Provincial Branch Research Articles

The organization of provincial control bodies in 1920-1922: based on the materials of the Kursk region

Relevance. In modern conditions, the main directions of reforming control (supervisory) activities are to increase its efficiency and effectiveness, reduce the administrative burden on enterprises and entrepreneurs. The improvement of control (supervisory) activities remains relevant in the context of increased external sanctions pressure. At the same time, the history of the control system, which extended to all types and forms of public administration and economic activity, remains poorly understood in terms of existing regional experience. The study of the formation of control bodies in the Soviet state is of particular practical interest, since it allows accumulating achievements and mistakes of the past, thereby setting benchmarks in the present.Purpose. The study of the experience of organizing socialist control bodies in 1920-1922 on the example of the Kursk provincial branch of the Workers' and Peasants' Inspection.The objectives of the article follow from the set goal and consist in investigating the conditions and methods of work of the Kursk provincial department of the Workers' and Peasants' Inspection during the designated period.Methodology. During the research of the designated topic, the author used both general scientific methods of cognition, such as analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, and special historical methods: problem-chronological, comparative historical.Results. The study of the working conditions of the Kursk provincial department of the Workers' and Peasants' Inspection in the designated period allowed, in historical retrospect, to determine the specifics of the methods used by it, as well as to establish the reasons for the subsequent reforms.Conclusion. The basis for the unification of party and Soviet state control was the analysis of the provincial experience of the RKI in 1920-1922. A significant obstacle to the broader development of both organizational and auditing activities of the Kursk Provincial Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the period under study was the insufficient number and low level of their training.

Activities of the Kursk Provincial Branch of the Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate to Identify and Suppress Crimes in State Institutions: 1921-1923

Activities of the Kursk Provincial Branch of the Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate to Identify and Suppress Crimes in State Institutions: 1921-1923

The occupational distribution of foundling apprentices during the English Industrial Revolution

ABSTRACT This article presents a new analysis of the distribution of apprenticeships brokered by the London Foundling Hospital, England’s pre-eminent charitable foundation in the eighteenth century for orphaned and abandoned children. It explores the similarities and differences between charity apprenticeship and parish apprenticeship systems in supplying pauper children’s labour during the critical first phase of the English Industrial Revolution, within a wider European context. The results of this analysis illustrate that foundling children were set to work in agriculture, mainly in northern England, and in a variety of small manufacturing and retailing industries in the London area. For a short time, foundling girls were sent in batches to work in textile factories in the North and Midlands, but this practice was soon ended over concerns for children’s welfare. The extensive patronage networks of Foundling Hospital Governors and inspectors, the location of provincial branch hospitals set up to cope with the high volume of so-called ‘General Reception’ children, and gendered expectations of the life courses of the labouring poor were the most significant factors in determining where foundling children were sent as apprentices, and how they were employed.

Factors Influencing the Online Learning Success of Adults in Open and Distance Education in Southwest China

This study aims to identify the factors that influence adult learners’ perceived satisfaction, continued use, and benefits of online learning to seek ways to promote adult learners’ success in online learning. The study integrated multiple theoretical frameworks, including the Information System Success (ISS) Model, Expectation Confirmation Model for Information Systems Continuance (ECM-ISC), Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), and Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) to develop a theory of Online Learning (OL) success for adults. The proposed model emphasizes the utilization of technology to enhance pedagogical practices for the delivery of online content. A total of 675 adult learners were randomly selected from five learning centres at a provincial branch of the Open University of China in Southwest China. This quantitative research study utilized Partial Least Squares-Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) for data analysis. Analysis of the results indicated that TPACK’s impact was more clearly perceived by the adult learners in this study. Further study needs to expand the scope of this investigation and verify the effectiveness and reliability of the model. The model of adult online learning success in Southwest China is the first integrated model combining TPACK theory with the Information System Success (ISS) Model, Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), and Expectation Confirmation Model (ECM). Future studies should explore teacher and administrator perspectives to determine the success factors of adult online learning from a multi-faceted approach.

A Geopolitical Study on the New Provincial Hospital during the Period of Governor-General Saito.

This study examines the characteristics of fifteen Jahye hospitals and provincial hospitals which were established or relocated during Governor-General Saito's regime. The purpose of this study is to analyze these hospitals by connecting them to the directions of Japanese colonial policies, the political beliefs of the governor-general, and their necessity by the local people. The period of expansion of provincial hospitals was divided in to three different periods. The periods are divided as follows: the first appointment of Saito as the governor-general, the period when Jahye hospitals turned into provincial hospitals, and when Saito got reappointed as the governor-general. It analyzes the natural and human geographical environment of each region where Jahye and the provincial hospitals were organized. Based on this analysis, it investigates the geopolitical features of Jahye and provincial hospitals which were established on the Governor-General Saito era. First, the areas that the Joseon Governor-General was interested in establishing Jahye and the provincial hospitals were military points useful for keeping Russia in check and managing the Manchurian region. In addition, those areas were rich in resources needed by Japan and transportation centers which were useful for the collection and distribution of goods. Second, the regions where provincial hospitals were built were rice-producing areas and leading export ports which were related to the rice production growth plan in the early 1920s. Also, the region's own economic power was able to run the hospitals. Third, at the stage of deciding to install a new provincial hospital, there were conflicts due to concerns over the deterioration of the status of nearby areas and existing regions and the difficulty of operating provincial hospitals. Fourth, each provincial hospital was divided into independent provincial hospitals, provincial branch members, provincial branch offices, etc. according to the region's size and population. Among them, some provincial branch members and provincial branch offices were promoted to independent hospitals due to the development and expansion of the region and the increase in the number of patients who used the hospitals. Also, it was revealed that in the process of expanding a city, some regional hospitals were turned into provincial hospitals. In conclusion, the provincial hospitals which were newly built in during the Governor-General Saito era were established in military and economically useful areas for the Japanese colonial rule. Also, transportation facilities such as railroads were installed in the areas, and this lead to concentration of infrastructure and industrial facilities such as companies and factories, which in turn made possible the increase of population, especially the population of Japanese people.

Tymczasowy Zarząd Państwowy jako ośrodek legalizacji pobytu żołnierzy konspiracji niepodległościowej z Podokręgu AK Rzeszów na terenie Górnego Śląska

The article is an attempt to show how and with the participation of which people the smuggling operation to the areas of Upper Silesia was carried out in 1945. Its main organizer was Łukasz Ciepliński, and the persons responsible for its smooth running in Rzeszów, Adam Lazarowicz, and in Katowice Józef Rzepka. The legalization of the stay of the Home Army soldiers escaping from the NKVD and UB would not have been possible without the participation of two graduates of the Faculty of the Jan Kazimierz University in Lviv and, at the same time, officers of the Rzeszów Home Army intelligence, Józef Kokoszka and Władysław Pałka, who, as heads of the provincial branch of the Provisional State Board (“TZP”) in Katowice, were able to find in field offices of the TZP employing practically all those in need, at least several dozen people.

Educational Leadership: Characterization of Emerging Practices

By following the evolution of situated practices and concepts of educational leadership, the transformation of the Regional Centers for the Professions of Education and Training in Morocco, from a local management mode to a regional management mode, has inspired us to characterize the new style of leadership practiced within these centers. For this, we took a sample of the Center of the Casablanca-Settat Region as a megalopolis. The eleven other centers in Morocco have the same institutional framework and the same regional operating logic. To collect data characterizing the leadership practiced in terms of building the center’s commitments on a vision and values, we targeted the management and teachers, as the main actors of this leadership, through an online questionnaire. To validate certain information, we used the center’s database. In terms of our work, we ended up with a form of leadership, which we called “satellite leadership”, allowing each annex or provincial branch—of a Regional Centers for the Professions of Education and Training—to develop its local leadership while evolving with the changing orbit of regional leadership. This new configuration allows us to conclude on the possibility of carrying this style of educational leadership, at the national or international level, on any educational structure bringing together sub-structures grouped.

The practice of partnerships: A case study of the Disabled Children’s Action Group, South Africa

Background: Children with disabilities stand to gain from an array of services and interventions to support their development. However, relationships between parents of children with disabilities and professionals can be fraught, with the potential that professionals undermine the role of parents and overlook their agency.Aim: The aim of this study was to examine the nature of partnerships between parents of children with disabilities and professionals in the Early Childhood Development (ECD) sector, and the influences that shape partnerships within a particular context.Setting: This article documents the experiences of parents of children with disabilities from a national organisation, in respect of their partnerships with professionals.Methods: The research was a qualitative case study of a national organisation of parents of disabled children, the Disabled Children’s Action Group (DICAG), that has engaged in many different partnerships within different provinces of South Africa. Data generation techniques were document analysis and focus group discussion with staff and provincial branch members of the national DICAG office in Cape Town.Results: The findings of the study provide a nuanced and contextually situated understanding of the complexity of parent–professional partnerships in the disability sector. A key issue that emerges is that to recognise and disrupt pervasive dominant discourses and their potential to weaken partnerships, professionals need to critically attune themselves to the situated experiences of those whom they seek to support.Conclusion: The findings suggest that there is a need for a rights-based social justice agenda to underpin parent–professional relationships, to address the power dynamics and pervasive discourses that oppress the parent actors.

Samara landowner and liberal Georgy Nikolaevich Kostromitinov

Based on the analysis of archival documents, periodicals, memoirs the paper reconstructs the biography of an outstanding political figure - a member of the constitutional democratic party, one of the organizers of the provincial branch of the cadet party in the Samara province, deputy of the 1st State Duma G.N. Kostromitinov. The authors have defined stages of his life and work as well as the main directions of his economic activity. The authors also emphasize the importance of G.N. Kostromitinovs participation in the work of Zemstvo institutions. It contributed to the development of his political views and had a significant impact on development of the Samara nobleman as a prominent regional public figure. During the revolutionary events of 1905, he became one of the leaders of the Samara cadets, which led to the election of G.N. Kostromitinov to the 1st State Duma. The authors have recreated the process of the constitutional democratic party branch establishment in the Samara province, G.N. Kostromitinovs place and role in the leadership and activities of the Samara branch of the party of the cadets. The authors have also established his relationships with the provincial leaders A.A. Chemodurov and A.N. Naumov. The paper presents biographical data about G.N. Kostromitinovs son - M.G. Kostromitinov before and after the Great Russian revolution and Civil war, it also considers his tragic death during Stalins repressions. The results can serve as a basis for further reconstruction of the socio-political portrait of the Russian nobility.

History of the Montpellier Society of Biology

The provincial branch of Montpellier was officially created in April, 1956, that is to say if the gestation was long since the birth of the Society of Biology of Paris in 1848. During this long period, famous personalities of Montpellier in the field of biology and physiology came to Paris to present their work, published in the "Comptes Rendus des Séances de la Société de Biologie et de ses Filiales". Following its creation as a 1901 law public association, the provincial branch organized communication sessions, followed by thematic meetings on various topics, always in the spirit of Claude Bernard on the transversality of knowledge. Through the visit of a portrait gallery of famous personalities, the main lines of the life of this provincial branch of Montpellier will be presented.

The Application of Saving Energy and Reducing Consumption System in an Electric Power Group

This paper is on the basis of energy-consumption analyses and indicators competition system of a provincial branch electric power group, introduced how to integrate the existing power plant isolated SIS information and promote the economic operational level reached a new standard by indicators competition between units. Firstly, the paper introduced the overall network deployment of the system and the function and configuration of servers; secondly, compared with past SIS system, introduced some of the functional improvement project under the charge of electric power group; finally analyzed and prospected the application of this system.

‘The nice culture and the good behaviour’ state media and ethnic minorities in Lào Cai province, Vietnam

In the northern highlands of Vietnam, a very specific official vision of culture is at the core of the modernisation projects of Vietnam Television VTV5 (Đài Truyền hình Việt Nam), a channel dedicated to educating ethnic minorities, and of the Lào Cai provincial branch of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST, Bộ Văn hóa, Thể thao và Du lịch). These two state institutions jointly organise film screenings – for instance condemning the production and consumption of opium and heroin – in remote villages where they intend to modify cultural practices. These state social actors also produce films that represent what are deemed exemplary minority traditions for public consumption. Our observations of these media processes lead us to suggest that the subjects of these exogenous initiatives are adjusting strategically, activating patterns of quiet resistance to maintain their identities and subvert marginalisation.

L’Invention d’un Système Monétaire National: Banques d’Émission, Supervision Bancaire et Développement Financier en Belgique 1822-1872 (The Invention of a National Monetary System: Banks of Issue, Banking Supervision, and Financial Development in Belgium 1822-1872)

In most 19th-century centralized states, national monetary unification has been attained thanks to the creation of provincial branch networks by banks of issue. Through a case study on Belgium, this paper investigates the causes and consequences of this phenomenon, as well as its operational implications. It shows that political pressure – aimed at reducing credit rationing, and hence at fostering economic development – was a key factor in pushing reluctant central bankers to extend their operations outside domestic financial centers. The success of monetary unification crucially depended on the incentive structure embedded in the implemented supervisory policies – aimed at reducing risk-taking in the provinces.

What My 1-Year-Old Son Has Taught Me about Pharmacist Practice

JCPH – Vol. 64, n 3 – mai–juin 2011 232 my crawling son somehow got the remote control off the couch by pulling a pillow toward him, I knew my world would never be the same . . . outsmarted by a 9-month-old! Change can come quickly, and sometimes we just need to roll with it. Although we cannot anticipate everything, we can and must quickly adapt to the new opportunities and challenges that present themselves. We need to build relationships, grow, learn, develop, adapt, share, take some small steps, fall, take some big leaps, embrace the little things, and remember to have fun. When I look into my son’s eyes, I dream of a world of opportunities for him. Today, I also see opportunities for our profession that are within our grasp. We can make a difference, one Society, one provincial Branch, one pharmacy department, and one pharmacist at a time. I can only imagine where we will be in another 10 years. It has been an absolute pleasure serving as a CSHP presidential officer for the past 3 years. I will forever cherish the memories and the new friendships that I’ve gained through this position, just as I treasure the experience of becoming a new dad. Cheers!

Efficiency measurement and decomposition for the Chinese state-owned commercial banks at the provincial level

This study adopts a bank production function approach to the measurement of efficiency of the Chinese state-owned commercial banking groups at the provincial level from 1998 to 2003. Applying Data Envelopment Analysis and efficiency decomposition analysis, this paper for the first time presents detailed empirical evidence on the technical efficiencies of the Chinese state-owned commercial banks across both the provinces and banking groups. The empirical evidence has revealed limited effects of the banking reform programmes and highlighted the need to encourage spatial competition and corporate governance reform across Chinese provinces and to take differential strategies to further improve operational efficiency at the provincial branch level.

Changes of the system of postoperative care decreases mortality in a surgical unit

In 2005, 10 public health care institutions functioned in the area of Lodz, having in their structure a surgical unit classified as a general surgery unit. They were three university teaching hospitals, three provincial hospitals, three county hospitals and one departmental hospital. Mortality in university teaching hospitals having 167 beds was 1.25%, in provincial hospitals with 191 beds was 2.96%, and in county hospitals with 140 beds was 3.98%. The lowest percentage mortality was noted in the surgical unit of Bolesuaw Szarecki University Teaching Hospital No. 5 in Lodz (UH No. 5) and it was 0.35%. The authors decided to analyse the causes of such low mortality in this hospital. Two remaining university teaching hospitals, N. Barlicki University Teaching Hospital No. 1 in Lodz (UH No. 1) and WAM University Teaching Hospital No. 2 in Lodz (UH No. 2), were selected for comparative analysis. The selection was dictated by a few reasons. The Medical University in Lodz is the founding body of all hospitals subjected to analysis. These hospitals are only a few kilometres away from each other. The units have a similar number of beds, and well-educated medical and nursing staff. Heads of the hospital departments have all been awarded a professorship. Health benefits are provided on the basis of the same list of benefits as part of contract with the same payer – Lodz Provincial Branch of the National Health Fund.

Enough Arguments About Models of Development

A krai-level organization for the Our Home Is Russia movement has recently been established in Krasnodar Krai. This event undoubtedly had major political importance, and not just at the level of the Kuban. It also gave me serious cause to consider what lies ahead for us in the near future and whether, perhaps, the time has come when we can realistically hope to escape all the misfortunes we know so well. I joined the new movement and even agreed to head the krai organization, but not by any means out of a "call of duty." I am convinced that this is not simply another "provincial branch" of yet another capital-city party. The realities of recent years have shown that none of the pocket-sized and even smaller parties can solve the problems that face us as citizens of our country. People are waiting for things to happen. They are waiting for speculative arguments over this or that model of social development to be replaced by the creation of a normal human life.

CASTICISMO AND THE MUSIC OF FEDERICO MORENO TORROBA

Throughout his career, Federico Moreno Torroba (1891-1982) prided himself as a composer who was faithful to the musical traditions of his native country. He studied folk music, honored compatriot masters who had gone before, and as a composer cultivated primarily genres which were clearly Hispanic: zarzuela and guitar music. Torroba represented a provincial branch of twentieth-century Spanish music. He seldom ventured into Impressionism or polytonality as did de Falla and never embraced serialism as did Gerhard. Torroba believed the route to casticismo, the route to self-knowledge and realization as a Spanish composer, was not aided by forays into foreign compositional techniques. Born in Madrid in 1891, Torroba came of age in the wake of the Generation of 98. Unamuno's essays of 1895, En torno al casticismo, had articulated the cultural crisis that had befallen Spain.1 The salvation of Spanish culture would be the process of rediscovering what it meant to be Spanish. Beneath centuries of foreign influences and the decadence of successive ineffectual regimes, lay the intra-historia of Spain. True casticismo was understood as fidelity to what was believed to be essentially Spanish, and in particular, Castilian. Undoubtedly, Torroba