scholarly journals INDIAN INITIATIVES FOR ENVIRONMENT CONSERVATION

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 01-05
Author(s):  
D. V. Prabhu
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Monitoring ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
National Level ◽  
Pollution Abatement ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Environmental Study ◽  
Indian Government ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
National Priority

Society, at large, has to realise the gravity of environmental degradation and participate fully in the mitigation of environmental problems. This article discusses the Indian initiatives and the important milestones in the path of environmental protection and pollution abatement. The commitment of the Indian Government to the cause of public awareness of environment conservation is reflected in its outreach and educational programmes involving its ministries, environmental monitoring agencies,NGOs, academic and research institutions. The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF)has played a leading role in the national priority programmes of environmental monitoring, assessment and pollution control.All the stake holders have succeeded to some extent in creating public interest in environmental issues but much more needs to be done. National level institutions like NEERI,NIO and TERI are actively involved in research to find feasible solutions to our environmental problems and in dissemination of relevant information through their publications. In our country, voluntary organisations and NGOs have been contributing immensely to environmental causes.Following the directive of the Supreme Court in 1991, environmental education is a compulsory component of school and college curricula.India has contributed significantly to the deliberations at COP (Conference of the Parties) fora especially the recently held COP-21 at Paris. Our suggestions for creating a pollution free world have always been welcomed by the participating countries specially the developing countries. This article also presents the results of an environmental study carried out in Wilson College, Mumbai in which the effect of salinity on the rate of degradation of effluents released in marine waters, was quantitatively studied using reaction kinetics.

COVID-19 Related Web Search Behaviors: An Analytical Study of Google Trends-based Query Volumes in Indonesia (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vita Widyasari ◽  
Karisma Trinanda Putra ◽  
Jiun-Yi Wang
Keyword(s):  
Web Search ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Community Response ◽  
Google Trends ◽  
P Value ◽  
Basic Information ◽  
First Case ◽  
The Government ◽  
Economic Anxiety

BACKGROUND The volume of search keywords on Google can be used as a reference to an ongoing online trend during COVID-19 pandemic. OBJECTIVE This study was aimed to estimate the responsiveness and public awareness in early days of the COVID-19 outbreak in Indonesia using Google Trends relative search volumes (RSV). METHODS Sixty terms or keywords forming six topics included in the analysis were basic information, prevention, government policy, socio-economic, anxiety, and other issues related to COVID-19. All these keywords were checked for surveillance purposes between January 1 and May 4, 2020. The Python programming language was used for data mining from Google Trends databases. Correlation analysis was conducted to examine the correlations between the incidence of COVID-19 and the search terms. RESULTS Community response and awareness in the six topics were associated with the number of COVID-19 cases (r range between 0.570-0.825, P-value<.005). Before the first case announced in Indonesian, the prominent topics were basic information and other issues. One month after the first case, all topics experienced an increase in RSV. In the phase of outbreak, socio-economic and anxiety got much more attentions. CONCLUSIONS The government should consider to optimize the internet as a media for timely delivering most relevant information and dynamically respond massive queries, and improve health communications to increase public awareness and intention to prevent the disease.

scholarly journals TINJAUAN SOSIOLOGI HUKUM TENTANG KEPATUHAN HUKUM MASYARAKAT TERHADAP UNDANG-UNDANG WAKAF

Asy-Syari ah ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-158
Author(s):  
Deden Effendi
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Natural Law ◽  
Deductive Reasoning ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Public Knowledge ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Study Techniques

Abstract: Waqf law can be categorized as a living law and potential of waqf can be written. The law of the living does not fully comply with regulations. This problem can lead to law-enforcement-representation issues then formulated into the question: How to advocate community against the Waqf Law? It contains public knowledge, public awareness and public obedience. Assuming sharia is natural law, it is eternal and does not change. In the case, sharia is not in accordance with waqf. The provisions of waqf law are obtained through ushul fiqh with analogical deductive reasoning patterns. The rest, the provisions regarding waqf agreement are obtained from human preferences about the general good. Waqf law is based ruh al-hukm, the spirit of teachings, and maqashid al-shariah. It is more important to be developed to be more responsive to people's priorities and needs. Opportunities for enforcement of waqf law are very large, so that at that time the community complied with waqf law. This research is a descriptive study, which analyzes waqf as a system, as well as a subsystem of a wider system. This analysis, explains the process of society from knowledge to aware and finally to be obedient. The data source used consists of library materials both in the form of documents, books, and scientific writings and other relevant information. Data collection is carried out with literature study techniques, with the approval of the principle of relevance and novelty of the information collected. The analysis is content analysis (classification, interpretation and inference findings). Abstrak: Hukum wakaf dapat dikategorikan sebagai the living law. Sekalipun demikian, terdapat usaha-usaha untuk mengaktualisasikan potensi wakaf. Hal ini mengisyaratkan, bahwa hukum-yang-hidup tidak selalu tegak secara teoritis. Sehubungan dengan itu, masalah ini dapat diidentifikasi sebagai masalah penegakan-hukum-perwakafan. Maka masalah ini dirumuskan ke dalam pertanyaan: Bagaimana kepatuhan hukum masyarakat terhadap Undang-undang Wakaf? Penelitian ini difokus­kan pada unsur-unsur mengenai pengetahuan masyarakat (legal knowledge), kesadaran masyarakat (legal awareness), dan kepatuhan masyarakat (legal obidience) terhadap UU Wakaf. Dengan asumsi syariah merupakan hukum kodrat (natural law), sehingga sifatnya kekal dan tidak berubah.  Sekalipun demikian, dalam kasus wakaf, syariah tidak menentukan secara tegas menge­nai wakaf. Ketentuan hukum wakaf diperoleh melalui ushul fiqh, dengan pola pena­laran deduktif analogis. Selebihnya, ketentuan mengenai mekanisme wakaf diper­oleh berdasar­kan preferensi manusia mengenai kebaikan umum (public good). Hukum wakaf lebih didasarkan pada ruh al-hukm, semangat ajaran, dan maqashid al-syariah. Sehingga wakaf lebih memungkinkan untuk dikembangkan menjadi lebih responsif terhadap tuntu­tan dan kebutuhan masyarakat. Peluang penegakan hukum wakaf sangat besar, sehingga pada gilirannya masyarakat patuh terhadap hukum wakaf. Penelitian ini merupa­kan penelitian deskriptif, yakni menganalisis wakaf sebagai sebuah sistem, seka­ligus subsistem dari sistem yang lebih luas. Analisis tersebut, dideskripsikan proses masya­rakat dari tahu menjadi sadar dan akhirnya menjadi patuh terhadap hukum wakaf. Sum­ber data yang digunakan berupa bahan kepustakaan, baik berupa dokumen, buku, dan tulisan-tulisan ilmiah serta informasi lain yang relevan. Pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan teknik studi kepustakaan, dengan menekankan prinsip relevansi dan kebaruan dari informasi yang dihimpun. Adapun analisisnya adalah analisis isi (content-analysis), dengan langkah: klasifikasi data, interpretasi data, serta inferensi temuan. 

La percezione della qualitŕ dei prodotti tipici da parte del consumatore in Sicilia

2012 ◽  
pp. 143-172
Author(s):  
Gaetano Chinnici ◽  
Biagio Pecorino ◽  
Alessandro Scuderi
Keyword(s):  
Information Needs ◽  
Dietary Habits ◽  
National Level ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Purchasing Decisions ◽  
Farm Produce ◽  
The Common ◽  
Components Analysis ◽  
Increasing Demand

The common agricultural policy over the years has expanded the tools of promotion and protection of farm produce quality. At the national level but also from Europe we are witnessing a change in consumer behavior: they become more and more relevant information needs, safety and food security, increasing demand for quality products and the willingness to pay for those products that meet consumer expectations. The paper focuses on the perceived quality of local products in order to identify those variables that influence purchasing decisions and dietary habits and consumer group. The survey was conducted using a principal components analysis to summarize the information that characterizes the choices of consumption, followed by cluster analysis which allowed us to confirm the presence of different segments of consumers of local products.

Introducing an Organ Donor Registry is Saskatchewan

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Zarzeczny ◽  
◽  
Luiza Radu ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Organ Donation ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
National Level ◽  
Organ Donor ◽  
Organ Donors ◽  
Media Campaign ◽  
Organ Donations ◽  
Paper Form ◽  
Evaluation Metric

On 3 September 2020, Saskatchewan launched an organ donor registry that allows participants 16 years and older to register their intent to be an organ donor either online or using a paper form. Saskatchewan has historically performed poorly at a national level with low rates of organ donations. Saskatchewan's new registry is intended to increase the numbers of organ donors in the province, while also helping to modernize its organ donation system and ease donation conversations with families. Saskatchewan's introduction of this registry brought the province in line with other provinces and territories across Canada that use similar systems, and provided a response to the surge in public interest around organ donation that followed the Humboldt Bronco bus crash tragedy and related ``Logan Boulet Effect.'' The 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 provincial budgets included dedicated funding for the development and launch of the registry, which was accompanied by a media campaign to increase public awareness. Though it is too early to evaluate the success of the registry, early indications suggest donation rates will be a key evaluation metric. Registries are commonly thought to help increase public awareness of, and support for, organ donation, but improving Saskatchewan's organ donation rates will likely also require companion measures to strengthen the culture and practice of donation in the province.

Shapes of Threats in the Global South

2020 ◽  
pp. 110-165
Author(s):  
Shalin Hai-Jew
Keyword(s):  
Public Awareness ◽  
National Level ◽  
Global South ◽  
Potential Response ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Social Image ◽  
The World ◽  
Social Images ◽  
The Senses ◽  
Image Representations

What do “threats” look like in the Global South in tagged social imagery, and what can these respective imagesets suggest about (1) formal outreaches to the broader publics by strategic messengers, (2) public awareness of such threats and their potential response role, and (3) the apparent (root) causes of these threats and possible risk mitigations? Are there visual differences in the senses of threat to the Global South as compared to the world? Finally, global and national-level frameworks about global threats were captured from international and national entities and used to recode the selected social images in a top-down way and to understand if there are gaps in social image representations about threats in the Global South and what these gaps may mean in public awareness of threats and preparedness.

Bicycle and Pedestrian Count Programs: Scan of Current U.S. Practice

2019 ◽  
Vol 2673 (3) ◽  
pp. 74-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter B. Ohlms ◽  
Lance E. Dougald ◽  
Hannah E. MacKnight
Keyword(s):  
National Level ◽  
State Level ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Agency Staff ◽  
Public Agency ◽  
Local Agencies ◽  
Departments Of Transportation ◽  
Transportation Agencies ◽  
Collection Programs ◽  
State Regional

As bicycling and walking have become more integrated into transportation agencies’ processes of planning, design, and operations, some state, regional, and local agencies have established nonmotorized data collection programs of varying scopes and with varying methods. The purpose of this study was to identify ways to plan and implement a nonmotorized count program in Virginia, and the scope included reviewing existing U.S. national-level guidance and examples from state departments of transportation (DOTs) other than Virginia’s to determine the most effective ways of implementing such a program. Study tasks included synthesizing the literature to obtain relevant information with regard to nonmotorized travel monitoring programs, practices, and technologies, as well as obtaining information from representatives of three states through interviews of public agency staff and researchers involved in each state’s program. The study found a large volume of recent research on the topic of nonmotorized travel monitoring. The study concluded that the practice of nonmotorized travel monitoring has evolved and expanded in recent years; that many commercially available counting technologies exist and have been evaluated; that the practice of nonmotorized travel monitoring, as with motorized travel monitoring, has several aspects beyond purchase and installation of automatic count equipment; and that several states are developing nonmotorized count programs and have begun putting their data to use. The findings provide a foundational resource for state DOTs that are considering developing state-level counting programs.

scholarly journals Title-Guided Encoding for Keyphrase Generation

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 6268-6275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wang Chen ◽  
Yifan Gao ◽  
Jiani Zhang ◽  
Irwin King ◽  
Michael R. Lyu
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Deep Neural Networks ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
The State ◽  
Main Body ◽  
Generation Task ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Very High

Keyphrase generation (KG) aims to generate a set of keyphrases given a document, which is a fundamental task in natural language processing (NLP). Most previous methods solve this problem in an extractive manner, while recently, several attempts are made under the generative setting using deep neural networks. However, the state-of-the-art generative methods simply treat the document title and the document main body equally, ignoring the leading role of the title to the overall document. To solve this problem, we introduce a new model called Title-Guided Network (TG-Net) for automatic keyphrase generation task based on the encoderdecoder architecture with two new features: (i) the title is additionally employed as a query-like input, and (ii) a titleguided encoder gathers the relevant information from the title to each word in the document. Experiments on a range of KG datasets demonstrate that our model outperforms the state-of-the-art models with a large margin, especially for documents with either very low or very high title length ratios.

International Microtrade Regime - Structure and Financing

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arpita Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Local Level ◽  
National Level ◽  
Maximum Efficiency ◽  
Great Promise ◽  
Indian Government ◽  
New Form ◽  
Indian Scenario

The conceptualization of a new form of trade, microtrade, is visualized to hold great promise in economic development of the producers belonging to LDCs and developing countries. In order to meet the goal of poverty reduction at a sustainable pace, the institutional, financial and logistical mechanisms for facilitating microtrade both at the international and national level needs to be built in a manner which ensures maximum efficiency. The paper deals with two fundamental aspects of development of microtrade. First, it delineates different aspects which would provide a strong substratum to the proposed microtrade regime. It explores the legal and institutional framework required for conduct of microtrade, which can be structured under the existing WTO regime and proposes necessary amendments to the WTO regime. Second, the paper explores financial aspects of the proposed microtrade regime. A case study of operation of micro-credit in the Indian scenario is undertaken in order to highlight the problems which have recently emerged in the microfinance sector. The scale of these problems has led the Indian government to propose a bill, regulating microfinance in India. Cue from this experience needs to be taken in order to move towards a foolproof system of financing microtrade at the local level.

Zur Umweltpolitik und zur Menschenrechtspolitik der Volksrepublik China

2004 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-17
Author(s):  
Volkmar Köhler
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Environmental Politics ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Environment And Development ◽  
Volksrepublik China

Abstract The People's Republic of China is facing very severe environmental problems. The first part of this study is explaining this situation and the most important reasons for this. Beginning in 1989/90 the Chinese Government has recognized the danger of ecological devastation. The development and the limitations of environmental politics in Chinaare characterized in the second part. In this phase the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development made a important contribution defining the principles of Chinas environmental politics. Very fruitful has been the concrete Chinese-German Cooperation on Environment. Public awareness is a decisive precondition for solving the environmental problems. Forthis reason the final part of the study is discussing the change of the Chinese society, the development of the civil society and the situation of human rights in China

scholarly journals Initiatives to shorten duration of untreated psychosis: systematic review

2011 ◽  
Vol 198 (4) ◽  
pp. 256-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brynmor Lloyd-Evans ◽  
Michelle Crosby ◽  
Sarah Stockton ◽  
Stephen Pilling ◽  
Lorna Hobbs ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Early Detection ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
National Level ◽  
First Episode ◽  
Duration Of Untreated Psychosis ◽  
Early Intervention Services ◽  
Awareness Campaigns ◽  
Poor Outcomes ◽  
Practitioner Education

BackgroundLong duration of untreated psychosis (DUP) is common and associated with poor outcomes. Strategies to enhance early detection of first-episode psychosis have been advocated.AimsTo evaluate initiatives for early detection of psychosis.MethodSystematic review of available evidence on the effectiveness of early detection initiatives to reduce the DUP.ResultsThe review included 11 studies which evaluated 8 early detection initiatives. Evidence suggests that general practitioner education campaigns and dedicated early intervention services do not by themselves reduce DUP or generate more treated cases. Evidence for multifocus initiatives is mixed: intensive campaigns targeting the general public as well as relevant professionals may be needed. No studies evaluated initiatives targeting young people or professionals from non-health organisations.ConclusionsHow early detection can be achieved is not clear. Evidence is most promising for intensive public awareness campaigns: these require organisation and resourcing at a regional or national level. More good-quality studies are needed to address gaps in knowledge.

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