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Research findings and dissemination are making healthcare more effective. Electronic health records systems and advanced tools are making care delivery more efficient. Legislative reforms are striving to make care more affordable. Efforts still need to be focused on making healthcare more accessible. Clinical Videoconferencing in Telehealth takes a comprehensive and vital step forward in providing mental health and primary care services for those who cannot make traditional office visits, live in remote areas, have transportation or mobility issues or have competing demands. Practical, evidence-based information is presented in a step by step format at two levels: for administrators, including information regarding selecting the right videoconferencing technology, navigating regulatory issues, policy temples, boilerplate language for entering into care agreements with other entities and practical solutions to multisite programming; and for clinicians, including protocols for safe, therapeutically sound practice, informed consent and tips for overcoming common technical barriers to communication in clinical videoconferencing contexts. Checklists, tables, templates, links, vignettes and other tools help to equip professional readers for providing safe services that are streamlined and relevant while avoiding guesswork, false starts and waste. The book takes a friendly-mentor approach to communication in areas such as: Logistics for administrators: Clinical videoconferencing infrastructures and technologies Policy development, procedures and tools for responsible and compliant programming Navigating issues related to providing services in multiple locations Protocols for clinicians: The informed consent process in clinical videoconferencing Clinical assessment and safety planning for remote services Minimizing communication disruption and

Since 1971 wild horses and burros living on federal land have been legally protected, limiting removal from the range and stipulating restrictive conditions for transfer to private ownership. Periodic gathers prevent overpopulation, though we find both political and biological influences on the probability and size of gathers. Attempts to convey removed horses to private owners are often unsuccessful because of the relatively low quality of some animals and contractual restrictions. We consider alternative policy regimes promoting the transfer of additional animals; such reforms could have reduced program costs by as much as $452 million over the past twenty-five years ; Montana Agricultural Experiment Station

IN INDIA THE QUESTION OF MEDIUM IN HIGHER EDUCATION HAS BEEN COMPLICATED DUE TO REGIONAL, LINGUISTIC, AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY. RAPID SWITCH-OVER FROM ENGLISH TO HINDI AND THE REGIONAL LANGUAGES HAS RESULTED IN THE BALKAN IZATION OF THE HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM. A SOUND NATIONAL LANGUAGE POLICY REQUIRES A DUAL MEDIUM OF THE REGIONAL LANGUAGE AND ENGLISH AS THE LINK IN HIGHER EDUCATION.

THE PROBLEM OF LANGUAGE FOR SOUTH AFRICA HAS STILL TO BE CONFRONTED BY THE LIBERATION MOVEMENT. THE DEBATE WILL CERTAINLY BECOME HEATED WHEN THE TIME ARISES TO INTEGRATE THE SCHOOLS, CHANGE THE SYLLABUSES, & TAKE A NEW LOOK AT THE CULTURAL LIFE OF THE CITIZENRY.

The plantation system that gave rise to many existing creoles can be said to be the prototype upon which the current wave of corporate globalization has been modeled (Linebaugh 1992). The daily wages received by the majority of workers worldwide at the beginning of the 21st century are not even equal to half the value of the daily food rations received by plantation slaves at the beginning of the 19th in the Greater Caribbean or at the beginning of the 20th in the South Pacific (World Bank 2000; Farnsworth 1999 & Queensland 1892). Structural adjustment policies are restricting the spread of English to the few who reap some reward from corporate globalization. In contrast, the overwhelming majority are by necessity learning & reshaping existing regional koines, pidgins, & creoles, through processes of adaptation, creativity & resistance (Rickford 1983). Far from being a threat to creoles, corporate globalization is bringing about an increase in the number of speakers of these languages, which dwarfs the much proclaimed growth of English worldwide. Tables, References. Adapted from the source document.

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This article discusses whether computer data constitutes an 'object', in the meaning of this term under international humanitarian law (IHL). After providing background on what is meant by 'computer data', and on the significance of any determination whether computer data constitutes an 'object' for the purposes of IHL, the article proceeds to consider the meaning of the term 'object' as found in the First Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions (API). Recourse is made to the customary rules of treaty interpretation while focusing on both the English and French versions of API. The ordinary meaning of the term 'object' in its context in API solely connotes material things, thus excluding computer data. Moreover, recourse to the object and purpose of API, or to so-called 'evolutionary' interpretation, does not lead to a different conclusion. Considering the importance of customary international law for states non-parties to API, and for the purposes of non-international armed conflicts, the article proceeds to analyse whether computer data constitutes an 'object' for the purposes of custom. The article analyses the development of the term 'object' in legal discourse over the past century in determining what states intended this term to mean, and finds that here, too, states considered 'objects' in the context of IHL to be material things. It also explains that there is no apparent trend among states as to whether data constitutes an 'object', whereas the paucity of official government statements is far from the necessary volume for it to carry particular legal significance.

"Our culture was virtually annihilated. The great paradox is our children study German, French and English in school. They can use Latin letters for these foreign languages, but not for their native language." Thus spoke Mikhail Chimpoi, a prominent literary critic and candidate for the national legislature in 1989; as, in the spirit of the "new" Moldova, restrictions were loosened on what officials were allowed to say in public about the language situation.

AbstractThis article critically examines the Conservative government's approach to official languages, through a policy instrument framework. Special attention is paid to the third federal roadmap for official languages—the first having been unveiled by the Liberal government in 2003 and the second by the Conservative minority government in 2008—and how this roadmap conveys a new representation of official languages in relation to Canadian identity and citizenship. The focus on the linguistic integration of new immigrants in the 2013 language roadmap generates interest. The policy instrument framework also shows how language roadmaps represent the fourth generation of official language policies in Canada; the first three generations found their respective bases in the 1969Official Languages Act, theCharter of Rights and Freedomsand the 1988Official Languages Act. The article concludes that an analysis of language roadmaps elucidates transformations initiated by the Conservative governments in the area of official languages in Canada. It also promotes further exploration and analysis of language policies through the policy instrument framework.

This volume offers fresh, cutting-edge perspectives on issues of language and citizenship by casting a critical light on a broad spectrum of geo-political contexts - Flanders, Luxembourg, Singapore, South Africa, the UK - and discourse data - policy documents, newspaper articles, ethnographic notes and interviews, skits, bodies in protests. The main aims of the book are to investigate institutional discourses about the relationship between nationality and citizenship, and relate such discourses to more ethnographically grounded interactions; tease out the multiple and often conflicting meanings of citizenship; and explore the different linguistic/semiotic guises that citizenship might take on in different contexts. The book argues that the linguistic/discursive study of citizenship should not only include critical investigations of political proposals about language testing, but should also encompass the diverse, more or less mundane, ways in which various social actors enact citizenship with the help of an array of multivocal, material, and affective semiotic resources. Originally published as a special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 14:3 (2015).