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The COAPI Cats: The Current State of Open Access Repository Movement and Policy Documentations

  • Roy, Bijan K.;Biswas, Subal C.;Mukhopadhyay, Parthasarathi
    • International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.69-84
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    • 2016
  • The paper investigates open access (OA) self archiving policies of different Open Access Repositories (OARs) of COAPI (Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions) founder members as reported in June 2011 (i.e. a total of 22 members against a total of 46 COPAI members as reported by Open Biomed (http://openbiomed.info/2011/08/coapi-cats/). The paper consulted three databases (OpenDOAR, ROAR and ROARMAP) in order to evaluate twenty-two (22) COAPI-members OARs self archiving policy documentations and highlights of some progress on issues so far. After analyzing policy documentations, key findings have been highlighted and common practices have been suggested in line with global recommendations and best practice guidelines at national and international levels for strengthening national research systems. The paper has implications for administrators, funding agencies, policy makers and professional librarians in devising institute specific self archiving policies for their own organization.

Finite-Horizon Online Transmission Scheduling on an Energy Harvesting Communication Link with a Discrete Set of Rates

  • Bacinoglu, Baran Tan;Uysal-Biyikoglu, Elif
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.293-300
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    • 2014
  • As energy harvesting communication systems emerge, there is a need for transmission schemes that dynamically adapt to the energy harvesting process. In this paper, after exhibiting a finite-horizon online throughput-maximizing scheduling problem formulation and the structure of its optimal solution within a dynamic programming formulation, a low complexity online scheduling policy is proposed. The policy exploits the existence of thresholds for choosing rate and power levels as a function of stored energy, harvest state and time until the end of the horizon. The policy, which is based on computing an expected threshold, performs close to optimal on a wide range of example energy harvest patterns. Moreover, it achieves higher throughput values for a given delay, than throughput-optimal online policies developed based on infinite-horizon formulations in recent literature. The solution is extended to include ergodic time-varying (fading) channels, and a corresponding low complexity policy is proposed and evaluated for this case as well.

Directions for Linkages between Policy Measures and the OECD Agricultural Environmental Indicators (OECD 농업환경지표와 정책연계 방안)

  • Kim, Chang-Gil;Kim, Tae-Young
    • Korean Journal of Environmental Agriculture
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.303-313
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    • 2005
  • Agricultural environmental indicators (AEIs) are useful tool for evaluating environmental performance induced by agri-environmental policy measures. General and specific criteria have been set to assess the linkages between policy measures and environmental states. In addition, a number of specific AEIs such as nutrient balance indicators and farm management indicators have been posit to review environmental performance associated with agri-environmental policy measures. The proposed environmental subjects encompass soil quality, qualities of underground and surface water, water resource preservation, species and genetic diversity, diversity for wildlife habitats, and agricultural landscapes. The developed AEIs may contribute to establishment or adjustment of environmental targets and ex-ante or ex-post evaluation for environmental performance associated with policy measures. In addition, the AEIs may be useful to consider introduction of new agri-environmental measures and enhance policy efficiency by assessing environmental performance, considering specific locality, and harmonizing support measures.

Health Promotion at Work: A Comparison of Policy and Practice Across Europe

  • Verra, Sanne E.;Benzerga, Amel;Jiao, Boshen;Ruggeri, Kai
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.21-29
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    • 2019
  • Background: Promoting healthy lifestyles at work should complement workplace safety programs. This study systematically investigates current states of occupational health and safety (OHS) policy as well as practice in the European Union (EU). Methods: OHS policies of EU member states were categorized as either prevention or health promotion provisions using a manifest content analysis. Policy rankings were then created for each prevention and promotion. Rankings compared eight indicators from the European Survey of Enterprises on New and Emerging Risks-2 data on prevention and promotion practices for each member state using Chi-square and probit regression analyses. Results: Overall, 73.1% of EU establishments take preventive measures against direct physical harm, and about 35.4% take measures to prevent psychosocial risks. Merely 29.5% have measures to promote health. Weak and inconsistent links between OHS policy and practice indicators were identified. Conclusion: National OHS policies evidently concentrate on prevention while compliance with health and safety practices is relatively low. Psychosocial risks are often addressed in national policy but not implemented by institutions. Current risk assessment methods are outdated and often lack psychosocial indicators. Health promotion at work is rare in policy and practice, and its interpretation remains preventive. Member states need to adopt policies that actively improve health and well-being at the workplace.

Policy Instruments for Public Private Partnership and Lessons from Case Study in Space (우주분야 공공민간협력을 위한 정책수단과 운영사례 연구)

  • Shin, Sangwoo;Kim, Eunjeong
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.49 no.4
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    • pp.343-354
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    • 2021
  • The purpose of this study is to contribute to an understanding of the policy instruments used by the public sector to ensure cooperation with the private sector in the delivery of space policy. Despite the importance of public and private partnership in recent years, there has been a lack of research on policy instruments. This study categorized 16 policy instruments into 4 types: purchase contracts, capital subsidies, research and development support and input subsidies. In addition, 5 cases of public private partnership in the United State, Europe and Japan were studied to explore policy implications to strength industrial competition.