The role of the decision-making process on shoreline armoring: A case study in Quebec, Canada

2020 ◽  
Vol 198 ◽  
pp. 105358
Author(s):  
Philippe Sauvé ◽  
Pascal Bernatchez ◽  
Mathias Glaus
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Shoreline Armoring

scholarly journals Inteligencia y contrainteligencia militar frente a fallos y desafíos. El caso de Culiacán, México (2019)/ Fails and Challenges of Military Intelligence and Counterintelligence: Culiacan, Mexico (2019) as Case Study

2020 ◽  
pp. 37-56
Author(s):  
Paloma Mendoza Cortes
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Military Intelligence ◽  
Toma De Decisiones ◽  
Mexican Government

El presente artículo se deriva de la tesis doctoral El proceso de toma de decisiones en el Ejército Mexicano: la función de la Inteligencia Militar. La investigación es retomada para analizar la operación de captura de Ovidio Guzmán, en Culiacán, Sinaloa, México. Se confrontan fuentes de primera mano de inteligencia militar con información de fuentes abiertas y se determinan los posibles fallos de inteligencia y contrainteligencia que condujeron al gobierno mexicano a tomar la decisión de liberar a Ovidio Guzmán frente a los actos de violencia y al uso del ciberespacio por el crimen organizado para tal fin. A partir de la información consultada, se concluye que existió una falta de cooperación interagencial y fallos del Gabinete de Seguridad de México en el proceso de toma de decisiones en situaciones críticas. Abstract This analysis is based on the dissertation The Mexican Army decision-making process: The role of Military Intelligence. The original research is applied to the case of the Ovidio Guzmán capture operation in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico. First-hand sources of military intelligence are confronted with information from open sources to evaluate the possible intelligence and counterintelligence failures that can explain the Mexican government´s decision to release Ovidio Guzman after members of his cartel committed acts of extreme violence and exploited social media. Based on the sources consulted, the author concludes the key factors that led to the failure of the operation were the lack of inter-agency cooperation and deficiencies in the decision-making process by the Security Cabinet of Mexico.

scholarly journals The Act of Improvisation within the work of Tacita Dean

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Sneddon
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Art Practice ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Diamond Ring

This paper sets out to explore the practice of Tacita Dean and in particular the exhibition project, 'An Aside', 2005 in order to fully examine the notion of improvisation within visual art practice. Through this exhibition, Dean draws together a number of other artists that at first seem unrelated and made up of diverse objects in a deceptively provocative exhibition. By conducting a critical analysis of Dean's practice and considering her welcoming of chance, contingency, and chaos, the paper will develop a new understanding and awareness of how sagacity (defined here as "sage-like," or to have the wisdom to recognise something complex) and improvisation co-habit the creative process. By considering Dean's breadth of practice as a case study, we are provided with a number of projects that have initially 'failed,' presenting the artist with an opportunity to improvise. By bringing together 'Prisoner Pairs' (2008), 'Banewl' (1999) and 'Diamond Ring' (2002), Dean demonstrates the creative impulse and ability to respond to serendipitous discoveries and to allow the unimaginable. The paper considers the role of sagacity and its ability to be used as a framing device through which the decision-making process of the artist is revealed. Serendipity also appears to have a bearing on the artist's ability to improvise. As Dean has said, "uninvited disappointments which are unbelievably painful at the time become productive in hindsight." Finally, the paper will consider the relationship between sagacity, improvisation, serendipity, and the temporal, which is also a component within the case studies.

Do The Charecteristics Of Technology Lead To University Patents Being Unexploited?

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamariah Ismail ◽  
Wan Zaidi Wan Omar ◽  
Izaidin Abdul Majid
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Economic Potential ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
University Patents ◽  
The University ◽  
University Patent

Fungsi universiti dalam mengkomersilisasikan patent telah banyak dikaji oleh penulis. Setengah universiti telah berjaya mengkomersilisasikan paten mereka terutamanya dengan melesenkan kepada syarikat gergasi atau pun dengan menubuhkan kompeni spin–off. Walau bagaimanapun masih terdapat sebahagian paten universiti yang tidak dieksploitasikan. Kajian ini membincangkan apakah karekteristik paten yang tidak dikomersilisasikan. Sebuah universiti di Scotland telah digunakan sebagai kajian kes. Sepuluh jenis patent yang tidak diekploitasikan oleh universiti berkenaan telah dipilih untuk kajian. Penyelidik daripada paten tersebut telah ditemuduga dengan mendalam menggunakan soalan semi berstruktur. Temuduga telah direkod, ditranskrib, dan data telah dianalisis berdasarkan kepada setiap kes dan silang kes berbantukan Nvivo software. Dapatan menunjukkan sebab yang paling penting kenapa paten tidak dieksploitasikan adalah berkait rapat dengan teknologi itu sendiri. Teknologi didapati berada pada tahap pembangunan yang terlalu awal. Ini menyebabkan syarikat yang telah kukuh lebih berhati–hati untuk membangun dan memasarkan teknologi tersebut. Walau bagaimanapun terdapat teknologi yang mempunyai potensi untuk dieksploitasikan jika peruntukan disediakan untuk penyelidikan lanjut. Dalam kes yang lain pula setengah teknologi telah dipintas oleh teknologi yang lebih ke hadapan dan teknologi tersebut telah mendahului pasaran. Kurangnya motivasi di kalangan penyelidik–penyelidik untuk melihat inovasi mereka ke pasaran, kurangnya jaringan dan pemasaran produk oleh penyelidik dan pihak TTO, adalah juga menyebabkan ia tidak diekploitasikan. Mengkaji kenapa universiti paten tidak dieksploitasikan akan meningkatkan pemahaman tentang proses pengkomersilan bagi paten di universiti. Hasil kajian dapat membantu dalam proses membuat keputusan untuk mengkomersilisasikan hasil penyelidikan universiti. Pemahamam mengenai karekteristik atau ciri universiti paten yang mempunyai potensi nilai ekonomi yang tinggi hanya patut dipatenkan, dan ini akan mengurangi bilangan paten yang tidak dieksploitasikan. Kata kunci: Paten yang tidak diekploitasikan, pengkomersilisasi; universiti paten The role of universities in commercialising their patents has been studied extensively. Some universities have succeeded in commercialising their patents especially through the route of licensing to established companies or forming new spin–off companies. However, there are some university patents remained unexploited, which represent wastage to the universities. This paper discusses what are the features of some patented technologies that are not commercialised. A case study of a university in Scotland was used in this study. Ten patents which are not being exploited by the University were selected. The inventors of these technologies were interviewed in depth, using semistructured questionnaires. The interviews were recorded, transcribed and the data was analysed based on a case and cross case aided by Nvivo software. The findings show that the most significant reason why patents are not exploited is associated with the technologies themselves. The technologies were found to be at very early stage of development, thus established companies were wary of taking them to market. Lack of motivation among the inventors to see their inventions being exploited, lack of industry networking and marketing of the TTO and inventor are another important reason that led to the inventions unexploited. Studying why some university patents were not exploited will enhance the understanding of the process of commercialisation of university patents, which would help refine the decision making process of patenting. Understanding the characteristics of the university inventions that have high economic potential thus should seek patent protections would reduce the number of unexploited patents. Key words: Unexploited patents; commercialisation and university patent

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