Development of Coordination and Control in the Mentally Handicapped

This chapter discusses governance dilemmas that are often overlooked in studies that do not encompass the ecology of organization in public governance. The chapter discusses how coordination structures may counteract each other in multilevel systems of government. The ambition of the chapter is twofold: Firstly, a coordination dilemma is theoretically and empirically illustrated by the seeming incompatibility between a more direct (interconnected) and sectorally specialized implementation structure in the multilevel EU administrative system and trends towards strengthening coordination and control within nation states. Secondly, the chapter discusses organizational arrangements that may enable governance systems to live with the coordination dilemma in practice. This coordination dilemma seems to have been largely ignored in the literature on EU network governance and national ‘joined-up government’ respectively.

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Bureaucratic Structure and Authority: Coordination and Control in 254 Government Agencies.Marshall W. Meyer

American Journal of Sociology ◽

10.1086/225737 ◽

1974 ◽

Vol 79 (6) ◽

pp. 1552-1553

Author(s):

James J. Noell

Keyword(s):

Bureaucratic Structure ◽

And Control ◽

Coordination And Control

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Bio-inspired Coordination and Control of Autonomous Vehicles in Future Manufacturing and Goods Transportation

IFAC-PapersOnLine ◽

10.1016/j.ifacol.2020.12.2812 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 53 (2) ◽

pp. 10861-10866

Author(s):

Constantin F. Caruntu ◽

Carlos M. Pascal ◽

Anca Maxim ◽

Ovidiu Pauca

Keyword(s):

Autonomous Vehicles ◽

And Control ◽

Coordination And Control

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Modelling global computations with Klaim

Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences ◽

10.1098/rsta.2008.0148 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 366 (1881) ◽

pp. 3737-3745 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Rocco De Nicola ◽

Michele Loreti

Keyword(s):

Distributed Systems ◽

Formal Semantics ◽

Wide Area ◽

Wide Area Networks ◽

Qualitative And Quantitative ◽

Global Computing ◽

New Models ◽

And Control ◽

Tuple Spaces ◽

Coordination And Control

A new area of research, known as Global Computing, is by now well established. It aims at defining new models of computation based on code and data mobility over wide-area networks with highly dynamic topologies, and at providing infrastructures to support coordination and control of components originating from different, possibly untrusted, fault-prone, malicious or selfish sources. In this paper, we present our contribution to the field of Global Computing that is centred on Kernel Language for Agents Interaction and Mobility ( Klaim ). Klaim is an experimental language specifically designed to programme distributed systems consisting of several mobile components that interact through multiple distributed tuple spaces. We present some of the key notions of the language and discuss how its formal semantics can be exploited to reason about qualitative and quantitative aspects of the specified systems.

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Terrain Adaptive Vehicles

Journal of Vibration and Acoustics ◽

10.1115/1.2838649 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 117 (B) ◽

pp. 107-112 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

K. J. Waldron

Keyword(s):

Reference List ◽

Central Feature ◽

Coordination Problem ◽

Technical Problems ◽

Vehicle Type ◽

Variable Configuration ◽

And Control ◽

Wheeled Vehicles ◽

Coordination And Control ◽

Principal Elements

Research on walking vehicles and variable configuration wheeled vehicles is reviewed. The central feature of the vehicles discussed is terrain adaptive capability. The principal elements of the technical problems of coordination and control are discussed for each vehicle type. Examples of each vehicle type are discussed and an extensive reference list is provided. Although the article is primarily a review article, it contains a new discussion of the coordination problem of robotic mechanisms.

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The Effect of Group Counseling on Educable Mentally Retarded Boys’ Self Concepts

Council review ◽

10.1177/001440296903500503 ◽

1969 ◽

Vol 35 (5) ◽

pp. 359-366 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Philip H. Mann ◽

James D. Beaber ◽

Milton D. Jacobson

Keyword(s):

Group Counseling ◽

Mentally Retarded ◽

The Self ◽

Self Concept ◽

Control Groups ◽

Mentally Handicapped ◽

Significant Difference ◽

Educable Mentally Retarded ◽

And Control ◽

Significant Factors

The effects of group counseling on the self concepts of young educable mentally handicapped boys were studied, along with the variables of anxiety, deportment and achievement in reading and arithmetic as rated by teachers, attendance, IQ, and age. Results indicated that those who received group counseling tended to exhibit greater improvement in self concept, more reduction in anxiety, and better grades in deportment and the academic subjects of reading and arithmetic, than those who did not receive the counseling. No significant difference was found between experimental and control groups in attendance. Age and IQ were not found to be significant factors in the counseled group.

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