Joint Public Research Articles

Slovenia ∙ Dynamic Purchasing Systems Proved as Suitable Purchasing Technique for Joint Public Procurement in Two ELENA-funded Projects in Slovenia

Slovenia ∙ Dynamic Purchasing Systems Proved as Suitable Purchasing Technique for Joint Public Procurement in Two ELENA-funded Projects in Slovenia

A Brief History of Public Health Informatics-Lessons for Leaders and a Look Into the Future.

A Brief History of Public Health Informatics-Lessons for Leaders and a Look Into the Future.

9. Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC)

The CEC was created in 1994 under the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC), concluded by Canada, Mexico, and the United States as a side agreement to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). On 1 July 2020, the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) entered into force in the three countries. The Environmental Cooperation Agreement (ECA) took effect upon entry into force of the USMCA. The USMCA and ECA replace NAFTA and NAAEC, respectively, and serve as the new framework agreements for the continuation of the CEC under the modalities previously in place. The CEC’s mission is to facilitate collaboration among the three countries and encourage public participation to foster conservation, protection, and enhancement of the North American environment. The CEC is composed of a Council, Secretariat, and Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC). The Council is composed of cabinet-level environmental officials from each of the ECA Parties. It governs the CEC, defines the strategic priorities for collaborative work, and approves the overall program and budget. The CEC Secretariat is headquartered in Montreal. It is headed by an executive director, who oversees implementation of a cooperative work program on North American environmental matters and the processing of public submissions on enforcement matters. A nine-member JPAC acts as an advisory body to the Council on matters within the scope of the ECA (more information can be found at ˂https://www.cec.org>).

The Rising Importance Of Volunteering To Address Community Emergencies


 
 Understanding the current role volunteerism plays within the field of emergency management, the need for renewed commitment to volunteerism at the municipal level with a joint approach is now only exponentially growing as it is faced with the current issues posed by natural disasters.With the rise of community-implicating emergencies in Canada, particularly evidenced by the recent flooding, forest fires, and the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a growing need for coordination of emergency management. This is true at the federal and provincial levels, with volunteers at the municipal level leveraging their knowledge of their respective communities, their ability to provide situational awareness on local situations and demographics, and their capacity to undertake smaller, less specialized tasks in support of professional emergency management efforts.Through the shared experiences of three emergency first responders within the firefighting and paramedical communities, this article explores community volunteerism within the scope of emergency management, demonstrating its growing importance. It further provides practical recommendations on the expansion of the community and ways that municipalities can continue to support first responders moving forward, seeking to establish the framework for an approach similar to the military approach to the Joint Interagency Multinational and Public (JIMP) environment.
 

The Joint Public Health Impact of Family History of Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease among Adults in the United States: A Population-Based Study

Introduction: Family history is an established risk factor for both cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes; however, no study has presented population-based prevalence estimates of family histories of CVD and diabetes and examined their joint impact on prevalence of diabetes, CVD, cardiometabolic risk factors, and mortality risk. Methods: We analyzed data from a representative sample of the US adult population including 29,440 participants from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2007–2018) and assessed self-reported first-degree family history of diabetes and CVD (premature heart disease before age of 50 years) as well as meeting criteria and/or having risk factors for CVD and diabetes. Results: Participants with joint family history exhibit 6.5 greater odds for having both diseases and are diagnosed with diabetes 6.6 years earlier than participants without family history. Healthy participants without prevalent CVD or diabetes but with joint family history exhibit a greater prevalence of diabetes risk factors compared to no family history counterparts. Joint family history is associated with an increase in all-cause mortality, but with no interactive effect. Conclusion: Over 44% of the US adult population has a family history of CVD and/or diabetes that is comparable in risk to common cardiometabolic risk factors. This wide presence of high-risk family history and its simplicity of ascertainment suggests that clinical and public health efforts should collect and act on joint family history of CVD and diabetes to improve population efforts in the prevention and early detection of these common chronic diseases.

Contesting and reinforcing the future of ‘meat’ through problematization: Analyzing the discourses in regulatory debates around animal cell-cultured meat

This paper draws attention to how ‘problems’ were constructed at the USDA-FDA Joint Public Meeting on Use of Animal Cell Culture Technology in 2018 and the implications of these discursive constructs for the governance of animals in food systems. The findings demonstrate what problems animal cell-cultured meat has been positioned as the solution to, and what problems emerge from this new technology that regulators are expected to respond to. The problem representation and the solutions posed reproduce understandings that normalize and promote high and increasing levels of animal flesh consumption and related intensive uses of animals. With relevance for various academic disciplines, and policy-making and activist communities, this analysis offers insight from a critical animal studies lens into the role discourse plays in the governance of food systems that in turn shape the lives and bodies of animals in this emerging regulatory space.

The Joint Public Relations Committee Series at the Ontario Jewish Archives: Some New Questions

The Association for Canadian Jewish Studies encourages research on the Canadian Jewish experience through the disciplines of political science, sociology, economics, geography, history, demography, education, religion, linguistics, literature, architecture, performing and fine arts, among others.

Introduction: The Promise and Perils of Innovation in Cross-Border Procurement

This is the introductory chapter to a collective volume, Joint Public Procurement and Innovation: Lessons Across Borders (G. M. Racca – C. R. Yukins, eds.) (Bruylant, 2019), vol. 27 of the Administrative Law/Droit Administratif Collection (Director: Jean-Bernard Auby). Innovation is essential for sustainable and inclusive growth in an increasingly globalized economy. To achieve that potential, both the promises and perils of innovation must be investigated, including the risks and opportunities of joint procurement across borders. This in-depth research by a range of procurement experts investigates innovation in public procurement from three different perspectives. First, leading academics and practitioners assess the purchase of innovation, with a particular focus on public contracting for “smart cities,” with a view to meta-infrastructures, public-private partnership arrangements and “smart” contracts. A second line of inquiry looks for ways to encourage innovative suppliers. Here, the collected authors draw on emerging lessons from the United States and Europe, to explore the costs and benefits of spurring innovation through procurement. A third perspective looks to various innovations in the procurement process itself, with a focus on the effects of joint and cross-border procurement in both the European Union and the United States. These chapters review new technologies and platforms, the increasingly automated means of selecting suppliers, and the related efficiencies that “big data” can bring to public procurement. Expanding on research in the editors’ prior volume, Integrity and Efficiency in Sustainable Public Contracts: Balancing Corruption Concerns in Public Procurement Internationally (Bruylant 2014), this volume builds on a series of academic conferences and exchanges to address these issues from sophisticated academic, institutional and practical perspectives, and to point the way to future research on contractual models that are emerging from new procurement technologies. List of contributors: directed by G.M. Racca and C. R. Yukins, this book contains texts by: J.-B. Auby, A. Asatryan, M. Borodina, R. Cavallo Perin, L. Diesing, G.M. Di Giuda, D. Dragos, G.F. Ferrari, L. Folliot- Lalliot, J.M. Gimeno Feliu, M. Ismail, J. Kaufman, C. Kronke, I. Locatelli, P. Magina, P.T. McKeen, A. Mino Lopez, J. Molino, M. Pignatti, S. Ponzio, G.M. Racca, B. Racolța, A. Romeo, C. Santerre-Funderburg, D. Schoeni, M.A. Simovart, P. Valcarcel Fernandez, and C.R. Yukins.

A hallgatói magatartásformák megjelenése és változásának folyamata a Nemzeti Közszolgálati Egyetem „Vírus 2019” Közös Közszolgálati Gyakorlatán

A Nemzeti Közszolgálati Egyetem minden évben megrendezi a Közös Közszolgálati Gyakorlatot a hallgatói számára. A gyakorlat lehetővé tette a szervezeti önkéntes magatartás (OCB) dimenzióinak és az együttműködési készség mérését, melyek elengedhetetlenek a modern közigazgatásban dolgozók számára. A longitudinális kutatás 2019 januárja és májusa között zajlott. A kutatás keretében a gyakorlaton résztvevő teljes hallgatói létszámot vizsgáltuk (886 fő). Az alábbi csoportokat vizsgáltuk: férfi-nő, hivatásos-civil, generációk (X, Y, Z). A kutatás során az OCB dimenziók, az együttműködés és versengés viselkedés mintákat mértük kérdőívek használatával. Az adatokat SPSS 25. verziójával elemeztük ki. Az eredmények nem mutattak szignifikáns eltérést a viselkedés mintázatokban a gyakorlat előtt és alatt, mindazonáltal az eltérések kimutathatóak voltak. A legnagyobb különbséget a generáció között és az OCB „előzékenység” dimenziója esetében mértük.

The Business Model and Innovation Analyses: The Sustainable Transition Obstacles and Drivers for the Hospital Supply Chains

This research aims to discuss the business model themes supported by the innovation regarding the sustainable transition difficulties to promote the hospital supply chains. A model for future applications and empirical analyzes in the health service area is proposed. In the current hospital scenario, the systems are characterized by the individualistic attention of the closed business models, hampering the promotion of the business models, the innovation, and the sustainable transitions as the sustainable supply chain (SSC) enablers. The survey evaluates the private hospital chain in Brazil. The model was evaluated by seven specialists indicated by the main private Brazilian hospitals that are accredited by Joint Commission International and Public Ministry. The discussion presented seeks to advance the observation and the understanding of the relationships among the business models, the innovation, the sustainable transitions, and the sustainable supply chains in the health socioeconomic context through the lens of the service provider, without exhausting these themes separately. The main results are the issues related to the difficulties of sustainable transition to promote the SSC in the hospital context, showing the elements into which the hospitals are inserted and helping to close the gap in the literature on the subject. Sustainable transitions, along with the SSC, present themselves as rich and challenging themes, but are beneficial for conducting dialogues between approaches.

9. Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC)

The CEC was created in 1994 by the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC), concluded by Canada, Mexico, and the United States as a side agreement to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The CEC’s mission is to facilitate collaboration among the three countries and encourage public participation to foster the conservation, protection, and enhancement of the North American environment. The CEC is comprised of a Council, the Secretariat, and the Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC). The Council is composed of cabinet-level environmental officials from each of the NAAEC parties. It governs the CEC, defines the strategic priorities for the collaborative work, and approves the overall program and budget. The CEC Secretariat is headquartered in Montreal and has a liaison office in Mexico City. It is headed by an executive director, who oversees the implementation of a cooperative work program on various North American environmental matters, and the processing of public submissions on enforcement matters (SEM). A fifteen-member JPAC acts as an advisory body to the Council on any matter within the scope of the NAAEC (more information can be found at ˂http://www.cec.org˃).

Pseudomonas Infection of the Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ) Health and Public Health Issues

Abstract The authors describe a case of a rare infectious disease of intra-articular tissues of the temporomandibular joint caused mainly by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. In scientific literature, under the heading invasive (malignant) external otitis, we can find cases of an infectious disease of the external acoustic meatus caused by a microbial agent of Pseudomonas aeruginosa which can subsequently penetrate into structures. However, a primary affliction of the abovementioned structures has not been described. Localisation and severity of the infection requires long-term and massive treatment with antibiotics.

9. Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC)

The CEC was created in 1994 by the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC), concluded by Canada, Mexico, and the United States as a side agreement to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The CEC’s mission is to facilitate collaboration among the three countries and encourage public participation to foster conservation, protection, and enhancement of the North American environment. The CEC is comprised of a Council, the Secretariat, and the Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC). The Council is composed of cabinet-level environmental officials from each of the NAAEC parties; the Secretariat, headed by an executive director, implements a cooperative work program on various North American environmental matters; and JPAC is a fifteen-member advisory body to the Council. On 27–8 June, the Council held its twenty-fourth regular session, with this year’s focus on innovation for clean growth with a focus on North American youth. To mark Canada’s 150th anniversary, the 2017 CEC Council session took place in the birthplace of Canadian Confederation—Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. The Council issued a call for proposals through the community grant (NAPECA) program; announced the winners of the CEC Youth Innovation Challenge; consolidated its engagement with the Roster of Experts on Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK); and approved cooperative work projects. The United States agreed to chair the CEC Council for the coming year and announced that it will host the 2018 CEC Council Session in Oklahoma City.

9. Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC)

The CEC was created in 1994 by the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC), which was concluded by Canada, Mexico, and the United States as a side agreement to the North American Free Trade Agreement. The CEC’s mission is to facilitate collaboration and public participation to foster conservation, protection, and enhancement of the North American environment. The CEC is comprised of a council, the Secretariat, and the Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC). The council is composed of Cabinet-level environmental officials from each of the NAAEC parties and governs the CEC, approving the overall program and budget and implementing the NAAEC. The CEC Secretariat is headquartered in Montreal and has a liaison office in Mexico City. It is headed by an executive director, who oversees a co-operative work program on various North American environmental matters, the development of independent Secretariat reports on North American environmental issues, and the processing of public submissions on enforcement matters (SEM). A fifteen-member JPAC acts as an advisory body to the council on any matter within the scope of the NAAEC. In December, the council appointed the new executive director, César Rafael Chávez, for a period of three years, starting in January 2016 (more information can be found at < http://www.cec.org>).

9. Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC)

The CEC was created in 1994 under the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC), which was concluded by Canada, Mexico, and the United States as a side agreement to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The CEC’s mission is to facilitate collaboration and public participation to foster conservation, protection, and enhancement of the North American environment. A Council composed of Cabinet-level environmental officials from each of the NAAEC parties governs the CEC; oversees the implementation of the agreement, and oversees the CEC Secretariat. A fifteen-member Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC) acts as an independent advisory body to the Council on any matter within the scope of the agreement. The CEC Secretariat is headquartered in Montreal and has a liaison office in Mexico City. It is headed by an executive director who oversees programs fostering co-operation on various North American environmental matters; the development of independent Secretariat reports on North American environmental issues; and a unit that processes citizen submissions on enforcement matters (SEM) (more information at <http://www.cec.org>).

9. Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC)

The CEC was created in 1994 by the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC), concluded by Canada, Mexico, and the United States as a side agreement to the North American Free Trade Agreement. The CEC’s mission is to facilitate collaboration and public participation to foster conservation, protection, and enhancement of the North American environment. A council composed of ministerial-level environmental officials from each of the NAAEC parties governs the CEC, approving the overall program and budget and overseeing the CEC Secretariat and the implementation of the NAAEC. A fifteen-member Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC) acts as an advisory body to the council on any matter within the scope of the agreement. The CEC Secretariat is headquartered in Montreal and has a liaison office in Mexico City. It is headed by an executive director who oversees a cooperative work program on various North American environmental matters, the development of...

"Das Tauffest haben wir als etwas ganz Besonderes erlebt" - Einsichten aus einer empirischen Studie zum Kasseler Tauffest (2012)

Abstract “To us the Celebration was Something Very Special”: Insights on an Empirical Study on the Joint Public Baptism Celebration of the Protestant Church in the City of Kassel. Lately a new practice of regional churches has developed: celebrating the joint baptism of a number children / adults in the open air feasting together afterwards. The authors show that this practice supports a number of dimensions of baptism which are experienced more intensely than in the usual congregational practices.

9. Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC)

The CEC was created in 1994 under the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC), which was concluded by Canada, Mexico, and the United States as a side agreement to the North American Free Trade Agreement. The CEC’s mission is to facilitate collaboration and public participation to foster conservation, protection, and enhancement of the North American environment for the benefit of present and future generations. A Council composed of Cabinet-level environmental officials from each of the NAAEC parties governs the CEC, oversees the implementation of the agreement, and oversees the CEC Secretariat, while a fifteen-member Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC) acts as an independent advisory body to the Council on any matter within the scope of the agreement. The CEC Secretariat is headquartered in Montreal and has a liaison office in Mexico City. It is headed by an executive director who oversees programs fostering co-operation on various North American environmental matters, the development of independent Secretariat reports on North American environmental issues, and a unit that processes citizen submissions on enforcement matters (SEM process). On 26 October, the Council appointed Irasema Coronado as the seventh executive director of the CEC Secretariat. The new director began a three-year term on 1 December. Coronado was formerly a JPAC member appointed in May 2010 by President Barack Obama and served as JPAC chair in 2011 (more information is available at <http://www.cec.org>).

Finding Balance between Human Need and Global Stewardship

Finding Balance between Human Need and Global Stewardship

9. Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC)

The CEC was created in 1994 under the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC), which was concluded by Canada, Mexico, and the United States as a side agreement to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The CEC’s mission is to facilitate collaboration and public participation to foster conservation, protection, and enhancement of the North American environment. A Council composed of ministerial-level environmental officials from each of the three parties to the agreement governs the CEC, oversees the implementation of the agreement, and oversees the CEC Secretariat. A fifteen-member Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC) acts as an independent advisory body to the Council on any matter within the scope of the agreement. The CEC Secretariat is headquartered in Montreal and has a liaison office in Mexico City. It is headed by an executive director who oversees programs fostering co-operation on various North American environmental matters, a unit that...