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إيمانويل ماكرون من الظل إلى الرئاسة
يتحدث هذا الكتاب عن إيمانويل ماكرون: أعترف له الجميع أنه الأفضل.إنه إيمانويل ماكرون الذي أصبح رئيسا لفرنسا في التاسعة والثلاثين. منذ سن مبكرة وهو يلمح نظرات الأعجاب والتشجيع، وخصوصا لدى من يكبرونه ولدى عرابيه الذين ساندوه طوال مسيرته مفتونين بذكائه ودماثته. شكل مع زوجته بريجيت ثنائيا استثنائيا لا بفارق العمر بينهما بل بكونها المرأة الوحيدة التي أحبها مذ كان في السادسة عشرة. أغرى الفرنسيين بتصميمه واستطاع أن ينال رضاهم ويعبر عن حبة لهم بعيدا عن الرسميات. ترسم أن فولدا صورة شخصية غير مسبوقة للرئيس الجديد الذي تجتمع فيه رغبة الفوز مع الحاجة إلى الإقناع ونيل الأعجاب.
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Increasing parental participation at school level: a 'citizen to serve' or a 'customer to steer'?
Collaboration between schools and parents has become increasingly prominent on the political agenda in Norway. Schools are obliged to promote parent-school cooperation in accordance with parents' rights as stakeholders in education. This article explores the governing strategies of seven primary or lower-secondary schools that have taken initiatives to improve parent-school collaboration. The main intention is to explore how New Public Management (NPM) measures (such as market values, decentralization, competition, and output control) and New Public Service (NPS) tools (including coalition building and citizens' involvement) are reproduced at the local level when parent-school collaboration is put on the agenda. The analysis shows that street-level discretion at school level implies considerable uncertainty around the achievement of policy objectives. Different opinions on parents as a target group seem prominent in explaining how frontline workers act and strategize. Two distinct collaboration strategies are identified: serving and steering. The serving strategy is based on a linear partnership by making use of local knowledge in order to reach parents and enable their participation. The steering strategy is characterized by non-linear relationships with parents and certain steering mechanisms by routinizing collaboration activities, modifying goals for parent-school collaboration and rationing school services to parents.
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Layering and institutional change: framework plan revision in Norwegian early childhood education and care
Central among a range of reforms and policy measures aimed at enhancing the quality and social cohesion of Norwegian early childhood education and care (ECEC) services is the 2017
Framework Plan for Kindergartens
. In this article, we investigate the policy formation process and how framework plan reform has been carried out by public and private stakeholders at different levels. The reform is explored as institutional layering, referring to theoretical contributions that stress the role of incremental development and gradual institutional change. We ask: What are the policies added, and to what extent do added policies instigate institutional change? This article relies on qualitative document analyses, semistructured interviews, and quantitative survey data. We find high legitimacy for the framework plan in the ECEC sector, and informants broadly regard it as a continuation of earlier versions of the plan. Our analysis further shows that the implementation of the 2017 framework plan reform cannot be viewed in isolation, as it interacts with other reforms, trends, and instruments in the sector. We argue that blending reform design features with existing values and practices adds layers to Norwegian ECEC, instigating change. The analysis points to the need for further research on how national educational reforms are implemented in complex settings and to investigate the relationships between policy design and measures and between policy outcomes and ambitions. The relationships between different measures can be unclear to local implementers. Thus, we stress the importance of considering how reform outcomes depend on intertwined reforms and varying local conditions regarding capacity, norms, and values.
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Policy Tools and Institutional Change: Comparing education policies in Norway, Sweden and England
The main question raised in this article is how educational reforms reflect convergence or divergence between the English, the Norwegian and the Swedish educational systems. We claim that the answer depends on how convergence is conceptualised. At the level of decisions on tools, the countries seem more similar than two decades ago. However, to explain policy changes our analytical perspective must be broadened. We demonstrate how values based on different welfare state models, political economies and different types of institutional evolution can explain processes of change in education over the last decades. In paying attention to broader processes of change, a certain degree of variation occurs. The countries seem to develop according to nationally specific trajectories: England has strengthened the liberal and elitist values of education while social democratic values of comprehensiveness and equality have impact on the aims and effects of policy tools in Norway and Sweden.
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Lost in transition - policies to reduce early school leaving and encourage further studying in Europe
Across Europe, governments, education institutions and relevant practitioners often view student progress to tertiary level studying as the primary evidence of successful education transitions, with engagement in the labour market as also a positive outcome. If students complete upper secondary education, and move on to either further study or employment, this is seen as a success, while other outcomes are often seen as failures. Even though this is a rather narrow and limited view of transitions, it has underpinned national and European level policies, programmes and interventions that aim at supporting young people in their movements within the various stages of schooling, towards tertiary education, or the labour market. Particular attention is also given to the early school leaving (ESL) that is seen as a considerable challenge for society and for individuals. This Special Issue focuses on such policies and programmes across a number of European national contexts, and aims to explore transitions, their rationales, mechanisms, and structures – but also, how they are experienced by participants who engage in them. Our aim in this article is to provide a context for the empirical work presented in the issue, and to theoretically frame the articles that address and problematise various aspects of student trajectories across Europe. We argue that transitions need to be understood not merely as outcomes for students, but as processes found in the intersection between education, social and labour market policies, core constituents of welfare states. The nature of the links between these different but interconnected policy areas, shape both what kinds of transition policies are considered as possible, but also what kinds of outcomes are seen as successful.
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Combating low completion rates in Nordic welfare states: policy design in Norway and Sweden
Low completion rate in upper secondary education is seen as a big problem in the Nordic countries. School failure has shown to dramatically increase the risks for unemployment and labour market exclusion with severe consequences for both society and the young person. This paper analyses national policy measures to combat low upper secondary education completion rates in Norway and Sweden, often regarded as representing a social democratic welfare model and a universalistic transition regime. The analysis demonstrates that although this issue has received extensive political attention, the two countries display somewhat different policy designs. The Norwegian approach is proactive and targeted while the Swedish policy is more general and directed towards reforming organisational structures in upper-secondary education. In sum, our analysis demonstrates that national governance structures shape and influence policy design in the context of an increasingly diversified Nordic social democratic welfare state regime.
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Deletion of the nuclear receptor RORα in macrophages does not modify the development of obesity, insulin resistance and NASH
Retinoic acid receptor-related orphan receptor-alpha (RORα) is a transcription factor from the nuclear receptor family expressed by immune cells and involved in the development of obesity, insulin resistance (IR) and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). It was recently reported that mice deficient for RORα in macrophages develop more severe NASH upon high fat diet (HFD) feeding due to altered Kupffer cell function. To better understand the role of RORα in obesity and IR, we independently generated a macrophage RORα-deficient mouse line. We report that RORα deletion in macrophages does not impact on HFD-induced obesity and IR. Surprisingly, we did not confirm an effect on NASH development upon HFD feeding nor in the more severe and obesity-independent choline-deficient, L-amino acid-defined diet model. Our results therefore show that RORα deletion in macrophages does not alter the development of obesity and IR and question its role in NASH.
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Genomic characterization of swine caliciviruses representing a new genus of Caliciviridae
This study reports the molecular characterization of novel caliciviruses, the St-Valérien-like viruses, which were isolated from pig feces in the province of Quebec, Canada between 2005 and 2007. The genomes of St-Valérien-like viruses contain 6409 nucleotides and include two main open reading frames (ORFs). ORF1 encodes the non structural (NS) polyprotein and the major capsid protein (VP1) while ORF2 encodes the putative basic minor capsid protein. Typical conserved amino acid motifs predict a gene order reminiscent of calicivirus genomes. Phylogenetic, pairwise homology, and distance analyses performed on complete genomic sequences and partial amino acid sequences from the NTPase, polymerase, and major capsid protein segregated the St-Valérien-like viruses in a unique cluster sharing a common root with the Tulane virus and the noroviruses. Based on the genomic analyses presented, the St-Valérien-like viruses are members of a new genus of
Caliciviridae
for which we propose the name
Valovirus
.
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Deletion of the nuclear receptor RORalpha in macrophages does not modify the development of obesity, insulin resistance and NASH
Retinoic acid receptor-related orphan receptor-alpha (RORα) is a transcription factor from the nuclear receptor family expressed by immune cells and involved in the development of obesity, insulin resistance (IR) and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). It was recently reported that mice deficient for RORα in macrophages develop more severe NASH upon high fat diet (HFD) feeding due to altered Kupffer cell function. To better understand the role of RORα in obesity and IR, we independently generated a macrophage RORα-deficient mouse line. We report that RORα deletion in macrophages does not impact on HFD-induced obesity and IR. Surprisingly, we did not confirm an effect on NASH development upon HFD feeding nor in the more severe and obesity-independent choline-deficient, L-amino acid-defined diet model. Our results therefore show that RORα deletion in macrophages does not alter the development of obesity and IR and question its role in NASH.
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Genetic diversity of porcine Norovirus and Sapovirus: Canada, 2005-2007
Noroviruses and sapoviruses are members of the family Caliciviridae and emerging enteric pathogens of humans and animals. Since their discovery and characterization in swine, relatively few strains have been described in detail. In order to investigate their genetic diversity, a total of 266 fecal samples collected in the province of Quebec, Canada, between 2005 and 2007 were screened for the presence of caliciviruses by RT-PCR using broadly reactive primers. Genetically heterogeneous caliciviruses were detected on the majority of farms. Typical noroviruses related to known swine genotypes were present on 20% of the farms. Sapoviruses were detected on 75% of the farms and were the most heterogeneous group. Further characterization of selected strains in their 3' end parts was carried out for their classification and unveiled possibly new clusters of sapoviruses. No human-like noroviruses or sapoviruses were detected in the present study.
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