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AbstractA persistent question in the literature on policy adoption and diffusion focuses on the ways in which jurisdictions gather policy information. Decades of research have offered numerous conclusions regarding knowledge transfer mechanisms assumed to drive diffusion. While important, we suggest that the characteristics of existing work may have limited what we know about the exchange of policy information among peers. Most studies infer learning indirectly, and as a result, the literature has tended to focus on exchange between geographic and ideological peers, to the exclusion of other channels. As an alternative, this study takes a more direct approach and draws on a survey of 112 U.S. expert informants in the area of energy policy. We use the information exchange channels revealed by these informants to predict the diffusion of state renewable portfolio standards and electricity deregulation among the American states to determine whether they offer explanatory leverage beyond the "traditional" channels.

Building harmonious and peaceful interaction between communities of different religions, is necessary to change the theological paradigm; that is passive, textual, and exclusive, leading towards the theology of inclusive, mutual respect, mutual recognition of existence, thinking and being positive among others. The paradigm of plural education in the future is democratic education, this can only be realized in a democratic society, nation and country. By providing the opportunities for the implementation of harmony and peace. The author describes about the Comparison of Islamic Education with Non-Islam (comparative study in Madrasah Tsanawiyah As-Shiddiqi and Catholic Junior High Schools (SMP) in Pamekasan Regency). The different point of these two educational institutions is the allocation of lesson hour (JTM). In Islamic Education is 2 hours a week in each religious material including Fiqh, Al-Quran, Aqidah and SKI subjects. Whereas in Catholic education is only given about 2 lessons, and the other is the same as other general education. For educational institutions that are specified into Uskupan or Romo, the applied curriculum is a matter of theology, such as seminaries starting from senior high school until university ; Membangun interaksi umat beragama dan antarumat beragama secara harmonis dan damai, perlu mengubah paradigma teologis yang pasif, tekstualis, dan eklusif, menuju teologi yang inklusif, saling menghormati, saling mengakui eksistensi, berfikir dan bersikap positif antar sesama. Paradigma pendidikan plural di masa depan adalah pendidikan yang demokratis, hal ini hanya dapat diwujudkan dalam masyarakat, bangsa dan negara yang demokratis pula. Dengan memberikan peluang bagi terlaksananya harmoni dan kedamaian. Penulis mendeskripsikan seputar Perbandingan Pendidikan Islam Dengan Non Islam (studi komparasi Madrasah Tsanawiyah (MTs) As-Shiddiqi dan Sekolah Menengah Pertama (SMP) katolik di Kabupaten Pamekasan). Titik tolak dari kedua lembaga pendidikan ini, adalah, bahwaalokasi Jam Tatap Muka (JTM) 2 jam dalam seminggu dalam setiap materi agama yang terbagi dalam mata pelajaran fiqih, al-qur'an, aqidah dan SKI. Sedangkan pada pendidikan katolik, hanya diberikan waktu sekitar 2 jam mata pelajaran, dan selebihnya sama dengan pendidikan umum lainnya.Untuk lembaga pendidikan yang spesifikasi kepada ke Uskupan atau Romo, maka kurikulum yang diterapakan adalah masalah teologi, seperti seminari yang dimulai dari tingkat SMA hingga perguruan tinggi.

Domestic politics has shaped the foreign policy of Laos (formally the Lao Peoples' Democratic Republic, or LPDR) since the 1970s, specifically its relations with China and the United States. During the 1980s, the communist government of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) feared that China and the United States were supporting counter-revolutionary resistance groups, prompting Vientiane to adopt closer relations with Beijing and Washington to ensure its own internal security by motivating them to cut off their support for anti-LPRP groups. As the Soviet Union reduced economic aid to Laos in the latter stages of the Cold War, the LPRP adopted market-based reforms in 1986 to generate closer security and economic cooperation with China and the United States and to grow its economy. Domestic concerns of regime survival and performance legitimacy remain key drivers of Laos' foreign policy.(Contemp Southeast Asia / GIGA)

In the English-speaking settler states, the notion of "nondiscriminatory" immigration policy has the precise meaning of eschewing ethnicity, race, and national origins as selection criteria in the context of past policies that had blatantly resorted to them. There has been an interesting recent debate over whether the commitment to nondiscrimination has consolidated into a "structural feature of liberal democracy" (G. Freeman), or whether it is a conjunctural "feature of public discussion at certain times and places" (R. Brubaker), and thus could be easily reversed. Evidence from the United States and Australia can adjudicate this debate in favor of the structural position. Three factors are identified that shore up nondiscriminatory immigration policies: the general acceptance of the nondiscrimination norm, even by those who are opposed to some of its effects; the shrinking demographic possibility of ethnic selectivity "by subterfuge"; and the instantly mobilizeable memory of settler states' racist pasts.

Las tecnologías de la información y comunicación (TIC) han dinamizado todas las dimensiones de la vida del ser humano, siendo la educación en el sector universitario uno escenario que ha aprovechado todas las potencialidades de las TIC para acercarse a los miembros de su comunidad a los saberes producidos por la sociedad del conocimiento. Es por ello que los autores se plantearon como objetivo caracterizar el uso de las Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación en la enseñanza de las Ciencias Jurídicas como herramienta para impulsar la investigación académica. Metodológicamente, corresponde a una investigación de tipo documental a partir de la revisión de fuentes teóricas; técnica de recolección de la información se utilizó la ficha descriptiva-analítica y como técnica de análisis los autores optaron por el análisis de contenido. Esta pesquisa develó que la implementación de las TIC en los procesos de enseñanza del Derecho deben involucrar a todos los miembros de la comunidad académica, considerando la disposición de cada uno para ajustarse a los cambios que el uso de las TIC en el proceso de enseñanza propiciarán, por lo que deben garantizar su formación permanente, reconociendo finalmente la necesidad de garantizar el acceso a los recursos tecnológicos para el uso adecuado de las TIC en el contexto de las Ciencias Jurídicas.

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Information and communication technologies (ICT) have energized all dimensions of human life, and education in the university sector is a scenario that has taken advantage of all the potential of ICT to bring members of the community closer to the knowledge produced by the knowledge society. For this reason, the authors set themselves the objective of characterizing the use of Information and Communication Technologies in the teaching of Legal Sciences as a tool to promote academic research. Methodologically, it corresponds to a documentary type of research based on the review of theoretical sources; the descriptive-analytical data collection technique was used and the authors opted for content analysis as an analysis technique. This research revealed that the implementation of ICT in the teaching processes of Law should involve all members of the academic community, considering the willingness of each one to adjust to the changes that the use of ICT in the teaching process will bring about, so they must ensure their ongoing training, finally recognizing the need to ensure access to technological resources for the proper use of ICT in the context of Legal Sciences.

When it comes to sports (volleyball, handball, basketball, football ...) the main value is reflected in their attractiveness, wide application, and availability. At the same time, these are sports of higher achievements (top sport), sports entertainment is an important mean of active rest (recreation) and, of course, one of the most powerful means of physical education. The popularity of sports games is especially pronounced among school children and youth. In addition to compulsory physical education classes, they are widely represented in free sports activities. As it is known among other anthropological dimensions, cognitive abilities have a significant impact in achieving top results in sports. The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between a set of predictor variables of cognitive abilities and a set of criterion variables of situational motor abilities in sports games, especially in volleyball in primary school boys. By analyzing the corresponding canonical functions in the space of cognitive abilities, the function is defined by all variables, as well as by another set of data, the function is defined by all situational motor variables. As all cognitive abilities are in direct proportionality with the results of situational motor skills tests, it can be concluded that subjects with higher spatialisation ability and higher IQ will have good results in specific motor, especially in volleyball. These results are logical considering the structure of performing exercises from sports games especially volleyball, which require good coordination of movements, which is directly related to cognitive abilities.

140Sovereign immunity — Foreign States and agencies — State tourist office — Claim for breach of copyright — Whether Spanish State entitled to jurisdictional immunity — Activities iure imperii and iure gestionis — Whether use of copyright material by the State a private law activity — Whether promotion of tourism by the State a sovereign activity — The law of the Federal Republic of Germany

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the Health and Human Services Commission developing a plan to contract with a public institution of higher education to operate a certain state hospital.