Making a World of Difference
Making a World of Difference in Fire and Climate Change
... At the global scale, too much fire and the wrong kinds of fire now trump not enough fire as the most influential fire problems that ecol- ogists must face. Fire ecologists must frame arguments for government prohibition ...
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A difference-making account of causation
... empirical world fell apart in two or more causally separated regions, the sketched perspective would imply that there could be no spatial and temporal relations between these ...
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Making a difference at Rio+20
... We support our 147,000 members and 424,000 students throughout their careers, providing services through a network of 83 offices and centres. Our global infrastructure means that exams and support are delivered, and ...
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Making public space. About the same or about difference?
... to making public space in different design instances across cities in different geographies and cultures around the globe, this text now turns to specific ...of making public space in three categories of ...
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Emerging Leaders in Philanthropy—Making a Difference through the Buckman Fellowship
... real world problems is what guides the entire learning process, as the Fellows themselves design and execute their projects over their time while in the Fellowship (and beyond) to address emerging issues and ...
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Mini-Law School: Civic Education Making a Difference in the Community
... live in an increasingly complex world filled with laws and regulations, people want to become better informed in order to make wiser decisions. Additionally, understanding the fundamentals of our legal system ...
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Agency as difference making: causal foundations of moral responsibility
... as difference-making is compatible with the theory of action indi- viduation as it is outlined in the objection ...positive difference-making conditional which requires that in all nearby ...
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Leaving a Mark, Making a Difference
... the world of stories and fairytales, and a day in the desert presented us with an opportunity to reinvent ourselves as educators of the ...the world, and the end of the year we concluded in watching the ...
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What makes the difference? Analysis of the 2014 World Cup
... the World Cup (WC) has the status of the ultimate ...the difference"? The database published in this last Technical Report is impressive and the selected coaches have used it to support their tactical ...
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What Do We Know About Technical Assistance? Enhancing the Science and Practice of Technical Assistance via a Research Synthesis
... With Maurice Thomson’s success in securing the tobacco monopoly originally proposed by Edward Bennett, Richard Bennett turned his eyes to the more pressing spiritual nourishment of his community. Their incumbent pastor ...
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Traveller Behaviour: Decision making in an unpredictable world
... Firstly, we suggest that uncertainty has become a more serious problem due to the faster pace of life, the prevalence of just-in-time processes in industry and the increased problem of congestion – traffic growth has ...
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Civilization and Globalization in a World of Turmoil
... Continuing our path of investigation, we meet scholars who interpret globalization as an “intensification of worldwide social relations which link distinct localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by ...
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JASAL Forum 2012: Making a Difference through Self Access
... University redesigned and developed their programs, highlighting their benefits and providing the faculty with the confidence to encourage students to use the facilities. They delivered the information to the faculty by ...
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Deception and Fiction as Forms of World-making in Contemporary Art
... This article probes the grey area between lies and fiction in order to interrogate the effects such strategies have, both within and outside of the sphere of art. For better or worse, art works that experiment with the ...
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Can five simple principles make a world of difference?
... competing stakeholder viewpoints. Boundary analysis can enable all manner of competing world views into a project, including those that are counter to the values of the primary stakeholders and/or interventionist. ...
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Writing//painting; l’écriture féminine and difference in the making
... Cixous’ notions of the ‘intensity of the instantaneous’ and ‘immediacy of visual and emotional impact’ are very precisely tied to a specific moment such as capturing time and light in painting. However, my notion of the ...
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Making a difference to employability through assessment
... The process of becoming more employable as an undergraduate is an important one and should, in itself, be motivational to the student. It will give a relevance to the course when it is known that others will value it. ...
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Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference
... In 2001, Frederick Cooper wrote that ‘globalization talk is influential – and deeply misleading – for assuming coherence and direction instead of probing causes and processes’.(1) Burbank and Cooper heed this warning and ...
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Making a difference - the appropriate use of web technology
... Communication Technology: Communication is at the heart of online communities. The technologies employed can be public (interactions between several people) or private (one-to-one interactions); synchronous (messages are ...
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Is the national professional qualification for headship making a difference
... The inference is that the rst model of NPQH had an enhanced effect on the development of four key skills that is in addition to that accrued by colleagues in the same peer group who have travelled alternative routes to ...
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