The Congress included Transportation Enhancements (TE) in the Inter-modal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) in 1991 to signal its intention to provide funding for a broad array of projects designed to maximize the potential of transportation to invigorate communities. The Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEALU), enacted in 2005.
Represents a continuing commitment by Congress to focus on more than just the provision of “ribbons of concrete.” With more than 20,000 projects on the ground around the country, transportation enhancements have proven that transportation projects can do more than efficiently move people. They can simultaneously improve local economies, enhance the environment, and create central community places. Keep reading…
A Study about Canadian Environmental Decision Support Systems
Introduction:~ This Case Study will discuss two different decision support systems that we have developed for Canadian environmental applications. We will first discuss how these systems utilize data and models to solve domain-specific problems and focus on effectiveness rather than efficiency in the decision making processes.
In particular we will discuss how they are useful in better understanding the complex interaction between land and water and how they also provide a method to make informed resource management decisions and that they require the integration of scientific data, information, models and knowledge across multimedia (air, land and water), multi-disciplines and diverse landscapes. Keep reading…
A Case Study about Transformational Leadership, Transactional Leadership and Management
This research paper is a comparison of transactional leadership and management(as a unit) to transformational leadership. In any event the scope of this paper will notallow for comparison between the three in all respects. Therefore, in the sections on the pitfalls of transformational leadership, the attributes of transformational leadership andleadership and management, transactional leadership will not be at the focal point.
The focus will be on transformational leadership because it embodies the universally accepted principles toward which all organizations should strive. In the following sections, several definitions of transformational and transactional leadership will be reviewed.There has been growing interest in the study of transformational leadership. The pace of change confronting organizations today has resulted in calls for more adaptive,flexible leadership. Adaptive leaders work more effectively in rapidly changing environments by helping to make sense of the challenges confronted by both leaders and followers and then appropriately responding to those challenges. Adaptive leaders work with their followers to generate creative solutions to complex problems, while also developing them to handle a broader range of leadership responsibilities. Keep reading…
Introduction: The focus of the guidelines is on the process schools and teachers may use to identify and cater for the special educational needs of individual pupils in proportion to the impact of those needs on their learning and socialisation. The process moves from simple classroom based interventions to more specialised and individualised interventions. The continuum of support described in these guidelines encompasses a graduated problem solving model of assessment and intervention in schools comprised of three distinct school based processes.
All pupils have needs including the need to feel a sense of belonging, the need to feel safe, the need to communicate and to be communicated with and the need to be respected and valued. In meeting these needs, teachers need to view their pupils as learning not only within their classroom setting but also within the context of the ethos and culture of the school. It is important, therefore, to be mindful of how the culture, ethos and learning environment of the school demonstrates to each pupil that he/she is respected and valued. How the school promotes the moral, social, emotional, cultural, intellectual and physical development of all learners is central to the development of an inclusive ethos. Keep reading…
Introduction:~ Health is one of the many areas in which there has been a significant amount of interest in relating locus of control (LOCI beliefs to a variety of relevant behaviors. Much of the earlier work in this area has already been reviewed and is available elsewhere (see Strickland, 1978; Wallston, & Wallston, 1978). In this chapter we will not review this material again but will focus on work that has used the health-specific scales we developed.
The Health Locus of Control (HLC] Scale and the Multidimensional Health Locus of Control (MHLC] Scales.2 This chap- ter will review our own program of research and the programs of others across the country who have been using these scales.3 We have tried to be as complete as possible in covering such work, but much of it is unpublished, and numerous studies are in progress. Keep reading…
Introduction: The environment in which social enterprises and voluntary organisations operate is slowly changing. There is a shift in the relationship between the public sector and the social economy from a grant aid culture towards a contract culture. Investors and funders are beginning to fund outcomes rather than just outputs. Good practice is slowly emerging as part of this culture 2 change.
One effect of this change is increased pressure on social enterprises and voluntary organisations to prove the added value they produce if they wish to secure contracts or acquire investment.This section looks at the forces driving change in the business environment. It ‘makes the case’ that there is an increased focus on the social added value that social enterprises and voluntary organisations produce. This, in turn, leads to a necessity to measure and prove those impacts. Keep reading…
A Study about Social Influence Analysis in Large-scale Networks
Abstract:~ In large social networks, nodes (users, entities) are influenced by others for various reasons. For example, the colleagues have strong influence on one’s work, while the friends have strong influence on one’s daily life. How to differentiate the social influences from different angles(topics)? How to quantify the strength of those social influences? How to estimate the model on real large networks? To address these fundamental questions, we propose Topical Affinity Propagation (TAP) to model the topic-level social influence on large networks. In particular, TAP can take results of any topic modeling and the existing network structure to perform topic-level influence propagation. With the help of the influence analysis, we present several important applications on real data sets such as 1) what are the representative nodes on a given topic? 2) how to identify the social influences of neighboring nodes on a particular node?
Introduction:~ Social network analysis often focus on macro-level models such as degree distributions, diameter, clustering coefficient, communities, small world effect, preferential attachment, etc; work in this area includes. Recently, social influence study has started to attract more attention due to many important applications. However, most of the works on this area present qualitative findings about social influences[14, 16]. In this paper, we focus on measuring the strength of topic-level social influence quantitatively. With the proposed social influence analysis, many important questions can be answered such as 1) what are the representative nodes on a given topic? 2) how to identify topic-level experts and their social influence to a particular node? 3) how to quickly connect to a particular node through strong social ties?. Keep reading onSocial Influence Analysis
The case studies in this workbook focus on financial, cultural, and ethical is sues that have occurred on many campuses. They raise is sues that are not easily addressed or that are resistant to easy consensus. They provide opportunities to practice nimble decision making and engender a sense of shared responsibility. The higher education community can use these case studies in a variety of ways to focus attention and foster discussion on operational and strategic concerns.
Campus leaders can engage their constituents in substantive discussions about the impact of the issues raised by these case studies on their campus, helping faculty,trustees, and administration develop consensus about priorities for engagement, levels of resources required, and/or the need for reallocation of resources. The cases also can be used in a teaching or training environment. Because these cases outline contemporary campus issues, they are useful in either a higher education administration degree program or a leadership training program managed by a campus or higher education association. keep reading…
Case Study about Localisation Programme in Tanzania
While expatriate expertise is often essential in establishing mining operations at its global sites, AngloGold Ashanti is committed to the recruitment, training and development of local citizens. Through assistance in reaching their full potential in a particular discipline, it is anticipated that these employees will, in a phased approach, reduce the numbers of expat subject matter experts at a given operation. In this respect, Geita Gold Mine in Tanzania is guided by Clause 7 of the country’s Special Mining Licence (SML) No. SML 45/99 (granted pursuant to Section 39 of the Mining Act, 1998): ‘The Licensees and their contractors shall employ and train Tanzanian citizens with appropriate qualifications to the maximum extent practicable and consistent with efficient mining operations.
In this connection the Licensees shall carry out an effective scheme of employment and training for Tanzanian employees at all levels of operations and management.’ Although formal localisation plans have been slow to emerge at Geita, the focus in 2006 was on upgrading and aligning the skills of Geita’s workforce with those required by the business. An engineering skills dilemma at Geita was precipitated by the move from contractor to owner mining in August 2005 when the mine’s engineering complement of around 80 increased by almost 200% overnight. Keep reading…
A Case Study about thoughts on Local Development Strategies
Abstract: The authors present the case of five Canadian peripheral regions, which they argue are destined to decline. The explanation of the reasons why future decline (in absolute population and employment numbers) is inevitable constitutes the article’s central focus. The authors suggest that regional decline will become an increasingly common occurrence in nations at the end of the demographic transition whose economic geographies display centre-periphery relationships. Such broad structural trends cannot be easily altered by public policy. The authors reflect on the implications of regional decline for the formulation of local economic development strategies.
Introduction: Regional decline is, understandably, not a popular subject. However, regional decline in absolute population and employment numbers will become an increas ingly common occurrence in many industrialised nations, for reasons that will become clearer as we proceed. The purpose of this article is twofold. Firstly, we will present the case of five peripheral Canadian regions, which, we argue, are destined to decline, and to generalise from the Canadian case on the attributes of decline. Secondly, we will reflect on the implications of regional decline for the formulation of local economic development strategies. Keep reading…
