenges with which organisations must contend in order to provide services to children while keeping in step with change. This …
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Provider Recommendations for Human Papillomavirus Vaccine (HPV) Among Adolescent Males in Southwest Georgia Counties and The Associated Hpv Prevalence in This Population
… that males play in the spread of HPV, absence of government mandates, and non-completion of the three-dose series of vaccination due to financial or logistical reasons. Provider specialty, age, ethnicity, and reported barriers were significantly associated with recommendations and association to …
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Authentic Learning with Portfolios: A Combination that K-12 Education Needs
… learning portfolios will likely require government mandates. These mandates could face pushback, however, from families concerned that the proposal would hurt their student's college options. I also interviewed colleges to establish what changes to the proposal were needed to ensure their …
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Pragmatics of inter-professional collaborative partnerships
… three sections, the first of which reviews government mandates and research outcomes, outlines essentials for inter-professional collaborative partnerships and suggests possible ways of effectively implementing these. The research section combines an example of collaborative working between …
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Essays on Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility
… in corporate leadership more extensively than government mandates. In the third essay, we examine whether and how local religiosity has an impact on corporate attitude towards corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities and how CSR activities directly impact firm value. Employing an …
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Assessment in Secondary Environments: How Co-Teachers Navigate the Competing Demands of Theory, Policy, and Practice
… a co-taught secondary classroom with assessment mandates from local and state levels. In this current era of accountability and assessment mandates, teachers have unprecedented pressure placed on them to effectively use assessment in the classroom. The literature suggests that teachers’ …
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Examining the factors of a technology professional development intervention
… to teach with new technologies. While there are government mandates requiring teachers to become knowledgeable in online teaching, many teachers and school districts are not meeting these mandates, and often barriers, such as lack of funding, time, and accessibility to experts, impact the quality …
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Policy Implementation by Executive Order: A Quantitative Analysis of the Effects of Agency Decisions and Organizational Characteristics on Government Expenditures Through a Minority Businesses Enterprise Set-Aside Program in Ohio
Government agencies use minority business enterprises (MBEs) to provide goods, services, and access to opportunities as strategies to respond to citizens’ demand for equality in obtaining governmental bids. Set-aside programs have come under scrutiny in the United States since their inception in …