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Mississippi Encyclopedia Debuts Online, Rebecca Lauck Cleary

University of Mississippi News

Online version made possible through partnership with Mississippi Humanities Council

The Opioid Crisis In Rural And Small Town America, Shannon M. Monnat, Khary K. Rigg

Carsey Publications

In this brief, authors Shannon Monnat and Khary Rigg examine rural versus urban differences in opioid mortality and identify challenges for dealing with the opioid crisis in rural areas. They report that, in 2016, opioid mortality rates were higher in urban than in rural counties, particularly in the Midwest, but rates have increased more in rural than in urban counties over the past two decades. Since 2010, the share of drug overdose deaths involving prescription opioids has declined, but the share of deaths involving heroin and synthetic opioids has spiked in both rural and urban areas. The most dramatic increases …

International Energy Geopolitics, Bert Chapman

Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

Overview of international energy geopolitical trends. Emphasizes the importance of the Persian Gulf, South China Sea, East China Sea, Russia, and the Arctic to U.S. and international economic and strategic developments. Stresses the continuing importance of fossil fuels in domestic and international energy consumption, the variety of energy sources being used by various global regions, the potential for military conflict over access to natural resources, and how emerging energy leaders will determine global energy, environmental, and international security developments.

Spatial Distribution Of Bactrocera Dorsalis And Thaumatotibia Leucotreta In Smallholder Avocado Orchards Along Altitudinal Gradient Of Taita Hills And Mount Kilimanjaro, James J. Odanga, Samira Mohamed, Sizah Mwalusepo, Florence Olubayo, Richard Nyankanga, Fathiya Khamis, Ivan Rwomushana, Tino Johansson, Sunday Ekesi

All Peer-Reviewed Publications

Avocado (Persea americana) fruits are an important source of income and a nutritious food for small-scale growers and other stakeholders involved in farming along the Afrotropical highlands of Taita Hills and Mount Kilimanjaro in Kenya and Tanzania, respectively. Avocado fruits are infested by several insect pests, namely the Asian invasive fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel) (Diptera: Tephritidae), and the false codling moth, Thaumatotibia leucotreta Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). However, there is inadequate information on the distribution patterns of these pests in small-scale avocado cropping systems in the East African highlands. This study was initiated to generate a spatial distribution map of …

Repatriation And Reparations: Land-Based Indigenous And Black Futurity, Olivia Klutse

Undergraduate Project Award

Olivia’s project was sparked by scholars from philosophy and indigenous studies and the realization that “there is a deficit of literature which examines the conjoined economic and social liberation of Black and Indigenous people” that might lead to possibilities of collaboration and transformative justice. This literature review set the stage for her subsequent Sociology honors thesis project. Olivia reflected on her growth as a researcher describing her success with creating a structure for her research process, the satisfaction of serendipitous and intentional research (including reaching out to scholars in the field) and discovering new services in the library. Dr. Rachel …

Envisioning And Evolving: Future Evolution Of The Concept And The Practice Of Service Design, Daniela Sangiorgi, Lia Patricio, Francesco Zurlo

ServDes Conference Series

Service Design is evolving from an emerging field, breaking new ground in the design and service research areas, to a more mature stage, developing a set of fundamental concepts, methods and principles that can provide the foundation for its further significance and impact in both research and practice. This paper reflects on the roots and recent evolution of service design in terms of fundamental concepts, methods and outcomes, taking into account the papers in the Envisioning and Evolving track. It considers how the growing interrelation with close fields of service research is introducing useful “contaminations” and reports how the Service …

User Perceptions Of Design Games As Settings For Organizational Learning: Case Topaasia, Otso Hannula, J. Tuomas Harviainen

ServDes Conference Series

Design games are a co-design tool used in diverse environments including service design, improving organizational processes and creating strategies. In this paper, we expand the role of design games to include organizational learning and outline a theoretical framework for analysing how design games provide a creative space which supports processes of expansive learning (Engeström, 2001) within organizations. We illustrate the framework by presenting preliminary results about the use of Topaasia, a design game for supporting co-development of organizational practices. Based on the user perception of Topaasia, we argue that design games can support organizational learning even in the absence of …

Servdews: The Service Design Workshop On Utilizing Multi-Viewpoint And Diversity Of Participants Based-On Human Centered Approach For R&D Specialists, Koki Kusano, Atsunobu Kimura, Masayuki Ihara

ServDes Conference Series

In the highly volatile and uncertain world, integrating multi-viewpoints such as human-centered, technological and business viewpoints is necessary to design attractive and competitive service concepts. Generating synergy by combining diverse opinions from various stakeholders is also important. However, it is difficult, especially for technology researchers and developers who are design novices, to understand the importance of this approach in a short period of time. Our solution, ServDeWS, is a novel two-day workshop that tackles these problems. It has three main features as follows. 1. Selecting a target user from workshop participants and closely assessing the user’s situation, 2. Dividing work …

Service Design In The Later Project Phases: Exploring The Service Design Handover And Introducing A Service Design Roadmap, Frida Almqvist

ServDes Conference Series

Within practice and in academia, service design has placed a great focus on the early stages of the innovation process, while there has been limited focus on the later phases. This paper examines the later phases, focusing upon the handover from service design consultants, before leaving a project. This is identified as a critical aspect of the later phases and this paper critically examines what a service design handover is, and might be. Theoretical perspectives are combined with interviews of thirteen respondents on producing and receiving handovers, in the context of Norwegian service development projects in public and healthcare sectors. …

Starting Up Communities In Housing Spaces, Giordana Ferri

ServDes Conference Series

The service presented consists of an enabling system called the “Community Start-up Process” which is made up of a guided process together with various tools (such as a web platform, “social” cards, and “design/generation” cards). The service is aimed at assisting groups of residents involved in collaborative social housing projects to manage and design spaces and services.

Service Design For Community Based Tourism - The Brazilian Case Study, Priscilla Ramalho Lepre

ServDes Conference Series

This article aims to demonstrate how low-income community and underdeveloped northeastern Brazil are organized independently to provide products and services of Community Based Tourism. For this we use the experience of Porto de Pedras community, that with the creation of a residents' association, organized the observation tourism Manatee Navy in its territory. In sequence presents the partial results of the case study started in this community by Design course at the Federal University of Alagoas. Finally, we discuss how service design can take advantage of this autonomy to help promote the development of these communities and the strengthening of the …

Civic Engagement As Participation In Designing For Services, Lara Salinas, Adam Thorpe, Alison Prendiville, Sarah Rhodes

ServDes Conference Series

In spite of the increased interest on collaborative and participatory design approaches to design in public sector, less attention has been paid to the contribution of design into civic engagement in local decision-making. This paper takes an organisational perspective to explore the role of civic engagement activities in local decision-making cycles, drawing on literature and insights from a workshop with local authorities’ representatives and art and design academics. Zooming out from specific civic engagement activities, the paper outlines local decision-making as a design process, proposes four scenarios, and provides insights into better understanding the decision-making cycles that lead to service …

Maps As Participatory Platform: Towards To Open Data And Transport Service, Hyunyim Park

ServDes Conference Series

This paper develops a new perspective on maps and mapmaking moving interacting with Open Data and transport service. It outlines the implications of a design case study in which maps become democratized and start to function as a participatory platform. This leads to the argument that maps enabled by technology means that the nature of maps has changed and should be considered as a complex value co-creation system with users’ experience and knowledge at their centre. Based on the proposition that user experience and the complexity of the value co-creation system are at the core of service design practice, this …

Exploring The Future Of Consumer Retail, Jim Budd, Paul Della Maggiora, Florian Vollmer

ServDes Conference Series

This paper describes an academic/industry partnership that leveraged Service Design to explore the impact of online shopping to brick and mortar retailers. NCR, a global software company, sought a partnership with the School of Industrial Design at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) to understand how different aspects of design could be used to respond to rapidly shifting consumer experience expectations. Both partners benefitted from the collaboration beyond their original expectations. Taking an iterative multi-semester approach, the effort yielded insights beyond the original intent, resulting in a broader application of Service Design to NCR’s sales approach, providing overall more …

Making Sense Of Data In A Service Design Education, Amalia De Götzen, Luca Simeone, Nicola Morelli, Péter Kun

ServDes Conference Series

Digital data has a considerable role in our everyday lives: we use publicly available data to find out about weather, traffic or pollution, we track ourselves and we release our private data to monitor our health and to get advices from our favourite apps, we relate on services that digest big amount of data to predict what will happen next. In this era of “living services”, what kind of data literacy is needed to equip a service designer? Is there a need to rethink of service design tools so that data will be explicitly taken into account in the design …

Perceived Action Potential: A Strong Concept In Development, Vanessa Rodrigues, Johan Blomkvist, Stefan Holmlid

ServDes Conference Series

Service encompasses multiple interaction processes among many different actors. Comprehending the subtleties of what drives actors resource integration activities could therefore be valuable when designing for service. However, these nuances are not necessarily always captured in early representations such as prototypes of service due to variation in individual interpretation of situations. This paper draws on strong concepts from interaction design as a generative intermediate-level form of knowledge, to conceptualise perceived action potential (PAP) as a strong concept through the use of illustrative examples. PAP refers to the subjective interpretation of an individual’s (own) scope of action in new or unforeseen …

The Phd Special Seminar On Service Design: Unfolding A Proof Of Concept, Annalinda De Rosa, Camilo Ayala Garcìa, Stefano Parisi

ServDes Conference Series

The PhD Special Seminar of “ServDes.2018 Proof of Concept” Conference (June 18-20, 2018, Politecnico di Milano) has been a unique space dedicated to PhD candidates and Early Career Researchers within the Conference. It aimed to be an occasion of reflection on the different nuances that guide service design research to further discussion on the topics launched by the conference, conceived with the ambition to build a connection with the contents and the structure of the conference itself and, especially, with the ambition to strengthen the growing international community around the Service Design discipline. It has been curated and managed by …

Learning To Design In Public Sector Organisations: A Critique Towards Effectiveness Of Design Integration, Stefan Holmlid, Lisa Malmberg

ServDes Conference Series

There has been a surge the last decade in the public sector to strive for transformation processes driven by design, to integrate design in the organisations and develop design capability and design culture. We draw on experiences from a range of projects, that are summarized in the form of exemplars. As analytic lenses, we use two constructivist learning theories, situated learning and socio-cultural learning, with associated concepts. Through these lenses we can show how the learning processes in the projects we have followed is not enough to drive integration of design or develop design capability. We can also show that …

Fostering A Sustained Design Capability In Non-Design-Intensive Organizations: A Knowledge Transfer Perspective, Filipe Lima, Daniela Sangiorgi

ServDes Conference Series

Service designers have been increasingly involved in the transmission of design knowledge to enable non-professional designers to apply design skills and approaches in their work. However, the understanding of the factors that favor the effective transmission of design knowledge is limited, making the goal to achieve a sustainable capability in organizations a challenge. In this paper, the authors adopt a knowledge transfer lens to identify the key determinants in the transference of knowledge in organizations and conduct a preliminary review of how they have been addressed in design research literature. This review revealed an unbalanced interpretation with limited consideration of …

Service Design And The Co-Production Of Public Policies: The Case Of Redactiva, Cristobal Tello, Carola Zurob, Sol Pacheco, Sebastián Negrete

ServDes Conference Series

The role of a citizen is not to be a beneficiary of a service delivered by a public agency, but a co-producer of the same service. Interaction between the public sector and citizens therefore needs to be carefully designed in order to accomplish a co-production of public policies. Service Design could contribute to a better design of this interaction and co-production between the two parties. A case study of the project RedActiva in Chile, focused on promoting and facilitating urban mobilization of the elderly, highlights some of the contributions that Service Design could provide to public policy design from a …

Large Scale Climate Oscillation Impacts On Temperature, Precipitation And Land Surface Phenology In Central Asia, Kirsten M. De Beurs, Geoffrey Henebry, Braden C. Owsley, Irina N. Sokolik

GSCE Faculty Publications

Central Asia has been rapidly changing in multiple ways over the past few decades. Increases in temperature and likely decreases in precipitation in Central Asia as the result of global climate change are making one of the most arid regions in the world even more susceptible to large-scale droughts. Global climate oscillations, such as the El Ni ̃no–Southern Oscillation, have previously been linked to observed weather patterns in Central Asia. However, until now it has been unclear how the different climate oscillations act simultaneously to affect the weather and subsequently the vegetated land surface in Central Asia.We fit well-established land …

Investigating The Impact Of Internationally Acquired Qualifications On Labour Market Performance: The Case Of Brazil, Charles Alves De Castro

Articles

The aim of this study is to examine the labour market performance of Brazilian students who have acquired international qualifications in the areas of engineering and science. A comprehensive analysis of the literature review demonstrates the importance of international qualifications covering both their benefits and challenges. The gaps found in the literature review are also discussed, as well as the need for a more concrete theoretical framework about the subject. The data used in this research was gathered by semi-structured one-to-one interviews conducted in both person and through telephone. The participants consisted of Brazilian students who have acquired international qualifications …

Meteorology Students Chase Storms In Tornado Alley Featured In Us News, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

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Book Review: Fundamentals Of International Aviation, Alan Bender

International Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics, and Aerospace

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Hydro-Stochastic Interpolation Coupling With The Budyko Approach For Prediction Of Mean Annual Runoff, Ning Qiu, Xi Chen, Qi Hu, Jintao Liu, Richao Huang, Man Gao

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

The hydro-stochastic interpolation method based on traditional block Kriging has often been used to predict mean annual runoff in river basins. A caveat in such a method is that the statistic technique provides little physical insight into relationships between the runoff and its external forcing, such as the climate and land cover. In this study, the spatial runoff is decomposed into a deterministic trend and deviations from it caused by stochastic fluctuations. The former is described by the Budyko method (Fu’s equation) and the latter by stochastic interpolation. This coupled method is applied to spatially interpolate runoff in the Huaihe …

Eastern Washington University Commencement Program, 2018, Eastern Washington University

Commencement Programs

Program for Eastern Washington University's spring commencement in 2018

Acculturation And Cross-Cultural Adaptation Among Refugees: The Moderating Role Of Emotions, Ezdehar Z. Alsahow

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

As a result of venturing across language and culture boundaries, individuals may

be exposed to different ways of living and thinking in which may trigger changes in the

way they conceptualize themselves and others. However, such experiences are not

identical for everyone, and the circumstances facing the crisis of refugees would appear

to be exceptionally difficult.

This paper aimed to address refugees’ attempt to acculturate and integrate into a

new society by examining potential moderating factors of emotional processes. The study

focuses on anger, anxiety, pride, and guilt; emotions that refugees carried with them

when they arrived to the new …

Understanding Asean : An Alternative Approach To International Relations Theory In Asia, Ryan Grimstad Driver

Dissertations and Theses

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was originally formed in 1967 by five members as a means to promote peaceful relations and prevent the spread of communist influence within their sovereign states. Since then the regional organization has doubled in size and now includes communist states amongst its membership as it seeks to establish itself as a strong economic and political hub for the greater region as two large military powers, China and the United States, vie for hegemonic influence. The American presence in the region must be governed by a firm understanding of ASEAN's unique nature and goals. …

Constraints Of Naval Geography On Soviet Naval Power, Clyde A. Smith

Naval War College Review

The element of geography poses clear limitations on both the development and employment of naval powers by the Soviet Union. Failure on the part of naval planners to recognize and exploit this strategic advantage would be a disservice to the defense budget, the national economy, and the United States citizenry.

What We Do For A Living: Tapping Into Workforce Data, Melodee Lane

South Dakota Demography Conference

This session is to discover how workforce data available from the state’s Labor Market Information Center can supplement and add greater value to other demographic information.