Nicaraguan migration tests Costa Rican hospitality

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Central America ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Fiscal Impact ◽  
Security Forces ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Civil Unrest ◽  
Low Intensity ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Impact ◽  
High Migration

Subject Nicaraguan migrants. Significance Violence levels in Nicaragua appear to have plateaued in recent weeks as President Daniel Ortega’s security forces have subdued protesters and cemented their control. The impact of this year’s civil unrest is nevertheless being felt throughout Central America. This is particularly true of Costa Rica, which has become a magnet for migrants fleeing the unrest in their own country. Impacts Nicaragua may be facing an intractable, low-intensity conflict that could see migration flare and subside unpredictably for years to come. Concerns about the fiscal impact of rising migration could add impetus to ongoing calls for fiscal reform. Sustained, high migration levels could impact Panama, which is already struggling with a Venezuelan migrant surge.

Coaching skills for recovery a decade of providing coaching skills for recovery training at a healthcare NHS foundation trust

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Kathryn Cyrus
Keyword(s):  
Work Practice ◽  
Clinical Approach ◽  
Personal Recovery ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Coaching Skills ◽  
The Difference ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Brain

Purpose Overview of coaching for recovery. The paper aims to show an overview of work that was carried out over 11 years with groups of mental health and physical staff. As the facilitator who had run this course for the duration in Nottingham, this was an excellent opportunity to be at the forefront of a brand new project. Design/methodology/approach The introduction of the skills are taught over two consecutive days followed by a further day a month later. The idea of coaching is to be enabled to find the answers in themselves by the use of powerful questions and using the technique of the grow model, combined with practice enables the brain to come up with its own answers. Using rapport and enabling effective communication to deliver the outcome. Findings Evidence from staff/clients and the purpose of the paper shows that when you step back it allows the individual patients/staff to allow the brain to process to create to come up with their solutions, which then helps them to buy into the process and creates ownership. Research limitations/implications The evidence suggests that the approach that was there prior to the course was very much a clinical approach to working with clients and treating the person, administering medication and not focussing on the inner person or personal recovery. The staff review has shown that in the clinical context change is happening from the inside out. Practical implications “Helps change culture”; “change of work practice”; “it changed staff focus – not so prescriptive”; “powerful questions let clients come to their own conclusions”; “coaching gives the ability to find half full. Helps to offer reassurance and to find one spark of hope”. Social implications This has shown that the approach is now person-centred/holistic. This has been the “difference that has made the difference”. When this paper looks at the issues from a different angle in this case a coaching approach, applying technique, knowledge and powerful questions the results have changed. The same clients, same staff and same problems but with the use of a different approach, there is the evidence of a different outcome, which speaks for itself. The coaching method is more facilitative, therefore it illicit’s a different response, and therefore, result. Originality/value The results/evidence starts with the individual attending and their commitment to the process over the two-day course. Then going away for the four weeks/six for managers and a commitment again to practice. Returning to share the impact if any with the group. This, in turn, helps to inspire and gain motivation from the feedback to go back to work invigorated to keep going.

US SEC approves sweeping amendments to rules governing money market funds

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-39
Author(s):  
Jack Murphy ◽  
Stephen Cohen ◽  
Brenden Carroll ◽  
Aline A. Smith ◽  
Matthew Virag ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Financial Services ◽  
Boards Of Directors ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Money Market ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Fund Managers ◽  
Money Market Funds ◽  
The Usa ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Impact

Purpose – To explain the background and details and to discuss the implications of the USA Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC’s) July 23, 2014 amendments to Rule 2a-7 and other rules that govern money market funds under the Investment Company Act of 1940. Design/methodology/approach – Explains the background, including problems during the financial crisis, the USA Treasury’s temporary guarantee program in 2008, earlier SEC proposals, and the USA Financial Stability Oversight Council’s recommendations. Details the amendments to Rule 2a-7, including the authorization to impose liquidity fees and redemption gates, the floating net asset value (NAV) requirement, the impact of the amendments on unregistered money funds operating under Rule 12d1-1, guidance on fund valuation methods, disclosure requirements, requirements for money fund portfolios to be diversified as to issuers of securities and guarantors, stress testing requirements, and compliance dates. Findings – The Amendments set forth sweeping changes to money fund regulation and will have a profound effect on the money fund industry. Although the most significant provisions of the Amendments – the floating NAV requirement and the imposition of liquidity fees and redemption gates – will not go into effect for two years, the changes to the industry will be apparent almost immediately. Practical implications – Money fund managers and boards of directors should begin assessing the potential impact of the Amendments and develop a schedule to come into compliance. Originality/value – Practical guidance from experienced financial services lawyers.

What is value? Impact assessment of cultural heritage

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 429-436
Author(s):  
Guillermo S. Reher
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Research Assessment ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Impact

PurposeThere are currently various methodologies used for carrying out impact assessments of cultural heritage. This paper aims to critically explore the reasons for this diversity and ascertain their varying consistency.Design/methodology/approachThe paper does a comparative analysis of the methodologies used, exploring how they measure up to the theoretical underpinnings of the ecosystem services approach and the cultural values model, considered to be the most comprehensive strategies for assessing the impact of cultural heritage.FindingsThe study reveals that there are few methodologies, and they only inconsistently work upon the theoretical perspectives mentioned earlier. In addition, from the public policy perspective, surprisingly few areas endowed with cultural heritage have been, in one way or another, assessed for impact, perhaps in part due to the lack of adequate methodologies.Research limitations/implicationsThe methods analysed are those that have been made public, which can be found in English. Also, they may be exploratory themselves, so some of the conclusions reached here may have also been found by the analysts themselves. This research serves to provide some scientific groundings for developing a more comprehensive impact assessment method.Practical implicationsThe results of this paper highlight certain glaring absences from current methodologies which invite the development of more definitive cultural impact assessment models. This is possible given the current state of the art, and further research and practice are necessary to develop a more comprehensive cultural values model–based research assessment.Social implicationsBy focussing on the absence of certain indicators on behalf of impact assessment methodologies, this paper sheds light on the overlooked (or under-measured) benefits derived from cultural heritage. Many of the benefits derived from this type of resource find an opportunity to come out in the open, greatly affecting researchers, cultural heritage planners and local communities.Originality/valueThis paper also serves to substantiate a glaring absence within the ecosystem services framework, which is the lack of practical methodologies for measuring some of these service values.

Significant household factors that influence an IT employees’ job effectiveness while on work from home

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vivek Sridhar ◽  
Sanjay Bhattacharya
Keyword(s):  
Work Experience ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Job Effectiveness ◽  
Household Factors ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
It Employees ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Impact ◽  
At Home

Purpose The purpose of this study is to find out the significant factor/s relating to an information technology (IT) employee’s household that determines the job effectiveness of an employee. Design/methodology/approach The approach involves surveying IT employees from across levels of work-experience, companies and cities on household factors that affect their job effectiveness while they work from home and uses discriminant analysis to find out important factor/s that determines if an employee’s job effectiveness remains constant or is better at the workplace that at home. Findings The number of elderly staying in the house, age of the eldest member of the household, observable power cuts at home and number of cars owned by individuals were found to be significant factors affecting an IT employees’ job effectiveness. Originality/value The study targets a very niche area of the impact of household factors on an IT employee. The findings of this research enable IT organizations from India with insights and enable them to come up with innovative interventions to manage employees on a personalized basis to improve an employees’ job effectiveness and drive organizational effectiveness on a whole, during and post the COVID-19 pandemic.

Maghreb states will struggle to address protests

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
Security Forces ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Abuse Of Power ◽  
Civil Unrest ◽  
Al Hoceima ◽  
Police Abuse

Significance In Morocco, more than 35 police officers were injured in clashes with demonstrators in al-Hoceima commemorating the anniversary of the death of a local anti-colonial hero on February 5. Unconfirmed reports said nearly 200 protesters were injured in nearby towns. Impacts Well-publicised incidents of police abuse or government neglect could trigger wider protests and civil unrest. Growing protests could trigger more violent clashes with security forces that could become a political liability for governments. Governments will come under greater pressure to rein in corruption and abuse of power.

Drug haul highlights Costa Rica’s security challenges

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Drug Trafficking ◽  
The United States ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Security Strategy ◽  
Security Forces ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Security Challenges ◽  
The Government ◽  
New Infrastructure

Subject Costa Rica drugs. Significance Costa Rican police on February 15 seized more than five tonnes of cocaine in a single operation -- the country’s largest-ever drugs seizure. The haul underlines the extent to which transnational drug-trafficking organisations have infiltrated the country, compounding concerns about related impacts on crime. The government of President Carlos Alvarado is currently implementing a new security strategy, but it is unclear how effective this will be in combating drug gangs. Impacts Costa Rica will seek extra security funding from partners such as the United States. Violence in neighbouring Nicaragua will exacerbate the pressures facing security forces along the border. The Limon region will be a bellwether for security trends as new infrastructure opens up the region.

scholarly journals Modeling view count dynamics for YouTube videos: a multimodal perspective

Kybernetes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adarsh Anand ◽  
Mohammed Shahid Irshad ◽  
Yogesh K. Dwivedi
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Growth Curve ◽  
Word Of Mouth ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Youtube Videos ◽  
To Come ◽  
Shape Curve ◽  
The Impact

PurposeYouTube allows its users to upload and view videos on its platform. YouTube provides notification to the subscribers whenever a channel uploads a new video thereby making the channel subscribers the potential viewers of the video. And thus, they are the first to come to know about any new offering. But later on, the view count also increases due to virality, that is, mass sharing of the content by the users on different social media platforms similar to word-of-mouth in the field of marketing. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to examine different diffusion patterns as they can help to inflate traffic and generate revenue.Design/methodology/approachYouTube's view count grows majorly through virality. The pattern of view count growth has generally been considered unimodal in most of the available research in the field of YouTube. In the present work, the growth process due to views through the subscribers and views due to word-of-mouth (virality) is presented. Considering that the impact of virality in view count growth comes later in the video life cycle; the viewing patterns of both the segments have been mathematically modeled; independently.FindingsDifferent models have been proposed to capture the view count growth pattern and how the impact of virality changes the view count growth curve and thereby results in a multimodal curve structure. The proposed models have been verified on various view count data sets of YouTube videos using SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences), and their ranks have been determined using a weighted criteria–based approach. The results obtained clearly depict the presence of many modes in the life cycle of view counts.Originality/valueTill now, the literature is evident of the video life cycle following a bell shape curve. This study claims that the initial thrust is by subscribers and then the contribution in the view count by people watching via word-of-mouth comes into picture and brings in another hump in the growth curve.

Prospects for Afghan peace talks are dwindling

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Confidence ◽  
Security Strategy ◽  
National Unity ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
Security Forces ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Civil Unrest ◽  
The North ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Military

Significance The attack was an attempt to undermine the nine month old national unity government headed by President Ashraf Ghani, who is already losing public confidence since the cabinet is still incomplete and the country still lacks a viable security plan. Meanwhile, Taliban gains in the north have prompted the government to arm local militias to bolster its security forces. According to UN figures, the insurgency has left 974 dead and 1,963 injured in the first four months of 2015 -- a 16% rise on 2014. Impacts Growing public discontent could open spaces for competing leaders and groups opposed to the government, threatening civil unrest. Absent a viable security strategy, NATO may slow the military drawdown, implying extended involvement. Foreign investors, especially China, could renege on their investment commitments if the Taliban continue taking new territory.

Somali counter-insurgency will require political unity

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Recent History ◽  
African Union ◽  
Security Forces ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Political Unity ◽  
Security Concerns ◽  
The Impact

Significance The raid is part of a major offensive launched by Somali and international forces in response to the October 14 attacks in Mogadishu, which killed over 350 people and injured over 400 more. As the deadliest bombing in recent history, this attack has re-intensified debate over the state of the war against the militants -- and the performance of the Somali security forces and African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). Impacts Popular protests following the October 14 attack may harden elements of Somali domestic (and diaspora) opinion against the militants. Security concerns will once again raise the issue of how to stop al-Shabaab extorting protection money from businesses in the capital. Increased US airstrikes since July will likely continue but the impact may be limited unless matched by broader stabilisation operations.

Drought to exacerbate Central America social problems

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
El Salvador ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Central America ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
Gang Activity ◽  
The Social

Subject Drought in Central America. Significance Intensifying drought in the Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras has had a devastating effect on crop production and food stocks, exacerbating the social challenges facing communities and authorities. Impacts NGOs will increasingly cooperate regionwide to deal with drought. Already strained agricultural sectors will be particularly vulnerable to the effects of natural disasters such as hurricanes. Increased migration to cities from affected areas will exacerbate urban gang activity. Migration within Central America will increasingly focus Costa Rican attention on the issue.

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