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BURSE: PROTECTING THE REFUGEES, RESEARCH WORKSHOP - IRAN

"Protecting Refugees in the International Community and in Iran (PRICI): A Research Workshop", International Studies Journal, Tehran 3-4 February 2007 The International Studies Journal (ISJ) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Iran are jointly selecting 75 senior advisors, resident diplomats and their dependents, heads of state organizations, NGO representatives and post-graduate students for a research workshop program on international refugee la...

EURAC Summer School, Bolzano, Italy

The Summer School deals with the complexities of human and minority rights and diversity management in Europe. The 2011 special focus explores linguistic diversity in Europe: How can minority languages spoken by more than forty million people in the European Union be protected and promoted? Which languages need a special attention? How to acquire and teach a minority language? What is the challenge of linguistic diversity and language protection within the EU? The Summer School...

Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

By Michael Sandel - Harvard UniversityLicence: Course Description: Justice is one of the most popular courses in Harvard's history, having taught more than 14,000 students over the course of two decades.In this course, Sandel challenges us with difficult moral dilemmas and asks our opinion about the right thing to do. He then asks us to examine our answers in the light of new scenarios. The results are often surprising, revealing that important moral questions are never black and white.This cou...

Computer Science III: Programming Paradigms

By Jerry Cain - Stanford UniversityLicence: Course Description: Topics include: Advanced memory management features of C and C++; the differences between imperative and object-oriented paradigms; the functional paradigm (using LISP) and concurrent programming (using C and C++); brief survey of other modern languages such as Python, Objective C, and C#.Prerequisites: Programming and problem solving at the Programming Abstractions level. Prospective students should know a reasonable amount of C++...

Adaptive Path: Creating Meaning for Employees

By Janice Fraser - Stanford UniversityLicence: Course Description: Lectures: Lecture 1 - Choosing Your Partners Janice Fraser, CEO and a founding partner of Adaptive Path, believes one should choose partners based on who you want to go to when the going gets rough. She talks about the importance of a solid partnership.   Lec...

Responsys: Raising Venture Money and Managing Human Capital

By Stan Christensen - Stanford UniversityLicence: Course Description: Lectures: Lecture 1 - Advice on Raising Venture Money Dan Springer, CEO of Responsys, offers advice on how to raise venture money. Springer suggests that raising money depends on three factors: 1) What you have to offer, 2) The state of the venture market, and 3) An entrepreneurs long term goals. Springer argues that it is challenging for a...

Surfer Model of Venture Growth

By Kathleen M. Eisenhardt - Stanford UniversityLicence: Course Description: Lectures: Lecture 1 - Team Composition Kathy Eisenhardt, co-director of Stanford Technology Ventures Program and professor in Management Science and Engineering, discusses the size and composition of successful teams. She recommends a team of 3-5 cross-functional people with diverse age group and experience.   ...

Electronic Arts: Innovations in Gaming

By Nick Earl - Stanford UniversityLicence: Course Description: Lectures: Lecture 1 - Engineering Innovations in Gaming Nick shows a video of a motion capture technique used in the latest video games. He stresses the need for such innovation in order to compete in a booming market.   Lecture 2 - The Changing Economics in Mobi...

Leadership and Management for Integrity

Integrity is a concept that requires the alignment of competence, accountability, corruption control, and core values. Experience suggests that only a multipronged strategy to improve integrity standards will overcome the problems posed by poor governance and corruption. A one-size-fits-all approach will not work. There is a growing recognition among leading policy practitioners that the cutting edge of sustainable reform lies at least in part in the interaction between different stakeholders. ...

Issues in International Security

In the two decades since the end of the Cold War, it seems that international questions of security and insecurity have become more complex and multi-dimensional than ever before. Security was conventionally considered in terms of protecting a sovereign territory through armed force. In this light, the state and its survival were the central maxims.   However, over the last two decades, new sources of (in)security have become the focus for both academics and policy makers, thereby widen...

Fellowships in Politics, Human Rights and Sustainability, Italy

The Ph.D. Programme in Politics, Human Rights and Sustainability is a three-year residential programme characterized by an interdisciplinary approach to the subject and by the emphasis placed on current problems defining the protection and promotion of human rights.)   It consists in the following curricula (Research Areas): - Identity, rights and conflicts in the political theory; - Conflict and political systems in international relations; - International and European political econ...

REFERAT ENGLEZA: TUBERCULOSIS

TUBERCULOSIS Caractherize Causes and colony s Transmision & trethment Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease caused by bacteria called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The bacteria usually attack the lungs. But, TB bacteria can attack any part of the body such as the kidney, spine, and brain. If not treated properly, TB disease can be fatal. The cause of tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), is a slow-growing aerobic bacterium that divides every 16 to 20 hours. MTB is identifie...

Referat What is a genius?

Genius, in Roman mythology, a protecting, or guardian, spirit. It was believed that every individual, family, and city had its own genius. The genius rec eived special worship as a household god because it was thought to bestow success and intellectual powers on its devotees. For this reason, the word came to designate a person with unusual intellectual powers. The genius of a woman was sometimes referred to as a juno. In art, the genius of a person was frequently depicted as a winged youth; th...

Referat United Nations

United Nations IINTRODUCTION United Nations (UN), international organization of countries created to promote world peace and cooperation. The UN was founded after World War II ended in 1945. Its mission is to maintain world peace, develop good relations between countries, promote cooperation in solving the worlds problems, and encourage respect for human rights. The UN is an alliance of countries that agree to cooperate with one another. It brings together countries that are rich and poor, lar...

Referat Saudi Arabia - Playing at Both Ends

University of Bucharest Faculty of Political Science English Section sophomore Subject: International Relations Instructor: Ruxandra Ivan Student: Doru Frantescu Political Islam and Democracy An International Relations Perspective Case Study: Saudi Arabia Playing at Both Ends Topics: The Concept of Political Islam The House of Saud A Moment of Choice: the Golf War of 1990-1991 Religious Opposition - The Saudi Ulema Ideological Point of View: The Holly War Saudi Arabias Relatio...

Referat Our journey to a strange planet

Our journey to a strange planet The best way to introduce these notes from our journey is to report Great Leader Cottafts speech to us. On the day before we left Earth he called us all together and said: Tomorrow, the Globe will go out. Tomorrow, the science and skill of Earth will win a victory over nature. There were other races on Earth before ours, but they could not control nature so they died as conditions changed. We have become stronger, and we have solved problem after problem. And n...

Curs PC si internet cap 8.11 Network Power Supply Issues: Surge Suppressors and Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) Functions

8.11 Network Power Supply Issues: Surge Suppressors and Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) Functions 8.11.1 Surge suppressors: networking device locations Instructor Note One particular type of surge protector, and its effectiveness, are presented. Surge suppressors are usually mounted on a wall power socket, to which a networking device is connected. This type of surge suppressor has circuitry that is designed to prevent surges and spikes from damaging the networking...

THE HAUTE ECOLE LEONARD DE VINCI

As one of the most emblematic figures at the heart of a period when the ''renascent'' soul of modern Europe was taking shape, Leonard de Vinci has been chosen as an appropriate figurehead for the Haute Ecole in an ''emerging'' Europe at the dawn of the 21 st century. The Haute Ecole Léonard de Vinci , like every Haute Ecole, seeks to meet the need for rationalisation araising from a decree of the ''Communauté française de Belgique'' - the authority with responsability for ...

Curs - Workshop - Advanced Distributed Application Development with Visual Studio 2005 - PRO MANAGEMENT

Unit 1: Implementing WSE 3.0 Security and Policy Unit 2: Implementing WSE 3.0 Custom Policy Assertions Unit 3: Handling Large Data Transfer by Using WSE 3.0 Unit 4: Implementing WSE 3.0 SOAP Messaging Unit 5: Implementing SOAP Headers and Extensions Unit 6: Implementing WSE 3.0 Routing Unit 7: Optimizing and Protecting Message Queuing Descriere generala: Centru de instruire autorizat Microsoft, Autodesk, CISCO, Centru VUE & MOS de testare a competentei in IT recunoscuta international, me...

LIGHTTPD 1.4.13

lighttpd is a secure, fast, compliant, and very flexible Web server which has been optimized for high-performance environments. lighttpd has a very low memory footprint compared to other Web servers, and it takes care of CPU load. lighttpd has an advanced feature set that includes FastCGI (load balanced), CGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting, SSL, and much more. Here are some key features of "lighttpd": Advanced Features: virtual hosts virtual directory listings URL-Rew...

Certificate Programme of Sustainable Water Technology

Certificate Programme of Sustainable Water Technology Programme name: Environment Specialisation: Sustainable Water Technology   Water technology: preventing disease and protecting...

Life and Environmental Sciences and Technologies

Programme Description In partnership with several universities and in collaboration with Chimie ParisTech, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, Ecole Polytechnique, ENSTA ParisTech and MINES ParisTech, AgroParisTech offers...

BSc in Environmental Science

This programme focuses on environmental effects of human activity and is dedicated to protecting and restoring natural heritage, minimising human impact and restoring environmental degradation. It is designed to be...