Participatory strategies for information exchange

1990 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 153-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Francis ◽  
James King ◽  
Jerry DeWitt ◽  
James Bushnell ◽  
Leo Lucas
Keyword(s):  
Information Exchange ◽  
Sound Production ◽  
Cropping Systems ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Biological Interactions ◽  
Agricultural Industry ◽  
Environmentally Sound ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Individual Farm ◽  
Collaborative Efforts

AbstractComplexity and rapid change in the agricultural industry are pushing us toward more participatory systems of information development and exchange. These changes are driven by a rapidly evolving information environment, with a multiplicity of sources and different clients, and by a technological revolution in communications equipment. At the same time, scientists and farmers are becoming increasingly aware of the complex biological interactions that occur in cropping systems and how these are connected with the overall ecosystem. We are expanding our time and space frame of reference. To address tomorrow's challenges, it will be important to blend the efforts in research and extension, to include farmers as full participants in the planning, execution, and interpretation of experiments, to explore new directions such as model farms and master farmers, and to develop creative educational approaches to encourage practical problem solving. Collaborative efforts of universities, industry, farmer groups, and environmental organizations will be needed to fully empower the individual farm manager to make rational and environmentally sound production decisions in the future.

scholarly journals What happens when the nuclear power plant goes? Social and economic consequences of dismantling for the site and its population

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 265-266
Author(s):  
Caroline Kramer
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Operating Time ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Intention To Leave ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Power Station ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
The Individual

Abstract. This project deals with the question of what the overall social and economic consequences of dismantling a nuclear power station are for the population and the site. Various disciplines and specialist fields are concerned with questions that touch on the topic of dismantling nuclear technical facilities; however, there are so far no research projects that examined these processes from social scientific, geographic and engineering scientific perspectives. This article concentrates predominantly on the former perspective of the dismantling. Within the framework of this project the affected population and experts from the communities were asked how they deal with the dismantling of the nuclear power stations, which were triggered by the rapid change in energy policy following the accident in Fukushima in 2011. It became clear that there were various strategies for dealing with this process depending on the location. This was the reason to follow up the question of coping with this process at different locations. It could be shown, for example, that the consequences of this event were essentially determined by how the community was already positioned beforehand, e.g. whether the economic situation was a monostructure or whether long-term considerations about the future had already been made during the operating time of the power station. At the individual level, the “prerequisites” in the sense of individual value orientation and the spatially related identity, were also essentially responsible for how the risks of the dismantling and the further development of the community were perceived and evaluated. Furthermore, it was compiled from where the people extracted their information, which sources had a high or low credibility, which worries they have with respect to the near future and whether they have the intention to leave the community. In this project it became clear that there were examples of best practice with respect to dealing with this rapid and fundamental change at the locations.

The Twelfth Man? Some Unlikely Connections Between Manchester City and Revolutionary Cuba

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-116
Author(s):  
PAR KUMARASWAMI
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Literary Culture ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Constitutive Relationship ◽  
Football Club ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Moral Force ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Mass Participation ◽  
Manchester City

This essay takes two cultural phenomena that are not normally compared, UK football culture and Cuban literary culture, as the foundation for a reflection on the crucial role that mass participation plays in each. ‘The twelfth man’ - a term that usually refers to the home fans that impel a team to victory - is employed here as a metaphor to describe the cognitive, corporeal, affective and moral force of mass physical participation and its impact on the individual, the collective and the institution, be that a global football club or contemporary Cuban society. The essay advocates that paying attention to the dialogic and mutually constitutive relationship between individual, collective and institution, a relationship based simultaneously on identification and differentiation, is key to the harmonization of interests that can underpin the continued effectiveness of any cultural phenomenon, especially in times of rapid change.

4.3 Integration with Management

1981 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 131-135
Author(s):  
J. B. Kilkenny
Keyword(s):  
Dairy Cows ◽  
Reliable Data ◽  
Sufficient Information ◽  
Basic Information ◽  
Management Decisions ◽  
Essential Ingredient ◽  
Computerized Records ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Individual Farm ◽  
Basic Level

Three obvious statements but well worth repeating: “Computers are only an aid to summarizing information for use in assisting management decisions”; “Records are only of any use if they are used — they are not an end in themselves”; and “No point having sophisticated computerized management aids if the basic information is not available and if only decisions at a simple level are to be made”.Amongst dairy and pig producers, the need for keeping records is well established and probably over 40% of all dairy cows and pigs in Britain are involved in an enterprise recording scheme. By contrast, all too few beef and sheep producers currently keep any detailed computerized records in an organized way. It is estimated that only about 2% of all commercial beef and sheep are involved in an enterprise recording scheme. Good basic records are an essential ingredient to any more sophisticated management aid because these need to be based on relevant reliable data for individual situations. The need to use computers and their value on the individual farm is dependent upon having sufficient information to make it worthwhile employing them. The sophistication of management aids required for enterprises will be determined by the level of recording already involved. It is obvious that the requirements for beef and sheep producers are at a much more basic level than for many pig and dairy producers.

scholarly journals Quantifying the Information Flow between Ghana Stock Market Index and Its Constituents Using Transfer Entropy

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Prince Mensah Osei ◽  
Anokye M. Adam
Keyword(s):  
Stock Market ◽  
Information Flow ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Transfer Entropy ◽  
Stock Market Index ◽  
Insurance Sector ◽  
Market Index ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Effective Transfer

We quantify the strength and the directionality of information transfer between the Ghana stock market index and its component stocks as well as observe the same among the individual stocks on the market using transfer entropy. The information flow between the market index and its components and among individual stocks is measured by the effective transfer entropy of the daily logarithm returns generated from the daily market index and stock prices of 32 stocks ranging from 2nd January 2009 to 16th February 2018. We find a bidirectional and unidirectional flow of information between the GSE index and its component stocks, and the stocks dominate the information exchange. Among the individual stocks, SCB is the most active stock in the information exchange as it is the stock that receives the highest amount of information, but the most informative source is EGL (an insurance company) that has the highest net information outflow while the most information sink is PBC that has the highest net information inflow. We further categorize the stocks into 9 stock market sectors and find the insurance sector to be the largest source of information which confirms our earlier findings. Surprisingly, the oil and gas sector is the information sink. Our results confirm the fact that other sectors including oil and gas mitigate their risk exposures through insurance companies and are always expectant of information originating from the insurance sector in relation to regulatory compliance issues. It is our firm conviction that this study would allow stakeholders of the market to make informed buy, sell, or hold decisions.

Rural “expert” system

1987 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 37-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rhea Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Expert System ◽  
Delivery System ◽  
Gifted Students ◽  
Rural Teachers ◽  
Course Objectives ◽  
Report System ◽  
Individual Needs ◽  
The Individual ◽  
University Course ◽  
Collaborative Efforts

A university course offered to rural teachers of the gifted was the medium through which a parent/teacher organization was formed. The Respond/Read/Replicate/Report System was used to develop course objectives, methods, and evaluative means reflective of the individual needs of the teachers, their gifted students, and their parents in rural Madison, Florida. The unique characteristics of the delivery system and the unusual collaborative efforts of university and community officials are described.

scholarly journals Empathy and Community in the Age of Refugees: Petzold’s Radical Translation of Seghers’ Transit

Arts ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 118
Author(s):  
Margarete J. Landwehr
Keyword(s):  
Rapid Change ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Fictional World ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Refugees ◽  
Similar Vein ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Globalized World

Petzold’s film constitutes a radical translation of Seghers’ novel by transforming her tale of political refugees in Vichy France into an existential allegory depicting the fluidity of identities and relationships in a globalized world. The transitory existence of Petzold’s war refugee serves as an extreme example of the instability of modern life, which allows spectators to identify and empathize with migrants’ unpredictable journeys. Moreover, the director conveys the universality of his protagonist’s story by portraying him as an Everyman bereft of distinctive personality traits, by intermingling the past (Seghers’ plot) with the present (contemporary settings), and by situating his experiences in non-descript, liminal “non-places.” Both thematically and aesthetically, narrative is portrayed as establishing a community in an unstable contemporary world. Like the anti-hero of many modern Bildungsromane, Petzold’s protagonist fails to develop a stable identity and enduring friendships that anchor him in a community, but he creates his own family of listeners through his storytelling. In a similar vein, the film’s voice-over/narrator that bridges the fictional world with that of the audience underscores the film’s (and the novel’s) central theme: in a world of rapid change and mobility, the individual who may not be able to establish a stable identity or relationships, can create, as a narrator, a community of empathic listeners.

scholarly journals Adaptation Mechanisms of Small Ruminants to Environmental Heat Stress

Animals ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haile Berihulay ◽  
Adam Abied ◽  
Xiaohong He ◽  
Lin Jiang ◽  
Yuehui Ma
Keyword(s):  
Heat Stress ◽  
Sound Production ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Small Ruminants ◽  
Extreme Environment ◽  
Natural Immunity ◽  
Rural People ◽  
Growth Production ◽  
Adaptation To Heat ◽  
Environmentally Sound

Small ruminants are the critical source of livelihood for rural people to the development of sustainable and environmentally sound production systems. They provided a source of meat, milk, skin, and fiber. The several contributions of small ruminants to the economy of millions of rural people are however being challenged by extreme heat stress difficulties. Heat stress is one of the most detrimental factors contributing to reduced growth, production, reproduction performance, milk quantity and quality, as well as natural immunity, making animals more vulnerable to diseases and even death. However, small ruminants have successfully adapted to this extreme environment and possess some unique adaptive traits due to behavioral, morphological, physiological, and largely genetic bases. This review paper, therefore, aims to provide an integrative explanation of small ruminant adaptation to heat stress and address some responsible candidate genes in adapting to thermal-stressed environments.

SWOT Analysis and Research on the Informatization Application Model of the Agricultural Industry Cluster

2014 ◽  
Vol 571-572 ◽  
pp. 1105-1109
Author(s):  
Juan Wu
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Industrial Clusters ◽  
Frame Structure ◽  
Industry Cluster ◽  
Agricultural Industry ◽  
Information Platform ◽  
Modern Information Technology ◽  
Information Technology Services ◽  
The Individual

The informatization of agricultural industry cluster promotes agricultural modernization. However, agricultural industry cluster in China has no real use of modern information technology. It does not form a rational application system and perfect frame structure, and also it has not reached in the true sense of "industrial clusters", further it influences the competitiveness of agricultural regional economy and the individual as a whole. We mainly study the model of agricultural industrial cluster information, combined with the realistic version of the "happy farm", by reference to the network of food pattern, to establish urban modern agriculture Demonstration Park. By SWOT analysis of the construction of the information platform model, we find out that information of agriculture ecological park to solve the main problems, the overall framework of information technology services of public building agricultural cluster model, focus on building the application function module of the realistic version of the "happy farm".

Health informatics: information and communication

2002 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 165-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Past History ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Individual

In health care, the word ‘communication’ covers a wide range of interactions, including interpersonal communication, communication technology, medical education, health policy and mass communication. It takes many forms, from a brief informal talk between colleagues to formalised written documents between professionals. The essence of this verbal and written communication is the sharing of information. To make our information exchange more useful and to give it more meaning, the information communicated needs an appropriate framework. For example, the meaning of the diagnosis ‘schizophrenia’ is greatly enhanced by knowledge of the individual patient within the context (the framework) of his or her past history and family background.

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