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Design, Democracy And Agonistic Pluralism, Carl Disalvo Jul 2010

Design, Democracy And Agonistic Pluralism, Carl Disalvo

DRS Biennial Conference Series

In this paper, the author presents an alternative approach to ‘design for democracy,’ drawing on the notion of agonistic pluralism. Specifically, the author highlights the differences between politics and the political within agonistic pluralism, and employing examples of contemporary design projects, discusses how these differences can been seen in the objects and practices of design. Through this critical examination, the author contributes a new perspective to the discourses of ‘design for democracy’ and expands the possibilities for democratic action and critique available to both practicing designers and design scholars.

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Retail Design And The Visually Impaired: A Needs Assessment, Hong Yu, Sandra Tullio-Pow Jul 2010

Retail Design And The Visually Impaired: A Needs Assessment, Hong Yu, Sandra Tullio-Pow

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This study represents a first attempt to investigate the need for universal retail design in Canada. Specifically, the research objectives were to expand understanding of the unique challenge of visual impairment and the shopping experience of visually impaired consumers, and to identify gaps in retail design in order to better serve the visually impaired community. The researchers conducted three focus group interviews with a total of 17 informants recruited by an independent consultant who was affiliated with a visually impaired advocacy organization in the Greater Toronto Area in Ontario, Canada. Data were transcribed and then analyzed using QSR NVivo 8. …

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Food Orbits: A Novel Design Tool For Complex Systems, Stephen Brogan, Seaton Baxter Jul 2010

Food Orbits: A Novel Design Tool For Complex Systems, Stephen Brogan, Seaton Baxter

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Food and our relationship with it is important to our very survival. To understand the different natures of various food systems it is critical to understand some of their general characteristics. We must know the components of the system and how they work together. Currently, there are several conceptual models of food systems available to facilitate the understanding of such: the linear, radial and loop models, none of which seem suitable for a design application. Natural food systems are complex adaptive systems that operate in a closed loop, with all inputs emanating from and all residuals returning to the source. …

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Developing A Framework For Mapping Sustainable Design Activities, Bernhard Dusch, Nathan Crilly, James Moultrie Jul 2010

Developing A Framework For Mapping Sustainable Design Activities, Bernhard Dusch, Nathan Crilly, James Moultrie

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The notion of sustainable design has become increasingly prominent within the design community. As a result, numerous design theories, strategies and tools are available to designers. Yet, limited attempts in the field evaluate these activities by placing them in relation to each other or within the broader context of sustainable development. Based on a literature review this study develops an integrated framework which connects the areas of sustainable development and sustainable design. This framework may be utilised in two ways: firstly, to visualise the interdependencies of sustainable design and sustainable development; secondly, as an assessment tool to measure and compare …

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Design Education As A Practice Of Affiliation: Facilitating Dialogue Between Developed And Developing Nations, Robert Harland, Maria Cecilia Loschiavo Dos Santos Jul 2010

Design Education As A Practice Of Affiliation: Facilitating Dialogue Between Developed And Developing Nations, Robert Harland, Maria Cecilia Loschiavo Dos Santos

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Exploring Design research and Design education that straddles developing and developed world contexts is the aim of this paper. It is a bold ambition to identify the key debates that inform these two significant aspects of Design – much too big to cover in the limited space here. Nevertheless we speculate on some of the issues that emerge from within Architecture, Urbanism, Philosophy, Sociology, Geography, Education and Design. We do this through the idea expressed by Lang that ‘affiliation’ is the need that links to all other human needs. We hypothesize that affiliation, and our need for belonging not only …

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Engaging Complexity Through Collaborative Brand Design, Manuela Taboada, Leo Xc Dutra, Robert Haworth, Rebecca Spence Jul 2010

Engaging Complexity Through Collaborative Brand Design, Manuela Taboada, Leo Xc Dutra, Robert Haworth, Rebecca Spence

DRS Biennial Conference Series

In this research we used inductive reasoning through design to understand how stakeholders in the Waterfall Way (New South Wales, Australia) perceive the relationships between themselves and the place they live in. This paper describes a collaborative design methodology used to release information about local identities, which guided the regional brand exercise. The methodology is explicit about the uncertainties and complexities of the design process and of its reception system. As such, it aims to engage with local stakeholders and experts in order to help elicit tacit knowledge and identify system patterns and trends that would possibly not be visible …

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International Venturing By Indian It Firms: A Motive Analysis, Sumati Varma Jul 2010

International Venturing By Indian It Firms: A Motive Analysis, Sumati Varma

Journal of Emerging Knowledge on Emerging Markets

This paper examines the motives underlying recent cross border M&A activity undertaken by Indian IT firms during 2000-2006. It hypothesizes that overseas acquisition is the IT firm's response to a dynamic competitive landscape in which it simultaneously leveraged existing capabilities to capture new markets and acquired new capabilities through strategic asset and product seeking acquisitions. The study uses secondary firm level data to undertake a content analysis of public information establishing the multiplicity, diversity and dynamic nature of M&A motives. The study establishes the multiplicity, diversity and dynamic nature of M&A motives, establishing that they are simultaneously asset seeking and …

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China Healthcare Ict: Reinventing China’S National Healthcare System Through Electronic Medical Records, Telecom Networks And Advanced It Services, Ken Zita Jul 2010

China Healthcare Ict: Reinventing China’S National Healthcare System Through Electronic Medical Records, Telecom Networks And Advanced It Services, Ken Zita

Journal of Emerging Knowledge on Emerging Markets

In January 2009 China announced a RMB 850 billion ($124 billion) stimulus package over three years to fundamentally reshape the nation's healthcare sector. A key element of the plan is to modernize healthcare services with digital hospitalization, electronic medical records, and next-generation information networks. The goal is to dramatically improve healthcare service quality and, importantly, to enable virtual healthcare services that can overcome service disparities between rich areas and poor. But the lack of technical standardization complicates take-up and adoption of unified e-healthcare solutions. The stakes are high for the government and for international technology companies seeking position in this …

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Development Of Psychometrically Equivalent Speech Recognition Threshold Materials For Native Speakers Of Samoan, Jennifer Lane Newman Jul 2010

Development Of Psychometrically Equivalent Speech Recognition Threshold Materials For Native Speakers Of Samoan, Jennifer Lane Newman

Theses and Dissertations

The speech recognition threshold (SRT) is an important measure, as it validates the pure-tone average (PTA), assists in the diagnosis and prognosis of hearing impairments, and aids in the identification of non-organic hearing impairments. Research has shown that in order for SRT testing to yield valid and reliable measures, testing needs to be performed in the patient's native language. There are currently no published materials for SRT testing in the Samoan language. As a result, audiologists are testing patients with English materials or other materials not of the patient's native language. Results produced from this manner of testing are confounded …

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Spreadsheets Across The Curriculum, 1: The Idea And The Resource, H L Vacher, Emily Lardner Jul 2010

Spreadsheets Across The Curriculum, 1: The Idea And The Resource, H L Vacher, Emily Lardner

Numeracy

This paper introduces Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum, a workshop-based educational materials development project to build a resource to facilitate connecting mathematics and context in undergraduate college courses where mathematical problem solving is relevant. The central idea is “spreadsheet modules,” which, in essence, are elaborate word problems in the form of short PowerPoint presentations with embedded Excel spreadsheets. Students work through the presentations on their own, making and/or completing the spreadsheets displayed on the slides in order to perform calculations or draw graphs that address the issue (context) posed in the word problem. The end result of the project is the …

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Quantitative Reasoning In The Contemporary World, 2: Focus Questions For The Numeracy Community, Bernard L. Madison, Shannon W. Dingman Jul 2010

Quantitative Reasoning In The Contemporary World, 2: Focus Questions For The Numeracy Community, Bernard L. Madison, Shannon W. Dingman

Numeracy

Numerous questions about student learning of quantitative reasoning arose as we developed, taught and assessed the Quantitative Reasoning in the Contemporary World course described in the companion paper in this issue of Numeracy. In this paper, we present some of those questions and describe the context in which they arose. They fall into eight general problem areas: learning that is context-bound and does not easily transfer (i.e., situated learning); the need for a productive disposition regarding mathematics; the connection between QL and mathematical proficiency; the persistence of students, despite our efforts, for using the wrong base for percents; the inconsistent …

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Quantitative Reasoning In The Contemporary World, 1: The Course And Its Challenges:, Shannon W. Dingman, Bernard L. Madison Jul 2010

Quantitative Reasoning In The Contemporary World, 1: The Course And Its Challenges:, Shannon W. Dingman, Bernard L. Madison

Numeracy

The authors describe successes and challenges in developing a QL-friendly course at the University of Arkansas. This work is part of a three-year NSF project Quantitative Reasoning in the Contemporary World (QRCW) that supported the expansion of the course. The course, MATH 2183, began experimentally in Fall 2004 as a section of finite mathematics known informally as “News Math” for 26 students from arts and humanities disciplines. Over the past six years, the course has evolved and now MATH 2183 is approved to satisfy the College of Arts and Sciences mathematics requirement for the Bachelor of Arts degree. In 2009-2010, …

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Uncertainty Assessment Of Forest Road Modeling With The Distributed Hydrology Soil Vegetation Model (Dhsvm), Christopher G. Surfleet, Arne E. Skaugset Iii, Jeffrey J. Mcdonnell Jul 2010

Uncertainty Assessment Of Forest Road Modeling With The Distributed Hydrology Soil Vegetation Model (Dhsvm), Christopher G. Surfleet, Arne E. Skaugset Iii, Jeffrey J. Mcdonnell

Natural Resources Management and Environmental Sciences

We used a generalized likelihood uncertainty estimation procedure with the Distributed Hydrology Soil Vegetation Model (DHSVM) for two streamflow and 11 road ditchflow locations. We observed considerable uncertainty in DHSVM simulations of forest road and stream runoff. The accuracy of simulations decreased as the size of the area modeled decreased. For streamflow, 44% of attempted model structures exceeded a 0.5 Nash–Sutcliffe efficiency threshold for a 630 ha catchment; 12% of attempted model structures exceeded a 0.5 Nash–Sutcliffe efficiency threshold for a 55 ha catchment. DHSVM simulations produced behavioral model structures for only six of the 11 road ditchflow sites (ha). …

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New Insights Into The Diversity, Distribution And Ecophysiology Of Marine Picoeukaryotes, Marie L. Cuvelier Jul 2010

New Insights Into The Diversity, Distribution And Ecophysiology Of Marine Picoeukaryotes, Marie L. Cuvelier

Open Access Dissertations

Marine microbes are an essential component of global biogeochemical cycles. In oligotrophic marine surface waters, the phytoplankton, phototrophic, single-celled (on occasion, colonial) organisms, is often dominated by the picoplankton (cells size), which constitute the base of the marine food chain. The picophytoplankton is composed of three main groups of organisms: two genera of cyanobacteria, Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus, and a third group, the picoeukaryotes. Even though numerically less abundant than cyanobacteria, picoeukaryotes can contribute significantly to biomass and primary production in this size fraction. Furthermore, picoeukaryotes are a diverse group but this diversity is still underexplored and their ecological roles and …

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Talmidae Rhetoricae: Drashing Up Models And Methods For Jewish Rhetorical Studies, Janice W. Fernheimer Jul 2010

Talmidae Rhetoricae: Drashing Up Models And Methods For Jewish Rhetorical Studies, Janice W. Fernheimer

Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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What Difference Does It Make?: E-Learning And Faith Community, Mary E. Hess Jul 2010

What Difference Does It Make?: E-Learning And Faith Community, Mary E. Hess

Faculty Publications

By adopting a relational model of teaching and learning we can better align our programs of Christian education with our fundamental understandings of the faith. Digital technologies can help us do this more fully and more effectively.

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Social Networking And Church Systems, Dwight J. Zscheile Jul 2010

Social Networking And Church Systems, Dwight J. Zscheile

Faculty Publications

Most existing church systems were shaped by bureaucratic organizational paradigms of a previous century that are coming under increasing stress today. The shift to a network society brings both profound challenges and great opportunities to the church in our culture.

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Management Of Ethno-Cultural Diversity In Turkey: Europeanization Of Domestic Politics And New Challenges, Ayhan Kaya Jul 2010

Management Of Ethno-Cultural Diversity In Turkey: Europeanization Of Domestic Politics And New Challenges, Ayhan Kaya

International Journal of Legal Information

Turkey has gone through an enormous process of change in the last decade, especially regarding he political recognition of ethno-cultural and religiously diverse groups. The term “diversity” has become one of the catch words of contemporary political philosophy. Diversity, in its recent forms, whether cultural, political, ethnic, or religious, is a byproduct of globalization. Globalization has made the movements of persons or groups in the ethnoscape easier. It is apparent that the management of diversity has posed a great challenge for nation states as well as for the international and supranational organizations such as the United Nations and the European …

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Lindenwood University Strategic Plan, Fiscal 2011, Lindenwood University Jul 2010

Lindenwood University Strategic Plan, Fiscal 2011, Lindenwood University

Strategic Plans

Lindenwood University Strategic Plan, Fiscal 2011

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Sifting Through The Cultural Dust: A Pre-Transformational Activity, Robert Duiker Jul 2010

Sifting Through The Cultural Dust: A Pre-Transformational Activity, Robert Duiker

Master of Education Program Theses

Technologically mediated communication which has flooded the worlds of North American people with information brings with it an increasing uncertainty about the reliability of this information. This flood of information delivers worldview and culture, completely unsorted, in very small increments to the hearts and minds of young people who are students in Christian schools. These small increments we call cultural dust. This study identifies technology, and specifically mass media and computer mediated communication, as a factor that has contributed to accelerated cultural change in the lives of students who attend Christian schools. Data collected through this action research project provides …

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Research Data Services At Singapore Management University: Engagement Summary Report, Terrence B. Bennett Jul 2010

Research Data Services At Singapore Management University: Engagement Summary Report, Terrence B. Bennett

Research Collection Library

In order for Singapore Management University to provide essential support to its researchers and remain competitive with peer institutions, the Li Ka Shing Library at SMU should initiate a distinct research data services function that provides, at minimum, identification and dissemination of data resources, instruction in finding and using data, and some technical assistance with the use of specialized software. In anticipation of emerging trends in data management, these base-level data services will enable SMU to be positioned for strategic growth—the progress of which is carefully aligned with limits to funding, staffing, and other resource allocations—in order to meet the …

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Summer 2010 Vol. 12 No.1, School Of Information Studies Jul 2010

Summer 2010 Vol. 12 No.1, School Of Information Studies

School of Information Studies - Newsletters

No abstract provided.

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Re-Examining Acts Of God, Jill M. Fraley Jul 2010

Re-Examining Acts Of God, Jill M. Fraley

Scholarly Articles

For more than three centuries, tort law has included the notion of an act of God as something caused naturally, beyond both man's anticipation and control. Historically, the doctrine applied to extraordinary manifestations of the forces of nature, including floods, earthquakes, blizzards, and hurricanes. Despite the significance of the doctrine, particularly in large-scale disasters, scholars rarely engage the act of God defense critically. However, recently, the doctrine has received more substantial criticism. Denis Binder argued that the doctrine should be repudiated as merely a restatement of existing negligence principles Joel Eagle criticized the doctrine, suggesting that it should not exclude …

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Insider Vol. 10 No. 4 Summer 2010, College Of Arts & Sciences Jul 2010

Insider Vol. 10 No. 4 Summer 2010, College Of Arts & Sciences

College of Arts and Sciences news

Special Awards Edition

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Socioeconomic Indicators That Matter For Population Health, Paula M. Lantz, Andrew Pritchard Jul 2010

Socioeconomic Indicators That Matter For Population Health, Paula M. Lantz, Andrew Pritchard

Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications

Increasing research and policy attention is being given to how the socioeconomic environment influences health. This article discusses potential indicators or metrics regarding the socioeconomic environment that could play a role in an incentive-based system for population health. Given the state of the research regarding the influence of socioeconomic contextual variables on health outcomes, the state of data and metrics for these variables at the local level, and the potential for program and policy intervention, we recommend a set of metrics related to the socioeconomic composition of a community (including poverty, unemployment, and public assistance rates); educational attainment and achievement; …

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Visions For The Future Of Water In Seyhan Basin, Turkey: A Backcasting Application, Erol H. Cakmak, Hasan Dudu, Ozan Eruygur, Metin Ger, Sema Onurlu, Özlem Tonguc Jul 2010

Visions For The Future Of Water In Seyhan Basin, Turkey: A Backcasting Application, Erol H. Cakmak, Hasan Dudu, Ozan Eruygur, Metin Ger, Sema Onurlu, Özlem Tonguc

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

This paper reports backcasting results on the future of water in the SeyhanBasin, Turkey. The participative backcasting methodology uses prior information obtainedfrom stakeholders about the present, future and estimated states of water to optimize timeuse during the implementation. The study involved a broad range of stakeholders spanningfrom central decision makers to farmers. Reliable scenarios exploiting all kinds ofinformation sources are crucial in developing dependable and feasible policy options totackle the challenges residing in water management issues. Perception of the current watersystem and a structured view of the future in the Seyhan Basin have been determined. Thedesirable goal has been set …

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From Landscape-Scale Models Of Forest Biodiversity Change Towards An Integrated Planning Tool – A Gui For Building Empirical Ecological Extrapolation Models Based On Land Cover Data –, Tobias Lung, Gertrud Schaab Jul 2010

From Landscape-Scale Models Of Forest Biodiversity Change Towards An Integrated Planning Tool – A Gui For Building Empirical Ecological Extrapolation Models Based On Land Cover Data –, Tobias Lung, Gertrud Schaab

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Spatially explicit models linking biological field data with remotely-sensed landcover data have become commonplace for landscape-scale biodiversity assessments, butthey usually neither consider time series data nor include future scenarios. Extrapolationmodels addressing these deficiencies for three keystone species/groups of the Kakamega-Nandi forests in western Kenya proved to be a suitable means for investigating the effectsof long-term land change processes on the development of forest biodiversity in space andtime. However, the experimental modelling design of the approaches is not consideredconvenient for a more comprehensive, interlinked assessment including morespecies/groups and also ecosystem functions and services, nor is it adequate for a stronglocal stakeholder …

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Modelling Urban Land Use Change Using Geographically Weighted Regression And The Implications For Sustainable Environmental Planning, Noresah Mohd Shariff, Sanjay Gairola, Anita Talib Jul 2010

Modelling Urban Land Use Change Using Geographically Weighted Regression And The Implications For Sustainable Environmental Planning, Noresah Mohd Shariff, Sanjay Gairola, Anita Talib

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

In this study we applied Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) approach to model urban landuse changes in Penang Island from 1990 to 2005, covering the period during which the Island has experiencedtremendous urban growth due to in migration from adjacent areas. Land use change has potential impacts on thephysical and social environment. We identified spatial variables describing environment, physical and socioeconomicfactors which are hypothesized to influence the change in the land use in the study area. An ordinaryleast squares regression (OLS) model is applied to the variables followed by a GWR model and the results arecompared. The results show that the …

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Letsmap Do Brasil - A Web-Based Planning Support Tool For Sediment Management In Western Central Brazil, Lorz Carsten, Fürst Christine, Pietzsch Katrin, Makeschin Franz Jul 2010

Letsmap Do Brasil - A Web-Based Planning Support Tool For Sediment Management In Western Central Brazil, Lorz Carsten, Fürst Christine, Pietzsch Katrin, Makeschin Franz

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

A central element of a sediment management plan for the Federal District ofBrasília, Western Central Brazil is a planning support tool that enables the user to test theeffects of land use changes on landscape processes and functions (LPF). In this paper, wepresent the web based tool Letsmap do Brasil. The tool has two principal interacting levels.The upper level contains information on effects of land use on LPF, i.e. runoff control,sediment retention, nitrogen availability, and agronomic value. The parameterized relationbetween land use and LPF is the core of the system. For each LPF a value specific to landuse has been assigned. …

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Pepperdine Magazine - Vol. 2, Iss. 1 (Spring 2010), Office Of Public Affairs, Pepperdine University Jul 2010

Pepperdine Magazine - Vol. 2, Iss. 1 (Spring 2010), Office Of Public Affairs, Pepperdine University

Pepperdine Magazine

Megan Huard, editor.

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