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Selected AbstractsState Capacity, Conflict, and DevelopmentECONOMETRICA, Issue 1 2010Timothy Besley The absence of state capacities to raise revenue and to support markets is a key factor in explaining the persistence of weak states. This paper reports on an ongoing project to investigate the incentive to invest in such capacities. The paper sets out a simple analytical structure in which state capacities are modeled as forward looking investments by government. The approach highlights some determinants of state building including the risk of external or internal conflict, the degree of political instability, and dependence on natural resources. Throughout, we link these state capacity investments to patterns of development and growth. [source] Accelerated Fabrication: A Catalytic Agent within a Community of CaringJOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION, Issue 4 2005HECTOR LASALA Accelerated Fabrication is an ongoing project in the Building Institute, a design-build program at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, in which team members designed a master plan for a homeless shelter, then immediately fast-tracked the deployment of several modest but instrumental fabrications on site. As a deliberate tactic, acceleration generated project momentum and stimulated an improvisational design process. [source] Industrial tools for the feature location problem: an exploratory studyJOURNAL OF SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE AND EVOLUTION: RESEARCH AND PRACTICE, Issue 6 2006Sharon Simmons Abstract Software engineers who maintain and enhance large systems often encounter the feature location problem: where in the many thousands of lines of code is a particular user feature implemented? Several methods of addressing the problem have been proposed, most of which involve tracing the execution of the system and analyzing the traces. Some supporting academic tools are available. However, companies that depend on the successful evolution of large systems are more likely to use new methods if they are supported by industrial-strength tools of known reliability. This article describes a study performed with Motorola, Inc. to see whether there were any pitfalls in using Metrowerks CodeTEST and Klocwork inSight for feature location on message-passing software similar to systems that Motorola maintains. These two tools were combined with TraceGraph, an academic trace comparison tool. The study identified two main problems. First, some ,glue' code and workarounds were needed to get CodeTEST to generate a trace for an interval of time in which the feature was operating. Second, getting information out of TraceGraph and into inSight was needlessly complicated for a user. However, with a moderate amount of work, the tool combination was effective in locating, understanding and documenting features. Study participants completed these steps in typically 3,4 hours per feature, studying only a few hundred lines out of a 200,000 line system. An ongoing project with Motorola is focused on improving tool integration with the hope of making feature location common practice at Motorola. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Brokering knowledge in organizational networks: The SPN approachKNOWLEDGE AND PROCESS MANAGEMENT: THE JOURNAL OF CORPORATE TRANSFORMATION, Issue 1 2002S. Burnett Over the last three years (at the time of writing this paper) the upstream oil and gas industry has experienced substantial changes at a structural level due a variety of factors including the low cost of oil, depleting reserves, maturing regions, strong competition, and the high costs for development projects. The growing pressure on organizations to operate more economically has led to the recent spate of cost-reduction initiatives including acquisitions, strategic alliances, joint ventures and consortia agreements. Senior management are realizing that it is their intangible assets, in the form of knowledge, which provide the key to their continued success and their company policies are seeking to identify and manage their knowledge base more effectively by implementing a range of initiatives addressing behavioural, process and technological issues. This paper illustrates how, through the use of a knowledge broker, a major project was handled to realize the knowledge potential of the individuals and the team. Main outcomes from the ongoing project include the establishment of understanding and buy-in amongst all the alliance partners to the use of shared measures to align objectives, the development of a management structure to support the performance management system and the maintenance of pace and focus through the provision of dedicated resources. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Millimetric properties of gamma-ray burst host galaxiesMONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, Issue 3 2006R. S. Priddey ABSTRACT We present millimetre (mm) and submillimetre (submm) photometry of a sample of five host galaxies of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), obtained using the Max Planck Millimetre Bolometer (MAMBO2) array and Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array (SCUBA). These observations were obtained as part of an ongoing project to investigate the status of GRBs as indicators of star formation. Our targets include two of the most unusual GRB host galaxies, selected as likely candidate submm galaxies: the extremely red (R,K, 5) host of GRB 030115, and the extremely faint (R > 29.5) host of GRB 020124. Neither of these galaxies is detected, but the deep upper limits for GRB 030115 impose constraints on its spectral energy distribution, requiring a warmer dust temperature than is commonly adopted for submillimetre galaxies (SMGs). As a framework for interpreting these data, and for predicting the results of forthcoming submm surveys of Swift -derived host samples, we model the expected flux and redshift distributions based on luminosity functions of both submm galaxies and GRBs, assuming a direct proportionality between the GRB rate density and the global star formation rate density. We derive the effects of possible sources of uncertainty in these assumptions, including (1) introducing an anticorrelation between GRB rate and the global average metallicity, and (2) varying the dust temperature. [source] Assessing local residence time distributions in screw extruders through a new in-line measurement instrumentPOLYMER ENGINEERING & SCIENCE, Issue 4 2006Xian-Ming Zhang This work aimed at developing a new instrument to measure in real time the residence time distribution (RTD) in screw extruders. The instrument followed the same principle as the one reported in the literature but possessed several important advantages. For example, the detection system had two probes that allowed to simultaneously measure RTDs at any two different locations of an extruder, thus providing the possibility of calculating the local RTD between them by a deconvolution method based on a statistical theory for the RTD. Its performance was evaluated on a corotating twin-screw extruder using anthracene as tracer and polystyrene as flowing material. The effects of various process parameters such as feed rate and screw speed on the RTDs were investigated. The emphasis was placed, however, on the effect of the staggering angle of kneading discs on local RTDs both in the kneading zone itself and its neighboring upstream and downstream screw zones. This work is in support of an ongoing project on the simulation of flow in corotating twin-screw extruders. POLYM. ENG. SCI., 46:510,519, 2006. © 2006 Society of Plastics Engineers. [source] Structural Development of Finnish Universities: Achieving Competitiveness and Academic ExcellenceHIGHER EDUCATION QUARTERLY, Issue 3 2009Jarkko Tirronen This paper discusses strategic instruments that are used to enhance the competitiveness of Finnish universities in the context of globalisation, internationalisation and commercialisation of research and education. The Finnish higher education system is currently undergoing a major policy reform, which aims to enhance the competitiveness of Finnish universities through structural development. This article focuses specifically on three themes of structural development: institutional cooperation and mergers between universities; stratification and differentiation; and changes in governance and leadership. Three ongoing projects are used as illustrations. [source] Email Copies in Workplace InteractionJOURNAL OF COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION, Issue 1 2006Karianne Skovholt This study examines how employees in a distributed work group use email copies in networks of collaboration. It studies the audience design of messages with multiple recipients, analyzing explicit and implicit addressing devices used to appoint recipients as primary and secondary participants in the interaction. Copying in recipients serves to share knowledge of ongoing projects and to build up a common information pool. Furthermore, it is used to facilitate multi-party interaction and to build personal identity and alliances. Copies to third parties may also be used for reasons of social control, for instance in order to gain compliance or to put pressure on the addressee to conform to social norms of conduct. [source] On conflict, containment and the relationship between themNURSING INQUIRY, Issue 3 2006Len Bowers A programme of research into conflict (e.g. violence, absconding, medication refusal) and containment (e.g. seclusion, special observation, physical restraint) in inpatient psychiatry has been under way at City University, London, UK, for the past 10 years. Recent research findings, plus the challenges posed by ongoing projects, have made apparent the need for greater clarity about the overarching concepts of ,conflict' and ,containment'. This paper pulls together research findings pertaining to this issue, and conducts a reasoned analysis of what common characteristics might underlie ,conflict' and ,containment'. It is concluded that these are patient threats to safety, and the staff maintenance of safety. Details are presented on the inclusions and exclusions that follow from taking such a position, and potential definitions offered. On the grounds of this conceptual analysis, plus evidence for moderate degrees of statistical association between behaviours and events in each domain, it is concluded that it is legitimate to conduct analyses at the level of total conflict and containment rates, as well as at the level of individual types of behaviours and events (e.g. verbal abuse, sedation). Some of the mathematical difficulties in the analysis of total conflict and containment are addressed, and results of a weighting exercise presented. This exercise challenges our perception of the severity of some containment measures that are becoming more commonly used in acute psychiatry. [source] The building blocks of young AGNs: A progress report on follow-up projects with the CORALZ sampleASTRONOMISCHE NACHRICHTEN, Issue 2-3 2009K.-H. Mack Abstract This paper summarizes some of the ongoing projects on the CORALZ sample, the first statistically complete sample of young radio galaxies. The low redshift of the sources in the sample (z < 0.16) makes them excellent targets for a comprehensive and homogeneous follow-up in virtually all bands of the electromagnetic spectrum. Here we report on the almost completed radio continuum observations which confirm the relatively young ages of the sources in the CORALZ sample. The radio spectra in addition with new measurements at 250 GHz indicate a large fraction of sources with excess mm-emission, probably due to radiation of cold dust. These sources are also excellent candidates for detection ofmolecular gas, which we have traced through CO observations in the 3-mm band in several cases. Additional molecules as H2O or OH are being observed. The atomic gas content is disclosed by H I absorption observations (© 2009 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim) [source] Funding for rural health research from the Australian Research Council: A missed opportunity?AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF RURAL HEALTH, Issue 3 2009John McDonald Abstract Objective:,To determine the number of projects, and level of funding, for rural health research from the Australian Research Council (ARC). Design:,Analyses of ARC searchable datasets of completed, and new and ongoing projects from 2001 to 2008. Main outcome measures:,Number of rural health research projects as a proportion of total funding; level of funding for rural health research projects as a proportion of total funding. Results:,Only 46 of 6498 ARC completed projects were classified as rural health research projects. This represents 0.7% of the total number of projects, and 0.39% of the total funding allocated. Only 25 of 4659 ARC new and ongoing projects were classified as rural health research projects. This represents 0.54% of the total number of projects, and 0.27% of the total funding allocated. None of the 832 completed fellowships were classified as rural health. Only five (0.52%) of the 953 new and ongoing fellowships were classified as rural health. Conclusions:,The level of under-funding for rural health research could be partially addressed by directing applications towards the ARC, in addition to the National Health and Medical Research Council. With a few exceptions, rural health researchers are not yet competitive in the national funding arena. [source] | ||||||||||||||||