Although RGF manufactures air, food, and water purification systems, the company’s primary focus for this year’s Expo is air, especially given the recent increase in IAQ awareness.

At a booth thick with traffic at the AHR Expo’s, commercial product manager Schlegel talked about Johnson Controls’ new YORK Sun Choice rooftop unit.

In times of trouble, cowards choose the easiest path. It is only the courageous—and almost always those who are most marginalized—who dare to say and do the hard, but right, thing.

Here we are, at the end of 2021, which was extremely intense for all of us. This year will be remembered for many things, but if you ask me, the most impressive was the global loss of common sense, sadly,... Read more

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Resolution 58 - (Rev. Geneva, 2022) - Encouraging the creation of national computer incident response teams, particularly for developing countries

Oklahoma's State Insurance Department initiates a grant program in 2025 to incentivize fortified roof installations, offering 10-15% offsets.

Dr. Jessica Shepherd, Assistant Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Illinois College of Medicine explains why the FDA discourages use of a laparoscopic surgery for hysterectomies and removal of uterine fibroids.

The Assyrian Wizard: Youra Eshaya Pera

Enuma Elish - A modern creation myth for courage and renewal

A Man Before His Time: The Unsung Story of Freydun Atouraya

InPost Group has reported a strong quarter with notable improvements across sales, profitability and free cash flow generation.

Former President Barack Obama encouraged coders to join the Biden administration's artificial intelligence team.

It's a fact of life that people grapple with discouragement, despair, and depression. There are many causes of discouragement. How can we deal with it?

It's a fact of life that people grapple with discouragement, despair, and depression. There are many causes of discouragement. How can we deal with it?

A calmer, more measured set than fans of the man’s music might be expecting.

“The Steps to a Well Bermuda survey is crucial for us to better understand and improve the health of our community, and we need those who have been selected to participate to please do so,” said Minister of Health, Kim Wilson. “In partnership with the Pan American Health Organization, this survey will give us a […]

[Written by Stephen Wright] Bermudian motorcycle racer Aeziah Divine said he has taken plenty of positives from his debut for British development team Microlise Cresswell Racing in the R&G British Talent Cup first round at the Circuito de Navarra in Spain last weekend. Competing in the Moto3 class, Divine qualified in 26th position before finishing […]

[Written by Stephen Wright] Jason North, the Bermuda Karting Club president, said he would like to turn the Lindo’s Doubleheader Race Weekend into an annual event. The inaugural two-day competition was held at the Bermuda Motorsports Park in Southside, St David’s, last weekend, and despite the final day being affected by wet and windy weather, […]

Een maand niet klaarkomen, is dat écht gezond: uroloog over de ‘No Nut November’-challenge  Provinciale Zeeuwse CourantHele verhaal bekijken via Google Nieuws

Voting registration rates among Princeton undergraduate and graduate students have more than doubled largely thanks to the program.

The Russian president says he was impressed by Trump's reaction to the first assassination attempt against him.

A new children's book transforms a sad, scared and anxious little boy into a superhero. The book is called "Cape," in honor of the bright-red cape the little boy wears and finds comfort in following the death of his father. "Cape" is Kevin Johnson's debut picture book, and it's vividly illustrated by artist Kitt Thomas.

Every year, educators worry about “summer slide,” the potential for learning loss when children are not in school. This issue is more pronounced among low-income families who don’t have access to summer camps or other enrichment activities. One way to battle summer slide is through reading for fun, which is associated with many academic and health benefits, including strengthening the brain, increasing ability to empathize, reducing stress and building vocabulary.

The Verge's roundup of smart rings seems representative of a general consensus: Oura is just ahead of the game when it comes to these inconspicious gadgets. The competition is either too rough in one repect or another, be it software, syncing or the basic credibility of measurements, and the best is a model from Samsung that requires other Samsung stuff to work right. — Read the rest

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Diagnosing social behavioural dynamics of corruption Other resource dora.popova 8 December 2021

This interactive toolkit identifies the types of social expectations which sustain selected corrupt practices and provides behaviourally-informed recommendations for changing them.

When tackling a problem as complex as corruption, it is important to understand why and how people behave in different situations where corruption occurs. In contexts where it is easier to engage in corruption than avoid it, identifying the social expectations and informal rules which sustain corrupt practices can advance corruption prevention and deepen collective action.  

Behavioural approaches to corruption offer a better understanding of diverse social settings, group dynamics, power distribution, social motivations, and expectations that contribute to a more tolerant environment for certain forms of the phenomenon. They are also highly complementary to traditional corruption measures, which tend to focus on the enforcement of legal sanctions and deterrents. Behavioural approaches, especially those inspired by social norms theory, highlight complex social characteristics and informal rules of specific corrupt practices, and effectively support implementation of more dynamic context-specific anti-corruption interventions.

Since 2016, the Chatham House Africa programme’s Social Norms and Accountable Governance (SNAG) project has adopted a behavioural approach based on social norms methodology to investigate the social beliefs which motivate different forms of corruption. Drawing on the project’s extensive evidence-gathering and analysis, this toolkit offers users navigable behavioural mapping of contextual factors, beliefs, and expectations surrounding common corrupt practices. 

It aims to support anti-corruption actors in diagnosing informal rules and social expectations which sustain corruption in some societies. It also proposes behavioural-informed guidance for developing or adapting anti-corruption interventions and activities, so they account for informal rules of behaviour such as social norms. 
 
The toolkit supports users to:

• Identify whether and how widespread corrupt practices are motivated by social beliefs and expectations.

• Understand how society influences the types of corrupt activity individuals engage in, or avoid, and the factors informing these choices

• Integrate empirical evidence and behavioural insights into anti-corruption strategies from diagnostics to design, and eventual implementation and evaluation

The toolkit presents evidence from SNAG’s research into three key corrupt practices – bribery, embezzlement, and electoral fraud. Each was examined in the context of typical situations in which they occur, such as law enforcement, healthcare, the power sector, voting, and education while critical factors such as religion, gender, and ethnicity were considered. 

The toolkit presents an overview of specific contexts and behavioural features of the practices and provides behavioural-informed recommendations. It also contains pop-up features with definitions and explanations of key concepts. The toolkit is designed to be expandable, allowing further content and behavioural dynamics to be added.   

A 55-year-old vaccine conspiracy theorist and COVID-19 denier convicted of encouraging violence over Britain's handling of the pandemic was sentenced Monday to five years' imprisonment.

Hospice Northwest Services is inviting people to visit its third annual photography exhibit, "A Personal Lens on Grief." Here's what the project in Thunder Bay, Ont., entails, and why staff say it's important to find creative ways to express loss.

A recent study out of the University of Calgary estimates that more than 10 million Canadians are being exposed to high levels of radon, an odourless, tasteless radioactive gas that is the second leading cause of lung cancer in the country.

Extensive automation of time-consuming tasks gives designers fast, accurate tools for testing their ideas

To present the true meaning of Christmas, OM Ireland’s creative arts team performs a multimedia production in schools, churches and community centres around Ireland.

Brandy and her daughter Alexia (USA) went to Ireland for a two-week outreach and left impacted just as much as they'd impacted others.

After listening to the Gospel a self-proclaimed atheist encouraged Christians to go tell others this Good News.

As OM teams spread out across Pakistan, they witness God’s work in people's lives through encouragement, prayer and God’s Word.

OM runs centers in different parts of the country to teach sewing skills to trainees. This provides an opportunity for women's growth in the community.

A 20-year-old man, who suffered from addictions and domestic violence, accepted Christ into his life during the OM Mexico July outreach in Huatulco, Oaxaca.

A Crimean Tatar man shares how he gained courage and learnt vital truths through reading Into the Den of the Infidels, produced by OM EAST.

A group of Costa Ricans visit a local church in an indigenous region of the country and bring encouragement by serving.

How can you teach students to distinguish right from wrong when they see others violate moral standards shamelessly? Eminent psychologist Albert Bandura explains the perils of moral disengagement.

How to show homework isn't punishment and other effective ways to build a growth-mindset class culture during distance learning, according to research.

Since the rebirth of the OM Poliçan team in September 2010, much has been happening in and through Nicole, Liliana, Helio and Lynnette in this small, rural town in Albania.

Alumnus Pablo Lopez works to give back to Penn State and State College through his role as film production manager for the Happy Valley Adventure Bureau.

A workshop by the OM team in Córdoba, Argentina gave 25 women new insights on coping with poverty and domestic violence.

Encouragement and honesty help a local believer persevere through difficult times.

Young people in Bangladesh learn to combine sport with their love for God, and one programme participant explains his enthusiasm for the experience.