scholarly journals The Invasive Niche, a Multidisciplinary Concept Illustrated by Gorse (Ulex Europaeus)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Atlan ◽  
Nathalie Udo
Keyword(s):  
Social Factors ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ulex Europaeus ◽  
Explanatory Variables ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Invasive Status ◽  
Noxious Weed ◽  
The One ◽  
The Web

This study analyzes the natural and social factors influencing the emergence and publicization of the invasive status of a fast growing bush, gorse (Ulex europaeus), by comparison between countries on a global scale. We used documents collected on the web in a standardized way. The results show that in all the countries studied, there are several public statuses attributed to gorse. The invasive status is the one that is most shared. The other most frequently encountered status are those of noxious weed, and of economically useful. The invasive status is publicized in nearly all countries, including those where gorse is almost absent. We quantified the publicization of the invasive gorse status of gorse by an indicator with 5 levels, and then performed a multivariate analysis that combines natural and social explanatory variables. The results lead us to propose the concept of invasive niche: the set of natural and social parameters that allow a species to be considered invasive in a given socio-ecosystem.

scholarly journals The Invasive Niche, a Multidisciplinary Concept Illustrated by Gorse (Ulex Europaeus)

Diversity ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Atlan ◽  
Nathalie Udo
Keyword(s):  
Social Factors ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ulex Europaeus ◽  
Explanatory Variables ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Invasive Status ◽  
Noxious Weed ◽  
The One ◽  
The Web

This study analyzes the natural and social factors influencing the emergence and publicization of the invasive status of a fast-growing bush, gorse (Ulex europaeus), by comparison between countries on a global scale. We used documents collected on the web in a standardized way. The results show that in all the countries studied, there are several public statuses attributed to gorse. The invasive status is the one that is most shared. The other most frequently encountered status are those of noxious weed, and those of which are economically useful. The invasive status is publicized in nearly all countries, including those where gorse is almost absent. We quantified the publicization of the invasive gorse status of gorse by an indicator with 5 levels, and then performed a multivariate analysis that combines natural and social explanatory variables. The results lead us to propose the concept of invasive niche, which is the set of natural and social parameters that allow a species to be considered invasive in a given socio-ecosystem

Cycles in symbol production? A new model to explain concentration, diversity and innovation in the music industry

Popular Music ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Christianen
Keyword(s):  
Negative Correlation ◽  
Music Industry ◽  
The Other ◽  
Recording Industry ◽  
Cultural Goods ◽  
New Model ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The One

With the publication of the article ‘Cycles in symbol production’ (Peterson and Berger 1975) a discussion started concerning the advantages and disadvantages of the production of cultural goods under market conditions. The analysis by Peterson and Berger showed a negative correlation between concentration in the recording industry, on the one hand, and the diversity and innovativeness of the music, on the other. Repetition of the analysis using data from the 1980s (Burnett 1990; Lopes 1992) has shown that for this period Peterson and Berger's hypotheses should be rejected. Is there a connection between concentration and diversity and innovation? Are there cycles in symbol production? There seems to be no conclusive answer. In this article, I will attempt to clear up this matter. First, I will repeat the analysis of the relation between concentration and diversity/innovation, using the same model as Peterson and Berger, but with different definitions for the variables concentration, diversity and innovation. Then I will suggest a new model, which can be helpful in uncovering other factors influencing diversity and innovation in the music industry. I will come to that later. Let me first give the reader a brief overview of previous research.

What Does E- add to Democracy?

2014 ◽  
pp. 200-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Mindus
Keyword(s):  
Legal Theory ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
The Other ◽  
Practical Philosophy ◽  
Internet Politics ◽  
Online Politics ◽  
The One ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
The Web ◽  
Current Emphasis

Technologies carry politics since they embed values. It is therefore surprising that mainstream political and legal theory have taken the issue so lightly. Compared to what has been going on over the past few decades in the other branches of practical thought, namely ethics, economics, and the law, political theory lags behind. Yet the current emphasis on Internet politics that polarizes the apologists holding the Web to overcome the one-to-many architecture of opinion building in traditional representative democracy, and the critics who warn that cyber-optimism entails authoritarian technocracy has acted as a wake up call. This chapter sets the problem, “What is it about ICTs, as opposed to previous technical devices, that impact on politics and determine uncertainty about democratic matters?,” into the broad context of practical philosophy by offering a conceptual map of clusters of micro-problems and concrete examples relating to “e-democracy.” The point is to highlight when and why the hyphen of e-democracy has a conjunctive or a disjunctive function in respect to stocktaking from past experiences and settled democratic theories. The chapter's claim is that there is considerable scope to analyse how and why online politics fail or succeed. The field needs both further empirical and theoretical work.

Consumer's Participation Model in Virtual Communities

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 15-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zohreh Dehdashti Shahrokh ◽  
Pedram Behyar
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Consumer Behavior ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
The Other ◽  
Competitive Environment ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Web

Virtual communities are very impressive in the activities associated with the business using facilities provided on the Web and broad access to consumers. More access to users also helps virtual communities to be leading in attracting more users in competition with the other virtual communities. In this regard, providing the model of consumers' participation in virtual communities can be effective in the competitive environment from the cognitive aspects of consumer behavior. The aim of this study is to design consumers' participation model in virtual communities. The mixed method is selected as the research method and in the qualitative section, semi-structured interviews were conducted among the panel of experts; after analyzing the results using the content analysis, the designed model was finally tested. The results showed that in addition to personal and social factors and the services offered by the website, the other factors such as attitudes and we-intentions have also significant impact on the consumers' participation.

The Imprint of the Imprints: Sojourners, Xiaoshuo Translations, and the Transcultural Canon of Early Chinese Fiction in Europe, 1697-1826

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Sieber
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Qing Dynasty ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
The Other ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Book Market ◽  
The Qing Dynasty ◽  
Textual Authority ◽  
Chinese Fiction ◽  
The One

Abstract This paper posits that the circulation of the earliest items of Chinese fiction in early modern Europe was indebted to the popularity of certain titles within the Qing-dynasty book market on the one hand and to the participation of educated Chinese in the process of purchase, selection, and translation on the other. It further argues that European translations deployed specific features of Chinese imprints in order to differentiate translations from the hugely popular pseudo-Chinese transcreations, thereby seeking to establish textual authority for a philologically grounded Chinese voice. The paper terms this convergence of conceptual, material, and social factors in producing transculturally mediated texts “biblioglossia,” in order to capture aspects of textuality neglected or obscured in standard discussions of “orientalism.”

scholarly journals THE SURVEY OF THE BARRIERS TO NOT REPORTING MEDICATION ERRORS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF NURSING STUDENTS

2016 ◽  
pp. 164
Author(s):  
Sadegh Zare ◽  
Zahra Pournamdar ◽  
Alireza Shameli ◽  
Hossein Jafari
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Medication Error ◽  
Medication Errors ◽  
Nursing Staff ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
The One ◽  
Random Method

<p>ABSTRACT<br />Objective: Reporting the medication errors, on the one hand, causes the preservation and observation of the patient security, and on the other hand,<br />it is regarded as a valuable information treasure in line with the prevention of the medication errors expression in the future. Therefore, the present<br />study has been conducted with the objective of the survey of barriers to medication errors reporting from the perspective of the nursing students.<br />Methods: This study is a descriptive research which has been conducted on 87 nursing students who have been selected based on a random method. To<br />gather the required information, there has been made use of a two-part questionnaire, the first part of which deals with the study of the demographic<br />characteristics and the second part pertains to the factors influencing not reporting the medication errors. In the end, after the necessary information<br />collected the data were analyzed by taking advantage of SPSS 19 and descriptive statistics.<br />Results: The individuals average age in the present study was 21.09±2.48, 51 individuals were female. 24 individuals were studied in semester<br />4, 31 people were passing term 6, and 32 individuals were in term 8. The highest mean score as obtained in managerial aspect. In addition, the highest<br />mean score was related to the items “concentration of the managers solely on the person who has made the mistake and disregarding of the other<br />factors involved in mediation error” and “lack of receiving a positive feedback from the nursing supervisors following reporting the medication error”<br />and the lowest mean score was related to the item “not being considerate to some of the medication errors reporting.”<br />Conclusion: The results of this study indicated that the highest mean score for not reporting the medication errors went to the managerial dimensions.<br />Therefore, the supervisors and the nursing staff should be cautioned regarding their behavior, regarding the medication errors reporting, and consider<br />the problems and issues systematically.<br />Keywords: Medication error, University students, Zahedan, Nursing.</p>

Factors Influencing Nascent Entrepreneurship Across Countries

2021 ◽  
pp. 92-116
Author(s):  
Maria Manuela Santos Natário
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
New Ventures ◽  
The Other ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Nascent Entrepreneurship ◽  
Explanatory Variables ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Business Opportunities ◽  
Mean Differences

Nascent entrepreneurship is one phase of entrepreneurial activity that covers the first months in creating new ventures after the identification of business opportunities. On the other hand, the 4.0 revolution has created new opportunities but also disruption and polarization within and between economies and societies. Thus, this chapter reflects upon factors that influence nascent entrepreneurship across countries in an evolutionary approach, considering the previous findings and the influence of Fourth Industrial Revolution. The aim is to verify the conditions associated to nascent entrepreneurship using different perspectives of analysis. Correlation analysis is applied using various explanatory variables derived from different approaches. Clusters analysis is applied to verify how different countries are positioned in terms of nascent entrepreneurship. Scheffe's test of mean differences distinguishes the unique characteristics of each cluster and assesses the principal determinants of the nascent entrepreneurship capacity.

Semantically Enriched POI as Ontological Foundation for Web-Based and Mobile Spatial Applications

2014 ◽  
pp. 186-206
Author(s):  
Hardy Pundt
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Planning System ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Travel Planning ◽  
Point Of Interest ◽  
Original Plan ◽  
Mobile Component ◽  
The One ◽  
Domain Dependence ◽  
The Web

While developing a Web-based travel planning system, the necessity to implement a mobile component has been identified. Such a conception is aimed at a comprehensive support of a workflow that enables users to plan a trip in advance using the Web-based application, but to modify the original plan wherever and whenever they want while carrying out the journey. Within both components, Point-of-Interest (POI) plays a significant role to determine a tour. It is one claim of this chapter that the relevance of POI is dependent on the perspective of a user. As a consequence, the originally used POI database was replaced by a POI ontology which promised to support the workflow more comprehensively. This conceptual change raised several questions concerning the domain dependence of the POI ontology on the one side and universal aspects of the ontology on the other.

scholarly journals Study of Factors Influencing the Risk and their Relation to Credibility Theory

1977 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 84-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Amélia Cabral ◽  
Jorge Afonso Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Least Squares Method ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Mean Value ◽  
The Other ◽  
Credibility Theory ◽  
Mean Values ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
The Mean ◽  
The One ◽  
Different Characteristics

The study and analysis of the various factors influencing insurance risks constitutes an intricate and usually quite extensive problem. We have to consider on the one hand the nature and heterogeneity of the elements we have been able to measure, and on the other the problem of deciding—without knowing exactly what results to expect—on the types of analysis to carry out and the form in which to present the results.These difficulties, essentially stemming from the fact that we cannot easily define “a priori” a measure of influence, can be overcome only by using highly sophisticated mathematical models. The researcher must define his objectives clearly if he is to avoid spending too much of his time in exploring such models.Either for these reasons or for lack of our experience in this field we were led to the study of three models, presenting entirely different characteristics though based on the analysis and behaviour of mean value fluctuations, measured by their variances or by the least-squares method.Our first model, described in II. 1, associates the notion of influence with the notion of variance. It analyses in detail the alteration of the mean values variance, when what we refer to as a “margination” is executed in the parameter space, taking each of the parameters in turn. We start off by having n distinct parameters, reducing them by one with each step.

scholarly journals Circular Justification and Explanation in Aristotle

Phronesis ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 195-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Owen Goldin
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Posterior Analytics ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Scientific Principles ◽  
Dialectical Argumentation ◽  
The One ◽  
The Web

Abstract Aristotle’s account of epistēmē is foundationalist. In contrast, the web of dialectical argumentation that constitutes justification for scientific principles is coherentist. Aristotle’s account of explanation is structurally parallel to the argument for a foundationalist account of justification. He accepts the first argument but his coherentist accounts of justification indicate that he would not accept the second. Where is the disanalogy? For Aristotle, the intelligibility of a demonstrative premise is the cause of the intelligibility of a demonstrated conclusion and causation is asymmetric. Within the Posterior Analytics itself, Aristotle does not account for this, but elsewhere he develops the resources for doing so: the cause is what acts on a substrate to actualize a potential in that substrate, resulting in the effect. On the other hand, it may well happen that two propositions entail each other, in which case one may as well justify the one on the basis of the other as vice versa.

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