Council Meeting Research Articles

TRAJECTORY OF DEVELOPMENT OF SAMARA STATE UNIVERSITY IN 2009–2015

The article analyzes the final stage of activity of the staff of the Samara State University (20092015), during which the transition to a multi-level education system began, as well as searching for ways out of the university from a crisis state. The factors that negatively influenced the development of the university were identified. The analysis of activities aimed at expanding the educational space of the university, increasing the areas of training for undergraduate and graduate programs, modernization of scientific and educational environment and infrastructure of Samara State University is presented. The development programs of faculties and the strategic development program of the university for 20152025 were developed. It was adopted by the Academic Council of Samara University in October 2013. The program envisaged the participation of scientific schools of the university in the implementation of a number of economic and socio-cultural projects included in the strategic program of the Samara region.
 The main methods of research were comparative historical and statistical methods used in the analysis of the corpus of documentary sources. Methods of retrospective and perspective analysis were also used. Sources of study include materials of the current archive of the Samara State University, minutes of meetings of the Academic Council of the Samara State University, reports on scientific activities, materials of the periodical press, personal archives of the authors.
 The authors concluded that despite the efforts being made by the administration, the Academic Council and the scientific and pedagogical team in 20092015 Samara State University did not manage to get out of crisis state and start implementing the strategic program of university development for 20152025. The main problem of the university was the lack of financial and political support from the federal ministry and regional authorities.

Разработка Союзного договора в сентябре – декабре 1991 г.: от демонтажа государственности к распаду СССР

The article is devoted to the consideration of internal political processes in the Soviet Union at the final stage of its existence, in particular, the political struggle between the President of the USSR M.S. Gorbachev and Republican leaders in the course of the preparation of the draft Union Treaty in the autumn of 1991 («Novo-Ogarevo-2»). The task of the research is to reconstruct the process of preparation of the draft Union Treaty in September-November 1991, its discussions during the meetings of the State Council of the USSR, and to assess the role of this Treaty in the dismantling of the USSR`s political system. The main source of this research was the verbatim records of the State Council`s meetings, numerous comments and additions to the autumn draft of the Union Treaty, which are stored in the archive Gorbachev Foundation. On the basis of these archival documents, as well as press materials, documentary collections, memories of eyewitnesses of those events, the author compares the positions of the Union and the Republican leaders on the structure of the future Union of the USSR: membership in the updated Union, the tax system, state bodies, the legal system. The key problem, to which all discussions of the Union Treaty were reduced, concerned distribution of power between the Union and Republican elites. The analysis of the sources allows us to conclude that during the autumn negotiations a compromise between the Union and the Republican leaders was impossible - the project “Novo-Ogarevo-2” was doomed to failure initially. If M.S. Gorbachev made attempts to legally secure the preservation of the Union in the form of a confederation, the Republican leaders, first of all, the President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin, based on the adopted Declaration of sovereignty, sought independence and separation from the USSR. The Union Treaty, originally designed to create the necessary balance in the relations between the Center and the republics, in practice was an instrument for the implementation of the ambitions of the Republican elites and became one of the factors of the USSR`s collapse.

Report of 2018 Symposium of the Japan Society of Geoinformatics “Production Techniques of 3D Geologic Map”,Report of the 2nd Council Meeting in 2018

Report of 2018 Symposium of the Japan Society of Geoinformatics “Production Techniques of 3D Geologic Map”,Report of the 2nd Council Meeting in 2018

Report of Joint Symposium 2017 by Japan Society of Geoinfromatics and Geological Information Utilization and Promotion Initiative (GUPI), Report of the 2nd Council Meeting in 2017, Announcement of GEOINFORUM-2018, Professor Hideo Kasai (1951 - 2017), Instructions to Contributors

Report of Joint Symposium 2017 by Japan Society of Geoinfromatics and Geological Information Utilization and Promotion Initiative (GUPI), Report of the 2nd Council Meeting in 2017, Announcement of GEOINFORUM-2018, Professor Hideo Kasai (1951 - 2017), Instructions to Contributors

Minutes of April 2017, APSA Council Meeting

Minutes of April 2017, APSA Council Meeting

Gdańsk Affairs at the Council of Constance (1414–1418)

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<i>Natural Resources Research</i> received first Impact Factor / Report of the 1st Council Meeting in 2018 / Report of the GEOINFORUM-2018 / 2018 Society Awards

<i>Natural Resources Research</i> received first Impact Factor / Report of the 1st Council Meeting in 2018 / Report of the GEOINFORUM-2018 / 2018 Society Awards

Minutes of the 2018 Executive Council Meeting

Minutes of the 2018 Executive Council Meeting

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, Council and Business Meetings, 2017, Austin, TX

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, Council and Business Meetings, 2017, Austin, TX

American Society of Parasitologists One Hundred and Seventh Annual Council Meeting 28 June 2017 The Hilton Palacio del Rio, San Antonio, Texas.

American Society of Parasitologists One Hundred and Seventh Annual Council Meeting 28 June 2017 The Hilton Palacio del Rio, San Antonio, Texas.

Reconceptualizing the presence of students on school governance councils: The a/effects of spatial positioning

This article conceptualizes the materialities of school governance council meetings. A concern for the material a/effects of spatial positioning emerged during a participatory action research project concerned with secondary school students’ sense of the benefits and challenges of student representation on school councils. Attending to affective, spatial and material dimensions of power with the conceptual resources of new materialisms, I question representational logics in policy, research and practice related to school councils. In particular, I interrogate whether the presence of human bodies representing interest groups necessarily promotes more democratic relations, and whether questions of power are best explored through discursive analysis alone. School council meetings are understood to be events where the political philosoph(ies) of a school materialize in concrete relations between bodies, and where subjects form, re-form (and de-form) in and through material-discursive practices.

Notes from Libya

Abstract‘Notes from Libya’ is a new regular feature of Libyan Studies following the reports of the Society's Head of Mission. These reports were previously concerned with the organisation of fieldwork and administrative matters connected to obtaining permissions, visas and so on, and were recorded in the minutes of the Council meetings. However, they have recently taken on a new form, outlining the alarming developments in Libya, largely focusing on its heritage but also on the political and economic situation, which impacts on the management of Libya's ancient monuments and artefacts. The importance and historical interest of these reports now, however, merits a wider audience and a more formal record, so these accounts are now published in Libyan Studies.

The sixth World Flora Online Council meeting held in South Africa

Background: Biannual Council meetings are held with the aim of developing a World Flora Online (WFO) in response to Target 1 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (2011–2020).Objectives: To report on the sixth WFO Council meeting held in Pretoria, South Africa, on November 2016.Method: A WFO Council meeting (preceded by Taxonomic and Technical Working Group meetings) was hosted by the South African National Biodiversity Institute in Pretoria.Results: Significant progress with the development of the WFO portal was made.Conclusion: The WFO portal will be launched at the International Botanical Congress in China in 2017.

Clarifying the Discussion Points in New Drug Application Reviews for Approval in Japan by a Government Advisory Council.

In Japan, the Pharmaceutical Affairs and Food Sanitation Council (PAFSC) of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare conducts discussions during the final stages of drug application reviews based on reports from the Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA). Any disagreements or points of contention raised during these discussions can result in delays to drug approval. It is therefore important to characterize the points of discussion in the PAFSC meetings to optimize the process and enable more efficient drug approval reviews in Japan. We investigated the recorded minutes of PAFSC meetings concerning 229 drug applications (comprising 164 new drug applications and 65 supplemental applications) between fiscal years 2012 and 2014. The discussion points were characterized according to their main topics, and the frequency of each topic was examined. Clinical trials were the most frequent topic of discussion. Issues concerning package inserts were also prominent because many required reconsiderations and follow-up after council meetings. In particular, additional precautions and further clarification regarding drug indications and dosage were major points for reconsideration and follow-up. The review process may be improved if the points identified in this study are taken into consideration during the drug review process by the PMDA.

Supporting Resident-Led Quality Improvement Through a Novel Visual Board (QI Abstract)

The ACGME CLER Pathways to Excellence promotes resident engagement in quality improvement (QI) activities. However, infrastructure to capture problems that residents encounter as frontline caregivers can be sub-optimal. Empowering residents to engage in problem resolution may be further challenged by a lack of a reliable process to solve these problems. Aim Statement Implement a resident-led quality improvement visual board at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford by August 2016 and increase resident problem reporting and resolution by 25% by the end of the academic year. Interventions In August 2016, a QI problem reporting visual board was placed in the residency common space for residents to report QI issues in four main categories (Figure 1). Residents received a 45-minute QI education session introducing the visual board. Problems were written on the board and also submitted electronically. Chief residents reviewed and responded to all submissions weekly, utilizing their knowledge of the local hospital system to guide residents towards problem resolution. Resident-identified QI issues were also discussed at weekly multidisciplinary leadership rounds and monthly residency council meetings. Measures Primary outcomes were changes in pre vs. post-intervention number, characterization and outcome of problems reported. A run chart was used to track progress. Secondary outcomes were pre vs. post QI knowledge and confidence, assessed by surveys.

Minutes of the August 2016 APSA Council Meeting

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Pugna por gobernanza urbano-metropolitana en Chile: resistencia de agencias y reforma intergubernamental con poder regional

Chile has opted for the dual governance of cities after a period of increasing territorial demands for autonomy. Three presidential commissions with dissimilar proposals have produced a hybrid intergovernmental response based on a ministerial committee that reached an agreement with regional-municipal alliances, under the tutelage of the governor-elect. Based on the information gathered from the 2014 regional council meetings, interviews with regional actors, and the examples of Santiago, Greater Valparaiso and Greater Concepcion, the struggle for urban governance that requires a greater demand for strong mobility and environmental policies, has become one of the focal points of the problems of cities in Chile, thus promoting accelerated decentralization processes from the regions. The objective of this article is to expose the conflict that exists in the management models of cities in a traditionally centralist country that is evolving towards an incremental mixed model of metropolitan governance with intergovernmentalism, which causes symbolic power to fall to a regional governor, but that obliges both pacts with the powerful national state agencies and consulting about key plans with the future council of mayors that constitute a metropolitan territory. It is evident that this process implies a path not without difficulties, which aims to strengthen public sector relations, incorporate municipalities into territorial discussions, hold talks with relevant private and academic sector actor,s and involve citizens in metropolitan management.

Drinking Water From a Firehose

Drinking Water From a Firehose

Editorial

On 8 and 9 September 2016, the University of Lucerne and the Hague Conference on International Private Law together organised a scientific conference in Lucerne entitled: Towards a Global Framework for International Commercial Transactions: Implementing the Hague Principles on Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts. On the occasion of this conference, various experts from universities and institutions across the globe analysed and discussed the Hague Principles. The Hague Principles are an innovative legal instrument that was adopted by the Hague Conference at the Council Meeting of 19 March 2015. With these “Principles”, the Hague Conference deviated from its former policy of drafting Conventions in favour of a soft law approach. The Principles present a flexible concept aimed at providing national, regional, and supranational legislators with a model that can serve as a source of inspiration in the creation, further development, or supplementation of relevant legal norms. The Principles are also directed at State courts, arbitral tribunals, and parties involved in international commercial transactions. The relevance of the Principles for future legal development has already been proven, with Paraguay being a first State that has transposed the Principles into its national legislation and additional important jurisdictions, such as Australia, following suit.

Equity Promotion Policies in Health for vulnerable groups: the role of the Ministry of Health.

This article aims to analyze Equity Promotion Policies in Health implemented by the Ministry of Health for vulnerable groups, through the Department of Strategy and Participative Management based on race, ethnicity, gender and lifestyle markers. The three structural elements of these policies are identified as: participatory management, transversality and awareness / professional qualifications. In carrying out research for this article, different documental sources were used including: policies, videos, conferences and minutes from council meetings as well as information from health committees. The results showed positive aspects and shortcomings in the implementation process of these policies. Also, they revealed that there are permanent tensions between equality policies and equity policies which pose challenges to guaranteeing the right to health of these populations. Finally, it can be reaffirmed that only in democratic societies can these rights be recognized and guaranteed.