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Policy Brief: Adapting to the changing face of work - Policies to make the most of part-time and temporary work

OECD countries are seeing a trend away from traditional employment towards part-time and temporary work and self-employment. However, there are concerns that part-time and temporary work are contributing to inequality and poverty. Policy needs to focus on ensuring that these "non-traditional" jobs are stepping stones to better jobs, not dead ends.




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OECD LEED Webinar Series on "Local economic resilience and adaptability to long-term challenges" - Part One

The webinars enabled serious discussion on the concept of ‘local economic resilience’ in an informal setting that facilitates interaction and questions. The format featured presentations from policy experts and a roundtable discussion with the audience.




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OECD LEED Webinar Series on "Local economic resilience and adaptability to long-term challenges" - Part Two: Resilience in Practice

The webinars will enable serious discussion on the concept of ‘local economic resilience’ in an informal setting that facilitates interaction and questions. The format will feature presentations from policy experts and a roundtable discussion with the audience.




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A New Initiative: Adapting to Changing Skills Needs

Today the OECD is launching a new project with JP Morgan and Chase Foundation to measure and analyse skills needs in a harmonized way across countries. Experts from various countries and fields of discipline are meeting at the OECD to discuss methodological issues involved in developing a cross-country indicator of skill needs. By informing policy, this new data tool will make strides towards addressing skill shortages.




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Adapting to changing skill needs

The conference on Adapting to changing skill needs was an OECD event supported by the JPMorgan Chase Foundation. This event showcased the OECD Skills for Jobs database, providing detailed information about the skill needs of the labour markets in all EU countries and South Africa.




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OECD Forum on Financing Democracy and Averting Policy Capture

OECD Forum on Financing Democracy and Averting Policy Capture




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OECD LEED Webinar Series on "Local economic resilience and adaptability to long-term challenges" - Part One

The webinars enabled serious discussion on the concept of ‘local economic resilience’ in an informal setting that facilitates interaction and questions. The format featured presentations from policy experts and a roundtable discussion with the audience.




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OECD LEED Webinar Series on "Local economic resilience and adaptability to long-term challenges" - Part Two: Resilience in Practice

The webinars will enable serious discussion on the concept of ‘local economic resilience’ in an informal setting that facilitates interaction and questions. The format will feature presentations from policy experts and a roundtable discussion with the audience.




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Carbon Capture and Long-Term Storage: Analysis of 2010 Survey

This is an analysis of a 2010 survey regarding carbon capture and long-term storage (CCS). It provides information that helps understand the hazards of CO2 sequestration and the risks to human health and environmental safety. It also identifies accident scenarios, including those associated with CO2 capture and compression, storage prior to transport and injection for geological storage.




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Publicis CEO on adapting to digital disruptions in advertising

Sadoun: “This is how I work: I go fast, I take risk, I learn, I correct if it’s not good”





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Heroic Captain Tom Moore will have to wait for his knighthood... as Queen's Honours List postponed

The annual list of awards for celebrities and community heroes - due to be released in June - has fallen victim to Whitehall 'bandwidth' issues as officials are swamped by virus battle.




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Heroic Captain Tom Moore will have to wait for his knighthood... as Queen's Honours List postponed

The annual list of awards for celebrities and community heroes - due to be released in June - has fallen victim to Whitehall 'bandwidth' issues as officials are swamped by virus battle.




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Indian Captive Power Producers ... vs Gujarat Electricity Regulatory ... on 2 March, 2020

1. The present appeal has been filed by Indian Captive Power Producers Association (ICPPA) (Appellant) against the daily order dated 01.02.2019 ("impugned order") passed by the Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission ("Respondent Commission") in Petition No. 1672 of 2017, preferred by the Appellant. Vide the present appeal, the Appellant is seeking necessary directions for expediting the proceedings in Petition No. 1672 of 2017 preferred by the Appellant. Under the aforesaid Petition, the Appellant is seeking amendment of the provisions of the Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission (Terms and Conditions of Intra-State Open Access) Regulations, 2011 ("GERC OA Regulations, 2011") as detailed therein. However, even after a lapse of more than 2 years, the Respondent Commission has failed to hear the Petition on merits, thereby leading to a delay in deciding the said case.




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A few chapters short


The new National Curriculum Framework has put the child firmly at the centre of its proposals. But critics point out that it has overlooked many problems, such as the lack of infrastructure, inadequate teacher training, and continuing social biases. Some provisions have also been attacked as obscurantist. Deepa A reports.




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Dist admin orders probe into KVT Shaptarshi Aarti row




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Microsoft Admits Surface Laptop 3 Develops Mysterious Screen Cracks & Will Repair For Free

Corrective measures are finally in place. At least the repairs will be free, after users have struggled to get the repairs done over the past few months. And if you have already paid for a repair for this issue, you can get a reimbursement.




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Say What! Amazon Prime Video Offers 55 Crores For Yash Starrer KGF Chapter 2’s Digital Rights?

After KGF Chapter 1 emerged the most-viewed Indian movie of 2019 on Amazon Prime Video, the OTT giant is now in talks with the makers for the rights of its second installment. According to a few media reports, Amazon Prime has




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Telegraphy and how to learn it: with brief chapters on elementary science, embracing various kinds of electricity, electrical measurements, thermo-frictional electricity, batteries, magnets and magnetism / by Wilson Frederic

Archives, Room Use Only - TK5264.F74 1901




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Montgomery Ward & Co.'s Complete lessons in telegraphy: with brief chapters on elementary science: embracing various kinds of electricity, electrical measurements, thermofractional electricity, batteries, magnets & magnetism / by Wilson F. Fre

Archives, Room Use Only - TK5262.F74 1901




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Signal tactics: assimilated to the tactics of artillery, cavalry and infantry, prepared for the use of officers and enlisted men of the military and naval forces of the United States and adapted for the use of the National Guards and military academies /

Archives, Room Use Only - UG573.R44 1880




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Handbook of submarine cables: U.S. Signal Corps / prepared under the direction of Brigadier-General A.W. Greely, by Major Edgar Russel, with supplementary chapter on factory testing by Major Samuel Reber, 1905

Archives, Room Use Only - UG607.U55 1905




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The secret corresponding vocabulary: adapted for use to Morse's electro-magnetic telegraph, and also in conducting written correspondence, transmitted by the mails, or otherwise / by Francis O.J. Smith, Esq

Archives, Room Use Only - HE7673.S65 1845




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Signalling: Morse, semaphore station work, despatch riding, telephone cables, map reading / written by an officer of the Regular Army and edited by Captain E.J. Solano

Archives, Room Use Only - UG580.S65 1916




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The Phillips code: a thoroughly tested method of steno-telegraphy arranged for use in wire and radio communication: adaptable to teletype, teletypewriter and telemeter communication services / by Walter P. Phillips

Archives, Room Use Only - HE7669.P55 1945




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Handbook of military signaling / prepared by Captain Howard A. Giddings

Archives, Room Use Only - UG573.G53 1917




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A guide for the electric testing of telegraph cables / by Captain V. Hoskiær

Archives, Room Use Only - TK5671.H67 1873




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The ABC universal commercial electric telegraph code: improved by the addition of a code condenser which enables the user to cable two code words and check them in one word, thus saving 50% of cable charges ... specially adapted for the use of financiers,

Archives, Room Use Only - HE7676.C53 1919




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Stephen King's 'Revival' to get film adaptation




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Crash Course: Steelers rookies adapting to "virtual" path

This isn't quite the way Anthony McFarland expected his NFL career to begin. Pittsburgh's fourth-round draft pick is doing what he can to keep up during the first - and the NFL hopes only - ''virtual'' offseason amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Sure, he'd rather be at the Steelers' practice facility with the rest of the newcomers.




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Microsoft providing free repairs for Surface Laptop 3 screen cracks




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Fatty acid binding proteins appear to guide intestinal adaptation

Response to partial removal of small intestine analyzed.




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Capt. Amarinder Singh promises compensation to farmers for land used by PSTCL to install towers




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Capt Amarinder Singh asks PSAC to focus on agriculture




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Punjab CM mourns death of Group Captain Cheema in aircraft crash




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No movies promoting violence to be allowed in Punjab, says Capt Amarinder




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Ready to give up my life, but won't give Punjab's scarce water resources to other states: Capt Amarinder Singh




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Capt Amarinder asks AG to examine HC orders on Sukhna Lake area constructions




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SAD's criticism of employment generation programme based on flawed data: Capt Amarinder




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More mandis in Punjab to handle procurement due to COVID-19: Capt Amarinder Singh




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Punjab moving towards community transmission as 27 coronavirus patients have no travel history: Capt Amarinder Singh




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Punjab govt to provide PPE kits to cops, announces Capt Amarinder Singh




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150 students stranded in Kota to reach Punjab tomorrow: Captain Amarinder Singh




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Punjab testing up to 2,800 samples daily: Captain Amarinder Singh




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In face of crisis, National Zoo to start captive population of Virginia big-eared bats

The National Zoo has been awarded a grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to establish a captive population of the Virginia big-eared bat at the National Zoo’s Conservation & Research Center near Front Royal, Va. Only 15,000 Virginia big-eared bats remain living in caves in West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky and North Carolina, and these are threatened by the white-nose syndrome.

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Captive colony of Virginia big-eared bats providing valuable lessons in battle against deadly white-nose syndrome

Eleven bats remain in the National Zoo’s colony. The initial challenge the team faced was how to feed the animals. Virginia big-eared bats, which are a subspecies of the Townsend’s big-eared bat (Corynorhinuss townsendii), eat while flying.

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Technology developed for X-ray astronomy is being adapted to study cancer cells

Eric Silver of SAO is pursuing innovative and interdisciplinary uses of his technique for chemical imaging at the cellular level.

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Only large, fast-flying bats can handle life in the big city; small bats can’t adapt

Bats living in the dense urban area of Panama City, the scientists learned, represent just a small fraction of the roughly 25 species of high-flying insectivorous bats found in Panama’s rainforests.

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Dictionary captures traditional ice knowledge of the Inupiaq people of Wales, Alaska

To prevent the loss of Inupiaq words for ice and the knowledge that it embodies, Igor Krupnik, ethnologist at the Arctic Studies Center of the National Museum of Natural History, and Wales native Winton Weyapuk Jr., recently compiled an illustrated dictionary of some 120 Kingikmiut words used in Wales to describe different types of ice.

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New finding may enable scientists to bolster genetic diversity of captive cheetah population

Researchers at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute have discovered why older females are rarely able to reproduce—and hope to use this information to introduce vital […]

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