Infrastructure decision-making: Opening up governance futures within techno-economic modelling

2022 ◽  
Vol 174 ◽  
pp. 121208
Author(s):  
Katherine Lovell ◽  
Jim Watson ◽  
Ralitsa Hiteva
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Economic Modelling ◽  
Opening Up

scholarly journals A salutary biotechnical approach for explosive identification and border patrol using electrophysiological signals

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.31) ◽  
pp. 106
Author(s):  
C Santhanakrishnan ◽  
T Peermeer Labbai ◽  
Shailesh S. Dudala ◽  
Y Sai Santhosh Nag
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Low Voltage ◽  
Underground Mines ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Infrared Sensors ◽  
Human Presence ◽  
Rf Receiver ◽  
Electrophysiological Signals ◽  
Opening Up

This paper visualizes a salutary approach to maneuver and implement a successful sensor embedded rover that could be used for the surveillance of harmful components like bombs and underground mines that usually contain embedded metallic shrapnel and avoid detonation owning to its light frame. In case of any hostile situation, rescue operations are performed by human and trained dogs in a very precarious pandemonium risking the chances of victimizing themselves. Therefore, to enhance the safety and celerity1 of any defensive op, the rover is controlled directly through bio-electrical signals which are spontaneous in decision making, tweaking their application by using the variations in Electroencephalographic (EEG) and Electrooculographic (EOG) readings in the blink of an eye. Subsequently, the raw mindwave-sensor data is imported into MATLAB, thru the NeuroSky Headset RF receiver, these values are interpreted to normalized ranges so that 4 directions or degrees of freedom shall be implemented, thus opening up possibilities of handsfree-operation. The rover includes Passive-Infrared sensors (PIR) which are used for detecting human presence, motion/mobility and for detecting the illegal entry of intruders across any defensive line. The ATMega 328P microcontroller onboard the Arduino is used to control the sensors on board the while the ZigBee modules are used for ultra-low voltage transmitting and receiving sensor data. Furthermore, an ultrasonic sensor to analyze terrain and measure the distance from impending intrusions vastly improves the rover's mobility on challenging terrains. 

scholarly journals Problematising the restoration of trust through transparency: Focusing on quoting

Journalism ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 146488492093423
Author(s):  
Lauri Haapanen
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Impression Management ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Language Use ◽  
News Item ◽  
Fundamental Change ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Normative Considerations ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
Linguistic Process

Transparency is seen as a panacea for a major problem facing journalism and journalists today, that is, the loss of trust and credibility. However, the scholarly literature has focused primarily on normative considerations, without providing much empirical data that could confirm what are widely assumed to be the positive effects of transparency. In this paper, I argue, first, that editorial texts, in their various manifestations, are the most potent of the various established means of displaying transparency for opening up the production of news item. However, I then draw on my linguistic, process-focused research on quoting and highlight challenges this process creates for the use of editorial texts in the pursuit of transparency. It turns out that conveying the essentials of decision-making that occurs during newswriting requires profound understanding and awareness of the interplay between modalities, co-texts and contexts of language use. Finally, implementing the norm of transparency has allegedly led to the transformation of a well-intentioned goal into an institutional myth, leading journalists – constrained, for example, by the mechanism of impression management – to disclose only socially acceptable practices. Therefore, I conclude by arguing for transdisciplinary research in which scholars research ‘on, for and with’ (Perrin, 2018) other stakeholders in order to bring about a fundamental change in the culture of transparency in journalism.

scholarly journals Practising open innovation: a framework of reference

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 1311-1336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cinzia Battistella ◽  
Alberto Felice De Toni ◽  
Elena Pessot
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Exploratory Survey ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Opening Up

Purpose This work provides new insights into possible managerial choices and development directions for practising open innovation (OI) in companies. The purpose of this paper is to explore the different practices, actors and tools adopted for opening up the innovation process, in particular, by small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that are still facing difficulties in its implementation. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on a literature review and an exploratory survey of a sample of 85 European SMEs. Findings The study identifies a total of 23 practices, 20 actors and 11 tools involved in the OI processes of companies. It highlights, through literature and empirical evidence, how different combinations of practices, actors and tools are put into practice. Research limitations/implications The developed framework offers new insights both from OI literature and from practitioners’ point of view into the supporting decision-making processes regarding which practices to implement, tools to adopt and actors to collaborate with. A wider investigation is recommended to include more variables to define the differences among the combinations of practices, actors and tools in terms of types of innovation (e.g. product, process, etc.), the openness degree and other contextual factors. Originality/value The originality of this paper is based on the fact that it focusses on a practical perspective of OI implementation, building a framework of reference from previous literature and empirical investigation.

Afterword

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thibaut Raboin
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Opening Up

The afterword reflects on the book’s findings and asks: what are the changes in the structure of public discourses about LGBT asylum in the UK that could empower asylum seekers, allow for a greater fairness in decision-making, and decolonise queer hospitality? It identifies several issues in public discourses, starting with a queer/race fragmentation which makes it harder for the voices that do not articulate their politics using the dominant liberal or universalist modes to be heard and disseminated in public arenas. A second suggestion is that freer testimonial practices should be fostered so that asylum-seekers can re-appropriate the hermeneutical function of self-narration in order to start a process of self-crafting that eschews homonationalist narrative. Finally, opening up public arenas to the complex and often challenging stories told in queer refugee performance could also enable the emergence of political propositions that are anti-racist, anti-homo and transphobic and attentive to the particular challenges of migrant experiences at the nexus of political and administrative subjection, ethno-racial, gendered and sexualised violence.

The 1997 White Paper: a symbolic victory?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Worthy
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
White Paper ◽  
Right To Know ◽  
Connected Group ◽  
Rapid Process ◽  
Government Decision ◽  
The World ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Levels Of Support ◽  
Opening Up

In the UK FOI policy developed in a series of phases. This chapter covers the first stage of the development covered the first eight months, from Labour entering power in May 1997 to the publication of the White Paper Your Right to Know in December 1997. At this point, FOI appeared to avoid the ‘symbolic’ trap and overt conflict so frequently seen elsewhere. A small, well-connected group of crusaders inside government took advantage of their own power and used a favourable context to neutralise opposition, with a rapid process lending momentum to a far-Reaching policy. Their efforts resulted in a hugely symbolic White Paper, rapidly formulated, that offered one of the most radical FOI regimes yet seen in the world. The vision was of a political redistribution of power opening up even the very centre of government decision-making (Terrill 2000). However, doubts remained over the policy, its workability and the levels of support for it in government.

Opening up Decision Making: The View from the Black Stool

1995 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 260-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Langley ◽  
Henry Mintzberg ◽  
Patricia Pitcher ◽  
Elizabeth Posada ◽  
Jan Saint-Macary
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Opening Up

scholarly journals Principled Utility Discounting Under Risk

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kian Mintz-Woo
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Discount Rate ◽  
Probability Discounting ◽  
Normative Reasons ◽  
Economic Modelling ◽  
Discount Rates ◽  
Decision Making Under Risk ◽  
Model Independent ◽  
Future Utility

Abstract Utility discounting in intertemporal economic modelling has been viewed as problematic, both for descriptive and normative reasons. However, positive utility discount rates can be defended normatively; in particular, it is rational for future utility to be discounted to take into account model-independent outcomes when decision-making under risk. The resultant values will tend to be smaller than descriptive rates under most probability assignments. This also allows us to address some objections that intertemporal considerations will be overdemanding. A principle for utility discount rates is suggested which is rooted in probability discounting. Utility discounting is defended against objections from Parfit (1984) and Broome (2005); Broome (2012). A sample utility discount rate is estimated.

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