This publication is aimed at providing practical guidance for performing safety analyses of research reactors. The guidance is based on present good practice worldwide. It covers all the steps required to perform safety analyses, i.e. selection of initiating events and acceptance criteria, rules and conventions, selection of computational tools, and presentation and evaluation of the analysis results. This safety report also discusses various factors that need to be considered to ensure that the more...
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This is the keynote address made by John Marburger, Science Adviser to President Bush, at the OECD “High Level Meeting of the Committee for Scientific and Technological Policy” held in OSLO, Norway on March 4, 2008.
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This report describes UNESCO's contribution to Africa's plan for science and technology. 2007. (PDF, 32 pages.)
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This journal describe many different manual and statistical clustering methods were used to identify the structure of the technical literature (especially the science and technology core competencies), and to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each technique. Each method is summarized, and its results presented.
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'This paper highlights the urgent need to rethink the purpose of higher education to take account of its transformative potential and to redefine quality in higher education accordingly. It calls for a higher education mandate which serves a dual purpose of enhancing both personal and collective well-being, recognising the learner's role as a member of a family, community and society as well as a future worker.
In doing so, it acts as a starting point for exploring a new approach to quality in more...
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'This technical note is the product of a long process of consultation with a wide range of resource persons who have over the years been involved in the Danish support to Community Based Natural Resource Management. It gives a brief introduction to community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) and how this concept may be used as a development strategy. CBNRM has the triple objective of poverty reduction, natural resource conservation and good governance. This note is a contribution to an o more...
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Caroline Wagner is a leading student of international science, with strong interest in science in developing nations. Her website provides a number of papers she has written on those topics with several coauthors.
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