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AUTOMATED FINGERPRINT IDENTIFICATION BACKGROUND AND INTEROPERABILITY STRATEGY -- AUTOMATED FINGERPRINT IDENTIFICATION BACKGROUND AND INTEROPERABILITY STRATEGY -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 AUTOMATED FINGERPRINT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM (AFIS)∗ -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 1.1. Need for Automation -- 1.2. Early AFIS Development -- 1.3. FBI AFIS Initiative -- 1.4. French AFIS Initiative -- 1.5. United Kingdom AFIS Initiative -- 1.6. Japanese AFIS Initiative -- 1.7. The Politicization of Fingerprints and the San Francisco Experiment

While aid agencies may remain sceptical about university projects, a review of 20 years of Canada-China higher education cooperation demonstrates that, when they are successful, higher-education interventions can produce durable and far-reaching results. The review highlights the "knowledge advantage" of university cooperation, including the inherent results multipliers of teaching and research, and the multi-generational nature of project participants. CIDA and Canadian universities should move from a transactional to a strategic relationship. (InWent/DÜI)

This book presents leading-edge analysis on the theory and practice of participatory evaluation around the world. With its instructive case studies from Bangladesh, El Salvador, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, Nepal, and St Vincent, the book is a guide to a community-based approach to evaluation that is at once a learning process, a means of taking action, and a catalyst for empowerment.Knowledge Shared is the most comprehensive book now available on participatory evaluation. It is intended primarily as a tool for practitioners and policymakers in all segments of development cooperatio

This article questions the idea that David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest instigates new forms of sincerity. We begin by scrutinizing the theoretical underpinnings of Adam Kelly's influential reading of such 'New Sincerity'. Firstly, we argue that this theory misconstrues Jacques Derrida's notions of iterability and undecidability. It does so in order to corral their implications within an elitist understanding of the 'literary' text. Secondly, we argue that Kelly's reading ignores how Infinite Jest's supposed New Sincerity is geared exclusively towards the novel's white male characters. Through close readings of the novel's often celebrated AA scenes, and by drawing on the work of political and cultural theorist Denise Ferreira da Silva, we then show how this process works at the expense of black and female characters. By addressing how forms of racist and sexist exclusion constitute the novel's apparent New Sincerity, we argue that this reading works to restore white men to positions of representative cultural authority.

This article questions the idea that David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest instigates new forms of sincerity. We begin by scrutinizing the theoretical underpinnings of Adam Kelly's influential reading of such 'New Sincerity'. Firstly, we argue that this theory misconstrues Jacques Derrida's notions of iterability and undecidability. It does so in order to corral their implications within an elitist understanding of the 'literary' text. Secondly, we argue that Kelly's reading ignores how Infinite Jest's supposed New Sincerity is geared exclusively towards the novel's white male characters. Through close readings of the novel's often celebrated AA scenes, and by drawing on the work of political and cultural theorist Denise Ferreira da Silva, we then show how this process works at the expense of black and female characters. By addressing how forms of racist and sexist exclusion constitute the novel's apparent New Sincerity, we argue that this reading works to restore white men to positions of representative cultural authority.

AbstractStakeholder coordination is a prominent theme in current development discourse. Experience with decentralization and community water management in northern Ghana highlights the complexities of coordinating stakeholders at the local level. In this case, roles and responsibilities must be clarified between legislated sub‐district structures on the one hand, and civic water groups on the other. This is especially important with regard to resolving which party should collect revenues and manage assets and expenditures in the water sector. The key mechanism for addressing these issues is the District Assembly, which is empowered under the decentralization law to coordinate stakeholders, both 'horizontally', across social actors, and 'vertically', between the national and sub‐district levels. While such local‐level dynamics are indeed complex and challenging, they are at the same time probably more amenable to at least medium‐term resolution than stakeholder competition issues at the national level. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.