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How local authority children's services commissioners ensure sufficient high-quality placements for vulnerable children while navigating a complex series of social, political and financial pressures

In preparing for the new normal for COVID-19, every government agency, school and university will be required to comply with new regulations by the government, in which the government will oblige everyone who does activities outside the home to wear masks and practice physical distancing. This is one of the new habits that the government will familiarize with starting in 2020. Due to the ease with which the Covid-19 virus spreads. So the selection of a good mask is recommended good mask, namely a mask that follows the recommendations of the WHO at least 3 layers. The purpose of this study was to classify the types of SNI and non-SNI masks so that the presence of this SNI mask cluster monitoring system could improve security at locations that apply the use of masks and the masks used can function effectively to prevent the spread and spread of Covid-19, classification of research models it uses the InceptionV3, Resnet50, InceptionV2, AlexNet and DenseNet architectures. The results of trials that have been carried out by the InceptionV3 architecture have the most optimal accuracy with loss values of 3.4889 and 0.9894 (98.94%).

Children's social care is rich with experienced and committed leaders, but a manager must be sure to lay the groundwork for a successful transition before the time comes to pass the torch to their successor

To meet carbon reduction goals in Europe but worldwide too, a large number of renewable distributed energy resources (DER) still need to be deployed.Aiming at mobilizing private capitals, several plans have been developed to put end-customers at the heart of the energy transition, hoping to accelerate the adoption of green energy by increasing its attractiveness and profitability.Some of the proposed models include the creation of local energy markets where households can sell their energy to their neighbors at a higher price than what the government would be willing to pay (but lower than what other customers normally pay), shared investment models in which consumers own a carbon-free power plant such as a wind turbine or a solar farm and they obtain dividends from its production to collective auto-consumption models in which several families are 'hidden' behind the same smart meter, allowing them to optimize their aggregated consumption profile and therefore maximizing the value of their DER.One of the main objectives of the thesis is to understand these different incentives as they will play a crucial role in tackling climate change if correctly implemented. To do so, we design a framework 'local energy trading' that encompasses a large number of incentives.In the context of local energy trading, we study the interactions of prosumers (consumers with generation capabilities) located in the same Low Voltage network, possibly behind the same feeder. These prosumers will still be connected to the main power grid and they will have the option, as they do today, to buy and sell to/from their utility company at a fixed price (a flat rate or a Time-of-Use, for example). For these agents to fully benefit from the advantages of local energy trading, we shall assume that they own appliances (such as batteries) that, without changing their perceived energy demand, can enable them to change their net energy demand as seen from outside their homes. Modeling prosumers as rational utility maximizers, they will schedule ...

To meet carbon reduction goals in Europe but worldwide too, a large number of renewable distributed energy resources (DER) still need to be deployed.Aiming at mobilizing private capitals, several plans have been developed to put end-customers at the heart of the energy transition, hoping to accelerate the adoption of green energy by increasing its attractiveness and profitability.Some of the proposed models include the creation of local energy markets where households can sell their energy to their neighbors at a higher price than what the government would be willing to pay (but lower than what other customers normally pay), shared investment models in which consumers own a carbon-free power plant such as a wind turbine or a solar farm and they obtain dividends from its production to collective auto-consumption models in which several families are 'hidden' behind the same smart meter, allowing them to optimize their aggregated consumption profile and therefore maximizing the value of their DER.One of the main objectives of the thesis is to understand these different incentives as they will play a crucial role in tackling climate change if correctly implemented. To do so, we design a framework 'local energy trading' that encompasses a large number of incentives.In the context of local energy trading, we study the interactions of prosumers (consumers with generation capabilities) located in the same Low Voltage network, possibly behind the same feeder. These prosumers will still be connected to the main power grid and they will have the option, as they do today, to buy and sell to/from their utility company at a fixed price (a flat rate or a Time-of-Use, for example). For these agents to fully benefit from the advantages of local energy trading, we shall assume that they own appliances (such as batteries) that, without changing their perceived energy demand, can enable them to change their net energy demand as seen from outside their homes. Modeling prosumers as rational utility maximizers, they will schedule ...

Green planning has been hailed as a new & promising stage in the development of environmental policy, as it provides a more comprehensive & integrated approach to environmental problems. Since the late 1980s, green plans (under a variety of labels) have been adopted by many governments, including those of Canada & Australia. In both countries, however, green planning efforts have come to grief & their green plans have been proclaimed "dead." This demise of green planning is analyzed & underlying factors are discussed. It is argued that, despite the considerable obstacles to sustained green planning, there are strong reasons for reviving it in these countries. 85 References. Adapted from the source document.

Despite the fact that spatial planning forms one of the key constituents of territorial politics, territory and territoriality have been largely neglected in the studies of European spatial planning. This article seeks to address this shortcoming by considering spatial planning through the recent research on territories and territorial politics in political geography. The article suggests that European spatial planning ought to be conceptualized as a political technology of territory of the European Union, whose effectiveness is not dependent on the acquisition of formal policy status but stems from its capacity to fuse populations and geographical areas into manageable entities, from its reputation as apolitical management of space as well as from its resonance with current political tastes.

1. India's shifting goalposts, population policies, prescriptions and acceptance of inevitable reality -- 2. History of India's family planning programme from inception to national emergency -- 3. The tumultuous period of 1975-81 and after -- 4. ICPD Conference and the paradigm shift -- 5. Organization of family planning services -- 6. Role of the non-governmental sector in family planning -- 7. Contraceptive use, dynamics and unmet need for family planning -- 8. Proximate determinants of fertility -- 9. Demographic, socio-cultural and economic determinants of contraceptive use and fertility -- 10. Contraceptive technology choices in India's family planning programme -- 11. Pathways to population stabilization -- 12. Opportunities and challenges before India in the twenty-first century -- 13. The way forward.

The fragmentation of the public sector makes it difficult to manage strategically and architecturally as a whole. Enterprise Architecture (EA) is considered as an improvement to that. Architectural modeling and visualization of the general management strategy plans along with parallel database development in a local government forms the primary data in the longitudinal case study using Action Design Research Method. To find a proper organizational fit for the EA framework in public sector, we reflect on how the current state architectural descriptions got organized in situ in a deep corporate hierarchy, and what were the emerging management needs in re-organizing the content of the descriptions. We suggest the EA framework in public sector as a strategic corporate management tool. As for the current state EA descriptions, we propose implementing the framework not as a static, but as a dynamic data model of the current management structures. ; peerReviewed

With the world population becoming predominantly urban at the beginning of the twenty-first century, various interests and needs of society demand the planning and execution of public policies that go beyond the established political-administrative limits, imposing the need for institutional channels that can make the proper reading from the physical-territorial reality. The metropolitan planning institutes are essential agents in this process for an adequate analysis of the territory, which will establish the parameters for the discussions and deliberations of the society involved. In Brazil, many institutions still need to be consolidated, and the absence of metropolitan planning institutes in various parts of the country contributes to the absence of proposals and referral of projects to meet the diverse needs of the population on the scale of metropolitan regions. In this sense, the study intends to identify several aspects in which the metropolitan planning becomes essential for the adequate ordering of the territory.

SBCARS2020 - Blockchain is an emerging technology that has piqued the interest of researchers and industry today. Following the success of this technology in the financial market with virtual currencies, blockchain begins to be used by different domains such as government and education as it provides a reliable, scalable and unchanging distributed environment for conducting and storing transactions on a network. Higher education is a system with many challenges that could be solved by adopting this technology. Protecting data transactions that involve student degrees is one of the challenges considered by educational institutions. Thus, this paper presents a reference architecture proposal based on blockchain technology and a proof of concept to register and consult student certificates issued by higher education institutions. With this architecture, we intend to evaluate a new business model in this technology applied to the educational domain. As a proof of concept, we presented a prototype implementation using smart contracts based on the Ethereum platform and an evaluation made by experts in high education.