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GACD: scaling-up of evidence-based interventions at the population level for the prevention and/or management of hypertension and/or diabetes
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Call focus: Implementation research and scale-up
Regional focus: Low and middle-income countries
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- Common indicators
- Annual network meetings
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The Medical Research Council and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), in partnership with the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD) is seeking to generate new knowledge on interventions and their implementation for the prevention or management of hypertension and/or diabetes.
The call will support research associated with the scale-up of interventions for the prevention, and/or detection and management of hypertension and/or diabetes in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). Collectively, the MRC and NIHR will invest up to £6 million for this initiative. This amount is expected to fund several awards.
Proposals to this initiative cannot be submitted via JeS and must instead be submitted to the GACD portal which can be found via the GACD website.
Applications must be submitted by 16:00 GMT+1 on Monday 10 September 2018.
This request for applications is issued under the auspices of the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD). Members of the GACD include:
- Argentina's Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation
- Australian National Health and Medical Research Council
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
- Research and Innovation Directorate General of the European Commission
- Indian Council of Medical Research
- National Institutes of Health in the United States of America
- UK Medical Research Council
- São Paulo Research Foundation
- South African Medical Research Council
- Mexico's National Institutes of Health
- Thailand's Health System Research Institute
- Japan's Agency for Medical Research and Development
- New Zealand Health Research Council.
The following principles of the GACD are reflected in this request for applications:
- committed to improving health gains while reducing health disparities in LMICs
- focused on research topics where the need for evidence to inform policy, programmes and practice is most urgent
- pursuing knowledge translation and exchange approaches that are designed to maximise the public health benefits of research findings
- identifying common approaches for implementation, integration and scaling up within different health systems.
It is expected that learning from individual projects will provide evidence that will support local decision making. Cumulative learning across funded projects is expected to provide a basis for evidence-informed recommendations for national and international organisations.
To learn more about the GACD, please visit the GACD website.
With the burden of chronic non-communicable diseases rapidly increasing, the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD) is launching a call for proposals with a focus on implementation research which examines interventions that aim to prevent and/or manage hypertension and diabetes in LMICs as defined in the DAC list of ODA recipients.
Through the launch of a global call, the GACD aims to develop a global network of researchers that can enhance the cumulative learning across the individual projects and work towards understanding how socio-economic, cultural, geopolitical and policy contexts have influenced results and how findings might be adapted and applied in different settings.
The funded researchers will form part of a network who will meet annually to discuss their research and share information in order to develop approaches, standardise data collection, and wherever feasible to use these standardised approaches in their respective projects.
To learn more about the GACD, please visit the GACD website.
The GACD call will support research associated with the scale-up of interventions for the prevention, or detection and management of hypertension and/or diabetes in LMICs. Both hypertension and diabetes contribute to the growing global pandemic of cardiovascular disease and stroke, which accounts for approximately 18 million deaths a year, nearly one-third of total deaths.
Hypertension affects one billion people worldwide and is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease and stroke. Currently it is estimated that raised blood pressure indirectly kills approximately 8 million people every year. Not only is hypertension more prevalent in LMICs, but there are more people affected in total because a larger proportion of the population live in those countries than in HICs.
In the past 20 years the global death rate from diabetes has doubled and the World Health Organization is predicting that this will increase by two-thirds by 2030. It is currently estimated that 422 million adults worldwide suffer from diabetes, of which 80% are from LMICs. In 2012, an estimated 1.5 million deaths were directly caused by diabetes and another 2.2 million deaths were attributable to high blood glucose.
Furthermore, obesity – a major contributor to hypertension, cardiovascular disease and diabetes – is on the rise globally, including in LMICs due to changes in diet, and a move from more agricultural economies to greater industrialisation and urbanisation.
To avoid significant and growing burdens on future populations, it is critically important to implement strategies that will prevent people from developing hypertension and diabetes and for improving the detection and management of these diseases once onset. Identifying and evaluating interventions to assess efficacy is not always enough to ensure their wide uptake in the real world. Even when information, tools and interventions have been tested within real-world effectiveness studies, the development of knowledge to support their broader uptake has often remained outside the remit of research. Effectively implementing and scaling-up interventions, programmes and policies at the regional and national levels is a persistent challenge.
It is essential that policy makers, communities, families, caregivers, patients, as well as healthcare practice and other settings are equipped with tailored evidence-based strategies to integrate scientific knowledge and effective interventions into everyday practice. Researchers have found it challenging to ensure that tools and interventions deemed efficacious within clinical or community-based studies are readily adopted and implemented. Scaling-up interventions to large populations is not a straightforward task. In practice, translation from a pragmatic trial to the commissioning and continuous delivery of an intervention across a health system is a huge political and economic challenge. Without intentional efforts to guide scale-up, a new evidence-based intervention might not be broadly implemented.
Proposals must focus on scalable interventions at the population level for hypertension and/or diabetes prevention, detection and management in LMICs. Proposals addressing the concurrence of hypertension and diabetes are encouraged, as well as those addressing the underlying risk factors of both conditions.
Proposals must align with commitments or planned commitments at a regional or national level to implement evidence-based interventions (including evidence of cost-effectiveness and affordability) across health or other sectors (such as education and information technology). In addition to a broad geographic scope, proposals are expected to ensure scale-up covers diverse populations with consideration given to: geography (remote, rural, urban); demographic mix (gender, age, ethnicity); community readiness for intervention; political environment; and/or other relevant criteria.
Policymakers, intervention payers (excluding research funding agencies), researchers (including local researchers), implementers and beneficiaries should be involved at all stages of the interventions' selection, adaptation and implementation design to identify the challenges to the interventions' delivery in everyday settings. Such partners will be integral to the success and sustainability of the programme and it is essential that they are engaged early, and participate meaningfully in the design and conduct of the research proposal. Researchers should be closely integrated with the authorities responsible for the programme's delivery. Those authorities must commit to pay for and provide the interventions, possibly through loans contracted from development banks or other financial providers. Proposals will support the conduct of research associated with the scale-up of the interventions.
Proposals must build on evidence-based interventions (including evidence of cost-effectiveness and affordability) for the respective population groups under defined contextual circumstances and should seek to replicate and scale-up comprehensive interventions. Interventions can focus on the individual, community or system level, and may combine interventions from different levels. They may target underlying risk factors for the primary prevention of hypertension and diabetes or strategies to delay onset (secondary prevention) or reduce the seriousness of disease (tertiary prevention). There should be strong evidential support demonstrating that the selected interventions are equitable, safe, effective and efficient.
The overall intention of proposals is to enhance the scale-up of interventions using an implementation science approach. Implementation science examines what works, for whom and under what circumstances, and how interventions can be adapted and scaled-up in ways that are accessible and equitable (please see the GACD website for further information and resources on implementation science). To achieve this, the research should cover several of the following:
- identify the best evidence-based interventions and their potential for adaptation to the communities and contexts in which they will be implemented
- identify, develop, test, and evaluate, or refine known strategies to scale-up evidence-based practices into public health, clinical practice, and/or community settings at a regional or national level. They may include pilots in multiple settings (using a defined scalable unit), in order to identify optimal scale-up approaches
- identify, understand, and develop strategies for overcoming barriers to the adoption, adaptation, integration, scale-up and sustainability of evidence-based interventions across different communities and contexts. It should address a range of scale-up challenges, including complex processes, inefficient use of resources, inequitable allocation of resources, poor design, fidelity and uptake of the intervention, and supply and demand barriers to scale-up and sustainability
- identify, understand, and develop strategies for measuring the unintended consequences of intervening at a system level
- include assessments of accessibility, reach and health economic assessments as an integral part of the proposed research
- evaluate relevant and measurable outcomes (including health outcomes) of the implemented interventions, and their success in scale-up and sustainability. This includes measures of health equity and an understanding of how interventions impact populations differentially.
All proposals should:
- be multidisciplinary and cross-sectorial
- take into consideration relevant sex and gender and cultural aspects, as well as vulnerable populations
- promote a culture of evidence-informed learning and effective uptake of results by embedding real time monitoring/evaluation throughout the intervention selection and scale-up process
- incorporate considerations for capacity building for implementation science and knowledge translation, particularly within the countries where the research will be conducted
- have suitable governance structures in place to ensure oversight, consensus and appropriate engagement of relevant stakeholders throughout the projects
- fully consider ethical issues (including issues related to research with populations in vulnerable circumstances; potential harmful or inequitable impacts of research outcomes; and appropriate mechanisms for protection of sensitive data while enabling data sharing for research purposes)
- ensure conflicts of interest are appropriately minimised or managed to protect the scientific integrity and credibility of the research and fulfil ethical obligations to research participants, particularly in situations where interventions are supported by the private sector and/or there is the potential for commercial gains.
Proposals may build on previous hypertension and diabetes projects supported under the GACD that have demonstrated their potential for impact, however this is not a requirement of the scheme.
Expected impact
The expected impacts are:
- enhanced programmes and policies that significantly reduce the risk factors for hypertension and/or diabetes
- enhanced programmes and policies that significantly reduce the numbers of patients who develop hypertension and/or diabetes through prevention
- enhanced programmes and policies that significantly increase the number of patients for whom hypertension and/or diabetes was previously undetected
- enhanced programmes and policies that significantly increase the number of patients for whom hypertension and/or diabetes is adequately controlled to reduce the incidence of adverse events
- enhanced effectiveness, efficiency, equity and sustainability of systems, to reduce inequalities and promote greater health equity and additional societal benefits, in the medium and long-term
- improved health services poised as more responsive to the need of other non-communicable diseases
- recommendations to translate findings to other countries or very large regions
- contributions to the attainment of the sustainable development goals for non-communicable diseases.
Common indicators
The GACD aims to coordinate research on chronic diseases at a global level in order to enhance knowledge exchange across individual projects, and to better understand the impact of socio-economics, culture, geopolitics and policy on research findings, so as to appropriately adapt interventions and foster scale-up to different geographical, economic and cultural settings. Research under GACD involves regular exchange of research findings and information across participating projects by means of cross-project working groups and annual joint meetings. Wherever feasible, projects should harmonise and standardise their data collection and exchange data. Applicants are encouraged to use data dictionaries developed by GACD programmes.
Annual network meetings
Applicants must budget for the costs of having two team members participate in one annual face-to-face meeting of the GACD Research Network (location to vary annually). Attendance at this meeting is mandatory for two team members, with at least one participant from the LMIC team where relevant. Teams are strongly encouraged to include one junior team member in each annual meeting.
Review criteria
Relevance and quality of project:
- proposal fits well within the purpose and scientific remit set out in the call
- the selected intervention is evidence-based and the proposed work uses established implementation models to explore adaptation and scale-up across relevant communities/context
- strong scientific rationale for methodology proposed to address questions or gaps in knowledge that arise from scale up. Success is likely to lead to significant new understanding that is relevant for scientists and knowledge users
- proposed implementation and scale-up plans are appropriate and feasible to answer the needs of knowledge user(s) and are considered best in the international field of implementation science research
- anticipation of system barriers (healthcare and other sectors) to implementation of the interventions and quality of plan to manage them
- relevance of the ethical considerations that might arise in the proposed programme of research, and how the team plans to address them, including issues of equity and possible conflicts of interest.
Quality of team:
- multidisciplinary team members have established a high-quality track record in related fields of proposed implementation which is pertinent to evaluative science and they have the right balance of expertise given the goal(s) of the research project
- evidence that the research is jointly managed by researchers from HICs and LMICs where applicable
- early career investigators are part of the team and a strong training plan for research capacity-building is included
- evidence that stakeholders such as decision-makers and service delivery partners have been actively involved in the research process, including the selection and adaptation of the intervention and the research design
- demonstrable engagement with the public and/or patient and community groups or other relevant stakeholder groups.
Feasibility of project:
- major scientific, technical or organisational challenges have been identified, and realistic plans to tackle them are outlined
- proposed intervention strategies are relevant to the socio-political, cultural, policy and economic contexts of the study settings and proposal demonstrates understanding of the contextual factors (such as health systems, intersectoral policy, governance, leadership) affecting implementation, indicating how those factors and their impact will be analysed
- inequities and equity gaps, including sex and/or gender, have been taken into account
- appropriate measures of evaluation have been included. Programmes that are able to track long-term clinical, public health, policy and/or health system outcomes are expected
- appropriateness of the governance plan, including evidence of ultimate accountability, shared strategic leadership, transparency in decision making, management of conflicts of interest, clearly defined roles/responsibilities/contributions, demonstrating that all key participants are highly engaged and committed
- appropriateness of the collaboration plan, including but not limited to communication and coordination, management and administration, conflict prevention/resolution, quality improvement, budget and resource allocation and publication approach amongst team members.
Potential impact:
- number of the expected impacts, as listed in the scope above, that the project is likely to achieve
- project demonstrates alignment with international and/or national commitments
- project appropriately leverages existing programmes and platforms (such as research, data, delivery platforms), if relevant
- the potential for sustaining intervention at scale
- the potential for translation of findings into different settings.
This funding opportunity is jointly supported by the MRC and NIHR. MRC will be the awarding body.
Studies funded should focus upon countries with low or middle income economies. OECD definitions of low and middle income economies can be found in the DAC list of ODA recipients.
The MRC-NIHR-GACD call funds partnership-working between UK researchers and researchers based in LMICs. The principal investigators applying for this call must be hosted by a UK institution which is eligible for MRC funding. However, the expectation is that projects will be collaborative endeavours, with shared scientific and intellectual leadership. All projects submitted must include co-investigators from the LMICs where the work will take place.
The exception to this is that projects led by an LMIC principal investigator will be allowed where the investigator has been a PI on an MRC funded grant before, and where the proposed work is building upon that prior MRC funded work.
The MRC will not fund research focused on vulnerable populations in high income countries through this call. Applications to the MRC must focus on low and middle-income countries.
It is not permitted for the same person to be principal investigator on more than one proposal submitted to this call.
If a co-investigator is based in one of the GACD partner countries, then the proposal may be eligible for co-funding. If the co-investigators are based in one of these countries, it is essential that you contact Catalina Toma as soon as possible so that we can discuss potential co-funding arrangements. Please include your name, your research institution, your co-investigators' names and research institutions, the intended title of your project and an estimation of the costs that would be required for each investigator.
How to apply
Many funding agencies will be participating in this GACD initiative, some of whom will be using a common portal submission system to receive applications. The MRC is participating in the use of this portal and as such applications must be submitted via the GACD Portal. A link to the portal will be provided by 10 July 2018.
Please ensure you read the 'MRC specific information', which will be made available on the GACD website.
Please refer to the MRC Guidance for applicants for any other funder-specific information.
Applications must be submitted by 16:00 GMT+1 on Monday 10 September 2018.
Applications will be reviewed by an international panel of representatives from all participating funding agencies in autumn. UK applications will only be in competition with other UK applications, but a fully international panel will ensure all funders are consistent in their review process.
Please refer all queries to:
Catalina Toma


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For those people diagnosed with astigmatism if you don't feel comfortable wearing glasses you can always remain fashionable by using different colors of contact lenses, just make sure to follow certain cleaning and maintenance procedures while using it. You can opt for contacts that are ideal for extended wear and make sure to apply a lubricant to prevent it from drying especially when your workplace is fully air conditioned. If you are wearing contact lens you should still wear sunglasses for extra eye protection. Too much exposure to ultraviolet rays will increase your risk of acquiring cataracts that causes blurry vision. Though this problem is easily treated through minor outpatient surgery by scraping a thin cloudy film on the outer layer of the eyes, there is still a chance for it to recur after a couple of years.Another advice is to keep your blood sugar at healthy levels at all times. Schedule an appointment with your doctor and request for certain tests to determine if you are at risk for Diabetes Mellitus. This lifestyle disease should be taken seriously because of the complications that comes with it. One of the major and most common effects of Diabetes is blindness due to macular degeneration caused by uncontrolled blood sugar levels for a certain period of time. Another eye problem that is common for diabetic patients is glaucoma a condition wherein there's too much eye pressure that result into damaging the optic nerve. Sadly most cases of glaucoma doesn't have any symptoms and but it can be managed through eye drop medications or laser surgery just to lessen the eye pressure but there is no permanent cure for this.

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Rockstar's Beaterator comes out today (and so does Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days… you couldn't find two more different publishers in Rockstar and Square Enix) for the PSP. We've highlighted it in the past because A) Timbaland is one of the better "big name" producers out there and B) I have spent more than a few hours in Ableton Live and the like. It's familiar territory, in other words.
There's but so much I can say now not having played it yet—give me a few days to fool around with it—but I will embed this video entirely because Pete Rock is in it for a split-second.
You know, as I type this, I am wondering what type of music y'all listen to. Like, I can drop the name "Pete Rock," but if three of you even know who I'm talking about, without first going to Wikipedia, then we have a problem. Although the other day one of you guys caught my Eric B. & Rakim reference, which was beyond awesome.
But back to Beaterator. I should have clarified that to say that the PSP version comes out today, but that the iPhone (and iPod touch) version is still in production.


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I wrote this just as I was about to leave Hungary, but I wanted to wait to publish it until after my advice posts came out. Much love to you all!
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I've been in Budapest a long time—four and a half months—and I am amazed at both how fast the time has gone and at how much I've done in this span of time. On one hand, it's been a while, probably long enough for this car near my neighborhood to rack up these tickets:
On the other hand, it hasn't been long at all. On my recent walks through the center city, several times I have turned a corner and find myself in a place that is so unfamiliar I have stopped dead in my tracks in surprise. I have to admit to myself that I still don't know Budapest.
This semester has been full of adventures for me and my friends here. We've traveled to many countries, bonded over math, discovered new places in Budapest, and generally had a great time. The people that I've met are hilarious and inspiring in equal measure. If you're reading this, thank you for this semester, and know that I will track you down in the future, and we will hang out. Just watch.
I'm sad to say that the end of study abroad is here. And with it, the end of this blog. It's been fun to write about my experiences here, and I hope that you enjoyed reading about them. I will miss writing to you.
If you want to hear some more updates about my life, I think that I want to send a couple longer email updates to my friends at Whitman and back in Minneapolis over the summer to keep them in the loop. If you want to be included in those, feel free to reply below or email me directly.
Oh my! My plane is taxiing and I must stow my computer. With love,


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Look, I am very, very new to the whole blogging thing. I like to think of myself as a fairly creative person, and after some encouragement from like, a ton of people (my sister), I dove right in — starting up Shark Tails without doing any research or looking into how I should be operating this little corner of the internet at all. I hope my brilliant, well-thought-out process isn't too much for you to handle.
You're obviously asking yourself, "Why 'Shark Tails'?" and I can't blame you. Simply, I named my blog after my dog Sharkie, ok? What an incredibly rock-solid marketing strategy: name your DIY blog after your dog. Epic. Why take the time to ensure the blog's name connects with the subject matter, when you can just…not do that. So much simpler.
If only I wasn't so impatient. But what's done is done, and this is my DIY blog, Shark Tails. I still have a ton of stuff to learn about blogging (specifically photography and what is SEO and how to build up a following — you know, non-integral stuff) but so far am enjoying the process! In short, this space is a work in progress and hopefully, with a little more time, will become something I can really be proud of, rather than slightly embarrassed by.
My projects range from easy up-cycling of old junk (spray paint addiction, anyone?) to basic building projects, and everything in between. I would define my style as mid century/bohemian, and I'm still learning lots about what works and what doesn't when it comes to design. I love wood, the color white, and everything vintage! I am a true believer that just because something is expensive, doesn't necessarily mean it's better; a lot can be done with a little bit of creativity and some of hard work.
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AT&T officially launches the Sony Xperia Ion, arrives priced at $99.99 and with features to include a 4.6″ display and 12MP Fast Capture camera
We had known this release was coming, but as always, it is nice to see it happened without delay. In this case, that means the Sony Xperia Ion is now available with AT&T. The handset is available direct with AT&T as well as with Sony and also with Best Buy (both retail and online). The price is $99.99, which comes along with the usual two-year agreement.
Otherwise, for those not quite as familiar with the Xperia Ion, this handset is running Android 2.3.7, which is a bit disappointing. That bit aside though, the remaining specs are not all that shabby. The Xperia Ion has a 4.6-inch HD Reality display, dual-core 1.5GHz processor, 16GB of internal storage, a microSD card slot, HDMI, DLNA and a 12 megapixel camera with Exmor R for Mobile. Additionally, the camera can record 1080p HD quality video and the handset is PlayStation Certified for mobile gaming.
Lastly, while the Smart Tags are sold separately, they are compatible. And for those not familiar with the Smart Tags setup, they allow you to "store device function preferences for different locations and situations." The example given is that you can turn on your GPS and Bluetooth in the car simultaneously with just one tap.
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The CBSS Children at Risk Unit invited policymakers, practitioners, advocates and researchers from the Nordic and Baltic Sea Region, including Northwest Russia, to gather on 29 – 30 May 2018 the for the regional expert conference on Good Practices in Identification and Referral of Children at Risk of Exploitation and Trafficking in Oslo, Norway.
The Norwegian Deputy Minister for Children and Equality, Mr Tom Erlend Skaug, opened the conference. Together with leading European and international experts from the child rights and anti-trafficking field, the participants engaged in a review of the current state of knowledge, policy and practice and develop the Oslo Conclusions.
The results of a multi-country consultation process with child victims of exploitation and trafficking informed the discussion: the children had previously made recommendations on what kind of support is needed to exit difficult and exploitative situations. The speakers, panellists and participants asked and responded to critical questions, engaged in solution-oriented discussions and identified key learning from today's practice that could guide more effective and appropriate approaches to identification and referral, in the region and beyond.
The conference builds upon previous meetings and achievements in the CBSS Protect Children on the Move project and is a follow up to The Stockholm Conclusions Promoting Good Practices in Protecting Migrant and Asylum Seeking Children, especially Unaccompanied Children, and Finding Solutions for the Children, Families, Societies and States – December 2016. The Guidelines on the human rights and the best interests of the child in transnational child protection cases have been developed as well as a special portal on Wikipedia providing information about transnational child protection. Several hundred officials, professionals and experts have been consulted, trained and shared information during 2013 – 2018.
The Council of the Baltic Sea States Expert Group on Children at Risk developed the project in cooperation with the Nordic Council of Ministers. During 2016, the two Councils organized training seminars in Riga, Tallinn, Helsinki and Stockholm. In 2017, meetings on good practices in identification and referral have taken place in St. Petersburg and Vilnius.
The conference was co-organized with the Norwegian Directorate for Children, Youth and Family Affairs.
Participants list – Norwegian – International
The Oslo Conclusions on Identifying Children at Risk of Exploitation and Trafficking
Listen Up! – Creating conditions for children to speak and be heard.
Press release in Norway and Sweden
Photos from the Conference – CBSS Secretariat Flickr
Agenda and presentations
Mr Tom Erlend Skaug, Deputy Minister, Ministry for Children and Equality, Norway
Welcome Speech: "Challenges and opportunities". Ms Kristin Ugstad Steinrem, Director, The Norwegian Directorate for Children, Youth and Family Affairs
Hearing the Child's Story – The key for better identification and referral. Findings and lessons learned from the regional consultation process: PROTECT Children on the Move. Presenting The Oslo Conclusions on Identifying Children at Risk of Exploitation and Trafficking. Ms Turid Heiberg, Ms Daja Wenke and Ms Maia Rusakova (Project Team)
Key-note address: "Strengthening systems of identification and referral of children on the move, victims of trafficking and other forms of exploitation" Ms Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, UN Special Rapporteur on the Sale and Sexual Exploitation of Children and President of "Missing Children Europe"
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Obligations and opportunities arising from the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings and the Council of Europe Strategy for the Rights of the Child (2016 – 2021) for safeguarding children from exploitation and trafficking. Ms Petya Nestorova, Executive Secretary, Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings
Is the identification of child victims of trafficking a possible undertaking? Why are evident signs of exploitation and trafficking often not followed-up? Mr Mike Dottridge, Independent Expert, with speakers notes
Multi-disciplinary cooperation models for the identification and referral of child victims and children at risk at the national and local levels Mr Philip Ishola, Executive Director Love146 UK
Challenges for the police and prosecution authorities in identifying and protecting child victims of trafficking. Best practice and lessons learned from cases in Norway Mr Rudolf Christoffersen, Member of GRETA and Public Prosecutor in Bergen
To be a "superkid". The way out and the way forward – A true story about child trafficking Ms Angelica Kjos, Artist, Author and Experience Consultant, with summary.
Child-sensitive communication and trust building as key to hearing the child's story and identifying signs of exploitation and trafficking. Presentation of evidence-based interviewing and how this helps to encourage the child to disclose experiences.
Ms Astrid Johanne Pettersen, Director, Barnehus in Oslo
Ms Malin Morin Nymoen, Police Superintendent, Norwegian Police
Best interests' determination as a formal procedure to ensure comprehensive assessments of risks of exploitation and trafficking and effective decision making in accordance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Ms Maia Rusakova, Director, Stellit, Russia
Ms Hanna Holmelin and Ms Solgunn Flatebø Solberg, Senior Advisors, Norwegian Directorate for Immigration
Ms Ninna Mörner, President/Coordinator, Information on the Swedish Platform Civil Society Against Human Trafficking
Ms Þóra Björk Ágústsdóttir and Ms Lilja Rós Pálsdóttir, Specialists/Project Manager, Icelandic Directorate of Immigration
Ms Laura Lapina and Ms Zanda Rusina, Senior Lawyers, Ombudsman's Office, Latvia
Ms Kadi Lauri, Head of Local Government Counselling, Estonian Social Insurance Board
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"Sacrifice" and "Nobody like me" – Performance by Angelica Kjos, singer-songwriter.
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Ms Ingrid Weider Lothe and Ms Anne Kristine Ivan, Senior Advisers, Coordination Unit for Victims of Trafficking (KOM), National Police Directorate, Norway
Ms Maria von Bredow, Researcher, County Administrative Board Stockholm, Sweden (including the map)
Ms Anne Sofie Döskeland, Senior Adviser, The Directorate for Children, Youth and Family Affairs, Norway
Ms Kristina Misiniene, Head of the Centre against Human Trafficking and Exploitation, Lithuania
Ms Nina Vaaranen-Valkonen, Finnish Hotline Manager, Save the Children Finland, with comments.
Ms Vineta Polatside, Head of Unit, CBSS Task Force Against Trafficking in Human Beings
Ms Dorothea Czarnecki, Senior Adviser, ECPAT Germany
Ms Hanne Maintz, Social Consultant, Danish Centre Against Human Trafficking
Mr Karolis Zibas, Researcher, Lithuanian Social Research Centre
Mr Amir Hashemi Nik, Senior Adviser, County Administrative Board, Stockholm


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Ethan Evans, an AS level student at the College Merthyr Tydfil has won Merthyr Tydfil Library's Creative Writing Poetry Competition for a poem he compiled called 'Homecoming'.
Homecoming is a Holocaust Memorial Themed poem and tells the story of Bernard, an old man going to visit his mother. The car he is riding in breaks down so he has to make the last stage of the journey on foot. Snow falls "clinging to him like white spiders" and Bernard's hands, bloody from the thorns of the roses he's clutching, drip "ketchup tears" onto the whitening ground. When he arrives at his destination he crosses "through a garden of twisted wire" praying not only for his mother, but his father and sister too, all of whom are
"Buried but not forgotten/Deep beneath the snow,
Together at last/in the claws of Auschwitz."
Caroline Darch, English Lecturer at The College Merthyr Tydfil commented "Ethan had the Holocaust Memorial Day in mind when he penned his poem and has managed to create a fantastic piece of writing as a moving commemoration of such a horrific event. It has captured everyone who's read or heard it"
Ethan, who has a keen interest in creative writing, had the opportunity to read out his poem to a group of staff and students as part of a Holocaust Memorial session which was organised at the college in partnership with NIACE Dysgu Cymru.
Ethan belongs to The Writer's group within the college and several writing groups across the local community. He hopes to go on to study English Literature at University.
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Aubrey Beardsley
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (21 August 1872 – 16 March 1898) was an English illustrator and author. His drawings in black ink, influenced by the style of Japanese woodcuts, emphasized the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. He was a leading figure in the Aesthetic movement which also included Oscar Wilde and James A. McNeill Whistler. Beardsley's contribution to the development of the Art Nouveau and poster styles was significant, despite the brevity of his career before his early death from tuberculosis.
Drawings for Oscar Wilde's play Salomé
Other Salomés
Lindsay Kemp
Lindsay Kemp (born 3 May 1938) is a British dancer, actor, teacher, mime artist and choreographer.
Kemp formed his own dance company in the early sixties and first attracted attention with an appearance at the Edinburgh Festival in 1968. Kate Bush and David Bowie were students of Kemp.
"Lindsay Kemp's 1975 stage production of Oscar Wilde's play was probably the queerest there's been to date, with Kemp himself playing Herod's doomed daughter under a heap of silks and feathers." John Coulthard
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Lindsay Kemp's production of Oscar Wilde's Salomé


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This rare quiver, now attributed to the Nez Perce tribe, was originally thought to be either Shoshone or Arapaho. Made from otter skin, this cylindrical case is covered with geometric patterns of pigment. There is a bull's eye design on the bottom of the case.
In the late 1870s, U.S. Senator Daniel Voorhees was given a Mandan man's shirt by a member of an Indian delegation to Washington D.C. The shirt was later passed on to Professor John D. Mack of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, who sold it to the Milwaukee Public Museum in 1921. This elaborate tunic style garment consists of two buckskins sewn together. Four large extensions of fabric hang down from the central and most decorated portion, and extensive bead and quillwork adorn the shoulders of the garment. Based on the amount of porcupine quillwork versus beadwork present, it can be determined that this shirt was made prior to the reservation period of the Mandan people, probably between 1845 and 1879.
An intricate system of incised images on wooden boards such as this served as a visual record of an event. Dream or memory boards were typically an Ojibwe tradition, but tribes, including the Menominee, produced them as well. The figures on horseback, buildings, and geometric designs served as mnemonic devices for the owner of the board.
Paintings from the 19th century Plains tribes serve as narratives of important historical events. This piece was made at Standing Rock Agency (now Reservation) in North Dakota. Painted on a large sheet of muslin, nineteen male figures and fifteen horses are complemented by an additional thirty-five horse heads in the lower left hand corner. Each individual figure appears to float on the surface of the muslin, as there is no evidence of a horizon. The scene represents the heroic deeds of the members of a Sioux group known as Gall's Band, one of the last American Indian bands to surrender to the US army, as they waged hand-to-hand combat with a group of Crow warriors.
Originally from England, Samuel M. Brookes moved to Milwaukee in the 1840s and found a niche in the local art scene by painting portraits. He was commissioned by the Wisconsin State Historical Society in 1858 to paint important Native American chiefs and settlers of the area. This large oil painting is supposedly of the Menominee chief named Oshkosh. A tremendous amount of dignity is visible in the expression and posture of the man in the painting, along with a sense of his importance in Wisconsin history.
Spiro is an archaeological site in eastern Oklahoma consisting of 12 mounds. Occupied from AD 1100-1450, the site was a ceremonial, mortuary, and trade center. The elite of Spiro had the power to obtain materials exotic to the region from such places as the Appalachian Mountains, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Gulf of California. The site of Spiro Mound was destroyed in the mid-1930s by treasure hunters. Perishable materials such as textiles were well preserved and widely sold and dispersed by the looters to individuals and museums. The severity of the looting left little other than these collections as the basis for any analysis of the site. The Milwaukee Public Museum's Spiro collection is composed of 22 items, primarily textiles and sheet copper fragments.
This Shoshone war shirt was collected by E. C. Leffingwell of Milwaukee in 1878 north of Fort Washakie in west-central Wyoming and purchased by the Museum in 1900. War shirts were decorated with the owner's individual war triumphs, common materials being quills or beadwork, ermine tail pendants, red stroud, and tassels of horsehair or human hair wrapped in strips of trade blanket.
This belt was obtained along the Kuskokwim River in southwestern Alaska. The Unegkumiut, Kiatagmiut, and Ingalik groups are the most likely sources for its production. 351 sets of caribou incisor teeth are attached to leather, with a fringe of Russian trade beads and fox canine teeth. The belts were made by men but worn by women as displays of the man's hunting ability. Each set of teeth represents one caribou. These belts were usually family heirlooms that were thought to have curing powers which increased with the age of the belt. This belt, the only one of its kind in the Milwaukee Public Museum's collections, is approximately 300 years old.
There are 115 pieces of archaeological Peruvian featherwork in the museum's collection. A majority of the items come from the collection of Malcolm Whyte, a former Milwaukee attorney and civic leader, who donated them in 1964. Most of these items come from the southwest coast of Peru, and some are believed to be from the Inca civilization (approximately AD 1400-1532). The items are very delicate and rare. The dry air and heat of Peru preserved them in burials for several hundred years. Objects from the collection can be seen on the 3rd Floor Pre-Columbian Mezzanine.
The boat and paddle were made by the Crowsheart Mandan at Fort Berthold, North Dakota in the early 1900s. This boat is made from a large cowhide, though traditional boats were made from buffalo. The bull boat has a bent-pole framework covered by the hide, which makes it waterproof. Circular boats are rarely found in North America and were only used for crossing rivers and streams, not for long journeys. This boat is 5.5 feet in diameter with sides 1.5 feet high and could carry up to five people.


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Yes, there has been talk of the dreaded polar vortex revisiting Rochester again. But resist the temptation to slip into that cocoon of hibernate-y despair — we're at the top of the arts season, and there are plenty of engaging exhibits and events to distract us. Here are a baker's dozen of not-to-be-missed shows to guide you into springtime.
Some exhibition details may change, so check back with the galleries as time moves forward. Admission is free unless otherwise specified. This is only a sampling of what's to come. Look for more scheduled shows on individual galleries' sites, and check CITY Newspaper every Wednesday or keep up with our searchable online calendar at rochestercitynewspaper.com.
Through September 27, catch "What the Morning Brings," featuring the work of Todd Bratrud, Don Pendleton, and Michael Sieben — three of the most influential artists working in skateboarding today — at 1975 Gallery (89 Charlotte Street). Expect colorful illustrations that are heavy on the sass. This is Pendleton's second exhibition in Rochester; his work was featured alongside Mark Penxa's in 1975 Gallery's "The Worst is Yet to Come," held at Booksmart Studio in 2010. 1975's hours are Wednesday through Friday, 12 to 8 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday, 12 to 5 p.m. For more information, visit facebook.com/1975ish.
Through October 3, Monroe Community College's Mercer Gallery (1000 East Henrietta Road) is featuring the work of cartoonist/zinester John Porcellino, creator and self-publisher of King-Cat Comics, a critically acclaimed photocopied mini-comic series that has been in production since 1989. Over the years, the content has shifted from humorous stories with a punk rock sensibility to zen-like stories reflecting on the transient nature of life. Porcellino is on tour promoting his new book, "The Hospital Suite," and will stop in Rochester for a reception on Tuesday, September 23, 4:30 to 6 p.m. At noon on Wednesday, September 24, a screening will be held of "Root Hog or Die," the King-Cat documentary. An artist talk will follow. Gallery hours are Monday through Thursday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, call 292-2021 or visit monroecc.edu/depts/vapa/mercer.
Through October 4, Axom Gallery & Exhibition Space (176 Anderson Avenue, Suite C) is hosting "Metropoliticonscious II," new media sculpture and paintings by Miami-based artist Francesca Lalanne. The artist works in a variety of media, ranging from paintings to sculptures, drawings, installations, and videos, and explores identity, relationships, and the epic personal journey. Axom's hours are Wednesday to Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. and by appointment. Learn more by calling 232-6030 x 22 or visiting axomgallery.com.
Through November 1, Main Street Arts (20 West Main Street, Clifton Springs) will present "The Opposite of Concrete: An Exhibition of Abstract Painting and Photography." The show will feature work by photographers Carl Chiarenza and Patricia Wilder, and painters Bradley Butler, Karen Sardisco, and Sarah Sutton, each of whom offer different interpretations of abstract aesthetics. The gallery is open Tuesday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. For more information, call 315-462-0210, or visit mainstreetartsgallery.com.
From September 20 through January 4, George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film (900 East Avenue) will host "Robert Burley: The Disappearance of Darkness," a photographic meditation on both the dramatic and historical demise of film-manufacturing facilities and industrial darkrooms. Burley's photographs, which were taken between 2005 and 2010, speak to sites and events related to the key corporations (Kodak, Agfa, and Ilford). George Eastman House is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $5-$14, and free to members and children ages 12 and younger. For more information, call 271-3361, or visit eastmanhouse.org.
The various University of Rochester libraries offer fascinating exhibits year-round, drawing from a variety of materials and concerning a vast array of subjects. Visit the Reference/Circulation department of Rush Rhees Library (University of Rochester River Campus) October 1-24 to take in "Oscar Wilde's Salomé," an exhibit of illustrated editions of Wilde's play. The show is held in conjunction with "The Veils of Salome," a symposium the university will hold October 8-10, which will include performances of Strauss' opera by Table Top Opera, dance performances, films, and an interview of comic book artist P. Craig Russell, who adapted Wilde's play for the graphic novel medium. During the fall term, the library is open Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 3 a.m.; Friday, 8 a.m. to midnight, Saturday, 10 a.m. to midnight, and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 3 a.m. For more information, call 275-5804, or visit library.rochester.edu.
From October 3 through November 8, The Firehouse Gallery at Genesee Pottery (Genesee Center for the Arts and Education, 713 Monroe Avenue) will host the annual "History in the Making" showcase of ceramic work by emerging artists and veteran traditionalists from around the country, juxtaposing historic and contemporary ideas. The show is curated by Fred Herbst, ceramicist and Professor of Art at Corning Community College. The gallery's hours are Monday through Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Thursday, 10 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.; Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. Also at Genesee Center, the Community Darkroom Galleries will host "Social Reportage," a series of photographic essays by Arleen Hodge and students, touching on inner city neighborhoods and their unique cultural and historical dynamics. The exhibit runs December 6 through January 9. Community Darkroom hours are Monday, 9 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.; Tuesday through Thursday, 9 a.m to 6:30 p.m.; Friday, noon to 5 p.m.; and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. For more information, call 244 -1730 or visit geneseearts.org.
From October 3 through November 16, Rochester Contemporary Art Center (137 East Avenue) will host "Question Bridge: Black Males," a video-installation project by artists Hank Willis Thomas, Chris Johnson, Kamal Sinclair, and Bayeté Ross Smith. The creators traveled to a dozen cities, collecting more than 1,500 candid questions and answers from 150 black men of all ages and many walks. The show opens Friday, October 3, 6 to 10 p.m. Weekly discussions will be held Wednesdays and Fridays at 7 p.m., each led by a different community leader or educator. Rochester Contemporary is open Wednesday through Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m., and Friday, 1 to 10 p.m. Admission is $1, and free to members. For more information, call 461-2222, or visit rochestercontemporary.org.
The Memorial Art Gallery (500 University Avenue) will host the Rochester leg of California artist Matt Elson's "Infinity Boxes" October 19 to January 4 in the Grand Gallery. Nine "infinity boxes" use color, light and mirrors to create optical illusions that envelop viewers who peer inside. Viewers are encouraged to take selfies while viewing these interactive works of art. Of the boxes, Elson has said, "They are a form of contemporary portraiture that is tuned to social media." MAG's hours are Wednesday to Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Thursday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Admission is $5-$12 except Thursday nights, when it is half-price. Children under the age of five, members, and University of Rochester students get in for free. For more information, call 276-8900 or visit mag.rochester.edu.
From January 23 through February 28, 2015, Nazareth College's Colacino Gallery (4245 East Avenue) will host a group show featuring the work of Nazareth College Department of Art alumni printmakers Kelly Clancy, Dale Klein, and Paolo Marino. Each of these emerging artists exhibited in the most recent Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition at the Memorial Art Gallery in 2013. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Thursday, noon to 5 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, noon to 8 p.m.; and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. For more information, call 389-5073 or visit artscenter.naz.edu/galleries.
After the first 50 years of the Studio Glass Movement, what comes next? On January 27, 2015, Tower Fine Arts Center Gallery at SUNY Brockport (350 New Campus Drive, Brockport) will hold a reception for "The Next: A Studio Glass Movement Continuum," curated by glass artist and adjunct faculty member Eunsuh Choi and featuring a group of regional artists who are shaping the future of art glass. The reception will be held 4 to 6 p.m., and the show continues through February 22. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Sunday, 1 to 4 p.m. For more information, call 395-2805 or visit brockport.edu/finearts.
From March 7 through April 11, Oxford Gallery (267 Oxford Street) will host a show of new paintings in oil by Buffalo-based painter Charles Houseman and Rochester-based painter David Dorsey. Houseman is known for his intimate, richly detailed, atmospheric landscapes, and Dorsey is adept at all manner of photo-real still-life depictions of vibrant flowers, jars of candy, and big macs, for example. Oxford Gallery is open Tuesday through Friday, noon to 5 p.m., and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, call 271-5885, or visit oxfordgallery.com.


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Atilla II: 44 years since the second Turkish invasion of Cyprus
August the 14th marks the tragic day on which Turkey launched "Atilla II" – its second brutal invasion of the Republic of Cyprus in 1974.
Turkey had already captured part of Cyprus in its initial invasion on 20 July 1974. It used the flimsy pretext that it was "restoring constitutional order" following a short-lived coup to overthrow President Makarios by the US-backed junta which was then ruling Greece.
Despite the Athens junta and coup collapsing, and negotiations at Geneva, Turkey launched a second invasion to conquer more Cypriot territory. On 14 August, the Turkish military recommenced its ethnic cleansing of non-Turks in the northern areas of Cyprus through bombing, mass executions (of civilians and combatants) as well as torture and rapes. A total of 200,000 Greek -Cypriots were forced out of their ancestral lands.
History reveals that Ankara's real intention in 1974 was (and still is today) the partition of the Republic of Cyprus and the segregation of Cypriots along ethnic and religious lines.
Back in the the 1950s the Turkish-Cypriots were encouraged by Cyprus Governor General Harding and Colonial secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd to begin demanding privileges such as "self-determination" at the expense of the 82 percent majority Greek-Cypriot population. At the same time Turkey was invited, for the first time, to play a more active role in Cyprus as a counterweight to Greek demands for "Enosis" (union with Greece) in attempts to preserve British influence on the island.
It is hardly surprising that Britain did nothing to halt Turkey's second invasion in August 1974 (just as it did nothing to stop the first invasion in July). Following Greek-Cypriot refusal at negotiations in Geneva to agree to a de facto partition in the guise of a "bizonal" settlement, Turkey ethnically cleansed 37 percent of the island in a brutal aggressive campaign. As President Makarios stated at the time of the second invasion: "What the Turks failed to achieve at the Geneva conference by blackmail and gunboat diplomacy, they are now attempting to get by brutal force."
That Britain ignored its legal, moral and military obligations under the 1960 Treaty of Guarantee is lamentable but perhaps not too surprising. It should not be forgotten that those responsibilities still exist today.
Yet what is perhaps more disappointing is that today, the Cyprus government is expected to ignore the sacrifices made by Greek-Cypriots who were ethnically cleansed since the summer of 1974 and deliver on a plate the "bizonal bicommunal" solution that Turkey wants. This would be a betrayal of our ancestors and descendants and would jeopardize the future of all Cypriots.
As a guarantor power, Britain together with the rest of the world, failed to prevent the crimes against humanity committed by Turkey -as recognized by the UN- not only during its two invasions but also throughout its unlawful occupation. The rapes, disappearances, executions and ethnic cleansing have gone unpunished. There has been minimal condemnation and no prosecutions for these crimes.
So the 14th of August is a sad anniversary but we fear even more disaster is looming for Cyprus. The imposition of an unjust and unworkable settlement based on ethnic segregation would reward Turkey for its brutality with ill-gotten gains. It may also set a dangerous precedent that could backfire on the very states that continue to appease Turkey.
Source: Lobby for Cyprus
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- Niels J. Reimers, founder and former director of Stanford University's Office of Technology Licensing (OTL), begins his interview describing his family and living in Norway and Carmel, California. He describes his student days at Stanford and Oregon State as a mechanical engineering major, and he reflects on the three years he spent in the Navy on the USS Bon Homme Richard. Reimers also discusses his experience as an industrial engineer at Ampex and his transition into marketing at Philco Western Development Laboratories (later Philco-Ford) where he learned about contract law and how to develop new products from scratch. Reimers recounts his work as lead negotiator for Ford Aeronutronic on a contract change to the Reentry Management Program with the US Air Force and his departure from industry. Reimers describes his return to Stanford as Associate Director of Research Administration and his early interest in commercializing research inventions. He speaks of the system present at Stanford when he arrived in which there was no organized patent program. Inventions were sent to an outside company, Research Corporation, for licensing, and Stanford received minimal royalty income. Reimers describes the creation and approval of the pilot program for the Office of Technology Licensing and the development of a new royalty distribution system. He remembers the inventors and inventions he worked with, including Bill Johnson's synthetic juvenile growth hormone for pest control, John Chowning's work with altering the perceptual location of sound in space for electronic keyboards, Stan Cohen's plasmid and Herb Boyer's restriction enzyme which led to recombinant DNA, and Art Schawlow's lasers for erasing. Reimers goes on to describe the autonomy he had managing OTL, his relationship with various deans of research, and working through potential conflicts of interest for inventors. He also discusses how OTL's entrepreneurial model set it apart from other universities. Reimers recounts his involvement with the Bayh-Dole bill, which gave universities the right to the results of their research. He later reflects on his time spent at MIT, the University of California,Berkley, and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) working to help them reform their technology licensing programs. Reimers concludes the interview by summarizing his experience at Stanford, reminiscing about the research discoveries he came across, and reflecting on changes in the administration at Stanford, his retirement, and his activities after he left Stanford.
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- Niels J. Reimers, Stanford Historical Society, oral histories, interviews, higher education, administrators, Stanford University--Office of Technology Licensing, technology transfer, patents, patent licenses, license agreements, universities and colleges--research, universities and colleges--faculty, universities and colleges--administration, and Bayh-Dole Act
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