The Ties That Bind

2014 ◽  
Vol 46 (9) ◽  
pp. 1109-1129
Author(s):  
Aaron Wachhaus
Keyword(s):  
Surrounding Area ◽  
Community People ◽  
Governance Strategy ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Three Components

This article examines cases of municipal dissolution and the impact of the loss of government on a place, its people, and the surrounding area. A framework of three components of municipal community—people, place, and government—is presented. The interrelation of these elements is explored through cases where not all elements are present. Particular attention is given to the removal of government from community through municipal dissolution. The impacts of dissolution on community, and its potential as a governance strategy, are addressed.

Fulfill psychological contract promises to manage in-demand employees

2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 689-701 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Rodwell ◽  
Julia Ellershaw ◽  
Rebecca Flower
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Psychological Contract ◽  
Organizational Identification ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Employee Outcomes ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Psychological Contract Fulfillment ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Three Components

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of three components of the psychological contract (i.e. obligations, fulfillment and breach) and the individual characteristic negative affectivity (NA) onto three key outcomes, namely, job satisfaction, organizational identification and psychological distress. Design/methodology/approach – Questionnaires were completed by 222 Australian nurses and midwives from a medium-sized metropolitan Australian hospital. The response rate for the study was 39 percent. Findings – Structural equation modeling revealed that perceptions of psychological contract fulfillment were positively linked to organizational identification and job satisfaction, while psychological contract breach was negatively linked to these outcomes. NA was negatively linked to job satisfaction and positively linked to psychological distress. Psychological contract obligations were not associated with any of the employee outcomes. Research limitations/implications – Psychological contract fulfillment is an important driver of employee satisfaction and organizational identification and the findings highlight the importance of including NA in psychological contract research. The occupation and context, being in-demand employees, appeared to neutralize the impact of one dimension of the psychological contract, employer promises and obligations. Practical implications – Explicitly managing employees’ psychological contracts by focussing on fulfilling realistic promises will enable managers to improve employee outcomes and facilitate employees embracing their organization. Originality/value – This study is one of the first to explore all three components of the psychological contract. These results may assist in the development of strategies to retain in-demand employees such as nurses, particularly highlighting the need to make and fulfill realistic promises.

scholarly journals The impact of Rapid Impulse Compaction (RIC) of large non-cohesive material deposits on the surrounding area

2019 ◽  
Vol 362 ◽  
pp. 012132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Przemyslaw Dobrzycki ◽  
Alexander L. Ivannikov ◽  
Jaroslaw Rybak ◽  
Vlada O. Shkodkina ◽  
Yulia Tyulyaeva
Keyword(s):  
Surrounding Area ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Cohesive Material

scholarly journals THE IMPACT OF LYNAS ADVANCED MATERIAL PLANT (LAMP) TOWARDS SURROUNDING HOUSING MARKET PRICE

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ikmal Ariff Azmee ◽  
Atasya Osmadi
Keyword(s):  
Housing Market ◽  
Market Price ◽  
House Price ◽  
Advanced Materials ◽  
Surrounding Area ◽  
Chemical Action ◽  
Environment And Health ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Greenhouse Emission ◽  
The Impact

Lynas Advanced Materials Plant (LAMP) is situated in Gebeng industrial estate in Kuantan, Malaysia. Lynas plant processes rare earth elements that was trucked from Mt Weld Western Australia’s mine site to Fremantle Port and then brought to Malaysia. Rare elements are important in greenhouse emission reduction especially for their distinctive use in wind turbines, hybrid vehicles, automotive chemical action converters and others technologies. However, the construction and the opening of Lynas plant may have caused pollution to the environment and health risk towards surrounding area. Few case studies highlighted the negative impacts of radioactive element towards the surrounding housing market price. Using before-and-after analysis and sensitivity analysis, this research seeks to evaluate the impact from Lynas plant on the price of housing (single storey terrace) in its surrounding area. The findings show that Lynas plant could be one of the factors that have affected the housing market price in the area. This research concludes that, in general, there is an increase of house price after the opening of Lynas plant, however it is evident that there is a trend of increasing house price when the house is farther away from the plant. It is hoped that the findings of this research helps in answering some of the public speculations regarding the impact of the plant.

Impact of the Swansea Bay Lagoon on Storm Surges in the Bristol Channel

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qian Ma ◽  
Tulio Marcondes Moreira ◽  
Thomas A. A. Adcock
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Model ◽  
Storm Surges ◽  
Tidal Energy ◽  
Water Levels ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Surrounding Area ◽  
The Past ◽  
Operating Strategies ◽  
Swansea Bay ◽  
The Impact

Abstract The proposed Swansea Bay tidal energy lagoon is an example of a relatively small-scale tidal barrage demonstrator project. A key concern with this technology is that such structures may exacerbate other environmental problems. However, such structures might also create beneficial environmental effects in some areas, such as mitigating the impact of storm surges. In this paper we model the hydrodynamics of the Swansea lagoon and surrounding area using a depth-averaged numerical model. We simulate a number of storm surge events from the past 40 years and analyse how the presence of the Swansea Lagoon (under various operating strategies) modifies the resulting water levels.

scholarly journals The Potential of Utilizing Air Temperature Datasets from Non-Professional Meteorological Stations in Brno and Surrounding Area

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (19) ◽  
pp. 4172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karel Dejmal ◽  
Petr Kolar ◽  
Josef Novotny ◽  
Alena Roubalova
Keyword(s):  
Air Temperature ◽  
Missing Values ◽  
Meteorological Parameter ◽  
Surrounding Area ◽  
Quality Of Data ◽  
Current State ◽  
Recorded Data ◽  
Urban Heat ◽  
The Impact

An increasing number of individuals and institutions own or operate meteorological stations, but the resulting data are not yet commonly used in the Czech Republic. One of the main difficulties is the heterogeneity of measuring systems that puts in question the quality of outcoming data. Only after a thorough quality control of recorded data is it possible to proceed with for example a specific survey of variability of a chosen meteorological parameter in an urban or suburban region. The most commonly researched element in the given environment is air temperature. In the first phase, this paper focuses on the quality of data provided by amateur and institutional stations. The following analyses consequently work with already amended time series. Due to the nature of analyzed data and their potential use in the future it is opportune to assess the appropriateness of chronological and possibly spatial interpolation of missing values. The evaluation of seasonal variability of air temperature in the scale of Brno city and surrounding area in 2015–2017 demonstrates, that the enrichment of network of standard (professional) stations with new stations may significantly refine or even revise the current state of knowledge, for example in the case of urban heat island phenomena. A cluster analysis was applied in order to assess the impact of localization circumstances (station environment, exposition, etc.) as well as typological classification of the set of meteorological stations.

E-Government and Corruption: A Cross-Country Survey

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin-Wook Choi
Keyword(s):  
Government Regulation ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Size Of Government ◽  
Country Level ◽  
Telecommunication Infrastructure ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Level Of Economic Development ◽  
Ict Infrastructure ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Three Components

AbstractThis article aims to examine the effect of e-Government on corruption. Although e-Government in public administration has been studied in the context of efficiency enhancement, recent research has shed light on the causality between e-Government and corruption. However, the majority of previous studies have focused on one-country or anecdote-based analysis of which the results are not generalizable. Analyzing country-level data, this article attempts to provide a basis for a broader generalization regarding the impact of e-Government on corruption. Through controlling traditional causes of corruption such as the level of economic development, the size of government, and the degree of government regulation, the results of the empirical analysis of this article show that e-Government has a positive influence on corruption reduction. Considering that the notion of e-Government is broad in terms of areas and ranges, this article breaks down e-Government into the three components of telecommunication infrastructure, online participation, and online services. These three components are connected conceptually with ICT infrastructure, and transparency, accountability and empowerment driven by e-Government. Empirical results confirm that these three e-Government dimensions have a statistically significant influence on corruption. Findings suggest that e-Government can be regarded as a pragmatic anti-corruption strategy in the sense that most governments are eager to adopt e-Government systems.

scholarly journals Impact of the Salinity Gradient on the Mollusc Fauna in Flooded Mine Subsidences (Karvina, Czech Republic)

2014 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamila Kašovská ◽  
Łukasz Pierzchała ◽  
Edyta Sierka ◽  
Barbara Stalmachová
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Salinity Gradient ◽  
Aquatic Biota ◽  
Model Group ◽  
Surrounding Area ◽  
Inorganic Substances ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Mollusc Species ◽  
Positive Correlations ◽  
The Impact

Abstract This paper presents the impact of salinisation on the aquatic mollusc fauna in flooded mine subsidences in the Karvina region (Czech Republic). The results of the previous research on salinity in flooded mine subsidences show that some of them contain a high content of dissolved inorganic substances (above 1000 mg·l-1). These substances can affect the vegetation and animals occurring in the water and the surrounding area. The phylum of Mollusca was selected as a model group for the fieldwork as it includes species with the proven bioindication potential. The occurrence of aquatic mollusc species was studied at 10 sites. The sites were selected based on the content of dissolved substances (the salinity gradient from <500 to >1000 mg·l-1. A total of 12 aquatic mollusc species were found, including one species identified as a potential bioindicator of the negative effect of salinisation on aquatic biota. The analysis showed statistically significant positive correlations between the content of dissolved inorganic substances and the presence of alien species Potamopyrgus antipodarum (J.E. Gray, 1843). The gradient of salinity significantly affects the species composition of the mollusc fauna in flooded mine subsidences and may affect the biodiversity of this group.

scholarly journals THE DEVELOPMENT OF GOA TABUHAN AND ITS IMPACT IN PACITAN REGENCY

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Siti Hawa Nurjannah ◽  
Yusuf Adam Hilman ◽  
Bambang Triono
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Local People ◽  
Tourist Attraction ◽  
Surrounding Area ◽  
Rural Village ◽  
Cultural Effects ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Tourist Office ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This study aims at finding out the development of Goa Tabuhan and its impact asa tourist attraction. As an addition, this study also attempts to find out the efforttaken by the Tourist Office in developing the tourism sector in Pacitan regency.This study also conducted an effort comparison between the Tourist Office andWareng rural village of Punung sub-district, who manages the Goa Tabuhan touristattraction in Pacitan regency. This study used a descriptive qualitative method;there were nine informants consisted of four tourist office representatives, two of thevillage representative, two of the Goa Tabuhan local people, and one visitor of GoaTabuhan. Based on the result of the study, there is a significant impact on societyin the surrounding area of Goa Tabuhan; its visitors also experience the impact. Theimpact that affects society is in the form of economic and social and cultural effects.

scholarly journals LOLODA IN THREE TERNATE-DUTCH TREATY MANUSCRIPTS IN 19th CENTURY

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tommy Christomy ◽  
Rias A. Suharjo
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Surrounding Area ◽  
Political Dynamics ◽  
Secure Access ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

The impact of the relationship between Ternate and Europe affected the relation between Ternate and its surrounding area. As a result of the socio-political dynamics with the colonial, Ternate did not easily positioned itself as a sultanate which was neutral from the Dutch and the interest of its surrounding kingdoms, especially its neighbouring sultanate. Ternate was dragged into alliance with Dutch in order to secure access toward the natural resources needed by both parties. One of the tools used by Dutch in 19th century to secure access toward natural resources was the treaty. The treaty between Ternate and Dutch became an important instrument to maintain legitimacy of the two parties. Loloda was amidst the interest of Ternate and Dutch. In some treaties, the signature of Loloda Sultanate and other small sultanates in North Maluku which were Ternate loyalists were needed by Dutch and Ternate. Therefore, we could easily draw a conclusion based on the treaty that Loloda is part of Ternate’s hegemony. However, in this research we will explore poetically the relation between the Dutch, Ternate and Loloda expressed through metaphor and other specific expressions. For this reason, we will discuss in depth the poetic aspects of three manuscripts (113/1/14, 113/8/11a, dan 113/8/12).

scholarly journals Groundwater Vulnerability Mapping in Muntilan and its Surrounding Area, Magelang Regency, Central Java, Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 930 (1) ◽  
pp. 012053
Author(s):  
K Aribowo ◽  
W Wilopo ◽  
D H Barianto
Keyword(s):  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Groundwater Resources ◽  
Groundwater Vulnerability ◽  
Surrounding Area ◽  
Daily Consumption ◽  
Central Java ◽  
Groundwater Vulnerability Mapping ◽  
Soil Media ◽  
Dug Wells ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Groundwater resources are vital for residents in Muntilan Sub-District and its surrounding area in Central Java. The residents use groundwater for daily consumption by developing dug wells. Therefore, groundwater sources from contamination should be protected to guarantee sustainable groundwater use in this area. Groundwater vulnerability maps can be used as basic information to prevent groundwater contamination, land-use planning, and groundwater resources management. Therefore, this study aims to develop the groundwater vulnerability map in the Muntilan, Salam, Ngluwar Sub-Districts, Magelang Regency, Central Java. The vulnerability assessment used the DRASTIC method. The method has used the sum of the weighting of various parameters, including topography, net recharge, groundwater depth, the impact of the vadose zone, soil media, hydraulic conductivity of the aquifer, and aquifer media. The analysis results described that the DRASTIC Index (DI) value ranges from low to high levels, low levels, and the moderate level of vulnerability covers Muntilan sub-district and salam sub-district, while high levels of vulnerability are located in Muntilan, Ngluwar, and Salam Sub-Districts. Therefore, this vulnerability can be used for regional spatial planning and groundwater protection in the district.

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